Episodes

Ronald Ettinger, VP Human Resources at Quaker Chemical specializes in global organization development and executive coaching. Since 1918, Quaker Chemical, a multi million dollar company, has been establishing and maintaining relationships with leading enterprises in every major manufacturing country in the world. Publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange, Quaker has a long track record of financial consistency and strength. As the Company entered the 21st century, Quaker began a major strat...

Today’s show will feature the co-hosts, Dr. Cathy Greenberg and Dr. Relly Nadler sharing their expertise on leadership development. Together they have over 50 years of experience helping leaders and their teams become star performers. They have created the Xcel Institute to accelerate leadership development in your organization. Their mission is to meet the demands for leaders who can coach others to perform in the top 10% with high emotional intelligence. They will explain the benefits of the I...

While serving out his time at Naval Special Warfare Center NSWCEN Joe recognized a need for a transition management program specifically for members of the Special Operations Forces community (SOF). Upon recognizing this need Joe began his market research. He attended close to forty separate transition programs for veterans and researched hundreds more. He personally interviewed over 200 members of the SOF community across the country on the issues surrounding their transition. In order to disco...

Cathy Greenberg’s newest book, “Fearless Leaders: Sharpen Your Focus” launches soon. It explores how fearless leaders can profit from becoming more emotionally intelligent and present in their lives and work, and outlines a plan of action for improving one's mindfulness. It also includes a multi-level “business in a box” for coaching and human-performance experts. Dr. Relly Nadler and Dr. Cathy Greenberg will discuss her book, and they’ll be exploring how new findings in neuroscience, and the un...

Drs. Greenberg and Nadler will first explore the characteristics that dethrone many of our heroes and leaders. What is behind the passion for success that drives people to cheat like Lance Armstrong and other heroes we have idolized? How do our leaders quickly fall from grace and lose their credibility in moments? The Derailer Detector identifies the top characterstics which can trump your Emotional Intelligence competencies. These “ fatal flaws” have to be attended to and mitigated. When the de...

After spending years in human resources and discovering that most companies weren’t doing an adequate job developing their number one asset—employees—Rene D. Petrin had a mission: to create an organization devoted solely to teaching businesses how to mentor talent. This entrepreneurial spirit combined with his keen insight into human behavior led Rene to found Management Mentors, Inc. His philosophy is simple: to show companies how structured mentoring programs are the most powerful and effectiv...

Join us for an insightful conversation with Marshall Goldsmith - recognized as the world’s most influential leadership thinker in the bi-annual Thinkers50 survey (sponsored by the Harvard Business Review). He is the million-selling author or editor of 34 books. Marshall is one of a select few executive educators who have been asked to work with over 150 major CEOs and their management teams. He has been given the Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Institute for Manageme...

Join us for an going, insightful conversation with Susan Steinbrecher, business consultant, speaker, author and leadership expert. brbr Susan Steinbrecher, executive coach, licensed mediator, speaker and author, is CEO of Steinbrecher And Associates, Inc., a management consulting firm that provides professional-development services in the areas of executive coaching, group facilitation and customer and leadership training. Susan’s Amazon bestselling book KENSHO: A Modern Awakening, Instigating C...

Today we are continuing Our year long program to share Miraval’s latest secrets for “Mindful Living” based on their groundbreaking book by the same name. Learn how to create a mindful lifestyle and how you can qualify to be a part of the premiere “Mindful Mastermind” only at Miraval. Anne has been a professional therapist for more than 30 years, completing degrees in music therapy, counseling psychology, and health services administration as well as post-graduate studies in integrative arts ther...

Jan is an executive coach in Orange County, California. Her practice emphasizes leadership development and career transitions, utilizing a customized approach that highlights each person’s unique talents and thinking style. She has over 25 years experience in large corporations, has served on the boards of a number of professional and non-profit organizations, and is currently a small business owner. Her business experience, degrees in sociology and law, and certificates in mediation, coaching, ...

Tom is the founder and president of The International Association of Teamwork Facilitators (www.IATFconnect.com) a community of 3,500+ facilitators, coaches, trainers, and educators from around the world. Their shared passion is to help individuals and organizations build and sustain high performing teams. The IATF supports the community through one-on-one and group coaching, teleseminars, and webinars. Tom is a veteran of the team and leadership development field and has trained leaders from 35...

Join us for an going, insightful conversation with Michael Tompkins, visionary CEO of Miraval- recognized as one of the nation’s finest health resorts and creator of the new “Mindful Living” experience. In today’s “Mindful Living” program, Nutritionist Junelle Lupiani, R.D., joins us to share how she helps others with weight management and the integration of nutrition in disease prevention. Junelle believes that nutrition is a fundamental building block to good health and well being and provides...

John Haime is President of New Edge Performance and a world-class performance specialist. John is a world-class specialist in the area of performance and one of the world’s leading authorities in Emotional Intelligence as it relates to performance in sport. He personally coaches top executives, executive teams, athletes and artists in a variety of performance areas. John is a sought after speaker by corporate and sports groups around the world. John was a professional golfer for many years. He h...

Since the Declaration of Independence, Americans have been free to pursue happiness, but there’s no guarantee we’ll achieve it, the secret is knowing where to look. Building on this great heritage, experts Nadler and Greenberg share exciting news on the state of the art about “the science of happiness” and how it impacts our emotional and social intelligence. New insights include how we can choose to joyfully respond to such factors as money or consumptive happiness, the genetics of adventure an...

This week on Leadership Development News, we welcome Michelle Mitch Shepard, Founder and Creative Force of the Women in Real Life Leadership Summit. The debut of the WiRL Summit runs April 28 to May 23. It's an online experience that features 28-plus webinars presented by renowned speakers and best-selling authors, with live online sessions as well as a three-month pass for replaying sessions. It addresses the practices of exemplary leadership, confidence, courage and career, among many other va...

Join us for this continuing series - on our Mindful Living Coach approach with the award winning CEO of Miraval, Michael Tompkins along with featured experts from their nationally acclaimed Life In Balance Program on today's show. Want a more satisfying personal and professional life?

Michael R. Drew is a maverick who gets results. Marketing books for his entire career, Michael’s become the world’s most successful book promoter, having launched nearly 75 consecutive books onto best-seller lists, many of them number-one titles. Michael honed his skills at such respected publishers as Bard Press, Entrepreneur Magazine, Longstreet Press and Thomas Nelson Publishers, among others. He has mastered the intricacies of publishing and, in adapting to today’s fast-evolving industry, Mi...

Henry L. (Dick) Thompson, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized consultant, educator, speaker and author. He is an expert on stress effects on decision making and judgment gained from the battlefield to the boardroom. Dr. Thompson was an officer with the U.S. Army Special Forces Group- Green Berets, decorated for heroism and has trained and led some of the most elite teams in the world. His work for the military on high performing battle staffs was instrumental in the success of U.S. forces in...

Peter Voogd is a serial entrepreneur under the age of thirty, who has started a movement to empower America's Aspiring Entrepreneurs and Young Professionals. He's trained & led thousands of young professionals including Sales Reps, Managers, College Students, Business Owners, Olympians and many others to achieve higher levels of success. He strongly believes the more people you help to succeed, the more successful you can become. He’s on a mission to help organizations understand, acquire and re...

Award winning author Jim Kouzes (with coauthor Barry Posner) is best known for his best selling book, The Leadership Challenge, with over 2 million copies sold and available in 22 languages. He's also the Dean’s Executive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. The fifth edition of The Leadership Challenge marked the 25th anniversary of the book. It debuted as #1 on Amazon’s leadership bestseller list and the 2013 Wall Street Journal bestseller list. Jim’s new wo...

Join us for an going, insightful conversation with Michael Tompkins, visionary CEO of Miraval- recognized as one of the nation’s finest health resorts and creator of the new “Mindful Living” experience. In today’s “Mindful Living” program, performance expert– Coach Leigh Weintraub, joins us to share how she helps others execute in high-pressure situations. As a competitor, Leigh was a full scholarship athlete for the Big 10 Championship Northwestern tennis team, which provided her with a solid f...

What does it take to be a leader in today’s complex crisis driven society where traits like diplomacy and safety are key to all our wellbeing at work and at home? Join our special guest, Lt. Don Kester, currently a SWAT Tactical Response Commander after having served as a SWAT Team Operator, Team Leader, and Team Supervisor in one of the largest US border zones, Tucson, Arizona. Lt. Kester has served as a patrol district commander, as the department’s Training Director and is certified as an ins...

Since their inception, clients have trusted Korn/Ferry to help them recruit world-class leadership talent. Building on this heritage, today they are a single source for a wide range of leadership and talent consulting services. From their nearly 80 offices in 40 countries, they assist organizations in attracting, engaging, developing, and retaining their people. Services range from executive recruitment to leadership development programs, enterprise learning, succession planning and recruitment ...

Joshua Freedman is CEO and a founder of the world’s most extensive emotional intelligence organization, Six Seconds http://www.6seconds.org. He leads a network of 50,000 changemakers teaching skills so people are more aware, intentional, and purposeful. Freedman is one of a handful of experts in the world with over a decade of full-time, proven experience in emotional intelligence development. He is the bestselling author of At the Heart of Leadership and of Inside Change, and co-author of seven...