In Session: Leading the Judiciary

In Session: Leading the Judiciary is an audio podcast designed to bring cutting-edge thinking about public- and private-sector leadership to the attention of judiciary executives. Each episode includes a conversation with one or more thought leaders whose research and expertise are relevant to the work of executives in the federal courts.

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Episodes 55

Episode 52: How to Prepare for an Aging Workforce
25d ago · 29:52
As experienced employees retire and fewer younger workers are available to step in to replace them, organizations risk losing critical knowledge faster than they can retain it. Our guest, Dan Pontefract, argues that leaders must be ready for this moment. In The Future of Work Is Grey, he shows how age confers unique strengths, such as deep expertise, steady reliability, and adaptive thinking—and why leaders who recognize and integrate those qualities will be the ones whose organizations stay resilient. Dan is a leadership and corporate culture strategist with twenty years of experience in seni
Episode 51: Leaders’ Role in Workplace Wellbeing
2mo ago · 30:10
Leaders shape the environments where wellbeing, connection, and performance take root. In Leading for Wellness: How to Create a Team Culture Where Everyone Thrives, Drs. Patricia Grabarek and Katina Sawyer show how everyday leadership behaviors directly influence employee retention, satisfaction, and overall health. Their research offers a science backed roadmap and practical insights for leading a workplace where employees can flourish. Dr. Patricia Grabarek brings more than a decade of experience improving workplace wellness, culture, and engagement across over 60 organizations. Her evidence
Episode 50: Beyond Accountability: Rethinking How We Lead
5mo ago · 29:27
Great workplaces aren’t built on blame—they’re built on clarity, connection, and the courage to own our impact. In this episode, Dr. David C. Tate offers a fresh perspective on accountability as a catalyst for stronger leadership, healthier collaboration, and more intentional organizational cultures. His work guides teams and institutions toward more mindful, connected, and high‑performing ways of working. A licensed clinical psychologist, professionally certified coach, organizational consultant, and Yale professor, Dr. Tate champions a human‑centered model of conscious accountability that de
Episode 49: Building the Culture you Want
6mo ago · 28:53
AI, hybrid models, and generational shifts in work cause many to ask: Why are we here? In her latest book, Why Are We Here? Creating a Work Culture Everyone Wants, Jennifer Moss offers leaders a research-driven, human-centered roadmap for promoting purpose, belonging, and resiliency in the workplace. Her writing has shaped global conversations and she is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review. She was named Canadian Business Innovator of the Year, International Female Entrepreneur of the Year and is a recognized thought leader in workplace well-being.
Episode 48: How to Succeed at Virtual Communication
9mo ago · 30:09
Dr. Andrew Brodsky is a management professor at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin and author of Ping: The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication. Ping offers a science-backed, practical framework for navigating the complexities of digital communication—whether email, video calls, or instant messaging. Drawing on cutting-edge research and real-world examples, Dr. Brodsky helps professionals understand when and how to use different communication tools to build trust, increase clarity, and avoid costly misunderstandings.
Episode 47: The Power of One-to-One Meetings
11mo ago · 29:33
Steven Rogelberg, author of Glad We Met: The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings, shares research on the importance of effective one-to-one meetings for employees, leaders and organizations. He shares how to effectively conduct these meetings for maximum impact. He also argues that while many leaders rate themselves as being very effective at conducting one-to-one meetings, many employees feel these same meetings as ineffective. Dr. Rogelberg is a pioneering scholar in organizational science, management, and psychology, with over 150 publications spanning leadership, team dynamics, employee well-b
Episode 46: Making Work Relationships Work
1y ago · 30:22
Amy Gallo, author of Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Event Difficult People), provides strategies for recognizing and working with difficult personality types so we can move through conflict and opposition to balance and cooperation and be happier and more productive in our work. Amy Gallo has written hundreds of articles for and is a contributing editor at Harvard Business Review. She is the author of the HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict and is also a cohost of HBR’s Women at Work podcast. Her strategies have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Fast Com
Episode 45: What We Get Wrong About Leadership
1y ago · 29:54
Dr. Elias Aboujaoude's research shows that leaders emerge from unpredictable personal, psychological and situational factors. His latest book, A Leader’s Destiny: Why Psychology, Personality, and Character Make All the Difference, cautions against relying on the often-marketed simplistic concepts of leadership and recommends organizations instead focus on the inherent psychological characteristics leaders need to be successful. Dr. Aboujaoude is a Clinical Professor, researcher and writer at Stanford University's Department of Psychiatry. He is the Chief of the Anxiety Disorders Section and Di
Episode 44: Create the Future You Want
1y ago · 30:04
Dr. Frederik Pferdt, author of What’s Next Is Now: How to Live Future Ready, discusses how we can proactively create the future we want to live by developing the six dimensions of a future ready “mindstate.” Dr. Pferdt was Google’s first Chief Innovation Evangelist and founder of its Innovation Lab. He’s trained tens of thousands of “Googlers” to develop cutting-edge ideas and has taught classes on innovation at Stanford University. He’s helped organizations as diverse as the United Nations, NASA and the NBA embrace change and think and act creatively. His work has been highlighted by Fast Com
Episode 43: Tell Stories to Connect, Inform & Inspire
1y ago · 29:33
Effective leaders tell the right stories in the right way. Karen Eber, author of The Perfect Story: How to Tell Stories That Inform, Influence, and Inspire, explains how to capitalize on the brain’s five factory settings to tell stories that harness emotion to make decisions, build trust, and develop consensus around ideas, strategy, and organizational culture. Karen Eber is CEO and Chief Storyteller of Eber Leadership Group and has helped organizations like GE, Deloitte, and HP create healthy, empathic, and curious leaders, teams, and cultures through intentional storytelling. Karen is an awa
Episode 42: How to Quickly Solve Problems & Lead Change
1y ago · 29:30
In Move Fast & Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss explain why speed is important to organizational change and offer a five-step approach for leaders to identify and prioritize the appropriate problems to address, implement the best solutions to those problems, and maintain focus on the success and well-being of their organization’s employees and stakeholders. Together Frei and Morriss co-host Fixable, a TED podcast focused on discussing actionable solutions to real-world problems. They are also co-authors of the bestselling books Uncommon Service and Unleashed and have been recognized b
Episode 41: Curiosity Can Transform Your Leadership
1y ago · 29:34
Research shows that heart-centered curiosity differs from intellectual curiosity and leads to a better understanding of ourselves and others, and to happier and more productive organizations. Scott Shigeoka’s book Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World, based on his work at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, provides strategies for developing curiosity and explains why it is important to do so. Scott has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California Berkeley, and currently teaches courses on innovative design at the University of Te
Episode 40: The Value of Intelligent Failure
2y ago · 30:06
Professor and author Amy Edmondson’s recent research says that intelligent failures in organizations help us adapt, improve and innovate – as individuals and teams. Leaders who recognize, value and even celebrate failures for the learning opportunities they present, encourage organizational innovation and improvement. Dr. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School and the author of The Fearless Organization and several books on Teaming. She was ranked first in 2021 and 2023 on the biennial Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers. He
Episode 39: Trust and Relationships: The Science May Surprise You
2y ago · 27:18
Dr. Peter H. Kim, researcher in the field of trust and author of How Trust Works: The Science of How Relationships Are Built, Broken and Repaired, shares surprising evidence-based insights about trust and trust violations. He describes how efforts to repair trust, such as apologies, can be ineffective or even harm relationships. Dr. Peter H. Kim is a professor of management and organization at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business and is a recipient of numerous international and international awards. His research has been published in a number of scholarly journal
Episode 38: How Office Design Can Improve Wellbeing, Productivity
2y ago · 29:53
Esther Sternberg, author of Well at Work: Creating Wellbeing in Any Workspace, shares research on how our work environments impact our health and productivity. Dr. Sternberg provides guidance to leaders on how to integrate the seven domains of health into workspace design, fostering healthier employees who are more focused, productive and happier to be at the office. Dr. Sternberg is a professor of medicine, psychology, planning and landscape architecture, and nutritional sciences and wellness at the University of Arizona. She has served as an advisor to the World Health Organization and the V
BONUS Off Paper Podcast: Episode 25 - Finding Happiness in Your Life and Work
2y ago · 54:02
Helene Creager (C.D. Cal.), informed by her time as central California’s Critical Incident Stress Management Team, shares not only what officers need to know about the science behind mindfulness, compassion, self-compassion, and positive neuroplasticity, but how to incorporate them into our daily lives as well. Drawing upon her twenty-three years as a U.S. Probation officer, including as a founding member of the National Wellness Working Group, Creager makes the case that intentional self-care is crucial in creating satisfying personal and professional lives.
Episode 37: Why Microstress Matters
2y ago · 30:02
Karen Dillon, co-author with Rob Cross of The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems and What to Do about It, describes their discovery of the little noticed day-to-day stressors causing significant impact on even the highest performing employees, and how failing to address them can lead to burnout. Karen Dillon is a contributing editor at Harvard Business Review and coauthor of three books with Clayton Christensen, including the New York Times bestseller, How Will You Measure Your Life?
Episode 36: Gather with Purpose
2y ago · 29:59
Today on In Session: Leading the Judiciary, Priya Parker, author of The Art of Gathering, shares a purpose-driven and people-centered approach for designing meaningful, and memorable meetings that people want to attend. Parker is a facilitator and strategic advisor trained in the field of conflict resolution and has spent 20 years guiding leaders and groups through difficult conversations about community, identity, and vision. She studied organizational design at M.I.T., public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and political and social thought at the University of Virginia.
Episode 35: Focus on What Matters by Subtracting What Doesn’t
2y ago · 26:39
Leidy Klotz, author of Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less, shares how subtracting before adding can create better outcomes, especially when we are clear about what we want to accomplish. Klotz’s innovative research shows how subtracting doesn’t necessarily mean doing less; rather it’s an important first step for individuals and organizations that want to improve processes and solve problems. In addition to several research articles, Leidy’s work has appeared in the journals Nature and Science and been featured on NPR’s Hidden Brain podcast. He is an interdisciplinary professor of engineeri
Episode 34: Thinking Better to Lead Better
3y ago · 31:23
Woo-kyoung Ahn, professor of psychology at Yale University and author of Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better, discusses how our brains are hard-wired to make quick decisions in order to keep us safe. These cognitive shortcuts can lead to misguided decision-making and stifled innovation in the short-term while costing us time, energy and money in the long run. Ahn received Yale’s Lex Hixon Prize for teaching excellence in the social sciences in 2022, and her research was funded by the National Institutes of Health. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the
Episode 33: Leading Outcomes, Others & Ourselves in Remote or Hybrid Workplaces
3y ago · 29:48
In remote or hybrid workplaces, leaders must be more intentional about building relationships that engender commitment, rather than just compliance, and focus more on accomplishment rather than just employee activity. This episode explores how to do that with organizational expert Kevin Eikenberry. Kevin Eikenberry is founder and Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group and co-founder of the Remote Leadership Institute. He has improved the communication, leadership, learning, teams and teamwork of organizations worldwide for over twenty-five years. Kevin’s been named one of Inc.co
Episode 32: What Matters About Generations
3y ago · 32:38
Today on In Session: Leading the Judiciary, we talk with public policy expert Bobby Duffy about his book The Generation Myth: Why When You’re Born Matters Less Than You Think. Duffy discusses what’s real and not-so-real about differences among generations. Stereotypes like “Baby Boomers hate technology” and “Millennials are lazy” not only lack support but can be dangerous: creating division and distracting from real issues. Duffy argues that to understand how different generations shape society, it’s essential to consider the political, economic, and cultural contexts impacting everyone, and t
Episode 31: Finding Your Inner Warrior and Leading Courageously
3y ago · 32:07
In this episode, we explore how leaders can find their inner warrior and lead with courage. D.J. Vanas, author of The Warrior Within: Own Your Power to Serve, Fight, Protect, and Heal, explains that being a warrior is not about steely-eyed individual toughness. Rather, it is about practicing aggressive self-care, openness, and collaboration so that you’re emotionally, mentally, and physically prepared to serve and support your “tribe.” D.J. is a former U.S. Air Force officer and a member of the Ottawa Tribe of Michigan. He has inspired thousands of public sector and Fortune 500 company leaders
Episode 30: How Recognizing Bias, Headwinds, and Tailwinds Lifts Everyone in an Organization (Including You)
3y ago · 24:29
In part two of our discussion with author Dolly Chugh, we discuss how unconscious bias reveals itself in non-verbal ways, signaling feelings and beliefs we don’t intend to convey. Dr. Dolly Chugh, author of The Person You Mean to Be, How Good People Fight Bias, says this “leakage” often occurs during times of stress and in fast-moving environments. Dolly says taking the time to consider influential aspects of our own and others’ identities and acting with intention can help us to consistently convey who we mean to be. Part one, Good-ish to Great: How the Best Leaders Continue to Grow, was rele
Episode 29: Growing from Goodish to Great: How the Best Leaders Continue to Grow
3y ago · 28:51
Author Dr. Dolly Chugh discusses how striving for good keeps leaders and organizations from being better. Author of The Person You Mean to Be, How Good People Fight Bias, Dolly says being “good” suggests an obtained goal, while striving to be “good-ish” allows room for continuous learning and improvement. Nurturing a growth mindset to be “good-ish” also helps us avoid the “self-threat” often felt when our “good identity” is challenged, and ensures organizations become what we want them to be.

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Episode 52: How to Prepare for an Aging Workforce

Episode 51: Leaders’ Role in Workplace Wellbeing

Episode 50: Beyond Accountability: Rethinking How We Lead

Episode 49: Building the Culture you Want

Episode 48: How to Succeed at Virtual Communication

Episode 47: The Power of One-to-One Meetings

Episode 46: Making Work Relationships Work

Episode 45: What We Get Wrong About Leadership

Episode 44: Create the Future You Want

Episode 43: Tell Stories to Connect, Inform & Inspire

Episode 42: How to Quickly Solve Problems & Lead Change

Episode 41: Curiosity Can Transform Your Leadership

Episode 40: The Value of Intelligent Failure

Episode 39: Trust and Relationships: The Science May Surprise You

Episode 38: How Office Design Can Improve Wellbeing, Productivity

BONUS Off Paper Podcast: Episode 25 - Finding Happiness in Your Life and Work

Episode 37: Why Microstress Matters

Episode 36: Gather with Purpose

Episode 35: Focus on What Matters by Subtracting What Doesn’t

Episode 34: Thinking Better to Lead Better

Episode 33: Leading Outcomes, Others & Ourselves in Remote or Hybrid Workplaces

Episode 32: What Matters About Generations

Episode 31: Finding Your Inner Warrior and Leading Courageously

Episode 30: How Recognizing Bias, Headwinds, and Tailwinds Lifts Everyone in an Organization (Including You)

Episode 29: Growing from Goodish to Great: How the Best Leaders Continue to Grow