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Cut The Tie | Define Success on Your Own TermsDirect Communication vs. Diplomatic Communication with Jordan GoldrichNever Been Promoted Podcast with Thomas HelfrichJordan Goldrich shares his journey from a tough upbringing in New York to becoming an executive coach and author. Known for his no-nonsense approach, Jordan offers valuable insights into coaching abrasive executives to achieve better performance and improve workplace relationships.About Jordan Goldrich:Jordan Goldrich is the founder and CEO of Workplace Warrior Inc., a company that specializes in coaching executives who are perceived as abrasive. He co-authored the Amazon bestseller "Workplace Warrior: People Skills for the No Bullshit Executive" and...2024-07-0231 min
Workplace Warrior®Kelly Feldkamp: Realities of The Job Site Athlete Keeping Laborers Safe, Strong, and LoyalAbout Kelly Feldkamp: Kelly is the founder of ProVention Plus, which is an on-site injury prevention company that is changing the way companies take care of their manual labor and craft employees. She has a master's degree in exercise and wellness and is the creator of the Move Better Program used by thousands of jobsite athletes over the last 20 years. Kelly has a passion for helping jobsite athletes reduce the discomfort that they may believe is an unfortunate but necessary part of their profession. She and her team at ProVention Plus have been blessed to work with t...2024-04-2633 min
Workplace Warrior®Ryan Tansom: The Intentional Growth Framework™ For EntrepreneursAbout Ryan Tansom: Ryan started his entrepreneurial career at his family business where he was the executive VP. He was responsible for the strategic operational and financial strategy of a $21 million company. By the age of 27, he helped turn the company around and bring intentional focus to the right strategies, which enabled it to be sold for eight figures in 2014 to a local competitor, Ryan took his experience and founded Arkona to create the intentional growth framework which helps owners view and run their company like a financial asset through educational training and fractional CFO services. Ryan's mission is...2024-03-2131 min
Workplace Warrior®Stephanie Coradin: Building Accountable Leaders, Bold Problem Solvers and Exceptional Service ProvidersAbout Stephanie Coradin: She is the Founder of Dembo Inc. She has over 18 years of experience in providing leadership and development training and life coaching to individuals and groups from various industries. She holds an MBA and a master's degree in mental health counseling. She has a unique combination of knowledge and length of industry experience, which enables her to draw out the underlying factors that may be impacting an organization's growth and provide effective solutions. She's an advocate of employee empowerment, and dynamic leadership. She believes that when employees feel valued by their leaders and trusted with their a...2024-03-0728 min
Workplace Warrior®Susan Power: Diamonds Are Rocks Under Pressure For A Long TimeAbout Susan Power: Susan is the Founder & CEO of PowerUp Leadership, a boutique consulting advisory and leadership coaching firm based in Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada. PowerUp Leadership focuses on creating inspiring workplaces The firm specializes in building leadership capability for Executive Leaders. Most of her clients are in the technology industry, professional services, and healthcare In this episode, Jordan and Susan Power discuss: How people communicate in both direct and indirect cultures. Roles coaches play at the highest levels that are usually not discussed Helping teams work together more effectively ...2024-02-2231 min
Workplace Warrior®Randi Roberts: Change Your Perspective Before Changing Your CareerAbout Randi Roberts: Randi is the president of Randi Roberts Coaching LLC., and founder of the Fulfilling Career, Happy Life Community. Randi is an executive coach and a career life coach, and she helps accomplished professionals love their work and achieve their career goals. She has seen too many people develop solid career plans, put in tremendous effort over many years at significant sacrifice, and then achieve their goal only to find that it may not be as satisfying as they hoped. The work her clients do with Randi allows them to explore new possibilities, assess their f...2024-01-1832 min
Workplace Warrior®Eric Chriss: Managing Succession with Life Insurance as a Form of Stock OptionsAbout Eric Chriss: As the CUSTOMatrix Founder and CEO, Eric Chriss’ dynamic, direct and innovative leadership guides their Executive Services Division. A nationally recognized trailblazer in the executive leadership and management field, Eric pioneered the CFO practice model – a model that has taken on national scope and is recognized as a best practice within the financial leadership arena. Deeply committed to understanding the root of client needs and dilemmas, Eric’s down-to-earth and upfront style blends with a successful track record in executive management. In building CUSTOMatrix from the ground up, he’s developed numerous programs for the firm in addit...2024-01-0437 min
Workplace Warrior®Steven Gaffney: Unconditional PowerAbout Steven Gaffney: Steven Gaffney is the CEO of the Steven Gaffney Company. He is the leading expert on creating Consistently High Achieving Organizations (CHAO)™ including high-achieving teams, honest communication, and change leadership. He is one of the few leadership experts that can guarantee results. He has become the go-to person and trusted advisor for countless top leaders and executive teams from Fortune 500 companies and associations, as well as the U.S. government and military. He is also a highly regarded author and sought-after speaker. Thousands of people have credited Steven’s speeches, semina...2023-11-0941 min
Workplace Warrior®Bill Kieffer: A No-Bs Discussion Of Success Before, During And After Career TransitionAbout Bill Kieffer: Bill is a former U.S. Army officer with over a decade of active duty service. He also possesses extensive experience as a human resource and talent management executive, with more than two decades of senior leadership roles in large, complex, global companies. His practical, thoughtful, and results-focused approach has aided individuals and organizations in various industries in optimizing their talent capabilities and achieving their goals. Throughout his career, he has provided coaching and guidance to military veterans, helping them make successful transitions from their military careers to the civilian, commercial work...2023-10-1934 min
Workplace Warrior®John Baldoni: What It Takes to Lead with Grace When the Heat Is OnAbout John Baldoni: John Baldoni is an internationally recognized keynote speaker and author of 16 books that have been translated into ten languages. John’s thought leadership is reflected in his writing as well as his choice of media: columns, videos, and books. John also integrates piano improvisations into his keynotes which he illustrates with his still life photos. As the host of LinkedIn Live’s GRACE under pressure interview series, John has interviewed more than 200 global business, academic, and thought leaders and doers. John’s books include Grace Under Pressure: Leading Through Change and Cris...2023-10-0528 min
Workplace Warrior®Debbie Allen: Confessions of a Successful Shameless Self-PromoterAbout Debbie Allen: What makes Debbie Allen's business mentoring unique is her 'hands on' personalized attention to her clients. Integrity, follow up and commitment to excellence are all core business values. She supports small business owners, entrepreneurs, speakers and coaches to create and build highly successful expert businesses. Debbie has built and sold 6 million-dollar companies in diverse industries and has been an entrepreneur since the young age of 19. Today, she is known as The Market Positioning Expert by supporting her clients in developing brand domination around their expertise. Debbie works with small business owners, entrepreneurs, coac...2023-09-1539 min
Workplace Warrior®Creating Respectful Work Cultures Through Coaching Abrasive Leaders with Catherine MatticeAbout Catherine Mattice: Catherine founded Civility Partners in 2008 as a result of working in a toxic environment and has since served a huge array of clients with consulting, training and coaching services. She’s written three books, one of which Ken Blanchard called, “the most comprehensive and valuable handbook on the topic” of workplace bullying. Catherine’s also been cited in such media outlets as Forbes.com, Inc Magazine, Entrepreneur, and USA Today, and appeared as a guest on such venues as NPR and CNN. Catherine is active in the International Association for Workplac...2023-09-0533 min
Workplace Warrior®Digital Avatar Coaching: Expanding Your Coaching & Consulting ReachNancy Parsons is CEO and President of CDR Companies, LLC, which is a globally recognized expert in combining the science of assessments with the art of developing people. Nancy was the ACEC/MEECO International Institute Thought Leader of Distinction in Executive Coaching (2019) and author of the Amazon bestseller: Women Are Creating the Glass Ceiling and Have the Power to End It. Nancy and her team recently launched CDR-U Coach, the first-of-its-kind, digital avatar coach that provides individualized feedback and development for all employees. CDR-U Coach was awarded the 2021 Gold Star Winner of the “Best New Product or Se...2023-08-1438 min
Workplace Warrior®EP 87: Jeff Eschliman: From Combat to the Boardroom - Lessons in Leadership DevelopmentAbout Jeff Eschliman: Jeff Eschliman is an executive coach with 30 years of experience from combat in Iraq to the corporate boardroom. Personal development, consistency, and a tenacious work ethic are hallmarks of Jeff’s leadership style. Jeff communicates a crystal clear vision and bold expectations with his collaborative approach. Jeff is a sought-after expert for building and scaling results-driven teams. He believes hiring the right people, equipping them with the tools they need to be successful, and then holding them accountable for results is the secret to exceptional business success. He knows creating culture through att...2023-07-2732 min
Workplace Warrior®Angela Johnson: Secrets Leaders and Coaches Should KnowAbout Angela Johnson: Angela Johnson calls herself “professional people geek.” She is a Certified Scrum Trainer, Agile Guide and author of The Scrum Master Files, Secrets Every Coach should know. She has 25+ years of experience working with teams and leaders in both project management and Agile environments. Angela started her career in technical support, quickly advancing to programming, database administration and project management. She realized that her passion was not in Gantt charts and status reports but in helping people work together more effectively within organizations. Becoming a Scrum Master enabled her to serve teams. ...2023-06-2235 min
Workplace Warrior®Robin Osborn: Adversity Warrior - The Freedom FrameworkAbout Robin Osborn: Robin has a 33-year history of being at the helm of her l family business in Southern California. Her remarkable entrepreneurial journey started at the young age of 21 when she, her twin brother and their sister took over her father’s business after his suicide! She managed over 40 employee’s with a current employee retention record of over 30+ years. She has an intuitive understanding of both the employees’ and customers’ needs. A few years ago, Robin’s business literally hit the ceiling. She was up at 2am, frustrated with doing the same thing and g...2023-06-0830 min
Workplace Warrior®Jennifer Fondrevay: How to Navigate The Personas That Emerge During Mergers and AcquisitionsAbout Jennifer Fondrevay: Jennifer J. Fondrevay is the Founder of Day1 Ready™, a consultancy that advises forward-thinking business leaders, owners, and C-Suite executives on how to prepare for the human capital challenges of M&A. As a Fortune 500 C-Suite “survivor” of three multibillion-dollar acquisitions, Jennifer has been on all sides of the deal equation. She saw countless growth strategies fail due to a workforce that couldn’t pivot and adapt as quickly as leadership anticipated. In this episode, Jordan and Jennifer discuss: The personas that emerge during mergers and acquisitions The Dominatrix...2023-05-1740 min
Workplace Warrior®Laura Crawshaw: Grow Your Spine - Insights For Managing Abrasive LeadersAbout Laura Crawshaw: Dr. Laura Crawshaw (aka "The Boss Whisperer®") is the world’s leading expert on coaching abrasive leaders and relieving the organizational disruption and workplace suffering they cause. With more than 35 years’ experience as a psychotherapist, corporate officer, executive coach, researcher and author, she founded The Boss Whispering Institute in 2008, which is dedicated to research and training in the field of coaching abrasive leaders. Through her pioneering work, Dr. Crawshaw has dispelled the myth that leaders who engage in bullying behaviors are incapable of changing their management styles, bringing insight to these individuals and hope to their emplo...2023-05-0440 min
Workplace Warrior®Bill Flynn: How Leaders Doom Their CompanyAbout Bill Flynn: Bill has more than 30 years of experience working for and advising hundreds of companies including startups, where he has a long record of success. He worked for 10 different high-tech startups in different market segments such as speech recognition, e-commerce, and affiliate marketing. He was a vice president of sales eight times, was twice a chief marketing officer, and once a general manager of a division of a $100 billion IT services company. He has had five successful outcomes with two IPOs and seven acquisitions, including a turnaround during the 2008 financial crisis. And then he pivoted to becoming a...2023-04-2037 min
Workplace Warrior®Shaara Roman: Key Strategies For Building a Workplace Culture of the FutureAbout Shaara Roman: Shaara Roman is an author, board member, entrepreneur, and former CHRO. She has had senior roles at CGI, Fannie Mae, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and Visa. She is the founder and CEO of The Silverene Group, a boutique culture consulting firm that is on a mission to make the work world a better, more inclusive place for all. She works with executives to align their company’s leadership and culture with the business strategy and create programs to maximize employee experience and productivity. Her book, “The Conscious Workplace” provides rich business insights to help leaders...2023-04-1041 min
Workplace Warrior®Wendy Swire: What’s New in Executive Mental Fitness and Applied NeuroscienceAbout Wendy Swire: Wendy has more than two decades of experience coaching thousands of leaders in the US and globally. A thought leader in the field of Neuroleadership and Mental Fitness, Wendy is known for teaching practices that slow down the brain to allow leaders to work more effectively with others. She co-authored the highly acclaimed book, Anytime Coaching: Unleashing Employee Performance. In this episode, Jordan and Wendy discuss: A critical practice for stopping burnout Mental fitness Practices to help leaders work more effectively with others Taking car...2023-03-2740 min
Workplace Warrior®Brenda Harrington: Leading With InclusionAbout Brenda Harrington: Brenda Harrington, PCC is the Founder of Adaptive Leadership Strategies, LLC. As the Executive Coach to global leaders in private, public, nonprofit, government, humanitarian and intergovernmental organizations (IGO’s), she helps clients refine the leadership competencies and professional habits necessary for them to have the greatest possible impact. Brenda has extensive experience working with subject matter experts and individual contributors elevating to roles that require them to be a leader of people. A core area of focus for her is the development of cross-cultural awareness and competencies required to work successfully with diverse and multicultural teams. Sh...2023-03-0640 min
Workplace Warrior®Paul ter Wal: Happiness Makes Money - How Shared Core Values Influence Company ResultsAbout Paul ter Wal: Paul is an international engagement explorer, employability expert, and workplace architect. For more than 25 years, he's been in the speaking, consulting, and training business for executive directors and employees. His motto is, “happiness makes money.” He helps companies and organizations across the world address the crisis of engagement that has serious and potentially long-lasting repercussions. As a former lawyer, he works with both sides: employer, and employee, and the purpose is to create work happiness and loyalty. His concept is based on finding what he refers to as the “non-negotiables” in the core values of the indi...2023-02-1741 min
Workplace Warrior®Michelle Harris: Key Strategies For Women LeadersAbout Michelle Harris: With over 20 years of successful leadership in finance and accounting for privately held and publicly traded as well as PE backed companies with global revenues as high as $6B, Michelle is an expert in team development, change management, business process improvement, strategic thinking, and operational and financial reporting. MIchelle has a proven track record of success leading organic growth and executing aggressive roll‐up strategies in M&A. She is well known as an international financial leader who leads transactions to successful conclusions seamlessly. Her experience in consumer products, packaging, import/export, hea...2023-02-0643 min
Workplace Warrior®Tracy Sinclair: The Future of Executive Coaching - An International PerspectiveAbout Tracy Sinclair: Tracy works as an international Corporate Executive and Board Level Coach, and a leadership development designer and facilitator working with a wide range of organizations. She also specializes in working with organizations to develop a coaching culture. Tracy was named as one of the Leading Global Coach winners of the Thinkers50 Marshall Goldsmith Awards of 2019 and was a finalist for the Thinkers50 Coaching and Mentoring Award in 2021 Tracy is a Member of Marshall Goldsmith’s MG100 Coaches as well as a Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She is a tr...2023-01-0538 min
Workplace Warrior®Jen O’Ryan: Inclusion And Authenticity - Don't Screw It Up By Over-CorrectingAbout Jen O'Ryan: After an extensive career of instigating change at Fortune 100 companies and a few small-but-mighty startups, she created Double Tall Consulting. This new company would fill a gap faced by many organizations – how to get their inclusion and diversity initiatives from “good intentions” to effective, measurable, meaningful results. Now she works with business leaders, product owners, and writers who want their message to be welcoming across a broader audience. Organizations bring her in to design content, culture, and processes that are more inclusive. Her background in tech includes designing new exper...2022-12-2336 min
Workplace Warrior®Julie Noonan: The Last Of The Boomers - What Will We Keep and What Will We ChangeAbout Julie Noonan: She is an executive coach, transformational change leader, speaker, consultant, and futurist. She spent her career working with companies of all sizes helping people, as she says, “ride the waves of change.” Julie believes in unapologetic authenticity, candor, integrity, and humor, she will tell the truth, even if it stings. Her superpower is seeing the connections and patterns of behavior between people working in organizational systems and anticipating the ripple effects of a leader's action or inaction during change. Her career has included leadership positions and training and development change management, executive coaching, human capital strategy, and...2022-12-0134 min
Workplace Warrior®Maureen Rabotin: Leveraging Intercultural Intelligence for Innovation and InclusionAbout Maureen Rabotin: She has over 15 years experience accompanying executives in transition from manager to leadership roles, from country to country. Her understanding of the corporate environment comes from years as a European product leader for a medical diagnostics, multinational and Asian Pacific export director. When she left the corporate world, she transitioned to a career first as an intercultural training consultant and then as a global executive coach and coach supervisor. She's an Advanced Certified Clifton Strengths coach. Her overall passion as a global executive coach focuses on emotional intelligence and global leadership. With a foot on each...2022-11-1444 min
Workplace Warrior®Philippe Rosinski: Global Coaching Across Cultures - DEI and Abrasive LeadershipAbout Philippe Rosinski: He is a world authority in executive coaching, team coaching, and global leadership development. He is the first European to have been designated Master Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation. He is the author of two seminal books, Coaching Across Cultures and Global Coaching. For 30 years and across continents, he has helped people and organizations thrive and make a positive difference in the world. He is the co-author of 15 books including Evidence Based Coaching Handbook and Mastering Executive Coaching, and the author of the Cultural Orientations Framework (COF) assessment. A...2022-10-2745 min
Workplace Warrior®Philip Jack: A Dialogue Around Race and Class, Life in a 1950s NYC Housing ProjectAbout Philip Jack: He’s a retired educator who humorously describes himself as a jack of all trades, master of some. He was once described as a good educator as he didn’t teach subjects; instead, he taught students. In his early life, his family lived in the projects in the northern Manhattan neighborhood of Inwood. He attended public school through high school. Early on, he was employed at retail department stores and sleepaway camps. HIs professional positions included adjunct lecturer of Math and Writing at the City University of New York, district coordinator at the New York City Scho...2022-10-1232 min
Workplace Warrior®Dan LeFave: Fundamentals For Extreme ProgressAbout Dan LeFave: Dan received life's second chance after surviving a tragic head on collision that took three lives and resulted in his struggling through a coma. He has also experienced marathons, business failures, and battles with fear and doubt. He helps growth minded entrepreneurs scale to multiple seven figures by implementing systems so that their business runs itself and they can enjoy a life worth living. He's the number one best selling author of “Live the Life of Your Dreams: How To Stop Working Insane Hours And Start Living An Awesome Life”. In this episo...2022-10-0338 min
Workplace Warrior®Alinka Rutkowska: Turning Book Ideas Into Best SellersAbout Alinka Rutkowska: She is the CEO of Leaders Press (www.leaderspress.com), a USA Today and Wall Street Journal best-selling press, where she creates books for entrepreneurs from scratch and launches them to best-seller with a 100% success rate. She’s worked with top business leaders such as Po Chung (the co-founder of DHL International), Mark Nureddine (the CEO of Bull Outdoor Products) and Chris Catranis (the founder of Babylon Telecommunications). Leaders Press' releases have landed on bookshelves together with Nobel Prize winners and World Economic Forums speakers. Alinka's mission is to help 1,000 entrepreneurs share th...2022-09-1226 min
Workplace Warrior®Kute Blackson: The Magic of SurrenderAbout Kute Blackson: He is a beloved inspirational speaker and transformational teacher. He speaks at countless events that he organizes around the world as well as outside events including A-Fest, Young Presidents Organization, and the Entrepreneur’s Organization. He is a member of the transformational leadership council, a select group of 100 of the world’s foremost authorities in the personal development industry and he’s a winner of the 2019 Unity New Thought Walden Award. He is widely considered to be a next-generation leader in this field of personal development. His mission is simple: to awaken and inspire people across the pl...2022-08-2951 min
Workplace Warrior®Brandon Miller: CliftonStrengths - Building Strengths-Based Organizations with High Performance TeamsAbout Brandon MIller: Brandon is one of the first seven certified Gallup Clifton Strengths Finder Coaches in the world. He was a very early practitioner of the assessment; over 15 years ago, he used it as the executive leader of a nonprofit organization. He has since coached hundreds of leaders to find and leverage their strengths for themselves and their teams. He is the CEO of 34 Strong, Inc. which is a coaching and consulting firm dedicated to improving employee engagement. He provides specialized leadership training, coaching, advising and facilitating. Brandon is also the co-founder of Incredible Family, which is a...2022-08-1541 min
Workplace Warrior®Bill Sommers: Iron Underwear - How Does Someone Turn Around Schools & School Districts?About Bill Sommers: He is a learner, a teacher, a principal, an author, a leadership coach and a consultant. He’s come out of retirement multiple times to help principals to put theory into practice. He is a former executive director for secondary curriculum in professional learning for Minneapolis public schools and he has been a school administrator for over 35 years. He’s been a senior fellow for the Urban Leadership Academy at the University of Minnesota. Bill also has served as full-time faculty and as an adjunct faculty member at several universities. He has also been a program dire...2022-08-0148 min
Workplace Warrior®Ep 65: Jon Zieve: The Axiology Based MindScan Assessment For Leadership SuccessAbout Jon Zieve: Jon invested 34 years in a corporate career, starting as a sales rep and working his way up to VP level positions in Sales, Marketing and Customer Service. He experienced anxiety which he did his best to hide because he perceived it as a weakness. Jon became addicted to work as a way to cope with his anxiety. He also experienced fatigue, tension and inflexibility. After seeking help from chiropractors and doctors, he realized the results he sought were found with self-awareness of what is called the mind-body connection. Jon became a student of this mind-body connection...2022-07-1839 min
Workplace Warrior®Jordan Goldrich, MCEC, PCC, MG100: Victim or Target - Tips For Thriving With A Tough CEOAbout Jordan: Jordan Goldrich partners with senior executives to be completely authentic, fulfill their mission, and drive results without damaging relationships® These are strong leaders with an uncommon desire for results, who take charge, lead their teams, and accomplish the mission. Sometimes, they are experienced as abrasive and occasionally as bullying. If they are highly analytic, technical, and introverted, they can be perceived as unavailable, overly tactical or lacking confidence. Female executives have the challenge of being perceived as abrasive for behavior accepted from men. Jordan is co-author of the Amazon best seller, Workplace Warrior: Peo...2022-07-0515 min
Workplace Warrior®Ep 63: Wayne Hart, Ph.D: Transactional Analysis - Practical Tools For Leaders-Coaches and OrganizationsAbout Wayne Hart: He has over 50 years of experience applying transactional analysis as an executive coach, as a petroleum company executive, as a business owner of an information management company, as a psychologist, as a leadership development trainer, and he was a board member of three organizations; a community health center, a sustainable organization, and a professional organization. In each of those settings, he worked with different models for understanding people and producing outcomes and through it all, transactional analysis has been a universal model for understanding himself and others and for getting things accomplished. He is now dedicated...2022-06-2039 min
Workplace Warrior®Ep 62: Ron Carucci: Lead With The Power Of Truth, Justice, And PurposeAbout Ron Carucci: Ron is co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, a company that works with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. He has a thirty year track record helping executives tackle challenges of strategy, organizations, and leadership. From startups to Fortune 10’s, nonprofits to heads of state, turnarounds to new markets and strategy, he’s worked at helping executives overhaul leadership and culture to redesign for growth. He has worked in more than 25 countries on four continents and he’s the author of nine books including “Rising To Power” and his recently released book, “To...2022-06-0647 min
Workplace Warrior®Nancy Murphy: Leading Change Like Indiana JonesAbout Nancy Murphy: Nancy has spent her career saying what others are afraid to – and learning to say it in ways that others will listen. She’s the Founder and President of CSR Communications and creator of Intrapreneurs Influence Lab. Her passion is helping leaders of change within established organizations (intrapreneurs) influence and persuade others so that they can realize their vision for change faster, with less frustration and resistance. From her Catholic school student days challenging stereotypes of girls, to her first job after college convincing nonprofits to engage youth volunteers, or her role as bo...2022-05-2341 min
Workplace Warrior®Christine Billy High Potential To High PerformanceAbout Christine Billy: She is a scientist who is now a master coach who helps leaders transform high potential to high performance. She has more than 20 years experience leading global scientific technology and organizational change projects in the pharmaceutical industry at Pfizer and Novartis. She is a Laureate of the School of Pharmacy of Paris,France, she holds a PhD in Pharmacochemistry and Drug Metabolism and an MBA from the Open University of Business School in the UK. She is the European ambassador for The Association of Corporate Executive Coaches, or ACEC. She’s been serving as a mentor an...2022-05-0944 min
Workplace Warrior®Ana Melikian: You Are Your Own Worst BossAbout Ana Melikian: Ana is an optimist who had to overcome two bouts with cancer to learn that pursuing happiness is a fallacy and that choosing happiness is a much more powerful strategy to tap into your highest potential. Either by working with leaders and their teams or other coaches and consultants, Ana supports her clients to break through their mindset limitations and upgrade their psychological operating system so that they achieve better results than ever in work, in life, enjoying the process all throughout. She’s the host of the Mindset Zone Podcast which has been selected for Huffington Po...2022-04-2539 min
Workplace Warrior®Guillaume Wiatr: Building A Strategic NarrativeThe Key To Inspiring Buy-InAbout Guillaume Wiatr: He is a strategy consultant and leadership coach who guides CEOs and founders to align people and accelerate the adoption of innovation. He is the founder of MetaHelm which is a consulting firm focused on building strategic narratives for established companies. For Guillaume, traditional business story-telling is dead, innovation happens when you build a new narrative instead. He says people will pay for a story but they will die for narrative. After helping save a 20 million euro venture during the dot-com boom, Guillaume went on a mission to turn every company into a source of inspiration...2022-02-2245 min
Workplace Warrior®Grace Odonnell: How To Be A WSJ/USA Today Best Selling AuthorAbout Grace Odonnell: She is an interviewer and story teller who’s been crafting stories for over 10 years. She’s had the privilege of working for Leader’s Press for two years. Because she’s authentic and empathic, she has the ability to empower people to let their guard down, revealing the most fascinating parts of their inner selves. To date, with Leader’s Press, she has developed over a dozen books - all best-sellers on Amazon and she’s worked with over a hundred authors. She recently conducted interviews for Areva Martin, who’s an award-winning civil rights attorney and t...2022-02-0833 min
Workplace Warrior®Jordan Goldrich The Big Leap - A Different View of Self-SabotageIn this episode, Jordan discusses: “Imposter Syndrome” and self-sabotage What is our upper limit? Four reasons why we have an upper limit A different way of responding to our upper limit internal conversation Key Takeaways Many high-level leaders struggle with a voice in their head that says that they’re not as good as people think they are and that they should be concerned if people find out. Our upper limit is a conscious or unconscious thermostat that regulates the amount of success, love, money, and abundance that we’re entitled to. There are four reasons why...2022-01-2512 min
Workplace Warrior®Steve Fretzin: Sales Free Selling - The Death of Sales and The Rise of a New MethodologyAbout Steve Fretzin: He is passionate about helping attorneys reach their full potential. He’s regarded as the premier coach, skills trainer and keynote speaker on business development for attorneys. Over the past 17 years, he’s devoted his career to helping lawyers master the art of business development so they can achieve their business goals and the peace of mind that comes with developing a successful law practice. In addition to writing four books on legal marketing and business development, Steve has a highly-rated podcast called, “Be that lawyer”. Steve has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Crain’s and Entrep...2022-01-1145 min
Workplace Warrior®Dr Katrina Burrus: Transforming Brilliant Jerks into Inspiring LeadersAbout Dr Katrina Burrus: She is a master certified coach and is one of the world’s leading experts on international leadership. She facilitates a mastermind for CEOs of international companies and she’s also the author of three books: “Abrasive Leaders”, “Global Nomadic Leaders”, and “Managing Brilliant Jerks”. She’s worked with Nestle, Navartis, and even the United Nations. She’s especially good at helping executives succeed in a new assignment. In this episode, Jordan and Dr Katrina Burrus discuss: Brilliant jerks vs. demanding leaders How culture impacts how a leader is perceived Understanding the moti...2021-12-0741 min
Workplace Warrior®LaTonya Jackson: Unintentional Still Hurts, Getting Real About Equity and InclusionAbout LaTonya Jackson: LaTonya Jackson is Vice President of Services & Operations at Media Partners Corporation which provides best-in-class training content, technology, tools, and services to help organizations elevate workplace behaviors and culture. She is a 4-time author whose latest book is called 5 Blinders to Seeing Color that was released in 2020. She was previously Human Resources Director for Walmart. Dr. Jackson got her Doctor of Education at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. In this episode, Jordan and Latonya discuss: Responding to racism and inequality The Five Blinders to Seeing Color Shame and blame versus aware...2021-10-1950 min
Workplace Warrior®Rekha Saleela Nair - Women Workplace Warriors Around The WorldAbout Rekha Saleela Nair: Rekha is a personal brand strategist, consultant, and coach who works with women in leadership as well as women with leadership aspirations. She was born and raised in a matrilineal clan in India. Matrilineal means the lineage is traced through the mothers. Rekha says that she was raised by strong women whose impact was felt on their communities. She currently lives in India and helps women leaders and aspiring women leaders build authentic brands that deliver results, build influence and create the desired impact. Her personal vision is to support the building of a critical...2021-09-2046 min
Workplace Warrior®Erica Komisar: Raising Resilient Adolescents In The New Age of AnxietyAbout Erica Komisar: She is a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst and parent guidance expert who's been in private practice in New York City for over 30 years. She is a graduate of Georgetown and Columbia Universities and the New York Freudian Society. She’s a psychological consultant who brings parenting and work-life workshops to clinics, schools, and corporations in childcare settings. She’s a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the New York Daily News and a contributing editor to the Institute of Family Studies. She also appears regularly on Fox and Friends and Fox Five News...2021-09-0743 min
Workplace Warrior®Walter G. Meyer: Living Life As A Diverse Adventure - Summer Break Stories With My Co-AuthorAbout Walter G. Meyer: Walter is co-author of my book, Workplace Warrior: People Skills For The No-Bullshit Executive. He is a freelance writer who has written for dozens of magazines and newspapers including Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Los Angeles Times, The Orange County Register, and many others on a wide variety of topics ranging from baseball and Will Rogers, to sea turtles and pawn shops. He has a degree from the School of Communications from Pennsylvania State University and he’s also the author of seven published books. He has appeared on local television and radio stations and has done...2021-07-1941 min
Workplace Warrior®Phyllis Sarkaria Women Warriors: Gaining Influence In Male EnvironmentsAbout Phyllis Sarkaria: Phyllis coaches both men and women in gaining influence in corporations and organizations. She has 25+ years of leadership experience and she’s a Master Corporate Executive Coach, Facilitator, and a trusted advisor to the companies she works with. She has held executive roles in government affairs and human resources. Phyllis worked with the energy industry for almost 20 years, and 10 years of that was as a regulatory lobbyist. Before founding the Sarkaria Group, a leadership consulting group, Phyllis served as an internal advisor to C-Level Executives at Quidel Corporation. She was responsible for the Company’s global HR s...2021-07-1346 min
Workplace Warrior®Mitch Russo The Power of Experience How One Coach Navigates The World of BusinessAbout Mitch Russo: In 1985, he founded Time Slips Corporation which grew to become the largest time tracking corporation in the world and in 1994. Time Slips Corporation was sold to Sage PLC for eight figures. While he was at Sage, Mitch went on to run all of Sage US as Chief Operations Officer, a division with 300 people with a market cap and excess of a hundred million. Mitch joined Chet Holmes and Tony Robbins and created Business Breakthroughs International, a company serving thousands of businesses a year with coaching, consulting, and training services. Mitch was the president and CEO. In 2015...2021-07-0443 min
Workplace Warrior®Chris Olmsted Employment Law and Leadership In Today’s WorldAbout Chris Olmsted: Chris helps businesses avoid employment-related legal claims by providing employment law compliance advice and he also defends employers in a variety of litigation matters. He’s an attorney and shareholder in the San Diego office of Ogletree Deakins which is a California-based law firm. During his 25 years of experience litigating employment law claims, he has helped clients respond to just about every type of employment-related lawsuit that can be filed in California. He works with a team of talented defense attorneys in the firm’s San Diego office as well as the firm’s other offices throug...2021-06-2747 min
Workplace Warrior®Jordan Goldrich The Misunderstood Bully WIth Guest Host: JJ FLizanesAbout Jordan Goldrich: Jordan is a Master Corporate Executive Coach who partners with senior and developing leaders and executives who have a strong desire for results, who take charge, lead their teams, and accomplish the mission. His mission is to help them be completely authentic, fulfill their mission, and morale while taking performance to an even higher level. Jordan leverages his background as a Chief Operations Officer, Master Corporate Executive Coach, Professional Certified Coach, and Licensed Clinical Social Worker. He is co-author of the Amazon bestseller, Workplace Warrior®: People Skills For The No-Bullshit Executive, and producer and host of t...2021-06-2047 min
Workplace Warrior®Stephen Mitchley: Incentivize Employee Vitality and HealthAbout Stephen Mitchley: He is the Chief Strategy Officer who leads The Vitality Group’s digital and global partner disciplines. He brings more than 25 years of experience and expertise in overseeing operations and technology to The Vitality Group product team. Mr. Mitchley joined Vitality Group’s parent South Africa based Discovery Holdings Limited in 2000 and has had exposure across the group, leading large-scale process re-engineering activities and designing and building operations for new products and services. Before that, he helped found The Vitality Group as COO back in December of 2007. He headed up the business solutions division responsible for broa...2021-06-1434 min
Workplace Warrior®Gregg Ward: The Platinum Rule - Respectful Leadership Is Worth More Than GoldAbout Gregg Ward: He was a professional actor, writer, director and producer in New York and in London. He was also a trainer in the New York City Police Department using live theater in helping police handle difficult situations that they encounter. He was also a freelance journalist on an assignment for BBC in the United Kingdom. Now, he serves as a speaker, consultant, trainer and executive coach for global corporations and government on respect, emotional intelligence, and cultural transformation. He’s also the author of the award-winning, best-selling business fable, “The Respectful Leader”. He’s the founder and executiv...2021-05-3048 min
Workplace Warrior®Jeff Smith: Are You A High Performance Leader?About Jeff Smith: He is the founder and CEO of the Supporting Lines Institute. He’s on a mission to help leaders and teams perform so that people have a better human experience at work. He builds on 20 years of diverse leadership experience. He’s been a CEO, a CFO, and global head of sales. Jeff is a certified executive coach, chartered professional accountant, certified Dharma Yoga Instructor and is a past recipient of Business In Vancouver’s Forty under 40 Award. In this episode, Jordan and Jeff discuss: How a “Force of Nature...2021-05-2342 min
Workplace Warrior®Mercedes Martin: Rewiring Leadership In A Polarized WorldAbout Mercedes Martin: She has over two decades of experience in strategic business consulting, inclusion coaching, global diversity and leadership development. Prior to launching her current consultancy, Mercedes worked at Ernst and Young for almost ten years in talent development, organizational, change and as an executive coach. After Ernst and Young, she was Executive Vice President of Business, Transformation and Innovation at Ashton212 consulting firm. Mercedes served as staff development officer in the United States AirForce early in her career. Mercedes is a native Spanish speaker and a master corporate coach. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies i...2021-05-0950 min
Workplace Warrior®David Peckinpaugh - Unleashing Human Potential During a CrisisAbout David Peckinpaugh: David is the President of Maritz Global Events, one of the largest meeting and incentive travel management companies in the world. He has been in the industry for 30 years. He drives his company's culture with the mindset of “first take good care of each other”, applying it within the organization and towards his clients. David leads Maritz Global Events in a mission to not only impact their client’s lives positively, but also to make a positive impact on the world; addressing issues like human trafficking and sustainability. In this episode, Jordan and Davi...2021-05-0229 min
Workplace Warrior®Tara McCool: Compassionate Leadership Tougher Than You ThinkAbout Tara McCool: She began her career in broadcasting and journalism which was where she first learned about the importance of bringing compassion to the workplace. From devastated interviewees to nervous live guests, she felt that compassion needed to be present to help the person feel safe and for the interview to be successful. Over 20 years later, when she transitioned to corporate and worked her way to an executive role, leading human resources and communications, compassion was once again a critical component to her success. She believed self-compassion and compassion for others is a skill that must be developed to...2021-04-2543 min
Workplace Warrior®JJ Flizanes: Exploring the Zone of Genius Concept: Jordan gets challenged by his coachAbout JJ Flizanes: JJ Flizanes is an Empowerment Strategist and Host of The Fit 2 Love Podcast Show. She is the Director of Invisible Fitness, an Amazon best-selling author of Fit 2 Love: How to Get Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually Fit to Attract the Love of Your Life, and author of Knack Absolute Abs: Routines for a Fit and Firm Core, and was named Best Personal Trainer in Los Angeles by Elite Traveler Magazine. Her newest book, The Invisible Fitness Formula: 5 Secrets to Release Weight & End Body Shame debuted at #2 on Amazon’s Best Seller List and New Hot Release for Wom...2021-04-1850 min
Workplace Warrior®Laura Beavin-Yates: Agile Neuroscience: Surfacing The Unsaid in Leadership and MarketingAbout Laura Beavin-Yates: Laura is the Director of Customer Success for a firm called Immersion Neuroscience, which helps measure and foster human connection to ourselves to other humans and to experiences. Laura has a passion for helping foster human connection. In this episode, Jordan and Laura Beavin-Yates discuss: Only 30% of responses to surveys and interviews accurately predict behavior Lack of awareness and social pressure are responsible for the gap Measuring the respondents’ reactions can close the gap Key Takeaways: A new, affordable method for measuring a respondents’ “immersi...2021-04-0438 min
Workplace Warrior®Tom Crane: If You Can’t Coach You Can’t LeadAbout Tom Crane: Tom is an international consultant, facilitator, author, and speaker who specializes in the development of high-performance coaching cultures. He works with leaders and teams to embrace what he calls collegial coaching which he wants to become the primary method of communication to enhance individual and team performance. The premise of Tom's books The Art of Coaching and The Rise of the Coachable Leader is that a performance-based feedback-rich culture and coaching culture more effectively supports an organizational strategy and leads to sustainable levels of performance. In order to make a coaching culture real, the leader must s...2021-03-2837 min
Workplace Warrior®Phil Dana: Talent Acquisitions & Career Transition You Can’t Teach CharacterAbout Phil Dana: Philip Dana is an HR Leader who brings calm to the chaos, thriving on transformation and growth. He has been with companies like Amazon, Intuit, life technologies, and others. He says he has seen the worst and the best of humanity, sometimes standing right next to each other. Today, Phil is the Head of Human Resources for Dendreon Pharmaceuticals, an organization that is known for its prostate cancer treatments. He has a family that has battled cancer in its various forms, so he is excited to be a part of a team that fights back. Previously...2021-03-2138 min
Workplace Warrior®CB Bowman: How to Select An Executive CoachAbout CB Bowman: CB Bowman is the CEO of Workplace Equity and Equality where her goal is to support organizations from moving from intent and commitment to action without blame or shame through empathic experience-based training. She’s also the CEO of the Association of Corporate Executive Coaches (ACEC). ACEC supports master level corporate executive coaches who work with leaders in Fortune 1000 companies to serve their clients as “Enterprise-Wide Business Partners®.” CB also created the MEECO Leadership Institute as the certifying body for master-level corporate executive coaches. CB comes from corporate America working for Fortune 100 organizations in marketing and brandin...2021-03-1437 min
Workplace Warrior®Laura Crawshaw: The Boss WhispererAbout Laura Crawshaw: Dr. Laura Crawshaw is known as The Boss Whisperer. She focused her research and practice around relieving workplace suffering caused by what she refers to as abrasive leaders. Laura wrote a book, which is called Taming the Abrasive Manager, and Unnecessary Roughness in the Workplace. Laura has also been one of my main sources of feedback over the years. She has over 30 years of experience as a corporate officer, executive coach and as a psychotherapist. She got her Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Human and Organizational Systems at the Fielding Graduate University. She founded the...2021-03-0734 min
Workplace Warrior®How To Be A No - BS ExecutiveHear a unique perspective about executives who are perceived as abrasive and who sometimes get called names like bully and jerk. Today’s podcast is a recording of an interview Jordan did on WorldatWork’s Work in Progress podcast several months ago. The hosts, Charles Epstein and Tom Alexander asked really good questions and we had a very deep conversation. There is some (not much) explicit language in the conversation. In this episode, Jordan, Tom, and Charles discuss: Most authors and speakers call executives who are experienced as abrasive demeaning names like bully and jerk because they w...2021-02-2827 min
Workplace Warrior®Drive Results Without Damaging Relationships®In this episode, Jordan and discuss: Misunderstandings about abrasive leaders “Warrior Spirit” (results focus) is a key component of business leadership Internal market research: Feedforward Key Takeaways: We need results focused leaders in our rapidly changing business environment These leaders are often experienced as abrasive or even bullies. To offset the impact of your style, let people know you are not perfect. That helps them do the same Your key stakeholders are your internal market. You need their input to improve commitment, alignment and, ultimately, production. Feedforward is a tool to build trust an...2021-02-2123 min
Workplace Warrior®Self-Test: Are You AbrasiveIn this episode, Jordan discusses: We need success driven leaders and senior executives in our volatile, uncertain, complex world. Sometimes, they are perceived as abrasive and occasionally called names like bully. This self-assessment is a great starting point for discovery. Key Takeaways: Reports and peers may be afraid to tell you what they really think Superiors may be conflict avoidant “Leaders need to speak the language of their companies and teams.” If you are not sure, try Marshall Goldsmith’s “Feedforward” Mentioned: Taming The Abrasive Manager by Laura Crawshaw ...2021-02-1414 min
Workplace Warrior®Eric Chriss: Four Steps to Successful Business Strategy: The 4 M'sAbout Eric Chriss: Eric is the Founder and CEO of CUSTOMatrix Inc. a multi-disciplinary business consulting firm with the mission, “Transforming the way companies build wealth.” Eric pioneered the CFO Fractional Practice Model, which is a model that has taken on a national scope and is recognized as a best practice within the financial leadership arena. He has a background as a CFO and today functions as an executive partner to the CEO. He has generated business development strategies with banks, private equity groups, and venture capital organizations. He worked with Pioneer Electronics during their start-up and his financial oper...2021-02-0735 min
Workplace Warrior®Jordan Goldrich & Doug Sandler: What Are You Listening For?About Jordan Goldrich: Jordan is an executive coach who partners with senior and developing leaders and executives who have a strong desire for results, who take charge, lead their teams and accomplish the mission. His mission is to help them be completely authentic, fulfill their mission, achieve respect, and positive relationships while taking performance to an even higher level. Jordan leverages his background as a Chief Operations Officer, Master Corporate Executive Coach, Professional Certified Coach, and Licensed Clinical Social Worker. He is co-author of the Amazon best seller, Workplace Warrior®: People Skills For The...2021-01-3123 min
Workplace Warrior®Pieter Van Ry: A Relentless Focus on Culture to Drive ResultsAbout Pieter Van Ry: Pieter is an executive in the water utility sector with 25+ years of experience in public and private organizations. He’s a licensed professional engineer, and he has his executive MBA from the University of Denver. He is passionate about leadership and developing high performing teams in the water industry. He is currently the Director of South Platte Renew which is a regional wastewater utility and the City of Englewood utility, both of which are in Colorado. He oversees a staff of 135 operators, mechanics, engineers, scientists, and business personnel. In this episode, Jordan a...2021-01-2446 min
Workplace Warrior®How to Give Negative Feedback to Reports, Colleagues, and SuperiorsIn this episode, Jordan discusses: Delivering negative feedback to overly sensitive individuals. The steps to giving constructive feedback. Giving feedback with both positive and negative aspects. Key Takeaways: The earlier you tell someone there is a problem the earlier they will be able to address and change the associated behavior. You have no control over how the other person is going to react to your feedback. The Center For Creative Leadership’s feedback model: Situation-Behavior-Impact. Mentioned: The Heart of Coaching Tom Crane https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Coaching-Transformational-High-Performance-Culture/dp/0966087437 2021-01-1727 min
Workplace Warrior®Victoria Vives Khuong: Women Leaders Can Overcome Racism, Poverty, and Negative Social ConditioningAbout Victoria Vives Khuong: Victoria is an Amazon Best Selling Author in multiple categories, an international speaker, a podcast host, a martial artist, a healer, and a teacher. She helps women entrepreneurs and women executives find a balance between having a successful business along with a fulfilling personal life. In her book A Matter of Seconds: A Story to Empower Yourself to Love Success and Manifestation she shares how she overcomes impossible challenges such as near death experiences, psychosis, and spiritual awakening. She provides concrete repeatable strategies and wisdom gained from her own self-reflection, from her mentors, and from...2021-01-1044 min
Workplace Warrior®Gary Denham: How to Inspire Continuous Improvement with Elite Performers: Military, Civilian, and SportsAbout Gary Denham: Gary is an expert on leading and coaching elite performers. As a 20 year veteran of the Navy Seals, he was responsible for teaching communication, leadership, and mentoring skills to active duty seals operators and members of other special forces. Gary was Director of Instructor Development for the Naval Special Warfare Center for 8 years where he personally oversaw the initial instruction, qualification, and continued training of all instructors for the Seals and Special Warfare Combat Craft Crewman (SSWCCC). American military, foreign dignitaries, as well as foreign heads of state regularly came to observe his program. His program...2021-01-0346 min
Workplace Warrior®Holly Teska: Hard Power vs. Soft Power LeadershipAbout Holly Teska: As a member of the Association of Corporate Executive Coaches (acec-association.org) Holly is a Master Corporate Executive Coach. She has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and is certified by the International Coach Federation at the ACC level. Holly is passionate about authentic leadership, transforming careers, and supporting business success through remarkable leadership. She is currently President of Holly M Teska, Coaching and Consulting. Previously, she was the Managing Principal at LAK Group in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she was responsible for their Executive Coaching Practice. Before joining LAK Group, Holly served as Vice President an...2020-12-2528 min
Workplace Warrior®Cellene Hoogenkamp: Finding Your Voice: The Challenges of an International Female Executive LeaderAbout Cellene Hoogenkamp: Cellene is an Author, Speaker, and Executive Coach who works with senior executives in both Europe and The United States. She understands what it means to be an expatriate living and working across different cultures. Cellene was raised in the Netherlands with further education in Sydney, Australia where she obtained her B.S. and MBA. She’s multilingual in Dutch, English, German, and French. She’s worked as a Manager, Senior Executive and Board Director in Australia, Asia, Europe, and The United States As a coach, she helped senior leaders and their teams expand their leadership and...2020-12-1345 min
Workplace Warrior®Erica Komisar: Masculinity Isn’t an IllnessAbout Erica Komisar: Erica Komisar is a licensed clinical social worker, psychoanalyst, and parent guidance expert who has been in private practice in New York City for over 30 years. She’s a graduate of Georgetown and Columbia Universities and the New York Freudian Society. Erica is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Daily News. She is the author of a book called Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters and she is currently finishing a second book on the topic of raising resilient emotionally secure adolescents in an...2020-12-0640 min
Workplace Warrior®Marc Kramer: Identifying Multi-Million Dollar Opportunities to Control Your Financial FutureAbout Marc Kramer: Marc is a serial entrepreneur who has won the Inc. Magazine Entrepreneur of The Year, runs a podcast called Best Business Minds that interviews business book authors, and has a journalism degree from West Virginia University, and a Masters in Management from Penn State University. He’s the author of five business books including Power Networking, Small Business Turn Around, Financing and Building an E-Commerce Venture and Consulting. His company Kramer Communications has worked with over 500 companies providing business development plans, capital raising assistance, corporate website development, marketing plans, and public relations. In this...2020-11-2943 min
Workplace Warrior®Ep: 20 Dennis Langlais: How to Become the Go-To in Your Niche MarketAbout Dennis Langlais: Dennis has an incredible background. At age 18 he got involved in extreme sports bike riding also known as BMX freestyle and doing that he traveled the world competing at the highest levels in the BMX stunt world. He also got a crash course in discipline, hard work, and the ability to tap into a mindset of peak performance. Later on, he turned his passion as a BMX rider into a business doing shows for schools and it became one of the most successful school assemblies of its kind nationwide and he earned a comfortable six-figure income...2020-11-2239 min
Workplace Warrior®Robert McClure: Mindfulness and Compassion: Skills for Successful LeadershipAbout Robert McClure: Bob is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Certified Mindfulness Facilitator and Instructor at UCLA Mindful Awareness Center. He’s also a Senior Educator and Certified Compassion Cultivation Training Teacher for Stanford University Center for Compassion, Altruism, Research, and Education (CCARE). He’s also a trained L2 Coach for Unified Mindfulness. Bob is a Human Resources Consultant at Sharp Healthcare in San Diego and teaches mindfulness and compassion skills to healthcare professionals which include emergency room doctors and nurses as well as other high-stress physicians. In this episode, Jordan and Robert discuss:...2020-11-1553 min
Workplace Warrior®Joe Musselman: TLC, Teams Leadership and CultureAbout Joe Musselman: Joe is in love with best friend and wife Hannah. Joe is a proud father to his first son Jack Jack. He’s a U.S. Navy veteran, an entrepreneur, a recovering CEO, and most recently launched Fathom Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in excellent teams, leadership, and culture. Joe is the Founder of the Honor Foundation, the number one career transition institute for the Navy SEALs, Marine Raiders and our other special forces. In this episode, Jordan and Joe discuss: Joe’s research on what transitioning Navy SEALs...2020-11-0936 min
Workplace Warrior®Joe Lara: Warrior Servant LeadershipAbout Joe Lara: Joe began his 24-year military experience as a code breaker for the National Security Agency and the Department of Defense. During the last ten years of his military training, he trained and deployed alongside Navy Seals Teams. There he performed a highly technical role in conducting combat operations serving next to some of the most elite people on the planet in some of the most hostile environments imaginable. Today, he is the Vice President of Programs and Curriculum at the Honor Foundation, a non-profit organization that specializes in helping special operations veterans transition into civilian life...2020-11-0236 min
Workplace Warrior®Miguel A. De Jesus: Making a Difference in People’s Lives About Miguel A. De Jesus: Miguel DeJesus a highly accomplished, results-oriented C level leader with more than 35 years of experience leading business management, global sales and marketing and customer service operations for Fortune 500 companies. He ran a $225 million sales organization as VP of sales and currently provides leadership and sales training to professionals and transformational leadership consulting as a coach. He's the director of business development for Cal State University, San Marcos, in the College of Business Administration, and he serves as faculty teaching sales, sales management, international marketing and sales leadership. Miguel serves as volunteer faculty and executive c...2020-10-2635 min
Workplace Warrior®Stephen Krempl: Getting Into The 5% ZoneAbout Stephen Krempl: Stephen Krempl is the CEO of Krempl Communications International and creator of the Global Executive Mindset (GEM), a program that focuses on empowering high potential future leaders to make a mark in their organizations. This program, offered through lectures, in-house workshops and online programs, has benefited numerous individuals and organizations globally. Stephen has also extended the GEM™ message to students, through an online program called Winning in the Work World™ (W3 Online), to prepare them as they step into the work world. As an international trainer, speaker and author, Stephen has worked with...2020-10-1938 min
Workplace Warrior®Ep: 14 Michael Wader: Reinventing LeadersAbout Michael Wader: Michael has reinvented himself for his four careers. After finishing 26 years in the US Air Force and 25 years of teaching leadership in 16 different countries he’s focused on helping other leaders reinvent themselves. People from around the world recognize his energetic, inspirational, and highly motivated people’s first passion. He reinvented himself from a hated but successful leader to an award-winning leader in the United States Air Force. His hard knocks leadership experience has paved the way for him to now make it easier for other tough-minded leaders to improve their leadership performance. He’s written 4 books...2020-10-0528 min
Workplace Warrior®Joanne McCall: How to Get Your Message Heard in a Noisy, Busy WorldAbout Joanne McCall: Joanne is a Publicist and Media Trainer. She helps leaders who are often non-fiction authors become media darlings. Her secret sauce is positioning, securing, and helping authors to deliver compelling interviews and capture media attention through the various media channels now available. On a first-name basis with hundreds of top rung producers, editors, writers, and journalists, she secures coverage for clients including Brain Tracy, Ken Blanchard, Dave Ramsey, Geneen Roth, Diana Stoneham, and the Deepak Chopra Center for Well Being. She has also helped the founder of NLP Dr. Richard Bandler and many others. Her media...2020-09-2134 min
Workplace Warrior®Wayne Hart: Don’t work on Eggshells in the Workplace: How to Give Feedback That Builds Performance and RelationshipsAbout Wayne Hart: Dr. Hart has worked in public education, healthcare, and consulting positions, and held senior leadership roles in the petroleum industry, environmental technology, and information management. He’s currently a Senior Fellow with The Center for Creative Leadership which is one of the best known research leadership development and executive coaching organizations in the world. You can check them out at www.ccl.org. Prior to his current role, Dr. Hart served the Center for over 18 years in the role of senior faculty and during that time he trained over 4000 leaders. He designed and delivered custom leadership de...2020-09-1441 min
Workplace Warrior®Doug Sandler: Being Nice and Supportive as a Function of Building Your BusinessAbout Doug Sandler: Doug has over 30 years of business experience as an entrepreneur and leader. His book Nice Guys Finish First is a number one ranked Amazon bestseller and as a podcast host of The Nice Guys on Business, Podcast Doug has interviewed Gary Veinerchuck, Ariana Huffington, Dan Harris from Good Morning America, Ron Clane, White House Chief of Staff, and dozens of celebrities. He specializes in teaching others how to’s of business relationships and strengthening connections. Doug is a nationally recognized speaker and writer. While he doesn’t practice it anymore, he is also a phenomenal D.J. H...2020-08-3136 minWorkplace Warrior®Charles Epstein: Empathy in the WorkplaceAbout Charles Epstein: Charles is the founder of Backbone which is a marketing, public relations, and business development company that specializes in technology, healthcare, and human capital management. His work spans not safe for work columnists (NSFW) and he’s formerly a Huffington Post satire columnist. He has a satiric and sarcastic sense of humor. He developed a number of employee engagement and communications platforms including one called Peaquest which is immersive health and wellness assessments, and Weekender, which is about moving wellness to the weekends, and MBarc, which is to prepare and support ex-pats. Helping people make the tr...2020-08-2438 minWorkplace Warrior®Adam Lewis Walker: Public Speaking and PresentationsAbout Adam Lewis Walker: Adam is the entrepreneur’s global reach authority. He is a two-time Best Selling Author and TED-X Speaker he hosts the top-ranked podcast network Awaken Your Alpha on which he interviews the world’s elite minds and he’s had over 400 episodes since 2014. Adam helps aspiring TED-X speakers to achieve their own talk through a TED accelerator program. He’s a former teacher and international pole vaulter. In 2008 he was attempting to reach the Olympics when his career was cut short by a freak accident. He hit rock bottom. He has had to rebuild his dreams a...2020-08-1530 minWorkplace Warrior®Kenneth Bator: B+C+S is Just B.S. Without the CAbout Kenneth Bator: Ken is the founder of Bator Training and Consulting Inc. or BTC. He has 20+ years of experience helping organizations reach new levels of effectiveness by aligning their brand, their culture, and their strategy. He’s the author of The Formula for Business Success = B+C+S and also The Pocket Guide To Strategic Planning the 90 Day Quick Fix for the Business Owner or Manager. Ken has hosted and produced four separate shows including Branding the Experience, Cool Culture Corner, The Credit Union Business News Podcast, and Beyond the Call. He is one of the first Category Di...2020-08-0731 minWorkplace Warrior®Frank Wagner: Marshall Goldsmith CoachingAbout Frank Wagner: Frank was a founding partner in the Marshall Goldsmith Group. Frank has worked with Marshall since 1972 and Marshall asked Frank to help him develop the methodology so that they could teach other coaches. Frank’s specialty as a teacher and a coach has been helping leaders become more effective influencers since 1976. His mission is to measurably improve leadership around the world and he has a long list of accomplishments. He was recognized last year in London as being one of the top coach trainers in the world. He has both an MBA and a Ph.D. fr...2020-08-0133 minWorkplace Warrior®Lisa Remillard: Harness the Power of MediaAbout Lisa Remillard: An award winning broadcast journalist, Lisa is an expert storyteller. Getting to the why, making sense of it, and delivering to an audience. Her childhood dream of being a reporter on tv turned into a nearly 20-year successful career in some of the largest cities in the country. Lisa covered some of the biggest stories, interviewing people from all walks of life. She likes to say from famous to infamous. She’s appeared on CNN, TMZ, and outlets all in between. She’s now the co-founder of her own content network, BeondTV and co-host of her Los...2020-07-2534 minWorkplace Warrior®Holly Teska: Hard Power vs. Soft Power LeadershipAbout Holly Teska: As a member of the Association of Corporate Executive Coaches (acec-association.org) Holly is a Master Corporate Executive Coach. She has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and is certified by the International Coach Federation at the ACC level. An Integral Coach, Holly is passionate about authentic leadership, transforming careers, and supporting business success through remarkable leadership. She currently serves as Managing Principal at LAK Group in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she is responsible for their Executive Coaching Practice. Before joining LAK Group, Holly Served as Vice President and Managing Principal for North American Coaching at Ri...2020-07-0726 minWorkplace Warrior®Greg Voisen: Hacking the GapAbout Greg Voisen: Greg is a thought leader in the personal growth and human potential movement. He founded a podcast called Inside Personal Growth. Over the last ten years he has interviewed over 800 authors. Through his company Eluminate Inc., he and his team of six associates advise small to medium sized business owners about financial management, human capital management, and process improvement. Greg is also co-author with John Selby of Wisdom Wellness and Redefining Work. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management from San Diego State University and a Master’s Degree In Spiritu...2020-06-1932 minWorkplace Warrior®CB Bowman: Founder/Chief Operations OfficerAbout CB Bowman: Founder and CEO of the Association of Corporate Executive Coaches (ACEC) and the non-profit, MEECO Leadership Institute. ACEC supports master level corporate executive coaches who coach the top tier of Fortune 1000 companies. CB was one of the first black female executives to work for a Fortune 500 consumer products company. She won several awards for product marketing and branding from General Foods. She also founded the National Association for Interior Design. CB holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Pace University’s Lubin School of Business where she also taught and served on the board of ad...2020-06-1931 min
Workplace Warrior®Joe Musselman: TLC, Teams Leadership and CultureAbout Joe Musselman: Joe is in love with best friend and wife Hannah. Joe is a proud father to his first son Jack Jack. He’s a U.S. Navy veteran, an entrepreneur, a recovering CEO, and most recently launched Fathom Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in excellent teams, leadership, and culture. Joe is the Founder of the Honor Foundation, the number one career transition institute for the Navy SEALs, Marine Raiders and our other special forces. In this episode, Jordan and Joe discuss: Joe’s research on what transitioning Navy...2020-06-1936 min
Workplace Warrior®Welcome to the Workplace Warrior Podcast with Jordan GoldrichWorkplace Warrior®: where you hear unique perspectives on leaders with an uncommon desire for results, who take charge, lead their teams and accomplish the mission. They are critical for success in our volatile, complex, and uncertain times. Sometimes, they are perceived as abrasive and occasionally called names like bully. Your host, Jordan Goldrich, grew up in a loud New York family and once lost an executive position because of his style. He is co-author of the Amazon Best Seller, Workplace Warrior®: People Skills For The No-Bulls**t Executive, Chief Operations Officer, Master Corporate Executive Coach, and Licensed Cl...2020-06-0917 min