Chris Deaver is Co-Founder of BraveCore - A consultancy that partners with leaders and teams on culture transformation. BraveCore helps traditional leaders be more co-creative and creative people lean into leadership of the future. Over 15 years in Sr HR roles in some of the biggest brands on the planet, inc Apple, Disney, Dell and VMWare. Chris builds the best leaders and cultures. Collaborative. Co-Creative. Inspiring. Future-leading. Influencing through: Coaching. Speaking. Supercharging Cult...
Sep 06, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Olga is currently the Vice President of People at YCharts. A series C funding company with an investment research platform that enables smarter investments and better client communications, for more than 5,000 clients With over a decade and a half in all areas of HR, working in insurance, technology and investment sectors, she loves to create and implement strategy at the intersection of business and people. Developing a values-led culture, and leading high performing teams. Alongside this, she ...
Aug 30, 2022•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Alicia brings a unique perspective as a Cultural Sociologist and Executive Director/VP of ICF Thought Leadership Institute. She is passionate about making the world a better place. So we have that in common already - Her purpose is to live 'compassionately bold' by partnering with individuals and organizations to be the change they want to see in the world. With a holistic, integrated approach to the problem-solving process, her work is grounded in the ethical principles for justice, e...
Aug 23, 2022•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Todd Cherches is the CEO and cofounder of Big Blue Gumball, a NYC-based management consulting firm specializing in leadership development and executive coaching. A member of Marshall Goldsmiths MG 100 Coaches, a three-time award-winning adjunct professor of leadership at NYU, a lecturer on leadership at Columbia University, a TEDx speaker, and the author of the groundbreaking book, "VisuaLeadership: Leveraging the Power of Visual Thinking in Leadership and in Life" Todd was nominated a...
Aug 16, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Anuj Kathuria is a Certified Coach, well known speaker at various global forums and a true consultant at heart. He is currently the Chief People and Strategy Officer at Waaree Group, India's Largest Solar Module Manufacturer & fastest growing EPC company with Presence across 68 countries and over 2500 employees globally. He possesses a wide range of skills and talents that have enabled him to successfully implement Talent, Learning, OD, Digitalization, and Transformation initiatives wit...
Aug 09, 2022•57 min•Ep 77•Transcript available on Metacast Claudia (Claudia Noriega) has dedicated the last twelve years of her life to empower people, especially children, and women. Her book - Brighter Days has the 88 Most Important Lessons Learned in Life for Women that Want to Increase their Confidence, Resilience and Courage: She started her career on television at 17 years old as a actor, appearing in one the most popular Telenovela series airing in over 37 counties but soon after she moved to behind the camera at 21 becoming one of the youngest p...
Aug 02, 2022•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast David Ogilvie is a NED, Executive Coach and Resilience Coach. He is also Chief Executive Officer at The Resilience Development Company with a mission to help people, work better, feel better, live better. We create resilience training programmes for teams that deliver performance, growth and wellbeing in one solution. People are amazing and Resilience Development Co. is on a mission to unlock potential, performance, growth and wellbeing. As the creator and leader of a skills-based approach to bu...
Jul 26, 2022•53 min•Ep 75•Transcript available on Metacast One of the ten leading business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50 an expert at helping leaders grow their people to grow their organization. Whitney is an award-winning author, world-class keynote speaker, frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School's Corporate Learning, and an executive coach and advisors to CEOs. Host of "Disrupt Yourself" podcast at whitneyjohnson.com Co-founded the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business Schools late Clayton Christensen a...
Jul 19, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Alex is an entrepreneur and Executive Coach - based in Los Angeles As an executive coach, Alex has worked with over 300 executives from leading organizations and government agencies including: Samsung, Mercedes-Benz, Activision Blizzard, Google, Roche, Methanex, CEMEX, Newfield Exploration, the Federal Reserve Bank, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Aviation Administration. Coaching.com - empowering human potential, raising the global standard of coaching (Which starte...
Jul 12, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nikki is passionate about creating change in habits, behaviours, mindset, performance and well-being. Most well-being interventions don't work, particularly over the long term. Niki has created a powerful methodology for individuals and organisations that delivers results at speed. There is a gap between 'knowing' and 'doing'. An immediate and sustainable change in behaviour can only be achieved when working with both unconscious and conscious minds. "My fascination...
Jul 05, 2022•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jonathan Passmore is rated as one of the top 10 professional coaches in the world. His work over the past three decades, including 30 books, and over 100 scientific articles have contributed to his position as a global thought leader. Professor of Coaching & Behavioural Change He is the 2020-21 British Psychology Society Chair of the Coaching Psychology group and Chair of the European University Coaching Network. Senior Vice President at CoachHub: CoachHub is the leading global talent develo...
Jun 21, 2022•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jeff is a Certified Executive Coach, Chartered Professional Accountant and Certified Dharma Yoga Instructor. His mission is to inspire leaders and help teams perform - so that millions of people become engaged in their work. He believes that great leaders see supporting lines, not reporting linesTM SupportingLines offers a simple, yet powerful framework to improve performance and increase engagement. Framework offerings: - Help People Grow - individual performance management - Achieve More Goals...
Jun 14, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Pranav is a speaker, mentor, coach and CEO of PETRONAS' a global energy company with over 30k employees and a presence in 50 countries. He is a recognized Global-Top 200 Thought-Leader We are living in a world of accelerating change, increasing uncertainty, where the ones who are good with chaos, with flux, with adaptability are able to navigate the journey with a smile, but many the reality is many are struggling. "He knows how to motivate teams and carry them all along to achieve the...
Jun 07, 2022•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Debra is CEO of Ruh Global IMPACT and Executive Chair at Billion Strong - an identity and empowerment organization designed to bring the billions of voices of persons with disabilities together. She is founder of 4 social enterprises, author of 3 books, works with inclusion branding, helps find your voice by using Social Media. Debra also helps uncovering Hidden Human Capital: How leading corporations leverage multiple abilities in their workforce. Expertise includes: Global Disability Inclusion...
May 31, 2022•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr Oleg Konovalov is a thought leader, author, speaker, business educator and consultant with over 25 years of experience operating businesses. And consulting for many Fortune 500 companies both in the UK and internationally. Having been named as the da Vinci of Visionary Leadership by many leading authorities of our time Oleg is helping companies to create and execute their vision, diagnose and treat organizational diseases, maintain a strong productive corporate culture, and achieve superior b...
May 24, 2022•50 min•Ep 67•Transcript available on Metacast Ankita Poddar is a blogger, writer, and host of the podcast - HR Bandit, passionate about all things HR & Behavioural Economics. People Matters India identified her as one of 15 'Emerging HR Leaders' in the country in 2016. Top 50 HR Influencers in the country by SHRM India in 2019 and top 20 HR influencers in the country by ETHRWorld, from The Economic Times India. She has been with Amazon for over 6 years, in L&D and HR Business partner roles. Ross and Ankita talk about HR, m...
May 17, 2022•50 min•Ep 66•Transcript available on Metacast Brain is Group Vice President at Gartner providing Cutting Edge Insights to the Most Progressive HR Executives. Launching a mix of new products and services to enable senior executives to take decisive actions. * Leading content experiences for ReImagineHR, the largest and most important event for senior HR executives. * Overseas global research strategy and deliverables for HR Leaders and their teams across the globe. 15 years, as Practice manager, MD of the HR Practice,. Ross and Brian discuss...
May 10, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast "Real G's move in silence like lasagne" William is the President & Editor-at-Large of RecruitingDaily. At the intersection of HR and technology - a writer, speaker, advisor, consultant, investor, storyteller & teacher. He sits on the board of over 28 HR Tech companies around the world, written over 250 HR articles, spoken at over 375 HR & recruiting conferences and conducted over 1650 HR podcasts & webinars. Ross and William talk about, art imitating life, gangster...
May 03, 2022•58 min•Ep 64•Transcript available on Metacast Jennifer McClure is an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and high-performance coach who works with leaders to leverage their influence, increase their impact, and accelerate results. Frequently recognized as a global influencer and expert on the future of work, strategic leadership and innovative people strategies, Jennifer has decades of in-the-trenches leadership and executive experience working in and with startups, privately held companies, and Fortune 500 organizations in a variety of industri...
Apr 26, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Maja (Maya) Zelihic is in the global 100 inspirational leaders, with the likes of Richard Branson, opera winery, Elon musk and Jeff Bezos. Published in over 20+ peer-reviewed journals. Her book The Power of Perception, co-authored with Dr. Diane Hamilton, was released in December 2020 and in June 2020 Dr Diane was our first podcast guest here on decoding AQ. Ross and Maja talk about immigration, refuging, environment, survival, studying, open mindedness, childhood, education, learning, shapi...
Apr 19, 2022•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mark has been Manging partner at STORYMINERS for 20 years, his primary roles include Advisor, Strategist and Creative. He has been a Speaker, Coach and Facilitator for 12 years What is strategy, if not the story of who you are and where you want to go next? When it comes to adaptive, what's the difference between modeling and modeling? Spoiler: modeling can mean 'showing others how it's done' or 'shaping what's to come with them'. I practice the latter way ;-) ...
Apr 12, 2022•55 min•Ep 61•Transcript available on Metacast Alexia is Founder & Managing Partner of The Resilience Institute - Grounded in New Zealand in the late 90s, The Resilience Institute operates today across Asia-Pacific and Europe with offices in New Zealand, Australia, China, Singapore, France and Switzerland. The Resilience Quotient - leadership with heart and purpose. Alexia was Media Manager at P&G for 6 years, then 3 years at World Federation of Advertisers and spent 1 year at the International coach academy. Ross and Alexia talk abo...
Apr 05, 2022•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mark S. Babbitt is Co-author of 'Good Comes First'. Inc. Magazine included him in their Top 100 Leadership Speakers list and Top 50 Leadership Innovators. In addition, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Inc., The Economist, HBR, and many other major publications have featured Msrk's work and voice. An employee mass exodus is taking place right in front of our eyes. And it isnt because of a so-called labor shortage. Instead, we have a RESPECT shortage and we have far too many workplace cultures...
Mar 29, 2022•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast John Baldoni - is a globally recognized leadership educator, certified Master Corporate Executive Coach, LinkedIn Live hosts, and author of more than 800 leadership columns, and 15 books that have been translated into ten languages. John is the host of LinkedIn Lives GRACE under pressure. In 2021, the International Federation of Learning and Development named John a World-Class Mentor and named him to its Hall of Fame. In 2022, Global Gurus ranked John a Top 20 global leadership expert, a list h...
Mar 22, 2022•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast If there is a top person list in leadership, hr or business, chances are you will find Gordon on it! An international speaker, with a LinkedIn experience list, as full as anyone I have ever seen! A regular contributor to Inc magazine, forbes and entrepreneur magazine. From a degree in mathematics in the 80s, Gordon has spent time in Banking, Communications, logistics, all entered around organisational transformation. Ross and Gordon talk about driving change, leadership, organisational change, c...
Mar 15, 2022•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kian Gohar is a strategist & co-author of Competing in the New World of Work. He coaches executives on team leadership, innovation and transformation. Kian is Founder and CEO of Geolab. A sought-after strategist and advisor, Kian inspires the world's leading organizations to harness innovation and moonshots to solve complex problems. He coaches entrepreneurs, executives and leaders to make their impossible, impossible. Ross and Kian talk about innovation, creating jobs, venture capital,...
Feb 22, 2022•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Julie Hutchinson uses science-backed Resilient Transformation for leaders and executives to decrease stress, increase energy, productivity and profits. She is Founder & CEO of Core Performance, a 'Vistage' speaker and certified Heartmath Trainer, providing resilience and sales training. Ross and Julie talk about entrepreneurship, building a company, burning out, self discovery, managing stress, resilience, anxiety, shifting direction, bio hacking, self discovery, thoughts, beliefs,...
Feb 07, 2022•50 min•Ep 55•Transcript available on Metacast The only thing we can do that is guaranteed to prepare us for an increasingly uncertain future is to become more adaptable to change. But most people feel like their relationship with change is fixed in stone. The good news is that nothing could be further from the truth. Rich Alderton can provide a roadmap and a few simple - albeit counter-intuitive - practical tools based on scientific theory. The result is a set of personal superpowers that enable anyone to enjoy rather than endure a life of ...
Jan 25, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Wayne is a customer-focused security evangelist and leader helping organizations achieve revenue transformation from TCV to ACV, expand offerings, increased profitability and brand elevation. He is a Fundraiser, Speaker, Community Leader and been with The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research for 4 years. Wayne's philosophy is adapt until science overcomes! Parkinson's disease - Affects over 1 Million Americans. Wayne and Ross talk about sales, security, Parkinson&apo...
Jan 18, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Karen helps Leaders, Teams and Organizations prepare for the rapid and disruptive impeding workplace change. She helps clients reach their full potential by building "future ready" mindsets and skills. Karen and Ross talk about adaptability, resilience, the status quo, uncrossing wires, change, uncertainty, definitions of success, purpose, finding joy, self doubt, curiosity and putting yourself first. The pair also discuss crisis moments, transformation, freedom, living your purpose, a...
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