The Visibility Factor

127. The Power of Success Stories (with Dana Owens) Dana Owens is the founder of Next Level Copy, Inc. After more than two decades of writing copy in all of its many forms, Dana now specializes in her biggest copy passion: case studies. She conducts juicy client interviews and writes from a story-based approach to make the case studies she creates compelling, engaging, and highly effective at clos...

126. Design Your Life (with Melissa O’Hara) Melissa is an experienced business professional who is passionate about inspiring others. After a successful career in business and HR, she founded the O’Hara Solutions Group to help organizations solve complex problems. As an expert facilitator and coach, Melissa has a distinctive style and holistic approach to working with her clients. She helps them s...

125. Own Your Career: Stand Up, Show Up and Speak Up (with Lisa Gillette) Lisa Gillette is an equal pay activist, speaker, podcaster, and ICF certified women’s leadership coach. Before starting her own business, Lisa spent 25 years in Entertainment Media; the last 10 as an executive in Sports Television. Lisa’s company,  BIGSKY Coaching & Consulting is a natural extension of her desire to guid...

124. Being Undervalued In today’s episode, we are going to talk about how leaders can feel undervalued and what they can do about it. There are examples of leaders who have gone through the experience of feeling undervalued in this episode, so you can see where it may be happening for you without realizing it. It is important to build awareness of what your value is so you can share it with others...

123. Believe in Yourself to Achieve Success In today’s episode, we are going to talk about the importance of believing in yourself to achieve success. Believe in yourself. Trust that you have what it takes to achieve success and that you will figure out how to solve any challenges along the way. John Maxwell, author and leadership expert, shared, “You may succeed if nobody else believes in you, bu...

122. What Makes You Unique? This episode is about what makes you unique. Do you celebrate your uniqueness or hide it to fit in and conform? So many people are trying to be like everyone else, but that doesn’t help you stand out. Let’s talk about examples of how you can see your unique gifts as a strength instead! In this episode: Uniqueness is celebrated until someone gives an opinion that isn’t p...

121. Leading with Vulnerability This episode is about leadership vulnerability. I will share some of my own experiences of vulnerability, explain what vulnerability is, why it is important and why you should consider being a more vulnerable leader. In this episode: One of my first experiences seeing a senior leader be vulnerable. What I used to believe vulnerability was and how I started to implem...

120. It’s Not Burnout, It’s Betrayal (with Lora Cheadle) Lora Cheadle, JD, Cht is the founder and CEO of Life Choreography® Solutions and is a recognized expert on burnout, betrayal, and self-expression. Her passion is empowering women to define and express themselves authentically in any situation, so they can feel calm, confident, and resourceful inside, no matter what happens on the outside. Wh...

119. Where Are You Spending Your Time? Today’s episode is about where you spend your time each day. Are you spending it on things that are valuable and make an impact or on the easy things? Today I am going to share some of those insights with you and have you think about your time and how you spend it. In this episode: Is your calendar completely overloaded right now? You can do anything, but you...

118. Visibility in the Workplace Today’s episode is about being visible in the workplace. This episode can be very helpful for you if you are new to visibility, but it will also spark some new ideas for those who are familiar with visibility but may have lost focus on it. Being more visible simply requires intentional and consistent actions that people can see. They get to know you and your capabi...

117. Managing Up Managing up is managing the relationship with your boss — developing and cultivating a productive working relationship with your boss. It is an opportunity to learn your boss's management, leadership and communication styles and preferences. This, in turn, will help you learn about your own work and communication style preferences. Many people see this as a political game or an at...

116. Your Leadership Impact Leaders have a choice of how to spend their time each day but they have a hard time letting go of doing things that aren’t adding as much value. It comes down to looking at the impact that they are making. If they aren’t focused on the high value things, then they may need to build stronger boundaries and systems to get everything done but it allows them to spend time o...

115. Merging Money and Meaning in Business (with Bessi Graham) Bessi Graham is a Business and Leadership Strategist with over 20 years’ experience from the grassroots of sitting in the dirt working with business owners across the Pacific Islands through to the United Nations in Geneva. The ability to bridge the systemic and the practical is one of their superpowers! Bessi is CEO and Co-Founder of...

114. Inside the Visibility Factor RISE Process In today’s episode, we are talking about the RISE process from The Visibility Factor book, which is the four-step process used to help someone create their own visibility action plan. In this episode: How the RISE process was created. What does RISE stand for and how you can think about it. Review and explanation of the R step – Reflection. Review and...

113. Value Yourself In today’s episode, we are talking about valuing yourself. The internal belief that you know what you have to offer and standing up for it to anyone and everyone without apology. Every single day I meet with people who feel like they aren't enough. They have thoughts running through their heads that tell them other people are better, smarter and know more. They may recognize th...

112. Strategic Communication In today’s episode, we are going to talk about strategic communication. What I mean by that is the type of conversation where you are trying to influence someone to do something or align with you on what you want to do. However you need to plan this out strategically, you can’t just wing it if you want it to go well. Think about a few different things when you are plan...

111. What Are You Tolerating? On this episode we are talking about the things that you are tolerating, how it impacts your energy and your opportunities to do more in your career and life. To give you some context about what I mean, here are some examples of tolerations: things in your life or work environment that are irritating, people who don’t treat you right, and situations that frustrate you...

110. From Invisible to Visible (with Dr. Carrie Niederman) Dr. Carrie Niederman is an educator, speaker, entrepreneur, and equine veterinarian-turned-consultant changing the narrative for people who fall outside the lines of conventional medical diagnosis and treatments for certain chronic, long-term conditions. Carrie leverages her medical background as a clinical veterinarian, journey with a chr...

109. Do Good While Doing Well (with Marcia Dawood) Marcia Dawood, an influential early-stage investor and author of Do Good While Doing Well – Invest for Change, Reap Financial Rewards and Increase Your Happiness, is key in advancing support for diverse, impactful startups. With roles in the SEC’s Small Business Committee, Mindshift Capital, Golden Seeds, and as Chair Emeritus of the Angel Capital...

108. Letting Go to Embrace Something New Today’s episode is about letting go. We have opportunities to let go of things (and perhaps people) that don’t serve us anymore. We struggle with it because we grew up with messages that told us we need to make it work. Keep trying to make it work and if you don’t you are a failure. You should give it your best effort, but if it doesn’t work out, that is ok...

107. Acceptance is a Choice Today’s episode is about acceptance. In general, acceptance refers to the act of agreeing to or consenting to something. You can look at acceptance from multiple angles, but today we are going to focus on the acceptance of a situation, another person, and yourself. When change occurs, you have a choice. You can resist it and wish it wasn’t happening or you can choose ac...

106. Let’s Be Bold Today’s episode is about being bold. Do you remember when you were young and you jumped and ran all day long? You didn’t question whether you should do it, you just did it! You were bold and courageous. Somehow, we give away that gift of boldness as we grow older. We give away our power and become doubtful and fearful.  It isn’t one big situation that causes that to shift. It is...

105. It’s Time For Some Clarity In today’s episode, we are going to talk about the importance of clarity. I want to take this conversation into two directions. The first is from a perspective of a big decision that you may want to make and need clarity around before you share it with others. The second is how clarity helps to support you when talking about what your value is to others to create vi...

104. The Resilience Plan (with Dr. Marie-Helene Pelletier) Throughout her career in business management and psychology, Dr. Marie-Helene Pelletier (MH) has spearheaded a dialogue on the crucial issues of leadership resilience and workplace health. Drawing on her extensive background in corporate, insurance, governance and public sectors, she brings national and international perspectives and exper...

103. The Leader's Legacy (with Scott Burns) Scott Burns is a leadership development consultant and certified ICF executive coach with The Leader’s Legacy, LLC. He has worked with senior leaders for 30 years and held senior leadership roles for 22 years. He knows what it takes to make great leaders great and shares this with his coaching clients. Scott partners with organizations to design impactfu...