Carlo Bos is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), a Co-Active Professional Certified Coach (CPCC), and is on the faculty of the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI). In this capacity, Carlo currently leads open-enrolment and large organizational coach training programs, as well as CTI’s 10-month, transformational Leadership Program. Carlo has dedicated his last 20 years to working with leaders and teams who want to powerfully and joyfully step into the responsibility and potential of uncompromisi...
Jun 13, 2024•38 min
Admiral Joseph Prueher completed thirty-five years in the United States Navy in 1999. His last command was Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Command (CINCPAC); the largest military command in the world. He then served two Presidents as Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China from 1999 to 2001. Admiral Prueher is the former James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center of the University of Virginia, as well as Senior Advisor to the Stanford-Harvard Preventive Defense...
May 14, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Zoey Zheng is China’s youngest Professional Certified Coach with the PCC certification from the international coaching federation. Zoey is currently based in Mountain View, California, where she continues her journey as a storytelling coach and a body-mind-soul influencer. She has over 100,000 followers in social media and has achieved 124k views on her body-mind-soul podcast – One Hundred Ways to Evolution. At China’s top business school, Zoey led five entrepreneurship programs for over 200 CEO...
May 03, 2024•36 min
Kat Knecht is an internationally certified professional coach. For the past decade, she has been a member of the faculty of the Co-Active Training Institute – also known as CTI. Kat has enjoyed twenty years of success running her own coaching business while also being inspired by training coaches for CTI. Helping coaches succeed in this heart-based work is her passion & purpose. Her Company, Soul Driven Success, a business academy for professional coaches, allows her to go wild with this pas...
Apr 12, 2024•33 min
Dr. Charles Herring is the recent recipient of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association’s Innovative School Leader of the Year Award that recognizes his leadership in building innovative programs for leading or building a school district in the 21st century. Dr. Herring is currently the Director of Equity and Inclusion at South Fayette School District in McDonald, PA. He has been in the field of education for more than twenty five years. He is creative – having created America’s first Hip-Hop ...
Mar 21, 2024•45 min
Adrienne Weiss is the principal of the company she founded, Adrienne Weiss Corporation. Since 1986, the company has developed award-winning brand strategies for companies in many industries – food and beverage, retail, consumer products, convenience stores, real estate developments, sports stadiums and entertainment concepts. From Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Build-A-Bear to Target Stores, Five Below and Disney, Adrienne and her team create and reimagine brands that impact businesses all over the g...
Mar 10, 2024•27 min
Vice Admiral Sean Buck recently retired as the 63rd Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy. Admiral Buck is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and received his commission in 1983. He was designated a naval flight officer in 1985. Flying the P-3C Orion, Buck’s early at-sea operational tours were with the “Fighting Marlins” of Patrol Squadron (VP) 40; a disassociated sea tour aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) as the catapult and arresting gear division officer; and a department h...
Feb 27, 2024•37 min
Grace Adele Boyle is an Executive and Creative Coach who works with individuals and organizations looking to increase creativity, realign core values, and create better content. Her career started in the arts, ventured into successful entrepreneurial efforts and ultimately opened doors to Creative Consulting and Marketing opportunities. With over 15 years of experience working in creative industries, she now aims her coaching practice at two specific niches: Executive Coaching, and Creative Coac...
Dec 21, 2023•35 min
Today's career world has changed. No longer are the traditional "career paths" available in most organizations. Today, it's up to the individual to manage his or her own career. And that process presents a significant challenge. The Critical Skills are essential for success in this evermore career environment. Individuals must understand what the critical skills are and how to master them. The curriculum of the Harvard Business School is designed to enable students to master these skills in a ch...
Feb 10, 2023•20 min
Imagine creating one of the most sophisticated instruments ever conceived, building it, and then successfully placing it one million miles from earth. Bill has “been there – done that.” Bill has 40 years of experience in the aerospace industry. He has worked in both private industry and for NASA and is currently the Project Manager for the successful James Webb Space Telescope. Bill received a B.S.E.E and M.S.E.E from Fairleigh Dickinson University and Masters in Operations Research from George ...
Sep 20, 2022•57 min
Dr. Ethan Hollander is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Wabash College and creator of "Democracy and Its Alternatives", now available on Wondrium (formerly known as the Great Courses). "Democracy and Its Alternatives" is a 24-lecture series on the future of democracy, not just in the US, but globally. It addresses questions like: Does democracy have a future? What's causing it to falter? And is there anything we can do about it? To watch the trailer or stream the course, go to Wond...
Sep 02, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Dr. Arthur W. Zimiga, a master and doctorate graduate from the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, is known nationally and worldwide as a top Native American educator. Dr. Zimiga has presented curriculum material and has lectured on such subjects as Native American Education and business development for the “Cultural Different.” Institutions where he has either taught or lectured include foreign educational agencies and major universities in the United States including Harvard Univ...
Nov 19, 2021•1 hr 15 min
Dr. Douglas Slakey is Professor and Chief of Surgical Services at Christ Medical Center in Chicago and Program Director of General Surgery Residency at Advocate Aurora Health. Dr. Slakey’s responsibilities include clinical, operations and strategy for in-patient and outpatient, adult and pediatric, surgical services. His mission is to advance and promote safety, outcomes effectiveness and value-based practices across all surgical disciplines; to maintain a collaborative interdisciplinary environ...
Nov 08, 2021•49 min
Bill Carmody is a master of marketing and sales and an exceptional coach. He is a “maker of millionaires” and is committed to helping more than a million people reach total financial freedom. Bill Carmody Bill’s experience has included entrepreneurship, consulting, coaching, writing, volunteering, promoting social justice, and a builder of businesses. In 2020, Bill co-created the Positive Intelligence (or PQ) program with founder Shirzad Chamine and the business has become one of the most powerf...
Oct 27, 2021•42 min
Glain Roberts-McCabe is the President and founder of Toronto-based THE ROUNDTABLE – a place where leaders can cultivate their leadership skills. Through their innovative and multi-award Roundtable Peer-to-Peer Coaching programs and their “leaders teaching leaders” community, The Roundtable is reimagining the traditional consulting firm model. Prior to launching The Roundtable in 2007, Glain was the Managing Partner of one of Canada’s most respected mid-sized consulting firms specializing in the ...
Oct 14, 2021•47 min
JD Hoye is the Former President of the National Academy Foundation (NAF). With a deep commitment to preparing students for college and meaningful careers, Ms. Hoye has worked at both the grassroots and the highest levels of government to reform how young people are engaged in learning and how they are positioned to pursue their academic interests and career goals. Through this work, she has become a nationally recognized leader in forging partnerships between educators and employers. In leading ...
Oct 02, 2021•33 min
Marty Strong has been a leader for decades, first in uniform as a combat-decorated Navy SEAL, and then in commercial business. In this episode, Marty discusses his career as a Navy Seal and prolific author - the rigors of Navy Seal training, and the transition from a military career to the business world. After leaving military service Marty spent seven years as a successful investment advisor focused on high net worth clients, ending that phase of his career at the United Bank of Switzerland. H...
Sep 25, 2021•50 min
Henry Kimsey-House is one of the first professional coaches in the 1980s and the co-founder and lead designer of the Co-Active Training Instute’s (CTI) provocative experiential learning programs. He is also the co-author of Co-Active Coaching and Co-Active Leadership. An actor since age 9, Henry honed his insights into human emotion and the narrative process through classical theatrical training and years of stage, television, and film experience. With deep conviction that education should be dr...
Sep 17, 2021•48 min
When one thinks about public radio networks and classical music radio, one name comes to mind and that name is Steve Robinson. Steve Robinson in his home studio It’s difficult to imagine a highly successful radio station without a leader like Steve Robinson. Steve is well known for his unflagging energy, endless creativity, and deep knowledge of classical music and radio operations. Steve has been creating, producing and developing radio programs for 50 years that have been heard throughout the ...
Sep 17, 2021•59 min
Retired Rear Admiral Tom Lynch is my classmate from the great Naval Academy class of 1964. At Navy, Tom was active in sports – especially football where he lettered three times and was the captain of the great 1963 Navy team. He was also the brigade heavyweight boxing champion. Tom’s Naval service focused on surface warfare culminating his taking command of the USS Eisenhower battle group during the course of Operation Desert Shield. He also served as chief of Navy Legislative Affairs, and for t...
Sep 15, 2021•52 min
As a Master Coach, Hugh Shields is one of the top leadership and career coaches in business today and is a co-founder of Shields Meneley Partners – one of the nation’s leading career transition and executive coaching firms. Hugh Schields Hugh’s experience fits his role as an advisor to executives in transition. He has extensive profit and loss, strategy development, sales & marketing and operations experience in a variety of industries including professional services, specialty chemicals, el...
Sep 11, 2021•58 min
Jill Wine-Banks is best known as the “Watergate Girl,” and has enjoyed a multi-faceted career in law, corporate, education, and as a regular prime time legal analyst on MSNBC, PBS and other networks. Jill Wine-Banks Her story is documented in her book, “The Watergate Girl,” a memoir available in bookstores everywhere and on Amazon.com. She currently hosts two podcasts – “Sisters-in-law” with her legal colleagues and “iGen Politics” – the intergenerational program discussing issues facing our nat...
Sep 09, 2021•51 min
Jim Carr is the owner, president and CEO of Blue Book Services, Inc., in Carol Stream, Illinois. Blue Book Services, Inc. is a credit rating and information company for the fresh fruit, vegetable, and lumber industries. Jim Carr Previously, Jim worked for Harris Bank in Chicago from 1974 to 1979. He has also served as the mayor of the City of Wheaton for 14 years from 1993 to 2007. I’m proud to say that Jim and his family lived across the street from me for about 30 years where we enjoyed our fr...
Sep 05, 2021•34 min
Fred Wackerle earned a reputation as a master Executive Recruiter. He had a forty-year career in executive search specializing in Chief Executive Officer succession and governance. According to Business Week, Fred was named as one of the nation’s top five general management executive search professionals by Chief Executive Officers and high-ranking executives. He has been the recipient of the Gardner Heidrick Award from the Association of Executive Search Consultants for outstanding contribution...
Aug 29, 2021•47 min
Greg Pohlmann worked professionally in the store brand industry for 40 years. He is an expert in private labeling – store brands. Greg worked for the cream of the crop in private labeling – Topco Associates and Daymon Associates which together cover over fifty percent of all private label product sales in the United States. Greg was also part of the original start-up team that brought Aldi Stores to the United States. Greg is an expert in the private label industry and has documented what he has...
Aug 21, 2021•46 min
In this short (7 minutes) episode, Charlie Jett discusses the importance of information validity to the Critical Thinking process. In short, if you want to think critically, your information needs to be reliable and accurate.
Aug 17, 2021•7 min
General Charles C. Krulak served honorably in the United States Marine Corps for 35 years and I’m proud to say that he is my US Naval Academy classmate in the great class of 1964. General Krulak’s military service brought him into wartime combat roles in Viet Nam and operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He is the recipient of many awards including the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, Three Bronze Stars, Distinguished Service Medals from each of the three branches of the mi...
Aug 14, 2021•44 min
Former Illinois Lieutenant Governor, Evelyn Sanguinetti, is a wife, working mother of three, and an attorney by trade. The daughter of a Cuban refugee and an Ecuadorian immigrant. she grew up in humble beginnings in Florida – attended university in Florida and earned her law degree at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago. Her early private law practice focused on victims of housing discrimination, and subsequently was appointed an Illinois Assistant Attorney General. She served on the Wheaton...
Aug 08, 2021•37 min
Coaches Tom Anstett and Tom McCormack have a combined 92 years of coaching experience, having developed winning programs in major high schools in the Chicagoland area. Together they embody the qualities of coaches and teachers that constitute winning programs that not only provide victories but lay solid foundations for the lives of their players. Late last year, Coach Anstett and Tom McCormack published a terrific book – endorsed by many of the top collegiate coaches in the United States – call...
Jul 31, 2021•55 min
Natalie's career has taken her from Silicon Valley to the Fortune 100 and into entrepreneurship, but being raised in Republic, OH (population 600) is where she learned her greatest leadership lessons. Natalie uses these lessons from small town living to help leaders and organizations create big success in the world. In addition to being a 10-year 4-H member and repeat State Fair champion in public speaking, Natalie is a two-time graduate of The Ohio State University and Professional Coach accred...
Jul 24, 2021•35 min
