The Business Elevation Show With Chris Cooper - Be More. Achieve More

How do we empower leaders to build a better tomorrow? My guest Lara Stein understands this challenge as well as anyone as the Chairman and Founder of Boma Global. Lara was the founder of the TEDx program at TED, and grew it into a global movement with more than 15,000 events and more than 1 billion video views. Through her work with TEDx, Lara learned the innovation power of local communities, and how to harness this power. She also learned how to build a massive volunteer network and how to sustain it long term. After leaving TED, she joined Singularity University, to build a decentralized network of country partners and take them global. Now, she has joined forces with dozens of country, corporate and community partners with an intimate understanding and appreciation of the power of large-scale, decentralized networks. Join us as we explore and learn from Lara’s incredible insight drawn from extensive experience of empowering leaders and engaging communities to build the most incredible momentum for a bette

How do you smash through perceived career glass ceilings and, if you are a woman, achieve this in male dominated workplaces? Jackie Chappell had a successful career in the rail industry, where she rose from a part-time employee selling tickets to become the Chief Executive of the Industry’s Training and Competence Company, making her the first ever female CEO in the industry’s history. Jackie led the company to achieve tremendous industry and government recognition, in particular National Training Organisation status, and phenomenal growth during her seven years at the helm. Following this career, Jackie created her own company; The Ironing Lady and its sister company The Cleaning Ladies, which in the last twelve years have developed a reputation for quality and innovation and achieved considerable growth despite the recent recession. Jackie now has a busy speaking career, addressing Business Expos, start-ups, the Aspire Entrepreneur Academy and many others. Join us as we discuss ideas and life lessons that m

How to become the best version of yourself is a life changing question that has the power to literally transform your life experience. I am therefore delighted to be welcoming someone who came very highly recommended as an authority on the subject: Ceil Stanford describes herself as a coach, leader, business owner, entrepreneur, investor, mom and nana. Ceil is a leader who teaches applicable and revolutionary processes for personal and professional development, helping others to develop their “inner champions. In 2004, she started at the company she now owns and runs as the president of Advanced Coaching and Leadership Center. How to discover and be your great self is a lifelong journey and as I know from my own experiences of striving for this, discovering and allowing your great self to unfold has the power to completely transform and elevate your life and business success. Do join us for another great conversation with life and business elevating potential on the Business Elevation Show.

Are you a man experiencing challenges? Well I guess to some extent that is most of us males from time to time! My guest Mark Sephton in his soon to be released third book ‘Mark of a Man’ provides a blue print to help men navigate challenges such as divorce, mental health issues and life’s downs. A mentor to entrepreneurs his mission to help others has seen him break into global markets while working with startups and millionaire entrepreneurs around the world. Mark’s love for entrepreneurship has been expressed through serving as TV host of the show “One More Round.” Mark is a regular contributor to Entrepreneur Magazine, ambassador and new podcast host for Brainz Magazine and a speaker for corporate events, entrepreneurship summits, and major conferences worldwide. If you are a man experiencing challenges, or help men through your work, then join us for some vulnerable personal story telling and valuable strategies to help men get back up on their feet by dealing with their emotions.

How do you play the game of business in the right way and win? My guest Arnon Barnes is a master entrepreneurial coach and peak performance trainer. He has developed signature mentoring programs that help both aspiring entrepreneurs as well as established and seasoned ones build insanely successful businesses and become even more successful in both business and life. Arnon is a Serial Entrepreneur, Peak Performance Trainer, International Speaker and one of Europe’s Leading and most Exciting Business Mentors. He has successfully trained and mentored over 40,000 people in many different arenas of business from over 52 different countries including South Africa, Switzerland, Denmark, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Israel and Australia to name a few. Join us on the Business Elevation Show as we discuss the important lessons Arnon has learned during his career as a business owner and master entrepreneur that can help you to win the game of business.

Recently, I had the most fascinating conversation with my guest Jennifer Jordan who opened my eyes as to why data is so important when it comes to improving the world from trust and transparency to Artificial Intelligence. Jennifer, helps entrepreneurs and investors build valuable enterprises. She cold called asset managers and launched the first internet coverage at a Pacific Northwest investment bank, managed investor relations for a publicly traded software company, and invested in early-stage technology companies for the state of Massachusetts. Jennifer serves as a Managing Director at Techstars for Barclays’ New York Accelerator and Female Founders First program. Join us as we discuss how data is being used for a better world, why you should take data seriously and how ventures such as Barclays Techstars are backing causes that improve the world.

If you are honest with yourself, are you truly making your money work for you? Marcus de Maria is a very well-respected wealth educator, trader, investor and entrepreneur who transformed his £100,000 debt in to financial freedom using a proven formula for financial wealth. Marcus’s passion is helping others around the world to achieve financial independence for themselves and their families so that no one has to live a life worrying about money. Marcus has been trading & investing for over 21 years and used this experience in cryptocurrency to build up a small fortune. He is now teaching others to do the same – and the results have been truly spectacular, creating life-changing wealth for members of Your Crypto Club. Join us as we explore how you can over time transform your financial wealth.

How do you build a loyal tribe around your business who are connected and inspired by you, your ideas and each other? This week’s guest, Adam Strong, is a corporate productivity authority, entrepreneur, athlete, coach, speaker and trainer. He has been featured on the BBC, The Guardian, People Management, HR Grapevine and Global Woman magazines, and runs his own very successful podcast ‘The Game Changers’. Adam creates and implements bespoke productivity enhancement programmes for businesses that want to see increased profitability, more engaged employees and a healthier workforce. A former elite athlete for 3 years he was the training partner to the most successful British track athlete - Mo Farah. In this show, Adam will share his wealth of knowledge on how to build a highly engaged tribe around your business!

What must you change in these uncertain times to change your future? Do you have a methodology to enable you do it? Jessica Richards C.hyp MNCH (Acc) was fascinating in our first interview in 2020 so I invited her back to share her acclaimed methodology for personal transformation in more depth. Jessica has been a Clinical Hypnotherapist since 1985 and specialises in Personal Transformation and Corporate Leadership Development using her unique and highly effective ‘Changing the Groundhog Day’ process, which identifies and resolves self-limiting beliefs and is life changing. A highly experienced entrepreneur she was voted by the Academy for Chief Executives as one of the top three speakers of the decade due to her ability to help their executives resolve issues and gain creative insights into their purpose, direction and meaning in life. Join us as we take a deeper dive into Jessica’s wisdom and help you to change your future for the better!

Are you wise to how gender equality and diversity will enhance your business interests and create a better world? Jennifer Justice is an entertainment and live-experience executive known for building artists’ careers and businesses by marrying art with commerce. Whilst at Roc Nation, she was Jay-Z’s personal entertainment attorney for 17 years as well as Beyonce’s for a year. In 2019, JJ founded The Justice Dept. – a management, strategy and legal firm working with female (and woke male) entrepreneurs, executives, talent, brands and creatives to build exceptional value. Passionate about championing gender equality & diversity in the workplace she was named by In-Style as one of the 50 Badass Women Changing the World in 2020, and on Billboard’s Women in Power list three times. JJ has featured on the TODAY Show and regularly contributes on NBC News. Join us as we discuss why and how attitudes to women and diversity must be changed for a better world.

After a year that has seen many of us change the way we work, it has never been so valuable to elevate your skills in effective online networking and presentations! But trying to do so through a computer screen can feel overwhelming for some and down right uncomfortable for others. Where can we step up and how far can we take it?! For the last 20 years, Will Kintish has shown thousands in the business, professional and financial communities how to become more effective and confident networkers. Since Covid arrived he now shares his deep knowledge of networking and as a highly acclaimed speaker presentations by explaining how you can become as proficient online as you can face-to-face. With an unforeseen change to the planned schedule this week, I am delighted that Will has stepped in with perfect timing to discuss the key insights to becoming highly effective at online networking as well as mastering virtual presentation!

You would probably agree that as a human being you belong to the most intelligent and dominant species on our planet. Yet as a consequence of our behaviour massive global problems of our own making exist. To solve them we need more than intelligence - we need ‘WISDOM’. Judy Robinett is one of the wisest souls I know and the perfect guest to explore this subject with. Judy has helped entrepreneurs find needed capital connecting them with venture capitalists, angel investors, family offices, and other funding sources and guided them through the dealmaking and due diligence process for over 30 years. A wise business thought leader Judy has been profiled in The Street, Vogue, CBS, NBC, Forbes, The Washington Post & Bloomberg Businessweek. She is the author of “How to Be a Power Connector:The 5-50-150 Rule” and “Crack the Funding Code’’. If you want to become a part of the solution then join us to discover how to go beyond intelligence by building and accessing your wisdom.

On this celebration show, Chris Cooper will reflect and share insights from over 400 Business Elevation interviews to date. This will be with the help of special guest host, Dr. Karen Y. Wilson-Starks the President and CEO of TRANSLEADERSHIP, INC. Dr Karen has more than 30 years of experience as a trusted advisor and partners with her clients to select and retain the best people, create high performance teams, and develop cultures that get rapid innovative results. She is the 2021 recipient of the RHR International Excellence in Consultation Award. Chris has 30 years of multi-functional business experience. He elevates business success as an advisor, coach, facilitator, and consultant developing leaders, teams and building highly engaged workforces. He is the founder of Chris Cooper Business Elevation, The Business Elevation Show and The Elevation Collective is an exclusive network for business change makers. Join us for this exciting milestone show!

How do you grow your business and maintain the energy needed to keep moving forward even when the going is tough? Roger Masterson is a serial entrepreneur with a big reputation for helping business owners to think differently. A disruptive thinker, he is the founder of Celtic Castles, the award-winning online castle-booking company, based in Yorkshire, England. Known affectionately as the ‘Castle Man’, there is nobody in the world who knows more about staying in castles than Roger! In October 2020, I booked a small castle recommended by Roger for a very special birthday for my wife. As we watched a TV show called ‘Grand Designs’ in the medieval castle lounge, my youngest son said, ‘Dad who was that man you booked this from?’ As if by magic, Roger appeared on our TV screen – ‘It was him!’ Join us as we explore the importance of growth and how maintaining gratitude is one of the keys to success with the ‘Castle Man’.

Are you the face of your own business or expected to be an ambassador for the organization you work or your profession in your work? If so, how you come across to others can make the difference between success or failure. I first met Alex Owen-Hill in Edinburgh whilst attending my first Robbie Burns night (a famous annual Scottish tradition). Alex was master of ceremonies and although he describes himself as an introvert he completely lit up the room. I decided there was something special about Alex and discovered that he is an expert at helping business owners and tech professionals to develop a confident, engaging, and unique voice for their business, without losing their authenticity. Join us as we explore how you can elevate your impact with your own unique voice with my guest multi-talented voice teacher, content marketer, clown and musician Alex Owen-Hill.

Living through such turbulent times it is easy to appreciate why business professionals could find themselves in situations of disagreement. The risk though is that it is often easy to view conflict as an energy drain and the natural reaction is often to avoid it and store up potentially complicated legal issues for the future. Glenn F. Meier brings significant experience as a trial attorney, litigator and dispute resolver into helping people discover agreements out of disagreement. As a business lawyer and advisor he helps company leaders plan legal strategies that account for the needs and goals of all stakeholders and has many years of experience handling transactions, disputes, and business law issues. During this discussion we will discuss how to reach agreement on a definition of conflict that supports engagement. Join us as we explore how to discover agreement in disagreeable times. Concepts that could help you in situations where disagreement is present in your life.

Who is acquiring vast ownership in financial markets today and why is this causing a major shift in global economic power and competition? Recently I had the privilege to talk to Winston Ma about his extensive experience whilst gaining a sense of how sovereign funds are literally reshaping investment in the digital economy. Winston is an investor, attorney, author, and adjunct professor in the global digital economy. From my experience a highly accomplished and engaging thought leader with the talent to simply explain a complex world. Someone who us unusual in having worked as an investment professional and practicing capital market attorney in both the US and China. A highly prolific author we will explore his latest book “The Hunt for Unicorns: How Sovereign Funds Are Reshaping Investment in the Digital Economy”. Join us to add to your understanding of what is truly going on in the world of business, economics, high finance, and global tech competition today.

What is personal and business purpose, why are they so important and how do you discover your own? During this show my guest Steve Morris and I will discuss these important elements which can provide the fuel for enormous personal and business success. As both Steve and I have individually helped hundreds of business people to define their purposes we will both share our insights. Steve is a highly successful brand and culture advisor, multiple author, and speaker. His latest book The Beautiful Business launches in the Spring. Living his purpose has also led to great success as an artist with his paintings shown in galleries across the US. Chris helps leaders elevate their businesses by developing leaders, teams and highly engaged organizations. He also realises his purpose with almost 10 years as host of the Business Elevation show one of the most listened to shows on the Voice America Network. If clarity of purpose alludes you or your teams join us!

With monumental shifts in what we see as ‘normal life’ how do you elevate your thinking and thrive in 2021? In 2004, working scientist and professional physicist Tom Campbell predicted that if the planet suffers much more damage then mother nature would get even! As business and the world faces huge challenges Tom’s extensive wisdom and trilogy ‘My Big TOE (My Big picture Theory Of Everything)’ are providing highly acclaimed insight and solutions. Tom spent 10 years as a senior analyst in military technical intelligence, 20 years developing US missile defense systems, and was an expert consultant generating complex risk analysis for NASA. In parallel, he spent over 45 years as a consciousness researcher exploring the properties, boundaries and abilities of consciousness. During this 3rd interview with Tom we will discuss how to settle your anxiety, elevate and expand your thinking and make a bigger positive impact in 2021 – do listen in.

Are you wanting to make a difference in today’s vast sea of confusion? Do you want to live a life of meaning, with greater resilience, and with joy? Dr Ginny Whitelaw, a Zen Master and founder of the Institute for Zen Leadership, sharing with you how you can master the principles of resonance to live your most significant life. A biophysicist by training, she combines a rich scientific background with senior leadership experience at NASA, and more than 25 years developing global leaders. At NASA, Dr. Whitelaw led the integration of the International Space Station Program and was awarded NASA’s Exceptional Service Medal. Join us as we discuss her new book Resonate: Zen and the Way of Making a Difference (my current favourite read) for anyone wishing to make a difference in this new unsettled world order.