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Kelly talks to former FBI Hostage Negotiator Chip Massey about his new book “Convince Me: High-Stakes Negotiation Tactics to Get Results in Any Business Situation.” We were talking before we started recording that a small group of us will be heading to Quantico in the coming weeks to observe hostage negotiation training and this …
Guests: Sandra Steinbrecher
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Kelly talks to Sandra Steinbrecher, a Chicago documentary photographer whose new book captures the transformation of the Morton Salt factory into The Salt Shed, a premier music venue in Chicago. For our non-Chicago audience, how can you describe our fascination with the old Morton Salt Warehouse and the iconic logo on its roof? “The …
Guests: Yumi Kendall
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Kelly connects with Yumi Kendall, Assistant Principal cellist for the Philadelphia Orchestra to talk about the power of the arts and her experiences as a student in the Waldorf educational system. People often use orchestras as a metaphor for society – the idea of how much personal agency you might have versus that of …
Guests: Dr. Randy Fertel
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Kelly meets up with writer, teacher and philanthropist Randy Fertel to talk about this new book “Winging It: Improv’s Power and Peril in the Time of Trump.” You tell a great improv story in the book about Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock. “Yeah. So that took place in Sweden. I think it was with …
Guests: Alison Fragale
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Live from The Second City in collaboration with the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, Kelly interviews Alison Fragale, the Mary Farley Ames Lee Distinguished Scholar of Organizational Behavior at the Kenen-Flagler Business School at the University of North Caroline Chapel Hill. She has an incredible new book, it’s called “Likeable Badass: How Woman Get the Success …
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Guests: Frederik Pferdt
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Kelly talks Yes, And with Dr. Frederik Pferdt, Google’s first Chief Innovation Evangelist. He founded Google’s Innovation Lab, where he trained tens of thousands of Googlers to develop cutting-edge ideas and taught groundbreaking classes on innovation and creativity at Stanford University for more than a decade. His new book is called “What’s Next is Now: How …
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