Joe Gerstandt | keynote speaker, freedom fighter, freak-flag flier

My speaking, facilitating and consulting are all connected to the issues of diversity, inclusion, authenticity, innovation and transformation. I see these issues as all being overlapping and inter-related. They also each have a leadership component and a cultural component in my opinion. I have spent a lot of time recently thinking about leadership and a   [Read More…]

I have been a bad blogger this week. But it has been good things and good work that have had me otherwise occupied. As I work on catching up with the world on this Friday, April the 3rd  there are a few thoughts and themes that are bouncing around in my head: 1-Iowa…You Make Me   [Read More…]

WooHoo!  I may have a ton of work to catch up on, but tomorrow I will be at the ICAN Women’s Leadership Conference…and what a conference it is going to be.  Suze Orman.  Christiane Northrup M.D.  Rosalind Brewer.  Alison Levine.  Eve Tahmincioglu.  And more!  It is going to be an awesome conference, I am very   [Read More…]

Next stop, Des Moines! Working with Humans: Diversity, Inclusion and Collaboration is coming back to Des Moines, this Tuesday! Tuesday, March 31st 1:00 – 4:00pm REGISTER HERE     If you are interested in being a more effective communicator, a more effective collaborator or a more effective leader…this workshop is for you. If you are   [Read More…]

I recently came across the graph on the IQL Consulting blog, and I love it: How do decisions get made in your office, on your team?  In my experience, it seems that decisions tend to get made closer to the Magic 8-ball end of the spectrum than the well-designed experiment end of things.  I think   [Read More…]

Admitting that we have a problem is the first step towards recovery. I have been talking and writing a lot lately about a new way of leadership. I think that we are seeing a lot of evidence that the way we do leadership is inadequate. We simply deserve better. We deserve better outcomes. We deserve   [Read More…]

Some very cool things on the calendar: Working with Humans: Diversity, Inclusion and Collaboration (open-enrollment workshop) Des Moines, IA Tuesday, March 31st registration info Making Stuff Up:  Innovation for Non-profit Leaders (workshop) Omaha, NE Wednesday, April 1st registration info ICAN Women’s Leadership Conference (breakout session – Transforming Leadership) Omaha, NE Thursday, April 2nd registration info   [Read More…]

The National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc Omaha Metropolitan Chapter presents: The 2nd Annual Women of Color in Leadership Summit and Legacy of Leadership Awards Luncheon April 16th 2009 8:00am – 4:30pm Featuring guest speaker: Janice Fenn Author of “Do You See What I See? A Diversity Tale for Retaining People of Color” and   [Read More…]

The third of three posts looking at the question of does social media = social change? I apologize for being long-winded…each of these posts has been too long. It is a big question. In the first post I tried to start painting the backdrop by remembering that we must be clear on what it is   [Read More…]