Genius Leadership: Overcoming Everything Podcast

Katie Keich is a Senior Credit & Collections Executive with over 17 years of experience and a proven track record working in the logistics and supply chain industry. Currently, she holds the role of Chief Operating Officer at Statewide Tax Recovery and Central Credit Audit!   In addition, Katie is the CEO of her own company Full Advantage, LLC. It is an outsourced solution for billing, first-party...

The topic of hypergrowth is a quite new one, but it very quickly gained popularity because of the challenges that companies have to go through when facing this stage of their development. This solo episode is the first one in a five-episode series, which will focus on ways of successfully going through the phase of hypergrowth of your business. This topic is fairly new for me as well, so I had a l...

This episode is part two of a two-part series dedicated to your reclaiming your Zone of Genius. You will hear a recording of an interactive masterclass I have done on the topic, including comments from some of the participants. Last week’s episode focused on the definition of the  zone of genius and its characteristics, as well as introduced two practices that will help you find your Zone. The sec...

This episode is part one of a two-part series dedicated to your reclaiming your Zone of Genius. You will hear a recording of an interactive masterclass I have done on the topic, including comments from some of the participants. This first part focuses on the definition of the zone of genius and its characteristics and introduces you to two practices that will help you find your Zone. The second pa...

Ted Lusk is a licensed professional counselor, personal transformation coach, musician, and entrepreneur. He has over 10 years of experience in mental health, personal growth, and development. He also has many years of experience in musical performance and coaching. Those interests are a quite fun and unique mix that helps Ted have a deep love for inspiring and empowering people to break free from...

The series of the podcast about learning yourself continues, and the guest of this podcast is a great woman Mandy Sanghera. Mandy is an award-winning philanthropist who has been working on human rights for over three decades. She has a generous amount of world TV appearances, and public speaking engagements, and last year she participated in the US House of Representatives for the third year in a...

Petri Kajander is the definition of a business artist, a person who makes the magic happen in business. Although Petri would prefer to not put labels on people, it's inevitable to explain who the person is without some of them. Petri’s mission is to empower individuals to create an inspiring global humane society. He is passionate about building the future with cross-growth companies, and he's usu...

Jeremy Blain is an award-winning Business Leader, Futurist, New Era Learning Professional, Author & Conference Speaker. Jeremy is the founder and CEO of Performance Works International (PWI). He has created PWI because he knows that his experience, knowledge, and passion can help organizations and individuals face the changing workplace and help them be fit and ready for the future. Recently he re...

This week’s episode is quite different from the typical podcast that you are used to listening to every week. Part of my job as a coach is to help people get out of their comfort zone and explore what new horizons might wait for them out there. The same thing concerns me and my show. I love working with people and taking interviews, but this week I decided to step out of my comfort zone and create...

Roelof Vuurboom has been actively involved in the IT industry for the past 40 years, working with large and small companies, product development and business development, business management, and sales. Roelof always liked to share his knowledge and experience with others, and recently he decided that he wants to do so through mentoring startup founders.   When we connected with Roelof, I found hi...

Fredrik Grahn is a serial entrepreneur, and now he's working on his third company Pyzzle it. This company was started by Fredrik’s wife and now he took over it to keep the great idea growing when Therese went on for other career challenges. Fredrik is my client, and this conversation is interesting since it doesn’t fall under the typical format that my show takes.   I started working with Fredrik...

Csaba Toth is Hungarian and he has been living in the UK for quite a long time now. Csaba’s journey to a deeper understanding of what leaders need started when he lost his first business.  Back then he thought that speaking the same language, common sense, lots of qualifications and good intention were enough to lead people and to serve them, but despite all that there were misunderstandings with...

Carl-Johan Hamilton is a co-founder of an IT recruitment company in Sweden called Ants, which was founded in 2004.  Today, the company has grown into a small group where Carl-Johan mainly works with recruitment business Code at Heart, which specializes in finding the best IT skills.    I invited Carl-Johan because he is very open about his journey as a co-founder and a leader, and I knew he had wi...

Alex Gordon is the founder and CEO of sign Salad, which uses semiotics (study of signs and symbols) to help brands and companies understand how culture affects the way people respond to their brand and products.  Sign Salad was founded in 2007 and became an award-winning company by helping brands all around the world build their presence and adjust to the cultures, so that they can actually succee...

Daniel Karlsson is a very special guest for me, since he is one of my current clients. It’s special to have a client on the show because most of my clients have very personal things about their path to leadership that we work on, thus, it's not everyone who is ready to be put in the spotlight and discuss very openly like Daniel. Currently, Daniel co-owns a project management consulting firm in Swe...

Jennifer Takagi is an executive leadership and communication coach who works with leaders teaching them how to play well at work. As a result,they can get better performance from people they lead, increase profitability and create a purposeful workplace where people want to come and play productively. During Jennifer’s training trips around the US for the past 30 years, she's seen a lot of frustra...

Brian Williamson is an incredible man whose life is so full of events and achievements that it’s hard to find a place to begin telling about him. Brian has been running companies at Board level for the last 39 years. You would imagine there would be wisdom and knowledge to challenge the best business brain, but besides it there’s something else. As a professional businessman and award-winning entr...

Emma Goldie is a fellow coach from the business accelerator program that I’m involved in called Unstoppable Entrepreneur. She is a mindset mentor who developed a unique methodology called polarity navigatio,n to overcome belief and behavioral patterns and our own limitations. She uses a powerful, systematic and specific tool, customized for leaders to navigate the balance between professional and...

Hedinn Sveinbjörnsson is Iceland's chief happiness officer. He runs a company called 2happiness where he is working and dedicating all his time and energy to help other people feel happiness at work, at home and in life in general. He also has a podcast Tribute2Happiness, where he talks to other people, passionate about happiness. I invited Hedinn first of all because he's a funny guy and he can b...

Sofia Appelgren is the founder of Mitt Liv company, which in translation from Swedish means “my life”. Since 2008, Mitt Liv has worked on the vision of creating an inclusive society and a labor market that values ​​diversity. Today, their primary two target groups are companies and organizations that through concrete solutions want to develop their diversity and inclusion work, as well as academic...

Gunnar Risting is the engagement manager at the IT consultancy in Sweden, called Netlight. I learned about him through a blog post that he has written called “26% of the company shall not do a 100% of the equality work”. And in that article, he is talking about their initiative called “Purple Pill” - men-only events about gender equality.    Netlight is an IT-consulting firm, which pays attention...

Sesselia Birgisdottir is the director of innovation and marketing of Hagar, which is the leading retail company in Iceland within food specialty and fuel markets. Sesselia has started at Hagar very recently, taking on the role of executive director for service and marketing at Icelandic Post prior. Before that, she's been the director of digital media and marketing at an IT consultancy. In all the...

Joachim Samuelsson is the CEO of Сrunchfish, a Sweden-based tech company with patent-pending solutions for a digital cash that can be integrated with both the payment rail and in mobile wallets. The solutions are globally scalable and make digital payments more robust as the risks of disruptions and downtime are eliminated. Crunchfish are also playing around with many use cases for their technolog...

Alena Ipanova is a global leadership and team development consultant, intercultural competence trainer, and an executive and team coach on a mission to help teams, individuals and organizations become more resourceful, successful and deliver sustainable results while truly enjoying what they do and being who they are.    Alena is also a close friend of mine - that kind of friend who can listen, wi...

I've met Jonas Friberg at one of the webinars where I was a panelist and he moderated the conversation. We clicked instantly due to our passion for leadership and questions about what makes it or breaks it when it comes to leading others. Jonas has a history as a leader in different organizations from public to private companies, to NGOs. He has been responsible for groups, business units, compani...