Category: Blog
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56. Three Questions to Jumpstart Your Turnaround
It’s time for a change in your organization… but how do you get started? In this brief episode, I offer some advice on how to begin the process. I refer to my “Four Values” methodology in this episode – link here.
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55. Capabilities versus Commitment During Times of Change
Do you and your organization possess the necessary capabilities in order to manage a change agenda? In this brief episode, I suggest an equally important question: does it possess the commitment?
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54. Gina Mazza: The Return of Servant Leadership
This week, I speak with leader, consultant, and professor Gina Mazza about a topic that is anything but the new, new thing: Servant Leadership. It’s a leadership style and set of values that does, however, seem to be making a comeback. In this episode, Gina I I discuss what servant leadership is and why it’s…
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53. Hospice Nurse Penny: Demystifying Death
Hospice Nurse Penny is on a mission to demystify death, help all of us to become more comfortable with the dying process, and alleviate something she herself has experienced: death anxiety. Moving from bedside hospice nursing to social media platforms, Nurse Penny uses education, humor, and direct talk to accomplish her mission. In this episode…
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52. Bob Griffin: When Bad Things Happen to Good (and Bad) Organizations
In this week’s episode, I speak with Attorney Robert Griffin, a renowned expert on non-profit organizations. Our topic relates to what causes such organizations to go sideways from a legal and governance perspective, the causes of decline and trouble, the marks of good governance, and the many lessons learned from his forty years of policy-making,…
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51. Deborah Grassman: Recovering From a Loss of Self Worth
“Don’t waste your suffering.” — Deborah Grassman In this week’s episode, I speak with the founder of Opus Peace, an organization that was founded based on the important life lessons gained from working with 10,000 dying veterans. Deborah Grassman and I speak on the topics of childhood scripting, unprocessed trauma, personal pain, and peace and…
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50. Dr. Annie Brewster: The Healing Power of Stories
Dr. Annie Brewster is a both a physician and a patient and in this week’s episode, we explore the incredible (and I dare say surprising) healing power of storytelling. We cover Dr. Brewster’s personal experiences and the ensuing work that she and her colleagues have done to empower, inspire, and… to heal. Her work is…
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49. David Baiada: That Time Bayada Became a Non-Profit
It’s not every day that the owner of a multi-billion dollar global for profit entity decides to convert to his company to non-profit status. In what can only be described as a profound “put your money where your mouth is” statement, Bayada Home Health Care did just that. In this week’s interview, I discuss this…
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48. Diana Franchitto: The Rise of the For Profit Hospice
Profitability is good and essential, but the significant increase in the number of for profit hospice organizations has had an impact and much of that is not so good. In this episode, I speak with Diana Franchitto, President and CEO of HopeHealth, which is a leading non-profit hospice and palliative care organization. We discuss this…
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