Judith Glaser
Judith E. Glaser is an Organizational Anthropologist. She is one of the most pioneering and innovative change agents, consultants and executive coaches, in the consulting and coaching industry and is the world’s leading authority on Conversational Intelligence®, WE-centric Leadership, and Neuro-Innovation, and is a best-selling author of 7 business books including her newest best seller—Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary Results. Through the application of ‘the Neuroscience of WE®, to business challenges, Judith shows CEOs and their teams how to elevate levels of engagement, collaboration and innovation to positively impact the bottom line.
Judith is the founder and CEO of Benchmark Communications, Inc., and the Chairman of The Creating WE Institute with over thirty five years of business experience working with CEOs and their teams in establishing WE-centric cultures poised to strategically handle business challenges in the face of moving targets. Her transformational approaches using neuroscience and anthropology enable leaders to raise their Conversational Intelligence® and build agile and higher performing individuals and teams poised to impact the bottom line and top line results in their organizations.
In 2017 Marshall Goldsmith’s Top Coaches Project selected Judith as one of the top 15 Coaches in the world. In 2014 Judith was selected by Ben Croft, CEO of WBECS, to launch Conversational Intelligence® for Coaches, a coaching certification program attended by over 1,000 coaches globally. Also, Conversational Intelligence® was selected by INC. as one of the top 5 trends in business 2016. 2004 she was awarded Woman of the Year in New York City. Since 2006 she has been listed in the top 10 consultants globally in the Excellence Top 100 Consultants and is one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders globally on the subject of leadership.
012: Judith Glaser, Conversation 2
This conversation was fun and engaging since Judith is charismatic, experienced, and cheerful, even though it started solemnly, owing to a terrorist attack in Manhattan the day before. We covered politics a bit — now that I think of it, one of this podcast’s few forays there.
We talked about leadership from many perspectives, including her storied experience, given her experience with globally known leaders (Donna Karan, etc) and top organizations (Harvard, Apple, etc). Most of us rarely get to talk to people with such connections and history.
I continued to follow Judith’s lead from our first conversation to use her definition of “environment,” which wasn’t my usual one, roughly meaning the air, land, and water we share. Her definition is more about people and relationships.
I treated the conversation as somewhat challenging, to enter someone else’s world. I went into this podcast as much to learn as to influence, expecting everyone to have unique views on the environment, leadership, community, and other subjects, so I welcomed it.
By challenging, I don’t mean the conversation was unpleasant or uncomfortable. Just that given my experimental physics background, we were far from my touch points like measurables like concentrations of molecules and concepts like conservation of energy.
I presume listeners with backgrounds different than mine and more like Judith’s will resonate with the conversation. My goal is to make the podcast as much for you as for me. I’d love feedback to help guide future conversations.
Enjoy!
007b: Judith Glaser, Conversation 1: A different environment (highlights)
A 30-minute highlight version of conversation 1 with Judith Glaser.
007: Judith Glaser, Conversation 1: A different environment
Judith co-founded the Harvard Coaching Institute as well as her own consulting and coaching firms—Benchmark Communications and Creating WE—through which she has worked with culture-setting companies such as Apple, Burberry, and Donna Karan. She’s written seven books, including multiple bestsellers. She’s on the board of Expeditionary Learning. And more, so if credentials are important to you, she has them.
Yet she’s almost counter-cultural in her way of going against the mainstream grain when it holds her or her clients back.
Yet she’s friendly and approachable. Since she lives a subway ride away from me, I met her in person, which made our conversation more friendly and behind-the scenes.
I’m nerdy and look at the world more conventionally than she does, so we’ll see a different way of looking at the environment, science, and nature than my usual way.
She talks about her big breaks, making mistakes and rolling with them. She walks through how to use her books and materials.
You can see how she’s gotten great clients and speaks to such prominent organizations