Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training

On today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric welcomes guest Vasily Malyshev to the show. Vasily is the CEO and Founder of Intelogos, an employee well-being recognition and performance management software. He’s been in the software entrepreneurship startup industry for the last 15 years and started three companies during that time. Through his experience with these companies, Vasily...

On today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric welcomes special guest Brent Kostiw. Brent was Eric’s first manager in Silicon Valley as well as his first remote manager. He is a prominent figure in Eric’s upcoming book and has been a friend and mentor for over 20 years. Brent Kostiw has been in HR since 1983, spending 23 years specifically in HR doing everything you can imagine. His p...

Today on Management Development Unlocked, Eric speaks with Brenden Kumarasamy. Brenden shares how he changed his career path from accounting when he discovered his talent for coaching others how to speak. In college, Brenden presented competitively, which taught him how to speak, but then he began coaching other students how to speak, which helped them win competitions. In January 2019, Brenden st...

Today, on Management Development Unlocked, Eric interviews Christopher Lind. Christopher is a husband and father of seven children as well as the Chief Learning Officer for a large healthcare company in Miami. He also participates in a lot of industry work to help shape and influence the intersection of business technology and the human experience. In this episode, you’ll hear: How new managers ca...

Today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked features Janet Livingstone. Janet is an executive coach, team performance coach, trainer, and consultant. She is a global multi-potential, multilingual leadership development practitioner who coaches folks worldwide. She has lived and worked in several different countries on several continents and has empathy and experience that lends itself well...

In today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric is speaking with Gary Ross. Gary is a workplace communication, trainer, coach, and consultant who helps people communicate better at work. He is a former FORTUNE 500 corporate executive, Emmy-nominated broadcast journalist, and current stadium and arena public address announcer who knows you don’t always need a booming sound system to get...

Today, on Management Development Unlocked, Eric welcomes guest Russell Sweep. Russell is a content development manager for Goodwill Industries International. He oversees a team that works on developing new learning strategies, adopting content, populating LMSs, and more. Russell is new to learning and development as well as management. Eric was recently a guest on Russell's podcast, The L&D Ho...

Today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked features Jennifer Martineau. Jennifer is an industrial organizational psychologist with an interest in training, leadership development, and what makes it effective. After graduate school, she joined an organization called the Center for Creative Leadership as a junior researcher. She spent most of her career there on staff, creating evaluation pr...

On today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric welcomes Dr. Mark Williams to the show. Mark is a cognitive neuroscientist who studies the brain, how we connect with each other, how we become more productive, and how we learn. For the past five years, he’s been working with organizations to create brain-healthy organizations where people learn and are more productive. He is based in Sy...

On today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric interviews Al Dea, a leadership development facilitator and consultant. Al helps smart people become people smart and build the human skills you need to lead or manage effectively in today’s world of work. Al is the founder of Edge of Work. In this episode, you’ll hear: Why career development matters in today’s world of work and the oppor...

Today, on Management Development Unlocked, Eric interviews Wayne Brown. Wayne is an executive coach heavily involved in learning and development. He spends most of his time in the Coaching 4 Companies division of his organization, Skills 4 Executives. In this episode, you’ll hear: How you can prepare yourself for listening before sitting down to coach an employee. Using mindfulness techniques dail...

In this episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric welcomes guest Jane Lovas. Jane is an executive leadership coach and author. She’s working on a new book that will be published this October called Leading with Love which explores love as a power instead of our 15-year-old emotions. She helps people create their visions and see the big picture, which allows them to create more when they kno...

In this episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric speaks with Tammy Alvarez, founder of Career Winners Circle, which aims to empower business leaders to make a big impact and love every Monday morning again. Career Winners Circle has a team of coaches who work with brand-new leaders up to the C-suite and beyond to ensure that people get the most out of their careers and ultimately become th...

In this episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric welcomes guest Theresa Francomacaro to the show. Theresa is the Chief Storyteller for Why Story Works, where she helps people put together their stories. She is a storyteller, leadership coach, professional development trainer, and author on a mission to help people tell the right story at the right time to the right audience to get the righ...

Today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked features Don Schmincke. Don is a strategic growth advisor, author, and keynote speaker who trains 700 CEOs annually. Eric interviews Don about his leadership books, Don’s samurai philosophy on leadership, and why management theory fails 70-90% of the time. In this episode, you’ll hear: Don’s philosophy on new managers and why they should know thei...

Today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked features Brian Washburn, owner of an instructional design and training company called Endurance Learning. He is the CEO and serves as the face of the company, but he has a team of eight working behind the scenes that he credits with amazing work. In this episode, you’ll hear: How Brian became CEO of his own company and what his product, Soapboxify...

In today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric speaks with Jimmy Burroughes, a consultant and leadership executive advisor who works with organizations to help them build high-performance cultures. He focuses on the human side of development, which boils down to helping leaders build trust, connection, and clarity of purpose with their teams. Jimmy is also a nomadic globetrotter who’s...

Today, on Management Development Unlocked, Kacie Walters, a solopreneur who coaches managers and leaders, joins Eric for a conversation on implementing tacts to deliver more effective feedback. Kacie is also an author and speaker with more than 20 years of experience working with global organizations. In this episode, you’ll hear: The need for delivering feedback and its importance to growth and d...

In this episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric speaks with John Chen, CEO of Engaging Virtual Meetings. His company works hard to design and produce, speak at, and emcee the top and most engaging virtual meetings. John is originally from Stockton, California, where he was a skateboarding honor student at Tokay High School. He was a University of California Santa Barbara student and becam...

Flipping the Script in Leadership with Bill Gentry In this episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric speaks with Bill Gentry, an industrial organizational psychologist who has studied and trained leaders for over 20 years. He also wrote the bestselling book, Be the Boss Everyone Wants to Work For: A Guide for New Leaders . After working for the Center for Creative Leadership for many years,...

In this episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric welcomes Lorraine Segal. Lorraine owns a company called Conflict Remedy, which specializes in helping leaders navigate conflict more skillfully. She does that through coaching, training, and folding in clear communication along with feedback and releasing resentments. She is also an author and speaker. In this episode, you’ll hear: What mana...

On today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric welcomes Joel Silverstone to the show. Joel is a Senior Professional Skills Facilitator and Coach at The Great Canadian Training & Consulting Company. He joined the company about two years ago because there was a gap in soft skills for a lot of people, so Joel redesigned or created the new soft skills courses, which included everythin...

Today, on Management Development Unlocked, Eric is speaking with Mikaela Kiner. Mikaela is based in Seattle, mom to two young adults, and is currently planning a gap year in Costa Rica. She is also the founder and CEO of a people development firm called Reverb. In addition, Mikaela is a coach, which played a large part in founding Reverb. In this episode, you’ll hear: Mikaela’s approach to managem...

Today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked features Deb Zahn. Deb is a practicing consultant in the healthcare industry in the U.S. who primarily helps organizations at the leadership level make decisions, get unstuck, and move forward together. She also owns a company called the Craft of Consulting where she helps fabulous consultants figure out the business side so they can ultimately cr...

Today on the Management Development Unlocked podcast, Eric is speaking with guest Mark Carpenter. Mark is the co-author of the book Master Storytelling and teaches a workshop about that topic. The book is designed to help us identify experiences in our lives that we can turn into stories to teach, lead, sell, and inspire. It’s all about taking real-life experiences and turning them into something...