Kevin Cashman’s Leadership from the Inside Out was published in 1998 and has firmly established itself as a classic in the leadership genre. It really covers a wide approach to thinking about what are the areas of mastery you need to look at and approach to step into your full power as a leader, whether you’re at the top of the tree or just starting out on your career. Kevin is the Senior Partner of Leadership and Talent Consulting at Korn/Ferry International, one of the really big players in the HR and executive and talent consultancies in the world. He and his team have done coaching work for thousands of senior executives and senior teams in more than 50 countries world wide and Kevin was recently named one of the top 15 leaders in the world by Executive Excellence magazine.
In this interview we discuss:
- The one question at the one moment that gave Kevin clarity and focus
- How our accomplishments can obscure something more important about who we really are
- Why managing your energy is so critical
- And meditation as a leadership tool.
You can learn more about Kevin’s work at the Korn Ferry workshop here.
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Posted on January 28, 2010
Two things I love about this interview. First, Mark is a fellow Aussie. That always puts me in a good mood. Second, he’s reinvented himself. He was a VP and COO for the JP Morgan Private Bank in London. And he is now the world’s first executive meditation coach. He teaches at the Harvard Law School and the Wharton Business School as well as having many private clients and he’s written a fantastic book Meditation in a New York Minute: Super Calm for the Super Busy. (Doesn’t that sound useful? It really is.) So this is a story that combines business, and the quest for Great Work, and finding and creating a unique space in the world.
In the interview we’ll get into:
- How connecting with the peak moments can give you a powerful insight as to what your Great Work might be – if you’re courageous enough to pursue it
- The power of meditation as a diagnostic tool – and as a business critical tool (1200 scientific studies can’t be wrong)
- How to counter the epidemic of uncertainty and stress – something that’s costing North America about a trillion dollars each year
- The path of 30,000 steps – and how you can begin that journey in just a couple of minutes
The interviews are all between 25 and 30 minutes long.
You can either download them here as mp3s, or go to iTunes, type in “Great Work Interviews” and you’ll see them all there.
Posted on October 28, 2009
The seed for Eddie Erlandson’s work began began to blossom when he was Chief of 
Staff at St Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor and where, as well as being a vascular surgeon, he began a wellness and executive effectiveness program. Since then he and his wife, Kate Ludeman have founded Worth Ethic and do leadership work with the most senior leaders in companies such as Dell and the Boston Red Sox. Eddie’s most recent book is The Alpha Male Syndrome (which is not just about men, of course), which he co-wrote with Kate.
In this interview Eddie brings all his medical and leadership experience to the conversation to talk about:
- The importance of physical, emotional and cognitive resets
- How wisdom rests in our body – and how to access that wisdom through emotion
- The best place to start to do Great Work
This interview is approximately 25 minutes long.
Posted on May 11, 2009
