Host Andrew Vosko welcomes this episode’s guest, Jeremy Hunter, associate professor at CGU’s Drucker School of Management, and executive director and founder of the Executive Mind Leadership Institute.
Jeremy summarizes his work at the Institute—and experience in over 20 years of teaching—as helping leaders evolve in a world that is continually changing.
Andrew raises the notion of growth through challenge. Jeremy shares his personal challenge in dealing with a diagnosis of a terminal illness at 20. He describes how he refocused his life and channeled his attention in directions that were life-giving, which led him into a range of experiences and interests, from East Asian studies to public policy and urban planning to human development and working with the University of Chicago, and then eventually to Claremont in 1999.
Jeremy discusses his recent work, helping people negotiate transitions. He finds human evolution to be the heart of the matter. Andrew connects this to aspects of his home field, neuroscience and the topic of neuroplasticity.
Andrew talks about transdisciplinary scholars who have stressed teaching people how to identify their ontological, axiological, and epistemological spaces in order to work collaboratively.
Jeremy relates the question of common cause to having a core stance of generosity, finding that we have become far too good at reactivity, such that defensiveness has become the basic posture of conversation in the United States.
Andrew and Jeremy discuss different modes of knowledge, including emotional knowledge, that have been ignored by the traditional models of disciplinary scholarship.
Jeremy shares his thoughts on work as the ideal training ground for learning, using the everyday challenges of life as opportunities for growth, and the importance of curiosity.
They discuss the fundamental weakness of a critical orientation towards the world, as having produced a destructive mindset, which has degraded the value of some scholarship.
They discuss transdisciplinarity as an attitude toward the world, and the rigorous integration of multiple modes of knowledge.
