Leadership Happy Hour is where we discuss leadership, team strategies, have a little fun and, also, a few drinks! Grab a cocktail and catch up with topical leadership issues here!
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Leadership Happy Hour is where we discuss leadership, team strategies, have a little fun and, also, a few drinks! Grab a cocktail and catch up with topical leadership issues here!
Please drink responsibly….we don’t want you to damage your computer.
Nothing says success like success!
How are your New Year's goals going? If you're like most, you've already moved on to the ones you are going to set in 2020. 2020!? Is that really the place we are at?
On this episode we're talking about success! It's a relative term. What may say success to me may be much different from you. Regardless, success of any kind is the result of a LOT of hard work.
It's no matter where your goals for this year are...we're ready to pull them out of the trash heap and put things back in motion because we're talking to Kelly Roach about her new book, Unstoppable!
Kelly knows what it takes to move forward, get things done, and leave a legacy. I know you'll enjoy our talk as much as I did so grab yourself a cold one and let's get ready to RUMBLE!
More on Kelly...
Kelly Roach is the founder of Kelly Roach Coaching, a rapid growth coaching and consulting company for business owners, entrepreneurs, and executive leaders. A few years ago Kelly was successful, but was yearning for more. She knew she was meant for something bigger, and wanted to create a business that allowed her to serve others, make a difference, and create unlimited income while doing it. After personally producing more than $30 million in sales in record time, Kelly charged to the top of a global Fortune 500 firm, netting 7 promotions in 8 years. That’s when she launched Kelly Roach International, to help businesses do the extraordinary by using innovative strategies to rapidly increase productivity and profits. Kelly is committed to empowering individuals to create freedom through building a business that nurtures their dreams, brings deep fulfillment and, most importantly, allows them to enjoy an extraordinary quality of life. Her philosophy is deeply rooted in helping others accomplish personal and professional success without compromising the ability to live a balanced, rich life. Get her book and connect with her HERE!"If you don't like what people are saying, change the conversation." -Don Draper (AMC's Madman Series)
The quote I have above is one of my favorite quotes of all time. We live in a time of immediacy of communication. People know what's happening when it's happening and it's up to us, as leader's to stop acting tactically and start being strategic in how we manage our own and our organization's reputations.
As it happens, I have just the person on this episode to help us quit chasing our tails and get down to business in doing so. His name is Bill Coletti and we're talking reputation management. I really enjoyed talking with Bill on this interview. He's a really smart guy, really fun, and gives us some tools that we can use RIGHT NOW to make a difference for our organizations.
This week's "Hot Skinny" tip is really great too. If you've got a tip you'd like to share, email it to me at chip@unconventionalleader.com and, if I share it on the show, you'll get a free e-book (along with being semi-famous for being on the show).
CHEERS!
More on Bill....
Bill is a reputation management, crisis communications and professional development expert, keynote speaker, Wall Street Journal Risk & Compliance panelist, and best- selling author of Critical Moments: The New Mindset of Reputation Management. He has more than 25 years of global experience managing high-stakes crises, issues management, and media relations challenges for both Fortune 500 companies and winning global political campaigns.
Bill previously co-led the Global Risk Management and Crisis Communications Practice for Hill+Knowlton Strategies. He held senior leadership positions in the rm’s Austin, Texas, Los Angeles and Orlando, Florida o ces, where as a member of the senior management team.
He provided senior counsel in crisis management, corporate communications, and reputation defense to numerous clients, such as AT&T, Target Corporation, American Airlines, The Home Depot, Xerox, Nuclear Energy Institute, and Cargill, as well major universities and global NGOs. Previously, Bill served in the Republic of Bulgaria as a senior advisor to the prime minister, Council of Ministers, and the labor minister. He was the rst executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria.
Bill is the proud father of two strong and con dent young women; one in college at Florida State University, and the other o to ride horses any chance she can get.
Check him out (AND BUY HIS BOOK) at: https://kith.co/
“The Person Who Says It Cannot Be Done Should Not Interrupt The Person Who Is Doing It.” – Chinese Proverb
Are you ready to rumble? Okay, that has nothing to do with this week's interview...but is a fair question. Are you ready?
My 2019 is off to a great start. How about yours? Do you have a leadership tip you'd like to share on the show? Email it to me at chip@unconventionalleader.com.
People need the benefit of your experience and YOUR huge brain! If I share it on the show, yes, you'll get FREE stuff! Nothing trumps free.
I am so excited to share this week's interview with you. It is with Lee Caraher of Double Forte. Every time I re-listen to an interview and get ready to put it up for you I think...this is the best interview ever! And, this week is no different. Lee is so smart and has so much great information to share that I know you won't walk away without things you can implement RIGHT NOW!
As a side note, you MUST take heed and implement the things she shares about putting an Alumni program into place. That, without a doubt, is the top 10 of tips I've gotten on this show.
CHEERS!
More on Lee...
Lee Caraher is the CEO of Double Forte PR & Digital Marketing; an acclaimed communication strategist, she’s known for her practical solutions to big problems. Her company works with some of the top consumer and technology brands in the country.
Lee’s the author of Millennials & Management based on her experience with failing and then succeeding at retaining Millennials. Her second book, The Boomerang Principle Lee has a reputation for building cohesive, high producing teams who have fun together at the same time. She is a straight talker who doesn't hold too many punches, although she does her best to be pleasant about it. Her big laugh and sense of humor have gotten her out of a lot of trouble.
Lee is active in the community and currently serves on three nonprofit boards. A graduate of Carleton College with a degree in Medieval History, which she finds useful every day, Lee lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, two sons and a blind cat.
Check her out at: https://double-forte.com/
"Persuasion is often more effective than force." - Aesop
I don't know about you...but I'm always trying to persuade someone to do something and, quite frankly, it's a skill that we as leaders need. Gone are the days of beating someone over the head to get them do get something done (like that was every truly effective).
On this episode of Leadership Happy Hour, I have the great pleasure of talking with the Prince of Persuasion, Jeff Tippett, and his new book, Unleashing Your Superpower: Why Persuasive Communications Is the Only Force You'll Ever Need.
Jeff was a pure joy to talk to. He was funny, knowledgeable, and gives some easy implementable tips on how you get people over to your side of the fence. Trust me, you're going to want to take note and to buy his book (the link is at the bottom).
We also have a great segment on the "Hot Skinny" from Allan Larson. If you've got a leadership tip for the hot skinny, make sure you email it to me at chip@unconventionalleader.com and, if I share it on the show, I'll send YOU a free e-copy of my book, Leadership Secrets The Other Books Won't Tell You!
Enjoy the show! CHEERS!
More on Jeff....
Jeff Tippett is an entrepreneur, speaker and author who specializes in persuasive communications. He is an industry practitioner, as the founder and partner of an award-winning public affairs + communications firm. His new book is called Unleashing Your Superpower: Why Persuasive Communications is the Only Force You Will Ever Need.
Buy the book here: https://unleashingyoursuperpower.com/
"We say things to ourselves that we'd never say to our worst enemy....because they'd kick our ass."
-Chip Lutz
How's your year going so far? We're not very far in and I'm hoping that you're off to a great start.
This time of year always makes me stop and take stock of where I am versus where I think I should be. Both personally and professionally. Many times in my 50 years on this earth when I don't think I am where I think I should be I wonder why? Most often than naught, it's because I've held myself back. I've told myself certain things that have kept me from progressing.
This episode's guest throws a trump card on that crap. Her name is Karen Brown and her mission is helping people get rid of those limiting beliefs so they can be who they were meant to be and achieve what their destiny demands.
I really enjoyed this interview (like I do nearly all) and I know you will too! Let's get this year into gear! CHEERS!
More on Karen...
Karen Brown, is an Ironman World Championship Finisher. In order to succeed in the Ironman Triathlon, she engaged the help of professional coaches and utilized the power of the unconscious mind and neurosciences. She combined these with a 28-year business coaching career, bringing to bear the mission of elevating leadership effectiveness and professional performance – with Velocity, ease and sustainability.
Brown is a thought-leader in leadership and professional performance and published two books on the subject, the most recent of which Unlimiting Your Beliefs: 7 Keys to Greater Success in Your Personal and Professional Life. She is often called upon to be a subject-matter expert on leadership podcasts and panels.
Check her out on her website: https://www.velocityleadershipconsulting.com/
"When you celebrate mediocrity, it becomes the norm."
-Chip Lutz
Happy New Year! It's 2019 and we're ready to start taking names and kicking some booty here in the LHH Studio. How about you? How was your 2018? Everything you wanted? Everything you expected? Mine was awesome and I'm expecting 2019 to be even better...and I want the same for you!
This episode is dedicated to making sure we start YOUR year off right. I purposely held off on producing this show until the New Year because my guest, Adam Hergenrother, is going to blow you away on how to be your best every day this year...and beyond!
CHEERS!
More on Adam..
Adam Hergenrother is the Founder & CEO of Adam Hergenrother Companies which includes Keller Williams Vermont, Hergenrother Realty Group, BlackRock Construction, Adam Hergenrother Training, and Adam Hergenrother Foundation.
In less than ten years, Adam has built this rapidly growing company through his commitment to thinking big and never giving up. Fearless and purposeful; unconventional and systematic, Adam sets a seemingly impossible goal then quickly gets to work on closing the gap to achieve it: no limits, no regrets.
In 2018 alone - Adam Hergenrother Companies was named one of the Best Places to Work in Vermont for the second year in a row, Hergenrother Realty Group was named the #18 real estate team by REAL Trends, as advertised in The Wall Street Journal, and BlackRock Construction made the Inc. Magazine's Inc. 5000 list for the second time in two years.
Connect with Adam on his website: http://adamhergenrother.com/
Through Adam’s bold vision, Adam Hergenrother Companies is developing leaders and building businesses worldwide.
AND SEND ME YOUR LEADERSHIP TIPS! chip@unconventionalleader.com
Here it is! Episode 100! Thank you for being a great audience, sharing your ideas and feedback with me and working to always make a difference for you and your team.
This episode has some new portions. New music, intro/outro and I've also added a section called "The Hot Skinny" - this is where I share YOUR leadership tips on the show! If you have one you'd like to share, email it to me at chip@unconventionalleader.com and, if I use it, I'll send you a free e-book!
This week's guest is a good friend of mine and I know you're going to love what she shares. It's a perfect celebration (for me) of my 100th episode and a great starter to what to be focusing in on the New Year!
Jessica Pettit, CSP is the guest and the topic is her book, Good Enough Now. I'm not going to spoil it for you, listen and get the goods! ENJOY!
More on Jessica...
Audiences are inspired to stand up and take action as Jessica Pettitt leads them down the path to understanding they are good enough to make the changes they seek. Challenging long held assumptions about the type of people who drive change and are successful, Jessica eradicates excuses and provides strategies to communicate openly and actively seek success.
Let's roll up our sleeves, make space for real talk, develop reality based plans, for actual change.
Humor is a great equalizer and is often the quickest way to diffuse conflict and move toward real connection. With a background in stand up comedy, Jessica Pettitt, frames even difficult subjects in an engaging and welcoming way.
As a professional speaker, her expertise earned her the Certified Speaking Professional designation from the National Speakers Association. A designation held by fewer than 800 people world-wide. As a facilitator, she provides the framework for open, welcoming, and productive conversation. Whether she provides a motivational keynote, an in-depth workshop, facilitates group interaction, or frames an entire conference as emcee, Jessica brings humor, a high level understanding of adult learning, and an ability to engage participants and encourage them to engage with each other. Participants walk away focused and confident in their role to make change now.
By moving the discussion away from daily squabbles or task oriented challenges, to a larger vision of what is possible and how best to engage people of diverse experiences, Jessica provides the context to evaluate the situation now and move forward successfully to what could be.
For more than a decade, Jessica has been educating college and university staff members to support and guide diverse students to success. Her social justice and diversity curricula are used nationwide. This background uniquely qualifies her to educate employers on building welcoming, productive, and innovative teams. The ability to communicate, listen, learn, take responsibility, acquire and retain talent and resources will lead to and maintain a welcoming, and dare we say, fun workplace environment. This has a direct impact on your bottom line NOW.
Connect with Jess direct and get the goodies she mentioned on her website: https://goodenoughnow.com/
It's time to pump it up and flex those muscles...well, it's time to flex your curiosity muscle.
They say that curiosity killed the cat but, after this week's interview, I know it's the lack of curiosity that killed the company. My guest this week is innovation expert and author, Diana Kander, and we talk about her new book, The Curiosity Muscle.
Diana shares the four questions leaders need to ask to keep their organizations from becoming irrelevant and keep their teams moving forward in the right direction. Her insights really made me think about what I'm currently doing in my business to stay ahead but also what I could be doing in my relationships.
She's super smart and I know you'll get as much from our conversation as I did. Enjoy!
More on Diana...
Diana Kander and her family escaped from the Soviet Union when she was 8-years-old. By the time she was an American citizen, she had perfected her skills as an entrepreneur – selling flea market goods to grade school classmates at a markup.
Today, Diana is the Director of Innovation Culture and Habits for Maddock Douglas, a Chicago-based innovation consulting firm. In this role, she trains executives and Fortune 1000 companies to be more innovative and inspires employees to think like entrepreneurs.
How did she get here? Diana was a Georgetown educated attorney who left her successful law practice to start and sell a number of ventures. The businesses spanned a number of industries: software, real estate, hospitality, construction, staffing and consulting. After the sale of her last company, Diana spent three years as a Senior Fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the largest non-profit in the world dedicated to entrepreneurship and education, and two years as a professor of entrepreneurship in the MBA program at the University of Missouri.
Diana is also the author of the New York Times Bestseller All In Startup, a novel outlining lessons for launching a successful business. The book has been used in over 70 colleges to teach innovation and entrepreneurship. Diana lives in Kansas City, Missouri with her high school sweetheart and husband, Jason, and their awesome son, True.
Connect with her on her website (AND BUY THE BOOK!): https://dianakander.com/
Growing up, I loved the Indiana Jones movies. Yes, they were packed with action and a great story line but what really intrigued me was that Mr. Jones was an archaeologist. He did it all in the name of science...well, ok, maybe that is a stretch (but I still loved the movies).
My guest this week is the world's only Leadership Archaeologist, Krister Ungerboeck. He's originally a mid-western boy (like me) but has been all over the world and, in this episode, he shares the insights he's found through his travels (and experience) on leadership.
I know you'll like this episode. Krister is very smart, very insightful and he gave me tons to think about (and I know he will you too). ENJOY!
More on Krister...
Krister Ungerboeck is the world’s first Leadership Archaeologist™. He travels the world to unearth the most powerful – and often surprising – models, ideas, and secrets of leadership.
Previously, Krister was the award-winning CEO of a 3,000% growth tech company. During his time leading Ungerboeck Software, he did business in 40 countries, built businesses in six, and lived in three. He also learned to speak French and German as an adult, which gives him a unique perspective on communication. Then, over the past few years, he became a prominent CEO coach and highly desired keynote speaker… but a very different kind than one might expect. In a sea of speakers spouting clichéd success secrets, Krister stands out as a successful CEO who bravely shares breathtakingly real stories of his own setbacks, combined with concrete, immediately actionable steps for audiences to sidestep the mistakes he’s made.
For the past decade, Krister has been on a “seeking secrets” journey, mining the minds of some of the greatest thinkers around the world and across disciplines, digging in dark places where others don’t… all to unearth unseen insights into the question of why growth companies tend to outgrow their leaders so quickly.
In addition to exploring the globe for new leadership insights and ideas, Krister is a top-rated leadership keynote speaker, CEO coach and consultant, and author of the highly acclaimed book, SEEKING CEO SECRETS: The Leadership Archaeologist's 12 Tools to Unearth Unseen Potential.
Check him out on his website: https://www.krister.com/
Is your team busy? Ok, are they busy doing the right things? Busy doesn't mean productive...that's a fact!
This week on the show we are tackling what's ailing most of today's organizations and answering the question of...How do we engage our employees?
My guest this week is Rene Johnston-Gingrich. She's the owner of Employee Engagement Solutions and she shares some easily actionable strategies for you to get your team performing at the next level. We hit a wide array of leadership solutions but, specifically, talk about how to tie your team to value, inspire and motivate them. I know you'll get as much from our conversation as I did. ENJOY!
More on Rene...
Rene's organization specializes in improving culture, retention and profitability by building more engaged teams.
Rene’ spends much of her time working with organizations across the United States. She is an author and speaker whose work can be found in various print and online publications. Rene’ also serves as a regular columnist for The Spokane Journal of Business, Catalyst magazine, and as an adjunct faculty member for the Lewis-Clark State College Business Division. Rene’ was selected as a TEDx speaker and holds a Master’s Degree in Adult Education and Human Resource Development.
She works with businesses in the financial, retail, service and healthcare industries as well as the non-profit sector where she utilizes her business expertise and experience to develop and deliver custom programming that is highly motivational, fast-paced and interactive.
Connect with her direct at: http://employeeengagementsolutions.com/