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  • The Keys to Building More Powerful Collaboration [Episode 61]

    What’s more powerful than collaboration for creating dynamic outcomes?
    Find out by listening on-the-go to Episode 61. We speak with returning guest Judith E. Glaser, CEO of Benchmark Communications, Inc., Chairman and Co-Founder of the CreatingWe® Institute, and the world’s leading authority on Conversational Intelligence®.
    Judith is the award winning author of the best selling books CreatingWE® and Conversational Intelligence®: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary Results. (see bio below).
    You’ll find out about:

    * Why co-creation is even more powerful than collaboration
    * Stories that exemplify using conversational intelligence to move beyond collaboration to co-creation
    * Three pieces of actionable advice for taking your organization to a place of more powerful collaboration, and beyond




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    About Judith E. Glaser
    Judith E. Glaser is the founder and CEO of CEO of Benchmark Communications, Inc. and Chairman and Co-Founder of the CreatingWe Institute. She is the world’s leading authority on Conversational Intelligence®, WE-centric Leadership, and Neuro-Innovation, and is a best-selling author of 7 business books including her newest best seller – Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary Results.
    In 2004 Judith was awarded Woman of the Year in New York City. Since 2006 she has been listed in as one of the top 10 consultants globally in the Excellence Top 100 Consultants and is considered one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders globally on the subject of leadership. In 2011, Judith was awarded the Drexel University Distinguished Alumni Award, and in 2006 she was inducted into the Temple University Gallery of Success.
    Judith is frequently quoted on her revolutionary workplace approaches in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Crain’s, Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, AMA World, etc. and is a contributing Editor for Executive Excellence Magazine. Read More about Judith E. Glaser

    Resources for This Episode

    * Find out more about Judith E. Glaser’s books, Conversational Intelligence® and Creating WE®
    * Check out previous Growth Igniters Radio interviews with Judith E. Glaser: Episode 3, Episode 15, and Episode 36
    * Request a download sample of Judith E.
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  • Leading Innovation To Respond to Customers’ Changing Needs

    How does a CEO foster a culture that supports meaningful innovation? Find out by listening on-the-go to Episode 60, with Julie Sue Auslander, President and Chief Cultural Officer of cSubs, a highly successful woman-owned business that manages subscription programs for leading corporate and professional subscribers. Among their many honors and awards for customer service, innovation, and growth over […]

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  • Leading Innovation To Respond to Customers’ Changing Needs [Episode 60]

    How does a CEO foster a culture that supports meaningful innovation?
    Find out by listening on-the-go to Episode 60, with Julie Sue Auslander, President and Chief Cultural Officer of cSubs, a highly successful woman-owned business that manages subscription programs for leading corporate and professional subscribers.
    Among their many honors and awards for customer service, innovation, and growth over the years, cSubs is one of the few companies that Inc. magazine has named among its 5000 Fastest Growing Companies for more than 6 years in a row, beginning in 2008. (see more in Julie’s bio below)
    Find out about:

    * The forces that drive meaningful innovation at cSubs year after year
    * Two powerful practices that encourage cSubs employees to step out of habitual thinking and take innovative risks
    * Three immediately useful ideas for fostering responsive innovation in your own company





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    About Julie Sue Auslander
    Julie Sue Auslander is President and Chief Cultural Officer of cSubs. CSubs is a highly successful middle market, woman-owned business that manages subscription programs for leading corporate and professional subscribers. It’s one of the few companies that Inc. magazine has named among its 5000 Fastest Growing Companies for more than 6 years in a row, beginning in 2008.
    Both cSubs and Julie have received many other honors, including being named to the Women’s Enterprise list of top business enterprises in the U.S., and receiving the 2015 ACG New Jersey Corporate Growth Award.
    In addition to leading cSubs, Julie sits on the advisory board of the Center for Women and Enterprise, and on the Leadership Forum of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, an organization of more than 12,000 woman-owned companies. Read more about Julie Auslander.

    Resources for This Episode

    * Find out more about cSubs
    * Read Julie’s Fast Company Blog


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    30 min
  • Building a Stronger Business Community Through Corporate Philanthropy — with guest Karen Eber Davis

    What are the latest trends for “doing well by doing good”?  Find out by listening on-the-go to Episode 59, featuring our conversation with returning guest Karen Eber Davis, author of the new ebook,100+ Questions to Ask Before You Invest In a Nonprofit Organization, as well as 7 Nonprofit Income Streams: Open the Floodgate to Sustainability. She is also President […]

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    29 min
  • Building a Stronger Business Community Through Corporate Philanthropy [Episode 59]

    What are the latest trends for “doing well by doing good”? 
    Find out by listening on-the-go to Episode 59, featuring our conversation with returning guest Karen Eber Davis, author of the new ebook,100+ Questions to Ask Before You Invest In a Nonprofit Organization, as well as 7 Nonprofit Income Streams: Open the Floodgate to Sustainability. She is also President of  Karen Eber Davis Consulting, which helps businesses use philanthropy as a propulsion tool to grow their profits and performance.
    In this episode, you’ll find out about: 

    * How strategic philanthropy is strengthening communities and  increasing ROI for businesses
    * 3 case studies illustrating different aspects of this emerging trend
    * The top 3 questions to ask before you invest in a nonprofit organization




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    About Karen Eber Davis
    Karen Eber Davis is President of Karen Eber Davis Consulting, which helps businesses use philanthropy as a propulsion tool to grow their profits and performance. As the leading authority on ways that nonprofits and for-profits can engage with each other to create dynamic partnerships, she helps leaders to create extraordinary impact and increase profits. Her most recent e-book is 100+ Questions to Ask Before You Invest In a Nonprofit Organization. Karen is also the leading authority on income growth strategies for nonprofits, and author of the book, 7 Nonprofit Income Streams: Open the Floodgate to Sustainability!.  Her activities to increase nonprofit funding raise multi-millions every year, and involve new ideas that improve organizations and provide them more than money.   Read Karen’s Full Bio

    Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

    * Request complimentary download of Karen’s 2016 e-book, 100+ Questions to Ask Before You Invest In a Nonprofit Organization
    * Request free report download: Good, Better, BestWays to Invest With Nonprofits
    * About Karen’s book: 7 Nonprofit Income Streams: Open the Floodgate to Sustainability!


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  • Pam and Scott’s Business Book Pairings for Inspiring Yourself and Others

    What is at the heart of making big things happen? Find out by listening on-the-go to Episode 58. This “book pairing” episode features two pairs of complementary books (four books in total), all of which touch on what it takes to bring out your best self in business and life in general. In this episode, you’ll find […]

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    28 min
  • Pam and Scott’s Business Book Pairings for Inspiring Yourself and Others [Episode 58]

    What is at the heart of making big things happen?
    Find out by listening on-the-go to Episode 58. This “book pairing” episode features two pairs of complementary books (four books in total), all of which touch on what it takes to bring out your best self in business and life in general.
    In this episode, you’ll find out about: 

    * Getting in touch with your real purpose (the”why”)  clarifies decisions regarding”how” and “what” needs to happen
    * Communicating with others  to paint a compelling picture of the future so that they want to join you on the journey
    * Tips for applying concepts from these books




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    Pamela S. Harper is the Founding Partner and CEO of Business Advancement Inc., a strategic growth advisory firm based in Glen Rock, NJ. For more than 20 years, Pam has applied her gift for finding the hidden opportunities in every situation to helping clients in entrepreneurial, mid-market, and Fortune 500 companies across 30 industries create hundreds of millions of dollars of value in both top and bottom line growth.
    Prior to founding BAI, Pam skyrocketed into the ranks of management by taking a progressive series of newly created organizational development positions is companies ranging from mid-market to Fortune 500 across multiple industries, all undergoing dramatic change and growth.
    Pam has been quoted in, featured in, or written articles for prominent business media including Business Week, Investor’s Business Daily, Chiefexecutive.net, CEO.com and other major media. Her book, Preventing Strategic Gridlock, has been used as a text in universities around the world.
    D. Scott Harper, Ph.D.,  is Sr. Partner with Business Advancement Inc. Throughout his career Scott has devoted himself to understanding why things work the way they do, and how to apply those insights to create new value. Scott helps clients sift through complexity and take full advantage of opportunities by discovering the hidden side of everything.
    Before joining BAI in 2010, Scott held a succession of increasingly accountable innovation positions in the consumer healthcare industry. Since then, he has been published and quoted in prominent business media outlets including Chief Executive Magazine, CEO.com, CEO World Magazine, and the IndUS Business Journal.

    Resources for This Episode

    * Read about Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
    * Read about Do the KIND Thing: Think Boundlessly, Work Purposefully, Live Passionately
    * Read about
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