Entelechy Leadership Stories

We are back for another great interview in our Entelechy Series with your host Kirstin Gooldy. In today’s episode, we chat with Adam Rundle.

Adam is the Co-Founder of Clever profits, an accounting firm that offers accounting, tax, and growth strategies to online entrepreneurs as fractional CFOs. He also is a leadership trainer, a coach, and a sportsman.

Today’s conversation will focus on how conscious leadership impacts our businesses and lives, and elevating leaders where everybody matters 

This concept of elevating leaders came from the book Everybody Matters written by Bob Chapman & Raj Sisodia, which focuses on the extraordinary power of caring for people in your business like family what can that can do for your business.  

Adam & his team attended a training facilitated by Mike Budden who runs the Chapman & Co. Leadership Institute which focused on leadership development, personal development. This experience inspired him to create a year-long mastermind for his top 10 clients around leadership. 

Adam’s background stems from coaching rugby in South Africa, from there, he got a chance to spend 6 weeks with the All Blacks rugby team in New Zealand where he got to experience how the most successful rugby team is people-centered,  coupled with a heavy family & culture orientation. He saw how this environment of care creates quality human beings. 

• A couple of insights from Adam includes: no business will truly survive without people, and that you've got to consciously learn how to be a good leader, how to care for people, lead people and give direction yet also be show empathy.
• Adam also talks about why and how leaders need and can create balance in their businesses.  Being able to balance conscious capitalism, conscious leadership, around caring for people and building a good culture and environment, will result in you making your profits.
• Additionally, you cannot work on your teams until you've worked on yourself, or are working on yourself. If you get alignment, you can then work on your teams, which you can then work on your business, and then you can move forward.
• A true leader must create trust, and trust is developed from consistency. consistent with just being there, being present in all you do and in all your interactions, goes a long way to building trust.
• Remaining  consistent in everything you do is a  pretty big building block to people, who want to trust someone 
• Expectations are a real thing and, miscommunicated expectations are  probably one of the biggest eroders of communication and trust and team-building 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

 Adam's Website: Cleverprofits.com

Email :[email protected]

Facebook: Clever profits group

Summary.

You don't have to be at the forefront to be a leader. Being authentic to who you are and where best you can create impact is as profound as leading at the front.

Leadership is multifaceted in every way. It's about people. So the moment you put the people first, put their needs first that's where you win.

A journey of 1000 steps starts with one step, so start the journey.

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Welcome back everyone to our podcast. We are pumped up for today's episode with Bill O'Herron.

Bill wears a myriad of hats including:  corporate executive involved in the capital markets, investments, and real estate; a practicing therapist; and an author. All this experience can be summarized as 33 years of financial experience, 24 years of marriage, 15 years of counseling. And he says 8,500 hours of sitting quietly and listening to other people.  

Bill talks to us about conscious leadership in business, vulnerability, humility in business, secrets of a great leader, and being able to hold space for someone so as to create harmony in your life.  

• Bill shares some of the lessons he has learned in conscious leadership in business. For a leader to be successful in all their relationships including business relationships, one needs to learn how to control themselves. 
•  How people feel,  determines how they behave therefore how they react. Successfully controlling this aspect, the result is leaders and individuals who can drive productivity and growth in their teams if they feel engaged and whole. 
•  Leadership is about understanding where you are in that moment. If you don't understand where you are at that moment, you will not know where you are going, you will ot know where your partner is, where your Billion-dollar client is, where your $10 client is, etc. Knowing oneself is the only way to self engaging the universe.
• When you as a leader know yourself, you also know your value systems, you know, your structures, you create your north star leading to you and your teams’ success. 
• Bill talks about "Vitamin V" - vulnerability, and how to be vulnerable in business, your relationships, your family, and those you meet along your path.
• Humility in the business world is a powerful tool because when you're humble and honest, the other person's going to start sharing more stuff. 
• The concept of standing in the fire when you are in the heat of battle, and pressures and emotions run high whether it’s at work or in your relationships. 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Bill's Website: Whole Counselling 

Bill's Book on Amazon: Waking Up Marriage 

Summary.

Despite everyone being different, yet the same, every religion is different yet the same, all cultures being different yet the same, we are all trying to figure out who we are, what our purpose in life is, but all in all who we are as human beings. 

Bill O’Herron, LCSW is a corporate executive, practicing therapist (weekends and evenings), and writer who seeks to use his 33 years of financial sales management experience, 24 years of marriage, 15 years of counseling clients, and 8,500 hours of sitting quietly to help his clients better understand themselves and deepen their relationships.

Bill teaches that all our relationships with others, especially our marriage, started in 4th grade, when our limbic-emotional body learned, absorbed, and inherited our parents’ lives and experiences. We are all therefore married to our own old, unconscious emotions more so than to our spouse.

His research shows that relationships fail for one single reason: a lack of understanding of one’s own emotions and reaction patterns created in childhood. His work with archetypes demonstrates also that relationships are not a single experience or dyad between two people but are eight unique...

We are back for another great interview in our Entelechy Series and back with host Kirstin Gooldy. In today’s episode, we chat with Susan Robertson whose  principles and  ideas are being fully embraced and are catalyzing the shift in leadership, 

Susan Robertson is the CEO and co-founder of Lincies Conscious Business. A business leadership company that explores, strengthens, and transforms leaders,  executives and teams into high-performing organizations while applying conscious leadership principles.

Susan is also an Author of Real Leadership- where she takes readers on a journey from being unconscious and blithely to an awakening of inner truth, resiliency, engagement, authenticity, and leadership wisdom

Having gone through trauma as she grew up, and looking for all ways to survive, Susan was always aware of the financial aspects of her own life and the environment she grew up in. She lived in fear of being poor.

While in the banking industry, she attended a creative leadership workshop by Dr. Farr of Farr Associates. This experience created a mind shift in what she wanted for the rest of her career. She combined her business degree and psychology degree and her conscious leadership business was born. 

A couple of highlights from our discussion of REAL Leadership include:

• Resilient - A leader who is self-Aware, has self-regulation well being combined with cognitive and emotional intelligence 
• Engage - What kind of leader will you be? Whether you're going to be a micromanager or over-controlling, or  whether you're going to collaborate with your team, being honest, with other people, bringing inclusion & diversity, 
• Agile - As a leader, are you willing to get out of your comfort zone,  willing to take risks, what's your risk tolerance?
• Lead-Are you a leader who leads with wisdom, with compassion, that's authentic and  that's humane.
• As a leader, you should distinguish between decision-making and discernment. asking yourself and your team the question ‘ I know we can, but should we?’

Susan Robertson's email contact: [email protected] 

Link to her Real Leadership Book 

Summary:

As a leader and person, you need to understand what your heart song is because that will bring out the best in you no matter where you go.

Meet Lynn Yap, featured author of The Altruistic Capitalist, on the launch of her first book.

Join Lynn, Kirstin, and Mark in conversation on business as a force for good. Learn what we can each do to make a difference on the planet and in our communities.

Lynn is passionate about working with business leaders to create social impact and value with all stakeholders, customers, teams, and partners alike. "My experience in innovation, brand, and strategy as well as skill sets in data analytics, business model innovation, and design thinking, enable me to support brands in implementing purpose in their strategy and communication," she says.

"I worked with global companies and start-ups in the US and Europe to increase brand awareness and marketing campaign efficiency, deliver operational excellence and digital transformation, and increase sales in existing and new markets," Lynn says.

Are you tired of hearing that companies can’t create a profit and make a positive impact simultaneously?  

The Altruistic Capitalist looks to spark change in conversations in board rooms, offices, and schools to turn the focus from sales, profits, and returns to the impact good business can have on people and the planet. Through her interviews with prominent business leaders as well as her personal experiences in the business world, author Lynn Yap offers ways to rethink capitalism, create a positive impact, and do meaningful work. Yap looks to tackle questions like:

• Where do people and planet enter into the equation when businesses calculate returns?
• How can we turn a profit while also creating a sustainable business with positive impacts?
• How can companies scale impact to provide benefits to the environment and community?

Her book speaks to leaders, social entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, and innovators who want to change the relationship between business, our people, and the planet. We can no longer rely on governments and non-profit organizations alone to solve our social and environmental problems. As we look urgently to the business world for solutions, this kinder, more mindful brand of capitalism just may provide a pathway out. 

In this interview, Lynn chats with us about the path that led her to start her journey focusing on businesses that can be a force of good. While working at Adidas, she saw how various collaborations and partnerships with different startups enabled Adidas to maximize value and develop new innovations. This and other such experiences led her to write the book.

As a business owner, Lynn tells you you need to understand what, your purpose is, what drives you and your organization, what are the values that motivate your organization, and, follow those, your profit comes after that. 

She stresses the point that in today’s world, there is no trade-off between a company that focuses on environmental or people goals and a company that focuses on profits. Both these scenarios have to go hand in hand, it’s a win-win situation so as to maximize value for everyone.

In her book, The Altruistic Capitalist leader has  three mindsets: 

• Mindfulness, 
• curiosity, and 
• Grit.

Lynn focuses on the goals are around collaboration, candidness, and transparency really make for a much greater outcome in your company such...

In this episode, Kirstin and Mark talk with John David Mann

John is an award-winning and best-selling author of more than 27 books that focus on parables about leadership like the Go-Giver series, The Latte Factor and Out of the Maze, which was the sequel to Who Moved My Cheese.

• Since Entelechy is about leadership, we asked John to highlight what you can learn from the Go-Giver leadership and why it still is such an appealing book 12 years later.
• John tells us how his early career as a concert cellist and prize-winning composer, changed by collaborating with Bob Berg on the Go-Giver books and shares with us the secrets to becoming a great storyteller. 
• What collaborating and ghostwriting on some different projects including a memoir for an ex-Navy seal sniper, has taught him about leadership.
• Focusing on the go-giver series in leadership, John Mann highlights the 2 types of leaders and how leaders can move from getting (whether it’s from their investors or stakeholders ) to giving. 

In addition, we talk about the 4 fingers and thumb rule when it comes to great leaders. And out of these, you will learn how to be:

• Receptive leader and person in general. 
• Living with a spirit of generosity
• Getting into the flow of giving and how it becomes your native state of being

When it comes to working in a team as a leader, John tells us how to balance perspective and empathy. And acknowledging your part of a cooperative enterprise.  

John’s main takeaway from this series is if you put your focus on helping other people by putting your focus on their interests, you end up succeeding yourself. 

John is currently working with his wife on a new book, The Go-Giver Marriage, for spring of 2022

John David Mann: LinkedIn

John David Mann Website

John David Mann's latest book: Steel Fear on Amazon 

In today’s episode, we chat with AJ Bishop, CEO and Founder of My Wealth Conscious Coach.

As a wealth-conscious coach, AJ believes that NOW is the time for women to claim their confidence and feel empowered with their money, their financial decisions, and command their true worth. 

• Although AJ got into the conscious investor by accident, she chooses to stay there.  She was a financial advisor who led an active yogi life.  When she started meditating, she saw how she was generating her wealth was not in alignment with who she was at her core. 
• Through her practice in yoga, her values of integrity are transferred to her clients. She says if she won't do it herself, then she’ll not tell her clients to do it. 
• What AJ helps her clients focus on is changing their mindset. Eradicating the scarcity mindset and replacing it with a mindset of worthiness.  
• Wealth Consciousness is also about this idea of leadership and becoming more aware, of how money or how wealth was, or was not available to you when growing up or in your past and breaking through any barriers that you have with it.

AJ teaches people the 3T Framework of wealth creation:  

• Time -- how much energy you put into something
• Talent -- how you use yours 
• Treasure -- putting your dollars and your money into a place that adds meaning to you. 

She says, "A big part of the work that I do with women clients is to ensure they get really clear on their values. I teach them that wealth is actually within us and it's also outside of us. And so we want all things to be in alignment."

AJ Instagram@ mywealthconsciouscoach

AJ Bishop website: mywealthconscoiuscoach.com

AJ’s vision is to bring a whole new way of wealth building in a conscious light, that will impact 1million people, and cause a ripple effect.

In today’s episode, we chat with Mitch Slater, wealth management and investment advisor for a large multinational bank.

Mitch will give us a global view of the kinds of companies, the kinds of leaders of those companies who lead in a conscious way.  

A couple of things that have shaped Mitch’s journey as a wealth management and investment advisor have been founded on his experiences in:

1. Working for Larry King, where he learned to be a successful individual, you need to be a good listener coupled with curiosity you can be successful in anything that you do in life.

2. as a board member at a school, he realized that there wasn’t enough financial literacy for children and individuals.  He managed to pass a law in New Jersey that stated you can't graduate high school without a one-semester class about basic financial literacy.

• The current companies and CEOs are now focusing on the big picture as far as companies moving towards environmental and sustainability and good governance goals   (ESG) include: treating employees with respect and dignity, focusing on climate change which actually starts at home, having leaders that have EQ and IQ
• As an individual investor who is conscious about investing with companies that lead consciously, you need to do your due diligence on them.  
• There is a shift from ordinary companies to companies that are now philosophical impact 

LinkedIn - mitchslater

Mitch Slater spotify podcast- Financially Speaking

Summary.

Whatever, you know, every generation looks back and has regrets and wishes. They did things better. And I'm an optimist. I think we're heading in the right direction.

Doing Good is Good for Business, with Monique Skruzny

Monique is the CEO and founder of InspIR Group, a cross-border investor relations and corporate communications firm that enhances the value and reputation of companies operating in dynamic environments. InspIR’s senior advisors are financially fluent, experienced communicators.

"We are redefining the value of investor relations through bringing strategic advice grounded in deep experience and supported by analytical research. Our global clients operate across borders and are often high growth," she says.

InspIR is the leading strategic investor relations advisory firm in Latin America and Brazil. To learn more about our firm, please visit www.inspirgroup.com

With more than 25 years of capital markets experience, as a start-up entrepreneur, angel investor, investment banker, advisor, and the operating executive responsible for raising over $1 billion, Monique brings a unique perspective to client advisory work.

"I have spent much of my career in the media, internet and hospitality sectors as well as the emerging markets. I focus on pre-IPO preparation, capital markets transactions, valuation-related issues and special situations including advising boards and senior management teams on best practices and managing proxy communications and other key events and disclosure issues. I work closely with the private equity community on portfolio exit strategy preparation and am passionate about helping entrepreneurs realize their visions," says Monique.

Her skills include Investor relations, technology, internet, entertainment, media, proxy and contested situations, corporate positioning, international markets, stakeholder relations, management transition, financial distress, crises.

She has held executive and advisory positions with responsibility for management, corporate finance and strategic communications, including as CFO of a US publicly listed company, VP of business development for a global media company, and as an investment banker and start-up entrepreneur.

Monique is an Executive Board Director of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  She served for seven years on the board of a microfinance organization. She received a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.  She is fluent in Spanish and conversational in Portuguese.

Keeping Social Media Social, with Mo MacKenzie

Ladies Under Construction Mentoring Girls, with Aleanya Moore

Aleanya Moore

Founder & CEO of Ladies Under Construction 

In today’s episode of Entelechy Leadership Stories, we have the privilege of speaking with an inspirational young leader Aleanya Moore. Aleana is driven by a purpose that is more than a mission, it is her legacy she is seeking to leave – change the trajectory of her bloodline and sprinkle belief and hope to disenfranchised youth so they are empowered to do the same. She is the Founder of Ladies Under Construction. She was the Youth Chairperson for Indianapolis NAACP and Speaker at the 2012 NAACP Youth Summit. She has won the Indianapolis Mayor Community Service Award and is also the author of Through My Lens.

Aleayna raised by her grandmother in a low-income housing complex faced many troubling situations during her childhood including being a fatherless child, having a mother on drugs, along with not understanding or valuing her worth. During high school, she became involved in her school’s basketball team working closely with her coach Mr. Alto King. Mr. King recognized her potential and pushed her into a more positive direction in life. Aleanya decided she would be the first in her family to go to college and pursue a degree.  

Her belief in herself combined with the support of her village has given way to a life of service that supports youth today by founding Ladies Under Construction a mentoring program for young schoolgirls ages 8 to 18. The foundation's mission is to provide leadership development programs, etiquette training, and character development support to organizations serving school-age girls. 

Aleayna guides young women by being real and relatable to become who they are meant to be by offering the following:

• All ladies are always under construction and never complete. 
• No one is perfect and it is ok to not be perfect.
• Everyone is growing and becoming the person they are meant to be. 
• Growth is continual.  
• Allow grace and patience for yourself.
• Build your foundation – a foundation of principles.
• Self-Esteem development and understanding who you are.
• Have the right character.
• It takes a village.
• Your village is your resources and support that can enhance and cultivate that growth aspect within you.

Aleayna’s biggest contribution and impact are leaving each young woman with an ounce of belief and hope. 

• “No matter where you come from or where you are at you can be that change”. 
• “A pivot for me was the fact that my basketball coach actually cared. My basketball coach taught me basketball and also life skills.”
• “They provided me with resources and exposure. Sprinkled a belief and hope even if I have not seen certain things and I may not think I can become something, once I was given that foundation that disciple strength and encouragement and support along the way I could be something I never had to change the trajectory of my bloodline.”

To learn more about Aleayna see contact below:

www.molspeaks.org

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleanya-moore-b6710258/