LIMINAL Podcast

The Value of Leadership is now LIMINAL. Explore the space between our greatest challenges and a better future. Dar Vanderbeck, Vice President of the Aspen Global Leadership Network is your host and guide to inquiry with thinkers and doers daring to lead through the big, systemic transitions we need for true transformation. This season, we’ll talk anti-racism, climate change, the future of work, and more. Join us as we explore leadership in the process of becoming.

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LIMINAL is a podcast from the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN). Join us as we explore leadership in the process of becoming. agln.aspeninstitute.org.

Society

Seeing Our Common Humanity

How can we see the light during such painful times? How can we take pause amidst chaos and hurt to stay curious? Who can we turn to and where can we go to find our common humanity? Simran Jeet Singh, a national leader in the areas of equity, inclusion, and social justice shares his lived experience and offer practical wisdom for seeing the light.

BY Aspen Global Leadership Network

Podcast

10.28.2023
Leadership

Facing the Shortness of Life

In confronting the end of her life, impact investor Suzanne Beigel has found a clarified vision around how to spend her time, live into her purpose, and speak truth. Suzanne joins us on LIMINAL to explore how we might all allow the shortness of life to shape how we show up for the better.

BY Aspen Global Leadership Network

Podcast

06.26.2023
Economic Development

The Most Undervalued Driver of the Economy: Childcare

If "children are the future" how are we guaranteeing support for those responsible for protecting them? Explore what caregiving means to our culture and why we aren't paying enough attention.

BY Aspen Global Leadership Network

Podcast

06.01.2023
Economic Development

Reimagining Power in the Workplace

Rethink how ideas of power and our relationship to work and the workplace could help inform better decision-making and ultimately create prosperity for everyone.

BY Aspen Global Leadership Network

Podcast

04.27.2023
Energy

The Moral Question at the Center of the Climate Crisis

We know that at its core, the climate crisis, like many, is a moral challenge, rather than a technical one. You're invited to think less about the “what” of climate work and more about the “who” and “who” we need to be in order to heal our planet.

BY Aspen Global Leadership Network

Podcast

03.29.2023
Society

Power and Race with the Groundwater Institute

The Groundwater Institute helps people make sense of our society is organized by race - and how that organization causes racial inequity. Dar Vanderbeck is in conversation with the Groundwater team on their analysis and how they work with leaders to propel their anti-racism journeys.

BY Aspen Global Leadership Network

Podcast

03.06.2023
Society

Preventing Gun Violence: Inclusion?

How do we go beyond the binary of gun control versus gun rights and get to the crux of this issue to save lives? Arne Duncan and Megan Ranney talk their unique approaches to gun violence prevention.

BY Aspen Global Leadership Network

Podcast

12.03.2021
Leadership

What's your role in social change?

It’s going to take more than one type of person to tackle our most vexing social challenges. Hear from Deepa Iyer, designer of the "Social Change Ecosystem Map" on how she designed this tool to help anyone find their role in change-making.

BY Aspen Global Leadership Network

Podcast

09.23.2021
Society

Why are we so polarized?

We are living through a time of intense conflict in what seems like every part of society - online, on TV, and in our communities. You’re not imagining it. So, on this episode of the Value of Leadership, we ask: Why are we so polarized?

BY Aspen Global Leadership Network

Podcast

08.26.2021
Finance and Assets

Creating a Career of Impact: Walking Your Own Road

As the new Executive Director of the Aspen Institute’s Finance Leaders Fellowship, Kara Gustafson is mobilizing a global community of ...

BY Aspen Global Leadership Network

Podcast

05.22.2021
Finance and Assets

Closing the Racial Wealth Gap: Relationships?

The racial wealth gap in the United States is a wide and persistent gap between the median household income of different races – most grea ...

BY Aspen Global Leadership Network

Podcast

04.02.2021
Society

Healing in the United States: Wonder and Grace? | Two-Part Episode

The Presidential election in the U.S. revealed deep divisions across political and ideological lines. Many are now asking: what will it take ...

BY Aspen Global Leadership Network

Podcast

11.28.2020
Society

Breakdown of the Social Contract: Resilience?

A tragic explosion. Economic collapse. COVID-19. A revolution. Some of the latest challenges in Lebanon - a country wracked by decades of them - serve as a poignant reminder that we each have a role to play to ensure our leaders lead well, that our citizens stay engaged, and that we don’t get too comfortable in our own leadership while our world is falling apart.

BY Aspen Global Leadership Network

Podcast

10.24.2020
Technology

The Future of Voting: Trust?

In the height of the 2020 U.S. election cycle, election security has been dominating the headlines. Our public institutions are being put to the test, trust in the voting process has waivered. This begs the question… how do we make elections free and fair, and in the midst of a pandemic, safe? And who are the types of leaders we need guiding our voting system.

BY Aspen Global Leadership Network

Podcast

10.23.2020
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LIMINAL Podcast

Here at the Aspen Institute, we believe leadership comes from those whose motivations are grounded in values and whose actions are rooted in purpose. That all sounds nice, but what does a values-driven leader actually look like?

10.24.2020

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