Category Archives: Fresh Perspective

Fresh Perspective: Developing Leaders: An Interview with Bruce Avolio

Fresh Perspective / June 2011

Developing Leaders: An Interview with Bruce Avolio

From the Center for Leadership & Strategic Thinking Foster School of Business University of Washington

Russ Volckmann

Russ: I have been looking forward to talking with you because of your work in leader development. Where did you do your PhD work?

Bruce: At The Akron University, Ohio, in industrial, organizational and gerontological psychology.

Russ: That makes the link between psychology, leadership and organizations. My first memory of your work was with the late …

Fresh Perspective: Putting Integral to Work: An Interview with Laura Roberts, CEO, Pantheon Chemical

Fresh Perspective / March 2011

The following interview is one of many initially conducted as part of the research for a writing project. We hope to share more of these interviews, because the work of these entrepreneurs and executives demonstrates the viability of a well conceived leader development program—in this case the Stagen Integral Leadership Program based in Dallas, Texas. Their focus is on developing integral leaders among the CEOs and executives in mid-sized companies. They have also provided similar training to the leaders of …

Fresh Perspective: A Conversation with Om Prakash Bhatt, Chairman of the Board State Bank of India

Fresh Perspective / January 2011

Prasad Kaipa

Prasad Kaipa: This is an interview for the Integral Leadership Review. There is a special issue that is going to be published on India. We have chosen to pick one corporate leader for an interview. We think you are the right person to be interviewed. We have formulated these questions with the editor of the Integral Leadership Review and myself.

With regard to your personal history—what are some of the things that you went through, that got …

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Fresh Perspective / June 2010

Reprise: A Focus on 2nd Person in a 2nd Interview with Bill Torbert

by Russ Volckmann

I first interviewed Bill Torbert in 2002.

http://www.integralleadershipreview.com/archives-2002/2002-08/2002-08-fresh-torbert.php

In fact, he is the only person I have published in “Fresh Perspectives” twice in Integral Leadership Review. In part this is due to the respect with which I hold him and his work. It is also a reflection of the fact that in the last year or so Bill’s life has gone through some significant …

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Fresh Perspective / March 2010

Appreciating Integral: An Interview with Dana Carman
Russ Volckmann

Since 1984 Dana Carman has coached and consulted to visionary leaders and organizations spanning five continents across multiple sectors of society. His clients have demonstrated a commitment to transform themselves and their organizations, as well as the industries and regions in which their organizations are embedded. A hallmark of Dana’s whole systems change approach is the simultaneous deployment of both a top down and bottom up approach that he has developed …

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Fresh Perspective / January 2010

Leadership, Complexity and Development
An Interview with Sandra M. Martinez
by Russ Volckmann

Russ Volckmann

Russ: Sandra Martinez, you have had a varied career. You’ve told me that you once had an art gallery in Santa Fe; now you’re with a foundation in Honduras and in between you’ve been with the Naval Postgraduate School and the U.S. Army War College, among other things. Why don’t you fill us in a bit on your professional history?

Sandra: Sure. First of all, I want …

Fresh Perspectives: Emotional Intelligence and Leadership An Inteview with Annie McKee

Fresh Perspective / October 2009

Annie McKee earned a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University. She has co-authored two groundbreaking books on leadership, Primal Leadership (with Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis) and Resonant Leadership (also with Boyatzis) Her book, Becoming a Resonant Leader, was published in March, 2008. She serves as Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Education at Penn, and teaches at the Wharton School’s Aresty Institute of Executive Education. She is a founder of the Teleos Leadership Institute. In

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Fresh Perspectives: Integral Leadership and Business: An Interview with Rand Stagen and Brett Thomas

Fresh Perspective / August 2009

Rand Stagen and Brett Thomas are significant innovators in the application of integral perspectives and approaches to organizations and leadership. I have wanted to interview them for some time, particularly since interviewing two of their clients. Here is an update on their innovative activities.

Russ: I welcome this wonderful opportunity to talk with two business partners whom I’ve known now for a number of years. They’ve been important supporters of Integral Leadership Review—Rand Stagen and Brett Thomas, thank you very …

Fresh Perspective: Almost: The Interview That Will Never Air? Jim Garrison

Fresh Perspective / June 2009

My intentions were good and I collaborated with my technology to make it impossible to share with you as remarkable interview with Jim Garrison. Can you imagine my pain? Can you imagine the stress management exercises I am drawing on today?

Well, all is not lost. Jim graciously acceded to doing another interview and that is posted as a streaming audio on the ILR website. It is well worth the listen, http://www.integralleadershipreview.com/mp3pages/2009-05-garrison-jim.php.

In the meanwhile, I thought I might share …

A Fresh Perspective: Integral Interventions: Oliver Triebel at McKinsey & Company

Fresh Perspective / June 2009

Oliver M. Triebel is “Head of Organizational Learning,” Mindsets & Capabilities Practice, McKinsey & Company, Germany – Berlin Office

Oliver started his career with McKinsey back in 1993 after having completed his Master in Public Administration at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and before that a master degree in natural sciences (cell and molecular biology). Oliver left McKinsey after 6 years as a consulting generalist at the end of 1999 to take up an offer from Bertelsmann AG, one …