Mostly, we think of leadership as epitomizing confidence. We lead, therefore we know. But beneath that is a deeper truth, an apparent weakness - vulnerability. But vulnerability can be a leader’s superpower. As Concord Leadership Group's founder, Marc Pitman helps leaders lead their teams with greater effectiveness and less stress. His latest book is The Surprising Gift of Doubt: Use Uncertainty to Become the Exceptional Leader You Are Meant to Be. He's also the executive director of TheNonprofi...
Jul 01, 2021•20 min
We were already in the midst of VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) times. Then COVID hit. Now it’s VUCA 2.0 given COVID’s very real economic and mental health ripples. So the question is, “How to flourish as a leader despite mounting uncertainty?” This is Melissa’s realm of expertise. In this episode, Melissa unpacks how VUCA affects leaders. She talks about the mistakes leaders make, the importance of slowing down, and shares valuable insights that you can apply to remain intact, na...
Jun 03, 2021•22 min•Ep. 32
A leader’s mindset affects the entirety of the group, but with the pandemic and the things it make us experience, disengagement is slowly becoming present and it’s making life a little harder to live. Left with no choice but to find and do work in order to survive, we tend to pay more attention to that job instead of crafting the life we want. In these times, learning how to live a rhythm-organized life is necessary for you to avoid burning your entire soul out. David Taylor – Klaus is the autho...
Apr 29, 2021•19 min•Ep. 31
As a business leader today, what are the necessary key skills? Given the context of extreme uncertainty, where must a leader focus? Tough decision making. Courage. Ensuring others shine. A leader grows and empowers those around them. Henry Lopez is a Serial Entrepreneur, Small Business Coach & Consultant, and Host of The How of Business podcast show. He has over 35 years of diverse business experience, including successful careers in the information technology industry, sales, and sales trai...
Jan 14, 2021•19 min•Ep. 30
Looking to 2021 cannot be business as usual. If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s the need to be nimble. But towards what? Where do we pivot to? Where does some order of certainty lie? Kim Chernecki is Canada’s leading expert on helping high-performing executives, consultants, coaches, and smaller businesses land lucrative contracts. She is the creator of the Land Corporate Contracts Fast-Track System and is a top-rated sales performance executive, facilitator, coach, advisor, speaker, and strat...
Dec 17, 2020•21 min•Ep. 29
How do you ensure your business is sustainable? It is leading your community, it’s maintaining relevance with your tribe. Jane Anderson is a Strategic Communications expert. With over 20years’ experience in Personal Branding, Content Creation, and Tribe Building. Jane has recently been voted in the top 3 branding gurus globally. She has won International Stevie Awards for Women in Business and was nominated in the Telstra Business Women Awards 7 times. She is also one of the top 1% of most-viewe...
Dec 10, 2020•18 min•Ep. 28
Superb technical skills, alone, are inadequate to face challenges in the workplace. Soft skills are what drives organizational growth. Soft skills are the emotional and social intelligence skills. These are the skills that enable leaders to show up as their best selves, and enable others to rise to their best selves. Nada Nasserdeen is the founder and CEO of Rise Up For You. She is a Leadership and Career Confidence Coach, No.1 Bestselling Author, and TEDx Motivational Speaker. With over 10 year...
Dec 03, 2020•27 min•Ep. 27
We can get locked on the need to be needed, to feel important and indispensable… and without even realizing it. How about challenging that mindset? Moving to the notion that you seek to make yourself replaceable. That there can be an even better way of doing things, one that saves you time, energy, and ultimately grows your business even with your absence. Ari Meisel helps entrepreneurs become replaceable so their business can grow without them. In this episode, Ari challenges our conventional w...
Nov 26, 2020•20 min•Ep. 26
Being accustomed to the fast-paced workplace and the virtual environment becoming a new normal these days, how do we power to become the bold, unshakeable leaders expected of us? More than ever, creating a sacred space for oneself is paramount. It allows leaders to set the tone for a winning race in the corporate arena nowadays -- a slow and steady pace. Certified Life & Executive Coach, TEDx Speaker, Author, Podcast Host, and Retreat Cultivator. After nearly 20 years in Corporate America, L...
Nov 19, 2020•20 min•Ep. 25
What stops us doing what we say we want to happen? Real transformation occurs when you can manage your brain - your identity, thoughts, feelings, and actions; this, then leads to results. With over 20 years of experience as a transformational and leadership coach, Rita Hyland helps leaders—emerging and established—to excel in productivity, creativity, and courage in both corporate and entrepreneurial environments. Rita believes that if leaders were more clear about how transformation really work...
Nov 12, 2020•27 min•Ep. 24
How do you make sense of the success you’re achieving? Was it good timing? Luck? And that unclarity probably leaves uncertainty about next steps. By clarifying your leadership framework, you can unlock a leadership style that underpins how you want to be seen and heard as a leader. As an executive coach, Christina Holloway has over 20 years of experience coaching senior leaders on finding meaningful careers, as well as mentoring business owners and start-ups as their companies grow and thrive. H...
Nov 05, 2020•16 min•Ep. 23
What is so important about the clarity of purpose? It’s all about meeting a person’s need for personal growth and development as well as the opportunity to contribute to something bigger than yourself. Bottom line, it’s a direct route to happiness and joy. Michael S. Seaver is an award-winning executive coach, author, keynote speaker, and podcast host with expertise in executive leadership, personal branding, change management, organizational effectiveness, and employee engagement. He is the aut...
Oct 29, 2020•20 min•Ep. 22
How do you pull yourself together when you’ve been hit with the most unfortunate circumstance you could ever imagine? It’s human nature to be transfixed by the problem. How about slowing down, so you can get faster? How about reframing your perspectives, so you find opportunities and not just challenges? Michael O'Brien is the Chief Shift Officer at Peloton Executive Coaching and helps leaders prevent bad moments from turning into a bad day. He has shared his personal transformational Last Bad D...
Oct 22, 2020•19 min•Ep. 21
Tired of do-it-yourself strategies and tactics that don't move a needle in your business performance? Despite the effort you’ve taken to fit the puzzle pieces, there’s little progress? When you’re not crystal clear about what you want your business to do for you and your consumers, this happens. Only when there’s alignment that your business will be in a state of flow and continually grow. Stephanie Hayes works with experienced entrepreneurs who have built successful businesses but aren't sure w...
Oct 15, 2020•20 min•Ep. 20
In the process of navigating the uncertainty of this time, leaders tend to beat themselves up. Inclination towards perfectionism gets heightened, exerting further pressure on themselves and those they lead. Self-awareness is the key to reducing that. As a business coach & speaker, Keren Eldad is a trusted advisor to industry-leading executives and superstar entrepreneurs who regularly set records at the top of their fields. Since 2016, powerhouses have sought her out to help them make additi...
Oct 08, 2020•18 min•Ep. 19
To achieve a productive and profitable workplace, leaders need people-decoding skills to disentangle the stress, anxiety, and workplace conflicts. Marie Gervais believes that a happy workplace lies at the heart of this. Her mission is to build workplace capacity characterized by real communications that acknowledge people for who they are. Using the S.W.E.L. model of safety, wellness, encouragement, and learning, Marie focuses on building confidence and intercultural communication. Through both ...
Oct 01, 2020•20 min•Ep. 18
With the many intricacies of running a business, it’s easy for leaders to feel overwhelmed. What often compounds this, is following systems that have worked for others, hoping they will also work for them. Success is about individualising… identifying and discarding what’s not working – for you. The art is knowing what to keep, what to discard, what to delegate. With over 25 years of leadership, management, and entrepreneurial experience, Nicole BZ literally puts her money where her mouth is. As...
Sep 24, 2020•15 min•Ep. 17
These challenging times demands so much more from leaders. It has become increasingly crucial to close the gaps and acknowledge every individual’s contribution. In seeing and recognizing the value each one brings, collaboration becomes a practical path that ensures an organization’s growth. Kelly Meerbott is a passionate advocate, ally and activist for diversity, equity and inclusion. In 2009, at the height of the recession, Kelly found herself caught up in a round of 30,000 layoffs-a defining m...
Sep 17, 2020•23 min•Ep. 16
There is a surprisingly close parallel between music and leadership. For an ensemble (team) to deliver a great performance, every member must be skilled, aligned, and follow their score… and the conductor The same for teams in organizations. To reach a common goal everyone has to have strong communication, collaboration, and accountability. In this episode, Stephen underscores the parallels within his two passions: music and leadership development highlighting the steps to deep listening, being ...
Sep 10, 2020•17 min•Ep. 15
On average, we get interrupted every 11 minutes on a normal workday, but that it takes us 23 minutes to refocus afterwards? That means productivity is slammed recovering from distractions. Imagine the productivity boost if we could manage these distractions. Alexis Haselberger is a time management and productivity coach who helps people do more and stress less through coaching, workshops, and online courses. Her pragmatic, yet fun, approach helps people easily integrate practical, realistic stra...
Sep 03, 2020•16 min•Ep. 14
What’s the needed shift for leaders in today’s business environment? Traditional approaches revolved around ‘Acts of Heroism’ - a bias towards rescue and solving issues to get things done fast. More effective now, is ‘Operating in Moments of Silence’. This empowers team members to step up and solve problems on their own, to become great leaders themselves. Results come when a leader holds each team member accountable plus encourages their sense of accomplishment. Dave McKeown helps individuals, ...
Aug 27, 2020•17 min•Ep. 13
Getting people to take action is the ultimate goal. In communication, there is intent (yours) and impact (on them). So how do you truly connect with your audience and ensure your delivery has impact? Work on an emotional connection! Keep it real, ditch perfection. More freeing and easier for you, more accessible for them. Connection made. Lisa Braithwaite is a speaking coach, trainer, and author of "Presenting for Humans: Insights for speakers on Ditching Perfection and Creating Connection." She...
Aug 21, 2020•20 min•Ep. 12
This pandemic shaken us all and fundamentally exposed the type of person we are: either someone who feels the sky is falling or someone who sees this as an opportunity to inwardly strengthen and find success despite the uncertainty. Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is a cutting-edge leadership development consultant, author, trainer, and researcher. Ryan is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of “Success Mindsets: The Key to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leader...
Aug 13, 2020•19 min•Ep. 11
With the pandemic has come a new reality: having to lead, virtually, through Zoom. And then the inevitable happens: ‘Zoom fatigue’… skewing any real sense of connection. Understanding (and applying) executive presence helps create the deep and lasting connections that are so needed in these times. Gregory Derelian and Peter Katona are co-founders of ADVOgroup , a boutique communications consultancy based in Los Angeles, that focuses on authentic connection and developing behavioral changes in th...
Aug 06, 2020•21 min•Ep. 10
We overcome an obstacle – and that’s cause for celebration. But what if there’s actually a way to obliterate the problem and do away with it, once and for all? A proven, solid problem-solving process can do just that… and, BTW, what’s this got to do with Love? David Veech is the author of two best-selling books: Leadersights: Creating Great Leaders Who Create Great Workplaces , and The C4 Process: Four Vital Steps to Better Work . He teaches leaders how to love, learn, and let go so they can cre...
Jul 30, 2020•20 min•Ep. 9
With heightened uncertainty so amplified, leaders must somehow balance their own personal challenges but also that of the demands of the organization they lead. Everyone is being pulled in multiple directions. Our response to these demands must include increased self-responsibility and self-reflection… and a specific focus on that which we can control… and that is our attitude. Tina Greenbaum works with executives who want to increase their performance level in high- stakes, high-pressure situat...
Jul 22, 2020•27 min•Ep. 8
More than ever, in this very trying time, communication has to be more clear, empowering questions have to be asked of yourself and of your team in coaching, and connection has to boil down to making emphatic decisions and empathy for your people for more productive results. As Co-Founder and COO of BetterManager, Wendy Hanson is proud of her company’s mission to help leaders at all levels create a workplace where people can thrive. She is a firm believer that when companies invest in their mana...
Jul 16, 2020•19 min•Ep. 7
For any sustainable growth to thrive there has to be a building of an ecosystem of conscious corporate leaders. Where there is an opportunity for people to open up and express themselves, there is shared learning and people become emotionally bonded together for a common goal. That is what this conscious leadership stands for. Ram Ramanathan has 40 years of global corporate leadership experience, 30 years of spiritual training with 7 years as trainee monk, 10 years as a leadership coach as the c...
Jul 09, 2020•25 min•Ep. 6
Where does elegance fit for a leader? Elegance in leadership is being able to choose your standard. How do you maintain your integrity as a leader when things get hard and busy? How do you stay compassionate or empathetic when there’s a conflict? Becoming a good leader means you know how to lead yourself more than anybody else. It means to practice using tools at your disposal, and when you build the skill set, it then becomes who you are. Heather Hansen is an award-winning trial attorney, a tra...
Jul 02, 2020•24 min•Ep. 5
Have you ever wondered how people would remember you at the end of your career? What is that one word you want someone to use when they describe you? Leadership is about leaving a legacy. It is about making a positive impact on someone's life and making things better. We may not realize it, but sometimes, we make it about ourselves, and that is a problem. Rocky Romanella is an experienced CEO, keynote speaker, independent board member, founder, and CEO of 3SIXTY Management Services and author of...
Jun 25, 2020•21 min•Ep. 4
