Do you lack confidence? You are not alone. Many people lack confidence in their everyday lives, they just don’t often talk about it. Improving your confidence can help you create or align more strongly with your brand.

Do you want to build an irresistible culture that drives results? Culture is what employees are attracted to. It’s why they choose to work for you or why they choose to leave you. Positive cultures promote innovation, collaboration, communication, productivity, etc. Many studies will prove that positive and inclusive cultures are more successful and engaging.

Lyndsay Dowd, founder of Heartbeat for Hire and author of Top Down Culture: Revolutionizing Leadership to Drive Results, is passionate about helping leaders create irresistible cultures. Lyndsay shares how asking for feedback from your team can be a good first step to improving the culture. Lyndsay teaches us the importance of being a heart-centered leader. Lyndsay tells leaders how to develop their power skills. Lyndsay shares more about the release of her book Top Down Culture: Revolutionizing Leadership to Drive Results. Listen to Lyndsay to learn all about improving your culture, becoming a heart-centered leader, her Heartbeat For Hire podcast, her new book and more.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyndsaydowdh4h/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/heartbeat-for-hire/

https://heartbeatforhire.com/

https://www.topdownculture.com/

https://heartbeatforhire.com/podcast/

https://www.amazon.com/Top-Down-Culture-Revolutionizing-Leadership/dp/B0CFZ2H14G

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Did you know that improv can improve your leadership and communication skills? Many of the tools used in improv can help you to become a better leader. Improv also can be a really great team-building activity to foster a culture of trust and inclusivity.

Caitlin Drago, Owner of Inspire Improv & Coaching Inc., is passionate about helping leaders and teams to communicate, collaborate and succeed by using the improv approach. Caitlin shares how active listening can improve communication. Caitlin teaches us how the improv approach can create psychologically safe and inclusive work environments. Caitlin tells us how both employees and leaders can use the tools they learned from the improv approach to have better interactions at work and home. Caitlin shares more about the release of her upcoming book Approaching Improv. Listen to Caitlin to learn all about the improv approach and how it can help you to become a stronger leader, better communicator and increase innovation.

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https://www.inspireimprov.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitlindrago/

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Do you want to change the intonation of your voice? Are you transitioning to your true gender and need help changing your voice to match? Are you an actor who needs help honing your accent? No matter what reason you have for wanting to learn more about your voice and how to change parts of it, the only one that matters is because YOU want to change it for yourself!

Ariela Quetant, Owner of Sound Your Best, is passionate about speech, language and vocals while also being their authentic self. Ariela shares how to help you refine your speaking style. Ariela teaches us the importance of verbal communication and body language. Ariela tells us to improve our confidence through speech. Ariela teaches us about intonation and vocal chords. Listen to Ariela to learn all about Sound Your Best and speech coaching.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/arielaquetant/

https://www.tosoundyourbest.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/sound-your-best/

https://www.husson.edu/online/blog/2022/10/perfecting-body-language-as-a-leader

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How do we improve DEI in STEM in higher education? Let’s start by understanding whose perspectives get centered. Rather than focusing on the deficits of what marginalized groups don’t have, let’s focus on the assets they do have. We need to shift the ideas of who is a good scientist. It’s also about brave individuals paving the way for others who look like them by being the first, the few or the only because representation matters.

Nicollette Mitchell, geologist and doctoral student, is passionate about DEI in STEM in higher education. Nicollette shares more on justice and equity in higher education. Nicollette teaches us the importance of citational justice. Nicollette tells us about her soon-to-be published ebook. Listen to Nicollette to learn all about DEI in higher education.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicollette-m-57486333/

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https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nicollette-d-mitche

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How do we encourage entrepreneurship? We are constantly encouraging people to become an employee, urging them to pick a career and an ideal company to work for. But this country was born on entrepreneurship. Let’s encourage entrepreneurship by adding curriculum to our school systems, fostering a culture of ideas at all ages and helping those dreamers to succeed.

David Morales, author of American Familia, is passionate about entrepreneurship and fostering a learning environment that helps to encourage entrepreneurship. David shares how important culture is and how frequently it needs to be reviewed. David teaches us the importance of entrepreneurship. David tells us about his book American Familia. Listen to David to learn all about entrepreneurship and culture.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidamorales75/

https://www.davidamorales.com/

https://www.amazon.com/American-Familia-Perseverance-David-Morales/dp/163299450X

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Are you cultivating your company’s culture? As you begin to focus on your company’s culture, you must also focus on diversity, equality, inclusion and belonging. Culture and DEIB are connected and intertwined with one another throughout your organization. Your culture should be present in your mission, vision and values. It’s about listening to your employees' voice, the way you treat them and meeting them where they are at.

Tiffany Castagno, Founder & Owner of Cultivating the Evolution of Professional HR (CEPHR), helps companies to better understand their culture. Tiffany explains how DEIB and culture are linked. Tiffany shares how active listening offers significant value throughout your organization. Tiffany teaches us the importance of change management. Tiffany expresses her passion for creating people-first environments and moving the evolution of HR forward. Tiffany is a proud partner of hr-4u inc. Listen to Tiffany to learn all about culture, DEIB and active listening.

Supporting Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanycastagno/

https://www.cephrconsulting.com/

https://www.hr-4u.org/

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Are you focusing on DEI in hiring? As you look to hire new talent in your organization, you must also focus on diversity, equality and inclusion. Do you have diversity in your hiring practices? Do you provide pay equality? Do you have an inclusive culture? DEI in hiring is more than just checking off boxes when you reach the desired numbers. It’s about committing to a culture that affords inclusivity, that provides fair and equitable wages and that is genuinely diverse. 

Desiree Goldey, Director, Talent Operations & Culture at Hub Recruiting, helps companies understand diversity, equality and inclusion, particularly in hiring. Desiree explains how to effectively implement a DEI framework into your hiring process. Desiree shares how active listening offers significant value in implementing DEI. Desiree teaches us how creating an actionable plan is impactful. Desiree gives us the ROI of using a DEI framework to hire talent. Desiree expresses her passion for creating people-first environments. Desiree is a proud partner of hr-4u inc. Listen to Desiree to learn all about DEI in hiring and culture.

Supporting Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/desireegoldey/

https://www.hubrecruiting.com/

https://www.amazon.com/First-Few-Only-Redefine-Corporate/dp/0063084716

https://www.bls.gov/

https://www.hr-4u.org/

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Do you know what the lean business model is? Continuous improvement and respect for people are the foundation or pillars of lean. Lean is not only for manufacturing environments who are looking to increase value and minimize waste. Lean can be used in any organization to improve current processes, increase value and enhance purpose and engagement.

Sam Morgan, Founder of Illuminate Coaching & Consulting, explains how a lean business model can breathe new life into your obligatory meetings. Sam explains how the principles of lean can improve engagement, purpose and experience for employees. Sam shares the ways he has implemented these concepts into his corporate work and how his clients can add a lean mindset into theirs. Sam teaches heart-centered lean leaders how to thrive! Sam is passionate about creating people-first environments through his coaching and training and is a proud partner of hr-4u inc. Listen to Sam to learn all about lean, purpose-driven work, heart-centered leadership and empowering people to be their full selves.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelvictormorgan/

https://www.illuminatecoach.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/illuminate-coaching-consulting/

https://www.amazon.com/Second-Lean-People-Build-Culture/dp/0984662286/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1690468610&sr=1-1

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You can have everything you want, just not all at once! Understanding yourself requires you to do some deeper inner work in order to get to the root cause of your values, priorities and who you are. How do you better understand yourself and what you value without judgment? 

Dawnell Kelly, Strategic Leader and Mompreneur, helps individuals navigate the inner work that needs to be done to understand themselves better and to identify their values and priorities. Dawnell explains how to implement this in a company or in a family. Dawnell shares about her time working as a firefighter in the military. Dawnell teaches us how to look at ourselves and one another as a whole person. Dawnell gives us the tools to unravel our common threads throughout our life journey. Dawnell expresses her passion for creating people-first environments and the effectiveness of shorter workweeks. Dawnell is a proud partner of hr-4u inc. Listen to Dawnell to learn all about understanding yourself better, creating meaningful values, recognizing that you are many things to many people and putting people first.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnellkelly/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/auxly/

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