Build a Vibrant Culture Podcast

Mike Malatesta is on a mission to help as many entrepreneurs as he can create successful companies that improve people’s lives, and he joins this episode to do just that for everyone listening in!   For everyone stuck in the Grind stage of the Entrepreneurial Journey – bogged down by daily tasks and unsure how to get back to what makes your business unique…   For everyone who feels like they are p...

Calling all entrepreneurs and early-stage business leaders! This episode is for you! Andy Cabasso is an entrepreneur, speaker, and lawyer. His most recent business, Postaga, is a fully remote, all-in-one platform for link building and email outreach. He joins the show to share his lessons for starting, growing, and selling a first-time company, including: The importance of implementing a business...

Listen in before your next meeting.   No one loves drama at work. But we’ve all had those meetings, the ones where everyone leaves nodding their heads and believing they’re all on the same page... only to receive an email several hours later from someone who wants to critique or change the plans.   Ego loves drama. And ego drives all the little actions we take to get through everyday tasks. When w...

As a leader, you are always negotiating.   Sometimes it’s a major deal to hit a revenue goal, other times it’s taking care of the needs of team members.   How do you deal with friction in the process?   How do you become an implementer and not just a deal maker?   Get the psychological edge in your next negotiation with special guest Alistair McBride.   Alistair is a coach, facilitator, and traine...

What could you do if you were able to generate your own value?   Would you know how to leverage that personal value into greater business and personal success?   Andy McDowell is a strategic coach who understands how small business owners and executives can generate their value to take ownership of their lives and position themselves to take advantage of opportunities.   Listen in to get Andy’s 3...

Evolve to your highest leadership potential. Gain clarity, retain top talent, get more done.   This conversation with leadership expert Shawna Schuh is a must listen.   What are the non-negotiables of leadership?   What is more important than your mission statement?   How do “I am” statements create integrity?   Shawna has the answers to these questions and the pathway to becoming the successful l...

Julie Henry is back! The President of Finish Line Leadership and author of Wisdom from the Wild returns to share more insights from wild places to help leaders drive and survive change. We pick up where we left off in Episode 64. Julie shares more of the Unbreakable Laws of Leadership including: Resilience in action  The importance of ramping down Change is inevitable, but it doesn’t have to be ch...

We are so delighted to welcome Sean Glaze back to the show for this special episode! If you missed our previous conversation in Episode 58, Sean is an expert speaker and educator. He has been a coach for over 20 years, helping leaders create more positive and profitable team cultures. He is the Founder of Great Results Team Building and author of the book, Staying Coachable. Sean knows what the mo...

What an absolute treat of an episode this is! International leadership and business coach Gregory Gray joins to discuss all the benefits of having a leadership coach, including: The unique advantages a coach can bring to leaders at all levels  What it means to move from manage-leading to leadership-leading  How to start your Vision Story  Why you always need to be recruiting  And so, so much more...

What are the 9 Unbreakable Laws for Leaders?   What can spiders, sea turtles, mangrove forests, and more teach us about leadership?   Former zoo and aquarium senior leader, Julie Henry is now an author and President of Finish Line Leadership. She uses her insights from wildlife and wild places to help leaders succeed in corporate, nonprofit, and government organizations. On this episode she discus...

More than a fun evening in a comedy club, improv is a discipline with valuable applications in business and leadership. Listening to understand  Hearing what is being offered  Reading non-verbal cues  Building with “yes, and...” These are the skills Dr. Candy Campbell has been teaching teams and corporate organizations since co-founding an improv comedy company over 20 years ago. An award-winning...

What can the right tech do for your small business? Samantha Morris is an amazing coach who helps entrepreneurs get their ideas off the ground and flourishing through smart leadership skills and the right mix of tech tools. She helps busy women fulfill their business dreams without sacrificing other priorities, and she helps all types of leaders become life-long learners who succeed. Listen in as...

Stephen Bates was working as a physical therapist in the UK in the mid 90s when he began to realize that almost half of the patients he was seeing were holding themselves back from recovery. He began to see that people everywhere - and in all situations - hold themselves back from achieving what they know is possible. In 2002, Stephen founded Certain Change and has gone on to work with business le...

The commonly used sales funnel is over 120 years old. It is outdated and provides diminishing returns in the modern buying ecosystem. It is long past time to change the approach to the sales process, to meet buyers where they are, and start selling smarter. Peter Strohkorb is a sales and marketing guru who has modernized the sales funnel to be engaging and buyer focused. In the process, he has see...

Whether you’re an executive looking to advance your career or trying to achieve your financial goals and find work/life balance, our guest this episode has something for you. Richard Kirby has been coaching corporate leaders and small business owners to success for 19 years. He shares his formula that combines inspiration and analysis to look at situations objectively in order to discover the best...

Often leaders are tempted to value smart strategy over a strong team culture, believing that if the strategy is correct success itself will become the culture. However, the most successful leaders understand that it is a strong culture that allows a strategy to succeed. Sean Glaze is a successful leader who is helping others build better relationships and achieve more with their teams. For over 20...

Sometimes a conversation comes along at just the right moment to create maximum impact on everything that follows. Sometimes a conversation simultaneously affirms and challenges beliefs, definitions, and worldviews. This conversation is certainly one of those. As leaders, David Gold wants us to consider deeply our philosophy of leadership as well as the fears holding us back from fully sharing our...

The future is innovation, and an innovative culture is key to a successful business.   But how do you foster a culture that values the free exchange of ideas? It takes courageous leadership to do innovation and this episode’s guest is just such a person. Bryan Mattimore is the Cofounder and Chief Idea Guy at Growth Engine, an innovation agency working with some of the largest national and internat...

It is a pleasure to welcome Kelly Beattie to this episode. Kelly is the President of FirstStar Consulting Group. She is an expert in leadership development, specifically in the area of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and well versed in dealing with challenging social topics in the workplace.   Kelly believes that every organization has both formal and informal leaders, and she shares the skillse...

Rob Colvert began as a volunteer firefighter and rose through the civil service ranks to become a Fire Battalion Chief. He is also a mentor and college instructor of Incident Management and Fire Protection and Technology. Rob has 25 years of experience in public safety and leadership. He shares stories from the firehouse and what he has learned as he has climbed the ranks to Battalion Chief, inclu...

Chaundra Fletcher majored in business and went on to earn an MBA, but all along she felt a calling to become involved in non-profit service within her community. Now, as Executive Director of Lynne’s Haven of Hope, a transitional housing organization, she sees how lessons in non-profit leadership can help business leaders achieve greater success with their teams.   In our conversation, Chaundra de...

Every leader has a story and a message to share. Maybe it’s a vision for their organization, maybe it’s a call to action, maybe it’s motivation for new team members. Any message can be transformational for your audience if you know how to compose it correctly. Fortunately, our guest this episode is an expert in helping leaders find their story and develop their voice for success, whether for an au...

As leaders, we all face moments when we feel stuck. Call it procrastination, lack of inspiration, or whatever you want; it’s that annoying position where you can’t go forward, you can’t go back, and you don’t know what to do next. It can be tricky to find a way out of the rut and back on the path to success. Murielle Marie is a certified business and career coach who specializes in helping creativ...

What if there was a way you could predict the conditions that foster dishonesty in the workplace? What if there was a study that identified specific actions that made team members more trustworthy? What if there was an area of leadership you could focus on to make your organization six times more likely to act ethically? Our guest this week has these answers for you. After a 15-year longitudinal s...

We have all been there as leaders, struggling to deal with a team member's disruptive behavior or a group culture that needs to change. How do we transform the situation into something that will stick and allow for a more successful business? Dr. Barry Borgerson is a former executive turned transformational coach. Since leaving the helm of multinational corporations, he has made it his mission to...