Our guest today is an old friend of Todd’s named Russell Pereira.

“Russ” is a leadership coach and management trainer based in Silicon Valley who’s helped individuals, teams and leaders at Google, Qantas, Altis, Pixar and other successful companies. He has 15+ years of international experience in crafting and building programs for leadership development, learning, talent management and organizational development.

Strong management and communication skills are imperative in our multi-generational organizations today. It is important to be able to effectively understand the needs of your employees and co-workers, so being able to speak the same language is key. Executive Coach, Russell Pereira shares tips and secrets on how to effectively shift and train an organizations mindset.

Here’s a few of our favorite highlights from this episode that we think you will love:

* – Find out if you are a good leader based on four important questions

* – How the four-question framework was developed

* – How to speak the same language to diffuse tricky situations

* – The secret to creating a successful working environment

* – Using a common language throughout business

* – The big trends: Employee turnover & company lifespan

Book Recommendation by Russell

• The Living Company – By: Arie De Geus

Explores the theme of organizational learning. Provides an investigation of the consequences of building a sustainable work community for human resource management, strategic planning and organizational structure.

FULL TRANSCRIPTON*

**NOTE: Timecode is from the FULL podcast interview, not the final edited version.

Todd Staples: (01:34)

Hello?

Todd Staples: (02:06)

Russell.

Russell Pereira: (02:06)

Hey. Hi mate.

Todd Staples: (02:10)

Good. How are you doing buddy?

Russell Pereira: (02:12)

Going great, man. Doing great.

Todd Staples: (02:15)

Excellent. All right, now wait, what’s that?

Russell Pereira: (02:21)

You doing a whole bunch of podcasts in a row?

Todd Staples: (02:23)

Yeah, we’re uh we’re cranking through them, man. I’m a, I’m playing around. You see my background?

Russell Pereira: (02:29)

Yeah.

Todd Staples: (02:31)

That’s pretty slick, right? Wait, well, maybe this is more fitting because you’re in San Francisco.

Russell Pereira: (02:36)

Well there you go man. We’re just cranking it there.

Todd Staples: (02:41)

And there’s Derek, Derek meet Russell. You guys are awesome. I’m so excited for you both to meet.

Derek Lundsten: (02:47)

Hey Russell. How you doing?

Russell Pereira: (02:49)

Good yourself.

Derek Lundsten: (02:50)

I’m great. Thanks. Nice to meet you.

Russell Pereira: (02:52)

Yeah, yeah, likewise.

Derek Lundsten: (02:54)

Awesome.

Todd Staples: (02:54)

So Derek, I don’t even know if I told you where we first met. We met at the tribal leadership intensive, which was Dave Logan’s like, it was a two day event, I think two day. Um, and we ended up in a group that were doing these crazy exercises together and we just hit it off right away. And, uh, I was about 10 years ago, wasn’t it Russ?

Russell Pereira: (03:16)

Wow. My goodness. Yeah. Yeah,

Todd Staples: (03:21)

pretty close to it.

Derek Lundsten: (03:22)

And Russell, where are you based now?

Russell Pereira: (03:25)

So I’m based in, uh,