Are you so busy checking things off your to-do list that you lose sight of the big picture? Are you more interested in your own personal gain that you ignore the good of the company? Or, are you so set in your ways and married to your plan that you can’t think outside of the box?
While most leaders don’t like to admit it, Jennifer Thornton knows it’s normal for leaders to get so caught up in the day-to-day that they forget about the long game. Tune into this Powerful at Work Radio podcast episode to learn how you can switch gears to focus on how the organization functions and create a culture that supports growth and change…
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About Jennifer Thornton:
Jennifer has developed her expertise in Talent Strategy & Leadership Professional Development over her exciting 20+ year career as an HR Professional. She’s led international teams across Greater China, Mexico, the U.K., and the U.S. to expand into new markets, managing franchise retailers, and developing key strategic partnerships - all while exceeding business objectives and financial results.
The rapid growth of her consulting firm 304 Coaching has been largely due to Jennifer’s unconventional approach to building innovative workforce development solutions for companies who are facing breakthrough growth and accelerated hiring patterns.
She is a sought-after business strategist, specializing in start-ups and large value-based organizations. She assists her clients in building talent strategies that complement their business strategies to ensure exponential growth.
She lives in Texas with her family and rescues. In her free time, she enjoys reading, historic preservation, remodeling her lake home, and spending time with friends.
Connect with Jennifer:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferrthornton/
Website: 304coaching.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgMj1eVGsseqo9znNlPriXA
Email: Jen@304coaching.com
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Having a favorite is a natural human tendency, but what happens when an employee is brown nosing and how do you tell the difference? In this Powerful at Work Radio podcast episode, learn why it all comes down to a person’s motives…
When you have a self-serving employee, they're not looking out for you, even if it appears that they are on the surface. Tune in to hear why you as the leader need to address brown nosing as quickly as possible to avoid creating a culture of dysfunction in your workplace…
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About Rosa Ponce de Leon:
Rosa Ponce de Leon is a master leadership consultant, public servant, and business adviser. As a 20+ year law enforcement veteran, Rosa has risen through the ranks to Sergeant, leading teams through critical situations with operational mastery. Rosa combines her tried & true leadership experience with her business consulting background to help small business owners build resilient teams & bulletproof work cultures.
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Website: https://rosaponcedeleon.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosa-ponce-de-leon/
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A quick Google search on favoritism will yield results on why favoritism is bad, but can favoritism be good? In this Powerful at Work Radio episode, Rosa explores why acknowledging that we all have favorites can actually help us succeed as leaders.
Tune in to hear why having favorites and playing to your team’s strengths is not only human nature but important in building a strong culture…
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About Rosa Ponce de Leon:
Rosa Ponce de Leon is a master leadership consultant, public servant, and business adviser. As a 20+ year law enforcement veteran, Rosa has risen through the ranks to Sergeant, leading teams through critical situations with operational mastery. Rosa combines her tried & true leadership experience with her business consulting background to help small business owners build resilient teams & bulletproof work cultures.
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Website: https://rosaponcedeleon.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosa-ponce-de-leon/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rosa_PdL
How often have you felt riddled with anxiety or stress? Have you felt so frustrated with your workplace culture that you didn’t know how to start bringing about change? Dana Kaplan encourages you to stop waiting until you need mental health services, to go ahead and create a mentally healthy environment within yourself, and for the people you support.
In this Powerful at Work Radio episode, Rosa and Dana talk about why it’s so important to have self awareness to become mentally healthy so that you can create a healthy environment for everyone. We can’t bring change to our workplace without first changing ourselves…
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About Dana Kaplan:
Dana Kaplan, Founder and Owner of Developing Empathetic Education with Dana (DEED)®, is an award winning Gifted and Early Childhood Educator and Social Emotional Intelligence expert, pioneering DEIAB - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Belonging for birth to 12th grade. Dana's niche approach propels rich self-awareness while purposefully empowering children and adults to masterfully and confidently communicate and create the world they crave. Dana leads small and large group workshops, and speaks internationally on how to empower and engage in hard conversations.
Mission: I believe Emotional Intelligence is the driving force behind self-awareness, compassion, inclusivity, and bridging humanity through actionable steps, regardless of age. I purposefully empower, enlighten, and lead with flexibility, curiosity, and feedback while propelling each person to access and utilize their positively powerful voice and create the world they desire!
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dana-kaplan-9b19ab71/
Website: https://www.danakaplanteach.com/
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You know you’re caught up in the hustle culture when there are never enough hours in the day, your friends and family are wondering if you still exist, and you’re just downright exhausted. Kimberly Smith is all too familiar with what happens when we don’t give ourselves enough space to rest and recover. We get caught up in that fight or flight mentality, and some of us even freeze up.
Tune into this Powerful at Work Radio podcast episode to hear how you can escape the hustle culture and ditch your feelings of guilt and shame…
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About Kimberly Smith:
Kimberly Smith is a Resilience & Life Transition Coach and the founder of Encompass Coaching. She is a native New Yorker, proud Houstonian, truth seeker, DEIJ and mental health advocate, yogi, and mother.
Through coaching services, speaking, and writing, Kimberly helps busy women, mothers and entrepreneurs stop stressing and focus, so they can flourish within their careers, families, businesses, and relationships. Kimberly’s clients move through self-doubt, build a positive and resilient mindset while increasing energy and confidence, and crushing their personal and professional goals.
Kimberly is degreed in Sociology and Psychology, is an internationally certified life and career coach, and spent over 10 years in corporate talent acquisition for a variety of industries. She is a servant leader passionate about dissolving the stigma around mental health, and dedicated to empowering others to live more authentic lives full of passion, purpose, courage, freedom and adventure.
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Website: https://www.encompasscoachingservices.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/encompasscoachingservices/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimberly.brooke.smith/
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How many “hair on fire” moments could you avoid in your business if you spent more time fireproofing instead of firefighting? Jeff Schwisow is a Strategic Consultant with years of project management under his belt.
One of the best ways to fireproof your business? Have an adaptable strategy that includes everyone on your team. This gives them something to be engaged in that’s meaningful. And when they are a part of the strategy, they know what’s needed to support the plan.
Tune in for Jeff’s secrets for creating a collaborative environment where you can focus on the vision of your company, while your team executes the plan…
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About Jeff Schwisow:
As a speaker, strategic consultant and author of PROJECTIFY, Jeff Schwisow helps businesses become more adaptable and resilient by tapping into the rich diversity of knowledge, experience, thought and perspective that exists within every organisation.
He shows business leaders how valuing difference can help them leverage their leadership and ‘make strategy’. His clients have included: Shell, Chevron, PetroChina, CPB Contractors, Downer Utilities, Powercor/Citipower and many more.
A free electronic copy of his book 'PROJECTIFY - How to use projects to engage your people in strategy that evolves your business' http://bit.ly/Projectify_ebook
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Website: https://jeffschwisow.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffschwisow/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNHU7GL6FVnL5YUia7sERiA/videos
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Your responsibility as a leader? Developing other leaders. Let’s face it, your role as it exists today isn’t going to be there forever. Who is going to continue the legacy of your company or your business? And will that person be happy doing it?
Lou & Sherri are leadership coaches with a passion for creating workplace cultures that equip other leaders. Instead of pointing the finger and asking “Who did that?”, strong leaders take the time to understand the “why” behind what happened. Your role as a leader is to find and fill the gaps.
Tune into this Powerful at Work Radio episode to hear Lou & Sherri share their principles that every leader must follow to lead with influence…
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About Lou Everett & Sherri McManus:
As seasoned leadership coaches and trainers with over four decades of combined experience we love serving people and companies throughout their growth transitions. Regardless if you are a solopreneur or at the C-Suite level, Leadership is Influence. Nothing more, nothing less.
Lou and Sherri are your thinking partners offering dedicated and customized continuity plans that are designed to, not only resolve your current struggle, but provide proactive support, training and accountability with the goal of avoiding negative impacts on the growth of your business. Our clients have experienced measurable return, increased productivity, and up to 500% revenue growth.
Connect with Lou & Sherri:
Website: https://loueverettgroup.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theloueverettgroup/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-lou-everett-group/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/theloueverettgroup
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When was the last time you sat down to complete a task and weren’t interrupted by a ding of a new message? Or got so overwhelmed with your massive to-do list that you let distractions get the best of you?
Maura Thomas knows that now more than ever our teams are being interrupted and inundated with distractions. And it’s not just a problem for the people we support, leaders are subject to the same habit of distraction. Not only are we less productive, our ability to produce quality work suffers.
In this Powerful at Work Radio podcast episode, Maura shares her tips for how you can regain your patience and focus. Because if you can’t control your attention, you can’t control your life.
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About Maura Thomas:
Maura Nevel Thomas is an award-winning international speaker and trainer on individual and corporate productivity and work-life balance, and the most widely-cited authority on attention management. Her proprietary Empowered Productivity™ System has been embraced by the likes of NASA, L’Oreal, and Dell. She is a TEDx Speaker, founder of Regain Your Time, author of five books, and was named a Top Leadership Speaker in Inc. Magazine.
Maura is frequently featured in major business outlets including Business Insider, Fast Company, and Washington Post, and she’s also a regular contributor to both Forbes and the Harvard Business Review, with articles there viewed over a million times.
Connect with Maura:
Website: https://maurathomas.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RegainYourTime/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mauranevelthomas-productivity-trainer/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mnthomas/
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In this Powerful at Work Radio episode, Maureen Ross Gemme shares her personal story of overcoming addiction. With over 35 years of sobriety, Maureen knows what it takes to help employees feel safe and connected at work.
Whether someone on your team has an addiction to alcohol, gambling, or even work (yes being a workaholic is an addiction), there are ways that you can support them. It starts with building a culture where people aren’t scared of you. Leaders can also use assessments, such as DISC, to understand their strengths and to play to the strengths of their employees.
Tune in to hear more from Maureen about why she wishes people would stop contributing to the stigma of addiction and help make a difference instead…
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About Maureen Ross-Gemme:
Maureen Ross-Gemme was a drug addict and alcoholic as a teenager and into her early 20s. She got help and achieved a complete transformation which led to an amazing life.
With over 35 years of sobriety, she had a corporate career and now coaches and trains leaders on how to improve their culture at work by doing their own deep inner work. Maureen loves to ride her motorcycle, play with her grandchildren and helps people develop a solid inner support system. Maureen is an Authorized Partner of Everything DiSC and helps leaders to create a culture of caring at work.
Connect with Maureen:
Website: https://emergeleadershipacademy.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emergentleadership/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maureenrossgemme/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emergeleadership/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrgmentor/
Podcast: https://emergeleadershipacademy.com/podcast/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCArtSJlSvO4SkATXyZkUJ7w?view_as=subscriber
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In business we often forget that people are multidimensional. We all have dreams of experiencing new things. Rarely do people like to stay put in the same position. If you’re not offering your employees a way to experience new things, how are you contributing to their growth or happiness?
Imagine the employee that dreams of becoming a pilot some day. Does your company offer something to that effect? It could be as simple as letting that employee leave an hour early every day to take flight lessons.
In this Powerful at Work Radio episode, Kimberly Young shares her journey of self-discovery and uncovering her passion. Tune in to find out how you can help your employees in their own journey and create a win-win for everyone…
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About Kimberly Young:
Kimberly F. Young, CEO & Founder of Forever Young Management Services, LLC, empowers career driven women breakfree of an unfilled life and discover their passion and purpose.
Overcoming abuse, teen pregnancy, and homelessness, Kimberly went on a journey of self-discovery and uncovered her passion of helping others and seeing them succeed in their own life. She uses her CORES method to teach women the various ways to unleash their highest level of potential and talents.
Kimberly has been featured in Be Your Own Magazine and as a guest on Entrepreneur Podcast Network where she discussed her own personal and professional journey She is an excellent addition to anyone’s conference, podcast, panel or show as she provides fresh and unique perspectives to multiple topics.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberlyf-young/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimberlyf.young/
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As business owners, we often feel like we have to do everything ourselves. But imagine a workplace culture where your employees are practically begging to take work off your plate…
In this Powerful at Work Radio podcast episode, Lily Woi explains how investing in your people gives you the freedom to focus on the strategic parts of your business. When your people are engaged, motivated, and when they are connected to you, they become your first continual and your last line of defense.
Tune in to hear how by making it about your employees, they become committed to your vision and eager to help your business succeed…
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About Lily Woi:
Lily Woi has reshaped her career by 180 when she hit her limit and could not imagine living another day not achieving her full potential. Her journey has been an inspiration to many people, from naively letting her company mould her into another corporate consultant to breaking free, taking charge of her career and carving out a role for herself in her company that fits her passion.
She’s now on a mission to do the same for others and to help leaders understand the value of having people on the team who are truly fulfilled, and how to get there. Lily helps corporate professionals to get purposeful and intentional, to break the glass ceiling and to unleash their full potential. The bottom line is they will get excited about their careers again.
Lily holds a Diploma of Transformational Coaching, is a member of the Institute of Leadership and Management, a trained facilitator for #IamRemarkable workshops and trained in optimizing team dynamics. Lily is also an Executive Contributor with Brainz Magazine.
Connect with Lily:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilywoi/
Website: https://lilywoicoaching.com/
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Are you taking the time to really get to know your employees? Dana Kaplan, Education Consultant, recognizes that upfront it can feel like a large time investment. But what is the cost of not investing in your employees?
You might be surprised to learn that being curious about the people on your team doesn’t take a lot of time. By giving your employees just a few minutes a day to feel seen, heard, and understood, it has a huge impact on the fulfillment of that employee, while also elevating your entire team!
Tune into this Powerful at Work Radio episode to learn how you can create a space where curiosity leads to more joy, courage, and compassion in your business…
Episode Outline:
About Dana Kaplan:
Dana Kaplan, Founder and Owner of Developing Empathetic Education with Dana (DEED)®, is an award winning Gifted and Early Childhood Educator and Social Emotional Intelligence expert, pioneering DEIAB - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Belonging for birth to 12th grade. Dana's niche approach propels rich self-awareness while purposefully empowering children and adults to masterfully and confidently communicate and create the world they crave. Dana leads small and large group workshops, and speaks internationally on how to empower and engage in hard conversations.
Mission: I believe Emotional Intelligence is the driving force behind self-awareness, compassion, inclusivity, and bridging humanity through actionable steps, regardless of age. I purposefully empower, enlighten, and lead with flexibility, curiosity, and feedback while propelling each person to access and utilize their positively powerful voice and create the world they desire!
Connect with Dana:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dana-kaplan-9b19ab71/
Website: https://www.danakaplanteach.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danakaplan_deed/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DanaKaplanDeed
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Society often defines success as having the dream job, the model home, the fancy car, and the picture perfect family. But what if you have all of that and still feel unhappy?
Michael Seaver, Leadership Coach, experienced this unhappiness firsthand. It’s how he learned to transform his pain into his purpose. His trick for breaking free from the pain? Instead of waiting years and building on all of those painful moments, learn to release the pain in a short burst of time. He wants everyone to understand that even if you feel at a point of hitting rock bottom, it’s okay, it’s not the end.
Tune into this Powerful at Work Radio episode to learn how you too can transform your pain into your purpose…
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About Michael S. Seaver:
Michael S. Seaver is an award-winning executive coach, leadership consultant, keynote speaker, and author. He’s on a mission to unlock human potential to help people uncover and live their purpose, and live a more meaningful and authentic life. His unique methodology has revolutionized how leaders can live authentically and how organizations engage employees. He offers no-nonsense strategies to help people find confidence in their life’s narrative, commonalities across generations working today, and ways to communicate with emotional intelligence.
For more than 25 years, Michael has led teams and has coached global leaders. He’s invested thousands of hours in the “arena” managing personal and organizational change, guided others to uncover their lives’ missions, and taught leaders how to create psychological safety by inviting employee life experiences into the workplace.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelsseaver/
Website: https://michaelsseaver.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MichaelScottSeaver
Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaelsseaver
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/SeaverConsulting
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelsseaver/
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As women leaders, we have a lot of responsibility on our shoulders. We’re raised to believe it’s our job to take care of everyone. We’re balancing raising children, taking care of our homes, and finding time for ourselves. And when we get to work, we’re expected to check our home lives and emotions at the door.
Blake Schofield wants to see more humanity brought into the workplace and into Corporate America. We are not robots and our employees aren’t either. We each have our fears, doubts, and anxieties. When we can’t express our emotions, we create environments where people are constantly redoing things and afraid to make a move.
In this Powerful at Work Radio episode, tune in to hear how embracing emotions in your company opens the door to greater success…
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About Blake Schofield:
Blake Schofield is the Founder of Connections Illuminated, a mom of three and former corporate executive who spent 18 years in Corporate America building, growing and turning around 8 and 9-figure businesses.
Despite her success, Blake constantly found herself feeling unsettled, chasing the next job or promotion to "make it better" so she could finally do fulfilling work and be able to have the time she wanted to have a less stressful and more present family life. Blake's personal journey through three career changes, years of seeking the right path for her life, overcoming the fear and doubt of forging a new path, and successfully building and running her own multi six figure business is the basis of the work she does everyday.
Connect with Blake:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blake-schofield/
Website: https://www.connectionsilluminated.com/
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bridge-to-fulfillment/id1452077189
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/connectionsilluminated
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In the world of social media marketing, Kara Hoholik believes that building a true connection with your audience takes research, vulnerability and authenticity. When it comes to creating a team of high performers, the same principles apply.
In this Powerful at Work Radio podcast episode, Kara talks about how she built a team of nine employees in just two years. Her secret to building a rock star team? It starts with embracing humanity in the work and understanding that we all have lives outside of work.
Tune in to hear how giving a little grace can benefit your business tenfold…
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About Kara Hoholik:
Kara Hoholik helps social impact business leaders create compelling content to build community around their work. As the founder of Social for Good, she works to amplify positive messaging, connect others online, and spark belief in a vision for a better future.
Kara lives on a farm outside of Grand Rapids, MI with her husband and 3 bright and wild children. When she’s not wiping muddy feet, you can find her reading with a cup of cold coffee still sitting in the microwave. Growing up in New Jersey, Kara studied sociology and Spanish, and made time to travel to Costa Rica. She then moved to Michigan to pursue a Master’s Degree in Education, fell in love with the slow vibe (and a guy), but stayed for the craft beer.
Kara feels most like herself when she travels - immersed in a new culture and place. She openly struggles with anxiety, though she admits it often fuels her passions in a good way.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karahoholik/
Website: https://socialforgood.co/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/socialforgood.co/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs99KOvl8ENveqZg8ltlOnA
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/socialforgoodco/_created/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/socialforgoodco/
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The expectation used to be that someone would stay working in one industry throughout their entire career. But today’s workforce has changed and Paula Cowan knows it’s commonplace for people to change careers, maybe even more than once or twice!
While some people may see this as starting over, Paula sees this as a way to bring a valued skill set to a new industry. In this Powerful at Work Radio episode, learn why hiring someone who has changed careers isn’t a bad thing and why it can be advantageous to your business…
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About Paula Cowan:
Paula Cowan is a Career Transition Strategist and Energy Clearing Practitioner.
She became the resource she needed 20 years ago when she was navigating her first career upheaval along with her own mental health struggles. Drawing on her background in Human Resources and Behaviour Therapy, she now helps the 47% of employees who are really unhappy with their job to finally do something about it with her customized Career Shift and/or Jumping Ship programs.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulacowan/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clearyourpath/
Website: http://paulacowan.com/
Book a free discovery call: https://calendly.com/paulacowan/30min
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Playing sports takes drive, determination, and discipline. It also means being coachable, humble and resilient, all of which are core qualities in any great leader.
In this Powerful at Work Radio podcast episode, Lee Hackett shares his journey from soccer player to CEO. He shares why being the “tough as nails” leader was not the way, but becoming obsessed with what he didn’t know and staying curious was what transformed him into a stronger leader and business owner.
Tune in to hear more about Lee’s journey and why it's always about the team, not an individual person...
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About Lee Hackett:
Lee is the CEO of BluprintX, responsible for their strategic growth. He specialises in straight-talking consultancy for C-Level at some of the largest organisations in the world.
Lee was a professional footballer with Wigan Athletic FC before turning to the world of business.
As a seasoned operator and investor of start up businesses, Lee specialises in how to drive revenue and improve scalability through the power of data and technology. He has played a leading role in the creation and scaling of 7 startups in 3 continents over the last 10 years, driving over £50 million in net new revenue without a single penny of outside investment. Several became market leaders within 1-3 years, leading to trade sales to FTSE 200 organisations and global companies.
A leading practitioner of BrandTech for amazing customer experience, Lee is a popular public speaker on marketing, big data, people transformation, entrepreneurship and how to grow profitable business quickly. He is a firm believer in using technology and innovation to drive modern organisations, speaking around the world in key cities such as London, Tokyo, New York and more.
Lee hosts BluprintX's podcast series, Level Up, which documents a raw look into real business issues. If you’re interested in featuring as a guest on the podcast or having Lee speak at your event, contact Lee at speaking@thisisbluprint.com.
Lee is currently working on his first book, which will show entrepreneurs and startups how to master data to scale up their business.
Connect with Lee:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leehackett/
Website: https://www.bluprintx.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bluprint_x
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BluprintX
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