We welcome Robert Jordan and Olivia Wagner to the show! They are authors of a new book called Right Leader, Right Time: Discover Your Leadership style for a Winning Career. They are also co-founders of Interim Execs! They bring their expertise to assess distinct leadership styles and a step-by-step plan for optimizing that best suits businesses to scale and grow. They have identified 4 distinct leadership styles found in business today, what success looks like for each style, and what leaders can do right now to make sure that they're the leader the company needs. InterimExecs is a leadership executive matching firm that has helped fix global giants like Pepsi, Microsoft, UPS, and more by identifying the right leaders to step in during times of trouble or stagnation. By conducting interviews with thousands of executives, they have identified 4 distinct leadership styles and when and where those styles are the most useful. For example: When a company is in chaos or decline, it’s time to call in a Fixer. When a company needs a creative jolt to jump out of stagnation, turn to an Artist. When a company needs new markets and big growth, hire a Builder. When a company reaches complexity and scale, align with a Strategist.

We welcome Michelle Venema, CEO of Home of the Sparrow. Home of the Sparrow’s mission is to partner with women facing homelessness to secure housing, achieve long-term stability, and chart new paths for their futures. Michelle provides her vast experience and insight into who are the housing insecure and how you can help.

We welcome Tatiyana Cure to the podcast this week and she brings her extensive background as an executive recruiter and talent acquisition leader to her work of coaching managers. She has partnered with thousands of hiring managers in a wide variety of industries. We discuss practical hiring practices and how to not Y2K your hiring! She is also a fantastic author of "Hire to Win: Manager's Practical Guide for Attracting and Interviewing Top Talent"

Hello Liftoffers! We welcome Employee Experience Scientist at Qualtrics and Founder of Lifted Leadership LLC, where he coaches Fortune 500 executives on how to acquire, develop and retain their most valuable assets, people. Kevin Campbell, welcome to the show! Kevin talks about the science behind engagement and how companies are getting it right (or not)!

Andrew Bartlow takes us through how to scale (and how NOT to scale) as organizations come out of the pandemic. Focusing on HR and their part in developing programs, he takes his 25 years of Human Resources experience and Talent Management to organizations across a spectrum of sizes, maturity, stages and industries.

We welcome Nancy Murphy, founder of CSR Communications and creator of Intrapreneurs Influence Lab! From challenging stereotypes of girls in her Catholic school more than 40 years ago, to her first job after college convincing nonprofits to engage youth volunteers, or her role as board chair of a global nonprofit transforming the way we do international development...she shares her experience on how to become a credible leader of change, how to make change stick and 3 things on how to become an INTRAPRENUER!

Given the state of the world over the past two years, it has perhaps never been more vital for us as individuals and communities to expand our respect for ourselves and others and build an understanding of dissimilar cultures through the narrative of storytelling. I welcome Shari Foos, celebrated therapist and founder of THE NARRATIVE METHOD, a non-profit that connects diverse populations to themselves and each other through personal storytelling and other connective experiences.

We welcome author Jinny Uppal! Her new book, IN/ACTION: Rethinking the Path to Results (New Degree Press), will be out this month and talks about how the rise of hustle culture is responsible for our current levels of burnout, and why reflective thinking and strategic inaction is a better—and healthier—path to success. As the Great Resignation continues unabated—current estimates are that 4.4 million Americans left their jobs in September—there’s growing concern that younger professionals’ embrace of hustle culture is primarily responsible for the high levels of burnout they’re experiencing. Wearing 80-hour work weeks like badges of honor and staying chained to their virtual desks even during their downtime has resulted in increased stress levels, mistakes, and plain old exhaustion. Contrarily, says Uppal, knowing when to lean in and when to let go is the key to unlocking creative inspiration helping you achieving your most ambitious goals. Uppal's book is not about slowing down as an end goal, rather it's about leveraging strategic pauses to make great leaps forward.

DR. Scott Behson is the author of the book, THE WHOLE-PERSON WORKPLACE: Building Better Workplaces through Work-Life, Wellness, and Employee Support. The Whole-Person Workplace provides advice and custom-fit solutions for the post-pandemic workplace by empowering employers and managers to support employees and the full range of their work-life challenges. In this new world flexibility is key as companies negotiate a return to the workplace or a hybrid or work-from-home structure. Dr. Behson shares the following with us: • Supporting employees through the post-pandemic transition by building a workplace with effective employee onboarding, training, and easy-to-implement physical and mental wellness programs • Aiding working parents with parental leave and child-care solutions while enabling caregivers to take time-off to ensure loved-ones are properly cared for • Managing a flexible hybrid workplace that meets the needs of both remote and in-person employees and ensuring fairness for all – including the company • Valuing all employees (including hourly, blue-collar, and part-time workers) as “whole people” and crafting custom-fit solutions for each group to include flex-schedules and no-nonsense compensation and benefits • Building safe workplaces that celebrate the value of personal-identity and promote diversity and inclusion to achieve a healthy workplace culture • Encouraging and supporting volunteerism and adult education programs

We welcome Catherine Mattiske, global trainer, author and inventor of the globally acclaimed ID9 Intelligent Design Process! What is that? It helps you to Unlock Inner Genius (also the name of her most recent book) and use the online tools to unlock and increase your communication with family, colleagues and every person in your life! She provides road maps on how to navigate your path to ultimate success. Catherine founded her company, TPC, in 1994. There she serves clients worldwide with offices in Sydney, New York, Los Angeles, London, Basel (Switzerland) and Singapore.