In this episode, Tracy interviews Vaughn Sigmon, a corporate executive turned entrepreneur and founder of Results Driven Leadership. From his executive role at Carmax leading a team of over 3,000, to his entrepreneurial role as the founder of Results Driven Leadership, Vaughn shares his insights and strategies on a wide range of topics including leadership, giving feedback,  time management, and maintaining consistency. 

They discuss the importance of being people-first in leadership and how successful companies prioritize their employees. Vaughn emphasizes the need for investing in employee development and providing regular feedback.

The conversation highlights the significance of building relationships with employees and aligning individual and organizational goals. They delve into the challenges of delegation and the power of consistency in achieving success. In this conversation, Tracy and Vaughn discuss the importance of consistency and growth in the creative and business world. They also explore the challenges of perfectionism and fear of criticism.

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Episode Resources - Recommendations from Vaughn Sigmon

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In this episode, Tracy Clark explores the idea of holding a dozen of your favorite problems in mind and why it is a powerful reflection exercise. We talk about multipotentialites and how this activity can help us get more clear about what matters to us, even when there are lots of possibilities on the table. We dig into the question, what is the work we want to be doing?  We also consider how the 12 Favorite Problems reflection activity can be a helpful filter for what we say yes and no to. 

FREE Downloadable Template - My 12 Favorite Problems https://courses.buildingthinkers.com/pl/2148005479

Tracy answers the questions:

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FREE Downloadable  Template - My 12 Favorite Problems - https://courses.buildingthinkers.com/pl/2148005479

​​​​Tracy Clark & Kerry Ann Pearce talk all about building organized spaces and entrepreneurship. Kerry Ann shares her journey from the Bahamas to Buda, Texas where she launched and now runs her professional organizing services company, Luxxe Organizing. We talk about some of the reasons why people end up with too much stuff and too little space and how she approaches helping others decrease the stress of STUFF.

Episode Resources - Recommendations from Kerry Ann Pearce

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And for any of our local Hays County listeners looking to get organized share the code #buildingthinkers when you reach out to Kerry Ann (infoATluxxeorganizing.com) for a special discount on your organizing project

​​​​Tracy Clark & Romy Alexandra explore experiential learning and jump into the deep end of the duality of learning and development work. In this episode, Romy shares opportunities she sees to bring more humanity into the learning space. We talked about the power of the rules of open space not only for learning experience design but also as a handy mental reframing tool she applies to her life. Romy shares how those involved in learning experience design can love our participants more than our design and what it looks like for that to play out in real-time ways in our sessions. 

For more foundational information on what experiential learning design is, check out the resources Romy shared below. 

Episode Resources - Recommendations from Romy Alexandra

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​​​​Tracy Clark & Jordan Hopkins talk all things customer education -  including how to build customer education experiences that support informed, happy customers and better business outcomes. We talked about the power of simplicity in learning experience design and why less is almost always more. Jordan shares his take on how engagement isn’t always loud or overt and lessons he’s learned from traditional education, internal L&D work and customer education at Intellum.  

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In this episode, Tracy Clark explores the idea of learning agility and why it is the ultimate competitive advantage for modern work and life.

Tracy answers the questions:

- What is learning agility?

- Why does learning agility matter?

- How might we begin to develop learning agility? Including three practical ideas for getting started with your own learning agility development.

Tracy shares how reflecting on her own learning story helped her recognize the power of this concept and its direct impact on her personal and professional growth.

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The Power of Habit: Why we do what we do in life and business | By Charles Duhigg

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less | By Greg McKeown

Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead & Live without Barriers | By Jo Boaler

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All the Building Thinkers socials and such - https://linktr.ee/buildingthinkers

Build Your Thinker - https://courses.buildingthinkers.com/newsletter

​​​​Tracy Clark & Kristiaan Hartmann talk about building clarity and motivation to learn.  Kristiaan spoke to his own challenge in making decisions at important crossroads in life and how he learned to trust his intuition take action and change course when necessary as he went from snowboard instructor at 17 to people manager to lecturer and entrepreneur. 

Kristiaan shared how he and his co-founder at Prototype You use best practices from lean, agile, design thinking and behavioral design to help professionals get from inspiration to action. We talked about the power of a posture of experimentation and a bit about Kristiaan’s current business prototype where he is putting into practice the same methods he teaches to others to help entrepreneurs take meaningful action within a structure of trusted and supportive accountability. 

Episode Resources - Recommendations from Kristiaan Hartmann

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Tracy Clark & Alexia Raven talk about building a life of continuous adventure and personal growth. Alexia shares her mindsets and practices for making ongoing progress towards her goals personally and professionally.

Alexia gives a mini-master class on marriage and shares her potentially controversial viewpoint that marriage is “easy”. We talk through what prompted Alexia to move from Hollywood to the Hill Country and start her own company, Maverix Insights and Strategy, after over two decades of corporate work in the qualitative research space, including at the top executive levels as Vice President of Warner Brothers Discovery Global Research & Insights Group, and roles at iHeart Radio, Lin Television and FOX Broadcast Network. 

Episode Resources - Recommendations from Alexia Raven

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​​​​Tracy Clark & Manuel S. Herrera talk about the power of drawing to make thinking visible. Manuel shares about creativity, art, visual literacy and why we sometimes may put our creative practices aside for a period of time. Manuel reflects on his career in education and edtech and the new opportunities opening up through his own illustrations and creative practices. We also talked about how Manuel learned how to illustrate children’s books and more about how several of his upcoming collaborations and projects came to fruition. 

Episode Resources - Recommendations from Manuel S. Herrera 

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Tracy Clark & Amanda Parker talk about building courage from within. With a remarkable career journey from NYC marketing to working with jaguars in Panama for the World Wildlife Fund and for clients such as the World Economic Forum, World Bank, Unicef, and General Assembly - Amanda’s experience in organizational and individual transformation shines throughout our conversation as she shares her insights and challenges us to consider what might be on the other side of that resistance we feel and leads us to a place where we find the courage to take the next right step forward. If you are ready to get unstuck and consider what courage looks like in your own life, take a listen and let me know what you think.

Episode Resources - Recommendations from Amanda Parker

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