Entries by Susan Harper

Bringing Your Full Self to Work

Welcome to the Connex Executive Insights Series, produced in collaboration with Connex Partners. This invitation-only executive network brings industry leaders together from the worlds of HR and Healthcare. Connex Members are part of a cutting-edge community, finding actionable solutions to their most pressing business challenges via high-value peer exchanges and curated resources, including tools, platforms, partners, […]

Reimagining Leadership to Solve Food Insecurity

Leah Lizarondo, CEO and co-founder of 412 Food Rescue, a social enterprise with a technology, logistics, and civic engagement model that aims to fight hunger and promote sustainability by preventing perfectly good food from entering the waste stream and directly distributing to organizations that benefit those who are food insecure provided the article as a […]

Reimagining Leadership Together Globally

Maureen Metcalf initially published this article on the Forbes Coaches Council. It is a companion to a podcast that Cynthia Cherry, President and CEO, and Mike Hardy, Board Chair of the International Leadership Association, recorded with Maureen, ILA, as the Living Model for Reimagining Leadership Together. It is part of the International Leadership Association’s interview […]

The Heart and Soul of Leadership

Jonathan Reams, Director at the Center for Transformative Leadership and the European Center for Leadership Practice, shared this article as a companion to his podcast Getting Lost in the Language of Leadership from the International Leadership Association Series.  These interviews feature guests from the 2021 Annual Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. Leadership is a phenomenon well […]

How HR Drives New Beginnings

Welcome to the Connex Executive Insights Series, produced in collaboration with Connex Partners, an invitation-only executive network that brings industry leaders from the worlds of HR and Healthcare together. Connex Members are part of a cutting-edge community, finding actionable solutions to their most pressing business challenges via high-value peer exchanges and curated resources, including tools, […]

Who is More Charismatic–Putin or Zelensky? Does It Matter?

Maureen Metcalf wrote this article summarizing research from John Antonakis, Professor of Organizational Behavior and editor-in-chief of The Leadership Quarterly.  This article is a companion to the podcast The Importance of Studying Leadership Scientifically as part of the International Leadership Association’s interview series from the Annual ILA Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, in October 2021.   […]

An Inclusive Culture in the Workforce

Nadia Younes, Louise Carvalho, and Gamiel Yafai came together in Geneva, Switzerland, during the International Leadership Association Conference to discuss diversity, equity, and inclusion from different perspectives in the podcast Workforce Demographics and an Inclusive Culture. They share two articles as companions to their discussion. The first article was published in the October 2021 edition of […]

Women are Problem Solvers! Investing in Them is the Key to Inclusive Growth.

Pauline Koelbl, AfriProspect GmbH’s Founder and CEO and ShEquity’s Founder and Managing Partner there’s this article as a companion to her podcast ShEquity: A Refugee’s Path to Empowering Women & Their Businesses. This conversation is part of the International Leadership Association Series.  Closing the gender gap can add $12 trillion to global growth. In Africa, there is […]

The Future, Through the Lens of Entrepreneurs

Faris Alami, Founder and CEO of ISM, shares his insight in the following article as a companion to the podcast between him and Dr. Christopher Washington Post-Pandemic Approaches to Developing Future Fit Employees, recorded at the International Leadership Association conference in Geneva. Here’s a short clip of Faris Almi and Christopher Washington’s interview:   Here’s […]