Hosted by Gagen MacDonald · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 68 episodes
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As a leader, letting go doesn't mean abdicating responsibility. In fact, it's just the opposite. Letting go to lead means encouraging your people toward mastery, infusing the workplace with a sense of purpose, allowing room for self-direction and giving others more autonomy in their jobs. In the Let Go & Lead podcast, Maril MacDonald, Founder and CEO of award winning strategy firm Gagen MacDonald, unpacks these topics and more in conversations with today's business leaders, academics and creative thinkers.
Gagen MacDonald hosts Let Go & Lead with Maril MacDonald, a business show with 68 episodes published.
Divya Demato, CEO and co-founder of GoodOps, joins Maril to discuss the intersection of supply chain sustainability and operational resilience. With over two decades of experience, Divya explains how business leaders nav
Mary Berner, president and CEO of Cumulus Media Inc., joins Maril to discuss transforming a toxic company culture into a major corporate asset. Drawing on her extensive background in media, Mary shares her journey of ste
Tim Gabel, President and CEO of RTI International, joins Maril to reflect on leading a mission-driven scientific organization through growth, disruption and profound change. Drawing on more than four decades at RTI, Tim
Mick Ebeling, Founder and CEO of Not Impossible Labs, shares his journey from filmmaking to human-centered innovation. He talks about creating technology for real people and building teams around purpose rather than expe
Dr. LuAna Boykins, transformation officer of Triple-S, the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Puerto Rico, joins Maril to unpack what real change leadership looks like in healthcare operations. Drawing on her US Army background a
Stephanie Kramer, chief human resources officer of L'Oréal North America, discusses leading with empathy and rigor as work practices change fast. She explains how her background in chemistry and marketing shapes a data-i
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, clinician, researcher and e
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 and business leaders f
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 we lead. Geoff share
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. Margery discusses
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 disruptor. In his view,
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 he made while Super
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 the change. Starting
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, she has helped lead
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 been researching con
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-fil-A, was there decad
In a world increasingly driven by technology and data, is it possible to preserve the health of the human experience and the broader planet? One of the first 100 employees of Netflix, Kate O'Neill has long innovated at t
In Pulitzer-nominated sportswriter Sally Jenkins' experience, great leaders are less in the business of winning than the business of teaching. Over a wide-ranging conversation, Maril and Sally explore the leadership less
For Vada Manager, everything comes back to relationships. Throughout a career serving on countless Boards of Directors and advising everyone from Nelson Mandela to Nike founder Phil Knight to the New York Yankees' George
For researcher, professor and author Zach Mercurio, "mattering" is not a new buzz word: it's a primal human survival instinct embedded in our brains from 6 million years of programming, and something businesses need to t
Mick Ebeling
Founder and CEO · Not Impossible Labs
1 appearance on this show
Geoff Woods
author of "The AI-Driven Leader" · AI Leadership
1 appearance on this show
Mark Miller
former Vice President of High Performance Leadership at Chick-fil-A · Centre for Cardiovascular Science at the University of Edinburgh
1 appearance on this show
Kate O'Neill
Tech Humanist · KO Insights
1 appearance on this show
Kate O'Neill
Tech Humanist, CEO at KO Insights · KO Insights
1 appearance on this show
Sally Jenkins
sports columnist · Washington Post
1 appearance on this show
Zach Mercurio
researcher with a Ph.D. in organizational learning, performance, and change; leadership development facilitator specializing in purposeful leadership, mattering, and meaningful work; author of The Power of Mattering
1 appearance on this show
Whitney Johnson
leadership expert and disruptor · Disruption Advisors
1 appearance on this show
Mark Crowley
Lead From The Heart author
1 appearance on this show
Amy Edmondson
Leading Without Fear: The Truth About Trust, Failure, and Psychological Safety · Novartis Professor of Leadership, Harvard Business School
1 appearance on this show
Marshall Goldsmith
A Coaching Legend’s Wisdom For Living A Fulfilling Life · Marshall Goldsmith Advisors
2 appearances on this show
Niven Postma
leadership expert, speaker, and author
1 appearance on this show
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