The Visibility Factor

69. The Power of Words Today’s episode is focused on the power that your words have in an organization and as a leader. What you say can have a positive effect on someone, and the opposite is also true. What type of message do you want to send to others in conversations, meetings and presentations? Consider the importance of the words that you use so that you are seen, heard and respected. In this...

68. Creating a Better Workplace Today’s episode is focused on the state of the workplace in 2023. Gallup has published a report based on over 120,000 leaders globally and their responses to various survey questions on engagement, stress, workplace locations and what they need from their managers. There are quite a few interesting statistics that came out of the report, and I discuss my thoughts on...

67. Empowering Yourself to Make a Career Transition Today’s episode is focused on how to make the decision for yourself on whether or not to make a career transition. I think that we all consider leaving when we are having a bad day, but how many people actually do it?  Sometimes these decisions are thrust upon us (layoffs, reorganizations, etc), but we always have the choice to make these decisio...

66. A Recruiter’s View of Job Search (with Adam Viet) Adam Viet has been a leader in the technical staffing world for 5+ years and in the industry for 11 years. He's passionate about networking and meeting new people, and hosts a podcast called "The Shooters Touch." He has a strong love for basketball and will talk hoops with anyone willing to listen! In this episode: Adam shares the different typ...

65. Leveraging Opportunities to Show Your Value Today’s episode is focused on how to leverage opportunities to show your value. When you look at the choices that you make every day, are you focused on doing the easy things that keep you in the background or the harder things that could put you into the spotlight? This isn’t always a conscious thought, but more than likely the easy things are what...

64. Networking to Build Connections and Visibility Today we are talking about how to use networking to build connections and increase your visibility. I will be approaching this from both the in-person view as well as online. I find that many people know that they need to expand their network, but they don’t know exactly how to do it, so they push networking to the bottom of their priority list. I...

63. Embrace the Power of You (with Tricia Montalvo Timm) Tricia Montalvo Timm is a first-generation Latina board director, venture investor and speaker. With her new book, Embrace the Power of You, she hopes to inspire anyone who has ever felt like an “other” in the workplace to embrace their true selves, own their identity and achieve success and fulfillment in their life and career. In this epis...

62. Three Ways to be More Prepared to Speak Up at Work (with Kristy Olinger) Kristy Olinger is a 20-year veteran of corporate life who knows that soft skills are the hardest thing we do at work. As a communication consultant and speaker, Kristy helps teams and individuals to communicate better at work through interactive programs that deliver practical solutions that translate with ease to everyda...

61. Pivot to Make a Bigger Impact (with Vidya Ramachandran) Vidya Ramachandran, founder of Warrier Strategy LLC, is a self-leadership catalyzer and recalibration strategist who helps women be their most unapologetically expressive, free, vital, unique, creative selves. Through her Unapologetic Recalibration framework, Vidya guides women to break free from the societal, cultural and familial norms...

60. Conflict Can Be Good (with Liane Davey) For the past 25 years, Liane has researched and advised teams on how to achieve high performance. Known as the “teamwork doctor,” she’s worked with teams from the frontlines to the boardroom, across a variety of industries, and around the globe from Boston to Bangkok. In working with hundreds of teams, including 26 Global Fortune 500 companies (and count...

59. You Are The CEO Of Your Life (with Becca Powers) Becca Powers is an award-winning hi-tech sales executive, best-selling author of Harness Your Inner CEO and The Workplace Burnout Workbook, keynote speaker, as well as the Founder and CEO of Powers Peak Potential. With 20+ years of experience, her career boasts Fortune 500 giants such as Cisco, Dell, and Office Depot. Becca intimately knows the...

58. No Permission Needed (with Tissa Richards) Today’s episode is my interview with Tissa Richards. She is an award-winning author, repeat software founder and CEO, and a sought-after leadership expert and keynote speaker with a mission to create unshakeable leaders, teams and organizations. She speaks to and trains executives at Fortune 500 and hypergrowth organizations – including Nasdaq, NYSE a...

57. The Art of the Difficult Conversation Today’s episode will focus on difficult conversations. There isn’t one formula to follow for every conversation. Every situation is slightly different, and you are dealing with human beings who are all coming at the situation from their own perspectives and experiences. That is why I think of having difficult conversations as an art that managers need to f...

56. External Validation vs Internal Validation Today’s episode will explain the difference between external vs internal validation, why it is important to understand it and how focusing on external validation can hold you back in your career and your life.  In this episode: When I first learned about external validation and the aha moment I experienced. How people become “addicted” to external val...

55. What Do You Want Your Story to Be? (with Kristina Paider) Kristina Paider – “KP” – is a world-class storyteller and best-selling author. Her book and masterclass , The Hollywood Approach, helps people accelerate results in their business and life. KP’s executive track record includes overseeing the marketing and research for a $15 billion-dollar global hotel company while moonlighting as a scr...

54. How Can Coaching Make a Difference for Leaders? Today’s episode is an introduction to coaching and how it can make a difference for a leader. I will share some historical perspective on coaching, my own experience with coaching and some insights from an article by Lolly Daskal on how coaching can make you a great leader. In this episode: Historical perspective on how the perception on the prof...

53. What is a Personal Brand? Today we are going to talk about your personal brand. Are you paying attention to your personal brand? Some people may refer to a personal brand as your image. If you aren't familiar with the term, here is a great definition from Laura Morgan Roberts in an article titled, Creating a Positive Professional Image . She was quoted to say, "Your professional image is the s...

52. Ditch the Hustle and Thrive Again (with Jennie Blumenthal) After spending 20 years in Corporate America helping Fortune 500 companies manage multi-million-dollar growth strategies, Jennie left her partnership in a global consulting firm to launch her own leadership company. In addition to her role as CEO, she also serves as a professional speaker, an Adjunct Professor in Strategy, a Board memb...

51. Can Resistance Be a Good Thing? Welcome to episode number 51 where we are going to talk about resistance. Are you someone who sees change as a good thing? I think it depends on the experiences that you have had with change. If the change experiences that you had were good and brought you new opportunities, you would probably view it in a positive way. However, if the situations that you went t...

50. Celebrate Accomplishments Welcome to episode number 50!! It really seems like just yesterday that I started this podcast and here we are at number 50! I thought this might be a great time to talk about celebrating accomplishments. This was not easy for me to do in my past, and I wondered if it could be a challenge for you too. So, today’s episode is going to focus on some reasons why you may h...

49. Overcoming the Impostor (with Kris Kelso) Kris Kelso is a two-time entrepreneur, a Professional Certified Coach, an author, and a mentor to leaders around the world. He is a faculty instructor at the Professional Christian Coaching Institute, an advisor and instructor at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, and is a contributing writer for Fast Company Magazine, Yahoo Finance, and The Nashville...

48. Could Your Job Loss Be An Opportunity? (with Laura Browne) Laura Browne is a corporate trainer, author, speaker, and certified business coach with more than 20 years of experience in global human resources and management development. Laura spent 9 years delivering coaching and training to high potential female leaders from Fortune 100 companies through WOMEN Unlimited. She’s written for Forbes...

47. Visibility for Your Job Search (with Polly Rowland) With over three decades of experience in the Consumer-Packaged Goods industry, Polly has honed her leadership skills and made significant contributions to multiple companies. As a coach and mentor, Polly founded CPG Mentor to fill a gap in support for women in her industry. Her individualized approach sets her apart from other programs, as sh...

46. Visibility for Introverts  This episode is for the introverts out there in companies who want visibility, but don’t know how to get it for themselves. Introverts see the extroverts out in the world who love to speak up and enjoy the limelight and wonder how they can compete with that? In this episode:  When did extroverts and introverts first become types that were identified? My belief was th...

45. Creating More Freedom (with Valincia Bennett) In today’s episode I interview Valincia Bennett. She is a former corporate healthcare leader and now she is a business coach and strategist. She helps coaches simplify their systems & strategies so it’s easy to achieve consistent $10K+ months. In this episode:  Valincia talked about her transition from corporate into being an entrepreneur for not o...