Authors Speak Series
45-minute interviews with bestselling authors and leadership experts
Take part in our free Authors Speak series, a 45-minute online interview with bestselling authors and leadership experts who are deeply passionate about people, growth and driving change. Bring your questions to the 10-minute audience Q&A. A fantastic opportunity for collaborative learning with your peers. Your interest will determine which books are featured in our upcoming Leadership Learning Labs.
Upcoming Authors
January 15 at NOON MST
Authors Betsy Polk & Maggie Ellis Chotas Power Through Partnership: How Women Lead Better Together
Authors Speak Live Recording
November 12:
Eric D. Stone
Author of Jumpstart Your Workplace Cutlure
Oct. 31:
Lori-Ann Muenzer
20th Anniversary Edition of One Gear, No Breaks
Tune in to this captivating conversation with 2x Olympian Lori-Ann Muenzer, OLY, as she shares her inspiring journey and dives into her book, newly re-released in a 20th Anniversary Edition: One Gear, No Breaks! 
In this exhilarating, straight-from-the-heart chat, Lori-Ann delivers a powerful, no-holds-barred message on motivation and resilience. Don't miss it! 
Oct. 9th:
Ludmila N. Praslova, Ph.D.
Author of The Canary Code: A guide to Neurodiversity, Dignity and Intersectional Belonging At Work.
About the Author: Ludmila Praslova
Dr. Praslova knows first-hand that single-focus “inclusion initiatives” leave people behind. However, the principles of creating culture-add organizations can be applied to building systems for intersectional and holistic inclusion. Her consulting is focused on creating organizational systems for supporting human dignity and well-being, and providing neuroinclusion training to organizations such as Amazon, Bank of America, and MIT.
Ludmila N. Praslova, Ph.D. is named a member of Thinkers 50 2024 Radar, a global group of 30 management thinkers leaders whose ideas are most likely to shape the future of work. She is a Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at the Vanguard University of Southern California and regularly writes for Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Psychology Today, and Forbes.
Purchase The Canary Code here https://www.amazon.ca/Canary-Code-Neurodiversity-Intersectional-Belonging/dp/152300584X
Sept. 18th:
Shannon Huffman Polson
Author of The Grit Factor: Courage, Resilience, and Leadership in the Most Male-Dominated Organization in the World
About the Author: Shannon Huffman Polson
Shannon is one of the first women to fly Apache combat helicopters in the U.S. Armed Forces, leading missions on three continents! After her military service, she earned her MBA at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, led teams at Guidant and Microsoft, and founded The Grit Institute. She’s the author of The Grit Factor: Courage, Resilience and Leadership and North of Hope: A Daughter’s Arctic Journey, sharing leadership lessons that inspire resilience and grit.
About the Book: The Grit Factor: Courage, Resilience and Leadership in the Most Male Dominated Organization in the World.
Polson made it her mission to become acquainted with an elite pack of tough, impressive female iconoclasts who shared their candid stories of combat and career. This decorated cast of characters includes Heather Penney, one of the first female F-16 pilots who was put on a “suicide mission” for 9/11; General Ann Dunwoody, first female four-star general in the Army; Marine Commander Amy McGrath, first woman to fly the F/A-18 in combat and a 2018 Congressional candidate–and dozens of other unstoppable women who got there first, including Polson herself.
Sept. 5th:
Jeff Wetzler
Author of ASK: Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You For Unexpected Breakthroughs in Leadership and Life
About the Author: Jeff Wetzler offers a hands-on and effective way to find out what others really think, know, and feel. Ask leads to smarter decisions, more creative solutions, and deeper relationships. He has been on a quarter-century quest to transform learning opportunities. Blending a unique set of leadership experiences in the fields of business and education, he’s pursued this quest as a management consultant to the world’s top corporations, as a learning facilitator for leaders around the world. Transcend Education Website and The Ask Approach Website
About the Book: Jeff Wetzler offers a hands-on, surprisingly effective approach to find out what others really think, make smarter decision, and achieve business success—teaching how to make the path to sharing information (especially negative information about what isn’t working) as safe and easy as possible. Buy the Book
August, 2024
Karin Hurt
Co-Author of Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict
About the Authors: Karin Hurt and David Dye empower human-centered leaders to find clarity in uncertainty, drive innovation, and achieve breakthrough results. As CEO and President of Let’s Grow Leaders, they’re renowned for their practical tools and leadership development programs that truly stick. Let’s Grow Leaders Website
About the Book: In many workplaces today, workplace conflict is an escalating issue. The shift to remote work and hybrid teams has left many people longing for deeper human connection. On top of this, add a younger generation clamoring for more feedback and impatient for change, steady advances in technology that can feel threatening to job security, or people reexamining priorities and quietly quitting. Take the increase in anxiety, stress, and depression, mix in the loss of human relationships, and you get less tolerance and understanding leading, ultimately, to more unresolved workplace conflict.
Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict is an essential resource for all employees (and their managers) who are looking for help on how to navigate frequent workplace conflicts, including with their boss and other difficult people, so they can rebuild trust, collaboration, and ultimately enjoy more influence at work.
What Participants Said: Coming Soon!
July, 2024
Amy Edmondson
Author of The Right Kind of Wrong, The Science of Failing Well
About the Author: Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School. Her work explores teaming – the dynamic forms of collaboration needed in environments characterized by uncertainty and ambiguity. She has also studied the role of psychological safety in teamwork and innovation. Amy C. Edmondson Website
About the Book: After decades of award-winning research, Amy Edmondson is here to upend our understanding of failure and make it work for us. In Right Kind of Wrong, Edmondson provides the framework to think, discuss, and practice failure wisely. Outlining the three archetypes of failure—basic, complex, and intelligent—Amy showcases how to minimize unproductive failure while maximizing what we gain from flubs of all stripes. She illustrates how we and our organizations can embrace our human fallibility, learn exactly when failure is our friend, and prevent most of it when it is not. This is the key to pursuing smart risks and preventing avoidable harm. You’ll never look at failure the same way again. Buy Amy’s Books
June, 2024
Nate Regier, PhD
Author of Seeing People Through: Unleash Your Leadership Potential with the Process Communication Model®
About the Author: Dr. Nate Regier, PhD, serves as the CEO and founding owner of Next Element Consulting, a global firm specializing in leadership consulting and training, with a focus on fostering cultures of compassionate accountability. Next Element
About the Book: In Seeing People Through, Dr. Nate Regier takes a deep dive into the Process Communication Model® (PCM), a behavioral communication model that teaches people how to assess, connect, motivate and resolve conflict by understanding the personality types that make up a person’s whole self and leveraging personality diversity.
May, 2024
Mark C. Crowley
Author of Lead from the Heart:
Transformational Leadership for the 21st Century
About the Author: Mark is an Award-Winning Pioneer of Heart-Led Leadership. A Bestselling Author, host of the Acclaimed Lead from the Heart Podcast with audiences in 175 countries, and a Twitter following of over 141,000 people and a regular leadership contributor to multiple top tier publications.
About the Book: In Mark’s book he provides the roadmap workplace leaders worldwide are seeking: How to inspire and manage other human beings in the post-pandemic era most successfully and sustainably. He shows how trading in the old business playbook for heart-led leadership strategies will create purpose-driven, dedicated employees and higher levels of performances.
May, 2024
Dr. Haesun Moon
Author of Coaching a-z: The Extraordinary Use of Ordinary Words
About the Author: Dr. Moon cares about people experiencing better conversations at home and at work – and she does that by training, coaching, and consulting. She believes that conversations can change the world, and she defines this process as hosting dialogic conditions in which people participate to imagineer and perform their preferred change. Her academic and professional research in coaching dialogues and pedagogy from the University of Toronto led to development of a simple coaching model, Dialogic Orientation Quadrant (DOQ). Canadian Centre for Brief Coaching
About the Book: Language is a powerful tool that can unite, engage, and move people to action. It’s all in what you choose to say, and how you say it. In this practical, accessible guide to having more powerful conversations, leading evidence-based coaching expert Haesun Moon offers a set of powerful words or phrases—one for every letter of the alphabet—to help you move others toward greater purpose and accomplishment.
May, 2024
Urs Koenig
Author of Radical Humility:
How Be A Badass Leader and A Good Human
About the Author: When companies need to inspire, engage, and develop their people while at the same time delivering stellar results in today’s hyper-competitive and complex business environment, they call Urs Koenig. Urs is an internationally renowned keynote speaker, bestselling author, and leading expert on humble leadership. Urs Koenig Website
About the Book: Urs’ research-backed Radical Humility Framework is packed with tangible tools and practical takeaways, leaving audience members with the ultimate actionable blueprint for a new type of leader for a new type of world.
February, 2024
Nate Regier
Author of Compassionate Accountability
How Leaders Build Connection and Get Results
About the Author: Nate Regier, Ph.D. is the CEO and founding owner of Next Element Consulting, award-winning author, a former practicing psychologist and expert in social-emotional intelligence, interpersonal communication and leadership. Leadership Keynote Speaker Dr. Nate Regier | Next Element (next-element.com)
About the Book: Compassionate Accountability is focused on the need to hold our teams accountable for both compassion and results…a challenge we all face after COVID.
What Participants Said: “Loved the conversation and walked away with some practical strategies that will work immediately for our team. Thank you!” VP Non-Profit
March 2024:
Eduardo Briceno
Author of THE PERFORMANCE PARADOX Turning the Power of Mindset into Action
About the Author: Eduardo Briceño is an award-winning author, global keynote speaker, facilitator, and guide supporting leaders cultivating growth mindset cultures. Eduardo Briceno Website
About the Book: Discover how to balance learning and performing to bolster personal and team success with this revolutionary guide from a world-renowned expert in growth mindset.
What Participants said: “So enjoyed listening to Eduardo Briceno, Author of The Performance Paradox, with the opportunity to ask questions. He provided so much information in 30 minutes…amazing.”
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Facilitated Leadership Learning Lab Sessions
Contact us to discuss facilitating a Leadership Learning Lab with any of the books referenced, or the leadership book of your choice.
Linda Maul, CEC, PCC
Phone: 780.668.9481