Lead the People

Saunders spent more than two decades as a Wall Street SVP, sales team leader, and award-winning sales executive. He is now a coach, consultant & author. He spent years as a member of the Georgetown McDonough MBA Alumni Advisory Council and is an active angel investor. He is a long time regular contributor to the Executive MBA mentorship program and spent 3 years on the committee that built the...

Joel Zeff creates energy. His spontaneous humor and vital messages have thrilled audiences for almost 25 years. As a national workplace expert, speaker, author and humorist, Joel captivates audiences with a unique blend of hilarious improvisational comedy and essential ideas on work and life. He has shared his experience and insight on collaboration, leadership, change, communication, innovation,...

Dave Hill Jr. is a former leadership team member for two successful tech startups—Ableton (2003-2011) and iZotope (2011-2016). He founded Go 2 Market Coach in 2016 offering coaching, mentoring, and now, musical healing to his wide array of clients worldwide. His new book, Doubt Riding Shotgun, documents Dave's life journey with self-doubt as well as helpful practices from his coaching practice. Da...

Donna Rustigian Mac is the President of iVoice Communication, a company dedicated to creating confident speakers, successful interpersonal communicators, and healthy-human business connections through updated, 21st century communication skills. Donna works with individuals and companies who understand the power of their people. As people expand, business expands. Donna’s distinguished career inclu...

Nannapat "Nanna" Sage: the dynamic Executive Leadership Coach, Consultant, and CEO of Potentia Consulting Group. With a diverse background spanning executive recruiting to talent management in Asia, Europe, and the US, Nanna specializes in enhancing leadership capabilities and building top-tier teams. Awarded as a top leadership coach by the International Women Network and Coach Foundation, she ho...

With over twenty years of experience in software development and application security, Laura Bell Main specializes in bringing Application Security and Secure Development practices into organizations worldwide. She is the co-founder and CEO of SafeStack, an online education platform offering flexible, high-quality, and people-focused secure development training for fast-moving companies, focusing...

Kelsey Buell is an authentic and enthusiastic team builder. She is also an accomplished violinist and singer having performed in front of audiences as large as 20,000. She has given hundreds of presentations on preventing burnout, stress management, and leadership skills. As a former corporate recruiter, she conducted over 2,000 candidate interviews. And through her experience, she uncovered the f...

Senior Director of Talent, Doctor of Psychology, Professor, small business owner, wife, mom, and farmer...any of these can be used to introduce Amber, who likes to keep her plate full! Amber began her career 18 years ago as a project manager for an Executive Coaching firm and quickly decided she was more interested in the talent side of the business than project management. Since then she has grow...

Ron is an entrepreneurial executive leadership coach and Dream Team Architect who works with leaders and organizations to identify executive opportunities and challenges which evoke transformation in leadership and organizational engagement. He is a co-founder of PIQue Coaching & Strategy Group, a boutique coaching and strategy company that has developed an innovative approach to personnel and...

Joel Goldberg is an Emmy Award winning broadcaster. keynote speaker, and published author. He began dreaming of a career as a sportscaster at a young age, always wanting to deliver news of the previous night’s game to his grade school teachers. He’s spent more than a quarter century on television, relying on relationship building to tell athletes’ stories. Joel’s unique access enables him to share...

Keisha A Rivers harnessed the lessons learned while leading during a harrowing Hurricane Katrina experience to become an award-winning international speaker, change agent and learning leader. As Chief Change Officer and President of The KARS Group LTD, she focuses on equipping organizations and leaders to navigate The People Side of Change. She is a TEDx speaker, host of the Equipped for Change po...

Chris is a husband, father, people and idea person. He helps energize people and teams through reframing stress, uncovering strengths, and cultivating connection. He’s been to 50 countries, worked with leaders on every inhabited continent, and hopes to get to Antarctica someday! Top 3 Takeaways Create space. Our organizations and relationships at work have the potential to be places we go for heal...

Episode Sponsor The Predictive Index: https://www.predictiveindex.com About Jonathan Jonathan Ribskis is the Director of Talent Optimization for Builtech Services, a nationwide commercial general contractor with offices in Chicago, IL and Charlotte, NC. He began his career with Builtech Services in Chicago as a superintendent, working for a company of just 4 employees. He then worked in estimating...

Matt Lesser is the Founder/CEO of Uniquely Normal, LLC, which exists to equip and train leaders to build flourishing team members and organizations through empathy, empowerment, and excellence. Matt has had the honor of training leaders, teams, and boards in over 40 countries over the past 20+ years. Prior to launching Uniquely Normal, Matt served in C-Suite roles in private equity, banking, and i...

Luann Abrams is the founder of CEOX, an organization whose mission is to elevate women into CEO, C-Suite and board roles. She is a partner in The Abrams Group, advising, investing in, and supporting the people, companies and causes that will leave it better. Prior to starting CEOX, she ran FoundersPad, an early-stage venture fund with a dedicated mentorship program in Bend, OR. Luann has a backgro...

Robert founded INTRIGUE (formerly ITM Speakers) based on the idea that communication started with intrigue and ended with impact. He guides the company using lessons learned from decades as a high-tech marketing executive at companies such as ADP, Ceridian and SmashFly Technologies, and skills he's developed as an actor, playwright, programmer, electrical engineer, photographer, videographer, and...

Kit Campoy spent 24 years leading teams in retail stores. In 2022, she threw her store keys in the safe and left the career she loved to write full-time. She now writes, reads, and talks about leadership daily. She advocates for frontline leaders on LinkedIn and through her newsletter, The Voice of the Frontline. Her book, The Retail Leaders Field Guide: How to Run a Kick Ass Store Where Everyone...

Dr. Susan Landers has thirty-four years of experience in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). She practiced in academic medicine (on the faculty of two medical schools) and in private practice. She authored over thirty peer-reviewed academic papers. She found her work in the demanding environment of the NICU rewarding & managed to postpone burnout until the end of her career. Susan and her...

Susan Hobson is a High-Performance Leadership Coach, published author, Founder/CEO of Elite High Performance Inc., and a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. Susan’s science-based Elite High-Performance Coaching process draws on her first hand experience competing at some of the most competitive environments on the planet – Princeton & Harvard Universities and The National Women’s Hockey Leag...

Dr. Marisol Capellan is an internationally recognized and award-winning educator, TEDx speaker, executive coach, and corporate trainer. She is the Founder of The Capellan Institute, a leadership, coaching, and corporate training company specializing in workplace culture, diversity, equity & inclusion, and soft skills development. Dr. Capellan is a former lecturer at the University of Miami, Mi...

Jennifer Dulski is CEO and founder of Rising Team, a SaaS company that equips managers with the tools and training to build engaged, connected and successful teams. She has a wide range of executive experience in leadership roles at technology companies including, Facebook, Google, and Yahoo!, and Dulski was also president and COO of the social enterprise company Change.org. Dulski writes about le...

Paul Burton is the Founder of C-Coach, a science-backed coaching technology platform. As a leader who turns problems into solutions, Paul uses that passion to make a positive impact on people. Merging empathy and compassion with emotional intelligence, tenacity, and the willingness to take risks, he envisions a future of limitless possibilities. His long-term goals include creating ongoing awarene...

Tom Stewart has over 30 years experience in the U.S. Army. He has served in various leadership capacities including Battalion Commander while deployed in Afghanistan. Tom also served in multiple executive level staff positions including Assistant Chief of Staff, Director of Logistics, Director of Operations, and Director of the Joint Staff. He has a strong background in strategic planning and sync...

Katja Schipperheijn is an internationally recognized learning strategist and founder of Habit of Improvement, a consultancy that focuses on learning strategies that foster growth and well-being in a human-machine symbiosis. Besides her work in corporate settings, she is founder of the sCooledu foundation with which she reached over 15,000 children participating in her workshops on digital citizens...

Dr. Richard Shuster is a clinical psychologist, TEDx speaker, and CEO of Your Success Insights, which helps individuals, corporations, and athletes achieve balance and peak performance. He is also the host of The Daily Helping with Dr. Richard Shuster: Food for the Brain, Knowledge from the experts, Tools to Win at Life which is regularly downloaded in over 150 countries. Dr. Shuster’s clinical ex...