Alen Chao has been a workforce consultant, after getting his Master's degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. This field allows him to look into the attitudes and behaviors across various organizations, and shaped his profession

Episode 62: Leading With A Voice With Priyanka Komala

Nov 11th, 2020 43m 2s

Often times, we coil up fretting that our voice is not welcomed in spaces that isn't uniform. But these are the spaces we need to allow ourselves to amplify our voices. Priyanka shares how we can lead with a voice.

Episode 61: “Leading People Who Used to Be Your Peers!”

Oct 28th, 2020 55m 57s

What happens when your peers become your boss? Kate Nasser joins us and explores the dynamics, change management, and how we can grow collectively.

Episode 60: RACIAL EQUITY STARTS WITH OUR SOCIETY

Oct 7th, 2020 38m 5s

A lot of the times most do not realize how our society, communities are interrelated. Our behaviours, ideologies, practises, mindset and heart set insects the workplace we are in, our home, and our society. As we live in a more multi cultural a

Episode 59: People Are Seeds - Let's Plant Them & Replant Them

Sep 16th, 2020 27m 6s

People become seeds at various stages in their lives and it is important for us as leaders to become gardeners where we constantly plant them and replant them to grow to bear fruits of their labour.

Episode 58: Where's The Humanity At Work?

Sep 9th, 2020 30m 8s

Charisse Fontes joins me to dismantle the lack of humanity at the workplace. Humanity is the key to enabling and placing people in an ecosystem.

Episode 57: Who Are You Professionally and Personally

Sep 2nd, 2020 43m 17s

Jeffrey Shapiro joins me on this imperative dialogue where we peel the layer of why it is important to be the same authentic person we are at all times.

Episode 56: What It Means To Be A Team Player

Aug 26th, 2020 49m 16s

Girish Venkat joins me to discuss the context behind being a team player and how we have to reframe the narrative of being a team player.We explored some key factors in what it means to be a team player now:Communication Setting boundar

Episode 55: The Inequity of Diversity in Technology

Aug 19th, 2020 1h 12m

CJ Johnson joins me to break down the inequities present in technology. Thus, promoting dominant culture and monolingual voices of privilege. CJ shares how we can consciously become aware and take action to shift this to enable equity.

Episode 54: Humanising Conflicts and Abuse

Aug 12th, 2020 50m 16s

Conflict is inevitable but an important part of building relationships and trust. Most of the time when conflicts occur, abuse arise. I invite Roxanna Safdia, Conflict Resolution Expert, to chat on how we can dismantle abuse in conflicts.

Episode 53: Dsimantling Toxic Femininity with White Women At The Workplace

Aug 5th, 2020 47m 21s

Scarcity mindset, privilege bullying - we chat on how we can dismantle toxic femininity with white women at the workplace. Honest conversations need to occur before we can find resolutions. Join me , Adam Rosenfield, and Annalee Sepanski disma

Episode 52: The KORE to Leading

Jul 29th, 2020 52m 27s

I invite Summer Watson to dive deep into the KORE of women. We will be exploring the reason behind why she started her business KORE Women and we can bring equity with women.

Episode 51: DEI In Recruitment

Jul 22nd, 2020 1h 5m

Recruitment has been a cookie cutter practise for the past few years. Nothing has changed except for automating reviewing resumes. Wendy Dailey joins in this discussion to dive deep into how DEI efforts must be integrated into recruitment.W

Episode 50: Solutions Aren't Singular When We Dismantle Discrimination

Jul 15th, 2020 1h 13m

Discrimination cannot be dismantled overnight or through solutions that come from a singular lens. I explore how solutions looks like from a wholistic systemic approach. I got together with four fantatsic guests to explore how these solutions

Episode 49: Rethinking Shame From The Lens of Self

Jul 8th, 2020 52m 59s

John Dunia , Dr Shame, will be joining me to explore how shame is inherently present in the spaces that we belong in and how it can impact us in detrimental ways.

Episode 48: Are you sure, you want to be a leader? with Melonie Guzman

Jul 1st, 2020 56m 44s

A narrative that POC women often hear " But you are so good at what you do, you sure you want to apply for that promotion". Join Melonie de Guzman, PMP®, SSM® and I chat about our experiences and how we have to create our own paths to stand o

Episode 47: How education can shape the way we build leaders With Jaime Casap

Jun 27th, 2020 47m 18s

I had the humble opportunity to sit with Jaime Casap, Education Evangelist from Google, and have a deep conversation on themes that surround around education, leadership, and more. His wisdom, insight on solving poverty is inspiring. Give this

Episode 46: How Social Justice Plays An Wholistic Part in Diversity and Equity

Jun 17th, 2020 47m 17s

Social Justice is often seen as an issue that aligns with the justice system and does not relate to us in our every day lives. This is a common misconception. Social justice is about equity and diversity. If one person of a certain demoni

Episode 45: Rethink Diversity

Jun 10th, 2020 59m 40s

The term diversity has been thrown around loosely and is tokenised in many ways. Kim and I chat about how diversity needs to become real and integral in our systems.

Episide 44: Fostering relationships with those who are polar opposites than us

Jun 3rd, 2020 53m 27s

We each have been found guilty of this - immediately ostracizing someone or minimising someone just because they are polar opposite than us. On this episode, we explore how to foster relationships with those who are opposite than us.

Episide 43: Recruiting Humanely and Ethically

May 27th, 2020 53m 13s

I invite recruiters to join the discussion on humane and ethical recruiting. The gaps in this area results in a stagnant culture and impede diversity.Monique Arrington and Audrey Watson share their insights, expertise, and thoughts on how w

Episode 42: Importance of Ethical Decision Making to Create a Sustainable Society - LIVE

May 20th, 2020 58m 46s

Decision making is inherently present in our lives - let it be at the workplace, school systems, nation etc. The decisions we make impacts people either positively or negatively. To be a conscious leader who practises heartship is to make decis

Episode 41: Unconscious Bias, Consciosu Bias, Conscious Discrimination

May 13th, 2020 58m 28s

We dig deep into Unconscious bias, conscious bias, and conscious discrimination on this episode. How these 3 biases can impact the way we exist in places we belong and are accepted in. Our biases create privilege for the privileged and poverty

Episode 40: Redefining Success with Vivian Acquah

May 6th, 2020 50m

I invited Vivian to explore what success means in today's world and how we can redefine the term to allow ourselves to adopt a growth mindset.

Episode 39: Redefining The Now of Education With Dr Ai

Apr 29th, 2020 51m 11s

Dr Ai is a professor turned entrepreneur. She is redefining what education must become now in order to prepare our children for the future. We touch on how education's paradigms have to be challenged in order to understand how our children and