Podcast: Marcel Schwantes Defines Humane Leadership

Marcel Schwantes is a speaker, author, acclaimed executive coach, and an Inc. Magazine Contributing Editor. Marcel writes and delivers presentations, workshops, courses, and coaching programs about the human side of business and how cultures of care, connection, and belonging power companies to thrive and outperform the competition. Marcel also hosts the popular "Love in Action" podcast, on which our CEO, Bob Chapman has been a guest.

Marcel has a new book that just came out, Humane Leadership: Lead With Radical Love, Be A Kick-Ass Boss. There are a lot of parallels in Marcel’s writing with what we talk about at Barry-Wehmiller. In his book, Marcel draws on personal experiences, case studies, and compelling research to reveal how leaders can transform organizations by embracing genuine care for their people. 

We first met Marcel a number of years about through a number of his articles for Inc. where he included Barry-Wehmiller, including one titled “Here's a Top 10 List of the World's Best CEOs (but They Lead in a Totally Unique Way).” where Bob Chapman was ranked number three. On this episode, we talk with Marcel about how he defines "Humane Leadership" by exploring what he calls the five principles of effective leadership: patience, kindness, humility, advocacy, and trustworthiness, but we start off our interview asking Marcel about that article and why Bob was included.