LeaderTHRIVE with Dr. Jason Brooks: Recent Episodes
Dr. Jason Brooks
Welcome to LeaderTHRIVE podcast with Dr. Jason Brooks. Our goal is to equip and empower executive leaders and the organizations they serve to achieve their unique best and thrive.
Ash is a marketplace connector, executive leader and professional services expert. He is President and CEO of Lionheart Partners, a premier consulting firm serving clients through Business Advisory, Leadership Development and Executive Coaching services.
Ash is also a regular speaker and contributor on the topics of relationship management, workplace trends, resilience, diversity, human resources and risk management.
Connect with Ash at https://lionheart.partners/
Dr. Doug Brackmann is one of the leading psychologists to some of the most successful and Driven entrepreneurs, pro athletes, executives, and other top performers and creator of the Driven Assessment and Driven Shooting Meditation (it’s as crazy as it sounds). By combining the components of meditation, long-range shooting, and therapy, Dr. Doug helps those with Driven characteristics (often wrongfully diagnosed as ADD, ADHD, OCD, or other) to harness their hunter abilities so they can stop self-sabotaging, find fulfillment in life, and achieve the ultimate success. You can connect with Dr. Brackmann at www.iamdriven.com
Today’s guest, Eliot Popkin, is the multifaceted author behind Circle: Letters to My Younger Self. Eliot is an award-winning singer-songwriter who has overcome many obstacles to find success. He is a fighter who loves and enjoys the simple beauties in life: a good laugh, a good cry, awesome food, the setting of the sun and the rising of a new day three thousand miles away. All of these components are included in his new coming-of-age memoir, Circle: Letters to My Younger Self.
You can connect with Eliot a thecircleletter.com and www.eliotpopkin.com
Today’s guest, Dr. Trevor Blattner, is a podcast host, author of the book Redefining The Top 1%, and a leading thinker on Shepherd Leadership—a modern approach to leadership designed to encourage leadership that guides, supports, and uplifts. With over 20 years of research and coaching, Dr. Blattner has developed a model of leadership that breaks free of the antiquated and regressive notions of what it means to lead. His enlightened approach to leadership is based on behavioral science, personal experience, and a strong commitment to personal values. Connect with Dr. Blattner at www.trevorblattner.com
Today’s guest, Rick Maurer, is a speaker, author, consultant, and expert on helping leaders avoid resistance to change. Since the publication of his book Beyond the Wall of Resistance in the 1990s, Rick’s opinion has been sought by The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, NBC Nightly News, Fortune, and many other media outlets. Some of the largest companies in the world ask for his advice on ways to avoid resistance to change and ways to build strong support for changes and other big projects.
Connect with Rick at www.RickMaurer.com
Cory Lee is an entrepreneur, business builder, and leader developer. He was trained and mentored by the world-renowned leadership expert John Maxwell and is now an executive director with The John Maxwell Team. In 2012 Cory and his wife opened their first business, a physical therapy clinic located in a town of only 1,100 people, Within 5 years they were billing over $2 million per year from that one location and had opened and successfully sold 2 physical therapy clinics and 4 gyms.
Cory is an accomplished speaker and is often invited to speak and train employees at companies looking to develop a culture of leadership. He also provides individual leaders with opportunities to maximize their own growth through one-on-one coaching and mastermind groups. Cory is most passionate about helping entrepreneurs navigate business growth but not at the expense of their faith, family, and fitness.
Connect with Cory at www.CoryLeeLeadership.com
Today’s guest, Keziah Robinson, is a business strategist, CEO coach, and investor. Described by her clients as a “shapeshifter” who “can coach business owners through any challenge at any stage of their business,” Keziah helps small business CEOs navigate the operational and existential challenges of scaling up, pivoting, and/or selling a business they’ve put their blood sweat and tears into. Keziah holds a BS in Physics from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and she serves on the advisory board of Private Packs, an innovator in the fast- growing femtech industry.
Connect with Keziah at www.cassia-partners.com
Experts estimate that in most companies, 70-90% of their investment in learning and development is wasted because participants don’t apply what they learned. This means they don’t get the return-on-investment they hoped for.
Meredith Bell knows why this happens and what you can do to improve your ROI. She’s spent the past 30 years working to create products and books that help people master communication skills. She has a deep understanding of what you can do to ensure that your learning and development programs stick.
Connect with Meredith at www.GrowStrongLeaders.com
For 25-years Jim Kukral has been writing books, keynote speaking, and building successful lifestyle businesses as a marketing entrepreneur. But the pandemic and a near-death diagnosis of colon cancer changed everything for Jim in 2020, so he threw away all his past success to start something completely different, a new brand called Life Apocalypse.
What’s a Life Apocalypse? Well, get ready because Jim is going to tell you and also help you create your very own.
Learn more about Jim and his work at LifeApoc.com
In 2001, Scott Sunderland found himself going from a 35-year-old athletic father, husband, and business owner to lying in a hospital bed unable to move. Using visualization techniques over the course of a year, Scott was able to heal himself.
However, old limiting beliefs, past traumas, and disempowering mental habits came back to haunt him when, in 2012, he watched his best friend drown in front of his eyes. Blaming himself, he was broken once again. Standing in a room on fire,
Scott was faced with running through those flames to end up at the empowered life that he lives now.
Today, he shows others how to run through their own flames to find freedom from their own minds and limitations in order to live a life of passion and purpose.
Connect with Scott at www.TheFreedomProject222.com
Today, we welcome Deborah Coviello. After 25+ years in Quality and Operational Excellence roles, Deb has a deep understanding for what’s important when it comes to creating solutions for CEO’s by assessing the landscape, solving their technical business issues and elevating their people for a lasting impact and ultimately – peace of mind. She is here today to help share a bit of how The CEO’s Compass can bring you “Peace of Mind”.
Learn more about Deb's great work at www.DropinCEO.com
Just a few years ago, Zack Boothe was a window cleaner. You can even find his window cleaning tutorial videos on youtube with millions of views. However, Zack always dreamt of being a real estate investor. Taking a leap of faith, he walked away from window cleaning, and within a handful of years, he was making over a million dollars per year from real estate investing. With his successful business, he now spends his time helping others see how simple it is to make money with real estate. Zack is here today to share his insider secrets to finding massively discounted properties regardless of your experience level.
Connect with Zack Boothe
Joining us today is Cliff Oxford, founder of CliffCo., an international think tank symposium, to discuss his third book, Redneck Reverie: The Rationale for the Trump Phenomenon. which combines data-driven insights and real life experiences to explain Donald Trump’s election to the White House and the intersection with rural cultures across America. Having lived his life among both country folk and the elite, Cliff has the exact insights needed to not only help explain how we got here, but to provide guidance on the road moving forward.
Today’s guest is Kris Kelso. Kris is a keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and is the author of “Overcoming The Impostor: Silence Your Inner Critic and Lead with Confidence“.
Trained and certified as an executive coach, Kris has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs, business owners, and their leadership teams. He is a faculty instructor at the Professional Christian Coaching Institute, an advisor and instructor at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, a Facilitator / Coach with The Alternative Board, and is a contributing writer for publications including Fast Company Magazine, Yahoo Finance, and The Nashville Business Journal.
Contact Kris to learn more about his work at www.KrisKelso.com
Steve Cockram is dedicated to empowering the leader in everyone. He is an international speaker, author, and consultant to top-level executives and leaders around the world. He is a subject matter expert on personality and wiring, organizational leadership, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal communication.
Steve is the co-founder of GiANT Worldwide, a global leadership consultancy. He is also co-author of the books 5 Gears and 5 Voices and their newest book, The 100XLeader. Steve’s passion for leaders, team communication, change management and work/life balance is clearly echoed through his books, speaking and executive consulting. He is the coach to a number of CEOs and is a sought after speaker both in the US and in his native UK. He inspires audiences to create better organisations through his heart-level stories, use of humour and expertise in human interactions.
Corey began his storytelling career as an actor, starring in one of the 50 greatest super bowl commercials of all time (Mountain Dew, Bohemian Rhapsody) and in campaigns for American Express, Miller Beer, Mitsubishi, Wrigley's Gum, Hasbro, and other name brands.
Today, Corey is the founder and CEO of Round Table Companies (RTC). He has been featured on the cover of the Wall Street Journal and his work in storytelling has been quoted/featured in the New York Times, USA Today, and Inc., Forbes, and Wired Magazines. Corey pioneered the business comic book, packaging and publishing dozens of titles—including best sellers by Tony Hsieh, Marshall Goldsmith, and Robert Cialdini—and has spent over a decade guiding CEOs, founders, and thought leaders to set up a storytelling ecosystem around their brand, including writing the book they were born to write.
He is an avid supporter and sponsor of Conscious Capitalism, and the publisher of Conscious Capitalism Press. His work has yielded 15 Independent Publisher Awards, a Belding, a Bronze Lion, and a London International Advertising Award. His articles have been published in Writer Magazine, and on FastCompany, Forbes.com and The Huffington Post. He is also the creator of the Vulnerability Wall—whose clients include Microsoft, ADP, Marketo, and Workday—and the Vulnerability is SexyTM card game. His documentary of the same name won 2017 ADDY and HERMES awards for branded content. Corey travels around the country delivering keynotes and facilitating storytelling workshops for organizations of all sizes.
Mila Grigg is passionate about brand, leadership and image. Her consulting firm, MODA, was born out of Mila's passion to help others succeed by sharing what she has learned in the world of business, fashion, brand, sales and marketing.
Her career began in the insurance industry with a quick transition to the music industry; and then to a firm where she worked with athletes, entertainers, professionals and businesses in the area of brand and marketing. She has even spent a tremendous amount of time working in the ultimate branding sport of NASCAR, and has worked with some of the top stars bringing together their corporate sponsorships. She was working with BRAND before it became the word of the century.
As a business owner and someone who has worked in and up the leadership, image and brand business, Mila brings something of added value to every client she has, sharing her strong faith, hard work ethic, values, integrity, extensive relationships and business savvy with everyone she serves. She is often a guest contributor to numerous publications, speaking to groups and associations across the U.S., while being an expert consultant on television and hosting seminars and training thousands. She has been honored as a Forty under 40 recipient and a Woman of Influence by the Nashville Business Journal.
Jonathan Keyser is the founder and thought leader behind Keyser, the largest commercial real estate tenant brokerage/consulting firm in Arizona. Through his disruptive focus on selfless service, Jonathan is re-shaping the commercial real estate industry, and his firm has quickly become one of the fastest-growing firms of its kind in the country, representing companies globally across multiple industries.
Jonathan is thrilled to share his journey and mission of selfless service through his highly-anticipated book, You Don’t Have to Be Ruthless to Win, anticipated to release this summer. A strong supporter of the Conscious Capitalism movement, Jonathan is working toward the upcoming launch of The Keyser Institute to inspire and equip the next generation of selfless leaders.
A “Top 10 Executive Coach on LinkedIn,” John Murphy is a results oriented business coach and mentor to senior executives and CEOs around the world. He’s a great communicator with broad experience and is skilled at discussing issues that make businesses and individuals grow and thrive.
John is a #1 Best Selling Author on Amazon. His book, 10 Key Traits of Top Business Leaders is a must read for any executive with leadership aspirations. Living and working in the south of France, John is originally from Ireland. Before starting his own business John enjoyed a highly successful career in the corporate world. He began as a door-to-door life assurance salesman and culminated as the CEO of a Pan European Life Assurance Company in Ireland.
John started his business, John Murphy International, in 2004 and has worked worldwide across a broad range of industries. His clients include Pfizer, Airbus, State Street Bank, Vodafone and Johnson & Johnson. Your entrepreneurial audience will benefit from John’s succinct and pithy insights into emotional intelligence, leadership, team success, mindset, strategy and more. John is absolutely passionate about helping people to win in their careers and to win in their personal lives!
Matt Malouf is a passionate business coach, entrepreneur, speaker, author, and podcast host on a mission to help entrepreneurs around the world break the shackles of mediocrity and reach new levels of personal and business success. Matt has experience at every stage of the business lifecycle, from conception to exit strategy.
His business coaching methodology is simple: understand your current position, map out your journey, and establish measurable goals to track progress along the way. By focusing more on accountability than quick fixes, Matt’s coaching has helped his 1,000+ clients add millions of dollars in turnover without adding pressure on internal resources. Matt takes a holistic approach to uncovering business roadblocks, then utilizing a hybrid of tools to creatively overcome challenges by implementing and fine-tuning proven business systems. Whether working with startups or established businesses, Matt refines every detail from the ground up, ensuring each business is both efficient and profitable.
Matt’s coaching program, Profitable LIfestyle Business, incorporates strategies outlined in his best-selling book The Stop Doing List, inspiring entrepreneurs in any industry to address their most crucial business needs and build a thriving business allowing them to live a 500/40/30 lifestyle ($500,000 annual profit, working no more than forty x 30-hour weeks per year).
Joe Calloway helps great companies leaders and companies get even better. His workshops and interactive keynote presentations help develop leaders, create more effective teams, and improve performance for successful businesses who know that they can, and should, be doing more with the people and resources that they already have.
Joe’s client list reads like an international Who’s Who in business, ranging from companies like Proctor & Gamble and Coca Cola to Cadillac and American Express. Joe also works extensively with small to mid-sized businesses, franchisees, and a range of professional services organizations.
Joe is the author of seven books on business performance, including Becoming A Category of One, Be The Best At What Matters Most, Magnetic: The Art Of Attracting Business, Keep it Simple: Unclutter your Mind. Uncomplicate your Life, and his latest book The Leadership Mindset: How Today's Successful Business Leaders Think.
CEO and Founder of DiversyFund, Craig Cecilio’s mission is to disrupt traditional alternative asset investing and empower the average investor by giving them the same wealth building opportunities available to the 1%. Craig’s visionary approach to democratizing alternative asset investing combines the power of crowdfunding with cutting-edge technology through DiversyFund’s online platform.
As CEO, Craig oversees the daily development and strategic execution of DiversyFund. This includes delivering the messaging and branding to the public, hiring the best people and constantly innovating to break down the barriers that prevent the average investor from participating in alternative asset investing. Craig is also an experienced fund manager and manages DiversyFund’s no-fee real estate fund that has returned over 10 percent since inception.
Prior to founding DiversyFund in 2014, Craig worked for nearly 20 years in real estate as a joint venture equity partner, lender and sponsor. A natural entrepreneur, Craig has utilized his networking skills to lead the development of over 1,000 single family residences, financing more than $1 billion worth of real estate assets.
Businessman and Life Coach, Aaron Walker, has inspired many through his leadership, mentorship, and consistent pursuit of excellence. He enjoys helping others and believes experience is a great teacher.
36 years of entrepreneurship and marriage have given Aaron a wealth of experience. Aaron continues to reach new heights and broaden his perspective of the terrain by examining his experiences and growing from them.
Aaron has two life mantras: Fear missing an opportunity more than you fear failure Can’t couldn’t do it, and Could did it.
With nearly two decades experience in traditional corporate jobs (including time in investment banking, consulting and industry), Kristen Zavo understands the frustrations, fears and challenges that come with realizing you’re in the wrong profession – and figuring out what to do next.
As a recovering workaholic and former consultant and corporate strategist, she understands the frustrations, fears and challenges that come with realizing that you’re in the wrong profession. She believes everyone deserves a career that excites and inspires them – and the feeling of happiness and fulfillment that comes from meaningful work.
Through her work as an executive coach, speaker, workshop facilitator and as the author of Job Joy, she has formally and informally helped thousands of clients, colleagues and friends find job satisfaction – whether they chose to stay put, find a new job or completely change careers.
Jeremie Kubicek specializes in getting leaders to a higher level through his speaking, consulting and books. He takes complex concepts and adapts them into powerful tools that are practical and scalable. Jeremie speaks worldwide to audiences of all sizes across various industries and sectors.
In addition, Jeremie is a best-selling author of the books Making Your Leadership Come Alive; 5 Gears: How to be present and productive when there is never enough time; 5 Voices: How to Communicate with everyone you lead; & The 100X Leader.
Dr. Gus Vickery is a committed family physician with extensive experience working in the medical field. He specializes in helping people with a wide array of chronic health conditions to take the actions necessary to reverse these conditions and feel their best.
By providing comprehensive health assessments based on extensive biometric data and intensive personal engagement, Gus helps his patients create a detailed lifestyle and medicinal health optimization plan built around their unique needs. Gus is passionate about healing people, not just treating their symptoms, and he’s radically changing the way we view health.
His mission today is educating people to transform old habits into new patterns for living by mastering stress, increasing movement, practicing meditation, improving willpower, maximizing sleep, and enjoying nutrition.
In his book Authentic Health, Gus dives into each of these themes, inspiring us all to dig a little deeper and reclaim the good health that’s within each of us.
Biagio Sciacca, or Bill as his friends call him, is one of the most dynamic speakers on the planet. He has a way of melding social sciences, humanities and plain old common sense into a unique, action packed message that resounds with self motivation and enthusiasm.
Over the years, Bill has owned an award winning consulting and training organization, a chain of donut and ice cream franchises, and several businesses in the automotive/car care industry. Bill’s consulting company touts several thousand clients from locally owned firms to multinational Fortune 500 companies. Now he’s empowering leaders of all levels to grow through an experiential leadership training program in Costa Rica.
John Fairclough founded The Resicom Group to help retailers optimize the way they improve and maintain their store environment. Under his leadership, the company has evolved from a local construction company into an international provider of facility maintenance and construction services.
Now John enjoys sharing his story to inspire others. John leans on his faith to help him persevere through the difficulties of overcoming the status quo. He values people and understands the balance needed between the strength and consistency of process and the value of personal dignity. He relishes the oxymoronic tone to solutions. What people quickly discard is often the best course of action.
His best virtues were incubated by extreme poverty and forged through his unlikely business success. Humility and justice are the invisible stains of his diverse and adverse experiences. Naturally, people come first for him and finding a way to see their good, wanting them to obtain their missing good, staying hopeful for them are the things he works very intentionally on.
It’s 100% certain that everyone listening to this podcast is experiencing some kind of change or transition in their life or business. How you navigate these transitions determines your ultimate success.
Today’s guest is John Hinkle, an author, speaker, and personal growth coach who’s empowering men and women to navigate those changes and find their “second-half purpose.” John’s experience working with Fortune 500 companies has equipped him with unique tools to help others reach their own personal and business success goals.
He’s here today to share 5 practical and transformational principles from his book, Shift: Moving from Where You Are to the Life You Want, to empower you to move from your current unfulfilled status to a future of success and purpose. Welcome to the show, John! After a successful career as a global corporate leader responsible for building some of the world’s most notable brands, John Hinkle began his own SHIFT journey.
It began when his career was unexpectedly upended through a corporate merger. The event became a pivotal time of questioning and reflection, which led to the discovery of five core principles he developed to master his own life and career change. It was during that same time that John began sharing these principles with many other mid-career people, who he describes as the ‘working worried:’ men and women who no longer feel vital or safe in their careers, who (like John himself) want to take control of their futures, yet feel stuck not knowing what steps to take to achieve the career and life they’ve longed to have.
What started out as a personal discovery has now developed into a powerful and life-changing program called SHIFT Principles. SHIFT Principles is teaching men and women around the world how to navigate and master their own SHIFT journeys and to realize their success and purpose on their own terms.
John is the co-founder of SHIFT Principles, LLC, a personal coaching organization. He is also co-author of Shift: Moving From Where You Are to the Life You Want, in which he empowers readers with big dreams to chase their goals and achieve success.
Krister Ungerboeck is a keynote speaker, CEO Coach, and global expert in The Language of Leadership. Prior to retiring at age 42, Krister was the award-winning CEO of one of the largest family-owned software companies in the world.
His expertise in the Language of Leadership is based upon his unique experience as a global CEO leading teams in three languages while observing and doing business with executives in over 40 countries, building businesses in six and living in three.
As a corporate keynote speaker, Krister is passionate about sharing the secrets that his team used to win 5 consecutive Top Workplace awards and achieve remarkable employee engagement levels of 99.3%.
His upcoming book, The Language of Leadership: Words to Transform How We Lead, Live and Love, will be published in spring 2019.
Dr. Daphne Scott, the founder of DS Leadership Life, specializes in creating mindful leaders and mindful organization through leadership coaching programs that focus on mindfulness, positivity, creativity, and fun.
Daphne has developed her coaching programs throughout two decades of real world coaching and corporate development experience. She draws on her unique background in improv theater and physical therapy to bring engaging embodiment and team-building elements to her coaching, along with strong leadership abilities and highly-trained facilitation skills to bring individuals and teams into greater relationship, creativity, and ultimately, success.
Daphne holds a Masters Degree in Applied Positive Psychology and a Doctorate of Science in Physical Therapy, as well as multiple accolades in the field of professional coaching and development. She’s studied with top-level executive coaches, consciousness experts, and organizational psychologists, and she’s here to share her insight to help us all take our work and lives to the next level.
Two of the key principles of a Catalyst Leader is being “committed to growth” and a “builder of strong relationships”. Mastermind groups have been around since the beginning of time. Even Benjamin Franklin belonged to a mastermind. But it was Napoleon Hill who explained it clearly and encouraged people to gather together in a structured, repeatable environment for the success of all. Napoleon Hill wrote about the mastermind group principle as: “The coordination of knowledge and effort of two or more people, who work toward a definite purpose, in the spirit of harmony.”
Today we’re going to unpack the idea of a mastermind in our conversation between Jay Sharp and Dr. Jason Brooks
Michael Melcher is one of America’s leading executive coaches and is an expert on leadership and career development. He is currently a partner at Next Step Partners, a firm based in New York and San Francisco.
He is also the host of the podcast, “Meanwhile: A Podcast to Improve Your Life.” He previously held positions in business, law and the U.S. Foreign Service. His clients have included Google, Goldman Sachs, Doctors Without Borders, Ford Foundation, Population Services International, National Resources Defense Council, and many others.
Chris Aarons has helped launch dozens of companies and products using a unique mix of digital, sales, and marketing strategies.
Now, Chris has co-authored a powerful blueprint, The Digital Helix, to guide executives and business owners, and their companies, to thrive in the digital age. The power to act faster and do it better than before sits at the heart of truly digitally transformed organizations.
Terry A. Smith has served as lead pastor of The Life Christian Church (TLCC) for twenty-six years. TLCC is a non-denominational faith community in West Orange, NJ, serving the New York City metro area.
Terry is a co-founder of Movement.org (formerly the New York City Leadership Center) and has previously served as an instructor in its Leadership Fellows program. He is passionate about challenging, developing, and encouraging leaders, whether they know they are leaders or not. He holds a bachelor of science in organizational management and a master of arts in organizational leadership.
Terry is sharing his insight on leveraging the power of hospitality to be an effective leader through his book, The Hospitable Leader.
Jennifer is a former TV news reporter, wife, mother, desperate housewife, author, speaker, caregiver, widow, and now... a voice of resilience and rediscovery. With her effervescent personality and humor, she has channeled her grief into a passionate message of resilience and lessons learned through loss.
Today, she lives out her passion of inspiring and empowering others through her motto “Live Large & Live Long.” Through her book Beyond Invincible, Jennifer moves her audience to discover the simple principles of creating a remarkable life and leaving a profound legacy. With her front-line perspective of the Alpha Entrepreneurial profile as a renegade widow, Jennifer channels her grief into passion as she tells her late husband’s story about a life lived large -- but not long enough!
Jennifer is an avid snowboarder, wake surfer, cyclist, and yogi who loves to dance, travel, and entertain her lifelong friends with her storytelling. She is mother to Jessica (YouTube influencer) and Austin (pro hockey player), and lives in Scottsdale, AZ.
Jennifer Dawn is the owner of Jennifer Dawn Coaching. She began her entrepreneurial career selling apples off her grandfather’s tree because a lemonade stand was so “yesterday.”
At 23, Jennifer founded a software company and grew it from nothing to seven figures and then went on to become the Software Division President for a $54M manufacturing firm. She was then asked to lead and mentor a national network of women entrepreneurs and discovered a love for coaching.
Jennifer is a Mastery Level Profit First Certified Coach and a Provendus Growth Academy Coach. She has built two multi-million dollar businesses, is a published author, and accomplished speaker. Jennifer is dedicated to creating positive change in the lives of entrepreneurs globally. She uses heart-centered and authentic principles to guide business owners in building financially solid companies which in turn support and nourish overall wellbeing.
Callie Cummings is a best selling author and leading women's success coach and speaker. Working with clients, locally, nationally, and abroad, she helps individuals and teams become strategic action takers to further their careers, their professions, and their organizations.
The majority of her professional career occurred within male dominant workforces where she became accustomed to being the only woman on the team. At a time when women in combat zones is still being debated, she is am among a small group of women to have led ground combat troops during an overseas combat tour and proven the abilities and positive outcomes of women on the front lines for future generations.
Her coaching programs and workshops introduce a new, positive, and impactful way of playing the office politics game. Her clients walk away with practical tools and implementation strategies on how to create positive change within their organizations, and become influencers, without playing dirty politics.
Scott Beebe is the Founder and Head Coach of MyBusinessOnPurpose.com, and the host of the Business On Purpose podcast. He liberates Small Business owners from the chaos of working IN their business and helps to get their lives back by articulating and implementing intentional Vision/Mission/Values, Systems, and Processes.
To do this, Scott created Four Steps To Business Freedom, a six month group coaching experience exclusively built for Small Business owners (under $25mm and under 25 employees). The program guides business owners through building the systems and processes they need to get their businesses and lives back on track. Scott personally serves as a virtual Operations coach for Dan Miller and the 48 Days organization.
Welcome to LeaderTHRIVE podcast with Dr. Jason Brooks. In this one year anniversary episode, I'm joined with my new guest co-host Jay Sharp. We talk about the year of Dr. Jason Brooks Leadership Podcast in review, where we are today, and the new season ahead for LeaderTHRIVE Podcast, LeaderTHRIVE Daily and more.
Jim Jubelirer is a seasoned executive, coach and public speaker. Jim’s mission is to help leaders improve their business performance and personal satisfaction. Jim speaks to a wide variety of audiences about leadership and business excellence and motivates people to achieve Breakthrough Results.
He has designed and delivered custom training programs, and has delivered speeches, conference presentations and/or executive seminars to over 6,000 people from over 40 countries. Jim’s Massively Transformative Purpose is to create an equitable and sustainable world for everyone. His Moonshot is to see the transformation to 100% renewable energy worldwide in his lifetime.
Kelly Resendez, author of the new and already popular book Big Voices, is also founder of www.bigvoicesrise.com, a women-empowered network. She is passionate about helping people increase joy, reduce suffering, and learn to think differently.
Her own journey has helped her create the strategies and tools that she shares throughout her books. We all long to experience the extraordinary, yet so many of us seem content to settle for mediocrity and suffering. Why? Perhaps because we’ve allowed our “little voices,” the ones who say we’re not smart enough, pretty enough, good enough, to lead our actions and temper our desires.
Kelly Resendez is determined to change all that. She believes that life begins when you become aware of who you truly are. You can write a new story. You can have a Big Voice. Kelly’s uplifting message focuses on identifying and removing the barriers to self-actualization you have created. She’s spent years working on her own Big Voice, learning from the masters and she shares that hard-won knowledge with you.
Dr. Hans Finzel is a successful author, teacher, mentor and trusted authority in the field of leadership. He is the host of the popular “Leadership Answer Man” Podcast.
Dr. Finzel has trained leaders internationally on five continents. He and Donna, his wife, founded HDLeaders in 2012 where he serves as President. Prior to that, Dr. Finzel completed twenty years as President and CEO of international non-profit WorldVenture.
Dr. Finzel is the author of nine books, including his bestseller The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make, The Power of Passion in Leadership and his newest book Top Ten Ways to Be a Great Leader, His books have been published in over twenty foreign languages.
Wade T. Lightheart, host of the AWESOME Health Podcast, is a 3-time All Natural National Bodybuilding Champion, advisor to the American Anti-Cancer Institute and Director of Education at BiOptimizers Nutrition, one of the world’s most innovative nutritional supplement companies.
He is also the author of several books including the best-selling books, “Staying Alive in a Toxic World” and “The Wealthy Backpacker.” The AWESOME Health Podcast is a big part of his mission to help others fix their digestion and transform their health with the daily practice of positive principles, rituals and optimizers.
Few alive have traveled farther or crusaded harder on behalf of helping individuals transform their digestive health, wellness and overall lives than Wade T. Lightheart. After competing in Mr. Universe and his health failing him following a competition victory, Wade began to search for answers. In the process, he learned so much about what makes digestion work, along with other principles that form what he calls the AWESOME Health system.
Wade’s journey into vegetarianism and bodybuilding took his health to new heights, empowering him to help others with a unique perspective. Wade also serves as an advisor to the American Anti-Cancer Institute, and is the Co-Founder and Director of Education at BiOptimizers, a digestive health company.
Shannon Miles is a master delegator. She and her husband Bryan grew a 2 person operation into a staff of 60 corporate team members by seeing where they were the strongest and delegating the rest. They lead with trust and have a thriving business built on the premise that adults are adults and can handle their business. The pair are also visionaries on the virtual workplace.
Shannon’s passion, in addition to helping others realize the freedom they receive from delegating, is to bring to light the challenges women face in the workplace. From finding the courage to ask your boss for a flexible schedule, to deciding if there is an option for you outside 100% full-time onsite office work and a 100% full-time stay at home mom. Shannon has walked the walk and is here to lead other women on the journey to finding their own Third Option - which happens to be the title to her book.
David Quick is a “recovering bull in the china shop” who now uses his passion to help business leaders and their teams thrive. A 3-time CEO of rapid growth organizations, David now helps leaders thrive by sharpening their focus on Vision, Values, Expectations, Engagement.
David puts executive coaching, live events, keynote presentations and group sessions all to work to help create powerful herds of high performing bulls. His no-BS communication style speaks to high performing leaders of all levels.
A self-proclaimed reformed Corporate Burnout, Michelle Gomez managed to find a slower pace of career that allowed her time and space to address the Impostor Syndrome in her own life.
Michelle then turned her attention to helping other high achievers recognize and overcome their own Imposter Syndrome struggles, writing a book about her own journey, Own Your Brilliance.
An accomplished business executive with nearly 2 decades worth of experience in the male-dominated transportation and logistics industry, Michelle is also a strong advocate for women in the workforce; mentoring dozens of women to personal and professional success.
Karen Walker is a consultant, author, and advisor to CEOs and senior leaders. She helps her clients grow their companies with successful outcomes that include IPOs, acquisitions, market share increases, and significant leadership development. Her clients include Inc. 500 start-ups and Fortune 500 firms.
Prior to launching her consultancy, Karen was employee #104 at Compaq Computer - then the fastest growing company in American and fastest to $1billion in revenue. In her 14 years as VP/Operating Services, she helped spur the creation of more than $15 billion in value. She resides in Jupiter, Florida, although she can most often be found aloft in seat 2C. Her brand new book released October 2018 is No Dumbing Down: A No-Nonsense Guide for CEOs on Organization Growth, a book for a company’s senior-most leaders. It teaches them how to do a job only they can do: aligning the organization’s internal and external strategies for profitable, sustainable growth.
Karen’s work with organizations from Fortune 500s to Inc. 500 start-ups, creating the infrastructure they need to start and sustain growth, substantiates the 5 strategies and keys for execution outlined in this book. Her motto truly is “no dumbing down.”
Karen Brown is an unconscious mind expert in the field of leadership and professional performance, world-class ultra-endurance athlete, successful corporate executive, professionally certified executive coach, keynote presenter and best-selling author. Karen tackles critical topics in today’s business environment. She utilizes the powerful mechanism of the unconscious mind, where all learning, behaviors and growth happens.
After many years of coaching leaders, Karen discovered that the unconscious mind is the scientific key to elevated levels of success, with greater velocity and ease. This inspired her to found Velocity Leadership Consulting to bring this difference-making model and tools of success to all leaders.
Karen realized her own transformation and discovered the keys to achieving greater success in her personal and professional life when she achieved a 28-year dream of competing in the toughest race in the world, the IRONMAN World Championships in Kona, Hawaii, as an amateur, non-triathlete at age 46. She parlayed this experience to the business world and now helps CEOs, executives and managers connect with and realize their own goals, with greater velocity and ease.
She has two published works, the most recent, Unlimiting Your Beliefs: 7 Keys to Greater Success in Your Personal and Professional Life. Karen earned Master Practitioner certification in Neuro Linguistic Programming and Mental and Emotional Release from the Association for Integrative Psychology. She’s also a certified Personal and Executive Coach through the International Coaching Federation and Coaching & Positive Psychology Institute. A consummate learner, Karen investigates the latest scientific findings that unlock elevated professional performance and leadership.
She lives in Denver and finds happiness and personal expansion in training and competing on the international stage of ultra-endurance athletics.
A graduate of Canada's prestigious Royal Military College, Scott McCarthy has been exposed to leadership all his life. Since he was young, Scott has sought our leadership challenges wherever he could find them and constantly succeeded.
From being a school council member when at high school to commanding Canadian Forces soldiers he has the experience level to help anyone learn about leadership. Coupled with his natural gift as a public speaker, Scott has developed into the ideal lecturer for leadership training among junior executives.
Scott is also the host of the podcast, Moving Leadership Forward, which is downloaded by leaders around the world. Scott lives by the mantra: keep pushing, keep trying, keep moving forward...and he inspires others to do the same every day.
Larry Winget is the best branded, most recognizable speaker in the business. He has established himself as an icon in the world of personal development and self-help. You won’t find many people who don’t know or who won’t recognize him as a result of his six national bestsellers, his thousands of on-stage appearances or his many regular television appearances.
Larry was the first to be willing to take on the “positive attitude” motivational speakers and the Law Of Attraction bozos with his common sense, back to the basics approach. Larry still believes that hard work and excellence are the keys to success and communicates that like no other person on the planet can!
Larry makes you think. He makes you uncomfortable. He offers common sense solutions that are impossible to argue with. On top of all that, he is hilarious.
Elise Auxier (aux-ee-ur) is an ICF certified, professional executive and life coach and the owner of Gulfcoast Coaching in Tampa, Florida. Elise helps her clients understand and harness the power of their energy for greater leadership effectiveness.
For more than 30 years Elise has helped men and women expand their clarity, personal power and confidence. She partners with her clients to help them experience more of the life they really want. Together they illuminate what might be possible and turn it
into the achievable.
Elise coaches professional people who are hungry for higher performance, deeper engagement and more personal satisfaction and joy in their lives. People who feel both overwhelmed and underwhelmed by their lives and know that there has got to be more than this.
Ryan Cote is the Director of Digital Services and Partner at Ballantine, a third- generation direct mail and digital marketing company based out of Fairfield, NJ. With Ballantine since 2003, a family-owned business started in 1966 by his grandfather and great-uncle, Ryan now manages the growing digital marketing division.
From lead generation to marketing strategy for small businesses, Ryan and his company rise above the get-featured-quick schemes so often attributed to digital marketing. He loves to geek out on technical marketing talk as well as work with real-world business owners about growing their book of business in today’s online world.
Authors of the popular book Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work, married lawyers Andie Kramer and Al Harris have been mentoring women and speaking and writing about gender communication for more than 30 years. T
his power couple brings a unique viewpoint to both women and men looking to navigate gender bias. They are frequent keynote speakers, and conduct workshops for multinational organizations to better understand the world of gender bias.
Today they’re helping us understand that the glass ceiling still exists and what we can do to keep moving forward while working together.
Randy Pennington is a business performance veteran, award-winning author, and an expert in helping organizations deliver positive results in a world of accelerating change.
Randy has been fascinated with how great organizations and great leaders operate since he took his very first sociology and psychology classes in college. That interest grew in graduate school. And, he constantly evaluated his bosses and employers against the principles he was discovering. Randy was recruited to a boutique consulting firm at the age of 31. He became a partner and chief financial officer. Along the way, he consulted with and led organizational change efforts with Fortune 10 companies like Exxon, GE, and Procter & Gamble.
Randy opened Pennington Performance Group in 1990, and he’s been helping leaders and organizations build strong cultures and navigate change ever since.
Dynamic-Duo Lori Weir and Shari Strong are on a mission to change the world by building strong communities of strengths-focused leaders. Learn how you can grow as a high-impact leader by understanding your strengths through the StrengthsFinder assessment and leveraging your strengths every day!
Lori Weir is the founder and CEO of Relationship Architects. Relationship Architects pioneered the StrengthsGenius©curriculum, an innovative approach to organizational transformation that focuses on identifying the unique talents of individuals and teams based on the Clifton StrengthsFinder© assessment.
Shari Strong is an International Speaker, Workplace Development Consultant, and is known for her ability to get results. She ignites a new spark towards taking bold steps with new strategies on the “HOW” of adopting new ideas, adapting to change, and influencing those around them for an impact that is positive and creates results that are everlasting.
Rob Shallenberger is recognized globally as a leading authority in planning and execution. He is widely known for sharing his experience as a US fighter pilot to deliver fun, energetic, and highly impactful keynotes and seminars. Based on the National Bestselling book Becoming Your Best: The 12 principles of Highly Successful Leaders – which includes 40 years of research from peak performing companies – Rob shares powerful principles that propel teams and organizations to the top.
From the cockpit to the boardroom, Fortune 500 companies around the world have used his valuable lessons learned as a fighter pilot to ignite their teams and leaders and fuel high performance at every level.
As the CEO of Becoming Your Best Global Leadership, an award-winning leadership and corporate training company, Rob helps leaders around the world grow and lead powerful teams. He also co-hosts the popular podcast Becoming Your Best with his partner (and father) Steve Shallenberger. Together, they help listeners uncover the principles of highly successful leaders.
Lee Cockerell is the former Executive Vice President of Operations for the Walt Disney World® Resort. “As the Senior Operating Executive for ten years Lee led a team of 40,000 Cast Members and was responsible for the operations of 20 resort hotels, 4 theme parks, 2 water parks, a shopping & entertainment village and the ESPN sports and recreation complex in addition to the ancillary operations which supported the number one vacation destination in the world.”
Lee has served as Chairman of the Board of Heart of Florida United Way, the Board of Trustees for The Culinary Institute of America (CIA), the board of the Production and Operations Management Society and the board of Reptilia a Canadian attractions and entertainment company. In 2005 Governor Bush appointed Lee to the Governor’s Commission on Volunteerism and Public Service for the state of Florida where he served as Chairman of the Board.
He is now dedicating his time to public speaking, authoring a book on leadership, management and service excellence titled, Creating Magic…10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney. which is now available in 13 languages and his latest book, The Customer Rules…The 39 Essential Rules for Delivering Sensational Service. Lee also performs leadership and service excellence workshops and consulting for organizations around the world as well as for the Disney Institute.
On this episode of Dr. Jason Brooks Leadership Podcast: Leadership Questions and Answers, Dr. Brooks answers questions submitted by his listeners.
The focus of this episode is helping to understand one of the most important skills of a high-impact leader and how to apply this skill to your leadership..."Communication".
Let's see what Dr. Jason has to say...
Brian Dodd is a leadership blogger, podcaster, author, and expert extraordinaire. His objective is to add value to leaders and provide perspective, encouragement, and solutions to the issues they face daily.
Brian’s “day job” is Director of New Ministry Relationships for Injoy Stewardship Solutions where he helps churches fully-fund their mission and vision.
During the past three years, the readership of his website, www.briandoddonleadership.com, has grown to over 50,000 readers per month and he was named by Inc. Magazine as one of the Top 100 Speakers on Leadership. His first book, The 10 Indispensable Practices Of The 2-Minute Leader, provides practical steps to grow your leadership effectiveness starting now. Brian has recently released his second book, Timeless: 10 Enduring Practices of Apex Leaders.
Over the past 25 years Steven Morris has been a leader and innovator in the brand strategy, marketing and creative industries. He has built his company, Mth Degree, to be a purpose-driven, brand strategy consultancy and co-founded The Studio / Leadership Experiences Through Artistry.
He’s worked with more than 250 companies and 2,000 business leaders ranging from brands in consumer products, consumer electronics, education, government, non-profit, sports and entertainment.
Steven has also written and published two books, including Brand Love and Loyalty and Humanizing the Customer Journey Steven has been a speaker at numerous national and international conferences on design, branding, leadership and innovation topics.
He has also taught branding and design at Salisbury State University, San Diego State University and San Diego City College.
Halelly Azulay is on a mission to help leaders and managers become the kind of leader people actually want to follow (and successfully keep their good people) and to communicate in a way that gets heard and builds trust.
As a leadership and communication skills expert with 20+ years of experience, she’s helped tens of thousands of leaders and employees in all sectors to develop their people skills and become better communicators, better leaders, and better team members. Her goal is to help as many people as possible maximize their potential and grow their talent at work.
She’s also a ‘born-again networker’ – meaning that although she used to hate networking and avoid it like the plague, she learned how to redefine networking and leverage it to build and grow my credibility, visibility, and brand.
Halelly is the author of two books, Employee Development on a Shoestring (published by ATD, the world’s leading professional association for the talent development industry) and Strength to Strength: How Working from Your Strengths Can Help You Lead a More Fulfilling Life and publishes a weekly leadership podcast called The TalentGrow Show (now into its fourth year!).
As a CPA, Alex Vorobieff spent years cleaning up the financial messes of companies. He quickly began to see that the problems that drained into the “accounting sewer” were merely symptoms of a larger dysfunction within the company. But what was the root cause?
In his book, Transform Your Company, Vorobieff distills the lessons he has learned during his two decades coaching and consulting with frustrated business owners, bringing clarity to chaos for companies such as aerospace manufacturers, hospitality companies, healthcare providers, real estate developers, clothing retailers, and food product innovators, among others. Many of the business owners he’s worked with have cited the same problems: unproductive meetings, email hell, and spending all of their time fighting fires.
Owning a business is supposed to give you the freedom to live life on your terms, but instead many business owners find themselves with recurring business nightmares and dreading Monday mornings. They feel they are stuck in a circle of frustration. In Transform Your Company, Vorobieff introduces “business alignment tools”—a set of blueprints for building your business from the inner core.
As a CPA, Alex Vorobieff spent years cleaning up the financial messes of companies. He quickly began to see that the problems that drained into the “accounting sewer” were merely symptoms of a larger dysfunction within the company. But what was the root cause?
In his book, Transform Your Company, Vorobieff distills the lessons he has learned during his two decades coaching and consulting with frustrated business owners, bringing clarity to chaos for companies such as aerospace manufacturers, hospitality companies, healthcare providers, real estate developers, clothing retailers, and food product innovators, among others. Many of the business owners he’s worked with have cited the same problems: unproductive meetings, email hell, and spending all of their time fighting fires.
Owning a business is supposed to give you the freedom to live life on your terms, but instead many business owners find themselves with recurring business nightmares and dreading Monday mornings. They feel they are stuck in a circle of frustration. In Transform Your Company, Vorobieff introduces “business alignment tools”—a set of blueprints for building your business from the inner core.
Danny Nelms is President at The Work Institute, co-writer of The Why Factor: Winning With Workforce Intelligence, and a highly sought after public speaker, Danny Nelms is an agent of change and an expert in helping companies forge new directions that improve business results.
As an agent of change, a thought leader, an expert in helping companies forge new directions that improve business results and over 20 years of experience in leading in a variety of businesses, Danny influences corporate culture and human capital initiatives in areas including organizational improvement and effectiveness, leadership development, performance expectation, talent acquisition, executive coaching, succession planning, and mergers and acquisitions.
His proven track record in successfully managing teams in both human resources and corporate services, as well as his successes in aligning organizational strategies to achieve business objectives have made him a popular choice on the speaking circuit.
His insight into human capital dynamics of an organization based on sound data-driven research uniquely positions Danny to provide valuable recommendations for the challenges that organizations face and allows him to provide companies with the tools they need to successfully manage organizational improvement.
Steve Cockram is dedicated to empowering the leader in everyone. He is an international speaker, author, and consultant to top-level executives and leaders around the world. He is a subject matter expert on personality and wiring, organizational leadership, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal communication.
Steve is the co-founder of GiANT Worldwide, a global leadership consultancy. He is also co-author of the books 5 Gears and 5 Voices. Steve’s passion for leaders, team communication, change management and work/life balance is clearly echoed through his books, speaking and executive consulting.
He is coach to a number of CEOs and is a sought after speaker both in the US and in his native UK. He inspires audiences to create better organizations through his heart-level stories, use of humor and expertise in human interactions.
Steve has been married to Helen for 24 years, during which time they have lived in 12 different houses on two continents. They are now living back in the UK in Gerrards Cross, London with their three girls.
On this episode of Jason Brooks Leadership Podcast, Dr. Jason talks with Mark Goblowsky. Mark is an Air Force veteran, career martial arts professional, author, podcaster, and entrepreneur. He is on a mission to help others to overcome the obstacles in their life based on his own life experiences. Abuse, Violence, Abandonment...and that was just in his first six years.
His biggest challenge however, came as a father 11 years ago when his 31⁄2 year old son was the victim of a devastating hit-and-run collision with two semi-trucks, leaving him with Traumatic Brain Injury.
Mark believes the capacity of the human spirit is powerful enough to overcome any challenge in life. He’s here to help others discover not just how, but that they too have what it takes.
On this episode, Dr. Jason talks with Dr. James Kelly. Dr. Kelley, author of The Crucible’s Gift: 5 Lessons from Authentic Leaders Who Thrive in Adversity, brings a fresh perspective to leadership coaching and keynotes. His journey from a humble home in Portland, Oregon to earning his PhD and living near Dubai with his wife and four children is full of adversity.
James also has a keen interest in the adversity that shapes great leaders around the world. Whether it’s on his podcast Executives After Hours or giving a keynote speech at a conference, James loves to dive deep and share stories of how and why leaders need crucible moments to be a better version of the themselves.
James believes that his unique journey filled with ups and downs, twists and turns, and a driving curiosity, equips him to bring great value to the world of executive leadership.
On this episode of Dr. Jason Brooks Leadership Podcast: Leadership Questions and Answers, Dr. Brooks answers questions submitted by his listeners. The focus of this episode is helping to understand "What is leadership?" Questions answered are:
- What is leadership?
- What are some of the key traits of successful leaders?
- Can leadership be learned?
- What motivated you to start this podcast?
Send your questions for Dr. Jason to answer at www.DrJasonBrooks.com
Sarah Beckman graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism/Advertising. While staying home with her kids, she was also a “professional volunteer” at her church for over 15 years. She’s led Women’s and Evangelism Ministries, Marriage classes, Bible studies, and church-wide programs.
Since 2007, Sarah has been pursuing her calling as a professional speaker. She speaks to audiences across the country sharing her passion for loving people well. Her topics including: loving your neighbor, sharing your faith, safeguarding your marriage and digging up your talents.
Sarah writes a blog at sarahbeckman.org, and has written her first book titled, Alongside:A Practical Guide for Loving Your Neighbor in their Time of Trial. (Released February, 2017) Sarah is also a Certified Communications Coach at the SCORRE™ Conference, where she relishes in continually improving her craft and teaching others to become more powerful and focused communicators.
Married to Craig over 24 years and a mother to 3 teenagers, Sarah currently resides in Albuquerque, NM. Her life is made richer with family, friends, coffee, sailing, hiking and travel.
Isaac Tolpin is a tech entrepreneur and futurist at heart, on the mission of humanizing the digital learning experience to equip and fuel change in the world.
In the pursuit of making a difference through business, he’s lost, won, and learned a ton with over $105 million in combined revenues from the companies he’s been involved in building. His unique expertise in digital training that comes from:
- Extensive experience working with young adults leading a large direct sales organization enabling me to see first hand the changes and challenges in human behavior around technology and learning Executive experience building and leading 32 area managers and an overall leadership team of 120 across two states.
- Co-founded a 43 employee digital publishing company that produced digital training programs for top-tier influencers used for Corporate employee training and online marketing.
- An influencer in the digital training world, writing articles, many meetings with mainstream publishing companies, universities, large MOOCs, influencers and companies on overcoming the poor engagement challenges of digital training.
- Co-founded the tech company Throwing Boulders in 2001 with Stephen Rhyne, that launched its most important product ConveYour.com in 2016 that’s disrupting the digital training world.
Isaac brings a visionary mindset to my family by creating a legacy raising and educating their seven children with his wife Angie Tolpin of Courageousmom.com. He refuses to waste his life achieving the world’s definition of success that leaves so many feeling empty, but instead deeply cares about making a difference in the world through the projects he’s involved with, those he serves, and the family he leads.
Mark Sanborn, CSP, CPAE, is president of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., an idea studio dedicated to developing leaders in business and in life. Mark is an international bestselling author and noted expert on leadership, team building, customer service and change.
Mark Sanborn graduated cum laude from The Ohio State University. In addition to his work as a business educator and author, Mark continues to be an active leadership practitioner, including having served as the president of the National Speakers Association.
Mark holds the Certified Speaking Professional designation from the National Speakers Association (NSA) and is a member of the Speaker Hall of Fame. He was honored with the Cavett Award, the highest honor the NSA bestows on its members, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the speaking profession. Mark is also a member of the exclusive Speakers Roundtable, made up of 20 of the top speakers in America. He has created and appeared in 20 videos and numerous audio training programs. His video series Team Building: How to Motivate and Manage People made it to the #2 spot for bestselling educational video series in the U.S.
Mark’s list of over 2400 clients includes Costco, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, FedEx, Harley-Davidson, Hewlett Packard, Cisco, KPMG, Morton’s of Chicago, New York Life, RE/MAX, ServiceMaster, ESPN, GM, IBM, and John Deere.
Skip Prichard is an accomplished CEO who has run global businesses ranging from the startup phase to mature businesses with over $1.5 Billion in revenue. He has spent decades studying leadership psychology and interviewing over 1,000 of the most successful people in the world. His extensive library is packed with personal development books from today to dating back hundreds of years.
You may have read his articles on numerous sites or seen him featured in the news. His views have been featured in print and broadcast media including the BBC, The New York Times, CNN, NPR, The Daily Beast, Harvard Business Review, Information Today, The Bookseller, Publishers Weekly, Columbus CEO Magazine, Columbus Dispatch, The Tennessean.
All of the wisdom gleaned from a successful and wide-ranging leadership career, from decades of studying leadership psychology, and from over 1,000 interviews with the most successful people in life and business is packed into his new book, The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future.
He wants everyone to avoid the most common mistakes that hold people back from becoming successful change agents and leaders.
Caroline Stokes is a serial entrepreneur, human capital change agent, executive coach and podcast host for innovation leaders. She is passionate about helping people be the best they can be...and this starts with being their best and bringing their best and that starts with emotional intelligence.
Caroline spent 20+ years with innovation technology leaders (PlayStation, Virgin, Nokia) critiquing hiring practices, onboarding practices, engagement and leadership systems. She spent an additional five years working at a headhunting firm delivering executive level placements at Microsoft, Bethesda, Ziff Davis and Trinity Mirror. Caroline realized something was missing from the process: a high-touch, compassionate approach that left both the employer and talent closer to their seemingly impossible future.
In 2014, Caroline founded her conculting firm, FORWARD, with a vision to create a constantly evolving human capital solutions company, with an ethical and humanist headhunting process and executive coaching practice, for innovation leaders - so everyone can move forward. In addition, Caroline started The Emotionally Intelligent Recruiter with one goal in mind--to make recruiters thrive in the new AI world! With nearly ten years as an executive headhunter and coach (with clients such as Autodesk, Sony, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Disney and other innovation leaders) Caroline knows the challenges recruiters, candidates and hiring managers face.
Susan Peppercorn, an executive and career coach who enables mid, and senior-level professionals to find their next best career step, promotion, new job, career or entrepreneurial option.
Susan is the author of the new Amazon best-seller, Ditch Your Inner Critic At Work. In Ditch Your Inner Critic At Work, Susan makes the most compelling case yet that career satisfaction―and the full engagement that comes with it―is more important than ever in today’s workplace.
Frequently quoted, the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review and U.S. News and World Report are some of the publications that have tapped her for career advice.
A certified positive psychology coach, Susan is a graduate of the Whole Being Institute with a Certificate in Positive Psychology, and was a teaching assistant in the same program under Dr. Tal Ben Shahar. Accredited by the International Coaching Federation, she is a frequently requested speaker and an executive mentor for the Healthcare Business Women's Association (HBA).
Tom Rubens is a business coach, corporate culture and strategy expert, and dedicated entrepreneur. Throughout his 40-year journey, Tom has founded companies (commodity trading and real estate), purchased minor league baseball and basketball franchises and passionately coached countless entrepreneurs and business leaders.
In Lifeness: Harmonize an Entrepreneurial Life, Tom Rubens inspires business leaders to make a radical shift toward the pursuit of harmony. Tom understands all too well how the commitment to entrepreneurship can take over your life and lead you down a path far from the one you’d intending on taking. It was his own workplace dissatisfaction that inspired him to implement fundamental life changes. By harmonizing his life, Tom achieved greater career and personal success, better health, more passion and a renewed and energetic commitment to family and community.
Through stories from Tom’s business and personal life, Lifeness will help align your business culture and personal core values so that you can truly achieve harmonious entrepreneurial success.
Elizabeth Grace Saunders, internationally recognized time management expert, has helped everyone from busy moms to small business owners to corporate clients reorder their lives for success. She knows there are endless apps, books, and useful methods for becoming self-disciplined, organized, and more successful. But these tools alone aren’t enough to provide true freedom from the stress of how to best manage time.
Yet when Elizabeth’s longtime Christian faith intersected with her work, it unlocked the power of Divine Time Management. After a season of unusually high stress, where traditional time management methods fell short, she found a transformative sense of peace by surrendering her plans to God.
Pursuing God’s wisdom in time management, Elizabeth discovered that by trusting Him she could achieve the happy, prosperous, confident life He lovingly planned for her. Now she shares how you can find purpose, joy, and the peace that comes from letting God guide your actions.
Kelly began her coaching career with Strategic Coach in 2004. Kelly recognized on day one at ‘Coach’ that the spouse played an undeniable role in an entrepreneur’s success. After successfully leading thousands of entrepreneurs through the Strategic Coach Program, she advanced her career to session director at Lifebook.
Ultimately, it was her own personal relationship with an entrepreneur that inspired her to create The Entreprenewer™ – a spouse centric coaching program. Through her own personal journey, she learned how easy it was to lose her own personal identity and sense of fulfillment in an entrepreneurial household.
Today we talk about her debut book, The Power of Play, Praise, and Purpose, which is a snapshot of her findings as she studied the most healthy, successful, and interdependent couples in entrepreneurship. This book addresses the pain points most entrepreneurs face in their marriage or love relationship. The solutions she shares are real, relevant, and enjoyable. On your way to implementing these strategies, you will enjoy increased connection, respect, and enjoyment with your partner as you create a marriage that thrives- even in an entrepreneurial household
Joe Calloway helps great companies get even better. His workshops and interactive keynote presentations help develop leaders, create more effective teams, and improve performance for successful businesses who know that they can, and should, be doing more with the people and resources that they already have.
Joe’s client list reads like an international Who’s Who in business, ranging from companies like Proctor & Gamble and Coca Cola to Cadillac and American Express. Joe also works extensively with small to mid-sized businesses, franchisees, and a range of professional services organizations.
Joe is the author of seven books on business performance, including Becoming A Category of One, Be The Best At What Matters Most, Magnetic: The Art Of Attracting Business and his latest book, Keep it Simple: Unclutter your Mind. Uncomplicate your Life.
Mark J. Podolsky (AKA The Land Geek) is on a mission to help people get out of solo-economic dependency and create passive income. He is widely considered the Country’s most trusted and foremost authority on buying and selling raw, undeveloped land within the United States.
He has been actively investing in Real Estate and Raw Land since 2001 and has completed over 5,000 unique transactions. Mark’s company, Frontier Equity Properties, LLC, is an A+ rated BBB real estate company. Mark has achieved this level of success largely due to his core business philosophy – “Happy Customers Guaranteed.”
Mark is the host of one of the top rated podcasts in the Investing Category on iTunes aptly titled The Best Passive Income Model and The Art of Passive Income. He is also the host of the Land Geek Podcast- Work Smart. Earn More. Learn How.
Paula Brown Stafford and Lisa T. Grimes are two award-winning, c-suite executives who together have accumulated 60 plus years of work experience at the highest levels, 60 years of marriage, and raised four successful children. Collectively, they have managed more than 25,000 employees globally.
Paula recently retired as President, Clinical Development at QuintilesIMS and Lisa has served as President & CEO of PurThread Technologies. Although Paula and Lisa were fierce competitors 20 years ago, they eventually formed a friendship and now, as a team, speak to corporations and women’s groups on a number of topics, including Complementing Not Competing, Packing Your Potential, and The Juggling Act.
Paula Brown Stafford is a clinical researcher, business leader, and lecturer. She is a distinguished alumna at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is also an Adjunct Professor. Previously she was president of clinical development at QuintilesIMS, a Fortune 500 company. She lives in Chapel Hill, NC with her husband and has two adult children.
Lisa T. Grimes is a business leader, coach and speaker. She has spent most of the last 30 years in healthcare and lifestyle start-ups where she has served as CEO of PurThread Technologies, InSite Clinical Trials and AcSentient. She loves to connect people and often does so through her work with non-profit organizations. She lives in Cary, NC with her husband and has two adult sons.
Together, Paula and Lisa founded Habergeon to help women achieve success, create balance, and experience fulfillment. They are dedicated to giving back and are donating a portion of all proceeds from book sales to some of their favorite charities.
Aaron Keith Hawkins’ mission is to help you recognize that you're capable of succeeding in literally every aspect of your daily life once you adopt success as a lifestyle to life instead of an target to hit.
In addition to being a podcast host of Unbreakable Success podcast, he's a personal performance and relationship coach who works closely with his clients to create transformational changes in their personal lives, relationships and marriages.
His desire is to help everyone find and achieve Unbreakable Success which is what you experience when you're no longer bracing for life's circumstances, because you've decided you're going to learn how to create your own. He believes everyone wants to succeed in their career, in their marriage, as a parent, as an entrepreneur, with their health and personal growth.
Everyone wants to create success and experience days that are consistently aligned with their dreams, your values and the person you want to become. Aaron completed his graduate studies at the University of Oklahoma where he majored in Leadership with a focus on professional coaching. He has served in many capacities during a 23 year career as a law enforcement executive including Training Officer, SWAT Team Leader & Division Commander.
He and his wife of 21 years live in New Jersey with their 11 year old daughter.
Andy Molinsky is a Professor at Brandeis University’s International Business School, with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology. Andy received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and M.A. in Psychology from Harvard University. He also holds a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and a B.A. in International Affairs from Brown University.
Andy’s work helps people develop the insights and courage necessary to act outside their personal and cultural comfort zones when doing important, but challenging, tasks in work and life. His research and writing has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Inc. Magazine, Psychology Today, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, NPR and Voice of America. Andy was awarded as a Top Voice for LinkedIn for his work in education.
His first book, Global Dexterity (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013), received the Axiom Award (Silver Medal) for Best Business Book in International Business & Globalization and has been used widely in organizations around the world, including Boeing, AIG, the US Air Force Academy, and the Clinton Foundation, among others.
His new book Reach was published with Penguin Random House in January 2017. He teaches, consults, and lectures widely to university and corporate audiences.
Dale’s Purpose is to help people thrive, live their best life, and make the world a better place.
He fulfills his purpose with his wife, Tabbi, by enabling their members, through education and mentorship, to become more, do more, and have more in life through mastery of their time, money and business. After building three successful companies, he’s giving back by helping others learn from his failures and successes in life and business.
He helps others get control of money and time, so they can have more of both through coaching and mentoring which focused on four categories: 1. Money & Debt Freedom 2. Life & Happiness 3. Time & Personal Productivity 4. Business & Higher Income
Together, he and his wife share a wildly important goal of helping 1000 people discover and achieve their Wildly Important Goal by 2020.
What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? Matt Miller has the answer and he shares it today in my conversation on the Dr. Jason Brooks Leadership Podcast.
Matt Miller spent the first 9 years of his career as an Air Force pilot, before enter- ing the private sector to work in both the medical device and advertising industries. While a top performer in the corporate world, his long term desire was to be his own boss.
A good friend one day mentioned the gum ball machines he and his young daughters owned, and that conversation began a 10 year business quest that has brought Matt’s company, School Spirit Vending, to the cutting edge of both the vending and school fundraising industries.
Today, School Spirit Vending’s franchising program provides a proven and profitable business system for busy professionals and their families looking to develop secondary income streams with a limited time commitment.
Tom Schwab knows how to build an online business. Marketing at its heart is starting a conversation with someone who could be an ideal customer. Tom helps small business owners, entrepreneurs and soloprenuers get featured on leading podcasts their prospects are already listening to. Then he shows them how to turn listeners into customers.
Tom is author of PODCAST GUEST PROFITS: Grow your business with a targeted interview strategy and founder of Interview Valet, the concierge level booking service. His passion is helping connect leaders with the world in a way that makes an impact for all.
In this noisy digital world, business leaders are continually bombarded with the newest must have tools to reach their goals. As a Navy veteran and an inbound marketing engineer, Tom has a refreshingly different approach. He focuses on time proven strategy, then supercharges them with today’s free tools. An author, speaker, and teacher, Tom helps you get more traffic, leads, and raving customer fans by being interviewed on podcasts.
Dee Ann Turner is Vice President, Sustainability for Chick-fil-A, where she began her career more than 30 years ago. She previously served as the Vice President, Enterprise Social Responsibility for two years, the Vice President, Corporate Talent for three years, the Vice President, Talent for five years and the Vice President, Human Resources for eight years.
She has played an intricate role in growing Chick-fil-A’s unique and highly regarded culture while overseeing recruitment, selection, and retention of corporate staff and the recruitment and selection of Chick-fil-A Franchisees.
Dee Ann’s insightful knowledge and applicable tools to building an incredible and influential company culture are revealed in her book, It’s My Pleasure: The Impact of Extraordinary Talent and A Compelling Culture.
Dee Ann attended Cincinnati Christian University in Cincinnati, Ohio, majoring in Journalism and Christian Education. She later completed her education at Clayton State University in Atlanta with a degree in Management. She received further certifications at Goizueta School of Business at Emory University, Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC Chapel Hill, and she completed the prestigious Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
Ron Carucci is a seasoned consultant with more than 25 years of experience working with CEOs and senior executives of organizations ranging from Fortune 50s to start-ups in pursuit of transformational change. His consulting has taken him to more than 20 different countries on four continents. He has consulted to some of the world’s most influential CEOs and executives on issues ranging from strategy to organization to leadership.
He has worked extensively in a variety of industries and has led work on several large-scale merger integrations and subsequent culture change initiatives and enterprise-level global organizational redesigns.
Ron has spent the last several years exploring his new passion of ushering in the next generation of leaders, helping organizations connect multigenerational workplaces, and helping emerging leaders discover their unique voice and leadership strengths. He has spoken around the world on numerous topics pertaining to developing leaders of tomorrow.
He is author/co-author of eight books, including the most recent best-selling Rising to Power: The Journey of Exceptional Executives (Greenleaf 2014) with colleague Eric Hansen, The Value-Creating Consultant (AMACOM, 2000) Relationships That Enable Enterprise Change (Jossey-Bass, 2002), the acclaimed Leadership Divided, What Emerging Leaders Need and What You Might Be Missing (Jossey-Bass, 2006) and its companion Facilitator's and Field Guides, Bridging the Leadership Divide (Jossey-Bass, 2010), Future in-Formation: Choosing a Generative Organizational Life (Outskirts, 2008) with colleague Josh Epperson, and Leadership Stories from Tomorrow (Xulon, 2009).
Mark Deterding has built a reputation as a trusted expert in Servant Leadership. He has successfully led many companies and teams through culture change as the leader of the organization. Now, through Triune Leadership Services, Inc, he has a successful practice that develops cultures of Servant Leadership within organizations and provides coaching to executives and emerging leaders.
As a business leader, consultant, speaker and author of a new book, “Leading Jesus’ Way: Become the Servant Leader God Created You to Be”, he brings an effective blend of actionable process, proven tools and expertise in guiding leaders to implement a culture of Servant Leadership.
Bryan Falchuk is a Certified Personal Trainer and Behavior Change Specialist whose goal is to help people change their lives for the better.
As a public speaker, Inc Magazine contributor, life coach and best selling-author, Bryan spent the first half of his life obese, and much of the second half trying not to be obese again until he discovered the approach to change all that – Do a Day. Using Do A Day, Bryan was able to break from this pattern to live a life of consistent, unending health and wellness, and works to share what he’s learned with others seeking a happier, more complete existence through newbodi.es.
As Bryan says, "people don’t change, lives do". His goal is to help people change their lives. Bryan changed his life while staying true to himself. So can you. Tomorrow is a new Day for all of us. You can wake up and Do it.
Dan Moyle prefers and promotes helpful, engaging marketing over interruptive advertising. Coming to marketing from the TV news business, Dan brings a wealth of knowledge from writing to video production to multimedia content creation. He says, “I’d rather help someone reach 50 ideal customers rather than 5,000 passive viewers.”
As the Inbound Evangelist, Dan helps spread the word about helpful, integrated marketing to help businesses grow. Content marketing, social media marketing, email marketing, search engine results, video marketing and podcast interview marketing all fall into Dan’s inbound strategy.
Also a believer in servant leadership, Dan has worked behind the scenes at work with organizations like Honor Flight, Habitat for Humanity, Waterfront Film Festival, and Cat Nap Lodge (a kitten rescue), serving and lifting others up with respect and a strong work ethic.
Digital marketing is an ever changing menagerie of complexity. We've been convinced that the best way to grow in the digital marketing space is through "Clicks". The more the better.
My guest today, Bill Troy, a marketing genius several decades experience shares how false this is and, in actuality, could destroy your business. The digital marketing is a ClickSand trap we need to avoid and Bill tells us how. Bill Troy is an Inc. 500 CEO and a natural-born contrarian who, for 25 years, has helped global brands like Sony, Disney and Nestle see the world from a different perspective. Bill’s soon to be released book, Click Sand: How Online Marketing Will Destroy Your Business (And The Unlikely Secret To Saving It), is an explosive wake-up call and warning for business owners about the dangers and hypocrisy in online marketing. In ClickSand, Bill compares giant firms like HubSpot, Google and LinkedIn as well as local agencies and consultants in towns big and small to snake-oil pitchmen of the 1800s. Bill’s crusade these days is to help business owners avoid or escape the ClickSand trap before it’s too late.
Today I welcome to the Dr. Jason Brooks Leadership Podcast Dr. Phil Carson who shares the key aspects to living a healthy, happy, whole life and the steps you can start today to make that life a reality for you.
Dr. Carson knows how to help people get the most out of their life by working together with them to uncover the root cause of their health issues. Patients come to him with problems and leave with renewed hope that they can be healthy again. A practicing pharmacist in the Southeast, since 1985 he has not only consistently improved many patients quality of life, but also literally saved a few of them.
One of the key differentiators between average leaders and high-impact leaders is support and accountability. My guest today, Aaron Walker, knows all about this and has a solution for creating strong relationships. Learn all about the power of the mastermind and how you can surround yourself with people who will help you be your best and do your best every single day. Businessman and Life Coach, Aaron Walker, has inspired many through his leadership, mentorship, and consistent pursuit of excellence. He enjoys helping others and believes experience is a great teacher. 36 years of entrepreneurship and marriage have given Aaron a wealth of experience. Aaron continues to reach new heights and broaden his perspective of the terrain by examining his experiences and growing from them.
Aaron has two life mantras:
Fear missing an opportunity more than you fear failure
Can’t couldn’t do it, and Could did it.