Breakfast Leadership Show

Interview with Hemant Varshney

Founder & CEO of DigiCom
For over 14 years, Hemant has played a pivotal role in all aspects of digital marketing. Starting out as a media manager, he continued on to become a consultant, Head of Growth, and executive at a hyper-growth agency, managing a team of 30+. Outside of work, Hemant loves to travel and has been to more than 45 countries (and counting).
We'd like to run a free ad account audit for our clients looking to improve their ad performance.
Social Media Links:
DigiCom.iohttps://www.instagram.com/digicom.io/https://www.linkedin.com/in/hvarshney/https://www.instagram.com/hemvarsh/

Featured Interview with Ira Wolfe

A “Millennial trapped in a Baby Boomer body,” Ira is recognized as one of Thinkers 360 Top 5 Global Thought Leaders on Future of Work and HR and Top 10 for Leadership.
 
He is a 6X author with the just released "Create Great Workplace in a Remote World" and top-rated "Recruiting in the Age of Googlization," now in its 2nd edition. He is the co-host of Geeks, Geezers and Googlization podcast, ranked in the top 1% of podcasts and was recently inducted into the HRSouthwest Speaker Hall of Fame.
Personal Website: https://irawolfe.comCompany Website: https://adaptabilitytoolkit.comPodcast: https://geeksgeezersgooglization.comCommunity: https://googlizationnation.comNewsletter: https://nevernormaltimes.comMost Recent Book: https://amzn.to/3fUayRVTop-Rated Book: https://amzn.to/2SmxObK
Social Media Links:
https://linkedin.com/in/irawolfehttps://youtube.com/irawolfehttps://instagram.com/googlizationnation

Featured Interview with Simon Alexander Ong

I believe that the greatest investment you can make is in yourself. Because the more you grow, the more you feel alive. And the world needs more people like this! I transform lives and help people like you achieve crazy BIG goals.
You see…coaching is powerful and impactful.
Magic happens in the realm of deep conversations where just the tiniest shifts in perspective can yield life-changing insights and greater clarity of vision.
Ever since I picked up a 1980s edition copy of Napoleon Hill’s classic Think & Grow Rich as a curious teenager, I’ve always enjoyed learning and exploring about human potential and the habits that drive personal happiness.
I’ve had the pleasure of writing for and being featured in a number of well-known publications, speaking at a variety of events on a number of different personal development topics, and contributing to the lives of others as a mentor and volunteer.
What ‘wows’ me the most however, are the stories I hear from those that I have coached and worked together with. They inspire and show others what is truly possible. It is why I love what I do and believe that the best investment we can make is in our personal growth.
If the desire to be extraordinary and achieve some crazy BIG goals sounds like you, then when you’re ready, drop me a message, and let’s have a powerful conversation!
Book: Energize https://amzn.to/3rzxKrp
Social media:
https://twitter.com/SimonAlexanderO
https://www.instagram.com/simonalexandero/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonalexanderong/
 

Featured Interview with Ichak Adizes

Ichak Adizes was born in North Macedonia. As a Jewish child during World War II, he hid in Albania as a Muslim for protection. The story was documented in a film entitled I Want To Remember, He Wants To Forget.
In 1948, Adizes moved with his family to Israel, where he served in the Israel Defense Forces. After completing his undergraduate education, he moved to the United States in 1963, where he obtained a doctorate degree in business from Columbia University.
Social Media:
LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/ichakadizes/
Twitter:  https://twitter.com/adizes
YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/c/drichakadizes-channel
Consulting firm:  https://www.adizes.com/
 

Featured Interview with Lia Garvin

Lia is the author of UNSTUCK: Reframe Your Thinking to Free Yourself From the Patterns and People that Hold You Back, leaning into nearly 10 years of experience working in some of the largest and most influential companies in tech including Microsoft, Apple and Google to explore the power of reframing to overcome common challenges found in the modern workplace. She is a TEDx and SXSW speaker and has been a featured guest on WGN Chicago and WJLA Washington DC news. She was recognized by the National Diversity Council as a 2021 DEI Champion.
As an operations leader, speaker and coach, Lia is on a mission to humanize the workplace, one conversation at a time. Through her writing, leadership coaching and savvy program management skills, she brings an authentic and irreverent sense of humor to teams to help them examine the challenges holding them back and focus on what matters. She has built robust diversity & inclusion programs, launched the world’s first holographic computer, driven programs and initiatives around team inclusion and organizational effectiveness, and coaches people on how to drive impactful work and thrive working in tech.
Lia has a Bachelor of Arts from UCLA in sociology, a Masters of Arts in media studies from the New College of California and is a Co-Active and ICF certified professional coach.
Learn more about Lia at: www.liagarvin.com
Grab a copy of UNSTUCK: https://www.amazon.com/dp/194817488X
Check out Lia's TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlJ3Z-ulrQk
Social Media Links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liagarvin/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Sx-ppBe8gx1Jad2ubshwQ
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lia.garvin
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reframewithlia

Featured Interview with Melanie Ho

Melanie Ho's award-winning debut book BEYOND LEANING IN has been acclaimed by Kirkus Reviews as “an engaging evolution of Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Lean In’ mantra" and is a recipient of the 2022 Axiom Business Book Awards.
As a frequent keynote speaker and workshop facilitator, she leads sessions on topics that include: women in leadership; diversity, equity, and inclusion; the future of education; and the use of creativity and the arts in business. She is also the founder of Strategic Imagination, a firm dedicated to drawing on the power of the imaginative arts (i.e., comics, theater, fiction) to help organizations achieve transformational change.
Melanie previously served as a Senior Vice President and GM of Research at EAB Global, an education advisory, technology, and services firm headquartered in Washington, DC. She led a team of over a hundred researchers that provided management advice to more than 1500 educational institutions worldwide, including at 90% of the U.S. News Top 100 Universities.
Prior to her twelve years at EAB, Melanie taught at UCLA while earning her Ph.D. in English. She currently resides in Washington, DC.
Book, BEYOND LEANING IN: https://amzn.to/3bht0POWebsite, including more information about presentations and workshops: https://www.melanieho.com/
Social Media Links:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/melaniehohttps://www.instagram.com/melanieho13/?hl=enhttp://www.twitter.com/melanieho13https://www.facebook.com/melaniehoauthorhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsPgmNdD4q4Q18zDeG4jcpwhttps://medium.com/@melanie-ho

Interview with Kvon Tucker

Kvon is the Co-Founder and CEO of Consciously, a purpose-driven firm that helps executives and organizations do work with more purpose.Until early this year, Kvon was the Global Head of Manager and Leadership Development at Google. Part of his job at Google involved coaching top executives to be better leaders as they help grow the company.
Before Google, Kvon worked at Amazon and Netflix, where he also coached leaders on how to adapt to hyper-growth and tremendous scale. Kvon has also had the opportunity to coach Apple, Tesla, Facebook/Meta, and LinkedIn executives.
He holds a Master’s in Industrial-Organizational Psychology (M.S. I-O) and is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC).
On the podcast, Kvon would love to talk about:
Lessons he learned about leadership, coaching Fortune 500 executives.Leadership presence and practical tips c-suite executives can use to develop presence.Why leaders need to lead with purpose, and how they can develop purpose statements.
Social Media Links:
https://consciously.one/

Featured Interview with Sarah Waylett

Sarah is a recovering perfectionist and a serial burnout-overachiever. Over time and to cope, she studied methods to manage her severe anxiety through yoga and dance. She started to foster a deeper connection to her mind and body. At the same time, she also began to apply the human-centered, design thinking methods she used to facilitate business problem solving to her personal questions. The more she practiced these evidence-based methods, the more they worked their magic as a catalyst for her as well as her teams and organizations!
Sarah now shares her way of working to manage and recover from burnout with the world through Dreamgarten. She believes that when you guide people to find what’s inside themselves and encourage them to think about the human at the center of any problem, the creativity they bring to solving those problems is endless.
Sarah spent 17 years of her career at Accenture and holds an MBA in Information Technology from American University as well as multiple certifications for teaching mindfulness practices and design thinking.
Social Media Links:
Website: www.dreamgarten.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahcwaylett/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjNd8yJCWoNxyrhro386P-wTiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dreamgartenInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dreamgarten/