Drew Chadwick performs, practices, and teaches music. He tells Dave about its magic: that we don't just listen to music; we feel music. Drew's second, and compatible, love is teaching. He does this as the owner of Noteworthy Music, where the host of this podcast is taking piano lessons. He experiences Drew's practice with both hands on the keys.

Culture - the greater operating system? So says Scott McInnes, founder of Inspiring Change, a Dublin-based culture and internal communications consultancy. With over 25 years of experience working “professionally human” with organizations across Ireland, the UK, and beyond, he helps senior leadership teams close the gap between their current culture and the one they need to deliver their strategy.

Tom Casey and his firm, Discussion Partners Collaborative, closely monitor immediate conditions and emerging trends affecting their clients' managerial leadership practices. This conversation, just a month before the midterm elections, moves through thoughts of gloom and of hope. It is a moment of uncertainty shared by all practitioners.

This is Part II of a remarkable treatment by Dave Jr. of what happens in our minds as we put our thoughts into practice.

This is Part One of Dave Fearon, Jr., offering his latest thinking on consciousness at the dynamic core of socially enacted practice. The video version of this episode displays the slides that Dave narrates. See this video in the Practice? Podcast YouTube collection.

Dr. John Miller is one of the most revered and provocative Management Educators in Dave's field. John retired from Bucknell University decades ago, but still has much to say and write about, giving every emerging practitioner a chance to learn to manage. He created Management 101 to accomplish this at Bucknell. It continues after more than 45 years. He has submitted three journal articles just in the last few months. His earnest thinking and joy of sharing it ring out in this conversation.

As the shock waves of chaotic national and global change shake the context for every managerial practice, Dave and Tom Casey have this conversation about what leaders and clients of his firm, Discussion Partner Collaborative, do in the face of unprecedented uncertainty about what is coming next. Sit tight or stand up, speak out?

Dave and Faith Addicott become reacquainted on the verge of hopeful changes in the emerging, interdisciplinary fields of organization development. From Anthropology to engineering, Faith's vision is that creative approaches to changing how people experience organizational life in this global society are finally possible. She organizes at the confluence of these refreshing interactions between practitioners and researchers, sharing the purpose to invent new ways to guide positive change. Currently, she contributes to The Good Work Collective, which is spearheading the OD Out Loud Revival.