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Eventually, every organization faces a serious branding disaster. Think of United Airlines, Wells Fargo, Uber, and other companies whose tribulations made front-page news. Poor business decisions, corrupt cultures, or just plain bad luck can lead to major PR meltdowns, sending once-loyal consumers fleeing in droves. But there's a right way to handle controversy and come out stronger on the other side. Using recent high-profile brand implosions as prime examples, Deb Gabor, Founder and CEO of Sol Marketing and two-time best-selling author will talk about how top companies that break their promises inevitably suffer. And, we’ll explore the routes the more agile companies have taken to full recovery after letting their customers down. Today, you’ll gain invaluable insights that will help your business build positive brand equity, goodwill, and the "Irrational Loyalty" that will support your company during the best and worst of times. Our guest today, Deb Gabor, a leading expert on branding, will help you create a powerful brand for your business that connects with your most important customers – the ones most highly predictive of your success.

Women in the United States are not in the top 10 countries for gender parity - in fact, the U.S. isn’t even in the top 30 or 40! According to the World Economic Forum, women in the United States are losing ground in key areas – all, except for educational attainment. According to the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Global Gender Report, and the UN, gender parity is no less than a century away.

Now is the time to bring women together and help them feel empowered. And, since women have been the hardest hit by COVID, there has never been a more important time to get inspired and motivated to be bold and come together for change.   Today, we’re encouraging women to speak up for their rights, improve their negotiating skills, own their futures.

Today, Kate Isler will talk to us about how you can be bold, persevering through ups and downs to build a successful career that works for you. She’ll talk about how she was motivated to give women an opportunity to grow their businesses, meet other women entrepreneurs and business owners, and accelerate their success!

When companies grow, they are increasing their revenue as fast as they are adding resources to help fuel growth. When companies scale, on the other hand, they add revenue at a faster rate than they increase their cost structure. The company’s gains outpaced its losses, allowing it not only to grow - but also to scale. Although there is a plethora of advice now being given about how to grow and scale your fledging start-up, there's a dirty little secret out there: Once you've achieved rapid growth, the hard work really begins. Scaling is hard. Scalability is about capacity and capability. Does your business have the capacity to scale? Will your business systems, infrastructure and team be able to accommodate scale? To help ambitious entrepreneurs develop plans to help grow and scale their businesses, please help me welcome Danyel Surrency Jones, the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of POWERHANDZ, a global designer, manufacturer and distributor of innovative athletic training products that address specific skill development gaps with athletes at all levels.

Your awareness of the different levels of leadership, and what’s required at each level, will affect your ability to be successful as you ascend in your career and continue to be promoted. Many executives are unaware of how they need to shift their leadership as they rise through the ranks. As you ascend to become a leader who is managing, motivating and inspiring other leaders, multiple teams or managing people leaders, your mindset and your skillsets need to evolve. Listen in as Jodi Flynn, Founder and CEO of “Women Taking the Lead” discusses the skills and mindsets you need to incorporate in your leadership style if you want to be successful as you continue to be promoted, assume more responsibility, and ascend the corporate ladder.

Great teams don't just happen. As a leader, it’s up to you to get people to work well together and produce great results. And, of course, there is a direct correlation between team health and team performance. In simple terms, healthy teams are high performing teams. A healthy team is one in which team members feel comfortable being themselves, asking questions, sharing ideas, and trusting that their co-workers are there for them when needed. A healthy team is one in which team members feel valued, respected and safe.  

The global pandemic, while only a point in time, represents a critical moment for all leaders to pivot. What has served leaders in the past, will not necessarily serve them in the future of work – now that we are now managing remote teams, blended personal/professional lives and a changing economy.

So, how do you know how to best support the team, assess the team’s strengths, and the behaviors and practices that require improvement? To help us is Jen Bonfilio, Vice President of People for Tallwave, a leading customer experience design company, bringing innovative ideas to life.

It’s important for women, regardless of their marital status — single, divorced, widowed or married — to take a much more active role in their financial lives. By taking a more active role, women will gain more clarity, confidence and control of their financial welfare and financial independence. Getting a better understanding about money takes work, but it doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Equipped with the right attitude and education, women can feel empowered and confident about their financial future. Today, we’re talking with Founder and CEO of Clever Girl Finance, Bola Sokunbi, about empowering women to ditch debt, save money and build real wealth!  Voted one of the top personal finance websites for women, Clever Girl Finance®, started by Bola, is a financial education platform aimed at providing women with financial guidance through easy to digest courses, one-on-one mentorship, and an incredibly supportive community. Listen in as Bola help you pursue and achieve your dreams of financial independence!

Much like confidence, belief is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You are only what you believe you are. This applies in sales, too - your beliefs shape you, and thus your business. As a business owner, you're in sales whether you believe you are, or not. Every day you have to sell yourself -- and your product or service -- to grow your business. Success is 90 percent mental. You can alter your life by altering your mind. You have to be a believer to be an achiever. Listen in as Merit Kahn, Founder of Merit-based Business, Co-host of The Smarter Sales Show podcast, Creator of The Merit Method for Sales Mastery, Writer, Producer & Performer of inspiring one-woman comedy show, “Book of Merit”, and author of Myth Shift: Challenging The Truths That Sabotage Success explains how we call all adopt a sales mindset that can accelerate your success.

It rests on current women leaders to embrace their role-model status and address the challenges of gender equality head-on with action and execution. To that end, more and more women in leadership positions are pushing the boundaries of gender equality by utilizing their strengths and leadership qualities – in skill, knowledge, experience and emotion. The key is confidence in all your resources and abilities, becoming the change we wish to see in the world. To help us learn why women leadership matters, and how to have an impact and take action now, please help me welcome Amy Cosper, Founder of Radical Upstarts and the former vice president and editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur.com and the former Vice President of Entrepreneur Media Inc.

What would you do if you weren't afraid? What do you think you could accomplish, if you could eliminate your fear of failure? For anyone who has ever questioned whether it is worth taking a chance and pursuing their dreams, this is a podcast you must listen to! Whatever you want to achieve, no matter how hard it might seem, you can find the courage to get there. You owe it to yourself to listen to this inspirational conversation with Kara Golden, CEO of Hint Water and best-selling author of Undaunted. Kara will inspire you to move past your fears and defy the doubters. It doesn’t matter whether you feel confident; it matters what you actually do. Listen to this unfiltered conversation and grab hold of this rare opportunity to gain insights and proven advice - unlike anything you’ll find in the conventional business press. Kara shares real honest stories from her life with observations that might just change how you think about your own.

Some leaders may have diverted their focus away from diversity and inclusion as they grappled with urgent questions around how to manage the new economic realities of the global pandemic. But, if organizations are not actively renewing their commitment to stamping out discrimination, they can expect to see inequities grow deeper and more insidious.  But, smart leaders will use this time to understand these needs and re-configure diversity and inclusion support programs to meet them, rather than trying to make old resources fit new problems.  Research has proven over and over again that executives at organizations with advanced diversity and inclusion strategies are about 30% more likely than others to feel highly loyal, innovative and set up for top performance. To help all of us better understand how to gain the most from diversity and inclusion programs, join us as Trudy Bourgeois, one of America's leading experts on transformational leadership and a highly regarded leader in the field of leadership and diversity and inclusion, discusses how to unleash the greatest potential of every employee.