Working on Purpose

Transformational leadership casts a vision and empowers the team to realize it through inspired performance. Hugh Ballou works with non-profit and church leaders because he knows they often must work even harder to realize their vision, as they don’t have the power of the paycheck to push for performance. What keeps Hugh going is the profound difference those organizations make in our communities...

Transformational leadership casts a vision and empowers the team to realize it through inspired performance. Hugh Ballou works with non-profit and church leaders because he knows they often must work even harder to realize their vision, as they don’t have the power of the paycheck to push for performance. What keeps Hugh going is the profound difference those organizations make in our communities...

Transformational leadership casts a vision and empowers the team to realize it through inspired performance. Hugh Ballou works with non-profit and church leaders because he knows they often must work even harder to realize their vision, as they don’t have the power of the paycheck to push for performance. What keeps Hugh going is the profound difference those organizations make in our communities...

Entrepreneurs and innovators are a powerful force that have contributed tremendous value to the business world and communities they serve. Often fueled from great passion and emboldened by a team inspired by their vision, they have built great organizations and amassed impressive wealth. What these individuals do with all their money when they successfully exit their ventures has helped change the...

Entrepreneurs and innovators are a powerful force that have contributed tremendous value to the business world and communities they serve. Often fueled from great passion and emboldened by a team inspired by their vision, they have built great organizations and amassed impressive wealth. What these individuals do with all their money when they successfully exit their ventures has helped change the...

): Motivation is the driving force behind any action or lack thereof. And yet it is little understood beyond simple extrinsic and intrinsic types, and thus often lacking in opportunity to leverage inside many organizations. Imagine what would happen to your company’s results if you as a leader understood what detracts from each team member’s motivation and instead learned how to feed it. In this c...

): Motivation is the driving force behind any action or lack thereof. And yet it is little understood beyond simple extrinsic and intrinsic types, and thus often lacking in opportunity to leverage inside many organizations. Imagine what would happen to your company’s results if you as a leader understood what detracts from each team member’s motivation and instead learned how to feed it. In this c...

Motivation is the driving force behind any action or lack thereof. And yet it is little understood beyond simple extrinsic and intrinsic types, and thus often lacking in opportunity to leverage inside many organizations. Imagine if you as a leader understood what detracts from each team member’s motivation and instead learned how to feed it. In this conversation, Motivation Factor Institute founde...

Confronting change. Intentional growth and development. Gearing up for the next promotion. Transforming through crisis and the everyday. These are just some of the reasons people and organizations hire coaches. There are numerous approaches to developing people through coaching. In this episode, we discuss the narrative coaching approach in relation to integrative development to help create transf...

Confronting change. Intentional growth and development. Gearing up for the next promotion. Transforming through crisis and the everyday. These are just some of the reasons people and organizations hire coaches. There are numerous approaches to developing people through coaching. In this episode, we discuss the narrative coaching approach in relation to integrative development to help create transf...

Entrepreneurs and innovators are a powerful force that have contributed tremendous value to the business world and communities they serve. Often fueled from great passion and emboldened by a team inspired by their vision, they have built great organizations and amassed impressive wealth. What these individuals do with all their money when they successfully exit their ventures has helped change the...

Confronting change. Intentional growth and development. Gearing up for the next promotion. Transforming through crisis and the everyday. These are just some of the reasons people and organizations hire coaches. There are numerous approaches to developing people through coaching. In this episode, we discuss the narrative coaching approach in relation to integrative development to help create transf...

The pursuit to purpose is the pursuit to matter. If you want to find out how to be motivated, ask why. If you want to find your purpose, ask who. Purpose is about solving a problem for someone, and answers: Who am I, and who am I supposed to help? This is part of the Purpose Factor formula to unlock and apply purpose. Who needs happiness when fulfillment is available by helping others and growing...

The pursuit to purpose is the pursuit to matter. If you want to find out how to be motivated, ask why. If you want to find your purpose, ask who. Purpose is about solving a problem for someone, and answers: Who am I, and who am I supposed to help? This is part of the Purpose Factor formula to unlock and apply purpose. Who needs happiness when fulfillment is available by helping others and growing...

The pursuit to purpose is the pursuit to matter. If you want to find out how to be motivated, ask why. If you want to find your purpose, ask who. Purpose is about solving a problem for someone, and answers: Who am I, and who am I supposed to help? This is part of the Purpose Factor formula to unlock and apply purpose. Who needs happiness when fulfillment is available by helping others and growing...

Upon receiving a terminal diagnosis for his newborn daughter, Christian Kromme the technologist set out to learn everything he could about biology and nature to look for some way to save her. That journey would ultimately set her on a path to thriving in health, usher in the understanding that social and technology evolution mirrors that of nature, and newly emerge as a futurist. His optimistic me...

Upon receiving a terminal diagnosis for his newborn daughter, Christian Kromme the technologist set out to learn everything he could about biology and nature to look for some way to save her. That journey would ultimately set her on a path to thriving in health, usher in the understanding that social and technology evolution mirrors that of nature, and newly emerge as a futurist. His optimistic me...

Upon receiving a terminal diagnosis for his newborn daughter, Christian Kromme the technologist set out to learn everything he could about biology and nature to look for a way to save her. That journey would ultimately set her on a path to thriving, usher in the understanding that social and technology evolution mirror that of nature, and newly emerge as a futurist. His message is that humanity wi...

Whether you’re an established business owner or just starting out on the journey, Patrick Bet-David has some pearls of advice he’s learned as a very successful entrepreneur. An immigrant from Iran, he enthusiastically embraces the capitalistic opportunity available in America to anyone willing to work to realize their dreams. His own experience of founding a financial services marketing company at...

Whether you’re an established business owner or just starting out on the journey, Patrick Bet-David has some pearls of advice he’s learned as a very successful entrepreneur. An immigrant from Iran, he enthusiastically embraces the capitalistic opportunity available in America to anyone willing to work to realize their dreams. His own experience of founding a financial services marketing company at...

Whether you’re an established business owner or just starting out on the journey, Patrick Bet-David has some pearls of advice he’s learned as a very successful entrepreneur. An immigrant from Iran, he enthusiastically embraces the capitalistic opportunity available in America to anyone willing to work to realize their dreams. He shares what he's learned founding his financial services marketing co...

Mental health is in crisis in America. We are seeing double digit increases in anxiety, depression, and suicide. And yet available to us all is the opportunity for meaning and fulfillment through our work and being of service to others. Living our purpose releases positive chemicals that improve your physical health and your emotional outlook. But learning to tune into our own mental health can be...

Mental health is in crisis in America. We are seeing double digit increases in anxiety, depression, and suicide. And yet available to us all is the opportunity for meaning and fulfillment through our work and being of service to others. Living our purpose releases positive chemicals that improve your physical health and your emotional outlook. But learning to tune into our own mental health can be...

Mental health is in crisis in America. We are seeing double digit increases in anxiety, depression, and suicide. And yet available to us all is the opportunity for meaning and fulfillment through our work and being of service to others. Living our purpose releases positive chemicals that improve your physical health and your emotional outlook. But learning to tune into our own mental health can be...

Emotions are “energy in motion” and much more of a potent force in our lives than most people understand. When we leave them unexpressed, stuffed, unacknowledged, or numb them out, emotions have to go somewhere so lie in wait, latent, for the opportunity while often growing bigger and more intense. And then they can unexpectedly erupt in our interactions with others or even make us sick. Learning...