Leadership Junkies Podcast

Are you clear about your business model and is it the right business model for your business and market? Are you looking to grow and scale your business? Are you committed to growing your leadership?   Our special guest Kimberly Ofori (The Netherlands) answers these and other questions about leadership, scaling up, business models, and diversity, equity and inclusion.   Kimberly Ofori is an entrepreneur, strategist and business consultant, and is currently the Managing Director at Ofori & Co. – A Strategy & Innovation Agency where she helps scaleups and corporations innovate their business models and overall strategic positioning in their respective markets.   Thanks to her rather unconventional corporate and entrepreneurial career; from climbing up the career ladder starting at very young age, to working and living in the Middle East, Africa and Europe where she founded and sold two companies – she’s amassed a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience on what it takes to choose to be in the lead of your own life, in your career and on leading others. This is why Kimberly has been coaching leaders and leadership teams on personal leadership using The Lead method, a personal leadership methodology developed by Kimberly herself.   Kimberly also functions as an advocate, advisor and initiator of many gender and racial equity projects worldwide and fulfills a number of Board advisory roles as well.   The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights… Understanding the importance and value of choosing the right business model for your business The of value position in growing and scaling your business Understanding different types of business models Role of business models and strategy in scaling up your business Seeing your product or service from the perspective of the person who’s going to be “buying” it Strategies for learning to seeing your business, customers and business models differently Leaders help people see things, situations and opportunities differently The importance of learning from your failures (and a process for learning) Understanding that scaling is not always fast Role of reflection in learning and growth (Learning = Experience + Reflection) What is personal leadership and why it matters Importance of asking the question what you really want Understanding key leadership myths about making mistakes, failures and learning Risks of policies in limiting your growth, learning and innovation Different ways to explore diversity as an organizational goal Importance of understanding your values and goals in leadership Critical questions and ideas for diversity, equity and inclusion Being intentional in your leadership Leadership Wisdom – Make a conscious decision to take charge of the decisions that you're making and keep asking yourself “Why?” Resources: Kimberly Ofori Kimberly Ofori Website The Leadership Junkies Podcast Cardivera Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you looking to shift, enhance or accelerate your career? Do you sometimes lack the confidence you desire in your career and leadership? Is your emotional intelligence building your career or holding you back?   Our special guest LaPora Lindsey answers these and other questions about leadership, confidence, emotional intelligence and impact.   Anlecta "LaPora" Lindsey is a motivational speaker, life coach and author who helps her clients develop and grow their careers through career coaching and life skills management. She’s certified in emotional intelligence training, life skills coaching and professional resume writing.   As an avid volunteer, LaPora dedicates her time as a Committee Mentor for #ICANHELP. A military spouse of thirteen years, LaPora and her husband have two children and have recently made their sixth—and last—military-ordered move to Colts Neck, NJ. LaPora’s articles have been featured in Military Spouse Magazine—a nationally syndicated magazine and blog that reaches 1.1 million readers—Kitsap Military Times and NAS Patuxent River installation paper.    The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights… Differently understanding confidence – what it is and how to achieve it The critical role of mindset in your confidence and career Understanding the difference between your self-confidence and the confidence others have in you Four core areas of emotional intelligence: 1. Self-awareness; 2. Self-management; 3. Social awareness; and 4. Relationship management Strategies for navigating past imposter syndrome Self-awareness – What you know about yourself (not necessarily with aligned action) Self-management – Action you take based upon your self-awareness Social awareness – What you see in social situations and interpersonal interactions (including your impact on others) Importance of empathy in your leadership and career Why we’re often harder on ourselves than anyone else Relationship management – The advanced skill that requires self-awareness, self-management and social awareness to differently navigate your relationships Understanding and navigating your triggers Trap of labeling emotions as either positive or negative (shifting to healthy versus unhealthy emotions) Role and importance of discomfort in growth, change and development Differently understanding and experiencing rejection and the fear of rejection (rejection as a tool of wisdom and patience) Learning is a choice and you can have experiences without learning anything Reframing your biases about potential employees relating to military partners Pride as a key driver for engagement and culture (organizational impacts and values) Resources: LaPora Lindsey LinkedIn LaPora Lindsey Instragram LaPora Lindsey Website The Leadership Junkies Podcast Cardivera Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you feeling stuck in your old ways of thinking? Are you looking to grow your business and your leadership? Are you looking for tools to help you create, allow and receive more of everything in your life?   Our special guest Deborah Peters answers these and other questions about leadership, self-awareness, mindsets and program repatterning.   Deborah Peters is the Founder of the Neuro Engineering Institute and an international business coach and mind set expert. She’s provided training, coaching and keynote speeches to companies in 17 countries in a wide variety of industries for the past 20 years. Deborah was a single mother at 15 with a trauma-based background from a poverty stricken, alcoholic and abusive background. She has successfully outlived her past and created a thriving life and organization that is of service to humanity through business growth. they Guide Business Leaders Into Alignment With Their Highest Potential, Cultivating Mastery of Mind, Life & Business.    The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights… Repatterning any thought pattern or emotional program that’s keeping you from your greatness The real mindset journey is taking it from your head to your heart The difference between being it (in mindset) versus talking about it The trap of self-validation Embracing the pause in your leadership Navigating the realities of fear in leadership Realities of organizational mindsets and energies Three key types of energies: Movers, ideas and connectors Overcoming the need for external validation in order to allow results to occur Seeing fear of failure and fear of success as the same thing (a mental programming) Understanding repatterning – allowing it to happen to you versus being intentional with your repatterning Resources: Deborah Peters Neuro Engineering Institute Website The Leadership Junkies Podcast Cardivera Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you looking to grow your leadership? Are you committed to building a people-centric culture? Are you ready to move past the checklists and build an authentic culture?   Our special guest Katie McLaughlin answers these and other questions about engagement, leadership and culture building.   Katie McLaughlin is the Founder, Chief Strategist and Transformation Artist at the McLaughlin Method, an organization that provides leadership and culture transformation for mature startups. They help leaders create inclusive cultures, build emotional intelligence, and work through their assumptions and biases so they can actually connect with and get the MOST out of their teams.   Katie does this all through interactive, experiential, theatre-based exercises. Her bias for action is HIGH so attendees to her sessions always leave with at least one action item to immediately do to shift something in your behavior, relationships, and company. Working with Katie you benefit from the powerhouse combo of her theatre background and over 15 years in the heart of business strategy, organizational development, and change management.   The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights… Culture challenges and opportunities in the dynamics of start-ups Good culture intention versus great culture execution Organizations and cultures are ever changing, living, breathing things Challenges of change management in growing organizations Understanding two culture inflection points the past two years – COVID pandemic and rapid growth companies due to aggressive hiring or acquisitions Acquisitions and mergers require inclusive integration conversations and strategies Living your values versus simply having them posted on the wall Different perspectives on the concept of out of the box thinking and innovation Leaders must communicate more of what’s in their heads The challenges and realities of assumptions and biases in our leadership, reactions, perspectives and decision-making The intrinsic and insidious nature of assumptions and biases Learning how to better deal with our emotions and the emotions of others in the workplace Using theater in growing your leadership, communication, culture and engagement What it means to really see your people as humans – moving beyond checklists to authentic culture Culture is in the in-between moments The critical role of intentionality in leadership and culture building Role of biases in workplace communication and expectations Emotional intelligence and leadership Other people determine our emotional intelligence (not our own self-assessment) You can’t control how someone feels (at best, you can only influence it) Authentic leadership beyond leadership performance Challenges and solutions for engaging a remote workforce Leadership requires delegating things off of your plate Resources: Katie McLaughlin McLaughlin Method Website The Leadership Junkies Podcast Cardivera Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you challenged by the world’s expectations of who you’re supposed to be? Do you struggle with worry, fear, stress and anxiety about what it means to be a man today? Are you looking for ways to reduce your stress, connect with other men and live more fully and authentically?   Our special guest Clay Smeltzer answers these and other questions about manhood, imposter syndrome, personal leadership and living your life more authentically.   Clay Smeltzer is the Founder of the Purpose Infused Brotherhood which helps driven men become the best version of themselves by Building, Battling and Bonding together. In short, getting men initiated into a family where they belong!   Clay was 35 years old and living by what the world and everyone else told him he should be. He was the "responsible man," yet he was filled with worry, anxiety, anger, stress, negativity, shame, fear and the list went on. Then the shit hit the fan with a full-blown anxiety/panic attack over an episode of Game of Thrones and he decided to bring death to his old self. Out of those ashes came the new Purpose Infused Man. This change gave birth to the Purpose Infused Brotherhood and helping other men make those same changes and become the best version of themselves every single day!   The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights… A leader of one can be a leader of many – you can’t lead many until you can lead yourself What man do you see in the mirror? The two questions every man asks himself: 1. Am I good enough? 2. Do I have what it takes? The realities of money beliefs and shadows, and their impacts in your life Ways your subconscious programming creates the outcomes in your life The vital journey of going into your own subconscious darkness to learn and grow Becoming friends with pieces of yourself that you don’t like Rising up from the ashes of your former self (living like a phoenix) Unlearning your subconscious beliefs and reprogramming your beliefs to be more fulfilling Finding your truth by going at least five levels deep in exploring your whys for your behaviors, fears, etc. Understanding the ways our brain works and the ways it’s actually programmed The value of a 45-day purposeful man journal The impact on men of shoving things down What it means to Build, Battle and Bond Reprogramming our thinking regarding emotions The reality of the strength in your emotions The power of vulnerability in sharing your doubts, emotions and feelings Being more thought reactive than emotionally reactive Life formula: E + R = O … Event + Response = Outcome What and why of the death of your old self Resources: Clay Smeltzer Purpose Infused Brotherhood Website (Initiation Program) Build Battle Bond Website Purpose Infused Brotherhood Podcast The Dark Side of the Light Chasers Book by Debbie Ford The Leadership Junkies Podcast Cardivera Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you consistently achieving your sales and growth goals and objectives? Do you want to improve your sales process and sales outcomes? Do you want to accelerate your sales culture and growth?   Our special guest Bruce Fador answers these and other questions about leadership, sales management, sales and sales processes.   Bruce Fador is the Founder and Managing Partner of Fador Global Consulting Group, a consulting and advisory firm helping companies develop and execute strategies that accelerate their next growth phase. Bruce leverages his 30 years of experience in leadership and senior operational positions in services-focused firms to deliver unmatched results for his clients.   Before devoting complete focus and energy to FGCG, Bruce held several chief executive officer positions, including serving as CEO of Thomson First Call. Under his leadership and guidance, Thomson First Call’s core revenues soared from $18M to $120M. Bruce later built strategic alliances within other Thomson divisions, driving an additional $80M in revenue.   Throughout his career, Bruce has served as a Board member, strategic advisor or consultant to numerous leading capital markets, research and FinTech firms. Bruce is a Boston College graduate and later participated in the Insead Executive Management program in Fontainebleau, France.   The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights… Sales and marketing must collaborate to succeed Understanding the difference between marketing activity and lead generation The difference between marketing and sales Selling as a trusted advisor and based upon a relationship (the end of cold calls) The impact of unrealistic organizational expectations in sales Reasons to have sales leaders in your C-level conversations and strategy sessions The trouble with micromanagement in sales and sales management Why most sales people fail to meet goals (and why it’s acceptable) The role of market size in setting sales goals and objectives Role of trust issues with your sales disconnections and failures Getting past the distrust of sales people inside an organization Understanding the disconnection between a relationship approach in sales versus a desire for quick hits Getting the right kind of sales person for your business and “product” Pros and cons of using centers of influence in your sales efforts Roles of culture and incentivized compensation in your sales and growth strategies Realities and impacts of CEO compensation What it takes to be a great CEO Resources: Bruce Fador ([email protected]) Fador Global Website The Leadership Junkies Podcast Cardivera Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you want to grow your team engagement? Are you looking for leadership strategies to leverage your strengths? Are you committed to transforming your leadership for more impact, engagement and productivity?   Our special guest Brandon Miller answers these and other questions about leadership, engagement and personal development.   Brandon Miller is one of the first 7 Certified Gallup Clifton StrengthsFinder Coaches in the world. Over 15 years ago, he was a very early practitioner of Clifton StrengthsFinder using it as the Executive Leader for a non-profit organization. He has since coached hundreds of leaders to find and leverage their strengths for themselves and their teams.   Today, Brandon is the CEO of 34 Strong, a coaching and consulting firm dedicated to improving employee engagement. He has nearly 15 years of experience providing specialized leadership training, coaching, advising and facilitating.   Brandon is also the Co-Founder of Incredible Family, a consultancy agency passionate about seeing families engage in a strengths-based parenting approach to parenting that lets parents unlock their best selves and raise strong, happy, children and teens.   Brandon and his wife Analyn are successful business owners, the parents of seven children and authors of Play To Their Strengths and Incredible Parent. Incredible Parent gives you an innovative, strengths-based, intentional approach to child raising will make you more confident, aware and energized as a parent.   The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights… Using Clifton StrengthsFinder as a tool for personal, professional and team development Understanding the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment tool Redefining people’s roles and responsibilities based upon their strengths Understanding your grind time, greatness time and genius time and the impact on your energy Using your strengths to enhance your productivity Fixing our broken hiring processes Reframing the obstacle of negativity bias (belief that I can improve your ability to do something good by solving where you're lacking competence or weakness) Shifting from negativity bias to positive intent to grow trust Understanding that engagement creates productivity creates profits Value of authoritative leadership over authoritarian leadership Impacts of leadership’s well-being and mindset on engagement Engagement requires a ratio of giving team members five to one positive to negative feedback Changing the employee review conversation to enhance improvement and engagement Using the Q12 engagement assessment tool Key engagement metric – Have you received recognition or praise in the past 7 days? Looking for ways to commend the common things that may have been otherwise overlooked Applying StrengthsFinder to children and parenting Importance of creating cultures of safety for your team Understanding the unique challenges faced by mothers in the workforce Bringing your parental leadership into your business leadership Unique elements of engagement in the public sector Being an advocate as a leader Resources: Brandon Miller ([email protected]) 34 Strong Website Incredible Family Website The Leadership Junkies Podcast Cardivera Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you want to empower yourself and your team to grow and achieve? Are you looking for strategies to enable you to overcome obstacles and transform your results? Are you willing to shift your mindset in order to shift your results?   Our special guest Darrell Evans answers these and other questions about leadership, empowering your people and the power of mind shifts to transform your leadership and results.   Darrell Evans is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of Yokel Local Internet Marketing. He and his team have helped entrepreneurs and companies to generate over $300M in revenue online since 2011. He’s also personally started and / or operated 6 businesses since the age of 20.   Darrell is the host of The MindShift Podcast which launched in 2019 and the founder of the MindShift Business Academy (MBA). Darrell is passionate about entrepreneurship. When he appears on podcasts, he loves sharing the lessons, mistakes and breakthrough frameworks that have helped him and hundreds of other businesses market profitably, grow sales predictably and build superstar teams. His goal is to help entrepreneurs grab “MindShifts” that will catapult them to their next level of success.   The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights… The role of a life plan in your life, business and leadership journey The importance of vision in navigating your plan Understanding digital marketing agencies (what they do to add value to your business) The difference between getting impressions and getting results in your business Transforming your leadership and business through mind shifts Your next level of growth is your next level of decision to become somebody new Four steps for learning and growth: 1. Make peace with the facts; 2. Make a new decision about who you’re going to become; 3. Make a plan; 4. Make changes in your behaviors in alignment with the new plan African proverb … nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent Embracing the power of choice in every situation, moment and experience The four levels of conscious and unconscious incompetence and competence Understanding the difference between empathizing and emphasizing other people’s challenges The difference between the facts and the stories and judgments we make up about the facts Leaders ask better questions to get better answers Shifting your mind so you can change your results When you change the way you look at things, you change the things you’re looking it Strategies for growing your people to grow your business The entrepreneur’s primary job is to create pathways for individuals to operate in their gift, such that it aligns with your vision Creating a culture where your people can make mistakes / fail in order to learn and grow The power of shifting your conversations from people’s skills to people’s gifts Empowering your people to produce results rather than record hours You're never stuck where you are, so long as you're willing to shift your mind in route to shifting your results Resources: Darrell Evans Yokel Local Internet Marketing Website The MindShift Podcast Website The Leadership Junkies Podcast Cardivera Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you waiting for someone else to lead? Do you wish you were in a position of leadership so you could change things? Wrong questions! Listen in as Craig Mathews and Jeff Nischwitz talk about the reality that leadership is a choice and you (all of you) can lead wherever you are (whether or not you have a leadership position). Craig and Jeff will share an empowering and challenging message about the leadership choices you can make every day. Get ready to take an honest look at your leadership choices and to answer the question, What are you modeling as a leader? The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes In this episode… The many ways that leadership is a choice Realities of risks in leadership including the risks of choosing not to lead What it means to create followers by being a person worthy of being followed Ways that you disempower your leadership by waiting for others to lead Leadership is an act of vulnerability … stepping out and being seen, judged and making mistakes Leadership comes with a target but you choose whether the target goes on your back (inauthentic leadership) or on your chest (vulnerable leadership) What are the real (not perceived) risks of choosing to lead Embracing the leadership moments and opportunities Leadership is a 24/7 mindset and awareness (not a 24/7 job) Leadership often involves speaking up Stop waiting for positional leaders to lead – choose to lead Ways to empower your entire team to lead Leadership is not about permission – it’s a choice Empowering your life and leadership – you always have a choice Are you foxhole worthy as a leader and who do you want in your leadership foxhole? Beware of the trap of blaming others for failing to lead / change things What do you want for your children as leaders? Ways to lead without a position including modeling and mentoring (What are you modeling as a leader?) The importance of leading by listening Resources: Mankind Project International The Impact Leadership Podcast Cardivera Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you want to better understand ways to create diverse, equitable, inclusive and anti-racist cultures and organizations? Are you looking for practical tools to achieve this objective? Are you ready to take on the challenges of diversity, equity and inclusion in your organization?   Our special guest Dr. Shannon Prince answers these and other questions about leadership, diversity, equity and inclusion, world crafting, and creating anti-racist cultures and organizations.   Shannon Prince is an attorney, legal commentator, and speaker. She earned her doctorate in African and African American Studies and her master’s degree in English from Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, her law degree from Yale Law School, and her bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Dartmouth College.    She drafted best practice language on policing policies for the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice, represented plaintiffs in CCJEF v. Rell, a high-profile landmark education adequacy lawsuit, and is currently representing the Cherokee Nation in their lawsuit against pharmaceutical distributors and pharmacies for their role in the opioid crisis that the tribe is suffering. She is a member of her firm’s Firm Diversity Council and is a Legal Council on Legal Diversity Pathfinder. Her writing has been published in The Hill, Transition Magazine, Science, and Jezebel among other venues, and she’s the author of Tactics for Racial Justice due out in January 2022.   The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights… Moving beyond words and getting into diversity, equity and inclusion action Differently understanding systemic racism (getting beyond the idea that racism is about bad people) Understanding the realities of racism in business today Using metrics to track disparities in impact Making changes in diversity, equity and inclusion requires a focus on practices more than intentions Understanding intersectionality in biases Fundamentals of DEI training Training doesn’t work in the absence of other diversity initiatives Navigating the “we hire the best people” concept in light of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives (understanding the role of unconscious biases) The reality that more diverse companies outperform less diverse companies Different practices you can use to increase your diversity, equity and inclusion The importance of hiring for diversity, equity and inclusion mindsets The of recruitment changes to build a more diverse, equitable and inclusive organization Understanding the role of bias interrupting in creating more diverse and inclusive organizations The importance of being more aware of your biases and assumptions (cultural metacognition) Exploring ways that bias has an unintended impact on the lack of diversity Ways that anti-racism initiatives are needed beyond diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives Ways to amplify your communication and conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion issues What you can do to create a safe place for your team to have open conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion The role of vulnerability in diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and conversations Practicing world crafting by thinking like an ancestor … what future will you help create Resources: Shannon Prince Boies Schiller Flexner Law Firm Website Tactics for Racial Justice: Building and Anti-Racist Organizations and Community book by Dr. Shannon Prince (due out in January 2022) (LEADERSHIP JUNKIES DISCOUNT CODE: FLY21) The Leadership Junkies Podcast Cardivera Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices