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

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…]

This is the second of three posts exploring the significance of social media…is this loud mess of things a new set of transactional tools or transformational in nature? The first post touched on the importance of asking serious questions, and a posed a couple of really important questions for consideration. In addition to making sure   [Read More…]

“Social Media” …our new favorite buzzword? …or more than that?  Is all this blogifying taking us anywhere? Meaning many different things to many different people social media consists of, at least partially, the twittering, blogging, networking, sharing, collaborating, communicating, contenting and contexting facilitated by the many tubes and pipes of our ever evolving internet. Social   [Read More…]

The problem with intentions… I believe that diversity is one of the most misunderstood issues of our time. Whether looking at the business disciplines of management and leadership development, human resources, talent management, organizational development, or the worlds of education, organized religion, non-profit work or entertainment, I see little real understanding of these issues and   [Read More…]

Next stop, Des Moines! Working with Humans: Diversity, Inclusion and Collaboration is coming back to Des Moines, in just a few weeks! Tuesday, March 31st 1:00 – 4:00pm REGISTER HERE     Do you work with humans? Any room for improvement there? If you are interested in being a more effective communicator, a more effective   [Read More…]