Culture Code Champions

John C. Maxwell wrote a book called The 5 Levels of Leadership where he describes the different levels of leadership and shows you how to master each one and rise up to the next to become a more influential, respected, and successful leader. In this episode, host Bill Higgs sits down and talks with the Founder and CEO of Level Five Associates, Robert Mixon, about his company that teaches values-based leadership that works. Robert has over 35 years of leadership experience in building teams and growing level five leaders in both the military and business, from units the size of 40 people to companies of over 30,000 people. Today, he explains the attributes of a Level Five leader and what he’s doing with his company to help others develop that type of leadership.

In today’s episode, host Bill Higgs sits down and talks with the Vice President of Communications and Missions at Refined Technologies, Inc., Heather Broeder, about her successful career at Mustang Engineering. She narrates how she fit in with the male-dominated construction field team and how forward-thinking Mustang was around flexible work. She also dives into the Young Guns Program and how they were creating a culture within its culture. Learn more about putting the Culture Code Champions: 7 Steps to Scale & Succeed In Your Business to work as Heather shares more gold nuggets on creating a culture of success on today’s show.

Only a great leader can train great leaders. In this episode, Barry Conchie, the Founder and President of Conchie Associates, talks about building efficient leaders and coaching leadership teams. Sharing how he moved from research at the Gallup Association Organization to founding Conchie Associates in 2013, he goes through the ups and downs of founding his own company. He also shares his insights on a successful team and the importance of the recruitment cycle. Know more about coaching, leadership, and accountability as Barry takes us to his process of creating team leaders.

How has social media and technology improved your life? Being a leader or a game changer of your chosen niche, how have you been using new tools and concepts in helping others find their purpose, leading a team to be more connected with each other, and helping people improve their self-perception? Today’s guest, licensed Clinical Psychologist and host of The Daily Helping, Dr. Richard Shuster, reintroduces the true purpose of social media and uses this to make teams more cohesive instead of members being more individualistic. Dr. Shuster also tackles helping people at a larger scale identify their strengths and weaknesses through several platforms, and shares how he and his wife go about founding and growing their organization called Every Kid Rocks.

When life gave him lemons, Brian Cruver started a lemonade factory out of that. Coming out of a horrendous experience at the demise of Enron, Brian has been starting companies with positive impacts such as Xenex and AlertMedia, to name a few. He is also an investor and advisor to dozens of early stage startups through his investment firm called Marketdriver Ventures. With everything he’s gone through, Brian has some very interesting experiences to share on building great company culture on today’s show.

One of the world’s best, and often overlooked, crystal ball lies in the eyes of the consumers. This is what Dr. Wolfgang Baier, the Group CEO of Luxasia and a culture and thought leader, discovered. Anticipating change through the consumers in this age of digital transformation, Dr. Baier shows us the value of becoming an omnichannel where the online and the offline converge in business. Zoning in on the importance of developing leaders of today, he takes us through what he calls transformational leaders and the concept of sharpening the saw of others. Empowered by the Millennials, Dr. Baier breaks the misconceptions people have around this misunderstood generation and encourages us to look at the disruption they bring that is vital in transforming a company.

Passion breaks all barriers that keep us from pursuing what we love. Our guest, Sandy Coleman, did just that. Despite being a male-dominated industry, Sandy threw herself into the middle of NASA to pursue her passion and vision for space travel. After 40 years, she has received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Women in Aerospace. In this episode, she tells us all about her journey – from her Girl Scout days to eventually being in charge of the external tank project on the shuttle managing the Lockheed Martin NASA contract. Sandy takes us through the things she did to set herself up for advancement, inspiring us to move around the glass ceilings that seem hard to penetrate and take control of our career.

Building a team culture that fosters fulfillment and growth is no easy feat in today’s business climate. Kris Krohn, a real estate and breakthrough mentor, talks about developing a repeatable process in business that enables you to live with independence. Kris’ business success led him to build a “second home environment” in the workplace that greatly reduced employee turnover. Learn why accomplishing this required his resignation as the manager to become the fun boss instead.

Applying what you have learned from others and from life experiences, in general, can either make or break you. As for Stephanie Higgs, she uses her learnings to catapult her unique bespoke clothing business to greater heights. As a Millennial CEO of Cielo Brands in New York, Stephanie shows us how she is re-imagining her company by using her experience in dressing famous celebrities like Lebron James. Today, she shares some key takeaways from Culture Code Champions: 7 Steps to Scale and Succeed your Business. Changing negative company culture to one that is positive, more interactive, and more focused on building relationships, Stephanie is making Millennials proud through her notable leadership skills.

In this episode Bill Higgs interviews John Geraci about storytelling to grow your business. Slow down to use storytelling and nudges…to speed up communication and action.” “Storytelling will help move your team in a new direction.