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.
“Leadership is service, not position.” -Tim Fargo
I used to have a boss that would warn me about the world and that, in order to succeed, you sometimes had to be cut-throat. That kind of thought process was beyond me and I never thought his advice to be very good (about that and many other things).
On this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Jonathan Keyser. Jonathan is the author of the book, You Don't Have to Be Ruthless to Win, and we talk about a different model of succeeding in today's tough environment. A model of service towards others and helping them achieve. It was a great conversation with a guy that not only talks about service to others, he walks it everyday! I had so much fun talking with him and I know you'll love it too!
CHEERS!
More on Jonathan...
Jonathan Keyser is the founder and thought leader behind Keyser, the largest occupier services commercial real estate brokerage rm in Arizona. Through sheer determination and focus on selfless service, Jonathan is disrupting the commercial real estate (CRE) industry, and beyond. An Inc. 5000 company, Keyser has rapidly become one of the fastest growing firms of its kind in the country, serving companies and their real estate needs globally. Award winning and nationally recognized, Keyser is an active member of the Forbes Real Estate Council, voted Top 10 Best Places to Work multiple years running, and is a proud Host Company for Conscious Capitalism.
When Jonathan entered the cut-throat, dog-eat-dog world of CRE brokerage, he became the worst version of himself and hated himself because of it. Then one day, Jonathan decided he’d had enough. He realized he was sacrificing his values in pursuit of success. He abandoned his ruthless ways and reinvented himself as a selfless leader, which skyrocketed his brokerage firm to eight figures in five years.
His selfless service approach to business has resonated with corporations and individuals seeking a competitive edge to acquiring and maintaining clients. Jonathan's best-selling book You Don't Have to Be Ruthless to Win and online Keyser Institute courses inspire others to activate selflessness in their life and see how and why this counterintuitive strategy can create extraordinary, long-term success.
On the personal side, Jonathan prioritizes family first. Alongside his wife Susanna, he is a loving and devoted father to his four children. Jonathan is extremely committed to personal development and self-improvement and stays active with mountain/water sports, spin, and hiking.
Connect with him (AND BUY THE BOOK) HERE!
“Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.” -Donald Rumsfeld
I love talking with like minded people, don't you? They can add to some depth to the concepts you already hold dear or even help you in shifting a perspective long held. That was my conversation in this episode!
On this episode, I had the honor of talking with Chris Palmisano, the Chief Operating Officer of Rocket Dollar. Chris is a former Marine Corps Officer and we hit the full spectrum of leadership topics. Chris shared some of the lessons he learned the hard way but also shares some great tips on delegating and goal setting to keep your team on point and at their best. I know you'll love the conversation....I sure did!
CHEERS!
More on Chris and Rocket Dollar...
Rocket Dollar, Inc. helps people unlock their retirement accounts to invest in alternative assets such as real estate, private companies, crowdfunding/lending, and many others. I've been a sales/revenue, marketing, and operations executive for SaaS, cloud, fintech, and health tech. On the technical side, my experience is in cloud solutions/services, public cloud, hybrid cloud, cloud computing platforms, enterprise software, mobile apps, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, cloud management, fintech, and continuous performance management. On the business side, my experience is in sales, sales engineering, account management, business development, channels, strategic partnerships, business analytics, team leadership, people management, goal setting/alignment, development, coaching, and mentoring.
Connect with Chris here: HERE!
Find out about Rocket Dollar HERE!
"There's a way to do it better....find it" - Thomas Edison
What is that special place where team members aren't afraid to step out and try something new? It can be hard to create but it's the space where we'll enjoy more success.
On this episode, I had the great pleasure to talk with Dr. Tim Clark. LET ME TELL YOU....THIS GUY IS FREAKY SMART AND FREAKY AWESOME! I've been researching leadership and innovation (as well as living it) for many years and Tim taught me a few things about creativity, culture, and creating a space where people can feel safe to succeed. Check it out! I know you'll dig it!
CHEERS!
More on Tim...
Timothy R. Clark is founder and CEO of LeaderFactor, a consulting, coaching, and training organization. Dr. Clark is an international authority in the elds of psychological safety & innovation, large-scale change & transformation, and senior leadership development. He is the author of Epic Change: How to Lead Change in the Global Age (John Wiley/Jossey-Bass), Leadership Bones (Bradmore Road Press), The Employee Engagement Mindset (McGraw- Hill), Leading with Character and Competence: Moving Beyond Title, Position, And Authority (Berrett-Koehler). His new book, The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation (Berrett-Koehler) will be released March 2020. He is also the developer of the EQometer emotional intelligence assessment.
Dr. Clark is a highly sought-after advisor, coach, and facilitator to CEOs and senior leadership teams. He has personally coached over 100 CEOs and executives and trained many senior teams around the world. Some of his clients include Accenture, American Express, CIGNA, Columbia University, Disney, Dow Chemical, Eli Lilly, Environmental Protection Agency, HCA, Idaho National Laboratory, Honeywell, Intel, Internal Revenue Service, John Hopkins University, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Motorola, NASA, Riverbed Technology, Sprint, Stanford University, U.S. Department of Treasury, and Wells Fargo Bank.
Dr. Clark earned a PhD in social science from Oxford University, and was both a British Research Scholar and a Fulbright Scholar at Seoul National University in Korea. He also earned a master’s degree in Government and economics from the University of Utah. As an undergraduate at Brigham Young University, he was named a first-team Academic All-American football player where he completed a triple degree cum laude. Dr. Clark was previously President and CEO of Decker, a consulting rm based in San Francisco, and CEO of Novations SDC, a consulting and training rm based in Boston. Prior to these assignments, Dr. Clark spent several years in manufacturing and as a vice president of operations and plant manager at Geneva Steel Company. He began his career as a survey research project director for what is now Harris Interactive in Washington D.C.
Check Tim out here: https://www.leaderfactor.com/
”Your journey has molded you for the greater good.” – Asha Tyson
I've worked a LOT of different places and had a lot of different bosses. Within each team, the team tended to take on the personality of the person in charge...good and bad. It was a strange phenomena but it happened....this is just ONE of the great things I got to talk about with my guest this week!
Andrea Fryrear is the focus of my interrogation this week and she shares it all! Her leadership journey is much like many of us who have been suddenly thrust into being in charge of people....a little messy with a huge learning curve. Andrea shares her journey...very honestly and with great insights that you can use to make a difference for your own team. I know you'll like Andrea as much as me!
CHEERS!
More on Andrea....
Ah, marketing. When it’s good, it’s “singing, dancing, kittens, and rainbows” good. When it’s bad, it’s mind-numbingly, soul-crushingly bad. An early convert to the ways of Agile marketing, Andrea Fryrear knows that Agile teams do better work in less time with less stress, and she loves nothing more than seeing a team evolve from chaos to high performance.
Agile marketing represents a huge shift in how marketers have historically managed their work -- and, like any change, this shift isn’t easy. Through education, training, and coaching, Andrea and her team at AgileSherpas work to make this shift easier, guiding marketers along the path towards greater agility while always on the lookout for new and better routes. In June 2020, Andrea will be hosting the first-ever Marketing Agility Summit to provide a hands-on experience to energize marketers to take their agility to the next level.
In addition to being a Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC), a Certified Agile Leader (CAL-1), a Certified Scrum@Scale Practitioner, and an ICAgile Authorized Instructor, Andrea is trained as a Scrum Master and Product Owner. She shares her findings (and failures) regularly as an international speaker on all things Agile marketing. Andrea is a content marketer by trade and functions best when she’s writing regularly. Her most recent book, Death of a Marketer, chronicles marketing’s troubled past and charts a course to a more agile future for the profession. When she’s not on a plane or at a keyboard, Andrea spends as much time as possible outdoors in her Colorado home training for triathlons and playing volleyball.
Connect with Andrea here: https://www.agilesherpas.com/
"When you're going through hell....keep on going" - Winston Churchill
As the James Taylor song goes...."I've seen fire and I've seen rain" (and I know you have too). In life, we all go through trials and tribulations...what do you do with them?
On this episode I had the privilege to talk with Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco and we talk about taking life's sucker punches and leveraging them to do better and be better. Mike shares his personal story that has pushed him to greater successes and shares some great tips on how you can do the same.
CHEERS!
Michael “C-Roc” Ciorrocco is a mortgage and real estate marketing expert with 15 years of experience in the industry... but his insight and expertise extends far beyond real estate.
“What are you made of?”
That’s the question that helps C-Roc push through the tough times, and the question that leads him to even higher levels of success and satisfaction when things are going well. That’s the question that sparks the ultimate accountability: a challenge he extends to himself. That’s the question that drives C-Roc to inspire others as a motivator, facilitator, and dynamic public speaker, as well as a fierce friend and coach.
C-Roc uses this question as a motivational tactic to grow his branch, team, and business. It helps him know his team and build up each individual member. Sure, they’re in the mortgage industry, but one thing he realized when he got to a certain point as a manager is that he’s really in the people- building business.
After 15 years in the mortgage business, this question evolved to become more than a question. It became a tool to help C-Roc and those around him excel at individual tasks. Over time, this question made him a stronger, wiser, more complete person. Today, he’s on a mission to inspire others to see the greatness inside of themselves using those same 5 words, using past life events to fuel their fire.
Connect with Mike at: https://www.themikecroc.com/
"If you place kindness and compassion as the heart of what you do, you will create a ripple effect that will benefit the 'individual' and the 'company' in equal measure." Glen Hall
One of the most basic of our needs in the workplace is to feel valued as a human being...that what we do matters and provides some difference to the end result. At least, that's been my experience (both as a worker and a leader).
This week's guest is Dr. Nate Regier and we're talking about the compassionate mindset. What is that? You'll have to listen to the episode to find out but Nate and I hit on a lot of different topics during our conversation. We talk about dealing with a toxic work environment, how to deal with turnover and also how to decrease workplace drama! Nate is the BOMB! I think you'll love him as much as I do!
CHEERS!
More on Nate...
Dr. Nate Regier is the co-founding owner and chief executive officer of Next Element, a global advisory firm specializing in building cultures of compassionate accountability. A former practicing psychologist, Regier is an expert in social-emotional intelligence and leadership, positive conflict, mind-body-spirit health, neuropsychology, group dynamics, interpersonal and leadership communication, executive assessment and coaching, organizational development, team building and change management. An international adviser, he is a certified Leading Out of Drama master trainer, Process Communication Model® certifying master trainer and co-developer of Next Element’s Leading Out of Drama® training and coaching. Nate has published two books: Beyond Drama and his latest work, Conflict Without Casualties.
"No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens." - Michelle Obama
In my 30+ work career, I've worked with some amazing women! My first Executive Officer in the Navy is a woman that I still rely on for solid advice in my current life events. So, when I think that we are still fighting gender bias in the workplace, it kind of pisses me off. Doesn't it you?
My guest this week is on a mission to correct all of that. He, alongside his wife, are fighting the good fight in trying to get rid of gender bias in the workplace and help organizations create atmospheres where EVERYONE can flourish! Al Harris is his name and getting rid of discrimination is his game! I had a great time talking with Al and I know you'll be able to take his advice and make an immediate difference in your culture.
CHEERS!
More on Al...
Al Harris is an inspiring author and gender equality advocate, as well as a founding partner at Chicago law rm Ungaretti & Harris, where he met his wife and co-author, attorney Andie Kramer.
Throughout his career as managing partner at Ungaretti & Harris, Al also served as a member of the rm’s Executive and Compensation Committees. In these roles, he had extensive experience observing his female colleagues as they moved up the career ladder. Over the course of his career, Al grew increasingly concerned about the barriers and biases women face in the workplace, particularly in traditionally male-dominated career environments. These concerns moved Al to begin his work mentoring and advising female professionals, focusing primarily on the communication skills needed to advance in their chosen fields, despite the prevalence of negative gender stereotypes.
Al and his wife Andie co-authored It’s Not You, It’s the Workplace: Women’s Conflict at Work and the Bias That Built It (their second book together a er Breaking Through Bias). This power couple provides organizations with concrete, non-disruptive suggestions for workplace changes that will make women’s career opportunities more comparable to men’s.
Check out Al and get the book here: https://andieandal.com/
“YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN A MOMENT AND A FEW SINCERE WORDS CAN HAVE AN IMPACT ON A LIFE” ~ ZIG ZIGLAR
Leading today is much different from leading 20 years ago. Don't get me wrong, the concepts are the same but the people are different and we, as leaders, need to adapt to those changes. The biggest difference is in how we deliver a message.
On this episode, I had the great pleasure to discuss the complexities of making an impact with a message with a master craftsman, Joe Williams. Joe KNOWS what he is talking about...he's spent a lifetime moving people from one place to another through communicating it well. I know you'll dig this conversation as much as I did!
CHEERS!
More on Joe...
Joe Williams helps coaches, consultants and entrepreneurs become world class communicators! He is an internationally-known speaker, strategic expert, and consultant who has spoken to tens of thousands of people around the world. Through his personal experience as an entrepreneur and as a top performing salesperson, Joe has developed a worldwide reputation for his ability to electrify audiences and move them to action.
His new book "The Impact Awakening: How to go from having a calling to changing lives", focuses on how to master your message, communicate it powerfully, and scale it into an Impact Business.
Joe is the Founder of Creative Performance Group, where he helps people get their message out to the world in the most powerful way possible through virtual programs, live events, one-on-one VIP trainings, private mentoring and corporate consulting.
Joe’s super power is in helping entrepreneurs, executives, and experts become powerful communicators - helping them create a movement with their message, maximize their income, become a recognized authority in their field, and most importantly make an impact for their clients, companies and communities.
Connect with Joe at www.joewilliamsonline.com
"The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity." - Stuart Seaton
One of my New Year's goals was to spend more time in the present.....but my brain keeps getting in the way! How about you? Do you want to be mindful, meditate or just calm the monkeys in your head? If so, this episode will get you there!
This episode's guest is Ariel Garten. She is the creator of a product called, Muse, and it can help YOU train your brain. Ariel and I talk about Muse but we hit a lot of other reasons you should train your brain. Take a listen...she's amazing!
CHEERS!
More on Ariel...
Ariel Garten is probably one of the most interesting people you will meet. She is a psychotherapist, Neuroscientist, mom, former fashion designer, and the female founder and visionary of an amazing and highly successful tech start-up Muse.
Muse tracks your brain during meditation to give you real-time feedback on your meditation, guiding you into the “zone” and solving the problem most of us have when starting a meditation practice. Muse lets you know when you are doing it right.
When Ariel is not reading brains (literally) or investing in, inspiring and advising other start-ups and women in biz, you can find her on stages across the world, from TED to MIT to SXSW. She inspires people to understand that they can accomplish anything they want by learning what goes on in their own mind.
Check out MUSE and get a discount with the Ambassador club here: https://muse.getambassador.com
Connect with Ariel here: www.choosemuse.com
“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.” – Warren Bennis
So....there you are....working diligently on your company and then you're in charge of people. WHAT!? People don't come with instruction manuals and leading them can be hairy!
In this episode, I had the opportunity to talk with Mike McDerment, the big cheese at Freshbooks and his journey was very much like my opening statement. Mike shares about his journey as a leader and how we've got to get around ourselves in order to create a place where people want to be. I really enjoyed Mike's sense of humor and his candor and I know you will too!
CHEERS!
More on Mike....
Mike McDerment is the Co-Founder and CEO of FreshBooks, the world’s #1 cloud accounting software for self-employed professionals. Built out of frustration after accidentally saving over an invoice, Mike spent 3.5 years growing FreshBooks from his parents’ basement. Since launching in 2003, over 10 million people have used FreshBooks to save time billing, and collect billions of dollars. A lover of the outdoors, Mike has been bitten so many times it’s rumoured he’s the first human to have developed immunity to mosquitoes.
In January 2003, Mike was running a four-person design agency and using Microsoft Word to create invoices. One day, he accidentally saved over an old invoice, and something in him snapped – he knew there had to be a better way. Over the next two weeks, he coded up a solution and eventually turned that side- project into what is now FreshBooks.
To keep the lights on, he moved into his parents’ basement for 3.5 years and completely revamped how he ran his design firm to the point where he only worked 19 days in one year — while generating over $200,000 to bootstrap the company that would become FreshBooks.
Today, Mike has grown FreshBooks to nearly 300 people serving more than 10 million users in 160+ countries. To help self-employed professionals set better rates, Mike also co-authored Breaking The Time Barrier, which has been downloaded more than 300,000 times.
Check out Freshbooks here!