Welcome to the Legacy-Makers@Work podcast. Today’s guest is Stewart Levine, who, though he was not dubbed a “resolutionary” over 20 years ago, had started on that path toward his intentional work legacy. Listen to the podcast to find out what a resolutionary is and how he determined to make that his life’s work through a career with several twists and turns, some clearly unexpected. Isn’t that how life generally works, especially in these unpredictable and challenging times? We encourage you to take a moment to consider your legacy at work and reach out to us at https://legacy-makersatwork.com/
Welcome to the Legacy-Makers@Work podcast. The Legacy-Makers@Work podcast is especially created for mid-career aspiring leaders, and Gen Xers, seeking to craft an intentional work legacy despite the pressures of a busy, complex life.
Today’s guest is Stewart Levine, a Baby Boomer who, though he was not dubbed a “resolutionary” over 20 years ago, had started on that path way back then toward his intentional work legacy. Listen up to the podcast to find out what a resolutionary is and how he determined to make that his life’s work through a career with several twists and turns, some clearly unexpected. Isn’t that how life generally works, especially in these unpredictable and challenging times?
Stewart Levine is the founder of ResolutionWorks, a consulting, training and coaching firm. He creates agreement in the most challenging circumstances and helps organizations create human alignment. He began as a lawyer, served as a Deputy Attorney General in NJ and was the managing partner of his own law firm. Stewart currently teaches nationally to many Fortune 500 companies.
He wrote "Getting to Resolution: Turning Conflict into Collaboration in 1998 and “The Book of Agreement" and co-authored and/or edited others for lawyer and broader audiences. And displaying another talent, he is currently writing one poem a day for his anthology of poetry called "Pilgrims Path: Morning Practice for Seekers."
We were eager to have him as a guest for our audience because, as you will hear, he has been on a journey to his purposeful work legacy for well more than 25 years – to him it came early - and illustrates it is not too soon to start figuring it out.
Having spent a substantial number of years in a legal career in various environments and roles, he realized it was not for him. He proved he was a very successful problem-solver, but law was too much more about protection of property than people, which was against his main core value of care and concern for other people. Looking for a career transition, he took the opportunity not to totally leave law, but in a totally different role – a good lesson for disgruntled lawyers. Taking advantage of educational opportunities, he changed his “identity", that is, how he was perceived, even to his family. He explains the journey in the podcast.
Some of his pithy and memorable insights you will hear are:
Contact Stewart at resolutionworks@msn.com,
BIO: Stewart creates powerful partnerships. As a lawyer he realized fighting is ineffective in resolving problems. At AT&T he realized collaborations fail because people do not create shared vision and a road map to results. His bestselling book Getting to Resolution: Turning Conflict into Collaboration (Berrett-Koehler) was an Executive Book Club Selection; Featured by Executive Book Summaries and called “a marvelous book” by Dr. Stephen Covey. The Book of Agreement (Berrett-Koehler) has been endorsed by many thought leaders, called more practical than the classic Getting to Yes and named one of the best books of 2003 by CEO Refresher (www.Refresher.com). He Co-Authored Collaborate 2.0. In addition to his consulting, coaching and mediation work he teaches for The American Management Association and has served on the faculty of University of California Berkeley Law School and Dominican University Graduate Business School. www.ResolutionWorks.com You can find his poetry at www.PilgrimsPath.life
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