Podcast Episodes

Leading through Asking with Nancy McGraw

Season 3 Episode 13

Questions need silence. Great questions are provocative. Great questions defy easy answers. Answering them takes time - they can be the work of a lifetime or a workshop. A great question can guide an…

Published on 5 years, 8 months ago

What is your Sales Metaphor? with Ian Altman

Season 3 Episode 12

Daniel Stillman Interviews Ian Altman

I am so thrilled to share this conversation with author and speaker Ian Altman about a conversation we all have to contend with one way or another - sales! Every…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

Designing the Organizational Conversation with Jason Cyr

Season 3 Episode 11

Today we are talking to my friend and client Jason Cyr, Director of Design Transformation at Cisco. We have a wild and rambling conversation about designing conversations on at least three scales: as…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

From Innovation to Transformation

Season 3 Episode 10

Hey there Conversation Designers! Today I’m talking with Author, speaker and advisor Greg Satell about going beyond innovation to driving transformation. His recent book, Cascades, is about how to cr…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago

Trust, Communication and Psychological Safety

Season 3 Episode 9

Have you ever found a framework, a diagram, that perfectly summarized an important and subtle idea? That somehow made that important idea concrete and easy to talk about?

That’s why I’m really exci…

Published on 6 years ago

Disciplined Imagination

Season 3 Episode 8

Today’s conversation is with my dear friend Jocelyn Ling, a tremendously talented Business Model Specialist in the Office of Innovation at Unicef. She’s  currently on sabbatical from the Organization…

Published on 6 years ago

Innovation is a Conversation

Season 3 Episode 7

Innovation. We love to talk about it, everyone wants it. Innovation is critical for people and organizations to grow. But we all mean different things when we say it.

Today I have a conversation abou…

Published on 6 years, 1 month ago

Power, Ritual and Wayfinding

Season 3 Episode 6

Hey there, conversation designers!

Today I’m sharing a conversation with Larissa Conte, who I connected with last year at the Responsive Conference in New York.

Larissa is a transformation designer, …

Published on 6 years, 1 month ago

Organizational Change is a Conversation

Season 3 Episode 5

Buckle in, ladies and gentlemen, for some straight talk about the future of work, the nature of the universe and the power of changing systems to change behavior.

Today I’m sharing a deep and ramblin…

Published on 6 years, 2 months ago

Grief and Loss in Organizational Change

Season 3 Episode 4

Design means change and change means loss of the old. Even if a new design is better in every way, there is no design so perfect that you can “flip a switch” and step into the new instantaneously. …

Published on 6 years, 3 months ago