Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training

Today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked features Jason Meucci. Jason is a leadership development and team-building facilitator. He is also a coach for early career leaders and is a certified emotional intelligence coach. His work mainly revolves around workshops on DISC and team-building workshops. In this episode, you’ll hear: Jason’s philosophy on management development and why it beg...

Today, Eric welcomes Mike Normant to Management Development Unlocked. Mike was once Eric’s coach, and he is a leadership coach. Many of his clients are leaders in the high-tech sector and range from new managers to vice presidents. He is also a leadership trainer who went into business for himself about 10 years ago. In this episode, you’ll hear: Mike’s philosophy on management and leadership deve...

Today, Eric welcomes guest Liu Liu to the Management Development Unlocked podcast. Liu Liu was born in China but is British and lives in the southwest of England. His wife is from the UK, and they met while he was working at a university. He is a project manager and leads an international team of managers and technical specialists who are based all around the world. In this episode, you’ll hear: H...

Marriot Winquist is Eric’s guest today on Management Development Unlocked. Marriot is an executive coach with more than 20 years of experience in the tech industry. In the past, she’s worked in marketing, strategic and product management, and she enjoys the breadth of business building and working with teams. Coaching felt like a natural transition in her career path. In this episode, you’ll hear:...

On today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric’s guest is Faris Aranki. Faris is the CEO of a strategic consulting firm called Shiageto Consulting. Shiageto Consulting works with companies and individuals to make them more effective today than they were yesterday through three key pillars: creativity, emotional intelligence, and focus. In this episode, you’ll hear: What FQ is, why com...

Today, Eric welcomes Andy Storch to the show. Andy and Eric have something in common: they both fought and beat cancer. A husband and father who is passionate about health and fitness, Andy is also in the talent development space with a podcast called The Talent Development Hot Seat. This conversation is all about how two cancer thrivers had their lives permanently changed. In this episode, you’ll...

In this episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric welcomes guest Beth Miller to the show. Beth is a Talent Management Advisor who works with business owners to help them develop leadership pipelines within their organizations. Her work includes new managers and seasoned leaders who want to reach the next level in their organization. In this episode, you’ll hear: How Beth Miller defines mana...

In this solo episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric is sharing what it’s like to start and run your own consulting business. Eric has been in learning and development his entire career, which began in 1992. In 1999, he began to focus on management development, and it became his passion. In this episode, you’ll hear: Why a move to Seattle in 2020 led to starting a management development c...

This episode of Management Development Unlocked introduces us to Mary Emerton. Eric first met Mary in Silicon Valley several years ago, and she is an operations executive with more than 25 years of experience in high-tech. She's developed and implemented a variety of programs for companies, including kickstarting programs like diversity and inclusion, and going through the IPO process. Mary gradua...

This week, Eric welcomes guest Zovig Garboushian to the Management Development Unlocked podcast. Zovig runs a consulting practice called Boldness Ablaze Coaching as an executive coach, speaker, and group facilitator. As a coach, she works primarily with women in leadership. She empowers them to overcome challenges unique to being a woman, understand who they are, and lean into who they naturally a...

On today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric welcomes guest Seth Rosenbloom. Seth is an executive coach who’s been coaching for the last 15 years. He’s also a management and leadership consultant and has been in the field for about 20 years. Before Seth began his consulting career, he worked in the tech industry in product and program management. In this episode, you’ll hear: Seth R...

In this solo episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric shares how he entered the world of learning and development. He also explains why he started Girard Training Solutions. In this episode, you’ll hear: How the Boy Scouts influenced Eric’s interest in learning and development from childhood to adulthood. Why joining the student chapter of the American Society for Training and Development...

In this episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric is speaking with Betty Dannewitz. Betty is a learning solutions architect for The Ken Blanchard Companies, a leadership development company. She is also the host of the podcast, “ifyouaskbetty,” which featured Eric as a guest. Ifyouaskbetty also does strategy and consulting for nontraditional learning and development modalities such as virtu...

This episode of Management Development Unlocked features guest Darren Nerland. Darren is a Senior Leadership Development Program Manager for Amazon in their IT services department. He also owns a company called Skills Leap, which focuses on skill development and upscaling within organizations. Skills Leap also holds a conference every year called Learnapalooza. In this episode, you’ll hear: Darren...

This episode of Management Development Unlocked introduces us to Molly Fields. She’s the Senior Director of Learning and Development for TCC and Wireless Zone, Verizon-authorized retailers. She supports more than 1,200 locations nationwide in more than 46 states. She focuses on learning and development for soft skills and sales skills. She’s been at TCC for nearly 13 years. In this episode, you’ll...

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