Accelerate Your Business Growth

Organizations benefit from having a healthy corporate culture and strong communication skills. Employees who think from the broader perspective found with CTS (critical thinking skills) are better able to maintain these organizational skills. Dr. Lynette Reed shares how this more comprehensive perspective also expands the possibilities for creativity and problem-solving. Dr. Lynette Reed has mentored people from a variety of organizations including businesses, not for profit organizations, schools, allied health agencies, Chambers of Commerce, governmental entities, and churches. She has taught courses on world religion and world cultures and also continuing education courses approved by the American Planning Association for ethics, HRCI, and team building/leadership training sessions approved by the Texas Education Agency for continuing education of teachers, superintendents, and school board members. Her current literary contributions include an executive summary paperback titled, Fixing the Problem, Makin

John Jonas has scaled his business by outsourcing as much of the supplemental work for his business as possible. This freed up plenty of time to focus on revenue generating activities. In this episode, he shares his process with us. John is based in Utah and is the founder of the largest marketplace for finding Filipino workers, OnlineJobs.ph, with over 150,000 Filipino workers on their database. He is also the founder of "Replace Myself"  - a site that teaches you everything you need to know about outsourcing to the Philippines. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trevor Throness’ business task is to be a support, guide and friend to leaders—to help them shoulder some of the stress that comes with leading a business that is in growth. He helps these leaders think through tough people issues and joins us to share his ideas. Trevor is a veteran coach who specializes in working with growing businesses from $2 million to $2 billion in sales. He has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs, organizations, and business families across North America fix people problems, enhance communication, attract top talent, and build exceptional cultures. He is also the author of The Power Of People Skills. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Field will not only inspire you to step and step out and do something, he'll show you how. In life there are Dreamers and there are Doers. Some people, like Chris Field, are blessed to be both. He launched Mercy Project in 2010 to combat child trafficking in Ghana’s fishing industry. To date, Mercy Project has rescued, rehabilitated, and reintegrated more than one hundred children back into their families. Their innovative process to end child slavery has garnered them national awards. Chris has broken multiple Guinness world records, run dozens of marathons, organized enormous fundraisers, created viral internet campaigns, taught himself to auctioneer, and brought down walls. He travels the country speaking on how each of us can be disruptors for good. Chris is also the author of Disrupting For Good. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you si

We skim emails, watch the first few seconds of videos, and scroll through headlines, looking for just a quick hit, just the gist, so we can move on to the next thing.  So how can we, as individuals, make a lasting impression? How can we be more memorable in a quick-hit culture? Find out in this episode when Dana Kaye joins me. Dana Kaye is the founder of Kaye Publicity, Inc., a boutique PR company specializing in publishing and entertainment, the author of Your Book, Your Brand: The Step-By-Step Guide to Launching Your Book and Boosting Your Sales, and the creator of Branding Outside the Box where she helps driven entrepreneurs and aspiring leaders become more memorable. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nigel Green makes the case that listening is everything when it comes to serving your customer. Good listening is a crucial piece of the communication puzzle, but what determines what is actually considered good listening and are you really listening to begin with? Nigel shows us how to really listen to your customer and change the way you communicate. Nigel Green builds businesses. He's built a career in sales & marketing and currently serves as the vice president of sales & marketing at Relode  a healthcare platform that allows the marketplace to connect top healthcare professionals to healthcare’s best jobs. From 2012 to 2015 he served as vice president of sales at Foundations Recovery Network, where he helped grow the business from $94M to $350M before selling it to Universal Health Services. In 2016 he served as the CEO at StoryBrand, helping teach businesses how to communicate with clarity. He writes on leading and building sales teams at www.findevergreen.com, and his work has been featured in Inc. Ma

Ed Eppley joins me to discuss the six disciplines of focused management pros. He recommends we make a “Stop Doing” list and offers actions that someone could take today to get a sense of where they are as a leader and what they need to improve. Ed is a leading global expert in professional management, sales strategy, and performance management. He is a principal consultant for the Table Group, a Patrick Lencioni Company, and operates The Eppley Group. He has trained managers at multinational companies across the U.S., Europe, China, Japan, and Australia. His clients include a “Who’s Who” of business category leaders such as BMW, DSW, Sara Lee, Bloomberg, Battelle, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Speedway, Steamboat Ski & Resort Company, Value City Furniture, PSA Airlines, Emerson Electric, NECCO, Safelite Auto Glass, and others. As a facilitator of the Course for Presidents at Aileron, Ed helps owners of private businesses apply a system of professional management to identify and correct workplace problem

Treat them with respect, involve them in problem solving, and grow together. Ned Parks joins me to talk about this very important subject. Ned Parks is a business consultant who draws on his background as a U.S. Army Warrant Officer helicopter instructor pilot and business owner to provide owners and management-level executives strategies to improve their operations and strengthen their business goals. In 2000, Ned opened Aegis 360 Consulting, a firm focusing on corporate culture, leadership development, and business strategy. Certified as a Registered Corporate Coach, Ned’s expertise includes the areas of strategic planning, leadership development, and coaching. He guides leaders to connect with their teams and combine personal and organizational objectives to achieve their goals, offering proven business strategies with creative approaches, practical methods, and unique execution applications. Ned is a Lean 6 Sigma Green Belt training. He is also certified in Everything DiSC®, The Five Behaviors of a Coh

Steve Acho (rhymes with macho), his staffing company and his staffing platform help companies, recruiters and job seekers connect in a more human way with the use of today’s technology. His book Why Technology Recruiting is Broken and What to do About ithas helped put into perspective the problem with recruiting and hiring today. Steve believes at the heart of successful recruiting and team building is a conversation, and technology can help facilitate a better experience. Steve earned his MBA while living in Japan and working for the CEO of Mazda. The published author has consulted CEOs of Fortune 100 companies, and currently operates the Detroit Michigan-based technology staffing firm Solstice Consulting Group. He is passionate about using technology to be more human, and helping “change the conversation” in the market, so that organizations can find better fits, and job-seekers can find more meaningful work. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio enter

Join us today on a reality check as Stefan Pretty shares his beliefs why today's perception of effort vs success is so sickeningly wrong. He is talking about the ways to achieve more with less, on how one can bootstrap his business and succeed in what he is doing without the need to depend on someone else's money, explaining how story of a castaway is pretty much the story of a modern tech entrepreneur. Stefan is a Scottish tech entrepreneur, currently residing in Los Angeles. He has given birth to 5 different business since the age of 18. His current brainchild, Subbly, has grown to be a 6 figure business in less than 2.5 years while staying entirely bootstrapped. Stefan is passionate about helping people succeed, doing more with less and rock and roll. Be sure to grab is guide to starting a subscription box business. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book

Join me for a conversation with Derek Lidow when he’ll share what he’s learned through research and observation. Derek is the former CEO of International Rectifier and the founder of iSuppli, a leading market research firm, which he sold in 2010 for $100 million to global information leader IHS. He has written two books on entrepreneurship, the latest being Building on Bedrock: What Sam Walton, Walt Disney, and Other Great Self-Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Building Valuable Companies. He is currently a professor at Princeton University, teaching entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Craig Cody joins me to share some of the known, and less known items you can write off legitimately. Craig is a Certified Tax Coach, Certified Public Accountant, Business Owner and Former New York City Police Officer with 17 years experience on the Force. In addition to being a Certified Public Accountant for the past 15 years, he is also a Certified Tax Coach. Craig has co-authored an Amazon best seller book, Secrets of a Tax-Free Life.   Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join me for a conversation with Hugh Littleton about what it means to communicate effectively. Hugh provides us with some terrific, actionable information. Hugh, President of Hugh Littleton Consulting, LLC, is an International Corporate Leadership Trainer known as the Leadership Guru.  Hugh is the author of the book “Legacy Building through Extraordinary Leadership”.  He has provided leadership development to more than 25 organizations in Northeast Ohio, across the United States, and in the United Kingdom.  In addition, he is the winner of the 2010, Cleveland Business Connect Magazine, Best Speaker and Facilitator Award. Named the Keynote Speaker of the Year in 2014 by the CBC Magazine. 2016 finalist for CBC’s Keynote Speaker of the Year. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Lear

In reviewing over 1000 brands over the past decade and working with startups to household brands, Derek Champagne has identified 5 common crisis points in branding and marketing and how to build campaigns that get results. Derek is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience developing effective marketing campaigns. Derek shares his story of growing up from humble beginnings, on stage at age of 3, his years as a Hollywood musician, and his diverse journey to get where he is today. He is the Founder & CEO of The Artist Evolution, a full service agency building memorable brands, marketing tools and campaigns for startups to household brands. Derek is also the author of the best-selling marketing book Don’t Buy a Duck and the host of the popular Business Leadership Series podcast, that also airs as a weekly business show on ESPN radio regionally. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever a

Everyone’s had a bad boss. But how can you avoid becoming one? In this podcast, we will discuss using creative storytelling to be a better leader with Stephanie Taglianetti and Brian Harman. Stephanie M Taglianetti is an Italian-American creative writer from NY, a master of fine arts, literally, and she has a masters degree in fine arts from CalArts, the school founded by Walt Disney. She is also a brilliant musician, illustrator and jazz singer. Brian M Harman, is an American businessman who has been working in corporate leadership and supply chain management since 2004. He has studied global finance and management science at the University of Oxford and Pepperdine University, earning his MBA degree and currently finishing his PhD in Global Leadership and Change. Their book How To Avoid A Huge Leadershit is a must read. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free b

How do you activate your Purpose with a powerful Mission? How do you align your daily Habits to hit your flow state every day? We'll discuss all this and more with Craig Filek, creator of Purpose Mapping, the #1 methodology for high-achievers ready to clarify your Purpose, align with your flow state, and make a meaningful contribution every day. With over 20 years experience facilitating deep inner work, Craig developed Purpose Mapping to bring his own life into alignment after walking away from a 7-figure business, and what he thought would be his ideal life. Now he guides high-achievers around the world to realize their full potential by clarifying their purpose, aligning with their flow state by playing to their strengths, and making a meaningful contribution every day, one tiny step at a time. Executives, entrepreneurs, investors and professionals around the world seek Craig’s guidance when making life-changing decisions. You can begin Purpose Mapping. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.

Process is critical to sales success. Michal Vojta joins me to share some process ideas. Michal is a B2B sales professional with experience in corporations and startups. He co-founded SALESDOCk as he saw too many startups and young companies with great products fail because of lack of sales expertise and execution. Michal got his theoretical background in economics and innovation management while studying in Prague and the Netherlands. Today he strives to implement it by building startup’s sales strategy, infrastructure and teams. He strongly believes in a methodological, structured approach towards sales setup and a people-centric approach towards team building. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Monetizing your expertise requires luck, discipline, courage, and insight. If you want to sell your thinking and be indispensible to your clients, there are some important markers along that path. David Baker joins me to talk about this timely subject. David C. Baker is an author, speaker, and advisor to entrepreneurial creatives worldwide. He has written 5 books, advised 900+ firms, and keynoted conferences in 30+ countries. His work has been discussed in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fast Company, Forbes, USA Today, BusinessWeek, and Inc. Magazine. He lives in Nashville, TN. His most recent book is at http://www.expertise.is Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lee Caraher joins us to share how leading this non-homogenous workplace requires new strengths, vulnerabilities and skills so that you can thrive not just survive. 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 was published in April 2017. 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. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information.

Have you been enjoying a hobby that you think might make a good business? Don’t know where to start, or even if you should? Tune in to this episode to hear Sue Monhait share her ideas. Sue Monhait, also known as the Gift Biz Gal, has been  consulting with retail and online businesses for over 25 years. Additionally, she has started two multi 6-figure companies of her own. Today, The Ribbon Print Company is the major sponsor of her Gift Biz Unwrapped Podcast. Sue has been identified as an industry trendsetter and now focuses on the “gifting, baking, crafting and making” spaces. She’s a leader in helping entrepreneurs set up their business to become a profitable and sustainable entity. Pulling from her vast experience, Sue now guides people who have a hobby or creative passion that they want to turn into a business. As an extension, she works with existing business owners who have gotten stuck or are looking for that one thing that’s needed for them to gain traction and move ahead. Today's show is sponsored b