active CEO Podcast 107 Craig Johns Create Your Own MBA NRG2Perform Coaching Speaker

active CEO Podcast #107 Create Your OWN MBA

active CEO Podcast 107 Craig Johns Create Your Own MBA NRG2Perform Coaching Speaker

By Craig Johns

Create Your OWN MBA by building your own learning, collaboration & movement. Do you find you are learning little about a lot of things, but not a lot about things that make a difference?

How often do you find yourself scrolling through social media, glancing over emails, listening to random podcast episodes and skimming through LinkedIn or other articles? Are you actually drilling deep into areas or topics that you can really benefit from, and making them stick?

If you think about a speaker, musician, dancer, athlete, singer or even artist, they spend hours of deliberate practice honing their craft. Wouldn’t it be wise if you did the same for your career or enhancing your expertise?

Create Your OWN MBA

It’s time for you to build your own learning, collaboration & movement. Develop out a personal development plan. Your own personal MBA of how you will upgrade a skill or set of skills so you have the competency and confidence to be a thought leader, expert authority or just to advance your career or depth of knowledge. How can you self-knowledge , self-learn, self-understand and self-actualise?

You are probably thinking, how do I start to Create Your OWN MBA? Here are 5 steps you can take to create your own MBA:

  1. Checklist – Write down a list of skills you need to learn and why.
  2. Priorities – Prioritise which skills are most important for your new way of working, living or understanding  
  3. Plan – Develop a personal development plan of what, how, who and by when.
  4. Research – start reading articles and books, listening to podcasts or viewing videos that are specific to the skill or topic area you want to learn.
  5. Create – write an article, chapter blog; produce a podcast episode, record a video or even produce a series or talks.

Create Your OWN MBA

There are lots of opportunities to learn in this world, paid and free, if you don’t give yourself enough deliberate time, space and focus dedicated to learning something, then you want get the results you need to stand out from the crowd.

It all starts with a question. What do you want to solve, understand or interpret? How will you Create Your Own MBA? Are you ready to start?

Want To Learn More?

Check out the newly Breaking The CEO Code whitepaper. It provides an overview of Breaking The CEO Code and showcases the 6 key phases. We also go a little deeper into the 2nd phase PERFORMANCE, where we discuss the 3 P’s of the Leadership Performance Formula.

Breaking The CEO Code WhitepaperDownload

Resources Mentioned in this show:

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NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
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active CEO Podcast Craig Johns NRG2Perform 8 Ways To Own Your OWN Influence Breaking The CEO Code Leadership Performance

active CEO Podcast #91 8 Ways To OWN Your OWN Influence

active CEO Podcast Craig Johns NRG2Perform 8 Ways To Own Your OWN Influence Breaking The CEO Code Leadership Performance

Craig Johns talks about 8 Ways To OWN Your OWN Influence, the third phase of Breaking The CEO Code. OWN 8 teaches you eight ways you can own your own influence to enhance your performance and impact on the world.

8 Ways To OWN Your OWN Influence

The world is constantly challenging us through disruption, competing priorities and competition for our attention; therefore we must take control of our own story and influence.

Your have to own your own life and realize that life is not a dress rehearsal. How much of your life do you really own and take full responsibility for?

You are the sum total of your decisions. You own the choices that you make. To enable the shift you need it starts with creating your own world inspired through a process of performance by design.

8 Ways To OWN Your OWN Influence

  1. Own Your OWN FREEDOM
  2. Live Your OWN STORY
  3. Own Your OWN GRATITUDE
  4. Build Your OWN TRIBE
  5. Own Your OWN VULNERABILITY
  6. Be Your OWN CEO
  7. Own Your OWN SPACE
  8. Create Your OWN MBA

Check out the newly Breaking The CEO Code whitepaper. It provides an overview of Breaking The CEO Code and showcases the 6 key phases. We also go a little deeper into the 2nd phase PERFORMANCE, where we discuss the 3 P’s of the Leadership Performance Formula.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Subscribe to active CEO Podcast on Itunes
Craig Johns Keynote Speaker
active CEO Coaching
active CEO Podcast
Corporate Programs
Sport Performance
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn

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Abraham Kamarck Leadership Lessons From The Sky active CEO Podcast

active CEO Podcast #68 Abraham Kamarck Leadership Lessons From The Sky

Abraham Kamarck Leadership Lessons From The Sky active CEO Podcast
Abraham Kamarck – Founder True Made Foods

On this episode of the active CEO Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Abraham Kamarck about leadership lessons from the sky, being a Naval Aviator, transitioning from the Navy and how a dislike to ketchup led to creating True Made Foods. We also dive into air speed is life and altitude is life insurance, learning to say no, understanding the cultural environment you work in, and placing family at the core of the story.

Abraham Kamarck – Leadership Lessons From The Sky

Abraham Kamarck is a design thinking professional who makes cool products, starts movements and changes behaviour. He is a former Seahawk Helicopter pilot on counter-narcotics missions, business mentor and judge of the MIT Enterprise Forum of the Pan Arab Region. With a zest for launching multiple businesses in challenging environments, Abraham has lived and been an entrepreneur in more than ten countries including Bulgaria, Ghana, Jordan, Egypt and currently the USA.

Abraham has studied a BA East Asian Studies from Vanderbilt University and an MBA in Business Administration and General Management at the London Business School. His career commenced as a US Navy Naval Aviator and Division Chief for the US European Command, before moving out of Defence Forces to become an independent consultant, CEO of Viomel Limited, Director of Innovation Coexist Foundation, Principal of Maendeleo Ventures LLC and is currently the CEO and Founder of True Master Foods.

Abraham talks about:

  • Growing up in Washington DC and Brooklyn, with diverse cultures, people and food.
  • “Moderation in all things including moderation”
  • Being a fox and not a hedgehog.
  • Remain calm, composed and focused during very complex and high-pressure situations.
  • How to process a lot of information very quickly and get to the most important things first.
  • Aviate, navigate, communicate.
  • Prioritising information as a senior executive or an entrepreneur
  • You have got to realise what is going to kill you, and focus on it first.
  • The importance of having a “tool program”.
  • Not being prepared for transitioning out of the Navy.
  • The core for doing well in business as a start up is saying no!
  • Starting True Made Foods at 38 years old with four kids.
  • Being an entrepreneur and working with the culture in Qatar.
  • No one is really disrupting ketchup yet.
  • Will it pass the five year old test?
  • Why Amazon and e-commerce are valuable for start-ups.
  • The pro’s and con’s of having co-founders.
  • How to figure out that work life balance and get it right?

Active CEO Performance Tip

CEO Flow – It’s the psychological state that we need to get ourselves into where we have an out of body experience, because everything happens so effortlessly. If you’ve planned, prepared and you put yourself in a state where you feel like you are living what you are about to say, then you are more likely to get into that flow state. When you are in flow, everyone engages and connects with you.

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“The more people working for equity and not salary the better your company is going to do.” The importance of co-founders, with Abraham Kamarck, on the active CEO Podcast.

“A lot of my aviation training works well as an entrepreneur. In both cases you are basically trying not to die the whole time. You basically use the same strategies. How to process a lot of information very quickly and get to the most important things first? When you are falling out of the sky you don’t have time to spend time figuring out what is happening with the aircraft. You have to identify the problems immediately and fix or save yourself. ” Focusing on what will kill you first, with Abraham Kamarck, on the active CEO Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Abraham Kamarck LinkedIn
Abraham Kamarck Facebook
Abraham Kamarck Instagram
True Made Foods www.truemadefoods.com
True Made Foods Facebook
True Made Foods Instagram
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn

Mike DeNoma (KBZ Bank) Part #1 – Your Strengths are What Energise You

active CEO Podcast #8 Mike DeNoma Your Strengths Are What Energise You

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Mike DeNoma – CEO KBZ Bank

On this episode of the active CEO Podcast, Craig Johns and Ben Gathercole speak with Mike DeNoma, getting a fascinating insight into a driven leader, someone with a huge amount of resilience who is inspired to take on the world’s toughest endurance challenges to raise funds for very important charities. We delve into ambition, flying a plane through clouds, the difference between a written and a presentation culture, leading in different cultures, creating a higher purpose, understanding that your strengths are what energise you, and what drives Mike DeNoma to get out of bed every day.

Mike DeNoma

We have the pleasure of bringing you a highly motivated, exceptionally organised and a passionate leader. Mike DeNoma has held senior executive roles across the globe, including managing multinational teams across North America, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Over the past 20 years he has led large teams in the emerging markets banking sector with CEO and Leadership roles in CitiBank Singapore, Taiwan’s Chinatrust Commercial Bank, Standard Chartered Bank Singapore, and his current role at KBZ Bank in Myanmar. Awarded Global Retail Banker of the Year in 2008, he has also held senior roles in well-respected companies such as GLH Hotels, PepsiCo, Proctor and Gamble, and Asia Foods Limited. It is a highly entertaining, thought-provoking and insightful chat. Enjoy listening to the show.

Mike talks about:

  • Writing a letter that led to working in the Amazon jungle with Billionaire Daniel Ludwig
  • Having three careers at Proctor & Gamble
  • Taking a leave of absence from the Wharton Business School
  • Ambition – “the spark that makes you challenge your destiny at any point in your life”
  • Why he thought business world was like altitude when he first started
  • The differences between the working cultures at Proctor & Gamble and Pepsi Co.
  • The pro’s and con’s of a written versus a presentation culture.
  • A brilliant concept during a performance review at Pepsi Co.
  • Most employees are much tougher on their own performance than you are as a CEO
  • Cultures are more similar, than different, across the world
  • The need to work for a company that has a heart, that I believe in and generally has good intentions.
  • Making Grandma dance at Standard Chartered bank
  • The dynamics of transformation when working with wealthy family owned businesses.
  • Once the organisation has transformed, then you need to realise that the family is the CEO.
  • Why Mike likes to mobilise thousands of people
  • Why sponsoring the Singapore Marathon and Ironman events was important
  • Your strengths are what energise you
  • The power of the Gallup Cliftonstrengths finder to mobilise your team, understand what each others strengths are, and how they compliment each other and determine where the gaps are.
  • Powerful way to use it, is to take the team and you do the profile of all the strengths and then figure out where are the gaps
  • What Mike’s strengths are and how he uses them to lead every day
  • Why Mike likes challenges that require 10,000 people to step to the left and create an earthquake

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“I like challenges that require 10,000 people to step to the left and create an earthquake.” with Mike DeNoma. You can listen here

“Ambition, the spark that makes you challenge your destiny at any point in your life”. Listen to Mike DeNoma on the active CEO Podcast

“Your strengths are what energise you”. Leadership by strengths, with Mike DeNoma on the active CEO Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Mike DeNoma LinkedIn

www.kbzbank.com

www.gallupstrengthscenter.com

www.pepsico.com

https://us.pg.com

www.sc.com

www.ironman.com

https://singaporemarathon.com

www.wharton.upenn.edu

www.citibank.com

www.ctbcbank.com

www.nrg2perform.com

craig@nrg2perform.com

www.linkedin.com/in/ceo-corporate-wellness-perform

Recommended Reading:

Better Than Winning – Ben’s best selling book

www.nrg2perform.com/portfolio/book

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#6 – Indiran Padayachee (RentCorp) – Winning Only Matters link
#5 – Suzie Hoitink (Clear Complexions) – Enemy of a Great Life is a Good One link
#4 – Rene Zondag (PBI) – People Are Our Greatest Asset link
#3 – Anne Gripper (NSW Office of Sport) – 6 C’s of Leadership link 
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#1 – active CEO Intro (NRG2Perform) Part 1 link