Sal Silvester on the Future of Leadership

Overcoming Executive Loneliness

In this very important episode about executive loneliness, Sal Silvester interviews Nick Jonsson. Nick is a CEO, entrepreneur, and author of the book "Executive Loneliness." With over 25 years of experience leading successful businesses, Nick is no stranger to the unique pressures and expectations placed on executives. Through personal anecdotes, research, and interviews with other executives, Nick delves into the often-overlooked issue of executive loneliness and disconnection. In today's episode, we'll explore the topic of executive loneliness and talk about actionable steps for executives looking to overcome feelings of isolation and how to build more meaningful connections in their personal and professional lives.

Season 6 Podcast Opener: Cultivating High-Performing Executive Teams in a Complex World

Sal Silvester, host and executive producer, kicks off Season 6 of the Future of Leadership As our world continues to face geopolitical challenges, stubborn inflationary conditions, and more complexity, organizational culture will matter more than ever.

 

The theme for this season is how to create healthy, aligned, and more human teams at the top, including executive teams, senior leadership teams, and extended leadership teams. Why? Because a high-performing executive team is a CEO's greatest asset in addressing the challenges and opportunities that are in front of us.

 

This season is going to provide you with practical and actionable tools and best practices, covering topics such as:

• executive loneliness
• cross-cultural competence on global leadership teams
• psychological safety, and more.

With almost every episode, we’ll have a framework or a toolkit that you’ll have access to so that you can immediately apply the concepts that we discussed in the episode to your work. Additionally, our blog posts at 512solutions.com will provide further content and resources to help solidify your learning.

 

Deeply Human Workplace: Best Of - Season 5 Closer

This Season 5 Closer is a "Best Of" episode where we share some of the best clips from the season, exploring topics such as human needs, happiness at work, conscious capitalism, inclusion, executive presence, psychological safety and more. You'll even hear some bonus questions that Sal Silvester asked guests that didn’t air in the original episode.

You can also download his Ultimate Goal Setting Guide and other resources on each episode page at www.512solutions.com.

Create Your Best Year Yet

The New Year is time for reflection and intention – not resolutions. It’s a time to think about your 2023 goals, and what you can do to make this your best year yet.

In this episode, Sal goes over ways for you to:

• chart the course for the year ahead
• be the architect of your life
• make intentional and on purpose choices, in every aspect of your life

Join Sal as he guides you through the key steps in his own personal goal setting process.

How will YOU make the most of 2023?

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The Ultimate Goal Setting Guide is a powerful tool designed to help you create a vision for the life you want and create the goals and action plans to get there. You can download it on the episode page here for free.

 

Creating an Agile Organization in Times of Uncertainty

With increased uncertainty and the prospect of a recession, our ability to adjust on an individual and organizational level is becoming more and more important.

In this episode, Sal interviews Simon Severino, author of Strategy Sprints: 12 Ways to Accelerate Growth for an Agile Business. They delve deeper into the issue of adaptability and how it relates to not just surviving but thriving during recessionary times. This is a pragmatic conversation in which they examine what an agile organization looks like as well as practices that foster clarity and alignment during times of uncertainty. As we enter the New Year and increasingly uncertain times, these suggestions are both strategic and tactical.

Simon provides a few free tools to counteract this uncertainty, such as:
daily flow
the weekly habit
the monthly habit

Take a moment to listen to the whole episode, you won't want to miss it!

Psychological Safety with Amy Edmondson

In this episode Sal Silvester and Amy Edmondson dive deep into the topic of psychological safety - what it means, the impacts of a hierarchical organization, how it applies to physical safety, the connection and potential of diverse teams and so much more.

Amy Edmondson is the world renown expert on psychological safety and creating fearless organizations. She is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School. Amy has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 as the #1 management thinker in 2021. Her most recent book, The Fearless Organization offers a practical guide for organizations serious about success in the modern economy and has been translated into 15 languages.

You don't want to miss this important interview with Sal and Amy.

Humanity - The Thread Through Leadership

In this episode Sal connects with Beverly Wright, a former technology executive, Founder and CEO of Wright Choice Group and a recent inductee into the Thinkers50 (basically the Oscars of Management thinking, according to The Financial Times). Sal and Beverly explore the concept of Return on People, why diversity without equity and inclusion isn’t enough and a new trend around intersectionality where team members expect professional, social and community service to all be integrated in their jobs.

Moving from Unconscious Bias to Conscious Inclusion

Unconscious bias can have a direct impact on problem solving, decision making and the overall health of our organizational cultures. And while you may think that you "don't see color" or "don't judge others", we are all biased. It's part of the human condition.

The good news is that the past few decades of neuroscience and behavioral research have provided a ton of information explaining the why and how behind unconscious bias.

During this episode, Sal Silvester connects with Dr. Amy Tolbert to help us navigate from unconscious bias in the workplace to intentional inclusion.

Conscious Leadership to Drive Results and Relationships

Our greatest gift as human beings is our ability to adapt. The more we can tap into our humanity, the more successful we can be in business and beyond. In this episode, Sal connects with David Wetton about how Conscious Leadership can make a bigger impact in the organizations in which we work, and also in our society. This episode will expand how you think about leadership - from intellectual intelligence to intellectual intelligence + emotional, physical and spiritual intelligence.

Executive Presence to Drive Connection and Credibility

Executive presence matters. It's the secret sauce for building credibility and connection at work. Unfortunately, many leaders haven't taken the steps they need to align their brand with the presence in a virtual and hybrid world.

In this powerful episode, Sal turns to the expert Rosemary Ravinal, a former international media executive and broadcaster with more than three decades of corporate communications experience in organizations such as Avon, AT&T, A+E Television Networks, Discovery Channel, Sony Ericsson, Toyota, and Univision.

You'll walk away with some powerful insights on how to engage your audience, improve your presence and elevate your ability to connect, influence and be more credible.