Engaging Virtual Meetings Podcast with John Chen

Aaron Schmookler works with business leaders who believe their people are their greatest asset. As a “Company Culture Engineer,” he supports them in building structures, habits, and mindsets that support an enduring high-performance culture so their profits and people thrive.

In 2014 Aaron and his business partner, Adam Utley, co-founded The Yes Works and served clients across the country and across industries, including Microsoft, MOD Pizza, DiscoverOrg, Burkhart Dental Supply, SOG Knives, 9th Gear, and Textainer to make work suitable for people and people good for work.

In this episode, we discuss the following:

🧘‍♀️Self-care tips for event management people

😍Top virtual meetings that Deana attended

💬Is virtual event going away?

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Aaron Schmookler works with business leaders who believe their people are their greatest asset. As a “Company Culture Engineer,” he supports them in building structures, habits, and mindsets that support an enduring high-performance culture so their profits and people thrive.

In 2014 Aaron and his business partner, Adam Utley, co-founded The Yes Works and served clients across the country and across industries, including Microsoft, MOD Pizza, DiscoverOrg, Burkhart Dental Supply, SOG Knives, 9th Gear, and Textainer to make work suitable for people and people good for work.

In this episode, we discuss the following:

💸 Making meetings richer

🔔The importance of audio

👏How to help a team perform at a higher level

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Angela Heath, is an award-winning keynote speaker, trainer, and author. She speaks globally on the new world of work (self-employment and remote employee engagement). 

As the Dean of the Virtual Speaking Academy, which offers certification, training, and coaching, Angela helps equip executives, professionals, and entrepreneurs to be more confident, competent, and creative when presenting online. Her latest book, Do the Hustle Without the Hassle, teaches people age 45 and older how to use the online gig marketplace.

In this episode, we discuss the following:

🏆 Angela’s best success story

👩🏽‍💻 Tips on how to make your presentation stand out

🗣️ How to structure a great talk

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Kimberly Wiefling is the founder of Wiefling Consulting, and co-founder of Silicon Valley Alliances. She helps strengthen individuals, teams, and organizations so that they overcome the most common causes of failure, fix things that damage and destroy companies, and survive in a world of disruptive change. 

In this episode, we discuss the following:

🔑  Key problems why teams fail

😈😇  Bad and good things to do in virtual meetings

📌  Importance of facilitation versus managing people

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Yvonne Burton, president of Burton Consulting International, a New York-based consulting firm. Ms. Burton lived in Osaka, Japan, for over eight years, attending university and then working in education as a cross-cultural trainer and business consultant to Japanese companies. Upon returning to New York City, she worked in the Technology field in marketing and business development, online marketing and advertising, and as a business analyst and project manager. 

As a bridge between two cultures, she works on diverse business and technology projects for various Japanese and American clients across different industries.

In this episode, we discuss:

💪🏼 How Yvonne started her career

🇯🇵 Unique ways for engaging international audiences

👩🏽‍🎨 Structuring your meeting to improve engagement

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Shelley Golden has been an executive presence image consultant and fashion stylist for 20+ in Chicago, Amsterdam and San Francisco.  Based in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, she has a keen eye to help her clients improve their confidence and credibility and create an image that sets them apart, both online and off.

Having lived in Amsterdam for 10 years, Shelley studied and is passionate about European art, in particular, the Dutch Masters and the Impressionists. She approaches each ZOOM MAKEOVER as an artist creating a painting by balancing art and psychology of shape, color and design.

In this episode, we discuss:

🎨 Incorporating art to your zoom backgrounds

📈 Tips and tricks to elevate your presence online

👍 Before and after zoom makeover transformations

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Brandt is the Senior Production Manager at EideCom, and the Event Technology Correspondant for Smart Meetings Magazine. Based in Minneapolis, MN, he is also the highly-acclaimed instructor for the Event Leadership Institute’s Virtual Event and Meeting Management certificate course. 

With over 25 years experience in the industry, he has spoken at industry events and conferences all over the world, been published in numerous magazines and websites, and is consistantly ranked among the most influential people in the events industry. 

In this episode, we discuss:

💡3 valuable tips from a virtual event producer

🖥️ Adapting your presentations to your audiences' needs

🖼️ Room tour setup to improve your zoom

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Allen Little is a Motivational Speaker and the founder of A Little Motivation, LLC. 

Allen has coached individuals from the U.S. to all the way in places such as; Canada, Nigeria, Bermuda and even transformed lives in the country of Greece. His ability to create direct and consistent transformations in peoples lives has allowed him to speak for companies such as MARY KAY, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Reece Nichols Real Estate group and numerous of other businesses. 

Although Allen speaks & coaches nationwide and internationally, Allen has been coined, The Motivation of Kansas City.

In this episode, we discuss:

🗣️ How Allen get into speaking

🚧 Building relationships virtually and adding value

😳 Tips and tricks to avoid z-awkward (zoom awkward)

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Sandy manages a consulting practice that helps small businesses and subject-matter experts harness the power of web technologies to better serve their clients.

In her consulting role, she professionally produces webinars for Training Magazine Network, and Sales & Marketing Management Magazine. She is the founder of PrepAdemy™, a Virtual Classroom Community for Students Preparing to PASS The Institutes™ Exams. 

Sandy works with subject matter experts to provide live online interactive experiences for students.

In this episode, we discuss:

🤯  What to do when things don't go as planned at your event

❓ Draw questions from your audience using chats

📸  How to make people turn on their camera

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Nada El Kateb is a designer and virtual game host!

As a newly graduated architect with a tourism background, she loves fun facts, especially about strange events that perfectly reveal the character of people and places. That’s why she created a virtual game, SweDefine. 

SweDefine features incredible and bizarre facts handpicked to spice up your team-building activity!

In this episode, we discuss:

😍 Getting to know more about Nada El Kateb from Sweden

👾 How Nada uses games to make meetings more engaging

🧬 Maintaining human connections virtually

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