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Guests: Alicia Silva, Gabriela Villa & Annabel Membrillo

Revitaliza is a woman owned green building company in Mexico committed to improving the world and the lives of their employees and clients based on their services and the company culture they have created. Also embedded in their culture is empowerment of women. Revitaliza and its owner are are truly “positive deviants” and a shining example of a company making a positive impact and making money. During the interview they talk about how they are shifting agreements within their company and the impact this has on their employees, their process efficiency and their external stakeholders. • How do you use the focus on agreements to build your culture and drive successful performance? • What are some of the agreements you have put into place? • Talk about how you are shifting agreements within the company and the impact this has on their employees, their process efficiency and their external stakeholders.

Guest: Scott Caine

Scott talks about the value of nonprofit board membership in leadership development, ideas for securing board roles and nonprofit board participation foundational information.
He answers the following questions:
1. What does it mean to serve on a board? Give us an example of the range of activities involved?
2. When you think about high-functioning boards what are one to two things that distinguish them?
3. How do you select a board in which to participate?
5. What are some must know topics for board participation?
5. What are the benefits to the leader and the community when they chose to serve on a board?

Guests: Jim Ritchie-Dunham, Annabel Membrillo & Ana Claudia Goncalves

Jim Ritchie-Dunham, Annabel Membrillo and Ana Claudia Goncalves discuss Organizational Vibrancy. This body of work is making a great impact in entire organizations and in pockets of organizations around the world.  It has helped them identify where they excel and what gets in the way of their teams bringing about the innovative solutions they say they want and need to have a thriving organization. Questions to be discussed: 1. What is vibrancy? 2. How do agreements fit into this equation? 3. As the CEO of an international organization – what question were you looking to answer when you starting considering assessments? 4. Why the vibrancy assessment? 5. What value did you get? 6. What were the leadership qualities required to successfully implement the changes recommended to create a highly vibrant organization?

Guest: Dani Robbins

Dani has served as an Executive Director, coached boards and now teaches at The Ohio State University focusing on nonprofit leadership. During this discussion she will answer several questions that relate to being effective either as a nonprofit leader or board member.

1. What is a nonprofit? (short answer)
2. You and I wrote a nonprofit leadership book together – why did you invest your time to do this?
3. What do you want leaders to understand about effective nonprofit?
4. What is a typical nonprofit structure?
5. What is the role of a nonprofit Board?
6. What should you know if you’re invited to serve? Is that different than what you should know if you’re already serving?
7. If you want to get involved in a nonprofit, either in Board leadership or as volunteer or staff, where should you to start?

Guest: Ruth Milligan

Ruth will talk about her work with TED and how she helps leaders build stories as the foundation for effective communication.
She will discuss the following:
1. What is different about TED events from other formats that makes it so compelling?
2. What makes a talk TED-like?
3. What preparation is required to give a TEDx or TED-like talk – they are so short after all? (hah!)
4. How did you get involved in TED?
5. How has it influenced your business or speaker coaching methodology?

Guest: Carla Morelli

Today’s successful executives need to optimize their performance at individual and organizational within complex business environments. They need to innovate the way they lead at the same pace as they innovate their products, services, and processes to ensure they receive the value they expected for their investment in change. This session is based on the Innovative Leadership Fieldbook – winner of the 2012 International Book Award – Best Business Reference Book.
During this session we will:
• Introduce the innovative leadership model
• Discuss each of the five elements

This model will help leaders focused on improving their leadership skills as well as those participants who want to improve the leadership skills of others in their organization.

Guest: Patrick Rettig

For over 25 years Patrick has successfully saved many companies from bankruptcy. He is passionate about American entrepreneurs – the companies $20 million nder, which are the backbone of America.
In this show, Patrick will talk about what he has learned from his own personal struggles and the work he does with entrepreneurs.

1. Why does he do this work?
2. What is a successful entrepreneurial CEO to him?
3. What kind of people survive reorganization?
4. Is it possible to fail more than once and recover?
5. Can you teach people to avoid their own shortcomings or are we all programmed to fail in certain areas?
6. What is the difference in unfair and unrealistic expectations?
Patrick is highly energetic. He followed an unconventional path to his current role. His personal stories make his message highly compelling.

Guest: Sherry Peck

Sherry and Maureen will talk about how careers evolve. Most of the leaders I have coached or worked with, when they look back at their careers, indicate that they didn’t imagine being where they are or that the short term decisions would turn out the way they did.
Sherry will discuss interviews she has conducted with a range of women and also ask Maureen to share more about her career progression. We invite you as our listeners to reflect on the these questions for yourself and chart your own history.

1. What key career moves have you made and what prompted them?
2. How did you get to your current role? Did that role even exist when you started college?
3. How did early influences get you where you are now?
4. How do you learn and what inspires you now?
5. From a foundation of success – what is next for you? Are you focused on legacy? If so, what is that legacy?

Guest: Hugh Cathey

Hugh and Maureen will talk about how he developed his unique leadership niche as well as what he does to scale companies and prepare them for a profitable exit.

Questions: 1. What was the most formative position you have held?
2. What are the primary factors you consider when working with a client?
3. How important is leadership in scaling a company?
4. How do you define effective leadership?
5. How did you build your leadership?
6. What do you consider when taking a client?
7. What causes you to turn down clients?
8. What do you do that sets you apart from other leaders and growth consultants?
This is a generative and open conversation with a highly effective CEO, board leader and consultant. Hugh talks about how he developed personally and who influenced his success as well as how he selects leaders to drive the ventures he supports.

Guest: Cam Marston

Cam and Maureen will talk about different generational groups and pros and cons to working with each. When armed with this foundational knowledge, leaders and businesses can adapt to get the greatest value from their workforce and provide the best possible working experience to each group.
Questions they will address include:

1) Where do these generational definitions come from? How about the ages?
2) How different is each, really?
3) What do they have in common?
4) Can you give me some strengths and weaknesses in leadership for each generation?
5) How about as followers, what do they do well and poorly?
6) What are each of their futures? Where will they end up?

Marston’s expertise has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, the Chicago Tribune, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Money, and Forbes, as well as on Good Morning America, CNN International, and the BBC. He writes a column for InvestmentNews, CNBC, and Investment Advisor among others.