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Smarter Collaboration- Incredible People Working Together to Achieve Breakthrough Results

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Hosted by Harvard scholar Dr. Heidi K. Gardner and business executive Ivan Matviak, the Smarter Collaboration podcast explores how gutsy leaders bring diverse thinkers to the table and create breakthrough outcomes. At the same time, it highlights collaboration “traps” and how to overcome them. The hosts lean into their combined experiences – including teaching at Harvard Business and Harvard Law Schools, authoring bestselling books on collaboration, and leading teams across financial services and consumer goods sectors — to help you become a master of collaboration. Each episode features a guest like a hall-of-fame song writer, a NASA rocket scientist, or a Disney Imagineer, to show you how to collaborate more effectively across disciplines—to produce something cutting edge and embraced by customers and other stakeholders. If you're interested in sponsorship or joining as a guest, email [email protected]. Become a supporter of this podca

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Episodes

  1. Collaboration in Outer Space and Beyond with NASA Astronaut Major Kate Rubins

    Whether it’s an unexpected repair during a space walk (think Apollo 13-type problem solving!) or an evacuation order in the Army, Major Kate Rubins keeps cool and collaborative. Maybe it’s being a “fish out of water” that prepared her: the NASA astronaut, microbiologist, and US Army reservist is...

  2. Smarter Collaboration Goes to the Boardroom with Shellye Archambeau, Board member at Verizon and Nordstroms

    Smarter Collaboration features Shellye Archambeau, former IBM executive, member of the board of directors at Verizon and Nordstrom along with best selling author of Unapologetically Ambitious. Together with show host Dr. Heidi Gardner, this episode goes deep into the collaborative process that...

  3. Smarter Collaboration features Ryan Harmon and Joe Lanzisero, Former Disney Imagineers

    If designing theme parks doesn’t require smarter collaboration, we don’t know what does! In our conversation with former Disney Imagineers and creative consultants Ryan Harmon and Joe Lanzisero, we learned about the different parties that come together to turn great entertainment ideas into...

  4. Smarter Collaboration featuring Cynthia Round, collaborative leader from The United Way and The MET

    When Cynthia Round was hired to help make The Metropolitan Museum of Art more open and accessible, she knew she needed buy-in and collaboration across colleagues and the public. “We needed collaboration across the entire organization, even the security guard at the entrance, to create an open...

  5. Smarter Collaboration featuring Dean Butler, founder of Lenscrafters

    Smarter Collaboration takes a deep dive into the origin of Lenscrafter with founder Dean Butler. LensCrafters founder Dean Butler unpacks the collaborations behind “glasses in about an hour,” a service that revolutionized the eyewear industry globally. What struck us most about the groundbreaking...

  6. Smarter Collaboration Goes to Napa Valley with Winemaker Dan Petroski of Gallo

    Collaborations can occur in any field, at anytime. On this episode, you will meet award winning winemaker, Dan Petroski. He has led a collaboration inside his ancient and very traditional industry that has led to new taste and challenged the thinking amongst 11,000 vineyard owners in the U.S....

  7. Smarter Collaboration in the Hybrid Workspace with Cisco's Janet Monk and Ray Milora

    Ever feel distracted by your finger-tapping colleague in the next cubicle? Unable to get a word in edgewise on Zoom? What if you had the right mix of workspaces and technology to maximize productivity, effective collaboration, and other business outcomes? You can, according to Cisco’s Ray Milora...

  8. Smarter Collaboration goes to Idaho with the University of Idaho President Scott Green

    University of Idaho President Scott Green speaks about his just launched book "University President’s Crisis Handbook." You’ll be amazed how smarter collaboration helped the university address three major obstacles: financial deficits, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a heinous crime against four...

  9. Smarter Collaboration Inside Blue Dots Partners- Dr. Philippe Bouissou (Steve Jobs' protege) and John Orcutt

    Straight from Silicon Valley, Dr. Philippe Bouissou (former right hand to Steve Jobs) and John Orcutt bring their decades of collaboration-related insights based on leading and investing in tech companies. Showing that smarter collaboration often sparks some conflict, Dr. Gardner takes on the…

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  10. Smarter Collaboration goes to Hollywood with James Burstall and Joe Weinstock, collaborating Argonon and Rose Rock

    Hear how big-city perspectives have linked up with middle America to address gaps in the television and film market. According to Joe Weinstock, “I think the buyers are on the coasts and they watch certain things. I moved back to Oklahoma and I feel I have my own focus group of friends and family...

  11. Smarter Collaboration goes to Texas- SportClips audio branding collaboration with Play Audio

    What happens when you take a national hair care franchise and meld it with a team of musicians, producers, expert sound designers, audio engineers, and marketers with ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response....that tingling sensation) expertise? You get an immersive, cutting-edge (get it??) ad...

  12. Smarter Collaboration goes to Nashville-Hall of Fame Songwriters Kent Blazy and Leslie Satcher with commentary from Pandora's Steve Keller

    In our kickoff episode, we ask Nashville Hall of Fame Songwriter Kent Blazy and his award winning co-writer Leslie Satcher about the secret sauce in their collaborations - as well as projects with superstars like Garth Brooks George Strait and Reba McEntire. Hear how they push through hard times...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Hosted by Harvard scholar Dr. Heidi K. Gardner and business executive Ivan Matviak, the Smarter Collaboration podcast explores how gutsy leaders bring diverse thinkers to the table and create breakthrough outcomes. At the same time, it highlights collaboration “traps” and how to overcome them.

The hosts lean into their combined experiences – including teaching at Harvard Business and Harvard Law Schools, authoring bestselling books on collaboration, and leading teams across financial services and consumer goods sectors — to help you become a master of collaboration.

Each episode features a guest like a hall-of-fame song writer, a NASA rocket scientist, or a Disney Imagineer, to show you how to collaborate more effectively across disciplines—to produce something cutting edge and embraced by customers and other stakeholders. If you're interested in sponsorship or joining as a guest, email [email protected].

Become a supporter of this podca

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Hosted by Harvard scholar Dr. Heidi K. Gardner and business executive Ivan Matviak, the Smarter Collaboration podcast explores how gutsy leaders bring diverse thinkers to the table and create breakthrough outcomes. At the same time, it highlights collaboration “traps” and how to overcome them. The...

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