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The Edge of Leadership podcast series tests and expands the boundaries of traditional organizational learning practices. Michael and Gregg seek to bring fresh thinking to the critical endeavor of leader development. They bring to air both new and established voices working with leaders at all levels, and organizations of all sizes. Their conversations with fanatical outliers, unapologetic contrarians and passionate zealots will challenge you to rethink your most-closely held beliefs about leadership and its place in today’s organizations.
Gregg Thompson creates discovery through dialogue which enables leaders to learn and grow. With the questioning insights of a technologist, he guides his clients to profound, meaningful, and often unexpected realizations about their leadership and their role in the organizations in which they serve.
Michael Molinaro thinks deeply about the basis for effective leadership. He has led leadership and learning & development teams in global organizations and has built practices in which great leaders grow and thrive. The author of numerous papers and articles on leadership, coaching, and organization development, Michael sees his life’s work as creating the basis for meaning, dignity, and community within the organizations he serves.
David Day is an industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist with a focus on leadership and leadership development. He has held previous academic appointments at LSU (Psychology), Penn State (Psychology), Singapore Management University (OBHR), and University of Western Australia Business School (chaired position in leadership).
David is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, International Association of Applied Psychology, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Nancy Spector, MD, is the executive director of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine program, the Executive Leadership in Health Care program, and the Lynn Yeakel Institute for Women's Health and Leadership. She also serves as senior vice dean for faculty at Drexel University College of Medicine and is a professor of pediatrics. Dr. Spector is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She completed her residency, chief residency and general academic pediatrics fellowship at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children.
Professor Nathan Eva is a Fulbright Scholar within the Department of Management at Monash Business School. His research on servant leadership and leadership development demonstrates how focusing on followers can drive sustainable business success while creating thriving, inclusive workplaces and communities.
Nicole Ferry is a tenure-track assistant professor at Copenhagen Business School. Drawing on her background in cultural studies and critical theory, her research examines the ideological and gendered discourses of leadership and leadership development across diverse contexts.
Hannes Leroy is interested in authentic leadership and how to develop it. That interest includes not only a passionate and critical view of the concept of authenticity but his past work also includes a better understanding of its unique outcomes (e.g., safety, error hiding and work engagement), antecedents (e.g., mindfulness training), and similarities and differences from related concepts (i.e., leader behavioral integrity, leader communication transparency). On the development side he is passionate about authenticity both in terms of developing leaders to use their unique or authentic self as a source of their leadership strength as well as the idea of real (i.e., actually moving the needle) leadership development.
Josh is a senior advisor and coach who inspires innovation and change. He has worked with hundreds of leaders and teams in multinational companies, including Boards, CEOs, Division Presidents, General Managers, Function Heads and Entrepreneurs. His clients include more than 50 of the Fortune 100 across multiple industries including financial services, insurance, retail and consumer products, media, professional services, technology, aerospace, manufacturing, health care, pharmaceuticals, publishing and non-profit organizations.