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Dr. TC North is CEO and founder of Catalyst High Performance. For the past two decades Dr. North has been providing executive coaching and consulting to small- and medium-sized businesses to create high-performing organizations that have extraordinary profitability and that people love to work for. He coaches and accelerates the success of CEOs, entrepreneurs and sales professionals by helping them train their minds like world-class athletes to blast through fear, build courage and confidence and develop their business plans and culture to maximize success. Dr. North¡¦s work has resulted in dramatically increased revenues (sometimes increases of 200 percent to 300 percent). Dr. North delivers keynotes and workshops on two topics. Success Secrets of world-class athletes and business leaders„§ and Blast Through Fear!„§ Dr. North has been featured on TV and in newspapers, business journals and scientific journals. Listen to his tips for raising your performance.

John O'Neil is currently the President of the Center for Leadership Renewal. He serves on several boards and is a best selling author, speaker, and advisor on leadership issues, providing leadership advisement and development services to senior leaders serving across a wide range of organizations from start-ups to mature enterprises. Today John will share his perspectives on "The Good Life" an innovative executive program which John co-created to help all leaders truly master the "life of their dreams".

Ben Dattner, Ph.D. is an organizational psychologist, and the founder of Dattner Consulting, a workplace consulting firm based in New York City. He has helped a wide variety of corporate and non-profit organizations sort through their credit and blame issues to become more successful. Ben's consulting services enable organizations to make better hiring and staffing decisions, to enhance the professional capabilities of managers and employees, to configure teams more effectively, and to reduce the amount of interpersonal and inter-group conflict by, in part, embracing candor and accuracy when it comes to handing out credit and blame. We will explore these concepts from his new book, the "Blame Game." Ben is an Adjunct Professor at New York University, where he teaches Organizational Development in the Industrial and Organizational Psychology MA Program in the Graduate School..

After spending years in human resources and discovering that most companies weren't doing an adequate job developing their number one asset—employees—Rene D. Petrin had a mission: to create an organization devoted solely to teaching businesses how to mentor talent. This entrepreneurial spirit combined with his keen insight into human behavior led Rene to found Management Mentors, Inc. His philosophy is simple: to show companies how structured mentoring programs are the most powerful and effective strategy for professional development. Rene has experience managing all areas of human resources, but he's always maintained a special interest in employee development. Join Rene today as a leader in the mentoring field to learn how he developed mentoring tools, such as online tutorials, that are unique in emphasizing the interpersonal dynamics in mentoring while at the same time working toward creating standards of excellence so that the mentoring profession maintains its integrity and promise.

Dr. Steven Stein is the author of Make Your Workplace Great: The 7 Keys to an Emotionally Intelligent Organization , Emotional Intelligence for Dummies , and co-author of the international bestseller The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success . . Dr. Steven Stein is a clinical psychologist and the founder and CEO of Multi-Health Systems Inc. (MHS), and publisher of the world's premier Emotional Intelligence assessments, the EQ-i, the BOEI, and the MSCEIT, as well as other leading psychological assessments Dr. Stein and MHS have tested the Emotional Intelligence (EQ) of more people in the world than anyone else. Dr. Stein has consulted with the Canadian Armed Forces, the U.S. Air Force, the FBI, and special units of the Pentagon. Dr. Stein has also worked with numerous corporate clients, including American Express, Air Canada, Coca Cola, CIBC, and several professional sports teams.

Steve Jobs had a Superman Syndrome and changed 7 different industries. What if you had superman powers of vision, could see things others couldn't and everyone in your world catered to your special powers? What tall buildings could you leap and what could you accomplish? Drs. Cathy Greenberg and Relly Nadler, the show hosts will look at the complex leadership profile of Steve Jobs where he excelled in EI and what areas he derailed in and people just tolerated. They will also speak about Emotional Intelligence new research and the new EQi 2.0 assessment. The EQi 2.0 is used to help your leaders better assess, predict and to have more perform in the top 10%. Drs. Greenberg and Nadler use the EQi and other leadership tools in their XCEL (Excellence in Coaching for Executive Leaders) program, their landmark executive leadership and coaching programs, where emotional engagement meet performance.

Chip Conley is an author, international speaker and innovative CEO of Joie de Vivre (JDV), the second largest boutique hotel company in the US. JDV expanded to over 35 award-winning hotels, restaurants and spas, with over 3,000 employees. Chip and his company's transformational leadership practices have been featured in TIME, USA Today, Fortune and The Wall Street Journal. The SF. Business Times named Chip the Most Innovative CEO – and JDV the 2nd Best Place to Work – in the entire Bay Area. As a thought leader at the intersection of psychology, business, and emotional intelligence at work, Chip shared his unique prescription for success in his bestselling book, PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. In his new book, Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success, out January 10th, guides us from emotional intelligence to emotional fluency – using math to better understand and manage our emotions.

Steve Jobs had a Superman Syndrome and changed 7 different industries. What if you had superman powers of vision, could see things others couldn't and everyone in your world catered to your special powers? What tall buildings could you leap and what could you accomplish? Drs. Cathy Greenberg and Relly Nadler, the show hosts will look at the complex leadership profile of Steve Jobs where he excelled in EI and what areas he derailed in and people just tolerated. They will also speak about Emotional Intelligence new research and the new EQi 2.0 assessment. The EQi 2.0 is used to help your leaders better assess, predict and to have more perform in the top 10%. Drs. Greenberg and Nadler use the EQi and other leadership tools in their XCEL (Excellence in Coaching for Executive Leaders) program, their landmark executive leadership and coaching programs, where emotional engagement meet performance.

Dr. Marcia Reynolds has a passion for discovering and sharing how the brain works, especially the brains of today's smart, strong women. Her new book Wander Woman: How High-Achieving Women Find Contentment and Direction was released in June and reached #1 in Leadership and Management books for women on Amazon. She is the also the author of the book Outsmart Your Brain and has been in many publications including Harvard Communications Newsletter, U.S. Business Review, Cosmopolitan and The New York Times and has appeared on ABC World News. She is also a regular blogger for Huffington Post and Psychology Today. You can watch videos and download the first chapter of Wander Woman at www.WanderWomanBook.com. Reynolds is past president of the International Coach Federation (ICF). She was one of the first 25 people to earn the designation of Master Certified Coach (MCC) and was instrumental in designing the certification and accreditation programs for the ICF.

Today's show will feature the co-hosts, Dr. Cathy Greenberg and Dr. Relly Nadler sharing their expertise on leadership development. Together they have over 50 years of experience helping leaders and their teams become star performers. They have created the Xcel Institute to accelerate leadership development in your organization. Their mission is to meet the demands for leaders who can coach others to perform in the top 10% with high emotional intelligence. They will explain the benefits of the Institute for experienced and emerging leaders. Their collaboration brings leaders a handbook of cutting edge tools drawn from positive psychology, the science of happiness, emotional and social intelligence, executive coaching, neuroscience and years of work in the trenches with CEOs and top executives and their teams.