Paul Cowan is a relationship specialist who had a successful career in leading international advertising agencies, then opened his own agency. As a psychotherapist he worked with individuals and couples and consulted with teams and organizations. Specializing in client relationships, he works internationally to facilitate change between agencies and their clients. He cofounded the Client Relationship Consultancy and the Customer Relationship Consultancy. His new book is Connecting with Clients —...
Oct 11, 2021•55 min•Ep. 142
Courtney Lynch is an executive coach who works with high-performing leaders to help them achieve next-level results. After her service in the Marine Corps, she co-created the leadership development firm Lead Star and co-wrote the New York Times best-selling books SPARK and Leading from the Front with her friends Angie Morgan and Sean Lynch. Their third book, Bet on You: How Leaders Win With Risk , will be out in spring 2022. Find out more about them at: www.leadstar.us --- Send in a voice messag...
Oct 04, 2021•56 min•Ep. 141
Vicky Oliver is a leading career development expert and the multi-best-selling author of five books, including 301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions , named in the top 10 list of "Best Books for HR Interview Prep," 301 Smart Answers to Tough Business Etiquette Questions (, and Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers, and Other Office Idiots . She’s a sought-after speaker and seminar presenter and a popular media source, having made over 901 appearances in broadcast, print, and online outlets. Find ...
Sep 27, 2021•54 min•Ep. 140
Today’s guest, Rick Maurer, is a speaker, author, consultant, and expert on helping leaders avoid resistance to change. Since the publication of his book Beyond the Wall of Resistance in the 1990s, Rick’s opinion has been sought by The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, NBC Nightly News, Fortune, and many other media outlets. Some of the largest companies in the world ask for his advice on ways to avoid resistance to change and ways to build strong support for changes and other big projects. Find out mo...
Sep 23, 2021•57 min•Ep. 139
Jason Redman is a retired Navy SEAL Lieutenant, severely Wounded Warrior, veteran advocate, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir, The Trident , and acclaimed leadership and resilience speaker. His new book is Overcome: Crush Adversity with the Leadership Techniques of America’s Toughest Warriors . Learn more at: www.jasonredman.com Find out more about operation recovery at: www.operationrecovery.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/responsible-leadership/message Support ...
Sep 20, 2021•53 min•Ep. 138
As CEO and President of Pure Romance , Chris Cicchinelli has grown a small, family business in Cincinnati into the world’s largest in-home party company of its kind. A front-page story in the St. Louis Dispatch called Pure Romance “The New Tupperware of the 2000s.” Today, the company has annual revenues of more than $350 million. He spends over 200 days a year on the road giving motivational seminars and personally training and meeting Pure Romance’s independent consultants, which now number mor...
Sep 16, 2021•50 min•Ep. 137
Michael Alleruzzo is a full-time Visiting Instructor of onsite and online undergraduate, graduate, and executive education courses in the Department of Management of the Haub School of Business at Saint Joseph’s University. His course specialties include business management, personal and organizational leadership, teams and teamwork, interpersonal communication, and conflict resolution. He is a recipient of the merit award for teaching excellence at SJU. Michael earned his management degrees fro...
Sep 13, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 136
Dr. Trevor Blattner, is a podcast host, author of the book Redefining The Top 1%, and a leading thinker on Shepherd Leadership—a modern approach to leadership designed to encourage leadership that guides, supports, and uplifts. With over 20 years of research and coaching, Dr. Blattner has developed a model of leadership that breaks free of the antiquated and regressive notions of what it means to lead. His enlightened approach to leadership is based on behavioral science, personal experience, an...
Sep 09, 2021•51 min•Ep. 135
Tevis Trower, is founder & CEO of Balance Integration and the author of The Game-Changer’s Guide to Radical Success, knows that building a great organization begins with cultivating true greatness from the very top. Tevis is a pioneer in optimizing corporate cultures, and has been heralded as “corporate mindfulness guru for the new millennium.” Tevis has coached high performers and top executives for powerful organizations ranging from Disney to KKR in leveraging their most precious asset: t...
Sep 06, 2021•59 min•Ep. 134
Patrick Burke is the Managing Partner of Burke & Schindler PLL and Concentric Wealth Management. Passionate about helping entrepreneurs start, grow, manage, and build valuable businesses, he has advised more than 200 successful start-ups and is an expert across multiple disciplines including mergers and acquisitions, business financing, and deal structuring. He’s on the Board of Directors for SMS Holdings in Nashville and UASI in Cincinnati and maintains Series 7 and Series 66 Securities lic...
Sep 02, 2021•54 min•Ep. 133
Peggy Smedley is an award-winning journalist and technology expert. During her 25-year career, she has extensively covered IoT (Internet of Things), manufacturing, construction technology, and most recently sustainability, circularity, and resiliency. She is founder and president of Specialty Publishing Media (SPM); editorial director of Constructech and Connected World ; radio host of The Peggy Smedley Show ; and author of her new book Sustainable in a Circular World , which follows her first b...
Aug 30, 2021•50 min•Ep. 132
Gordon is a former corporate warrior who successfully delivered complex $100m projects, ran $300m departments, and led global teams of 1000 staff. He has helped clients reduce operational costs by $350m, increase performance by 50%-500%, and helped entrepreneurs triple their revenue in just 12 months. Now Gordon helps to develop good managers into great leaders and also helps those looking to take their first steps on the leadership ladder. He’s also a highly sought-after keynote speaker on Lead...
Aug 26, 2021•55 min•Ep. 131
David Horsager is the CEO of Trust Edge Leadership Institute, Trust Expert in Residence at High Point University, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Trust Edge . David has advised leaders and delivered life-changing presentations on six continents, with audiences ranging from FedEx, Toyota, MIT, and global governments to the New York Yankees and the Department of Homeland Security. His new book, Trusted Leader: 8 Pillars that Drive Results describes how to create a company-wide fo...
Aug 23, 2021•49 min•Ep. 130
Brett is a thought leader and opinion former in the increasingly important area of business culture. Brett is the founder & CEO of CultureGene a company culture consultancy working with high-growth scale-up companies Brett interviews founders and CEOs of successful high-growth start-ups to better understand how they defined, developed, and implemented their company’s culture. He publishes his interviews on the Start-up Hierarchy of Needs blog and speaks and runs workshops on the subject of c...
Aug 19, 2021•52 min•Ep. 129
Atholl Duncan is Chair of Black Isle Group , leadership performance development specialists, and an international executive coach. Certified by INSEAD, he also studied leadership at Harvard and Cranfield. A former journalist and television producer, he worked for BBC News for more than 20 years. Learn more about his new book, Leaders in Lockdown: Inside Stories of COVID-19 and the New World of Business . Find out more about Atholl at: www.athollduncan.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anc...
Aug 16, 2021•52 min•Ep. 128
Today’s guest is Kevin Harris, President of Radical Mentoring, an intentionally small group mentoring process to help church pastors engage men, build a core group of leaders, and transform their churches. Kevin is passionate about being a resource for church leaders that have incorporated small group mentoring into their disciple-making strategy. Find out more about Kevin and his work at: radicalmentoring.com You can email him directly at: Kevin@radicalmentoring.com You can reach him directly v...
Aug 12, 2021•54 min•Ep. 127
Todd Palmer is an executive coach, keynote speaker, renowned thought leader, author, and CEO who is committed to helping business owners tackle their obstacles and clear their path to success. As an entrepreneur and active CEO, Todd knows the struggles business owners face regarding people, cash, strategy & execution. He took his company from being $600,000 in debt to making the INC 5,000 as one of America’s fastest-growing companies (an astounding 6 times!). He specializes in helping leader...
Aug 09, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 126
Paul Shepherd is a Sydney-based entrepreneur, coach, and creator of a unique system that helps leaders to live a life of purpose and meaning through a holistic 360-degree approach that nurtures the mind, body, and soul. After multiple successful years in business, making millions of dollars in his early 20s, he discovered that his life needs to change. Despite all the “success,” he didn’t feel fulfilled, so he went on a journey to discover himself, his true values, and his calling. And he did. U...
Aug 05, 2021•56 min•Ep. 125
Ruben Ugarte is the founder of Practico Analytics, providing expertise in data analytics. He has worked with companies on five continents and in all company stages, helping them to use data to make higher quality decisions, boost performance, increase profitability and make their teams world-class. He maintains a popular blog with more than 100,000 readers. His new book is The Data Mirage: Why Companies Fail to Actually Use Their Data . Learn more at rubenugarte.com . --- Send in a voice message...
Aug 02, 2021•52 min•Ep. 124
Pamela Hackett has advised, led, and supported people through major change within some of the world's most prominent companies and brands throughout her 35 years in management consulting. She is the Global CEO of the international consultancy Proudfoot , a pioneer of “boots on the ground” consulting that’s been in the game for eight decades. Hackett is on a quest to help all companies build businesses that are both fit and healthy, productive and engaged. Her new book, Manage to Engage: How Grea...
Jul 29, 2021•54 min•Ep. 123
Experts estimate that in most companies, 70-90% of their investment in learning and development is wasted because participants don’t apply what they learned. This means they don’t get the return-on-investment they hoped for. Meredith Bell knows why this happens and what you can do to improve your ROI. She’s spent the past 30 years working to create products and books that help people master communication skills. She has a deep understanding of what you can do to ensure that your learning and dev...
Jul 26, 2021•56 min•Ep. 122
Steve Chaparro is an organizational culture expert and communicator who speaks worldwide about how companies can transform their workplace culture through intentional co-creation and communication. He is founder and principal at Culture Design Studio, an organizational design agency, and the podcast host of The Culture Design Show. As Steve mentioned, the best way to connect with him is on LinkedIn and on https://stevechaparro.co/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/responsible-leader...
Jul 22, 2021•50 min•Ep. 121
Today’s guest, Dr. Roger Hall, is the author of Staying Happy Being Productive: The Big 10 Things Successful People Do and Expedition. He is a Business Psychologist with clients all over the country, and he trains leaders to monitor and manage their thinking. Roger knows great leaders work on themselves first, and then success in their companies follows. Roger received his Doctorate in Psychology from Ohio State University in 1991. He has worked with thousands of leaders – and loves to work with...
Jul 19, 2021•58 min•Ep. 120
Today’s guest is Chuck Cooper, the Managing Partner at WhiteWater Consulting in Charlotte, NC. Throughout his career, Chuck has been involved at the ownership level of several small and midsize companies, and he also has extensive experience working in the PEO industry. Chuck’s passion is working with the leadership of small and midsize companies, helping them design and define HR strategies that eliminate the fear, uncertainty, and doubt they may have when it comes to solving their people probl...
Jul 15, 2021•54 min•Ep. 119
Chris Kane has worked in the Corporate Real Estate sector for over thirty years, having operated as the Vice President of International Corporate Real Estate for The Walt Disney Company, before acting as Head of Corporate Real Estate at the BBC. His new book, Where Is My Office? Reimagining the Workplace for the 21st Century investigates innovative corporate real estate thinking in the modern workplace. Learn more at thechriskane.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/responsible-lea...
Jul 12, 2021•56 min•Ep. 118
Andrew Bartlow has 25 years of Human Resources and Talent Management experience at organizations across a wide spectrum of sizes, maturity stages, and industries. He is the co-author of “Scaling for Success: People Priorities for High Growth Organizations,” has a master’s degree from the top program in his field, and has been CECP, SPHR, Six Sigma, and executive coaching certified. Andrew leads Series B Consulting , which helps businesses to articulate their people strategy and accelerate their ...
Jul 08, 2021•54 min•Ep. 117
Anthony is a return guest whose first episode was back in Episode 77 . Check that episode out to find more about him. Our friend mentioned in this episode is Mark Deluzio who was a guest back in Episode 52 . For a discount on Anthony and Guy's book The Dying Art Of Leadership check out this link . For the article I mentioned about the psychological toll on forecasters click here . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/responsible-leadership/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.f...
Jul 05, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 116
Charles Bailes IV is a 4th generation family member and a top executive running a 9-figure family-owned business. As VP of Human Resources and Internal Distribution of ABC Fine Wine & Spirits, he oversees 126 stores in Florida and over 1,600 employees. He is a husband, a dad to 3, an executive, an entrepreneur, a CrossFitter, a health nut, and a lover of going to bed at 8 PM all in that order. He loves meeting new people and having meaningful conversations. His main goal is to inspire others...
Jul 01, 2021•55 min•Ep. 115
My guest in this podcast is Brandy McCarley. Brandy is an employee alignment executive advisor who works with CEOs and business owners, helping them clarify the cultural dynamics within their companies and finding the right employees for each role. She excels at assisting leaders in any industry determine how to better communicate, manage, and motivate individuals based on how they are hardwired. By developing diverse high-performing teams that can scale and drive revenue and profit goals, Brand...
Jun 28, 2021•52 min•Ep. 114
Jake Jacobs is the founder and president of Jake Jacobs Consulting . A pioneer in large-scale change, he has worked with some of the largest corporations in the world, including Ford, Marriott, and Corning, and has supported major change efforts for the City of New York, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the United Kingdom's National Health and Employment Services. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/responsible-leadership/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/resp...
Jun 24, 2021•51 min•Ep. 113
