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Are you a business owner, executive, leader, team leader, aspiring future leader, leadership junkie, a scientist, a design thinker, or simply the leader of your own life? If you are, then you are a leader, and as such, you should be experimenting!

Welcome to The Experimental Leader, a podcast where we tackle the ways leaders are experimenting in their own work. Hosted by Melanie Parish and Dr. Mel Rutherford, we dive into the most interesting questions about leaders and get into real-life conversations about how people might be experimenting with their leadership. What they are trying? How they are leading and managing their flow of work and throughput? How are they managing bottlenecks, mission, vision, strategic, operational, and tactical intents? How do they organize experiments? How do they succeed? How do they fail? How do they collect data?

The loneliness of leadership can be overwhelming, especially when a leader gets promoted and doesn’t have a roadmap for how to lead. They might feel like they are supposed to have the answers, and yet they have to figure out what that really means. The hardest part can be not having anyone to talk to about their leadership journey.

Courageous Leadership with Lisa Marie Platske

  —   Listen to the podcast here Courageous Leadership with Lisa Marie Platske Hello, everybody, we are here with you live today. And I have an announcement to make. And that is that I’m pretty excited to be breaking up with my brand. I’ve been thinking about it for some time, like most breakups, it hasn’t been right for some time. And and the reason I want to break up with my brand is because I think it’s just constraining me a little bit. It’s like my, it feels too tight on my skin. And and the reason I’mRead More

Plaintiff as Activist for Human Rights (a special episode for PRIDE)

  —   Listen to the podcast here Plaintiff as Activist for Human Rights (a special episode for PRIDE) Hello, I am so excited to have you here on my show, The Experimental Leader Podcast. I’m Melanie Parish, and this is our pride show. So it is great to be here with you. And I have some very special guests today. The first is actually my husband, Mel Rutherford. And I want to tell you a little bit about Mel. He’s a full professor in psychology, neuroscience and behavior. And he is the University’s first transgender department chair. The workRead More

Unbelievable Future? AI and Coaching with Kerryn Griffiths

  —   Listen to the podcast here Unbelievable Future? AI and Coaching with Kerryn Griffiths Hello, and welcome to the Experimental Leader podcast. I am Melanie Parish and I am so excited to be here with you today it is international coach coaching week. And I am super excited to have a guest here with me to start off the show. Her name is Kerryn Griffiths, she’s been my friend, and a partner in coaching for over 15 years. And let me tell you just a little bit about Kerryn. Kerryn is an innovative leader in the field ofRead More

Chatting about coaching and accountability with Gail Rappolt

  —   Listen to the podcast here Chatting about coaching and accountability with Gail Rappolt Hi, everybody, I’m Melanie Parish, and I am here live with you, I thought it would be a fun experiment to come on the show with my friend Gail Rappolt. And it’s not like our regular scheduled show. But it is international coaching week. And I was talking with her and I thought it’d be really fun. She’s one of the coaches I admire in the world. Her leadership journey is long and interesting. And she is somebody that I love to talk with.Read More

Women in Coaching & Leadership

—   Listen to the podcast here Women in Coaching & Leadership Hi everybody. I’m about to share with you a recording I did for international coaching week. And I wanted to tell you about the three guests that I have with me on this recording. First I have Darlene Chrissley. Darlene is a master certified coach with 20 years of experience working with a range of industries in Canada. She also is a founding faculty member of the Adler School of Professional coaching, and the International Coach Federation Toronto chapter. Darlene is a writer and inspirational speaker and aRead More

Organizational Agility with Angela Johnson

  The show’s guest in this episode is Angela Johnson. She is an educator, speaker, author and leader in the Agile space. She is located in Minnesota and enjoying working globally thanks to distributed technology. —   Listen to the podcast here Organizational Agility with Angela Johnson Hello I’m Melanie Parish. It’s great to be with you here today. And I’ve been thinking about changing things in my business. And as I think about my leadership today, I’ve been thinking about how do we change something and sort of the longer we’re in business, the more stable things start toRead More

How Employee Engagement Will Improve the Results of your Organization with Paul ter Wal

The show’s guest in this episode is Paul ter Wal. He is a speaker, writer, consultant and engagement explorer. He is based in the Netherlands. He speaks 3 languages and has been president of three speakers associations. —   Listen to the podcast here How Employee Engagement Will Improve the Results of your Organization with Paul ter Wal Hi, I’m Melanie Parish and I am the host of the experimental leader Podcast. I’m so excited to be here with you today. And I’ve been thinking a lot about authenticity. And also like, what parts of myself I might bring toRead More

Know Thyself: Clarify Your Picture, Create Balance, and Live the Life of Your Dreams with Lee Davy

  The show’s guest in this episode is Lee Davy. He is a Life Long seeker, comprehensivist, health and consciousness enthusiast. —   Listen to the podcast here Know Thyself: Clarify Your Picture, Create Balance, and Live the Life of Your Dreams with Lee Davy Hi, everybody, I’m Melanie Parish, it’s great to be here with you live today, I am super excited to be here with you. And I’ve been thinking about sort of roles and ways of leading. And I’ve been thinking about, like, when would you want to be a dictatorship, sort of when would you wantRead More

Leading the Way with Music with Jeffrey Pollock

The show’s guest in this episode is Jeffrey Pollock. He was chosen by the League of American Orchestras as a featured conductor for their prestigious National Conductor Preview. He is known for his musical versatility, his innovative concert programming, and for his ability to make connections with audiences. —   Listen to the podcast here Leading the Way with Music with Jeffrey Pollock Hi, I’m Melanie Parish and I’m thrilled to be here with you today. I think there’s some things that we really get wrong about leadership. I think that one of them is that I think that whenRead More

Better Conversations for Stronger Relationships: Insights from an Experimental Leader

  —   Listen to the podcast here Better Conversations for Stronger Relationships: Insights from an Experimental Leader Hi, everybody. I’m Melanie Parish, the host of the experimental leader podcast. I am excited to be here with you today. And this is going to be a really short podcast. Today, I just wanted to share some thoughts I’ve been having about relationships, I had a relationship with, I have a relationship with a vendor, and I got an A text because I text people because I’m busy. And they know they can find me on text. And they wanted toRead More

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