Leading a STEM Organization

Business, Education, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture, Technology
LIFT Episode 4 (Part II): In Part II of our fourth episode, we continue a fascinating executive conversation with Andrew Chrostowski, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of RealWear, a company engineering industrial wearable headsets for connected workers. He shares real-life lessons from his experience managing complex systems and data-led teams. In this second half of [...]

Leading Amidst Complexity

Business, Education, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture, Technology
LIFT Episode 4 (Part I): In our fourth episode, we are fortunate to learn from a highly experienced leader in the tech sector, Andrew Chrostowski, Chairman and CEO of RealWear. A former research physicist and Air Force veteran, he shares perspectives on building resilience, scaling, and what failure really means in a culture of innovation [...]

Succeeding in a World of Risk

Business, Education, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture, Technology
LIFT Episode 3: Welcome to the third episode of our LIFT podcast! Allison discusses problem-solving our way through this pressing global situation, as systems fail us and we need to optimistically reinvent at scale. She is joined by Bob Zukis, co-author of The Great Reboot and a former PwC Advisory Partner, who shares pragmatic models for this [...]

Digging Deep on Motives

Business, Education, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture, Technology
LIFT Episode 2: Welcome to the second episode of LIFT podcast! On today’s episode, Allison is joined by global researcher Cheri Anderson, Global Director of Research for Strategic Business Insights' Values and Lifestyles Program service (VALS), an employee-owned Stanford Research Institute (SRI) International spin-off. Allison and Cheri unravel motives and their impact on everything from building [...]

Unpacking a Loaded Term: Communications

Business, Education, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture, Technology
LIFT Episode 1: Welcome to the inaugural LIFT podcast! Today we chat with Matt Abrahams, a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the founder of BoldEcho. Matt and Allison are both passionate about strategic communications, and today discuss exactly that – what do we mean when we say someone is a "great communicator” and how can leaders use some simple guidelines to increase [...]