At The Whiteboard

Habits. What are your habits? Are they holding you back or propelling you forward? On today's podcast, Nicole is sitting down with Leadership Development Facilitator and Corporate Coach, Kate Hand, RCC. Kate has over 20 years of experience supporting leaders at work. Kate's focus is on helping leaders and individual contributors enhance performance for themselves and their teams by creating routin...

How can we communicate better and improve self-awareness in our personal and professional lives? Nicole is joined by David Spinner of Peak Performance 2 to answer that and many other questions around personality assessments, understanding those around us, and leadership. So sit back, grab your Myers-Briggs and enjoy!

Gary Brennan, Actor and Presentation Coach joins Nicole to share some tactical strategies to speak like a true leader in the in-person, virtual, or hybrid world. This is the 15TH and final episode of this 8th season of the podcast. Note this podcast was recorded in May of 2021.

We are thrilled to have Natalie Dumond on the podcast. Natalie developed a unique feedback framework that led to her to contribute to Brene Brown’s NY Times best-selling book, Dare To Lead. Read by millions worldwide, jump to page 205 if you want to check it out yourself. Today Natalie works as a professional leadership coach, speaker, and certified Dare To Lead facilitator. Natalie joins Nicole o...

Nicole is joined by Meridith Grundei to talk about an interesting intersection between improv and leadership. Meridith is an award-winning theatre director, producer, and former Second City improv teacher, who recognized the similarities between performing on stage every night and presenting to clients/colleagues every day, but the latter didn’t have the right tools to bring their stories to life....

Nicole is joined by Susan Gregory, founder of Best Work Yet to discuss something that both women are extremely passionate about- HABITS. We explore all of the tips and tricks to create habits that can improve your mental toughness and discipline and make you a LIMITLESS Leader at any level.

Toxic Workplace has become a hot topic in the remote/hybrid world. Organizations need to make health and wellness a part of the culture to see their teams thrive. In this episode Nicole welcomes Susan Geary, a fellow leadership facilitator, colleague, and a mentor. We explore some simple solutions that organizations can make to support their teams.

This week, we are joined by Sumana Jeddy our favourite workplace wellness expert.  She brings her wealth of science and knowledge paired with her magical laugh to explore the challenge of delivering learning and development (L&D) initiatives to burned-out teams. Do we cancel or is L&D what everyone needs right now? Sumana Fathima Jeddy is a content creator, influencer and the founder...

He's a LinkedIn legend and runs one of the largest and fastest-growing clubs on Clubhouse (the Thought Leadership Branding Club).  This week on the podcast, we welcome Bobby Umar to discuss everything about Clubhouse and how he creates value for so many seeking to elevate their personal brands.  We also explore whether Zoom fatigued learners might embrace audio style learning in the not-...

Trigger Warning: The *P* word will be used frequently in this podcast.  Get your minds out of the gutter! PIVOT. PIVOT.  We're tired of the word pivot too, but we're pretty certain that it's going to happen again.   We are thrilled to be welcoming back a former podcast guest, Jamie Johnson, The Canadian national Ambassador for Glenfiddich (new since the recording of this podcast) an...

Nicole chats with Whiteboard's in-house coach - Karen Elkin.  We almost couldn't stop talking about coaching, but we manage to cover the key topics about coaching and why every leader can benefit from self-reflection, self-awareness, and the transformative "AHA" moments that a coach can provide.  We delve into why coaches need coaches, why you need a coach, and why hardware stores someti...

Everyone has a voice inside their head that likes to protect us from potential harm or hurt.  Limiting beliefs are some of those things that prevent us from "playing full out", going for that big job, asking for the sale, or taking action in our career and work life.  Perhaps it is preventing an amazing leader from believing that they are capable of taking on more senior leadership roles in their...

This season is all about interviewing Whiteboard’s favourite thought leaders in the Learning and Development (L&D) space. Simone Tai, Founder of L&D Workplace Magic, boldly goes where no guest has gone before - and interviews Nicole about Whiteboard, the Future of L&D, the hybrid workplace, and more.

In this episode, Nicole tries to maintain her excitement and fan girl-ing with Ryan Laverty from Arist. We geek out on the new learning landscape and how L&D teams can incorporate text message learning successfully into learning pathways.

Join us for this episode about Trauma-Informed Leadership with Mona Kafeel.  Mona is the Executive Director of the Texas Muslim Women's Foundation.  Her graceful, empathetic, and compassionate leadership style makes her an absolute pleasure to interview.  We explore the notion of trauma, and how as leaders we need to lead with a sense of kindness and curiosity that limits triggering leadership con...

This week on At the Whiteboard, Nicole interviews Cy Charney - one of her favourite leadership experts. Cy Charney, is the President of Charney and Associates Inc. and the founder of The Leadership Institute (.ca). He is a leading consultant in the area of organizational performance. Cy has developed a variety of unique interventions to help organizations in both the private and public sector beco...

In this episode we explore why people are chopping hunks of wood apart in their living room, not taking bathroom breaks, and jumping up and down with strangers at midnight. In this inaugural relaunch episode of At the Whiteboard, Nicole interviews Janice Lau-Pearson, the Chief Marketing Officer for Arts Help. She may or may not have come up with one of the most iconic marketing campaigns in the hi...

Continue along your Digital Detox Journey with new practices of solitude, walks, and journalling.

The Digital Declutter. The first step in becoming more present with your digital tools. We review Carl’s tips on how to begin life without the phone addiction.

We review chapter 2 of Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism where we discuss the argument for the chance and the basic definition and principles of Marie Kondo-ing your phone.

We delve into why digital tools are so addictive and why this is bigger than just turning your notifications off.

We’re exploring Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism. This episode introduces the topic and let’s you know what we plan to explore!

In this episode we learn how to get curious before we get crazy.

In this episode we explore the components of trust: boundaries, reliability, accountability, the vault, integrity, non-judgement, and generosity.

In this episode we explore personal values and organizational values. Ruth is all about integrity and Nicole is all about fun. Shocker.