What does true leadership look like in 2020? The office is closed, the team is remote, and productivity is down. These are some of the unique challenges that leaders face during our current pandemic. Kevin Kruse, leadership expert and best-selling author, offers keen insight into maximizing our influence and impact. Listen in as Kevin teaches us that leading with intent, being mindful, promoting values, and setting aside uninterrupted time to tackle deep work are the keys to bringing out the best in ourselves and our teams.
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While we struggle individually and collectively to maintain health, sanity, businesses, and relationships, we turn to a unique source for guidance. Alden Mills, former Navy Seals commander, entrepreneur for more than 25 years, and accomplished author, encourages leaders to apply military strategy to manage, maximize, and emerge from crisis.
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Contrary to popular belief, a great education, a family background in successful business, or past achievements will not necessarily determine future successes and leadership excellence. Shanee Moret and Courtney Harring are co-founders of Medsnake, a healthcare marketing and medical billing agency that generates more than 20 million monthly views on LinkedIn. Motivated by personal crisis and powered by altruism and an abundance mindset, these they built a company together that is aimed to help and support the healthcare community.
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With lots of encouragement and straight talk, serial entrepreneur and leadership expert Evan Carmichael will push you to think critically about your core strengths, beliefs, and about whether you are truly serving your people. Evan knows what he’s talking about. He runs the biggest YouTube channel for entrepreneurs with 2M+ subscribers, has written 4 books, and speaks globally. Listen in on this powerful conversation to learn how you can make the necessary changes to amplify your life and leadership.
Read MoreDo you shy away from public speaking? Are you reluctant to build a presence on social media? Do you doubt the value of what you can offer to others? Take Jackie Hermes’ approach and jump right in to opportunities that arise. You never know which steps will lead you to great entrepreneurial success. As a foster and adoptive parent, Jackie is a giver in addition to being a role model leader.
Read MoreWhat happens when large, service-oriented corporations can’t find the right nonprofit to partner with or the right jobs to motivate their people? Enter Gary Travis. Gary, an army veteran, founded Givaly to partner corporations with the right nonprofits to ensure a “service win-win.” Listen to Gary, a LinkedIn influencer, to gain a refreshing perspective on failure and success and what keeps driving him forward. Learn how giving is gaining and how goals, consistency, patience and respect are key components of successful entrepreneurship.
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What would you do if your boss told you that you'll never be worth much, even when you were bringing in TONS of business for him? Marissa Levin used such as "assessment" as motivation to launch her own multi-million-dollar company and lucrative consulting practice. Learn from Marissa how to be super successful by establishing values, developing a powerful mindset, and creating a compelling vision for yourself, your team and your company. Learn what it means to be creative and flexible in order to stay relevant in a business world that continues to evolve and shows no signs of slowing down.
Read MoreLeaders often use “top line” metrics, such as company size, number of employees and income, to measure their success. But what if there was something else – actual take-home profits – that should be the number one consideration? Best-selling author and serial entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz joined Lead to Succeed to share his take on this discussion, his quest to eradicate entrepreneurial poverty, and so much more!
Read MoreEli Hoffman is CEO of Seeking Alpha. Eli joined the company in 2006 to found the company's breaking news team. He is responsible for creating Seeking Alpha's flagship newsletter, Wall Street Breakfast, which is read by hundreds of thousands of investors daily.
Eli founded and developed Seeking Alpha Breaking News, the best source of short-form stock-market news on the web. Before joining Seeking Alpha, Eli taught in and was the principal of an elementary school in Toronto.
Read MoreMordy Golding is Director of Content for LinkedIn Learning. He oversees the creation of a vast library of high-quality learning content, primarily in the form of on-demand, online, video-based courses. He did similar work for Lynda.com prior to its acquisition by LinkedIn.
Read MoreIn this episode, Naphtali interviews Sean Cohan. Sean serves as president of Wheelhouse Entertainment, where he is responsible for driving content and marketing opportunities across multiple businesses and platforms, including talent, brand and other strategic, corporate partnerships for the company.
Prior to Wheelhouse Entertainment, Sean worked at A&E Networks for nearly 15 years. He served as president of international and digital media at A&E Networks, where he oversaw the company’s rapid growth units and was a member of the A&E executive and senior leadership teams.
Read MoreIn this episode, Naphtali interviews Billy Mann. Billy is a Grammy-nominated songwriter, record producer, creative executive, and philanthropist. Over a 25-year period, Mann has built his career from Philadelphia street musician to writing and producing some of the most influential recording artists in modern music, to entrepreneur and music executive.
Since penning his first Top 10 hit in 1995, Mann has racked up several Top 40 hits around the world, with cumulative album sales of over 120 million. He was the youngest executive at board level of a multi-national music company in EMI where he also served as Chief Creative Officer and President of A&R and Management, Global. He was also appointed President of BMG, North America before founding his own portfolio of rights management companies under the banner of Manncom Creative Partners, based in the US.
Read MoreIn this episode, Naphtali interviews Jon Brodsky. Jon is finder.com’s Country Manager (US), leading the company’s growth across its core niche categories of international money transfers, personal loans, credit cards and shopping comparisons. Before that, he was the Senior Vice President Digital at Chicken Soup for the Soul, where he was responsible for product changes that helped grow monthly content reach from approximately 300,000 people to one billion people. Previous experience also includes time at Allmenus.com, which Jon grew to 250,000 restaurants and nationwide coverage within 18 months, and 1-800-flowers.com, where he completed deals that generated over $300 million in annual revenue.
Read MoreIn this Lead to Succeed episode, Naphtali interviews Bill Sandbrook. Bill is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Concrete, a leading supplier of ready-mixed concrete and aggregates in active construction markets across the country. He is a 1979 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and spent thirteen years serving in the U.S. Army. Bill holds four advanced degrees and is responsible for U.S. Concrete’s impressive growth since his arrival in 2011.
Read MoreIn this episode, Naphtali interviews Mark Metry, a serial entrepreneur who began hustling when he was in second grade! Mark, the host of top podcast Humans 2.0, goes deep into his own growth and the unconventional path that he took to get there. Mark also shares excellent leadership nuggets, including how to model leadership and treat other people. Listen in on this raw, vulnerable, and engaging account of young leader who is taking the podcasting industry by storm.
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