The Courage To Lead

Daniella Genas is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur, strategy, and innovation expert. Through her business, She’s The Boss International, Daniella helps SMEs to transform their businesses. She has used her techniques, experience, and training to generate significant results among the companies she has worked with. Key metrics include increased turnover and profits, increased staff, the launch of...

Mike Coluzzi is a trusted advisor & business coach for service-based professionals & entrepreneurs, leveraging the knowledge, wisdom, and insights earned from over 20 years in the trenches as an attorney, business owner & entrepreneur. Mike helps people successfully navigate through voluntary or involuntary career transitions. Mike earned his law degree in 1998 and in the ensuing 20 + years, he ha...

As a professional speaker, Daniel is the leading expert on developing Strategic Empathy to drive purposeful performance. Through his Professional Presentations, Training Programs, and White Papers, Daniel is the #1 authority on how leaders can build the commitment and trust to ensure they are a leader worth following. To learn more about Daniel's work in Strategic Empathy, check out his website: h...

Catherine Mattice is the founder/CEO of Civility Partners, an HR consulting firm focused on helping organizations create respectful workplace cultures. Her clients range from Fortune 500s to small businesses in a multitude of industries. Catherine is an HR thought leader and has appeared in such venues as USA Today, Bloomberg, CNN, NPR, and many other national news outlets as an expert. She’s an a...

Consultant and Coach Doug McIsaac is an entrepreneur at heart and enjoys helping other business owners develop and implement strategies to grow their businesses. Doug has been utilizing online tools to build businesses since 1997 when he built the Rocky Mountain Technology Group or RMTG, Billings, MT-based software company from a $6,000 investment into a multi-million dollar, 30-employee company....

Dr. Eugene K. Choi is a Certified Transformational Mindset coach helping talented heart-driven leaders operate at their highest levels of clarity, energy, and focus. With a background in clinical pharmacy, neuroscience, and business coaching, his unique science-backed process along with the use of groundbreaking technology helps entrepreneurs figure out how to dramatically improve performance, inn...

Do you have a vision for where you want your business to be but it’s in your head and you haven’t communicated that vision to your team? Do you find yourself stuck in the day-to-day running of the business and never find time to get strategic? Do you often feel alone, carrying the weight of the business on your shoulders? Do you know what your business is worth… or how to increase the value? If yo...

Jeremy Streten is a coach, mastermind facilitator, founder, and chief executive officer at Business Legal Lifecycle, a virtual software as a service (SaaS) tool that can help business owners identify the blind spots in their business. He is the author of the Amazon number one best-selling book “The Business Legal Lifecycle”. Jeremy has appeared on various television shows, podcasts, and radio inte...

Jennifer Fondrevay is the Founder and Chief Humanity Officer of Day1 Ready™, a consultancy that advises forward-thinking business leaders, owners, and C-Suite executives on how to prepare for and manage the people challenges of business transitions, particularly Mergers & Acquisitions. As a Fortune 500, C-Suite Marketing Executive who led teams through three separate multibillion-dollar acquisitio...

Are you a visionary thought-leader who is interested in growing your business? Are you here to disrupt the status quo rules of business, economy, and social structure? Are you a passionate leader who wants to create a positive global impact? If you answered YES, then you are now ready to experience the La Dolce Vita Revolution! Italian by birth and cosmopolitan by vocation, Angela Santi is the one...

From Kansas to Canada, Kim Hayden has always worked to be a good neighbor and leader. In every endeavor through Servant Leadership, Kim has repeatedly excelled in several industries. A 22-year award-winning Real Estate Career, TV Producer, Red Carpet Event Host, Author, Producer, and Speaker are just a few of Kim’s accomplishments. Now bringing a lifetime of experiences and work together in the fo...

Justin Breen is the Founder and CEO of BrEpic Communications. He has over 20 years in the media business, has won dozens of writing and editing awards, and is the author of countless viral stories. With a Bachelor of News-Editorial and Journalism, he’s been the sports editor of the Times of Northwest Indiana, assistant managing editor of The Times of Northwest Indiana, senior editor of DNAINFO.com...

Tamara Mitchell-Davis is a 7x bestselling and award-winning author, wife, mother, and CEO of TM Davis Enterprises, LLC. She holds an MBA and a School Business Administrator Certification from the State of Connecticut and serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Business Department at Asnuntuck Community College in Connecticut. Her published works include #GoalGetter: Strategies for Overcoming Li...

Michael Ashley began his writing career as a newspaper reporter and playwright before transitioning to Hollywood to work for the head of the literary department at Creative Artists Agency. He served as a screenwriter for Disney in which he sold the treatment for the hit Halloween movie Girl Vs Monster.  A former screenwriting professor, Michael has written nearly 40 books on many subjects. He rece...

In this special edition of THe Courage to Lead, I invite back previous guests to discuss the topic of "The Great Resignation." My guests are: Porschia Parker-Griffin – Porschia is the Founder and CEO of Fly High Coaching. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and a master’s degree in industrial and Organizational Psychology. She is a Millennial Performance Advisor and specializes in h...

Sean O’Rourke is a full-time husband, father of 4, and a real estate investor. He hated his boss and his job as a production manager at a plant. He decided to make a change and I started learning about real estate. Sean was broke, but then figure out how to operate in the real estate market with no money. He started wholesaling properties and in his first year, he completed 36 deals and made over...

Sam Mollaei is a lawyer, entrepreneur, and innovator. After creating multiple 6 and 7-figure virtual law firms, earning 3 ClickFunnels TwoCommaClub awards as a lawyer, generating more than 7,600 clients online, and gathering over 2,600 5-Star Google reviews, Sam now teaches other lawyers to use his Legal Funnel® System that gets them scheduled calls from their dream clients with the freedom to do...

David Shavzin founded The Value Track in 2000 to help business owners maximize their life’s work. He helps business owners sell their companies, bringing together a unique combination of skills in M&A, exit strategy, and value growth. An in-depth understanding of their business leads to finding the right buyers and then to the closing table. David is President and Co-Founder of Exit Planning Excha...

Riley Jarvis is the Founder & CEO of The Sleep Consultant - an organization that helps CEOs, entrepreneurs, and high performers transform their sleep to significantly boost their productivity and energy levels. Riley started through his own health journey many years ago and discovered that sleep was the missing link that brought everything together. Since then, he's been helping others unlock thei...

A champion of elevating humanity through business and the founder and CEO of Steele Strategies, Ann Steele has a history in the consulting and federal government industries and is passionate about improving workplace communities. Ann specializes in management consulting, facility portfolio management, and workspace solutions in the government and commercial sectors. Ann engages her clients by thri...

Mike Audi creates innovative data products for B2C and B2B markets. As co-founder and CTO of Blustream, he built, led, and sold products responsible for billions of user data points into businesses ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 brands. He has been featured as a data expert in the New York Times, Financial Times, CNN, CyberNews, CPO Magazine, and many others. Passionate about the pow...

Mark Herschberg is the author of The Career Toolkit, Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You. Educated at MIT, Mark has spent his career launching and fixing new ventures at startups, Fortune 500s, and academia. Mark has developed new software languages, online marketplaces, new authentication systems, and tracked criminals and terrorists on the dark web. He helped create the Undergrad...

Caitriona Ellis is a highly competent individual with an honors Commerce degree. She is also a fully qualified Financial Advisor. She has recently completed her Level 4 qualification in Residential Estate Agency and is a Fellow of the National Estate Agents Association. Caitriona’s career in the banking sector allows her great comfort with crunching numbers. She has been in the property market for...

This is a Special Episode of The Courage to Lead podcast. I've invited back a few of my previous guests to discuss a very current topic - and I would argue, a topic that is critical to the success of any company - and that is Company Culture. My guests on this episode are: Lisa Mezzatesta – currently senior manager of organizational change and process excellence at a major packaging company in Atl...

Melissa Boggs is a keynote speaker, leadership coach, and employee experience designer. She is host of the “Wild Hearts at Work” podcast, redefining our relationship with work through stories and conversations with those challenging the status quo of today’s workplace. Melissa is a former executive with a background in leadership, business, and product development. She is a former nonprofit board...