Isn’t it tempting to imagine our learning culture free of the trappings of factory learning? Is it hard to imagine an education Promised Land? If you have been schooled on the Short Answer and the Short Leash, like a slave, the secret north passage is risky. But If you have an imagination and are receptive to innovation, the door is always open. Listening to our Podcast, we think, is a way to walk through that open door into a dimension of shared hope and possibility. Together, we can help m ...
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Successful leaders don’t wait for the right time. Instead, they create the right time and take full advantage of opportunities. Welcome to The Leader’s Chair podcast hosted by Jeffrey Edwards, speaker, entrepreneur, and Leadership Strategy Coach. If you’re new to leading people, an aspiring entrepreneur ready to launch, or an experienced executive building the next generation of future leaders, this podcast is for you. Leader… Leadership…. We hear those words so many times, but what do they ...
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Limitless Leadership: Success On Your Own Terms With Dr. Sarah Renee Langley
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18:24Many women find themselves stuck in the imposter syndrome, thinking that what they do and no matter how much they work is still not good enough. It is time to get unstuck from the outdated rules of success and happiness and be unapologetically and guiltlessly yourself. In this episode, Dr. Sarah Renee Langley joins Jeffrey Edwards to share with us …
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Building A Great Strategy For Small Business Growth With Michael Haynes
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33:34The world of business is changing rapidly. And for small businesses to survive and thrive, they need a growth strategy. Luckily, our guest has just what small and medium businesses need. In this episode, Jeffrey Edwards is joined by business growth strategist and founder of Listen Innovate Grow, Michael Haynes, as they talk strategy for b2b growth.…
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Planting The Seeds Of Your Legacy With Dr. Rodney Peyton O.B.E.
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29:02You should start planting the seeds of your legacy as early as today. There is so much that you can teach and pass on to a younger generation. This is what Dr. Rodney Peyton O.B.E. did. He did not pass on a name to a technique; he passed on the technique itself. Dr. Rodney is an accomplished general surgeon, consultant trauma surgeon, and surgical …
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Self-Care Strategies For Leaders With Lynne Peyton
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23:23Being a leader is not as glamorous as it seems on screen. As they try to catch up on fulfilling their tasks and responsibilities, many leaders find themselves putting self-care to the end of their priorities. But this shouldn’t be the case. After all, how can you expect to give your best when you are not feeling your best? Lynne Peyton, the Princip…
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Working With Jerks: Managing Difficult Relationships In The Workplace With Eric Williamson
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36:36Nobody wants to work with a jerk. As a leader, you cannot achieve your singular vision without the help of your people, jerks included. You need to build relationships with everyone in the workplace. Some of them may be jerks and difficult but having the ability to get people to work together will do wonders. Navigate what factors to a jerkish envi…
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Improving Your Team With Proper Work Delegation
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18:36A team is built with a leader setting a goal, but it can only move towards that if every member works at their best. Jeffrey Edwards discusses the proper way to do work delegation, an important factor in every top-performing business. He explains how being clear with your goals and building relationships with your team are always excellent steps in…
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Tammy Washington De Sencion On Embracing A Learner's Mindset In A Career Transition
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29:53Bringing all of your knowledge and experiences from one job to the next will make your journey to the next level fulfilling and worthwhile. But another essential attitude to have during a career transition is to revert into a learner once again. Jeffrey Edwards sits down with Tammy Washington de Sencion to share how embracing the student-like minds…
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How To Lead A Team In A Work From Home Environment With Darlana Lee
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27:15With the pandemic, working from home has become the norm for most people. But Darlana Lee is not most people, she has been working from home 15 years before it was cool. Darlana is the Leader of the Global Facilitator Team at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and is responsible for guiding her team in delivery and business solutions around the topics of l…
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How Entrepreneurs Thrive: Actionable Business Building Tips With Joe Rojas
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31:29If you’re barely surviving from day to day, you’re probably not being what an entrepreneur should be. Entrepreneurs should thrive. They must have a clear idea of what they want to achieve and what process they are going to use to achieve it. They must keep their eye on the prize and derive joy from the journey of getting there. There is probably no…
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Understanding The Value Of Emotional Intelligence For Leaders With Debbie Muno And Jeff Summers
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41:40We all have a general understanding of what emotional intelligence is, but there are also a lot of misconceptions that prevail around the concept, especially in relation to leadership. What does it really mean to be emotionally intelligent, especially if you’re a leader? Jeffrey Edwards brings in two experts from Genos North America to give us a fu…
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Capturing Your Story Bank With David Newman
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24:39How do you hone your voice as a leader and make your message clearer? Today's guest is David Newman, the Founder of Do It Marketing, who's helped thousands of people move their business forward and find their voice. In this episode, David discusses with Jeffrey Edwards why personal branding is essential to commercialize your expertise. To start for…
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Social Media: How To Hack This Ever-Evolving Business Tool With Andrew McCauley
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25:08Young or old, everyone is involved with social media. Even your pet dog can have an account and create a large following. It’s ever-changing, and trends come and go swiftly that a bit of attention is crucial. In this episode, Andrew McCauley, Social Media Consultant and Strategist of The Social Media Bloke, shares his proven insights on how to use …
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Taking Care Of The People Side Of Business: Having Tough Conversations With Anne Graham
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31:57Difficult conversations are uncomfortable to get through, but it is a must if you are to create a good working environment that produces productive employees who will stay with you for the long haul. Helping you conduct these difficult conversations, Jeffrey Edwards interviews Anne Graham, the founder of Syncworks Consulting Inc., to the show. Here…
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Reset Your Mindset – Move Forward To Success, Prosperity And Health With Mark Yuzuik
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29:27How do you set your direction towards success, prosperity, and good physical and mental health? The most important thing that you can do to make that possible is to reset your mindset – to make a shift in how you see yourself and how show up for the world. Author, speaker, trainer, and Master Hypnotist Mark Yuzuik drives this message home in this c…
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Imposter Syndrome: How To Dispel This Major Obstacle To Personal Growth
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25:48One of the major obstacles that impact our mindset is having the imposter syndrome. By having constant thoughts of yourself about not being good enough and lacking that right level of self-confidence, you may never be able to move forward at all. Aiming to eliminate this unhealthy thinking from your head, Jeffrey Edwards goes deep into the most imp…
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Andrew Kap On Learning Consistency Through Successful Habits
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27:11Successful habits are never formed by pushing yourself to the limit. If that is the case, then you will just lose interest eventually and cease doing a particular activity. Author Andrew Kap believes that the best way to start rewarding habits is by determining all of the things you really love and want to do, and then start building from there. Si…
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Tene Knibbs On Her Life-Changing Leadership Journey
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31:39Leaders will be nothing without a team that trusts them. Tene Knibbs attests to this fact as she shares how her own leadership journey molded her as a person. Together with Jeffrey Edwards, Tene reminisces on her time in Chile as a young, black woman who learned how to lead by connecting with the people around her. She explains why every leader mus…
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The Art Of Negotiation: Asking More For What You Want In Business With Christine McKay
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36:44One crucial part of being a business leader is negotiations. It is where opportunities get tapped, deals are made, and relationships are created. So how do you become a good negotiator? In this episode, global business negotiation strategist, Christine McKay, joins host, Jeffrey Edwards, to share with us some secrets on what it takes to master this…
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Leading In The Frontlines: With The Emergency Doctor Who Would Keep You Out Of The ER, Dr. Robert Ealy
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21:23The emergency department is full of heroes, but Dr. Robert Ealy goes even one step further. Leading in the frontlines for over 30 years both inside the emergency room and out, Robert sees to it that people are not just given optimum urgent care, but also the knowledge and tools to help them avoid having to be rushed into the ER in the first place. …
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Business Leadership In These Trying Times With Aaron Scott Young – Part 2
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15:55Entrepreneurship and business leadership are two different things, as we have learned in the previous episode. The principles of the latter are going to be what gets your business through in these challenging times. What do we need to do to grow our business from a business leader’s perspective? We have covered a lot of this in Part 1, but there is…
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Transforming Minds, One Episode At A Time With Cesar Berrio
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29:23What would you do if you knew you had the knowledge that has the potential to change the lives of countless people? Colombian entrepreneur and podcaster, Cesar Berrio takes it as his life’s mission to spread that message through the popular Spanish-language personal development podcast, Transformando tu Mente. When Cesar started to run his own ener…
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Business Leadership In These Trying Times With Aaron Scott Young - Part 1
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33:08Even though you feel like being an entrepreneur is something that already runs in your blood, you still have to have the proper mentality to tackle whatever it is you will face in the actual field. Business leader entrepreneur, Aaron Scott Young, joins host, Jeffrey Edwards, in this two-part interview series to talk about what it takes to be an ent…
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Leadership In The New Normal With Dr. Elena Pezzini
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32:55Good leaders literally meet people wherever they're at. One of their top qualities includes staying neutral – that is, accepting of all politics, religions, beliefs, cultures, and races. Joining Jeffrey Edwards on today’s podcast is Dr. Elena Pezzini, an executive coach and author who has achieved great success in business and in her personal life.…
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Building A Tribe Of Visionary Leaders With Emi Kirschner
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24:50Leadership is all about the impact you make in the world and the people you are able to help with your vision. Business coach, Emi Kirschner maximizes this impact by building a tribe of leaders, teaching them how to be like her – a visionary who combines a knack for generating brilliant ideas with a genuine desire to help other people. Emi is the h…
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Changing Communities Through Affordable And Reachable Housing With Gary Rahman
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26:18Everyone should be afforded stable and affordable housing. Making it his mission, Gary Rahman founded a successful residential and commercial real estate company in Washington, DC, where he is changing communities by developing housing for low to medium-income families. In this episode, he joins Jeffrey Edwards to share with us how he is doing it a…
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Personal Leadership With TSN Host James Duthie
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21:56Leadership doesn’t always have to mean standing in front of a team making a speech; sometimes, it just means being a good example. This is what TSN host James Duthie learned in his years as a sports broadcaster for Canadian television. James hosts the NHL coverage at TSN. He is noted for his charisma that draws attention and makes people enjoy the …
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A Leader’s Guide To Teams And Working Groups With Andrew Neitlich
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20:46If there is one great area that this pandemic is testing us, it would be leadership. When we are all working all over the place remotely, how do we reorganize ourselves and establish each of our roles and help our team members? In this episode, Jeffrey Edwards has the perfect guest to help you answer this question and more. He interviews Andrew Nei…
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Writing Rules That People Will Follow With Lewis S. Eisen
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28:56We always hear the quote, "rules are meant to be broken." Consequently, people have been living by that, often breaking the rules and getting into trouble. How, then, can we make them follow instead of disobeying? Jeffrey Edwards invites an expert on this area, Lewis S. Eisen. As the author of the international bestselling book, How to Write Rules …
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Delivering Innovative Solutions Through Service Design Thinking With Marc Bolick
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27:10Although a popular concept, design thinking is still somewhat of a mystery to a lot of people. Design thinking is defined as an iterative process that teams use to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and create innovative solutions to prototype and test. To shed more light on this process, Jeffrey Edwards brings on Marc Boli…
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Effective Leadership Through Coaching And Mentoring
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13:38Part of a leader’s role is to identify talent and have a strategic plan or vision for the organization, and that includes developing the people. In this episode, Jeffrey Edwards talks about mentoring and coaching as two essential elements of leadership. He shares how leaders can function as mentors and outlines some specific steps to coaching. Are …
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What If…?: Powerful Questions That Bring About Great Answers
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12:59The power of asking questions is often overlooked in the leadership sphere. What distinguishes great leaders and visionaries is their ability to ask great questions which bring them to a world of possibility and opportunity. All great ideas start with the question “What if…”? All visionaries had the audacity to break the limits of their imagination…
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Elevating Awareness And Support Through Discovering Your Heroic Voice With Anthony Lee
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26:47A study by LinkedIn shows that one of the top skills required going forward is oral communications. For many leaders taking the stage though, it’s still a challenge to keep people awake and engaged during their presentations. On today’s podcast, Jeffrey Edwards chats with Anthony Lee about discovering your heroic voice in leadership in order to del…
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Change, without doubt, is the only constant in this world. It is one of the biggest things that leaders must tackle every day. In this episode, host Jeffrey Edwards talks about leaders, change, and transitions. He explains how leaders must learn how to navigate the phases of transitions with his people as well as understand the layers of change. Af…
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Being true to yourself, to what you represent, makes people clearly understand the way you think and the things you want to achieve with them. But how can authentic leadership be achieved? Today, Jeffrey Edwards welcomes you to the premiere episode of The Leader’s Chair podcast, where he shares his ideas on how to be the right leader to the right p…
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A set of ingredients and pre-conditions are needed for learning culture transformation. Foremost among these is Play. (BTW, it's the Canadian, not the French embassy.)
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What is Play made of? A whole world of learning. “Play is the nicest thing that nature ever did for us.” -- Paul D. MacLean
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Call to Action - The Opt Out Movement: Part 2
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12:28Yes, play is powerful enough to move our learning culture forward, but not without parents leading the way.
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Call to Action - The Opt Out Movement: Part 1
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9:42What lies beyond the education factory?
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Play is the Key to Culture Transformation
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17:20When we locked Mary’s Lamb out of school, we sowed the bad seeds of control, authority, and play-deprivation. Instead of enlightened school reform, we grew Reform Schools-along with the darkness of violence and retribution. Play is the only thing that can eradicate the root system, and heal and rejuvenate our learning culture.…
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