Influential U

Our featured interview is with an outstanding Chicago trial attorney who talks about his critical and analytical judgy-ness and how it has become a great asset. In this episode, Joe McNerney and Co-Founder John Patterson take the time to learn more about the Judge and Inventor personality and how personality, when understood, can help all of us transact more effectively. But Joe also cautions us all about the error of independence and self-sufficiency.

In our guru talk, we hear from Vice President Drew Knowles and Co-Founder Kirkland Tibbels as they lead a conversation about the need to be surrounded by a surplus of great help.

Dr. Kyra Gaunt conducts research on the unintended consequences of social media, often offering expert testimony on the subject and helping protect our future employability and reputation online and off. With a focus on marginalized groups, she's Professor of Ethnomusicology and Digital Media Studies at the University at Albany and one of the forty inaugural TED Fellows. She has much to say about the aimless consequence of our own naïveté. Having studied with Influence Ecology for four years, she shares about her own wide-eyed journey through the radical transparency movement to now offer important advice: not everything should be said, spoken, liked, or shared.

In our Guru Talk, listen in on a small portion of a Fundamentals of Transaction webinar classroom where we address our mantra: "You're always transacting." Vice President Drew Knowles and Co-Founder John Patterson give a talk about the blindness we have to our own transactional behavior — and how the actions we take (or don't take) influence the identity we produce with others.

Dr. Kyra Gaunt conducts research on the unintended consequences of social media, often offering expert testimony on the subject and helping protect our future employability and reputation online and off. With a focus on marginalized groups, she's Professor of Ethnomusicology and Digital Media Studies at the University at Albany and one of the forty inaugural TED Fellows. She has much to say about the aimless consequence of our own naïveté. Having studied with Influence Ecology for four years, she shares about her own wide-eyed journey through the radical transparency movement to now offer important advice: not everything should be said, spoken, liked, or shared.

In our Guru Talk, listen in on a small portion of a Fundamentals of Transaction webinar classroom where we address our mantra: "You're always transacting." Vice President Drew Knowles and Co-Founder John Patterson give a talk about the blindness we have to our own transactional behavior — and how the actions we take (or don't take) influence the identity we produce with others.

Paul Adams, of Sound Financial Group, leads a team of financial professionals dedicated to helping clients define their financial goals - then helps them develop tailored strategies to reach them. His company offers an approach uncommon to the financial planning industry. You'll learn how he reinvented his business model after careful consideration of his own aims to work in the way he'd like, to labor less, and increase his income. In our Guru Talk, we hear co-founder Kirkland Tibbels address our aims for work, career, and money - and how most of us forget that money is simply a tool of exchange.

Paul Adams, of Sound Financial Group, leads a team of financial professionals dedicated to helping clients define their financial goals - then helps them develop tailored strategies to reach them. His company offers an approach uncommon to the financial planning industry. You'll learn how he reinvented his business model after careful consideration of his own aims to work in the way he'd like, to labor less, and increase his income. In our Guru Talk, we hear co-founder Kirkland Tibbels address our aims for work, career, and money - and how most of us forget that money is simply a tool of exchange.

Paul Adams, of Sound Financial Group, leads a team of financial professionals dedicated to helping clients define their financial goals - then helps them develop tailored strategies to reach them. His company offers an approach uncommon to the financial planning industry. You'll learn how he reinvented his business model after careful consideration of his own aims to work in the way he'd like, to labor less, and increase his income. In our Guru Talk, we hear co-founder Kirkland Tibbels address our aims for work, career, and money - and how most of us forget that money is simply a tool of exchange.

Brandon Hollembeak warns of following the herd's shortcuts. He's a tech product manager who works with startups to help them drive data-driven decisions as they begin to become scalable. His competency for accurate thinking has helped him sift through the short-cut culture popular in the current marketplace. Having assisted in the success of two well-known startups, his journey can help us all sort through the complex, noisy, quick-fix narratives of our current popular media. In our guru talk, we listen in on the second session of a Fundamentals of Transaction Program Webinar classroom to hear a talk on the importance of accurate thinking and the satisfaction of your aims.

Brandon Hollembeak warns of following the herd's shortcuts. He's a tech product manager who works with startups to help them drive data-driven decisions as they begin to become scalable. His competency for accurate thinking has helped him sift through the short-cut culture popular in the current marketplace. Having assisted in the success of two well-known startups, his journey can help us all sort through the complex, noisy, quick-fix narratives of our current popular media. In our guru talk, we listen in on the second session of a Fundamentals of Transaction Program Webinar classroom to hear a talk on the importance of accurate thinking and the satisfaction of your aims.

Having more than doubled her income and moving her company's market position from #57 to #1, Kim Corbett is an account executive who considers herself a turnaround agent, turning around the sales of failing or emerging companies. She's a top performer with a proven track record for growing revenues and increasing an organization’s profitability. Always ambitious, she had previously struggled to get beyond her current income range — until studying with Influence Ecology. In this interview, you'll learn what changed. We'll also hear a segment of a recent Fundamentals of Transaction Program classroom webinar. Here, Vice President Drew Knowles and Co-Founder John Patterson discuss the subject of "Autonomy." Traditionally thought of as a "condition of independence," we reorient our students to think of Autonomy as a "Surplus of Help."

A panel of advanced members shares how the immersive and practical environment of our global Annual Member Conference produces real, lasting and consequential results.

This special feature is an exclusive interview with a panel of advanced members who just returned from our 2017 Annual Member Conference; our flagship global event held annually in some of the world's best luxury resorts. We conducted this interview as a study in the immersive impact of learning and practicing in a social and consequential environment. While most conference participants suffer 'death by powerpoint,' the Influence Ecology conference is known for it's 'game'; an entirely constructed strategic real-life situation that may last 2-3 days. It produces "real experience" and consequential conditions which maximize learning by doing. You'll hear how each of these participants left the conference with a practical and emboldened experience of their ability and capacity to meet their aims.