{"id":11350,"date":"2016-05-10T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=11350"},"modified":"2016-05-10T06:13:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T11:13:15","slug":"kelly-leonard-to-host-wgn-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/05\/10\/kelly-leonard-to-host-wgn-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Leonard to host WGN podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11351\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/05\/10\/kelly-leonard-to-host-wgn-podcast\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11351\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11351\" alt=\"Kelly Leonard\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Kelly-Leonard-1024x578.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Kelly-Leonard-1024x578.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Kelly-Leonard-300x169.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Kelly-Leonard-150x84.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Kelly-Leonard-400x226.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Kelly-Leonard-800x452.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Kelly-Leonard-200x113.jpg 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Kelly-Leonard.jpg 1093w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Kelly Leonard<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kelly Leonard, longtime artistic leader, producer and executive with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secondcity.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Second City,<\/a> will host a new weekly podcast in partnership with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.secondcity.com\/works\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Second City Works <\/a>and Tribune Media news\/talk <a href=\"http:\/\/wgnradio.com \" target=\"_blank\">WGN AM 720.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Titled \u201cGetting to Yes, And,\u201d the program will upload new episodes at 7 a.m. every Tuesday on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/\" target=\"_blank\"> iTunes<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/wgnplus.com\" target=\"_blank\"> WGNPlus.com<\/a>, starting this week.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Leonard will interview visionaries, authors and leaders who \u201coperate at the intersection of creativity and commerce,\u201d according to Second City Works, the business-to-business arm of the famed Chicago improvisational comedy institution.<\/p>\n<p>Son of the late Roy Leonard, the legendary WGN personality for more than 30 years, Kelly Leonard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/entertainment\/theater\/news\/ct-kelly-leonard-second-city-20150721-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">stepped down<\/a> last year as president of Second City Theatricals to form Kelly Leonard Productions, a production company with ties to The Second City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to partner with WGN Radio on this new podcast,\u201d Steve Johnston, president of Second City Works, said in a statement. \u201cOur success as a business is due in large part to our passion for interesting connections and dialogues. We operate from a place of endless curiosity, whether with our client partners or with other thought leaders. This podcast is the perfect example of how we approach the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Todd Manley, vice president of programming and content at WGN, said: \u201cMost conversations about business and innovation are overloaded with talking points, but Kelly has a charm that unleashes the magic within inventive minds. We can\u2019t wait to start this audio adventure with Second City Works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard\u2019s inaugural guests on the show will include Neil Stevenson, managing director of IDEO Chicago; cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman, author of <em>Wired to Create;<\/em> and Dartmouth scholar Sydney Finkelstein, author of<em> Superbosses.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Leonard, longtime artistic leader, producer and executive with The Second City, will host a new weekly podcast in partnership with Second City Works and Tribune Media news\/talk WGN AM 720. Titled \u201cGetting to Yes, And,\u201d the program will upload new episodes at 7 a.m. every Tuesday on iTunes and WGNPlus.com, starting this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11353,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions\/11353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}