Business Confidential Now with Hanna Hasl-Kelchner

When it comes to the ethical use of AI in your business, you want to do the right thing and you assume you will.

But what if artificial intelligence is like an iceberg with hidden danger below the waterline?

No one wants their business to be the Titanic, and that’s why we’re going to explore how to start thinking about the ethical use of AI to successfully navigate those hazards.

* What to know about the bias used in training AI models

* 2 policies and assessment you need to examine to evaluate the ethical use of AI

* The number one red flag when evaluating the ethical use of AI

* How to avoid misinformation, copyright infringement and breaches of confidentiality

* And much more.

Frank Kyazze’s career is a blend of innovation, ethics, and humanism in technology. Over the last decade, he’s become a leader in digital trust, covering cybersecurity, governance, risk management, compliance, privacy, and AI ethics. From Pittsburgh to New Orleans, as the founder and CEO of GRC Knight, Frank champions strategies that protect national security and our society’s infrastructure. His work spans traditional sectors to startups and venture capital, advocating for cybersecurity as a growth engine.

With certifications like CISSP, CIA, CEH, CIPP/E, CIPM, and ISO Lead Auditor, Frank’s expertise is unmatched. However, it’s his passion for philosophy and improv theater that brings a creative and ethical lens to his work. He sees digital trust as essential to business integrity and innovation, aiming to make it accessible and integral to corporate culture. Frank is a thought leader who connects technology’s tangible aspects with its philosophical roots, offering insightful perspectives on technology, national security, and the digital economy.

Frank Kyazze is not just a name in the tech industry; he is a storyteller, a philosopher in the digital age, and an architect of trust in a world that increasingly depends on it. His journey and insights offer a unique blend of depth, pragmatism, and visionary thinking, making him a compelling voice in the ongoing conversation about our digital future.

If you liked this interview, you might also enjoy our other Corporate Governance and Culture episodes.

Contact Frank and connect with him on LinkedIn, and Instagram.

And visit his website.

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Employee talent development sounds scary to business owners and leaders, who fear that investing in an employee’s career encourages them to look for greener pastures elsewhere.

Managers will claim they don’t have time, that it’s really the employee’s responsibility, that they really can’t give employees what they want. So they’d rather ignore the situation because there’s no value in stirring the pot.

But today’s guest says that not helping employees develop and grow is a surefire way to make sure employees do leave. Does this mean you’re stuck in a no win situation? Listen to learn more.

* What employee development REALLY means

* How small conversations build engagement and inform employee development

* Why talent hording is not sustainable leadership

* How managers can start having employee development conversations if you haven’t done so before

* And much more

Julie Winkle Giulioni is a champion for workplace growth and development. She believes that everyone deserves the opportunity to reach their potential. And she supports organizations and leaders who want to make that happen with keynote speeches, consulting, and training.

Julie is the author of Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive and the co-author of the international bestseller, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Organizations Need and Employees Want, translated into seven languages.

She is a regular columnist for Training Industry Magazine and SmartBrief and contributes articles on leadership, career development, and workplace trends to numerous publications including The Economist.

Named by Inc. Magazine as a Top 100 Leadership Speaker, Julie’s in-person and virtual keynotes and presentations offer fresh, inspiring, yet actionable strategies for leaders who are interested in their own growth as well as supporting the growth of others.

Her firm, DesignArounds, creates and offers training products and experiences to organizations worldwide and has earned praise and awards from Human Resource Executive Magazine’s Top Ten Training Products, New York Film Festival, Brandon Hall, and Global HR Excellence Council.

If you liked this interview, you might also enjoy our other Human Resources episodes.

Contact Julie and connect with her on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

You might also enjoy Julie’s previous interview on the show: The Things Reliable Employees Need to Hear You Ask For Better Employee Career Development.

Julie’s books: Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive and Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Organizations Need and Employees Want 

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How do you measure business success beyond profit? How does it connect to your deeper purpose in life? Your why?

Discover one entrepreneur’s amazing journey and how you can connect your business beyond profit too.

* The personal awakening that led Steve Farrell to create a goal beyond profit

* How to find our own goals beyond profit

* How to achieve a goal beyond profit and still keep your business afloat

* Why going beyond profit creates positive energy and improve relationships

* And much more

Steve Farrell attained the pinnacle of success as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, founding two high-tech firms. Then he pivoted to lead Humanity’s Team, a global nonprofit helping people everywhere awaken to our interconnectedness through platforms such as their new Humanity Stream+ streaming service.

After contributing to the Gold Nautilus Award-winning book “Our Moment of Choice — Evolutionary Visions and Hope for the Future,” Steve’s new book, “A New Universal Dream,” details his journey from a young entrepreneur to a life in service to humanity.

If you liked this interview, you might also enjoy our other Entrepreneurship episodes.

Contact Steve and connect with him through his website.

And check out his book A New Universal Dream.

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A successful business turnaround is a terrific way to transform an organization that’s stuck, but how big does the plateau have to be before you take action?

And what kind of action is necessary to jumpstart healthier growth and profitability? Today’s business turnaround expert, Rich Allocco, shares his insights.

* The 3 red flags that signal the need for a business turnaround

* How business turnarounds share the same symptoms, but not the same root cause

* Why trust is essential to leading a successful business turnaround

* How to break down silos that stand in the way of a successful business turnaround

* And much more

After studying Economics at the University of Notre Dame Rich Allocco joined IBM in Large System Sales. After turning several complex competitive situations to IBM Rich was appointed Manager of Wall Street accounts and tasked with growing sales and returning competitive accounts back to IBM. From there he was named Manager, National Large System Competitive Marketing and then Branch Manager for sales and services for a 250M in revenue office in San Francisco. Rich then joined a small team of IBM executives tasked to turnaround an IBM company losing $1M a day. That company was returned to profitability and eventually sold.

Rich joined Siemens US and continued in functional sales and services roles and then company turnaround situations. Rich joined Remedy and ran Global Sales and Services, growing the company 4x in his tenure. He was then invited to work with several companies in need of turnaround, change and rapid growth.

If you liked this interview, you might also enjoy our other Finance episodes.

Contact Rich and connect with him on LinkedIn. 

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Inclusive leadership can be a sensitive subject.

On one hand we can appreciate the concept intellectually, but emotionally, when someone says we’re not being inclusive it feels like a personal attack because we’re often unaware of how our behavior impacts what others see and hear AND more importantly, how our own culture, experiences, and biases shape what we do and say.

How do we get out of this Catch-22 and bridge these cultural gaps that rob us of credibility and influence? Today’s guest has some proven tips and strategies for you.

* What inclusive leadership really means

* The seven traits of inclusive leadership

* The inclusive leadership trait that can’t be taught and you need to hire for

* The trait that is the most challenging for leaders to master

* And much more.

Colette Phillips is President and CEO of Colette Phillips Communications, and Founder and President of Get Konnected! and The GK Fund.

She is a strategic advisor for C-level executives and corporate teams and develops public relations branding and internal/external communications strategies. She is frequently consulted by corporations and nonprofits on how to establish healthy, inclusive working environments and engage and serve culturally diverse consumers.

An active civic leader and board member, she’s listed on Boston Business Journal’s Power 50 List. Her new book is The Includers: The 7 Traits of Culturally Savvy, Anti-Racist Leaders.

If you liked this interview, you might also enjoy our other Corporate Goverance and Culture episodes.

Contact Colette and connect with her on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

And be sure to check out her website and book, The Includers: The 7 Traits of Culturally Savvy, Anti-Racist Leaders

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Employee career advancement is typically thought of a climbing the ladder of success with one promotion after another. But Julie Winkle Giulioni says they’re SO yesterday and offer fresh perspectives on employee career advancement to help your business win the war for talent.

* How changes in the marketplace require rethinking employee career development

* How expectations of employee career development have changed

* 3 Nontraditional growth opportunities for employee career development

* Why an abundant mindset is essential to employee career development

* How affirming employee contribution aids career development

* Julie’s multi-dimensional employee career development framework

* The generation gap in employee career development preferences

* And much MORE

Julie Winkle Giulioni is a champion for workplace growth and development. She believes that everyone deserves the opportunity to reach their potential. And she supports organizations and leaders who want to make that happen with keynote speeches, consulting, and training.

Julie is the author of Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive and the co-author of the international bestseller, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Organizations Need and Employees Want, translated into seven languages.

She is a regular columnist for Training Industry Magazine and SmartBrief and contributes articles on leadership, career development, and workplace trends to numerous publications including The Economist.

Named by Inc. Magazine as a Top 100 Leadership Speaker, Julie’s in-person and virtual keynotes and presentations offer fresh, inspiring, yet actionable strategies for leaders who are interested in their own growth as well as supporting the growth of others.

Her firm, DesignArounds, creates and offers training products and experiences to organizations worldwide and has earned praise and awards from Human Resource Executive Magazine’s Top Ten Training Products, New York Film Festival, Brandon Hall, and Global HR Excellence Council.

If you liked this interview, you might also enjoy our other Human Resources episodes.

Contact Julie and connect with her on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

You might also enjoy Julie’s previous interview on the show: The Things Reliable Employees Need to Hear You Ask For Better Employee Career Development.

Julie’s books: Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive and Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Organizations Need and Employees Want 

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Organizational change management can make or break an organization regardless of size.

According to McKinsey & Company 70% of all change initiatives fail because we’re creatures of habit and biologically hardwired to stick with what’s worked for us in the past. It’s not helpful when battling change going into the future, like a pandemic, shifting markets, supply chain challenges and a kitchen sink of other problems.

How do you keep things from going down the drain?

My next guest, organizational change management expert Erika Andersen says we need to embrace the very things we’re wired to avoid and she’ll also explain how.

* Why organizational change management is hard for most people 

* 3 Assumptions that initially wire us to resist change 

* Why management resists change 

* Why leaders need to model change for it to succeed 

* 4 Things necessary to help employees through organizational change 

* Best way to provide management support for organizational change 

* How organizational change management happens on 3 levels 

* The magical thinking that stymies organization change management 

* And MUCH more.

Erika Andersen is the founding partner of Proteus International, a coaching, consulting, and training firm that focuses on leader readiness.

For over three decades, she’s served as a consultant and advisor to top executives at today’s leading organizations, including Amazon, Spotify, Charter/Spectrum, and the Yale School of Public Health.

She’s the author of four bestselling books, including Growing Great Employees and Be Bad First; is a popular leadership blogger at Forbes.com; and is the host of The Proteus Leader Show, a business and leadership podcast globally ranked in the top 10%. Her newest book is Change from the Inside Out: Making You, Your Team, and Your Organization Change-Capable (Berrett-Koehler Publishers; October 26, 2021).

If you liked this interview, you might also enjoy our other Leadership and Management episodes.

Contact Erika and connect with her on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. 

Erika has four bestselling books, including Growing Great Employees and Be Bad First. Her newest book is Change from the Inside Out: Making You, Your Team, and Your Organization Change-Capable

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If you want your business to be fundable, to have ready access to money when you need it, there are certain things you need to do.

What are they? (Just in case you ever DO need money from outside sources . . . because believe me that’s NOT the time to find you’re not fundable.)

Luckily, today’s guest, Merrill Chandler is an expert in the field and he explains why your credit score is NOT the key to fundability and what you really need to do to be fundable.

* What it means to be fundable

* Why your credit score is useless until your loan is approved 

* The most important borrow behaviors lenders review 

* 4 Lender tiers and how the impact fundability 

* Why retail store credit inquiries hurt overall fundability 

* 6 Key borrow behaviors that determine fundability 

* How check guarantee credit lines can hurt fundability 

* The 5 characteristics each borrow behavior is graded by 

* And much MORE

Over 25 years ago, Merrill Chandler—a personal and business credit pioneer and co-founder of Lexington Law Firm—became dissatisfied with the ineffective results his clients were getting from credit repair.

Leveraging his extensive knowledge of borrower behavior profiles, FICO® scoring metrics, and lender underwriting requirements, he developed a process that could ‘optimize’ a consumer’s borrower behavior AND improve a borrower’s “fundability.”

He and his partners founded The Fundability Movement and GetFundable.com to deliver this revolutionary technology to real estate investors, business owners, and entrepreneurs nationwide.

Merrill has helped thousands of borrowers become more FUNDABLE and helped them access the capital they need to fulfill their financial dreams.

If you liked this interview, you might also enjoy our other Finance episodes.

Contact Merrill and connect with him on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Clubhouse. Also check out his Get Fundable Podcast.

To get the truth about your fundability, Merrill said during the interview you can go to myFICO.com. And if you’re interested in his bootcamp designed to help prospective borrowers get more fundable by improving their fundable personal profile and fundable borrower behaviors, visit getfundable.com and click on the bootcamp tab.

Merrill’s book: The New F* Word

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How to thrive amid adversity and uncertainty is a perennial question. Add a financial crisis or a health crisis like Covid to the mix and you’ve really got a hot mess on your hands.

So how do you keep your head up and continuously thrive amid uncertainty?

Meridith Elliott Powell, author of Thrive: Strategies to Turn Uncertainty into Competitive Advantage, offers insights based on her research of the oldest, continuously running businesses on the planet.

* Inspiration for Meridith’s book Thrive 

* 9-Step strategy necessary to thrive amid uncertainty 

* How to focus on opportunities and thrive amid uncertainty 

* Role of relentless vision to thrive amid uncertainty 

* Researching the businesses who thrive amid uncertainty 

* What today’s businesses need to focus on the thrive amid uncertainty 

* The role of luck in business 

* And much MORE.

Voted one of the Top 15 Business Growth Experts, Top Sales Experts by LinkedIn, and Top 41 Motivational Sales Speakers. Meridith has a cutting-edge message, rooted in real-life examples and real-world knowledge. She is the author of six books, including “Cut Through The Excuses – Send Sales Through The Roof” , and her latest “Thrive: Strategies To Turn Uncertainty To Competitive Advantage.”

Meridith is regularly featured in publications such as Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., and Investment News, among others. High energy and highly interactive, Meridith’s helps leaders and business owners learn the new rules of success today, and the strategies they need to build their business, engage their team, and leave their competition in the dust.

Meridith is a Certified Speaker Professional, a designation held by less than twelve percent of professional speakers, as well as a Certified Virtual Presenter, having passed the rigorous certification standards to achieve this designation.

In her highly engaging keynote-speaking sessions, Meridith shows her audiences how to attract more business, retain top talent, and leap into position to win in this new economy. No walking on coals, no breaking boards, just real-life strategies you can put into place first thing Monday morning.

If you liked this interview, you might also enjoy our other Leadership and Management episodes.

Contact Meridith and connect with her on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram.

Meridith’s book: Thrive: Strategies To Turn Uncertainty To Competitive Advantage

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Workplace trust can ebb and flow like an ocean tide depending on what we say and how we say it. Little things can mean a lot, especially when it comes from someone in a position of authority.

Getting it right means sharpening your soft skills and today’s guest, Anne Baum is going to share some soft skill secrets to help you build workplace trust more consistently.

* How small mistakes impact workplace trust

* How managing perceptions well improves workplace trust 

* The self-imposed leadership barriers to building more workplace trust 

* Essential Soft Skills for Improving Workplace Trust 

* How The Transmitter and Overconfident Overachiever Detract From Workplace Trust 

* How to Improve the Soft Skills Necessary to Build More Workplace Trust 

* And MUCH more.

Anne Baum is the author of Small Mistakes, Big Consequences: Develop Your Soft Skills to Help You Succeed.

She is also the Lehigh Valley executive and vice president, distribution channels & labor relations for Capital BlueCross.

Since joining the company in January 2010, Anne has been involved with strategic planning and other senior level functions as well as designing and leading leadership development programs through her own company Vision Accomplished.

Anne participates on numerous boards and executive committees and her formal education includes a BS in Biology from the University of Illinois, a Masters in Health Systems Management from Rush University, plus she has a certification from the Protocol School of Washington as a protocol and etiquette consultant.

If you liked this interview, you might also enjoy our other Leadership and Management episodes.

Contact Anne and connect with her on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Anne’s book:  Small Mistakes, Big Consequences: Develop Your Soft Skills to Help You Succeed

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