Leaders & Legacies

Your host, Craig Andrews, talks with the CEO of Helix Sales Development, Walter Crosby. Walter Crosby is a renowned figure who assists entrepreneurs and CEOs in scaling their businesses and fostering high-performance sales cultures. He's a seasoned professional who has dedicated his career to fixing the root cause of problems in businesses rather than merely providing surface-level solutions. He's recently celebrated the 100th episode of his podcast, "Sales & Cigars," where he has been a guest on various business, marketing, and sales-related podcasts.

Walter's book, "The Seven Critical Mistakes CEOs Make With Their Sales Operations That Stop the Company from Scaling," is a must-read for CEOs. Walter has an upcoming five-day challenge he will be hosting, aimed at teaching business owners, senior sales leaders, and HR personnel how to attract, hire, and retain high-performing salespeople.

To learn more about Walter's work, check out their website at https://helixsalesdevelopment.com/.

Connect with Walter on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/walterlcrosby/.

Free Challenge: https://events.helixsalesdevelopment.com/star-hiring-free-challenge-invite.

The 7 Critical Mistakes CEOs Make With Their Sales Organization: https://www.the7criticalmistakes.com/the-7-critical-mistakes-optin.

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Your host, Craig Andrews, talks with the Executive Director of Written Progress, Megan Mayzelle. Written Progress takes, grant applications, policy briefs, and academic manuscripts. The result documented proof of work that gets funders, policymakers, and top talent excited about taking your initiative to new heights. For those who want to build out their own toolbox, Written Progress also facilitates write shops and is currently developing a software tool to help climate professionals identify and act on often non-intuitive co-benefits and co-risks of their work.

Climate and energy transition professionals hold an amazing mastery of complex knowledge, and they often find it challenging to translate that knowledge into information that is exciting and actionable for those outside their area of specialization. Written Progress works exclusively with teams advancing a mission for ethical impact, Written Progress is a social enterprise that helps those with a climate mission translate their complex knowledge into compelling words.

To learn more about Megan's work, check out their website at https://writtenprogress.com/.

Connect with Megan on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganmayzelle/?originalSubdomain=fr.

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Your host, Craig Andrews, talks with the Founder and Owner of YKMD Visual Communication, Yanique DaCosta. Yanique is a Jamaican-born graphic designer and entrepreneur, she is known for her advocacy of diversity and inclusivity in the design industry.

YKMD is a graphic design firm that specializes in working with corporate event planners and trade show marketers, YKMD provides design assets to help these professionals achieve successful events. YKMD primarily serves two types of clients: in-house corporate organizations with limited design resources and corporate event planners or marketers in need of design assistance for specific projects. YKMD offers a flexible month-to-month service to cater to the needs of these professionals.

To learn more about Yanique's work, check out their website at https://theykmd.com/.

Connect with Yanique on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ydacosta/.

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Your host, Craig Andrews, talks with the Vistage Chair of Vistage, John Baines. It’s still a human world where integrity, experience, and relationships matter. Vistage is here to connect the most successful CEOs of small and midsize businesses so they can share expertise, challenge one another to think critically, and arrive at better decisions.

Through this ongoing collaboration, Vistage builds lifelong leadership excellence that elevates companies, strengthens communities, delivers meaningful results, and fosters sustainable growth.

To learn more about John's work, check out their website at https://www.vistage.com/.

Connect with John on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbaines/.

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Your host, Craig Andrews, talks with co-founder, Vice President, and General Manager of Gap Wireless, Glenn Poulos. With over three decades of experience in sales, Glenn has spent thousands of hours in the field or on the phone with customers and working with salespeople to help create several very successful companies.

After entering the sales field in 1985 as a Technical Sales Rep, Glenn founded his first company, mmWave Technologies Inc. in 1991 and simultaneously served as President of Anritsu Electronics Ltd. for 9 years. Using his extensive knowledge and experience in the industry, he lectures groups on sales strategy, consumerism, and what motivates people at a raw emotional level.

To learn more about Glenn's work, check out their website at https://glennpoulos.com/.

Connect with Glen on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/glenn-poulos-45bab86/.

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Your host, Craig Andrews, talks with the CEO of Royal Legal Solutions, Scott Smith. Royal Legal Solutions is a boutique law firm focused on protecting their clients’ real estate assets throughout the United States and Canada. No matter where you or your property is, they can protect your equity.

Founding attorney Scott Smith is a real estate investor himself and has learned that keeping your wealth is just as important as making it. All of their clients are real estate investors, and everything they do is focused on protecting their hard-earned assets.

To learn more about Scott's work, check out their website at https://royallegalsolutions.com/.

Connect with Scott on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottroyalsmith/.

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Your host, Craig Andrews, talks with the CEO of RedBalloon, Andrew Crapuchettes. RedBalloon connects thousands of like-minded businesses with tens of thousands of reliable, career-minded job seekers who are looking for the freedom to work without the fear of discrimination against personal beliefs, infringement of constitutional rights, or invasion of medical privacy.

RedBalloon honors and celebrates the founding liberties that have made the American free-market system the most successful economic engine in the history of the world. They strive to empower employers to preserve these liberties for their workforce and to place talented Americans into careers that will value their freedom and prioritize their success.

To learn more about Andrew's work, check out his website at https://www.redballoon.work/.

Connect with Andrew on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/acrapuchettes/.

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Your host, Craig Andrews, talks with Dr. Richard Kaye of Top Talent Agency. Dr. Richard Kaye is a renowned expert in helping entrepreneurs accelerate the growth of their businesses through profitable publicity. With nearly 24 years of experience under his belt, Dr. Richard Kaye has worked with a diverse range of clients, from early-stage startups to established businesses. His expertise and insights have been featured on various media platforms, including radio, television, and prestigious magazines like Forbes.

Dr. Richard Kaye, a retired chiropractor, is best known as a business growth strategist. He’s been serving the entrepreneurial community, enhancing a culture of collaboration and cooperation. Richard believes in the importance of being a servant leader and not just a boss. He believes that leadership is about taking responsibility and owning up to mistakes.

To learn more about Dr. Richard Kaye's work, please visit his website at https://toptagency.com/.

To connect with Dr. Richard Kaye on LinkedIn, check out his profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-kaye-43523015/.

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Your host, Craig Andrews, talks with the Founder and CEO of Global Performance Institute, Gregory Offner. Gregory is a renowned workplace experience strategist and award-winning keynote speaker. His work helps organizations engage and retain employees who deliver purposeful, profitable performances each day at work.

As an award-winning keynote performer, Gregory helps organizations and the people within them shape cultures of highly fulfilled, high-performing people. He discovered his perspectives on navigating change, and his passion for creating experiences that 'rock' could serve, inspire, and delight audiences around the world. Since that breakthrough moment, he has been privileged to share his keynote and The Tip Jar Culture™️ framework with more than 100 organizations, on multiple continents.

To learn more about Gregory's work, check out https://www.gregoryoffner.com/, https://www.linkedin.com/company/global-performance-institute/, and https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregoryoffnerjr/.

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Your host, Craig Andrews, talks with the President and Founder of ManageHub, Mike Kramer. Michael Kramer is an award-winning leadership consultant, successful entrepreneur, and author of the "ManageHub Strategy,” a step-by-step roadmap and tool set for implementing the leadership principles recommended by the United States Baldrige Performance Excellence Framework.

Kramer founded ManageHub, which provides mid-market and smaller organizations fractional and virtual leadership and coaching services. Engagements incorporate the Baldrige-based best management practices and tools outlined in the ManageHub Strategy playbook. Typical outcomes include increased quality, productivity, customer satisfaction, employee engagement, value growth, and accomplishment of strategic objectives.

To learn more about Mike's work, check out ManageHub at https://www.managehub.pro/.

To get to know Mike better, check out his LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelkramer/.

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