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Welcome to Fireside Leadership! A forum hosted by Liza Magcale and Janice Lee as we chat with leaders about their journey to personal success. We highlight the soft skills of leadership such as communication, critical thinking, decision making and empowerment to name a few.
Meet entrepreneurs, industry leaders and change-makers. Our guests have interesting stories and come from a variety of backgrounds with a multitude of experience building and leading teams.
ABCs of Career Growth: awareness, branding, connection A four part series followed up by special guest interviews sharing their perspective on this topic.
ABCs of Career Growth: awareness, branding, connection A four part series followed up by special guest interviews sharing their perspective on this topic.
ABCs of Career Growth: awareness, branding, connection A four part series followed up by special guest interviews sharing their perspective on this topic.
John David Mann is an award-winning author whose books have sold more than 3 million copies in 3 dozen languages, including the bestselling classic THE GO-GIVER with Bob Burg, the New York Times bestselling memoir THE RED CIRCLE with former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb, and the New York Times bestselling parable THE LATTE FACTOR with personal finance legend David Bach. As a teenager, John started his own high school and was an award-winning composer and cellist before turning to careers as an entrepreneur and author. His book TAKE THE LEAD (with former White House staffer Betsy Myers) was named by Tom Peters and the Washington Post “Best Leadership Book of 2011.” His first novel, STEEL FEAR, will be released in August 2021; iconic author Lee Child has called it “sensationally good—an instant classic, maybe an instant legend.”
Fireside Leadership is excited to share our newest podcast with you! Our guest this week is Bob Burg!
To listen to the podcast, please visit the Fireside Leadership's YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm0o19XYMAA&t=828s
Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences sharing the platform with everyone from today’s business leaders and broadcast personalities to even a former U.S. President.
Bob is the author of a number of books on sales, marketing and influence, with total book sales of well over a million copies. His book, The Go-Giver, coauthored with John David Mann, itself has sold over 975,000 copies and it has been translated into 29 languages.
His and John’s newest parable in the Go-Giver Series is The Go-Giver Influencer.
Bob is an advocate, supporter and defender of the Free Enterprise system, believing that the amount of money one makes is directly proportional to how many people they serve. He is also an unapologetic animal fanatic, and is a past member of the Board of Directors of Furry Friends Adoption, Clinic & Ranch in his town of Jupiter, Florida.
Dan Edds returns to Fireside Leadership to chat with hosts Liza Magcale and Janice Lee. In this episode, Dan speaks about psychological safety in the workplace and how people in the leadership role can use simple techniques to give their employees a sense of security and safety. Dan also shows how diversity of thought is courageous and should be acknowledged.
To watch the video, please visit our Fireside Leadership YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/yC046ja28CA
This week, Fireside Leadership welcomes guest speaker, Dan Edds!
For 25 years, Dan Edds has been a practicing management consultant, working with state & local government, healthcare, K-12 education, higher education, and non-profits. He is the author of 2 books, the first, "Transformation Management", and his most recent, "Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership, Cracking the code of Sustainable Team Performance". His latest book demonstrates how elite organizations are revolutionizing the practice of leadership, recreating the world of work, and setting new standards for employee engagement and customer value.
To watch the video, please visit our Fireside Leadership YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZZQIiTnGmQ&t=1s
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Leigh-Anne Nugent is a CRM Strategist, Business and Management Consultant, Project Manager, and Application Architect with 11 Salesforce certifications and PMP certificate. She’s a passionate problem-solver and truly loves helping people by designing innovative and tailored solutions.
Coming from a family that relishes and thrives in the field of technology systems, Leigh-Anne happily and passionately follows suit. From building new functions and features, right through to establishing specific processes and support protocols to ensure the seamless operation of a system, Leigh-Anne loves working with new clients and helping them grow their CRMs over time in order to realize greater success.
Welcome to Fireside Leadership! Your hosts Liza Magcale and Janice Lee speak about “Analysis Paralysis” and how to work towards a better identity to become a “Leader of Self”. Their discussion is insightful and helpful for those who are looking to see and feel positive results in their personal and business lives to achieve balance.
As General Manager for Haiti's leading Internet Service Provider, Thierry reflects on the lessons and qualities he's developed he built from becoming a manager to a partner in the business world. Thierry started his professional career in 2002 at DHL as Sales Manager, Administrator / Human Resources and then Operations Manager. He did a quick 2 years in the banking industry as Customer Service Supervisor before migrating to Voila (Telecom Operator) where he was Director of Customer Service for 5 years. Thierry also has an international certification in Customer Operations Management (COPC), and in Project Management (PMI®️), and also applies his expertise for HAINET (Internet Service Provider), as General Manager since 2014. Certified in Salesforce and In Digital Transformation, Thierry founded EDGE CONSULTING in 2019 where he intends to put all his knowledge and experience to the benefit of organizations striving to perform at a higher level, by helping them drive their Operational Excellence, Digital Transformation and Salesforce Implementation initiatives. Click below to see the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otz9KbCadk8&t=416s
Peng shares her amazing story on coming to Canada as a refugee as 1 of 10 siblings; breaking stereotypes to co-found and become CEO of Transformix; why she was considered a "bad Chinese girl"; and how some of her first and best leadership lessons came from a close source: her parents. Peng-Sang Cau is a dynamic, charismatic, and innovative executive who co-founded Transformix Engineering Inc. and was President and CEO for 21 years. ATS acquired Transformix’s IP in 2018. After spinning off a new company, Nuformex where Peng is Board Chair, she joined ATS as VP of Sales, Emerging Markets and Symphoni™. Peng also served on a number of boards and committees in Kingston, Ottawa and Toronto. She is an entrepreneur coach with L-Spark, an Accelerator in Ottawa and We-Can with Queen’s University. Peng is also regular speaker at conferences and has been featured in local and national TV, radio and print media. Peng’s greatest accomplishment is being a mother to two wonderful teenagers. Her other awards include being named Canada’s Top 19 Tech Titans in 2019 by IBM, OWIT’s Women Exporter of the Year, Kingston Business Hall of Fame inductee, Kingston’s Business Woman of the Year, Queens University’s Jim Bennett Award Recipient, St. Lawrence Honorary Diploma and the Kingston Chamber of Commerce Young Entrepreneur Award. The highlight of her career was travelling with Prime Minister Harper on two Trade Missions to the Netherlands and China to represent Canada. Peng and her family came to Canada in 1980 from Cambodia as refugee. Click below to see the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAkaDFlBPDI&t=7s
Through her diverse experience leading teams in Asia, Europe and in NY, Darlene shares why effective leadership is about choice and action; the importance of aspiring leaders to ask for coaching and support; and why she's so excited about ushering in the first female US Vice-president (🙌🙌) Darlene has spent much of her career internationally, having lived and worked in Western Europe and Asia Pacific as well as New York City, with 20+ years in the research industry. She managed team of 200+ full time, 50+ part time across multiple offices to triple team retention and engagement to achieve profit and revenue targets. Prior to joining Comscore, she served as Executive Director for Earth Law Center, an environmental non-profit and continues to serve on its board today. Darlene has had a long-standing commitment to catalyze people’s growth, full self-expression and achieving their dreams. From full time breakthrough consulting to lifelong learning about leadership, this has taken many forms including full time breakthrough consultant, managing large teams, start ups and generating learning and coaching opportunities. When she’s not training her cat The Dark Knight to be a lap cat (so far unsuccessfully), she volunteers at the New York Common Pantry food pantry and walks a lot so she doesn’t let down the Go Gotham! team in the latest step challenge. Click below to see the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Ufcu-ZxUY&t=23s
A tech-entrepreneur and start-up mentor, David talks about his journey on how he started Flipp with 4 friends to growing it to 400+ staff; the challenges with building teams and coaching leaders at scale; and reflects on what leadership lessons he's still learning after 20ish years in business. David Au-Yeung is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in the high-tech industry. David co-founded Flipp Corporation, a retail technology company that exponentially grew to over 450 employees and 60M app downloads. During his tenure at Flipp, he played a significant role spearheading the culture at Flipp and driving the employer brand to fuel recruiting. David also implemented the company’s first leadership framework to help drive excellence in the company’s coaching model. As a multi-faceted leader, he also oversaw the Engineering function where his expertise drove innovation in the retail industry to help millions of shoppers to save time and money everyday. As a current Board member of Flipp, he is actively involved in driving the future vision of the company. David is a passionate mentor to the start-up community and his thought leadership has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Benefits Canada, The Ottawa Citizen and Forbes. Click below to see the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAB6yptPVVk&t=1085s
Welcome to Fireside Leadership! A forum hosted by Liza Magcale and Janice Lee where we chat with leaders about their journey to personal success. We highlight the leadership lessons that are not found in textbooks. The soft skills such as communication, critical thinking, decision making and empowerment to name a few. Meet entrepreneurs, industry leaders and change-makers. Our guests have interesting stories and come from a variety of backgrounds with a multitude of experience building and leading teams. They have all achieved a personal level of success within their industry by staying true to course and adjusting to arising challenges. The goal of this podcast is to enable the listener to challenge existing beliefs. By that we mean to expose the listener to new ways of thinking and challenge existing beliefs. We aim to provide an actionable lesson or tool that can be applied immediately. We hope that you will also be inspired to be your best-self in your leadership journey. Join us in our fireside chats! Click below to see the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-1CDPm-UjY&t=4s