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Episode 211: The Power of a Good Ask with Jeff Wetzler

Nayla Bahri
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In Our Conversation Today, We’re Exploring:

  • Why Jeff feels learning opportunities are sacred and missed opportunities are micro-tragedies

  • The thought experiment that led Jeff to finally write the book that had been in his head for twenty-five years

  • The main barriers that prevent people from sharing their thoughts with others

  • Three of the five practices that form Jeff’s Ask Approach™ and how they can help us tap into what others think, feel, and know

  • How we as askers can evaluate how well we’re asking questions and creating spaces where people want to honestly answer them

  • How we can go from practicing the Ask Approach™ to making it our superpower

Even though we only just met our guest for the first time a few weeks ago, we’ve quickly discovered we have a lot in common and knew we just had to have him join us on the podcast.

Jeff Wetzler has been on a quarter-century quest to transform learning opportunities. Blending a unique set of leadership experiences in the fields of business and education, he’s pursued this quest as a management consultant to the world’s top corporations, as a learning facilitator for leaders around the world, as Chief Learning Officer at Teach For America, and most recently, as co-CEO of Transcend, a nationally recognized innovation organization.

Jeff is also the author of Ask: Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Unexpected Breakthroughs In Leadership and Life.

Jeff is on the show this week to share his book and his philosophy and framework for making all of us better askers so we can tap into the hidden wisdom of the people around us.

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