Teresa Rand, former President and CEO of the YMCA and founder of Teresa Rand Consulting, is an expert on teaching work-life balance, how to maneuver the shifts we experience in life, and helping organizations develop better leadership and communication skills. How can women work their way up to the C-suite? What are some of the obstacles they face? How does one juggle a good work-life balance and avoid burnout? What are some tips on structuring your work day so that you don't burn out? How can e...
Oct 10, 2023•23 min
Alyson Caffrey is the ‘Wolf’ that helps streamline the back-end operations for digital and creative agencies. She is the founder of Operations Agency, the co-creator of the Operations Simplified™ Framework, and the author of The Sabbatical Method: Create a business that can function without you. How can your book, The Sabbatical Method, help the struggling entrepreneur? How did you develop the critical actions highlighted in your method? What is the sabbatical method? Why is systemizing our busi...
Oct 03, 2023•21 min
Phil Mershon is the director of experience for Social Media Examiner. He's been designing the Social Media Marketing World experience for over a decade. Drawing from over 25 years in creating customized events, Phil loves to create memorable moments and transformational experiences. What makes an event unforgettable? How do you apply neuroscience when creating an event? What are the different types of data you use to create an unforgettable event? What is the Social Media Marketing World event's...
Sep 26, 2023•23 min
Anthony A. Dicks, Jr. is an executive coach. His passion for leadership development is seen through his work with emerging leaders across a multitude of industries. He has spent over two decades preparing people with diverse responsibilities to reach their optimal leadership potential. How has your experience coaching executives helped you as a leader? How the John C. Maxwell certified trainer helped you as a coach? Explain to our listeners the DISC assessment and what you use it for when coachi...
Sep 19, 2023•20 min
Stephen Barden is a renowned leadership coach and mediator with over a decade of experience at CEO and executive board level in the media, technology and communications sectors. He has been in private practice since 2001, working across Europe and the USA, helping both individual senior leaders and organisations develop sustainable and ethical cultures aligned with their strategy and overall purpose. Why did you write your book, "How Successful Leaders do Business with their World?" How do you d...
Sep 12, 2023•22 min
Susan S. Freeman, MBA, PCC, NCC, is an accredited executive coach, team coach, author, sought-after speaker, and leadership development consultant who brings more than three decades of corporate, entrepreneurial, and nonprofit business management and leadership experience to her clients. Her groundbreaking approach to Western leadership transformation integrates Eastern wisdom that is derived from more than 25 years of studying yoga and yogic philosophy. Why did you decide to write, "Inner Switc...
Sep 05, 2023•22 min
As the former International Director of Training for E-Myth Worldwide, Eric Beck has helped 960 businesses generate over $240 million in additional revenue, guiding companies to exit at seven times their revenue. How do you help entrepreneurs, solo-preneurs, and wanna-preneurs get their business to full potential? Employees: Malicious Compliance vs. Self Management? How can I get out of time debt - more to do than time to do it? Why does the current way we compensate our team perfectly create tu...
Aug 29, 2023•21 min
Alexander is the Co-Founder, Visionary, CTO at INK, the world’s first AI-powered content optimization software. Alexander crafts magical tools for web marketing. He is a smart creative and a builder of amazing products. He loves to study the “how” and “why” humans and AI make decisions. How can one bootstrap and scale a business to investor funding-ready level? What are the dangers and potential risks of AI and the future of marketing for businesses? How can business owners craft content that wi...
Aug 22, 2023•20 min
Charles D. McCarrick is an entrepreneur, inventor, and lead visionary of Micro-Ant. With more than 10 patents to his name, he pioneers and supplies unique equipment to the communications industry. What makes “Lessons My Brothers Taught Me” different from other business books for beginner entrepreneurs? What are the qualities of an effective leader? What posed the greatest threat to growing your business? What does a healthy company culture look like, and why is this so important? Was there a def...
Aug 15, 2023•25 min
Richard Flint is a powerhouse Chairman and CEO of Flint Inc, a highly sought-after company that specializes in the transformative training and development of individuals, companies, and associations. At the age of 16 you were left on a street corner with just a suitcase. How has that shaped whom you are today? You talk about 6 fears one will struggle with from the day they are born to the day they die. What are those 6 fears? You talk about how a company's environment is made up of 3 groups. Wha...
Aug 08, 2023•24 min
Vladimer Botsvadze is a world-renowned digital transformation and social media influencer and keynote speaker who initiates change, drives growth, and positions brands as market leaders in their industries. What is your business all about? Tell us about your background? What would you say are the top 3 skills needed to be a successful entrepreneur? What are your plans for the future? Tell us about your marketing process? Vladimer Botsvadze Ranked as the No. 1 Global Marketing, Social Media and R...
Aug 01, 2023•18 min
Christine Cashen is more than just an author and speaker- she's a force of nature. With over two decades of experience entertaining crowds, Christine has earned a reputation as one of the best in the business. With all the terrible things in the news, how do you overcome the feeling of dread and sadness? How do you stay energized when you want to crawl back into bed at noon? Do you have any ideas to deal with difficult people? What do you do when you work with a negative person? Do you have any ...
Jul 25, 2023•20 min
Dr. Keith Merron is the Managing Partner of Leadership Pathways, a consulting firm dedicated to helping organizations with bold visions achieve sustainable high performance and industry leadership. What inspired you to become a consultant? How would you characterize your clients? Where did you receive your doctorate? How do people describe your work? What inspired you to write the book The Art of Transformational Coaching Dr. Keith Merron As an organization effectiveness and executive developmen...
Jul 18, 2023•26 min
Randy Herbertson is a recognized brand strategist, conceptor and creative director with over twenty years of marketing and innovation experience in the client, agency and media worlds, from entrepreneurial to corporate environments. What is the upside of a changing environment? How do you build a "Communication Code" with your brand's audience? How do you distinguish your brand in a sea of competition? What are some brand essentials for new and growing brands - for your investors, and your custo...
Jul 11, 2023•23 min
Kvon is the Co-Founder and CEO of Consciously, a purpose-driven firm that helps executives and organizations do work with more purpose. Until early this year, Kvon was the Global Head of Leadership Development at Google. What were some of the lessons you learned about leadership, coaching Fortune 500 executives at Amazon, Netflix, and Google? Could you describe the difference in cultures at these Fortune 500 companies? How do you develop leadership presence by using your body, feelings, and emot...
Jul 03, 2023•21 min
Soren Kaplan is an award-winning author, former corporate executive, co-founder of Praxie.com, a columnist for Inc. Magazine and Psychology Today, and an affiliate at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California. What is Experiential Intelligence? How does "XQ" complement IQ (intellect) and EQ (Emotional Intelligence)? What is the role of Experiential Intelligence in leading teams and organizations? How can leaders uncover and fully leverage their experiential ...
Jun 27, 2023•22 min
Dr. Lauren Tucker combines her extensive experience in DEI, data science, and relationship marketing to help clients build inclusive, positive employee relationships in a multicultural, transcultural, and global world. Why do your employees hate you? What is inclusion management and how can leaders use it to manage humans for the 21st century? Employee activism is on the rise. What does that mean for companies and how can they turn employee alienation into engagement and high employee NPS? How d...
Jun 20, 2023•20 min
Kavita Ganesan is the author of The Business Case for AI: A Leader's Guide to AI Strategies, Best Practices & Real-World Applications and the founder of Opinosis Analytics, an AI advisory and consulting company. What's True, What's Hype, and What's Realistic to Expect from AI in Your Business? How can coaches use AI? Can AI be used to determine the emotional state of an individual? How do corporation use Artificial Intelligence AI? What is the HI-AI discovery Framework? What are the 4 Steps ...
Jun 13, 2023•20 min
Michael Hauge is one of Hollywood’s top story experts and consultants, and uses those same storytelling principles to help speakers, authors, entrepreneurs, and business leaders generate millions of dollars in revenue. Why must authors, speakers and business leaders tell great stories? What are the essential components of a great story? If I'm not a celebrity, why would anyone want to hear my story? What is the biggest mistake storytellers make, from the stage or on the page? You've worked with ...
May 30, 2023•29 min
Kerry is the COO at Pariveda Solutions, a leading management consulting firm that specializes in developing talent that helps numerous businesses, from small startup ventures to Fortune 500 companies, solve complex technology and business problems. How to build a market-leading company through people development? How to rediscover your purpose at work as a leader in your company? What are top trends in employee development that should interest HR managers and company leadership in all industries...
May 23, 2023•24 min
As CEO and founder of Pottinger and Associates Consulting, Jaymie has worked tirelessly and successfully with start-up businesses, as well as Fortune 500 companies to develop leaders and teams at every level of the organization. What does the FACE of Leadership Framework mean? To which level of leadership does the FACE of Leadership Framework Apply? What strategies do you recommend for a leader who struggles with failure and setbacks? How can a leader who is not naturally confident, improve thei...
May 16, 2023•15 min
With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10,000 bilingual telemarketers. You are CEO of one of the largest call centres in San José in Costa Rica. What made you, a US citizen travel, live and work in Costa Rica? You trained 10,000 bilingual telemarkers. What makes a good telemarketer? How does phonetic micro expression reading help you become a good telemarketer. Please provide us with a good and a ...
May 09, 2023•25 min
Mac McNeil has been a leader in the financial industry for seventeen years in various leadership roles. He is currently the Senior Vice President of Operations for the Community Reinvestment Fund, USA where he leads Enterprise Operations. What does My Great Aunt EDNA stand for, and how did this leadership platform come into existence? When did you first come to know about the spirit of excellence? What do you mean by leadership wilderness, and how can leaders that my feel that they are there esc...
May 02, 2023•20 min
Cara Silletto, MBA, CSP, works with organizational leaders to reduce employee turnover and make managers at every level more effective in their roles. What's the status of today's talent pool? Why has the workforce changed so dramatically in the last five years? What can organizations and leaders do today to reduce any excessive employee turnover they have? How should they prepare for future workforce challenges? What's one strategy every leader should do to become a more magnetic leader? Cara S...
Apr 25, 2023•24 min
Mike Acker is an executive communication coach, a keynote speaker, and the author of ten books, including Speak with Confidence, published by Wiley in December 2022. What led you to write a book called “Speak with Confidence”? You use an interesting analogy about two weights you carry as a communicator and how that relates to insecurity. Can you describe what that means and how that affects confidence? You have developed a framework for Executive Presence and Speaking with Confidence. Can you ex...
Apr 18, 2023•23 min
Douglas R. Bouey (dougbouey.com) is an author, facilitation veteran and award-winning coach with TEC/Vistage - a global organization with 25,000 president members. He is a renowned mentor in his private practice with Catalyst Strategic Consultants, encouraging presidents in their trials, growth and victories. Tell me about some of your experiences mending relationships with families in business? What is your framework in your book? How do you implement your framework to rebuild the relationship?...
Apr 11, 2023•23 min
Bill Treasurer founder of Giant Leap Consulting (2002) has worked with thousands of leaders in the U.S., including NASA, eBay, Lenovo, UBS Bank, Saks Fifth Avenue, and many more. What got you interested in the field of leadership in the first place? You write about 3 areas of leadership fitness. What are they? One of your chapters is Cultivate Composure. Why is that important to leadership? What are you hoping that readers come away with from reading this book? What important question to ask you...
Apr 04, 2023•18 min
Jessica is a genius at showing entrepreneurs how to build an expert platform, rapidly raise their value, build their credibility online and attract high-paying clients. She travels the world teaching and inspiring entrepreneurs and helping them grow their influence and make the income and impact they desire. The most overlooked aspect of creating ultra high end offers How to move from soloprenuer to CEO and reclaim your time freedom How to master the art of high end sales The "Myth of the Ascens...
Mar 28, 2023•18 min
Ed Rigsbee is a Collaboration Architect, Nonprofit CEO, Virtual Communities Leader, Member ROI Valuation Research, Keynote Speaker, author of 5 books (Topics: Strategic Alliance Development & Membership Growth) When did you start your professional speaking career? Tell me about the Association & Society Speaker Community Tell me about Cigar PEG Philanthropy through fun Future projects?Ed Rigsbee Ed Rigsbee Ed Rigsbee, (CSP) Certified Speaking Professional, (CAE) Certified Association Exe...
Mar 21, 2023•21 min
Dr. Jessica Kriegel is the Chief Scientist of Workplace Culture for Culture Partners, leading research and strategy in best practices for driving results through culture. How do you define culture? Why is corporate culture important? How does it drive results? What is the biggest mistake that leaders make? You do research work on corporate culture, what is your process? Dr. Jessica Kriegel Dr. Jessica Kriegel is the Chief Scientist of Workplace Culture for Culture Partners, leading research and ...
Mar 14, 2023•22 min
