The Even Better Podcast

Sinikka Waugh and Dorice Horenstein discuss the 3 Ties Between her book Moments of the Heart and Positive Intelligence After serving as an officer in the Israeli army followed by years of leadership in the education field, Dorice, Oy to Joy speaker, uses her energy and charisma as she transitioned to make the world her platform. Her expertise in Mental Fitness & Positive Intelligence coupled with...

Sinikka Waugh and Ann Wright discuss the 5 C's of Coaching. Ann Wright MBL, ACC Leadership and Team Coach Throughout Ann's 25-plus years of experience in leadership and talent development, she discovered and believes that people are an organization's most valuable asset. She partners with organizations and leaders to achieve their personal and professional goals by focusing on people, culture, and...

Sinikka Waugh and Christine Samuel discuss 3 Key Reasons Why Relational Intelligence Matters in the Workplace.   Drawing on her extensive 20-year background in UX Design for Fortune 500 companies, Christine Samuel emerges as a visionary leadership coach, facilitator, speaker, and author. Her qualifications include certifications in Solution-Focused Brief Coaching and valuable experience as a mindf...

Sinikka Waugh and Kevin Sutherland discuss 5 Principles Teams Can Adopt to Increase Agility without Doing Agile. Kevin is an independent consultant focused on helping teams, leaders, and organizations deliver value to users, customers, and citizens. Kevin began his career in IT working for Accenture, completing large transformational system integration projects for State government customers. Thro...

Sinikka Waugh and Judy Alter discuss 3 Skills that Make BAs Standout. Judy Alter, CBAP®, FLMI, ACS, PCS & HIA Judy Alter is a public speaker and coach: mentor, trainer, and Senior Business Systems Analyst with almost 20 years of experience in Business Analysis. The last eight years were spent working with various Agile Frameworks. Judy rebranded herself as "The Optimistic BA" and is known as chari...

Sinikka Waugh and Sheri Zevenbergren discuss 5 Fundamental Reasons to Develop Self-Awareness. Sheri is a coach & trainer who helps people develop & apply self-awareness to embrace their differences, unlock their potential & engineer the lives they truly want. She works with high-school & college students, more "seasoned" individuals (like herself), organizational leaders & teams, & couples who sim...

Sinikka Waugh and Mel Worrel-Johnson discuss 4 Questions to Discover the Power of Appreciation. Melissa A. Worrel-Johnson, MBA, PCC - Executive & Leadership Coach, Facilitator, and Speaker Over her 20-year career, Melissa Worrel-Johnson has focused her efforts on leadership, talent development, and business strategy. Her diverse background includes entrepreneurial business start-ups as well as sig...

Sinikka Waugh and Jana Mitzoda discuss 5 Ways Dreams May Be Guiding You. Jana is a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation and a certified facilitator through the Oxford Institute for Organizational Science and Mindfulness. She is trained and accredited by author and guru W. Timothy Gallwey on The Inner Game method. She has extensive experience with positive lead...

Sinikka Waugh and Hannah Moeller discuss 4 Steps to Build Confidence and Live an Expansive Life. As a coach and consultant with 12 years of experience in the finance industry, Hannah empowers diverse clients to build inclusive workplaces and expansive lives. She knows that teams and individuals thrive when each person has a deep sense of belonging. Her goal is to help people align with their dream...

Sinikka Waugh and Tim Ferry discuss 5 Bullet Points on How Board Game Design Strategies can be Applied to Solve Your Problem. Tim has made a career out of pursuing creativity and is passionate about helping others to pursue that path as well. His freelance career in composing video game music for indie game developers led to helping others learn music by teaching children how to play piano. He tau...

Sinikka Waugh and Laura Casale discuss 4 Things You Can Do to Advance in Your Career. Laura Casale is a Coach and Consultant in Learning and Leadership Development in the tech and financial services industries. She has held management and executive positions at IBM and New York Life Insurance Company. Laura has multiple coaching certifications including Career coaching, Integrative well-being, and...

Sinikka Waugh and Keisha Thompson discuss the 5 Simplified Joys.   I grew up on my family's century farm in rural Iowa. I'm an advocate for agriculture education, teaching about where food comes from and how to best care for land and livestock. I'm active in many volunteer agriculture and conservation groups and focused on sustainability. I want to make sure I leave this land better than when it b...

Sinikka Waugh, Jodi Rhone, and Andy Haning-Brown discuss 4 Reasons Values are Fundamental to Your Success. Jodi Rhone; Founding Partner Jodi co-founded Canary Consulting group with more than twenty years of experience in strategic planning, operations process improvement, and building a healthy workplace culture. She uses this experience to help nonprofit leaders expand their impact and operate mo...

Sinikka Waugh and Christine Samuel discuss 5 Ways to Bring Your Best Self to Work. Christine Samuel is a coach, trainer, and facilitator specializing in transformational change and inner work. She helps leaders, change-makers, and their teams cultivate their inner capacities so that they can bring their best selves in dealing with the increasingly complex and challenging environment. She assists c...

Sinikka Waugh and Scott Helmers discuss 5 Things I Learned in Musical Theater that Apply at Work. Scott Helmers is a business process consultant, app designer, and trainer with the Harvard Computing Group. He is a co-inventor of TaskMap, a Visio add-in that allows anyone to create data-rich, easy-to-read maps of any business process. For more than a decade Scott has been the best-selling author of...

Sinikka Waugh and Vicki Flaherty discuss 4 Ways to Connect with Others.   Vicki Flaherty creates and spreads joy in the world through one-on-one coaching to support individuals in being their best, facilitating mindfulness and resilience-related experiences, blogging about leadership and life, and capturing moments of joy through her photography, poetry, and art. She believes in being present in t...

Sinikka Waugh and Tracy Schuster discuss 5 Keys to Building Your Personal Productivity System. Tracy is the director of the Iowa Lean Consortium, a program of CIRAS at Iowa State University. She has worked with the consortium in various capacities since 2012 and become the director in May of 2020. The ILC is a dynamic, member-driven consortium dedicated to connecting member organizations to the re...

Sinikka Waugh and Helene Fein discuss 4 Things that I have Learned that are Most Important About Effectively Communicating and Coaching. Dr. Helene Fein is the Executive Director of the Iowa Literacy Council, a state association serving adult literacy professionals that are affiliated with COABE (Coalition on Adult Basic Education). Previously, Helene was the Data and Research Lead for United Way...

Sinikka Waugh and Joe Gonzalez discuss  5 Ways that Diversity Makes Us Better. Executive Director of Latino Resources Inc. Joe Gonzalez is a retired Lieutenant from the DM Police Department; he was hired as a Police Cadet in November of 1971. The program was started to recruit more minorities in the police department, he was promoted to Police Officer in January of 1975 and attended the Des Moines...

Sinikka Waugh and Matt Arnold discuss 4 Ways Human-Centered Design Can Help You and Your Customers. Matt Arnold serves as principal for services strategies and solutions at Brightidea, whose mission is to transform the way the world innovates. Matt has over 25 years of experience leading innovation and design projects with many of the world's top brands. Matt was the creator and host of The Iowa I...

Sinikka Waugh and Kristen Boldt discuss 5 Ways to Build Conscious Leadership. I don't like thinking of myself as a lawyer. We all know the adversarial stereotype that label conjures up (absolutely not me!). Even outside the stereotypes, a lawyer works for the good of one side. That isn't me either. My instinct always looks for the bigger picture, the story behind the story, and how all the differe...

Sinikka Waugh and April King discuss 5 Ways to Expand a Learning Mindset. I started my career during college in the retail space, which then led to a managerial role in the beauty industry.  Prior to my current company, I worked locally for a Global Beauty Brand as an Executive Director of Institute Development for Aveda schools in Iowa and Minnesota.  After 11 years in that role, I made a switch...

Sinikka Waugh and Damir Cavkusic discuss 5 Ways to Impact Through Inclusivity. My name is Damir Cavkusic, and I am a product engineer with John Deere in Waterloo, Iowa. I was born in the former Yugoslavia (currently Croatia) and came to the United States as a young child in 1997 as a refugee to escape the war and turmoil in the Balkans. Starting life over with next to nothing, I grew up as an only...

Sinikka Waugh and Kathy Towner discuss 3 Life Skills for Better Living... and Better Marketing! The evolution of an entrepreneur often makes a great story, one involving personal sacrifice, intense highs and lows, and the drive to grow and to contribute. It's the entrepreneur's story that drives Kathryn as a business owner herself, and as a website developer and digital marketer. Serving small bus...

Sinikka Waugh and Mel Worrel Johnson discuss 4 Questions to Ask to Help Get the Most of Your Assessments. Over her 20-year career, Melissa Worrel-Johnson has focused her efforts in leadership, talent development, and business strategy. Her diverse background includes entrepreneurial business start- ups as well as significant leadership roles in large corporations to now being a partner in Your Lea...