Key Conversations for Leaders

Jude Charles started his company as a teenager. He is a Brand Strategist Filmmaker, and Speaker.  For almost 15 years, has been helping purpose-driven, 7-figure and 8-figure entrepreneurs to bring their stories to life through documentaries & videos.

Inside This Episode

• Sharing Your Story
• Nail It, Then Scale It with Video Marketing
• Why You Need to Show Your Story
• When Video Is Right (or Not Right) For Your Company
• How to Demonstrate Your Expertise
• The Power of Roadmapping Your Message
• Creating Marketing Assets, Even If You Pivot Later
• The Timelessness of Starting with Why
• Why We All Need to Develop Our Personal Brand
• How Keeping It Simple Can Be An Advantage
• Capturing the Moment with a Story

To connect with Jude, visit www.judecharles.co/list

Dr. Kurt Nelson is an applied behavioral scientist, the president and founder of the Lantern Group.  He is also a sought after speaker and recognized leader in human motivation and behavior change. For over 20 years, Kurt has worked with global companies to apply behavioral science principles to drive change in their organizations. All his work is focused on understanding ways to positively influence how people behave.

Inside This Episode

• Why Employees Are Disengaged
• The Four Drive Model to Creating an Engaged Workforce
• How Recognition Reduces Turnover
• The Cost of Disengagement
• Realizing the Synergy of Communication and Culture
• Barriers to Effective Leadership
• Is It A Culture Issue or a Leadership Issue?
• The Impact of Friction on a Company’s Results
• Understanding and Creating Positive Social Norms
• Using Social Proof as a Leader to Effect Change
• The Power of Framing
• The Key to Avoiding Short-Term Behavior Change
• The Biggest Mistake Leaders Make Regarding Motivation
• The Say-Do Gap

Links:

Website:  www.lanterngroup.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtwnelson/

Twitter:  @WhatMotivates 

Paul Smith is one of the world’s leading experts in business storytelling. He’s one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers of 2018, a storytelling coach, and bestselling author of several books including The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell, Sell with a Story, Lead with a Story, Parenting with a Story. Paul holds an MBA from the Wharton School, is a former consultant at Accenture, and former executive and 20-year veteran of The Procter & Gamble Company.

Inside This Episode

• Why Storytelling Works
• Why Emotions Drive Good Decision-Making
• How to use stories every day
• What’s Your Company Story?
• An Example of a Founding Story
• Top 10 Stories Leaders Must Tell
• How Stories Create Culture
• Common Storytelling Mistakes
• How to Start a Story So People Listen
• Why Telling Stories Is Better Than Giving Advice
• Keep It Short & Sweet
• Using Questions to Customize and Create Stories
• If Not Now, When?

Links:

Website: www.leadwithastory.com

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/smithpa9/

Twitter: @LeadWithAStory

Paul's Book Page on Amazon

Jonathan Pritchard.  Jonathan is the Founder of Hellstrom Group; international consulting agency. Author of "Think Like A Mind Reader." And a Fortune 500 Mentalist.

Inside This Episode:

• What is Mentalism and Why You Want to Think Like One
• Understanding Human Wiring Opens Us Up to Better Marketing and Sales
• Why We Never Experience “Reality”
• The Reason Our Brains Use Mental Shortcuts
• How Micro-Predictions Frame Our Experience
• How the Brain Manages Its Bandwidth and Focuses Its Resources
• A Live Demo of the Limitation of Our Mental Wiring
• How Our Values and Beliefs Determine Our Experience
• The Dual Meaning of “I can’t imagine…”
• The Importance of Communicating in the Language of The Person You’re Communicating With
• How to Get “Admin Privileges” of a Person’s Human Software
• Why You Don’t Want to Compete on Price
• The Power of Preparation in Negotiation
• Developing Your Ability to Walk Away in a Negotiation
• The Power of Time Compression
• The Value of Staying Present During Dynamic Experiences
• Setting the Agenda at the Beginning to Avoid Gotchas at the End
• Creating Win-Win Negotiations
• Why Decisions Should Be Made Ahead of Time
• How Structure Actually Creates Flexibility
• The Importance of Getting Out of the Box You’re Stuck In
• Why You can Never Relate to Anything outside of Its Context
• Why You’re Always Stuck In A Box, Even When You Climb Out of One
• Getting Beyond False Dichotomy Living
• The Answer to The Existential Nature of Our Reality!!

Links:

Website: www.mindreaderuniversity.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanpritchard/

Twitter: @the_pritchard

Books: Think Like A Mind Reader

Kim Ades is the President and Founder of Frame of Mind Coaching™ and JournalEngine™ Software. Author, speaker, entrepreneur, coach, and mother of five, Kim has 15+ years of experience coaching many of North America’s most respected leaders. Recognized as an expert in the area of thought mastery and mental toughness, Kim uses her unique philosophy and quirky coaching style to help her clients deal with core issues and shift their thinking in order to yield extraordinary results.

Inside This Episode

• The Key Characteristics of Top Performers Based on Research
• The Importance of Emotional Resilience In Success
• Answering the Question of Nature or Nurture in Emotional Intelligence
• How Accountability Coaching Can Actually Be A Disservice to Clients
• Why You Need to Forget About Skills and Focus on The Thoughts & Beliefs
• The Need to Identify Conflicting, Beliefs and Actions
• How a Lack of Alignment Is The Real Problem in Performance
• How To Identify Thinking Traps And How to Get Out of Them
• The Danger of Isolative Leadership
• How to Get Out of a Limited Mindset
• Breaking Through Leadership Limitations
• The Power of Solution-Focused Thinking
• They Key Question to Ask When You Get Stuck
• How to Expand Your Thinking and Comfort Zone
• Increasing Your Results Coaching-Based Leadership
• Change Your Thoughts and the Results Will Follow
• The Main Assumption You Need to Have as A Leader
• How Empathy is Actually Something to Avoid
• Why Jumping To The Solution Can Be Counter-Productive?
• The Importance of Remaining Calm During a Crisis
• Why Slowing Down Leads to a Massive Speed Up
• Why Leaders Need to “Know Thyself”
• The Power of Journaling in Identifying and Changing Thoughts
• How Your Mental Picture Impacts Those Around You

Links: 

Website: www.Frameofmindcoahing.com

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimades/

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/kimades

Free Coaching Experience with One of Kim's Frame of Mind Coaches:

Send Your Answer to the 2 Journal questions to [email protected]

1. What do you want more than anything?
2. What’s stopping you from having that?

Jen McFarland has over 25 years of training, teaching, and executive experience. She led large-scale public sector projects affecting over 50,000 businesses, handling millions of dollars. Today, Jen consults with business owners on leadership, strategic project planning, and digital marketing. She also hosts a weekly podcast called “Women Conquer Business.”

In this episode:

• Learn How Projects Drive Everything We Do
• The Difference Between A Marketing Roadmap vs. Treasure Map
• Making Sure You’re Building and Climbing the Right Mountain
• Balancing Logic and Intuition
• The Importance of Self-Awareness for Leaders
• The Power of Communication in Team Building
• How Listening & Understanding Creates Buy-In
• The Power of Meditation in Increasing Effectiveness
• The Need to Establish A Foundational Framework in Your Business & Marketing
• How to Break a Problem Down Into Actionable Items
• Why We Need to Focus on The Real Problem and What The Solution Will Look Like From the Customer’s Perspective
• The Need for Ongoing Feedback In Guiding Projects
• The Disconnect Between Marketers and Customers
• What Happens if You Stop Listening To Your Intuition
• The Downfall of Making Decisions Based Solely on Data
• The Danger of Allocating Too Little and Too Much Time
• Surrounding Yourself With Excellence and Leading Through Trust
• How Self-Awareness and Openness to Feedback Enables Us to See Our Blind Spots
• A Call to Disconnect With the Digital to Deliver Greater Results
• Creating Your Daily Formula To Start the Day On the Right Foot 

Links:

Website: www.jenmcfarland.com

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jensmcfarland/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jensmcfarland

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jensmcfarland

Podcast: https://www.jenmcfarland.com/podcast/

Recommended book: Digital Minimalism

https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Minimalism-Choosing-Focused-Noisy/dp/B07LGDY5PC/ref=sr_1_2?crid=9O8QH8JG4AAL&dchild=1&keywords=digital+minimalism&qid=1589236953&sprefix=digital+minim%2Caps%2C208&sr=8-2

Dominique "Dom" Brightmon, DTM is an award-winning speaker and certified member of the John Maxwell Team. He is the author of "Going North!: Tips & Techniques to Advance Yourself" & the follow-up bestseller, "Stay the Course: The Elite Performer's 7 Secret Keys to Sustainable Success". Dom host's the Going North podcast, a top rated self-help podcast that interviews authors from all over the world. His mantra is Advance others to advance yourself.

In This Episode

• Advance yourself by advancing others.
• How to use major life events to re-evaluate priorities.
• The importance of thinking versus reacting.
• How to be the light to help others find theirs.
• The power of immersing yourself in books, audios, and people that lift you up.
• Why we need to Walk Slowly Through the Crowd
• The key to deciding to Move Forward, Retreat, or Pivot.
• How intentionality and awareness precede growth and development.
• What we Speak About, We Bring About.
• The Need for Consistency
• 90% of Success is Showing Up
• The importance of being authentic and having humility
• How Elite Performers create Simple Consistent Habits
• Why you want to change your “Zip Code” and choose a demanding environment. 

Links:

Website: www.dombrightmon.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DomBrightmon

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dombrightmon/

Dom’s Books: https://www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-text&rh=p_27%3ADominique+Brightmon&s=relevancerank&text=Dominique+Brightmon&ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_1

Mike Cameron is an author, speaker, successful entrepreneur and philanthropist.  With over 20 years of experience in entrepreneurial endeavors, Mike is the Former CEO of Axiom Mortgage Partners.  He has a TedX talk called Redefining Badass, is an ultramarathoner and an ironman triathlete.

In This Episode:

• What Really Drives Our Decisions?
• How to Create Buy-In By Connecting With Emotions
• How Understanding Our Emotions Can Help Us Make Better Decisions
• How to Live a Meaningful and Purposeful Life
• How Self-Examination Leads to More Effective Leadership
• How to Identify the Cause of Behaviors, Rather Than the Symptom
• The Need for Empathetic Leadership Instead of Using Brute Force
• The Importance of Avoiding False Vulnerability
• Why We Need to Take Off the Mask and Look Into the Mirror
• How Awareness is the Key to Creating Choice and Responsibility
• Shedding the Shackles of Expectation and S.O.A.R.
• How Slowing Down Allows You to Accelerate Your Results
• Accepting and Using Our Emotions to Guide Our Behaviors
• Getting More Done with Ease, Rather Than Effort
• Taking 60 Seconds to Reset and Refocus
• The Power of Rituals In Creating Consistent Success
• Challenging and Expanding Your Comfort Zone
• Shifting Your Mindset
• Setting Smaller Goals to Create Momentum and Maintain Focus
• Narrowing Your Focus to Expand Your Results
• How Ram Dass’s Letter to Rachel Helped Mike During Tragedy

Links:

Website:  https://www.mikecameron.ca

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/axiommike/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikedavidcameron/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/axiommike

TedX Redefining Badass Talk: https://youtu.be/M1mxagsjmao

Ram Dass’s Letter to Rachel: https://www.ramdass.org/a-letter-to-rachel/

Mark Green is the author of two books, Activators: A CEO's Guide to Clearer Thinking and Getting Things Done and Creating a Culture of Accountability. He’s also a speaker and coach to CEOs and executive teams worldwide. He has addressed, and advised thousands of business leaders, helping them unlock more of their potential and teaching them how to do the same for their teams.  

Inside This Episode:

• How Leadership Requires Understanding People & Behavior
• Why We Need to Raise the Bar & Accelerate Your Learning
• Why We Know What to Do But We Still Don’t Act
• The Three Hidden Growth Killers
• The Two Basic Motivators
• How Fear Impacts Your Thinking
• How To Reduce Fear and Bring In More Logic
• 3 Principles for Adapting to An Increased Velocity of Change
• Creating a Bias To Action
• The Paradox of Flexibility From Structure
• Why the Pandemic is Not the Problem
• The Importance of Learning How to Reframe Problems to Create Solutions
• How to Make Decisions With Imperfect Information
• Using Guiding Principles vs. Mental Models to Direct Your Behavior and Manage Your Thinking
• The Paradox of Structure vs. Flexibility
• A Simple, Person-Focused Question to Create a Greater Sense of Control
• Allowing Humanity to Come To the Forefront
• Operating Amid Additional Leadership Overhead

Links:

www.Mark-green.com

LinkedIn: Coachmarkgreen

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarkEGreen

Mark’s Free Tools and Assessments: https://mark-green.com/tools-assessments/

Mark's Books on Amazon: Activators & Creating a Culture of Accountability

https://www.amazon.com/Mark-E-Green/e/B07HFJHDBJ/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1

Ted started his own business in 2001, making $20 out of his living room in the first month.  Four years later, it was worth $10 million.  He is the author of several books, including Five-Star Customer Services, Spoil ‘Em Rotten, and A World Gone Social.  He is also a serial business founder and 3-time CEO.  And currently finds time to teach at the Entrepreneurship Innovation Lab at Lorenzo Walker Technical College.

Inside this episode:

• The Progression Towards Nano-Corporations
• The Downside of the Gig Economy
• The Need for Authentic Communication as a Leader
• Balancing Stability and Flexibility in Our Economic Landscape
• How Uncertainty Affects Us Psychologically and Economically
• Navigating the Coronavirus Pandemic
• How to Limit Exposure to Negative News to Protect Your Mental and Physical Health
• The Need for Strong, Decisive Leadership to Create a Common Vision for Our Society
• The Impact on a Lack of Clarity on Both Individual and Corporate Consumers
• Lessons from the Victory Gardens in WWII for our Pandemic Society
• Balancing Self-Improvement and Self-Care
• Doing the Right Thing is the Right Thing
• Creating the Future Out of Lessons from the Past
• It’s Not Just Business, It’s Personal
• Being Altruistically Selfish to Create Positive “Selfish” Consequences
• Why We Need to Applaud People and Companies Doing the Right Thing
• The Role of Leaders Status Quo and Social Pressure
• The Need for Ongoing Key Conversations to Create Organizational Change

 Connect with Ted on Twitter: @tedcoine

Ted's Books on Amazon