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A compassionate leader is someone whose heart seeks to understand other people’s experiences. This openness shows the importance of curiosity in each step of one’s journey. Our guest for today is not one who takes for granted curiosity in her life, taking her across different roles and cultures. Katherine Twells sits down with Valerie Love, the Senior Vice President for Human Resources for Coca-Cola North America. In this episode, Valerie shares with us her journey and the lessons she learned from her diverse professional background. She highlights the value of curiosity in her journey and how this allowed her to be more compassionate and conscious as a leader. Valerie then shares what she learned from going through tough times with the pandemic and why self-care is important. Join this conversation and discover how we, as compassionate leaders, can illuminate our path and those of others. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today: cokecmosummit.com Facebook Twitter

If you don't recover from or find meaning in grief, you can negatively affect the people around you. If you don't heal your wounds, you'll bleed all over those that didn't even hurt you. While losing someone is permanent, losing hope isn't. Find the light at the end of the dark tunnel, face your grief head-on, and stop it from blowing up.    Join Katherine Twells as she talks to Death and Grieving Expert David Kessler, author of Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage Of Grief. Discover how David helps people process grief by sharing his own experience of dealing with it. Learn what to say and not to say to those in the middle of this complicated phase of sorrow. Find out why people need to start talking about grief in the workplace and how to discover hope in this sad journey. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today: cokecmosummit.com Facebook Twitter

Our dreams are full of symbolism that perhaps only the subconscious mind can ever understand. To have a better idea of what they mean, Machiel Klerk developed a method called dream incubation. Joining Katherine Twells, he explains how talking to your dreams before going to sleep can uncover its messages lying deep within. Machiel discusses how tapping into your subconscious can lead to profound self-discovery, healing from emotional wounds, and unlocking different levels of creativity. He also talks about how dream incubation can help deal with anxieties caused by the pandemic and reconnect with the ancient wisdom that gives you a better idea of your place in the world. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today: cokecmosummit.com Facebook Twitter

 How do you go about living a resilient life? Today’s guest is here to guide you. Dr. Susan Biali Haas, M.D. is an award-winning medical doctor, health and wellness expert, coach, speaker, and author. She joins host Katherine Twells to share how she helps people worldwide build resilience with insights you can find in her upcoming book, The Resilient Life: Manage Stress, Prevent Burnout & Strengthen Your Mental and Physical Health. Susan highlights the importance of addressing burnout, the detriments of neglecting your well-being, and the positive impact it has on yourself and others around you. Don’t miss out on these valuable insights by tuning in to this episode. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today: cokecmosummit.com Facebook Twitter

Too often, we see leaders as people born with special skills and traits that make them better suited for success than the rest of us. The truth is leadership is not about title or position. It is about personal impact. It’s about character and actions. Sometimes, the most unlikely people are the most effective leaders. We all can lead, and it is up to us to step up and take on the challenge when it is presented. In this episode, Drew Dudley, Founder and Chief Catalyst of Day One Leadership talks about redefining leadership. Drew shares practical and actionable insights on creating cultures of leadership that lead to higher levels of pride, productivity, happiness, and retention. He empowers audiences and equips them with the tools needed to make a difference at home and work. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today: cokecmosummit.com Facebook Twitter

We all have our inner demons. We let it ruin our relationships and run away with our dreams. And in this highly competitive world, it's easy to lose ourselves in the thought of wanting to be someone else. If you're still in the nightmare that you are never going to enough, this is your wake-up call! In this episode of The Coca-Cola Compassion Lab, Dr. Mark Goulston shares his journey of self-doubt, finding his inner strength, and using psychiatry to help people become the best versions of themselves. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today: cokecmosummit.com Facebook Twitter

To be a Zen Executive is to lead by example because you influence your people's lives. What you do at work affects their self-care after work. That is why you need to work on both yourself and others. Here to combine spirituality with business, join Katherine Twells as she talks to Jim Blake about his new book, The Zen Executive. Jim is the CEO of Unity World Headquarters, a spiritual nonprofit founded in 1889. He helps people of all faiths and cultures apply positive spiritual principles in their daily lives. Find out how Jim teaches his beliefs in the corporate world. Learn more about intuition and why self-care is important. Discover your why so you can have a great vision and mission as a company. And find out what emerges from all the chaos happening in the world today. Become a Zen Executive today! Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today: cokecmosummit.com Facebook Twitter

Do you want to attain mental fitness and fortitude but you don't know how? Then this is just the right episode for you! Marc Champagne shares how he keeps himself mentally fit. It actually started with just a simple thing he does every morning, which is to wake up 10 -15 minutes earlier and just consume positive content from different materials such as blog posts, magazines, and books. In this episode, he dives deep into how a simple change can make a big impact in your life and why feeding your mind with positivity is the ultimate goal. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today: cokecmosummit.com Facebook Twitter

Welcome to The Coca-Cola Compassion Lab! Yes, the name of the podcast has changed but make no mistake, our purpose and content will stay the same. Listen in as Katherine Twells discusses this meaningful and timely change and why it’s happening for the podcast. See you in The Lab for more great conversation! Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today: cokecmosummit.com Facebook Twitter

The planet is almost one minute to midnight and people are trying to fix everything by tomorrow. That isn't going to work until they realize that they have to make a meaningful change. Everyone is at fault, they've known about these issues for years and haven't acted. Now is the time to act together for a brighter future. To help us with that is your host Katherine Twells and her guest Simon Mainwaring. Simon is the founder and CEO of We First, a strategic consultancy that accelerates growth and impact for purpose-driven brands. He is also the author of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon bestseller, We First. Join Katherine and Simon as they discuss how people can start to be more aware of nature. Learn how companies and entrepreneurs can lead the charge in changing the planet. Start changing the direction of your business today! Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today: cokecmosummit.com Facebook Twitter

The book 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week, written by Tiffany Shlain, is about remembering the pleasures of the analog world. People need to learn how to balance both technology and humanity. Because when you disconnect from your screens, you get to really find and discover yourself. Join your host Katherine Twells as she talks to Emmy-nominated filmmaker, speaker, author, and so much more, Tiffany Shlain. Tiffany explores the relationship between humanity and technology, the future of work, neuroscience, and creativity. Learn more about her book and why she wrote it. Discover how you can disconnect from technology despite it being all around. Find out how she does it today! Find out what brings you joy! Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today: cokecmosummit.com Facebook Twitter

In today's digital and fast-paced world, everyone is too busy with a lot of things, be it in their families or their careers. Focusing on too many tasks at once leaves no more space for imagination. This results in an extremely stressful world full of unnecessary noise. Katherine Twells delves into elevating wellbeing with actor and speaker Anthony McLean. He talks about his hopes to finally blur the lines of racism, how to cope with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the importance of self-compassion today more than ever. Anthony also explains why taking a break from looking at too many screens daily can help build a better world around us. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today: cokecmosummit.com Facebook Twitter

With everything that's happened and is still happening for the past two years, talk on resilience has been adamant. But how do we take such a seemingly large undertaking by battling daily problems with everyday resilience? Joining Katherine Twells to talk about that is Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe. Robyne is a multi-award-winning psychology and education instructor specializing in resilience and navigating stress and change leadership in the workplace. This episode gives an honest and much-needed discussion with insights from Robyne's book, Calm Within The Storm: A Pathway to Everyday Resilience. So, listen in and be empowered to take care of yourself to help create a better world. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today: cokecmosummit.com Facebook Twitter

How do you create lives of meaning and service? By becoming conscious leaders and dream weavers. Today, Katherine Twells has two special guests to introduce to you - Bonnie Buckner and Ina Gjikondi. Bonnie is the Founder and Head of the International Institute for Dreaming and Imagery. Ina is the Founder & e-Co Leadership Coaching Program Director at George Washington University’s Center for Excellence in Public Leadership. Bonnie and Ina talk about listening to your dreams, opening yourself up to the world, and connecting with your inner intuition. Because when you follow your intuition, you make better decisions. Do you want to create lives of meaning and service? This episode is what you need. Tune in! Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today: cokecmosummit.com Facebook Twitter

Even though it is said that we have all the time in the world, it never seems enough in this fast-paced world. But what if experiencing time can be controlled on your own terms? Katherine Twells sits down with Lisa Broderick to share her new scientific literature that revolutionizes the perception of time, which she discusses in her book, All the Time in the World. Through meditative practices and scratching the surface of quantum physics, she explains how to redirect your consciousness, achieve healing, and get rid of fear. Lisa also explains how to change your daily routine, especially in the morning, to attain a positive mindset that could significantly transform your lifestyle.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today:cokecmosummit.comFacebookTwitter

To take the warrior's path is to learn from your shortcomings. You have to look inside yourself and embrace your inner trauma and pain. It's not easy to do, but it is the best way to achieve personal development. Join Katherine Twells as she talks to Jeremy Hunter about his warrior's journey. Jeremy is the Founding Director of the Executive Mind Leadership Institute and an Associate Professor of Practice at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management. Discover how Jeremy dealt with his inner struggles to solve his external problems. He has gone through so many challenges. Be inspired to that take the warrior's path today!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today:cokecmosummit.comFacebookTwitter

Life is full of transitions, and the midlife crisis is simply a part of that. Chip Conley is the Founder of Modern Elder Academy. He is also a New York Times bestselling author whose manifesto on ageism, Wisdom@Work: The Making of a Modern Elder, is inspired by his experience of being both a mentor and an intern in his 50s. Entering the middle of his life, Chip realized the value of continuous learning and decided to share this wisdom with others. Today, he joins host Katherine Twells to discuss the "middlesence" and the importance of looking forward to what comes after retirement—the mindset of retiring to something versus retiring from life. They also discuss the intergenerational dance and the value of diversity in wisdom in solving the problems we face today. Tune in for an insightful discussion on age and overcoming the midlife crisis!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today:cokecmosummit.comFacebookTwitter

How do you achieve success and reach your goals? You do that by embracing possibility! In this episode, Katherine Twells interviews the founder of The Possibility of Today, Sibyl Chavis. Sibyl talks about her dream of becoming a lawyer, working towards the goal at Harvard and finally reaching her dream. She discusses the feeling of climbing the wrong ladder and pivoting towards her new goal of helping others lead better lives. Tune in and be inspired by Sibyl’s road to personal growth.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today:cokecmosummit.comFacebookTwitter

As we go on through our lives, we acquire the wisdom that we need for self-fulfillment. We should be aware that we all have the power to create a better world, one passionate step at a time. Join Katherine Twells and the Chief Science Officer at Wisdom Labs Parneet Pal as they delve into finding the mental, emotional and physical balance in dealing with different circumstances every day and how to find wisdom in our professional life as well. Parneet shares her personal experiences growing up and how being exposed to different cultures developed her well-being. She emphasized that we are one world, and the pandemic has exemplified that in so many ways. She has an integrated a holistic view of well-being, and she focused on using lifestyle as a medicine to optimize health.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today:cokecmosummit.comFacebookTwitter

Not many of us get to do the things we're passionate about. But when that moment comes, more often than not, it provides not only a sense of fulfillment to us but to those we impact as well. Scott Shute was able to do that. Marrying his passion with his corporate role, he has found a way to authentically live at the intersection of the workplace and ancient wisdom traditions. He is currently the Director of Mindfulness and Compassion at LinkedIn, where he has created a space to improve the employees' emotional agility and overall well-being. In this episode, he joins Katherine Twells to share how it took him to change his work and world from the inside out to live a much more meaningful life. Putting his wisdom and those he learned from others in writing, he lets us into his new book, The Full Body Yes, where he shares the importance of living in alignment with your value system. Learn the ways of how to work with your passion by following Scott in this conversation.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today:cokecmosummit.comFacebookTwitter