Leadership Development News

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.

Dr. Noel M. Tichy Professor of Management & Organizations at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, is the director of the Global Business Partnership, which for over a decade ran the Global Leadership Program, a 36-company consortium of Japanese, European and North American companies who partnered to conduct action research on globalization in China, India, Russia and Brazil. In 2003 he launched the Global Corporate Citizenship Initiative in Partnership with General Electric, Procter & Gamble and 3M, to create a national model partnership for opportunities between business and society emphasizing free enterprise and democratic principles. He recently has partnered with the Boys and Girls Clubs of American to build a world class capability for leadership development, and is currently partnered with two charter schools in Texas, Uplift Education & IDEA, to develop their leadership capacity. Professor Tichy also conducts the LEADERSHIP JUDGMENT PROGRAM executive workshop at the University of Michigan His groundbreaking books include: • JUDGMENT: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls o (with Warren Bennis) • THE ETHICAL CHALLENGE: How to Lead with Unyielding Integrity • THE CYCLE OF LEADERSHIP: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win • THE LEADERSHIP ENGINE: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level Named a top 10 business book author by BusinessWeek. He is co-author of EVERY BUSINESS IS A GROWTH BUSINESS (with Ram Charan) In addition, Tichy is also the co-author of CONTROL YOUR DESTINY OR SOMEONE ELSE WILL: How Jack Welch is Making General Electric the World's Most Competitive Company. Regarded as a staple of management literacy as noted by his rating as one of the "Top 10 Management Gurus" by BUSINESSWEEK. Tichy has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Organizational Dynamics, Journal of Business Research, and Journal of Business Strategy and was the founding editor and chief of HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. Join Noel Tichy on today's show for an update and a year long perspective on leadership Judgement – the good bad and the ugly.

Drs. Greenberg and Nadler are into their 3rd year on Voice America. They will explore their focus for 2011 and will look back at 2010 highlights of the best and worst leadership in action. They will unpack some of the key components on how leaders succeed and fail. Looking through the lenses of Emotional Intelligence, Positive Psychology and Happiness they will examine how the person of the Year Mark Zuckerberg rates on Emotional Intelligence leadership and identify any derailers. What competencies did the Chilean miners use to use survive for almost 3 months 2300 feet below the ground. In addition they will share examples of leadership challenges they face every day in organizations where they consult, coach and train and what are some of the solutions that will help you with similar challenges. Come and enjoy hearing these experts talk about real issues and practical solutions.

Relly the co-host of Leadership Development News and his fifth book Leading with Emotional Intelligence will be the focus of this show. It is published by McGraw-Hill, a 2011 release and out now. It contains over 100 strategies on how to raise the EI for leaders and their teams and includes 7 EI Profiles of leaders in action, EI Hiring questions, EI Star Profile Assessment , the Derailer Detector and the Meeting Menace checklist and much more. Relly has coached CEOs, presidents and their staffs, developed and delivered innovative leadership programs for such organizations as Anheuser-Busch, BMW, EDS, MCI, DreamWorks Animation and Vanguard Health Systems. Relly is known for his practical easy to use tools and is a sought-after speaker and consultant on leadership, emotional intelligence, teambuilding, and executive coaching. Get your FREE EI assessments and action plan at: leadingwithei.com or you can reach him at: www.truenorthleadership.com

Are you a busy executive who needs more sources of positive energy? The single most important thing you can do to increase your level of health, wealth, and success in your life is to increase your level of happiness. Marci Shimoff, star of The Secret Video and the undisputed expert on the Law of Attraction, shows you how happiness is the shortcut to anything. Tune into Marci to hear about her book "Happy for No Reason" and learn the remarkable secrets to her seven-step process to easily and systematically raise your everyday level of happiness.

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.

Harvey Mackay is author of five New York Times bestsellers. His first two books -- Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive and Beware The Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt -- have been translated into 37 languages and distributed in 80 countries. Both books were New York Times #1 bestsellers and are also listed by the Times among the top 15 inspirational business books of all time. Harvey's latest book is Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door: Job Search Secrets No One Else Will Tell You, arrived Feb. 22, 2010. His book We Got Fired! … And It's The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Us (2004) became his third New York Times #1 bestseller. His books have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. He also is one of America's most popular and entertaining business speakers, speaking -- on average – once a week to Fortune 500-size companies and associations. Today we will hear Harvey's job search secrets no one else will tell you.

Dan Siegel is a physician and a board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist whose pioneering work on bringing brain science into the practice of psychotherapy has made him a well-known speaker throughout the world. Dr. Siegel is the founding editor of a series of over a dozen books for mental health practitioners in the emerging field of interpersonal neurobiology. He is the author of the The Developing Mind and The Mindful Brain, and is a clinical professor at the UCLA school of medicine. He has been asked to present his work on MINDSIGHT to audiences that have included His Holinesses The Dalai Lama and Pope John Paul II as well as judges, policy-makers, therapists, the nation's public school superintendents and the National Institute of Mental Health. MINDSIGHT: The New Science of Personal Transformation helps harness the power of our minds to resculpt the neural pathways of our brains in ways that can be life-transforming. Come hear about the new science.

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.

Relly the co-host of Leadership Development News and his fifth book Leading with Emotional Intelligence will be the focus of this show. It is published by McGraw-Hill, a 2011 release and out now. It contains over 100 strategies on how to raise the EI for leaders and their teams and includes 7 EI Profiles of leaders in action, EI Hiring questions, EI Star Profile Assessment , the Derailer Detector and the Meeting Menace checklist and much more. Relly has coached CEOs, presidents and their staffs, developed and delivered innovative leadership programs for such organizations as Anheuser-Busch, BMW, EDS, MCI, DreamWorks Animation and Vanguard Health Systems. Relly is known for his practical easy to use tools and is a sought-after speaker and consultant on leadership, emotional intelligence, teambuilding, and executive coaching. Get your FREE EI assessments and action plan at: leadingwithei.com or you can reach him at: www.truenorthleadership.com