Do you care about the environment but feel “I want to act, but if no one else does, it won’t make a difference,” and “But if you don’t solve everything, it isn’t worth doing anything”?
We are the antidote! You’re not alone. Hearing role models overcome the same feelings to enjoy acting on their values creates meaning, purpose, community, and emotional reward.
Want to improve as a leader? Bestselling author, 3-time TEDx speaker, leadership speaker, coach, and professor Joshua Spodek, PhD, MBA, brings joy and inspiration to acting on the environment. You’ll learn to lead without relying on authority.
We bring you leaders from many areas — business, politics, sports, arts, education, and more — to share their expertise for you to learn from. We then ask them to share and act on their environmental values. That’s leadership without authority — so they act for their reasons, not out of guilt, blame, doom, gloom, or someone telling them what to do.
Guests include:
- Dan Pink, 40+ million TED Talk views
- Marshall Goldsmith, #1-ranked leadership guru and author
- Frances Hesselbein, Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree, former CEO of the Girl Scouts
- Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- David Allen, author of Getting Things Done
- Ken Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager
- Vincent Stanley, Director of Patagonia
- Dorie Clark, bestselling author
- Bryan Braman, Super Bowl champion, Philadelphia Eagle
- John Lee Dumas, top entrepreneurial podcaster
- Alisa Cohn, top 100 speaker and coach
- David Biello, Science curator for TED
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How do you make sense of an entire society or nation violating its values? Consider Germany in the 1930s, in which a whole nation seemed to embrace Nazism.
It’s tempting to say they’re all monsters, but how could over 50 million people change in a few years? Not genetics. They must have been no more or less human in 1940 as 1920.
It’s tempting to say that monsters took over and changed them. Many people thought so. At the end of World War II, a psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley, was sent to evaluate the highest level Nazis who had been captured and were to be tried in the Nuremberg trials. He believed that these leaders must have differed from most people. He wanted to find that difference in order to help prevent people with whatever traits he found from repeating what they did. He was deeply troubled to find no meaningful difference between them and normal results on his tests.
Jack El-Hai told Kelley’s story in his book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, including interacting directly with Herman Göring, at one point the second highest ranking Nazi. In our conversation, Jack tells the highlights of his book. I discuss the relevance to polluting and depleting today, where everyone is contributing, violating our own values, but contributing to much more suffering and death than even the Holocaust.
We also talk about the movie Nuremberg based on the book, including its stars, Russell Crowe and Rami Malek.
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