Leadership Trends & Insights

In this episode, Nina and Andy Kaplan discuss:

Four things that leaders must do
Creating a whitespace for employees
Diversity of ideas
An advice for self-improvement

Key Takeaways:

Leaders must inspire, teach, listen, and learn - and these four things have to be surrounded by a culture that values kindness, and compassion.
Make sure that all points of view are heard. Give people whitespace to share their ideas.
The world is shifting to the online space, so always maintain diversity in your organization so that you’ll keep producing fresh ideas, or fresh takes on ideas.
Beat the control - do better than you did yesterday.

"A leader has to do four things: they have to inspire, they have to teach, they have to listen, and they have to learn." — Andy Kaplan

Andy Kaplan is the Former CFO of Audible, VMT Mentor & CFO Who Looks Beyond The Numbers. Andy served as Chief Financial Officer of DonorsChoose from 2006 until his retirement at the end of 2017.

Since retiring, Andy has focused on advising start-ups and young companies. While Andy worked at Audible, Inc. (now an Amazon company) as Chief Financial Officer, he led the Audible IPO and served on its board of directors.

Connect with Andy Kaplan:

Website: https://www.rippleworks.org/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaplanandy/

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Many leaders want to expand time and money, turn one-time buyers to long-term relationships and retain their best talent. But what gets in their way? Other people, forces of nature, acts of god all kinds of stuff – right? But the truth is we are typically our own worst enemies.

That’s why based on working with thousands of leaders across the globe, we created this unique Modern Leadership Assessment™. By the time you are complete, you will know your default leadership persona AND have a greater understanding of how to be more integrated in your leadership.

To find out your Modern Leadership Persona today visit >> https://modernleadershipassessment.com

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I reached out to Dr. Lois because one of the women in our leadership community had a question - "How do you handle the look of shock when you tell someone you're role is the CEO." I am so glad that I followed my intuition to ask her for this interview AND most importantly she said YES to this interview. After the show Dr Lois said to me, "Always follow your intuition." So I leave you with this "How can you follow your intuition more today?"

In this episode, Nina and Dr. Lois discuss:

What women bring to the table
Getting over being a nice little girl
Complementarity for exponential growth
Responding to people’s assumptions about women leaders

Key Takeaways:

Women bring heart into leadership, and that’s exactly the kind of leadership that’s needed today. People want to be known, heard, seen, recognized - all of those things are things that women do naturally.
You can’t be the nice little girl you were in childhood and expect to achieve your adult goals. Niceness is necessary for success, but it’s not sufficient.
When you have complementarity on a team, you have so much exponentially more than just your own talent.
Show respect to people while questioning them of their assumptions. Ask directly, but with an air of curiosity and naivete.

"We clearly need more women in leadership roles, not because make better leaders, but because women make different leaders and that’s what’s needed in this time in our history." — Dr. Lois Frankel

The Board Of Directors Of Bloom Again Foundation is an all volunteer group of women from a wide variety of backgrounds who generously give of their time, talent and treasure to help economically vulnerable working women when medical challenges arise.

Check out Dr. Lois Frankel’s books by clicking on this link: https://www.amazon.com/Lois-P.-Frankel/e/B001H6WAB8

Connect with Dr. Lois Frankel:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrLoisFrankel

Website: https://www.drloisfrankel.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DrLoisFrankelPhD

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drloisfrankel/

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Many leaders want to expand time and money, turn one-time buyers to long-term relationships and retain their best talent. But what gets in their way? Other people, forces of nature, acts of god all kinds of stuff – right? But the truth is we are typically our own worst enemies.

That’s why based on working with thousands of leaders across the globe, we created this unique Modern Leadership Assessment™. By the time you are complete, you will know your default leadership persona AND have a greater understanding of how to be more integrated in your leadership.

To find out your Modern Leadership Persona today visit >> https://modernleadershipassessment.com

Sponsored by Metaspire Consulting (https://metaspireconsulting.com): We expand time and money, turn one-time buyers into long-term relationships, and retain your best talent.

Connect with Nina:

Website: https://metaspireconsulting.com

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/metaspire-consulting/

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How connected are you with your employees?

Today I am joined by Shep Hyken Customer Experience Expert and a Customer Service Award Winning Speaker. Shep is also a hall of fame speaker (National Speakers Association) and a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author.

In this episode, Nina and Shep Hyken discuss:

Connection and alignment
Embodying your core values
Trusting your people
Customer wow experience examples

Key Takeaways:

Love, empathy and understanding is essential to modern leadership. Leaders have the responsibility to be connected to their team. Only when you do that will you be able to get everybody in alignment to your organization’s values and purpose.
The best leaders embody their core values - they walk their talk and they don’t put themselves above others, but instead lead the way forward to their organization’s purpose.
Leaders often think that there’s nobody in the office that’s better than them at what they do - and to some degree, you need to have some confidence in yourself to be a leader. However, in order to lead your people well, you need to be able to trust them and that takes humility and faith.
One of the best customer experience tips that leaders could learn is to recognize that bigger opportunities can be discovered when leaders inspire their team to provide exemplary service, build better relationships with their customers and take the perspective of "the customer is always right”. Do this if you want to have a customer for a lifetime.

"I think the best leaders, it's not that they don't think that they're better than anyone else. They know they can't do it with anyone else… without the right people surrounding them." — Shep Hyken

Shep Hyken is a Customer Experience Expert and a Customer Service Award Winning Speaker. Shep is also a hall of fame speaker (National Speakers Association) and a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author.

Connect with Shep Hyken:

Twitter: http://twitter.com/Hyken

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ShepHykenSpeaker

Website: https://hyken.com/

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/shephyken

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/shephyken

Blog: https://hyken.com/blog/

Phone: (314) 692-2200

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If you’re a leader in an organization looking for business and/or personal transformation schedule a success call with Nina today by visiting https://www.metaspireconsulting.com/successcall

Many leaders want to expand time and money, turn one-time buyers to long-term relationships and retain their best talent. But what gets in their way? Other people, forces of nature, acts of god all kinds of stuff – right? But the truth is we are typically our own worst enemies.

That’s why based on working with thousands of leaders across the globe, we created this unique Modern Leadership Assessment™. By the time you are complete, you will know your default leadership persona AND have a greater understanding of how to be more integrated in your leadership.

To find out your Modern Leadership Persona today visit >> https://modernleadershipassessment.com

Sponsored by Metaspire Consulting (https://metaspireconsulting.com): We expand time and money, turn one-time buyers into long-term relationships, and retain your best talent.

Connect with Nina:

Website: https://metaspireconsulting.com

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Instagram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ninasegura

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/metaspire-consulting/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MetaspireLLC

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Is your organization accountable at all levels?

Today I am joined by Ann McNeill, The Master Wealth Builder. Ann helps entrepreneurial women to get greater clarity in the highest income-producing areas of their business and life. She is the:

Owner of Constructively Speaking, Inc.

Owner of MCO Construction, Inc.

Owner of MCO Consulting

Founder of National Association of Black Women in Construction

Founder of International Masterminders Association

In this episode, Nina and Ann discuss:

From personal accountability to corporate accountability
Benefits of being a part of Masterminds Group
Taking responsibility for your life
Service above self

Key Takeaways:

Start with your own goal, your own vision for your self and for your family. Build on that foundation and incorporate it in everything that you do, including your work or business.
Being part of a masterminds group will help you go through life consciously, with awareness and with purpose. When you’re planning for something big, you’ll increase your chances of completing it if you’re accountable to someone about it. Put young people through leadership development by making them part of their own mastermind group to make sure that, as young people, they’ll grow with the ability to take responsibility for their own life and set goals that will benefit themselves and others.
The way we are with our business or career, our health, our family, and our impact with others is our responsibility. If you want to change the world, start with yourself and work up from there.
Living a life of significance is all about putting yourself in service of others. When planning on how you’re going to leave a legacy, think more about how you can benefit others rather than how what you’re going to do will affect your name when you’re gone. Subtract the self from the equation, and again, be in service to others.

"I we hear about wanting to change others... start with yourself, your family, your community, your county... and by doing that, we become the change we want to see in the world" — Ann McNeill

Ann McNeill is the Master Wealth Builder. She helps entrepreneurial women to get greater clarity in the highest income-producing areas of their business and life. She is the owner of Constructively Speaking, Inc., CO Construction, Inc., and MCO Consulting. She is also the founder of both National Association of Black Women in Construction and Founder of International Masterminders Association.

Resources Mentioned:

“Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill

“Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families” by Stephen Covey

“Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business” by Gino Wickman

“What the Heck Is EOS?: A Complete Guide for Employees in Companies Running on EOS” by Gino Wickman

Connect with Ann McNeill:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/McNeillFactor/

Website: https://annmcneill.com/

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/annmcneill/

Books: https://annmcneill.com/store/

Podcast: https://www.blogtalkradio.com/masterminders

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/constructivelyspk

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annmcneillmasterbuilder

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annmcneill/

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If you’re a leader in an organization looking for business and/or personal transformation schedule a success call with Nina today by visiting https://www.metaspireconsulting.com/successcall

Many leaders want to expand time and money, turn one-time buyers to long-term relationships and retain their best talent. But what gets in their way? Other people, forces of nature, acts of god all kinds of stuff – right? But the truth is we are typically our own worst enemies.

That’s why based on working with thousands of leaders across the globe, we created this unique Modern Leadership Assessment™. By the time you are complete, you will know your default leadership persona AND have a greater understanding of how to be more integrated in your leadership.

To find out your Modern Leadership Persona today visit >> https://modernleadershipassessment.com

Sponsored by Metaspire Consulting (https://metaspireconsulting.com): We expand time and money, turn one-time buyers into long-term relationships, and retain your best talent.

Connect with Nina:

Website: https://metaspireconsulting.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Metaspire

Instagram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ninasegura

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/metaspire-consulting/

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Rick Tamlyn: Modern Leaders Need To Be "Edu-taining"

Today I am joined by Rick Tamlyn, Creator of Produce YOU bringing thought leaders together across the world to play a bigger game Author of The Hay House Book “Play Your Bigger Game” & Senior Leadership Facilitator Co-Active Training Institute

In this episode, Nina and Rick Tamlyndiscuss:

Modern leadership needs
Being a front-of-the-camera leader
Tips for upping engagement
Making information receivable

Key Takeaways:

The current pandemic provided challenges and limitations that call for a more engaging and dynamic leadership. Think about how you can hold meetings or online events in a way that won't be boring to the viewer.
You are responsible for people’s energy. Engaging audiences is the leader’s job, not the other way around. Leaders and speakers must become bigger, be more dynamic. Your energy must come through the camera lens.
Here’s a fun idea for your events: mail people a “surprise box” before the event starts. Instruct people to not open it before the event, and just see how naturally the engagement and the excitement goes around just because of that simple thing.
Communication is a vital part of thought leadership and figuring out how to transfer information in an entertaining way is an essential part of that. We must recognize that we, as leaders, are now in the “edu-tainment” business whether we want to or not.

"Our job is to be responsible for the energy in people's homes as leaders… stop yelling at people that they need to be more engaging - we need to be entertaining so that we can change the energy for them in their own homes." — Rick Tamlyn

Rick Tamlyn is the creator of Produce YOU who brings together thought leaders across the world to create a bigger impact. He is also the author of The Hay House Book “Play Your Bigger Game” and is the Senior Facilitator at Co-Active Training Institute.

Connect with Rick Tamlyn:

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/RickTamlyn

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebiggergame

Website: https://www.ricktamlyn.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmqMeGmwHFZeWOxK4rsgnOA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/rick-tamlyn/0/477/76

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ricktamlyn

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If you’re a leader in an organization looking for business and/or personal transformation schedule a success call with Nina today by visiting https://www.metaspireconsulting.com/successcall

Many leaders want to expand time and money, turn one-time buyers to long-term relationships and retain their best talent. But what gets in their way? Other people, forces of nature, acts of god all kinds of stuff – right? But the truth is we are typically our own worst enemies.

That’s why based on working with thousands of leaders across the globe, we created this unique Modern Leadership Assessment™. By the time you are complete, you will know your default leadership persona AND have a greater understanding of how to be more integrated in your leadership.

To find out your Modern Leadership Persona today visit >> https://modernleadershipassessment.com

Sponsored by Metaspire Consulting (https://metaspireconsulting.com): We expand time and money, turn one-time buyers into long-term relationships, and retain your best talent.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/metaspire-consulting/

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Today we are joined by Amy Haworth, Organizational Transformation Expert, HR Chief of Staff at Citrix, Founder of Nobody Makes It Alone.

In this episode, Nina and Amy discuss:

Leaders who don’t know all the answers
Being the Chief Well-being Officer of your life
Leading through influence
Outcome-based progress tracking and artificial intelligence

Key Takeaways:

Powerful leadership is not about knowing all the answers, it's about being able to unlock the genius of each of their team members to solve problems.
Harnessing your energy through self-care before tackling your day is essential in building resilience and in being a more effective and centered leader, being able to expect and mentally prepare for the day’s challenges.
You don’t need the permission of a title to be a leader, to come up with a new idea or to push for something you believe in. There are a lot of women in leadership, and many of them don’t realize that what they’re doing is already leadership.
Organizations are now realizing that measuring outcomes are now more important than measuring activity.
Future leaders will be required to be able to communicate effectively to both man and technology, meaning, leadership will be as vital as ever in the future while also adding in another essential, which is technological knowledge.

"Leadership… it’s not a title… what a leader does is create something new, different, pioneering, and see if you can bring a few people along with you on the ride." — Amy Haworth

Amy Haworth: She is an Organizational Transformation Expert, and HR Chief of Staff at Citrix, and Founder of Nobody Makes It Alone.

Connect with Amy Haworth:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyhaworth

Twitter: https://twitter.com/chng4good

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Many leaders want to expand time and money, turn one-time buyers to long-term relationships and retain their best talent. But what gets in their way? Other people, forces of nature, acts of god all kinds of stuff – right? But the truth is we are typically our own worst enemies.

That’s why based on working with thousands of leaders across the globe, we created this unique Modern Leadership Assessment™. By the time you are complete, you will know your default leadership persona AND have a greater understanding of how to be more integrated in your leadership.

To find out your Modern Leadership Persona today visit >> https://modernleadershipassessment.com

Sponsored by Metaspire Consulting (https://metaspireconsulting.com): We expand time and money, turn one-time buyers into long-term relationships, and retain your best talent.

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Today we are joined by Charlie DeMarco Senior Technology Leader at CISCO and former VP of Morpheus Data Customer Success

In this episode, Nina and Charlie discuss:

Leaders are stewards of people
Connecting with your team
Practicing conscious leadership
Old paradigms and bold predictions

Key Takeaways:

A leader isn’t only the driver of business results but also a steward of people - they have the responsibility to make each member’s experience of work better.
You can use your own feelings of how you experience work as an indicator of how others may also be feeling. Leading intentionally means being empathetic and compassionate to the people around you.
In the virtual workspace, you can’t bump into people accidentally anymore like you used to in the office - so you have to promote intentionality when it comes to having conversations, pushing opportunities forward, or helping customers out.
Just because you can see people doesn’t mean they’re working - it takes more than presence to create meaningful impact.
The blending of work and personal life is more prevalent than ever because of the pandemic. Right now, we’re forced to make it work - but in the future, work and life will be more integrated and leaders will find a way to make that integration productive.

"When you can recognize that human component, make space for it, we build trust faster, we all have more fun, and we execute as a team more effectively... it's not just the right thing to do from a business perspective. It's also great from a human perspective." — Charlie DeMarco

Charlie DeMarco: He is the Senior Technology Leader at Cisco, with former experience in Morpheus Data, working as the VP of Engineering Operations and Customer Success. He is a technical business leader with over 20 years of experience in systems engineering, worldwide sales, services, customer success, business development, operations, and marketing in enterprise, commercial, and public sector channels. Extensive experience in Cloud, Mobility, Networking, Security, and ‘Internet of Things’ technologies with a history of exceptional results, delighting customers, strategic planning, and sales execution.

Connect with Charlie DeMarco:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/demarcocharlie/

Leadership Trends & Insights - Our mission is to create collaborative conversations that connect company cultures and our world community.

If you’re a leader in an organization looking for business and/or personal transformation schedule a success call with Nina today by visiting https://www.metaspireconsulting.com/successcall

Many leaders want to expand time and money, turn one-time buyers to long-term relationships and retain their best talent. But what gets in their way? Other people, forces of nature, acts of god all kinds of stuff – right? But the truth is we are typically our own worst enemies.

That’s why based on working with thousands of leaders across the globe, we created this unique Modern Leadership Assessment™. By the time you are complete, you will know your default leadership persona AND have a greater understanding of how to be more integrated in your leadership.

To find out your Modern Leadership Persona today visit >> https://modernleadershipassessment.com

Sponsored by Metaspire Consulting (https://metaspireconsulting.com): We expand time and money, turn one-time buyers into long-term relationships, and retain your best talent.

Website: https://metaspireconsulting.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ninaesegura/

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What does the world need more, now than ever, as it relates to leadership? There’s a lot of tension and division today that impacts our organizations and the decisions that we make as leaders.

In the Leadership Trends & Insights Podcast you’ll hear from those who are making a difference by embodying their mission. Come be inspired as they share how they are bringing us together, bridging divides, and doing their part to make the world a better place.

Join Nina Segura, Business Transformation Expert and Women in Leadership Enthusiast as she interviews change-makers and thought leaders with one purpose - to supercharge your leadership.

Leadership Trends & Insights - Our mission is to create collaborative conversations that connect company cultures and our world community.

If you’re a leader in an organization looking for business and/or personal transformation schedule a success call with Nina today by visiting https://www.metaspireconsulting.com/successcall

Many leaders want to expand time and money, turn one-time buyers to long-term relationships and retain their best talent. But what gets in their way? Other people, forces of nature, acts of god all kinds of stuff – right? But the truth is we are typically our own worst enemies.

That’s why based on working with thousands of leaders across the globe, we created this unique Modern Leadership Assessment™. By the time you are complete, you will know your default leadership persona AND have a greater understanding of how to be more integrated in your leadership.

To find out your Modern Leadership Persona today visit >> https://modernleadershipassessment.com

Sponsored by Metaspire Consulting (https://metaspireconsulting.com): We expand time and money, turn one-time buyers into long-term relationships, and retain your best talent.

Connect with Nina:

Website: https://metaspireconsulting.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ninaesegura/

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nina-segura

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