WiLD Conversation

Leading with Purpose: Insights from Laura Gardner on Servant Leadership and a Culture of Trust

Laura Gardner dives into her journey of servant leadership, the growth of Joni and Friends, and the powerful impact of their mission in serving people with disabilities across the globe. You won’t want to miss her insights on organizational health and performance, and how they drive success.
For more on Joni and Friends click this link: https://joniandfriends.org/
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WiLD Leaders is on a mission to build trust.
We are building the largest database on the drivers of trust in organizations. I’m inviting you and your organization to participate in our Trust Index Survey, designed to help you understand the trust dynamics within your organization. By participating, you’ll receive:
A detailed report on your specific drivers of trust at your company’s individual, team, and organizational levels.
Directional recommendations.
This survey will provide critical insights to inform your growth strategies and the necessary organizational investments to fuel that growth.
Ready to participate and see where your team stands? Schedule a time with us now.
For more on WiLD Leaders click this link: https://www.wildleaders.org/wild-leaders-methodology
 

How to Know and Trust Another Employee

We work with others every day on moments that matter personally and professionally. Dive deeper into the foundation of trust with this episode of the WiLD Conversation Podcast.
Dr. McKenna explores the critical connection between knowing yourself, knowing others, and building trust in your organization.
Learn how to cultivate a workplace where trust is the foundation for effectiveness. This is the crucial link between trust and high-performance cultures. 
Listen now and then connect with our team to see how the WiLD Trust Index can help you build a high-trust, high-performance culture.

Connecting Trust, Performance, and Well-Being

Every person you know has a story occurring at the center of their identity and their progress that is too often expressed as an unanswered question: How do I connect my driving purpose to what I am doing every day? We ask it in different ways, but at the core of who we are as human beings is the question that connects the invisible pieces of our hearts with the visible pieces of our actions.
 
Join Dr. Rob McKenna in this WiLD Conversation podcast about connecting trust, performance, and well-being, developing a WiLD Mindset.
It’s that often shapeless and less navigated space between our human being and human doing that leaves us wanting more. It’s the space between our hearts and our business, our performance and our well-being, and the builder and the gardener in us that knows are designed to do something - to build, and to carefully cultivate and tend the delicate garden of relationships that allow us to build together.
 
To discover how your team scores on the WiLD Trust Index click here: https://www.wildleaders.org/wild-trust-index
 
To get started with WiLD Leaders click here: https://www.wildleaders.org/get-started
 
Read the the article: Connecting Trust, Performance, and Well-Being: Developing a
WiLD Mindset here: http://3948568.hs-sites.com/blog/connecting-trust-performance-and-well-being-developing-a-wild-mindset?hs_preview=jvqIGpRa-177846094487

Data, Learning, and Humanity

Join Chris Shaffer, former Director of Learning and Insights at Microsoft and newest member to WiLD along with Dr. Rob McKenna in this WiLD Conversation podcast connecting data, learning and humanity.  Learn what mindset, time, and reinforcement have to do with technology innovation and thriving learning cultures. Dive into the insights we get to process through our benchmark of trust at the individual, team, and organizational levels through our WiLD Trust Index.
 
You’ve never heard data talked about like this before. Listen, share and join the conversation.
 
To get started with WiLD Leaders click here: https://www.wildleaders.org/get-started
 
To discover how your team scores on the WiLD Trust Index click here: https://www.wildleaders.org/wild-trust-index

1 Billion Trees And The People Who Planted Them

Join Glen Prior of Eden People + Planet and Dr. Rob McKenna for this WiLD Conversation Podcast connecting the invisible pieces inside of a person to the systems pieces of communities and organizations. When honest and courageous shared experiences become organizational culture, flourishing systems take root and transformational change occurs.
Glen Prior has two decades of building economic engines and sustainable systems for mission-driven organizations on a local and global scale. He is a master at the space between financial management, process development, and systems thinking. He always starts with the premise that connecting people and ideas with proven methodologies builds a strategic foundation for long-term sustainable growth and value, and is all about establishing collaborative relationships across functions and between organizations. Most of all, I know that he is one of your favorite people Rob.
 
Glen Prior is the COO of Eden People + Planet - which facilitates large-scale holistic landscape restoration and community development initiatives in partnership with communities and stakeholders all over the world. 
 
For more on Eden People + Planet: https://www.eden-plus.org/
 
For more on WiLD Leaders: https://www.wildleaders.org/

What Makes Work Meaningful?

Join Dr. McKenna and Dr. Paul Yost for this WiLD Conversation about the research, experiences, and moments together that make work meaningful. Discover the variables of our humanity playing strong roles in our ability to do our jobs with motivation and intention. 
Dr. Paul Yost is the Chair and Associate Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Seattle Pacific University. He was recently Senior Research Specialist, People and Organization Capability, Microsoft. Prior to that he was in leadership development and people research at the Boeing Company where he co-led a company wide longitudinal study of leaders in aerospace called the Waypoint Project, and he is a long time friend and colleague of Dr. McKenna.
Learn from their decades of friendship, research, and wisdom together in this conversation that will get you thinking about why you do what you do and more importantly why it matters to you and the teams and organizations that you lead.
 
For more on Paul’s book Experience Driven Leader Development click here: https://a.co/d/gfgnaBs
 
For more on Paul’s book Real Time Leader Development click here: 
https://a.co/d/cja1VSa
 
To connect with Paul Yost via email send a note to: yostp@spu.edu
 
To get started with WiLD Leaders click here: https://www.wildleaders.org/get-started
 
To discover how your team scores on the WiLD Trust Index click here: https://www.wildleaders.org/wild-trust-index

Learning To Know What We See

Rob McKenna and Tom Nelson, from Made to Flourish dive into learning to know what we see vs. seeing what we know. This podcast connects the heart of the people running the systems to the operational realities, and carves a pathway into how to flourish and build trust in your communities, teams, and organizations.
What we have experienced over and over again is that people are used to trainers, teachers, and executives talking “at them.” This WiLD Conversation encourages leaders into a clash of the norm where individuals, teams, and organizations are invited into the conversations that create learning cultures. When learning takes place in relational, intentional, and communal dialogues, outcomes begin to change. 
For more on Tom Nelson’s Book- Work Matters: Connecting Sunday Worship to Monday Work click here: https://shorturl.at/961pJ
For more on Made To Flourish click here: https://www.madetoflourish.org/
To get started with WiLD Leaders click here: https://www.wildleaders.org/get-started
To discover how your team scores on the WiLD Trust Index click here: https://www.wildleaders.org/wild-trust-index

Who Will Lead Next? Succession Planning Done Right.

Who Will Lead Next? Succession Planning Done Right.
 
Trust is playing a huge role in the processes that leaders know they have to dial in on a daily basis. Most organizations get to a level of scale and they not only have to prepare their next President, they need to prepare their entire bench. Succession is happening all across the business we work with and we have found that as people are understanding certain things about themselves, and sharing with their teams, they are starting to trust each other. Then they begin to answer the questions that come up like, “Who are the leaders who have come up because of this person? And, is this person a developer of leader capacity?” 
Join Dr. Rob McKenna in this WiLD Conversation Podcast as he gets deep and vulnerable into the story of succession planning done right with Steve Woodworth and Bryan Brown of Masterworks.
Steve Woodworth - Steve brings a deep wealth of expertise in marketing, management, and organizational development - and leadership. He was instrumental in pivoting World Vision’s direct marketing and donor services through a decade of annual double-digit growth - and if any of you are donors to World Vision - you have seen the power of their donor services. Since joining Masterworks in 1992, Steve has been instrumental in establishing it as the premier marketing agency dedicated to aiding hundreds of organizations in achieving their mission. Steve also gives back in so many other ways. His influence is profound.
 
Bryan Brown - Bryan serves as president of Masterworks. He is committed to accelerating the growth of his organization, bringing industry-leading technology across the business, and expanding The Masterworks vision for direct response marketing and fundraising. Bryan previously served at Masterworks as the ’ VP of Experience Design and as COO. Bryan has been Chief Marketing Officer, a chief Technology officer - so he’s got an incredible breadth of experience alongside the depth. Prior to joining Masterworks, Bryan led the digital division and ad network of one of the world’s largest cross screen media companies (that means connecting all the screens in your house - and someone had to do that for us - apparently Bryan helped with that). And, he’s got a Master of Divinity - so he’s a business person with the heart of a pastor. Most importantly - these two have been through a succession process together as Bryan is and was Steve’s successor at Masterworks.
 
For more on WiLD Leaders visit: https://www.wildleaders.org
For more on Masterworks visit: https://www.masterworks.agency
 

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Trusting Your Gut

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