Hear how to identify your values and live them every day
Today you will meet Shayna Bergman, a terrific executive leadership coach with big ideas to help you find your way during these challenging times of change. Her goal is to empower you to unlock your personal potential. Shayna specializes in helping people achieve deeper meaning and fulfillment in their personal and professional lives through authentic leadership and clarity of purpose. She believes, as do I, that you have to have a purpose-driven life. There has to be something that really motivates and drives you, a North Star. Need help finding yours? Listen in!
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Topics:
Leadership,
women entrepreneurs,
women leaders,
rethinking women
Hear how to really live diversity, equity and inclusion
This was a very special podcast with Dr. Rohini Anand, a global strategic Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) leader. A published author, Dr. Anand’s new book, Leading Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Guide for Systemic Change in Multinational Organizations, sets the stage for her own journey as a pioneer in DEI and a woman helping global companies transform their organizations, one person at a time. You are going to enjoy learning from Dr. Anand. Open your notebooks, iPads or computers and get ready to capture the innovations, the insights and the impact she is making, and which you can as well. I just love women who are changing the world!
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Topics:
Leadership,
women leaders,
human development,
rethinking women
Learn how to be the great leader the future needs!
We have been developing a Leadership Academy for a healthcare system and working with their team to develop great leaders. This is particularly important during times of great stress, like this pandemic that is upon us. But it is equally important during the more normal yet still uncertain times that were affecting the world before the COVID-19 mess. The need for effective leadership goes way beyond healthcare. It is a recurring theme virtually everywhere. But what type of leaders are needed for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, with all the changes to our workplace and workers? Add the pandemic to the mix and leadership is facing its own crisis. How can we soften the great transformation and enable leaders of today to refocus for tomorrow? Listen in.
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Topics:
Leadership,
business leadership
Learn how to become a sought-after thought leader!
My guest today, Mitchell Levy, has a particular approach to capture those “aha” moments in life that at one time or another we all have. If you'd like to write a book but don't want to spend years doing it, call Mitch! His particular skill lies in extracting the genius from your head in a two-hour interview so that his team can ghostwrite your book, publish it, distribute it and make you an Amazon bestselling author in four months. Now that is quite amazing. I should know, as I am currently writing my second book. Want to have a breakthrough idea and run with it? Listen in.
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Topics:
Leadership,
business leadership
Listen now as Richard Sheridan and his team bring joy to work!
I had the great pleasure of speaking with Richard Sheridan, Founder and CEO of Menlo Innovations, and two of his terrific teammates, Laura Elliot and Ryan Heisler. As you listen in on our conversation, you'll hear how you too can change your workplace so that it brings "Joy" to you, your clients and your team who all pull together to get the "job" done. Enjoy!
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Topics:
Andrea Simon,
innovation,
Leadership
Listen now to Andrew Sykes teach us how to create positive workplace cultures!
You know how much I love to talk about culture and culture change in business. In this interview, I talk with Andrew Sykes about his approach to helping companies build better habits in their employees to achieve better business and personal results. I am fascinated by the way he has built an entire business helping companies create cultures that reinforce positive habits and eliminate destructive ones, and I know you will be too. Andrew is awesome!
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Topics:
Andrea Simon,
innovation,
Leadership
Listen now as Maureen Berkner Boyt explains how to overcome your unscious biases and unleash your full potential!
I bet you'd like to know how to lead with moxie? Maureen Berkner Boyt is going to help you do just that. In this interview, she and I talk about how to unleash the power you have within you by overcoming the biases that squash great accomplishments. As Maureen says, "I create businesses, tools and experiences that allow people and organizations to unleash their full potential." Here's your chance to learn how you can "Lead with Moxie" too!
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Topics:
Andrea Simon,
innovation,
women in business,
Leadership
Listen now as Steve Harper explains the power of The Ripple Effect!
I bet you want to know what Rippling is? Or maybe even how to Ripple? You are going to love this interview with Steve Harper. Our conversation is all about how, growing up shy and introverted, he learned to build relationships with people. It wasn't easy. But he came upon this idea about Rippling and it changed his entire life. So what is Rippling? The concept that one connection leads to the next to the next, and then ripples well past where it began, changing people's lives.
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Topics:
Andrea Simon,
busines model innovation,
innovation,
Leadership
Listen now to Sara Canaday teach us how to change the way you and others think about YOU.
Today’s On The Brink interview is with Sara Canaday, author of the amazing book "You—According to Them": Uncovering the blind spots that impact your reputation and your career." We talk about how to make the critical move from manager to leader, and how to change the way you and others think about You. By the end of the podcast, you'll have learned how to strengthen your leadership skills, improve key business relationships and bolster your performance.
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Topics:
Andrea Simon,
Culture Change,
women in business,
Leadership
Listen now to thought leader Tanya Hall explain how she turned a non-traditional publishing business into an amazing powerhouse!
Get your copy of Tanya's amazingly spot-on book, out now!!!
You must read Tanya Hall's new book, "Ideas, Influence and Income: Write a book, build your brand, and lead your industry," a comprehensive guide to writing, publishing and launching your own book...and monetizing your content. You'll learn how to use a strategic and successful publishing experience to boost your visibility and credibility, as well as build more influence and income—all the reasons why we published my award-winning book with @tanyahall and @greenleafbookgr. Tanya and her book are terrific!
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Topics:
Andrea Simon,
busines model innovation,
women in business,
Leadership
Listen now to Dale Richards teach us how to increase productivity!
In this highly informative podcast, Dale shares with us how he helps companies really “soar,” something he has done over and over again for his own and his clients' businesses. Founder of 35 hi-tech companies (for which he helped raise $500 million in capital) and master of 20+ technology license deals, Dale explains the secrets to his success so you can soar, too. Listen in!
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Topics:
busines model innovation,
Leadership
Listen now as Jay Hasbrouck takes anthropology from stuffy to accessible!
It is always so much fun to talk with other anthropologists and Jay Hasbrouck is no exception. Jay has written a terrific book called "Ethnographic Thinking: From Method to Mindset." It's exciting stuff because, as you will hear in our conversation, anthropology and ethnography (observational research) are slowly but surely moving out of their academic silos into the world around us. Listen in and hear why Jay and I are both on a mission to make this sometimes "stuffy thing" called anthropology much more accessible. Enjoy!
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Topics:
Andrea Simon,
Corporate Anthropology,
innovation,
anthropology,
Leadership
Listen now to hear how Hamilton Perkins is ingeniously turning trash into designer travel bags and jobs!
We are big believers in the imagination and initiative of entrepreneurs. Hamilton Perkins, founder and president of Hamilton Perkins Collection, is one of them. Listen to our conversation about how he saw a mound of trash and an idea emerged. From this "a-ha" moment grew an innovative e-commerce retail business, turning recycled plastic bottles into designer travel bags at an affordable price, all the while adhering to the highest standards of social and environmental accountability. Hamilton's mission? To repurpose ALL plastic bottles going into landfills. Tune in to learn how he's doing it and creating jobs!
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Topics:
Andrea Simon,
busines model innovation,
innovation,
Leadership
Listen now to Dudley Slater talk about Fusion Leadership
In Dudley Slater's new book, "Fusion Leadership," he talks about how great leaders "see, feel and think" differently. They build teams that understand goals and how to achieve them—together. In our fascinating interview, he tells a great story about why the people he has worked with have done so well. Their companies defy national norms and their employees are exceptionally happy, purposeful and successful. You need to hear this!
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Topics:
Andrea Simon,
business,
Corporate Culture,
Leadership
Listen now to Gary Morton talk about how to build teams that win
In our podcast, Gary Morton shares his amazing experiences working with teams that simply "soared." He then takes listeners through his methodology so that you too can learn from him and the incredible leaders he has been privileged to work with, as described in his new book, "Commanding Excellence: Inspiring Purpose, Passion, and Ingenuity through Leadership that Matters." Take a listen and pick up his book, an amazing read.
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Topics:
Andrea Simon,
Leadership
With 25 years of hands-on executive experience as CEO of the commercial and industrial water treatment company he founded, Jack Altschuler now uses what he learned to help others in leadership positions be the most effective they can be. Jack's philosophy is to promote the full engagement of leaders in order to inspire the full engagement of those who look to them for leadership.
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Topics:
Corporate Anthropology,
Corporate Culture,
Leadership