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Jessica Pryce-Jones CEO, iOpener, formerly of Rothschild's Bank, Paris, has worked internationally all her career and has found that far too many people are 'deficit thinkers'. "When people think negatively about new challenges they hold themselves back from achieving their true potential" says Pryce-Jones. In today's show the co-founder of iOpener shares her secrets to helping individuals, teams and organizations build on their strengths and develop happier workplaces. Learn how everyone changes and grows: but the secret to maximizing this lies in unleashing inner power and formulating practical solutions. Listen to the exciting facts about why so many people are now embracing this message. Jessica coach's senior executive, is a speaker and is currently writing a book: 'The Practical Guide to Achieving Happiness at Work.' She has degrees in Classics and Psychology and lives in Oxford, UK with her family.

Jessica Pryce-Jones CEO, iOpener, formerly of Rothschild's Bank, Paris, has worked internationally all her career and has found that far too many people are ‘deficit thinkers'. “When people think negatively about new challenges they hold themselves back from achieving their true potential” says Pryce-Jones. In today’s show the co-founder of iOpener shares her secrets to helping individuals, teams and organizations build on their strengths and develop happier workplaces. Learn how everyone changes and grows: but the secret to maximizing this lies in unleashing inner power and formulating practical solutions. Listen to the exciting facts about why so many people are now embracing this message.

Jessica coach’s senior executive, is a speaker and is currently writing a book: ‘The Practical Guide to Achieving Happiness at Work.’

She has degrees in Classics and Psychology and lives in Oxford, UK with her family.

Robert J. Thomas is Executive Director of the Accenture Institute for High Performance Business based in Boston, Massachusetts and the John R. Galvin Professor of Leadership at the Fletcher School of International Affairs at Tufts University. He writes, teaches and consults in the areas of leadership, organization design and transformational change. In 2002, he co-authored with Warren Bennis a book, Geeks and Geezers: How Era, Values, and Defining Moments Shape Leaders that explores the motivations and aspiration of leaders under the age of 35 and over the age of 70. His newest book, Crucibles of Leadership: How to Learn from Experience to Be a Great Leader, was released early this year. Bob has also published articles on leadership and change in the Harvard Business Review, Harvard Management Update, and Fortune magazine. He is the co-author of The Talent Powered Organization, one of the first systematic efforts to chart a strategy for talent management.

Robert J. Thomas is Executive Director of the Accenture Institute for High Performance Business based in Boston, Massachusetts and the John R. Galvin Professor of Leadership at the Fletcher School of International Affairs at Tufts University. He writes, teaches and consults in the areas of leadership, organization design and transformational change. In 2002, he co-authored with Warren Bennis a book, Geeks and Geezers: How Era, Values, and Defining Moments Shape Leaders that explores the motivations and aspiration of leaders under the age of 35 and over the age of 70. His newest book, Crucibles of Leadership: How to Learn from Experience to Be a Great Leader, was released early this year. Bob has also published articles on leadership and change in the Harvard Business Review, Harvard Management Update, and Fortune magazine. He is the co-author of The Talent Powered Organization, one of the first systematic efforts to chart a strategy for talent management.

Today's guest is Dr. Mark Goulston best selling author of four books including "Get Out of Your Own Way at Work and Help Others Do the Same. "Dr. Mark" will talk about why you have the talent, education and skills to do so much more than you're doing, so what is still getting in your way? Join us to explore the self defeating behaviors that limit career success and how fear of learning from mistakes can keep you from reaching your goals Dr. Mark Goulston writes The Leading Edge column and blog for Fast Company and the Tribune Media syndicated column Solve Anything with Dr. Mark. He is an executive coach and advisor trained as a clinical psychiatrist who includes FBI/police hostage negotiation training as well as top company executives from GE, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Kodak and Federal Express among his clients.

Today’s guest is Dr. Mark Goulston best selling author of four books including “Get Out of Your Own Way at Work and Help Others Do the Same. “Dr. Mark” will talk about why you have the talent, education and skills to do so much more than you’re doing, so what is still getting in your way? Join us to explore the self defeating behaviors that limit career success and how fear of learning from mistakes can keep you from reaching your goals

Dr. Mark Goulston writes The Leading Edge column and blog for Fast Company and the Tribune Media syndicated column Solve Anything with Dr. Mark. He is an executive coach and advisor trained as a clinical psychiatrist who includes FBI/police hostage negotiation training as well as top company executives from GE, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Kodak and Federal Express among his clients.

Co-hosted by Dr. Cathy Greenberg and Dr. Relly Nadler, your leadership development coaches, who have helped thousands of leaders and executives to perform in the top 10%. • Why is Employee Engagement so important for leaders to understand and "master"? • What are some of the best practices to promote Employee Engagement? • What are Fortune 100 companies doing today to support developing their leaders for the role of Engaging Employees to help retain top talent? Today's guest is: Barrett Avigdor Barrett Avigdor is the Director of Legal Talent Strategy for Accenture, a publicly traded technology and outsourcing company with annual revenues in excess of $13 billion. Ms. Avigdor has been in-house legal counsel at Accenture since 1992 and has held a variety of leadership roles during her tenure there. Prior to joining Accenture, Ms. Avigdor was in private practice in Chicago specializing in international business law. Ms. Avigdor is known at Accenture for her creativity and

Co-hosted by Dr. Cathy Greenberg and Dr. Relly Nadler, your leadership development coaches, who have helped thousands of leaders and executives to perform in the top 10%.

• Why is Employee Engagement so important for leaders to understand and “master”?

• What are some of the best practices to promote Employee Engagement?

• What are Fortune 100 companies doing today to support developing their leaders for the role of Engaging Employees to help retain top talent?

Today’s guest is: Barrett Avigdor

Barrett Avigdor is the Director of Legal Talent Strategy for Accenture, a publicly traded technology and outsourcing company with annual revenues in excess of $13 billion. Ms. Avigdor has been in-house legal counsel at Accenture since 1992 and has held a variety of leadership roles during her tenure there. Prior to joining Accenture, Ms. Avigdor was in private practice in Chicago specializing in international business law.

Ms. Avigdor is known at Accenture for her creativity and

• What is the best path to performance? Is it working from strengths, learning an industry or experience? • How did he develop his popular program: Creating Coaching Capabilities? Fred Harburg, is a respected consultant, writer, and speaker in leadership and performance coaching. He has served in significant international positions as both an internal and external organizational architect for Fortune 100 companies. "Chief Learning Officer Magazine" profiled Fred's success as President of Motorola University, which at its peak had over 1000 faculty and staff and operated from 20 campuses around the globe. Join Fred as he shares secrets on how he helps leaders realize critical business strategies and develop talent wherever he goes.

• What is the best path to performance? Is it working from strengths, learning an industry or experience?

• How did he develop his popular program: Creating Coaching Capabilities?

Fred Harburg, is a respected consultant, writer, and speaker in leadership and performance coaching. He has served in significant international positions as both an internal and external organizational architect for Fortune 100 companies. “Chief Learning Officer Magazine” profiled Fred’s success as President of Motorola University, which at its peak had over 1000 faculty and staff and operated from 20 campuses around the globe.

Join Fred as he shares secrets on how he helps leaders realize critical business strategies and develop talent wherever he goes.