Practical Wisdom for Leaders with Scott J. Allen, Ph.D.
Practical Wisdom for Leaders is your fast-paced, forward-thinking guide to leadership. Join host Scott J. Allen as he engages with remarkable guests—from former world leaders and nonprofit innovators to renowned professors, CEOs, and authors. Each episode offers timely insights and actionable tips designed to help you lead with impact, grow personally and professionally, and make a meaningful difference in your corner of the world.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 296
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Dr. Jennifer Garvey Berger - Leaders Design for Connection
Jennifer Garvey Berger believes that leadership is one of the most vital renewable resources in the world. In this topsy-turvy time, when uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity are ragi…
Dr. Randal Pinkett - Data-Driven DEI
Dr. Randal Pinkett has established himself as an entrepreneur, speaker, author and scholar, and as a leading voice for his generation in business and technology. He is the founder, cha…
Bill Eddy - Managing 'High Conflict' Personalities
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. developed the high conflict personality theory to explain the driving forces behind people who present the most challenging behaviors. He is an expert on managing …
Chris Lowney and Fr. David McCallum, Ed.D. - Reinventing Ourselves
Chris Lowney chairs the board of CommonSpirit Health, America’s largest nonprofit health system with $33 Billion in revenues and more than 150,000 employees. He is a one-time Jesuit sem…
Seydina M. Ndiaye - Narrative of the Possibilities
Seydina Ndiaye is a social entrepreneur and socio-political actor working mainly in inclusion, youth development, and democracy in Dakar, Senegal. He also works as a senior consultant f…
Dr. Aliki Nicolaides & Fr. David McCallum, Ed.D. - Generative Knowing
Aliki Nicolaides Ed.D, is Professor of Adult Learning and Leadership at the University of Georgia in Learning, Leadership, and Organization Development program. Her research explores th…
Dr. Nathan Eva - Exploring Servant Leadership
Dr. Nathan Eva is a Fulbright Scholar (2021) and the co-director of Engagement for the Department of Management at the Monash Business School. His research examines follower-first lead…
Chris Esparza - Improvisation and Leadership
Chris Esparza is a full-time consultant, facilitator, and trainer. He serves as Vice President for Leadership & Culture at Koppett & Co. This consultancy uses improvisation and storyte…
Dr. Henry Mintzberg - On Eggs & Airlines
Dr. Henry Mintzberg is a writer and educator, mostly about managing originations, developing managers, and rebalancing societies (his current focus). After receiving his doctorate from …
Jim Kouzes - It's Not Rocket Science
Jim Kouzes is the co-author of the award-winning, best-selling book The Leadership Challenge and more than a dozen other books on leadership including the 2021 book Everyday People, Ext…
Dr. Ron Riggio - The Roots of Leadership
Ronald E. Riggio, Ph.D., is the Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology and former director of the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College…
Right Honourable Kim Campbell - A Constructive Player in the World
When it comes to blazing the trail for women, the Right Honourable Kim Campbell's career includes many milestones. From 16, when she became the first female student body president of he…
Diogo Seixas - Learning From Them
Diogo Seixas is a dreamer, thinker, learner, author, and educator. His passion for leadership led him to develop almost 4000 college students and write a self-development book. Currentl…
Dr. V. Chunoo and Dr. Tony Middlebrooks - DEI by Design
Dr. V. Chunoo (he/his) is an Assistant Professor of Organizational and Community Leadership at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the cultural aspects of …
Team Concordia - A Chat With The 2023 CLC Champs!
This episode was a lot of fun! I spoke with the 2023 CLC Champs from Concordia University, Nebraska. I talked to Concordia's coach Curt Beck, and several team members - Ashley, Chloe, …
Dr. Suzanna Fitzpatrick - Setting Everybody Up For Failure
Suzanna Fitzpatrick, DNP, ACNP-BC, FNP-BC, is a nurse practitioner at the University of Maryland Medical Center In Baltimore, Maryland, where she has worked since 2008. She is a seni…
Doug Keil - Visionaries Act
Challenge Alaska's founder, Doug Keil, was electrocuted when he was 14. As a result, his left arm and left leg were amputated. Following the accident, Doug struggled with depression. Af…
Dr. Valerie Livesay & Fr. David McCallum, Ed.D - Fallback
For more than a decade, Valerie Livesay, Ph.D. has been thinking about and inquiring into the phenomenon of fallback––when despite our optimal developmental capacities, what we often …
Dr. Paul Hibbert - Leadership and Vulnerability
Dr. Paul Hibbert is Professor of Management at the University of St Andrews. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Auckland Business School, a Fellow of the Higher Educa…
Dr. David Day & Dr. Jonathan Reams - How Could AI Support Leader Development?
* Note, this episode is (in part) a reflection on episodes 154-163. A series about the intersection of adult development and leadership: listening to those episodes will provide context…