More Than Words Show with John Sanchez: Recent Episodes
John Sanchez
Welcome to the home of the More Than Words Show, a show about C.L.E.A.R. communication. I interview some of the best people in their areas of expertise to learn from them and pass their knowledge along to you through the show. I hope you enjoy our conversations and find some things you can apply to your own life.
Ben Lamorte is the founder of OKRs.com and The OKRs Coach Network. He has helped hundreds of organizations and has more coaching experience than anyone on the planet. He is a mentor to dozens of OKRs coaches around the world and he is also the author of two books on OKRs.
Caryn Lee has had 2 careers. Her first career spanned 15 years with one of the big consulting firms and focused on big technology projects. Realizing she is more passionate about people than technology, she bought into an assessment publishing and training company and turned the business around to profitability. After selling her shares to her partners, she founded Narrative in 2015, a consulting firm that assists organizations with improving engagement, culture, and communication.
When not building her business, she spends time with her husband and children, her 125-year-old Victorian house, and watching her favorite crime shows.
Christian Wattig is an energetic Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) leader with 12+ years of experience at multinational consumer goods companies and fast-growing tech start-ups. As an entrepreneur, he teaches FP&A skills to finance teams and business leaders via his live online course FP&A Bootcamp. He’s also Head of Training at Datarails.
Mark Bowden is a world-renowned body language expert, thought leader and founder of TRUTHPLANE® communication training company, Mark entertains and empowers audiences through his keynote speeches to use his cutting-edge system of nonverbal communication techniques to be more confident, collaborative, and credible in their communication.
Voted Global Gurus #1 Body Language Professional two years running, Mark trains individuals, teams, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and Prime Ministers of G7 powers. Mark is on faculty for The Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA, and President of the National Communication Coach Association of Canada.
Mark’s TEDx talk on body language has been viewed by millions, he is a go-to body-language commentator for CTV, CBC and Global TV and regularly quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Forbes and GQ. Bestselling books are Winning Body Language, Winning Body Language for Sales Professionals; Tame the Primitive Brain, and TRUTH & LIES: What People are Really Thinking.
Greg Hartley is a former Army interrogator, interrogation instructor, and resistance to interrogation instructor who has written 10 books on body language and behavior. He spends most of his time these days working on Wall Street and in corporate America. Greg spent most of his 20 years in the Army wandering around the country living in multiple places and interrogating prisoners. He deployed during the first Gulf War with a special forces team and spent time there using his interrogation skills.
Post-military, Greg has been an executive in operations, advised private equity firms, and written books and training courses in body language and behavior.
Yousef founded his company, Emergence, to provide first-in-class threat prevention training to security leaders and organizations in a wide variety of industries. From houses of worship and school teachers to every alphabet agency out there, including the United States Special Operations Command (which includes Green Berets, Navy SEALS, and Army Rangers, to name just a few). With the recent rollout of the S.A.F.E (Situational Awareness For Employees) virtual training™ program, this can finally be provided, at scale, to all sizes of organizations in need of threat prevention. Beyond threat protection, Yousef teaches business people how to use situational awareness skills to improve their business communication.
Jack Tompkins genuinely has a lot of fun helping small businesses become more data-driven! Whether that's building dashboards or speaking about how impactful their data can be, he has an absolute blast doing it!
Jack is the founder of Pineapple Consulting Firm and although he doesn't consult pineapples, he does aim to give that vacation feeling when he works with clients - calm, relaxed, and happy, knowing their business is growing efficiently with the help of their data.
Anders Boulanger is a speaker, author, magician and founder/CEO of Engagify. For nearly two decades he's been travelling the world with his team of Certified Infotainers creating crowds of interested prospects and presenting brand defining performances in the trade show exhibits of the fastest growing companies. After logging thousands of hours of engaging all kinds of people at all kinds of events around the world, he has codified engagement and now trains teams and individuals how to engage their prospects, customers, and teammates so that they can deepen connection and command attention.
Rob Campbell is a retired Army Colonel turned author, speaker, and executive leadership coach. Rob served over 27 years in the United States Army including service in Iraq and Afghanistan. Rob is an Army Ranger, Paratrooper, and the recipient of three Bronze Star Medals. Rob's core purpose is to make a difference in the lives of others through optimistic leadership. Rob shares his lessons from the battlefield with organizations seeking to invest in their people.
Kendall Peterson currently runs Fugoid International where he works as an executive coach, speaker and business transformation specialist who partners with leaders to grow their businesses and develop their professional skills. Prior to Fugoid, Kendall spent over 25 years in senior leadership positions with global organizations such as NextEra Energy, Subway and Verizon while earning the praise of his peers for being “a fantastic leader with the ability to organize and incorporate best practices like few others.” He is also respected by his clients for being “a brilliant, insightful, and charismatic executive leader”.
Kendall devotes a lot of time to his wife and six children, as well as to several non-profit organizations. Kendall studied Nuclear Engineering through the University of Maryland and received an Industrial Engineering degree from Ashwood University.
Gideon For-mukwai helps professionals and business owners tell captivating stories that engage, encourage, and persuade prospects. One day, Gideon embedded a few personal anecdotes into his lesson plan. To his surprise, his students listened intently, wiping their eyes over and over. Everyone was wide awake!
That’s how Gideon discovered the captivating power of storytelling. From then, he started sprinkling stories into his presentations frequently. When he left that job to become a corporate trainer and business owner, “Storytelling” became his first faithful employee.
He used storytelling in engaging, encouraging, and empowering students in schools, colleges, universities, organizations and yes jails in USA and Singapore. In the last 18 years, Gideon have been obsessed in studying and using storytelling professionally. Today, his focus is mainly on helping financial advisors and executives in telling captivating stories that engage, encourage, and persuade prospects and potential clients.
Carlos Salum is a leadership performance strategist, and maybe one of the best kept secrets in his field. That's because he doesn't advertise, yet for decades he has worked with world-class athletes, CEOs and other highly successful people who want to take their performance even higher.
Carlos wears many hats, including:
Author of "The Glass is Full and a Half" - a memoir of Breakthrough and Transformation based on over three decades of consulting experience with Peak Performers in Sports and Business.
External Consultant to global organizations with headquarters in four continents with billions of dollars in revenues. Leadership Legacy Advisor to High Net Worth Individuals transitioning life and career stages.
Keynote Speaker at numerous international events on the topics of Peak Performance and Breakthrough Thinking, notably The Nobels Colloquia 2011 in Venice, Italy, alongside Nobel Laureates in Economics, top Professors in Economics and Management Consultants.
Mentor at the leAD Sports & Health Tech Accelerator in Lake Nona, Orlando, FL. Member of the Executive Team at N3XT Sports, International Sports Technology and Innovation consultancy (Barcelona). Co-producer of the Tennis Industry Association Innovation Challenge.
Associated with 360PowWow Sports in the production of inspirational sports films.
Founded the SIR Conferences in 2008 and TheSircle Executive Club in 2011. Producer of the International Sircle in Italy and Switzerland, starting in 2012. Producer of the Richard Saul Wurman Events in Charlotte, NC in 2010.
Participated in ground-breaking research in peak performance training with some of the world's leading sport science experts, such as Dr. Jim Loehr, Dr. Nick Hall, Dr. Jack Groppel and Pat Etcheberry, a process that involved some of the world's top athletes and was applied to the business arena.
Anthony is the founder and president of Leader Development Institute. LDi has trained and coached professionals across the nation and around the world. Under Anthony’s leadership, LDi has built a long influential relationship with government agencies and corporate organizations in all 50 states, England, Australia, and Uganda.
- Twenty Year US Air Force Veteran, Special Ops, Pararescue
- Founder and CEO of the Leader Development Institute since 1997
- Presented over 3,000 seminars to 75,000 participants
Brett Figueroa has trained thousands of sales professionals leading many of them to the top 1% of their industry. Brett has delivered over 3,000 presentations nationwide and abroad. With Brett's training many of these companies earned millions more in additional revenue. Trained by the nation’s foremost authority on the psychology of peak performance and personal, professional, and organizational turnaround, Anthony Robbins.
Colonel Harding is the 25th most decorated hero in military history. His achievements and awards resulted in him being ranked higher on the list of military heroes that General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., who led all coalition forces in the Gulf War. Let that sink in for a minute.
More Than Words Show Preview #1 - The Veterans: This preview highlights five show guests who served in the U.S. military and then went on to business success.
More Than Words Show Preview 2: The Coaches highlights some of the best performance coaches you may have never heard of. That's because they don't advertise the way most coaches do. They have built their careers on getting results and word of mouth from clients they have helped.