Creativity Cultivator Podcast - Turning Your Business, Your Team And You Into A Creativity Cultivator

Les Trachtman lectures at MIT, is a key contributor to Harvard Business Review and wrote "Don’t F**k It Up." We discuss why leaders screw stuff up over and over again (and how to stop!)

How do you know when to quit? When to move on? How to tell if your job is no longer a fit? I am joined my workplace experts, veteran advertising execs, and well-respected niche marketers, Tim Bennett and John Nash are co-hosts of The Focus Group, a weekly live broadcast that’s an entertaining look at the world of business.

Shiv Khera is the founder of Qualified Learning Systems USA, whose clients include Lufthansa, HP, Citigroup, HSBC, Canon, Nestle, Philips, Mercedes Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Metlife and more.

Darryl Ballantyne is the co-founder of LyricFind, a music lyrics service used by most the major players in the industry. He has practical advice on creativity, entrepreneurialism and 4 rules to live by.

Jody J. Foster, MD discusses the office schmuck, how to deal with him or her and how to know if you are one! Dr. Foster is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Pearlman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and got her MBA from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and works with executives in her own practice. Go to creativitycultivator.com for more show notes.

Jeff Goins is the author of four books, including the Washington Post best-seller, The Art of Work. Goins built a million-dollar business and published four books, including his newest, Real Artists Don't Starve. Read the show notes at www.creativitycultivator.com

Nate Quigley created ChatBooks a service that takes the photo you post on social media and creates your own photo book subscription service. His company is living proof that proper listening is the best creative tool you have. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Daniel H. Pink is the author of five provocative books — including three long-running New York Times bestsellers, A Whole New Mind, Drive, and To Sell is Human. His books have been translated into 35 languages and have sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and their three children. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info..

Peter Sims is the author of two best-selling books, founded Parliament Inc, is the brain behind the Black Sheep Bus Tour and has some incredible stories about dark failure. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Sarah Green Carmichael is Editor at Bloomberg Opinion, formerly senior editor of The Harvard Business Review, host of the HBR IdeaCast, and Barrons. A big part of her job is rejecting great ideas to make room for the super great ones. She has expert tips on how to do it without ruining relationships and some practical tools she uses to get stuff done and find those ideas.

Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with the goal of making sophisticated research simple. He was named to Fortune’s 2016 40 Under 40, a list of the most powerful, influential, and successful young people in business, and was listed as one of Forbes’ “America’s Most Promising CEOs Under 35” in 2013. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Not everyone can say they made a college from scratch, but Dr. Anthony Paustian did. A former air force pilot and marketing VP, he created the West campus of DMACC which hosted ciWeek featuring speakers like Grant Imahara, Thomas Dolby, Steve Wozniak, LeVar Burton, Dr. Hugh Herr, Howard Berger, Daymond John, Kari Byron, who endorsed his new book A Quarter Million Steps. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info

Nicole Antonio-Gadsdon is a creative HR specialist and an activist for putting the "human" before the "resources." An unconventional path: She dodged becoming a lawyer, experienced a creativity-numbing short career in retail banking and financial sales, made a lucky escape into specialist recruitment and found her HR home by accident. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Ok everyone, Justin Brady can't take it anymore. It's time to kill off the creative label entirely — it's now doing more damage than good and the creative plague needs to end. Where we take this, is up to you. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info..

Adam Carroll talks about money in a way you've never heard and his family plays monopoly with real money. Adam and I discuss the state of finances, why creative ideas are just waiting to be uncorked in finance, and creative paths our future generation can take to get themselves financially free. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Eric Haller is EVP of Experian DataLabs and great it the department from concept into what it is today. Experian DataLabs employs top talent, PhD's, scientists, and a bunch of other smarties to find new trends, solve big problems and uncover opportunities. Plus, he breaks big news exclusively on our podcast that social media opinions may soon affect a companies credit rating! Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

I got back in touch with former guest, Soon Yu and we both had a crazy idea. Why not do a deeper episode where we tear back the layers of deep, dark, disgusting, smelly FAILURE. In this unique episode we have a candid discussion about where it all went wrong, and how we personally dealt with our failure. We also open up about why, even the most well respected leaders have trouble opening up about it. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Warren Berger is the author of A More Beautiful Question. He explains how asking the right kind of questions can engage others and shift the focus of innovation and problem-solving. He has written in The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Forbes, Inc, The Harvard Business Review, and many others, PLUS he has spoken for GE, Red Bull, Microsoft, Boeing, Deloitte and many others. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Blake Irving is the CEO and Board Director of GoDaddy. Under Blake's direction, the company has sharpened its focus on helping the world’s 200 million small, independent ventures to grow and thrive online.  Previously he was EVP and Chief Product Officer at Yahoo!, and spent 15 years at Microsoft in various senior roles. In this episode, Blake discusses how important it is to be fearless in your company and also how he screwed up big time in front of Bill Gates! Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Liz Ryan leads the Human Workplace movement and is the author of Reinvention Roadmap. We discuss the modern HR shortfalls and why HR is broken, and why today's common HR practices are actually squashing collaboration and creativity. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.