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Create New Futures | How Leaders Produce Breakthroughs and Transform the World through Conversation

Welcome to Create New Futures. Every episode, best-selling author and host Aviv Shahar will explore ideas and insights that can awaken and inspire you to the opportunities you have to create new futures for you, your family, your teams, and for your business. Life is too short to not be engaged in fascinating conversations that open, inspire and unleash new ways of thinking and seeing possibilities and beauty. Through Create New Futures, Aviv will engage in conversation with leaders and experts to explore practices that you can use to create and shape the future. With his guests, Aviv will put a magnifying glass on strategies and frameworks that he has applied to help senior executives and their teams achieve significant breakthroughs that lead to game changing results. Ideas, strategies, breakthroughs and practices that you can apply. With his innovative ideas and frameworks, Aviv walks you through what you need to lead and transform an organization, and redesign your life to achieve new goals. Together with his guests, Aviv will explore how to develop strategy, how to lead to enable teams to unleash their brilliance and what is the inside work leaders must engage in to develop executive presence and charisma. More than ever, humanity now needs people who are open and prepared to imagine, create, and sustain new futures. This is a time of great transformative and disruptive change. It demands our best imagination, courage, and creativity. Through this podcast, Aviv will inspire you to be tomorrow's agent by creating conversations that birth new possibilities for you and for the people in your life. Through his concept of Architecture Thinking™, Aviv walks you through what is needed to lead change, transform an organization, redesign your life to achieve new goals, serve new needs and realize new possibilities. Leaders need to consider how to bring about and enable a compound set of outcomes by concurrently integrating multiple inputs.
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Dec 30, 2019

In this very special episode of Create New Futures, Aviv reads a letter he recently wrote to his granddaughter, Talia. Inspired by the birth of his granddaughter, Aviv is committed to pass along the wisdom and experience he’s gained throughout the course of his journey. In his letter, he outlines the three most important decisions he’s and the lessons that accompanied these. First, Aviv asserts his belief that life is purposeful. Next, he speaks to the need to embrace the challenge of being the author of your own destiny. And, finally, Aviv underscores why he decided to reverse the conventionally expected sequence of his journey. Aviv believes that Talia’s generation will rise to the occasion of solving some of the world’s most pressing issues. He encourages listeners to self-reflect and to write letters to future generations as well. 

  • 00:47 – Introducing today’s topic, My Letter to Talia
  • 01:13 – Aviv reads his letter to his granddaughter, Talia
  • 03:21 – Aviv takes a moment to reflect on his own life
  • 05:26 – The three important decisions Aviv made before his twentieth birthday
  • 11:05 – Humanity’s opportunity and challenge
  • 13:33 – The new operating system
  • 16:39 – Aviv’s vision for Talia and her future  
  • 17:23 – Now it’s your turn, Aviv hopes his letter inspires other to write similar notes to their grandchildren

Full show notes: http://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf76

Dec 12, 2019

Colleen Soukup is the Chief Procurement Officer and supply-chain transformation leader at General Mills. Colleen is responsible for global sourcing of all categories and, in her second role, she leads the transformation of supply chain to make it as agile and as future-ready as can be. Colleen is both a focused operational leader and a great people leader. She has a way of bringing best ideas out of her people, and creating an environment that fosters creativity and focus. Colleen is also a mother and wife and is grateful to work for an organization that has allowed her to remain a successful businessperson while balancing her personal life.

In this episode, Aviv and Colleen reflect on her role at General Mills and what she enjoys most about her work. Colleen shares how she’s leveraged opportunities to grow and evolve as a leader and, specifically, as a CPO. Colleen talks glowingly about the culture at General Mills and the company’s commitment to always doing the right thing. She describes her early inspirations and how these impacted her approach to her career. Finally, Colleen expounds on the importance of community when it comes to building a high-intensity career and raising a family.

  • 00:52 – Introducing today’s guest, Colleen Soukup
  • 02:43 – What Colleen enjoys most about her work
  • 09:21 – Colleen shares some key learnings from her career journey
  • 14:07 – How Colleen’s current role as CPO changed her as a leader
  • 19:25 – Colleen speaks to directional clarity and her evolution as a CPO
  • 24:23 – Other guiding principles that shaped Collen’s approach to developing her organization
  • 29:41 – The culture at General Mills
  • 32:13 – Colleen speaks to early inspirations from her childhood and her approach to starting her career
  • 36:27 – A seminal moment from Colleen’s journey
  • 40:09 – A deep-seated belief in the General Mills organization
  • 45:40 – The Irish dog trainer story  
  • 47:05 – Advice Colleen would give her younger self and two learnings she values above all others
  • 49:05 – Parting words of wisdom and insights from Colleen
  • 50:43 – Now it’s your turn, identify ways to become a self-learner and grow, embody and lead change, and invest in your personal community

FULL SHOW NOTES: https://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf75

Nov 27, 2019

In this episode, Aviv describes the shift in mindset that successful organizations are undergoing to meet their hiring needs. Aviv poses the eternal question, ‘What business are you in?’ and argues that an organization’s response to this question defines its ability to achieve its desired future. Aviv touches also on the value of culture, accountability, and organizational readiness. Finally, Aviv provides some sage advice for fostering a future-ready organization and sustaining a learning culture.  

  • 00:48 – Introducing today’s topic, The New Hiring Criterion
  • 01:23 – Aviv proposes that changing one key hiring criterion will have a dramatic impact on whether your company thrives or merely survives
  • 01:27 – Aviv speaks to a strategy workshop he recently led with senior development teams
  • 02:15 – The Learning Zone
  • 04:40 – Five Inquiries to elevate discussion 
  • 05:37 – The importance and impact of having sound hiring criterion
  • 06:12 – How gaining clarity of organizational purpose can help in the hiring process
  • 07:52 – Comparing the old hiring criterion to the new hiring criterion
  • 08:17 – Why innovation is not a solo job
  • 09:04 – Now it’s your turn, foster a future-ready organization by hiring passionate learners, build a coaching environment where people learn together, and sustain this learning culture

Full show notes: http://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf74

Nov 15, 2019

Tom Lattin is the Vice President of Mass Market Platforms, Options and Software at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. In this capacity, Tom leads the multi-billion dollar business of HPE’s ProLiant and cloud-lined servers. Specifically, his team leads product, technology, go-to-market, and supplier strategies for these categories. Tom joined HP in 1986, and he has led in many roles across almost every side of the business, from PC notebooks to HP server options. Tom is a deliberate and thoughtful leader with the capacity to resist the reactivity trap by pursuing strategic clarity and focus. Tom is also a man rooted in deep faith, which has contributed to personal and professional success throughout his life. 

In this episode, Aviv and Tom reflect on false assumptions in the technology industry as well as key changes and constants that have defined the sector. Tom shares core practices that he has embraced to get the best out of his team members. These include capitalizing on diverse backgrounds, focusing on outcomes, and seeking opportunities to get outside the comfort zone. Tom opens up about his deep faith as well as his role as deacon within his community. He places a tremendous amount of value on his faith, which has helped guide him both in his professional and personal endeavors. Finally, Tom speaks to the importance of preparation, the power of reflection, and the journey to self-discovery.

  • 01:04 – Introducing today’s guest, Tom Lattin
  • 02:22 – What Tom enjoys the most about his work
  • 03:59 – Strategies that help Tom discover new solutions to problems
  • 05:38 – Elements within dialogue that enable discoveries to occur
  • 10:09 – Tom speaks to the importance he places on historical context
  • 12:52 – Key changes in the technology sector over the past few decades
  • 16:08 – Key constants that remain true today about the technology sector
  • 20:38 – Tom reflects on some false assumptions in his industry
  • 24:17 – The most misunderstood aspects of strategy development
  • 31:34 – Tom speaks to the key personal development, insights and learnings from his career
  • 33:30 – What surprised Tom about the ability to tap into the collective experience of his team without having a rich set of analytics 
  • 34:05 – Fostering an environment of collaboration
  • 36:22 – Core practices Tom has embraced to get the best out of the people he works with
  • 40:33 – Tom’s dedication to living a life of servitude both personally and professionally
  • 44:32 – Tom reflects on self-discovery
  • 46:25 – How Tom’s faith impacted his personal and professional life
  • 49:09 – The importance of execution  
  • 51:57 – Advice Tom would give his younger self
  • 54:13 – Two learnings Tom values above all others
  • 57:06 – Parting words of wisdom and insights from Tom
  • 58:21 – Now it’s your turn, discover and apply the mental model and the approach that will engage you in your work, identify opportunities to frame the conversation, and understand your purpose  

FULL SHOW NOTES: https://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf73

Oct 31, 2019

In this episode, Aviv analyzes the three vectors of growth and development and showcases how they can be leveraged to identify the ‘what,’ ‘how,’ and ‘from where’ priorities. Aviv stresses the importance of building confidence, resilience, and strength within yourself in order to initiate a ruthless self-care protocol. He provides a three-step process by which this can be accomplished. These steps include maximizing your energy, starting every day well, and completing your day with a sense of accomplishment and gratitude. Finally, Aviv offers best practices for mapping your growth and development vectors to increase mindfulness and become more self-directed.

  • 00:59 – Introducing today’s topic, The Three Vectors of Growth
  • 02:24 – The importance of mapping your growth opportunities
  • 03:41 – Three steps to initiate the ruthless, self-care protocol
  • 03:48 – Step One: Maximize your energy
  • 04:23 – Step Two: Start every day well
  • 05:13 – Step Three: Complete your day with a sense of accomplishment and gratitude
  • 06:33 – The Three Vectors of Growth & Development
  • 07:52 – Vector One: What you do
  • 08:21 – Vector Two: How you navigate the journey to your desired outcomes
  • 08:47 – Vector Three: From where you initiate and make your journey
  • 09:58 – Aviv takes us through a mapping exercise using the three growth vectors
  • 12:24 – Now it’s your turn, apply the three vectors of growth and development to define your ‘what,’ ‘how,’ and ‘from where’ priorities

Full show notes: http://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf72

Oct 14, 2019

Matt Carcieri is one of the world’s foremost purposologist, having worked on purpose with over one hundred companies and brands. He began his career as a marketing executive at Proctor & Gamble where, for fifteen years, he pioneered purpose-driven brand building inside the world’s largest advertiser. As an in-house expert on the topic, Matt spearheaded purpose work on most of P&G’s billion-dollar brands. Today, he works as an independent consultant and associate of the Jim Stengel Group. In those roles, Matt has helped to define and activate purposeful companies across a variety of industries, from financial services and insurance to healthcare and hospitality. Matt is a unique combination of an artist, cheerful philosopher, and brand purpose doctor.

In this episode, Aviv and Matt discuss one of the most crucial, yet often overlooked facets of business and life: purpose. Having purpose is at the center of an organization’s core beliefs and values and, thus, has a direct correlation to success. Matt expounds on the Five Opportunities of Purpose, which include employee engagement, innovation, societal contribution, brand relevance and consumer attention. He uses case studies from Airbnb, The Walt Disney Company, Zappos, Apple, LEGO and Barbie to amplify the value and importance of being purpose-driven. Matt shares lessons learned from his father, a former corporate executive and two-term governor of Rhode Island, and other mentors that have shaped his journey through business and life. Finally, Matt leaves the audience with some sage advice. He encourages identifying your origin moment, being true to your convictions, and discovering your passions to unlock endless possibilities.

  • 00:55 – Introducing today’s guest, Matt Carcieri
  • 02:57 – What energizes Matt in his personal and professional life
  • 04:20 – Moving from Proctor & Gamble into consulting
  • 04:55 – What Matt enjoys the most about his work
  • 05:24 – Matt talks about his book, Bleed a Creed
  • 07:15 – The role and evolution of purpose within organizations
  • 10:08 – What research says about the link between purpose and performance 
  • 11:28 – The distinction between purpose-driven and purpose-inspired
  • 12:22 – Identifying genuine purpose
  • 13:51 – Aviv speaks to the importance of authenticity
  • 15:11 – The LEGO example 
  • 17:04 – The Five Opportunities of Purpose explained
  • 17:44 – How purpose is an opportunity for employee engagement
  • 19:46 – How purpose impacts innovation generation
  • 21:55 – The relationship between purpose and social contribution
  • 23:42 – The role purpose plays in brand relevance
  • 24:47 – The Airbnb example
  • 29:17 – How purpose is an opportunity for consumer attention
  • 31:06 – Matt shares other discoveries he has made about organizational strategies surrounding purpose 
  • 32:51 – Tools Matt utilizes to help organizations identify their convictions, beliefs, and purpose
  • 36:18 – Inspirations from Matt’s formative years
  • 38:26 – Heroes and mentors that have shaped Matt’s journey
  • 39:10 – Matt talks about his father, Donald Carcieri
  • 41:18 – Other influences in Matt’s professional life
  • 42:25 – Matt points to a specific moment of self-discovery
  • 44:10 – Aviv shares his journey to find his purpose
  • 46:52 – How Matt became The Purpose Doctor
  • 48:43 – Matt’s professional and personally purposes
  • 50:05 – The significance of creating memorable moments
  • 52:33 – Advice Matt would give his younger self
  • 53:56 – Two learnings Matt values above all others
  • 55:19 – Parting words of wisdom and insights from Matt
  • 56:08 – Now it’s your turn, reflect on your convictions, identify your origin moment, and discover your passions to become empowered into new horizons of possibility

FULL SHOW NOTES: https://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf71

Sep 30, 2019

In this episode, Aviv analyzes the three major mindsets and pinpoints how they influence our leadership abilities. These include the mindsets of ‘what’s wrong,’ ‘what works,’ and ‘what matters.’ In identifying these mindsets, Aviv suggests that the second and third mindsets provide a path to multiple blessings and positive energy. They empower us to participate in shaping and creating our own future. Aviv speaks to the pivotal nature of choosing to take personal responsibility. He suggests that the most important choice we can make is to let go of the preoccupation of ‘what’s wrong’ in favor of focusing on ‘what works.’ Finally, Aviv provides seven steps we all can implement in order to abandon the first mindset and apply the second and third mindsets to enrich our lives.

  • 00:53 – Introducing today’s topic, The Three Mindsets & Your Biggest Choice Ever
  • 01:11 – The Hewlett-Packard Leadership Summit Story
  • 02:34 – Aviv provides an alternative definition of ‘work’ in the context of this story
  • 04:23 – The Surprise Inquiry Method
  • 05:59 – How Aviv uses riddles as purposeful conversation portals   
  • 07:20 – The Three Mindsets
  • 07:42 – The mindset of ‘What’s Wrong’
  • 08:12 – The mindset of ‘What Works’
  • 08:47 – The mindset of ‘What Matters’
  • 09:34 – Standing at the leadership crossroads
  • 10:52 – Converting from ‘what’s wrong’ to ‘what works’
  • 11:16 – The biggest choice we each can make
  • 11:28 – Converting from ‘what works’ to ‘what matters’
  • 11:36 – Seven ways you can apply the second and third mindsets 

Full show notes: http://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf70

Sep 16, 2019

Joe Antons is the Director of Central Revenue Planning at Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Joe started at Cisco as an intern and gradually worked his way to the leadership role he holds today. Joe brings a unique combination of analytical rigor and business acumen together with a passion for helping people discover their true value within an organization.

In this episode, Aviv and Joe expound on the evolution of Silicon Valley from a metadata to a meta-analysis perspective. They dissect the three levels of consciousness in the workplace, which include the structure focus, work focus, and value focus. Among these, value focus is the most critical as it is defined by employees who see themselves through the value they contribute to the organization. Joe shares the two lessons that have been the most beneficial to his career, including leveraging the collective power of teams and understanding client and customer needs.

  • 00:56 – Introducing today’s guest, Joe Antons
  • 02:22 – Joe expounds on the evolution of Silicon Valley
  • 05:22 – Differentiating between metadata and meta-analysis
  • 08:56 – What Joe enjoys the most about his work
  • 10:20 – The benefits of working for the same company for over twenty years
  • 13:36 – Making an imprint on Cisco
  • 16:54 – Defining the competency to lead a data grounded conversation
  • 20:40 – Aviv defines organizational outcomes versus business outcomes
  • 22:30 – Joe explains further why people often confuse inputs, organizational outcomes, and business outcomes
  • 25:14 – The three levels of consciousness in the workplace
  • 28:52 – Cisco’s culture
  • 32:47 – Inspirations from Joe’s formative years
  • 34:32 – Joe points to a specific moment of self-discovery
  • 38:42 – Other influences in Joe’s professional life
  • 41:01 – Leadership qualities and insights Joe has acquired throughout the years
  • 44:11 – Servant leadership
  • 44:31 – The balancing act of becoming a better leader
  • 49:37 – Advice Joe would give his younger self
  • 52:13 – Two learnings Joe values above all others
  • 54:17 – Parting words of wisdom and insights from Joe
  • 57:18 – Now it’s your turn, identify opportunities to exhibit servant leadership through discovery, shaping the game you play at work and building currency

FULL SHOW NOTES: https://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf69

Aug 27, 2019

In this episode, Aviv expounds on the concept of achieving breakthrough collaboration by elevating key partnerships. Aviv reflects on the Partnering TIP, which focuses on trust, imperative and purpose. He introduces a key exercise as well as questions to reflect on while participating in this exercise. Finally, Aviv urges the audience to engage their respective teams in this partnering exercise in order to gain new perspective and actionable insight to their growth opportunities.  

  • 00:56 – Introducing today’s topic, Achieve Breakthrough Collaboration by Elevating Key Partnerships
  • 02:12 – The Partnership T.I.P. 
  • 03:06 – The Four-Column Exercise
  • 04:56 – Questions to reflect on in order to achieve breakthrough partnerships 
  • 06:28 – Aviv encourages you to engage your team when participating in this exercise
  • 06:41 – Now it’s your turn, identify your top stakeholders, assess your Partnership TIP, and identify the conversations you need to have to elevate those partnerships

Full show notes: http://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf68

Aug 15, 2019

Mark Bakker has had a notable and successful career as the head of America’s Supply Chain Operations at HP Inc. He manages the strategic relationships with customer channels and ensures a smooth supply chain execution. Previously, Mark was HP’s  Vice-President of Supply Chain Operations in Asia Pacific and Japan, and Director of Operations in Germany covering order management, production, warehousing, distribution and logistics as well as sourcing activities for Hewlett Packard's Imaging and Printing business unit in EMEA.

In this Episode, Mark highlights his experiences as an Operational Leader. He describes his work with globally diverse teams, with different backgrounds and cultures and how these experiences shaped his leadership style. Mark weaves the story of his formative years which inspired his desire to continue improving processes and finding better solutions for customers and organizations, all of which are factors that have led to his success today. Mark encourages listeners to be customer-driven and discover how they can improve the solutions and services they manage. He reflects on the four elements of an operational leader and the importance of constantly learning.

  • 01:01 – Introducing today’s guest, Mark Bakker
  • 03:16 – How Mark was shaped personally and professionally by leading global teams/organization in his career
  • 08:51 – The Dutch ethos of free debate
  • 11:28 – Aviv’s theory about the culture of Netherlands
  • 14:12 – Mark shares his experiences in his current role
  • 17:20 – The challenges in serving changing and fast-growing customers
  • 19:45 – Working with the “New Workforce”
  • 21:22 – Mark describes the similarities and differences of his day-to-day operations and digital transformative activities
  • 25:41 – The elements of the business case on shifting from traditional to digital architecture systems
  • 31:55 – Mark’s learnings and inputs on running a large transformation effort
  • 35:03 – Critical decision-making example
  • 41:44 – Mark’s inspiration from his childhood experiences that cultivated his passion in improving processes
  • 47:02 – How Mark worked his way into his current role
  • 54:46 – What is a Great Operational Leader
  • 57:57 – Mark’s advice to his 25-year old self
  • 1:01:04 – Mark’s parting advice to the audience
  • 1:01:59 – Now it’s your turn, discover how you can improve what you manage, reflect on the four elements of an operational leader, and constantly caring for others.

FULL SHOW NOTES: https://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf67

Jul 30, 2019

In this episode, Aviv reflects on the paradigm shift from a structure-first to a value-first model. Aviv notes that, in the former outdated model, the flow moves from structure to work and from work to value indicating that structure defines work and the work defines value. However, in this new model, which is centered on value, the flow has been reversed and is now initiated by the opportunity to create value. Finally, Aviv poses an intriguing thought experiment and leaves the audience with some sage advice. He urges them to talk to members of their organizations in order to decipher whether their activities are based on structure or value.

  • 00:58 – Introducing today’s topic, Value Defined Work and the New Paradigm
  • 02:13 – Facilitating the shift from a structure first to a value first mindset
  • 04:47 – The new value-first model
  • 06:10 – Why startups represent a great example of value-centered work
  • 07:29 – Aviv talks about the evolution of the work he does as a consultant
  • 08:21 – An intriguing thought experiment
  • 10:33 – Now it’s your turn, lead your team by focusing on outcome based activities and working backward from the desired future you’re working to create

Full show notes: http://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf66

Jul 16, 2019

Bill Koenig has had a distinguished and successful career as an expert in adult learning, leadership and organizational development, and as an entrepreneur and a civic leader. Bill’s eclectic experience includes Program Director at OSR, Organization System Renewal Northwest, and Board Chair of the Whidbey Institute where he participated in the development of their leadership programs. Previously, Bill was the President and CEO of Cantametrix, and a founder and President of DiscoverMusic and of KidStar Interactive Media. Bill’s holds a PhD in mythological studies and a Masters in whole systems design. He is currently a senior advisor at The Cambridge Management Group where he brings together a big picture of deep cross-discipline insights into human systems, transformation and renewal.

In this episode, Aviv and Bill expound on the differences between leadership competency and leadership capacity. Bill speaks to the profound impact that sports had on his formative years and credits his success today to the experiences he had playing team sports throughout his life. Bill identifies leadership patterns he has witnessed in organizations and cites the Navy Seals as a model of effective shared leadership. Aviv and Bill reflect on the concept of servant leadership. Finally, Bill leaves the audience with some sound advice. He encourages the continual journey of becoming yourself and suggests doing so in the context of continual inquiry and the assimilation of new learning, new models and new opportunities.

  • 00:58 – Introducing today’s guest, Bill Koenig
  • 02:34 – What energizes and excites Bill
  • 03:36 – Bill talks about the importance of sustainability
  • 04:57 – Bill provides examples of how we can be disruptive, transformational, and engaged
  • 07:21 – The two critical vectors that have led to the sustainability crisis
  • 08:28 – Defining leadership competence
  • 13:19 – Recognizing the exterior space of leadership development
  • 17:00 – Catalysts for transformational change
  • 20:08 – A striking pattern Bill has noticed within organizations
  • 26:33 – How the Navy Seals embody shared leadership
  • 29:47 – Aviv expounds on a meta-trend that has been appearing within organizations
  • 32:36 – Bill reflects on a Graduate program he participated in
  • 35:17 – Inspirations from Bill’s formative years
  • 37:22 – How Bill used sports as a key component in his evolution as a person
  • 41:59 – How these propulsions helped shape Bill’s career
  • 43:51 – The journey to entrepreneurship within the start-up space
  • 45:46 – Bill’s proudest accomplishment
  • 54:13 – Transformative insights Bill has been able to internalize through his experience with organizational renewal
  • 57:06 – Servant leadership
  • 57:56 – Bill regales the audience with the story of a near death experience
  • 1:03:31 – Why Bill chose to study mythology
  • 1:07:27 – Two passions Bill values above all others
  • 1:09:49 – Parting words of wisdom and insights from Bill
  • 1:14:19 – Now it’s your turn, build your leadership capacity, cultivate shared awareness and consciousness about the mission at hand, and stay in-tune with your inner voice to become yourself 

FULL SHOW NOTES: https://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf65

Jun 28, 2019

In this episode, Aviv brings the focus to prioritizing your most precious assets and resources – energy, time and focus. Aviv reflects on the three realizations that occur when you apply these resources effectively and provides personal examples of how he and his clients have arrived at these realizations. Finally, Aviv illustrates how the Impact-Must-Energy (IME) Priority Setting Formula can be utilized to identify where you can make the highest impact, which priorities you must complete, and what revitalizes and renews your energy.

  • 00:45 – Introducing today’s topic, prioritizing your assets
  • 01:24 – Reflecting on the question, “What do you believe are your most precious assets?”
  • 01:56 – The first objective of Aviv’s CEO advisory and coaching work
  • 03:14 – Techniques for creating an innovative thinking space
  • 03:43 – Identifying your personal most precious resources and currencies
  • 04:24 – Expounding on the ETF assets: Energy, Time, and Focus
  • 06:51 – The Impact-Must-Energy Priority Setting Formula
  • 08:33 – Now it’s your turn, learn to apply your energy, time and focus appropriately

Full show notes: http://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf64

Jun 17, 2019

Cathy Sunshine is the founder and president of the Sunshine Group, a consulting and coaching firm specializing in family business, leadership transformation, and organization design. Cathy works with leaders and organizations to break through blockages and to produce turnaround growth. Through her work, Cathy has helped hundreds of teams to improve performance and create transformational results. Her book, SYNC’d, lays out a practical guide for organizations to align modern performance with the new pace of the market in a digitally-charged world.

In this episode, Aviv and Cathy expound on powerful insights highlighted in SYNC’d. Cathy speaks to her strategy of making bold promises to customers and delivering on those promises. She identifies three critical propellants for organizational success, which include customer, structure and throughput. Aviv and Cathy reflect on the concept of ranked advantage design structure and its impact within an organization. Finally, Cathy leaves the audience with some sage advice. She proposes that organizations redesign themselves using reverse flow, a concept that suggests building a culture that frees individuals to embrace new information and practice what they do best.

  • 00:56 – Introducing today’s guest, Cathy Sunshine
  • 02:02 – How Cathy’s book SYNC’d has been received
  • 03:09 – Cathy expounds on why she named her book SYNC’d
  • 04:34 – Behavioral operations
  • 06:40 – A powerful insight from Cathy’s book
  • 10:07 – The value of making bold promises to customers
  • 14:10 – How to deliver on bold promises
  • 17:02 – Three critical propellants: Customer, Structure and Throughput
  • 20:09 – Cathy reflects on the concept of a Ranked Advantage Design Structure
  • 21:32 – Defining low-viscosity throughput
  • 22:53 – How structure can impact behavior
  • 26:07 – Identifying anchor customers
  • 27:23 – How Uber failed to identify their anchor customers
  • 32:10 – Cathy explains why it is vital for an organization to define who is in service to whom
  • 34:10 – Five operational steps to create a SYNC’d organization
  • 39:15 – How the government could benefit from Cathy’s steps for a synchronized organization
  • 43:10 – Where listeners can find Cathy’s book, SYNC’d
  • 44:15 – Parting words of wisdom from Cathy
  • 45:27 – Cathy invites the audience to provide feedback on her book
  • 47:33 – Now it’s your turn, liberate flow in order to unleash the energy potential and the genius necessary to solve complex organizational problems

FULL SHOW NOTES: https://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf63

May 29, 2019

In this episode, Aviv reflects on the idea that failure oftentimes can be a great teacher. He identifies and analyzes six categories of failure. These include failure to achieve a goal, failure to apply learning, failure to be present, failure to recognize opportunities, failure to hold on to your own values and morals, and failure to forgive. Finally, he expounds on the ways in which learning from failure can catalyze change and help create new futures.

  • 00:58 – Introducing today’s topic, how failure can be a teacher and catalyze development and growth 
  • 01:19 – Aviv identifies six categories of failure
  • 02:03 – Category One: Failure to achieve a goal or reach a target
  • 03:41 – Category Two: Failure to apply learning
  • 07:04 – Category Three: Failure to be present
  • 07:53 – Category Four: Failure to recognize and respond to opportunities
  • 08:42 – Category Five: Failure to hold on to your own values, morals, and sense of integrity
  • 10:13 – Category Six: Failure to forgive 
  • 11:17 – Now it’s your turn, reflect on your failures in order to transform them into learning and growth

Full show notes: http://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf62

May 14, 2019

Astrid Hartmann is the Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Lufthansa Global Business Services, an organization that manages the finance, HR, revenue accounting and procurement globally for all of Lufthansa Group companies. She previously held multiple senior management positions at Hewlett-Packard. During her time at Lufthansa, Astrid has driven tremendous revenue growth, infused performance and improvement culture and dramatically improved customer satisfaction. Astrid is a smart and curious executive who creates infectious energy through her ability to mobilize large-scale change and motivate her teams to exceed their objectives.

In this episode, Aviv and Astrid discuss Astrid’s journey to executive leadership positions within top performing global companies. She reflects on how she approaches challenges as well as her views on leadership. Aviv and Astrid also talk passionately about the current state of women in business and the strides that must still occur. Astrid speaks to the importance of delegating as it pertains to effective leadership. Finally, Aviv stresses the importance of surrounding yourself with the best talent, developing a shared vision for the future, and building strategic momentum.

  • 00:57 – Introducing today’s guest, Astrid Hartmann
  • 03:18 – Astrid talks about the recent vacation she took
  • 06:13 – What Astrid enjoys most about her current role at Lufthansa
  • 07:48 – Answering to the board of directors
  • 08:35 – How Astrid approaches large challenges
  • 12:38 – Recapping the two guiding principles Astrid utilizes
  • 13:54 – Additional learnings Astrid has harvested throughout her journey
  • 16:36 – Defining the ambiguous and working cross-functionally
  • 19:45 – Astrid expands on her philosophy on change
  • 22:03 – Refusing to compromise on quality
  • 24:01 – What inspired Astrid growing up
  • 26:15 – Astrid recalls the moment the Berlin Wall came down
  • 29:53 – Travelling outside of East Berlin
  • 31:43 – How the fall of the Berlin Wall represented a formative moment in Astrid’s life and career
  • 35:07 – Astrid describes her journey to discover her business strengths 
  • 38:03 – Working at Hewlett-Packard
  • 42:54 – Luck isn’t always what it appears
  • 45:58 – Astrid delineate some formative insights about leadership she is currently developing
  • 48:24 – Astrid shares another leadership lesson she learned from her mother
  • 50:53 – Astrid shares her thoughts on women in leadership
  • 54:56 – How Astrid handled herself as a woman in business
  • 58:39 – Advice Astrid would give to her younger self
  • 59:47 – The importance of the capacity to think for yourself and the capacity to lead others
  • 1:01:10 – Parting words of wisdom from Astrid
  • 1:02:33 – Now it’s your turn, surround yourself with top talent, develop a shared vision for the future, and build momentum

FULL SHOW NOTES: https://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf61

Apr 29, 2019

In this episode, Aviv revisits the 72-Hour Rule which suggests that in order to truly learn a new practice, one must go through four stages. These stages include receiving new knowledge, understanding and validating the practice learned, applying the learning and, finally, teaching that new practice to everyone in your environment. Aviv stresses the importance of acting immediately in order to maximize the learning and development cycle. Finally, Aviv discusses the benefits of operating in the aerobic flow zone, the dangers of delay tactics and the value of shrinking the 72-hour rule to 72 minutes.

  • 00:53 – Introducing today’s topic, revisiting the 72 Hour Rule and OKRs
  • 01:04 – Aviv restates the four stages of the 72 Hour Rule
  • 02:10 – The importance of teaching new learnings to others within the 72-hour
  • 03:11 – The Objective and Key Results (OKR) methodology that Aviv utilizes
  • 04:30 – The best time to act
  • 05:00 – The benefit of operating inside the aerobic flow zone
  • 05:50 – The detriment of delaying action
  • 06:25 – The antidote to delay tactics
  • 07:15 – Now it’s your turn, eliminate delay tactics and shrink the 72-Hour cycle

Full show notes: http://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf60

Apr 12, 2019

In this very special episode, Aviv switches roles and becomes the interviewee as Bill Fox asks poignant questions on leadership, vision, and innovation. Aviv lists the seven evolutionary developmental blockages that we as a society have overcome. He talks about the importance of conversation and the impact they can ultimately have on creating new and exciting futures. Finally, Aviv urges the audience to appreciate how precious life is and challenges them to seize every opportunity life has to offer.

  • 00:53 – Introducing today’s guest, Bill Fox
  • 04:09 – How Bill came up with his six core interview questions
  • 07:04 – Aviv answers Bill’s first question: How can we create work places where every voice matters, everyone thrives and finds meaning, and change and innovation happen naturally?
  • 12:21 – The seven evolutionary developmental blockages that society has overcome
  • 18:47 – Aviv answers Bill’s second question: What does it take to get an employee’s full attention and best performance?
  • 20:59 – Aviv answers Bill’s third question: What do people really lack and long for at work?
  • 25:25 – Aviv answers Bill’s fourth question: What do you think is the most important question leadership or management should be asking their employees or followers?
  • 26:20 – Aviv answers Bill’s fifth question: What is the most important question employees should be asking back to leadership and management?
  • 27:03 – Aviv answers Bill’s sixth question: What is the most important question we should be asking ourselves?
  • 28:03 – What prompted Aviv to write the book, Create New Futures
  • 30:39 – The value Aviv places on conversations
  • 37:45 – What makes Aviv’s book different from others based on futures
  • 39:37 – Key takeaways Aviv would like the audience to know
  • 44:53 – Working to spread the idea of the importance of conversation
  • 48:15 – Parting words of wisdom from Aviv

Full show notes: http://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf59

Mar 29, 2019

In this episode, Aviv provides his insights on the mastery journey as we close the loop on the two-episode series on mastery. In a recent episode, entitled ‘How to Reach Mastery,’ we looked at what the best CEOs do to lead their teams along the three-legged journey to reach mastery. In this part, we further the reflection on this topic by dissecting the five fuels that power and propel individuals into their mastery journey. We discover that, individually, these fuels aren’t enough. We need to combine a multitude of these drivers in order to achieve mastery. Finally, Aviv asserts that working to build critical readiness for mastery is a fantastically rewarding and meaningful journey.  

  • 00:51 – Introducing today’s topic, Five Fuels to Power Your Mastery Journey
  • 01:58 – Reviewing the three-legged journey to achieving mastery
  • 03:45 – Examples of triggers that can propels us to to achieving mastery
  • 07:02 – The two-fold realization that occurs on the development practice path
  • 09:13 – Aviv uses the Beatles to demonstrate that the vertical ascent to mastery does not happen overnight
  • 10:15 – What propulsions can power the development journey?
  • 12:52 – Aviv poses questions for listeners to ask themselves and reflect on and lists the five propelling fuels to overcome the struggle of resistance in order to achieve mastery
  • 13:24 – Number One: Pain and Fear
  • 14:25 – Number Two: Passion and Reward
  • 15:50 – Number Three: Serving a Cause
  • 16:34 – Number Four: Team Spirit
  • 17:19 – Number Five: Structure of Support
  • 18:53 – Now it’s your turn, discover what mastery you’re building and what drives your success in overcoming resistance

Full show notes: http://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf58

Mar 13, 2019

Rebecca Kehat is an entrepreneur, strategic consultant, global marketing expert, public speaker and mentor for startups. She previously held senior management positions at Google, Bank Hapoalim and Procter & Gamble. Today, she is the CEO of Unicorp, a consulting firm specializing in innovation and offering platform monetization and global marketing and advertising strategies and solutions. In 2012, she was chosen by the prestigious Israeli business magazine, The Marker, as one of forty top Israeli talents under forty.

In this episode, Aviv and Rebecca discuss her career trajectory, from serving in the Israeli Army and working at Google, to the mentorship program she participates in today. Rebecca shares how she discovered her strengths and core competencies and how the term ‘Rebecca Power’ originated. She talks about the importance of balance in life and reveals her triangle theory of balance. Rebecca leaves the audience with two key pieces of advice that have helped her tremendously throughout her career. She urges them to be aware and intentional. Finally, Aviv stresses the importance of building transferable skills, being intentional about your career, and growing and expanding a network of trustworthy people.

FULL SHOW NOTES: https://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf57

Feb 27, 2019

In this episode, Aviv discusses the anatomy of flow and bringing focus to the aerobic zone of productivity. Aviv views himself as a conduit of service. He recalls a recent conversation he had about his secret to productivity. The realization was that there is no secret. Productivity is a product of developing readiness and building a capacity to act. This occurs best in a state of creative flow.

Aviv breaks down three broad opportunity fields. Field A involves serving creative opportunities. Field B is centered on serving close family, friends, and others that Aviv cares about. Lastly, Field C focuses on serving others who do not fall under the category of Field B. These include clients and organizations that Aviv serves.

Aviv talks about the importance of seizing opportunity, finding new capabilities and creating innovative solutions. Finally, Aviv challenges listeners to identify their opportunity fields, discover their creative aerobic zone, and remove obstacles and resistance in order to enter the flow.

  • 00:53 – Introducing today’s topic: The Anatomy of Flow
  • 02:13 – Why Aviv views himself as a creative unit and a conduit of service
  • 03:37 – The journey to building greater capacity
  • 06:18 – Aviv’s belief that living is an opportunity portal
  • 07:35 – Aerobic productivity
  • 08:08 – The critical role of anaerobic work
  • 09:29 – Being in the state of flow
  • 10:21 – Aviv’s three broad opportunity fields
  • 11:24 – The differences between Field B and Field C
  • 12:45 – Behavioral modalities Aviv utilizes when he is called to serve
  • 14:43 – Seizing the opportunity in the moment
  • 16:38 – Now it’s your turn, identify your opportunity fields, discover your aerobic zone, and enter the flow

Full show notes: http://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf56

Feb 15, 2019

Suzanne Bates is the CEO of Bates, a firm founded with a mission to help leaders influence the world. Suzanne and her team assist global companies by bringing differentiated experience to leadership development and providing groundbreaking strategies to help leaders make an impact. She is a five-time best-selling author with works that include Speak Like a CEO, Motivate Like a CEO, Discover Your CEO Brand, and All the Leader You Can Be. Prior to launching her consulting firm, Suzanne led a successful career as a television journalist. Her years as an on-air personality with major market television stations put her at the center of major news stories and afforded her the opportunity to interview thousands of political leaders, CEOs, businesspeople, authors and celebrities. As an expert in business and leadership, Suzanne has grown her entrepreneurial portfolio to include consulting, writing, coaching and public speaking. She is insightful, witty, and possesses a practical approach in all of her business ventures.

In this episode, Suzanne and Aviv talk about Suzanne’s background in journalism, business, and leadership. As a journalist for twenty years prior to branching out as an entrepreneur, Suzanne identifies the key transferable skills that aided in her business success. As a leadership consultant, Suzanne shares how she works with clients to help them develop executive presence. She defines executive presence as the behaviors and qualities of leaders that engage, align, inspire and move people to act. When you engage others and provide them the opportunity and the reason to give more of themselves, you fortify them with meaning and purpose. Suzanne and Aviv also talk about the importance of maintaining focus in order to be a truly impactful leader. It is vital for leaders to know when to effectively delegate, when to delete, and when to delay. Finally, Suzanne discusses the value she places on cultivating and practicing gratitude. By celebrating and appreciating the small victories, Suzanne is better able to accomplish the bigger moments of success. These include overcoming challenge and exploring for new learnings beyond what you already know.

  • 00:54 – Introducing today’s guest, Suzanne Bates
  • 03:37 – Reflecting on this past year, Suzanne talks about what she is most grateful for
  • 05:37 – How innovation stimulates learning for Suzanne and her team
  • 08:03 – Suzanne discusses the challenges and excitement of her work
  • 11:00 – How Suzanne’s entrepreneurial spirit has aided in her creative problem solving
  • 13:49 – What inspired Suzanne to focus on executive presence
  • 16:41 – The importance of engagement in leadership
  • 18:40 – Why mobilized action is key to implementing leadership skills
  • 20:12 – How character, substance and style impact presence
  • 24:02 – Embracing resonance in executive presence
  • 25:24 – Suzanne’s journalism background
  • 28:58 – Suzanne recalls a formative moment from her journalism career
  • 30:59 – The key transferable skills that led to Suzanne’s success in business
  • 35:16 – The decision process that led Suzanne to leave the journalism field
  • 36:48 – Suzanne shares the self-discovery she experienced when she decided to change careers
  • 39:29 – Suzanne discusses writing her first book, Speak Like a CEO
  • 44:48 – Suzanne shares tips to discover your brand as a CEO
  • 47:57 – The power of self-awareness
  • 50:54 – Suzanne identifies the most common challenges and issues facing her clients
  • 54:16 – Why it is vital to embrace teamwork
  • 55:50 – Other lessons and realizations Suzanne has learned through fostering a team
  • 59:12 – Why Suzanne would not change a thing about her journey
  • 1:00:40 – Two practices that Suzanne values above all others
  • 1:01:24 – Parting words of advice from Suzanne
  • 1:03:29 – Aviv provides steps to create your new future

FULL SHOW NOTES: https://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf55

Jan 30, 2019

In this episode, Aviv discusses the concept of greatness and, more specifically, how to avoid eroding the potential for greatness. In order to accomplish this, Aviv poses three questions to define what greatness is, how it can be eroded and what actions can prevent that outcome. Aviv identifies the three behaviors that erode the potential for greatness and provides practical antidotes to help avoid these. Aviv also shares the three octaves that converge in order to manifest greatness: the person, the platform and the purpose. When these three factors resonate with one another and produce a steady flow, the conditions for greatness are in place. Greatness requires focus, consistency, devotion to purpose, care and forbearance. Greatness can be found in sports teams, Broadway casts, organizational and professional teams, and a myriad of other areas. In these examples, a cohesive effort brings everyone together in a sense of unity and a shared purpose that allows individuals to transcend their egos and galvanizes them towards achieving that goal. Finally, Aviv challenges leaders to unlock the potential for greatness by celebrating the diversity of talent and by facilitating organizational alignment.

  • 00:42 – Introducing today’s topic: Stop Eroding Your Potential for Greatness
  • 01:25 – Aviv recalls a spontaneous conversation he recently had with a client
  • 03:57 – The three questions Aviv utilizes to approach this conundrum
  • 04:16 – What is greatness?
  • 05:09 – The three converging octaves: the person, the platform and the purpose
  • 08:24 – The components that are required for greatness
  • 09:34 – How you may erode your potential for greatness
  • 10:17 – Lowering expectations and standards
  • 12:04 – Enabling cross-purpose work
  • 13:52 – Allowing ego above value
  • 15:14 – Now it’s your turn, unlock your potential for greatness by celebrating the diversity of talent working toward a unity of purpose  

Full show notes: http://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf54

Jan 14, 2019

In this episode, Aviv talks with Harry Duran, founder and CEO at Fullcast, a podcasting production company that helps prospective podcasters develop and cultivate their shows. Aviv starts off the episode by discussing the three value propositions that he provides in both his book Create New Futures as well as his podcast of the same name. Aviv delves deep into the metaphysical theory of the Three Big Bangs and provides insight as to how the Internet is serving and enabling the third Big Bang. Aviv explains the four levels of conversation and the inherent differences between them. Low-level conversations lead to more conflict, strife and misunderstanding, whereas other conversations provide the appropriate framework necessary to enable broader and more enlightened consciousness. Aviv provides insights into his personal background, including two formative influences that changed the way Aviv lived life. Aviv shares the profound lesson he learned while working in leadership development. Finally, Aviv discusses the enjoyment he gets from the discovery journey that has enabled him to meet and learn from fascinating people.  

  • 03:44 – Introducing today’s episode
  • 04:20 – The format Aviv follows for Create New Futures
  • 06:31 – The three value propositions Aviv provides
  • 07:38 – The personal and metaphysical reason Aviv kept the same themes within his podcast as he did in his book CNF
  • 09:42 – Aviv discusses the metaphysical theory of the Three Big Bangs
  • 12:53 – Answering the question, ‘What is your highest point of leverage?’
  • 13:22 – How the Internet is serving and enabling the explosion of consciousness
  • 15:46 – Aviv explains what the Four Levels of Conversations
  • 16:44 – Conversation Level One
  • 17:14 – Conversation Level Two
  • 17:39 – Conversation Level Three
  • 18:19 – Conversation Level Four
  • 19:41 – The Fifth Dimension: How we define intelligence
  • 21:18 – Aviv discusses the importance of creating frameworks
  • 22:35 – Aviv dissects a typical consulting conversation
  • 24:42 – Insights into Aviv’s background and roots
  • 28:03 – How a childhood heart condition influenced Aviv in his life’s pursuits
  • 30:10 – The spirit of defiance
  • 32:19 – Aviv defines the karmic pattern
  • 34:35 – The importance of the developmental journey
  • 35:36 – A lesson Aviv learned while working in leadership development
  • 37:10 – Aviv discusses the three-legged journey into mastery
  • 41:20 – The many mentors who helped Aviv along his journey
  • 43:23 – The oath that Aviv made to himself
  • 45:12 – Aviv’s time in the Israeli Air Force
  • 48:03 – Aviv discusses the enjoyment he gets from the discovery journey while engaging with guests on his show
  • 49:58 – Aviv defines codifying language to achieve actionable insights
  • 52:17 – How Aviv has evolved as a podcast host
  • 54:35 – Aviv compares podcasting and storytelling to the evolution of movies
  • 57:20 – What is something Aviv has changed his mind about recently
  • 59:06 – Aviv discusses the Five Levels of Integrity
  • 1:04:13 – The importance Aviv places on contributing your all
  • 1:05:01 – What is the most misunderstood thing about Aviv
  • 1:08:22 – Aviv and Harry discuss their mutual admiration for each other’s partnership
  • 1:08:55 – Where listeners can follow Aviv
  • 1:10:23 – Harry encourages listeners to subscribe to the Podcast Junkies newsletter
  • 1:10:40 – Harry challenges the audience to tell one new person about this show
  • 1:10:59 – This week’s retention hashtag

Full show notes: http://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf53

Jan 1, 2019

In this episode, Aviv discusses the topics of Leadership and Quantum Entanglement. At its core, quantum entanglement states that our world and universe are interconnected and there is an immediate and undeniable connectedness between all things. Aviv provides a thought experiment to help internalize this phenomenon and visualize how it can be linked to leadership. He then describes the threefold quantum entanglement imperative for leaders. Finally, Aviv urges listeners to embrace the co-creative learning loop of a connected world and feel empowered to take action.

  • 00:48 – Introducing today’s topic, Leadership & Quantum Entanglement
  • 01:00 – Quantum Entanglement explained
  • 01:27 – Aviv provides a thought experiment
  • 03:17 – The universal truth that the world and universe are interconnected
  • 03:44 – Expanding on this concept with galactic examples
  • 05:30 – The connection between quantum entanglement to leadership
  • 06:50 – Aviv suggests three observable connections about different leaders
  • 07:26 – Aviv shares the threefold quantum entanglement imperative for leaders
  • 08:17 – The leadership quantum entanglement insight
  • 08:52 – How you can step up and take immediate action
  • 09:33 – Now it’s your turn, become conscious of the entangled world around you

Full show notes: http://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf52

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