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Gwinnett Business Radio

Dawn Kirk with BestU4Life and Zachary Bennett with Reformation Productions

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Dawn Kirk/BestU4Life

Thump-thump. How healthy is your leadership? Thump-thump. How engaged is your team? Thump-thump. Is your organization thriving? Not sure? It’s time for a heart check-up. Dawn S. Kirk, owner and founder of BestU4Life, reveals her unique, people-first approach that has help countless leader build real-world influence and impact. No matter the problem, it can be solved through people. Let the Six Pulses of Heartbeat Leadership position you to empower yourself, engage your team, and impact your organization starting right now!

Zachary Bennett/Reformation Productions

Reformation Productions is a full-service marketing agency located in the North Atlanta metro area of Gwinnett County. They use a more scientific, proven approach to business communications and marketing. Partnering with companies to help them accomplish effective and efficient marketing by providing fresh ideas, creative design, and effective strategies that are designed to work against a backdrop of proven success in the traditions of business. No winging it. No guessing. No trying things out.

They are led by author and marketing executive B. Zachary Bennett (bzacharybennett.com) who also offers fractional chief marketing officer services, one-on-one consulting, and business coaching in addition to the services of the agency. He is also a partner with SCORE and the SBDC, providing for speaking engagements and workshops around the Southeast.

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Heartbeat Leadership: Keeping People First, with Dawn Kirk, BestU4Life, LLC

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Heartbeat Leadership: Keeping People First, with Dawn Kirk, BestU4Life, LLC (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 304)

Dawn Kirk discusses her new book, Heartbeat Leadership, with host John Ray, and the whys and hows of keeping people first as a core leadership principle. She also describes the six pulses of Heartbeat Leadership: priorities, preparation, people, processes, performance, and promotion. “North Fulton Business Radio” is produced virtually from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta.

Dawn Kirk, BestU4Life, LLC

Dawn Kirk is a Speaker, Best-Selling Author, and Consultant. She has coached, trained, and developed thousands of people in Fortune 100 companies. She has over 25 years of working with #1 Consumer Packaged Goods Companies. For 16 of those years, Dawn worked in senior executive roles with Frito-Lay, Inc and The Coca-Cola Company. She led teams as large as 5,000 associates with revenue responsibility of $3B. She holds certification as a speaker, coach, and trainer with The John Maxwell Team, life and health coaching certification with The Health Coach Institute, and Career Consultant certification with Career Direct.

Dawn also serves in the community as a family/budget mentor for HomeStretch and is a member of C-Suite Network, Business Network International, The Kettering Executive Network, and Network of Executive Women.

BestU4Life LLC is premier executive coaching and consulting firm. They help corporate executives and their teams take a people 1st approach to unleash untapped potential and translate strategy into best-in-class execution. Their services include executive and business coaching & consulting, and leadership development.

In her new book, Heartbeat Leadership, Dawn reveals her unique, people-first approach that has helped countless leaders build real-world influence and impact. For more information and to order, go to http://www.heartbeatleadershipbook.com.

Dawn resides in Roswell with her husband and 2 teenage boys.

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Questions/Topics Discussed in this Show

How would you describe the message behind your book Heartbeat Leadership?
What inspired you to share your unique take on people-first leadership?
Does the current state of affairs in the post-COVID world with more people working virtually change anything about your Heartbeat Leadership approach?
Who would you recommend this book for?
What do you see as the greatest barriers to someone reading this book and putting it to work?
Can you share a story of how this approach was effective for you in the real world during your decades of corporate leadership?
Tell us a little bit about each of the six pulses of Heartbeat Leadership: priorities, preparation, people, processes, performance, and promotion.

North Fulton Business Radio” is hosted by John Ray and produced virtually from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show can be found on all the major podcast apps by searching “North Fulton Business Radio.”

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