Leader Workout Podcast

Wendy Baumann is the President and Chief Vision Officer of the WWBIC, a Community Development Financial Institution that provides business and financial education. She is an internationally-recognized leader in small business development, financial capability and social enterprise. She reads articles rather than new leadership books, likes reading fiction novels to relax and loves traveling and has a great passion for cooking.

Key points:

• Each time you get a feeling something’s not going right, rather than to put a blame on it ask yourself what can you do differently.
• Find one thing you like about someone who annoys you and make the connection
• Just do it = ugly things you need to do, instead of putting them off, just do it

Nick Williams is a journalist at Milwaukee Business Journal and a professional multimedia reporter. His writing journey begins when he was a student influenced by his parents and four other leaders afterwards. As a black male journalist, he believes we are in that point in time when diversity is welcome. The ability to tell someone else’s story and document the history is what keeps him going.

Key points:

• Journalism is a different type of leadership, power of the pen.
• To be a great leader, you have to be able to listen, you have to want to have harmony.

Matt Cordio is the Founder and President of Startup Milwaukee and Co-founder and President of Skills Pipeline. He has always been entrepreneurial-minded influenced by his father. He loves reading leadership books and spending time in the desert. Matt appreciates core values like integrity and loves doing business with people who are ethical.

Key points:

• It takes 20 years to develop a startup ecosystem
• You have to be a leader. No one will blaze the trail for you, you.
• If we want to progress and create the change we want to see in the world we need to be open to embracing the change and think/see the world through different lenses. 

Connect:

Matt Cordio

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

Website: http://www.skillspipeline.com/

SPEARity

Website: https://www.spearity.com/contact/

Andy Gallion is the CEO and co-founder of InCheck, a background screening company. Andy candidly shares the AHA moment when he realized that he was not performing the way a true leader should perform and had to steer himself into the leader he wanted to become despite his insecurities.

Tune in to hear the simple leadership advice that has worked for Andy and can work for anyone!

Conversation Highlights

(06:12) What makes you think you are a leader?    

(07:50) Secrets Andy unlocked with his coach.

(11:06) How Andy made a better InCheck.

(17:43) What is your Objective Right?

(19:09) Andy’s leadership philosophy revealed.

(21:15) Andy gives some insight on InCheck culture.

(24:29) Succession plans- learn what Andy has in mind .

(27:59) Andy’s humble and valuable advice.

(30:10) A special moment to end with, how Andy wants to be remembered.

Key points:

• It takes 20 years to develop a startup ecosystem
• You have to be a leader. No one will blaze the trail for you, you.
• If we want to progress and create the change we want to see in the world we need to be open to embracing the change and think/see the world through different lenses. 

Connect:

Andy Gallion

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

Website: https://incheck.net/

SPEARity

Website: https://www.spearity.com/contact/