Tim Hagen is the President and Chief Coaching Officer of Progress Coaching and a well known workplace coaching expert. He is a member of the Forbes Coaching Council and the host of the Coaching Conversations Podcast

and is also a regular speaker at conferences and on webinars around the world and I’m excited to bring his expertise to you today. 

Tim shares with us:

• The biggest mistakes that managers and organizations make
• Why feedback is not coaching
• What is emotional intelligence
• How to improve self-awareness
• The #1 thing upper level managers can do is to get some group coaching going
• Why coaching sessions needed to be activity-based 
• How to think about using empathy in the workplace
• What can organizations do to improve culture and EI

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Lindsey Pollak is a New York Times bestselling author and one of the world’s leading experts on today’s multigenerational workplace. She was named to the 2020 Thinkers50 Radar List, which honors 30 global management thinkers whose work is shaping the future of how organizations are managed and led. Lindsey has published such books as Getting from College to Career and The Remix: How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Workplace. Her next book, Recaclualting; Navigate Your CAreer Through The Changing World of Work will has just been published today!

In this episode, we discuss:

• How the multigenerational workforce has changed in the virtual world
• The challenges that the crisis creates for different generations
• How COVID has changed the landscape for early career professionals
• How the job application process is changing in the new world
• What Millennials and Gen Z want and need including real job opportunities
• The concept of the “lifelong colleague”
• The practice of providing “manager toolkits”

If you are looking for ideas on how to leverage new HR technology and want to hear from a practitioner who is doing inside their organization, you are in the right place. 

Larry McAllister is the VP and Global Head of Talent for NetApp. He has held senior talent roles in several global companies and has a wealth of experience in this space. He also has a passion for learning and talent development that is unrivaled.

Topics we cover include:

• Why we need to move forward and adopt the right philosophy of no going back
• Why go from L&D to talent enablement
• Why we are in the golden age of learning technology
• The risk of not investing in HR technology
• How to choose which technologies you need
• How NetApp is enabling employees to own their careers
• How NetApp is democratizing skills and coaching with technology
• HR technology for recruiting
• How to get executive buy-in for HR technology

You can find Larry McAlister on LinkedIn and more about NetApp here.

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Find out more about my book at OwnYourCareerOwnYourLife.com

We are in witnessing a massive social justice movement and almost every company I talk to is trying to figure out how to create a more diverse, equitable and inclusive culture. If you are looking to do those things as well, you are in the right place. 

Jennifer Brown is the founder and CEO of Jennifer Brown Consulting, which is focused on unleashing the power of human potential, embracing diversity and helping people and organizations thrive. She is an award-winning entrepreneur, a regular speaker on DEI and is the author of two books including Inclusion and How to Be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive.

Topics in this episode include:

• The state of DEI and how it has changed in 2020
• How conversations changed as a result of the Black Lives Matter and social justice movements
• Why diverse talent falls out of the pipeline
• Why women and people from other underrepresented groups don’t move up the corporate ladder
• The difference between diversity and inclusion
• The mistake of thinking unconscious bias training will fix things
• How to look at privilege
• What the best organizations are doing to improve DEI
• How to sustain the current movement and consider intersectionality
• How talent development can help improve DEI and be part of the solution

If you are interested in joining the Talent Development Think Tank Community, you can go to TDTT.US and join us today!

Everyone loves change as long as you go first! Leading a culture transformation is not for the faint of heart. Rather it's designed for the heart and gut.

Greg is in the hot seat this week to discuss building a strong culture, even in a virtual world. Some key topics in this interview include:

• Why culture transformation is so hard
• How culture has changed under COVID
• How to engage and empower employees in a virtual world
• How to bring more empathy as a leader and create more empathetic leaders
• How to enable change by setting an example
• The importance of people getting behind the mission of your organization
• The importance of defining and managing change and helping people transition through change
• How to let go of something old before starting something new

Greg Brenner is the Assistant VP of Talent and Organizational Development at the University of Miami and U Miami Health. He’s also a regular content creator with a big following on LinkedIn, known as the “HR Dad.”

If you are interested in joining the Talent Development Think Tank Community, you can go to TDTT.US and join us today!

Want to learn how to create an amazing culture even in a virtual world? If so, then you are in the right place.

Claude Silver is the Chief Heart Officer of VaynerMedia. She has a long career in strategy in sales before moving into her role as head of HR for Vayner and I have never met anyone full of more kindness, generosity and love for her people. She also hosts podcast, shares tons of inspirational content all across social media and has been a key reason that VaynerMedia has one of the best company cultures in the corporate world. 

We discuss pivoting under COVID and engaging people virtually. Clause answers the question, what is great culture? and How to create culture of belonging and psychological safety.

If you are interested in joining the Talent Development Think Tank Community, you can go to TDTT.US and join us today!

Adri Maisonet Morales is Vice President of Enterprise Learning & Development and Blue University for Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina and in 2016, Adri was recognized by CLO Magazine as the Chief Learning Officer of the Year You can find out more about Adri here.

If you are interested in joining the Talent Development Think Tank Community, you can go to TDTT.US and join us today!

Kevin Yates is known as the L&D Detective and is an expert on measuring the impact of training and development programs

Kevin has spoken on stages all over the world, including the Talent Development Think Tank back in January 2020 where he received rave reviews

Kevin’s new ebook “The L&D Detective Kit for Solving Impact Mysteries" and can be found on his website at KevinMYates.com

If you are interested in the Talent Development Think Tank Community, you can join here!

If you are looking to have me come into your company to talk more about Owning Your Career, please reach out at andy@andystorch.com

If you are interested in the Talent Development Think Tank Community, you can join here!

If you are looking to have me come into your company to talk more about Owning Your Career, please reach out at andy@andystorch.com

Dan Cockerell is the former Vice President and Head of Walt Disney’s Magic Kingdom with 12,000 cast members in Orlando. Following a 26-year career at Disney, Dan now writes and speaks about culture. His book, How’s the Culture in Your Kingdom?: Lessons from a Disney Leadership Journey is a bestseller that you can get now on Amazon.

In this interview, Dan shares about his experience working at Disney, the challenges that prevent organizations from creating a great culture, the importance of rewarding tough decisions, and why he says, “not everyone will fit into every culture”

You can find out more about Dan here.

If you are interested in joining the Talent Development Think Tank Community, you can go to TDTT.US and join us today!

Clair Kim is a Millennial Workplace Expert and the Principal Consultant at Allennials at Work. She has consulted with over 250 companies on on attracting, retaining and developing Millennials and a regular contributor to publications like Forbes, Huffington Post and more.

Clair defines the generations and what they really care about; how have younger generations been impacted by COVID and working remotely; what are the biggest challenges and mistakes companies and leaders make; and what do the best companies do to retain and develop Millennials? 

If you are interested in joining the Talent Development Think Tank Community, you can go to TDTT.US and join us today!

If you are interested in the Talent Development Think Tank Community, you can join here!

If you are looking to have me come into your company to talk more about Owning Your Career, please reach out at andy@andystorch.com

To join the Talent Development Think Tank Community, go to tdtt.us and join us in 2021!

This was one of the most popular episodes for a reason! It is full of really great information that we all need to look at as we move into the future of work.

Josh is a global research analyst, public speaker, industry analyst and writer on the topics of corporate human resources, talent management, recruiting, leadership, technology, and the intersection between work and life.

JoshBersin.com | BersinAcademy.com | LinkedIn

On the show, they talked about managers who try to diminish their people, the accidental diminishers, the diminishing and multiplier leaders, and many more. You’ll surely learn a lot of interesting insights in this episode so don’t miss it!

This was the second most downloaded episode on the podcast!

She talked about things she’s been working on and some of her passion and focus especially in terms of coaching and building high performing L&D teams through strategy.

She lives in Santa Cruz with her husband and son.

We cover​​ the definition of anti-fragility; employee engagement and trust; psychological safety; intellectual humility; and why Jennifer says, 'everyone needs a coach like they need a mobile phone.'

To join the community, go to Tdtt.us

To purchase the recordings from The Talent Development Virtual Summit, go to tdtt.us/purchase-lifetime-access/

In this interview, he explains how to know what the business needs, how to make a good business case, and common mistakes people make in Talent Development.

To purchase the recordings from The Talent Development Virtual Summit, go to tdtt.us/purchase-lifetime-access/

I have heard often that connections are being lost in the virtual world, but Lorraine gives a surprising take on her experience with the virtual world actually creating stronger relationships in the company.

 To purchase the recordings from The Talent Development Virtual Summit, go to tdtt.us/purchase-lifetime-access/

• How things have changed
• Accepting what is and not becoming fixated on outcomes you can’t control
• Focusing on the process

And so much more!

The most interesting part of the interview is when Marshall coaches me live during the interview. I was not at all prepared for this, and I'm not even sure if I responded well but I wanted to share it with you to listen and form your own opinion.

Marshall also endorsed my new book, Own Your Career Own Your Life, which you can get on Amazon now! .

And you can find the video recording from this and all the sessions in from the Talent Development Virtual Summit now available inside the member vault of the Talent Development Think Tank community I run.

Kristen Robinson, the Chief People Officer of Splunk, weaves her talent development philosophy around that need. She explains this philosophy and some of its aspects as she sits on the hot seat with Andy Storch. Touching on topics such as HR leadership, developing a feedback culture, promoting diversity and inclusion, and creating an internal talent marketplace, this conversation covers the aspects of talent development that need the most attention in these times.

We live in an era where to learn is to survive, and there is still so much to learn in the HR and talent development space. Join this conversation and have a slice of that learning pie.

Leanne Hughes joins us today to talk about virtual facilitation! To purchase the recordings from The Talent Development Virtual Summit, go to tdtt.us/purchase-lifetime-access/

For businesses and organizations, one major struggle that they have to face is maintaining the culture, especially as everybody starts going remote. This episode's guest, Naveen Bhateja, offers his insights and experiences to help you prepare for the future of work, facing the changes in front of us head-on. Naveen is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Medidata Solutions, a technology and software company that is leading the digital transformation of life sciences.

Here, he sits down with host, Andy Storch, to share his diverse global experience with us and how it has helped him manage different company cultures at any given time, such as this current pandemic, where people stay connected and engaged. Knowing that there is no existing playbook for a pandemic and the changes we are yet to confront with the current rate we are going, it helps to gather information from the experts to help us rise above the tides. Listen in on this discussion as Naveen guides you to create a progressive organization that is ready to embrace the future of work.

You can register at
http://talentdevelopmentvirtualsummit.com/

In this episode, Andy Storch shares one of the prerecorded sessions from the Talent Development Virtual Summit with Matt Burns, an expert on HR technology and virtual reality, founder of BentoHR and host of the Global HR Summit. In this conversation, Andy and Matt discuss what holds companies back from investing in VR technology, how it can be a cost-effective and profitable investment and how it can be used to train employees in company culture, leadership, interaction and D&I. Science and economics back the viability of using VR technology in the immersive learning experience, but its adoption has been slow. What holds companies back from actually leveraging this technology?

Listen in as Matt vouches for the value of this amazing solution to the challenge of developing top brass talent in a remote work setting.

You can get tickets to the Talent Development Virtual Summit at:
http://talentdevelopmentvirtualsummit.com/

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For access to my interview along with others on the HR Summit, go to https://hr.heysummit.com/

In this episode, Andy Storch interviews Kate Sweetman, the founding principal at SweetmanCragun Group, a global leadership development firm based in London. She is also a dual recipient of a Thinkers50 honor and the co-author of 2 terrific books including The Leadership Code.

Today, she talks about their new research on actions that leaders need to take, and the top barriers to change for businesses and leaders right now. With emphasis on disruption and what she notes as the fourth industrial evolution, Kate explains how companies and leaders should respond as she opens our eyes to the realities of being a leader in this era.

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Wendy Mack, the Managing Director for GrowthPlay’s sales talent consulting practice, joins Andy Storch as they dive into assessments, measuring performance, and understanding team effectiveness related to the learning and development world. Wendy talks about the need for different hiring assessments and processes for different selling roles and the style assessment she developed herself.

Don’t miss this episode to learn about the different types of assessment, what GrowthPlay uses internally that fits into their process, and the importance of understanding what you are trying to measure.

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For questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

He is an award-winning assistant professor of management at Cleveland State University, a co-founder and principal of the consulting firm Indigo Anchor LLC, and a commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve.

And Ben is also the co-host of the Indigo Anchor podcast as well.

For questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

For questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Her original training as an engineer, specialising in Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing, means her inspirational approach to helping business leaders is grounded in logic and practical common sense, creating breakthroughs not burnout.

Clare’s most recent book is called ‘Ditching Imposter Syndrome’ and it includes a simple 5-step process to do just that.

He has nearly 20 years of experience designing Talent Strategies and shaping Learning organizations.

Megan is passionate about the future of HR and shaping an organization’s culture through talent and organizational development initiatives. Megan has a Master’s in Organizational Development from the University of San Francisco.

Deep is passionate about unlocking learning from the confines of workshops and classes, so it can truly flow into an organization’s culture. She is an expert on leading cultural transformations and getting L&D to strategically contribute to business success through cutting edge innovations.

Deep’s experience in HR and how she got into L&D at ShellHow Deep leverages her experience in OD consultingThe mistake L&D teams make of jumping to solutions without understanding their thinkingStart with why is one of the culture principlesHow consulting creates a bias for actionDeep has a global team of nine members with five at HQHow to run People Development as a businessThe importance of thinking about the customer experience The importance of language remaining consistent with the businessNutanix classifies their manager development products similarly to the company solutionsHow do you lead a successful cultural transformationGrowing large with a startup mindsetGiving people more clarity on company valuesTaking a duel approach to shifting culture – top down to bottom upUsing open channels of communication to involve employeesHow Nutanix is leveraging HR technology and data for culture and talent developmentHow Nutanix is leveraging digital learning for their global workforceNutanix uses LinkedIn Learning and Janna and creates their own digital learning programsDeep’s greatest accomplishment of taking risks like the culture transformation journeyThe big global leadership experience event they ran to launch their culture intiaitiveTrend: How to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the customer experienceTrend: Virtual Reality (VR) to innovate and reach out to customersAdvice: Network and learn from others“You can get 100 years of experience if you talk to five people who have 20 years of experience and learn from them”Links:

Deep on LinkedInAndy on LinkedInFor questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Hortense is an Executive Leadership Coach and the President and Founder of JAY Consulting. She works with decision makers in the business world, including many C-suite executives from Fortune 500 companies, supporting them in their development and leadership by working with them on the alignment between their personal values and their professional activities.

Hortense is part of the MG100 Coaches, Marshall Goldsmith’s Pay It Forward project, and is a certified Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coach. She has been selected to receive a Thinkers 50 coaching award for excellence in her field. She is the author of several articles about leadership and coaching in such publications as Leader to Leader and Les Echos.

Her Book new book is called Aligned: Connecting Your True Self with the Leader You’re Meant to Be

Links:

Book: Aligned: Connecting Your True Self with the Leader You’re Meant to Be by Hortense le GentilHortense’s WebsiteHortense on LinkedInAndy on LinkedInFor questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Most individuals who have dedicated their careers to learning and talent development have spent a majority of their time in Human Resources. Christopher is different from most individuals. He’s a bold, digital-first learning and talent development leader that’s always reported directly to the business functions he’s served. As a result, he’s spent his career leading the reimagination of learning and talent development across healthcare, higher education, and technology, while going head-to-head with business operation leaders and being directly accountable for the outcomes.

He currently serves as the head of global digital learning for GE Healthcare where his teams are transforming the way development occurs for commercial and marketing professionals around the world.

What is your biggest strength or area of expertise? How do you think you can provide value to others?:

Understanding what it takes to bring an L&D organization from a legacy function to a strategic partner and how technology is enabling us to do it in ways never before possible.

Learning Tech Talks with Chris Rainey, live once/week on LinkedIn with tech providers

Notes:

Christopher’s diverse background in L&DBeing at the trifecta of business learning The importance of humans and people in organizationsChristopher’s work on transformation at GE HealthcareBreaking down the “Stockholm syndrome” of people developmentWhat causes “Stockholm Syndrome” in L&DHelping people make big changes and push past fear in transforming“The landscape of technology is changing really fast”How to piece together different technologiesThe importance of operationalizing learning and developmentHow to lay out a capability map to understand capabilities in the supply chainHow to make L&D more a part of the business by having more conversationsThe importance of being curious about how the business worksThe mistake of overstating our goal and acting like L&D is the key to successChristopher’s proudest accomplishment of setting up organizations for success when he leavesBiggest failure of not connecting with the business and what he learnedChristopher’s drive and success networking remotelyThe importance of looking at outcomes to drive your networking activitiesTrend: “Workflow learning” about content and experience in the flow of workTrend: Augmented reality as the GPS of real l ifeTrend: How to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) with voice and other thingsAdvice: Get as much diverse experience as possibleLinks:

Christopher’s LinkedInFor questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

TRAVIS DOMMERT is the is Senior Vice President of Learning & Development at Jackson Healthcare, a 3-time number one best-place-to-work in Atlanta among large employers and best workplace for Millennials according to Fortune Magazine.

Prior to Jackson, Travis was president of irunurun, a performance and accountability platform that leveraged lessons from elite soldiers and athletes to help leaders build high performance teams.

Dommert is a graduate of Northwestern University and Emory University and resides in Peachtree Corners, GA with his wife and five children.

What is your biggest strength or area of expertise? How do you think you can provide value to others?:

Unleashing the Power of Personal Purpose at Work. Any well-designed learning initiative ultimately drives behavior change. Unfortunately, most are short lived at best because leaders underestimate or misunderstand the mechanisms for making new behaviors stick.

By leveraging the wisdom of Aristotle and lessons learned from years of studying soldiers and athletes, we’ve identified a special cocktail of 5 factors needed to make behavior change stick.

The toughest yet most impactful factor is helping people uncover a deep, unique, and personal purpose for their work and life. When the fun and games are over, an enduring “why” can keep even the toughest new behaviors alive. I’d love to share the 5 factors and most importantly dive into a simple approach for clarifying purpose and connecting it to work.

Notes:

The importance of understanding basic psychology and figuring out how people work How engineering experience helps in his jobBook: First Break All the Rules by Marcus BuckinghamWe are awful at diagnosing our own skills and talentsTalking about conferencesUnleashing the power of personal purpose at workBook: Outliers by Malcom GladwellThe journey to mastery and Travis’s company, IrunurunLeveraging the experience of athletes and special forces guysBHOW – Big Hilarious Outrageous Why – what will you put your life on the line for? The single strongest desire of your behavior is your personal whyIt doesn’t matter what you do, your job mattersImportance of helping people understand why their job mattersThe importance of understanding how experience can impact your view of lifePeople need a reason why to People are wired for purpose and when they start living on purpose it becomes more rewardingHow to figure out what your personal brand isHow to help employees connect to purposeThe study of commitment to your job based on whether you know your values or the company’s valuesCommitment to a company goes down if a person knows the company’s values and doesn’t know their ownWhat are you going to start, stop and continue doing based on the values you put downJackson created a full day class on values and purposeThe importance of writing things down, telling others, getting feedback and iteratingProudest moment in career getting more leaders through development programsBiggest failure – not having the courage to talk to CEO about cultureThe power of giving things awayThe power of giving to othersTrend: Slow down and put half as much content and twice as much timePower of simplicityLinks:

Book: First, Break All the Rules Breaking all the rules by Marcus BuckinghamBook: Outliers by Malcolm GladwellBook: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by: Greg McKeownBook: Loyalty Effect by Fred ReichheldTravis on LinkedInAndy on LinkedInTED Talk of Simon Sinek: The Three Golden CirclesFor questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Jessica is the Senior Director of Leadership Strategy and Talent Management at Bright Horizons, which partners with organizations to support their employees and culture. They specialize in things like child care, early education, elder care, tuition asistance, etc.

Notes:

Jessica’s background in international education exchange and PhDTraditional learners now look more non-traditionalSitting between academia and businessTrend: Working world is more complex“The 21st century career has multiple experiences”Sharing an example of where assumptions can get companies in troubleIn an overly caring culture, people often try to protect employees and often take options away from themThe Bright Horizons Modern Family Index How women are taking on the majority of the mental load for working parentsHow employers manage employees start with role modelingProviding benefits to people in all different types of situations and life stagesWhat it means to bring your whole self to workThe importance of work/life Integration (not balance)Leveraging an HRIS system to understand where employees areThe importance of helping employees with elderly careHow Bright Horizons is practicing what they preach and building employee voice into what they do The changes when a company grows and the systems requiredThe importance of empowering employees to manage their own careersThe importance of vulnerability and asking for helpJessica’s greatest accomplishment and failureBook: positive intelligence by Shirzad ChamineBook: Thanks for the FeedbackDealing with Imposter syndromeAdvice: Get more experience sharing and presenting in publicLinks:

Book: Positive Intelligence by Shirzad ChamineBook: Drive by Daniel H. PinkJessica on LinkedInJessica on Bright HorizonEmail Address: Jessica.kaplan@brighthorizons.comFor questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Ed Muzio, “one of the planet’s clearest thinkers on management practice,” is CEO of Group Harmonics and author of three books including his latest, Iterate: Run a Fast, Flexible, Focused Management Team, which describes Iterative Management practices that the highest performing organizations use to make informed, inc

He is a leader in the application of analytical models to group and organization effectiveness and output.

Ed’s analytical approach to human productivity has been featured in national and international media, including CBS News, Fox Business News and The New York Post.

He has been a regular contributor to CBS and the Huffington Post.

Specialty:

The big idea: Iteration is the way effective organizations solve problems and achieve goals whose solutions are too complex to be defined in advance. Just look for the highest‐performing entrants in any given market. Chances are they’re Iterating.

Managing vs Management vs Change Management

Notes:

Ed’s background and how he started writing booksThe language problem around managing vs managementManagement is the group of people who is keeping things in the company on courseThere is not enough content and clarity about what it means to be on a management teamManagers are in collaboration and also competitionWhy managers can be in competitionThe importance of going beyond goals to define success for the organizationHow business and management is heavily influenced by cultural normsThe concept of iteration and information moving from top and bottomHow a feedback system works in an organizationThe role of management is to iterate like a thermostatThe five key practices of iteration including output and status broadcastingWhy we need a visual representation of my plan and also a second version of the futureOSIR – Output, Status, Issue, RecommendationWhat happens when new directions come down from the topWhat is change management and how can companies use this for major strategic shiftsWhat can talent development professionals do to get more involved with their clientsEd’s session at the TDTTTrend: Going from tactical to strategic with talent strategyBook: The Insightful Leader Book: Behave on Human BehaviorLinks:

Book: The Insightful Leader by Carlann FergussonBook: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert SapolskyBook: Iterate: Run a Fast, Flexible, Focused Management Team by Ed MuzioIterate’s WebsiteTalent Development Think Tank’s WebsiteFor questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Why we go to conferencesHow Andre got to where he is todayWork/Life HarmonyThe challenge from people getting promoted for being good at one thingWhen you chase something and catch it and it’s not what you thought it would beBeing proactive in helping people before they need helpHow to help people with work/life harmonyBook: Seven Ways to LoveThe importance of learning every person’s languageThe Leader SevenEveryone likes these but everyone has a top 1-2 they preferGoodies time – some people are driven by good thingsQuality minutes – People inspired by manager spending time talking to themRecognition and affirmation – getting creditKnowledge and career advancementIncentives – BonusFlexibility – can my ideas be flexibly implemented here?Respect – time and space respectedThe Leader’s question: “why are you here? How can I help you?”The get great question: “ I want to be great, can you help me?”Links:

Book: Seven Ways to Love by Andre YoungYou Evolving Now websiteYou Evolving Now, LLCEmail Address: young.andre32@gmail.comContact information: 610-406-1852For questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Richard’s background in USMC, Psychology, Learning & MotivationRich was at DDI, Pitney Bowes, Aetna, Liberty Mutual and BTSWorking with BTS The biggest challenge that companies have with assessmentThe impetus for the high potential research that Rich didWhat the research tells us about HiPo programsRich’s research is the result of 30 years of working with HiPo talentPotential is a function of five things – business acumen, people acumen, self awareness, motivation for achievement, X-factorX-factor example with a pharma companyHow digital capability can be an “x-factor” Self-Awareness is knowing your strengths and limitationsHow leaders can leverage this information to identify HiPo leadersYou can screen based on performance values but you have to simulate to really see how people will operateHow simulations can help predict performanceAn example of a simulated environmentHow to measure the effectiveness of a programCan companies build this internally? The response to Rich’s researchWhere the research goes from hereRich wants to see companies use this with front-line managersThe argument for making a big investment in HiPo assessment simulationsRich’s greatest accomplishment of building something that didn’t existRich’s biggest mistakeBook: Jacque Drucker’s workBook: Doug Bray at AT&TAdvice: Understand your business instead of following the latest trendLinks:

Book: The Three Levels of Leadership by James Scouller Email Address: richard.dapra@bts.comFor questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

In this interview, we talk about creating a culture of empathy, the importance of self-awareness, what it means to put the human back in human resources and why you should be thinking more about cultur additions than culture “fit.” Plus a lot more.

In this interview, we talk about creating a culture of empathy, the importance of self-awareness, what it means to put the human back in human resources and why you should be thinking more about cultur additions than culture “fit.” Plus a lot more.

The world is changing faster than ever before and so is work.

Josh Bersin says that leadership is changing and that L&D professionals need to understand the business and the tools to stay relevant.

I also think you need to be networking and continuously learning if you don’t want to be left behind.

Ryan is the founder and CEO of VIVAHR, which is changing how employers hire by building their employment brand with Culture Marketing.

Ryan has been an entrepreneur for 10+ years and has experienced the pain of hiring and firing…the wrong people. Through those lessons learned he discovered the power of building business on core values, clear focus and most importantly, great company culture.

Notes:

How Ryan got into recruiting and “Culture Marketing”Ryan and his team placed over 100,000 jobs in Arizona during the recessionWhat Ryan discovered about why some employers get more applicants than othersThe importance of the first paragraph in a job descriptionThe companies that could tell their stories the clearest got the best applicant poolCulture Marketing is the notion of taking core values and applying them to every touch pointTheir software helps companies tell their story to improve “culture marketing”Importance of having peers telling candidate why they come to work every dayHow a call center saw attrition rate decline because of culture and missionAttracting “A-Players” is all about clarity and attracting the right talent“The quickest way to get A-players to quit is to surround them with C-players”How to get clear on whom you want to attractImportance of measuring skills to inform job postingA-players love scorecards and structure that helps them understand expectationsHow to reinforce culture to keep A-players after hiredThe company that pays you to go on vacation your first weekCompanies are missing opportunities to take advantage of using stories to attract great talentExecutives spend so much time listening to customers and not enough time listening to talentThe important question: Does every employee have a best friend (at work)The importance of ensuring people have good relationships at workBook: Scaling upLinks:

CraigslistMailChimpJCPennyRyan on InstagramRyan on LinkedInRyan on FacebookVIVAHRFor questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Josh is a global research analyst, public speaker, industry analyst and writer on the topics of corporate human resources, talent management, recruiting, leadership, technology, and the intersection between work and life.

He previously founded Bersin and Associates, which was acquired by Deloitte, and has recently launched the Bersin Academy where he is the dean.

Josh has a huge following on LinkedIn and Twitter and speaks at conferences around the world and will be speaking at the upcoming TDTT on January 22-23 in Sonoma California.

Notes:

Background and how he got startedFuture of workProductivity not keeping up with GDP despite people working more What skills will be most important in future Reskilling – why important and whose responsibility Upskilling, reskilling and vs reinvention What accountants will be doing in the futureEmployee time famine The process shredderThe new model for a career “The best companies are where you can find your true self”LMS were not designed for employees The average L&D dept has 23 technologies for learning Learning in the flow of work and give people enough challenge for flow or ecstasy and avoid anxiety Spaced learning with practiceChanging L&D rolesFrom skills to capabilities What Josh is doing with his academy Book: Range by David EpsteinSkills and expertise vs context and perspective Culture as developing a culture of learning Being able to talk about mistakes at workJosh’s background in engineeringHow Josh got into learning and online learningThe ever changing workplace“There is only one thing that makes a business successful and that’s having customers” -Peter DruckerThe challenge of people going into manager roles b/c they are great technician“Becoming a people leader is a challenge for everybody who has done it”How to think about your job when you become a managerHow leadership is changingThe importance of giving your employees development opportunitiesCompanies need to design an environment where everyone can develop new skills and their careerThe future of work and why you can’t define itWhy behavioral skills will be more important in the future of workJobs in the future are becoming more high level and behavioralThe Full Stack HR professionalThe future is in creating an organization that figures this out on their ownWhat it means to create a more dynamic, flattened job architectureHow to use a “capability academy” to “upskill” and “reskill” workers How to get people to learn via capability academies“An academy is a place to go where it is safe and powerful to learn”The #2 most important skill is “Learning how to manage your own time to make yourself more effective at work”The reasons and solutions for the productivity dip“You can’t be a good L&D professional if you can’t understand the tools”The importance of being a “full stack” professionalLearning in the flow of workThe challenge with micro learning and LXPsThe paradigm of the world today is that we are living in a stream of informationTrend: Collecting and using more data to inform decisionsLinks:

DeloitteSlackSalesforceMicrosoftJosh’s WebsiteJosh AcademyJosh on LinkedInJosh on TwitterFor questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

That’s the question I want to give you today that you can use when things don’t go the way you might like. This is the question I asked when wildfires forced us to postpone the Talent Development Think Tank from November to January.

You can use this question too.

Michael is a recognized “digital transformation leader” who drives change and culture evolution to enable true business transformation in a digital world.

Michael has worked in corporate and consulting and is formerly the Chief Learning Officer of Bloomberg Media and CLO of Digital Industry for GE.

Currently Michael is a digital transformation and HR consultant and program leader at Box of Crayons.

Notes:

Grew up son of teachers in Billings, MTHow Michael got connected with Michael Bungay StanierThe importance of coaching in companies“We are living in a world of fifth generation technology and 2nd generation human systems”The importance of having real conversations with peopleHow Michael got into working on digital transformationsThe importance of asking good questions and staying curiousDefining a “Digital Transformation’The five questions around “digital transformation”How music has changed by going digitalThe Fidelity exampleIs your organization ready for digital transformation? The importance of measuring change and changing metrics for a digital transformationWhat to do about the people who can’t or won’t go digitalAre you leaders doing what digital leaders have to do? Or are they playing it safe?Are you personally ready, willing and able to go digital yousrelf? Book: Humility is the new smart. The value of learning over knowingBook: The Day After TomorrowTalking about the human capabilities to support a “digital world”“Exploration over Execution”—-take clip around 26 min mark about exploration over executiona dn what’s changed“The more technologically advanced we become, the more of a premium is placed on the human side of our humanness”Michael’s greatest accomplishment of identifying people’s genius Michael’s mistake of worrying too much about being right and taking the wrong workTrend: Companies changing culture“No one listens to your new beliefs. They’ve got their beliefs”The importance of asking really good questions at the rigtht timeAdvice: “Don’t do it alone”. Ask for help and see yourself through the eyes of othersThe expirational leaderLinks:

Book: Humility Is the New Smart by Edward D. Hess, Katherine LudwigBook: The Day After Tomorrow: How to Survive in Times of Radical Innovation by Peter HinssenBook: Digital Transformation & Leadership: The 5 Big Questions by Michael LeckieMichael’s WebsiteMichael on LinkedInMichael’s Email Address: me@michaelleckie.comFor questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Dr. Catherine Hayes is a bestselling author and certified Leadership coach; an Authorized and Certified Riso-Hudson Enneagram Teacher and International Enneagram Association (IEA) Certified Professional and Accredited Teacher; a speaker; and a highly regarded influencer in the leadership field.

Links:

Book: Everything Is Going to Be Okay!: From the Projects to Harvard to Freedom by Dr. Catherine HayesBook: The Wisdom of the Enneagram by Don Richard Riso and Russ HudsonThe Enneagram InstituteCatherine’s WebsiteCatherine’s Email Address: catherine@catherinehayescoaching.comFor questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Dr. Flo Falayi is a dynamic leadership/management consultant and executive coach with varied and significant experience across Fortune 100 companies across diverse industries. He is a well-respected, thought leader who blends a diverse strategic approach to leadership development and organizational effectiveness challenges.

A YALE Scholar, Fellow of The Institute of Information Management and the Founder of The Hybrid Leadership Institute (non-profit) focused on identifying, raising and developing the next generation of global leaders and entrepreneurs.

As a leadership coach, Flo speaks at conferences and advises leaders, private, public and non-profit organizations on culture, leadership excellence, business success, youth empowerment, change, national development, and capacity development.

Currently, Dr. Flo is a leadership and organizational effectiveness consultant at Slalom Consulting, based out of Atlanta.

Notes:

Dr. Flo shares his background and how he got to where he is todayDr. Flo was born in the US, raised in Nigeria, lived in London and educated in the USMoving from the tech guy to the link or connector to the business“The most valuable asset organizations have is their people”The key drivers behind all technological enhancements is peopleThe importance of empowering and enabling the right peopleHybrid leadership and why it is importantChallenging the traditional point of view on By the year 2030, the US will experience a “minority-majority shift” in demographicsWhy we need to shift our perspective on leadership How to set your organization up for success in the futureExpats are the first generation of “hybrid leaders” The organization of the future has to be deliberate about empowering diversity & inclusionChallenging organizations to change how they are filling the pipeline and look at the journey as an experience and create a story from different perspectivesThe “angry white man” phenomenonThe keys to effective culture shift and alignmentEvery transformation is about people and people don’t naturally gravitate toward changeIf you want to make big changes, you have to be willing to hold people’s handsPeople need to understand the purpose and cost (the why)“Humans gravitate toward stories”Trend: The generational shift and the multigenerational workforceEquipping people for the future of workAdvice: The three D’s: Discovery, Development,Links:

Book: Multipliers by Liz WisemanBook: Let them See you by Porter BraswellDr. Flo on LinkedInDr. Flo on TwitterDr. Flo on InstagramDr. Flo on FacebookDr. Flo’s websiteFor questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Tevis Trower believes in humanizing the work experience.

Heralded in bestselling Megatrends 2010 as “corporate mindfulness guru for the new millennium”, Tevis has assisted powerful organizations ranging from Disney to Morgan Stanley in optimizing their most precious assets: human beings.

She has created and facilitated global executive immersions for prestigious organizations including Harvard Business Review Events, Young Presidents Organization, PWC, Bloomberg LP, Viacom, Google and The Economist on issues including mindfulness, executive lifestyle, personal mastery, innovation, and the role of consciousness in creating radical success.

Notes:

Tevis’s background and how she got to where she is todayWhat is the experience we have of being alive and how do our choices impact our lives?“What is it that makes us afraid of each other at work?”“How we do anything (as they say) is how we do everything”What is inside of us that gives us courage to be a creator? How and why people get less creative over timeHow work culture is changingThe Edelman Trust BarometerWe are starting to see that people trust their employer more than any other medium (politicians, the church, businesses)Employers want transparency and vulnerability in leadershipThe mistakes that companies are making around authenticity and leadershipWhat is corporate psychopathyAmongst the general population, the incidence of psychopathy is 1% but in corporations the rate is 3%Talking about “imposter syndrome” and how people change their personalities to avoid riskHigh performers work themselves into burnout b/c they are afraid of judgementHow to improve authenticity and mindfulness in our organizationsChange starts at the top“Executive impact on culture is mission critical”The importance of alignment and measurement to influence changeHow to deal with imposter syndrome“Most of us have some demons that are keeping us from fully expressing ourselves”The red flags to look for burnoutTrend: The dance between pulse surveys and what can happen with the resultsBook: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor FranklBook: The Letters to a Young PoetBook: Let Your Life Speak by Parker PalmerAdvice: Go do weird stuffLinks:

Book: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor FranklBook: Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria RilkeBook: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker PalmerBook: The Game-Changer’s Guide to Radical Success by Tevis TrowerBalance Integration websiteBalance Integration on FacebookBalance Integration on LinkedInBalance Integration on TwitterTevis on TwitterFor questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Chris is the bestselling author of The Millennial Whisperer. His dynamic approach to attracting and motivating the next generation in the workplace has had him featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Fox TV, Cheddar News, and more.

Chris is also a partner at 22squared, a full-service advertising agency based out of Atlanta, GA where he oversees content marketing and partnerships as well as the employee engagement consulting division.

What is your biggest strength or area of expertise? How do you think you can provide value to others?:

How to attract, motivate and retain young talent and how to create change within organizations. I tell stories and anecdotes that entertain while applying statistical data as well as giving tactical takeaways.

Notes:

Chris’s background and how he ended up writing this bookFor the first time in history we have a generation that is willing to walk if their needs are not metWhat can we do differently that will make our work feel less like workChris had 65 failed job interviews before he got into digital marketingHow Chris made a viral video of his engagementHow and when Chris hit “rock bottom” and changed his metric of success Measuring success by impactGoing from being a “tip of the sword” to being a servant leader and coaching peopleHow Chris became the “Millennial Whisperer”The comparison trapThe challenge of comparing yourself to others and getting caught up in social mediaDefining the Millennial generation and why they are willing to walkChris’s 70/30 rule – 30% of life will suckPeople quit jobs because they don’t like their boss or the cultureMillennials are looking for autonomy, inspirational leadership, transparency and purposeThey want to make sure the company is giving back to the community and world as a wholeWhat it means to be an inspirational leader“When your head hits the pillow at the end of the day and you are not exhausted from inspiring your people, you are not doing it right”Links:

Book: The Millennial Whisperer by Chris TuffBook: 48 Days to the Work You Love By Dan MillerThe Millennial WhispererThe Millennial Whisperer on InstagramChris on InstagramChris’ Email Address: chris@themillenialwhisperer.comFor questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Lindsey Pollak is a New York Times bestselling author, a keynote speaker, and one of the world’s leading experts on Millennials and the multigenerational workplace.

Her latest book is The Remix: How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Workplace is all about how leaders and organizations must embrace the new ways of working that appeal to the digital-first generations.

Notes:

How Lindsey got into this line of work and became a millennial expertDescribing the generations and where Gen X fits in“The expectations you bring to the workplace are impacted by the times in which you were raised”The importance of the expectations people have when they show up to workplaceWhy Lindsey wrote this bookWe have more Americans age 85 or older in the workplace than ever beforeThe DJ trick to playing a remixThe concept of the remix and how to take the best of all generationsBook: The One Minute ManagerWhat the best companies are doing well to mix generationsThe mistake of trying to fit everyone into one way of working65% of younger workers take jobs for training and developmentWhat is the right approach to learning in the workplace?How do you as an individual improve your approach to the multigenerational workplace?The importance of learning from those 10+ years older or younger than youThe power of reverse mentoring to learn from those younger than youThe important questions to ask other colleagues about communication stylesAdvice: Get input from different generations when planning eventsAdvice: Use different methods of communication and repurpose contentLinks:

Book: Getting from College to Career by Lindsey PollakBook: The One Minute Manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard and Spencer JohnsonBook: The Remix: How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Lindsey PollakLindsey’s WebsiteLindsey’s InstagramLindsey’s LinkedInAndy’s InstagramAndy’s LinkedInFor questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Jay Conger is one of the world’s experts on leadership. You will see him quoted in the Wall Street Journal and other business periodicals analyzing people and trends in the executive suite and in the boardroom. He is a senior research scientist at the USC Marshall School Center for Effective Organizations as well as the Henry Kravis Chaired Professor of Leadership Studies at Claremont McKenna College in Los Angeles

In his career, Jay has authored over one hundred articles and fifteen books on topics ranging from leadership, organizational change and manager development. He is one of a handful of authors who have published multiple articles in the Harvard Business Review. His most recent book is The High Potential’s Advantage (2018)

Jay has taught at the Harvard Business School, INSEAD (France), the London Business School, McGill University, and the University of Southern California and been featured in Business Week, The Economist, The Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, The LA Times, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Training, The Wall Street Journal, and Working Woman

Links:

Book: The High Potential’s Advantage: Get Noticed, Impress Your Bosses, and Become a Top Leader by Jay CongerBook: The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier By Michael Bungay StanierBook: Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan HeathJay’s Email Address: jay.conger@cmc.eduFor questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Jennifer is a Visionary and bold people engineer and leader offering proven expertise driving exponential growth and organizational transformation through effective people development, employee & customer engagement, leadership coaching, management consulting, and strategic initiatives.

Currently Jennifer works in Executive Development at IBM, which has 350,000 employees across the globe. She is working on a book on leadership to be published in 2020.

Notes:

Jennifer’s background starting off as a singer-songwriter and artist who got into engineeringThe difficult decision to sign a record deal or become an IBM engineerLeaders need to understand who they are to make decisions based on a clear vision of their identityHow Jennifer moved from engineering to exec developmentHow Jennifer built one of the talent development groups at IBMWhat it was like to be a black woman in a white men’s worldThe importance of being able to bring your whole self to workHow to build a new talent development group from scratchThe importance of soliciting help and contributions from the people you are developing“Learning is not just knowledge transfer. Learning is transformational”The importance of creativity (26 mins in, be creative)The importance of “cleaning out the closet” and simplifyingCreativity is a skill that you can learn and can help you see things in different waysHow to incorporate creativity into leadership development by breaking the rulesJennifer’s greatest accomplishment of touching so many livesJennifer’s mistake of trusting the wrong peopleTrend: AI and blockchain for talent development and the race to make it tangibleLinks:

Book: The Holy BibleBook: Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive by Ned HallowellJennifer on LinkedInFor questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Say Things Better website

Say Things Better on LinkedIn

Lila’s LinkedIn

Email Address: lila@saythingsbetter.com

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Her forthcoming books include The Way of the Digital Warrior, a self-leadership guide to create connection, escape burnout, and overcome other challenges unique to the digital age, and Learning Cluster Design: How Millennials, Media, and Mobility are Reinventing the Training Industry (ATD, 2020).

She is honored to be a Power 30 Under 30, CLO Learning in Practice, and ATD One to Watch award recipient.

As a speaker and consultant, Sally’s mission has always been two-fold. She helps women to recognize, articulate and act on their greatest strengths in order to enhance their careers and increase their value to their organizations. And she works with senior leaders in companies and partnership firms to instill more inclusive practices at the highest levels.

Previous books include The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership, and The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work, which explores how women’s strategic insights can strengthen their careers.

In addition to delivering workshops and keynotes in corporations, partnership firms, universities and associations around the world, Sally has consulted with the UN on building more inclusive country offices in Africa and Asia, led programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Smith College and been visiting scholar at Northwestern University, U-Nordic Stockholm, and the Lauriston Institute Melbourne AU. She is a contributing editor for Strategy + Business magazine and a member of the MG 100 Coaching Network and the New York and International Women’s Forums. She lives in Chatham, NY.

On his podcast, Dr. Shuster’s guests educate and inspire listeners through their stories, expertise, and passion for helping make a difference in the lives of others. His mission is to help people become the best versions of themselves and as a result, make the world a better place. A sought after media expert, Dr. Shuster’s clinical expertise and podcast have been featured in such publications as The Huffington Post, NBCNews.com, Glassdoor.com, Reader’s Digest, Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan, and others.

In her role, Karyn is responsible for maximizing the diversity of EY professionals across the globe by enhancing EY’s inclusive culture.

Karyn frequently consults with clients on diversity and inclusiveness matters, serving as a thought leader regularly in the global media like The Financial Times and The Economist.

Book: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains By Nicholas Carr

Book: The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier

Book: Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wisemen

Book: Leaders Open Doors by Bill Treasurer

Book: A Leadership Kick in the Ass by Bill Treasurer

Book: Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View by Stanley Milgram

Bill’s website

Courageous Leadership Program

Giant Leap Consulting

For questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Upwork

Global HR Collective

For questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Teresa partners with her clients as a coach, consultant, and professional speaker to FORGET being productive and do what truly matters. As a recovering workaholic who was addicted to all the latest apps, software, and best-selling books on productivity, Teresa is passionate about helping people assess their habits and execute a process to take their everyday, ordinary life to something extraordinary in their REALIFE, REALWORK & REALSELF.

Teresa lives with her husband Dale on their 3rd Generation family grain farm in South Central Illinois. She still drives a tractor when needed and loves a great cup of coffee or long lingering meal with friends!

Currently Michael is the Head of Talent Acquisition for the US and Canada at RSM – an audit, tax and consulting firms with 43,000 employees. Previously Michael spent 20 years at PwC in various roles..

Michael has also been focused on the development and implementation of comprehensive, innovative recruiting and sourcing strategies, in addition to driving and assessing operational effectiveness and excellence. Mike’s passion for brand building and the pursuit of technological innovation help his teams gain a competitive advantage in the TA market and broaden networks of talent.

Mike is the author of the international bestseller Seven Stories Every Salesperson Must Tell.

Trained as an electrical engineer, Mike had no interest in sales. Until in 1996, he was offered a sales role in Norway ….you can listen to Mike telling that story here.

Mike taught himself storytelling and used it navigate a diverse international sales career:

Selling more than one billion dollars of products and services

…for blue chip corporations: Schlumberger, Siemens, Nokia, Halliburton, Motorola & Spotless

…across Telecommunications, IT, Oil and Gas, Facility Services and Industrial sectors

…while based in the USA, UK, Australia, Norway, Russia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Australia.

Since 2014, Mike has been teaching revenue growth storytelling to an ever expanding list of national and international clients.

Notes:

Mike’s story coming out of University in Australia

How Mike got into sales and sales management and training

Why some sales teams perform well and some don’t

Why stories are so important in business

How our brain works and shy stories are compelling

How we use the neocortex to predict what people will say next

Stories are the hardest to predict

If you put something personal in your story, you’re likely to get something persronal back

We tell stories in order to get the other person to tell their story

The process of storytelling works best in groups

The important stories that leaders need to be able to tell

The importance of the company strategy story

The values stories explain staff how we will achieve our goals

A company strategy example from Schlumberger

The importance of practicing storytelling at meetings

The importance of thinking about the outcomes – what is the enduring outcome?

Stories endure in people’s mind and creating a story library would create a legacy

Links:

Book: Seven Stories Every Salesperson Must Tell by Mike Adams

Seven Stories website

For questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Ron is an accomplished Human Resources Executive who combines a unique, hands-on perspective to building successful enterprises. Ron holds a strong belief that, in order to build a thriving company, one must fully develop the company’s talent. This belief is largely based on his deep understanding of organizational effectiveness, global HR management, and corporate governance. Ron’s 40-year career has spanned a variety of workplaces including a global corporation (where he was a Corporate Officer), his own consulting firm, and private psychological counseling.

For the past 10 years, as Vice President of Human Resources for the publicly-traded Quaker Chemical Corporation, Ron has been a strategic partner to the CEO and C-Suite colleagues, coached high-potential talent across the global organization, and gained Board and Executive Management experience. Utilizing over 20 years of expertise in organizational and talent development, his contributions have been key to the Company’s growth, from a half-billion – to a two-billion-dollar enterprise and a tenfold increase in share price.

During his career, Ron has held a variety of successively responsible positions across diverse industries including: Vice President, Human Resources and Global Director, Learning & Development for a global specialty chemical company; Director of Development, North America for a national consulting and training firm; Senior Consultant, Management and Organization Development for a regional utility company; and Director, Clinical Services for a national employee-assistance provider. Ron spent the first 12 years of his professional career as a psychotherapist, with active practices in both the Philadelphia and Washington D.C. areas.

Ron will soon retire from Quaker Chemical after 17 years and is already planning for various consulting engagements – both as an Executive Coach – with a focus on organizational effectiveness, team leadership and building strong corporate cultures.

Ron holds a Masters degree in Psychology with a specialty in Family Therapy, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology, from Hahnemann Hospital and University. In addition, he has completed advanced coursework in the area of Dynamics of Organization at the University of Pennsylvania

Notes:

Ron’s background and interest in human development

The importance of hiring, training and developing good people

People like to be treated well

The younger generation is more stimulated by opportunities

Why many people don’t prioritize the development of people’

The importance of developing and moving talent around an organization

The HiPo program that moves honus from company to people

Empowering employees to take ownership of their own development

Corporate Dynamics – all companies are living entities, culture

How to define culture and align people to that culture

People believe what you do, not what you say so you need to align the senior team and cascade down

When managing change, clarity of message and rewarding role models is important

The changes in HR and Talent Development over the years

People’s biggest challenge is time

Ron’s greatest accomplishment of putting together a life-changing program

Ron’s failure of leaving school prematurely. Wishes he stayed for his PhD

Trend in work around emotional resilience and emotional intelligence

Advice: Be hungry, look for opportunities and take risks

Links:

Book: The One Minute Manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard

Book: On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis

Book: Good to Great by Jim Collins

Email Address: omettiger@comcast.net

For questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Whitney Johnson was named one of the world’s fifty most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50 in 2017.

She is the author of the bestselling book, Build an A Team, and the critically-acclaimed Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work.

Through writing, speaking, consulting and coaching, Whitney works with leaders to retain their top talent, to build an A team, and to help them earn the gold star–be a boss people love.

Whitney formerly was the co-founder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard’s Clayton Christensen, where they invested in and led the $8 million seed round for Korea’s Coupang, currently valued at $5+ billion. She was involved in fund formation, capital raising, and the development of the fund’s strategy.

She is also formerly an award-winning Wall Street analyst. She was an Institutional Investor-ranked equity research analyst for eight consecutive years.

Whitney is a frequent contributor for the Harvard Business Review, she has over 1.5 million followers on Linkedin, was named one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices in the Influencer category for 2018, and her LinkedIn course The Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship has 1 million+ views.

She is a member of the original cohort of Marshall Goldsmith’s #100 coaches.

Notes:

How Whitney got on Marshall Goldsmith’s list of 100 coaches

The importance of charging what you are worth

The pay for performance model vs hourly charging

Why Whitney started the Forty Women over Forty to watch

Why womens career’s don’t take off as quickly as men’s do

The concept behind ‘Disrupt Yourself’ and the work she did with Clayton Christensen

Why people need to disrupt themselves

Why and how everyone is on an S-Curve

How the Chief Marketing Officer disrupted himself

How to get past fear of trying new things

The most common challenge that most company executives are dealing with

What to do if someone on your team is on the top of the curve and they are happy

Whitney’s book build an A-Team

How to identify executives and help them disrupt themselves

Whitney’s proudest moments of moving up as an investment banker

Whitney’s biggest failure of judging and treating a co-worker poorly

How diminishers act out of fear

The challenge of giving people feedback or not getting enough feedback

The importance of building the feedback “muscle” and getting and giving on day 1

Trends: More people hiring coaches

Platform: Coach Logix

Book: Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

Advice: Focus on improving yourself before helping others

Links:

Book: Build an A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve

Book: Disrupt Yourself by Whitney Johnson

Book: The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen

Book: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck

Book: Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman

Book: Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

Marshall Goldsmith – 100 Coaches

Forty Over 40 – Forty Women to Watch Over 40

Disrupt Yourself Podcast

Whitney’s website

Email Address: wj@whitneyjohnson.com

For questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

KELLY PALMER is on a mission to change the way the world learns. A well-known thought leader on learning, business, and career development, she is currently on the executive team of Degreed and was formerly the chief learning officer of LinkedIn. Prior to LinkedIn, Kelly was vice president of learning at Yahoo! and held executive positions in learning, M&A, and product development at Sun Microsystems.

She is the co-author of the book The Expertise Economy: How the smartest companies use learning to engage, compete, and succeed.

She speaks regularly at companies and business conferences around the world, has been featured in Harvard Business Review, the Financial Times, Fast Company, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc., Chief Learning Officer (CLO), and on Bloomberg radio. Kelly has a Bachelor of Arts in English/communications and a Master of Science in adult learning and education technology. Kelly lives in San Francisco.

Notes:

Kelly’s background from Sun Micro and productive developmenet and then learning under Karie Willyerd

How Kelly started exploring ways to leverage technology in learning at Yahoo!

Kelly was recruited to LinkedIn in 2012 to develop a new learning platform

The trends that are changing the way people work

Acceleration – how fast things are happening in the world of work

The different ways that people are learning and sharing information and content

How content was created at Sun and how Sun was ahead of its time

Innovation means trying things, iterating and seeing if things stick

The unique opportunity that Kelly had to work at LinkedIn

Why Kelly hired a small development team to develop a learner platform

What is Degreed and how they broaden the definition of what they mean by learning

Learning in the Flow of Work

People want learning when they need and that meets there needs

The new paradigm of learning and how to leverage a learning ecosystem

The power of in person learning and creating a journey with a platform

The important components to having a complete learning strategy

The biggest challenge of our time and the importance of upskilling and “reskilling” of the workforce

The example of Unilever and what the CLO is doing there to put together a skills strategy

What Kelly is seeing with regards to degrees and certifications

Are universities preparing students for the future of work?

Learning needs to be more skill based than curriculum based

Links:

Book: The Expertise Economy by Kelly Palmer and David Blake

Book: The End of Average by Todd Rose

Book: Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment by Todd Rose

Degreed’s Website

The Expertise Economy’s Website

Kelly’s LinkedIn

For questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Why he wrote a book

The science behind talent management

The importance of starting with the science when dealing with people’s lives

What gets in the way of setting and achieving big goals

What is a goal and how to achieve it?

The mistakes companies make when making decisions without scinece

Dunne and Kruger effect

Using data to support performance management process

Nine lies about work and incorrect claims about feedback

The truth behind the 70/20/10 model

The state of talent management today

What makes great talent management?

HRBP’s are the foundation for the rest of talent management

How talent development can support HRBPs

Trend: AI to help us make smarter decisions

What AI can do and where it might fail

Book: What got you here won’t get you there by Marshall Goldsmith

Advice: Be planful in getting experiences

Links:

Book: One Page Talent Management: Eliminating Complexity, Adding Value by Marc Effron

Book: 8 Steps to High Performance by Marc Effron

Book: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith

Talent Strategy Group

Email Address: marc@talentstrategygroup.com

For questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com

Peter Lynch is the CEO and Founder of Hitch Studio. A noted Fortune 500 global executive in talent, operations, change and executive coaching. As an entrepreneur, he developed the app Digital Fridge that has been downloaded in more than 70 countries and launched a podcast that reached the top 25 ahead of The New York Times and Harvard Business Review. A TEDx speaker whose connection with audiences is legendary, he lives in Denver.

Peter is known for his impactful storytelling and has taken his message of success through authenticity to leaders and teams on 5 continents.

Notes:

Peter’s background in Seattle and South Dakota

Peter’s experience at Gateway, Dish,

Always fascinated with how to leverage stories to develop people

How Peter ended up going out on his own and how coaching has helped him

The importance of getting out of your comfort zone

How Dominick pulled the rug out from under him

Dealing with fear and imposter syndrome

Peter’s biggest fear was fear of failure

Fear is a contributor of great value

The bigger fear of being on your deathbed

Why Peter always has three coaches – one older, one same age going through same things and one younger who pushes me

Why Reggie Miller asks for coaching from different coaches

What Peter’s company, Hitch, does

Coaching and speaking around the art of stroytelling – the art of attention in the age of distraction

Stories are the coat racks that we hang ideas on

Peter is teaching executives how to use the art and science of storytelling

Peter starts every meeting with better and uncomfortable

Links:

Book: The UGLY Advantage: Why You Look Good When You Look Real by Peter Lynch

Book: Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins

Book: The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday

Book: The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn

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Exploring the differences in how people lead in companies vs. the military

The questions to ask on leadership

How people confuse leadership and management

The fallacy of our we talk about leaders and managers

How General Patton was a manager, not a leader

“The job of a manager is not to take or evoke action”

“The job of a manager is to create leaders who take and evoke action”

“The only place micromanagers are necessary are on extremely disfunctional teams”

As soon as you have positional authority (title), you have a responsibility to manage

SEAL officers have the least experience and shouldn’t be fighting

Officers and Managers have a responsibility to create the environment where their people can lead

Larry has never seen companies do a good job of managing people

The role of a manager is to create an environment that supports leaders to make great choices

Why the US president is the “manager” of the free world

Changing the paradigm around leading and managing

Most people like to be in action and evoke action in others

The manager’s job is to ensure their people have clarity and are empowered to do their jobs

Three key actions of a manager: Clarity, create and enable, and safety net

Talking about the common qualities and feelings we get from great managers

The magic trick of my best manager

Advice: Make sure people are great followers

The job of a leader is to lead their managers

The importance of reporting all information as a leader

The most powerful tool of a leader is to sincerely ask for help

The challenge that comes from changing behavior without communication

Links:

The 3 Secrets of High Performing Teams

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Book: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

Book: Raise Your Visibility & Value by Ed Evarts

Book: The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle

Book: Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott

Book: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith

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Lori is Founder and Principal of Aspen Group Consulting, a leadership and inclusion consultancy. She is a Master Practitioner for The Wiseman Group, delivering keynote presentations and experiential workshops founded on the research published in Multipliers, How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter. She also serves as an adjunct professor at Portland State University in the School of Business/MBA Program, located in Portland, Oregon.

Lori brings over 20 years of experience as a catalyst in leadership and board development, diversity & inclusion, and organizational development. Her experience inside Fortune 500 companies and non-profit organizations, including Nike, Intel, Boeing, Kaiser Permanente, and serving on Non-Profit Boards, provides a unique portfolio of expertise that she offers to partners and clients.

During her time at Nike, she led a global initiative to integrate Multipliers habits into the core accountabilities for all leaders and managers across the company.

Lori is known as a truth-teller and delivers insight and solutions that probe deeply beyond the surface.

Her approach includes artful questioning and candid commentary, resulting in transformational gains for leaders and their teams. She is sought out for her collaborative, creative, and inclusive nature in her partnership approach with clients.

Lori loves spending time with family (two adult children, Sara & Bryan and husband, Gary), traveling, running and practicing yoga. She gets much joy out of her volunteer service at Children’s Cancer Association (CCA), where she is a Chemo Pal to an amazing, inspiring, and courageous two-year-old battling leukemia.

Expertise:

I am an optimist by nature and believe every human has greatness within them…it needs to be nurtured and encouraged in the workplace in order for employees to show up and be their best. I am curious by nature, which is a beautiful trait to embody as this leads to trust and mutual regard in my relationships. I try my best to live by a famous quote credited to Maya Angelou

Notes:

Lori’s experience and passion for non-profit work

The work that Lori did at Intel and Nike

The D&I work that Lori did at Nike with the freedom to really try and test things

Regardless of the diversity on the team, if you fail to include them, you fail to get results

Diversity + Inclusion = Innovation

Companies report out the big Diversiity numbers but not inclusion

If we continuously act on our biases to exclude people, we never access their geniuses

Article: Is that Inclusion I see in my Soup?

The importance of looking at where you are getting input and ideas

Are you truly creating psychological safety for everyone?

Using “yes, and” and design thinking

Challenging people to think outside the box and gather ideas from people with different perspectives

How to change culture to be more inclusive

Culture starts with the core tenant of expectations of who you are as an employee and company

How to create a culture that is more innovative

Lori’s proudest accomplishment of leading a big initiative at Nike

Links:

Book: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni

Book: The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier

Book: Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman

Aspen Group Consulting

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Scott is the technical training manager for Luck companies, one of the nation’s largest family owned and operated businesses in the aggregates industry.

Scott’s mission is to help ordinary people lead extraordinary lives. His team has solved the challenge of developing and retaining talent by using data driven development through the use of skill based 360s

Notes:

Scott’s background and experience with Teach for America

The problem that Scott and his team were trying to solve at Luck

Dealing with the challenge where learners don’t think they need development

How do you help people become aware of what they don’t know

The support that Scott got from Caterpillar in using a competency based approach

How to use your highest performers to define success and measure other performers bsaed on that

Why you need to go slow to go fast and change management is a big part of everything

By leveraging your top performers, you are building champions as you go

Scott used 360 feedback to see where people stand compared with the best in class

An example of how Scott’s team used this with plant managers at Luck

The impact from the personalized training they provided

How to leverage coaches if it’s not possible for your company to hire coaches

How Atlas was born from the need to take this approach and scale it

Going live on ⅘ with software

Who this is for: anyone who wants to personalize learning at scale

The mistake of going too fast

The challenge of finding good people to do skilled work and upskilling existing employees

Trend: The new generation expects personalized developmenet

TED Talk: Start with Why

Advice: Go out read, learn and talk to other TD professionals

Links:

Book: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action By Simon Sinek

Book: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition By Robert B. Cialdini

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Book: The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander

Book: The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney

Book: New to Big by David Kidder, Christina Wallace

Book: Start with Why by Simon Sinek

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Daniel is the Chief Learning Officer at Texas Health Resources, the largest faith based nonprofit health system in the United States with a team of more than 25,000 employees. Texas Health was has won numerous awards for being a great place to work.

As CLO, Daniel and Daniel is for the strategic oversight of leadership and management development programs and initiatives, clinical and business education programs and initiatives, continuing medical education, medical libraries, and other system education and training initiatives provided by Texas Health Resources University.

Daniel was recently featured on the cover of Chief Learning Officer Magazine for transforming the learning culture, tearing down silos and saving millions of dollars in the process.

He has a BA and Masters from Stanford and MBA from Texas Christian’s MJ Neeley School of Business.

Expertise:

Finding common ground and problem solving

Gaining buy in from execs and using relationships to advance strategy

Notes:

Daniel’s background teaching English in Mexico and high school in Caliifronia

How Daniel moved into adult learning, MBA and learning roles

How Daniel moved up to CLO so fast

Advice to always do the job above you

The centralization and continuing medical education going on at Texas Health

How Daniel transformed the learning culture at Texas Health

How they centralized the organization to oversee hospitals vs specializations

The Learning and Education Cabinet that they created with other executives

They used Deloitte literature to help the “modern learner” and gave poker chips based on that

Why Daniel refers to himself as the Chief Time Officer because he is always thinking about mindshare

How and why they connect learning programs to company strategy

How to say no and give options to get to yes

Want to make sure resources are dedicated to core processes and services

They use some vendor partners for leadership development and continuing education and try to customize as much as possible

Rolling out situational leadership and make it look like Texas Health

The Education Advancement Program and how it helped with centralization

How and why Texas Health centralized all of the regional training to streamline

How lack of personal ownership and manager accountability can cause problems

Daniel’s greatest accomplishment of centralizing learning

The Change Management approach on the horizon

Daniel’s mistake of creating a program that bombed

We really learn best from experience

Trend: Augmented (more than virtual) reality and chatbots to help employees

The robots that manage the managers

Book: What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell

Advice: Show up, work hard and figure out how to work with the right people

Advice: Make sure you are solving the right problem

Links:

Book: David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell

Book: Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

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He left Australia 26 years ago to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University … where his only significant achievement was falling in love with a Canadian … which is why he now lives in Toronto, having spent time in London and Boston.

Michael has written a number of books. His latest, the Wall Street Journal bestseller The Coaching Habit, has sold over half a million copies … and been praised as one of the few business books that makes people laugh.

Balancing out these moments of success, he was banned from his high school graduation for “the balloon incident,” was sued by one of his law school lecturers for defamation, and his first published piece of writing was a Harlequin romance short story called “The Male Delivery.”

Book: Living in a Real-Time World: 6 Capabilities to Prepare Us for an Unimaginable Future by Jim Selman

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Book: The 11 Laws of Likability by Michelle Tillis Lederman

Book: The Connector’s Advantage by Michelle Tillis Lederman

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He is currently the head of learning and development at JBS, which is the second largest food company in the world.

Experience working with diverse populations including executive leaders to hourly employees within technical & non-technical roles across America, Africa, Australia, Canada, China, Europe, Mexico and South America.

Throughout his career, he has held leadership positions with Gallup, Trinity Health and the University of Michigan. Chris received his doctorate in human communication processes from the University of Georgia and has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in human communication studies from Western Michigan University.

His new book is called Future Ready Leadership: Strategies for the fourth industrial revolution

Kevin Kruse is a New York Times bestselling author and the Founder and CEO of LEADx, which provides the world’s first executive coach and trainer powered by IBM Watson AI.

He is the author of multiple books including 15 Secrets Success People Know about Time Management, Employee Engagement 2.0 and his newest book is called ‘Great Leaders have No Rules’

I have been following Kevin for some time and have read two of his books and am excited to get this next one and to talk to him today.

Daniel works as a consultant, runs a coaching practice, works with the right management at Microsoft, and has a leadership role at Slalom Consulting. He also served as coach, professor, and advisor at 3 higher education institutions including Seattle Pacific University where he helped build a new graduate business program from the ground up.

Here are my five tips for dealing with this type of situation.

She talked about things she’s been working on and some of her passion and focus especially in terms of coaching and building high performing L&D teams through strategy.

She lives in Santa Cruz with her husband and son.

Susan’s career began at Hewlett-Packard where she held global marketing services as well as talent and organisation development roles. After her stint at HP, she led Gap Inc.’s talent management team. From there, she joined Deloitte where she led the design and development of Deloitte University. She was also once the SVP of talent at Yahoo!

Today Susan focuses on developing leaders at every level especially women leaders. She is also leading an initiative to achieve gender parity at executive levels in organisations. Susan is also a leader in Stanford’s Designing Your Life Lab, teaching designing your life to students and leading the designing your life for women in business.

Susan is the author of a commentary on executive education for Harvard business review and co-author of “Hewlett‐Packard Takes the Waste Out of Leadership” for the Journal of Organisational Excellence.

Julie was named one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers. She is also the co-author of the international bestseller “Help Them Grow Or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Organizations Need and Employees Want.”

She is a frequent contributor to The Economist, TD, and CLO Magazine. She writes regular columns as the learning expert for training industry magazine. Her firm DesignArounds is an APG partner. Julie is available for keynotes and training and development.

After 15 years rising the ranks in the corporate world, Dominick left to start his own coaching and speaking business.

Today, Dominick works with clients to raise individual and team performance while short circuiting burnout. He likes to challenge conventional thinking, unlock previously hidden potential and develop talented people at all stages of their career journey.

He is also the author of the bestselling book “Design Your Future: 3 Simple Steps to Stop Drifting and Start Living” which hit #1 on Amazon in Business Skills and Organizational Change.

Over his career, Larry has developed some comprehensive development programs to instill strong corporate values and foster higher-level competencies. He is known for his exceptional ability to work with cross-functional leaders to guide HR and business integration for global mergers and acquisitions

Currently Larry is the Vice President of Global Talent at NetApp, an IT Services company that provides a full range of hybrid cloud data services with $6B in revenue and over 10k employees.

In this newly created global talent role, Larry is focused on ensuring the people strategy closely aligns with the business strategy.

He joined CBRE in 2006 and has served in management positions with increasing responsibility, including directing HR operations, serving as Vice President of Human Resources for the company, for the employees in CBRE’s brokerage, capital markets, valuation/appraisal and shared services divisions.

Before becoming SPP for CBRE’s global operations, Joe is an executive member of the HR Global Leadership team which is made up of the most senior HR leaders in the organisation, responsible for setting and driving HR strategy across the enterprise.

Joe is based in Dallas, Texas.

Currently, Teri is the Chief Learning Strategist and People Development Leader at Discover Financial Services.

Gina is a business-focused professional, designer, and storyteller and she loves to spark new ways of thinking. Through more than 30 years in the financial services industry, she has built a reputation for innovation and action and developed a deep experience in front-line banking, human-centred design, strategies, and solutions that make an impact.

In the interview, some of the topics they discussed include Sam’s background, how talent development was approached when he was in regulated companies years ago, his career accomplishments and failures, and many more. So many interesting insights in today’s episode, so don’t forget to tune in!

In this interview, they talked about the global digital transformation at Cargill and her tips on how to make a transformation successful. They also discussed the importance of connecting the learning strategy back to the company strategy, the challenges and trends in talent development today, and many more. You’d surely love this episode so don’t forget to tune in!

Currently, Ben is the head of Learning and Development and Global Sales Readiness at LinkedIn. Prior to LinkedIn, he worked at Oracle, Gap, The Wiseman Group, and Tesla.

He is committed to the belief that any business only goes as far as its people will take it and that people in the right conditions and with the right support can accomplish amazing things.

Ben is a committed father, soccer coach, and avid art collector.

She began her professional career as a Surface Warfare Officer in the US Navy deployed to the Caribbean Sea, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean, and surrounding countries.

In 2005 she was selected to return to the United States Naval Academy and teach leadership and character development at the academy. Her continued service in the military has taken her all over South America, Europe, and Asia.

Katie has been in Keurig Dr Pepper for the last 5 years and she’s responsible for the leadership development and high potential development programs, organisational development, interventions, corporate leadership development, e-learning, digital content learning management systems, and competency alignment for the 25,000 employees of the company.

Katie is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and has served 16 years on active and reserve duty.

JP also has a robust background in consulting as well as leading talent organisations in-house. He’s also a frequent speaker at conferences and a contributor to thought leadership in the HR field. JP also co-authored a chapter in The Talent Management Handbook 2nd edition.

On the show, they talked about managers who try to diminish their people, the accidental diminishers, the diminishing and multiplier leaders, and many more. You’ll surely learn a lot of interesting insights in this episode so don’t miss it!

She has over 20 years of experience in leadership development, performance management, strategic planning, and operations improvement. She helps companies identify and leverage the talents of their pipelines.

Her expertise spans industries across the globe and she’s involved in structure and designs, service delivery models, reengineering processes technology, and sourcing solutions.

Before joining Crenshaw, she held senior positions at large HR consulting firms including Accenture, Right Management, Willis Tower Watson, and PWC.

In his role, he equips team leaders and individual contributors with the essential skills, business knowledge, and opportunity to succeed in their roles.

Terence also leads Talent Development’s digital efforts including learning platforms, content, and strategy. He also partners with multiple businesses to help build leaders and shift culture at all levels.

Terence holds a Bachelor’s in Biology & Philosophy from the University of Scranton. He also has a Master’s in Organisational Communication and Medieval History from Fordham University. In addition, he is also an ASTD Certified Professional.

He currently lives in Cranford, New Jersey with his wife and daughter.

Tracey is a talent management, organisational development, and learning executive with global experience.

She is currently the vice president of Human Resources at Belden Inc., a global leader in high quality and end-to-end signal transmission solutions. She delivers a comprehensive product portfolio designed to meet the mission-critical network infrastructure needs of industrial, enterprise, and broadcast markets.

Tracey is an expert in areas like organisational design, change management, and learning and development.

Wendy is the co-founder and COO at BetterManager.us. She knows what it takes to help managers succeed in rapidly growing environments. The BetterManager.us team of coaches work with all levels of managers all around the world. It is really coaching at scale for all levels.

In her role, she is responsible for engaging, identifying, and deploying talent against Teradata’s strategic plan. She leads a team responsible for engagement and retention, performance management, strategic work force planning, organisational effectiveness, succession planning, organisation review, and assessment.

Lisa has over 20 years of experience in talent management and leadership development holding leadership and global roles in companies like Gap, Sony, and Qualcomm as well as some companies in the life sciences industry prior to joining Teradata.

Costa Farms is the largest grower and wholesaler of indoor plants in North America. He focuses on providing conscious innovation backed by a hands-on approach towards transforming workplaces in times of change and ambiguity.

Currently, she is the Senior Director of Talent Management at Sungard Availability Services, an IT services company based in Wayne, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia.

As a Gallup certified coach since 2015, she has coached individuals and facilitated programs for small companies and teams across different industries.

At Sungard AS, she created a strength-based program where close to 40% of employees participated and over 80% believe that strength-based learning has a significant impact on their productivity.

As a CliftonStrenghts expert, he helps leaders discover and utilise their strengths so they can take courageous actions. He has coached leaders from startups to 100 Fortune companies around the world.

LearnLoft is a full-service organizational health company who exists to turn managers into leaders and create healthier places to work. They offer assessments, culture surveys, workshops, and learning technology designed to help managers break through and become leaders.

She has helped several large companies develop their people, navigate change, and achieve their business goals.

Currently she is a training manager for Digital Operation at Verizon Wireless in New Jersey.

She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Vassar College and a masters in Organisation Behaviour from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

In 2018, Carolyn started a podcast called Beyond 6 seconds, which features extraordinary stories of everyday people who have overcome challenges and have made a positive impact in the world.

Currently she is the Director of Learning and Development for The Learning Experience, an academy of early childhood, headquartered in Deerfield Beach, FL. In her role, she shapes the vision and strategy for learning, growth, and development of TLE’s leadership. She aims to foster high performing and collaborative teams that will warrant scalability and ensure the company’s rapid exponential growth.

Charlene is also the CEO and Co-Founder of InvestHuman podcast, a leadership and professional development podcast dedicated to “reviving the heart of organisations by reigniting the appreciation for the human element of work.”

She also has a PhD in I/O Psychology and her research interests include Adult Learning and Distance and Online Education.

Currently, Thane is an Organizational and Leadership Development Leader at Exelon, the nation’s leading competitive energy provider with 25,000 employees.

Andy is the author of two books on sales – Amp Up Your Sales and,Zero-Time Selling – and has been named one of the top 50 global sales experts to follow on LinkedIn. After a successful career in corporate sales, Andy founded his own company in 2000, and has since helped companies and individual sellers around the world to transform their sales results.

Jill has worked in Talent Development over the past 19 years and has spent time in the Hi-Tech, software and medical device fields. She is currently the Director of Global Learning and Development at Varian Medical Systems.

Paul has worked as an SPP of leadership development in the entertainment industry. He has built leadership teams, led HR departments through major changes, built innovative executive development programs in multiple organisations, and a host of other things across HR.

Most recently, Paul was the CHRO of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and is currently an independent consultant, coach, and speaker

In today’s show, they talked about PwC, how she prioritizes things, and how to make employees work in the most effective way in this digital age, among many others. You’ll learn so many things in today’s show so don’t forget to tune in!

Currently, Victoria is is the Director of Global People Development for VMware, a global leader in cloud infrastructure and digital workspace technology with over 20,000 employees, where she creates and facilitates cutting-edge experiential learning programs .

Karishma brings 15+ years of experience designing and delivering customized talent development solutions including well-rounded exposure to e-commerce, financial services, technology, defense, healthcare, and retail industries.

Prior to joining Teradata in 2016, David served as Director of Sales Enablement at Veeam where we rolled out a global sales initiative that lead to a 90% growth in revenue. He is a co-founder of Vantage Point Performance, a boutique consultancy specializing in sales leadership practices and developed much of their intellectual property.

Meredith serves on various boards focusing on the future of work and how to drive learning that informs rather than reacts to change.

Kevin has extensive experience leading organizations and teams through growth and change and has a very unique and different perspective on HR and L&D than many others in the industry and I’m looking forward to getting into that.

As an experienced Leadership Development professional, she leverages her multi-functional business background to design and deliver strategic leadership programs that align with the business strategy of the company.

Over her career, she had developed strong abilities to understand business objectives, build strong relationship in all levels of the organisation, and develop and execute great development programs in all areas of the business. She also has a strong area of expertise around feedback and coaching.

She graduated summa cum laude from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science in Economics, and then from Rice University in 2011 with a Master’s of Business Administration. She has served on advisory councils for Harvard Business Publishing, Oracle, and Petroleum Equipment and Services Association (PESA).

Pete has delivered 1-on-1 coaching to over 700 leaders hailing from world-class organizations (such as Google, FedEx, Amazon, Apple, Anheuser-Busch, and the United Nations), 50 countries, and every Ivy League university.

He began his career at Bain & Company and currently hosts the How to be Awesome at your Job podcast. The show has been downloaded over three million times and consistently ranks as a top business show in Apple Podcasts.

Pete lives in Chicago with his wife and baby boy.

Brandon is also the author of the book “Learning in the Age of Immediacy: 5 Factors for How We Connect, Communicate, and Get Work Done” from ATD Press. He has extensive experience developing global learning strategies and curriculum design, global customer training and leading internal and external global teams.

Brandon has a Masters in Education in eLearning Technology and Design and experience across many industries in his career. I’m excited to learn from him today.

During his career, Larry has been honored with the ‘Combat V’ for Valor in Battle “above and beyond the call of duty,” the Achievement Medal for Innovation in Navy SEAL combat tactics, the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal and the Humanitarian Service Medal for relief efforts in East Timor and Sri Lanka.

His greatest accomplishment is not as a SEAL however; rather it is the fact that he has created an Exceptional Performance Formula for individuals and teams that integrate all the elite processes, structures, mindsets and skills that previously only a select number of special operators could access.

Currently Anthony is the head of learning development at Appdirect, which is a technology company that provides the only end-to-end cloud commerce platform for succeeding in the digital economy.

As the former Head of Talent for Sony Electronics, Inc., Christine focused her passion and research on developing the youngest generation of employees to become the next generation of leaders. To relieve managers from having to carry 100% of the burden of solving the generational gap she created “AccelerateME,” a unique feedback tool specifically designed for today’s young professionals to get the feedback they crave and take greater ownership of their career path.

Christine is a LinkedIn author, seasoned facilitator, and workplace strategist that partners with clients to move beyond theory and academics and put tangible solutions in place that address the challenges of our new workforce.

Combining a passion for business and innovation, Mike has focused his career on driving progressive talent, leadership, and organization development practices. He specializes in identifying the talent levers of business strategies and building or evolving processes that support those strategies. Prior to joining Hitachi Vantara, Mike worked in Leadership Development leadership roles at Bank of America and HP.

In her role, Lisa is responsible for designing and implementing the learning strategy for business-related learning programs as well as overseeing apprenticeships and developing the future pipeline of workers within the Americas.

Lisa did her undergrad at Clemson University and Master’s degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at the University of Central Florida. She enjoys long-distance running and spending time with her family in their hometown of Winter Park, FL.

Dannielle has a masters from Antioch University and strong experience in organization and leadership development, learning and development and strategic communications. She has worked in the insurance and financial services industry over 11 years and the technology sector for nearly two decades.

Dannielle is also a certified Life-Cycle Celebrant and former Peace Corps volunteer. She lives in Tualatin, OR with her husband. And most importantly, they have three grown sons, two daughters-in-law and one grandchild with a second due soon.

Over her career, Natalie has extensive experience leading L&D initiatives in corporate environments and has expertise in areas such as managing sales and product enablement projects, developing GTM strategies, developing blended curriculum and facilitating workshops.