Leadership lessons don’t need to be reserved for formal classroom and online trainings, they can be extracted from the stories we encounter every day. Join the Center for Creative Leadership’s Ren Washington and Allison Barr as they uncover and highlight the leadership lessons in today’s headlines and popular culture.
Meet the hosts of our leadership podcast, bringing you fresh insights gleaned from today’s headlines.
Ren Washington is a Leadership Solutions Partner committed to helping clients address their most challenging and complex issues around organizational change and innovation, equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), executive presence and image, influence, and resilience.
Allison Barr is a Leadership Solutions Partner with a rich history in international business and public speaking. Allison enjoys supporting clients with their most complex obstacles, from organizational change, to psychological safety, to the nuanced nature of EDI.
In this episode, Allison and Ren are diving into the exciting world of artificial intelligence and its impact on leadership, communication, and human development. They discuss the groundbreaking work being done by OpenAI, including their famous language model, ChatGPT, and the new
In this episode, Alison and Ren discuss some leadership highlights and low points of 2022 and what they’re most looking forward to when it comes to leadership in 2023. They explore examples of leaders who have used their power and influence to give back to others, and those who have
In this episode, Alison and Ren talk about the importance of curiosity, compassion, and courage, and how they foster an environment of gratitude, build psychological safety, and promote innovation.
Whether it’s quietly doing only what your role demands of you, or getting a new job and leaving before the year is out, things are shifting in the American workforce. In this episode, Allison and Ren talk about quiet quitting, quick quitting, and quiet firing, all of which have been in the news
Instead of selling Patagonia and taking the company public, the brand has been given to a not-for-profit, with the goal of putting any profit not reinvested back into Patagonia toward fighting climate change. In this episode Allison and Ren talk about an organization’s role in doing
Tennis superstar Serena Williams is moving into venture capitalism as she takes a step back to focus on her family. There is so much leadership wisdom to glean from her: What philosophies guided her on way to success? How has her ability to bounce back shaped her? In this episode – part profile,
