The Center's podcast, Work in Progress with Christopher Wong Michaelson, discusses every working person’s work in progress, namely, our quest to be fully human in a working world that all too often makes us feel like machines, in which we often don’t even have time to think, and that, in the words of Studs Terkel, too often feels like “a Monday through Friday sort of dying.” Listen below:
Forthcoming Episode 21: In Search of Careers for the Common Good a Part Four Series, Part Four: A conversation with John Sullivan who recently retired from a long and distinguished career as a corporate lawyer but who remains active in volunteer engagement with organizations such as the Minneapolis Foundation and the Matthew Shepard Foundation. (March 2024).
Forthcoming Episode 20: In Search of Careers for the Common Good a Four-Part Series, Part Three: A conversation with Lindsey Hickey, CEO of Simek’s, who shares her story about thriving in the chaos of balancing a family while leading a second-generation family business in her search for a career for the common good. (March 2024).
Forthcoming Episode 19: In Search of Careers for the Common Good a Four-Part Series, Part Two: A conversation with recent University of St. Thomas graduate, Katrina Anderson, an park ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains, who shares her story about changing her major, her expectations and her zip code in her search for a career for the common good. (March 2024).
Forthcoming Episode 18: In Search of Careers for the Common Good a Four-Part Series, Part One: A conversation with recent University of St. Thomas graduate, Cesar Osvaldo Mendez Portillo, a self-described “banker by accident” who shares his story about the importance of building relationships in his search for a career for the common good. (March 2024).
Episode 17: A conversation with the 2022 Principled Leadership Research Fellows about apple commodity markets, K-Pop's cultural influence on business, and building trust in the workplace. (February 2024).
Episode 16: A conversation about business, family and the business of family (March 2023).
Episode 15: A Raisin in the Sun Panel Discussion at the Guthrie Theater (February 2023).
Episode 14: 2022 Melrose Twin Cities Principled Leadership Awardees: Erica Neubert Campbell. (February 2023).
Episode 13: Klara and the Sun: A conversation about the nature of intelligence and the costs (and benefits) of progress. (September 2022).
Episode 12: What have we learned about business and ethics from the pandemic discussion series: Part three. (July 2022).
Episode 11: What have we learned about business and ethics from the pandemic discussion series: Part two. (July 2022).
Episode 10: What have we learned about business and ethics from the pandemic discussion series: Part one. (July 2022).
Episode 9: What is the purpose of work? A discussion with Hubert Joly, former Best Buy CEO & author of The Heart of Business (June 2022).
Episode 8: 2021 Melrose Twin Cities Principled Leadership Awardees (January 2022).
Episode 7: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: A conversation about finding redemption at work and in life with Guthrie Theater Artistic Director, Joe Haj, and playwright Lavina Jadhwani (November 2021).
Episode 6: Twenty years after 9/11 Part Three: A conversation with Jackie Zins & Stacy Pervall, former representatives of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund (September 2021).
Episode 5: Twenty years after 9/11 Part Two: A conversation with Fred Price, managing director at Piper Sandler (September 2021).
Episode 4: Twenty years after 9/11 Part One: A conversation about meaningful work with Jen Tosti-Kharas (September 2021).
Episode 3: Who is Capitalism? A conversation about Homeland Elegies with Ayad Akhtar and Azish Filabi (August, 2021).
Episode 2: What is the Dilemma in the Social Dilemma? A conversation about Netflix's Popular Documentary with Shuili Du and Lisa Abendroth (June, 2021).
Episode 1: All About AI Ethics: A conversation about Ian McEwen’s Machines Like Me with Tae Wan Kim (April, 2021).