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Joining us today is Jeff Risley, the Chief Growth Officer at Saxum. With 30 years of experience in marketing, business development, strategy, consulting, sales, organizational growth, and relationship building, combined with the drive to create a better world, Jeff is here to help you make some meaningful change in your business when it comes to sales credibility and marketing. In this podcast for...

Michael “Buzz” Buzinski is a life-long entrepreneur, a digital marketing thought leader, an author, and the Chief Marketing Officer of Buzzworthy Integrated Marketing.. He has worked with over 1200 service-centric businesses and helped their digital marketing deliver more predictable and profitable clients through their website. Using the Rule of 26, Michael can double any business’s website reven...

Julie is a virtual-selling thought leader and the author of three books including the recent, "Look Me In The Eye: Using Video to Build Relationships with Customers, Partners, & Teams," which was named Top Sales Book of 2021. Through her Selling On Video Master Class and coaching, Julie helps sales leaders and teams to leverage video in a way that drives sales. In addition to a successful career i...

Lee Salz is CEO of Sales Architects, business consultant and an expert in sales differentiation. When salespeople aren’t winning deals at desired levels or price points, executives and business owners turn to him. He is the bestselling, award-winning author of six books, including Sales Differentiation. His sixth booked is entitled Sell Different!, which presents all-new sales differentiation stra...

Robin Hills is the director of Ei4Change, a company specializing in educational training, coaching and personal development focused around emotional intelligence, positive psychology and neuroscience. He has taught over 250,000 people in 185 countries how to build resilience, increased self-awareness and understanding of others. His educational programs on resilience and emotional intelligence cov...

Jonathan Brill is our guest---he helps leaders turn disruption into opportunity as a speaker and advisor. He is the author of ROGUE WAVES: Future-Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit From Radical Change. He was previously the Global Futurist at HP. His companies have developed over 350 products for organizations like Samsung, Microsoft and the US Government. He creates intellectual content fo...

Carol Kaemmerer took what seemed like shockingly bad news, and turned it into an amazing opportunity. After a surprise downsizing in the Fortune 500 company she served as a consultant, Carol found that her 20 years of marketing communications experience there provided a perfect set up for helping professionals build their online brand. LinkedIn, she recognized, is an integral part of that brand-bu...

Michael Tanner is a leadership veteran and expert in building credibility and effective leadership. He has more than 28 years of highly engaged and practical experience. His company is called Credible Leaders and you can find it at credibleleaders.com. Through successful leadership positions of increasing scope, ranging from the U.S. Marine Corps infantry to C-suite executive, Michael is constantl...

Jennifer Mackin is a ForbesBooks author of Leaders Deserve Better: A Leadership Development Revolution, and a leader of two consulting firms – CEO of Oliver Group, Inc. and President and Partner of Leadership Pipeline Institute US. As an author and speaker with over 25 years of consulting experience, she is a recognized leadership development influencer, having worked with CEOs, human resources ma...

Denise Cooper is the Founder and CEO of Remarkable Leadership Lessons, a company founded over 10 years ago to assist C-suite, senior-level business leaders, and managers in raising their game as contributors to profitability. She earned an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis MO, a Coaching Certification from North Carolina State University, and studied under Judith Glaser to earn the disti...

Leslie Short is the Founder of The Cavu Group and author of Expand Beyond Your Current Culture. She has an accomplished background that includes running marketing and PR for FUBU, serving as Corporate Operating Strategist for blueprint + co., and starting several successful international businesses. Leslie has been developing multi-cultural/mosaic marketing and programming as far back as 1998, and...

When it comes to change – it’s a world filled with armies of consulting graduates sitting in dimly-lit rooms retroactively justifying why the latest ‘transformational’ initiative went ahead. The industry has over-complicated it. From obtuse jargon to untold reams of paperwork. It’s just become too hard, too confusing, too segregated and too academic.  The thing is – You don’t have time for that. N...

Wynn Godbold is an independent certified John Maxwell Leadership speaker, trainer and coach. She owns a training and development company named Bee Sharp and is the founder of the I'm Possible Lifestyle. Wynn helps business leaders turn goals that feel impossible into reality. She shared with us, the very word impossible says, I'm Possible.   In this podcast for managers, Audrey, Lee and Wynn discu...

There is a common misconception that being good at sales necessitates aggressive closing or finding ways to effectively bring in clients Think again! Author and sales trainer Jim Doyle explains how the best sellers have a commitment to their customers that goes way beyond being customer focused. Servant Heart Sellers, as he calls them, are obsessed with making sure the products they sell make a di...

Charles Bailes IV is a 4th generation family member and a top executive running a 9-figure family-owned business. As VP of Human Resources and Internal Distribution of ABC Fine Wine & Spirits, he oversees 126 stores in Florida and over 1,600 employees. He is a husband, a dad of three, an executive, an entrepreneur, a CrossFitter, a health nut and a lover of going to bed at 8 p.m. – all in that ord...

Today’s guest, Gregory Silva, is the Director of Operations for three drug and alcohol treatment centers in Southern California; Living Longer Recovery, Gravity Treatment Centers and New Spirit Treatment Center in Southern California. Gregory began his career in the marketing industry, but after his best friend passed away from an overdose in 2012, he felt called to help others suffering from addi...

Dr. Bob Nelson is a management and motivation business author of over 30 books that have collectively sold over 5 million copies. He is president of Nelson Motivation Inc., has presented on six continents and worked with 80 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. One of his titles we are most interested in talking about today is 1,001 Ways to Engage Employees: Help People Do Better What They Do Best...

Deborah Coviello is the Founder of Illumination Partners and the host of The Drop In CEO podcast. For more than twenty years, she has been transforming businesses from within, elevating the talents of their organizations to new performance levels. Her experience has taught her to put tremendous value on people, whom she considers as the heart of every business. When hiring a consultant, Deborah Co...

Hannah Grady Williams’s story began in a blue pickup truck when her father handed 12-year-old Hannah the phone and asked her to close a deal on an investment property. After this unexpected introduction to the world of entrepreneurship, she found herself thrust into a climate of innovation, challenge, and opportunity, and she enrolled in college at age 14 and graduated with a degree in internation...

Today’s guest, Emily Morgan, is an entrepreneur with an innate heart for helping others. As the leader of Delegate Solutions, she and her team help business owners and entrepreneurs find more freedom and elevate their time using proven delegation strategies. She’s been featured in Forbes as a Top 50 Remote Employer, contributed articles to the Huffington Post, and highlighted in the NY Times.   In...

Robert "Bo" Brabo has a combined 30+ years of Human Resources Leadership experience in the Department of Defense and private industry. Throughout his career, Bo has always focused on the people, helping them tackle their business problems as if they were his own. Since retiring from the US Army as the Chief of HR Operations with the White House Communications Agency and Presidential Communications...

Kia Roberts is the founder of Triangle Investigations. Triangle Investigations performs third-party investigations for companies into allegations of misconduct, including sexual harassment, discrimination, and bullying. Prior to founding Triangle Investigations, Kia was the first-ever Director of Investigations for the NFL, and prior to that worked as a Senior Assistant District Attorney and Homic...

Bianca Lager is a business manager, consultant and public speaker whose specialties include organizational development, career growth, and online reputation management. Bianca is also the President of Social Intelligence, a consumer reporting agency focused on online risk for human resources.   In this episode, Audrey, Lee and Bianca discuss:  ·      How to conduct social media HR screenings compl...

Dr. Jeffrey Magee works with Business Owners and C-Suite leaders globally to accelerate their success and eliminate derailment. Author of 31-books, translated into 21-languages to include 4-best Sellers and 4-Graduate Management Text books, he has been at this for 3-decades; Recently he sold his $117Milllion dollar talent development firm of 144-employees, and today continues as the Publisher of P...

Steve Chaparro is an organizational culture expert and communicator who speaks worldwide about how companies can transform their workplace culture through intentional co-creation and communication. He is founder and principal at Culture Design Studio, an organizational design agency, and the podcast host of The Culture Design Show. Someone who sees how architecture and design can be so much more i...