Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Dr. Michael S. Lewis, M.D.

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Dr. Michael S. Lewis, M.D., is a distinguished orthopedic surgeon and former consultant for the Chicago White Sox baseball team, Chicago Wolves hockey team, and the Chicago Bulls basketball team, with whom won two championship rings. Previously, he served as the chief of staff at NorthShore University HealthSystem’s Skokie Hospital and received a teaching award from Rush University Medical College. …

Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Mary van de Wiel

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https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jann-freed/episodes/Becoming-a-Sage-A-Conversation-with-Mary-van-de-Wiel-e2b40fh As Founder, CEO and Executive Creative Director of an independent branding & design agency with offices in New York and Sydney, she steered award-winning campaigns for Fortune 500 clients. Since successfully selling her agency (on her own terms), Van launched her Brooklyn-based brand laboratory for serious play — consulting, coaching and leading her signature workshops. And right now, she’s …

Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Susan Turnbull

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Susan Turnbull is the founder and Principal of Personal Legacy Advisors. She the author of The Wealth of Your Life: A Step-by-Step Guide for Creating Your Ethical Will, and creator of Life Legacy Cards and the Life Legacy Conversations Tool, all designed for those who agree that wealth transferred to future generations has both tangible and intangible dimensions. Susan is a member of the Boston Estate …

Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Ayse Birsel

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Ayse (pronounced Eye-Shay) Birsel is one of the world’s leading industrial designers. She has designed hundreds of products, from toilet seats to office systems to potato peelers to concept cars. You’ve probably held or sat on something she has designed for Herman Miller Knoll, Target or Toyota, among many others. Her work has earned her several nicknames—Queen of Toilets, Queen Bee …

Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Christine Sperber

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Home is Baja and Breckenridge for this former pro snowboarder who’s launched and operated hotels, produced events on beaches and glaciers, managed pro athletes, and worn the hats of writer, restaurateur, and more. The common thread? Christine is passionate about creating experiences that change people’s lives—be it in our classroom, our community, or in our workplace. Christine cares deeply about …

Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Gena Cox

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Dr. Gena Cox,⁠ CEO of Feels Human, LLC, is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and author of ⁠Leading Inclusion⁠, an award-winning guidebook for corporate leaders who want to build inclusive organizations from the top down. Before this, at IBM and Perceptyx, Gena advised leaders in the Fortune 500 and other large global companies to build psychologically healthy and engaging organizational …

Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Bruce Rosenstein

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Bruce Rosenstein is Managing Editor of Leader to Leader, a publication of The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum and Wiley/Jossey-Bass. He is the author of Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way, (McGraw-Hill and Brilliance Audio, 2013) and Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker’s Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life (Berrett-Koehler, 2009). He worked for USA TODAY …

Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Jacqueline Wales

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At only sixteen years old, Jacqueline Wales fled from her childhood home in a desperate search for happiness. Looking in all the wrong places, she left a trail of abandoned children and a pattern of self abuse that threatened her life. But that’s just the beginning of her story. From Leith, Scotland, to London, England; from the California coast to …

Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Chana Duskis

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Click here to register for Chana’s workshop! Read from Chana herself: I am the youngest child of Reb Zalman Schachter Shalomi Z”L and his first wife Tziporah Faygl. I have 68 years of Life Experience. I am currently not retired but “Reinspired” and ready to share Sageing with you with special insights of having been raised by Reb Zalman as …

Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Jenn Lim

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Jenn Lim is the bestselling author of Beyond Happiness, and the CEO of Delivering Happiness [DH], a company she and Tony Hsieh [the late CEO of Zappos.com] cofounded to create happier company cultures for a more profitable and sustainable approach to business. DH has worked with or spoken at more than 400 companies and organizations worldwide, including Starbucks, Sallie Mae, Lockheed Martin, …