Untapped Goldmines

In this episode of Untapped Goldmines, I connect with Lorie Corquera - CoFounder of Spark Creative Inc.  We immerse ourselves in inquiry around what our present and future leaders need in order to better support their people first organizations.   We untap everything from love and compassion to empathy and care for self and others.

In this episode, I connect with the three brilliant co-creators of The Flow System. Together they share how The Flow System can help organizations dealing with complexity. We explore everything from intent & servant based leadership to teaching teams the real skills required for teamwork not task-work. The distinction between the two is significant and it changes how we communicate, sense make, give feedback, make decisions and take action at every single level of an organization.   

The Flow System creators include:   

Brian "Ponch" Rivera CEO of AGLX (also a TEDx Speaker, former F-14 instructor and demonstration team member and Captain (Select) in the Navy Reserve. His 16-year active duty military career includes roles in NATO, Air and Space Operations Centers).    

Nigel Thurlow, Creator of Scrum, The Toyota Way. Nigel was first ever to hold the role of Chief of Agile in Toyota Globally he developed training and transformation approaches to enable Agility in Toyota by combining Scrum with Lean, which achieved global recognition with an award from the World Agility Forum. Nigel left Toyota at the end of 2019. He was the first Professional Scrum Trainer globally in Toyota, and the first trainer to have ever been certified by both the creators of Scrum, training over 7500 people worldwide.  

John Turner is an assistant professor at the University of North Texas in the College of Information. His background is in engineering where he was employed for 15 years before returning to higher education in pursuit of his PhD. His research interests are in the areas of team science, leadership, complexity, creativity & innovation, and theory development. 

4 Weeks in to the largest spikes (outside of China) of COVID-19, Glenda Eoyang and I sat down to explore the Untapped Goldmines that can bring us more hope, resilience and a way forward in complex times. Together we explored everything from how Glenda got started in the space of Human Systems in the space of Complexity Sciences, how our capacity and our agility / resilience has developed and what wise actions we can take each moment to move onto what is next. 

In today's episode, special guest, Chip Baker (of The Success Chronicles) shares what he believes the greatest Untapped Goldmine is.  The good news is, we do not have to look far. The great news is Chip shares a very down to earth approach to extracting the attitude that determines the altitude in each of us. 

Cijaye DePradine sits down with Dr. Timothy R. Clark, guest of today's episode to discuss the framework in his new book (releasing March 3rd, 2020). The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety, Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation - is the first practical, hands-on guide that shows how leaders can build psychological safety in their organizations, creating an environment where employees feel included, fully engaged, and encouraged to contribute their best efforts and ideas.  

Tim and Cijaye explore how this framework applies to leaders, Agile and scalability. You do not want to miss out. 

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In this episode, I share my perspectives and iterations of Rapid Prototyping.  I take a shallow dive into needs assessment, problem identification, narrative extraction, solution brainstorming, design 2.0 / design thinking, MVP prototyping, implementing probes (experimentation), and building a learning culture - all with the intent of creating more collaborative innovation.

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If you, your teams or team members have struggled to make the connection between the day to day work, the org objectives and the bottom line achievements, this introduction might help explain why.  

In this episode, I share my  viewpoints on systems, complexity and flow-based thinking.   

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In our complex world, how do leaders and their teams get into - and stay in flow? How do they uncover what is known and unknown, make sense of it all, improve and accelerate decision making and increase time to execute and deliver? How do we shift perspectives so that teams are more cohesive, inviting to healthy dialog-feedback & conflict. How do we enable our human capital to experiment on new / innovative ideas and learn within the ecosystems they are agents of?

Untapped Goldmines is determined to help YOU find out!