Scott Clary rcurrently runs a global SaaS sales and marketing organization and is the host of the Success Story podcast where he interviews inspirational people, mentors, and leaders. On this episode, we discuss Scott’s process for producing content and maintaining his online presence, how your personal brand impacts your ability to sell, and the importance of grit. Scott also shares how he reverse engineers his way to his goals and how you can too.
How to Be a Super Connector
Judy Robinett is the author of Crack the Funding Code: How Investors Think and What They Need to Hear to Fund Your Startup and How to Be a Power Connector: The 5-50-150 Rule. Robinett is a business thought leader who is known as “the woman with the titanium digital Rolodex.” On this episode, we discuss why “keep your head down” is terrible advice for fulfilling your potential, how Judy recommends you use her Two Golden Questions, and how she learned she actually isn’t shy (and why you probably aren’t either). Finally, Judy shares what she means when she says COVID-19 hasn’t really changed how she networks and why it shouldn’t stop you from growing your community either.
The Hardest Person to Manage is Yourself
Croft Edwards is a Master Certified Coach who has been serving an array of clients with his company Croft + Company. He has created Performance Management Process courses and accompanying one-on-one coaching sessions with over 90 leaders of the largest platinum and palladium mining company in the western hemisphere. On this episode, we discuss why the first person you must learn to manage is yourself, how he arrived at the concept of the “leadership flow”, his book writing process, and what he disagrees with about mainstream leadership development.
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Working in The Intersection
Karl Kapp is the Director of Bloomsburg’s Institute for Interactive Technologies, the founder of “The Learning and Development Mentor Academy,” and the co-founder of The Enterprise Game Stack. On this episode, we discuss what Walt Disney’s planning process has to do with Karl’s own career and niche, the ways that COVID-19 has forced rapid discovery in e-learning, and his advice for aspiring leaders who are new to an organization. We also chat about what he learned when one of his first bosses told him to keep his training tables spotless and what that means for the rest of us who want to be good leaders.
Focusing on More Than Metrics
Amanda Slavin is a former educator with a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction, the #1 best-selling author of The Seventh Level, the Co-founder of creative agency CatalystCreativ, and was named Forbes 30 Under 30 for Marketing and Advertising. On this episode, we discuss what her background as a classroom teacher brings to her work in marketing, her journey to find balance in her work, and what it has been like to shift from CEO to an advisory role in her company. Additionally, Amanda shares some of the predictions for the education space now that COVID-19 has fundamentally shifted the relationship between parents and teachers.
Never Go with Your Gut
Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is an internationally renowned thought leader in future-proofing and cognitive bias risk management. He serves as the CEO of the consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts, which specializes in helping forward-looking leaders avoid dangerous threats and missed opportunities. A best-selling author of several books, Dr. Gleb is well-known among business leaders for his national bestseller, Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters. On this episode, we discuss what you need to do with your Saber Tooth Tiger Instinct when making business decisions, how he assesses new clients’ threat profiles (it’s not the SWOT analysis), and his response to people who say they don’t have time to plan big decisions.