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Kevin is one of the leaders in the new field of Social Cognitive Neuroscience, which is generating a lot of interest in new findings that have previously been in the black box of the brain. He was recently interviewed by Wall Street Journal about managing the fear in the financial marketplace. He currently is the director of Social Cognitive Neuroscience and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Columbia University. Kevin's research interests include the psychological and neural processes involved in emotion, pain, self-regulation, self perception, and person perception. All of his work employs a social cognitive neuroscience approach that seeks to integrate the theories and methods of social psychology on the one hand, and cognitive neuroscience on the other.

Today's special show is on Executive Coaching: what you need to know about it to use it effectively in your organization or for yourself. Dr. Greenberg and Dr. Nadler both certified coaches with thousands of hours working with executives and executive team will talk executive coaching best practices today • Did you know when coaching is added to training a person's productivity is enhanced by 88% while training alone is a 22% increase. • Coaches are great thinking partners for executives In this podcast, these seasoned coaches will discuss: 1. Why leaders underperform & the need for Executive Coaching? 2. What is Executive Coaching? 3. Who are the best coaching clients? 4. How to find a good coach- certifications etc. 5. What is the coaching process? 6. Challenges with coaching 7. Examples of successful coaching initiatives 8. Best tools you use 9. How to measure it? 10. Maintaining the gains and types of follow-up:

Drs. Greenberg and Nadler will first explore the characteristics that dethrone many of our heroes and leaders. What is behind the passion for success that drives people to cheat like Lance Armstrong and other heroes we have idolized? How do our leaders quickly fall from grace and lose their credibility in moments? The Derailer Detector identifies the top characterstics which can trump your Emotional Intelligence competencies. These " fatal flaws" have to be attended to and mitigated. When the derailers are present decision making and problem solving can be compromised. See if any of these derailers are present for you by going to: https://truenorth.infusionsoft.com/app/form/xcel-derailer The inoculation from these derailers is to build resilience and develop practices that can keep your IQ and problem solving intact. Learn the cutting edge practices that Dr. Greenberg and Nadler bring to their corporate executives.

Dr. Noel M. Tichy is a Professor of Management & Organizations at the University of Michigan. He has been the director of the Global Business Partnership, and for over a decade he ran the Global Leadership Program, a 36-company consortium of Japanese, European and North American companies to develop senior executives and conduct action research on globalization in China, India, Russia and Brazil. Professor Tichy is the author of numerous books and articles. His most recent book is JUDGMENT ON THE FRONT LINE: How Smart Companies Win by Trusting Their People with Chris DeRose, which is the focus of this interview. Tichy has long been regarded as a staple of management literacy has been one of the "Top 10 Management Gurus" by BusinessWeek and Business 2.0. Noel Tichy is a senior partner in Action Learning Associates. His consulting clients have included: Best Buy, GE, PepsiCo, Coca Cola, GM, Nokia, 3M, and Royal Dutch Shell.

Join us for an insightful conversation with Michael Tompkins, visionary CEO of Miraval- recognized as one of the nation's finest health resorts and creator of the new "Mindful Living" experience. A fifteen year veteran of the luxury hospitality industry, Tompkins has been instrumental in the creation of the Andrew Weil, M.D. Integrated Wellness Center. Today Michael Tompkins joins us to discuss his new project with Miraval's latest book– "Mindful Living".

Phil Jones is known as "The Connector" because he is one of the country's best Professional Powerbrokers of deals, money and relationships. He leverages his vast field of influence and extensive contact base to bring a range of serious players together to get exceptional deals completed and outcomes banked for his clients that few others are able to achieve. His companies have completed over one billion dollars in real estate purchases and he is a Bestselling Author who has written seven books. A sought after public speaker who has taught over 100,000 people, Phil is considered a master of teaching business, marketing and real estate wealth accumulation and retention strategies. Featured on TV, radio, magazines and newspapers, Phil has also received hundreds of letters from students that credit his expertise, advice and education with earning them hundreds of thousands of dollars.

This show will highlight some of the hands-on practical tools that our co-host Dr. Relly Nadler uses with his corporate clients daily to help them raise their Emotional Intelligence through executive coaching and leadership development training. Dr. Nadler is a licensed psychologist, Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coach Federation. He is the author of Leading with Emotional Intelligence and teams up with Dr. Cathy Greenberg, author of Fearless Leaders and What Happy Companies Know to help organization develop more top 10% performers using emotional intelligent assessments, strategies and tools. Dr. Nadler shares: • Why now is the perfect time to develop more leaders • What is the "Brain Drain" • History of Emotional Intelligence • The seven leadership errors that are common in development • The three components of trust • A few of his Leadership Keys: White Space and the Leadership Two Step.

Jim Kouzes is the coauthor with Barry Posner of the award-winning and best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge, with over 1.5 million copies sold. He's also the Dean's Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. The fourth edition of The Leadership Challenge was released in August 2007 and is available in fifteen languages. The Leadership Challenge was #3 on Amazon Editor's Pick for the Best Business Books of 2007. A Leader's Legacy (2006), was selected by Soundview Executive Book Summaries as one of the top thirty books of the year. Based on solid research involving over 70,000 surveys, 1,000 written case studies, and 100 in-depth interviews, their books describe the leadership practices that generate high performance in individuals and organizations. Jim is not only a highly regarded leadership scholar; The Wall Street Journal has cited Jim as one of the twelve best executive educators in the U.S. A popular speaker and seminar lead

Delia Horwitz is an entrepreneur, collaboration specialist, leadership coach and professional facilitator. In addition to founding and owning several businesses, she has extensive experience helping good people do great things….together: strategic planning with non-profit Boards of Directors, teambuilding with small and large corporations, goal setting with City Councils, corporate culture work with Fortune 500 senior leadership teams, and visioning with community stakeholders. She even taught collaboration in Moscow, and her Achieving Agreement Workbook is used as curriculum in the Russian schools. Delia is also co-founder and served for three years as Executive Director of Leadership Santa Barbara County. In addition to partnering with Paula Vigneault to write COLLABORATION SOUP:A Six-Step Recipe for Co-Creative Meetings and Other Conversations, she is the author of The Achieving Agreement Workbook and Letters From My Future Self

Sharon Jordan-Evans is a pioneer in the field of employee retention and engagement. She serves as a prominent speaker for numerous conferences and works with Fortune 500 companies such as American Express, Boeing, Disney, Lockheed, Cheesecake Factory, Monster, MTV, PBS, Sony, and Universal Studios. She co-authored two Wall Street Journal bestsellers. The first, Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay, is the world's best-selling employee retention book and has been translated into 20 languages. The second, Love It, Don't Leave It: 26 Ways to Get What You Want at Work, offers anyone who works easy-to-implement strategies for increasing job satisfaction. Love It, Don't Leave It has been translated into 15 languages. She also serves as a resource for a number of national media, including Business 2.0, Chief Executive, CIO, Harvard Management Update, Working Woman, Investor Business Daily, Business Week and the LA Times.