Leaders Get Real

Explore the power of messaging in your leadership (and even your parenting) in this Podcast episode with the Author of “What’s Your Message: Public Speaking with Twice the Impact Using Half the Effort. Cam’s book has rave reviews from Jack Welch and Seth Godin CEO for Vivid Learning, a company which works with a number of international organizations including Walt Disney, BBC Worldwide, Fox Sports Johnson & Johnson Medical, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Within this capacity, he not only oversees the direction of the company but also works as a speechwriter, messaging consultant and public speaking coach for his clients. He has a background as a radio executive for Southern Cross Austereo where he developed marketing and advertising campaigns. His first book, What's Your Message?: Public Speaking with Twice the Impact, Using Half the Effort is out now.

Explore the power of messaging in your leadership (and even your parenting) in this Podcast episode with the Author of “What’s Your Message: Public Speaking with Twice the Impact Using Half the Effort. Cam’s book has rave reviews from Jack Welch and Seth Godin CEO for Vivid Learning, a company which works with a number of international organisations including Walt Disney, BBC Worldwide, Fox Sports Johnson & Johnson Medical and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Within this capacity he not only oversees the direction of the company but also works as a speechwriter, messaging consultant and public speaking coach for his clients. He has a background as a radio executive for Southern Cross Austereo where he developed marketing and advertising campaigns. His first book, What's Your Message?: Public Speaking with Twice the Impact, Using Half the Effort is out now.

Jennifer Dulski  is the author of WSJ bestseller Purposeful and Head of Facebook Groups & Community. Jennifer shares eye-opening stories of leaders in business and social impact who effectively rally others around a common purpose. After rising in the ranks from an early Yahoo! employee to VP, Jen became co-founder and CEO of Dealmap, becoming the first woman to sell a company to Google. Next she became President & COO of Change.org, a social enterprise company that empowers people globally to create campaigns for c

Jennifer Dulski  is the author of WSJ bestseller Purposeful and Head of Facebook Groups & Community. Jennifer shares eye-opening stories of leaders in business and social impact who effectively rally others around a common purpose. After rising in the ranks from an early Yahoo! employee to VP, Jen became co-founder and CEO of Dealmap, becoming the first woman to sell a company to Google. Next she became President & COO of Change.org, a social enterprise company that empowers people globally to create campaigns for change.

Nominated for two Academy Awards, Disney/Pixar’s Film Coco is being lauded for achieving its finest work yet in its cultural authenticity. The hidden figure behind this success is the lead cultural consultant, Marcela Davison Aviles. Coco is second only to Moana in largest openings for Disney/Pixar. One of the most incredible parts of Coco’s success has been how it has resonated so deeply with the Mexican, Mexican-American and Latino communities across the world, while also managing to appeal to an international and non-Latino U.S. audience. A first generation daughter to Mexican parents, Davison Aviles worked hard and earned degrees from Harvard and Stanford Law. She brought her first-hand intimate knowledge of Mexico straight to the big screen as the lead consultant on Coco, and the authenticity of the film is being lauded as unparalleled. Marcela played a critical role advising in every aspect of the film, from storytelling, costumes and music, to PR and marketing. Above all, she guided the film’s non-Lati

Nominated for two Academy Awards, Disney/Pixar’s Film Coco is being lauded for achieving its finest work yet in its cultural authenticity. The hidden figure behind this success is the lead cultural consultant, Marcela Davison Aviles. Coco is second only to Moana in largest openings for Disney/Pixar. One of the most incredible parts of Coco’s success has been how it has resonated so deeply with the Mexican, Mexican-American and Latino communities across the world, while also managing to appeal to an international and non-Latino U.S. audience. A first generation daughter to Mexican parents, Davison Aviles worked hard and earned degrees from Harvard and Stanford Law. She brought her first-hand intimate knowledge of Mexico straight to the big screen as the lead consultant on Coco, and the authenticity of the film is being lauded as unparalleled. Marcela played a critical role advising in every aspect of the film, from storytelling, costumes and music, to PR and marketing. Above all, she guided the film’s non-Lati

Liz Wiseman is the New York Times best-selling author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, and the Wall Street Journal bestseller Rookie Smarts.  Liz is listed #35 on the 2017  Thinkers50  global ranking of management thinkers and named one of the top 10 leadership thinkers in the world. She writes for Harvard Business Review and Fortune, among many business and leadership journals. Her research has contributed significantly to the field of leadership and collective intelligence. Liz is a former Vice President at Oracle, where she worked for 17 years. She is now the CEO of the Wiseman Group, with recent clients including Facebook, Apple, Disney, Nike, Tesla and Twitter. In this conversation, we talk about her book, Multipliers. From her groundbreaking research, Liz reveals how great leaders bring out the genius in others...and get more than twice the results. And she poses provocative questions: Are you using your smarts to amplify the people around you...or are you an “accidental dimin

Liz Wiseman is the New York Times best-selling author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, and the Wall Street Journal bestseller Rookie Smarts.  Liz is listed #35 on the 2017  Thinkers50  global ranking of management thinkers and named one of the top 10 leadership thinkers in the world. She writes for Harvard Business Review and Fortune, among many business and leadership journals. Her research has contributed significantly to the field of leadership and collective intelligence. Liz is a former Vice President at Oracle, where she worked for 17 years. She is now the CEO of the Wiseman Group, with recent clients including Facebook, Apple, Disney, Nike, Tesla and Twitter. In this conversation, we talk about her book, Multipliers. From her groundbreaking research, Liz reveals how great leaders bring out the genius in others...and get more than twice the results. And she poses provocative questions: Are you using your smarts to amplify the people around you...or are you an “accidental

Liz Wiseman is the New York Times best-selling author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, and the Wall Street Journal bestseller Rookie Smarts.  Liz is listed #35 on the 2017  Thinkers50  global ranking of management thinkers and named one of the top 10 leadership thinkers in the world. She writes for Harvard Business Review and Fortune, among many business and leadership journals. Her research has contributed significantly to the field of leadership and collective intelligence. Liz is a former Vice President at Oracle, where she worked for 17 years. She is now the CEO of the Wiseman Group, with recent clients including Facebook, Apple, Disney, Nike, Tesla and Twitter. In this conversation, we talk about her book, Multipliers. From her groundbreaking research, Liz reveals how great leaders bring out the genius in others...and get more than twice the results. And she poses provocative questions: Are you using your smarts to amplify the people around you...or are you an “accidental dimin

Long-time friend, former colleague and best-selling author Steve Farber joins me as a Guest on LeadersGetReal. Steve’s first book, The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership,received Fast Company’s Readers’ Choice Award and was recently named one of the 100 Best Business Books of All Time. His second book, The Radical Edge, was hailed as “a playbook for harnessing the power of the human spirit.” His third book, Greater Than Yourself: The Ultimate Lesson In Leadership, was a Wall Street Journal® and USA Today® bestseller. Steve has been named one of Inc’s global Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts. Steve is currently an Inc columnist as well as a sought after speaker who combines quick-witted humor with poignant leadership truths. Steve’s Radical LEAP framework is widely used across business, non-profits and education. He has been credited with redefining leadership in deeply personal yet practical terms and re-energizing thousands of people to make a significant difference in their busi

Vanessa Russell has spent over 20 years leading technology and sales organizations in the tech industry. By day, Vanessa is a leader at Cisco Systems, running a 3.4 billion dollar global business, driving the adoption of new business models, products and services as a Senior Sales Business Development Manager, and leading a team of 22 systems engineers. On top of that, Vanessa is the founder of Love Never Fails, a non-profit dedicated to the protection and restoration of women and youth who are being exploited by domestic human trafficking.Love Never Fails has educated thousands of children and community members and provides rescue, safe housing and transformative opportunities for dozens of women and their children each year.

Terry Pearce has authored four books; the most popular, Leading Out Loud, is currently in its third edition. He also wrote, Clicks and Mortar with then Charles Schwab Ceo David Pottruck, which was hailed by New York Times as the "best handbook for operating in the new economy of the internet." Terry is Founder and President of Leadership Communication, consulting with high-profile corporate, political and community leaders. Business Week magazine called him the “eminence grisè” of leadership coaches. He spent 17 years with IBM early in his career. In the 80’s he worked extensively in citizen diplomacy, and pioneered American business activities in the Soviet Union. He’s also a former Senior Vice President for Charles Schwab & Co. Terry was an Adjunct Professor at The Haas Graduate School of Business, at UC Berkeley, and has served as visiting faculty at The London Business School for the MBA program and the Sloan Fellowship Programme, and thought leader in Stanford University’s Graduate School of Busines

Scott Kriens, Chairman and former CEO of Juniper Networks, has been in the tech industry for more than 35 years. Scott helped found Juniper in 1996. During his leadership tenure, he has served as CEO and now Chairman, growing the company to more than 10,000 employees in over 100 countries worldwide and $4 billion in revenue. Passionate about authenticity in relationships, in 2010 Scott and his wife Joanie founded 1440 Foundation, named for the 1,440 minutes in each day to live more connected, mindful and compassionate lives. Scott and the 1440 team are now building 1440 Multiversity, a state-of-the-art immersive learning destination opening in May 2017 in the Santa Cruz Redwoods, on the outskirts of Silicon Valley. The 75-acre campus will offer weekend and 5-day courses on leadership, personal growth and wellness, taught by world-class faculty, such as Peter Senge, Dan Siegel, Elizabeth Gilbert and more. It will house up to 375 guests and support individuals in leading more integrated lives.

Jim Kouzes is a bestselling author, an award-winning speaker and, according to the Wall Street Journal, one of the best executive educators in America. In this podcast, Jim discusses his most recent book, Learning Leadership. Jim is the co-author of The Leadership Challenge, which has sold over two million copies since its first edition and has been translated into 20 languages. Amazon describes The Leadership Challenge as, "the most trusted resource on becoming a leader." Other books by Jim Kouzes & Barry Posner include: Credibility, The Truth About Leadership, Encouraging the Heart, A Leader's Legacy.

Kirsten Wolberg is a Vice President at PayPal. She was the executive who led the separation of eBay and PayPal into 2 public companies. Prior to leading that strategic effort, she was the VP of Technology. Currently, she is PayPal’s Vice President of Talent. Kirsten has over 20 years experience in leading Technology, Product, Operations and Strategy. She served as Vice President of Technology at Charles Schwab. She also led salesforce.com’s IT organization to the cloud as their Chief Information Officer, managing a $100 million dollar budget.