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LeaderReadyCast
by Harvard NPLI
A monthly podcast featuring real-world lessons, best practices, and action-oriented insights for the “You’re It” moments when you are called to lead. Each concise episode features insights from frontline leaders and the faculty of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI), a joint program of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.About the HostEric J. McNulty is the Associate Director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative. He researches, writes about, and teaches leadership, crisis leadership, conflict resolution, and negotiation in graduate and executive education at Harvard and other institutions. He is a regular speaker at conferences and corporate events. McNulty is co-author of You’re It: The Pivot from Everyday to Crisis Leadership (forthcoming), Renegotiating Healthcare: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration, and author of numerous articles. He is a contr
Episodes
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Episode 77: Dr. Nikki Romanik on "Pandemic Next"
Episode 77: Dr. Nikki Romanik on "Pandemic Next" by Harvard NPLI
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Episode 76: Jarrod Bernstein on Keeping Teams Stronger, Longer: Why It Matters More Than Ever
Jarrod Bernstein is Policy Director and Council at Morrison Cohen and member of the Advisory Board at Team Rubicon. He is an alumnus of the NPLI at Harvard University.
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Episode 75: Jimmy Mynatt and Daytona Erkan on One Faith-Based Organizations Response to Crisis
Episode 75: Jimmy Mynatt and Daytona Erkan on One Faith-Based Organizations Response to Crisis by Harvard NPLI
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Episode 74: Cheryl Nelson on Communicating Severe Weather and Disaster Science Information
Episode 74: Cheryl Nelson on Communicating Severe Weather and Disaster Science Information by Harvard NPLI
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Episode 73: Dana Rubin on Finding Your Voice as a Leader
Episode 73: Dana Rubin on Finding Your Voice as a Leader by Harvard NPLI
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Episode 72: Farah Pandith on Combatting Violent Extremism
Farah Pandith is a global expert on combatting violent extremism. She shares policy prescriptions as well as pragmatic ideas to help leaders the tide on this persistent threat.
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Episode 71: Madison Murphy Barney on Storytelling for Resilience and Recovery
Episode 71: Madison Murphy Barney on Storytelling for Resilience and Recovery by Harvard NPLI
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Episode 70: Preparing Leaders for Mis and Dis Information with Justin Snair and Philippe Borremans
Episode 70: Preparing Leaders for Mis and Dis Information with Justin Snair and Philippe Borremans by Harvard NPLI
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Episode 69: Preparing Leaders for Mis and Dis Information with Justin Snair and Philippe Borremans
Episode 69: Preparing Leaders for Mis and Dis Information with Justin Snair and Philippe Borremans by Harvard NPLI
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Episode 68: Marcus Coleman of United Way on New Horizons in Resilience
Marcus Coleman, Vice President of Community Resilience Strategy at United Way, discusses how leaders can foster personal, organizational, and social resilience in unsettled times. He shares wisdom reflecting years of experience leading across the US to help communities when it matters most.
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Episode 67: Jonathan Clark, Activating the Soul, Heart, and Mind of Leadership
Jonathan Clark, co-author of Leading Through: Activating the Soul, Heart, and Mind of Leadership, discusses how to build vibrant, thriving organizations by attending to people, purpose, and productivity. It’s a new approach for moving beyond the limitations of compliance and control to create the...
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Episode 66: Dillon Taylor, Chief of Staff, Virginia Department of Emergency Management
Dillon Taylor, Chief of Staff, Virginia Department of Emergency Management discusses how to implement Swarm Intelligence during blue sky days. *Podcast was recorded several weeks prior to the recent Hurricanes.
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Episode 65: Dr. Brian Spisak on AI and Leadership
Dr. Brian Spisak and Eric McNulty explores the impact of artificial intelligence on the thinking and practice of crisis leadership they will cover in their October 2024 workshop, Integrating GenAI into Crisis Leadership. For details, visit bit.ly/aicrisisleadership
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Episode 64: Fifth Anniversary of You're it Book
Dr. Lenny Marcus and Eric McNulty discuss the state of crisis leadership to mark the fifth anniversary of the publication of You’re It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When it Matters Most. The world is more turbulent than ever. That makes the need for effective leaders all the more urgent.…
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Episode 63: Heather Costa, Director of Technology Resilience, Mayo Clinic
Episode 63: Heather Costa, Director of Technology Resilience at the Mayo Clinic, discusses a resilience approach to technology—and leadership—in a fast-evolving, high-consequence environment. You can’t prevent every adverse incident. You can, however, be ready to bounce forward to recover rapidly...
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Episode 62: Anthony Amore, Dir of Security and Chief Investigator, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Anthony Amore, Director of Security and Chief Investigator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston discusses leading up, across, and beyond to create a culture of security.
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Episode 61: Mark Dollins, Founder and President of NorthStar Communications
Mark Dollins, founder and president of NorthStar Communications and co-author of Engaging Employees through Strategic Communications: Skills, Strategies, and Tactics discusses engaging employees through change. Every organization today is facing change. The ability of leaders to connect with and...
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Episode 60: Dr. Carol Cunningham on Lessons from the East Palestine Train Derailment.
Podcast with Dr. Carol Cunningham from the Ohio Department of Public Safety, Division of EMS on the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment in 2023 revealed serious public health preparedness and response issues. Discover critical insights from a public health leader involved in capturing those...
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Episode 59: Dave Fortier of One World Strong Discusses Helping Survivors of Mass Casualty Incidents
The survivors of mass casualty incidents have distinct needs—and some have discovered an innovative way to help. In this episode, Dave Fortier, co-founder of One World Strong, shares insights from a decade of working with this resilient community committed to moving forward.
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Episode 58: Dr. Samantha Montano on the Disaster of Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery is slow, expensive, and sometimes contentious. Yet in a time of perpetual disruption, it is a puzzle that must be solved. Dr. Samantha Montano shares her thoughts based on decades of experience and research.
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Episode 57: Meaghan Enright of Love City Strong Discusses Community Readiness
Community readiness is an enduring challenge for emergency managers. In this episode, Meaghan Enright shares powerful, practical insights for building readiness from the ground up based on her experience in St. John, USVI.
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Episode 56: Verenice Castillo and Whitney Armstrong of MSAN on the Power of Informal Networks
Verenice Castillo and Whitney Armstrong of the Military Spouse Advocacy Network elevate informal leaders addressing critical issues members of the military and their families. They have lessons for everyone working with informal leaders.
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Episode 55: Joseph Porcelli on Community Engagement for Disaster Preparedness and Response
Joseph Porcelli is Global Public Agency, Life Safety, and Disaster Response Lead for NextDoor. He shared insights on how to move the needle on community engagement to make communities better prepared for and more responsive in disasters.
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Episode 54: Risha Grant on Getting Real About Acceptance and Inclusion
Risha Grant is author of Be Better Than Your BS—How Radical Acceptance Empowers Authenticity and Creates a Workplace Culture of Inclusion. She shares her experience and insights on how leaders can foster belonging and equity for everyone.
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Episode 53: Paul Thallner on Organizational Resilience
Paul Thallner is author of Redefining Resilience: How Organizations Move Beyond Setbacks and Grow Through Challenges. He provides timely insights on fostering the courage and confidence to build a truly resilient organization.
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Episode 52: Brian Spisak on AI and Leadership
Dr. Brian Spisak, author of Computational Leadership, explores the impact of artificial intelligence on the thinking and practice of leading and organizational performance.
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Episode 51: Shumeane Benford and Lee Alexander on Learning from Crises
Shumaene Benford, of Boston Emergency Management, and Lee Alexander, of Boston EMS, share how they have grown as leaders in the 10 years since the Boston Marathon bombings.
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Episode 50: Ashley Reichheld on the Four Factors of Trust
Ashley Reichheld shares her deep, research-based insights on what it takes to develop and keep trust. Learn how the four factors help you understand how to earn the loyalty of customers, employees, and communities.
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Episode 49: Jay Weiser on the Power of Paradox
Jay Weiser shares his five superpowers of leadership, all based on embracing the paradoxes at the heart of leading through turbulence and complexity. Find more about Jay Weiser at www.jayweiser.com.
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Episode 48: Kelly Donithan on the Challenges of Animals in Disasters
Kelly Donithan is a senior specialist in disaster response at Humane Society International. You can learn more about HSI and the work they do every day and in the situations where it matters most at www.hsi.org.
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Episode 47: Dr. Linda Ginzel on Choosing Leadership
Dr. Linda Ginzel of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business shares techniques for leading with greater insight, intentionality, and purpose from her book, Choosing Leadership.
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Episode 46: Dr. Dawn Emerick
Podcast Episode 46: Dr. Dawn Emerick joins us on this very hot topic. Trauma has become an increasing concern in organizations over the past few years. The trauma experienced by returning combat veterans, first responders, society wide trauma, the pandemic, wildfires, floods and other devastating...
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Episode 45: The Power of Foresight in Preparedness and Response, a conversation with Donna Dupont
A critical responsibility for leaders is to bring people into an uncertain future with hope and confidence. Learning how to anticipate change and proactively engage with uncertainty is essential to cultivate future adaptive strategies, as foresight and design expert Donna Dupont explains.
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Episode 44: Radical Self-awareness for Leaders, a conversation with Dain Dunston
Leading requires being in touch with yourself, your team, and the other stakeholders. Executive coach Dain Dunston shares insights on radical self-awareness that helps leaders be more agile and more effective.
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Episode 43: Delivering Results in Government with Gov. Charlie Baker and Steve Kadish
Government is charged with everything from delivering basic services to tackling complex challenges. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and his former Chief of Staff, Steve Kadish share insights on how to meet those challenges from their book, Results: Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work...
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Episode 42: Karina de Allicon
In this episode, Karina de Allicon, experienced business continuity leader and mindfulness authority, joins us to discuss how age-old practices can help improve performance and bolster resilience among preparedness and response professionals and their teams.
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Episode 41: Dane Jensen
Episode 41: Join us this month to listen to Dane Jensen; he helps leaders reset their relationship with pressure into a more productive one. Dane is the author of The Power of Pressure: Why Pressure Isn’t the Problem, It’s the Solution and CEO of Third Factor.
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Episode 40: Making extreme decisions with Brad Borkan
Brad Borkan is a decision expert and author, he shares his insights on preparing to make truly challenging choices drawing from deep historical research. He is co-author of When Your Life Depends on It: Extreme Decision Making Lessons from the Antarctic and Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results.…
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Episode 39: Dr. Kinari Webb, founder of the nonprofit Health and Harmony.
She is an exemplar of innovative, systemic thinking, as well as of the determination it takes to make a difference on the ground. I think that her journey has lessons for all of us who wrestle with the thorny social issues and who work to lead for greater good is also captured.
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Episode 38: Michelle Wucker, a risk strategist and best selling author
If any topic should be top of mind right now, its risk, how we perceive it, how we evaluate it, what we do about it, for extreme weather to extreme politics. Uncertainty is a feature, not a bug of our current age. They help explore what this means for leaders.
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Episode 37: Public Health-Emergency Management Interface with Todd Da Voe of EM Weekly
Every major crisis has a public health component and, as has been seen during the pandemic, emergency management can greatly assist in a public health response. What can each discipline learn from the other? How can they best work together? Eric’s guest is Todd De Voe, experienced emergency...
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Episode 36: April Rinne, Author
April has been a futurist, advisor, microfinance lawyer, global development executive, more. She has worked with organizations from Airbnb to the World Bank as well as governments around the world. Through it all, April has become expert at navigating change, and that’s what I’m going to speak…
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Episode 35: Gillian Cribbs, Executive Coach
Gillian Cribbs works with global leaders and high potential executives across a range of sectors. In this episode we will be talking about the leader as coach, the coach. It is not a newly recognized skill for organizational leaders, though it remains an elusive one.
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Episode 34: Exploring The World of Risk with Eric Jones of FM Global
Leaders today face a risky world. In this episode, learn how take a more nuanced view of risk and how to navigate it. Our guest is Eric Jones, global manager of business risk consulting for property risk mutual insurance company, FM Global.
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Episode 33: Chloe Demrovsky, President and CEO of Disaster Recovery Institute. Looking ahead to 2021
Chloe Demrovsky, President and CEO of Disaster Recovery Institute. DRI is the oldest and largest nonprofit that helps organizations around the world prepare for and recover from disasters by providing education, accreditation, and thought leadership in business continuity, disaster recovery…
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Episode 30: Just-in-time COVID-19 leadership lessons with Muriel Barnier
Companies whose standard operating environment is rich with risk have been leading the way to help us better understand how to re-imagine training and education to better engage recipients and increase the likelihood of tangible positive outcomes. Our guest today is at the forefront of this...
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Episode 29: Coronavirus Episode, Cybersecurity with Keeyan Williams
Cyber security episode: while much of the focus these days is on the corona virus as well as the street protests, those with their eyes open are seeing an increase in cyber threats. And to help us understand what’s going on and what leaders can do about it, Keyaan Williams the founder and…
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Episode 28: Coronavirus Episode, Experiential Learning with Michelle Palladini and Donna Volpitta
Recognizing cognitive bias and understanding other insights from brain science in order to get smarter than your brain. Michelle and Danielle have used that same underlying science to work with leaders in our homes, schools and communities. Michelle Palladini is a detective and school resource...
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Episode 27: Coronavirus episode, Just-in-time COVID-19 leadership lessons with Dan Heath
In his new book, best-selling author Dan Heath explores how to solve problems before they start–what he calls moving “upstream.” It is complex, difficult work though essential as we confront crises and disasters that are increasingly difficult and expensive to manage through response. Leaders…
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Episode 26: Coronoavirus Episode, Michelle Efendi, community strategist and resilience advocate.
Michelle is founder of the Neighborhood Admins Resilience Network, a network of hyper-local Facebook Groups supporting community preparedness, response, and resilience. Michelle discusses the challenges and opportunities of “bottom up” leadership during the COVID-19 response.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A monthly podcast featuring real-world lessons, best practices, and action-oriented insights for the “You’re It” moments when you are called to lead. Each concise episode features insights from frontline leaders and the faculty of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI), a joint program of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.About the HostEric J. McNulty is the Associate Director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative. He researches, writes about, and teaches leadership, crisis leadership, conflict resolution, and negotiation in graduate and executive education at Harvard and other institutions. He is a regular speaker at conferences and corporate events. McNulty is co-author of You’re It: The Pivot from Everyday to Crisis Leadership (forthcoming), Renegotiating Healthcare: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration, and author of numerous articles. He is a contr
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