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Hugh Lytle is Principal of StarWest Ventures, LLC a strategic healthcare advisory in Tempe, Arizona and an Operating Executive with Genstar Capital, a premier Private Equity firm.

Before founding StarWest, Hugh was President and Co-Founder, Axia Health Management, LLC, the nation’s first true single source provider of integrated preventive health and wellness benefits. Mr. Lytle successfully sold the company to Healthways, Inc. (NASDAQ: HWAY) for $450 Million in 2006. Hugh served as SVP for Healthways supporting the integration of the two companies before founding StarWest in 2007.

Join Hugh for leadership insights to the challenges of a multi-unit integration experience including issues like group goal setting and alignment, strategic coaching for personal mastery, teaching smart people how to learn and dealing with difficult situations while finding gratitude and success along the way.

Mr. Lytle earned an MBA from Butler University and a BA from the University of Indianapo

This show is focused on the Service Orientation competencies. How can Emotional Intelligence skills help you to be better sales person? What are the best ways to understand and address the underlying needs of your customers? How can you communicate to be a trusted advisor to your customers? Today's guest is Liah Kraft-Kristaine. Liah is an award-winning international speaker and author of nine books, including the best-selling 30 Days to Happiness, and has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She was a highly successful IBM account executive in computer sales before becoming an attorney in Atlanta and CNN broadcaster. She has presented in over 400 cities on four continents. She is well known for her expertise in emotional intelligence in the workplace, leadership motivational communication, stress management, communication skills and sales achievement.

This show is focused on the Service Orientation competencies. How can Emotional Intelligence skills help you to be better sales person? What are the best ways to understand and address the underlying needs of your customers? How can you communicate to be a trusted advisor to your customers?

Today’s guest is Liah Kraft-Kristaine. Liah is an award-winning international speaker and author of nine books, including the best-selling 30 Days to Happiness, and has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show.

She was a highly successful IBM account executive in computer sales before becoming an attorney in Atlanta and CNN broadcaster. She has presented in over 400 cities on four continents. She is well known for her expertise in emotional intelligence in the workplace, leadership motivational communication, stress management, communication skills and sales achievement.

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders get even better – by achieving positive, lasting change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams. Marshall's newest book, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, is a New York Times best seller, Wall Street Journal #1 business book and winner of the Harold Longman award as Best Business Book of 2007 • Marshall will tell you why can't you do the same old things and be successful in the future? • Marshall shares time tested best practices to promote you into even better leadership roles? • Learn what Fortune 100 companies are doing today to support developing their leaders for tomorrow. Don't miss today's show if you want to get ahead and stay ahead

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders get even better – by achieving positive, lasting change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams. Marshall’s newest book, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, is a New York Times best seller, Wall Street Journal #1 business book and winner of the Harold Longman award as Best Business Book of 2007

• Marshall will tell you why can’t you do the same old things and be successful in the future?

• Marshall shares time tested best practices to promote you into even better leadership roles?

• Learn what Fortune 100 companies are doing today to support developing their leaders for tomorrow.

Don’t miss today’s show if you want to get ahead and stay ahead

This show is focused on Teamwork and Collaboration, one of the EI competencies in Relationship Management. How does a leader develop their team? How do you build team spirit? How do you get them involved in the team process and mission? How is trust important in teams and how do you generate it? What are ways to create an empowered team? Today's guest is Tom Heck, a teamwork coach, author, inventor, entrepreneur, speaker and banjo player. His passion is in teaching team and leadership skills through experiential activities. He created TeachMeTeamwork.com, a web-based team training resource with 27,000+ members in 101+ countries is endorsed by a wide range of training professionals from around the world.

This show is focused on Teamwork and Collaboration, one of the EI competencies in Relationship Management. How does a leader develop their team? How do you build team spirit? How do you get them involved in the team process and mission? How is trust important in teams and how do you generate it? What are ways to create an empowered team? Today’s guest is Tom Heck, a teamwork coach, author, inventor, entrepreneur, speaker and banjo player. His passion is in teaching team and leadership skills through experiential activities. He created TeachMeTeamwork.com, a web-based team training resource with 27,000+ members in 101+ countries is endorsed by a wide range of training professionals from around the world.

This show is focused on Emotional Self Awareness, one of the key foundational EI competencies for leaders to develop. Are you aware of your feelings and know why they occur? Do you understand the implications of your feelings? It is critical as leaders to know yourself as a stepping stone in leading and knowing others. Today's guest is Joshua Freedman the author of At the Heart of Leadership, and an expert in Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Change. He is the COO and one of the founders of Six Seconds, one of the oldest and leading EI programs in the world. Joshua is a master EI trainer having trained over 10,000 people in 10 nations.

This show is focused on Emotional Self Awareness, one of the key foundational EI competencies for leaders to develop. Are you aware of your feelings and know why they occur? Do you understand the implications of your feelings? It is critical as leaders to know yourself as a stepping stone in leading and knowing others. Today’s guest is Joshua Freedman the author of At the Heart of Leadership, and an expert in Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Change. He is the COO and one of the founders of Six Seconds, one of the oldest and leading EI programs in the world. Joshua is a master EI trainer having trained over 10,000 people in 10 nations.

Henry Dubroff is the founder of the Pacific Coast Business Times, the weekly business journal for the Central Coast of California. The Business Times is the dominant financial news source in Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. The Business Times has won multiple awards from the Los Angeles Press Club and is a five-time winner of the Society of American Business Editors & Writers "Best in Business" competition. Dubroff provides daily commentaries on KCLU, a National Public Radio station, and he writes op-eds on economic issues for the Sunday Denver Post. He was the U.S. Small Business Administration's Business Journalist of the Year for Greater Los Angeles and was the 2013 winner of the California Coast Venture Forum's Entrepreneurial Spirit Award.