In the military, it was all about the details for today’s guest, Charlie Gilkey. And when it comes to teams in a business, the same is true. Charlie’s military background sets him up very well to talk about team habits and what habits benefit teams in any environment. What are the habits that impact the quality of work? In today’s episode, Charlie shares the 8 categories of team habits and how finding the one that is broken, could solve a world of problems. It’s time to start talking about the t...
Dec 06, 2023•32 min
Your thoughts shape your reality, but if those thoughts are negative or undermining, they suck your energy and shift your focus from strength and self-confidence to worry and fear. As a leader, this is something we need to change so we can lead a successful team. Renie Cavallari is today’s podcast guest and she is a source of unbelievable energy. She has a strong background in the corporate world but has been running her own consulting business where she focuses on team performance. Renie is als...
Oct 04, 2023•41 min
What exactly is performance management? It’s a term we hear thrown around but what does it entail for an organization? Well, there’s the traditional outlook and then there are the ideas of today’s guest who is reimagining performance management as we know it. Projjal Ghatak is the CEO and founder of OnLoop, the mobile-first feedback and goal sharing platform purposely built for the modern team. This tool is habit-forming and provides feedback as a stream of consciousness. This innovative strateg...
Sep 27, 2023•37 min
For this episode, I am thrilled to have the author of one of my favorite books, Chris DeSantis. Chris is the author of the phenomenal Why I Find You Irritating: Navigating Generational Friction at Work. In addition to being a great author, Chris is an expert in his field with so much experience with global brands in understanding the changes we’re currently seeing in the workplace. Now, more than ever, there are more generations working at the same time. It is such an interesting topic and very ...
Sep 20, 2023•25 min
Every organization it seems is facing enormous change right now and today’s guest is an expert. An international expert in leading and accelerating change, Jeff Skipper guides leaders to plan and implement successful initiatives. His recent book Dancing with Disruption: Leading Dramatic Change During Global Transformation outlines his 12 steps to successful change and can literally be used as a checklist. In our conversation today, Jeff dives into the role of the leader in these times of change....
Sep 13, 2023•30 min
The thing that separates the organizations that are good at delivering plans and successful projects and those that are not may come as a surprise to you. Today’s guest is Greg Spira and in this episode, we talk about just that. Greg is the author of Trust the Plan: Demand Management for Business Leaders and he is in the business of helping organizations plan and roll out projects. He has worked with some of the biggest and most successful organizations worldwide and through his experience, he h...
Sep 06, 2023•29 min
For this episode, you will certainly want to take notes, because today’s guest has so many pearls of wisdom from his years of experience on how leaders should look at their business. Zain Raj joins us today to talk about his approach to building a business and solving the many problems leaders face in maintaining the growth and success of the organization. Zain’s take on the topic is wonderful and fascinating. Zain is the founder and CEO of an ideas incubator called ZedNext which he talks about ...
Aug 30, 2023•49 min
Sports and business have a surprising amount of things in common and today’s guest is no stranger to either field. David Lindsay has a varied and exciting background in multiple sports and has made the connection between the sports industry and successfully running a business. Now, David spends his time working with companies on improving performance as a coach and motivational speaker. In our conversation today, David shares the process he has developed that is a surefire way to improve your vi...
Aug 23, 2023•29 min
Today’s guest is known as being the king of scaling businesses which is certainly a skillset not everybody has. Kurt Uhlir joins the podcast today with a very interesting background in serial entrepreneurship, technology, marketing, and of course scaling businesses. His experience covers all different types of markets and industries and he has worked with organizations across the globe. Kurt can talk about many things, but today we’re leaning into his biggest passion - servant leadership. In thi...
Aug 16, 2023•27 min
What is pay justice and pay equity? And why do they matter? Sally Loftis has dedicated her career to helping organizations through the minefield of this topic and helps them overcome the growing distrust of institutions through systemic work. She is the founder and Managing Director of Loftis Partners in North Carolina and comes to us with a background in HR and consulting. Now she specializes in the area of pay justice and is a real expert in her space. In our conversation today, Sally discusse...
Jul 26, 2023•26 min
What is your truth? Today’s guest is on a mission to help fast-moving founders discover who they really are and what they genuinely stand for in order to empower them to break through obstacles, create new outcomes, and “take new ground” in their lives. Adrian Koehler, a leadership engagement expert and co-founder of Take New Ground, is passionate about empowering founders to scale their businesses and cultivate unstoppable leadership teams. With a diverse background, Adrian thrives in challengi...
Jul 18, 2023•42 min
In this episode, renowned financial planner and Strategic Coach® David Braithwaite joins us. With his extensive experience in both fields, David reveals how he leverages the power of empathy to help his clients. David Braithwaite has crafted a distinctive coaching model fueled by empathy that empowers individuals to achieve their entrepreneurial goals and help their businesses thrive while positively impacting their personal lives and families. What We Talked About in This Episode: How becoming ...
Jul 11, 2023•32 min
Returning to the podcast today is Mark Monchek. Mark joined us for a conversation about the culture of opportunity about a year ago and we have the chance to hear his insight again. Mark is the founder and Chief Opportunity Officer of Opportunity Lab, a strategy consulting firm focused on company growth through conscious business. Opportunity Lab applies models of growth to companies navigating through disruptive change and finds opportunity for sustained growth even in the most difficult situat...
Jul 04, 2023•34 min
It has been a while, but we are welcoming back speaker and author, Joey Coleman. A few years ago, Joey became the bestselling author of the book Never Lose a Customer Again , but today he joins the podcast with his follow up book Never Lose an Employee Again . Joey Coleman is an extraordinary communicator with 20 years of experience helping organizations retain their best customers and employees. In our conversation today, he shares so many things that you can take away immediately to ensure tha...
Jun 28, 2023•44 min
The topic of today’s episode of the Winning Teams Podcast is so important and very relevant. Today we’re discussing the need for shifts in behavior and let’s face it, every organization has a whole realm of change programs going on. But today’s guest breaks it down to communication and persuasion. Stephen McGarvey is the founder of Solutions in Mind, a consulting group that uses a proven process of persuading and influencing to help clients achieve success. He is certainly a real world authority...
Jun 21, 2023•29 min
“For Marc Lesser, the key to healthy relationships and effective workplaces is compassionate accountability - a practical and trainable way to clarify and achieve visions of success.” We often discuss accountability, but what is compassionate accountability? Those words do not typically belong together, but today’s guest shows up just how important the distinction is. Marc Lesser has an extensive and absolutely fascinating background. From a zen teacher and mindfulness coach to CEO, Marc is also...
May 17, 2023•33 min
Your expertise as a leader is impactful, but today’s guest proves that you just can’t know it all. You do not have to be nor are you expected to be the expert in all areas. But how can you leverage your own expertise and the expertise of those you lead and work with? Today’s guest is Wanda Wallace and she has a book published on this exact topic, You Can't Know It All: Leading in the Age of Deep Expertise . Wanda is the managing partner of an organization called Leadership forum and in addition ...
May 10, 2023•33 min
Remote work has been a buzzword since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and it has absolutely changed the landscape of business management across the entire world. But it isn’t a new concept. Working remotely has been a part of many organizations’ work model for quite a long time, which happens to be true for today’s guest, Tamara Sanderson. Tamara Sanderson is the co-founder of Remote Works, an organizational design and consulting firm with a mission to liberate teams from the 9-5 and teach th...
May 10, 2023•39 min
Today’s guest is a passionate founder and CEO of Purpose Brand, an award-winning PR, brand and digital marketing firm in Chicago. Diane Primo builds on a groundbreaking 30 year career leading some of the top marketing organizations in the country and she has set up her agency based on her own extensive experience in the corporate world. Diane is also the author of a book series that explores business culture, consumer attitudes, communication strategy, and workforce diversity. In today’s episode...
Apr 05, 2023•51 min
While thinking about hiring people to the team, we need to consider their potential in becoming a leader. It may not be for everyone and it’s not necessary for everyone to fill a leadership role, but we have to consider the qualities that give someone an advantage when it comes to leadership. What are those qualities? Today’s guest is the CEO and President of Janson Associates, Dr. Kim Janson. She is also the author of the book Determining Leadership Potential which is both a broad and deep look...
Mar 29, 2023•32 min
Today’s guest says it best in his book when he says “You can grow your revenue and scale your business without sacrificing your whole personal life.” Simon Severino is the CEO and founder of Strategy Sprints and using his Sprints method, he transformed his own business model and designed the life he wanted. Simon Severino built a fascinating consulting business focused around these Strategy Sprints he has mastered and even has a franchise model for coaches who want to advise under its umbrella. ...
Mar 22, 2023•36 min
In her unique journey to executive coach, today’s guest started in the medical field. This different experience than most coaches has led her to apply science to leadership, strategy, and high performance. Carla Fowler, MD PhD is the founder and CEO of THAXA, a boutique executive coaching firm that leverages the best ideas from performance science to help leaders around the globe. In our conversation today, Carla explains the intersection between strategy, productivity, and psychology which is a...
Mar 15, 2023•36 min
The Covid-19 pandemic changed the way the world works. Whether temporarily or something more permanent, everyone experienced some sort of remote work with their organization. Many organizations discovered that it was a great new flexibility to offer employees and some organizations resisted the change. But like it or not, this new way of work is here to stay and today’s guest shares with us just how beneficial it can be. Gustavo Razzetti is a business consultant based out of Chicago and he spend...
Mar 08, 2023•29 min
Business advice is abundant, but today’s guest takes a completely different approach that focuses on the individual’s life purpose rather than the business itself. Paul Davis joins me today to talk about his unique approach and how it impacts his clients. Paul is an old friend of mine who started his career in accounting. In today’s episode he shares why he shifted from accounting to consulting and how his approach was developed from a standard coaching perspective to working with clients to fin...
Mar 01, 2023•30 min
Everyone has mindless behaviors - the things we do without thinking about it. A lot of times, these behaviors have no impact on others and are typically part of our individuality. But what about the behaviors that get in our way? Today’s guest is author and marketing guru, Beatrice Adenodi. Beatrice has a lovely mix of commercial business experience, but takes almost an artistic and philosophical approach to this topic which is the focus of her book Mindless Behaviors . Her perspective is relata...
Nov 23, 2022•27 min
When it comes to leadership, we know all about growth mindset and why it's important. But what about vulnerability? There’s a negative connotation to the word for many people who think that being vulnerable is a bad thing. But today’s guest shows how being vulnerable is courageous and absolutely necessary in strong leadership. Salomé Trambach is today’s guest and her background is very interesting. She has quite diverse experience in the commercial world, non-profit world, and in her own success...
Nov 02, 2022•31 min
To be epic means something different for everyone, but what happens more often than not is when we don’t even take the first step. Today’s guest is Zander Sprague, in-demand public speaker and author of Epic Begins with 1 Step Forward: How to Plan, Achieve, and Enjoy the Journey . He joins the Winning Teams Podcast today to discuss what it means to have an epic idea and more importantly how you go about achieving what epic means to you. There is a difference between an intention, a goal, and a d...
Sep 21, 2022•27 min
Today’s guest on The Winning Teams Podcast is Carol Schultz. Carol is the founder and CEO of an organization called Vertical Elevation. Vertical Elevation is a talent equity and leadership and coaching advisory firm specializing in strategic business planning, leadership development, and career coaching. By tackling the root causes of high employee turnover and low workplace morale, Vertical Elevation motivates and inspires their clients to create and sustain a healthy talent-centric company tha...
Sep 14, 2022•34 min
We have two guests joining the leadership conversation this week and their work is so valuable. Authors Carol Kauffman and David Noble have written the book Real-Time Leadership: Find Your Winning Moves When the Stakes Are High and it is easy to see that the stakes are high for quite a lot of us right now. Both Carol and David are two of the world’s top coaches and their work is profound. In this episode, we discuss the importance of leadership in today’s world but we take an even closer look at...
Sep 07, 2022•36 min
In a world where we focus primarily on failure, how can we shift focus to success and opportunity? Mark Monchek has taken his own opportunity and developed a process for organizations to develop a culture of opportunity for individual team members and for the greater good of the whole team. Mark is the founder and Chief Opportunity Officer of Opportunity Lab, a strategy consulting firm focused on company growth through conscious business. Opportunity Lab applies models of growth to companies nav...
Aug 31, 2022•30 min
