Changing Conversations Implement Consulting Group

Zafer Achi is an executive coach, a team coach and a designer and facilitator of leadership development interventions. He has 34 years of consulting experience, including 27 years as a partner with McKinsey & Company. We have invited Zafer Achi to talk to us about complexity. He will help us create a language on the different types of challenges we face to enable us to apply the right tools.
The key topics covered in this episode are: 
The difference between technical and adaptive challenges, and when something is complicated or complexHow to lead with curiosity and compassionHow to address adaptive challengesIntegrating perspectives to manage complexity betterHow to set a direction instead of a destination and lead towards it 
For references, links and other episodes, visit the podcast homepage here. 

Jennifer Garvey Berger is the co-founder and CEO of Cultivating Leadership. She holds a  master’s degree and a doctorate from Harvard University and is a former associate professor at George Mason University. Jennifer believes that leadership is one of the single most important tools in these times of uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. We have invited Jennifer to introduce us to mindtraps and how they can hinder us when dealing with complexity. 
The key topics covered in this episode are: 
The five instincts that are most prevailing in our conversationsHow our mindtraps lead to corporate theatreHow awareness of our mindtraps can lead to an invitationHow we can dissemble our mindtraps to thrive in complexityFor references, links, and other episodes, visit the podcast homepage here. 

Dr Laura Sicola is a leadership communication and influence expert and the author of “Speaking to Influence: Mastering Your Leadership Voice”. We have invited Laura to talk to us about how you can establish your vocal executive presence through the three C’s: command, connect and close the deal. She also addresses how to remain invitational in conversations even if there is an experience of competing priorities and how to unlock the potential of seemingly opposing views. 
 
The key topics covered in this episode are: 
The experts curse and not taking the perspective of the listenerConversations are not a zero-sum gamePeople do not listen to process – they listen to respondThe three C’s: command, connect and close the dealHow to be intentional in the way you use your voiceFor references, links and other episodes, visit the podcast homepage here. 

Eli Buren is an expert in embodied presence. Eli has taught workshops and retreats and has worked with clients internationally since 2005, working with thousands of people across the US, Europe and Asia. We have invited Eli to talk about how we can be more present in our conversations by working with embodiment. 
 The key topics covered in this episode are: 
How to bring presence to your conversations How to practise presence How to honour the creation cycleGiving space in the conversation to be more effectiveNoticing how your body is reacting in a conversationUsing the body as your anchor For references, links and other episodes, visit our podcast page here. 

Michele Zanini is the co-founder of the management lab and the co-author of the book “Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them”. Michele helps organisations become more resilient, creative and engaging places to work by inventing new management practices. We have invited Michele to talk about how we can unleash people’s potential by introducing a more humanocratic organisational model. 

The key topics covered in this episode are: 
How organisations can reach their full potential by introducing the right organisational modelHow conversations in post-bureaucratic companies are far more lateral than they are verticalHow to transfer knowledge and problem-solving expertise in a very organic wayHow to create cross-pollination of expertise within an organisationThe importance of opening up the conversation and giving people the tools to have interesting and productive conversations with each other. 
For references, links and other episodes, visit the podcast homepage here.  

Wendy Smith is a professor of management at the Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics, co-founder of the Women’s Leadership Initiative and author of the book Both/And Thinking. She is an advocate for bold leadership, and much of her work focuses on helping leaders and teams navigate paradoxes. We have invited Wendy Smith to talk about how we can get better at embracing paradoxes and go from either/or to both/and thinking.

The key topics covered in this episode are: 
How we can embrace and invite tensions into the organisation How paradox invites us to honour different points of view How we can capitalise on friction The importance of being transparent and vulnerable as a leader Inviting ourselves to think about a different possibility space How we can change questions from either/or to both/and  For references, links, and other episodes, visit the podcast homepage here.