The Visibility Factor

169. Sustainable Ambition (with Kathy Oneto) In this episode of the Visibility Factor podcast, guest Kathy Oneto talks about her book, Sustainable Ambition. We explore the concept of sustainable ambition, emphasizing the importance of pacing one's ambitions, defining personal success, and the need for self-reflection in career development. Kathy shares her sustainable ambition method, which focuse...

168. Lead Boldly: The Role of Hard Questions in Leadership Visibility This episode of the Visibility Factor podcast discusses the importance of visibility in the workplace and how to effectively challenge authority by asking hard questions. It emphasizes the need for preparation, data-driven discussions, and maintaining composure during difficult conversations. The episode provides actionable insi...

167. Build Your Brand This episode of the Visibility Factor podcast discusses the three pillars of building a personal brand: establishing a powerful personal brand, showcasing value and confidence, and creating clear and consistent messaging. The emphasis is on the importance of self-acceptance, understanding one's unique value, and the impact of effective communication on personal visibility. Th...

166. Mindset Shifts Needed to Play Bigger This episode discusses the essential mindset shifts required for individuals to play bigger in their personal and professional lives. The importance of recognizing and challenging limiting beliefs, understanding the difference between fixed and growth mindsets, and the necessity of taking risks to foster self-belief. It highlights actionable steps listener...

165. Lead with Influence – Not Authority Today’s episode discusses the critical role of visibility in achieving career success. It debunks the myth that hard work alone will lead to recognition and emphasizes the importance of being intentional about self-promotion. The discussion offers insights on how to recognize and communicate one’s achievements, create an intentional identity, and take actio...

164. Consistent Visibility Creates Intentional Impact In today’s episode, we explore the critical role that visibility plays in achieving career success. We debunk the common myth that hard work alone leads to recognition, and we emphasize the importance of being intentional about self-promotion. The discussion offers insights on how to recognize and effectively communicate your achievements, crea...

163. Leading with Intention Today’s episode focuses on the importance of leading by intention. Sue shares her personal experiences of setting intentions for travel and life experiences, emphasizing the need for clarity and focus in achieving goals. Explores the pros and cons of being intentional, the balance between planning and flexibility, and the significance of small actions in enhancing visib...

162. How Can You Collaborate in a Bigger Way? This episode is focused on the importance of collaboration in professional settings. Leaders need to show up intentionally in collaborative environments, leverage their unique experiences and perspectives. Seek out opportunities for collaboration, whether through special projects, mentoring, or networking, and highlights the value of building relations...

161. What’s Preventing You from Being Visible? This episode discusses the importance of visibility in the workplace and how time management plays a crucial role in achieving it. You need to evaluate the value and impact of meetings, prioritize high-value tasks, and create a visibility action plan to ensure that time is spent effectively. By questioning how time is allocated and focusing on strateg...

160. Becoming the Warrior (with Jenn Donahue) Jenn Donahue PhD, was a US Navy Captain and Commodore for an 1,800-personnel Regiment. She is also a civil engineer who works on large-scale, high profile geotechnical projects. Over her military career, Jenn has built a bridge across the Euphrates River in the midst of the Iraq war, commanded an 800-personnel Battalion in Afghanistan, and constructed...

159. Are You Underselling Yourself and the Work That You Do? This episode discusses the importance of recognizing self-worth in the business world. Emphasizes that understanding one's value is essential for personal and professional growth. The conversation covers signs of underselling oneself, strategies to embrace and communicate value, and the significance of visibility in career advancement. T...

158. Choosing Likeability Over Respect This episode discusses the critical balance leaders must strike between being liked and being respected. Explore the signs that indicate a leader may be prioritizing likeability over respect, such as avoiding tough conversations and withholding constructive criticism. The conversation delves into the challenges leaders face in decision-making and the importan...

157. The Power of Leading Conversations Today’s episode discusses the significance of leading conversations effectively and focusing on the importance of overcoming internal dialogue, being intentional in communication, and fostering collaboration to showcase value. The episode also highlights the need for strategic thinking in every interaction, whether in person or through written communication,...

156. It’s Time to Empower Your Team Today’s episode is focused on the four roles that you may see someone leverage in an organization. These are not career roles, but instead the roles that you choose from in various career situations with your team or other people in your organization. The four roles are mentoring, coaching, teaching and leading. Each of these roles plays a crucial part in your t...

155. Key Skills for Leaders Today’s episode is exploring the key skills that leaders need to achieve success. I teach a class called Leadership Foundations and the intent is to open up the minds of the class to what leadership really is and what you need to be good at it. Some people have a gift of being “born leaders” but not everyone has that and it requires practice. Every experience that you h...

154. Are You Asking The Right Questions? Today we're going to talk about asking the right questions. Now, as a coach, I have seen how powerful questions can make a difference in helping a client shift their perspective about a situation or even themselves. This episode is going to be focused on helping you understand the importance of asking the right questions as a leader, whether that be in a me...

153. Creating Visibility for Your Team Today's episode is about creating visibility for your team. And by default, that automatically creates visibility for you as well. And I think many times our teams are doing great things and there's just so much going on that we forget to share it. Or we don't take some intention to have the conversation with our boss or maybe other people in the organization...

152. Everyone Knows Someone Worth Knowing (with Janet Falk) Janet Falk, Ph. D., is a Communications professional with more than 30 years’ experience in-house, as a consultant and at public relations agencies. As Chief Strategist of Falk Communications and Research (www. JanetLFalk.com), she manages pro-active media outreach and has secured placement of executives and events in local, national and...

151. Top 10 Lessons in Leadership I was thinking about some of my top 10 lessons in leadership as I read an article by another leader who had put theirs together. I thought this would be a great topic for the podcast, so here is my list to share with you. In this episode: My top 10 lessons in Leadership (in no particular order): Trust yourself. Act like you are equals. Bring value to your team and...

150. Create Your Rules for Success (with Heather Whelpley) Heather is a speaker, award-winning author, executive coach, and leadership development consultant passionate about empowering women to live, work, and lead with grounded confidence. With her unique blend of expertise and authenticity, Heather has become a frequent speaker for conferences and companies, where she creates engaging presentat...

149. The Power of Deliberate Creative Teams (with Dr. Amy Climer) Dr. Amy Climer is a thought leader in innovation, team development, and experiential learning. She teaches research-based practices, tools, and techniques to forward-thinking organizations such as the Mayo Clinic, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the University of Wisconsin. Amy holds a Ph. D. in Leadership and Change f...

148. Planning Your 2025 Happy new year. When you are hearing this episode, we will have already had the new year. And you've already gotten through the holidays and hopefully had some time to recharge and relax. This is my favorite time of year, honestly. I love the holidays. First of all, it makes me happy to decorate and to have the whole family home, spend time, you know, going through all of o...

147. Slowing Down to Recharge Today's episode is coming to you the day after Christmas here in the US or wherever you may be celebrating. I know many of you may not listen today, but I wanted to share some things with you that I think you can take advantage of while you're enjoying the holidays with family and friends. Take some time for you as well. This episode is called Slowing Down to Recharge...

146. Leading a Team Integration So today's episode is about bringing a team together and integrating them in a way that they're successful. Sometimes this happens when you are the leader taking over a team and bringing a new team underneath you as well. You might be a new leader who's joining an organization and is inheriting a team that you haven't had before. There are all kinds of different sce...

145. Let’s Make Internal Networking Easy Today’s episode is about what to consider to make internal networking easier if you struggle with it. If you aren’t spending time on this, then it makes it really hard for people to think about you for opportunities. You can’t be reliant on your manager to be the only one talking about you with others. It is time for you to advocate for yourself. We will ex...