In today's episode, we talked about leadership and influence with Dina Denham Smith. Dina is an acclaimed author, coach and is the founder of Cognitas, an executive and team coaching organization.

We spoke with Dina about how she found her way into coaching and the sometimes counterintuitive key characteristics of good team leadership. We also covered Dina's journey as a content creator herself, and what she's learned as an accomplished author including how to encourage your subconcious self to tackle challenging creative problems (like writing a book!).

Learn more about Dina at https://www.dinadsmith.com/ or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dina-denham-smith

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This week we sat down with Ellen Gills, a veteran organizational development expert and leadership coach. We talked with Ellen about starting a consultancy business during the pandemic, what makes a good manager and a good coach and what the difference is between the two.

Learn more about Ellen at https://www.gillis-group.com/

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This week we talked with Brafton's Chief Services Officer, David Snyder, about the legendary management article, Who's Got the Monkey, by William Onken. The piece talks about how managers should approach delegating tasks and setting boundaries at work to avoid burnout and empower their their teams to solve problems and work more autonomously.

We taked with Dave about the lessons he's taken away from that article and how he's adapted it to his current role as well as his own experience transitioning into management roles at Brafton. 

Read the article at Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/1999/11/management-time-whos-got-the-monkey

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In this episode, we talked with Jessica Holton, the Co-CEO and co-founder of Ours, a relationship health company that combines counseling and self-guided sessions to help people build stronger personal relationships. We discussed the fundamentals of good relationships, how to leverage those concepts in the workplace, and what the future of wellness and relationship health programs look like. 

Learn more about Ours at https://www.withours.com/

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Brianna is a Coaching Enablement Manager at Wayfair. In this episode, we talk with her about the ins and outs of sales coaching, leveraging Radical Candor to help people succeed at work, and creating environments that balance challenge and care to foster development and growth.

Connect with Brianna on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianna-de-l-airre-7b457644/

Learn more about the Radical Candor framework at https://www.radicalcandor.com/our-approach/

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We wanted to reach out and apologize for an error last week where we released this week’s episode early. While we corrected this on the backend right away, if your podcast app automatically downloads episodes you might have missed our fantastic episode with Amy Odell.

If that’s the case, just delete and re-download the episode and you’ll hear our chat with Amy.

We really apologize for the error, and we really appreciate your listenership. For those of you that didn’t get early access, we are so excited to share our episode with Brianna de L'airre tomorrow. Brianna is an experienced sales coach and has so many insightful things to say about encouragement, challenge, and helping people succeed and grow at work.

Thanks for listening!

We spoke with fashion and culture journalist Amy Odell about breaking into journalism, her biography of Anna Wintour, and the opportunities and challenges of the changing landscape of digital media.

Subscribe to Amy’s Substack, Back Row, at https://amyodell.substack.com/

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In this episode we talked with career and leadership development expert Kimberly Brown about building a career strategically, navigating the hiring process effectively, and dealing with the ebbs and flows of the ever-changing job market to find the right opportunity for your next move.

Learn more about Kimberly and her book, Next Move, Best Move, at https://www.kimberlybonline.com/

Read her column, Your Next Move, at https://www.thecut.com/2022/04/your-next-move-career-advice-column.html

We sat down with Jungian analyst and author Lisa Marchiano for a wide ranging conversation about the importance of self discovery and how finding yourself and bringing your full self to the workplace can make a dramatic difference in your work and relationships.

Learn more about Lisa and her book at https://lisamarchiano.com/

Content People is produced by Brafton, a leading content marketing agency headquartered in Boston. For more information and free content, visit us at https://www.brafton.com/

Cliff Stevens is the VP and managing director of Copper Giants, the in-house agency for Liberty Mutual. We talked with Cliff about his years of experience in the agency world and how he brought that experience into Liberty Mutual to build a best in class agency within the larger organization. In house agencies have unique challenges and opportunities and we explore how Cliff's approach to Copper Giants applies to the work all of us content people do every day.

Check out Cliff on Linked in at https://www.linkedin.com/in/clifford-stevens-b9115112

Content People is produced by Brafton, a leading content marketing agency headquartered in Boston. For more information and free content, visit us at https://www.brafton.com/