Let Go & Lead with Maril MacDonald Podcast
1) Adrian Popa | Courage, Adversity and Self-Transcendence in Leadership
Adrian Popa, associate professor of Gonzaga University, joins host Maril to discuss resilience, community and the deeper dimensions of leadership. Drawing from his experiences as an immigrant, clinici...Show More
2) Jody Ono | Transcending the Limits of Authentic Leadership
We speak with Jody Ono, faculty director of leadership programs at Hitotsubashi ICS, Hitachi University Business School. Jody has lived and worked in the US, Sweden and Japan, teaching MBA students an...Show More
3) Geoff Woods | Tapping AI’s Power as a Leader
Geoff Woods, author of "The AI-Driven Leader," joins Maril to discuss what it means to be a leader in the AI space. He explains how AI can be used to grow businesses, sharpen strategy and rethink how ...Show More
4) Margery Kraus | What It Takes To Be Truly “Glocal”
Margery Kraus, founder and executive chairman of APCO, reflects on 40 years of leadership. She shares how APCO grew from a small team into a global advisory firm rooted in trust, values and innovation...Show More
5) Greg Larkin | Tackling Innovation Roadblocks
To survive over the long term, businesses must constantly innovate and transform. All too often, however, forces inside companies stifle this change. Greg Larkin has built a career as an internal ...Show More
6) General Jay Silveria | Leadership Lessons from the Cockpit
From the U.S. Air Force to higher education, General Jay Silveria’s leadership career has been as wide-ranging as they come. After leading pilots into combat and going viral for the anti-racist speech...Show More
7) Umayma Abubakar | Harmonizing Cultures: The Art of Post-Merger Integration
In a world where so many M&A activities fail to deliver their promised results, Umayma Abubakar has firsthand knowledge of how to buck the trend, and truly create something new and better through all...Show More
Umayma Abubakar | Harmonizing Cultures: The Art of Post-Merger Integration
38:17 | Sep 10th, 2024
8) Bonnie St. John | Paralympian Medalist on Harnessing the Power of Positivity
Resilience is something Bonnie St. John knows in her core. The Harvard grad and Rhodes Scholar became a Paralympic medalist by getting up after she’d fallen down in a very literal way, and since then,...Show More
Bonnie St. John | Paralympian Medalist on Harnessing the Power of Positivity
45:12 | Aug 20th, 2024
9) Julia Hobsbawm | Building Genuine Connection and Trust in a Hybrid World
Work has been in a chaotic flux since COVID-19 began, but as Julia Hobsbawm reminds us, it wasn’t going that well before the pandemic, either. The author, Bloomberg columnist and futurist of work has ...Show More
10) Mark Miller | What Chick-fil-A Has Figured Out About Leadership
At the heart of Chick-fil-A’s iconic culture is a simple but consistent focus on studying and developing good leaders. Mark Miller, the former Vice President of High Performance Leadership at Chick-fi...Show More