Leaders Of Transformation

Darren Virassammy is the co-founder and COO of 34 Strong , comprised of a team that believes everyone deserves a great place to work and that any workplace can be great. A leading expert in the global employee engagement community, the 34 Strong team leverages the strengths-based approach to human development to create massive shifts within organizations, both culturally and on the bottom line. Da...

Imagine if young people in low-income communities were taught about money and small business? Today's guest has done exactly that. Steve Mariotti is a prominent advocate for entrepreneurship education worldwide. He currently serves as Senior Fellow for Entrepreneurship at Rising Tide Capital in Jersey City. He is the founder and former president of the global nonprofit Network for Teaching Entrepr...

Since 1982, May McCarthy has co-founded and helped to grow six successful companies as large as $100 million in annual revenues. She is an author, speaker, university lecturer and angel investor. She serves on business, philanthropic, arts and university boards.  As an advisor, May serves graduate students through the Innovation and Entrepreneur Center at the Albers MBA program at Seattle Universi...

Dr. Macaulay Onyekachi Obasi Kalu was born in Abia State, Nigeria, West Africa, and grew up in Europe. In his academic pursuit, Dr. Kalu has several academic achievements and is also a recipient of numerous leadership awards. His first degree is in Business Management and he has been a Minister of the Gospel for more than 20 years. He holds a doctorate in divinity. Dr. Kalu has facilitated the six...

Dr. Connie Reimers-Hild is the Chief Futurist at Wild Innovation, a strategic foresight and coaching firm she founded in 2005 to help leaders understand and prepare for the future and for life. Her most recent gutsy move was leaving a twenty-five year, six-figure career to help other women — especially those in mid-life — pursue their desired futures.   Dr. Connie has helped more than 150 companie...

What is digital governance and why does it matter? Kristina Podnar, principal at NativeTrust Consulting, LLC, is a digital governance advisor with nearly 20 years of management consulting experience. She has a history of successfully deploying complex digital transformation projects for global 1000 companies, government, and not-for-profit organizations as well as having an aptitude for solving or...

Recognized by Forbes as a  Top Marketing Influencer , Inc. Magazine as a  Top Digital Marketer  and  Top Youth Marketer,  Entrepreneur as a Top Personal Branding Expert , and Adweek as one of their Socially Strong Entrepreneurs Every VC Should Be Following , Leonard Kim has quickly established himself as a key influencer in the world of marketing and personal branding. Leonard went from being almo...

When your job no longer exists or you are ready for change, how do you pivot careers successfully? Sara Bliss is a freelance writer and New York Times bestselling author who writes profiles on the topics of business, health, beauty, design, and travel. Sara is the author and co-author of eleven books including Hotel Chic at Home, Pretty Powerful, and Beauty from the Inside Out. A former senior wri...

Most generous companies are not rewarded in the marketplace for their philanthropy. In today's episode, Martin Barrett, co-founder of The Generosity Agency , Sozo Gifts , World Changers and The Hunt For Charity explains why this is, how it relates to marketing and overall business results, and what to do about it. Using The Generosity Agency platform, businesses large and small are now able to eng...

Suzanne Gundersen is a Holistic Stress Relief Mentor and Energy Healer.  Over the last 10 years she has helped women all over the world to relieve anxiety, chronic stress and build confidence. Using her own ACE Method along with Energy Tapping (her own style, similar to EFT) she helps women get into alignment with who they truly are and improve their relationships, their mental, emotional and phys...

James Garrett is a brainhacker and founder of  Brain by Design . He's spoken on stages ranging from Harvard to TEDx and his work has been featured by The New York Times, FastCompany, and Harvard Business Review. He spent years doing research with some of the best psychologists in the world at Columbia , Tufts , and Yale . He built one of the only brain-based positive psychology curricula in the Mi...

Heather Dominick is a woman who is impressively successful and highly sensitive. She is a former high school drama teacher who collaborated with none other than Bette Midler, and a graduate of NYU where she received her first coach training. She is the winner of the 2015 Best of Manhattan Coaching Award and creator of the 2014 Stevie Award winning virtual event 'A Course In Business Miracles®: 21-...

Susan is the author of the bestselling book Ditch Your Inner Critic At Work: Evidence-Based Strategies To Thrive In Your Career and an executive coach, and speaker. Certified as a Positive Psychology coach, Susan applies the science of how people thrive to help her clients find satisfaction in their careers. She writes for Harvard Business Review on self-management and has published on overcoming...

A Utah-based entrepreneur and community leader, Rob Eastman combines his passion for transformational change and willingness to take risk with his organized approach to solving problems and his ability to activate people to create superior results. His life experience helps him cover a wide range of issues we are currently facing in our schools and communities. Through his addiction recovery Rob i...

As a serial entrepreneur and founder of a successful engineering company in Dubai, Rajeev Daswani noticed companies becoming more process driven rather than people focused. This led Rajeev on a personal journey of discovery of what makes people happy and how that impacts them at work. Rajeev has since become the Chief Happiness Officer at MBS, a Workplace Happiness Center, as well as a certified T...

A.J. Ali is the Director and Producer of WALKING WHILE BLACK: L.O.V.E. Is The Answer , an award-winning feature-length documentary film improving relations between police and people of color. He coined the acronym L.O.V.E. which stands for: Learn about your community Open your heart to the people in it Volunteer yourself to be part of the solution in their lives and Empower others to do the same....

Turning a $10K investment into a $1M+ creative agency, Lucas Mack became a successful entrepreneur, author, speaker, consultant and podcast host. Working for clients like Microsoft, T-Mobile, MOD Pizza and more, Lucas dedicated more than a decade providing companies with ideas, products and services that improved clarity, employee engagement, and sales. Named as 'Member's Choice Speaker' by the Un...

Vishen Lakhiani is the founder and CEO of Mindvalley University . With over 2 million students, Mindvalley is a global school for humanity that delivers transformational education for all ages. Mindvalley currently has a team of 300+ people from 58 nations. From their home base in Malaysia, Vishen and his team actively work to expand Mindvalley's presence globally with the aim to bring its teacher...

Mary Fran Bontempo is a two-time TEDx speaker, author, and humorist who teaches audiences to control their most powerful influence: Self-Talk. Author of  The Woman's Book of Dirty Words , and  Not Ready for Granny Panties , She's written for multiple online platforms, including The Huffington Post and Thrive Global . After thirty years' experience as owner of a full-service recruiting firm, and fi...

Donnie Boivin has over two decades of experience in sales and is host of the Success Champions Podcast , which is ranked top 200 in the business category on iTunes. At the age of 40, he discovered he had been living other people's dreams and not chasing his own. Taking the biggest risk in his life, he jumped out and started a business. Although he had great success at the start, he quickly underst...

Dr. Daphne Scott, founder of DS Leadership Life, specializes in creating mindful leaders and mindful organizations through leadership coaching programs that focus on mindfulness, positivity, creativity, and fun. Daphne has developed her coaching programs throughout two decades of real world coaching and corporate development experience. She draws on her unique background in improv theater and phys...

After growing one of his first PPC clients from 25 to 250 employees, Jacob (Jake) Baadsgaard realized he had a gift for using pay-per-click marketing to drive dramatic business results. To help more companies succeed online, Jake founded Disruptive Advertising, a PPC and CRO management agency, and in a few short years has grown the company to over 90 employees and a run rate of over $12 million –...

Jennifer Dawn is the owner of Jennifer Dawn Coaching and founder of Best Planner Ever. She began her entrepreneurial career selling apples off her grandfather's tree because a lemonade stand was so "yesterday." At 23, Jennifer founded a software company and grew it from zero to seven figures and then went on to become the Software Division President for a $54M manufacturing firm. She was then aske...

Karen Walker is an executive coach, consultant, speaker and author focused on helping senior leaders create internal strategies that support their organizations' external growth. Decades ago, Karen helped lead the (then) fastest growing - and fastest to $1 billion in revenue - company in American history: Compaq Computer. After working at Compaq for fourteen years, with annual revenues growing to...

Regina Huber is the founder and CEO of Transform Your Performance . She is a Multicultural Transformational Leadership Coach and Consultant for Inclusive Diversity with extensive corporate and entrepreneurial experience and a deep passion for Diverse Leadership, Co-Creation and Dance. She is a global inspirational speaker and author of Speak up, Stand out and Shine and the white paper "Diversity a...