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🎙️ On the next episode of Minds Worth Meeting, leadership and dialogue expert Megan Reitz joins us to discuss the importance of how leaders “show up” to work, why we all need safe environments to speak up and permission to pause, how AI is starting to change dialogue in organizations, and more.
is Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, Oxford University and Adjunct Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Hult International Business School. She focuses on how we create the conditions for transformative dialogue at work and her research is at the intersection of leadership, change, dialogue and mindfulness. She is on the Thinkers50 ranking of global business thinkers and is ranked in HR Magazine’s Most Influential Thinkers listing.
A Quote From This Episode
"Many leaders and managers I work with are lovely...but they've got these titles and labels that mean that they're intimidating."
In the last of our special Mind Matters sessions, Megan Reitz, Amy Edmondson, Peter Sims and moderator Morra Aarons Mele discuss the implications of the leader’s optimism bubble, de-stigmatising failure, and building scaffolding to invite input: a culture of speaking up doesn’t create itself, it requires scaffolding. Find out more about productive vulnerability, the role of experiential knowing, and how to make space for the bigger conversations.
How can you speak confidently and navigate difficult conversations in your organization? How does power dynamics affect communication? In this episode, Megan Reitz, the author of Speak Out, Listen Up, talks about how perceptions of power enable and silence others. She also breaks down the TRUTH Framework that affects whether we speak or listen. Delve into the subtle influences that prevent us from voicing our most innovative ideas. Join Megan Reitz in this valuable conversation today.
Brené Brown: “In this episode, I’m talking to Megan Reitz, a professor of leadership and dialogue, and John Higgins, a researcher and author, about an article they published in the MIT Sloan Management Review titled “Leading in an Age of Employee Activism.””
Oxford Mindfulness Centre: Speak Up; Say what needs to be said and hear what needs to be hear
Does political discourse have a place in the workplace? What is going on Basecamp? A truly dazzling discussion with Megan Reitz, Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Ashridge Executive Education – part of Hult International Business School
This episode of the Mindfulness in the Workplace podcast series features Megan Reitz. Megan is a facilitator, teacher, speaker, executive coach, researcher and author dedicated to exploring and finding ways to improve the way we interact with one another in the workplace.