Bold Business Podcast

At some point in time, we've all been part of (maybe even the cause of) a break in the personality of the brand. Taking something personally about what's 'wrong' or 'needs improvement' and not listening. And, online and offline continue to get closer to a single experience, brand personality (and the personalities of people within a brand) are changing. Jess Dewell and Dr. Richard Schuster discuss...

As business leaders, we must rethink our thinking. There are things we accept as the-way-things-are. That limits our leadership AND the results of our work. Choose to find truth. Choose to have the difficult conversations. Choose to step up and make waves (sometimes it will feel like 'IT Hits the fan, sometimes not. We don't know until we action. It's with the sincerity of wanting best, searching...

From the initial idea, to who do we know, to what skills are needed, and can we be really REAL with each other…there are a ton of moving parts. The right people on the team make the difference. Working together for years on different projects doesn't remove headaches, problems, or friction. It's about how we show up, how we support the end vision and each other. Jess Dewell visits with Scott Scowc...

It's about the intention we hold as we show up. Its about our self awareness and willingness to listen to our internal sensor as a way to gather data in addition to what we can research and observe. When we hide who we are, we're never giving our best work. We are not stepping into our integrity. This conversation Jess Dewell and Scott Scowcroft have with Alan Cohen will help you…right now and goi...

Just knowing what we have, don't have allows us to show up in action and deal with unexpected situations. The more we think and define what resources are available to us provides the guidepost for facing and making the best choice possible in the moment. Jess Dewell, your host, shares stories, examples, and how we can think about what we are already doing to define more value to customers and move...

The things we don't want to do can be shifted with a practice of self awareness. The messiness of change - the ability to evaluate and take some action…any action… moves us toward a different outcome. We don't have to always hate certain things we do. Jess Dewell hosts Blair Glaser as they talk about communication, relationship, innovation, and change.

When we know what the goal is, we can adapt based on that goal. However, it tends to be more muddled than that and we take tangents, second guess, and take action to see motion (and we are standing still). Recognizing where we are unclear, where deviate out of habit - some sort of fear - is easy. Jess Dewell hosts Jennifer Goldman and Iva Ignjatovic to discuss the harder part: pursuing clear prior...

Written goals and mutually agreed upon expectations are the basis for working on any project. Everyone knows how to show up, what skills they need, and rules of engagement working together. Business leaders that lead by example extend trust first. Jess Dewell and Iva Ignjatovic discuss what's behind the concept give control to get control.

There are many resources that talk about signs of burnout. In an organization, in any business or institution, the culture sets us up for personal failure or success. Personal failure in this case is individual perception. When we decide our expectations are no longer met (no one understands us or our effort goes unrecognized - naming just two) things change. Immediately. We can support our teams...

To maximize scarce resources and leverage them to the fullest takes courage and integrity. When we know what problem we solve we can rally our team to find the resources to get it done. And, with practice we get to the outcome sooner with the results we want. Jessica Dewell hosts panelists Kyle Brown and Howard Strauber.

The concept of everyone getting along all the time is false. It's the skill sets of the team that indicate where communication problems will (and already do) exist. One role of leader to recognize and hold the teams objectives and bring disagreements, ideas, and friction together to achieve the common goal. What happens when business leaders don't do that are elephants in the conference room. List...

Innovation is all about thinking. Thinking about what to change now, what might happen and how we can serve our customers when it does. Every business, of every size, benefits from thinking about strategy at the highest level and how every initiative and what is done to achieve outcomes is on purpose. Jessica Dewell hosts panelists Jim Katzaman and Steve Dodd to discuss steady innovation.

Growth, personal and business, stem from self awareness and how we show up. It's how we talk to ourselves, communicate with others, and our ability to solve our own problems. Success comes from completing our goals - realistic and with clear measurement - so we know we are on track, get to the finish line by completing them, and celebrating and learning from the journey. Jessica Dewell hosts panel...

Destructive behaviors come from our reactions. The HOW we deal and WHAT we choose to deal with. Stress runs rampant in our US society, and we're beginning to recognize and deal with it. To choose action - facing the fight or flight response with increased personal awareness. Jessica Dewell talks with Melanie Greenberg about why change makes us nervous.

Sometimes changes takes decades. In the last 100 years, women stepped up and pushed for their right to vote yet today women still make less than men for the same job. Just because some milestones have been met doesn't mean the work is done. The more we talk about equality for all, the more we can understand what discrimination looks like today and what we can do to reduce and eliminate it all toge...

The outcomes of power habits are easier to grasp than the purpose of them. We all have natural strengths, yet there are habits we all can add (that develop our weaknesses and stretch our capabilities) to take action with certainty. We choose what habits we make our power habits (not our routines) - skills we use for good. Jessica Dewell discusses Power Habits with Joy Guthrie.

See things from a different view includes empathy about what our employees may be thinking and feeling, yet we can't forget to ask. Ask people about the choices they are making. The relationship of inter department, cross functional teams, and what we (as leaders) can do to remove obstacles to achieve more. Jessica Dewell hosts panelists Simon Barry and Zala Bricelj discuss where we add value to o...

There is a discipline in setting priorities and using a business plan to stay on course. It's easy to think an idea is necessary, yet if it doesn't fit into where we are going for the next 12 months (or even longer) how necessary is it? Jessica Dewell talks with Jennifer Goldman discussing how we avoid too many high priorities.

Genuine company culture starts with the leaders within the organization. Gaps between words and action both in personal behavior as well as business priorities are what determine the strength of our company culture and the image portrayed to employees, vendors, strategic partners, and customers. Jessica Dewell hosts panelists Sabrina Candini and Andrea Villeneuve to discuss how to grow genuine com...

Its when we don't like something, it's easy to blame (which removes our freedom) and be stuck. There are relationships between freedom and power and freedom and choice and that even though we make our choices, we are not alone. Influence is the ripple of our actions and there is a dark and light side of each action we choose. Listen in as Jessica Dewell hosts panelists Scott Scowcroft and Jeff She...

Every action we take feeds into our success. The choice to prioritize and decide the best action for the biggest result is a choice we can make (or not). Listen to Jessica Dewell talk with Carl Ramallo talk about mindset, goal setting, and take action to build the skill of certainty.

We bring our energy to each situation. It's up to us to be courageous and choose to notice our habits and if we are happy with them. When we consciously choose what we do we can make change. When we do something for another change doesn't last. This discussion, stories, and even more questions are posted as Jessica Dewell and Debra Oakland explore a lot of aspects of breaking out of being set in o...

Too many metrics and we miss important details and don't really use the findings. Too little metrics and we lose out on creating an early warning system to find problems and opportunities. Time matters, and a business that uses time well has a competitive advantage. Jessica Dewell and Simon Barry talk about time, metrics, and business opportunity.

Understanding the marketplace and what's changing takes time, and that time is something that companies tend to downplay putting effort into. Every leader has the same 24 hours in a day, and more and more the ability to stop and think, to observe and analyze, as well as question thinking are the leaders that will take their businesses to the next round. To be part of the 33% of businesses that sur...

Successful teams (that use delegation) have three key skills that a leader needs to set the foundation: communication, accountability, and responsibility. Life experiences and business mentorship goes as far as the questions we ask. We can learn a lot from observation. We learn more when we ask for clarification and reflect on experiences to shape what we do next. Mark Carruthers joins Jessica Dew...