Leaders Of Transformation

Do you have aging loved ones who need special care? Have you ever wondered how you could serve the growing population of seniors in your region?

Isabelle Guarino is a graduate from Arizona State University, a former flight attendant, Walt Disney World intern and now Residential Assisted Living Academy’s leading lady. She has been working as the COO of the company for the last 8 years and has been featured in many magazines and articles on the topic of Senior Housing.

Most recently, she was given the title as one of the "Top Influencers in Senior Housing". She also won Aging Media's "the Future Leaders of Assisted Living" award in 2020 being one of only two people under 30 to make the list.

Isabelle’s goal is to carry on her father’s legacy by training investors and entrepreneurs how to “Do Good and Do Well”. She trains and teaches entrepreneurs and investors through the Residential Assisted Living Academy, and is responsible for the creation and success of RAL National Convention, RAL National Association, Recovery Housing Academy, Pitch Masters Academy, and most of the Impact Housing Group’s companies.

Today, we discuss the residential assisted living industry, how you can get involved and do good and do well at the same time, and key nuggets from Isabelle’s insightful new book, “Living Legacy”.

Residential Assisted Living is not only a huge opportunity from a community impact standpoint, Isabelle believes it is the greatest real estate and business in the next 25 years. Listen to find out why.

What We Discuss in This Episode

• How to do good and do well at the same time
• The growing opportunity in residential assisted living and senior housing
• The care ratio and quality differences in residential homes vs large facilities
• Qualities required to be successful as the owner of a residential assisted living home
• Investment opportunities, funding requirements, and cashflow timelines
• How to handle roadblocks when converting a home to a residential assisted living facility
• Navigating through family business dynamics
• Protecting relationships when firing family members
• Why everyone in your company needs a KPI (Key Performance Indicator)
• The importance of staying humble and connected to the mission
• The privilege of being a living legacy
• The advantages of being a young woman in business
• RAI training available to find, fund and fill your new residential assisted living home
  

Episode Show Notes: https://leadersoftransformation.com/podcast/business/465-do-good-do-well-with-ral-w-isabelle-guarino 

How can one woman make a difference? Our guest this week is Jenny Lopez Lowe. She is the Founder of Women Add Value Inc, an organization whose mission is to ignite the cultural awakening of the female genius. She has ministered in countries in North and South America, Asia, Middle East and in Africa on issues of Humanities, Biblical Counseling and Pedagogy (education for children).

Her heart goes out to women and their unique calling in the Kingdom of God. For her work with women and Peace in Israel, she has been named a Goodwill Ambassador for Israel by the State of Israel, Ministry of Tourism.

She holds an honorary doctorate in Humanities for her Humanitarian work abroad. She is the creator the Rock Solid Beauty Counseling program and the international BLESSED IS SHE WEEKLY devotional incorporating 15 nations.

Her academic background has allowed her to promote discovery and imagination among young minds and the incorporation of inquiry-based strategies, making learning a natural process that is conducive to mastery. In her years of teaching in the public school system, she has been awarded Educator of the Year for Cesar Chavez Elementary School in Coachella California, Coachella Valley Unified School District Educator of the Year, and Educator of the Year for supporting Bilingual Education in Riverside County.

Jenny has also built a successful business formulating and selling biblical anointing oils through her Heaven Scent Shop. She loves to paint and travel, and lives in Southern California, with her husband and her five children.

What We Discuss in this Episode

• How one woman can make a difference
• Jenny’s passion for the women of Israel
• Building bridges across cultural differences
• Recognizing God’s voice and calling
• Why you don’t have to be good at everything
• Partnering with Jesus in faith
• Igniting a cultural awakening of the female genius
• Removing the labels and factors of oppression in women
• I AM Peace Conference in Israel
• The importance of being in a strong community of supportive women

Episode Show Notes: https://leadersoftransformation.com/podcast/spirituality/464-awakening-the-female-genius-with-jenny-lopez-lowe

Do you have a story to tell? A meaningful message to share? Our guest this week is Jeremy Brown. Jeremy is an entrepreneur, adventurer, land investor, and the Founder and CEO of Throne Publishing. They have published over 400 books and their mission is to empower people to tell their stories. Actually, he likes to say that he’s a professional husband and dad and the rest is a side hustle. He is from Sioux Falls, South Dakota but can likely be found somewhere on the open road with his family.

Listen as we discuss the secret to getting your book done, their unique B.U.R.N. process for refining your message, common mistakes authors make, how to decide the right publishing method for you, and effective business growth hacks for authors who want to use their book to generate more clients. Check it out!

What We Discuss in this Episode

• Reconnecting with what really matters
• Faith, family, and entrepreneurship
• Living a life of no regrets
• Combating the worldview with your kids
• Write your book, change your life
• Truth and honor in choosing who to work with
• Self publishing vs traditional publishing – advantages and disadvantages
• The B.U.R.N. Process to disseminate your content down to the core message
• The 3 biggest mistakes that authors make
• Focusing on customer acquisition at launch 
• Get it done and start reaping the benefits
• Using your book to grow your business 
• Your next step to writing and publishing your book

Show Notes: https://leadersoftransformation.com/podcast/business/463-write-your-book-get-it-done-with-jeremy-brown 

How do you approach your first 100 days as a global executive in a new company or role?

Our guest this week is Liesbeth van der Linden. She is a global executive coach, author, speaker, and recognized authority in the field of leadership. She has coached leaders in over 25 countries, including leaders at multinational corporations such as The Coca-Cola Company, PwC, Danone, The Bottling Investment Group, Vanderlande, and Oliver Wyman. 

Her executive coaching work and transformative workshops help global companies and leaders be effective in leading, engaging, and retaining their multicultural and distributed teams. She helps leaders maximize their teams' potential while working in fast-changing and challenging environments.

Listen as we discuss her newly released book, Connect, Inspire, Grow: The Executive’s Framework for the First 100 Days (Scribe Media), which is the definitive guide for senior leaders and executives stepping into new global leadership roles. A practical tool for leading from the inside out, it prepares executives to navigate any situation they might face by teaching them how to tap into what connects all human beings regardless of individual differences. Enjoy!

What We Discuss in this Episode

• Why 40% of global executive leaders fail in their new role
• What expats and their companies need to take into consideration
• How to support new leaders who go abroad, both personally and professionally
• The Connect, Inspire, Grow framework for the first 100 days in your new leadership role
• How to make the transition seamless between executive leaders
• How to determine who you need to meet within the first 100 days
• Practical examples of effective self-awareness as a leader
• Professional intimacy and how you can use it to build trust during the first 100 days
• Engaging reciprocal support
• How to create sustainable growth through a shared vision and mission
• Deciding between quick results and lasting results
• Why it can’t just be about you and your strengths and expertise
• Developing productive relationships among leaders
• Communicating expectations and deliverables with your parent company
• Don’t blame differences in culture; start with commonalities
• The power of the Connect Card

Show Notes: https://leadersoftransformation.com/podcast/leadership/462-your-first-100-days 

Do you feel the weight of not having enough great leaders in your business, church or nonprofit?

Mac Lake is a pioneering influence in the church planting movement. In 1997, he planted Carolina Forest Community Church (Myrtle Beach, SC). In 2004, he began serving as Leadership Development Pastor at Seacoast Church (Charleston, SC), where he served for over six years. In July 2010, Mac joined West Ridge Church to become the Visionary Architect for the LAUNCH Network.

The North American Mission Board adopted the LAUNCH Church Planting system in 2015 and Mac joined the NAMB team for three years to help integrate and implement it.

Mac founded the Multiply Group in 2019, an organization committed to helping leaders and churches multiply. He is the author of four books: The Multiplication Effect, Leading Others, Leading Leaders, and Leading a Department. Mac and his wife, Cindy, live in Charleston, SC, and have three grown children and five grandchildren.

Listen as we discuss leadership development and how to build a leadership pipeline that solves your leadership shortage. We explore how to integrate leadership development into your everyday operations, how the role of leader changes at the various stages, key questions to ask in developing great leaders, and how to apply the Triad of Leadership Development for maximum learning and growth in the least amount of time.

Whether you are a leader in business, the nonprofit sector, or in a church organization, you will find these insights very relevant and practical in developing great leaders at every level.

What We Discuss in this Episode

• Discovering gaps in your leadership development
• Leadership development vs leadership placement
• Learning from Jesus’ model for developing great leaders
• Identifying leaders to invest your time and mentorship in
• Structuring your leadership pipeline
• Equipping people to develop their competency, mindset, and confidence
• Common mistakes in promoting leaders to the next level
• The key skills required in leading others and leading leaders
• The role of the leader in growing bigger and smaller at the same time
• Giving people the right expectations in their leadership development
• Real life church and business examples of handling the pressures of growth
• Implementing a healthy leadership structure that protects your health span
• Why we need to stop sacrificing things God never asked us to
• Who to include in your preliminary leadership pipeline planning sessions
• The benefits of having a leadership pipeline in place
• 4 key questions to ask leadership mentees
• Applying the Triad of Leadership Development

Show Notes: https://leadersoftransformation.com/podcast/leadership/461-developing-great-leaders-with-mac-lake 

What does it take to become a truly effective leader? Our guest this week is Patrick Flesner from Cologne Germany. Patrick has been working in private equity, venture capital, and mergers & acquisitions for two decades. As an investor, board member, leadership coach, and mentor, he has been passing on his leadership and growth insights to founders, entrepreneurs, managers, leaders, and leadership teams of companies of all sizes.

As a leadership coach and trusted adviser, he works with leaders who want to become more effective leaders and build thriving teams. He is especially passionate about working with leaders in change situations, assisting leaders in growing their businesses fast and efficiently, and helping leaders turn around dysfunctional organizations.

He is the author of the bestselling growth handbook: FastScaling: The Smart Path to Building Massively Valuable Businesses. His writing has also appeared in Inc. Magazine, I by IMD, and the MIT Sloan Management Review.

Today we’re going to discuss his latest book The Leadership House: A Leadership Tale about the Challenging Path to Becoming an Effective Leader, and a practical framework for becoming an effective leader that others trust, respect, and follow. We explore important distinctions in vertical and horizontal accountability, the eight pillars of leadership, indicators of poor leadership, and how to restore trust after it’s been broken. 

Whether you are a startup founder or leader in a large organization, you will find Patrick’s practical framework and insights highly valuable.

What We Discuss in this Episode

• What is leadership?
• Why leadership is a privilege
• What are the elements that make a leadership framework
• The difference between responsibility and accountability
• Vertical accountability vs horizontal accountability
• The importance of shared values and shared goals
• Building great leaders in your organization
• Indicators of poor leadership
• Why you can’t be an effective leader without trust
• How to build or restore trust using the RESPECT framework

Show Notes: https://leadersoftransformation.com/podcast/leadership/460-your-leadership-framework-with-patrick-flesner 

What can we do to improve reading growth in children in their critical first years of school?

Driven by the unshakable commitment to ensuring every student in America is given the right to read on time, Jessica Sliwerski founded Ignite! Reading, a virtual high-dosage foundational reading skills intervention literacy program.

She launched Ignite! Reading during her time as CEO of Open Up Resources, a national nonprofit whose mission is to increase equity in education by making high-quality curricula openly accessible to schools and districts.

Prior to that, Jessica began her career as an educator with Teach For America in New York City before becoming a founding teacher, then an Assistant Principal at Success Academy Charter Schools.

Bringing instructional best practices from the charter world to district schools, she became a network Literacy Specialist at The Urban Assembly, a nonprofit organization overseeing more than 10,000 students in secondary schools. Jessica also co-founded the adaptive literacy software company LightSail Education.

Today we’re going to talk about the crisis of illiteracy in America, the roots of the issue, and Jessica’s vision to reimagine how students are taught to read in school. Listen as we explore the science behind learning, why Ignite! Reading focuses specifically on educational tutoring, and how they support teachers and parents while igniting the future teacher talent pipeline.

We also discuss her new book, Cancer Hates Kisses, which is a children’s book Jessica wrote while overcoming breast cancer after her daughter was born.

What We Discuss in this Episode

• The crisis of illiteracy in America today
• Uncovering the root issues which began prior to the pandemic
• Cracking the code to literacy in children
• Transforming the way we teach children to read
• The importance of children learning to read by the end of grade one
• What is currently happening in the classroom
• Eliminating the equity gap
• The science around how we learn to read
• How to become a virtual tutor for Ignite! Reading
• Why Jessica wrote the book, “Cancer Hates Kisses”

Show Notes: https://leadersoftransformation.com/podcast/education/459-cracking-the-code-to-literacy-in-children-with-jessica-sliwerski 

How can we use fashion to build a better world? Ian Bentley is co-founder and CEO of Parker Clay, a manufacturer, multi-channel retailer, and now one of the largest employers of women in fashion in Ethiopia, one of the fastest growing economies in Africa.

With a background in business development and a passion to enact change, Ian, along with his wife Brittany, founded Parker Clay while living in Ethiopia. Today, Parker Clay has grown to over 200 employees between their office, warehouse, and flagship store in Santa Barbara, California, and their factory and leadership team in Addis Ababa.

Their commitment is to make a better bag for a better world, through a brand which is built to showcase the finest Ethiopian leather and craftsmanship, while providing meaningful job opportunities, vocational training, and living wages for at-risk women. As a certified B-Corp, Parker Clay is proud to uphold the highest standard of ethical and sustainable processes in both production footprint and social impact.

Today we discuss the future of fashion, how Parker Clay got started and became the largest exporter of finished leather goods from Ethiopia to the world, and most importantly, how they are empowering women to create a better life for themselves and their families.

What We Discuss in this Episode

• Having courage to step out into the unknown
• Building a family that inspires hope
• Finding ways to empower women in Ethiopia
• Helping women to be permanently free from prostitution and exploitation
• Becoming the largest exporter of leather goods from Ethiopia to the world
• Overcoming the challenges of doing business in a foreign country
• The importance of trusted relationships
• Sustainability and ethical business practices
• How to qualify as a B-Corp and the scoring metrics
• Intersecting profit and purpose in business
• Why they chose equity crowdfunding to grow their company
• Pursuing profitable growth
• Favorite stories of empowerment
• Connecting hours of empowerment with each product

Complete Show Notes: https://leadersoftransformation.com/podcast/business/458-a-better-bag-for-a-better-world-with-ian-bentley 

Why do companies like Chick-Fil-A outperform their peers?

Krystal Parker was an executive for a Fortune 200 publicly traded oil and gas company with 25 years of experience in organizational management. A former college dropout, Krystal advanced her education at Harvard Business School for senior executive leaders focusing on innovation, globalization, and leadership diversity. She earned an undergrad in psychology and a master's in marketing.

As a certified DISC behavioral specialist, trainer, speaker, and coach, Krystal Parker opened a boutique consulting company, Intent & Impact, to help companies increase profit, reduce turnover, and enhance employee engagement.

She is a bestselling author and professor and teaches graduate and undergraduate level courses. She is also the president of the U.S. and Central Florida Christian Chambers of Commerce and has a big vision to connect business leaders across the country.

Today we discuss why faith-driven CEOs are statistically proven to outperform peer industries, how to apply proven Biblical principles to profit, culture, retaining top talent, and social responsibility, the intersection of humanity and AI, as well as her new book The Best Robot Wins.

Business is changing and it is a good thing. Listen to find out how you can lead the way while you make a greater positive impact in the community around you.

What We Discuss in this Episode

• Why faith-driven businesses are statistically more profitable
• Differentiating between a religious and Biblical worldview
• The power of a Kingdom culture in building trust and connection
• Krystal’s new book The Best Robot Wins
• Why more businesses are failing when we have more business tools than ever
• Relating the Parable of the Sower to best business practices
• Humanity and AI: job transitioning and retaining top talent
• Kingdom commerce and social responsibility
• Keeping your WHY at the core of business
• The purpose and vision of the U.S. Christian Chamber of Commerce

Complete Show Notes: https://leadersoftransformation.com/podcast/business/457-why-faith-driven-businesses-outperform-the-market-with-krystal-parker 

What can we learn from the transformation of the rust belt industry to high tech?

Steven L. Blue is President and CEO of Miller Ingenuity, a global supplier of high-technology systems that protect assets, preserve the environment, and save lives. He has extensive experience in transforming cultures and bridging the gap between rust-belt traditions and high-tech.

As an internationally recognized business transformation expert, his keynote speeches have shown many c-suite executives how to maximize their company's Innovational Potential® and double or even quadruple their company’s growth.

Steven Blue is the author of five books and has addressed audiences at Harvard Business School, The United Nations, Carnegie Hall, The Safe America Foundation, Industry Week, CEO Clubs International and more. His leadership insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, CNBC, Forbes, Fortune, CEO World, and Bloomberg Business Week.

Today we discuss how he transforms rust-belt companies into high-tech cultures while empowering employees to innovate and make decisions that positively affect culture and the bottom line. We also explore where organizations get stuck or blindsided, what is a Cirque du Soleil culture, and why you always need to be strengthening your balance sheet.

Whether your company is low tech or high tech, Steven has valuable insights to share with you from his four decades in senior business leadership roles.  

What We Discuss in this Episode

• How to transform a rust belt company into a high-tech leader
• Cultural differences between the rust belt and high tech
• Aligning traditional practices with innovative technology
• Shifting your customer and employee perspectives
• The importance of keeping your promise through transitions
• Painting an accurate picture for your shareholders and employees
• Why you want to create a Cirque Du Soleil culture
• Focusing on profit while preserving the environment
• Factors that hinder innovation when it’s obvious that things must change
• Getting rid of the punch clock
• The benefit of peer performance reviews
• Overcoming the biggest challenges in transforming an industry
• Protecting your company from being blindsided
• Why you always need to be strengthening your balance sheet
• Recognize that transformation is a long process

Episode Show Notes: https://leadersoftransformation.com/podcast/business/456-from-rust-belt-to-high-tech-steven-l-blue