Dr. Ivan Misner is the Founder & Chief Visionary Officer of BNI, the world’s largest business networking organization.  Founded in 1985, the organization now has over 8,400 chapters throughout every populated continent of the world.  Last year alone, BNI generated 9.1 million referrals resulting in $13.1 billion dollars worth of business for its members.

In this episode, Ron and Ivan discuss that a critical component in networking is to start viewing your relationships with key clients and contacts as a partnership and cultivate them as such.

The man who created the world's leading experiential concierge firm, that makes once-in-a-lifetime events happen for the rich and famous, reveals to the rest of us his trade secrets for making things happen.

As a child, David Rendall was told that he was a “very bad boy on the edge of too far gone” because he couldn’t sit still, be quiet, and do what he was told. Years later he used those so-called “negative traits” to his favor and became one of the world’s most memorable and entertaining keynote speakers on the topics of leadership and management.

Author of the best-selling book The Freak Factor, Rendall specializes in helping executives, entrepreneurs, and general audiences unlock potential in themselves and others by concentrating on what makes them unique. Unlike other thought leaders, Rendall focuses on finding and developing the hidden strengths in characteristics that may have been labeled by others as “problematic.” He prompts audiences to reflect on what it means to “be yourself” as he demonstrates just how often we cave into the pressure to conform, leading us to pursue mediocrity rather than flaunting our rarities – which may just be our most valuable assets.

Rendall’s clients have come from numerous industries and include Ralph Lauren, State Farm, the Australian Government, Microsoft, and the U.S. Air Force. He has spoken on every inhabited continent and was a professor of management prior to starting his own firm, the Freak Factory. He holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership, a Masters in Counseling Psychology, and is a former stand-up comedian.

In this episode, Ron and Pete discuss what Pete learned as a former Disney leader. He now works with organizations that want to develop employees into managers, and managers into leaders. His 13+ years at Disney and 12+ years in local government provide over 25 years of experience in leadership development and organizational culture. Managers are trained to spend time balancing budgets, organizing workflow, and delivering results. Very few have time to stop and focus on the small details. But the details are usually the difference between a mediocre manager and a successful leader. Through a fascinating lesson from a simple roach, Pete will share essential traits that leaders can emulate every day to improve their people, their products, and their property.

Quint Studer is a lifelong student of leadership. He is a businessman, a visionary, an entrepreneur, and a mentor to many. He has worked with individuals at all levels of leadership and across a variety of industries to help them become better leaders and create high-performing organizations. Along the way, he has discovered and refined many high-impact leadership behaviors and tactics that he is eager to share.

Kristina Geier left her corporate America job in San Francisco four years ago to start a residential cleaning service called Berry Clean. Everyone told her that it was a mistake. You can't build in business in California! You can't leave a great Silicon Valley job to clean houses! You're too smart for this...you graduated from an Ivy League school! But she opened a cleaning business anyway and proved everyone wrong by building a $1.2M business in less than three years of operations. Kristina knew nothing about the residential cleaning industry but she's here today to tell us all of her insider secrets to how you can also build your own $1M residential cleaning business!

Pete Havel fixes broken workplaces.

And he makes good workplaces better. He is a keynote speaker, trainer, and consultant on workplace culture and organizational leadership.

Pete is a former lobbyist and political consultant who proudly served some of America’s leading pro-business advocacy organizations, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Federation of Independent Business, and Associated Builders and Contractors. He’s also been a senior executive for top strategic communications firms.

His transformational moment and emergence into fixing workplace cultures began with taking the wrong turn into a toxic workplace and his subsequent book The Arsonist in the Office.  Pete now works with companies ranging from Fortune 500 firms to law enforcement agencies to Fortune 500 companies to nonprofits.

He provides clients the tools and techniques they need to solve problems that create financial, legal, and reputational risk, reduce employee satisfaction and lower productivity levels.

Brant Menswar is a core values activist, former rock star, one of the country’s “Top 10" motivational speakers, and a self-professed coffee snob. His books and podcast (Thoughts That Rock) expand on the ground-breaking work around values-based leadership. He has helped to change what’s possible for industry-leading organizations like Netflix, Verizon, Anthem, SunTrust, Microsoft, ESPN, Hilton, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and dozens more.  Passionate and engaging, Brant encourages audiences to discover their Black Sheep Values® and move forward with deliberate intention. His interactive and entertaining way of defining what matters most compels audiences to dig deeper into their lives and start living on purpose.

In this episode, Brant shares his life-changing story that propelled him to discover his Black Sheep Values® and why you should discover yours now rather than later. They also discuss exactly why this should be a priority for franchise owners everywhere.

As the MJ of the Hotel Industry, Bruce Jordan is always ready to make the game-winning shot! Going beyond the traditional ineffective old methods that continuously permeating throughout the hotel industry. He teaches other hotels how to get the same successful results on his YouTube Channel “Hotel Guest Management” on his show Hotel Management Do’s and Don’ts and True Hotel Leaders.

As a content creator, his show receives thousands of views every month on YouTube and Facebook. He is the guy that people hate when he is right, but will never say “I told you so” (I told you so)! Nothing can stop Bruce Jordan from doing what he does best!

Unfortunately, his skills and abilities are a gift and a curse. A gift for the owners and management companies that need to increase their hotels' revenue/reviews and a curse for employees that want to make excuses to stick to the cause of the "Little to No Results" effect.

Joe Chiellini started a small residential lawn service in Tampa 25 years ago with just two employees and one lawnmower. Today, his tiny lawn service has grown into a 150+ employee business with more than $14M in annual revenues. He's a legend inside the consumer services industry and most known for his innovative culture-building initiatives. Joe believes that anyone can build a great business if they have a servant leader mindset. This is especially true for our blue-collar workforce. Today's podcast will provide you with ready-to-go ideas that can be implemented inside your own business today. Take some notes and enjoy this phenomenal interview!