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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.

Designing New Workplace Experiments with Melissa Boggs

  The show’s guest in this episode is Melissa Boggs. She’s a leadership coach, and an employee experience design consultant. She’s also the host of the wild hearts at work podcast, redefining our relationship with work through stories and conversations, and those challenging the status quo of today’s workplace. —     Listen to the podcast here Designing New Workplace Experiments with Melissa Boggs Hey, it’s so great to be here live with you today, I am hailing you can see in the background, I’m hailing from my dad’s house in New Mexico. And this morning, I’m thinking about forRead More

Experimenting with Long-Term Strategy with Mark Sherkey

  The show’s guest in this episode is Mark Sherkey. He’s a retired US Army colonel. And he’s currently serving in Johnson and Johnson’s experienced military veteran leadership development program. They bring in people who are really good leaders in one context. And then they put them into different contexts within J and J. And they help them develop as leaders in the corporate world. His last role that he did was the director for global commercial strategy. —     Listen to the podcast here Experimenting with Long-Term Strategy with Mark Sherkey Hi there, it’s so great to beRead More

Self Awareness Strategies for Success with Dr. Carol Scott

  The show’s guest in this episode is Dr. Carol Scott. She’s a nationally respected thought leader in early care and education. She has a BA in anthropology and child development. She has master’s in childhood education and a PhD in developmental psychology. I love that she’s here to talk about leadership. And from her foundation came the self aware success strategies she offers her clients today. She’s a TEDx speaker, an author, a coach and a trainer. Tune in, and be transformed! —     Listen to the podcast here Self Awareness Strategies for Success with Dr. Carol ScottRead More

Experimenting with Copywriting with Nicki Krawczyk

    The show’s guest in this episode is Nicki Krawczyk, and she’s the founder of Filthy Rich Writer. She’s also been a copywriter for 15+ years, working for and with clients including TripAdvisor, Marshalls, Hasbro, Keurig, adidas, and, yes, even Harlequin Romance novels! Tune in and learn more! —     Listen to the podcast here Experimenting with Copywriting with Nicki Krawczyk   Hi, everybody, it’s great to be here with you today I’ve been thinking about my own leadership. And I’ve been thinking about sort of what’s the who’s the need that I present to the world asRead More

Thriving with Dr. Jeanne Michele

  The show’s guest in this episode is Dr. Jeanne Michele, and she’s many things. She’s a teacher, she’s a modern day philosopher, she’s part change agent, part coach, and she feels designs and delivers personalized programs to men, women and couples, to help them create lives, relationships and business partnerships that thrive. —     Listen to the podcast here Thriving with Dr. Jeanne Michele Hey, it’s so great to be here with you live today. I’ve been thinking about leadership a lot. And I’ve been thinking about how hierarchies work, you know, sort of top down hierarchies inRead More

Experimenting with Marketing and Profit with Nikki Nash

  The show’s guest in this episode is Nikki Nash. She is a Hay House author, international speaker, and marketing mentor for women entrepreneurs. As host of the Market Your Genius podcast and founder of the Genius Profit Lab, she equips entrepreneurs and authors with the tools and resources they need to share and profit from their experiences. —     Listen to the podcast here Experimenting with Marketing and Profit Hello, everyone, I am so excited to be here with you live. And I am just I’ve been thinking about my own leadership today. And actually, as I wasRead More

Leading A Remote Team With Kevin Eikenberry

    Kevin Eikenberry, the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group and the Co-Founder of the Remote Leadership Institute, joins Melanie Parish and shares how to lead a remote team and how to develop them. Tune in and learn more! —     Listen to the podcast here Leading A Remote Team With Kevin Eikenberry Hi there, it’s so great to be here live with you today. I am Melanie Parish and it’s just great to be going live and having the opportunity to be with you in real time. I’ve been thinking about my own leadership thisRead More

Leading Profound Transformation With Sophie Mclean

  The show’s guest in this episode is Sophie Mclean. She is a helicopter pilot, a teacher, a designer, a relief worker, a war refugee, a CEO, and served as a United Nations representative on The Commission on the Status of Women’s Hunger Project. Sophie talks with Melanie Parish about leading and transformation. Sophie shares her challenges as she faces taking everything online. Tune in, and be transformed! —     Listen to the podcast here Leading Profound Transformation with Sophie Mclean I am so excited to welcome you to our very first experimental leader Live podcast. I am soRead More

Running Yourself Ragged

Listen to the podcast here Running Yourself Ragged I am really excited to be here with you today. And I want to talk for a minute about what happens to you as a leader when you’ve been running really hard, and you’ve been working really hard and trying to be the best that you can be. And you just keep going and going and going. And for a while, it might feel really good. Like, you feel important, and you feel like you’re not going to an out of the park-like you’re really you know, you’re really providing valuable workRead More

Kata as a tool

Listen to the podcast here Kata As A Tool Hey everybody, I’m super excited to be here with you today. And I want to talk to you a little bit about a continuous improvement tool that I use called an experiment kata. A kata, it’s a Japanese word, and it means form. And it’s talking about a choreographed pattern of martial arts movements that can be practiced alone. So you’re practicing these in martial arts alone so that you can learn how to move your body, you’re doing it on a regular cadence, and that cadence increases your skill. AndRead More

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