William Torbert's guest appearances

William Torbert

STaR Coach Show

The NTM Growth Marketing Podcast

Where Genius Grows

Adam Carroll

Stacey Brown Randall

David Katz

Alexandra Petri

Andrew Yang

Susan Steinbrecher

Susan RoAne

Kathy Caprino

Jim Smith

Ken Davenport

Andy Keller

Les McKeown

Caroline Miller

Moe Carrick

James Allen

OwlTail

Leadership is everything! We are taking a closer look at the importance of leadership and how coaching and leadership partner together in transformation. Our focus is on the roles that inquiry and feedback play in transformational leadership. Dr. William Torbert is a Leadership Professor Emeritus at Boston College. He has spent his career leading, consulting, teaching, and researching. In addition to consulting dozens of companies, not-for-profits, and governmental agencies, Bill has served on numerous boards. Since his retirement from academia in 2008, he continues his leadership work in various capacities. His most recent book is Numbskill In the Theater of Inquiry: Transforming Self, Friends, Organizations, and Social Science. We have a great conversation about his research around leadership and its accompanying thought patterns and behaviors, along with how those influence the way we receive feedback. Show Highlights:What lights up Bill about the work he does today and his path to get thereHow Bill was inspired to write Numbskull, a memoir that shares a personal look at his lifeWhat we need to understand about developmental transformation for leadersHow our action logics come with choices about powerHow feedback is tied into the transformation of leadersHow action logics represent the fundamental ways people think about themselves and the worldWhy people are sometimes resistant to their early action logicsHow coaching and feedback play into transformational leadershipHow we move from level to level as The Expert, The Achiever, The Diplomat, and The Over-AchieverThe three loops of feedback and their differences: single-loop, double-loop, and triple-loopWhy human nature determines that not everyone will invest in transformational leadership at the same levelResources:Connect with Dr. Torbert through his Website.Find his book on Amazon.To join the Fall Mentor Program with Meg, visit www.starcoachshow.com/mentor.  Visit my website for your FREE download: What I Know Now, That I Wish I Had Known When I First Started Coaching. 

Leadership is everything! We are taking a closer look at the importance of leadership and how coaching and leadership partner together in transformation. Our focus is on the roles that inquiry and feedback play in transformational leadership. Dr. William Torbert is a Leadership Professor Emeritus at Boston College. He has spent his career leading, consulting, teaching, and researching. In addition to consulting dozens of companies, not-for-profits, and governmental agencies, Bill has served on numerous boards. Since his retirement from academia in 2008, he continues his leadership work in various capacities. His most recent book is Numbskill In the Theater of Inquiry: Transforming Self, Friends, Organizations, and Social Science. We have a great conversation about his research around leadership and its accompanying thought patterns and behaviors, along with how those influence the way we receive feedback. Show Highlights: <ul><li>What lights up Bill about the work he does today and his path to get there</li><li>How Bill was inspired to write Numbskull, a memoir that shares a personal look at his life</li><li>What we need to understand about developmental transformation for leaders</li><li>How our action logics come with choices about power</li><li>How feedback is tied into the transformation of leaders</li><li>How action logics represent the fundamental ways people think about themselves and the world</li><li>Why people are sometimes resistant to their early action logics</li><li>How coaching and feedback play into transformational leadership</li><li>How we move from level to level as The Expert, The Achiever, The Diplomat, and The Over-Achiever</li><li>The three loops of feedback and their differences: single-loop, double-loop, and triple-loop</li><li>Why human nature determines that not everyone will invest in transformational leadership at the same level</li></ul> Resources: Connect with Dr. Torbert through his<a href="http://www.actioninquiryleadership.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"> Website</a>. Find his book on <a href="https://amzn.to/3vi23oG" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon</a>. To join the Fall Mentor Program with Meg, visit<a href="http://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"> www.starcoachshow.com/mentor</a>.  Visit my<a href="https://www.starcoachshow.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"> website</a> for your FREE download: What I Know Now, That I Wish I Had Known When I First Started Coaching.

298: The Developmental Transformation of Leaders: Dr. William Torbert

"One of the great feelings about intimacy is that it keeps unraveling itself. It keeps exposing itself. It keeps flowering anew. You keep feeling like you're discovering an unknown other for the first time, because what you're discovering is new for you." — William Torbert William Torbert's oeuvre of Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry has been making waves for decades. But when we approach Torbert's remarkably practical body of work intent only on optimizing our own effectiveness, are we doing ourselves a disservice? In this conversation about Torbert's memoir Numbskull in the Theatre of Inquiry we consider the importance of spiritual questioning that hinges on timely inaction.

"One of the great feelings about intimacy is that it keeps unraveling itself. It keeps exposing itself. It keeps flowering anew. You keep feeling like you're discovering an unknown other for the first time, because what you're discovering is new for you." — William Torbert William Torbert's oeuvre of Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry has been making waves for decades. But when we approach Torbert's remarkably practical body of work intent only on optimizing our own effectiveness, are we doing ourselves a disservice? In this conversation about Torbert's memoir <a href="https://amzn.to/3hlICUa" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Numbskull in the Theatre of Inquiry</a> we consider the importance of spiritual questioning that hinges on timely inaction.

84: William Torbert, Acting in the Theatre of Inquiry

Bill Torbert received a BA in Political Science &amp; Economics and a PhD in Administrative Sciences from Yale University. He founded the Yale Upward Bound (War on Poverty) program and the Theatre of Inquiry, and taught at Yale, Southern Methodist University, and Harvard prior to joining the Boston College faculty in 1978. He has written 12 books, the most recent of which is Numbskull in the Theatre of Inquiry: Transforming Self, Friends, Organizations, and Social Science. It illustrates a new kind of social action and social science where the researchers include themselves in the study, and explore to what degree all the different participants are, or are not, exercising timely and mutually-transforming action.  In this episode, I speak with Bill about his mission and the impact his work is making in the world.  Let’s dive in! Learn more at http://www.williamrtorbert.com/

Bill Torbert received a BA in Political Science &amp; Economics and a PhD in Administrative Sciences from Yale University. He founded the Yale Upward Bound (War on Poverty) program and the Theatre of Inquiry, and taught at Yale, Southern Methodist University, and Harvard prior to joining the Boston College faculty in 1978. He has written 12 books, the most recent of which is Numbskull in the Theatre of Inquiry: Transforming Self, Friends, Organizations, and Social Science. It illustrates a new kind of social action and social science where the researchers include themselves in the study, and explore to what degree all the different participants are, or are not, exercising timely and mutually-transforming action.  In this episode, I speak with Bill about his mission and the impact his work is making in the world.  Let’s dive in! Learn more at <a href="http://www.williamrtorbert.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.williamrtorbert.com/</a>

SFH # 152 Action Inquiry with William Torbert