Thriving Room

Raised on islands and diversely educated, Bill Lennan has always focused on solving human as well as technical problems. Over the span of his technology career, he has built products, teams, and solutions for mobile, recruiting, e-commerce, social media, and now education. He has helped companies ranging from Google and Walmart to hotels and restaurants. Building high-functioning teams has been fundamental to Bill’s success. His team successes are directly attributable to the skills taught in the HAERT™ Curriculum, which you can learn about at https://haertprogram.com/.

We talk about comfortable and uncomfortable conversations, what catastrophizing is, creating career flexibility, curiosity, communicating with experts, finding ease, and choosing where to apply struggle.  Bill also tells us stories about surfing and breaking bones. 

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Ben Zeidler is Co-Founder of Nonfiction Research--nonfiction.co--a company on a mission to understand the informal, unfiltered lives of customers. Before co-founding Nonfiction Research, Ben was Global Head of Consumer Packaged Goods Research at L2, where he worked directly with the world’s largest consumer brands, including Procter & Gamble, Unilever, and Nestlé. Prior to L2, he established Tenthwave's research and analytics practice, which he grew in revenue annually. Ben is on the advisory board at Harvard Business Review and is routinely quoted and featured in industry news. He is a graduate of Georgetown University.

Learn about the value of research areas where there is a difference between people's public and private lives, Nonfiction's origin story, Ben's mighty partnership with Co-Founder Gunny Scarfo and their team, and how Ben's upbringing indelibly influenced him. Get a preview of Nonfiction's upcoming studies.

For a quick tip on how to assess the value of feedback you get when you put yourself out there, check out 16:30, when Ben talks about discerning whether a comment is in good faith or not. To get a sense of how a leader like Ben envisions the future, take a listen at 43:15.

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Stéphane E. Fouché is a sociologist turned entrepreneur navigating obstacles with clients, with a keen eye on culture.  His experiences in the United States, Caribbean, Asia, and Africa are the basis for his work as an ambassador for businesses.  We learn about the roles of self-knowledge, healthy relationships, and emotions such as fear and jealousy in his multicultural career and life.  Below are two provocative quotes from Stéphane. 

23:45 - "I'd rather get hurt than lose the potential of having a great friend." 

35:10 - "I see jealousy as a desire I had, I just never knew I had." 

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