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Sep 18, 2023
Sep 18, 2023
57 min
In this episode of The Leadership Hub we interview Jessica Nowaski, a seasoned leadership coach with over seven years of experience in an executive leadership role in law enforcement.
Jessica discusses the nuance of being a woman leader in law enforcement, the power of coaching and a coach-like leadership style for creating organisation-wide change, building a more robust talent pipeline, creating more equity in the workplace, and so much more.
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The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier:
https://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Habit-Less-Change-Forever/dp/0978440749
The Advice Trap by Michael Bungay Stanier:
https://www.amazon.com/Advice-Trap-Humble-Curious-Forever/dp/1989025757
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Aug 23, 2023
Aug 23, 2023
1hr 26 min
In this episode of The Leadership Hub we interview retired Police Chief and PhD candidate Les Sylven. Les integrates powerful insight from his research and his lived experience on the profound benefits of mindfulness and meditation for leadership and law enforcement.
Explore Resources Related to the Conversation
More About Les’s Research:
https://www.journalcswb.ca/index.php/cswb/article/view/291
Mindfulness and Meditation:
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/80496021.pdf
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01788/full
The Tree of Contemplative Practices:
https://www.contemplativemind.org/practices/tree
Mindfulness Training for Police Officers:
https://www.journalcswb.ca/index.php/cswb/article/view/263
The Mindful Badge:
Servant Leadership:
https://www.journalcswb.ca/index.php/cswb/article/view/77
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Nov 16, 2022
Nov 16, 2022
53 min
GLI's latest publication, African Leadership: Powerful Paradigms for the 21st Century is a book dedicated to telling powerful and important leadership stories from across the African continent.
You can pre-order it here: http://bit.ly/3UqtmHW
In this podcast series, we interview the chapter authors to glean their unique insights. This episode features Dr. Eunice Akoto and Dr. Edward Akoto.
Chapter 15 explores the paradigmatic shifts in leadership thinking that can be drawn from the African Diaspora and African leaders across the globe.

Nov 16, 2022
Nov 16, 2022
54 min
GLI's latest publication, African Leadership: Powerful Paradigms for the 21st Century is a book dedicated to telling powerful and important leadership stories from across the African continent.
You can pre-order it here: http://bit.ly/3UqtmHW
In this podcast series, we interview the chapter authors to glean their unique insights. This episode features authors Jacqueline Abuor, Margaret Mutiso, Pat Bombard and Kathy Vaughan.
Chapter 13 explores the process of embedding a coaching culture at Tangaza University College, and draws lessons and parallels for leaders looking to benefit from embedding a coaching culture in their own organisations.
The authors of this chapter would like to acknowledge the contribution of two co-authors who were not able to join this podcast - Dr. Marisa Alicea and Dr. Neil Vincent both from DePaul University, Chicago.

Nov 10, 2022
Nov 10, 2022
35 min
GLI's latest publication, African Leadership: Powerful Paradigms for the 21st Century is a book dedicated to telling powerful and important leadership stories from across the African continent.
You can pre-order it here: http://bit.ly/3UqtmHW
In this podcast series, we interview the chapter authors to glean their unique insights. This episode features Dr. Eunice Akoto and Dr. Edward Akoto.
Chapter 2 is a reflection on the paradigm shifts in political leadership that need to take place to bring about economic emancipation of the African continent.

Oct 27, 2022
Oct 27, 2022
56 min
GLI's newest publication, African Leadership: Powerful Paradigms for the 21st Century is a book dedicated to telling powerful and important leadership stories from across the African continent.
You can pre-order it here: http://bit.ly/3UqtmHW
In this podcast series, we interview the chapter authors to glean their unique insights.
This episode features Dr. Susanne Dumbleton, Professor Emeritus and former dean at DePaul University. Her work centres around investigating leadership for social change and social change led by women.
Chapter 12 is a reflection on the powerful life and leadership of Kenyan social, environmental and political activist Wangari Maathai. Maathai was responsible for a massively successful reforestation initiative that spread across Kenya, and various other movements that challenged government handling of environmental challenges.
She defied gender and cultural stereotypes, challenged structures of power, and inspired people the world over to use their voices for things that matter. Her legacy continues to inform and inspire activists and leaders alike.

Oct 18, 2022
Oct 18, 2022
51 min
GLI's newest publication, African Leadership: Powerful Paradigms for the 21st Century is a book dedicated to telling the powerful and important leadership stories from across the African continent.
You can pre-order it here: http://bit.ly/3UqtmHW
In this podcast series, we interview the chapter authors to glean their unique insights.
Chapter 6 was co-authored by Dr. Pierre Balamou and Dr. Paul Sachs. In it, they discuss the healthcare leadership lessons that we can draw from the Ebola crisis, the unique challenges of healthcare leadership, and much more.

Aug 18, 2022
Aug 18, 2022
45 min

Apr 22, 2022
Apr 22, 2022
28 min
Dr. Elizabeth Tuleja is an author, lecturer, associate certified coach and founder of the Intercultural Leader Institute which help leaders successfully navigate today’s multicultural workforce through online courses, coaching, and consulting. She’s also GLI’s subject Expert on Cultural Intelligence and is going to help us as we look at defining CQ, why it’s so vital to the success of leaders and organisations, and how to develop it.
The Intercultural Leader Institute:
https://www.theinterculturalleader.com
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/theinterculturalleader/

Jan 13, 2022
Jan 13, 2022
41 min
Join host Laura Boyko and Dr. Tineke Wulffers (PhD) as they discuss Authentic Leadership Effectiveness (ALE). Tineke is a global expert in the development of ALE. She has been supervising and teaching post-graduate students in business schools in South Africa and the United Kingdom about Leadership Coaching, and especially Authentic Leadership Coaching, since 2010. Her focus is to partner leaders and leadership teams to understand themselves and others; to understand their true purpose and values, and how to stay true to them, so that they can stay true to themselves and their leadership position, with a strong moral underpinning, for the greater good of all that they have been appointed to serve.
