Evaluate Your Changemaking Episodes

In our latest episode, we feature Ashley Alebiosu , Manager of CxO Experiences at Salesforce and recipient of the 2024 Salesforce SWN Women of Impact Award. Ashley is renowned for her relentless drive to achieve and her exceptional ability to get things done, even when it feels like she's doing "too much." Her journey highlights the importance of balancing high-impact action with moments of reflection to see the bigger picture. Ashley shares her experiences and strategies for maintaining this ba...

In our latest episode, we chat with Christina Rapsomanikis , the Global Vice President of Digital & e-Commerce at Mars. Known for her dynamic leadership and transformative vision, Christina takes us through her journey from fast-paced innovation to embracing a more intentional and tranquil approach. Christina opens up about a turning point when her health forced her to slow down. Initially resistant, she discovered that this shift allowed her to work more mindfully, enhancing both her impact and...

In this episode, we hear from Ritu Kapur , Head of Digital Biomarkers at Verily. The theme throughout our conversation is about the need, skills, and support required to bring people along on the journey to manifest our vision. She shares, It's ont about the technology or innovation, creating change is all about people. Her advice to up and coming Catalyst? "It's not all about you!" Early on in our careers, especially for women in more technical industries, Catalysts have the feeling that we hav...

In this episode, Amy Kaufman (Senior Advisor, Talent Strategies, CEO Leadership Alliance Orange County - CLAOC) talks about the profound impact of embracing one's role as a Catalyst in leadership and transformation efforts. Amy discusses how she applied her understanding of the core elements of fire – that she was exposed to from her husband Mike, a retired firefighter – to her understanding of being a Catalyst. She explains how Catalyst can embody the elements needed to sustain a fire - fuel, h...

Bringing others along is a common challenge Catalysts face that we often discuss in our podcasts. Dr. Tasha Eurich - an organizational psychologist, researcher, and New York Times best-selling author - brings an important nuance to our discussion: the need to educate people about the value of what we are proposing. It is not enough to paint the picture of a vision. We need to do the work to help people understand what we can bring to the table. What's in it for them? Find out more about Insight ...

In this episode, Zaineb Haider , Senior Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Advisor at Cigna, shares how important it is to be clear on the value you provide and the necessity of leaning into opportunities where you can provide value. As a child, Zaineb experienced the harsh realities of being a young immigrant, constantly being made to feel "otherness." Later on in her life, particularly as she earned her Masters in Human Resources Management - Diversity & Inclusion, she realized that her unique "oth...

Our podcast guest Whynde Kuehn brings a piquing frame to Catalysts - while we set big, hairy goals, we spend most of our time on the journey to achieve those goals. And yet many of us suffer through resistance and burnout on that path. As an ultramarathoner and mountaineer Whynde sees her most important catalytic skill as 'taking a journey'. While climbing Aconcagua she spent only 0.12% of the time on the summit, while 99.88% was the journey to get there and back down. In this podcast she helps ...

Join us for an interview with Helen Whitehead , who is Customer & Experience Design Associate Partner at IBM. In this episode we hear from design leader, Helen Whitehead about the importance of slowing down to speed up. Slowing down helps us check our bias, triggers and intent and cultivates our compassion and ability to listen deeply. And listening deeply allows us to develop better, critical solutions that brings diversity of experience and thought into the problem-solving process to help make...

Join us for an interview with Mai Vang , who is a City Council Member for the City of Sacramento. Mai identifies the biggest challenges to be solved and catalyzes the community to make big changes happen. She was the eldest of 16 kids and learned young the power of enlisting others to distribute work. In her work as a councilwoman she tackles the biggest issues by identifying the right groups & organizations to be part of creating the solution. Often there are misunderstandings between those gro...

Join us for an interview with Chelsey Glasson, Qualitative User Research at Facebook, where she shares how she had struggled with friction between her and her organization and how this friction had caused cycles of burnout. She just couldn’t fully explain the experience until she understood what it meant to be a Catalyst. Even as the concept of Catalyst was resonating early in her journey, she struggled to own the term Catalyst because of how big the word felt. Chelsey describes what it means to...