Leadership Talk – L3 Leadership: Recent Episodes
https://s3.amazonaws.com/l3leadership/EricGuy+.mp3 Eric Guy, LSW, is Senior Partner at Predictive Synergistic Systems, a talent management consulting firm with offices in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Chicago. As Senior Partner and with nearly 20 years of professional experience, Eric specializes in leadership development and sales performance using science and the Predictive Index suite of tools to help clients overcome their most challenging human capital and hiring dilemmas.His passion for helping business leaders succeed extends even beyond his work with the company. He is also the founder and Chief Victory Officer of Center for Victory where he works with individuals and leaders around the world to help them unlock their personal potential and achieve their greatest success. As a licensed social worker and internationally acclaimed speaker and author, he has spent several years designing and facilitating training sessions to assist clients and professionals within the mental health, educational and business fields, as well as providing customized programming in the form of intensive in-home treatment and individualized coaching.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/l3leadership/PeterBirchler+.mp3 Peter’s Bio:
After graduating college I attended Cleveland Chiropractic College in Kansas City, Missouri. The founder of school’s last name was Cleveland, and so it has nothing to do with Cleveland, Ohio for you die hard Pittsburghers out there. (I wouldn’t trust a Browns fan either). During my time at CCC-KC I focused my elective studies on manual adjusting techniques, helping people with spinal disc problems, functional spinal rehabilitation, and nutrition. I also led a research journal club for a year and became well versed in the studied mechanisms of chiropractic and in the landmark chiropractic clinical studies. I graduated Valedictorian from CCC-KC in fall 2005 and began practice in 2006.
In October 2005, I married my high school sweetheart, Rachel, and now we have four children which are the greatest blessing of our lives. Raising children in a world full of toxins, drugs, and ignorance at every turn is a challenge, and my heart aches for the many who have children who are chronically ill and whose lives have been turned upside down because of it. But there is help, hope and a better model of family healthcare than our system currently supports. In order to expand my expertise and ability to help even the most challenging and serious cases, I also have become a certified detoxification specialist from the International School of Detoxification in Sarasota, Florida.
As I have gained experience in practice and seen amazing health improvements through various methods of natural healing, my desire has been increasingly to understand the fundamental reasons of why people become “sick” and how they can get and stay well. And as many great truths are, the answers are for the most part very simple, yet very humbling. Optimal health is a state of purity, balance, and co-ordination of the body both from within and with the external environment. I consider it my professional mission to help guide a person however far they want and are willing to go on this personal journey to better health.
Dr. Birchler currently resides in Beaver, PA with his wife Rachel, and children Liam, Evie, Rawling, and Rowan.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/l3leadership/BillGenerett+.mp3 William Generett Jr., Esq. is the inaugural President and CEO of Urban Innovation21. He is responsible for the overall management of the organization’s public private partnership. William’s responsibilities include developing a shared vision for the organization, defining and implementing programs, communicating the organization’s vision and economic model to local, regional and national stakeholders and fundraising. Urban Innovation21 is one of the first US-based nonprofit organizations to work under the “Inclusive Innovation” model. Under Bill’s leadership Urban Innovation21 has been recognized locally and nationally for its work.
A Pittsburgh native, Bill has served as an entrepreneur, nonprofit executive, corporate executive, attorney, teacher and consultant. Bill is a graduate of Emory University School of Law and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Morehouse College. For several years he practiced corporate and real estate law with an Atlanta, Georgia law firm. Currently, Bill is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the state of Georgia and serves as a consultant in many venues. He is a partner in the MAPA Group; a DC based international consulting firm.
He is a very active member of the community where he serves on several nonprofit boards and advisory committees including the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Energy Innovation Center, the City of Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority, Pittsburgh Economic Industrial Development Corporation, Innovation Works, Neighborhood Allies, The Heinz Endowments African American Male Initiative Advisory Committee, Neighborhood Allies, the Business Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the Advisory Committee member of the University of Pittsburgh, Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law and Public Policy, and the Pre and he is a founding member of www.1worker1vote.org. In 2014, he was appointed by U.S Secretary of Commerce Pritzker to serve on the U.S. Department of Commerce National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/l3leadership/GashAbebeStory.mp3 Gash Abebe grew up in Ethiopia and came to America when he was young. Learn how he took the opportunity America provided him and ended up being the #4 guy at Wesco, leading Global Business Development. Gash will be sharing about his journey and the leadership lessons he learend along the way.
Gash’s Bio:
- Born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Much of Abebe’s family still resides in Addis.
- Former Global Vice President of Wesco, a $7 billion leading electrical distrbution and service company where he spearheasded development of an international prescence and global relationships that expanded outside the US and gained supplier relations with China, Singapore, Middle East, Europe, and Austrailia.
- Director of Global Supplier and Finance. He ran the supplier relations and credit collection departments for Wesco.
- B.A., Judson University, Judson Hall of Fame Soccer Player
https://s3.amazonaws.com/l3leadership/GashInterview.mp3 Gash Abebe grew up in Ethiopia and came to America when he was young. Learn how he took the opportunity America provided him and ended up being the #4 guy at Wesco, leading Global Business Development. Gash will be sharing about his journey and the leadership lessons he learend along the way.
Gash’s Bio:
- Born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Much of Abebe’s family still resides in Addis.
- Former Global Vice President of Wesco, a $7 billion leading electrical distrbution and service company where he spearheasded development of an international prescence and global relationships that expanded outside the US and gained supplier relations with China, Singapore, Middle East, Europe, and Austrailia.
- Director of Global Supplier and Finance. He ran the supplier relations and credit collection departments for Wesco.
- B.A., Judson University, Judson Hall of Fame Soccer Player
https://s3.amazonaws.com/l3leadership/Q%26A+with+Next+Level+Leadership+Academy+Students+-+2-24-17%2C+12.42+PM.mp3
https://s3.amazonaws.com/l3leadership/BillEvansonQ%26APittsburgh+.mp3 Questions:
- When you came to the company, you were tasked to take the company to the next level. What did you do to get buy-in from the team initially and start to actually take the company to the next level?
- How do you evaluate when it is time to stop pursuing a specific initiative or if you should continue to stay the course with the initiative?
- You get piched by sales people all the time. What advice do you have for sales people as you sit on the other side of the table from them?
- When you are starting to leading a team that isn’t very collaborative, what advice do you have to make them truely collaborative?
- Who are the most effective leaders? Naturally born leaders or grown leaders?
- When you are having difficulty with employees, how do you help them grow in their current position, move them to another one, or have the tough conversation to move them on?
- What do you do to grow and develop as a leader?
- What unique products does Pocket Nurse offer?
https://s3.amazonaws.com/l3leadership/BillEvansBeaverQA.mp3 In this Q&A session with Bill Evanson, Senior Corporate Director at Pocket Nurse, you will hear Bill answer the following questions:
- Did your kids business plan actually work for getting a dog?
- How do you help people that are stuck? How long do you work with them until you have to let them go?
- How do you approach a manager to discuss your future with the organization, especially if you think you’d be a better fit somewhere else in the organization?
- How do you create work life balance for individuals and make sure you’re not burning people out?
- How do you identify lids in your organization and how do you deal with them once they are identified?