Episodes

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Richard Leider, founder and Chairman of The Inventure Group, and ranked by Forbes as one of the Top 5 most respected [executive] coaches with thirty years experience in coaching people to live and work on purpose. He is a best-selling author of Repacking Your Bags and Claiming Your Place At The Fire. How do we find our place in the world? Richard Leider says “it is not a place we find but a life we create…when we commit ourselves to something larger than ourselves.” Join...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Peter Block award winning author, thought leader, and consultant to corporate, government, and community organizations in the realm of empowerment, stewardship, chosen accountability, & the reconciliation of community. Peter’s many books include The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters, the 2002 Independent Book Publisher Business Breakthrough Book of the Year; and his most recent, Community: The Structure of Belonging. Peter suggests that our major challenge in ...

Cheryl welcomes Jerilyn Brusseau, a cook, baker, restaurateur, businesswoman, humanitarian and cultural diplomat. She is founder of PeaceTable and co-founder of PeaceTrees Vietnam. Her story begins in her grandmother’s kitchen and takes her globetrotting in the spirit of peace and diplomacy. Jerilyn passionately advocates warm-hearted, soul-connected food as the most common language spoken around the world. She founded PeaceTable to create shared culinary experiences between people of the United...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Shelly Lefkoe, co-founder of Lefkoe Institute; co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul: Guide to Effective Parenting and founder & President of the Possibilities of Parenting Center. Shelly helps businesspeople increase their personal productivity while reducing stress, improve their relationships with colleagues, and transform their family lives with The Lefkoe Method. She says it is our beliefs about people, life, and ourselves that drive our behaviors – whether we are ...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Dr. Michael Kimmel, researcher and leading expert in the field of men and masculinity; Professor of Sociology at SUNY, and author of Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Terces and Matthew Engelhart, restaurateurs, organic farmers, teachers, and authors of Sacred Commerce: Business As A Path of Awakening.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Howard Martin, EVP of HeartMath, and co-author of The HeartMath Solution: The Institute of HeartMath’s Revolutionary Program for Engaging the Power of the Heart’s Intelligence. Who knew…our heart has a brain.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Lynne Twist — global activist, fundraiser, consultant and author. She is Founder of Soul of Money Institute, author of The Soul of Money and co-founder of Pachamama Alliance.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Morty Lefkoe, President and Founder of The Lefkoe Institute, and author of Re-create Your Life: Transforming Yourself and Your World.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Gary Hirshberg, Chairman, President, and CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm, the world’s leading organic yogurt producer and author of Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Anthony Cortese, ScD, President & Co-founder (with Senator John Kerry & Teresa Heinz Kerry) of Second Nature, a nonprofit organization with a mission to make healthy, just, & sustainable action a foundation of all learning & practice in higher education. Anthony implores us to imagine a future where all generations achieve good health, economic security, social fairness & stability while restoring & sustaining the Earth's life support systems. That’s right – the earth is...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Anat Baniel, founder of the Anat Baniel Method.(sm) Anat, a clinical psychologist, dancer, author, healer & teacher has established an international reputation as one of the world's leading authorities on human vitality. Her book, Move Into Life: The Nine Essentials For Lifelong Vitality, offers a revolutionary approach to accessing the power of our brains to create new patterns and transform our lives. Neuroscience expert Dr. Michael Merzenich describes her work as “pow...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Dennis Genpo Merzel- roshi, Zen Master and founder of the Kanzeon International Sangha. He has authored books including Big Mind, Big Heart: Finding Your Way and The Path of the Human Being: Zen Teachings on the Bodhisattva Way.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Kristin Engvig, founder of the internationally acclaimed Women's International Networking (W.I.N ) Global Leadership Forum. In November 1997 in Milan, Italy, Kristin’s vision took shape while President of the Professional Women’s Association in Milan, and W.I.N. was born. Working in and with major multinational companies like JPMorgan, Citibank and Innovation Norway, Kristin saw the gap in our workplaces about how we dealt with each other and the world at large, and saw ...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes David Sibbet, a world leader in the area of graphic facilitation and visual thinking; President & founder of The Grove Consultants International; and author of Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes & Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity. David believes and research shows that when people work visually they have better ideas, make better decisions, and are more committed to producing results. Based on more than 30 years of experience in organizational consu...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Esther Orioli, CEO and founder of Essi Systems, Inc., and Q-Metrics, dedicated to measuring and developing human intelligences at work.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Stephen M. R. Covey, New York Times & Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Speed of Trust, a groundbreaking & paradigm-shifting book challenging our age-old assumption that trust is a soft, social virtue, and demonstrates that trust is a hard-edged, economic driver. Stephen is the former CEO of Covey Leadership Center and currently leads the Global Speed of Trust Practice for Franklin-Covey. Stephen tells us that trust is a learnable, measurable skill that makes...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Margaret J. Wheatley, Ph.D., co-founder of Berkana Institute, a global charitable foundation dedicated to serving life-affirming leaders. Meg writes, teaches, and speaks about radically new practices and ideas for organizing in chaotic times. She is author of Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World and Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time. Meg says there is “a call to fearlessness for gentle leaders.” Is there a way of leading in...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Bobbi DePorter, Chairman and President of Quantum Learning Network.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Marcia Wieder, CEO & Founder of Dream University®, and author of four books dedicated to achieving your dreams: Making Your Dreams Come True®; Life is But a Dream; Dreams are Whispers From the Soul; and Doing Less and Having More. Marcia Wieder is leading a Dream Movement. With over twenty years coaching, training and speaking experience, her inspiring message, style & wit has touched audiences at companies as AT&T, The Gap & American Express. Whether teaching at the Sta...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes John Renesch, a businessman-futurist, and author of Getting to the Better Future: A Matter of Conscious Choosing. What does this futurist do when the economy is in meltdown mode? He looks on the bright side with a systemic perspective (of course). Renesch sees economics as the most dominant system on the Earth, so powerful that all other choices and policies bow to its influence. It’s not only our economic system that is in trouble, John says, but “every human system is ...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Terces and Matthew Engelhart, restaurateurs, organic farmers, teachers, and authors of Sacred Commerce: Business As A Path of Awakening.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes John P. Milton, a pioneering ecologist, spiritual teacher, meditation master, vision quest leader and corporate shaman. How can listening to our inner nature reveal the future? Join our conversation as we explore the importance of self-awareness in leadership. John shares his process of guiding global leaders into an encounter with nature that allows them to find a deeper purpose and unleash the creativity needed to live that purpose.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Angeles Arrien,Ph.D., a cultural anthropologist, educator, and corporate consultant and author. What can business learn from the ancient cultures? Angeles shares how indigenous wisdoms are relevant to global leadership today.