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Leading in the End Zone

Patrick Ungashick is the CEO of NAVIX Consultants. He is a business exit strategist, speaker, and author, you don’t have to be selling a business to apply these leadership hacks! You will learn:

The different emotional connections of CEO of Corporate vs Owner Managed CEO’s
Why people become less strategic in their thinking as they start to plan exit?
How questions reveal the direction and decisions
Why having a stop doing list is a leadership enabler

George McGehrin is the President of the McGehrin Group, one of the U.S. top executive placement and recruitment firms of C-Suite executives and he’s also a professional executive branding coach. In this episode you can learn from George:

Why you need a broad number of clients to survive a crisis
Top exec’s need support just like everyone else
Use your brand to find more opportunities
How your Network leads to your Net Worth

Leading Women

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Kelly Lockwood Primus is the president and CEO of the leading organization that is shaping the future of the workplace for women, Leading Women, In this episode you can learn:

What gender dynamics are
Mindsets of leaders (male, female and other) can help or hinder the gender gap
Closing the gender gap starts with conversation
Some of the reasons why only circa 11% of Senior Leaders in Fortune 500 are female
Gender gaps are created by women too!

Time Traveling Stories

Geoff Thatcher is the CEO of Creative principals, providing creative leadership for brand experiences, museums, visitor centres and attractions. He is the author of the CEO’s Time Machine and a TEDx Speaker. In this show, discover:

The power of experience through story
The correlation between stories and leadership
What the CEO’s Time Machine can do for you
How note taking can lead to creating great stories

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Success Mindsets

Ryan Gottfredson is a mental success coach and cutting edge leadership consultant. He is also author, training and researcher, and recently written the bestselling book, SUCCESS MINDSETS. You can learn from Ryan:

Mindset is a driver for our behaviour
Companies that focus on mindset are more productive
Behaviours and Mindsets get mixed up
How our Mindset impacts how we think, learn, behave, and also shapes our physiology

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Leadership in a Digital World

Frank Zinghini is the guest on our show today, Frank is the CEO of Applied Visions Inc and one of the world’s top thought leaders on digital applications: You will learn

How he grew his business from his basement
The parallels in leading people and the digital agenda
The role trust plays in leadership
Leading his customers is as important as leading his team

Plus lots of leadership hacks!

Music: ” Upbeat Party ” by Scott Holmes courtesy of the Free Music Archive FMA

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Strategy First

Brad Chase was the mind behind some of Microsoft’s largest and most successful initiatives, In episode 21, Brad explains why building winning strategies is the single most important element to business success, what he calls “the business success imperative.” Learn from Brad:

Countless tips and a useful, memorable model to help leaders build first place strategies
Three components for strategy =ExMC²
Why strategy gets lost for some leaders
Build tall walls and retain your customers

Belief Systems That Distinguish Leaders

Our Leadership Hacker Podcast Show with Ian Mills and Mark Ridley

Ian Mills and Mark Ridley are leadership development experts. They run the international development consultancy firm Transform Performance International and have co-authored several books. Most latterly, The Leaders Secret Code. In this episode learn about:

How Ian and Mark lead in a VUCA world

What can make leaders iconic

Understand destination beliefs and unlock leadership growth

How journey motivators can assist your development

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The Innovative Leader with Dr Simone Ahuja

Dr Simone Ahuja is a global expert on innovation strategy, a HBR columnist, author of Disrupt it Yourself and co-author of the bestselling book Jugaad Innovation. Dr Simone Ahuja will help you:

Explore how to grow internal innovation even during a crisis
Understand what Jugaad and Frugal Innovation is
How to Innovate more with less
Create Trust and a Permissionless society
Why compassion in innovation is so key

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The Human Edge with Greg Orme

Greg Orme is an Award winning author and business keynote speaker and is our special guest on Episode 14. Find out why we should stop competing with AI but to instead start to differentiate ourselves. Explore the superpowers you’ll need to future-proof your value in the workplace: Consciousness, Curiosity, Creativity and Collaboration. We talk about Greg’s, “Dance Steps”. You can learn one-step and put them together in any order. You’ll learn:

How do you create a culture of creativity?
Consciousness gives us the motivation and the time.