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2024 is going to be remembered for a lot of things, one of them being that it was the year we finally moved past the COVID-19 Pandemic. Industries everywhere are claiming to ‘be back’ to pre-pandemic functions, with everything from return to office initiatives to the National Restaurant Association boasting that restaurants are back to 2019 rates of turnover.
The problem is, the 2019 turnover rate for restaurants was 73%, which is insane.
So rather than referencing some not-so-great statistics from the past, today’s guest Corey Mintz is looking forward to the future. Corey is a freelance food writer for everything from Eater to The New York Times, as well as an Operations Advisor for hundreds of restaurants across North America. He’s the author of two books, How to Host a Dinner Party and his most recent one, The Next Supper: The End of Dining as We Know It.
In today’s episode Corey shares his experiences embedding himself within various communities revolving around the restaurant industry, from farmers in Florida to the line in high-end LA restaurants. He got to experience first hand, not just how restaurants adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic, but how they’ve integrated lessons learned from that time to make a more sustainable, and equitable restaurant industry for all.
This is another episode you’re definitely not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
For any long time listeners of the podcast, you know we are firm believers in failure being a positive thing. From D1 coaches to cutting edge researchers, great performers and leaders across the board understand the importance of allowing people to fail well.
But, how exactly do you do that?
Enter today’s guest Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School and author of the book Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well.
Before her appointment to Harvard, Amy served as Chief Engineer for the architecture and invention firm Buckminster Fuller Institute, and Director of Research at the Pecos River Learning Centers. In both fields, her search for new and innovative techniques led her to a strong ‘trial and error’ approach where she discovered the ins and outs of “failing well”.
In our conversation, Amy goes over the types of good failure and how they create better workers, teams, and environments where workers can feel “psychologically safe”, and what the consequences of fostering an environment that punishes failure can lead to.
This is an essential listen for anyone looking to develop a welcoming, safe, and winning environment for their employees, so with that…let’s bring it in!
In recent years, the celebrity chef and restaurant has taken the world by storm. The rise of the ‘chefprenaur’ has created a $10 billion dollar industry encapsulating everything from restaurant chains, branded cookware, cook books, television deals, and social media empires.
Despite the glamor, one fact still remains: the restaurant scene is an unforgiving industry.
Today’s guest, Kim Reed knows this first hand. In her debut book, “Workhorse: My Sublime and Absurd Years in the New York Restaurant Scene,” Kim dives headfirst into her experience as a hostess at the renowned Babbo, where it was said “the pope would have a hard time getting a table.” Much like Bourdain’s “Kitchen Confidential,” Kim pulls back the curtain on the hectic day-to-day running of a world class restaurant, but from the position of a member of the staff, rather than the enterprising chef of the restaurant.
What she reveals is a frank, often shocking, but still passionate and beautiful exposition about an industry that accounts for over 12 million workers and over $100 billion annually across the country. She dives headfirst into the need for creating a safe space for workers, the role managers have in serving both investors and staff, and what it means to really be part of a high functioning team in a very challenging field.
This ones not just for those in the restaurant space, but leaders across the workforce, on how to better empower and support your people, so with that…let’s bring it in!
We’ve had a lot of impressive guests on the podcast, many who have overcome some real challenges in their lives to build something great, but today’s guest has an especiallyimpressive story.
Dr. Magie Cook began her life with 68 brothers and sisters in an orphanage in Mexico. Battling abuse, hunger, and poverty, during her high school years she earned a spot on the Mexican Women's National Basketball team, but broke her collarbone before she could fully commit. Despite the injury, the University of Charleston in West Virginia recruited her to their basketball program, and Magie was able to come to the United States.
After graduating, Magie struggled to find a job, and slept out of her car until the engine exploded. Staff from the University Charleston vouched for her to stay on campus until she could get back on her feet, which came in the most unlikely of forms: a salsa making competition.
Fast forward a decade, and Maggie’s Salsa was sold to Campbell’s Soup for $213 million. On top of that, Magie helped rescue dozens of childrens from the grasp of the Mexican cartels, became a board member at the University of Charleston with an honorary Doctorate in Laws in 2022, and so, so, much more.
We caught up with Magie to talk with her about resiliency, team building, and how to be a leader that can inspire a team to go the extra mile. This is an inspiring episode you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
According to a recent study, about 4-6% of all those incarcerated are considered to be wrongly imprisoned. That’s over 70,000 people who are wrongly incarcerated every year.
Today’s guest, Justin Brooks has dedicated his life to representing those who have fallen victim to wrongful incarceration. Justin practiced as a criminal defense attorney in Washington, D.C., Michigan, Illinois, and California in both the trial and appellate courts. He was the founding director of the California Innocence Project at Cal Western Law School from 1999-2023, and under his direction the project freed 40 innocent people from prison (including former NFL player Brian Banks).
He’s been recognized several times by the Los Angeles Daily Journal as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California, and in 2010 and 2012, California Lawyer Magazine honored him with the “Lawyer of the Year” award. He was named “International Lawyer of the Year” by the California Bar International Section in 2020 and in the same year was named “Champion of Justice” by the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys.
In his latest book, “You Might Go to Prison Even Though You’re Innocent” hedetails the causes of wrongful convictions based on his experience of more than three decades as a criminal defense attorney and innocence organization director.
Justin took time to share his experience with us writing the book, over 30 years of legal work, and why everybody should care about wrongful convictions and the ramifications it has for our society.
This is another episode you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
According to a Pew Research poll, over 40% of adults in the United States are considered to be digitally illiterate, and while America’s crumbling transportation infrastructure often makes headlines, its digital infrastructure is equally as out of date. Organizations from the IRS, to the healthcare system are still relying on technology from the 80s or earlier.
This is what today’s guest is out to remedy. Jennifer Pahlka is the former US Deputy Chief Technology Officer under the Obama Administration and helped found the US Digital Service. She was also the Executive Director of the International Games Developers Association, and founded the non-profit Code for America, which aims to improve the digital systems within government.
Jennifer's most recent book “Recoding America: Why Government is Failing in the DIgital Age and How We can Do Better” pulls from her experience in the tech sector and government and the importance of government bodies understanding how technology affects the people they’re meant to serve.
In an age where mobile apps, A.I., and metaverses are all the rage, the conversation we had with Jennifer is an important one that all leaders need to consider.
This is another episode you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
A study came across our desks recently that said, gamification was “just a fad.”
We’re going to disagree with that, and so does our guest today Dr. Dave Eng; a creative intellectual, educator, designer, & researcher focusing on games, theory, and technology. Dave serves as the faculty member of NYU’s School of Professional Studies and the Principle Lead at University XP, a consulting group for game-based learning programs. He’s also the founder of Bandito’s Gaming, a registered 501(c)(3) social and educational non-profit organization that promotes play, community development, and learning through games.
So needless to say, he knows a thing or two about how games really work.
In this episode, we dive into how games have been used throughout history, the power of experiential learning, and how there are good games…and there are bad games.
If you’re a talent leader looking to engage your people, this is definitely another episode you’re not going to want to miss. So with that, let’s bring it in!
Who’s ready for our first podcast 3-peat?
Dr. Jerry Lynch is back for his third solo appearance on the Bring It In podcast, to share with us some wisdom from his latest book, “The Mindful Coach.”
Dr. Jerry Lynch is the Founder of Way of Champions, a performance consultancy that combines elite sports psychology, with international philosophy concepts, to generate peak performance. He’s written over a dozen books on his studies on excellence, from “The Competitive Buddha,” “Coaching with Heart,” “Win the Day,” “Let them Play,” and more.
Dr. Lynch has worked together with coaches and athletes like Steve Kerr, Nancy Stevens, Anson Dorrance, and Phil Jackson, and a slew of accolades. In total, Dr. Lynch has helped secure 73 Conference Championships, 54 Final Fours, and 39 National Championships so…it’s safe to say, he knows a thing or two about coaching.
This time around Dr. J is sharing wisdom from his latest book, “The Mindful Coach,” where he dives into the not-so-new-age thoughts and practices the highest performing coaches are using everywhere, from sports, to medicine, to business.
This is another episode you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
You’ve probably heard the term “pull yourself up by your bootstraps,” referring to one's ability to pick themselves up, and get to work.
But what if we said the whole phrase was actually a joke?
There’s no one better to explain this than Alissa Quart, an author, professor at Brown and Columbia Universities, and the Executive Director of the Economic Hardships Reporting Project and the author of the book “Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream” and “Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America.”
We sat down with Alissa to talk about how the great American myth of the ‘self-made’ person, may be just that: a myth, and one that is weaponized to keep support systems and opportunities out of the hands of some of our nation's poorest workers.
This is another episode you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
We’ve had our fair share of coaches on the podcast on how to lead and guide people, but how do you lead and guide other coaches to improve their game?Enter today’s guest, Cody Royle, a coach who’s dedicated his entire focus on improving other coaches through the ‘user experience’ of coaching.Cody’s coaching career has taken him from playing Rugby in his home of Canberra, Australia, all the way to Toronto, Canada where he currently resides. Serving for over 10 years as a Head Coach in Canada’s AFL Aussie Rules, he set out with the goal to transform the league as a national afterthought, to a viable career path for aspiring athletes. During this time, Cody saw the opportunity to help leaders in both the sports world and business world. He met and interviewed hundreds of coaches around the world, and compiled much of his learnings into his first book Where Others Won’t: Taking People Innovation from the Locker Room to the Board Room.The success of the book led to Cody hosting a podcast of the same name, and two other books The Tough Stuff: Seven Hard Truths about Being a Head Coach and Second Set of Eyes: How Great Coaches Become Champions.Cody’s focus on the user experience, a term that’s usually reserved for those developing technology, brings a unique and most importantly, actionable set of guidelines for coaches to improve their craft.This is another one you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
The United States only spends 0.1% of its GDP on job training and reskilling initiatives, putting us in last place for funding towards job reskilling amongst other developed countries.
Now, it may be hard to concretely define the effects of this, but let’s look at what we know: only 15% of workers are currently engaged at their jobs, 44% of workers are in bad jobs, and almost 1-in-2 workers is just $400 away from falling beneath the poverty line.
So, that 0.1% GDP spent on job training? It’s probably not helping much.
That’s what today’s guest, Harry Holzer, fresh from testifying before the House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, joins us on the podcast to talk about.
Harry is the former Chief Economist for the U.S. Department of Labor under the Clinton Administration, is a senior fellow in Economics at the Brookings Institution, and the LaFarge SJ Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown. He’s written extensively on economic inequality, with books such as “Making College Work: Pathways to Success for Disadvantaged Students” and “Improving Employment and Earnings in Twenty-First Century Labor Markets: An Introduction.”
So needless to say, Harry knows a thing or two about this. In this episode, we chatted about the intersection of government, the private sector, and educational institutions, and how they can better cooperate and support each other to develop a high-performing and equitable workforce.
This is another episode you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
Despite mountains of research showing how “helicopter parenting” is incredibly detrimental for kids, it still happens. A University of Michigan study published this year said that while the majority of parents said they encouraged kids to ‘do things for themselves,’ half also felt that unsupervised kids caused trouble, and a third felt that their kids weren’t ready to be left alone.
It’s this cognitive dissonance from parents that today’s guest, Hara Estroff Marano, says is not just seriously harming kids, but our society as a whole.
Hara is the Editor-at-Large at Psychology Today, where she honed in on the rising epidemic of serious mental health illnesses in college age children. Her research done for the ‘Blues Buster’ newsletter led her to write two books, “Why Doesn’t Anybody Like Me?: A Guide to Raising Socially Confident Kids” and “A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting”where she puts most of the responsibility on the mental health crisis many young people are experiencing from one source: parents.
Hara points out how invasive parenting strips kids of important experiences, and leaves them underdeveloped to deal with many of life's challenges, which she believes not only has underlying consequences for the workforce, but for our very societal institutions.
This is another episode that’s essential for leaders everywhere to listen to, so with that…let’s bring it in!
The COVID-19 pandemic brought upon some of the most sweeping changes to benefit the modern workforce…or did it?
Returning for a second episode on the Bring It In Podcast, author, professor, and filmmaker Jamie McCallum is back to talk about the findings of his new book, “Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice.”
Jamie’s previous book, “Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work is Killing the American Dream,” focused on those most overworked, underpaid, and vulnerable, workers in the country, and how systems are up to almost ensure that low wage workers stay in low wage positions.
“Essential” takes many of the points made in his previous book and takes it to a new level, shining a light on how one of the largest made work slightly better for some, and a lot worse for many others.
Even with the pandemic being officially over, many companies across the world are still struggling to find ways to engage, and take care of their workforce. A lot of observations from Jamie’s book, while disheartening, are also enlightening and timely, and can show leaders a better path to create good work in a post pandemic world.
This is another episode you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
Don’t believe the jobs reports: it’s a tough labor market out there, and not in the way you’re thinking. 44% of workers have what’s considered a bad job, which is defined as a high risk, low wage position. The majority of these jobs are frontline, hourly positions, with little to no consistency or benefits. These organizations have some of the highest turnover rates, costing the U.S. economy 1 Trillion dollars per year.
This is where today’s guest Zeynep Ton has set her sights on fixing. Zeynep is a professor of the practice in the operations management group at MIT Sloan School of Management and president of the nonprofit Good Jobs Institute, whose mission is to help companies thrive by creating good jobs and to redefine what it means to run a successful business.
Her organization has advised the likes of Quest Diagnostics, Mud Bay, and many more. Zeynep’s work and research on the benefits of supporting good jobs has been featured in publications like The Atlantic, the New York Times, and more, culminating in her book, “The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits”.
We wanted to catch up with Zeynep to hear first hand about why it’s important to design good jobs for workers, and how it benefits everyone from the top to bottom of an organization. This is another one you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
There's a learning problem in America's workforce. Opportunities for workers to develop skills that can lead them down successful career paths are scarce, and often ineffective. 83 cents of every dollar goes towards training for people who already have received some form of higher education, and even then, 59% of workers claim they had no proper training, and simply acquired skills "on the job."
With massive turnover rates and somehow so-called "talent shortages," the current playbook companies are using needs to be shaken up, and that's what today's guest has set out to do.
William B. Bonvillian is a lecturer at MIT in the Science Technology and Society and Political Science Departments, as well as Senior Director of Special Projects, at MIT's Office of Digital Learning. He also served for seventeen years as a senior policy advisor in the U.S. Senate. His legislative efforts included science and technology policy, helping create the Department of Homeland Security, and legislation regarding Intelligence Reform, climate change, and national defense and life science R&D.
He's also the co-author of Workforce Education: A New Roadmapalongside our previous Bring It In guest, Sanjay Sarma. In the book, William dives into the disconnect between the public, private, and education systems that's led to many of the struggles facing our workforce, and what steps we can take at the legislative, educational, and business levels to fix it.
In today's episode of the podcast we got to take a deep dive into William's strategies and hopes for the future of work. This is another one you're not going to want to miss, so with that…let's bring it in!
Subminimum wage workers make about 10% of the American workforce. That means, of all working Americans, 13 million people make about $2.13.
These workers are in an incredibly vulnerable position, as they’re often reliant on tips, receive little to no benefits, and lack consistent hours, to make ends meet. It’s a massive problem that's become endemic to our workforce, especially in areas like the hospitality and restaurant industry.
This is what today's guest, Saru Jarayaman, is fighting against as she strives to ensure every worker across America gets a fair chance at a liveable wage. A graduate from Yale Law, Saru is the co-founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC), which she founded with displaced World Trade Center workers after 9/11. Eventually, it grew into a national movement of restaurant workers, employers and consumers. This led her to also found, and become president of One Fair Wage, a national organization of nearly 300,000 service workers, over 2,000 restaurant employers, and dozens of organizations nationwide all working together to end all subminimum wages in the United States and improve wages and working conditions in the service industry.
For her work she was recognized in CNN’s “Top10 Visionary Women” and as a Champion of Change by the White House in 2014. In 2015, she received the James Beard Foundation Leadership Award, and many, many other awards.
Her latest book “One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America”uplifts the stories of subminimum wage workers across many sectors — including tipped restaurants, workers with disabilities, incarcerated workers, and more. The book not just highlights the massive inequalities and injustices these people face, but also offers insights, and solutions, into how fixing these systems makes everyone winners.
This is an especially important episode of the podcast, one that’s essential for those who are managing frontline workers! Lucky for you, this is a shorter episode, so with that…let’s bring it in.
Leaders across the world are struggling to motivate their people to get fired up for the task at hand. A recent Gallup study found that only 1-in-3 of the entirety of the United States workforce is considered engaged. This issue has managers everywhere grasping for straws on how to motivate their people, using everything from the classic underwhelming pizza party, to forcing employees to ‘have fun’ with disastrous results.
But the great coaches in the world know that the most powerful motivation comes from within someone, not from external stimuli. It’s something that our guest today, Jonathan Fader specializes in teaching others.
Jonathan is an NYC based coach, performance psychologist, speaker and author and founder of SportsStrata, a Mental Performance Coaching group who has worked with organizations ranging from elite athletes like the NY Mets and NY Giants, to first responders and the military.
In his book “Coaching Athletes to Be Their Best: Motivational Interviewing in Sports”Johnathan details the ins and outs of the technique called Conversational Motivation, which harnesses the power of conversation and active listening to unlock the psychology of success.
At a time when engagement is at an almost all-time low and managers are struggling to do more with less, being able to keep your people fired up, goal oriented, and receptive to correct feedback is an essential skill for managers. Jonathan’s Motivational Interviewing techniques can be a guaranteed way for managers to acquire these skills.
This is another episode you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
Water Polo is a very tough sport, demanding straight swimming for 30 plus minutes, grappling with opposing players, and the mental acuity to be able to remember strategies and positions.
It’s also one of the oldest sports in the world, with the first game being played in 1888 in America, and quickly spread across the collegiate athletic circle.
Our guest today is Kirk Everist, a 2x Olympian, head coach of men’s water polo at U Cal Berkeley, 5x National Champion, 4x ACWPC Coach of the Year, USA Water Polo Hall of Fame Inductee, Cal Athletics Hall of Fame Inductee...well, you get the idea.
Not only does Kirk coach young athletes in one of the toughest sports in the world, but also has to rebuild a new team year after year, to add onto a hundred plus year legacy of excellence at U Cal Berkeley. In today’s episode, he shares some of his secrets, beliefs, and strategies for continuously improving at being a coach, and how to balance tradition, with the need to evolve.
This is another episode you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
Glossophobia, is the fear of public speaking and it’s believed to affect about 75% of people across the globe.
With this in mind, think about how critical being able to speak to an audience, to customers, to teammates, in any working environment is. It’s why communication skills are in such high demand in organizations, and why today’s guest is particularly important.
Matt Abrahams is an instructor and lecturer at Stanford University, and author of “Speaking Up Without Freaking Out: 50 Techniques for Confident and Compelling Presenting.” He was the co-founder of Silicon Valley based coaching group BoldEcho and is the founder of Think Fast Talk Smart - The Podcast.
Matt has been studying and practicing the art of communicating for over 25 years, and after helping companies like Twitter, Google, and even the U.S. Army coach their members to be better communicators, Matt has compiled all of his experience in his latest book, “Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot.”
We caught up with Matt to dive headfirst into the book, and cover some of the biggest pain points around speaking, things people often overlook, and what the dawn of AI means for our ever evolving communication styles.
This is another episode you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
For as long as work has existed, new technologies have been a double edged sword for the workforce, making some jobs easier to do and making others obsolete. With data collection, computer processing, automation, and generative AI being implemented daily within our workforce, this issue has never been more apparent than today.
Educators and authors Dr. Anna Tavis and Stela Lupushor are at the forefront of the fight for human capital, to make sure that technology is set to enhance the worker experience, not to replace it.
Dr. Anna Tavis is Clinical Professor and Academic Director of Human Capital Management Department at NYU School of Professional Studies, Senior Fellow with the Conference Board, and the Academic in Residence with Executive Networks. She is a former Executive Editor of People+Strategy Journal, a publication of SHRM’s Executive network and is currently an Associate Editor of Workforce Solutions Review of IHRIM.
Stela Lupushor is an Adjunct Faculty Adjunct Faculty at the NYU School of Professional Studies. She is also a Senior Fellow in Human Capital Center and the Program Director for The Conference Board Strategic Workforce Planning Council, and leads Reframe.Work Inc. where she consults on how to create inclusive workplaces through the use of technology, human-centered design, people analytics, and future-thinking. Previously Stela consulted at Fidelity Investments, TIAA, IBM, Price Waterhouse, and PwC Consulting.
Together, the pair have combined their vast amount of experience in the HR world to write their book, Humans at Work: The Art and Practice of Creating the Hybrid Workplacewhere they’ve compiled all their strategies on how to develop a human centric workforce that uses technology to help improve their people, and ultimately, the way they do business.
This is another podcast you’re not going to want to miss, especially with stories about the impact of AI dominating the headlines almost everyday, so with that…let’s bring it in!
One of the biggest challenges of leading any team, is being able to coach the individuals in an organization, as well as coach the team that those individuals make up.
A number of sports encapsulate this coaching challenge, and golf, is probably one of the best examples of it. That’s what led us to our conversation with today’s guest, Coach Anne Walker.
Coach Anne is the Margot and Mitch Milas Director of Women’s Golf at Stanford, has two (2015 and 2022) NCAA Championship titles under her belt, 2x WGCA National Coach of the Year, and 3x Pac-12 Coach of the Year. Upon her appointment to Stanford in 2012, she had an immediate, and profound effect on the Stanford golf program, with 39 full-field victories to her name, and produced 28 (and counting) All-American women’s golf athletes.
We wanted to sit down and have a conversation with Coach Walker about what it takes to transform, and lead a program in a highly competitive field with some of the biggest churn out of any field. And it doesn’t come down to any secret drill, or running long and hard practices: but relationships and understanding.
This is another episode you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
AAAAAAAARRRRRRR MATEY!We’re still talking about pirates on the podcast, because there's just too much treasure to dig up here. Today, we’re looking at the “sequel” to “Be More Pirate” with the aptly named “How to Be: More Pirate” by our guest, Alex Barker.
Alex graduated from Kings College in 2008 and after pursuing an MA in Conflict Resolution studies, began backpacking around the Middle East which eventually led to her working at Global Citizen, and then came to the Royal Society of Arts as a community manager.
Eventually she began freelance writing, where she came upon (last week's guest) Sam Conniff’s Be More Pirate, and was inspired to join his team in 2019. Since then, as Conniff described, Alex has gone from his “right hand pirate” to “full time pirate” spearheading the Be More Pirate movement.
It led to How to Be: More Pirate, which chronicles the strategies and stories of “modern day pirates” from healthcare workers to startups, and the How To Be: More Pirate Podcast, and to a bona-fide social movement that spans the globe.
With looking at lessons from the history of old school pirates, to new modern day “pirates” this is another episode of the podcast you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
Steve Jobs once said, ‘I’d rather be a Pirate than be in the Navy.’ He believed it so much that often, the Skull and Crossbones would be flown at Apple HQ, so what can businesses learn from pirates?
Our guest today, Sam Conniff is here to answer that with his book, Be More Pirate.
Sam is a multi-company founder from the UK, starting with Don’t Panic London, a creative agency that he founded out of his bedroom when he was 20 years old in 1997. Since then he’s gone on to co-found a youth centered marketing agency Livity, and it’s sister company Digify Africa, as well as to produce and present content on BBC 4 and Netflix.
Sam has gone on to speak and consult with major companies around the world such as Google, Salesforce, Mercedes-Benz, Coca-Cola and more, bringing his insights from over 25 years in the startup world, and lessons learned from those “living on the edges”.
During the Golden Age of Piracy, as Sam goes on to uncover in his book, pirate crews were some of the most democratic and diverse teams in the world, where leadership, teamwork, and absolute trust in culture decided whether or not a crew scored some treasure, or sunk to the bottom of the sea.
‘Tis is one of the most unique conversations we’ve had on the podcast, so with that…let’s bring it in!
Today’s a very special episode of the Bring It In podcast, as we’ve got not one, but two returning guests and friends of the podcast!
First we’ve got John O'Sullivan, a member of the 1990 Patriot League Championship team, the former executive director of Oregon Rush Soccer Club, and founder of the Changing the Game Project, as well as the author of the “Changing the Game: The Parents Guide to Raising Happy, High Performing Athletes, and Giving Youth Sports Back to our Kids” book.
He’s joined by Dr. Jerry Lynch, founder of Way of Champions, author of a ton of books like “The Competative Buddah: How to Up Your Game in Sports, Leadership and Life” and “Let Them Play: The Mindful Way to Parent Kids for Fun and Success in Sports” ex-Navy Officer, sports psychologist, speaker, athlete, and has coached super stars in the sports world like Phil Jackson, Steve Kerr, and Kobe Bryant.
These two superstars have teamed up to add another book into their already impressive collection of written works, “The Champion Teammate: Timeless Lessons to Connect, Compete and Lead in Sports and Life” that compiles decades of championship winning experience into a book that focuses on how to develop winning, healthy, and caring teams at a time when most organizations are in disarray.
This is another one you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
It’s World Cup Season and if you’ve caught the past few games, you’ve probably seen a few former players from the UCLA Bruins on the field, coached by the great Margueritte Aozasa.
Coach Margueritte is the 6th head coach in UCLA women's soccer history and only one of five Asian American women currently serving as a head coach for a NCAA women's soccer team.
She previously coached Stanford to great success during her seven seasons (2015-21), helping guide the Cardinals to the NCAA Championships in 2017 and 2019 and Pac-12 titles from 2015-19. The 2018 team also reached the College Cup.
Margueritte Aozasa made history in 2022, becoming the first rookie head coach and first woman of color ever to win the NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer Championship, in an epic match against the UNC Tar Heels.
We talked with Coach about her journey to becoming one of the youngest high performance coaches in the NCAA, and the importance of trust and preparation in her team, especially when things get tough.
This is another episode you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
While there are specific skills that go into doing any job, being able to learn by doing and make it up as you go along, is a skill a lot of workers need to have in today's market. With 80% of Americans in a job where they’ve had little to no training for, a surprising skill is becoming more and more important for workers every day: the ability to improvise.
Patricia Ryan Madson is a longtime professor Emerita from Stanford University’s theater department. During her time at the university, she founded the Creative Initiative course and the Stanford Summer Improvisation School. She’s been a speaker, coach, and advisor for multiple tech giants in the Silicon Valley area, such as Adobe, Google, and Apple.
We wanted to catch up with Patricia to talk about her book “Improv Wisdom: Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up,” and how theater skills like improvisation, empathy, and gratitude are imperative for business leaders in today's complicated workforce.
In a time when only 15% of workers are engaged, leaders need to find a way to do more with less, and the secrets to that may just lie in some of the oldest theater practices in the world.
This is another episode you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
Words like desperation, rock bottom, and adversity probably don’t inspire the best of feelings in people. But for Todd Burnham, embracing these extremes has led him to become one of the most successful litigators in the country.
A two-time All American NCAA Lacrosse Star from Hobart College and graduate from Albany Law School, Todd is the founding partner of Burnham Law, one of the top rated law firms in the country with offices spread across the Western United States. He’s also the host of the Deep Bench Podcast, and author of the book “Comeback: Epic Rebound Strategies for Personal or Business Adversity.”
Starting from a basement practice, Todd has built a career around intensely focused service, not just to his clients, and to those he coaches, but to his immediate community. Todd is a member of the Executive Board of Directors for the nonprofit organization Von’s Vision, providing low-income Denver youth with corrective eyewear and quality eye care. He is a former executive board member of the nonprofit Boulder Interdisciplinary Committee, a team of professionals focused on educating and supporting individuals working in the family law arena.
We caught up with Todd to talk about his practice, his book, and how with the right mindset, embracing desperation, rock bottom, and adversity can actually help you build (or re-build) you and your company, into a stronger, more resilient group.
This is another episode you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
Today, we’re living in the loneliest time in history. Despite the marketing campaigns from major social media companies claiming to be able to connect with one another, technology, globalization, and urbanization have driven humanity at large to be more isolated, disconnected, and disengaged than any other time in human history.
Charles Vogl has made it his mission to help reconnect us and to build better communities.
Charles served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Sub-Saharan Africa where he worked on justice for human rights abuse and providing rural health care for his host village. Later he created Broken English Productions documentary film company in NYC. His PBS projects won numerous international awards, including the Amnesty International Movies That Matter Award. He then began advising and developing leadership and programs worldwide within organizations including Google, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Twitch, Amazon, and the US Army.
Over the course of his work, Charles has authored numerous books such as, “Building Brand Communities: How Organizations Succeed by Creating Belonging,” “Storytelling for Leadership: Creating Authentic Connections” and the book that we wanted to chat to Charles about, “The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging.”
Charles sat down with us to discuss the consequences of the epidemic of loneliness in America, and how you foster a strong community through connection, boundaries, and genuine care.
At a time when only 15% of workers are engaged at work, and layoffs are sweeping across industries, it’s more important than ever to create strong communities within the workspace.
So, with that…let’s bring it in!
Never before have we seen 5 generations of workers at work at the same time.
Almost like a tradition, the previous generation has always bemoaned the newest one as lazy, spoiled, and in general, not as good as they were “back in the day.” Naturally, this can cause quite a lot of friction in a workplace and in the age of social media and 24/7 news cycles, it seems like there’s always some new beef between Millennials and Gen Z’ers, and those that came before.
But today’s guest, Val Grubb, believes there’s strength to be found in these differences.
Val is the founder of Val Grubb & Associates, a coaching and consultancy agency that works with companies such as Siemens, Cathay Bank, Best Buy, and hundreds more. Prior to founding VG&A, Val served as the Vice President of Strategic Operations at NBC Universal, where she oversaw business development opportunities and spearheaded on-air quality initiatives for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Val played a seminal role in the 1999 formation of Oxygen Media and its subsequent success, which led to the company’s purchase by NBC Universal in 2007.
It’s safe to say that Val knows how to lead a team to great success and in her book “Clash of the Generations: Managing the New Workplace Reality,” Val goes into detail about how leaning into and embracing differences between the generations can lead to a greater performing team.
This is another episode you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
To the dissatisfaction of a lot of leaders out there, there’s no definitive, cookie cutter way to manage and get the best out of people.
But to Dr. Fergus Connolly, that's actually a good thing.
And he should know a thing or two about developing people: he’s been the performance coach for franchises across all sorts of pro sports, like the Boston Bruins, the Carolina Panthers, Liverpool FC, The Australian Football League, and the Welsh National Team Munster Rugby.
He’s also consulted for companies and military special forces group around the world and authored dozens of books on the subject of coaching like The Process: The Methodology, Philosophy & Principles of Coaching Winning Teams, Game Changer: The Art of Sports Science, and 59 Lessons: Working with the World's Greatest Coaches, Athletes, & Special Forces.
Fergus shared some of his keen insights with us and how traditionally thought of “challenges” are actually strengths that coaches need to unlock for their people, so they can flourish as individuals to make a high performing team.
If you want to build a high-performing team, this is an episode you’re not going to want to miss.
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The restaurant and hospitality industry is one of the leading sources of jobs not just in America, but across the globe. What an individual learns working in a kitchen, front of house, behind a bar, or in support of a restaurant can serve as lifelong skills to develop across industries.
Chef Brandon Edwin Chrostowski knows this better than most people, not just because he’s made a career for himself in the restaurant industry, but he’s made it his goal to give as many people as possible a career in the space alongside him, with Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute.
At eighteen years old Chef Brandon received a ‘break’ from a judge who gave him a year of probation instead of a ten year prison sentence. After his probation, he studied under Detroit Chef George Kalergis, and worked his way to the Culinary Institute of America in New York.
Upon graduating from the CIA, Chef Brandon worked in renowned kitchens around the world like Charlie Trotters, Lucas Carton, and Le Cirque. Then in 2007, Chef Brandon founded Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute, which trains people returning from court involvement in the culinary arts, empower them with a passion for hospitality management, and prepare students for a successful transition home. The Impact of Edwins was so great, it was the subject of the 2017 Oscar nominated documentary Knife Skills.
So far hundreds of folks have passed through the 6 month program at Edwins, and graduates have held a 95% employment rate with less than 1% recidivism into the court system. In addition, Edwins has expanded to include a butcher shop, bakery, a sister restaurant location, and with a full blown housing complex and campus.
If it’s not already obvious why we wanted to talk with Chef Brandon already, we wanted to sit down with him to discuss what it takes to build a winning culture, the importance of giving everyone the support and opportunity to work, and the power of food, restaurants, and treating everyone with respect and dignity.
This is definitely an episode you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
Navigating the restaurant industry can be tough for workers involved in it.
From constantly changing schedules, demanding, and unruly customers, even A.I. and robots beginning to disrupt the space, restaurant workers are contending with a lot these days.
The last thing they need is an organization using their own wages to lobby against increases to the minimum wage, which is exactly what’s happening through the ServSafe certification.
Talmon Smith is an Economic Reporter for The New York Times, a Harvard Institute of Politics National Campaign Ambassador, and a former fellow at the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy. Much of Talmon’s work focuses on labor issues regarding wages, corruption, and racial politics.
Alongside previous guest David Fahrenthold, Talmon co-authored the article “How Restaurant Workers Pay for Lobbying to Keep Their Wages Low,” that delves into how the National Restaurant Association (NRA), the largest foodservice trade association in the world, utilizes the fifteen dollar fee from required ServSafe courses to fund their own lobbying efforts.
We wanted to get Talmon’s perspective on what was most surprising about putting together the article, the legal intricacies of how the NRA set up such a system, and the “benefits” of ServSafe, and if it really helps workers.
In a time when restaurant workers, once lauded as essential workers, are now increasingly under pressure to do more with less, this is another episode you’re not going to want to miss.
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With a culinary career spanning over six decades, Chef Ken Hom, CBE is a legend in the restaurant space.
Starting at his family's restaurant, Chef Ken has helped build restaurants from Bangkok to Rio de Janeiro, and is credited with championing traditional Chinese cuisine around the world. He’s developed his own line of Chinese cuisine cookware, which has become one of the highest-selling cookware brands in the world.
Chef Ken’s been host to a number of cooking shows on the BBC and has authored over 40 books, the most recent “My Stir-fried Life” is his first autobiographical book. On top of the mountain of books, TV shows, and restaurants he’s worked on, Chef Ken is a revered private chef for celebrities and dignitaries all over the world, and was called to create a dish for the coronation of the new King Charles II.
From working in a small family run kitchen, to a sprawling hotel kitchen in Brazil, no matter where in the world he is Chef Ken knows how to lead a team. His secret? Mentoring and caring.
In a time when workers are filled with anxiety, job instability, automation and A.I. and having to do more with less, Chef Ken has learned to operate Michelin Star winning restaurants with a people first mindset, a practice something managers everywhere can learn from.
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Winning is hard.
Whether it’s coming in first place in a race or making it to the end of a marathon, winning takes a lot of effort. In an age of Instagram life coaches, TikTok motivation accounts, “Alpha” and “Winner” influencers, there are a lot of external forces that can make you feel that the path to winning is one dimensional, “have it or you don’t” situation.
Dr. Jeff Brown is here to change that.
Dr. Jeff Brown is the Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Psychologist for the Boston Marathon Medical Team (and a first responder during the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings), as well as a member of Runner’s World magazine’s Scientific Advisory Board, where he’s taken a scientific approach to understanding how to win.
Co-authoring the book “The Winner’s Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success,” Dr. Brown traveled across the world to hear the stories of some of the greatest high performers in the world, from musician B.B. King and Olympian Kerri Strung, to FBI agents, fighter pilots, and even high-altitude window washers.
Dr. Brown believes that everyone is capable of achieving a winner’s brain, because it’s a skill that you can train your mind to adopt. Empowering your people to be able to adopt a winner's brain is critical for any manager creating a high performance working environment.
And plus, who doesn’t want a few more wins in their life?
This is definitely another episode you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
It’s episode 100!
For hitting such an incredible milestone, we decided to bring in a guest that works in one of the most high pressure fields in the world; a place where mentorship, teamwork, process-oriented hard work, and demands of the highest quality are needed: the professional kitchen.
Chef Nick Wallace is Mississippi born and raised and with a lifelong passion for cooking instilled in him from his grandmothers, he knows a thing or two about creating a tight knit and highly effective team to get a job done.
After working in various local kitchens throughout his teens, Chef Nick joined the Marriott Hotels culinary team at 20 years old, and within a year was promoted to executive chef, a position he occupied for ten years. He went on to found Nick Wallace Culinary, opening two locations in Jackson, MI as well as appearing on high profile cooking shows such as Comfort Nation, Cutthroat Kitchen, Chopped, winning Season 34, and Top Chef.
On top of obsessing over great food, Chef Nick also prioritizes giving back to his community, founding Creativity Kitchen to develop healthier lunches for Jackson schools, as well as partnerships with the American Cancer Society and co-chairing Share the Gulf, Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi.
With the restaurant and hospitality space still the largest source of employment across the US, Chef Nick's experience building a hardworking and compassionate team that impacts his community is a story we can all take value from, during a time when workers are feeling disconnected and abandoned more than ever.
Thanks to everyone who’s stuck with us for these past 100 episodes. This is another episode you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
Between remote work, quiet hiring, quiet firing, forced back into office, gig work, A.I., automation, and so much more, the workforce is in a challenging position today.
Workers are sandwiched between anxiety towards an unsure future and strict performance reviews saying ‘do better!’ of the past. Sadly, what workers lack support in, is focusing on the present.
Luckily, Tom Sterner is here to change that.
Tom Sterner is the Founder and CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute, and author of books “The Practicing Mind: The Practicing Mind,” “It’s Just a Thought: Emotional Freedom Through Deliberate Thinking,” and “Fully Engaged: Using the Practicing Mind in Daily Life.” Tom is a leading expert in the field of Present Moment Functioning and coaches some of the world's top business leaders, organizations, athletes, and performers in this technique he’s dedicated the past few decades of his life studying.
Rooted in millennia old philosophy and backed by decades of neuroscientific research, Tom’s work in the field of Present Moment Functioning is critical for leaders to understand. At a time when the workforce is particularly vulnerable, leaders need to understand how to support their workers, in order to get them performing at their best.
This is another podcast you’re definitely not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
According to the 2022 World Talent Ranking from the IMD, the U.S. ranked 16th out of 64 developed countries, dropping 2 spots from 2021.
What accounts for this decline?
“Education is the oxygen to work, you can’t breath without air, you can’t work without education,” says Sanjay Sarma, our very special guest on today's episode.
Sanjay is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and the former Vice President of Open Learning, a division of MIT dedicated to researching how learning works, and providing MIT lectures and resources to learners around the globe. Much of his work with Open Learning is what culminated into his book “Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn,” where Sanjay focused all of his research on answering the question: how can the science of learning help build a better society and better individuals?
Sanjay has made it his life goal to address the many problems that face modern education, from accessibility, outdated techniques, to bureaucratic disruption and misaligned programs.
Sanjay’s work as an educator, researcher, author, and advocate is incredibly important, especially today and this is definitely an episode you’re not going to want to miss. So with that…let’s bring it in!
Talent is a good thing…right?
In today’s episode, we’re joined by professor, PhD, coach, author, scientist, Joe Baker. Joe is a Professor at York University whose work focuses on studying human development, looking at psychosocial and environmental factors, to see how the best athletes in the world achieve peak performance.
Joe’s work has led him to advise dozens of high-profile athletic organizations, including the Texas Rangers, the Canadian Paralympic Committee, and Wheelchair Rugby Canada.
We wanted to sit down with Joe to discuss his research on ‘talent development’ and how in many environments, in sports or in the workforce, ‘talent,’ as we traditionally think about it, can actually do more harm than good for your people.
This one’s a really interesting episode, one you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
In a back-to-back special, we’re continuing to explore how learning works through the book “How Learning Works: 8 Research Based Principles of Smart Teaching”.
Picking up from our last episode with Dr. Marie Norman at the University of Pittsburgh, a short walk down Forbes Ave towards Carnegie Mellon, you can find the office of today’s guest, Dr. Marsha Lovett.
Starting as a professor in Carnegie Mellon’s psychology department, Dr. Lovett now serves as Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning Innovation. She manages the Eberly Center, a team of teaching consultants, learning designers, data scientists, and technologists who help instructors create meaningful and demonstrably effective educational experiences (and still, she has time to teach her psych classes).
Dr. Lovett’s psychological background was front and center in our chat with her, where we talked about the importance of motivation and engagement in learning, the power of generative learning, and how organizations can really tell if the information they’re teaching people is sticking, and working.
If you enjoyed our last podcast, this is a great follow up to dive even deeper into how learning really works, so with that…let’s bring it in!
How does learning really work?
Who better to join us on the podcast than Dr. Marie K. Norman -- the co-author of “How Learning Works: 8 Research Based Principles of Smart Teaching,” to answer the question?
After graduating from University of Pittsburgh and acquiring her Ph.D, Dr. Norman began teaching at Carnegie Melon and has been there for 14 years, including designing programs for the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence. More recently she’s moved back to her alma mater as an associate professor of Medicine, Clinical and Translational Science, as well as the Director of the university’s Innovative Design for Education and Assessment (IDEA) Lab, where her research focuses on everything from the application of research-based learning principles to teaching to cross-cultural issues in education.
We had a great time sitting down with Dr. Norman, where we chatted about exactly how learning works, what generative learning is, why it’s so effective, why both challenge and engaging content is so important, and what new updates are being made to the newest edition to “How Learning Works: 8 Research Based Principles for Smart Teaching.”
You want to build a high performance workforce? You aren't going to want to miss this episode...
For anyone who has ever worked in the food service industry, the word ServSafe will likely bring back painful memories of some of the most mind-numbing, waste of time online courses in the world.
But, as New York Times reporter David Fahrenthold has uncovered, there’s a much more sinister side to the infamous food safety software.
David’s been a reporter since 2000, where he started as an intern on the night shift desk at The Washington Post. Eventually he made his way to the political analyst desk, covering much of the Obama and Trump Administrations. He earned his Pulitzer in 2017 for his investigation into Trump’s charitable givings, exposing a web of misallocated funds for personal debts.
In his recent New York Times article “How Restaurant Workers Pay for Lobbying to Keep Their Wages Low,” David cracks open how The National Restaurant Association, the largest foodservice trade association in the world, utilizes the fifteen dollar fee from required ServSafe courses to fund their own lobbying efforts.
That means the money from millions of frontline restaurant workers goes into the pockets of the lobbyists that are often the key blockers of reform regarding hourly wages, healthcare, and benefits.
We wanted to sit down with David today to learn why he wanted to pursue the subject of ServSafe and The National Restaurant Association, the effectiveness of ServSafe, and what this means for the greater restaurant industry.
This is a really special episode, one that’s important for everyone regardless of position in the food industry to listen to, so without further ado…let’s bring it in!
2022 is in the bag and with that, comes our traditional End of Year Special where Sam and our very own Jaime, Manager of Branded Media sat down and to chat about the year.
2022 was a year filled with craziness in the workforce, from in-office mandates, to The Great Resignation, Boss Loss, to the rise and fall of dozens of companies, the year certainly had its ups and downs.
And, how did 1Huddle navigate this crazy year?
By doubling down and investing in our people. The name of the game this year was coaching, as Jaime and Sam dig into what it takes to create a coaching environment and predictions for the future of work in 2023.
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How do teachers learn how to teach? They go through a whole process of licensing, and academic theory, but where do teachers practice teaching?
Justin Reich is an Associate Professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT, as well as the Director for the MIT Teaching Systems Lab, a space where teachers can practice how to teach. He’s compiled nearly two decades of experience into a book, Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can't Transform Education, and hosts a podcast called TeachLab.
As a veteran of the education space, Justin feels that there's no tech based magic bullet that somehow can improve the country's gigantic education system: it’s going to come down to having the best teachers.
And you get the best teachers, just like how coaches get the best athletes, by creating a safe space where people can experiment, fail, reflect, try again, and practice, practice, practice.
With a new year just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to think about turning over a new leaf when it comes to teaching, so with that…let’s bring it in!
Hourly workers have always been the backbone of the US economy. That’s 82 million workers who earn an hourly wage for their service— and 82 million workers who are too often left time poor, without the training and development resources so often afforded only to management and salaried employees.
So today, Sam was joined by Mathieu Stevenson, the CEO of Snagajob, the country's largest marketplace for hourly jobs and shifts. They connect millions of job seekers each month to right-fit-employment opportunities across the US. Their mission? To empower hourly workers with the ability to design the way they work– not just for full-time or part-time, but also for flexible and gig workers.
Together they discuss the jobs report, what they’re seeing from a workforce trend perspective, and reflect on what lies ahead in a post-covid world, where the Future of Work is rapidly shifting.
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That’s right: According to a recent report, 53 percent of executives are unhappy in their jobs, and 72% plan to leave within the next two years.
72%!
To learn more about “Boss Loss,” 1Huddle Founder and CEO Sam Caucci sat down with Tammy Browning, the President of the company that coined that term, KellyOCG – global leader that manages all categories of talent to drive strategic growth for clients worldwide– and one of the brains behind that shocking report.
Together they unpack what dynamics are behind those numbers, what change management has to do with your tech strategies, and what talent is really looking for in their work experience.
Tammy has long been an innovator in the industry, developing visionary talent supply chain solutions over the course of a career that spans more than 20 years. Her perspective is invaluable, and we loved getting into the weeds with her.
This episode is mandatory listening.
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Want to learn about cognitive psychology that affects teachers and students?
Then this is the episode for you.
Jim Lang has delivered conference keynotes and conducted workshops at more than a hundred colleges, universities, and high schools in the United States and abroad. The Jim Lang Foundation, which he formed and leads with his wife, provides grants to non-profit organizations dedicated to alleviating poverty; supporting and funding the arts, libraries, and public education. He has written six books in total. His latest is, “Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It” (Basic Books, 2020).
Lang first became interested in the science of learning at Northwestern’s Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Technology. There, while promoting better teaching techniques for university faculty, he discovered a growing body of research about how the brain worked, how human beings learned, and how best to translate those discoveries into teaching recommendations.
His book, “Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning,” emerged from that work, and since its publication in 2016, its message – premised on the idea that teachers, by implementing small, manageable techniques, could revolutionize the way students learn– has been embraced by higher and secondary education faculty around the world.
As Jim says, it’s not “a charisma contest.” Great teachers aren’t always the most confident people in the room, but they are the ones thinking the most about the learner – whether that’s their student, or their employee– and that’s what makes the difference.
Now, with that… Let’s bring it in!
Think it’s impossible to complete and pass a 4 year MIT course, in just 1 year?
Not for Scott Young.
He’s the author of "Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career", where he shares how he managed to turn 4 years of learning into 1.
It’s a technique he calls “Ultralearning,” an aggressive, self-directed method that helped him master self portraiture in a month– and it’s helping him learn his wife’s native language right now.
Over the course of his book, Scott shares the scientific basis for his techniques, as well as sharing the stories of a few other “Ultralearners.”
A poor public speaker who becomes a Toastmasters Top 10 Finalist, someone who acquires language mastery with ease, and a man who won the French Scrabble Championships: without speaking French.
If you’re looking to train, upskill, or prepare your people, our conversation with Scott is one you’re not going to want to miss.
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What happens when you get involved with 115 championship-winning teams, consult 12 Hall of Fame coaches, found one of the most elite performance consultancy agencies, earn doctorates in psychology and philosophy, and write over a dozen best-selling books?
Well, you write another book, about the best bits you’ve learned so far.
Dr. Jerry Lynch is the Founder of Way of Champions, a performance consultancy that combines elite sports psychology, with international philosophy concepts, to generate peak performance. He’s written over a dozen books on his studies on excellence, from “The Competitive Buddha,” “Coaching with Heart,” “Win the Day,” “Let them Play,” with his newest book on the horizon, “Everyday Champion Wisdom.”
Dr. Lynch has worked together with coaches and athletes like Steve Kerr, Nancy Stevens, Anson Dorrance, and Phil Jackson, and a slew of accolades. In total, Dr. Lynch has helped secure 73 conference championships, 54 Final Fours, and 39 National Championships.
Dr. Lynch spent some time with us to talk about big ideas like the importance of failure, the need for play, and how you are never crowned a champion: you be a champion.
This is one of our most impactful and inspiring podcasts to date, so with that…let’s bring it in!
Of all the motivational buzzwords out there, the term ‘character’ is thrown around a lot. Hiring managers looking for people with ‘high character,’ managers say that random exercises ‘build character,’ so on and so forth.
But what does character actually look like? What does it mean?
Coach Melissa Kutcher knows the importance of character. It’s how she led the University of Denver Women’s Gymnastics team to 22 consecutive NCAA finals appearances, 2 NCAA individual championships, the 2021 Big 12 Championship, and 5 team NCAA appearances.
Since her appointment to head coach at University of Denver’s Women’s Gymnastics in 1998 she’s been awarded the 2019 National Coach of the Year Award, a 2x Big 12 Conference Coach of the Year, 2002s WGC’s Coach of the Year, and a 6x recipient of the North Central Region Coach of the Year.
Every year Coach Kutcher is tasked with creating a high performing team while constantly letting go of one batch of her star athletes, while also welcoming a brand new class of student athletes. She gets the importance of building a strong culture, and the importance of recruiting people who can develop character.
In a time where the members of your workforce can fluctuate more rapidly than ever, knowing how to develop a winning culture amongst the ups and downs of recruiting and losing people is an invaluable skill, one that Coach Kutcher has mastered during her tenure at University of Denver.
This is another episode you won’t want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
Any time you look to the news today, it seems that things are pretty bleak: struggling workers and businesses, inflating cost of living, political strife. But to quote our guest, Joe De Sana, “It could be worse.”
Joe is the CEO and Founder of Spartan Race, the premiere obstacle course group in the nation. Joe has been a lifelong entrepreneur, from starting a pool cleaning business as a teen, to a stint at Wall Street, to creating the entire Spartan Brand.
Joe’s deep passion for intense, long distance running has turned the Spartan Race into a philosophy and brand that spans the globe. From books like “Spartan Up! A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life” and his podcast Spartan Up!And now a full fledged show on CNBC titled No Retreat: Business Bootcamp.
Joe understands the necessity of being able to persevere under pressure, a skill that everyone involved with business from the CEO to frontline workers needs to have. You’re not going to want to miss Joe’s insights to building grit and resilience, so with that…let’s bring it in!
Managing a team is always challenging.
Balancing the individual needs of each member, with the greater objectives of the group is never easy, especially for a workforce where burnout is at a record high.
Coach Jeff Graba is the Head Women’s Coach of the Auburn Tigers Gymnastics Program, who also coaches gymnastics all-stars such as Caitlin Atkinson, Samantha Cerio, Derrian Gobourne, Cassie Stevens, and most recently, welcomed Olympic Gold medalist Suni Lee to the team.
In nine seasons, Coach Graba has led his student-athletes to 16 All-American Honors (both NACGC/W and NCAA) and 22 All-SEC recognitions, including their first trip to the NCAA Championship Super Six in 2015, their first in 22 years.
In 2014 and 2015 he was named the SEC Coach of the Year, a title he earned through his unique coaching philosophy that focuses on gaining courage (not losing fear), on “aiming for a rising average,” and on preparing his players to fight against something they know they can’t win against: gravity.
In a sport where a team is made up it’s members completing dangerous routines alone, Coach Graba is able to give it’s individual players the confidence to perform, while guiding the whole team in the right direction.
WIth that…let’s bring it in!
"The answer to filling a skills gap or for upskilling for the future is not always going to be another degree."
There’s approximately 4,000 degree granting institutions across the United States, offering hundreds of thousands of different credentials. Each of these institutions offer the promise of secure and fulfilling employment after graduation, but in a rapidly changing working landscape, how is someone supposed to know what credential is going to best suit their needs?
More importantly, who can afford the cost, both in time and in finances, to attend these institutions?
These are just some of the areas that our next guest, Michelle Weise, focuses on. Author of the book "Life Long Learning: Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs that Don't Even Exist Yet", and Chancellor of Strategy and Innovation at the International University System, Michelle has dedicated her professional career to creating an educational system that’s better suited for a workforce that is expected to work longer, emphasize soft skills, and be more strapped for time.
With the value of college being questioned more than ever, The Great Resignation showing no signs of slowing and the future of work in more flux than ever before, Michelle’s strategies are more important than ever.
This is another episode you’re not going to want to miss, so without further ado…let’s bring it in!
The U.S. Women’s National Soccer team boasts one of the most impressive dynasties in all of sports, with numerous World Cup Wins, Olympic Gold Medals, and more under their belts. Many elite players such as Mia Hamm, Allie Long, Crystal Dunn, and Jessica McDonald all went through the same Soccer program at the University of North Carolina under the leadership of today’s guest, Anson Dorrance.
Coach Dorrance has been at the helm of the UNC’s Women’s Soccer program since its inception in 1979. Over his 45 years, he has achieved over 1000 career wins, 22 National Titles, and 22 ACC Titles, the first coach to ever win 20 titles in a single sport. In 1991 he led the U.S. Women’s National Soccer team to victory in the first-ever Women’s World Cup, and set the standard for the U.S. Women’s Soccer domination. For these accomplishments and more, he was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2008.
Currently, of every game he has ever played, Coach Dorrance holds a 90.5% win rate. It’s safe to say he knows a lot about creating high-performing teams.
We sat down today with Coach Dorrance to take a deep dive into the three components of his program that he focuses on, to create high-performing and high-character team players that win.
This is another episode you’re definitely not going to want to miss, so with that...let’s bring it in!
Hundreds of institutions, both online and offline, claim to offer quality educational experiences and expose you to the best learning techniques available.
According to Barbara Oakley, most of these groups are nothing more than scams.
For the past 30 years Barbara has focused all of her research on the relationship between neuroscience and social behavior. Published in outlets such as the National Academy of Sciences, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, where her work has been called “revolutionary.”
Barbara has had a varied career, starting in the U.S. Army and eventually serving as a Captain stationed in Europe. She then received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, while serving as a translator for ships in the Bering Sea. She then spent a season as the radio operator for South Pole Station Antarctica (where she met her husband), and then “settled down” near Seattle as a control engineer in a laser research and development firm. After a final run at Ford Motors, Barbara began consulting and teaching at Oakland University.
Needless to say, Barbara knows how to master skills quickly and effectively. Her decades of hands-on application and in depth research has been compiled into a number of her books, most recently “Learning How to Learn,” “Learn Like a Pro,” and “Uncommon Sense Teaching.”
We sat down with Barbara to delve deeper into her strategies and research, and what the future of learning could achieve with a new hybrid standard.
So with that…let’s bring it in!
March Madness is always a time to see individual talent shine on the hardwood, but at the end of the day, it’s always a team that comes together to win the day. And behind every great team is a great coach.
Todd Simon has been the Head Coach for the Southern Utah University Thunderbirds since 2016. He has consistently broken school records for wins, points, and more, leading the Thunderbirds to their first Big Sky Conference win in 2020.
What did it take to lead the team to their first win?
Coach Simon’s process of staying focused on the controlables, the “main thing” and relentless enthusiasm. Coach Simon knows what it takes to get his people motivated and focused on a goal, something that managers everywhere could learn a thing or two about.
This is another episode you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
The restaurant industry is one of the biggest providers of jobs in America, employing over 15.6 million Americans and had an economic impact of over $2 trillion pre-COVID. These employees give millions of others amazing dining experiences year in and out, and many can find lifelong careers in this lucrative industry.
So, why are so many young people told “Be careful in school, otherwise you’ll end up flipping burgers?” Why are restaurants struggling with churn and burnout in record numbers?
George Donahue is well aware of these issues and is totally focused on changing that narrative. George is the Director of Training at Sixty Vines and Mexican Sugar, two up and coming restaurants that focus on both the highest quality food and customer experience. Before this, he spent over a decade in charge of learning and development at Zoe’s Kitchen, where he hired all of the brands staff and increased catering sales by 200%.
It’s safe to say that George knows a thing or two about what it takes to build a world class restaurant team, from the managerial level, to the workers at the front and back of house. From prioritizing employee wellness, to ensuring constant communication, George’s strategies and beliefs are more important than ever.
As George says “Any restaurant out there not thinking about the work environment and the culture, you're going to be so behind, because people are over it.”
This is another episode you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
The American restaurant industry employs approximately 15.6 million people, about 1 in 10 Americans. When COVID hit and decimated the hospitality industry, it also damaged one of America’s reliable sources of jobs for our workforce.
In an era where big tech companies talk about innovating the most, the humble restaurant arguably had to innovate the most during the height of the pandemic in order to survive.
Julie Frans is the Chief People Officer of Doral Yards, and was recently promoted to Chief Operating Officer. She’s spent years in executive positions across the hospitality space, including Executive Chef positions at The Palms Hotel & Spa and Circa 39 in Miami Beach.
So needless to say, she knows a thing or two about this industry.
In her time at The Doral Yard, she led her team to grow at the height of COVID and championed practices to not just attract workers, but to keep them engaged, keep them growing, and keep them safe.
There’s a lot to learn here from Julie so with that…let’s bring it in!
Imagine being one of the most decorated and elite swimmers ever. You retire, but after a while, you decide to come back, and the first words your coach says to you is “You need to learn how to swim again.”
That’s exactly what Dara Torres went through, right before she proceeded to win a medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, her 12th career medal. Boasting one of the longest careers in Olympic swimming, starting in the 1984 Los ANgeles Olympics at the age of 15, to her 2008 Beijing victory at age 41.
Dara had retired numerous times during her swimming career, to pursue numerous ventures. First, in 1992 to 1998 where she beame a successful model career and commercial spokesperson. She retired again after the Sydney 2000 Olympics, where on top of continuing her modeling career, began a career as a motivational speaker, author of her book “Age Is Just a Number,” and most importantly to Dara, became a mother.
With a career as long, varied, and successful as Dara’s, she understands the value of embracing change, and diving into challenges head first. With workers, managers, and leaders everywhere still facing challenges from the pandemic, and a rapidly changing world, Dara is one of the best people to speak about embracing change, challenges, and being the best at something.
This is definitely an episode you don’t want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
Football is the American passion, but in many cases, it’s more than just a sport: it’s literally life or death.
Acclaimed sports writer Kent Babb witnessed how football and the great coaches that emerge from the sport, help save lives in some of the most impoverished communities across the country.
Kent has been a longstanding sports writer for The Washington Post and his work was included three times in The Best American Sports Writing Anthology and was selected in the inaugural edition of The Year's Best Sports Writing. His books include “Not A Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson,” and “Across the River: Life, Death, and Football in an American City.”
In the book, Kent recounts his year spent with the Edna Karr High Cougars in the New Orleans Neighborhood of Algiers. Led by the larger-than-life Coach Brice Brown chasing his fourth consecutive title, Coach Brown is focused on something else, giving his kids opportunity, keeping them in school, and keeping them alive. Amidst an epidemic of gun violence, broken homes, and severe poverty Coach Brown often finds himself pushed to his own limits, doing his best to keep his community together.
Kent chronicles the euphoric highs and the devastating lows throughout a football season that may seem one-of-a-kind, but unfortunately is far too common across America. And, not every high school like Edna Karr has a Coach Brice Brown, who Kent calls “the greatest manager of human talent ever.”
This may be our greatest podcast yet, so with that…let’s bring it in!
“Games are won and lost in practice.”
To a lot of people, the pandemic was a show stopping almost world ending event that threw everything into chaos. However, for some people the pandemic was a “forced timeout,” and what do you do in a timeout?
You adjust, you re-strategize, you rest, and you rethink your goals.
For Paul Epstein, when the pandemic hit, he knew exactly what to do. Prior to the pandemic, Paul took some time to really think about his purpose. What were his non-negotiables, what did he stand for, what really drove him. After a lifetime of working with some of the most prolific franchises in the NFL and NBA, including the San Francisco 49ers, the Sacramento Kings, and the L.A. Clippers, Paul switched gears and founded his purpose and culture driven consultancy group, Purpose Labs.
Now a renowned speaker and consultant for hundreds of enterprises across the sports and corporate landscape, Paul put together his findings in his latest book, “The Power of Playing Offense: A Leader's Playbook for Personal and Team Transformation.” Since the pandemic Paul’s teachings have gained a new level of relevance and urgency, as companies everywhere grapple with how to lead with purpose.
This is another podcast you’re not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
If you don’t think that culture is a big deal for your organization, then why do 60% of employees who leave a full-time job say it had nothing to do with the pay? Why are rates of burnout hitting new all-time high levels? Why are some industry leaders and coaches creating whole movements about building good culture?
Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton are some of the world's premier experts on building a safe, successful, and winning culture. With over 20 years of experience, they founded The Culture Works, helping big-name brands like P&G, Intel, and Nationwide develop their own internal cultures. Chester and Adrien have written multiple New York Times Bestselling books, All In, Leading with Gratitude, Anxiety at Work, and most famously The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their Employees, Retain Talent, and Drive Performance.
Adrian and Chester have a lot of great actionable techniques to build a great culture, but their chief tenant is all about empathy. In a time where managers are struggling to connect with employees, and employees are looking for better workplaces, having a manager who can empathize with a workers anxieties, worries, and goals is a person in a very powerful position to build your company.
Adrian and Chester have hundreds, if not thousands other strategies to build a winning culture, so with that…let’s bring it in!
Sports are kind of a big deal.
Not just among the pro leagues across the world, organized sports are also where a lot of future members of the workforce meet coaches and teammates for the first time. Like our K-12 educational system, organized athletics are a massive influence on future members of our workforce.
Despite this, 70% of kids drop out of organized sports because sports culture has taken the ‘play’ out of ‘play ball’. No wonder we’re seeing only 15% of employees being engaged in our workforce.
John O’Sullivan focuses on making sports fun again. A member of the 1990 Patriot League Championship team, the fmr. Executive Director of Oregon Rush Soccer Club, and founder of the Changing the Game Project, as well as the author of the Changing the Game book, John has taken to heart the coach teachings of figures like John Wooden, leading teams with equal parts X’s and O’s and genuine empathy.
With the Great Resignation still in full swing, managers and coaches need to make sure their employees know that they’re safe and cared for. John’s knows the power of caring and keeping things fun in a sports environment, and that’s something the workforce is in desperate need of now.
This is another episode you don’t want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
There are millions of institutions, programs, supplements, and hacks that claim to help you learn better. Among all this noise though, no one’s really answering a very simple question: how do we learn? What actually works?
Joshua Eyler is probably one of the best-suited scholars in the world to answer these question. He’s the author of How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories Behind Effective College Teaching.
Joshua has been a dedicated teacher for institutions such as Columbus State University, George Mason University, and Rice University. He’s currently the Director of Faculty Development and Director of the ThinkForward Quality Enhancement Plan at the University of Mississippi, where he optimizes educational programs and strategies to best suit young people's needs.
In his book, Joshua took an in-depth look at the biological, sociological, and psychological foundations of how people learn. Through years of study, he turned all of his findings into practical takeaways for hardworking teachers everywhere.
At a time when we need to be able to teach and skill up our workforce faster and more effectively than ever, Joshua’s insights into the field of education are something you don’t want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
What do we mean when we say “hitting our limit?”
Especially in a time when reports of burnout are hitting record high for workers across the globe, it’s never been more important for employees and employers to understand how to effectively and safely push themselves.
Today’s guest, Alex Hutchinson, has a bold idea. In his book “Endure” Alex claims that hitting your limit and giving up is always a mental decision. As a lifelong runner, 2X Canadian Olympic team member, repetitive ultra marathon runner, a prolific award winning journalist, and even a quantum computer researcher, Alex is no stranger to pushing, and exceeding, one's own limitations.
In a time when companies are often having to get more done with less workers, and workers everywhere are feeling more pressure than ever, being able to safely, and effectively push yourself to your limits is an essential skill, so with that it’s time to kick off Season 3 of the pod.
Let’s bring it in!
At 1Huddle, we know practice needs to be challenging, it requires feedback, and it needs to be as real world as possible.
Unfortunately, not a lot of managers and folks in charge of upskilling people believe that.
But, this is a perfect episode for them to listen to with our guest Guy “Bus” Snodgrass, former TOPGUN instructor who shares his take on how to best implement challenging practice.
With over 20 years in uniform in the Navy, including flying some of the first aerial missions in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Guy served as the former Communications Director and Chief Speechwriter for Secretary of Defense James “Mad Dog” Mattis. This culminated in the book “Holding the Line: Inside Trump's Pentagon with Secretary Mattis,” and was quickly followed by another book, “TOPGUN'S TOP 10: Leadership Lessons from the Cockpit.”
He now serves as the CEO of Defense Analytics, where he consults and works with leaders around the globe to strengthen their organizations from the ground up.
With a new year comes both new and old challenges, and our workforce has to be prepared to face whatever challenge comes next, making hard practice key to a companies success, something that Guy knows well.
WIth that…let’s bring it in!
Is it possible to learn anything?
Maybe, but only if you’re really young, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” as the saying goes, right?
As an author, speaker, and academic for institutions such as NYU, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Design Trust for Public Space, Tom Vanderbilt wanted to understand why so many adults simply stop trying to learn new things.
Vanderbilt was inspired by a simple question from his daughter to get to the bottom of why so many adults stop learning new skills. Well into his forties, he committed an entire year of his trying, failing, learning, and being coached on five new skills he’d never attempted in his life.
He compiled his adventures and takeaways into his book Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning, where he found as much joy in the process of learning these skills, as he did at attaining a level of skill with them: something he believes every person can and should achieve.
In a time when jobs are changing rapidly, it’s critical that we give our workforce, regardless of age, the tools, resources, and support to be able to upskill themselves so they can meet the challenges of the near future. People like Tom Vanderbilt, give us some insight, as to how we can do that.
This is another episode you’re definitely not going to want to miss, so with that…let’s bring it in!
It’s no secret that a lot of managers and leaders out there are struggling to get the most out of their people. Between a changing workforce, technology constantly changing the nature of jobs, and the effects of the COVID pandemic still being felt, it’s difficult to lead a cohesive, focused, and fired up team.
Coach Aliceann Wilber, though, has nearly perfected this craft. Being the first and only head coach of the women's soccer team at William Smith College, Coach Wilber has accumulated 2 National Championship titles, back-to-back NCAA Division III Women’s Soccer Coach of the Year Awards, the NCAA’s prestigious Bill Jeffrey Award, an induction into the United Soccer Coaches Hall of Fame in 2018, and having the opportunity to lead 25 first-team All-Americans (the most out of any DIII women’s coach).
No matter the time, no matter the circumstances, Coach Wilber has led her Heron’s to over 600 wins over the past 30 years. Even during the pandemic, Coach Wilber has kept her team together by keeping practice tough, fun, and taking it one day at a time.
This is another podcast you’re not going to want to miss so with that...let’s bring it in!
The big question employers everywhere, from small size mom-and-pop shops to global enterprises, are struggling with is “how do we attract and keep talented workers?”
There are a lot of different and important factors, such as wages, having safe COVID policies, remote work, culture, but one thing very few people are talking about is even in such a serious time, making the effort to make a workplace fun.
Kevin Werbach is an Associate Professor and Chairperson of Legal studies and Business Ethics at The Wharton University of Pennsylvania. His recent book, “For the Win: The Power of Gamification and Game Thinking in Business, Education, Government, and Social Impact,” illustrates the ways in which concepts in video games can be utilized to find, and retain the best level of talent for your business.
Kevin honed the practices in his book during his tenure as the FCC Review Co-Lead under the Obama administration and as a consultant for the CIA and World Bank, where he developed training programs based on his gamification practices.
Even in these very “serious” industries, Kevin used games, and more importantly, the idea of fun to engage, motivate, and build trust and community within his teams, something that employers everywhere right now are struggling to do during The Great Resignation, so with that...let’s bring it in!
Despite many employers complaining about not being able to find talent during “The Great Resignation,” there’s one group of our nation's population that is more than ready to tackle any kind of job, our veterans.
However, amongst all the flag waving, the “thank you for your servicing,” and patriotic social media posts on holidays, the jobless rate for all veterans rose to 6.5% across 2020 (for reference, the non-military unemployment rate rose to 6.7% over 2020).
Tony Stewart, a 20-year-veteran of the U.S. Naval Submarine fleet, found a new mission after leaving the Navy. An impressive tenure creating dozens of new Navy SEAL classes and as a legislative member of The American Legion, Tony eventually cofounded Us4Warriors, a group dedicated to helping veterans, active-duty military, and their families overcome hardships to improve their ability to contribute to society.
Boasting dozens of programs, ranging from providing food, shelter, and medical needs, to counseling, athletic programs, and even blockchain based programming, Tony understands what returning veterans need to orient themselves in a changing workforce, so they can unleash their full potential.
With many employers and job seekers still struggling to find and maintain work, and with the end of November marking the end of Veterans month, Tony’s insights and experience couldn't come at a more perfect time.
So with that...let’s bring it in!
In the early 2010s, a study was conducted across the U.S. to get a sense of the levels of poverty in the nation. Staggeringly, in the supposed “wealthiest nation on Earth,” 1.5 million households were living on $2.00 a day, including over 3 million children.
These were families where people had jobs, often multiple jobs, working their hardest and longest, and still were unable to escape from this extreme poverty, despite doing everything in their power to “pull themselves up by the bootstraps.”
Luke Shaefer was one of the conductors of this study and has dedicated his life to educating people about the effects and causes of extreme poverty in America.
As the longtime Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy and associate dean for research and policy engagement at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Luke’s work has been cited in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Economist, The Atlantic, and Los Angeles Times, and he has been featured on such programs as Marketplace and CNBC's Nightly Business Report.
He compiled much of his research into the book $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, co-authored by Kathryn Edin. The book was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2015 by the New York Times Book Review and won the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism among other awards.
Poverty is a full-time job and isn’t something that just goes away when a worker clocks in for their job. Luke understands how the effects of poverty permeate every part of a person's life, and ultimately, how that affects our economy, society, and country as a whole.
In a time when power is shifting in the labor market, this is something that desperately needs to be talked about, so with that...let’s bring it in!
We’ve talked a lot about the importance of culture in the workplace, but what exactly is culture? How does it impact your company? Why is it such a make-or-break part of your company?
Geoff Smart, Chairman and Founder of ghSMART and 3X Forbes Winner of Best Management Consulting Firm in its segment, has made developing a winning culture the foundation of his business.
According to a Gallup study pre-pandemic, 70% of people who left their jobs said it had nothing to do with pay. It all came down to growth opportunities, teammates and managers, and culture. These numbers have only gotten worse during the pandemic, and it’s a large contributor to “The Great Resignation” we’re going through right now.
Geoff and his ghSMART group combine psychological practices with the guidance of some of the most experienced managers in their fields, to tailor a strategy to develop a culture that fosters growth, inclusion, and the opportunity for every employee to win at work.
So with that...let’s bring it in!
If you Google the word ‘talent’ and click the news tab, hundreds of articles pop up about the tightest labor market in people's lifetime. This environment has been changing hiring practices, starting wages, and caused many companies to send out desperate cries for new workers, hoping to find talented individuals to fill the gap.
However, many employers are still unsatisfied with the amount of qualified applicants they’re receiving, despite the hundreds of thousands of workers still looking for a job. One way to tackle the issue that you won’t find being discussed as much in the news, is employers' ability to provide spaces to attract and develop talent.
This is something Michael Solomon and Rishon Blumberg understand well and have weaved into the very fabric of their company, 10x Management, an agency that connects the worlds best developers with projects around the workforce.
WIth both starting in the music industry working with legends such as Bruce Springstein, Sony Music, Epic Records, and Live Nation, representing, coaching, and developing talent is what these two specialize in. In 2020 they released their book,Game Changer: How To Be 10x in The Talent Economydiving into how companies, individuals, and teams can create a space where people can develop from good, to great, to 10x.
This is another one of those episodes that are super timely, so with that...let’s bring it in!
According to a CDC Survey, 1 in 3 adults in the U.S. say they feel as though they don’t get enough sleep. The U.S. has the highest annual economic loss due to insufficient sleep in the world with up to $411 billion lost per year, mostly made of lost productivity from workers.
Kristen Holmes is the Vice President of Performance Science at WHOOP, an innovative wearable that helps users optimize their days for peak performance. She works with hundreds of the best tactical, professional, surgical, and NCAA athletes and teams in the world helping them interpret WHOOP data to optimize training, recovery, and sleep behavior.
Prior to her position at WHOOP, Kristen was the Head Coach for the Princeton Field Hockey Team, leading them to 12 national titles over her tenure. While she was creating one of the best field hockey programs in the nation, she also joined several projects that focused on using technology to track the recovery practices of high performing athletes, data that she brought to her coaching philosophy at Princeton.
With rates of workplace fatigue, burnout, and declining mental health skyrocketing in a tight labor market and ongoing pandemic, the well being of our workforce needs to be at the forefront for managers and talent leaders.
The workplace has often framed working through fatigue as a badge of honor, but Kristen has become a vocal speaker for the power of rest and recovery for both on the field and workplace.
So with that...let’s bring it in!
While a lot of the national spotlight gets pushed to the federal level, the state and local levels are arguable what impact American constituents and businesses more on the day to day.
Representative Joe Ciresi has dutifully served the 146th District in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania since 2018 and has made it a priority to create an effective, all inclusive job training pipeline from K-12 to the workforce.
Born in Long Island to two first generation Americans who had never gone to college, Rep. Ciresi learned at a young age the value of both encouraging vocational skills alongside expanding options to college. Prior to his election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, he served for nearly 20 years as the Director of Sales and Promotions at the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts. In addition, he spent 11 years as a board member of the Western Montgomery Career and Technology Center, which provides trade or skill classes not offered at conventional four-year universities.
With things influencing the future of work like a rising gig economy, remote work, and a cultural emphasis on valuing desk based jobs, Rep. Ciresi’s experience in education, skill-based labor, and policy making put him in a great intersection to talk about how we can best support skill-based and frontline workers in our workforce.
So with that...let’s bring it in.
The majority of working Americans today have temporary, unstable, low paying jobs. When a monthly job report flaunts how many ‘new jobs’ have been created, very often it’s these types of jobs. This discrepancy leaves a vast population in a state of constant poverty, stress, and in no exaggeration, life threatening circumstances.
This is the crux of our guest, Jamie McCallum’s work. After years teaching at the University of New York, Jamie moved into a position at Middlebury College as an Associate Professor on Sociology, focusing on labor, politics, and globalization.
His latest book “Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work is Killing the American Dream,” hones in on those most overworked, underpaid, and vulnerable, from the Amazon warehouses to Rust Belt factories to California’s gig economy. It’s the hours of low-wage workers that are the most the most subject to crises.
These are the exact people that in the midst of the pandemic, we were calling heroes, and now, many employers are calling them ‘lazy.’ How does that make sense?
We can’t have a healthy society, we can’t stand for every worker, unless we take into account the health, safety, and wellbeing of every worker.
This is an episode that’s essential to listen to, so with that...let’s bring it in!
In the 2018-2019 School Year, New Jersey Homelessness Statistics estimated that about 14,000 K-12 public school students experienced homelessness over the year. Of those homeless, approximately 9.2% were likely victims of human trafficking. Since COVID, unfortunately these statistics have only increased.
Since 1989 Covenant House New Jersey has served homeless youth across the state and from the very beginning, Jim White has been growing and working alongside the organization.
Jim first started out in CHNJ developing their Rights of Passage, a transitional living program that is now used nationally across all Covenant House Locations. From there he became the Director of Covenant House’s Faith Community and was in charge of recruiting and training full time volunteers in six different locations. Since 1994 he has served as the Executive Director of all operations across CHNJ, helping serve hundreds of thousands of at-risk youth.
Under Jim’s leadership, Covenant House has developed programs to fight youth homelessness, create job training and continued education opportunities, provide healthcare assistance including natal care, mental health services, HIV/AIDScare, substance rehabilitation, and offer young people across New Jersey a stable environment in their tumultuous lives.
Caring about the future of work means caring about the future of our people. If young people aren’t given a chance at a stable life, then our society, and labor force, suffers from it.
This is an episode you’re not going to want to miss so...let’s bring it in!
According to the Center for American Progress, 1 in 7 children fall under the poverty line and this was pre-pandemic. Over a year into the pandemic, 4 out of 10 children live in a family that struggles to meet basic needs and anywhere between seven to eleven million children live in a household with inconsistent access to meals from cost.
It’s safe to say poverty, especially generational poverty, is the root of thousands of issues that plague our nation. Today’s guest has dedicated her life to advising educators and employers about the effects of generational poverty.
Ruby Payne is a former lifelong educator, a Doctorate Recipient in Education and Development from Layola University Chicago, and the Founder of the aha Process! Inc, a group that informs schools, companies and other organizations about poverty.
Ruby has authored a number of books focusing on the effects of poverty, most notably “A Framework for Understanding Poverty,” which looks at the effects of poverty from both an economical and psychological perspective and has since sold over 1.5 million copies since it’s publication.
With 1 in 2 jobs considered sub-poverty line paying jobs, the work Ruby is doing is more crucial than ever, especially during a time when employers are struggling to find workers and many workers are struggling to make ends meet.
We can’t have a truly inclusive discussion about the workforce, without addressing poverty so...let’s bring it in!
“Innovation brings promise or peril.”
That’s one of the standout lines in the book "Industries of the Future"by today’s guest, Alec Ross. Alec’s experience as an entrepreneur, investor, political advisor, and educator, has given him a unique perspective on the relationship between business, government, and the people that make up these groups.
Alec’s success in building a startup in the South Side of Chicago led him to be appointed to Former President Obama’s 2008 Election Campaign as the Convener of Technology and Media Policy and he also became the Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State.
Since then, he’s invested and built a portfolio of dozens of successful businesses, becoming a distinguished fellow at educational institutes like John Hopkins, Columbia University, and University of Bologna.
He’s the author of two books, the New York Time’s Best Selling Industries of the Future, and the newly released "The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People and the Fight for our Future."
In a time where the power of technology is used to divide or unite, empower or replace, and continues to change rapidly, Alec’s insight into the relationship between technology, people, and the bodies that use tech is absolutely critical.
This is an episode you definitely want to listen to more than once so with that...let’s bring it in!
We’re proud to be headquartered in Newark, New Jersey and work closely with groups that seek to improve the state of New Jersey. So, for this episode, we figured why not give our home state a shoutout!
Jose Lozano is the President and CEO of Choose New Jersey, a non-profit economic development organization dedicated to providing resources to businesses interested in making New Jersey their home. Over the past ten years, Choose New Jersey has helped hundreds of companies secure thousands of jobs for New Jersians and amassed $6.2 Billion in capital investments.
Prior to joining Choose New Jersey, Jose was the Vice President of Corporate Services for Hackensack Meridian Health, Executive Director for then Governor-elect Phil Murphy's transition team, and even served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for the Environmental Protection Agency under the Obama Administration.
At the core of the workforce is people and jobs go to where the people are. Jose sits in a unique position where he is able to see the unique needs of both the people of New Jersey looking for high quality jobs and companies that need talented people to fill those open jobs.
As companies around the world still struggle to get back to fully staffed operations, it’s more important than ever for managers to understand the needs of their workers and what their company means to the local communities they set roots in...so with that, let’s bring it in!
Coaching an ever-changing workforce is difficult enough and the pandemic forcing us apart has only made it more challenging.
With Gen Z and Millennials now making up the majority of the workforce, managing and coaching skills many Gen X and Boomers grew up used to, simply no longer work, especially in a post-pandemic world.
And, Coach Brian Polian has something to say about this.
As the Special Teams Coordinator for LSU and Fmr. Associate Head Coach and Special Teams Coordinator at Notre Dame Football, Coach Polian is an expert at creating star teams, by holding them to challenging standards, while also meeting their individual needs.
His coaching style earned him a position as graduate assistant for Nick Saban at Michigan State in 1997, then two seasons as a graduate assistant at Baylor, a nominee for the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Assistant Coach of the Year in 2008, as well as a position as a four-year letterwinner at linebacker for John Carroll from 1993-96.
Coach Polian’s book, “Coaching and Teaching Gen Z: Honor the Relationships,” is all about relationships and how relationships lead to winning. Strong relationships are more crucial than ever before in today’s workforce, this isn’t an episode you want to miss so...let’s bring it in!
The news is filled with talk on what the public and private sector should be doing to help overcome the challenges facing our future workforce, but what about the nonprofit sector?
Or rather, the social sector, as Susan Dreyfus considers this the 1 of 3 critical pillars of our workforce economy.
Susan was the former President and CEO of the National Health and Policy Forum from 2012-2021. There, she led the Forum to educate policy makers on decisions that would impact the national healthcare system. Before her time at the Forum, in 1996 she was appointed Wisconsin's first-ever Administrator of the Division of Children and Family Services, and in 2009 she was appointed Secretary for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services.
Her time working along the lines of the public and private sector put Susan in a unique position to champion the social sector, and in our conversation, she shared some of her core beliefs and strategies to protect and improve every area of work.
Especially today when COVID, policy gridlock, stagnant wages, rising costs, supply shortages, technological divides, and social unrest puts pressure on every worker, the experience and lessons from Susan are invaluable...so with that, let’s bring it in!
You can learn anything through a game. Fact. If you still need some convincing, then this episode is just for you!
Jamie Madigan has spent the last decade of his life studying how video games hold the secret to creating a motivated, positive, and engaged workplace. He’s consulted for over a dozen high-profile enterprises over the years, such as Anheuser-Busch, APTMetrics, and Sempra Energy.
Jamie has compiled much of his research and experience into his blog and podcast Psychology of Gamers, where he provides free, research-backed, scholarly articles and interviews to popularize the study and use of gaming psychology.
Jamie has also written numerous books such as Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Videogames and the People Who Play Them,Video Games and Well-Being: Press Start, and The Engagement Economy: Why Your Workplace Should Look More Like a Videogame.
Jamie is one of the most renowned experts in the field of psychology and if you’ve had any doubts about the power of games, this episode is a must listen.
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“Do you really want to solve the problem or complain about it and use it as a shield?”
This is the question Andy Stern has for employers, especially as the world still grapples with the impacts of COVID and a changing workforce.
Andy Stern is the former President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and now serves as its President Emeritus. He has been a senior fellow at Georgetown University, Columbia University, and is now a Senior Fellow at the Economic Security Project.
Under his leadership SEIU became both the fastest growing union in the world, growing 1,200,000 members and the largest political action committee (PAC) in the United States.
As SEIU President, Stern was a constant figure in the news. He was on the covers of The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, and BusinessWeek, featured on CBS 60 Minutes, on Fox as the Power Player of the Week, CNN, and the Washington Post, and holds the unique record of having been the person to most visit Obama’s Oval Office, at a whopping 54 visitations.
He’s an author of numerous books, including Raising The Floordocumenting his five year journey in investigating the impact of technology and the future of work.
This episode deals with a huge issue that faces millions of American’s and is one you’re definitely going to want to pay attention to. So let’s bring it in!
Skills gaps are real...right?
In a ‘tight’ labor market, where we’re hearing employers complain left and right that they can’t find good workers for their companies, author, Fulbright scholar, and Professor of Human Resources at the Wharton School at UPenn, Peter Cappelli, has some other things to say...
Peter Cappelli was the Co-Director of the National Centre on the Educational Quality of Workforce with Robert Zemsky for the U.S. Department of Education during the Bush and Clinton Administrations. He was ranked 5th in HR Magazine's Top 20 Most Influential International Thinkers in HR, was named in the 25 Most Important People Working in Human Capital by Vault Rankings, so it’s safe to say he knows what he’s talking about.
With the topic of finding workers still a hot issue, this is one podcast you’re definitely going to want to listen to. So...let’s bring it in!
“Coaching matters. It's an on-going thing.”
Brendan Long is the Vice President of Sales for "The World's Most Famous Arena," Madison Square Garden, and leads the charge in coaching and developing young salespeople who represent some of the most iconic franchises in New York City. Home to The New York Knicks and The New York Rangers, but MSG Entertainment also represents Radio City Hall, Beacon Theater, The Hulu Theater, and dozens more historic locations.
Being based almost entirely around massive live events, COVID was a massive blow to MSG. Brendan doubled down on his team and made sure everyone was connected and engaged even while working remotely and continued to coach and lead his team through every challenge.
With things slowly reopening and people itching for the thrill of live sports more than ever, Brendan and the team at MSG are ready to hit the ground running...
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Why are we all so bad at learning? Well, maybe it’s because we aren’t being taught right. According to Patrice Bain, author of Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning, teaching and learning are like muscles, they need to be exercised correctly.
A Fulbright scholar, adjunct professor at numerous universities, national educational advisor, with over 25 years of experience teaching K-12, Patrice has dedicated herself to teaching others about the process of learning.
This episode we dive deep into the need for struggle when it comes to learning, how so many cognomyths became so accepted by society, and what parents, educators, and talent leaders should be doing to better teach the people in their lives.
This is definitely an episode you don’t want to miss, so let’s bring it in!
With COVID forcing teams to distance themselves and create a divide between those who had the privilege to work remotely and those who didn’t, having a uniting culture in a company was more important than ever. As things begin to reopen, it’s important to never lose sight of the importance of a strong culture.
That’s something Donna Orendar is focused on right now; recognized as one of the top 10 women in the sports business, she knows how strong culture drives sales, engagement, and creates a better, healthier workforce.
Donna was formerly the Senior Vice President of the PGA Tour for 17 years, after playing 3 seasons of the WBL and as Team Captain in the Women’s 1985 Maccibah Games in Israel. After her career as a star basketball player and PGA executive, she was elected to be President of the WNBA where she drove double digit growth across all key metrics, even in the fallout of the 2008 recession.
Since then she has gone on to found Orender Unlimited, Generation W, and Generation Wow, aimed at giving opportunities and empowering women across the workforce and the V Foundation.
Donna joined us to talk about the power of helping others find purpose, what it means to really work for good, and the importance of creating “good work.”
With another huge shift for our workers coming around, this convo is not only timely, but important. So with that...let’s bring it in!
When you and your team are thrust into stardom from Netflix’s Last Chance U: Basketball documentary, you’d expect things to change pretty quickly for you right? Not for Coach John Mosley, who’s looking to continue a dominant run with the ELAC Huskies with a 189-52 record, and 8 straight trips to the CCCAA Championships.
Coach Mosley is an East L.A. Husky through and through. He was a player and 2x Team Captain in his time as a student-athlete at ELAC before moving on to coach and play at Masters College and California State University Bakersville.
Over his career he’s been named as one of the Top 50 Most Impactful JUCO 50 and has become a leader, advocate and mentor to young people across his community.
Coach Mosley knows what it takes to lead a team that’s diverse in ethnicity, race, social economic class, and ideas. For any talent leader looking to lead an equally diverse team to victory, this episode is a must listen.
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“If I’m running a business and I can’t afford to pay my electricity, I can’t say the electric company is lazy.”
So, why are so many companies over the last few weeks going on TV and calling workers lazy?
Gordon Lafer has been fighting for the rights of workers for over 30 years. He is a political economist who has served as Senior Labor Policy Advisor for the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Education and Labor and has a history of Labor Union activism. He has written widely on labor and employment policy issues and is the author of one of our favorite books, The Job Training Charade. He started his political work as an economic policyanalyst in the Office of the Mayor in New York City under Mayor Ed Koch.
Lafer is currently an associate professor in the Labor Education & Research Center at the University of Oregon and a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute.
This episode raised some really important questions around the true effectiveness of job training, wage inequality and the role of government to create a more equitable climate for workers.
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“Leadership today is more about taking care of your people.”
On this pod episode, Ian Adair joined us for an important conversation on mental health. He has been one of the greatest mental health advocates for the workforce, currently serving as the Executive Director for the Gracepoint Foundation, as well as the author of “Stronger Than Stigma” and “A Call To Action: Stories of Grief, Loss, and Inspiration.”
Unfortunately, for the last decade, mental health issues have steadily been on the rise in North America, but people like Ian are rising to the challenge to ensure every worker is cared for and has the tools and resources necessary to ensure their own wellbeing.
If you’re a leader who wants to take the best care possible of their people, this episode is definitely for you...let’s bring it in!
"Failure is inevitable on the road to success."
Emilie Aries, CEO and Founder of Bossed Up has been tackling the threat of burnout head on. Speaker, podcaster, and author, Emilie has first hand experience in conquering burnout after years of working in the Washington D.C. legislative industry. She wanted to create a space that vouched for self-advocacy, rather than advocating for her latest political client, so, she founded Bossed Up in 2013. Offering data driven, impact-oriented programs to empower marginalized workers and consulting with companies like Google, Linkedin, Facebook. TEDx, Indeed, American Express. Her work has been featured in CNN Money, Forbes, The Washington Post and Glamour.
When COVID hit, 100% of all of Bossed Up’s operations had to shut down, but Emilie guided her team through it all, and in 6 months had completed a business pivot that resulted in 3 brand new programs.
With mental health awareness month just passing, this is an important episode focused on the wellbeing and health of your people, and one you really don’t want to miss so...let’s bring it in!
How do you get credit for 73 Conference Championships, 54 Final Fours, and 39 National Championships across every major athletic sport in America? Dr. Jerry Lynch, ex-Navy Officer, sports psychologist, author, speaker, athlete, and coach, has advised, guided, and coached some of the most successful, winningest, and dominant athletes in the world. You might’ve heard of a few of them...Steve Kerr, Phil Jackson, and Kobe Bryant.
With a unique perspective that combines eastern philosophy, Native American Tradition, and Western Philosophy, Dr. J has written over thirteen books and given countless lectures to help people achieve their prime mentality to win.
When I sat down with Dr. J, he dove into his latest book, “The Competitive Buddha,” a book about mastery, leadership, and spirituality, drawing from the ancient teachings of The Buddha and showing how many of those philosophies apply to winning.
This is definitely one of the most unique podcasts I’ve ever had so...let’s bring it in!
How do you earn the title of “The Godmother of Silicon Valley?”
By raising the CEOs of YouTube, 23 and Me, a college professor and becoming an award-winning journalist, lifelong teacher, personally mentoring Steve Jobs’ child, and writing dozens of books on the educational system.
That’s how Esther Wojcicki made her mark in Palo Alto and became a central figure in the tech boom of California. When 1Huddle’s Founder and CEO, Sam, caught up with Esther they talked about everything from the importance of allowing kids to fail when they learn, society's failure to fully embrace mobile tech to how the definition of infrastructure has changed over the years.
Being so involved with educating those that drove the biggest tech boom in history, Esther has tons of experience and stories to share, this is definitely an episode you’re going to want to listen to.
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“Talent leaders should recognize that trafficking is everyone’s problem.”
At any given time, an estimated 24.9 million people are victims of human trafficking around the world. Today’s guest has dedicated her life to giving those people a voice, a refuge, and the resources to escape and recover from human trafficking.
Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri is a board member of Saving Jane, a group dedicated to empowering survivors of all forms of modern-day slavery and human trafficking to live the life that they want to live. She’s also a Tribeca Film Festival/Disruptive Innovator Awarded film director, photographer, and writer.
Mentored by Mother Theresa and David Bowie, Indrani has used her creative platforms to bring awareness to some of the biggest social justice issues in our time, earning her over 50 awards from Cannes, Tribeca, CNN, and dozens of other organizations, her work has spoken to millions.
She’s helped launch the careers of Beyonce, Lady Gaga so...she has an eye for spotting talent.
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“There's something incredibly captivating about purpose, and knowing that you have one.”
Coach Craig White is the founder and head coach of the rowing team St. Benedict’s Prep School in Newark, New Jersey, where he also serves as a math teacher and Dean of Freshman Level. For Coach White, every day spent with his rowing team has been an adventure, and he’s always working to build a better tomorrow for his team.
When Coach White sat down with 1Huddle’s CEO and founder Sam Caucci they talked about everything from the importance of letting your people fail and make mistakes to what it means to be a truly great coach and mentor. This powerful episode has important insights for all current and aspiring leaders who want to lift up their teams and their communities, so let’s...
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Never punt?
Today’s guest is known by many as “the coach who doesn’t punt.” He’s also known for having a 203-29-1 record as head coach, winning 8 state championships, and coaching players and teams that have set 15 national high school football records. And did we mention, he was also named the National Football Coach of the Year in 2016 by USA Today?
Kevin Kelley, the Pulaski Academy football coach who gained national notoriety for his 'never punt' attitude, recently accepted the job as D1 Head Football Coach at Presbyterian College. During his career, he has defied all the wisdom of conventional football and come out on top as a champion. So if you want to know: How can I tap into my people’s strengths to create a world-class team? How do you become great at something by practicing for just five minutes a day? Or how does someone even come up with the idea to become the coach who never punts? Then this is the episode for you.
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“The practicing mind is about learning to be in the process and enjoy the process.”
Today’s Bring It In guest is an expert on how we can align our minds and bodies to stay in the moment so that we’re getting the most out of what we do. Tom Sterner is the founder and CEO of “The Practicing Mind Institute: Teaching the Power of the Present Moment,” and he authored the popular book The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Lifeon the same topic.
Before founding The Practicing Mind Institute, Tom served as the Chief Concert Piano Technician for a major performing arts center where he prepared instruments for the world’s most demanding performances. During his 25 year tenure as a technician, Tom personally worked for industry giants like Pavarotti and Fleetwood Mac.
When 1Huddle’s CEO and Founder Sam Caucci sat down with Tom on this episode of Bring It In, they talked about everything from what it really means to operate at our highest levels to how we can make better, more effective goals that enable us to practice to our fullest potential.
This is one of the most compelling, thought-provoking episodes yet, so let’s get ready to…
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Today’s guest is someone who knows that “employees will leave if they don't feel like they're learning anything new. So to keep them, you need to keep teaching them new things.”
After more than 30 years of experience in hotel management at properties across the country, our guest knows what it takes to keep employees engaged, happy, fired up, and excited to come to work every day. He also knows a thing or two about games. Kevin Thorstenson is the Hotel General Manager at WinStar World Hotel. WinStar, which is located in Thackerville, Oklahoma near the Oklahoma-Texas border, is the biggest casino in America. It has more than 500,000 square feet of gaming space and more games than any other casino in the world; WinStar is also renowned for hosting huge events — from MMA to theatrical entertainment, and even golf competitions.
The WinStar World Hotel employs nearly 500 people, so Kevin has a wealth of experience managing huge teams. When 1Huddle’s CEO and Founder Sam Caucci sat down with Kevin on this episode of Bring It In, they talked about everything from why communication is so important to what it takes to be a great manager who knows how to make learning stick.
I’m willing to bet this is going to be one of the best episodes yet. So, let’s...
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What happens when two elite warriors turned expert consultants get together to talk about the future of training?
To get the best out of everyone from Navy SEALs (our most elite special forces) to talent leaders, today’s guests know that “it all ties back to individual and operational readiness. Training is the core of that; it will always be the core of that.”
Today, we’ve got another special Bring It In episode for you featuring not one, but two guests: Jeff Williams and Dave Wylie. Jeff and Dave are former Navy veterans who now serve in senior leadership roles at Strategos Consulting, a management consulting firm that specializes in serving senior executives in the defense, aerospace and homeland security sectors. They provide the full range of management consulting services —from strategic planning to market analysis and access. Jeff is the president and CEO of Strategos, and Dave is the Vice President of Training Services. They’re focused on identifying and bringing their clients technological solutions to mitigate vulnerabilities in these highly distinctive sectors.
When 1Huddle’s CEO and Founder Sam Caucci sat down with Jeff and Dave on this episode of Bring It In, they talked about everything from why we need to continuously develop our people to how training is what helped Jeff become a prepared and courageous Navy SEAL.
Jeff and Dave have decades of experience serving in and training our nation’s most elite special forces. Whether you’re full-time or on the frontlines, this is an episode everyone needs to hear. So let’s get ready to...
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"Humility and respect will make your employees more connected, and that connection will make them work harder and more loyally for your company."
Today’s guest is an expert at how to be an adult. Julie Lythcott-Haims is the author of the New York Times best-selling book How to Raise an Adult. Before becoming an acclaimed author, Julie was Stanford's Dean of Freshmen. At Stanford, Julie was known for advocating on behalf of her students and for her fierce critique of parental involvement in the day-to-day lives of college students. Julie started writing about the harm of helicopter parenting, which gave way to her book How to Raise an Adult and her popular TedTalk on overparenting.
However, before you can raise an adult, you have to know how to become one. Julie’s new book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adultwas released this week, on April 6, 2021. When 1Huddle’s CEO and Founder Sam Caucci sat down with Julie on this episode of Bring It In, they talked about everything from why successful adults have to adopt a growth mindset to how we can lead by example and create companies and cultures people will be excited to work for.
This is an episode you won’t want to miss featuring one of the most forward-thinking authors of our generation, so let’s get ready to…
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“Talent is everywhere, the hunger is everywhere, the thirst is everywhere, but the access and opportunity is not.”
No one understands this better than Arshay Cooper, the renowned rower, award-winning author, motivational speaker, activist, and protagonist of the acclaimed documentary “A Most Beautiful Thing.”
To understand how Arshay’s life has become the center of a NAACP Image Award-nominated documentary, you need to know more about his backstory. Arshay grew up on Chicago’s Westside in the ‘90s, and he knows the harder side of life. His mother is a recovering addict, and his three siblings all sleep in a one room apartment, in an area plagued by gang violence and addiction. Growing up, Arshay kept to himself and dreamed of becoming a chef. In high school, Arshay spontaneously took up the sport of crew, and he became the captain of the first all-Black high school rowing team in America. He and his teammates experienced racism and discrimination while playing an almost all-white sport, which ultimately transformed Arshay’s life.
When 1Huddle’s CEO and Founder Sam Caucci sat down with Arshay on this episode of Bring It In, they talked about everything from why the ‘talent shortage’ is really an access shortage, to how people from diverse backgrounds measure success differently. So if you’re ready for one of the most powerful episodes yet, then it’s time to…
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“Racism is expensive, sexism is expensive, ableism is expensive. Gen Z is going to force us to care.”
For the first time, we have two guests joining us on Bring It In. Chisa Egbelu and Kayla Michèle are the co-founders of PeduL, a marketplace where corporations can diversify their workforce with scholarships.
PeduL, which is based here in Newark, is the one-stop shop for scholarships. PeduL’s mission is to ensure that all students have equal access to academic and professional opportunities. It was founded on the belief that investing resources into society—especially our youth—will create a more sustainable and prosperous world.
Chisa and Kayla joined forces while they were classmates at Rutgers and soon became a power team. PeduL started out as a crowdfunding platform in 2018, but Chisa and Kayla realized that crowdfunding inherently assumes students have access to a network with money. So they went back to the drawing board and came up with their universal application for scholarships where students can apply to thousands of local and national scholarships at one time through one application. And that’s what PeduL does.
As fellow Newark business-owners and changemakers in their community, Chisa and Kayla had a lot of powerful insights to share when they sat down with Sam Caucci on this episode of Bring It In. They talked about everything from what’s preventing companies from being as equitable as they could be to how we can create sustainable progress in our workforce and in our society.
“As the first that also means the only. Not everybody wants to see change; not everybody wants to see your face, because it's the face of change.”
In one of the most powerful Bring It In episodes yet, Sam Caucci sat down with Jen Welter, the first female coach in the NFL who has spent her life breaking barriers and shattering norms in the sports world and beyond.
Coach Jen is best known for being the first woman to coach in a men's professional football league. She’s also the second woman to play on a men's professional football team, and the first ever female running back. Following her time in the NFL, Coach Jen became the Head Coach of the first Australian Women's National Team fielded in July 2017, and she wrote her first book “Play Big, Lessons in Living Limitless from the First Woman to Coach in the NFL.”
In addition to being a sports legend, Coach Jen is also a powerful advocate for gender equity both on and off the field. She founded Grrrridiron Girls flag football camps to not only give girls the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of flag football, but to immerse the next generation of women in Jen’s wave of empowerment, self-confidence, and sisterhood.
Coach Jen has truly done it all; she has two Gold Medals with Team USA, four World Championship wins, and eight All-Star selections. She’s also an accomplished scholar who holds a PhD in Psychology and a Masters in Sport Psychology.
When Coach Jen sat down with Sam, they talked about what was going through her head as she was breaking through barriers, why being a truly successful coach all comes down to communication, how Coach Jen has got to where she is today, and much more. So if you’re ready for one of the best podcast episodes yet, then it’s time to…
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“Retrain your teams, because the times are different.”
Our guest today is someone who knows how important it is to be constantly leveling up and reskilling. She even launched a global challenge to help support the restaurant industry during the pandemic, because she knows we need new, innovative solutions for the biggest challenges facing our workforce today.
On today’s episode of Bring It In, 1Huddle’s CEO and founder Sam Caucci sat down with Helen Lao, the founder and president of ClearPath Solutions. ClearPath is an executive search firm that matches talent within the industry. In her role, Helen leads a dynamic team across the country in matchmaking different growth brands with top leaders within the industry.
When Helen saw how the restaurant industry was being impacted by COVID, she got to work launching her #StepUptoTheTable initiative, where people from all over the U.S. buy gift cards or a meal from their favorite restaurant, share it on social media, and challenge someone else to do the same.
Some of the topics Sam and Helen cover in today’s episode include how you can step up and make an impact even if you don’t have a lot of resources to work with, what the future of work looks like for the restaurant industry, and what it means to be a true leader in times of disruption.
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“Whether you mean to or not, you're inevitably turning organizations one of two ways: towards equity or inequity.”
This quote comes from today’s guest, Chequan Lewis. On this episode of the pod, 1Huddle’s CEO and Founder Sam Caucci sat down with Chequan Lewis, the Chief Equity Officer at Pizza Hut. In his role, Chequan is in charge of championing, promoting, and guiding Pizza Hut’s equity and inclusion vision, strategy, and initiatives across the entire franchise. Before he stepped into this position, Chequan was the Senior Director of Express and Director of Legal at Pizza Hut. He’s also a Harvard Law School graduate and a former business litigator.
You might be wondering how a former Harvard law grad and litigator came to be an Equity Officer at Pizza Hut, and that’s one of the many things Chequan and Sam talked about on this episode. They also discussed the importance of building a great team, how you can go about creating “the most equitable company on the planet,” why having a continuous equity plan in place is so important, and how you can’t really be equitable if you treat the C-Suite workers differently than the workers who are on the frontlines.
So if you’re ready for one of 1Huddle’s most engaging, timely, and insightful conversations yet, then it’s time to…
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How do you shatter glass ceilings, records, and expectations until you become known as “one of the biggest legends in the sport?”
If you want to find out, just ask Muffet McGraw. Coach McGraw spent 33 years as the head coach of the Notre Dame women’s basketball team, and by the time she retired last Spring McGraw finished her career with a 936-292 record, nine Final Four appearances, seven championship game appearances, two NCAA championships, and three National Coach of the Year awards.
McGraw’s impressive coaching tree includes a Women’s Basketball Hall of Famer, multiple Olympians, and many more who went on to hit the main stage in the WNBA. Now that she’s retired, McGraw is using her platform to uplift women up in the sports world and beyond.
On this episode of Bring It In, Muffet McGraw sat down with 1Huddle’s CEO and Founder Sam Caucci to talk about everything from the progress we’re making in women’s equality both on and off the court to what it takes to build a successful and connected team.
So if you’re ready to hear from one of the nation’s top leaders, coaches, and activists who has inspired people both inside and outside of the sports world, then it’s time to...
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“We have to keep training and we have to keep educating — I don’t care whether it’s on the assembly line or in a classroom — we have to continue that training.”
No one understands the importance of lifelong education and training better than today’s guest Dr. Donna Shalala. Dr. Shalala is one of the most honored academics and politicians of our generation who has been lauded as “one of the most successful government managers of modern times.”
Dr. Shalala served as the Secretary of Health and Human Services for eight years, becoming the longest serving HHS Secretary in U.S. history. During that time, Dr. Shalala directed the government’s welfare reform process, made health insurance available to more than 2.5 million children, raised child vaccination rates to the highest levels in history, and made so many other strides toward creating lasting progress that she was awarded the highest honor any American can receive — the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Dr. Shalala then went on to serve in Congress, where she represented Florida's 27th congressional district. She has also served as the president of Hunter College, the president of the University of Miami, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and as the President of the Clinton Foundation.
So if you want to hear from one of the best leaders, politicians, educators, and innovators of our generation, then it’s time to…
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At 1Huddle, we talk a lot about fighting for every worker. But when we say ‘every worker’ who do we really mean?
Our guest today is someone who has devoted her life to increasing access and equitability in our workforce, because she knows that “everyone is needed for the future of work, and I'm not sure everyone has been invited yet.”
On this episode of Bring It In, 1Huddle CEO and Founder Sam Caucci sat down with Shadae McDaniel, Vice President and City Leader at the All Stars Project of New Jersey. The All Stars Project is a nonprofit after school development program that uses a performance-based approach to transform the lives of youth in poor communities. Shadae is an impactful nonprofit leader and social entrepreneur right here in Newark who has spent more than 15 years providing innovative, community-based education to thousands of young people and underserved communities.
So if you want to know: How can the power of play transform our workforce and our lives? Or how we can get past a space of diversity, equity, and inclusion to get to a space of true belonging and ownership? Then it’s time to...
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How do you go from being the all time winningest player in Harvard history to becoming one of the youngest coaches in the game? No one knows better than Coach Christian Webster, the Assistant Basketball Coach at Virginia Tech — a title he earned at just 25 years old.
During his time at Harvard, Christian Webster became the all time winningest player in Harvard’s history with 90 wins, including 3 Ivy League titles and back to back NCAA tournament trips. Since his time at Harvard, Coach Webster was named to ESPN’s 40 under 40 list before he even turned 30. He's also played an integral part of the Hokies' success over the past five years, and he hasn’t backed down when it comes to recruiting and coaching talent, even during COVID.
Coach Webster sat down with Sam Caucci, the Founder and CEO of 1Huddle, to talk about his philosophy of how to reach young people where they're at, the challenges of becoming a prominent coach at such a young age, and the art of “being where your feet are”.
This is an episode you’re not going to want to miss, so...Let’s bring it in!
What do you learn after making the USA basketball team at 17 years old, winning three All-American championships back-to-back, becoming the first woman to coach in a professional men's sports league, becoming the second female assistant coach in NBA history, AND making it into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1996? You learn to "Respect Everybody. Fear Nobody."
Coach Nancy Lieberman has been dominating basketball since she was a young girl playing in Harlem, and she quickly moved up to the highest level of competition in the basketball world. Mentored by Muhammed Ali, allied with Kobe Bryant, and known by millions as "Lady Magic," it's safe to say Coach Lieberman knows a thing or two about winning.
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SEASON 2 IS HERE!
How do you become one of America’s greatest coaches?
You do it through struggle, competition, hard work, and by giving people what they want—which is to be coached.
When LSU’s legendary strength and conditioning coach Tommy Moffitt walks into the locker room, his team tells him to “coach me harder, hold me more accountable, make me do the right thing.”
For 20 seasons, Coach Moffitt has done just that. He has spent two decades helping strength train and condition the LSU football team, who have won 187 games during that span. So if you want to know: How do I make winning an all-the-time thing? How can I use technology to more effectively develop myself and my people in real-time? And what does it take to be a truly great coach? Then it’s time to….
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[3:14] How Moffitt launched his coaching career
[7:02] How to make your worst day better than everyone else’s best day
[10:14] Adapting coaching styles for future generations
[11:31] Using tech to train more successfully
[18:14] Dealing with ‘kids today’
[23:18] What to look for when hiring
[27:30] Concluding thoughts
“A true seller is someone who can create an opportunity where one did not exist.”
No one understands this better than today’s guest Lance Tyson. Lance is the Founder and CEO of Tyson Group, a renowned sales and negotiation advisor, and a bestselling author and keynote speaker. Lance has been training sales leaders who work for America’s professional sports teams for over three decades and has led negotiation strategies on multi-billion-dollar naming rights and sponsorship deals for the nation’s biggest sports stadiums.
If you’re interested in sales, leadership, sports, negotiation, professional development, or learning to connect better with your people, then this is an episode you won’t want to miss.
We chose Lance as our first guest for Season 2 of Bring It In because he’s one of the top sales and negotiation leaders in the country who has great insights and advice for every worker. So for the first time in 2021…
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What a year!
When you’re a startup, every year is a wild ride. And as we all know, 2020 proved to be even wilder than usual. We decided to focus on what we learned and what we’re looking forward to this upcoming year. In the final episode of Season 1, Sam and Jaime sit down to reflect on a truly historic year and talk about the top skills and traits that are necessary for coaches and workers to have going into 2021.
Thank you all to all of our listeners for liking, sharing, and subscribing to Bring It In. Stay tuned for more to come in Season 2.
Here’s to 2021…Let’s Bring It In!
“There's no such thing as luck. The harder you work, the luckier you get. If you work hard and you do all the right things, you're going to get really lucky.”
These words of wisdom are from today’s guest, Art Berke. Art is the Associate Director, advisor, and faculty member of the Global Sports Business M.S. Program at Rutgers University. He has decades of experience working at the highest levels of the sports industry with Major League Baseball, ABC Television, and Sports Illustrated. Art also works as an editor and writer for the official Chicago White Sox blog and as a content editor and writer for all White Sox publications. Throughout his career, Art has also authored five popular books and served as the editor-in-chief of an award-winning sports encyclopedia for children.
Art’s session is personal for the 1Huddle team, because Art has been a professor and mentor for several of our team members and interns. In today’s episode, Art will share some of his innovative ideas on how we can change our education system to better prepare students for the future of work. This is an episode you won’t want to miss, so…
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“People are very adaptive and resilient. When you put people in a crisis environment the best of them comes out.”
This quote comes from today’s guest Sampath Sowmyanarayan, the President of Global Enterprise for Verizon Business. Sampath leads the $12 billion global enterprise business that enables Verizon's enterprise customers to connect with the global economy and intelligently manage business interactions and operations in real-time. He has decades of experience leading global teams to success, and is known as one of the industry’s greatest leaders when it comes to utilizing today’s technologies to set the stage for future growth and prosperity.
Prior to joining Verizon Business, Sampath served as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Strategy and Transformation at Verizon Media, and was Verizon’s Chief Product Officer with responsibility for implementing major strategic initiatives.
This is one of the most insightful and memorable conversations we’ve had yet, so…
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Today’s guest, Eric LeGrand, is one of the biggest inspirations in sports, leadership, and perseverance. Eric is a former Rutgers football player and a renowned motivational speaker, sports broadcaster, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. During his junior year as a defensive tackle for Rutgers in 2010, Eric suffered a severe spinal cord injury while making a tackle and became paralyzed.
He joined us for Compete 2020 to share his experience and discuss how we can build
successful habits, persevere in the face of adversity, and build more inclusive cultures and organizations.
On today’s episode, Eric also shares some of the amazing things he’s accomplished over the past decade including writing the inspirational book “Believe: My Faith and the Tackle That Changed My Life,” and founding a charity. Eric’s charity, “Team LeGrand of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation,” raises money to find a cure for paralysis and improves the quality of life for people with spinal cord injuries.
Eric brings a lot of wisdom and important insights for every leader to today’s episode, so…
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“I hope the future of work enables the average human being to find work that's fulfilling and provides them with a good quality of life.”
Today’s guest, Shavar Jeffries, joined Compete 2020 to discuss how education policy, law, and racial and economic justice will influence the future of work. Shavar is an inspiring leader and native New Jerseyan who has devoted his life and career to helping break down barriers and create a more equitable workforce and education system for all Americans.
He is an accomplished Civil Rights Attorney, Law Firm Partner at Lowenstein Sandler LLP, and President of Democrats for Education Reform, a national political organization seeking to expand educational policies that will empower students from every background.
Shavar is a leader in the Newark community who has big ideas for how we can create a stronger educational system and make the future of work better for all of us. You aren’t going to want to miss this Compete session that empowered both current and future leaders to take action, so...
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Leadership is simple.
Or at least it can be, if you focus on mastering your talent and using the tools you already have to become a great leader. Our guest today, Alex Willis, is someone who has done just that and built his career around teaching others how to do it too.
Alex is the CEO of Leadership Surge and has spent 15 years working with companies to improve their leadership culture. For two decades, Alex has been a leader in many fields including financial services, pharmaceutical sales, and business development. He’s also a former wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
No one knows how to inspire and coach people better than a professional football player turned professional leadership coach, so…
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Albert Einstein once said “The tool is irrelevant. The skill is in the person who’s using the hammer.”
Ok, Einstein didn’t say that. Those words of wisdom are from our guest today, Dr. Tabari Baker. Tabari is an accomplished scholar and leader in the healthcare industry serving as the Scientific Affairs Manager at Roche Diagnostics Corporation. He received his Ph.D. in Tumor Biology from Georgetown University and is using his education and expertise to help eradicate health disparities and homelessness in Washington, D.C.
Tabari is an intentional, thoughtful leader with the ability to connect people across different industries and backgrounds, and he brings decades of expertise to today’s conversation. This is an episode you won’t want to miss so…
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How can we maintain strong personal connections with our team when we can’t be physically together? How can leaders create and maintain a positive mindset during challenging times? What are the five attributes all successful people share?
Our guest today is an expert at empowering workers and creating a positive mindset that will inspire your team. Catherine Monson, the CEO and President of FASTSIGNS International, has been a leader in franchising for over 20 years. She’s known as one of the most innovative and inspiring leaders in the business, and we’re excited to share her interview with you.
This is a session you don’t want to miss so…
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Senator Kerrey served as the Governor of Nebraska and as a United States Senator from Nebraska for more than a decade. Before embarking on his career in politics, Senator Kerrey was a Navy SEAL officer in the Vietnam War, where he was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in combat.
Now, he sits on the board at Issue One, a nonprofit focused on campaign finance reform and getting big money out of politics. He was also president of The New School, a university in New York City.
Today’s episode is an excerpt from the conversation between Senator Kerrey and Sam Caucci from our first live virtual event, Compete 2020.
With the election here, you’re not going to want to miss this historic episode of the pod so…
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What does it mean to be a true leader during a crisis? How can we lead with humility while still taking swift action in a moment of uncertainty? How can a leader be vulnerable with their team when everyone is looking to them for comfort and guidance?
There’s no one better to tackle these challenging questions than today’s guest, Dr. Shereef Elnahal. Dr. Elnahal is the President and CEO of University Hospital in Newark. He previously served as New Jersey’s 21st Commissioner of Health in the administration of Governor Phil Murphy and was appointed by President Barack Obama as a White House Fellow to the US Department of Veterans Affairs.
Dr. Elnahal has led an entire hospital through the COVID pandemic, and he shared some important insights with us today that you’re going to want to hear so…
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How can we make our workforce more inclusive and remove the systemic barriers that prevent millions of workers and students from achieving their full potential?
Dr. Lisa Chen will provide insight into this important issue and many others on today’s episode. Dr. Chen is an experienced research consultant serving as Principal of Crossroads Insights, a market research and consulting firm. Dr. Chen holds a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology and has spent over two decades specializing in diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as youth and education.
Today’s episode is an excerpt from the conversation between Dr. Chen and Kirk Madsen, 1Huddle’s VP of Sales. Their session is another excerpt from our first live virtual event, Compete 2020.
Dr. Chen is an expert in multiple fields, and we have been eager to share her session with you all. So, without further ado...
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How can we become true innovators and use technology to improve health for all?
Here to help answer that question is Tracey Pierce, Senior Vice President of Learning and Development and Strategic Outreach at CommonSpirit Health. CommonSpirit’s vision is to build a healthier future and serve the common good by finding new ways to advocate for our most vulnerable people.
Tracey chatted with 1Huddle team member Jared Center about how innovation can improve health for all and move everyone forward. She shares her experience as a healthcare leader helping to support our first responders and healthcare professionals during COVID and discusses how investing in our people means investing in the technology they need to succeed at work.
This episode of the pod is an excerpt from the conversation between Tracey and Jared from 1Huddle’s Compete 2020 event, our first ever live virtual summit.
This is one of our favorite sessions from the event so…
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You’ve got to sell to be successful and no one knows this better than our guest Steve Nudelberg.
Lifetime salesman, Principal Thinker at On The Ball Ventures, speaker, author, and sales coach, poured all of his sales knowledge into the great book,Confessions of a Serial Salesman.
Today, we got to sit down with Steve and go over some of his top practices to be a great salesperson, even in the midst of a historic pandemic.Let’s Bring It In!
How do you keep one of the oldest financial groups in the world on the cutting edge?
Mark Matthews is the Global Operations Head and Head of Digital Transformation at Deutsche Bank, driving the 150-year-old financial group into the future. Mark and Sam chatted about the future of work, the ramifications of COVID-19 and its impact on the financial industry, as well as the top digital trends that are leading companies toward success.
And…we have a guest appearance from another 1Huddle team member…
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What better person to talk future of work with than Prudential Financial’s own, Wagner Denuzzo, Head of Capabilities for Future of Work. Wagner joined us for Compete 2020, 1Huddle’s first ever live virtual summit.
He chatted with Sam on timely topics such as, the future of work, remote work, technology, our workforce, and more. What a great way kick off our Compete 2020.
The following podcast episode is an excerpt from the conversation between Wagner and Sam from 1Huddle’s Compete 2020.
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To watch the Compete 2020 series in its entirety, click here.
We’re excited about this one. Sam got a chance to sit down and chat with Peter Brown, renowned author of "Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning." Peter's book is a groundbreaking read on the science of learning.
As a retired management consultant, Peter's has worked with major corporations, as well as branches of the United States Armed Forces. Through his consulting work, Brown became fascinated by the process in which people really learn and why most learning doesn't stick. During our sit down we chat about what managers get wrong when onboarding new employees, why struggle is critical to memory, and how learning to learn is a really important life skill.
So, let’s bring it in!
Fitness Guru, author, and entrepreneur, Todd Durkin turned one of his greatest setbacks into his greatest strength. After sustaining a career ending injury in his football career, Todd began working and training professional athletes like Drew Brees and Darren Sproles. From there he developed the San Diego Based athletic center, Fitness Quest 10, the first of many companies under Todd Durkin Enterprises.
We caught up with Todd to dive into his biggest takeaways from his new book, Get Your Mind Right, and how one’s mindset is the most important aspect in building a business...let’s bring it in!
Scott Andersen is the VP of Sales at Broadridge, a global financial technology leader that’s capitalizing on what’s next for communications, data, and analytics to transform businesses. Over 5,000 brands trust Scott and Broadridge to deliver essential communications to their clients and Scott’s experience as a veteran sales leader is an essential part of that process.
We sat down with Scott and chatted about some of the key strategies in his playbook, when shouldering such a huge responsibility...let’s bring it in!
Today we catch up with longtime friend Jarred Fajerski, SVP of North American Operations for Hand & Stone Massage.
Jarred has been an essential part of Hand & Stone’s meteoric rise in franchising since 2005, recognized as Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 100 Franchises and Franchise Times Top 10 Fastest Growing Brand, with over 400 locations throughout the United States and Canada.Jarred shares some of his best practices and insights on how getting the most out of your people leads to rapid growth...let’s bring it in!
Today we've got former MLB Pitcher, LSU Quarterback, and entrepreneur Josh Booty aka 'The Quarterback Whisperer' on the show!
As a star quarterback at LSU and a MLB pitcher for the Florida Marlins, Josh took his passion for excellence to the business world. Harnessing his network and experiences on the field, Josh shares his insights on his process to become a partner and owner in dozens of brands...let's Bring it in!
Today we’re joined by Former NFL QB and entrepreneur, Drew Bledsoe!
After playing 11 years in the NFL, Drew used the experience and lessons that he learned to start his own winery, Doubleblack. He faced a lot of challenges in building his brand to what it is today and he’s here to talk about his experience and share some advice...Let’s bring it in!
We catch up with motivational speaker, Olympic athlete, author, and Founder and CEO of Training for Warriors, Martin Rooney. He shares some of the biggest points from his new book Coach to Coach and some key takeaways on leadership, coaching, and more.
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