In this episode, we have the opportunity to speak to the very accomplished marketing professional and entrepreneur in both start-up and corporate environments, Carol Kruse.

Carol is equally comfortable with consumer insights and creative delivery as with data and technology. She has been named #27 on Fast Company's annual "Top 100 Most Creative People in Business", Awarded Ad: Tech's Industry Achievement Award for pioneering contribution in Digital marketing, and awarded Media Post "All-Star".

With over 20 years of experience in Digital/Mobile/Social marketing, Carol shares her rich experience and insights with us on how human-centered design and the marriage of Art (creative) and Science (data and technology) is where the magic happens; and where true business value is created.

Coral is currently on the Board of Directors and Chapter President of the CMO Club and is a

Corporate Board Director with Valvoline. Some of her previous roles included - CMO of Cambria Health Solutions, SVP & CMO of ESPN, VP Global Digital Marketing Coca-Cola, and Co-Founder / EVP Marketing RocketCash.

In this episode, we have the opportunity to speak to a renowned expert in the consumer, shopper, and retail marketing space, Mike Anthony.

Mike shares his experience and proven insights with us around how he helps companies win at retail - building uncommon insights, ground-breaking strategies, as well as developing organizations and teams to continue to adapt and deliver growth in these challenging times.

As a leading global speaker, author, and CEO of Engage Ltd, Mike has spent almost thirty years in the consumer goods industry, serving some of the world's greatest consumer goods companies -  including Unilever, Nestle, Coca-Cola, Electrolux, Sony, Samsung, PepsiCo, Glaxo Smithkline and many others.

Stephanie has gone from Miss Georgia Cherry Blossom to three decades of working as an attorney, state legislature and eventually Chief Resilience Officer of the City of Atlanta before taking over the Stuckey’s family business as CEO in November of 2019. She. She knew she had a fixer-upper on her hands. Since then, Stephanie has been learning from businesses that have managed to reinvent themselves after suffering a downfall and takes the time to share with us her experience and insights along her comeback journey.

Stuckey’s was founded Stpehanie’s grandfather as a roadside pecan stand in Eastman, GA, in the midst of the Great Depression. From these humble origins, he built a veritable roadside oasis of stores that were famous for pecan log rolls and kitschy souvenirs. At their peak, Stuckey’s included almost 370 stores nationwide, a candy plant, a billboard company, and a trucking operation. They reached the pinnacle when family vacations meant taking to the open road in a station wagon and stopping at fun attractions like South of the Border, Wig Wam Motels, and Stuckey’s.

Fast forward 35 years … Stuckey’s is still on America’s highways, albeit fewer stores (and many in need of some TLC). It’s back in family hands and on a comeback journey.

Starting as a criminal prosecutor, Joshua Reynolds is now a strategic advisor to executives at publicly-traded corporations and disruptive startups. He believes in the profound power of finding the truest thing to say in any given moment.

We get to have the FIRST EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Joshua Reynolds around his recent research conducted on B2B Decision making in which Josh unpacks insightful findings around trust, peer counsel & business purpose

.Josh has been a Gartner analyst, the CEO of a WPP agency, and the CMO of a data science startup. He’s worked with C-suite executives, in-house teams, agency partners, and industry associations around the world as a consultant, coach, and trainer. He’s also a frequent author, speaker, and lecturer on the topics of innovation, persuasion, and the human impact of technological disruption. He was named a Top 25 Innovator by the Holmes Report in 2014 for his creation of a persuasive storytelling model that’s now in use across multiple sectors in 10+ countries, as well as for his work with innovation hype cycles to inform thought leadership

As an individual or a business leader, it’s time to live a life full of thriving and flourishing. Break barriers and limitations. You don’t have to be trapped by the old, outdated ways of thinking that hold you back. Science has proven that there are real, reliable ways to increase your longevity and open the path to your full potential.

TALK ABOUT CHANGE! From WWE wrestling personality to Doctor of Chiropractic, Board Certified Holistic Health Doctor, Masters of Science in Health & Wellness and Epigenetic Precision Performance Coaching. WOW!

With over 20 years of experience in the wellness industry, Dr Melissa Petersen works with Health & Wellness Leaders and Purpose Driven Visionaries to get in the ring and go for the win - by more fully tapping into their limitless potential to thrive!

You don’t want to miss this journey of adapting to and thriving in constant change as Doc Melissa share’s her proven experience and insight with us - sharing how to uncover and leverage your true Human Design and Performance Blueprint for maximum impact in your business, career and life.

Are you truly owning change? Cassandra Worthy certainly does and shares with us how you also can Transform Your Culture from Surviving Change to Growing Through Change

From chemical Engineer to Change Enthusiast, Cassandra is one of the most enthusiastic and vocal change enthusiasts we have had the pleasure of speaking to.

THREE KEY NUGGETS

Recognize Your Change Signals

During change, your people are inundated with high-priority messages from leaders. These messages may be conflicting, and require compliance without clarity. As a result, your people experience fear, anger, anxiety, and grief. Recognizing these emotions as ‘change signals’ is the first step.

See Change As An Opportunity

Change creates an infinite supply of emotions. The Change Enthusiast language, mindset, and tools empower your people to ‘develop a conscious mindset of opportunity’. They are now able to transform their change-stalling emotions into change-accelerating behaviors.

Choose Your Better

Change is constant. When people intentionally shift how they feel, see and act during change events, they ‘uncover a unique signature of resilience’ during turbulent times. As a result, they are able to transform the tension of change into growth opportunities for themselves and their organization.

Join us as we go behind the mic with Vince Thompson the CEO of Melt - a leading agency in the world of event and sports marketing. In this podcast episode, Vince shared a lot of the learnings that he has had through his 20 plus years as an entrepreneur pivoting his business in different disruptive times and helping clients such as Coca-Cola, NCAA, and ESPN all deal with disruption. He shared some things on this podcast about the world of disruption that's going on right now and all that's affecting live sports and sports sponsorships and how he leads his team to make the changes required in order to stay ahead of the game, sniff out new business opportunities in times of disruption and really pivot his organization to continue to be successful.

In this episode, we get to have a most insightful discussion with Alan Hosking, an internationally recognized future of work influencer, best selling author, and an award-winning publisher.

We cover bus driving to pathfinding, classical music to jazz music, and many other rich analogies with great insight and depth of wisdom as Alan takes us on a journey - unpacking the human element of seeing the unseen and developing truly impactful leadership qualities.

Alan is an experienced leadership development expert and has been preparing senior leaders for the Future of Work for almost two decades.

Traditional selling now has no choice but to fully meet a virtual world. The time for the old guard to gradually transition over to digital is over and being able to (almost) fully sell virtually is now a hard reality for the traditional sales sector.

John speaks to us about the changes he has seen in the sales industry over the past 20 years, and more so, how our increasingly remote world is changing sales even more into the future. He gives us some great tips from a sales perspective. Tips that apply to the industry as a whole as they are universal applications to managing change. Join us as we discuss: The keys to selling successfully in today’s climate, and, how many salespeople and businesses get the change in the sales process wrong.

In this episode, we go behind the mic with Paul Gardiner CEO of the Mantis Collection. Paul takes us through how they drove the constant re-invention of one of the world's most iconic travel and conservation brands. Join us as we dive into how this company bought into and were guided by a clear vision from an exemplary leader, how they made it their culture to be comfortable with constant change and shifting goalposts, and most importantly always operating with true purpose, passion and focus.