John Beilein - How Our Losses Create Our Wins

John Beilein - How Our Losses Create Our Wins

Join us for a discussion with the former University of Michigan and Cleveland Cavaliers basketball head coach, John Beilein.  John has been a head basketball coach for 45 years and has amassed over 800 wins. In our conversation, John tells how the Michigan Basketball team created a culture change that has propelled them into national prominence.  Since enacting their change, no team has won more NCAA tournament games. In this episode, John gives you the playbook to create your turnaround and speaks to how to build culture, how to engrain in your day-to-day, and why it's the most important thing for you to prioritize.

Gerald Lee - How to Build a Culture of Inclusion

This week Leading Change returns to speak with Gerald Lee, Systems Consulting Director and Delivery Lead, with Mass Mutual, to tackle the challenging question of how we build a culture of inclusion? Gerald is a founding member of Passages Business Resource Group, is a Lead for Black Men in Action, and is a part of the Mass Mutal ETX for Equity group. Gerald is driven to create more diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplaces, and our conversation with him is packed with insight into how you can get started building a more diverse and inclusive culture right now.

Kirk Lacob - How to Sustain a Culture of Excellence

Kirk is the Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations for the Golden State Warriors. In the past 11 years, he has played a role in the organization winning three championships and setting the NBA single-season wins record going 73-9 in the 2015-16 season. In this episode of Leading Change, Kirk talks about the dynamics of the Warriors culture that has enabled their success, gives us insights into their leadership philosophy, and helps us answer the question: how do we build and sustain a culture of success? Oh, and

Rick Rioboli - How to Light the Sparks of Creativity & Innovation

Rick Rioboli is the current CIO of Comcast Cable. Before becoming CIO, Rick formed the CoMPASS group within Comcast, responsible for designing and developing cloud-based software, including the X1 platform and X1 voice remote. The CoMPASS group was awarded a Technical Emmy in 2015 for its work innovating the in-home television experience. In this episode, Rick tells the story of bringing 5 completely separate teams together to form CoMPASS and gives us a roadmap to build more innovative organizations. In talking with Rick, we learn why transparency, vulnerability, and communication matter far beyond individual genius. He walks us through a step-by-step process to build a culture that supports our people and gets amazing results.

Rob Holder - The Secret Sauce to Building Great Culture

On this episode of Leading Change we speak with Rob Holder, Senior Vice President with Emagine IT. Rob is a former Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force, was a longtime executive at HP and EDS and taught Leadership at George Mason University.  In our conversation Rob walks us through a step by step process to build a great team and gives you his recipe for making the secret sauce necessary for building a great team culture.