My guest today has a passion for everyone, independent of their age bracket, having a voice. Ron’s latest project and passion centers around helping millennials be understood in the work force, as well as bringing coherence in businesses and among teams.
Ron is a seasoned consultant with more than 30 years of experience working with CEOs and senior executives of organizations ranging from Fortune 50 to start-up in pursuit of transformational change. His consulting has taken him to more than 20 different countries on 4 continents. He has consulted to some of the world’s most influential CEOs and executives on issues ranging from strategy to organization to leadership. He has led work on several large-scale merger integrations and subsequent culture change initiatives, and enterprise level global organizational redesigns. He contributes regularly to Forbes and HBR. He has been featured in HBR, Fortune, Business Insider, CNBC, Thought Leaders, Business Week, and Bloomberg.
Ron has spent the last several years exploring his new passion of ushering in the next generation of leaders, helping organizations connect multi generational workplaces, and emerging leaders discover their unique voice and leadership strengths. He has spoken around the world on numerous topics pertaining to developing leaders of tomorrow. He is the author/co-author of eight books, including the 2014 Amazon #1 best seller Rising to Power – The Journey of Exceptional Executives; Leadership Divided: What Emerging Leaders Need and What You Might Be Missing and more…
We dive into topics like
- Ron’s biggest influence that got him into the topic of leadership and leadership development
- The big wake up and passing on Ron got from his mentor
- What led him to write Leadership Divided
- The continual obstacle of generational differences
- Why this is not a crisis of generations but of relationship and learning how to connect
- Ron’s frustration with down talking millennial and placing labels on them
- The words that are often associated with millennials and many generations that are misconceptions
- The danger of labels
- Helping them find ways to contribute
- The top things that millennials want
- Their biggest fears
- How their brains process information differently
- The blessing and the curse of the instantaneous nature of modern society
- A new definition for “millennial” and “emerging leader”
- Some pitfalls and tendencies to be aware of and what to do about it
- Learning how to ask the right questions
- What makes a good leader
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“Nothing is irrevocable except death.“
– Dr. Toby Tetenbaum
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