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
Ethan Braden - Long Life Learning
R. Ethan Braden serves as Executive Vice President and the chief marketing and communications officer at Purdue University and Purdue Global. Ranked as one of the Top Ten Most Innovativ…
Dr. Jill Arensdorf - A Good Challenge for Me
Dr. Jill Arensdorf is a professor in the Department of Leadership Studies at Fort Hays State University (FHSU), and currently serves as the FHSU Provost and Vice-President for Academic …
Cal Al-Dhubaib - Leadership and Artificial Intelligence
Cal Al-Dhubaib is the Founder/CEO, AI Strategist of Pandata, a Cleveland-based AI design and development firm that helps companies like Parker Hannifin, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Fir…
Dr. David Fearon - Practice as a Way of Being
Practice is Dr. Dave Fearon's way of being.
- His practice? Irrepressible Teaching. Before, during, and after the 50+ years, he was a professor.
- His subject? You; and why your practice …
Dr. Suze Wilson - No Shared Notion of Reality
Dr. Suze Wilson, is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at Massey University. She is passionate about all things leadership along with an abiding interest in how we can make …
Dr. Gordon Schmidt & Dr. Sy Islam - Leadership and the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Dr. Gordon Schmidt is a professor of management and the Director of the David and Sharon Turrentine School of Management at the University of Louisiana Monroe. He has a doctorate in Org…
Dr. Matt Sowcik - The H-Factor
Dr. Matthew Sowcik has been teaching for over 20 years and is currently an Assistant Professor of Leadership Development at the University of Florida. Dr. Sowcik serves as a faculty mem…
Dr. Susan Madsen - The Scholarly Practitioner
Professor Susan R. Madsen, Ph.D., is the Karen Haight Huntsman Endowed Professor of Leadership in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University. She is also a Visiting…
Funto Boroffice - A Passionate African Woman
Funto Boroffice is the founder/C.E.O. of award-winning Chanja Datti Ltd, a waste collection & recycling social enterprise dedicated to transforming the waste in her environment to value…
Emilio Iodice - A System of Control, Command, and Fear
Emilio Iodice is an award-winning author, presidential historian, executive, decorated American diplomat, and professor. He spent over three decades as a senior executive in the public…
Dr. Theo Dawson - Something You Can Practice
Theo Linda Dawson, Ph.D. (U.C. Berkeley, 1998) is the Executive Director of Lectica, Inc. Dr. Dawson—a recovering serial entrepreneur whose mid-life crisis led to an advanced degree in …
Dr. Khaleel Seecharan - There Are Many Layers of Complexity Here
Dr. Khaleel Seecharan is co-founder and managing partner at DEI Ready, an organizational consulting firm offering an evidence-based and data-driven approach to diversity, equity, and in…
Akram Boutros, M.D. - Leading From a Place of Love
From the moment he arrived in Cleveland, Dr. Akram Boutros' visionary thinking has inspired MetroHealth to elevate medical care by providing and integrating social services to build equ…
Team JCCC - A Chat with the 2022 CLC Champs!
This episode was a lot of fun. I had the chance to speak with the 2022 CLC champs from Johnson Country Community College (JCCC). I talked to JCCC's coaches Cassie Fulk and Carson Couch,…
Nidhi Pant - One Team, Seven Superpowers
Nidhi Pant is Co-Founder of Science For Society - S4S Technologies. Nidhi works at the intersection of agriculture, gender, energy access, and financial inclusion. S4S trains smallholde…
Michael Gothe - Safe to Fail Experiments
Michael Gothe is an Agile Organizational Coach at Crisp in Stockholm, Sweden. He has 20+ years of experience in building high-performance team-based Agile organizations and has worked w…
Sara Saeed Khurram, M.D. - So Many Myths to Fight
Sara Saeed Khurram, M.D. is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sehat Kahani. Sehat Kahani works on improving basic health care in communities through a spectrum of services f…
Ming-Ka Chan, M.D. - True Belonging and Dignity
Ming-Ka Chan, MD is a Clinician Educator and Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. She's a Chinese immi…
Brian Barren - Becoming the Guardians
Brian Barren enters his ninth season with the Cleveland Guardians and sixth as President of Business Operations. He joined the organization in January 2014 and served as Executive Vice …
Brigadier Gen. Tom Kolditz - Sloppy and Uncoordinated Leader Development
Dr. Tom Kolditz is the founding Director of the Ann and John Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University–the most comprehensive, evidence-based, university-wide leader developmen…