Episodes

Katie McCleary is the co-author of BRIDGE THE GAP: Breakthrough Communication Tools to Transform Work Relationships from Challenging to Collaborative with Jennifer Edwards. They show how to use the social psychology of human connection and curiosity to drive meaningful communication and collaboration at work. Packed with practical and replicable techniques, the book reveals how to: • Master your biological reactions to connect, even amid pressure, anxiety, and stress • Lead with curiosity and en...

Tevis Trower is a Leadership Futurist and innovator in optimizing corporations through fostering greatness in leaders. Heralded in bestselling Megatrends 2010 as “corporate mindfulness guru for the new millennium”, Tevis has assisted powerful organizations ranging from Disney to Morgan Stanley in optimizing their most precious assets: human beings. She has created and facilitated global executive immersions for prestigious organizations including Harvard Business Review Events, Young Presidents ...

Joseph O’Connor is an author, International Executive Coach, Coach Trainer, Founder of the Neuroscience Coaching Centre. His Key Focus is Helping coaches, executives, managers, and other professionals to be more successful in work and happier in life. Joseph is also the co-founder of the International Coaching Community (ICC), and one of the best known and respected coaches and coach trainers in the world. Joseph was a professional musician where it is clear that success is much more than just b...

Raul Rivas grew up in the Orlando area. After graduating high school, he attended college and obtained an Associate Degree in business. Raul then enlisted in the Army Reserve and served overseas during Desert Storm. Raul was sworn into the Orlando Police Department in 1992. He was first assigned to midnight patrol. Then he had stints on the bicycle squad and gang unit, before moving on to a multi-agency undercover drug task force named the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation (MBI). Raul was a f...

Christian Espinosa is the bestselling author of “The Smartest Person in the Room”, an entrepreneur, the founder of Alpine Security, a white hat hacker, certified high-performance coach, professor, and lover of heavy metal music and spicy food. He’s also an Air Force veteran and Ironman triathlete. He used to value being the “smartest person in the room,” only to realize that his greatest contribution to humanity, leadership and the fight against cybercrime is his ability to bring awareness and s...

Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is a cutting-edge leadership development author, researcher, and consultant. He helps organizations vertically develop their leaders primarily through a focus on mindsets. 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, & Leadership. He is also a leadership professor at the College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton. Vertical development is enhan...

Bill Leider is a seasoned, highly respected executive leader, advisor, and consultant. He is the co-founder and managing partner of Axies Group, a consulting company. He works with growth-minded leaders and organizations that want to propel their performance from acceptable to exceptional. His more than 35 years of experience include being the CEO of both publicly traded and privately-owned companies and advising and consulting to companies ranging from ambitious start-ups to Fortune 500s in a w...

An award-winning leadership expert in human behavior, Lisa Marie Platske has received accolades from the White House, the United States Small Business Administration, and The International Alliance for Women, recognized as one of the top 100 women making a difference in the world. She left her Federal law enforcement career to be the CEO of an international leadership development company, Upside Thinking, Inc. Lisa Marie delivers presentations worldwide sharing research on how vulnerability and ...

Ron is co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. He has a thirty-year track record helping executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization, and leadership. He has worked with start-ups to Fortune 10’s companies. Ron has helped organizations articulate strategies that lead to accelerated growth, and design organizations that can execute those strategies. He has worked in m...

Robert Brzenchek is the founder/owner of the Delaware-based non-profit organization The Brzenchek Foundation Corp, where the mission is to be a global change agent to empower communities through advocacy, training, consulting, and philanthropy. Mr.Brzenchek currently hosts a podcast with a focus on social justice and criminal justice reform entitled Injustice Anywhere Is a Threat to Justice Everywhere. Mr.Brzenchek has two published gang books The Gang Life Laugh Now Cry Later Suppression and Pr...

Steve Cunningham is the owner and founder of Readitfor.me. They turn the world’s best business and personal books into beautiful 12-minute videos and workshops for organizations around the world. He also created Growitfor.me which he’ll talk about today too. Here’s are some of the top things about him he shared with us. Steve loves being an entrepreneur. He started his first business in grade 4 selling baseball and hockey trading cards. He used to run a digital marketing agency called Three Thir...

Dr. Diana Hill is a clinical psychologist and expert in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a cutting-edge, evidence-based form of psychotherapy that helps people develop psychological flexibility. Diana co-hosts the Psychologists Off the Clock Podcast where she has interviewed many leaders in the field of psychology, mindfulness, and wellness. She is the co-author with Dr. Debbie Sorensen of ACT Daily Journal: Get Unstuck and Live Fully with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, in which she ...

In our fast-paced, high-tech, ever-evolving world the speed of change, decision-making is getting faster, the level of competition fiercer, and adversity, ambiguity are striking harder than ever. As this is the current and future state of our world, it is imperative that people stay level-headed and focused to effectively function at optimal capacity. The ability to be that stabilizing influence in a world of constant disruption can provide a true competitive advantage and determine the long-ter...

Dr. Katrina Burrus, CEO/founder of Excellent Executive Coaching LLC, is known for “Fast-tracking leaders to the C-Suite and Beyond” and for “Transforming Brilliant Jerks into Inspiring Leaders.” Clients often comment that working with Katrina enlightens leaders to empower co-workers to walk the extra mile. She is a keynote speaker and published, “Managing Brilliant Jerks” and “Global Leadership” a body of work used by Nestle, Novartis, the World Health Organization, the International Labor Organ...

Bill Eckstrom is the CEO and founder of EcSell Institute. Bill’s professional career path has encompassed sales, sales leadership, executive leadership with both private and publicly traded companies. He established EcSell Institute to fill a void he witnessed in the coaching and leadership profession. EcSell’s research and improvement programming has been utilized in the athletic and academic worlds, spawning new start-ups EcSell Sports and EcSell Education in 2019. Bill’s TED talk titled Why C...

Tim Spiker is the founder of The Aperio and the Who* Not What Principle, a profound research-based truth that has powered 15 years of leadership development success. Tim’s book, The Only Leaders Worth* Following, reveals that 77% of leadership effectiveness comes from who a leader is and not what they do. Using this principle, Tim helps people become, be, and stay leaders who are actually worth following. In short, it means becoming Inwardly Sound and Others Focused. Who our leaders are, rather ...

How Strategic Relationships Can Power Your Non-Linear Growth in The Future of Work David Nour – CEO, The Nour Group, Inc. Senior Leadership/Board Innovation Advisor | International Speaker | Best-Selling Author | Forbes Leadership Contributor A senior leadership/board advisor, researcher, executive educator, and best-selling author, David is internationally recognized as the leading expert on applications of strategic relationships in profitable growth, sustained innovation, and lasting change. ...

EB Sanders is a sought-after coach and staffing consultant serving creative individuals, companies, and organizations. She believes that great leaders have extraordinary careers and her mission is to convince everyone that they don’t have to choose between happiness and success. EB spent 12 years as a college professor teaching courses like ‘The History of Creativity.’ But education budgets being what they are, she found her course load shrinking year after year. She fully pivoted into creative ...

Why are some people magnetic, confident, comfortable in their skin, and in charge of their destinies? What’s their secret? In a word: Swagger. Our guest Leslie Ehm will show you how to unlock and unleash your personal brand of it in her book. It is part guidebook, part manifesto, a little sweary and completely inspiring, Swagger shatters the myths around “fake it ’til you make it,” shows you how to record over negative mental tapes, and challenge the preconceptions of what you “should” and “shou...

JP is the CEO of boomtime. He has over 30 years of experience in marketing, digital strategy, and product management for companies ranging from startups to global brands such as Madison Square Garden, General Mills, DFS Group Ltd., Johnson & Johnson, and National Geographic. JP has worked for or helped companies in both the B2C and the B2B sectors and founded three digital strategy and marketing agencies after working for many years on the corporate side of marketing. JP’s passions are analytics...

Roger Nierenberg has conducted operas at New York’s Lincoln Center, the Stamford Symphony in Connecticut, and the Jacksonville Symphony in Florida. Through his experiences with leaders, he became curious about the challenges and opportunities faced by organizations in times of rapid change. He saw how crucial issues of organizational development could be powerfully brought to life within an orchestra. Thus was born The Music Paradigm and his book Maestro: A Surprising Story About Leading by List...

Given so many Covid calls, Zoom meetings, and screen watching, it's no wonder we are all suffering from brain fog. Zeina Ghossoub El-Aswad, Ph.D., will join us on today's show to talk about truly nourishing our bodies for the best brain before it's drained. Dr. Zeina Ghossoub El-Aswad, PhD in behavior and counseling, is a wellness and leadership coach and the president of the International Coach Federation (ICF) Chartered Chapter Lebanon. She is also a clinical dietitian and the founder and CEO ...

The pandemic has changed our work world and has presented overwhelming challenges for leaders to be understanding, visionary, empathic and motivate a diverse workforce and stay focused themselves.More employers plan to add remote work options, too, with increased empathy for workers’ daily challenges. All told, major changes are here to stay, and employers think the future looks brighter. In fact, over one-fourth (27%) plan to hire at higher volumes than before the pandemic. So motivating yourse...

“It is people, not things, who nurture our souls.” Character is the root of leadership. A leader of character must establish a culture of trust. A leader grows trust by trusting others first, providing a vision, displaying integrity, leading by example, and sincerely caring about others. A leader must have more than values and principles. Join us for a fresh look at Character, Competence, and Resilience with author General John Gronski (recently retired) for insights into his forthcoming book, I...