Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #202 Mitchell Levy Credibility Nation Or Dubious Nation

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #202 Mitchell Levy Credibility Nation Or Dubious Nation

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #202 Mitchell Levy Credibility Nation Or Dubious Nation

Credibility Nation Or Dubious Nation

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Mitchell Levy about Credibility Nation Or Dubious Nation, servant leadership and vulnerability as a leader.

We also dive deeper into the values that make up credibility, caring about others as a human being and as a leader, and the strategies that leaders can adopt to build successful ecosystems.

Mitchell Levy  – Credibility Nation Or Dubious Nation

Mitchell Levy is a Global Credibility Expert, 2x international TEDx speaker, an international bestselling author with over 60 books under his belt, and a Certified Stakeholder Centered Coach. He’s earned a place among the world’s Top 200 Leadership Voices by LeadersHum, and as the #1 Thought Leader in Ecosystems and Top 100 Thought Leader Overall by Thinkers360.

With a wealth of professional experience, he served on the board of a NASDAQ firm, started 20 professional service companies in Silicon Valley, and founded four executive business programs and conferences during the dot.com days.

Mitchell talks about:

  • Taking roads less traveled and not always going in the direction that everyone else takes
  • Credibility Nation Or Dubious Nation
  • The value of the company is the sum of the parts
  • Building trust and credibility
  • Servant leadership and vulnerability as a leader
  • The traits of a servant leader
  • The values that make up credibility
  • Vulnerability, authenticity, integrity, and coaching ability
  • Being a compassionate human being, more transparent, being more understood
  • “It’s lonely at the top.”
  • Caring about others as a human being and as a leader
  • Napoleon Hill journey
  • Strategies that leaders can adopt to build successful ecosystems
  • Internal versus external credibility

Tweets

“I love the word trust and what that means. And to me, when I think about the word credibility, I’m going to say credibility is the quality in which you are trusted, known, and liked.” Trust and credibility with Mitchell Levy on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

“You can’t be a servant leader to others unless you at least properly serve yourself. You can’t be credible to others unless you’re credible to yourself. The servant leader who only gives and never receives, that’s not a good way to live life either.” Mitchell Levy on servant leadership on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“If you care about somebody, if you truly see them, you find a way where they can see where they really want to go, not just where they say they want to go, but where they really want to go.” Being a caring leader with Mitchell Levy on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Mitchell Levy www.mitchelllevy.com
Mitchell Levy LinkedIn
Mitchell Levy Facebook
Mitchell Levy TikTok
Mitchell Levy Youtube
Mitchell Levy X (Twitter) 
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn
Craig Johns Facebook
Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com

Book

CREDIBILITY NATION

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #197 Vanessa Vershaw Unreasonable Ambition

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #197 Vanessa Vershaw Unreasonable Ambition

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #197 Vanessa Vershaw Unreasonable Ambition

Unreasonable Ambition

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Vanessa Vershaw about Unreasonable Ambition, having a strong self-concept and empathy vs. compassion as a leader.

We also dive deeper into building an empathetic skillset and a compassionate organisation, creating a deeper sense and connection within teams, and nurturing rising talent.

Vanessa Vershaw  – Unreasonable Ambition

Vanessa Vershaw is the CEO and Founder of Reinvention Consulting Group and the author of the book Unreasonable Ambition, winner of the 2022 Momentum Trail-blazer Award, and an award-winning Australian Organisational Psychologist for ASX 20 & Fortune 100 companies globally.

She is a graduate of the University of Western Australia, Murdoc University and Curtin University where she took Modern Languages & Theater, Law, and Psychology. A former journalist with ABC, Vanessa’s expertise has gained recognition through publications in The Australian Financial Review, The Diplomat magazine, and other esteemed platforms. 

Vanessa talks about:

  • Wanting to serve people at an early age and becoming an organisational psychologist
  • Being strong with her views and being a natural leader
  • Unreasonable Ambition
  • Embracing your true self
  • Going into journalism and leaving and going into Psychology
  • Empathy vs. Compassion as a leader
  • Building empathic skills as a leader
  • A compassionate organisation achieves collective resilience
  • Building a shared purpose and meaning in an organisation
  • A deeper sense of connection and belonging in an organisation
  • The great resignation
  • The mirroring technique in executive coaching
  • Nurturing rising talents and giving real time feedback
  • Real transformation happens when we’re not in charge
  • Choosing the road less travelled

Tweets

“It’s not about having an ego. It’s about having a very strong self-concept. And that’s difference. The strong self-concept is I know who I am, warts and all. I’ve got great self-awareness. I know what I can do and I know what I can do right from a skills perspective. And it gives perspective.” Having a strong self-concept with Vanessa Vershaw on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“How could you afford not to be anybody other than yourself? And that’s really the lessons that I roll through, through my own experiences.” Vanessa Vershaw on embracing her true self on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“We’re actually creating an organisation where it’s not a team of people, but it’s almost a tribe of people where we are connected deeply through purpose and belonging and why compassion is really important. It’s because a compassionate organisation is the one that’s able to achieve collective resilience.” Having compassion as a leader with Vanessa Vershaw on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Vanessa Vershaw www.reinventionconsulting.com.au
Vanessa Vershaw LinkedIn
Vanessa Vershaw Instagram
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn
Craig Johns Facebook
Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com

Book

Unreasonable Ambition: Renegade thinking for leaders to create impossible change

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #196 Richard Triggs The Hidden Job Market

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #196 Richard Triggs The Hidden Job Market

The Hidden Job Market

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Richard Triggs about Uncover The Hidden Job Market, executive search and recruitment, and the shifts in the modern job market.

We also dive deeper into talent hiring and retention, the need to navigate through modern changes and landscape shifts, and the role of human connection in recruitment.

Richard Triggs  – The Hidden Job Market

Richard Triggs is the Founder and CEO of Arete Executive and The Boardroom, where he specializes in executive recruitment. He is also the host of the Arete Podcast and a best-selling author of the book, Uncover the Hidden Job Market.

Educationally, our Richard holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Griffith University and a Masters in Business Administration from Queensland University of Technology. He is highly regarded as a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and an active member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Throughout his impressive career, he has held key roles such as Regional and National Manager at P&O Services, Spotless, and Biniris, before transitioning into the world of executive search and recruitment.

Richard talks about:

  • Moving to Australia from California as a child – loving music, being in a band, and wanting to be a rock star
  • How his love for music and being in a band influenced his role in executive search
  • Being in a band is very much like being in a sporting team
  • Being a reluctant leader during his formative years
  • Innovative things that he does in the executive recruitment world
  • Uncover the Hidden Job Market
  • COVID-19 and the shifts in the job market
  • Getting in front of your employers of choice before they know that they need you
  • The great resignation
  • “The candidate is the commodity” mindset of a lot of organizations
  • Employees living in a completely different landscape at present times
  • Employers needing to navigate through modern changes and landscape shifts
  • Talents looking for something that gives them more fulfillment and more value
  • Workplace being the centerpiece of people’s social world
  • Internal vs. External hiring
  • AI replacing people

Tweets

“There’s no war for talent. If you’re a great employer and you can offer meaningful work that is exciting and well remunerated and they have the opportunity to work with dynamic and inspiring leaders, you will get people.” Hiring top talent with Richard Triggs on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

“My philosophy is that if I’m happy and helpful, the world will look after me or the universe will look after me. So I’ve looked at ways of how can I support both the employer and the executive to get great outcomes in a way that is not expensive.” Uncovering the hidden job market with Richard Triggs on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“Across a whole variety of roles that require, whether it be sales or human resources or any kind of frontline activity, people still need to understand that their ability to connect and to communicate and to have empathy and  to be happy and helpful can’t be replaced by AI.” Richard Triggs on recruitment and AI on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Richard Triggs www.areteexecutive.com.au
Richard Triggs LinkedIn
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn
Craig Johns Facebook
Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com

Book

Uncover The Hidden Job Market: How to Find and Win Your Next Senior Executive Role https://www.amazon.com/Uncover-Hidden-Job-Market-executive/dp/0994218796

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #194 Kobi Simmat Build A Business

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #194 Kobi Simmat Build A Business

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #194 Kobi Simmat Build A Business

Build A Business

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Kobi Simmat about How to Build a Business That Others Want to Buy, the five M’s that make or break a business and expanding your business by investing in your people.

We also dive deeper into the importance of getting mentorship and coaching in growing professionally, setting up a service focussed business, and creating a safe space for the people in your business.

Kobi Simmat – Build A Business

Kobi Simmat is the brilliant mind behind Best Practice Biz, host of the Infinite Business Summit, and the author of the renowned book titled “How to Build a Business That Others Want to Buy.” 

His educational background includes a Bachelor of Applied Science earned from Western Sydney University and he holds certifications in various fields such as business, strategy, consulting, and marketing, demonstrating his breadth of knowledge and expertise. He is the founder of Simmat Consulting, Bestpractice.biz, Nextpractice, Kobisimmat.com, and The Talking Business Podcast. Additionally, he serves as the Editor in Chief for Infinite Magazine, further solidifying his influential presence in the business world.

Kobi also served as the former President of the Australian Open Skiff Association, showcasing his leadership skills both on and off the water. As a specialist in business certification, he has dedicated his efforts to ensuring excellence in the field. Moreover, he takes great pride in being a loving father, and his life has been greatly influenced by the legendary entrepreneur, Dick Smith.

Kobi talks about:

  • Struggling in school and wanting to be self-sufficient and working at an early age
  • Views and insights on the education system and how he developed an entrepreneurial mindset
  • Getting mentored and inspired by Karen Pinney and Dick Smith
  • Building a recurring revenue business
  • Getting better at finding the right people and growing a team and business
  • Having a mindset shift, maturity in understanding processes, and hiring coaches and high-performance professionals to help him grow professionally
  • How can people set up a more of a service focussed business
  • Scaling a business by empowering and upskilling your employees
  • Allowing your people to make mistakes and creating a safe space for them to grow
  • How to Build a Business That Others Want to Buy
  • The beauty of entrepreneurship
  • The five M’s that make or break a business

Tweets

“I think it was definitely a mindset shift and a maturity of understanding processes. But there’s one other thing. I’ve always had mentors. I’ve always paid a coach and high-performance professionals to help me, whether it’s a legal team or an accountant.” Kobi Simmat on what helped him run and grow his business and leadership on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“You’re focusing on the customer and then what incredible benefits can we as a team give to the customer? If you keep saying to yourself, what incredible benefit do I give to the customer, I look after the customer. It’s a mindset shift first and foremost. Then it’s about saying, can that customer get that incredible benefit in my absence?” Better customer service and scaling a business with Kobi Simmat on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

“Your job as the leader is to be setting up a really safe environment for people to get experience and knowing the mistakes that you make and by making the mistakes, you learn to avoid them. The safer you can make that mistake-making exercise for your people and the faster you can do that, the faster they’re going to grow.” Creating a safe environment for your people to grow with Kobi Simmat on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Kobi Simmat www.kobisimmat.com
Kobi Simmat LinkedIn
Kobi Simmat Facebook
Kobi Simmat Instagram
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn
Craig Johns Facebook
Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com

Book How to Build a Business That Others Want to Buy

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #174 Warren Tate Power Of Business Storytelling

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #174 Warren Tate Power Of Business Storytelling

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #174 Warren Tate Power Of Business Storytelling

Power of Business Storytelling

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Warren Tate about the Power of Business Storytelling, empathy in leadership, painting a picture of the future and visualising data through story.

We also dive deep into hyperpersonalisation, real estate, looking after your health and wellbeing, and the ability to speak clarity, conciseness and conviction. 

Warren Tate Power of Business Storytelling

Warren Tate  is the author of the best-selling book “I Get You”, a certified speaking coach and has facilitated over 1,500 corporate workshops worldwide with some of the biggest brands on the planet. He is a professional speaker, Auctioneer and a Celebrant, known for his humour and ability to tell compelling stories, and is passionate about Communication can Change your Destination.

His career has included roles as a State Manager, Franchise Director & Sales Coach and Auctioneer in the real estate industry with companies such as Century21, Hodges, RUN Property and Raine & Horne Group. Most recently he is a Communication & Presentation Coach, Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Business Coach for Compass Sales Management, Speakers Institute Corporate and Speakers Institute. 

Warren talks about:

  • His childhood and having a hole in his heart
  • Falling in love with sales
  • How Sam Cawthorn has been an influential role model
  • Shifting your mindset
  • Working in Westpac Bank as a bank teller
  • Information age to curation age
  • Using simple language as a superpower
  • Power of Business Storytelling
  • Painting a picture using storytelling
  • Transforming data for understanding through storytelling
  • The connection love drug
  • Difference of a case study and a story
  • Believing in your own personal story as a leader
  • Power of breathing
  • Importance of the Power of Pause
  • The Big Bang Opportunity
  • Going into real estate
  • Empathetic leadership
  • The balance between hyperpersonalisation and hypercollectivism
  • Mental, physical and overall self-care 

Tweets

“We’ve moved from the information age to the curation age – who can get that information simplified enough that it lands with the audience and they take something away without needing to spend too much brain power and too much time to be able to understand what it is that you’re trying to share.” Curating content for the audience with Warren Tate on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

“The best communicators are the ones that simplify down to simple language and to an average 12 year old age understanding.” Keep it simple with Warren Tate on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

“When you get that empathy side working well with your entire team, that takes leadership to the next level” Warren Tate discusses empathy and leadership on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Warren Tate https://www.warrentate.global/ 
Warren Tate Linkedin
Warren Tate Facebook
Warren Tate Instagram
Warren Tate Tiktok
Warren Tate Youtube
Speakers Institute www.speakersinstitute.com 
Speakers Institute Corporate www.speakersinstitutecorporate.com
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn
Craig Johns Facebook
Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com

Recommended Reading:I Get You! Book

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #168 Rebecca Maklad Leadership & the DNA of Purpose

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #168 Rebecca Maklad Leadership & the DNA of Purpose

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #168 Rebecca Maklad Leadership & the DNA of Purpose

Leadership & the DNA of Purpose

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Rebecca Maklad on Leadership & the DNA of Purpose, Chakra Intelligence, and being a Thought Leader and Speaker on the DNA of Purpose.

We also dive into epigenetics, Future Crunch and the world of keynote speaking and influence. 

Rebecca Maklad – Leadership & the DNA of Purpose

Rebecca Maklad is residing in Sydney, Australia, our guest has an acute eye for talent, a natural ability to empower people to rise up and stand tall, and share their voice, lives and breathes changing the story of the human race in the 21st Century, and is curious about the DNA of Purpose.

She has Diploma of Media & Communications from the Sydney Institute of Business & Technology, a certificate 3 in Counselling and is a Board Member of Project Gen X and Hark Angel Foundation. 

Her career has included Event and Sales roles in Sports TV, Partnerships & Marketing management at ODE Management, CEO & Director of Future Crunch and a former 2SM radio announcer, Founder of Chakra Intelligence, Thought Leader and Speaker on the DNA of Purpose.

Rebecca talks about:

  • What is the most purpose driven leadership in the last month?
  • Living and embodying your purpose
  • We are not taught to listen
  • The Greatest influence in her life is Nature
  • Characteristic of her dad that shaped her
  • Leadership & the DNA of Purpose
  • Believed that an organization can’t have a purpose
  • You are born with your purpose
  • Purpose is an Energy in motion
  • Our Purpose is like our DNA
  • Epigenetic Factors
  • View Purpose as way of being and embodiment
  • Purpose will ask us to disrupt the status quo
  • The Chakra System and Chakra Dance
  • Having a good Methodology to expand as a Leader

Tweets

“The question is not how I find my purpose, the question is how do I start embodying who I am.” Rebecca Maklad talking about Purpose on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“Purpose is an energy in motion.” Taking a different perspective on Purpose with Rebecca Maklad on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“So the Idea is that our purpose is like DNA, it is a unique blueprint, it is innate to who we are, it is not something that we wait for and it is not something that we leave.” The Purpose of DNA with Rebecca Maklad on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Rebecca Maklad www.rebeccamaklad.com 
Rebecca Maklad LinkedIn
Rebecca Maklad Facebook
Rebecca Maklad Instagram
Future Crunch: www.futurecrun.ch
Speakers Institute Corporate www.speakersinstitutecorporate.com
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-johns-active-ceo-nz
Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com

Recommended Podcast:

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Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast Dr. Barbara Dalle Pezze

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #166 Dr Barbara Dalle Pezze The Unexpected Gift

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast Dr. Barbara Dalle Pezze

The Unexpected Gift

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Dr. Barbara Dalle Pezze about The Unexpected Gift and dive deep into the inner work of leadership and cross-cultural diversity.

We also talk about conscious leadership, the importance of radical leadership, and gender and inter-generational collaboration.

Dr. Barbara Dalle Pezze The Unexpected Gift

Dr. Barbara Dalle Pezze is an internationally recognized generative coach, leadership development expert, divorce specialist and author of Essays on Boredom and Modernity and recently launched The Unexpected Gift.

With 18 years of global experience living and working in China, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, Europe and The USA her cross-cultural communication and effective relationship building experience gives her a distinctive perspective on personal, interpersonal and group dynamics.

She holds a Ph.D. in Ontology from The University of Hong Kong, a Masters in Counseling (CBT) from Monash University (Australia), and a Postgraduate Certificate in Human Resources Management and Organization from LUISS Business School, (Italy). 

Co-Founder and Scientific Director of the Renaissance Experience LLC, John Mattone Global Inc certified coach and master trainer who is known to combine incredible intellect, heart, passion and instinct.

Dr. Barbara talks about:

  • Reinvent Globally by the way we live, the way we connect and the way we interact
  • Our life is so much more than we can see and imagine
  • Curiosity of what was different through each country she lived in
  • Philosophy taught her to explore
  • The Unexpected Gift 
  • 2 Options in front of diversity
  • Leaders need to be conscious of diversity
  • Needs to learn about the other person’s frame of reference
  • An element to be aware of diversity is ‘HUMILITY’
  • Managing conflict with a capacity for conflict
  • Catalyst of writing “The Unexpected Gift”
  • 7 steps going through a traumatic experience
  • Having radical friends that will help you
  • Being open to idea of mentors and role models
  • What is an Inspiring Great Leader?

Tweets

“It is the experience of being stretched of what you would consider and go beyond not only your imagination but the zone your imagination might get you.” Talking about The Unexpected Gift, with Dr Barbara Dalle Pezze, on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“I realized that no matter how much you pay attention to what’s going on, how much energy and effort you put on what you think is the right way, you are always limited in the way you understand the world” Dr Babara Dalle Pezze takes on a journey of how we see the world, on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“Having a mindset that it is an abundance mindset, that it is focused on success and it is an optimistic mindset, it is a mindset that see possibilities”The mindset of possibilities, with Dr Barbara Dalle Pezze, on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Dr. Barbara Dalle Pezze LinkedIn
Dr. Barbara Dalle Pezze Facebook
Dr. Barbara Dalle Pezze www.barbaradallepezze.com
Speakers Institute Corporate www.speakersinstitutecorporate.com
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn

Recommended Reading:

THE UNEXPECTED GIFT: Emerging Anew After The Unthinkable Book

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #165 Simon Severino Business Resilience With Strategy Sprints

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #165 Simon Severino Business Resilience With Strategy Sprints

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #165 Simon Severino Business Resilience With Strategy Sprints

Business Resilience With Strategy Sprints

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Simon Severino about business resilience with strategy sprints, entrepreneurs are forces of nature, developing reliable revenue systems and the future of blockchain technology. 

We also dive into ways to accelerate growth for an agile business, closing B2B business in 14 days, transferring what he learnt in triathlons to business dashboards, developing an avatar of high energy clients and what would the best father do at this time in the moment? 

Simon Severino – Business Resilience With Strategy Sprints 

Simon Severino is the CEO of Strategy Sprints, where they help entrepreneurs scale their online business to secure business resilience and repeatable revenues. He is the host of the Strategy Sprints podcast, a keynote speaker in agile strategy and sales, TEDx speaker and leader of a global team of coaches. 

From Rome, Italy he has studied Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Vienna and innovation of products and services at MIT Sloan School of Management. Simon is the author of Strategy Sprints and Habits of Success, writes for Forbes and Entrepreneur magazines about scaling digital businesses, and is a member of Silicon Valley Blockchain Society. 

Simon talks about: 

  • Entrepreneurs are forces of nature. 
  • Creativeness of entrepreneurship is part science & part art. 
  • Wanting to be a crazy explorer and adventurer. 
  • Fascination with AI, robotics and blockchain. 
  • The impact of Socrates, Jim Morrison and Bob Dylan on his life. 
  • From management consultant to expert at go to market strategy plan.  
  • Developing reliable revenue systems. 
  • Increase frequency by shortening the sales process to 3-6 weeks.  
  • Closing faster online with awareness to closing in 14 days. 
  • Relationship building sequence and business resilience. 
  • Daily and monthly business reflections 
  • Are we moving in the right direction at the right time?  
  • Setting criteria to establish successful high value clients  
  • A filter system between marketing & sales department. 
  • The importance of being genuinely curious about the person.  
  • From listening to intentionally commercial teaching.  
  • Blockchain technology is the most relevant thing happening on the planet right now.  
  • Good regulation will bring order and health into the Blockchain system. 
  • Launch of his new book Strategy Sprints 

Tweets 

“Entrepreneurs are forces of nature. They create something out of nothing. They find problems in the world. They are frustrated by something. Why do I have to wait so long for something?” The uniqueness of entrepreneurs, with Simon Severino, on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

Resources Mentioned in this show: 

Strategy Sprints http://www.strategysprints.com/ 
Simon Severino Twitter 
Simon Severino LinkedIn 
Simon Severino Facebook 
Strategy Sprints Instagram 
Speakers Institute Corporate www.speakersinstitutecorporate.com 
Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au 
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com 
Craig Johns LinkedIn 

Recommended Reading: 

Strategy Sprints: 12 Ways to Accelerate Growth for an Agile Book
Habits of Success: What Top Entrepreneurs Routinely Do in Business and in Life Book

Dane Jensen The Power Of Pressure Inspiring Great Leaders

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #163 Dane Jensen The Power Of Pressure

Dane Jensen The Power Of Pressure Inspiring Great Leaders

THE POWER OF PRESSURE

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Dane Jensen about The Power of Pressure, why pressure isn’t the problem it’s the solution, high stakes pressure moments and being pressure ambidextrous. 

We also delve into leading ourselves before others, how to navigate pressure for the long-haul, what happens when pressure builds, the discipline of active awareness of pressure and the unconscious competency of being in a flow state. 

Dane Jensen – The Power Of Pressure 

Dane Jensen is the CEO of Third Factor, where they study the science of performance from the sports field to the Board room and help leaders be more effective, creative and resilient under pressure. Dane loves disarming your biggest pressures, is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review, and a former Monitor Deloitte employee who lives in Toronto Canada with his wife and three children 

He is an instructor at the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University and is affiliate faculty with the UNC Executive Development at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In his work at Third Factor he has had exposure to thousands of high performers—from Olympic gold medallists to Navy SEALs, politicians, executives and busy parents, which has led to his newly released book, The Power of Pressure. 

Dane talks about: 

  • The high-pressure parent moment that made his heart stop. 
  • Why pressure isn’t the problem it’s the solution. 
  • The pressure equation and how to use them for a positive outcome.  
  • Is pressure just an internal thing? 
  • Pressure is in the response to a situation. 
  • What happens to our body under pressure? 
  • The Power Of Pressure.
  • Differences in short term peak pressure vs long-term pressure. 
  • Flow and unconscious competence. 
  • The differences in pressure between business leaders, NAVY Seals and Olympic athletes in how they utilise pressure to increase their performance. 
  • Pressure follows patterns and develops in predictable ways. 
  • How we can power through “peak pressure moments”? 
  • Nailing the peak pressure moments that can make or break a big sale, a crucial meeting, or define a career. 
  • The importance of collaboration and communication in successful leadership.
  • The ability to be less like a thermometer and more like a thermostat. 

Tweets 

“We don’t get performance without pressure.” Talking about The Power Of Pressure with Dane Jensen on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

“The amount of uncertainty we can tolerate is related to the importance we place on something.” Dane Jensen talks about the Power of Pressure, on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.  

Resources Mentioned in this show: 

Dane Jensen https://danejensen.com/  
Dane Jensen LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danejensen/  
Dane Jensen Twitter https://twitter.com/danejensen  
Third Factor https://www.thirdfactor.com/  
Inspiring Gr”eat Leaders Podcast
Speakers Institute Corporate www.speakersinstitutecorporate.com 
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au 
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com 
Craig Johns LinkedIn 

Recommended Viewing: 

The Power of Pressure Book

active CEO Podcast #154 Michelle Gibbings I've Got A Bad Boss

active CEO Podcast #154 Michelle Gibbings I’ve Got A Bad Boss

active CEO Podcast #154 Michelle Gibbings I've Got A Bad Boss

On this episode of the active CEO Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Michelle Gibbings about I’ve got a bad boss, building strong relationships, learning the language of business and stepping into conversations you need to have.

We also delve into influencing other people’s behaviours through our own behaviour, future proofing your career and finding the courage you need to have the real conversations.

Michelle Gibbings – I’ve Got A Bad Boss

Michelle is a workplace expert, global keynote speaker on leadership, and bestselling author of Bad Boss, step up, career leap and get career fit. She is the founder and managing director at Change Meridian, certified dare to lead facilitator, curious about bad bosses and famous for getting you ready for tomorrow, today.

Her education includes a Bachelor of Business Communications, PR and Government from Queensland University of Technology, Diploma of Management from Swinbourne University Technology, and a Masters of International Trade in Diplomacy from Monash University. Our guest has an esteemed career including Press Secretary and Public Policy Advisor for Federal Member of Parliament, Communications Manager at Mt Isa Mines, various senior management roles at ANZ and NAB Banks, and transformation management office and change director at AMP.

Michelle talks about

  • Stepping into other person’s shoes.
  • If people didn’t like me, it didn’t matter.
  • A relentless drive and energy.
  • Don’t listen to what other people say about you.
  • Coping with cultural changes in a company.
  • People not stepping into the conversations that they need to have.
  • Creating an environment your team will thrive in.
  • We all influence others by what we do.
  • The courage you need to have a conversation.
  • You cant future proof your job, but you can future proof your career.
  • What you can do to reshape your career.
  • You can’t divorce your career from your personal life.
  • How to fix the relationship dynamic.
  • What to do when I’ve Got A Bad Boss.
  • Creating psychological safety so people speak up.
  • Let my team know my weaknesses are.
  • What am I going to do to close the gap?
  • The unwillingness to listen to people to people they disagree with.
  • I need to be free to be me.

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“Why do I think they are behaving like that? What’s the pressure that they are experiencing, what is happening in the organisational system that could be challenging them, could be prompting them to think, process and act in a certain way?” Michelle Gibbings talks about improving leadership and managing Bad Bosses, on the active CEO Podcast.

“No one is going to remember the work that you did, the only thing they will remember is how you made them feel and what you’ve done to help them progress in their career.” The real impact you have as a leader with Michelle Gibbings, on the active CEO Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Michelle Gibbings www.michellegibbings.com
Michelle Gibbings LinkedIn
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Speakers Institute Corporate www.speakersinstitutecorporate.com
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
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Recommended Reading:

Bad Boss Book
Get Career Fit Book
Career Leap Book
Step Up Book