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Lisa Sherman, President and CEO of The Ad Council, joins Dov Seidman on HOW Conversations. Together they discuss the new challenges that face leaders in a morally activated world and the frameworks leaders need to help them decide when they should lean-in on social issues.

Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, joined Dov Seidman on HOW Conversations to discuss Mr. Walker’s new book, From Generosity to Justice: A New Gospel of Wealth. “I was born into an America that believed in my promise.”

Bill George has a challenge for the next generation — lead with authenticity. “We need you as leaders to step up now and hear the call.” Bill is a professor at Harvard Business School, a best-selling author and the former CEO of Medtronic. On this new episode of HOW Conversations Bill spoke with Dov Seidman about why emerging leaders must keep their purpose and values in sight.

As the president of the oldest university in the U.S. and one of the most prestigious schools in the world, Dr. Larry Bacow has had to make his share of difficult decisions. To guide him, he has a strong but simple framework for leadership, “Do the right thing, it is usually not that difficult to figure out. It is often excruciatingly difficult to do. And that’s when you really need to do it.”

Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla believes a strong culture and vision can make or break a company. Dr. Bourla joined Dov Seidman for an episode of HOW Conversations where they discussed promoting a culture of courage, leading in crisis, and Dr. Bourla’s new book Moonshot: Inside Pfizer’s Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible.

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of ADL, doesn’t like what he sees. Hate — of all kinds — is on the rise. In his new book, It Could Happen Here, Why America is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable – And How We Can Stop It, Jonathan explains what’s at risk if we don’t confront hatred head-on but also why he is hopeful; he believes that decent, moral people far outnumber the haters.

Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, sat down with Dov Seidman for a new two-part episode of HOW Conversations. They spoke about Jonathan’s new book, It Could Happen Here, Why America is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable – And How We Can Stop It. And their conversations touched on how to use moral courage to fight hate, why we need strong human connections in a transactional world and importance of pausing.

Senator Booker and Dov’s wide reaching discussion explored how we can overcome political division through moral leadership, the importance of taking risks with humility and why Senator Booker thinks we need to refocus on long term economic goals, ” I think what we have now is a perversion of the ideals of capitalism and it has changed dramatically since the 19080s…very different than the capitalism of the past where people were looking toward long term growth, [asking] what is the real value that I am creating?”

Ajay Banga tells Dov Seidman on a new episode of HOW Conversations. Ajay explains why he thinks capitalism as we know it needs an overhaul and why the business of business is now about society. “This [wealth] inequality, this climate inequality, they don’t work for me, and they don’t work for my children, and they don’t work for you.”

Angela Ahrendts believes success comes from putting others first, “My definition of moral leadership is always doing what’s best for the greater good of the whole, not yourself, not your boss, not your board.” Angela, a HOW Institute Board Member and the Chair of Save the Children International, spoke with Dov Seidman on HOW Conversations.

When leaders invest in others it drives their own success forward, says Paul Polman, member of the Board of The HOW Institute. Paul spoke with Dov Seidman in Part Two of their HOW Conversations.

“COVID has been a rude awakening for most of us. For the first time we have seen that our current system isn’t really working as well as we intended,” says Paul Polman a HOW Institute Board Member and the former CEO of Unilever. Paul spoke with Dov Seidman in this episode of HOW Conversations about the challenges and the opportunities the pandemic has revealed.

Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation thinks “we’re never going back to life as it was in January 2020.” Darren, who is also a member of The HOW Institute’s Board of Directors, spoke with Dov Seidman on this episode of HOW Conversations.

Dov Seidman and Nancy Gibbs, Lombard Director of the Shorenstein Center at Harvard Kennedy School and a HOW Institute Board member, have a wide-ranging conversation that touches on the many reasons that in this extraordinary moment where we, collectively, are facing so many simultaneous crises, moral leadership has evolved from a worthy pursuit to a critical survival skill for the future of society and humanity.

On this episode of HOW Conversations, the CEO of Levi Strauss & Co. Chip Bergh tells Dov Seidman how difficult it was to learn only about 3% of Levi’s leadership management are black. And how he’s leading the plan to fix the problem.