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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 show’s guest in this episode is Claudia Aronowitz. She’s a personal development and relationship coach. She also works with people in leadership. And she’s passionate about helping people feel good with their whole self and helping them to create strong and positive relationships with others. —   Listen to the podcast here Tools to Create Sincere, Peaceful, and Harmonious Relationships in Your Professional and Personal Life with Claudia Aronowitz Hello, everybody. I’m Melanie Parish, it’s so great to be here with you live today on the experimental leader podcast. It’s Election Day in the United States. And asRead More
  The show’s guest in this episode is Melanie’s dad, Mel Parish. He spent his whole career at White Sands Missile Range. And he did a lot of early computer programming. He has a PhD in Physics. He’s been a member of Rotary. He’s a postal chess master. And in back in the day, he had top secret clearance. —   Listen to the podcast here Experimenting with War Gaming with Mel Parish I’m so excited to be here with you today. I’m Melanie Parish, and we’re live on the experimental leader podcast. And I am in my childhood home,Read More
  The show’s guest in this episode is Sinead Sharkey Steenson. She is the career elevator coach at generation women. And she helps women get promotions and the pay rate rises that they deserve. She’s past passionate about equality and seeing more women in leadership. And she blends practical strategies with simple mindset tools to achieve amazing results. And several of them have gotten over 100% pay raises, and multiple promotions. And to date, she’s helped over 10,000 women take a step up. —   Listen to the podcast here The Challenges Women Face in Leadership with Sinead Sharkey SteensonRead More
  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
  —   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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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

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