Digital-First Leadership

In this episode, Richard speaks with Jared Karol, a long time friend and author of an upcoming book on Racism. Jared is self described as a Facilitator of Difficult Conversations and works as an Inclusive Leadership Coach aiding corporations in expanding and addressing diversity. 

Richard and Jared explore topics around diversity and inclusivity and the importance of seeing humanity in every person. Jared provides guidance around difficult conversations and in his book outlines 4 ways to approach confronting racism. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredkarol/

In this episode, Richard sits down with Hang Black, the VP of Revenue Enablement at Juniper Networks and author of recent book titled Embrace your Edge, focusing on inclusivity and accessibility. 

Like many of the high performing executives Richard’s sat down with over the years, Hang was tentative to take on the Digital Leadership approach. During their conversation, Hang uses her talent for storytelling to impactfully demonstrate how quickly embracing the online community can change the course of a career.

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In this episode, Richard speaks with Peter McKay, the current CEO of Snyk, a network security company currently experiencing tremendous growth.

 Peter and Richard talk about the experience Peter has had with this concept of being a digital leader, and how he’s leveraged it for the impressive success of his company and the strides he’s made with his own personal brand.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pemckay/

In this first episode of season two, Richard sits down with Tom Mendoza, a current  Member of the Board of Directors at UiPath, Varonis and VAST Data. He’s also the Vice Chairman and former President at NetApp. 

Tom and Richard have been working together for years, and in this episode they tell the story of Tom’s hesitant transition to Digital-First Leadership as well as the Tom Mendoza goal setting strategies. In this episode, Tom and Richard share stories and drive home the idea that social media has a greater impact on leadership capabilities than ever before . 

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In the final episode of the season Richard talks about the changes you can make in your approach to social media and the fantastic results you’ll see because of it.  Social can't be a side note. It can't be just a takeaway. It's what’s covered in the book coming out next month, Digital-First Leadership. And it's one of the things we covered deeply in our training, is how to figure out how to make Social Media work for you.

To leave you with one thing at the end of this season, what you should be focusing on, and that is the idea that you need to participate in the conversation.

As we move into the next season of the podcast, we will be introducing you to a whole slew of new guests. A lot of executives are going to come on board, and we're going to talk about how they've done it and the tools that they've used.

Richard sits down with Scott Pfeiffer, Strategist at Strategy Business Consulting, and co-host of the podcast Tech After 5. 

They discuss Scott’s Mastermind Networking group that is solo practitioners who are interested in building a tribe and in moving their solo practice business forward.

Understanding that networking groups flourish by bringing together people with similar interests and similar problems. A network of like minded individuals gives you the opportunity to find support. You bring problems to the group and they ask questions and try to help you figure out an answer to your problem. 

Scott goes into detail about how to build and nurture a network as a Digital-First Leader. 

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In this episode, Richard drives home the idea that you need to stand up and begin to lead. 
However, now it’s all done through social media presence. Richard discusses the idea that the best way to begin building a tribe is to focus on giving before asking, focusing on what your tribe needs and what they need from you. It’s about “picking your platform”, you don’t need to be everywhere,  you need to be where your audience is. 
In short, you need to find your audience, get in front of them and then give them something of value. 

Richard sits down with Phil Yanov, Founder of Tech After Five, a technology networking event series. Phil is a natural when it comes to networking and has figured out this idea of building a tribe. In the interview he points out that there is a specific way you can grow your tribe, a way to digitally pivot with more effect than in-person events can bring. 

Phil Yanov is a technologist with personality. He’s a natural born connector and has built a career out of helping others understand how they can best leverage technology at work and at play.

He is a sought-after voice in matters of personal technology, information security, and personal networking

Thirty thousand people receive his weekly emails, and pre-covid, he held live events in Greenville, Columbia, Charleston & Charlotte every month. Attendance at the events averaged between 75 & 150 people.

Tech After Five has hosted over 500 live events and has mastered the shift to the online world, seemingly effortlessly.

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In this episode, Richard dives into personal branding and what that looks like in a Digital-First world. He reminds us that personal branding is the consistency of look, consistency of  professionalism, and an understanding of, “what do you choose to participate in?” posts, conversations, platforms. Personal branding is knowing what you have to say on social topics, leadership ideas and demonstrating leadership styles consistently. It has to do with YOU, the things that you value, things that you’re interested in. 

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