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E102 Project Management Research, Key Findings with Louise Worsley

May 11, 2022 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

E102 Project Management Research, Key Findings with Louise Worsley

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E102 Project Management Research, Key Findings with Louise Worsley

In this episode of Project Management Office Hours, PMO Joe chats with Louise Worsley. Louise is a consultant, lecturer and coach in the Project Management industry for over 30 years. She shared several stories and experiences with us including key points from years of research conducted for several organizations.

Louise leads the leadership module on the Masters in Project Management at the University of Cape Town and is the author of several books and publications on portfolio and project management, including Stakeholder-led Project Management: Changing the way we manage projects.

Louise and PMO Joe chatted about Leadership, with Louise sharing, “And for me, the currency of leadership is relationships. So I had to build those relationships in the University so that I could run this relatively complex program and build that coalition of support that we needed in order to do this major change program. And I think I personally had to change. I have to now focus not on doing things, but on creating those connections. And I think that for me was when I started to feel, gosh, this is what it means to be a manager. Here’s what it means to run projects.”

We also learned quite a bit about the research Louise has conducted over the years. What important findings can we learn from research? Is there a method or process that is more successful than another? She shared, “what we also found is that you could have one person using the same method and another person using the same method. One was incredibly successful, one was incredibly unsuccessful. So what was different about the people? What really mattered? So we went and measured their high performing project managers and looked at them. And I think one of the interesting first, the most important behavioral competence came out. And I’ve mentioned this before was integrity.”

Louise and PMO Joe continue their discussion about the various research findings and what to look for with successful project management.

Connect with Louise:
Company Website – www.pi3learning.com
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/picubed/

See the guest list for upcoming shows – https://www.thepmosquad.com/podcast

Thank you to THE PMO SQUAD and The PMO Leader for sponsoring this show.

The PMO Squad is a leading provider of PMO and Project Management services in the US. They assist clients building and improving PMOs, provide Project Management Consulting services, deliver custom Project Management Training and provide Project Management staffing services.
Learn more about The PMO Squad – www.thepmosquad.com

Where do PMO Leaders go for Information, Learning, Networking and Services? The PMO Leader community has “Everything You Need to Become a Great PMO Leader”. One PMO World, One Community! Learn more about The PMO Leader – www.thepmoleader.com

The University of Cape Town is the leading academic institution in Africa. Its Masters in Project Management is run by the Department of Construction and Management.

It attracts students from across all industries and from many of the southern African countries.

At PiCubed we are passionate about project management and about sharing our knowledge and experience with everybody in the “business change” community.

Louise Worsley has been a project management consultant, lecturer, and coach for over thirty years and has worked with clients in a variety of sectors (Government, Finance, Retail, Petrochemical, Defence, Transport) supporting the development of project mnager capability, and advising on the setup of project and portfolio management processes.

Currently, she combines consultancy in project, portfolio and programme management with a visiting lecturer role at the University of Cape Town.

She leads the leadership module on the Masters in Project Management at the University of Cape Town and is the author of several books and publications on portfolio and project management, including Stakeholder-led Project Management: Changing the way we manage projects.

She has been three years as a judge for the global Project Office (PMO) Awards and was, until recently, the chair of the PMO judging committee in South Africa.

Louise has presented across the world at PMI and IAPM conferences and is part of a global mentoring group offering coaching and mentoring services. I am passionate about the development and support of young people in the project profession and completed her Masters Degree in Online and Distance Learning through the Open University in the UK.

Follow PiCubed on LinkedIn.

ABOUT PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE HOURS SERIES

Project Management Office Hours is intended to provide Project Management professionals a place to drop in and discuss Success Stories, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned. Project Management Consultant Joy Gumz has shared with us, “Operations keep the lights on, strategy provides the light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward.”

Each of us has a unique story to tell, but collectively we share a message that organizations who embrace Project Management Best Practices perform better than those which don’t. Organizations which align Projects to Strategy perform better. Organizations with Engage Executive Sponsors deliver better results. Organizations which measure Project Management performance outperform those which don’t.

During our Project Management Office Hours, we hear directly from Industry leaders how to make an impact in our profession. How we, collectively, will Advance Project Management Best Practices, One Listener at a time!

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Joe Pusz started THE PMO SQUAD to bring real world PMO Leadership experience to the consulting space and to advocate for Project Management through his blog PMOJOE.com. The old saying is “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Following this mindset Joe left Corporate America in 2013 to start THE PMO SQUAD and work with fellow Natural Born Project Managers to advance Project Management Best Practices.

ABOUT OUR SPONSOR

THE PMO SQUAD focuses exclusively on PMO and Project Management consulting. Corporate America is full of Accidental Project Managers running projects who haven’t been trained to be PMs. To help solve this problem THE PMO SQUAD is on the Leading Edge with PMO As a Service. PMO As a Service allows our clients to focus on their respective core competencies while THE PMO SQUAD delivers Project Management expertise. Contact Joe at 678-591-7868. Follow The PMO Squad on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Cary Matthews, Opal Partners Group

April 25, 2022 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Cary Matthews, Opal Partners Group

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Cary Matthews, Opal Partners Group (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 449)

Cary Matthews, Managing Partner of Opal Partners Group, joined host John Ray to discuss his work as a fractional Chief Operating Officer. Cary shared details on the role of a fractional COO, how he amplifies and improves the operations of his clients, leadership in navigating change, exit planning, success stories, and much more.

North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Opal Partners Group

Opal Partners Group, LLC (OPG) is a Fractional COO and operations consulting firm.

It was founded by Cary Matthews built on his experience leading all aspects of operations in small businesses for more than twenty years.

Our services are structured based on your unique needs. We help most clients using Advisory Services, Projects, and Interim Leadership.

The goal of your operations should be to extract value from every resource you invest in the organization. Our operations assessment helps you determine where you can make improvements.

Our assessment is completed with the leadership team and OPG. During the assessment, we will apply the Operations Hierarchy to all seven essential functions common to every business:

Leadership
Revenue generation
Production
Information Technology
Finance
Human Resource
Business Preparedness

Website | LinkedIn

Cary Matthews, Managing Partner, Opal Partners Group

Prior to starting OPG, Cary was COO and EVP of Operations for several small businesses in the greater Atlanta area.

In those roles, he led the project management, support services, accounting, human resources, engineering, and logistics departments.

Some of the improvements he achieved include reducing time to invoice customers by 80%, improving cash flow, increasing gross profit by 10% while absorbing a 30% increase in sales, shortening training curriculum development time, and reducing training delivery costs by 30%.

Cary earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration, both from Auburn University.

Activities include serving as a member of the MBA Advisory Board for Anderson University, board member and treasurer for Vision USA, and a member of Vistage International.

He has taken professional development classes at MIT and Georgia Tech.

Questions and Topics in this Interview:

For those who aren’t familiar with fractional executives, give us an overview of what you do.
What does a typical client engagement look like?
What is one of the most significant or common issues your clients are dealing with now?
What’s been your experience in dealing with implementing changes in small businesses?
What else are you seeing businesses struggle with or issues they must face in the future?
How do managers and business owners move to results-based management?
How do these things affect the average employee of a small business from their perspective?

North Fulton Business Radio is hosted by John Ray and broadcast and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, TuneIn, and others.

Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has grown to become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with over $13 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.

Special thanks to A&S Culinary Concepts for their support of this edition of North Fulton Business Radio. A&S Culinary Concepts, based in Johns Creek, is an award-winning culinary studio, celebrated for corporate catering, corporate team building, Big Green Egg Boot Camps, and private group events. They also provide oven-ready, cooked from scratch meals to go they call “Let Us Cook for You.” To see their menus and events, go to their website or call 678-336-9196.

Webb Wealth Advisors Mission and Services

April 12, 2022 by Amanda Pearch

Forsyth Studio

Webb Wealth Advisors Mission and Services

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Paul Webb, President & Founder of Webb Wealth Advisors

Webb Wealth Advisors holds the most prestigious Chartered Financial Consultant® designation, awarded only to those with the highest standard of knowledge and trust in financial planning. Paul and his team are uniquely qualified to help you navigate the challenges of securing your financial future for your family or business.

They create opportunities for your long-term growth potential, as well as lifetime income throughout your retirement.

Their team of retirement planners assess your current income and future income to build the budget that suits you and your family best then design a custom plan meeting your risk guidelines and investment objectives.

Webb Wealth Advisors offers Tax Free & Guaranteed Income Retirement Planning. Offering the Highest Guaranteed NO RISK Retirement Income in the industry. They work with individuals, CPAs & Estate Planning Attorneys and team members to help them optimize their clients most favorable retirement outcomes including succession planning offer 401ks, IRAs.

Visit webbwealthadvisors.com to learn about their full scope of services.

This series is brought to you by Webb Wealth Advisors, SUBSCRIBE wherever you enjoy your #audio shows.

Iris Grimm, Dog-Gone Leadership

April 1, 2022 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Iris Grimm, Dog-Gone Leadership

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Iris Grimm, Dog-Gone Leadership (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 446)

Iris Grimm, an executive and leadership coach for over two decades, developed a leadership program based on our relationships with dogs called Dog-Gone Leadership. She joined John Ray in the studio to share how this idea came to be, how she uses the metaphor of relationships with dogs to assist her clients, who she loves to work with, and much more. North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Iris Grimm (Master Performance Inc.)

For the past 21 years, Iris has guided executives, small business owners, and leaders in a variety of capacities and industries to reach the next level(s) of their success.

Their definition of success is as unique as their paths:

be more effective in their role as a leader, hence supporting their team better and having them be more engaged
start/expand their business or their career promotion in a purposeful way,
create more balance between work and personal life,
get out of their own way and show up at a better version every day and many more.

All these goals require an upgrade on inner leadership, trust in oneself and others, as well as letting go of unproductive habits, mindsets, and approaches.

Dog-Gone Leadership

Dog-Gone Leadership is a unique and innovative approach to optimizing performance in your company by utilizing canine relationships. Stop feeling resigned to the status quo and create better outcomes and connections with ease.

Dogs are not just (wo)men’s best friends. They can mirror our behavior and thinking. They reflect our leadership and energy. They can reveal our blind spots. They uplevel our performance and commitment.

Therefore, dogs are ideal partners for creating more conscious leaders, whether they are already in an official leadership position or not.

Dog-Gone Leadership with Iris Grimm steps outside of the conventional leadership development box.

Dogs shake off their stress with ease. Great leaders shake their stress off quickly and return to an emotional state that serves the situation best.
Dogs can read the energy of a room very quickly. Great leaders can read the energy in the room and adjust their style/approach accordingly.
Dogs let go of the past quickly (unless the humans get in the middle of it). Great leaders take nothing personally and let go of any grudges and conflicts swiftly.
Dogs reflect our leadership in vivid pictures and behaviors. Great leaders surround themselves with coaches and teachers who point out blind spots and challenge them to grow.

We take the boring out of leadership development and infuse playfulness, love, mindfulness, surrender, commitment, and many more leadership principles and skills that we can learn from dogs.

Dog-gone leadership is merging leadership performance with canine guardianship – pulling out analogies, pointing out differences, and applying principles and skills with the dog that can be translated into the business world. This program is about bringing the best out of everyone – the leader, their team, and the dog.

As a result, participants transform their leadership with, from, and for their dogs – making this a win-win-win situation.

Company website | LinkedIn | Facebook

Iris Grimm, Executive/Leadership Coach & Trainer, Master Performance, Inc. and Dog-Gone Leadership

Iris Grimm has been in the coaching and training industry for over 20 years. Whether her clients are executives in larger companies, business owners, or entrepreneurs, she loves to support them in creating richer experiences in their lives and work.

Iris is also the founder of Dog-Gone Leadership, an experimental training program where her clients transform their leadership with, for, and from their dogs. Her love for dogs and her extensive experience with dogs, combined with her devotion to support people to perform better as leaders, makes her training programs engaging, practical, and life-changing.

When she is not meeting with her clients, Iris loves to hike with her dogs and spends time in nature.

Questions and Topics in this Interview:

What is the focus of Dog-Gone Leadership?
How did you come up with this concept?
With the pandemic, many people finally adopted a dog since they work from home. And once they returned to the office, they felt reluctant leaving their dog at home by themselves. What is your opinion about pet-friendly workplaces?
When you present this program in companies, does every participant have to bring their dog?
Is having a dog a requirement to participate in the Dog-Gone Leadership program?
What lessons can we learn from dogs?

Building Company Culture Through Transparency, Committment and Goals E21

March 30, 2022 by Karen

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Phoenix Business Radio

Building Company Culture Through Transparency, Committment and Goals E21

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Building Company Culture Through Transparency, Committment and Goals E21

On this podcast, we do a deep dive into companies that are crushing it with a great company culture and this show was no different. We matched up two great companies that are doing amazing things in their companies to grow their company cultures. APS and Co: Collective were the star companies on the show.

Whether it’s a company that has been around for over 100 years like APS or over 11 years like Co: Collective, they understand that growing culture is vital and at the root of continuing to grow a successful company overall. We discuss the importance of growing this culture on the inside, with employees, and on the outside with customers and clients. The culture should be transparent and consistent from all angles. One of the ways Co: Collective does this is by bringing the clients “into the sandbox” to build with them and be part of the process.

The journey and the process is key in growing a good culture. The first step in the process is self transformation which can then drive into company growth and transformation. APS does this through growth mindset focus when growing and adapting in new areas.

This is a great episode to listen to if you are another “company culture” guru that is loving to learn new ways to grow company culture. You can hear the passion and experience in Kit and Leila’s voices, as well as the knowledge that Derek brings from his Cultural Anthropology background.

This show discusses the need for company’s to set bold goals that they will try and achieve. APS has set the goal to be 100% clean by 2050. This is a goal that they are in the process of aiming towards now. Similar to the goal that Black Rifle Coffee set to hire 10,000 veterans, these are large goals but important to help lead the companies in the direction that is supportive of their company culture.

It was great to hear the thoughts, suggestions, examples, and passion from Leila, Kit, and Derek, that it might just be easier to listen and hear for yourself. Enjoy!

co: is a creative and strategic transformation partner for purpose-led businesses. We blend strategic and creative thinking to solve problems, marrying robust, logical, fact-based insights with creative, disruptive, intuitive thinking.

We provide our clients with a set of insights, tools, and processes to spur action around their Quests. By defining and subsequently capitalizing on “right space” opportunities, we help expand footprints, open up new markets, and create businesses.

We believe building a successful brand doesn’t begin and end with the marketing department. It starts from the inside out with daily actions, small and large, across the entire business. That’s why we engage relevant stakeholders along the way and help mobilize and socialize teams around the Quest. We work with clients to develop milestone moments that not only inform but engage the entire business.

Derek Newberry is an organizational development consultant who specializes in helping leaders build great cultures and drive transformational change.

Prior to joining co:, Derek was an Expert Consultant at BCG, where he worked with Fortune 500 clients to design and implement culture and capability-building programs to support large scale operating model transformations. As a thought leader in BCG’s People Strategy team, he also drove the creation of new offerings and frameworks in the culture and change space, including supporting the development of BCG’s approach to defining the future of work.

Derek is also affiliated faculty in liberal and professional studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology. Derek delivers workshops on leadership influence, team-building and culture change at the Wharton School’s Aresty Institute for Executive Education. He was a faculty director for the organizational anthropology certificate in Penn’s online bachelor’s degree program, the first in the Ivy League. He also co-developed and launched a series of Coursera courses on team culture that have been taken by over 10,000 learners.

Derek is co-author of The Culture Puzzle: Harnessing the Forces that Drive Your Organization’s Success (Berrett-Koehler) and Committed Teams: Three Steps to Inspiring Passion and Performance (Wiley Press), a Soundview Best Business Book.

Derek hails from Oakland, CA and currently lives in Manhattan, NY with his wife and two daughters.

Connect with Derek on LinkedIn.

Kit Krugman is the Head of Organization & Culture Design at co:collective, a creative and strategic transformation consultancy.

Kit has 10 years of experience designing, managing, and growing teams at creative organizations. She has worked on Future of Talent/Future of Work projects for clients like IBM, LinkedIn, and Microsoft and designed organizational change initiatives for diverse communities including schools, design firms, and publishing companies.

In addition to her role at co:collective, Kit is the Global Executive Director of WIN: Women in Innovation – a global nonprofit dedicated to closing the gender gap in innovation by providing concrete learning & resources to women innovators.

Kit is deeply committed to building more inclusive communities and organizations. She has been published in INC, Fast Company, and the Huffington Post and spoken at DisruptHR, Talent2030, and Adobe’s 99U on numerous topics including women in leadership, new organizational models and building a culture of inclusion and innovation.

In addition to her subject matter expertise in organizational psychology and change leadership via a M.A. from Columbia University, Kit brings a deep understanding of narrative and design theory from her B.A. in Literature and Studio Art from Yale. Kit began her career as a K-12 art teacher and is a certified yoga teacher.

Connect with Kit on LinkedIn.

Arizona Public Service (APS) is working to meet business needs with practices that balance a healthy environment, a vibrant economy and strong communities for current and future generations. They provide our nearly 1.3 million customers with clean, reliable and affordable energy today and are committed to power Arizona’s future with electricity that is 100% clean and carbon-free by 2050.

APS also is the operator and co-owner of the Palo Verde Generating Station – the largest nuclear plant and the single-largest generator of carbon-free electricity in the U.S.

Beyond electricity, Arizona is our home and giving back is an important part of our culture. Their employees volunteer hundreds of thousands of hours to support causes and non-profits important to them. And, this company contributes to teachers and charitable organizations, assists our communities with economic development, and provides millions of dollars in direct financial assistance to customers struggling to pay their bills.

Leila Zaghloul-Daly grew up in Phoenix, Arizona.

She is a second generation APS employee and has held various positions in HR at many Fortune 500 companies.

She holds a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and her current role is as the manager of culture, learning, and inclusion at APS.

About Culture Crush

Culture is not just a tag word to be thrown around. It is not something you throw in job descriptions to draw people to applying for jobs within a company.

According to Marcus Buckingham and Ashely Goodall in their book Nine Lies About Work, “Culture is the tenants of how we behave. It’s like a family creed. This is how we operate and treat each other in the family.”

As a growing company- Culture Crush Business Podcast is THE culture improvement resource that supports companies and leaders. Our Mission is to improve company cultures so people WANT to go to work. Employees and leaders should like where they work and we think this is possible.

Within the company: Culture Crush has Vetted Resources and Partnerships with the right people and resources that can help improve your company culture.

On this podcast: We focus on everything surrounding businesses with good company culture. We will talk with company leaders to learn about real-life experiences, tips, and best practices for creating a healthy work environment where employees are finding joy and satisfaction in their work while also striving and growing within the company. We also find the companies that offer resources to help improve company culture and showcase them on the show to share their tips and tricks for growing culture.

About the Host

Kindra Maples is spartan racer, past animal trainer, previous magician’s assistant, and has a weakness for Oreo cookie shakes. Her journey working with people actually started working with animals as a teenager (don’t worry we won’t go that far back for her bio).

She worked for over 15 years in the zoo industry working with animals and the public. Her passion of working with animals shifted into working with people in education, operations and leadership roles. From there her passion of leadership and helping people develop has continued to grow.

Then came the opportunity for leading the Culture Crush Business Podcast and she jumped on it. Leadership, growth, and strong company cultures are all areas that Kindra is interested in diving into further.

Shout Outs

We want to thank a few people for their behind the scenes effort in helping this relaunch to come to life. James Johnson with Tailored Penguin Media Company LLC.– It is a small, but powerful video production company with a goal to deliver the very best by articulating the vision of your brand in a visually creative way. Gordon Murray with Flash PhotoVideo, LLC. -Flash Gordon has been photographing since high school and evolving since then with new products that will equip, encourage, engage, and enable. Renee Blundon with Renee Blundon Design – She is not only one of the best free divers (that’s not how she helped with the podcast) but she is great with graphics design and taking the direction for the vision that you have while also adding creative ideas to bring to your vision to life.

These are just a few of the folks that supported the relaunch of the podcast. If you would like to be part of the Culture Crush team or would like to support underwriting the show- please reach out: info@culturecrushbusiness.com

Jay R. Weiser, Jay Weiser Consulting

March 21, 2022 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Jay R. Weiser, Jay Weiser Consulting

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Jay R. Weiser, Jay Weiser Consulting (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 444)

Jay R. Weiser, Principal and Founder at Jay Weiser Consulting, helps his clients thrive in the face of disruption and uncertainty. He and John Ray discussed the need to be prepared and responsive, how his experience informs his approach, his Five Leadership Superpowers™ needed to drive and sustain change, and much more. North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Jay Weiser Consulting

Choosing the right consultant for your organization is very important. You do not want to just pick anyone.

You want to choose a partner that

Puts your organization’s interests first
Takes the time to understand the organization and its challenges/opportunities
Works collaboratively with leadership to frame and solve its problems
Enables the organization to solve today’s AND prepare for tomorrow’s challenges
Is enjoyable to work with and sits alongside, not across from, you

That is a tall order, but you deserve nothing less. That is how Jay works.

Jay Weiser Consulting is right for you if you want a:

Catalyst – Who challenges the status quo, increases awareness, creates urgency, drives decision-making, and mobilizes the organization.

Challenger – Who asks tough questions, stretches the team’s thinking, helps them see and think differently, and brings in new perspectives.

Integrator – Who helps synthesize information from inside and outside the company, converts it into actionable insights to inform and drive decision-making.

Guide and Navigator – Who, with leadership, determines where to go, charts the course, prepares for the journey, and foresees and manages risks on the way.

and a Force Multiplier – Who amplifies and extends leaders’ efforts and impact, ensures focus on the most important and accelerates the time to results.

Faced with disruptions and uncertainty, leaders must make a choice.

Do they want to be CAPTIVES, victims of circumstances and at the mercy of others, OR CAPTAINS, leaders prepared to take charge, enable the organization, and confidently and successfully steer it to its destination? Ready to be a captain? If so, talk with Jay now.

Company website | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube | Facebook

Jay R. Weiser, Principal and Founder, Jay Weiser Consulting

Jay Weiser is the Principal and Founder of Jay Weiser Consulting. His practice is dedicated to enabling leadership teams and their organizations and individual leaders to not only survive but thrive in the face of disruptiveness and uncertainty. Leaders need a new set of capabilities to succeed in this turbulent environment.

Jay developed a leadership capability framework, THE FIVE LEADERSHIP SUPERPOWERS™ to address this very need. Through his advisory services, educational offerings, and speaking, he helps them build, apply, and sustain these SUPERPOWERS. By doing so, clients improve their overall preparedness and readiness, dampen downside risk from disruptions and uncertainty, recover and rebound faster, and pounce on opportunities faster amplifying their returns and value delivered to stakeholders.

Jay has a passion for helping clients sustainably create value at the intersections of strategy, organization (and leadership) and operations, no matter the context. He is an integrative thinker and continuous learner fueled by an insatiable curiosity to find the right, best way to do this for his clients. Knowing one size does not fit all and that there are no silver bullets, he guides clients in developing, implementing, and sustaining fit-for-purpose and -the future solutions that deliver results.

Jay has over 3 decades of experience advising executives across multiple industries and in a wide variety of environments. He clients and employers span from the middle market to Fortune/Forbes 500 organizations including recognizable names like Accenture, Autotrader (Cox Auto), Bristol Myers Squibb, Fulton County Schools, JP Morgan Chase, to Tiffany and Publix. Jay has been interviewed for Fortune.com and several podcasts. He has had articles published by Harvard Business School Press and other publications. He frequently shares his thought leadership via LinkedIn posts and on his site.

He has an undergraduate business degree from The Wharton School (UPenn) and his MBA from Goizueta Business School (Emory). He lives happily with his wife of 32 years, an educator, in Alpharetta, GA.

Questions and Topics in this Interview:

Likelihood and sources of continuing disruption and uncertainty
Weaknesses that disruption and uncertainty have exposed.
Why new leadership capabilities are needed
New leadership capability model – The Five Leadership Superpowers(TM)
Ask about each of the five Superpowers and how they work
Assessing the Superpowers in your organization
How Jay Weiser Consulting can help

Hylke Faber with Growth Leaders Network and George Basile with School of Sustainability, ASU

March 7, 2022 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Hylke Faber with Growth Leaders Network and George Basile with School of Sustainability, ASU

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Hylke Faber with Growth Leaders Network and George Basile with School of Sustainability, ASU

Growth Leaders Network (GLN) is a boutique culture and team coaching company which helps leaders realize their potential.

Hylke Faber’s mission is to realize his essence and help others do the same. He has been serving as a consultant, coach and facilitator for the last 25 years, working with large and small organizations across the globe.

He is CEO of Growth Leaders Network and Constancee, the leadership and culture development consultancies and has taught the Leader as Coach programs at Columbia Business School.

He also is the author of the award-winning book Taming Your Crocodiles: Unlearn Fear and Become a True Leader and the sequel Taming Your Crocodiles Practices: Daily Practices for Leadership Depth.

He received his Master of International Relations degree from the Johns Hopkins University and is originally from the Netherlands.

He now lives in Phoenix, Arizona and loves his work and the outdoors, reading, meditation, yoga, cooking and making music.

Connect with Hylke on LinkedIn.

Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability is the first and largest comprehensive degree-granting program of its kind in the United States, with a focus on finding real-world solutions to environmental, economic, and social challenges.

Established in 2006, the School is part of the College of Global Futures. The School of Sustainability offers educational programs from undergraduate to PhDs and sustainability leadership for mid-career professionals to executives.

The School is addressing the most critical challenges of our time, and the demand for graduates is exploding. The School’s emphasizes experiential learning, use-inspired research with faculty, corporate leadership, and community service.

The knowledge and solutions that are created today will shape our quality of life as well as future generations–we have an opportunity and an obligation to deliver pathways to sustainable global futures for all.

George Basile is an internationally recognized leader and creative thinker in strategic planning for sustainability leadership and sustainable enterprise. He has led pioneering sustainability efforts in four sectors: for and non-profit enterprises, academia and communities.

His work reframes sustainability as a “decision challenge,” focusing on how to plan and act strategically for sustainability opportunities by developing novel insights, methods and tools for effective and sustainable practices. He holds a B.S. in Physics from the University of California Irvine and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from UC Berkeley.

Dr. Basile is a Professor of Sustainability and Enterprise in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University (ASU) and a Senior Global Futures Scientist in ASU’s Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. He also serves as Associate Director of The Global KAITEKI Center (TGKC). Working with global industry partners, TGKC (https://sustainability.asu.edu/kaiteki/) focuses on transitioning from fossil-carbon based materials to a Sustainable Circular Economy (SCE).

Basile additionally works with Fortune 500 companies as well as small, medium and start-up enterprises that are pushing the boundaries on sustainable enterprise business-model innovation. Dr. Basile also served as Executive Director of the ASU Decision Theater, a unique systems exploration, research and application center and as a founding faculty affiliate and advisor to The Sustainability Consortium.

Dr. Basile engages extensively with business, government, academia and communities and has co-developed educational programs in sustainability, business and leadership in both the US and EU, including the Masters in Sustainability Leadership at ASU. He served as the Swedish Knowledge Foundation International Guest Professor in leadership toward sustainable innovation.

Prior to joining ASU, Dr. Basile served as Executive Vice-President and Chief Scientist for the strategic think-tank the Natural Step International, which was awarded the Blue Planet Prize and Gorbachev’s Green Cross Award for Global Leadership. Dr. Basile led efforts on sustainability and business strategy at Fortune 100 businesses and start-ups, including the Home Depot, McDonalds, Nike and others.

He co-founded a cleantech & greentech communication strategy group at Bite International and has served on the board of the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF). He currently serves on various boards and the editorial board of Sustainability, the Journal of Record.

Dr. Basile presents and publishes widely, including three-volume The Business of Sustainability (Praeger Press, 2011).

Connect with Dr. Basile on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Operating As One: Employee Empowerment and Seamless Handoffs

February 15, 2022 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Operating As One: Employee Empowerment and Seamless Handoffs

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Chief Nurse Officers (CNO’s), Gay Landstrom Ph.D., RN, NEA-BC, FACHE – SVP and CNO of Trinity Health – and Kim Maguire RN, BSN, MBA/HCM, CENP – EVP and CNO at Northwest Community Hospital (NCH) in Chicago – join the “Leader Dialogue” co-hosts for this timely and relevant podcast.

The podcast topic is “Operating as One: Employee Empowerment and Seamless Handoffs”. Gay and Kim share their personal experiences and insights on this important topic, providing practical suggestions that can be applied immediately.

Gay Landstrom/Trinity Health

Gay Landstrom is responsible for advancing Trinity health system’s journey as a people-centered health system, moving forward their goals of top ten quality, zero harm, and exceptional experience across the care continuum. Landstrom also served executive vice president and CNO for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health System in New Hampshire for three years and as interim CEO for one of its five hospitals.

Kim Maguire/Northwest Community Hospital

Kim Maguire leads the NCH nursing team, providing oversight, expertise, and leadership to ensure the delivery of high-quality nursing service in an environment that promotes professional nursing practice. Kimberly has worked in healthcare for nearly 30 years in a variety of settings from homecare to industrial case management. The vast majority of her experience, however, has been spent in the acute care setting.

Roger Spoelman, DBA, MBA

Roger is a healthcare executive with more than 38 years of industry experience. He most recently served as interim CEO at Trinity Health Regional Systems in New England, Ohio, and Illinois at Loyola University Health System.

His tenure at Trinity Health included leading several hospital mergers, and later as regional executive for the corporation’s Mercy Health operations. He also is founder and executive sponsor of the Trinity Health Innovation Hub. In 2018, Roger oversaw the merger of International Aid Inc. and CURE International Inc., two organizations where he served on the Board of Directors for over a decade. He recently served as the President and CEO for CURE International Inc., which operates eight charitable hospitals in developing nations, and focuses on faith-based care that restores quality of life to pediatric patients with surgically treatable disabilities. Roger was appointed Chair of the BAMF Health board of directors in 2019. He is working closely with the company to achieve their patent-focused mission of bringing intelligence-based precision medicine to the world.

Roger is a co-host of the Baldrige Foundation Leader Dialogue program, and mentors and coaches’ numerous executives and assists organizations and their boards of directors with succession, strategy, and innovation.

Dr. Darin Vercillo, MD

Darin Vercillo co-founded ABOUT, drawing upon his expertise in developing and implementing medical information systems specifically designed to manage complex patient needs, medical education, and faculty and staff logistics. Darin provides clinical oversite and direction across all facets of ABOUT.

A board-certified hospitalist practicing in the Salt Lake City area, Darin also served as a clinical advisor and technical developer at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center. Previously to his work at ABOUT, Darin served as a physician knowledge engineer and interim Chief Medical Officer at TheraDoc.

Ben Sawyer, MBA, PT, OCS, LBB

Ben Sawyer is an ABOUT executive. He has more than 35 years of industry experience, most recently serving as CEO of SOAR Vision Group, and EVP of Care Logistics.

Ben started his healthcare career in 1985 as a Physical Therapist, focusing on sports medicine and orthopedics, and received his specialist certification as an Orthopedic Clinical Specialist (OCS) in 1997 from the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties.

After securing his MBA, he moved into hospital administration, overseeing rehab, wellness, cardiac therapy, and occupational medicine services, specializing in team development and performance optimization. This expanded into a system leadership role overseeing performance and quality improvement. During that time Ben achieved his Lean Black Belt certification (LBB)

Ben has a gift for recognizing strategic gaps that can be turned into opportunities. For example, during the COVID-19 crisis he initiated national executive roundtables with the Baldrige Foundation via the Leader Dialogue program to help executives turn the pandemic disruption into an opportunity for improved collaboration and performance towards true Community Health beyond the walls of hospitals and to prioritize and coordinate action and resources.

Who Do You Have in Your Corner? E28

January 25, 2022 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Who Do You Have in Your Corner? E28

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Who Do You Have in Your Corner? E28

On this episode of Collaborative Connections Radio Show and Podcast, host Kelly Lorenzen was joined on air by Global Speaker, Business Coach, and Best Selling Author, Dena Patton along with Andrew Kolikoff, Principal – Culture Practice Leader at Aurelius, and Wendy Neal, Founder/ Managing Attorney at Neal Law, PLLC.

They talked about mindset, culture, law, leadership, coaching, passion, collaboration, entrepreneurship, and more.

If you are a business owner or C-suite executive, you will love this episode. Andrew, Dena, and Wendy share some great insights and golden nuggets that we can all use in our personal and professional lives.

More than 50 years of combined business ownership experience, makes this episode worth the hour it will take to listen to the whole thing.

Dena Patton Coaching and Training is an award-winning coaching and training company that works with world-changing business owners. They specialize in three areas:

The marketing & sales plan to increase your profits
Creating your internal systems to become a well-oiled machine
Helping you to master your greatness mindset to elevate your vision and leadership effectiveness.

Dena Patton has been an elite business coach for the last 20 years who helps world-changing, purpose-driven leaders and entrepreneurs break records with their income and impact.

As a Keynote speaker and best-selling author, Dena is an expert on human potential and greatness mindset.

Everything you want in your career or life starts with your mindset. Her mindset work can also be found in her book, The Greatness Game on Amazon.

When business owners want to take their impact or their income to new levels they hire Dena.

Connect with Dena on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Aurelius enables leaders to realize their business and personal visions.

They develop effective strategies together and work with you to implement your strategies in the key areas of process, people, money and growth. Most importantly, they work directly on transforming behavior to ensure we execute your strategy and create a great business.

Andrew Kolikoff is a multiple time C-Level executive/company founder, one time landing him on the Cover Page of USA today for a product he invented and received licensing from the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL in 2003.

Since that time, Andrew has dedicated his life to behaviorally elevating and transforming leaders’ lives. Now, Andrew is an inspirational speaker, author, leadership and culture transformation guru/coach.

While he brings with him his additional, wonderfully diverse experiences: 10+ years of not-for-profit board chairmanship, former chief science officer, university adjunct professor, and national director of business development, Andrew’s true gift has always shown up in HOW he delivers the change and growth.

As he says, before you can authentically create a culture of accountability, authenticity and scaled profitability… each leader first has to “see themselves for who they truly are and align themselves with themselves”.

Connect with Andrew on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

Neal Law PLLC is a boutique law firm, established in February 2017 by attorney Wendy Neal, with a primary focus on providing outside general counsel, corporate transactional, and intellectual property counsel services to companies in the agriculture, technology, and food and beverage industries.

In addition to her more than two decades of legal experience, Wendy Neal leverages for her clients the business management and strategy expertise gained as a member of the executive team of an agricultural biotechnology company with whom she worked from the company’s founding until after its successful IPO.

Ms. Neal formerly was a partner in the intellectual property and technology group at a large Phoenix-based law firm, where her practice focused on designing and executing worldwide intellectual property protection and enforcement strategies, managing IP infringement litigation and dispute resolution proceedings, and negotiating technology-driven acquisitions, licenses, and other business transactions in the United States and abroad.

Before relocating to Tempe, Arizona in 1999, Ms. Neal worked with the patent team at a major aerospace company, served as a risk policy consultant to the government relations office of a professional engineers’ organization in Washington, D.C., and held various technical roles at chemical manufacturers and petroleum refineries throughout the U.S.

Ms. Neal earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering and J.D. from the University of Cincinnati and is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. She is licensed to practice in Arizona, California, and Washington.

Connect with Wendy on LinkedIn.

About Collaborative Connections

Kelly Lorenzen started the “Collaborative Connections” show to bring her clients and favorite charities together to meet each other, connect and collaborate in life and business. She hopes to build a stronger community one show at a time.

About Our Sponsor

KLM is a one-stop support shop for small business owners who are starting, growing, or trying to sustain. Our purpose is to foster the growth and prosperity of small businesses in our community.

Entrepreneurs & small business owners come to KLM for support in all areas of business. KLM clients think of us as a concierge, business snuggy, another arm, or duplicate for the business owner; They call us when they need us. Business owners can continue to do what they love while having the support they need when they need it.

About Your Host

Kelly Lorenzen, CEO of KLM, is an award-winning entrepreneur with over 15 years of business-ownership experience. She is also a certified project management professional.