Culture and Leadership Connections Podcast

Bio for Rachel Gour   Rachel Gour is an entrepreneurial and visionary hairstylist, salon owner and hair educator. She advocates for women’s choice and growth and has worked to help high-risk female teens get off the streets. She is also a parent to two sons. Episode highlight As a white person raised on an Indigenous reserve with a black-fathered child, Rachel Gour knows how it feels to be immerse...

Bio for Chris Marhefka Chris Marhefka is the CEO and Facilitator at Training Camp for the Soul and the Founder and Facilitator of the Embodied Man Community and Retreats.  Episode highlight Chris Marhefka was raised to be hardworking, and he followed that value until he was burned out. Listen in on how he rejected conventional notions of success to develop a more authentic relationship with himsel...

Bio for Monique Allen   Monique Allen is a Business Coach, Life-Scape & Regenerative Landscape Professional and CEO & Creative Director of The Garden Continuum, a landscape design/build and fine gardening company in Massachusetts.  Episode highlight As a bilingual Armenian-American, Monique Allen had a plethora of cultural influences in her childhood. Listen in on how she combined the many...

Bio for Raphael Adegboye   Raphael Adegboye is Senior Manager, Global Risk Management with Scotiabank. He currently lives in Brampton, Ontario with his wife and three daughters.  Episode Highlight Born in Nigeria, Raphael Adegboye learned to value academic accomplishments and was taught to be silent in the presence of others. Listen in on how moving to different countries has changed his personali...

Bio for Dr. Cornelia (Nel) Wieman Dr. Nel Wieman, Anishinaabe (Little Grand Rapids First Nation, Manitoba), is the Acting Deputy Chief Medical Officer for the First Nations Health Authority and has served as the President of the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada (IPAC) since 2016.  Episode highlight As a First Nations child “scooped” into a Dutch family, Dr. Nel Wieman grew up struggling...

Bio for Eric Karpinski Eric Karpinski is a positive psychology author and speaker and has been on the cutting edge of bringing positive psychology tools to workplaces for over 10 years, with clients that include Intel, Facebook, IBM, T-Mobile, Genentech and many others.  Episode highlight As a child, Eric Karpinski moved around a lot. He hated saying goodbye to old friends but loved making new one...

Bio for Joseph Fung   Joseph is the CEO of Uvaro, a tech sales career accelerator, and of Kiite, a sales enablement platform purpose-built to provide sales teams with the information they need when they need it.  Episode highlight Joseph Fung was raised with encouraging faith in his abilities, a strict culture of excellence and no concept of procrastination. Listen in on how he has created a workp...

Bio for Karin Reed   Karin M. Reed is the CEO and Chief Confidence Creator of Speaker Dynamics, a corporate communications training firm featured in Forbes.  Episode highlight Listen in on how Karin Reed, a successful broadcast journalist went from shining on camera to training others on how to let their brilliance show on the screen. Links Email: Info@SpeakerDynamics.com   Website: https://speake...

Bio for Perry Marshall   Perry Marshall is a marketing consultant and entrepreneur and founder of Perry S. Marshall & Associates. He has guided clients like FanDuel and InfusionSoft from startup to hundreds of millions of dollars and is endorsed in FORBES and INC Magazine. He’s consulted in over 300 industries and has a degree in Electrical Engineering. Episode highlight Perry Marshall began h...

Bio for Sherina Mayani   Sherina Mayani is a Business Master Coach, Founder of Master Dinero Con Flow and creator of two complementary business methods, Clearing Method to remove emotional blockages to prosperity and ClaCov focused on strategic planning and marketing. She helps Spanish-speaking women around the world clear their blocks, upgrade their mindset, attract ideal clients, and earn consis...

Bio for Alan Headbloom   Alan Headbloom is an Intercultural Consultant/Coach, Applied Linguist and Talkshow Producer & Host. He presents workshops to immigrant professionals and to their American counterparts who need to function across cultures and geographies and provides one-on-one coaching to expats who need to perform at high levels in their global companies.  Episode highlight As a Swedi...

Bio for Rohan Nigam Rohan Nigam is a Mergers & Acquisition Advisory (M&A) Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). He has supported clients at various stages of the M&A lifecycle including due diligence, integration, carve-outs, post-close support, and transformation.  Episode highlight As an Indian who moved to the United States to pursue studies and a career, Rohan Nigam had the opp...

Bio for Denise Shamlian   Denise Shamlian, Health Education Advocate and owner of Get Up Get Out Get Well Health Coaching, has successfully worked with clients around the world helping them achieve their health and happiness goals.  Episode highlight As an Armenian-American, Denise Shamlian was raised to be straightforward and direct in her communication and pursuit of goals. Listen in on how she...

Bio for Nselaa Ward Madam Nselaa Ward, Juris Doctor, is a Business Architect and Black Lives Matter and Women's Rights Activist. Currently, she is the Chair of the International Black Business Agenda and CEO of Ni’ Nava & Associates, a business architect firm she started in 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia. Episode highlight As a black female, Nselaa Ward was always told she was not valuable. Lis...

Bio for Luis Gonzáles   Luis Gonzáles is a Global Business Communications Consultant, Master Facilitator, Coach, and Trainer with more than 25 years of experience in helping improve business outcomes for organizations.  Episode highlight As a Mexican-American, Luis Gonzáles had varied cultural experiences in his personal and professional life. Listen in on how he assimilated his cultural know-how...

Bio for Amy Lynn Durham   Amy Lynn Durham is the author of “Create Magic At Work” and the Founder of the “Create Magic At Work” Membership Group. She is a UC Berkeley Certified Executive Coach and Emotional Intelligence Practitioner. Episode highlight As a corporate executive, Amy Lynn Durham did not feel she was being herself. Listen in on how she discovered the path to authentic self-expression...

Bio for Benedict Beaumont   Benedict Beaumont is a Breathwork Facilitator, Yoga Teacher and founder of the Breathing Space School of Breathwork.  Episode highlight Benedict Beaumont grew up in a backwater town in England, but caught the travel bug at an early age. Follow him as he recounts his travels across the world and the lessons he learned about finding his way home to his true self. Links Em...

Bio for Chris Thomson  Chris Thomson is the Head Coach at Student Works Management Program in Eastern Canada.  Episode highlight As an award-winning swimmer, Chris Thomson had no free time to take up a part-time job. Listen in on how he maximized his time, streamlined his efforts, and worked smart to become a successful entrepreneur. Links Email: cthomson@studentworks.com Website: www.studentworks...

Bio for Christina Stathopoulos  Christina Stathopoulos is an International Coaching Speaker, Professional Certified Coach (International Coach Federation-credentialed) and an Accomplishment Coaching Certified Coach. In her business, Hear Her Roar, Christina specializes in working with millennial women who have taken on a new leadership role.  Episode highlight As the daughter of Greek immigrants,...

Bio for Victoria Pelletier   Victoria Pelletier is the Vice President of IBM’s North American Talent & Transformation practice. She is a senior corporate executive with over two decades of progressive experience in strategy, operations, growth initiatives, and business and talent development.  Episode highlight Victoria Pelletier was made the general manager of an organization at 24. Listen in...

Bio for Wanda Costen   Doctor Wanda Costen is a professor and the Dean of the School of Business at McEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta. Leading with integrity, she eliminates barriers to sustainable change by re-imagining how to prepare students for the 21st-century life of work and purpose. Episode highlight Wanda Costen was raised in the military, across different continents, and went throug...

Bio for Lisa Earle McLeod Lisa Earle McLeod is a Strategy Consultant, Founder of McLeod & More, Inc., and author of Selling with Noble Purpose. Episode highlight Listen in on how Lisa Earle McLeod refocuses businesses on innovating to make customers’ lives better.  Links Email: lisa@mcleodandmore.com Contact: https://www.mcleodandmore.com/contact/ Website: www.mcleodandmore.com Twitter: https:...

Bio for Lyndelle Palmer-Clarke Lyndelle Palmer-Clarke is the founder of Dailygreatness, a global publishing company which creates mindset, personal growth and productivity tools for individuals and companies based on positive psychology and tried-and-tested mindset strategies.  Episode highlight Listen in on how Lyndelle Palmer-Clarke’s travels, careers and life experiences have shaped her into th...

Bio for Bruce Ross   Bruce Ross is a Leadership Development Consultant who operates in the realm of the “inner game of leadership.” His proprietary approach to leadership development, FlowPreneur, is research-based and has been honed over 37 years of working directly with the full spectrum of leaders. Episode highlight Bruce Ross went through deep emotional loss and grief, which catapulted his sea...

Bio for Shayna Rattler   Shayna Rattler is a minister, life/business mentor, coach, consultant, and speaker who helps people from all walks of life achieve personal growth and organizational excellence. As CEO of Corporate Attraction, a global consultancy based in Dallas, Texas, she has received multiple awards, published three books, and been featured in over 250 media outlets. She is also the ho...