LeaderTHRIVE

Ash is a marketplace connector, executive leader and professional services expert. He is President and CEO of Lionheart Partners, a premier consulting firm serving clients through Business Advisory, Leadership Development and Executive Coaching services.

Ash is also a regular speaker and contributor on the topics of relationship management, workplace trends, resilience, diversity, human resources and risk management.

Connect with Ash at https://lionheart.partners/

Dr. Doug Brackmann is one of the leading psychologists to some of the most successful and Driven entrepreneurs, pro athletes, executives, and other top performers and creator of the Driven Assessment and Driven Shooting Meditation (it’s as crazy as it sounds). By combining the components of meditation, long-range shooting, and therapy, Dr. Doug helps those with Driven characteristics (often wrongfully diagnosed as ADD, ADHD, OCD, or other) to harness their hunter abilities so they can stop self-sabotaging, find fulfillment in life, and achieve the ultimate success. You can connect with Dr. Brackmann at www.iamdriven.com

Today’s guest, Eliot Popkin, is the multifaceted author behind Circle: Letters to My Younger Self.

Eliot is an award-winning singer-songwriter who has overcome many obstacles to find success. He is a fighter who loves and enjoys the simple beauties in life: a good laugh, a good cry, awesome food, the setting of the sun and the rising of a new day three thousand miles away. All of these components are included in his new coming-of-age memoir, Circle: Letters to My Younger Self.

You can connect with Eliot a thecircleletter.com and www.eliotpopkin.com

Today’s guest, Dr. Trevor Blattner, is a podcast host, author of the book Redefining The Top 1%, and a leading thinker on Shepherd Leadership—a modern approach to leadership designed to encourage leadership that guides, supports, and uplifts. With over 20 years of research and coaching, Dr. Blattner has developed a model of leadership that breaks free of the antiquated and regressive notions of what it means to lead. His enlightened approach to leadership is based on behavioral science, personal experience, and a strong commitment to personal values.  Connect with Dr. Blattner at www.trevorblattner.com

Today’s guest, Rick Maurer, is a speaker, author, consultant, and expert on helping leaders avoid resistance to change. Since the publication of his book Beyond the Wall of Resistance in the 1990s, Rick’s opinion has been sought by The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, NBC Nightly News, Fortune, and many other media outlets. Some of the largest companies in the world ask for his advice on ways to avoid resistance to change and ways to build strong support for changes and other big projects.

Connect with Rick at www.RickMaurer.com

Cory Lee is an entrepreneur, business builder, and leader developer. He was trained and mentored by the world-renowned leadership expert John Maxwell and is now an executive director with The John Maxwell Team. In 2012 Cory and his wife opened their first business, a physical therapy clinic located in a town of only 1,100 people, Within 5 years they were billing over $2 million per year from that one location and had opened and successfully sold 2 physical therapy clinics and 4 gyms.

Cory is an accomplished speaker and is often invited to speak and train employees at companies looking to develop a culture of leadership. He also provides individual leaders with opportunities to maximize their own growth through one-on-one coaching and mastermind groups. Cory is most passionate about helping entrepreneurs navigate business growth but not at the expense of their faith, family, and fitness.

Connect with Cory at www.CoryLeeLeadership.com

Today’s guest, Keziah Robinson, is a business strategist, CEO coach, and investor. Described by her clients as a “shapeshifter” who “can coach business owners through any challenge at any stage of their business,” Keziah helps small business CEOs navigate the operational and existential challenges of scaling up, pivoting, and/or selling a business they’ve put their blood sweat and tears into. Keziah holds a BS in Physics from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and she serves on the advisory board of Private Packs, an innovator in the fast- growing femtech industry. 

Connect with Keziah at www.cassia-partners.com

Experts estimate that in most companies, 70-90% of their investment in learning and development is wasted because participants don’t apply what they learned. This means they don’t get the return-on-investment they hoped for.

Meredith Bell knows why this happens and what you can do to improve your ROI. She’s spent the past 30 years working to create products and books that help people master communication skills. She has a deep understanding of what you can do to ensure that your learning  and development programs stick.  

Connect with Meredith at www.GrowStrongLeaders.com 

For 25-years Jim Kukral has been writing books, keynote speaking, and building successful lifestyle businesses as a marketing entrepreneur. But the pandemic and a near-death diagnosis of colon cancer changed everything for Jim in 2020, so he threw away all his past success to start something completely different, a new brand called Life Apocalypse.

What’s a Life Apocalypse? Well, get ready because Jim is going to tell you and also help you create your very own.

Learn more about Jim and his work at LifeApoc.com

In 2001, Scott Sunderland found himself going from a 35-year-old athletic father, husband, and business owner to lying in a hospital bed unable to move. Using visualization techniques over the course of a year, Scott was able to heal himself.

However, old limiting beliefs, past traumas, and disempowering mental habits came back to haunt him when, in 2012, he watched his best friend drown in front of his eyes. Blaming himself, he was broken once again. Standing in a room on fire,

Scott was faced with running through those flames to end up at the empowered life that he lives now.

Today, he shows others how to run through their own flames to find freedom from their own minds and limitations in order to live a life of passion and purpose.

Connect with Scott at www.TheFreedomProject222.com