“Courage to Leap & Lead” As an executive, having the courage to make difficult decisions and take calculated risks can be crucial to the success of your company. Here we explore how other leaders have faced untold challenges, and failures only to rise like the Pheonix. This knowledge is invaluable on the leadership journey. A courageous leader is not afraid to challenge the status quo, speak their truth, and take action in the face of uncertainty. This is where honest business discussions about personal experience, books, and business news impact change (https://www.courage-consulting.com)
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Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
About Pam: Pamela Slim is an author, community builder, consultant, and former corporate director of training and development at Barclays Global Investors. She focused her first decade in business on creating and delivering training programs for large companies such as HP, Charles Schwab, 3Com, Chevron, and Cisco Systems.
Since 2005, Pam has advised thousands of entrepreneurs as well as companies serving the small business market such as Infusionsoft, Progressive Insurance, Constant Contact, and Prezi. Pam partnered with author Susan Cain to build and launch the Quiet Revolution and the Quiet Leadership Institute.
Pam is best known for her book Escape from Cubicle Nation (named Best Small Business and Entrepreneur book of 2009 from 800 CEO Read) along with her follow-up book Body of Work. Both were published by Penguin/Portfolio. Her upcoming book The Widest Net will be published by McGraw Hill in October, 2021. In 2016, Pam launched the Main Street Learning Lab in Mesa, Arizona, a grassroots, community-based think tank for small business economic acceleration. http://pamelaslim.com/ke
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Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
Sim Sitkin is a Founding Partner of Delta Leadership Inc. Delta is a leadership development organization that offers educational programs and materials, including those based on the Six Domains of Leadership™ Model.
Sim also serves as Michael W. Krzyzewski University Professor of Leadership, Professor of Management and Public Policy, and founding Faculty Director of the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics (COLE) at the Fuqua School of Business, and Director of the Behavioral Science and Policy Center at Duke University. Sim’s research focuses on the effects of leadership and organizational control on trust, risk-taking, experimentation, learning, and innovation. His most recent books are Organizational Control (2010), The Six Domains of Leadership (2016), and Routledge Companion to Trust (2017). He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and the Society for Organizational Behavior. He is Co-Founder and Co-President of the Behavioral Science and Policy Association.
He has extensive consulting, coaching, and executive education experience with organizations around the world, including American Airlines, Cisco Systems, Compaq Computer, Corning, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutschebank, Duke Medical Center, Ericsson, Glaxo, General Electric, IBM, Lenovo, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Red Hat Software, Siemens, State Farm Insurance, U.S. Dept of Justice, Xerox Corporation.
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Thursday Oct 21, 2021
Thursday Oct 21, 2021
Ana Melikian, Ph.D., is an optimist who had to overcome two bouts with cancer to learn that pursuing happiness is a fallacy. To choose happiness is a much more powerful strategy to tap into our highest human potential.
Either by working with leaders and their teams, or other coaches and consultants, Ana supports her clients to break through their mindset limitations and upgrade their psychological operating systems so that they achieve better results than ever in work and life while enjoying the process.
Born in Portugal, Ana now lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with her husband, daughter, and dog Puffy.
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Wednesday Oct 20, 2021
Wednesday Oct 20, 2021
Michael Bungay Stanier is at the forefront of shaping how organizations around the world make being coach-like an essential leadership competency. His book The Coaching Habit is the best-selling coaching book of this century, with over a million copies sold and thousands of five-star reviews on Amazon. In 2019, he was named the #1 thought leader in coaching. Michael was the first Canadian Coach of the Year, has been named a Global Coaching Guru since 2014 and was a Rhodes Scholar.
Michael founded Box of Crayons, a learning and development company that helps organizations transform from advice-driven to curiosity-led. (Learn more at BoxOfCrayons.com.)
Michael is a compelling speaker and facilitator, combining practicality, humour, and an unprecedented degree of engagement with the audience. He’s spoken on stages and screens around the world in front of crowds ranging from ten to ten thousand. His TEDx talk has been watch by more than a million people. (Learn more at MBS.works.)
En route to today—and these are essential parts of his origin story—Michael knocked himself unconscious as a labourer by hitting himself in the head with a shovel, mastered stagecraft at law school by appearing in a skit called Synchronized Nude Male Modelling, and his first paid piece of writing was a Harlequin Romance-esque story involving a misdelivered letter … and called The Male Delivery.
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Wednesday Oct 06, 2021
Wednesday Oct 06, 2021
About Bonnie:
Visionary leadership expert Bonnie Hagemann is the CEO of a 39-year-old boutique top-of-the-house human capital firm with a powerful technology platform designed to make culture visible in addition to services including executive and high-potential development, succession planning, C-Suite coaching, and board services.
Bonnie has deep expertise is building and leading teams of her own and providing leadership strategy to the C-Suite in large and complex organizations. Boards and leaders engage her and her company to create compelling cultures, select and develop talent, and work through both general and highly contentious leadership issues.
In addition, Bonnie serves on boards and is a published author. She leads some of the industry’s most valued trends in executive development research. She also provides C-Suite programs for LinkedIn Learning.
Bonnie advocates for women in leadership as co-chair of women execs on Boards, a global network of Harvard-prepared corporate governance leaders, and as a member of the Business Council for Exponent, a Google, Nasdaq, BBC, and United Nations-backed organization that is gathering the world’s most influential decision-makers to improve the global human condition through gender equality.
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Wednesday Sep 29, 2021
Wednesday Sep 29, 2021
Edgar is dedicated to helping leaders, organizations, and teams improve their alignment to achieve greater levels of innovation, success and fulfillment.
As a speaker, coach, and author, Edgar is globally recognized as a foremost expert in the alignment and innovative development of organizations, teams, and leadership. He engages with a broad range of clients ranging from multi-national organizations, and governments to early small and medium-size companies, including early-stage entities and individuals. As an award-winning speaker and bestselling author, he brings his creative and unique life experiences to all his offerings.
Recognition and accomplishments:
• He has delivered over 2,800 keynote speeches and talks.
• More than 20,000 CEOs, executives, and leaders have attended Edgar’s workshops and programs.
• He is the bestselling author of the books True Alignment and The Elephant In The Boardroom and co-author of Innovation By Design.
• An award-winning speaker, Edgar consistently ranks worldwide by over 22,000 CEOs as one of the most impactful speakers, providing unique views on business innovation, leadership, and constructive conflict: 2013 Vistage Impact Speaker Of The Year & 2006 International Speaker Of The Year.
• He mentors a worldwide group of True Alignment practitioners and coaches.
• His ideas and writing have been featured by a number of publications, blogs, and outlets, among them: Huffington Post, FOX News, Forbes, TED, AMA’s Playbook, Success Magazine, CIO, Investor’s Business Daily, and Smartblog.
• He has served as a host for public television and radio.
• Edgar holds a degree from The Culinary Institute of America, has received numerous awards including receiving the CIA’s prestigious Frances Roth Award and being named as “The new breed of American Chef” by the NY Times.
• As a singer-songwriter, he has released three albums, has performed worldwide, and was named to the Save The Music Foundation’s Honor Roll.
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Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
Howard Prager is President of Advance Learning Group and an author, speaker, executive coach, and leadership consultant with a keen understanding of what leaders need to take the next step in their growth. He has received 8 professional awards for his work in leadership and team development. Howard is a sought-after speaker and workshop leader, a sports columnist, and tuba player bringing his varied skills and insights to all his work, and is an active volunteer, facilitator, and mentor in higher education, professional associations, and youth organizations. Howard built the concept of service-learning, and is the author of the soon-to-be-released book “Make Someone’s Day: Becoming a Memorable Leader for Work and Life.” Howard serves as a lead assessor for ANSI-ANAB in their Certificate Accreditation Program and is an instructor of senior HR courses for the Human Capital Institute. He is a frequent author in journals including Talent Development, Chief Learning Officer, and Industrial Commercial and Training and a co-author of “The Ins and Outs of Subcontracting” and the ATD Workplace Learning and Performance Handbook. Howard is on the board of the Ernest Thompson Seton Institute, Northwest Concert Band, and Chair of the BSA Virtual Walk of Faith Committee. He earned his MBA from the University of Michigan and has a BA in Psychology from Northwestern University.
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Thursday Sep 16, 2021
Thursday Sep 16, 2021
Dr. Darjené Graham-Perez, was recognized as a renowned specialist in Early Childhood Education and Educational Leadership. Darjené is currently the Human Resources & DEI Manager at Walden Family Services where she is responsible for leading and developing all DE&I programs, initiatives, and strategic planning with the C-Suite executives. It is Dr. Darjené’s belief that, “Everyone should be able to come to work and present their true authentic self in a safe, inclusive environment.”
She has transformed several policies to be more inclusive and equitable for all employees, leads the Walden Wellness Committee for the entire organization, successfully launched their first Diversity & Inclusion Council, and planning to launch much-needed employee resource groups such as Former Foster Youth Employees and the LGBTQ+ Employees and updated the talent acquisition cycle to be more efficient and aligned with industry standards.
Dr. Darjené is leading the charge with Caravanserai Projects in creating a Strategic Network and Planning Circle to connect other non-profit organizations that support DE&I efforts throughout our Southern California, Inland Empire region.
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
Everything that Simon does is built to energize people to see their world differently and to awaken their imagination of what is truly possible so that they can live a better story. As an award-winning coach and motivational speaker, he has been interviewed on Sky News, BBC, and Forbes, and has spoken at some of the planet's most successful organizations such as Virgin, Salesforce, and Microsoft.
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Thursday Aug 26, 2021
Thursday Aug 26, 2021
Janice Perkins is the VP of Business Development for Marshall Goldsmith’s “Methods of Leaders” which is a global project started as a way to make the knowledge of the world’s most influential business thinkers from the MG 100 Coaches accessible for current and future leaders around the world.
She also continues to run her own business started in 2019 called Capacity Communications where she consults, coaches and speaks for corporations and non-profits. She has spoken at international conferences on marketing, brand development, leadership and culture including the Women’s Fair and for the Non-Profit Chamber of Commerce. Janice created Capacity Communications to examine individual levels of growth within organizations to find opportunities to boost productivity and profits through increasing individual capacity in our character. She utilizes her 20 plus marketing experience and career to evaluate internal and external communication and build more successful strategies. Janice is a subject matter expert in the Association of Corporate Executive Coaches (ACEC).
She is actively engaged in volunteering and advising in her local community with the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Coalition (MHSA); and serves on the advisory board for the NXTUS organization which helps connect start ups to investors and pilot partners globally.
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