Are you a leader that innovates easily and regularly? Is innovation your dominant leadership style? For leaders who are tackling community challenges and addressing social issues, innovation is critical. Listen to Stephanie and Traci discuss the innovative leadership style.

How can a social enterprise address health disparities and support healthcare transformation? In this episode, we talk with Ivelyse Andino, owner of Radical Health, the first Latina-owned-and-operated Benefit Corp in New York City. Radical Health is a social enterprise that facilitates healthcare fluency, promotes self-advocacy, and forges collaborative conversations and relationships with cutting-edge healthcare technology. Radical Health aims to ‘come alongside’ and partner with historically marginalized communities to transform healthcare.

How effective are you at operations and management? Is performing operations your dominant leadership style? For leaders who are tackling community challenges and addressing social issues, operations are critical. Listen to Stephanie and Traci discuss the operational leadership style.

How can a social enterprise support indigenous communities and use the principles of fair trade?

Are you effectively using affirmations to have more impact? Did you know positive affirmations can raise the level of the feel good hormones in your brain and thus push your brain to develop new neural pathways for positive and optimistic thinking?

Can a cleaning company create social change? It sure can! Does being a values-driven, social enterprise increase customer sales and loyalty? Yes, it does! Can a business both improve lives and benefit our planet? You better believe it!

How collaborative are you? How effective are you in this? Is collaborating your dominant leadership style? For leaders who are tackling community challenges and addressing social issues, collaboration is critical.

Have you been thinking about how your work can make more of a social impact. Or starting a social enterprise? Or launching a program that benefits the people and planet? Stop delaying and start taking action! Now is the time to be the change you want to see in the world. Hosts Traci and Stephanie want to help you do this effectively. They share the top 3 success factors to effectively make your idea for social change come to life and be successful.

Have you noticed that some types of work keep you energized and other types totally drain you? What if you could always feel energized from the work that you do?

This week we are going to honor him and the work ahead for 9:29 and hope each person will take this time to really reflect on what you are going to do.

Have you wondered how you can create social change and make money? Can you really do both? The corporate world of making money and the nonprofit, charity and government world of social change are coming together in unique ways. There is a lot of room for creativity in the emerging social business and social enterprise field.

The city of Minneapolis is going through a challenging time as the trial of Derek Chauvin, the officer charged in the killing of George Floyd, is underway. Community members are grieving, hoping, and many are fearful and anxious. Today, we hear from Don Samuels about the founding of the ‘Healing our City’ initiative and Don’s thoughts on what social change leaders should be aware of, think about during this time and do.

Many of us are creating trainings or learning events for colleagues, coworkers or even for clients. Are you engaging the correct people prior to planning? Have you identified why you are doing the training? Do you know how much planning goes into a learning event? In today’s episode, co-host Traci Warnberg-Lemm walks us through 3 important considerations to make before you develop a course, training or learning event.

Are you confident that your learning efforts help you achieve your organizational goals? Are you as a leader supporting ongoing learning for colleagues and team? In today’s episode, Traci walks us through why and how leaders can build ecosystems and cultures for learning. We discuss why leaders need to think bigger about how they can support learning beyond the training.

Do you run around putting out fires each day? Do you feel like you are on the hamster wheel and not sure when you will get off? When you are letting the days run you, instead of you running the day, you most likely are not getting to the important work. The important work is what is going to get you ahead and keep your organization or business sustainable.

Are you taking some of the important steps needed to support diversity, equity and inclusion goals in your organization? Do you review & actively live into your organizational mission, vision and values? Are you leading by example and doing your own deep work to effectively lead and build a culture of equity? Today, our guest is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Consultant Felecia Boone. Felecia shares poignant stories from her upbringing and describes how those shaped the work she does today.

Do you wish you had a leadership superpower that created results and impact? Do you incorporate learning into your work and that of your team? Do you ever struggle with having training or learning opportunities that are effective? Today we explore learning as a leadership tool for social change. In this episode we examine learning as a key component to great leadership.

Do you know when you need to shift your mindset? What tools do you have that help you quickly do that? This week we are going to talk about 4 simple ways to shift your mindset and how to know when you need to use them.

Do you find yourself inspired on a consistent basis? Do you inspire others? Do others inspire you? Inspiration can be the catalyst of great ideas and forward movement to achieve them! Knowing where we get our inspiration can be helpful on our journey to create innovative social change. In this episode we examine inspiration, especially how it can be a key component to great leadership.

Do you know if your social enterprise is sustainable? Do you know what you need to strengthen? Where do you start? In this episode we answer these questions. The Social Enterprise Check Up is a 6-part framework that will help you identify and work on key areas to strengthen your social enterprise.