Inspiring Leadership is an ongoing dialogue about contemporary leadership, best practices, and the challenge of leading in the 21st century. The 20-part series is hosted by Don Hill.


• Show 1
It may seem like a no-brainer, but what exactly is leadership?
What is leading?
And what does it mean to be a leader in the 21st century?
 
• Show 2
There's no end of public theatre to get you to buy into this or that leader - to back a particular brand of thinking.
Do leaders have to be charming to get elected or hired for the top post?
 
• Show 3
How do leaders manage competing interests?
Especially when no one group has complete authority to call the shots?
 
• Show 4
Iconoclasts.
They're everywhere.
Why must a leader keep the door open to oddball thinking?
 
• Show 5
Consensus.
It's more than just talk.
And there's a lot to be learned from Canada's First Nations.
 
 • Show 6
Storytelling.
Human beings live inside stories.
And human organizations are an outcome of storytelling -- for better and for worse.
 
 • Show 7
Generative Space.
Think about where you work.
Do the physical surroundings - the architecture of the workspace itself - affect your performance?
 
 • Show 8
Language.
Words do matter.
Language is the software that runs human hardware; it not only informs but forms us -- shapes the way we think.
 
• Show 9
The Design Way.
What would happen if leaders thought of themselves, less as 'problem solvers' and more like designers?
 
• Show 10
Religion.
What happens when you mix religion and politics?
What happens if you don't?
 
• Show 11
Spin.
We live in a world of managed impressions.
If you're the leader, how can you sort the facts from the fictions?
 
• Show 12
Mind of the Leader.
Contemporary neuroscience is beginning to understand what's going on in the leader's brain.
There's more to a hunch than just intuition.
 
• Show 13
Storytelling 2.0
Some of the most affective stories are told without language.
These are the stories that speak to a body of memory.
 
• Show 14
Succession.
What happens to the memory of your organization after key personnel leave or retire?
Have you planned for your succession?
 
• Show 15
Virtual Leading.
Computer-generated simulations are more than mere games.
They are a safe playground for future leaders.
 
• Show 16
The 'Dark Side'
Corruption is a fact of life when doing business in many parts of the world.
How do you acknowledge local customs and tradition, without contravening your own values?
 
• Show 17
Nature of Business.
What does the environment have to say for itself?
Modern business practice has something important to learn from complex adaptive systems in the natural world.
 
• Show 18
Climate Change 1.0
What kind of leadership will be required in an era of climate change?
The first of three parts.
 
• Show 19
Climate Change 2.0
What kind of leadership will be required in an era of climate change?
The second of three parts.
 
• Show 20
Climate Change 3.0
What kind of leadership will be required in an era of climate change?
The third of three parts.


There are big challenges ahead. What you do will matter. Now can you think of a better time to be alive? Inspiring Leadership 2.0 is a series of 13 programs about the challenges of sustainability and environmental leadership in the 21st century, produced and hosted by Don Hill.


• Show 1
What exactly is environmental leadership?
And what does it mean to be 'sustainable' in the 21st century?
 
• Show 2
Spin.
We live in a world of managed impressions.
If you're the leader, how can you sort the facts from the fictions?
 
• Show 3
The truth about oil sands. How to read the land and what it has to tell.
Garbage from a First Nations perspective.
 
• Show 4
Why experts make errors.
Nobody can predict the future because every business is one innovation away from being out of business.
 
• Show 5
Nature of Business.
What does the environment have to say for itself?
Modern business practice has something important to learn from complex adaptive systems in the natural world.
 
• Show 6
Nature of Business.
Keith Webb, author of The Nature of Business, walks through a forest and talks about the judicious use of fire and how the economic meltdown might well have been avoided if nature had its way.
 
• Show 7
Collaboration and consensus.
It's more than just talk.
And there's a lot to be learned from Canada's First Nations.
 
• Show 8
Aboriginal Stewardship.
Elder Tom Crane Bear.
How cycles and the indigenous concept of circular leadership propose a sustainable way to work with nature.
 
• Show 9
The Design Way
What would happen if leaders thought of themselves, less as 'problem solvers' and more like designers?
 
• Show 10
Climate Change 1.1
What kind of leadership will be required in an era of climate change?
 
• Show 11
Climate Change 2.1
What kind of leadership will be required in an era of climate change?
 
• Show 12
Climate Change 3.1
What kind of leadership will be required in an era of climate change?
 
• Show 13
'Green' innovation, creativity and the Economics of Happiness.
Being mindful of the future needs of communities in our country.