The Alame Podcast: Change Your Company

An inspiring conversations with Paul ter Wal LLM CSP, founder and CEO of Team Andre. We talk about how leaders can accelerate values alignment and engagement. Some reflections and insights from our conversation: Reframing how look at our people from "Human Resources" to "Human Beings" empowers us to fulfill their needs and create a great engaging workplace. With a clear set of values, we can have...

An inspiring episode with Jon Darbyshire, Entrepreneur, product designer, and investor. We talk about how to build and lead an Inspiring workplace.   Here are some the key takeaways from this conversation: - Hiring great people is one of the surest ways to build a great company - Creating alignment starts with sharing relentlessly the goals and strategy of the organization on a regular basis - The...

A very enriching episode with Steven Gaffney, a speaker, seminar leader, and author on communication and leadership. We talked about how to be unconditionally powerful. Some of the takeaways: The problem in organizations is lack of honest communication: it is not in what is being said but in what was not said! Fear is the main reason for people not sharing things “Conflict not faced, is conflict m...

A special episode with Gül Sönmez, CEO and founder of Purposeful Vibes, in which we talked about self care, wellbeing and mindfulness at the workplace. Here are some of key takeaways: - Leaders can take care of their people by becoming more aware of how they are doing mentally, physically and emotionally - It take very simple practices to drive change in the wellbeing of the people - In just the l...

An exciting conversation with Donna Dahl, an empowerment coach, inspirational speaker and self-development books writer. We talk about how to be empowered and empower others at work. Here are some of the key takeaways: - To empower others we have to be empowered ourselves - Keys to self empowerment is having direction/vision for our life, reading and learning and/or having a mentor we look up to -...

Another inspiring episode in which we shared insights with Heenle Turner, vice president of ALL IN Company, talking about attracting, hiring and retaining 5 star employees. Some of the key takeaways from our live conversation: - How having 5 star employees makes the job of leadership easier - 5 star employees are not just skillset but also mindset (e.g. being proactive, passionate, team player, fo...

An inspiring episode with Richard Newman, founder and CEO of UK Body Talk. In this episode, we talk about how anyone can transform his ability to influence others. Some of the takeaways: - Importance of virtual communication - The influence of body language in communication - How to master non-verbal communication - How leading people means lifting them up - The importance of self-awareness to ins...

An inspiring episode about how leaders can inspire and mobilize their people to transform and improve in their areas of work, with Ian Ziskin, President of EXec EXel Group LLC. Lots of takeaways from our talk including: - The power of truth as key to improve and change things - The importance of talent and complementary skills to drive change and transformation - Changing before we have to otherwi...

An inspiring episode about how leaders can use storytelling and its positive impact on employees and the workplace. I got so much energy and insights from this conversation with my guest with Mark Carpenter, author of "Master Storytelling". Some of what we discussed during this conversation: - How stories are the best way to engage people and help them understand what we are conveying as leaders -...

An inspiring conversation with Mr. Andy Alsop, CEO of "The Receptionist". In this episode, we talked about employee supremacy and the power of trust. Some of the takeaways: People are the most valuable asset. Caring for people pays off in terms of culture, motivation and results. Trust get created through action not speeches. Empowerment happens when we trust people taking action on critical thing...

Great conversation with Nancy Murphy about how leaders can truly drive change and influence their organizations. Some of the takeaways: Empathy is one of the best tools to influence and instead of resisting, trying to see the world through others eyes and having compassion could help drive change faster People resistance to change could be used creatively to make it happen. It is an energy which s...

I am so energized and inspired from this conversation with Advisor, Educator, and Executive Coach; David Nour, CEO The Nour Group Inc. He is the author of more than 10 books on creating high performing organizations and achieving success through relationship economics and one of the best authorities in this field. Here are some of the topics we covered together: - The power of strategic relationsh...

This is the start of a new series where I lead from my upcoming book Inspire Your People. The human spirit is more important than numbers, this the topic of this episode where I comment on the importance of taking care of people. Connect with us on fouadmalame@gmail.com

In this inspiring conversation with Mickael Drouard co-founder of Fabric, we talked about how leaders can unleash the power of their people and companies. Some of the topics we are explored: - Driving collaboration being critical in the new era we live in - Meetings as the best shots to drive teamwork and collaboration - Leaders could delegate facilitating meeting to others to develop future leade...

In this inspiring conversation with my guest Rashad Sinokrot, CEO GCC Services, we talked about how you to lead for engagement and during turnaround situations. Many takeaways from our discussion, including: - Transparency and honesty are key to build great culture and organization - Avoiding politics at all cost - Communicate, communicate, communicate (beyond emails!) - Sharing the vision and be...

In this inspiring conversation with my guest Jake Jacobs, Founder and CEO Jake Jacobs Consulting, we talked about how you can drive change faster easier and better. Key topics included: - How involving people is key to driving change whether we leading a 5 people team or 100,000 people organization. - Being curious and asking people to share more will help us a leaders get more insights about chal...

I was so much inspired and energized from this conversation. We talked about how companies can make their products and services customer centric by being employee centric. We discussed how the future of work is already here and where technology cannot replace being human. We also talked about the importance of dealing with emotions and caring for people. Like always we closed the conversation with...

What does it take to influence people through stories? Are there commonalities between leadership, sales and branding storytelling? What can we learn from them to make bigger impact and get people take action? This is the topic of this new episode  was featured live on LinkedIn with my 2 guests: Jack Vincent creator of the SCORE sales method and Patrick Simone, Founder and CEO of Adesso Digit...

In this episode, we talked about the challenge of aligning the organization with customers' needs and how top leadership would benefit from tapping into the frontline to access customer insights. We discussed also the challenge of change and how to approach it from people's perspective including the possibilities available today to do so virtually. Like always we closed the conversation with perso...

What does it take to make your people own the goals and feel excited to achieve them? The answer is by engaging them with the goals. I explain in more detail in this new condensed episode which is part of the whiteboard series where I share insights about leading people from my experience developing thousands leaders managers and frontliners. I would love to hear your feedback and/or if you have a...

My guest for this episode is Anders Bjerregaard, Director and Partner of the consultancy firm Beecon (formerly Execution Excellence) who shared a lot of interesting insights on why strategy implementation fails. Anders offered some tips on what could leaders do to ensure that strategy is implemented including insights on the importance of dialogue, curiosity, vulnerability, and the roles that cult...

What does it take to create a great engaging workplace? It all starts with having clear mission, vision and values. These are the foundation of great organization and team. This is what I explain in more detail in this new episode which is part of a new series where I share insights about leading people from my experience developing thousands leaders managers and frontliners. I would love to hear...

My guest for this episode is Patrick Simone, Founder and CEO of Adesso Digital an organization which help companies transform the capabilities and performance of their commercial teams to thrive in the new normal. Together we discussed how many leaders and companies are able to adapt to the new realities leverage social media and virtual tools. I hope this episode motivates you to maximize the use...

This episode was supposed to be the pre-call before the interview however it was so fascinating and natural that few minutes into the conversation realized that this should be the podcast itself.  David is one of those rare leaders who are self aware and passionate about people and contribution. He shares how he started his journey in the corporate world and how as a leader he always sought t...

So excited to be sharing this special episode as the first one in the new season after this long break. In this episode, I reflect on my journey launching the podcast and the inspiring guests I had on my shows including special highlights from my conversations with them. You definitely don't want to miss this one! Like always, I would appreciate any feedback you have about this episode or the podc...