Monday Morning Radio

Business conferences are big business. The World Economic Forum in Davos, the Milken Institute Global Conference , and the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference are among the largest and best-known of the lot. By comparison, the annual Fireside Conference – held at a remote retreat a 3 ½ hour drive from Toronto –  is a puppy; but a best-in-show gathering at that, attracting a small group of top in...

For just shy of four decades, Mark H. Fowler has helped reengineer companies that are underperforming or outright failing. His Santa Monica consulting firm, Stowe Management Corporation , relies heavily on building enhanced communication between corporate management, employees, and customers to achieve amazing operational turnarounds. Mark has created a proprietary set of tools to foster what he t...

The Economist  magazine once described Carl J. Schramm as "The Evangelist of Entrepreneurship." Professor Schramm earned the moniker during the decade he was the president of the $2 billion Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation , which is among the largest private foundations in America, working to help entrepreneurs succeed. These days Professor Schramm writes about entrepreneurship and teaches at Syr...

To kick of his 7th year of hosting Monday Morning Radio , award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart invited back one of his most popular all-time guests, Davia Temin , founder & CEO of crisis management firm Temin and Company , to talk about a very hot button issue in America at the moment: sexual harassment. Davia serves as an advisor to senior executives and boards at the highest levels of American...

Getting a popular entertainer, athlete, author, blogger, or YouTuber to say nice things about your business or products is a powerful way to generate sales. Greg Jameson , author of The Influencer Effect , specializes in helping companies identify the influential men and women who can provide them the greatest endorsement leverage, and then negotiating terms with those influencers. As Greg explain...

Ty Crandall is CEO of Credit Suite , the largest business credit coaching operation in the United States. He and his colleagues know the ins and outs of finding the funds to fuel your business and its growth, without having to provide lenders a personal credit check or personal guarantee. Ty tells host and reputation coach Dean Rotbart that he is shocked by how little most business owners know abo...

Some people look to Warren Buffett and Mark Cuban for investment wisdom. Timolin Langin looked to Big Mama and Biggie – her grandmother and great-grandmother –  for her financial sensibilities. Timolin was born and raised in Mississippi to sharecroppers and cooks – none of whom graduated high school. Yet leveraging the wisdom imparted to her by Big Mama and Biggie, she became a school teacher, and...

June 12th has been set as the date when President Donald Trump will meet in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un . With so much at stake, President Trump and his entourage most certainly will get lots of advice from the State Department and CIA concerning what cultural landmines to avoid.   For companies and organizations that engage in important cross-cultural interactions, Dean Foster...

Chris Ronzio knows the anatomy of a successful small business better than most owners and CEOs.  Chris recently launched a new software venture – a tool called Trainual – that dissects every small business and professional office, breaking them into core components: every process, every job responsibility, every policy, every document – all in one place. Trainual is a digital company handbook on s...

Negotiation expert Elizabeth Suárez says that the secret to being a master negotiator is not outsmarting the other guy or gal, it's being confident about who you are and what are your goals. Once you know your own priorities and what you bring to any negotiation, Elizabeth says that reaching agreement is much easier; whether you're negotiating a corporate acquisition, a pay raise, or the hour of y...

Back in 1995, when the internet was still only a toddler, Jeff Hall started a search engine optimization company from his bedroom in Ontario, Canada. In time, Jeff developed programs and systems to help his clients show up high in the organic results of Google and other search engines. Today, Jeff 's Overflow Cafe boasts more than 45,000 small business and professional clients in 170 countries, mo...

May McCarthy can explain her success at co-founding and growing seven successful companies in a single word: Gratitude. In fact, May believes that gratitude is the missing ingredient responsible for the large number of struggling owners and entrepreneurs who have yet to achieve their business goals. In her new book, The Gratitude Formula , May spells out a 7-Step system that she pioneered – all gr...

Brian Harman works in supply chain management for a large multi-national pharmaceutical company. He relies on storytelling, humor, and a splash of vulgarity to instruct lousy business leaders in the art of leadership excellence. Stepping aside from his day-to-day responsibilities, Brian recruited family and friends to help him write, publish, and promote a book he hopes will inspire a new generati...

Steve Clayton was a 7 th  grade teacher with a love for DJing; a vocation he used to earn some extra cash.     Self-taught, and relying primarily on grit and determination, Steve took his tiny DJing side business, Soundskilz , and built it into an industry-leading major event production and talent booking company, landing festival headliners including Wu Tang Clan and Ice Cube .   One event alone,...

When a big time CEO, celebrity, or politician is thrust into an unwanted and unfavorable media spotlight, more than anyone else their first call goes to "The Fixer," public relations guru Michael Sitrick , founder of Sitrick And Company . Michael Vick called, as did Roy Disney , Rush Limbaugh , the Church of Scientology , and the Estate of Michael Jackson , among more than 1,000 other high-profile...

Colleen DeBaise , the former small business editor of The Wall Street Journal , says there are seven crucial stages in the life of a startup.  In her new book,  Start a Successful Business , Colleen, herself an entrepreneur and podcaster, draws lessons from companies including Warby Parker , Slack , and Lego to help would-be business owners learn how it's done.   But what about existing small busi...

Andrea Hence Evans is one of the most-respected patent, trademark, and copyright lawyers in the country, specializing in helping small business owners grapple with the mountains of red tape that must be surmounted in order to create and protect all manner of intellectual property rights. Andrea has been selected by PBS to serve as the on-air legal expert for Season Two of its popular program, Make...

Jean Ginzburg is an expert when it comes to attracting, connecting with, and converting prospects into satisfied customers. She's been doing it for more than a decade and has refined her approach by testing it on more than 2,000 of her own clients – ranging from Fortune 500 companies to one-person consultancies.  Jean, herself a serial entrepreneur and CEO of Ginball Digital Marketing , is a huge...

This week's guest on Monday Morning Radio is Adam Witty , CEO of Advantage Media and ForbesBooks . Adam is "The Authority" on authority marketing, having helped more than 1,300 now-published authors conceive, write, publish, and market their books. In 2016, he joined with Forbes , the influential financial news media company, to launch its own business book imprint. Advantage Media is a vanity pre...

Did you read that CVS is buying Aetna and Japan's Fujifilm is buying Xerox? JAB Holding Co, which already owns Krispy Kreme, Panera, and Keurig, is now snapping up Dr. Pepper Snapple?  And Arbys recently swallowed Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants. What's happening here? Allen Adamson knows: Aetna, Xerox, Dr. Pepper Snapple, Buffalo Wild Wings, and dozens upon dozens of other brand-name companies are...

For most businesses, routine meetings are mind-numbing experiences that are a black hole of time, energy, and motivation. Dick and Emily Axelrod , co-founders of The Axelrod Group and authors of  Let's Stop Meeting Like This , advise companies such as Coca Cola , Hewlett-Packard , Boeing , and General Electric , how to transform business meetings into enjoyable, productive, collaborative experienc...

In the business world, there is leadership, and then there is high-stakes leadership. The skills required to be a good leader day-to-day do not always stand up in a crisis, where an extra dose of courage, judgment, and fortitude is required. Constance Dierickx , founder of CD Consulting Group , is a crisis leadership consultant; coaching executives at companies including AT&T , IBM , and AAA on th...

  Not since John Chapman introduced apple trees to large swaths of the U.S. and Canada – earning the nickname Johnny Appleseed –  has one man on his own done so much to introduce a thriving agriculture industry to North America. Indeed, Jim Henry may well go down in history as Jim Oliveseed, because he single-handedly can claim credit for seeding the commercial olive industry in the United States...

When Dennis Kneale publishes a scoop, smart business people sit up and pay attention. Dennis's blue-chip media credentials include influential positions at Fox Business , CNBC , Forbes , and The Wall Street Journal . Writing earlier this month for the prestigious Op-Ed page of The Wall Street Journal , Dennis issued a warning that when it comes to product liability, the nationwide Opioid Crisis co...

This week's guest, Rick Snyder , was living and working successfully in Oregon as a coach to international businesses, when just shy of three years ago a persistent, deep, voice inside told him he really ought to get out of the American bubble and move to the South of France. So that's exactly what he did. That wasn't odd for Rick, who teaches global business owners and entrepreneurs to listen clo...