By Brian Redmond, PhD with the help of Microsoft Co-Pilot As we gear up for the International Leadership Association’s 2025 Global Conference in Prague, Czehia (October 15-18) under the theme “Leading Together,” I’m thrilled to share a sneak peek into a session that’s close to my heart: Global Voices: Amplifying ILA Leadership Voices from AroundContinue reading “Excited to Lead the Global Voices Panel at ILA 2025”
Category Archives: Leadership Development
Self-awareness is Leadership
By: Brian Redmond, PhD Recently I gave a talk at a leadership conference (a different one than I mentioned before) and I thought I would share the ideas here as well. The talk was about self-awareness in leadership. But before we get into the idea of self-awareness, let’s first talk about leadership. Leadership What peopleContinue reading “Self-awareness is Leadership”
Conflict Management or Difficult Conversations?
By: Brian Redmond, PhD Conflict management is something that a lot of leaders want or need to work on. A while back I took two online training sessions available from my HR department on conflict management. One called “Addressing Stakeholder Conflicts”, and another called “Facing Conflict in the Workplace”. These were actually pretty good trainings. IContinue reading “Conflict Management or Difficult Conversations?”
The Authoritarians
By: Brian Redmond, PhD I recently re-read The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer, which is retrospect was a really good predictor of the state of the world today with regards to leadership. This entry will be a very high-level review of it as this is a book that should be on most leaders’ reading lists. TheContinue reading “The Authoritarians”
Us Versus Us
Social identity explains why people are easily divided. This blog entry examines that in detail as well as proposes a simple fix.
Option A: Brian or ChatGPT?
Image Credit: Bing AI As the world becomes increasingly digital, leaders must learn to adapt to new technologies and ways of working. At the forefront of this digital revolution is ChatGPT, a powerful AI language model capable of generating text that is almost indistinguishable from human writing (Lund, 2021). While ChatGPT is a valuable toolContinue reading “Option A: Brian or ChatGPT?”
Option B: Brian or ChatGPT?
Image Credit: Bing AI Artificial intelligence, and in particular ChatGPT has obviously really broken onto the scene lately. People really are up in arms about how it is impacting the world. Most of the mainstream news stories focus on how it can be used for plagiarism, fraud, or other nefarious actions (ex. Hamid, 2023; Wirth,Continue reading “Option B: Brian or ChatGPT?”
Acting and Acting
By: Brian Redmond, PhD I’m currently listening to a really interesting book entitled Plato and Aristotle: The Genesis of Western Thought by Aryeh Kosman. This is a great synopsis of how Plato and Aristotle shaped modern thinking, but that’s not what I want to write about today. I really want to focus on one aspect ofContinue reading “Acting and Acting”
Blank Slates and Myths
By: Brian Redmond, PhD This post revolves around Steven Pinker’s (2002, 2016) book, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, in particular how it relates to human nature, and of course, leadership development. The book was both confirming of some things I understood about human nature but also very eye-opening at the sameContinue reading “Blank Slates and Myths”
Client wrap-up
By: Brian Redmond, PhD My colleague and I recently finished a six-month training course for a client of ours. This was a really great experience. I wanted to share a little about the experience here. It was a custom course that we spent time with leaders in the organization in advance of the training programContinue reading “Client wrap-up”