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Are you a business owner, executive, leader, team leader, aspiring future leader, leadership junkie, a scientist, a design thinker, or simply the leader of your own life? If you are, then you are a leader, and as such, you should be experimenting!

Welcome to The Experimental Leader, a podcast where we tackle the ways leaders are experimenting in their own work. Hosted by Melanie Parish and Dr. Mel Rutherford, we dive into the most interesting questions about leaders and get into real-life conversations about how people might be experimenting with their leadership. What they are trying? How they are leading and managing their flow of work and throughput? How are they managing bottlenecks, mission, vision, strategic, operational, and tactical intents? How do they organize experiments? How do they succeed? How do they fail? How do they collect data?

The loneliness of leadership can be overwhelming, especially when a leader gets promoted and doesn’t have a roadmap for how to lead. They might feel like they are supposed to have the answers, and yet they have to figure out what that really means. The hardest part can be not having anyone to talk to about their leadership journey.

The Power of Telling Your Story Through Memoir with Anne Bokma

  The show’s guest in this episode is Anne Bokma. She is an award-winning freelance journalist, memoir coach, dating coach and the author of My Year of Living Spiritually: From Woo-Woo to Wonderful—One Woman’s Secular Quest for a More Soulful Life. —     Listen to the podcast here The Power of Telling Your Story Through Memoir with Anne Bokma Hi, everybody, I’m Melanie Parish, it’s so great to be here live with you today. We have a great show for you today. And I’ve been thinking about my own leadership a lot lately. I had a conversation with aRead More

Sh*t Happens

  —   Listen to the podcast here Sh*t Happens Hello, and welcome to the experimental leader Podcast. I’m Melanie Parrish, your host. And it’s great to be here with you today. I’ve been thinking about knitting and picket fences and I wanted to talk about that a little bit today, and kind of how they relate to business. When we moved to Hamilton, Ontario 20 years ago, my lovely husband Mel sent me with his, his down payment, that he’d been saving for his whole life to have I owned a house in Colorado, and he said, you know,Read More

How a Business Can Accelerate Growth Without Overwork and Overwhelm with Crista Grasso

  The show’s guest in this episode is Crista Grasso. She is a business and scaling strategist and a Lean and Agile strategic planning and systems expert, and I get super excited about people who are into Lean and Agile, and she has two decades of experience working with small businesses and large fortune 50 companies. She’s the creator of The Lean Out Method and Lean Business Scaling System, which she designed specifically for small businesses who want to scale to multiple, seven figures in simple and sustainable ways, and her one on one strategic advisory and transformational programs willRead More

Leadership Through Influence with Greg Poirier

  The show’s guest in this episode is Greg Poirier. Over the last 20 years, he has established himself as a capable leader and a visionary in the technology industry. He is a principal Software Architect at Solar Winds. And he works with engineering product and executive leadership to ensure solar wind, engineers are building the right thing at the right time. Not only that, but Greg has been Melanie’s client for many years now. —   Listen to the podcast here Leadership Through Influence with Greg Poirier Hey, everybody, welcome to our live show the experimental leader, I amRead More

Intimacy and feminine energy for high level CEOs with Melisa Keenan

  The show’s guest in this episode is Melisa Keenan. She lives in Nevada, and after investing nearly $200,000 us in certifications and training, navigating her own traumatic relationship experiences and now influencing 1000s of 1000s of women. She understands the female CEO feeling trapped in the masculine and she helps women gain time freedom, intimacy and fulfillment without losing momentum. —     Listen to the podcast here Intimacy and feminine energy for high level CEOs with Melisa Keenan Hey, everybody, I’m so excited to be here live with you today. It’s so fun to be here live. AndRead More

Exploring Positive Intelligence with Kimberly Wiefling

  The show’s guest in this episode is Kimberly Wiefling. She is a force of nature and an expert in helping people turn ideas into impact. She’s a physicist by education, she worked at HP for 10 years, and then three years in Silicon Valley startups. Her superpower is turning managers into leaders, who use their strengths to achieve impossible together groups become true teams who can achieve impossible together. —     Listen to the podcast here Exploring Positive Intelligence with Kimberly Wiefling Hello, it’s so nice to be here with you today. I’m Melanie Parish. And I amRead More

Experimenting with Retrospective with Paul Reed

  The show’s guest in this episode is Paul Reed. He is an internationally recognized consultant and speaker on operational socio-technical complexity challenges and opportunities, Resilience Engineering, and DevOps/SRE. He’s worked with such organizations as VMware, Mozilla, Symantec, and Netflix. And he holds a Masters of Science in Human Factors & Systems Safety from Lund University. —     Listen to the podcast here Experimenting with Retrospective with Paul Reed Hello, I’m super excited to be here live with you today we have a great show planned for you. And I’m always thinking about my own leadership, my own life.Read More

How to Turn Your Experiences Into Stories that Teach, Lead, and Inspire with Mark Carpenter

  The show’s guest in this episode is Mark Carpenter. He is a serial storyteller. Telling stories since childhood, Mark leveraged his ability into a career in marketing communications and public relations and later as a college professor and corporate facilitator. His storytelling became even more purposeful and effective after researching and writing the best-selling book “Master Storytelling: How to Turn Your Experiences Into Stories that Teach, Lead, and Inspire.” Now, as a facilitator, consultant, and speaker, he teaches others what he learned in the process. —     Listen to the podcast here How to Turn Your Experiences IntoRead More

Igniting a Workforce in Today’s Employment Market with George Murray

  The show’s guest in this episode is George Murray. He is an award-winning author and global operations leader. He inspires business owners & professionals to go from where they are today to where they want to be tomorrow! —     Listen to the podcast here Igniting a Workforce in Today’s Employment Market with George Murray Hey, everybody, it’s great to be here live with you today. And I’ve been thinking about problem solving because I had a problem this week, I had a big problem. I went swimming on Wednesday, I swim two or three days a week,Read More

Helping People Harness Digital Empathy at Work with Mckenna Sweazey

  The show’s guest in this episode is Mckenna Sweazey. She is an author, speaker and marketer. She is based in Silicon Valley and is obsessed with helping people harness Digital Empathy at work. —     Listen to the podcast here Helping People Harness Digital Empathy at Work with Mckenna Sweazey Hey, everybody, it’s so exciting to be here live with you today. I, I love I have to say, we started doing the podcast live in September. And I’ve just loved doing it live, it creates a little excitement in my life, sometimes a little thrill when thingsRead More

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