Above The Business

This week on the leadership podcast, Bradley interviews Chris Ronzio. Chris is the founder and CEO of Trainual , a leading SaaS platform that transforms the way small businesses onboard, train and scale their teams.    They discuss the 4 P’s of team building, including Profile, People, Policies, and Processes.  Chris emphasized the importance of assessing people in this order to fin...

In this episode, Bradley interviews Atul Minocha. He is a partner at Chief Outsiders, a national marketing consulting firm that helps CEOs accelerate growth. His recent book, Lies, Damned Lies, and Marketing was named Forbes' #1 book to read for entrepreneurial success and is an Amazon best-seller. He's sharing his top advice for CEOs and owners! With experience in startups and Fortune 500 compani...

How many of you have given away a pen with your logo on it?  You’ve definitely gotten one from a business before!  Today’s guest challenges the idea of swag in favor of gifts.  John Ruhlin, author of Gift·ology, joins Bradley to discuss how to develop client relationships based on likeability and trust. While becoming the #1 performer out of 1.5 million sales reps for one of the wor...

Today on the leadership podcast, Bradley sits down with Andrew Bartlow, an expert in Human Resources and Talent Management. Andrew leads Series B Consulting , which helps businesses to articulate their people strategy and accelerate their growth, while navigating rapid change. He also founded the People Leader Accelerator, which is the preeminent development program for startup HR leaders. He’s wo...

This week on the Leadership Podcast, Bradley interviews Dave "Mr. Accountability" Anderson.  He is a leading  international speaker and author on personal and corporate performance improvement. After an extensive career in the automotive retail business  Dave, along with his wife Rhonda, began  LearnToLead - entering its third decade - with the  goal to help individuals an...

In this episode, Bradley talks with Michael King about leadership, developing strong teams, review processes, and more. Michael has close to twenty years of hands-on experience, leading teams, and organizations. In the past five years, he worked with a wide range of clients, from solo entrepreneurs to top company executives.  Michael shared his philosophy that “The best stories are the best t...

Bradley sits down with Ned Hallowell to discuss the impact of neurodiversity, specifically ADHD, on business owners.  Dr. Hallowell is a New York Times bestselling author and has written 20 books on multiple psychological topics. The groundbreaking Distraction series, which began with Driven to Distraction , co-authored with Dr. John Ratey in 1994, sparked a revolution in understanding of ADH...

Today on the Leadership Podcast, Bradley and David discuss how to turn fans into customers AND customers into fans.  The simple method? Share what you’re passionate about!   David Meerman Scott spotted the real-time marketing revolution in its infancy and has written 12 books about it including The New Rules of Marketing and PR, with more than 500,000 copies sold in English and available...

Today on the Leadership Podcast, Bradley interviews Mike Malatesta.  Mike is the host of his own podcast, “How’d It Happen,” author of “Owner Shift: How Getting Selfish Got Me Unstuck,” and coach to entrepreneurs. They discussed the importance of business and personal goals as well as how to get “unstuck” on the way to those goals.  Mike shared that when you’re in the valley of uncertain...

Today on the Leadership Podcast, Bradley sits down with Colonel Jeff McCausland, PhD and Colonel Tom Vossler.  They are bringing strategies used to win famous military battles to business owners. They share: “There is little doubt that our nation is in crisis. Given the ongoing pandemic, political/social divisions, and enormous economic challenges, I know you’ll agree with two concerns—one, t...

Waking up in a cold sweat at 3AM in the spring of 2019, Jeff knew he was done with corporate life. The startup he moved his family cross-country for was broken beyond repair. Great concept, handful of happy clients, but zero marketing presence to get to that next level. After advocating for a strategic marketing approach that the President liked and the COO didn’t, things stagnated. Rather than do...

Today on the Leadership Podcast, Bradley sits down with Erik Qualman to discuss problem solving, work-life harmony, and his new book The Focus Project. A 5x Bestselling Author and Keynote Speaker, Erik has performed in over 55 countries and reached 50 million people. He was voted the 2nd Most Likeable Author in the World behind Harry Potter's J.K. Rowling. He is the host of the popular Super U Pod...

This week on the Leadership Podcast, Bradley sits down with Jay Steinfeld.  Jay is the founder and former CEO of Blinds.com, the world’s largest online window coverings retailer, acquired by The Home Depot in 2014.    A firm believer that one should not retire but “rewire,” Jay now lectures and serves as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Rice University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School o...

Theresa’s passion is helping great leaders build high performing teams.  She has learned that the greatest challenge all business owners and team leaders face is the “people stuff”;  she has dedicated her work to helping her clients take the mystery out of their people problems and put new strategies in place to become better leaders. Her #1 goal is to help her clients achieve their goal...

On this week’s episode, Bradley sits down with Liz Kislik to discuss developing stronger leaders in your business.  If you want to transform the way you do business, Liz —Harvard Business Review and Forbes contributor, management consultant, executive coach—can help whether you’re part of a family-run business, national non-profit, or Fortune 500 company. They first discussed change initiativ...

In today’s podcast, Amy Lynn Durham and Bradley discuss Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and Spiritual Intelligence (SQ).  They especially focused on the skills needed to grow your EQ, including self awareness, emotional Management strategies, and a recognize-repair-recover process. They also discuss how to engage your employees, and why it matters.  Finally, Amy emphasizes the importance of...

Today on the leadership podcast, Bradley sits down with Scott Foster and Steve Cannon.  These experts are sharing advice on how to sell.   A native of Georgia, Scott graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Georgia with a degree in Risk Management & Insurance.  Along with his CLU designation, Scott is a life and qualifying member of the Million Dollar Roun...

Does your existing business model work?  Today on the podcast, Bradley and Troy sit down to discuss some of the topics covered in his latest book, Inflection Point (find it at www.korsgaden.com/resources).  These include how to redefine your role when the existing model doesn’t work, how to build a team that can grow with the market, and having a flight plan for your business. &nbsp...

Mike Smerklo is an experienced entrepreneur, investor and business leader driven by the desire to turn ideas into reality. Having bought and scaled a small business into a publicly traded company worth nearly a billion dollars in value, he has a deep understanding of the hard work, dedication and grit that truly powers successful entrepreneurship. Today, as the co-founder and managing director of...

Today on the Leadership Podcast, Bradley sits down with AJ Vaden to discuss building your online and offline brand.  Over the last 15 years, AJ has helped create, launch and grow several multi-million dollar businesses from start up to 7 and 8 figures in annual revenue. She has played the role of Salesperson to CSO, recruiter to COO, spender to CFO and from just being bossy to CEO. Today, you...

Today on the podcast, Bradley is sharing the best of the best from 2021! You'll hear highlights from... Episode 42: Mark Blackburn: Mark was the recipient of the 2020 PGA Teacher and Coach of the Year. In that episode, we talked about: The importance of having a growth mindset , how humble beginnings are drivers for achievement, every player is like their own business, everyone has their...

Today on the podcast, Bradley sat down with Jeff Hogue.  He talks about the best practices surrounding your content.  He also gives some great tips on strategizing your internet leads.  He shares where internet leads fit into your sales ecosystem, actual best practices for handling leads to get best conversion, and what your conversion rates should be. You’ll learn the importance of...

If increasing your margins 1 percent would increase your profit 15 percent, would you do it? Today on the Leadership Podcast, Bradley and Martin Holland discuss The Four Must-Haves In Business.  This includes… (1) Guiding - leadership, (2) Getting - the business/customers ie sales/marketing, (3) Doing - where most people are strong aka rainmaker’s dilemma, and (4) Administer - all the things...

Are you getting the results you want in business or in life? Today on the leadership podcast, Jane Atkinson joins us to discuss how to get the results you want, the connection between thoughts and actions, and how to pursue speaking as another stream of income. The first principle Jane discussed with Bradley was CTFAR .  This acronym stands for Circumstances, Thoughts, Feelings, Actions and R...

How is your strategy serving you? In today’s podcast episode, Jim Huling and Bradley discuss execution of strategy.  You’ll learn The 4 Disciplines of Execution, why strategy doesn’t work on its own, and how to turn strategy into action.   Jim’s 4 Disciplines of Execution include… Focus - the “what” Act on the lead measure - the “how” Engagement - the “why” Accountability - a 20 min...