Accelerate Your Business Growth

Accelerate Your Business Growth

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Accelerate Your Business Growth episodes

  • Are You Listening to Your Customer?
    Nigel Green makes the case that listening is everything when it comes to serving your customer. Good listening is a crucial piece of the communication puzzle, but what determines what is actually considered good listening and are you really listening to begin with? Nigel shows us how to really listen to your customer and change the way you communicate.
    Nigel Green builds businesses. He's built a career in sales & marketing and currently serves as the vice president of sales & marketing at Relode  a healthcare platform that allows the marketplace to connect top healthcare professionals to healthcare’s best jobs. From 2012 to 2015 he served as vice president of sales at Foundations Recovery Network, where he helped grow the business from $94M to $350M before selling it to Universal Health Services. In 2016 he served as the CEO at StoryBrand, helping teach businesses how to communicate with clarity. He writes on leading and building sales teams at www.findevergreen.com, and his work has been featured in Inc. Magazine and Business Insider.
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    47 min
  • 6 Disciplines of Effective Leadership
    Ed Eppley joins me to discuss the six disciplines of focused management pros. He recommends we make a “Stop Doing” list and offers actions that someone could take today to get a sense of where they are as a leader and what they need to improve.
    Ed is a leading global expert in professional management, sales strategy, and performance management. He is a principal consultant for the Table Group, a Patrick Lencioni Company, and operates The Eppley Group. He has trained managers at multinational companies across the U.S., Europe, China, Japan, and Australia. His clients include a “Who’s Who” of business category leaders such as BMW, DSW, Sara Lee, Bloomberg, Battelle, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Speedway, Steamboat Ski & Resort Company, Value City Furniture, PSA Airlines, Emerson Electric, NECCO, Safelite Auto Glass, and others.
    As a facilitator of the Course for Presidents at Aileron, Ed helps owners of private businesses apply a system of professional management to identify and correct workplace problems.
    Learn more about Eppley and The Eppley Group at http://www.TheEppleyGroup.com. Download the first chapter of Ed’s new book “Let’s Be Clear,” at http://www.letzbeclear.com.
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    54 min
  • Simple And Easy Leadership
    Treat them with respect, involve them in problem solving, and grow together. Ned Parks joins me to talk about this very important subject. Ned Parks is a business consultant who draws on his background as a U.S. Army Warrant Officer helicopter instructor pilot and business owner to provide owners and management-level executives strategies to improve their operations and strengthen their business goals.
    In 2000, Ned opened Aegis 360 Consulting, a firm focusing on corporate culture, leadership development, and business strategy. Certified as a Registered Corporate Coach, Ned’s expertise includes the areas of strategic planning, leadership development, and coaching. He guides leaders to connect with their teams and combine personal and organizational objectives to achieve their goals, offering
    proven business strategies with creative approaches, practical methods, and unique execution applications. Ned is a Lean 6 Sigma Green Belt training. He is also
    certified in Everything DiSC®, The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team program, and PXT Select. Ned is the author of The Simple and Easy Manager.
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    1 hr 8 min
  • Reliable Ways To Identify The MOST Fitting Person For Each Job
    Steve Acho (rhymes with macho), his staffing company and his staffing platform help companies, recruiters and job seekers connect in a more human way with the use of today’s technology. His book Why Technology Recruiting is Broken and What to do About ithas helped put into perspective the problem with recruiting and hiring today. Steve believes at the heart of successful recruiting and team building is a conversation, and technology can help facilitate a better experience.
    Steve earned his MBA while living in Japan and working for the CEO of Mazda. The published author has consulted CEOs of Fortune 100 companies, and currently operates the Detroit Michigan-based technology staffing firm Solstice Consulting Group. He is passionate about using technology to be more human, and helping “change the conversation” in the market, so that organizations can find better fits, and job-seekers can find more meaningful work.
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    56 min
  • How to Bootstrap Your Way to Success
    Join us today on a reality check as Stefan Pretty shares his beliefs why today's perception of effort vs success is so sickeningly wrong. He is talking about the ways to achieve more with less, on how one can bootstrap his business and succeed in what he is doing without the need to depend on someone else's money, explaining how story of a castaway is pretty much the story of a modern tech entrepreneur.
    Stefan is a Scottish tech entrepreneur, currently residing in Los Angeles. He has given birth to 5 different business since the age of 18. His current brainchild, Subbly, has grown to be a 6 figure business in less than 2.5 years while staying entirely bootstrapped. Stefan is passionate about helping people succeed, doing more with less and rock and roll. Be sure to grab is guide to starting a subscription box business.
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    40 min
  • How To Succeed As An Entrepreneur And Build A Valuable Business
    Join me for a conversation with Derek Lidow when he’ll share what he’s learned through research and observation. Derek is the former CEO of International Rectifier and the founder of iSuppli, a leading market research firm, which he sold in 2010 for $100 million to global information leader IHS. He has written two books on entrepreneurship, the latest being Building on Bedrock: What Sam Walton, Walt Disney, and Other Great Self-Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Building Valuable Companies. He is currently a professor at Princeton University, teaching entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.
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    51 min
  • Can I Write It Off
    Craig Cody joins me to share some of the known, and less known items you can write off legitimately. Craig is a Certified Tax Coach, Certified Public Accountant, Business Owner and Former New York City Police Officer with 17 years experience on the Force. In addition to being a Certified Public Accountant for the past 15 years, he is also a Certified Tax Coach. Craig has co-authored an Amazon best seller book, Secrets of a Tax-Free Life.
     
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    35 min
  • Legacy Building, Through Extraordinary Leadership
    Join me for a conversation with Hugh Littleton about what it means to communicate effectively. Hugh provides us with some terrific, actionable information. Hugh, President of Hugh Littleton Consulting, LLC, is an International Corporate Leadership Trainer known as the Leadership Guru. 
    Hugh is the author of the book “Legacy Building through Extraordinary Leadership”.  He has provided leadership development to more than 25 organizations in Northeast Ohio, across the United States, and in the United Kingdom.  In addition, he is the winner of the 2010, Cleveland Business Connect Magazine, Best Speaker and Facilitator Award. Named the Keynote Speaker of the Year in 2014 by the CBC Magazine. 2016 finalist for CBC’s Keynote Speaker of the Year.
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    54 min
  • How to Stop Wasting Money & Only Do Marketing That Works
    In reviewing over 1000 brands over the past decade and working with startups to household brands, Derek Champagne has identified 5 common crisis points in branding and marketing and how to build campaigns that get results. Derek is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience developing effective marketing campaigns. Derek shares his story of growing up from humble beginnings, on stage at age of 3, his years as a Hollywood musician, and his diverse journey to get where he is today.
    He is the Founder & CEO of The Artist Evolution, a full service agency building memorable brands, marketing tools and campaigns for startups to household brands.
    Derek is also the author of the best-selling marketing book Don’t Buy a Duck and the host of the popular Business Leadership Series podcast, that also airs as a weekly business show on ESPN radio regionally.
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    49 min
  • Leadership Begins With Storytelling
    Everyone’s had a bad boss. But how can you avoid becoming one? In this podcast, we will discuss using creative storytelling to be a better leader with Stephanie Taglianetti and Brian Harman.
    Stephanie M Taglianetti is an Italian-American creative writer from NY, a master of fine arts, literally, and she has a masters degree in fine arts from CalArts, the school founded by Walt Disney. She is also a brilliant musician, illustrator and jazz singer.
    Brian M Harman, is an American businessman who has been working in corporate leadership and supply chain management since 2004. He has studied global finance and management science at the University of Oxford and Pepperdine University, earning his MBA degree and currently finishing his PhD in Global Leadership and Change. Their book How To Avoid A Huge Leadershit is a must read.
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    37 min

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