Voice Of Influence

How does a Fortune 150 company approach getting buy-in on an enterprise level? Why is it so important for emerging leaders to socialize their ideas for change? Why is diversity and inclusion so important for the company and communities they serve?    Scott D. Moore answers these questions and addresses leadership from the perspective of a corporate executive, state chamber executive board member, and former elected state government official. Moore is the Senior Vice President-Corporate Relations and Chief Administrative Officer for Union Pacific Railroad. Learn about how our Team Performance System and Personal Brand Strategy can Help You Serve Well and Sell More at  www.voiceofinfluence.net   Read the transcript here:   https://www.voiceofinfluence.net/241 Give and receive feedback that makes a difference! Register for our 20 minute Deep Impact Method video course here:  www.voiceofinfluence.net/deepimpact

How does a global intelligence analyst and defense strategist approach leadership communications? Join us as I talk with Karalee Picard, Ed.D., the Chief of the Intelligence Director's Action Group at U.S. Strategic Command. In this interview, Dr. Picard discusses her research into best practices for getting buy-in on change. She also shares from her experience persuading analysts to implement a new process that has been used for over a decade to help predict global change scenarios. Learn about how our Team Performance System and Personal Brand Strategy can Help You Serve Well and Sell More at  www.voiceofinfluence.net   Read the transcript here:   https://www.voiceofinfluence.net/240 Give and receive feedback that makes a difference! Register for our 20 minute Deep Impact Method video course here:  www.voiceofinfluence.net/deepimpact

Dr. Bradley Ekwerekwu (eck-where-eck-woo) hails from Arlington, Texas, and currently resides in Omaha, NE with two sons-Vincent and Avery.    He currently works with the Learning Community of Douglas and Sarpy Counties and relies upon personal discipline, attention to detail, and teamwork in his daily travels. “Dr. Brad” joined forces with the Men Against Domestic Violence Action Coalition as the Education Chair. This appointment allows him to influence various learning environments in efforts to share his research, provide empowering education, and actively engage individuals in 'community' action plans. Drawing from various lived experiences, Dr. Brad has decided to continue to spread influence and motivation toward healthy relationships and progressive mindsets. The MADVAC mission is near and dear to his heart and mind, and powers his efforts toward reaching young men and boys.   In this interview, Dr. Ekwerekwu shares his personal connection to his life's work in mentorship and education, the before/durin

BONNIE LOW-KRAMEN is a highly sought-after TEDx speaker, teacher, and founder and CEO of “Be the Ultimate Assistant,” a curated training solution for corporate leaders and assistants creating synchronous and thriving work environments. She serves as a consultant to the World Administrative Summit and is the author of Be the Ultimate Assistant: A Celebrity Assistant's Secrets to Working with Any High-Powered Employer. Much of her work in this space is rooted in over 25 years of experience as a Personal Assistant to celebrity actor couple Olympia Dukakis and Louis Zorich. She is passionate about bridging the gaps in professional relationships, and elevating employees – especially women – by fostering equal and respectful collaborations.   In this interview Bonnie shares why we should stop using the word "boss," the importance of cultivating a workflow and system that is customized to the specific assistant-executive partnership, and her perspective on the real reasons people quit. Learn about how our Team

What opportunities and challenges are mid-market companies facing in 2022? And how do their CEO's view post-pandemic leadership? Today we're wrapping up our Mid-Market CEO interview series and highlighting three key takeaways from the insights they shared.  Learn about how our Team Performance System and Personal Brand Strategy can Help You Serve Well and Sell More at  www.voiceofinfluence.net   Read the transcript here:   https://www.voiceofinfluence.net/237 Give and receive feedback that makes a difference! Register for our 20 minute Deep Impact Method video course here:  www.voiceofinfluence.net/deepimpact

As founder and managing director of CFO Systems LLC, Brett Frevert has helped clients  grow their businesses through a variety of innovative methods. He has an extensive resume of providing financial leadership to successful companies across the Midwest including SIRE, New Balance Commodities, Transgenomic, Heron Lake BioEnergy, AXIS, Capital, First Data, Grubb & Ellis, and Deloitte & Touche.  He draws upon his abilities to create, describe, and execute a vision as well as his communication and mentoring capabilities to provide expert assistance for premier businesses interested in growing and thriving in a challenging economic environment. CFO Systems is a team of CFO’s, controllers, bankers, accountants, finance, procurement, and human resources directors offering our clients practical experience. They’ve led clients through mergers and acquisitions, turnarounds, restructuring, spend management, steep growth, capital raises, organizational changes and more. Our clients rely on us to be objective pa

What are the driving forces behind creating a valuable company? In this interview Marla DiCarlo, CEO of Raincatcher, shares insights from her experience helping business owners prepare to sell their businesses. She shares attributes of a scalable business model, 8 factors that drive the value of your business, and the importance of being prepared with a risk mitigation plan.   Raincatcher helps rapidly transform small to medium-sized businesses into companies that are built-to-sell, and in turn help buyers find remarkable enterprises in which to create their own legacy. Learn about how our Team Performance System and Personal Brand Strategy can Help You Serve Well and Sell More at  www.voiceofinfluence.net   Read the transcript here:   https://www.voiceofinfluence.net/235 Give and receive feedback that makes a difference! Register for our 20 minute Deep Impact Method video course here:  www.voiceofinfluence.net/deepimpact

Jill Ellsworth is the founder and CEO of Willow Industries. She is a creative and dynamic serial entrepreneur, with a proven track record of building and scaling companies in the health and safety sector. Jill has a background in science and consumer safety. As a Registered Dietitian with a Master of Science in Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Science, she began her career in the food and beverage industry. She built and sold one of Santa Barbara’s first cold press juice companies, Vibrant Earth Juices, which resulted in her being named Female Entrepreneur of the Year in Emerging Business by the Santa Barbara Women's Economic Ventures group. In 2015, Jill founded the beverage distribution company, Vibrant Earth Distribution, which launched the first alcoholic kombucha brand in Colorado. Jill sold her second company in 2016 to a larger, local beverage distribution company, and after noticing a market opportunity to strengthen health and safety standards in the legal cannabis industry, she shifted her energies to

Have you ever left a meeting wondering what the plan really is and how the team will know if it's successful? Have you ever asked someone to complete a task and you end up wondering if it was completed?    There is an art to using opening and closing communication loops and there are consequences, as well. In this episode Andrea breaks down three different kinds of communication loops that are often opened up without closure, leaving people confused and feeling disrespected. Learn what to watch for and how to improve your communication loop culture at work. Learn about how our Team Performance System and Personal Brand Strategy can Help You Serve Well and Sell More at  www.voiceofinfluence.net   Read the transcript here:   https://www.voiceofinfluence.net/233 Give and receive feedback that makes a difference! Register for our 20 minute Deep Impact Method video course here:  www.voiceofinfluence.net/deepimpact

Angela Healy is the CEO and Co-Owner of AvenueWest Managed Corporate Housing. Angela has a strong record of leadership in real estate investment, real estate management and franchise ownership, business development and commercial banking with more than 25 years of industry experience. She is the co-owner of multiple AvenueWest Managed Corporate Housing Franchises and AvenueWest Global Franchise, LLC. Angela guides the real estate franchise’s strategies for growth and ensures that AvenueWest’s core philosophy of investor-centric decision making is reflected throughout the company. During her tenure, AvenueWest has grown exponentially from a small real estate brokerage to a national, award-winning franchise organization. AvenueWest Managed Corporate Housing is an award-winning, woman-owned business that delivers real estate investors a turnkey solution for property management, benefitted by our global network of local experts that manage furnished, corporate rentals with five-star customer service with franchi

Deana Rich is a highly respected payments industry professional with unparalleled risk, operations and compliance experience. She is the Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Infinicept (2014), combining her consulting experience with SaaS based software that allows payment facilitators to get up and running in weeks – not years. And she is that Co-Founder and Publisher of PaymentFacilitator.com (2012), a publication that delivers the latest news, analysis and insights about the payment facilitator community. Learn about how our Team Performance System and Personal Brand Strategy can Help You Serve Well and Sell More at  www.voiceofinfluence.net   Read the transcript here:   https://www.voiceofinfluence.net/231 Give and receive feedback that makes a difference! Register for our 20 minute Deep Impact Method video course here:  www.voiceofinfluence.net/deepimpact

Todd Ablowitz is a globally acknowledged authority on payment technology, mobile payments and emerging payments trends. Todd spent a dozen years working in the industry before founding Double Diamond consulting in 2008 to help payments industry clients – from the industry’s top brands to up-and-coming technology innovators – solve their most critical business challenges. Investors, media, analysts, and industry watchers rely on Todd for expert advice, trend insights, and consulting. Todd is a member, former Board Member, and former Member of the Year at the ETA. Learn about how our Team Performance System and Personal Brand Strategy can Help You Serve Well and Sell More at  www.voiceofinfluence.net   Read the transcript here:   https://www.voiceofinfluence.net/230 Give and receive feedback that makes a difference! Register for our 20 minute Deep Impact Method video course here:  www.voiceofinfluence.net/deepimpact

We continue our series interviewing emerging and mid-market CEO's today with a conversation with Mike Tringe. Mike is the co-founder and CEO of CreatorUp, a global digital production company that makes impactful videos for organizations of all sizes to help them teach, tell, sell, and inspire using the power of digital media.   Mike has worked for over 15 years in education and entertainment, including top companies including Creative Artists Agency and National Geographic Films. He earned his MFA from USC School of Cinematic Arts and a BA in History and Science from Harvard University.   CreatorUp makes impactful videos for organizations of all sizes to help them teach, tell, sell, and inspire using the power of digital media.   Creator Up Website   In this conversation Mike shares how his company is empowering a generation of underserved communities of creators to do meaningful work and get recognized for it. He tells us the practice CreatorUp started to help promote human connection in a remote environment

Today we're kicking off a new series with emerging and mid-market CEOs. We've been talking to a number of folks lately who are looking for answers for the same questions, so the opportunity to be able to ask these CEOs about their perspective and experiences is invaluable.  We're kicking off the series with Paige Goss. Paige is a dynamic executive with an extensive background in growing technology professional services organizations. Paige’s career highlights her ability to build and scale companies from the ground up. She has experience not only in leading multi-million-dollar operations, but in starting operations, human resource, finance, and technology departments from scratch. Paige brings a breadth of experience in enterprise operations as well as federal government contracting.    Paige is currently the Founder and Chief Executive Offices of Point Solutions Group, a technology and engineering professional services firm. She started the firm in 2017 and has grown the organization to over 10+ million in

It’s the Voice of Influence Five Year Anniversary! In this Episode Andrea shares what she’s learned on the journey. We would also love to have you listen to her interview with Paul Casey on the Grow Forward Today Podcast. Here are the links and notes for that interview. Apple Podcast Spotify Paul and Andrea discuss some of her roots and education, along with her business Voice of Influence. Then they dive into what makes a difficult conversation, why we must engage in them from time to time, and lots of ways to get to win-win when confrontation happens (when giving or receiving that feedback). Andrea shares her core message of voice = choice, and her memoir Unfrozen: Stop Holding Back and Release the Real You, along with her podcast Voice of Influence. Learn about how our Team Performance System and Personal Brand Strategy can Help You Serve Well and Sell More at  www.voiceofinfluence.net   Read the transcript here:   https://www.voiceofinfluence.net/227   Give and receive feedback that makes a difference

We're talking about leadership through contentious times as a public servant today on the show. Mellissa Heermann is a life-long learner, advocate for youth, community leader and public servant. She has helped lead the Brookings school district in Brookings, South Dakota through a time of great conflict during the pandemic. She is a mother of three and the Director of the Revenue Cycle at Brookings Health System. Listen in as we discuss the nature and importance of local leadership. You might just decide it's time for you to raise your hand and offer your voice in your community, as well. Learn about how our Team Performance System and Personal Brand Strategy can Help You Serve Well and Sell More at  www.voiceofinfluence.net   Read the transcript here:   https://www.voiceofinfluence.net/226 Give and receive feedback that makes a difference! Register for our 20 minute Deep Impact Method video course here:  www.voiceofinfluence.net/deepimpact

Bill Flynn is the author of Further, Faster: The Vital Few Steps that take the Guesswork out of Growthand we wanted to replay the conversation we had at the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak. We had a really interesting conversation about building a business and what the characteristics are of somebody who builds a business that endures.  Obviously, there’s still a lot going on that we need to endure through. Even if you don’t have a business yourself and you’re listening as a leader who wants to have influence, there’s a lot in this episode for you. In this conversation, Bill and I discussed his book, how to go from being sucked into those moments where you’re constantly putting out fires to being able to relax and plan for the future, how leading as a human being creates trust, how your response as a leader right now can impact your future success, and more!  Learn about how our Team Performance System and Personal Brand Strategy can Help You Serve Well and Sell More at  www.voiceofinfluence.net   Rea

We're going back to a special episode this week! Whether you’re working with people one-on-one, an executive working with a team, or you’re a parent who wants to the best come out of your kids, you’ve been tasked the challenging and rewarding work of helping others find their voice. In this episode, I’m talking about what it looks like to help others release their voice. Some topics discussed are how my son’s cub scout troop was the perfect reminder of how amazing it feels to help someone find and use their voice, why so much of how people express themselves has to do with what’s inside their mind, why it’s important to give immediate positive feedback when someone begins to share their voice, how doing so allows you to challenge them later, and more! Learn about how our Team Performance System and Personal Brand Strategy can Help You Serve Well and Sell More at  www.voiceofinfluence.net   Read the transcript here:   https://www.voiceofinfluence.net/224 Give and receive feedback that makes a difference! Reg

Our guest this week lives her mantra, "Together everyone achieves more." A true community advocate and advisor, Candice Price is the mother of two girls and the proud owner of three businesses. She is a member of the New Leaders Council, a nationwide organization that works to recruit, train, and promote civically engaged leaders in business and industry, and a 2021 recipient of the Midlands Business Journal 40 under 40 award. Candice sits on the boards of several non-profit organizations, the Omaha Municipal Land Bank; Omaha 100; Family Housing Advisory Services; and the Metro Omaha Women’s Business Center.    She recently served as the Executive Director of the Grow Nebraska Women’s Business Center funded through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration. The vision of the GNWBC is: To be the greatest champion of women entrepreneurs in the Midwest; changing the business landscape through training, advocacy, access to capital, and overall economic development of women-owned enterpri

A.M. Bobby Brumfield is the Managing Partner and CEO for Leonum Advisors: Corporate Protection Management Firm. In this episode we discuss  Bobby's special emphasis on security culture advocacy and the vital importance of human connection for security. Learn about how our Team Performance System and Personal Brand Strategy can Help You Serve Well and Sell More at  www.voiceofinfluence.net   Read the transcript here:   https://www.voiceofinfluence.net/222 Give and receive feedback that makes a difference! Register for our 20 minute Deep Impact Method video course here:  www.voiceofinfluence.net/deepimpact