David Brier is the CEO/Founder of DBD International and the recipient of the Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship medallion. He is also the author of Brand Intervention, 33 Steps to Transform the Brand You Have into the Brand Need. His work has been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, ADWEEK, The Huffington Post and Business Insider. On this episode, we discuss how most organizations get their branding wrong, what he’d say if he could mentor his younger self, and what he means when he says he’s the “slayer of the mundane” and a “liberator of awesome”. He also shares the rules that people let get in the way of their brand success and how you can avoid them.
Managing All Your Relationships
For more than 25 years, Roberta Matuson has helped leaders in Fortune 500 companies and small to medium-size businesses achieve dramatic growth and market leadership through the maximization of talent. She’s a Forbes contributor, the author of five commercially published books on leadership and talent, including the international bestseller, Suddenly in Charge. On this episode, she shares with us how leaders can handle an increasing rate of employee turnover, how she’s leveraged LinkedIn to spread her message, and why her best advice for aspiring leaders remains the same after 25 years.
Why You Shouldn’t Push for Change
Jonah Berger is a marketing professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and internationally bestselling author of Contagious, Invisible Influence, and The Catalyst. He has published over 50 articles in top‐tier academic journals and he teaches Wharton’s highest-rated online course. He joins us on this episode to discuss the common mistakes people make when they seek to create change (hint: they push), what great change agents have in common, and how we can all be more effective. We also discuss his career journey, the process he follows to turn his research into best-selling books, and what advice he has for current students.
Connecting to Build Strong Culture
On the Learn to Lead Podcast, I interviewed Alain Hunkins author of Cracking the Leadership Code which was released earlier this year and featured on Amazon as their number one new release in the business communication category. I’m going to kick us off with a statistic from the book, which highlights the fact that only…
Three C’s to Cultivate Culture
Alain Hunkins is a leadership expert who connects the science of high performance with the performing art of leadership. He is the author of Cracking The Leadership Code and his work has been published in Fast Company, Forbes, and Business Insider. He joins us on this episode to discuss what’s wrong with the command and control model of management, how his experience with an election loss at a non-profit organization set him on his path to studying and teaching leadership, and the Three C’s you can leverage to cultivate a culture of collaboration at your organization.
How to Have “Questioning Leadership” with Liz Kislik
I’m going to kick us off with a recent article that you wrote for Forbes that described a magic ingredient for leaders’ success. Can you start us off by telling us what that magic ingredient is and how leaders can cultivate it? This comes from a book by Marilyn Gist, and the magic ingredient is…
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