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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.

Making Decisions Based on Measured Results with Fred Fowler

  The show’s guest in this episode is Fred Fowler. He is an author, teacher and all-round Scrummy Guy. He is a former CIO, is one of a handful of people worldwide who holds the Professional Scrum Master level III certification awarded by Scrum.or, and has taught more than 300 people to be Scrum Masters in the US, Central America, and Asia. —   Listen to the podcast here Making Decisions Based on Measured Results with Fred Fowler Hi, everybody. It’s super great to be here with you live today on the experimental leader podcast, we are going to beRead More

“Power Skills” – Formerly Misrepresented as Soft Skills with Alexandra Blum

  The show’s guest in this episode is Alexandra Blum. She is business strategist, mother to Max, work mom to 20 rock stars, CEO and long-time leader in marketing. She is born in the UK, Alix lives in Canada and the US, and has built luxury brands in over 15 countries. —   Listen to the podcast here “Power Skills” – Formerly Misrepresented as Soft Skills with Alexandra Blum Hey, it’s Melanie Parish and I am so excited to be here with you live today. I’ve been thinking about the loneliness, of leadership. And I talked to people all theRead More

Being Boring and Making Mistakes During Presentations. What To Do and Not Do As A Leader with Marsha Redmon

  The show’s guest in this episode is Marsha Redmon. She is the secret weapon elite law firms and leaders have gone to for 20-plus years to have a more powerful presence when they speak. She became the go-to expert during the pandemic teaching professionals worldwide how to fix their virtual presence so they could speak with confidence and engage powerfully – to win clients, to have more impact and to own their niches. —   Listen to the podcast here Being Boring and Making Mistakes During Presentations. What To Do and Not Do As A Leader with Marsha RedmonRead More

Leadership and Agility with Brandi Olson

  The show’s guest in this episode is Brandi Olson. She is a best-selling author, speaker, and organizational agility leader. She believes that the only place to do good work is in reality, and does her work from St Paul, Minnesota where she lives with her husband, two kids, four chickens and many honeybees. —   Listen to the podcast here Leadership and Agility with Brandi Olson Hello, I’m Melanie Parish, I am super excited to be here live with you today. And I have been having the most interesting conversations about accountability, both with my clients, I’ve been thinkingRead More

Tools to Create Sincere, Peaceful, and Harmonious Relationships in Your Professional and Personal Life with Claudia Aronowitz

  The show’s guest in this episode is Claudia Aronowitz. She’s a personal development and relationship coach. She also works with people in leadership. And she’s passionate about helping people feel good with their whole self and helping them to create strong and positive relationships with others. —   Listen to the podcast here Tools to Create Sincere, Peaceful, and Harmonious Relationships in Your Professional and Personal Life with Claudia Aronowitz Hello, everybody. I’m Melanie Parish, it’s so great to be here with you live today on the experimental leader podcast. It’s Election Day in the United States. And asRead More

Experimenting with War Gaming with Mel Parish

  The show’s guest in this episode is Melanie’s dad, Mel Parish. He spent his whole career at White Sands Missile Range. And he did a lot of early computer programming. He has a PhD in Physics. He’s been a member of Rotary. He’s a postal chess master. And in back in the day, he had top secret clearance. —   Listen to the podcast here Experimenting with War Gaming with Mel Parish I’m so excited to be here with you today. I’m Melanie Parish, and we’re live on the experimental leader podcast. And I am in my childhood home,Read More

The Challenges Women Face in Leadership with Sinead Sharkey Steenson

  The show’s guest in this episode is Sinead Sharkey Steenson. She is the career elevator coach at generation women. And she helps women get promotions and the pay rate rises that they deserve. She’s past passionate about equality and seeing more women in leadership. And she blends practical strategies with simple mindset tools to achieve amazing results. And several of them have gotten over 100% pay raises, and multiple promotions. And to date, she’s helped over 10,000 women take a step up. —   Listen to the podcast here The Challenges Women Face in Leadership with Sinead Sharkey SteensonRead More

The Power of Telling Your Story Through Memoir with Anne Bokma

  The show’s guest in this episode is Anne Bokma. She is an award-winning freelance journalist, memoir coach, dating coach and the author of My Year of Living Spiritually: From Woo-Woo to Wonderful—One Woman’s Secular Quest for a More Soulful Life. —     Listen to the podcast here The Power of Telling Your Story Through Memoir with Anne Bokma Hi, everybody, I’m Melanie Parish, it’s so great to be here live with you today. We have a great show for you today. And I’ve been thinking about my own leadership a lot lately. I had a conversation with aRead More

Sh*t Happens

  —   Listen to the podcast here Sh*t Happens Hello, and welcome to the experimental leader Podcast. I’m Melanie Parrish, your host. And it’s great to be here with you today. I’ve been thinking about knitting and picket fences and I wanted to talk about that a little bit today, and kind of how they relate to business. When we moved to Hamilton, Ontario 20 years ago, my lovely husband Mel sent me with his, his down payment, that he’d been saving for his whole life to have I owned a house in Colorado, and he said, you know,Read More

How a Business Can Accelerate Growth Without Overwork and Overwhelm with Crista Grasso

  The show’s guest in this episode is Crista Grasso. She is a business and scaling strategist and a Lean and Agile strategic planning and systems expert, and I get super excited about people who are into Lean and Agile, and she has two decades of experience working with small businesses and large fortune 50 companies. She’s the creator of The Lean Out Method and Lean Business Scaling System, which she designed specifically for small businesses who want to scale to multiple, seven figures in simple and sustainable ways, and her one on one strategic advisory and transformational programs willRead More

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