WISE TALK March 2012: Sue Bethanis talks with Stanford Design Professor Bill Burnett about three critical components of design thinking: Empathy, or putting yourself in your customer’s shoes; brainstorming, to produce a myriad of ideas; and rapid, imperfect prototyping designed to vet ideas quickly. This process applies to services as well as products, so all leaders will find value in learning this dynamic process.

WISE TALK February 2012: Sue Bethanis talks with renowned psychologist Teresa Amabile about the best—and surprisingly small—ways to motivate employees to think big and do their most creative and inspired work.

WISE TALK January 2012: Prominent designer and design thinker Debbie Millman joins Sue Bethanis for a New Year’s Wise Talk discussion about what it really means to brand your company, product, services—even your person—in order to attract the customers and clients you want, and how to apply some of that big-picture thinking to where you want to lead your company in 2012.

WISE TALK November 2011: Sue Bethanis chats with Anthony Bradley and Mark Mcdonald from Gartner, Inc. and authors of this month’s leadership resource, The Social Organization, about how leaders can tap into the collective intelligence and ingenuity of their people by capitalizing on the collaborative power of social media.

WISE TALK October 2011: Sue Bethanis and Gordon Curtis chat about his Right Person/Right Approach social networking strategy—and how connecting in this very specific way can exponentially increase leaders’ effectiveness. Gordon is a leading executive transition coach, agent and author who has helped hundreds of leaders achieve their business and career objectives.

WISE TALK September 2011: Sue Bethanis hosts Donna Karlin, an international speaker, lecturer, world-renowned leadership coach, and author of Leaders: Their Stories, Their Words – Conversations with Human-Based Leaders to discuss how leaders can make lasting impacts.

Sue Bethanis chats with Harry Kraemer, a private equity partner and the former chairman and CEO of Baxter International, Inc. and author of From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership. This conversation focuses on how to connect with people on the basis of values, enabling leaders to influence others to the greater good of the organization and society.

Sue Bethanis hosts evolutionary psychologist Douglas Kenrick, author of the brand new book, Sex, Murder and the Meaning of Life.   Listen in on a provocative, no-holds-barred talk on the science of human connection. Find out the latest research on human social and group interaction and ask questions on how to apply it to your organization.

WISE TALK May 2011: Named one of the top 100 thinkers on leadership in the world each of the last four years by Leadership Excellence magazine, Terry R. Bacon is a Scholar in Residence in the Korn/Ferry Institute. Sue and Terry discuss how connections can turn into personal and organizational power which can then be leveraged ethically to influence and lead for the greater good.