Smarter Collaboration- Incredible People Working Together to Achieve Breakthrough Results

By: Success Made to Last LegendZ
  • Summary

  • Hosted by Harvard scholar Dr. Heidi K. Gardner and business executive Ivan Matviak, the Smarter Collaboration podcast explores how gutsy leaders bring diverse thinkers to the table and create breakthrough outcomes. At the same time, it highlights collaboration “traps” and how to overcome them.

    The hosts lean into their combined experiences – including teaching at Harvard Business and Harvard Law Schools, authoring bestselling books on collaboration, and leading teams across financial services and consumer goods sectors — to help you become a master of collaboration.

    Each episode features a guest like a hall-of-fame song writer, a NASA rocket scientist, or a Disney Imagineer, to show you how to collaborate more effectively across disciplines—to produce something cutting edge and embraced by customers and other stakeholders.
    If you're interested in sponsorship or joining as a guest, email Rick@successmadetolast.com.

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Episodes
  • Collaboration in Outer Space and Beyond with NASA Astronaut Major Kate Rubins
    Mar 15 2024
    Whether it’s an unexpected repair during a space walk (think Apollo 13-type problem solving!) or an evacuation order in the Army, Major Kate Rubins keeps cool and collaborative. Maybe it’s being a “fish out of water” that prepared her: the NASA astronaut, microbiologist, and US Army reservist is continually putting herself in new and challenging situations across a wide variety of domains. In this episode, you’ll hear:
    • what prompted her surprise pivot from MIT researcher to astronaut – and how each of us could learn from that experience
    • how cross-discipline collaboration helped her become the first person to sequence DNA in space
    • who she names as her personal heroes
    • what techniques NASA uses to prepare people for the kinds of teamwork required in the tight confines of the International Space Station
    For further information, visit www.usar.army.mil or www.nasa.gov

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    46 mins
  • Smarter Collaboration Goes to the Boardroom with Shellye Archambeau, Board member at Verizon and Nordstroms
    Mar 8 2024
    Smarter Collaboration features Shellye Archambeau, former IBM executive, member of the board of directors at Verizon and Nordstrom along with best selling author of Unapologetically Ambitious.

    Together with show host Dr. Heidi Gardner, this episode goes deep into the collaborative process that occurs inside successfully run boards. Learn that collaboration is fueled by clarity and vulnerability.

    About Shellye: Shellye is an experienced CEO and Board Director with a track record of accomplishments building brands, high performance teams, and organizations. Shellye has over 30 years of experience in technology leading organizations focused on business to business as well as business to consumer. She is a frequent featured expert on CNBC and CNN.Since 2020 Shellye Archambeau has been passionately creating spaces to help others to achieve their goals and ambitions in life. Her book Unapologetically Ambitious was the first step towards that. She has been working closely with HBCU as well as communities and individuals to inspire young professionals from diverse backgrounds. Her community has been growing ever since. Numerous requests from her community for mentoring and advice led her to create online spaces to share her resources, advice, and insight. Background:She is the former CEO of MetricStream, a Silicon Valley-based, governance, risk, and compliance software company that enables corporations to improve their business operations through better risk management across the enterprise. Shellye built the company into a global market leader with over 1200 employees serving customers around the world. Under her leadership MetricStream was recognized for growth and innovation over the years and was named in the top 10 of the “Deloitte Technology Fast 50” and named a global leader in GRC by leading independent analyst firms for 9 consecutive years.She is a recognized expert in marketing and co-authored, “Marketing That Works: How Entrepreneurial Marketing Can Add Sustainable Profits to Any Sized Company.” She has held EVP of Sales and Chief Marketing Officer roles for two public companies and as President of Blockbuster.com, launched the entertainment retailer’s first online presence.She was named the second most influential African American in IT by Business Insider. She was ranked one of the “100 Most Influential Business Leaders in America” by Newsmax and that same year received the NCWIT Symons Innovator Award from The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT)

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    36 mins
  • Smarter Collaboration features Ryan Harmon and Joe Lanzisero, Former Disney Imagineers
    Feb 29 2024
    If designing theme parks doesn’t require smarter collaboration, we don’t know what does! In our conversation with former Disney Imagineers and creative consultants Ryan Harmon and Joe Lanzisero, we learned about the different parties that come together to turn great entertainment ideas into reality. The pair sees themselves as conductors, who take an initial client concept, “plus” it (that’s Disney lingo for build on it), and then lead the “orchestra” that carries it out. Each person has a role to play, even those who just chime in from time to time. We also learn why both Imagineers each spontaneously picked the same Disney character as their favorite.Smarter Collaboration goes deep into Disney magical collaborations with former Imagineers Ryan Harmon and Joe Lanzisero, now leaders at Zeitgeist. Hear about the behind the scenes collaborations that consistently delight.




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    38 mins

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