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An Interview with Tesla’s Felicia Mayo on Creating a Culture of Diversity and Inclusion

HR Digest

Creating an Environment that Encourages Cognitive Diversity In a remarkable interview with The HR Digest, Felicia Mayo talks about the value of cognitive diversity in the global business sector and what makes a great leader. Felicia Mayo: I wish I could take credit for us bucking the trend. Diversity drives innovation.

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Action-Learning based leadership development using entangled-trios

Mike Cardus

Additional focus on creating non-traditional collaborations to bring innovation and fresh eyes to how our company goes about managerial-leadership development, team building, decision making, problem-solving, and innovation. Generally, teams will meet once a week or every other week. Six months total GEEKS process time.

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2019 HR Leaders of the Year

HR Digest

Here is a list of HR leaders who are bringing in diversity, engagement, and innovation to their jobs. Diane Gherson, in her 13-year stint at IBM, has driven the HR process from being process-centric to the more agile and innovative competencies that the new digital era demanded. Felicia Mayo, VP, HR, Diversity & Inclusion, Tesla.

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10 Elements of an Outstanding Customer Service Culture

Skip Prichard

Bean, Mayo Clinic, MOD Pizza and Bob’s Red Mill to the layer of B2B companies whose names are lesser known but equally great – I can assure you that flashy perks have little to do with performance. Support for customer-focused innovation. A common language. We really do try to do this for our passengers,” and “Yes!

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How Mayo Clinic Is Simplifying Prenatal Care for Low-Risk Patients

Harvard Business Review

To address this problem, in 2011 a group at Mayo Clinic led by the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology launched an initiative to transform prenatal care from this medicalized model to an innovative wellness model. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

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Guest Post: Four Leadership Lessons from the Gym

Lead on Purpose

The innovations that allow us teleconferencing, emails, and phone conversations wherever/whenever should increase our free time, but ironically, they’ve just turned our 40-hour work week into a 140-hour work week and caused us to ignore the most innovative, powerful tool in our leadership arsenal: our bodies.