Breakfast Leadership Show

Interview with Dr. Keri Ohlrich

Dr. Keri Ohlrich, CEO and co-founder, is an outcome-focused senior executive with more than 20 years of success in the HR, manufacturing, consumer goods, and consulting industries. Her broad areas of expertise include strategic planning, business development, employee relations, talent management, culture change, conflict management, performance management, organizational development, workshop facilitation, and employee engagement and development. Throughout her career, Keri has held leadership positions at a variety of organizations ranging from start-up to Fortune 500 companies. In her previous roles she has created and implemented HR processes, redesigned the talent function for an organization serving 25,000 global employees, led change management for a new business strategy, and overhauled the Human Resources department.Keri obtained her PhD in Human Development and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University. She holds an MS in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University, an MS in Global Human Resources from Loyola University Chicago, and a BS in Psychology and Business from Carnegie Mellon University. She resides in Pasadena, CA.

Featured Interview with Indranil Ghosh

A Citizen's Guide for shaping global prosperity
 
In Powering Prosperity, Dr Ghosh unpacks potential solutions for the key threats of our time:
Winning back public trust in an era of inequality and social polarization
Taking on the sustainable development challenges of poverty, aging, creating high-value work, and the climate crisis
Revitalizing local communities left behind in the rush to globalize
Dr Ghosh demonstrates how citizens can put aside divisive politics and use their key roles in society—as parents, teachers, consumers, investors, business leaders, elected representatives and many others—to drive positive change
MIT-trained scientist Dr. Indranil Ghosh is a sustainable investor, author, and strategic advisor to governments and leading global corporations.
Tiger Hill Capital is an advisory firm that partners with visionary leaders to build sustainable investing platforms and businesses with a societal impact mission.
Prior to Tiger Hill Capital, Dr. Ghosh was Head of Strategy at Mubadala, Abu Dhabi’s Sovereign Investment and Development Fund, and held senior roles at Bridgewater Associates and McKinsey & Co.
https://www.tigerhillcapital.com/powering-prosperity

Featured Interview with Justin Breen

BrEpic Communications LLC is guided by Justin Breen, who has 20+ years in the media business, has won dozens of editing and writing awards, and is an author of countless viral stories. BrEpic will write clicky stories that highlight you or your business, and find the right pitch for multiple media outlets. Let BrEpic build your brand with creative content and successful pitches to mainstream media today.
BrEpic Communications LLC will grow your business brand with expert social media postings, crafting click-worthy stories craved by local, regional and national media, successfully pitching them to outlets and providing customer service second to none.
At BrEpic, the goal is simple: Do everything to expand your business’ reach, build your brand and provide the best communications support possible. BrEpic is a growing business with several clients in the education, financial, hotel, insurance, IT, law, leadership development, medical, music, non-profit, public relations, religious, restaurant, self-storage, tech and other industries.
I ABSOLUTELY KNOW THE 30 SECRETS IN THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU IN ENDLESS WAYS. IF YOU FOLLOW AND IMPLEMENT THESE TIPS THAT I’VE LEARNED FROM LISTENING TO SOME OF THE WORLD’S BEST AND BRIGHTEST VISIONARY ENTREPRENEURS, BUSINESS LEADERS AND JUST GREAT PEOPLE OUT THERE, YOUR LIFE SHOULD DRAMATICALLY CHANGE.
https://brepicbusiness.com/
https://www.brepicllc.com/
 

Interview with Leanne Townsend

Leanne Townsend is a multifaceted entrepreneur and attorney experienced in the areas of family law and domestic violence.
She provides a full range of family law legal services in addition to running workshops and other programs to support people as they go through divorce.
 
www.leannetownsend.ca
Divorcing Well podcast:  https://leannetownsend.ca/divorcing-well/

Interview with Diana Peterson-More

Over the course of her long career, Diana Peterson-More has been a practicing employment lawyer, a corporate manager, director, executive officer, and a sought-after consultant and guest presenter. Throughout her varied career, she has been fascinated by what motivates herself and others to achieve results, to determine their own unique definitions of success, and then to facilitate a roadmap to get there.As a young manager, Diana faced the dilemma many confront today. She was promoted because she was a great individual contributor with proven results, and quick on the uptake. Yet she was not trained nor exposed to the fundamentals of supervision and management, and was left to her own devices to figure it out.Unhappy at first, and never one to quit (as the first lawyer promoted out of the Southern California Edison Company law department and the first female HR manager, all eyes were on her) Diana taught herself how to supervise, manage and lead – largely by making mistakes and learning from them. Those early days propelled her to self-examination, learning through expert advice, and the school of hard knocks. Along her journey, she received feedback that allowed her to grow from a “tell” boss to the empowering “asking and listening” boss she eventually became, and for whom many wanted to work. Her practice now is helping others learn from her mistakes and to achieve their own unique success.https://dianapetersonmore.com/about/

Featured Interview with Blank Check Author Aaron Smith

Repeat guest Aaron Smith joins Michael to discuss the new book Blank Check: 
This intriguing, inspirational Young Adult novel takes place on a fictional U.S. island, but the story that evolves could help reshape public schools in America.
Challenges young adults to think outside the box and care enough about how children are educated to participate in re-imagining public education
Shares a discussion as to how education is currently viewed and the cultural impact on how one learns
Asks the reader to think about what graduates should look like upon completing high school and how they should be prepared for a career
Helps the reader understand why public education is not working for all students
Allows the opportunity for readers to have empathy for the frustration educators face on a daily basis
Inspiring young adults to reimagine public education, Blank Check is a novel about young people and a generation that is prepared to step in and re-engineer public education.
The problem with gathering the forces of educators and businesses to advance the process of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) with Career and Technical Education (CTE) education is not that it is unworthy of their attention.
It’s not that it’s unimportant to the future kids coming through public schools.It’s not that people do not get cheered when they champion new standards.It’s ALL of these.
STEM and CTE education need a story. Today’s culture advances things through storytelling. It needs a context. That’s what happens when there is allowed incremental advances to nonchalantly lead the way. It fails to inspire. Blank Check is that story. It’s a fictional tale grounded in pure reality. It is an intriguing, inspirational Young Adult novel that takes place on a fictional U.S. island, but the story that evolves could help reshape public schools in America. So here, for the first and hopefully not the last time, there is a tale offered that can inspire people because when the destination can be seen in the distance, it quickens one’s pace.
https://aaronsmithphd.com/blank-check/

Interview with Jude Charles

Jude Charles is a story-driven filmmaker, brand strategist & speaker.For over 13 years, he has been producing exponential returns for purpose-driven entrepreneurs through documentaries & videos.He lives and breathes YOUR brand. He digs deep to find the compelling stories that no one else knows & then leverages those stories to scale your business. http://judecharles.co

Surviving COVID-19 Financial Stress with Jennifer Luzzatto

Jennifer has some great insights for how families can survive and thrive afterward with respect to COVID-19, including:
If you have cash sitting in a savings account, consider whether to add to your investment portfolios.  A market correction is an excellent opportunity to put cash to work.
If you are actively adding to your portfolio already, through regular investments, whether through 401K plans, your IRAs or taxable portfolios, rejoice!  You are being presented with a buying opportunity..
If you need an unexpected distribution from one of your investment accounts, sell bonds, or mostly bonds, depending on the composition of your portfolio, so you are not forced to sell into a down market.
https://www.summitfinancialpartnersrva.com/our-team/