WiseTalk

Sue Bethanis hosts Alan Stein, Founder, CEO & Chief Accelerator of Kadima Careers.

Alan has dedicated himself to helping professionals, particularly those from underrepresented groups, build powerful networks and land transformative roles at the world's leading tech companies.

Sue and Alan discuss:

• The power of networking and building your circle of influence 
• Strategies for maintaining authen...

Sue Bethanis hosts Andrew C. M. Cooper, influential executive leader and author of the book The Ethical Imperative: Leading with Conscience to Shape the Future of Business. 

Andrew lays out a new, practical path for corporations to rethink harmful, outdated models and integrate themselves with the communities that they inevitably affect.

Sue and Andrew discuss:

• Why Millennials and Gen Z are increasingly critical of cor...

Sue Bethanis hosts Charlotte Evans, Principal Solutions Consultant at Coursera. Charlotte advises North American companies on their upskilling and reskilling learning solutions. She worked in Asia for five years in student services, where she also pursued a fellowship through the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Learners’ Voice program. Charlotte graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Education (Ed.M.) in 20...

Sue hosts Dr. Joel Pérez, an executive and leadership coach, speaker, and consultant passionate about helping leaders and organizations achieve their goals and develop a posture of cultural humility so they can have the impact and create the culture they desire.

Joel is the owner of Apoyo Coaching and Consulting, LLC, and a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation (ICF). He specializes in...

Sue hosts futurist and cyborg anthropologist MJ Petroni. MJ specializes in helping others understand the mental models necessary to navigate digital opportunities. As a cyborg anthropologist, MJ studied shows like Star Trek at university, but not (just) for fun. Their field of study addresses the complex relationships between humans and machines, exploring how we shape technology and how it is reshaping us. They help organ...

Sue Bethanis hosts Founder of Machine Learning Week, former Columbia professor, and bestselling author, Eric Siegel, Ph.D. Eric is a leading consultant and former Columbia University professor who helps companies deploy machine learning. He is the founder of the long-running Machine Learning Week conference series and its new sister, Generative AI World, the instructor of the acclaimed online course “Machine Learning Leade...

In this episode of WiseTalk, CEO and Executive Leadership Coach Sue Bethanis hosts New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Rich Horwath to discuss his new book, STRATEGIC: The Skill to Set Direction, Create Advantage, and Achieve Executive Excellence.

Rich Horwath is the Founder and CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute, where he serves leadership teams as a strategy workshop facilitator, executi...

Sue Bethanis hosts consultant, coach, personal development expert, and author Ashish Kothari to discuss his new book, Hardwired for Happiness: 9 Proven Practices to Overcome Stress and Live Your Best Life.

Ashish Kothari is the Founder of Happiness Squad, a company focused on helping individuals and organizations unleash the power of happiness to achieve their full potential. As a partner in McKinsey’s Leadership Pr...

Sue Bethanis hosts consumer and marketplace product and technology executive, and author, Yue Zhao.

Yue was the first product manager and Head of Professionals at Thumbtack Inc. for 5 years, where she worked alongside the founders to build and scale a technology leader valued at $3.2B in 2021 with investment from Sequoia, Tiger Global, Capital G, QIA, and more. Then, at Fuzzy Pet Health, she was the Chief Product &a...

Sue Bethanis hosts productivity expert, automation enthusiast, and bestselling author Aytekin Tank to discuss his new book, Automate Your Busywork: Do Less, Achieve More, and Save Your Brain for the Big Stuff.

Aytekin’s entrepreneurial passion and firm belief in creating tools to make organizations more productive led him to build Jotform, a bootstrapped global SaaS company that provides powerful online forms to ten...

In this episode of WiseTalk, CEO and Executive Leadership Coach Sue Bethanis hosts the world’s leading expert in the rapidly growing field of trust repair, Dr. Peter H. Kim.

Dr. Kim is a Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. ...

Sue Bethanis, CEO of Mariposa Leadership, hosts Emily Field, co-author of Power to the Middle: Why Managers Hold the Keys to the Future of Work and a partner at McKinsey’s Seattle office. Emily partners with leaders to shape data-driven organizational strategies designed to achieve business objectives, establish talent management as a distinctive advantage, and secure the human resources function as a driver of business va...

In this episode of WiseTalk, CEO and Executive Leadership Coach Sue Bethanis hosts best-selling author and workplace mental health expert Morra Aarons-Mele. Morra hosts The Anxious Achiever podcast for LinkedIn Presents, which won the 2023 Media Award from Mental Health America, was a 2020 Webby Awards Honoree, 2022 “Best Commute Podcast” Signal Award winner, and is frequently a top 10 management podcast and top 50 busines...

Sue Bethanis hosts leading efficiency expert Nick Sonnenberg. Nick is an entrepreneur, Inc. columnist, guest lecturer at Columbia University, and the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work.

He is the Founder and CEO of Leverage, a leading operational efficiency consultancy that helps companies implement his CPR® Business Efficienc...

Sue Bethanis hosts award-winning researcher Paulo Savaget. Paulo is an associate professor at Oxford University’s Engineering Sciences Department and the Saïd Business School. His primary fields of expertise are entrepreneurship, sustainable development, systems change, and innovation management.

The emphasis of his work is on transforming unjust systems through entrepreneurship. He formerly served as Postdoctoral R...

Sue Bethanis hosts master somatic leadership coach, trauma psychologist, and mindfulness instructor, Chris Johnson. Chris is the founder of Q4 Consulting Inc., a Chicago-based consulting firm that helps leaders transform themselves, their teams, and their organizations to meet future challenges, grow and thrive.

Chris is a passionate advocate for the power of business to create prosperity, beauty, and happiness in t...

Sue Bethanis hosts Joel Garfinkle, Master Certified Coach (MCC) and Founder of Garfinkle Executive Coaching. Acknowledged as one of the top 50 executive coaches in America, Joel has access to some of the most successful leaders who provide fresh insights into common issues leaders face at work. For more than two decades, he has had first-hand experience advising thousands of executives, senior managers, directors, and empl...

Sue Bethanis hosts Gustavo Razzetti, a workplace culture expert and the CEO/Founder of Fearless Culture, a culture design consultancy that helps teams do the best work of their lives. For more than 20 years, Razzetti has helped leaders from Fortune 500s, startups, nonprofits, and everything in between on every continent but Antarctica.

Gustavo is also the creator of the Culture Design Canvas, a framework used by tho...

Sue Bethanis hosts Daphne E. Jones. Daphne is an accomplished and seasoned executive with extensive experience using digital technologies strategically, entrepreneurially, and globally within multi-national corporations. She has over thirty years of experience in general management and executive-level roles at IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Hospira, and General Electric but began her career as a secretary. At GE, she served a...