Leaderful
Leaderful explores human-centred, systems-conscious approaches to leadership and building high-functioning teams. We focus on the core problems of burnout, disconnection, conflict, misuses of power, unethical leadership and stuckness on teams and within organizations.
Episodes
Consultant, designer and strategist in the field of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), Denyelle Fraser, joins our Co.CEO Jeff Couillard to discuss the opportunities and challenges of leading sustainable and systems-conscious change and transformation projects with an EDI focus.
Listen in as they explore:
- The importance of moving beyond EDI check-box initiatives
- The value of centering the voices and perspectives of the peopl...
Educator, innovator and advocate in the field of neurodiversity employment, Dave Thompson, joins our Co.CEO Jeff Couillard to discuss the opportunities and challenges of fostering psychologically safe workplaces for neurodiverse employees - and how that effort benefits everyone.
Listen in as they explore:
- The importance of 'challenger safety'
- How coaching is for everyone - not just neurodivergent employees
- How to make sense of...
- The importance of creating psychologically safe spaces
- Practices and insights for staying grounded and present
- The importance of feedback an...
- The importance of making power dynamics visible and transparent
- Advice for middle managers on navigating values and performance tensions
- Why power awareness is foundational to ethical leadership
- Why meaningful change requires building social capital
- The core drivers and indicators of problems/opportunities that exist within the intention vs. impact gap
- Why 'real' underlying problems don't get identified without conscious and skilled discovery work
- How leaders can approach doing meaningful discovery work...
- Five (5) types of power and how they each show up in our workplace systems
- Why overcoming addiction makes people powerful
- How power awareness helps to discover root problems for systems-change
- Why meaningful change requires ethical leadership (and some ...
- Discovery: "What do we know about this from 'their' perspective(s)?"
- Definition: "Why should people care about the 'problem(s)' we are prioritizing?"
- Important considerations for virtual vs. in-person learning
- Common barriers to designing and delivering experiences that drive meaningful change, and
- ...
In this episode, Jeff Couillard chats with Woodrie Burich on how to set and hold effective and healthy boundaries - at work and in life. They discuss self-care (beyond the band-aids) and setting boundaries before burning out. Enjoy!
In this shorter episode, Co-CEO and Director of Learning and Development, Jeff Couillard, tackles three of the primary problems that exist in most mainstream leadership development programs and approaches. He also offers a few key insights to consider when developing your organization's approach to developing 'leaderful' teams, highlighting the importance of team-based, real-world and action-oriented learning.
In this episode of The Leaderful Podcast, Jennifer Velez - Senior Strategist for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Forever 21 - joins Jeff Couillard for a rich discussion on psychological safety, unhealthy conflict, power dynamics, and leadership in the DEI space. Follow along or connect with Jennifer on LinkedIn.
A bit more about Jennifer - she currently leads Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Forever 21 where she drives organ...
In this episode, Jeff Couillard and Pablo Romero discuss a few of the key components of The Ally Co.'s Transformational Impact model, including the Right Use of Power framework.
In this episode of The Leaderful Podcast, Pablo Romero and Jeff Couillard discuss some of the problems, challenges (and opportunities!) with traditional and mainstream employee engagement surveys. If you are tasked with collecting meaningful data from your team to inform better strategic decisions, this is a must listen!
In this episode of The Leaderful Podcast, Co-CEO's Pablo Romero and Jeff Couillard discuss the two key factors in getting from artificial harmony or unhealthy conflict to healthy conflict, or productive tension.
Is being 'vulnerable' always a good thing? When might a leader's vulnerability actually burden or harm the people they're supposed to support and lead? In this conversation between the Co-CEO's of The Ally Co. (Pablo and Jeff), we explore the nuances of vulnerability and why it might not always be the path leaders want to take with their teams.
In this episode of The Leaderful Podcast, Jeff and Pablo discuss the importance of feedback and some of the common barriers that exist - especially when you try and give feedback "up the chain".
In this episode of Leaderful, Jeff Couillard and Ty McKinney discuss mental wellness in the workplace, hybrid work, addiction and neurodiversity. Ty McKinney is a neuroscientist, Co-Founder of 8 Bit Cortex, Mental Health Advocate and self-described 'professional nerd'.
In this episode of Leaderful, Pablo Romero and Jeff Couillard discuss the six core pain points that leaders and teams face as they strive to build high-performing workplaces where everyone thrives. These six pain points include:
- Chronic burnout
- Deep stuckness
- Cultural disconnection
- Unhealthy conflict
- Unsafe environments
- Shitty communication
Learn more about The Ally Co. and the work we do do to help teams overcome these ...
In this first episode of Leaderful, Jeff Couillard and Pablo Romero discuss the hopes and goals of the show and the key challenges that leaders and teams face as they navigate building human-centred, systems-conscious organizations.
Popular Podcasts
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations.
Anna Sale explores the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation.
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people.
A straightforward look at the day's top news in 20 minutes. Powered by ABC News. Hosted by Brad Mielke.