Leading Conversations

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Vered Neta co-founder of Open Circles Academy in Amsterdam, an international center for business, financial & personal success. A High Performance Specialist, she coaches & trains small business owners & entrepreneurs to extraordinary success. Vered’s book is Financial Independence for Women: Taking Control of Your Money. Early in her career, Vered rose to high levels of leadership in organizations in her native Israel. She gained confidence and learned the keys to running a successful business. Soon she began to ask herself the question: Is this all there is? She wanted to have more meaning her life, and discovered that success is easy when you know how. Vered’s ephiphany evolved into a highly successful business, helping others to achieve their dreams. Today, Vered says the new economy is providing opportunities for women entrepreneurs to excel. Want to know more? Join Cheryl Esposito with Vered Neta to learn keys to success and financial independence.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes John Montgomery, a Silicon Valley corporate attorney, entrepreneur, executive coach & author. John works with high potential entrepreneurs to turn their concepts into companies. His book, Great from the Start: How Conscious Corporations Attract Success combines the best of Silicon Valley business practices & corporate law with principles from other disciplines, including neuroscience & psychology. This prepares entrepreneurs for success in the emerging paradigm where corporations exist to optimize good and profit. What inspired the creation of this approach? John & his partners at Montgomery & Hansen wished to take Integrity, Respect, Quality, Teamwork, & Community Service, and make these values the cornerstone of every decision, relationship, & interaction. Not what you expected of a successful law firm? Join Cheryl Esposito & John Montgomery to learn how one law firm found its heart & consciousness, and inspired its employees and clients in the process.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Dr. Fabrizio Mancini, an expert in self-healing and wellness, internationally acclaimed educator, best-selling author of The Power of Self-Healing and Feeling Fab: Four Steps to Living a Fabulous Life. Dr. Fabrizio Mancini is on a mission to teach us how to save lives – starting with our own. An expert in self-healing and wellness, he teaches how to the boost the body's natural power to heal with a mind-body-spirit approach to wellness. He says its time to do our part for healthcare reform! He believes that medical intervention has its place, but that we have gone too far, giving up our responsibility for our health. What do forgiveness, gratitude and love have to do with health and wellness? Dr. Fabrizio Mancini says that when we practice these, we activate a powerful path to self-healing. You can effect your health and well-being, by shifting your physical, emotional, & spiritual habits. Join Cheryl Esposito and Dr. Fabrizio Mancini to learn how!

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Bob Johansen, former President & CEO of the Institute for the Future (IFTF), currently Distinguished Fellow for IFTF, & is an award-winning author. His most recent is Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World. Today’s businesses & organizations are operating in a world characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, & ambiguity according to Bob Johansen. To be successful in the future, leaders will need an emerging set of skills uniquely suited to dealing with challenges of the times we are in. He sees these times as the most frightening and as the most hopeful. Bob believes that connectivity is the key, & we are not fully realizing the benefits of that. “Powerful leaders will see connections in the larger systems of which they are a part, embrace shared assets & opportunities, & cut through the chaos…in this decade, leaders will not just see the future—they will make the future!” Join Cheryl Esposito & Bob Johansen as they reveal the leadership keys to the future!

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Dr. Raj Sisodia, author of Firms of Endearment: How World Class Companies Profit from Passion & Purpose; and Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business. Raj is co-founder and co-chairman of Conscious Capitalism Inc. Raj Sisodia is passionate about making the world a better place through business. As a professor of marketing he saw a disturbing trend: companies were spending more money on marketing than ever before, yet customer satisfaction, loyalty, & trust were on a downward trajectory. Some companies were bucking this trend. Raj asked: what value is being created here - and for whom? Raj sees a need for change in business models. The rise of feminine values of nurturing, caring, & compassion, is clashing with historical masculine: domination, aggression, & winning at all costs. Can organizations profit AND make the world a better place? Raj says yes. Not only can they, they must to survive. Join Cheryl Esposito & Raj Sisodia as they explore the evolution of “conscious capitalism!”

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Darcy Winslow, Founder of Designs for a Sustainable World Collective. She is a pioneer and practitioner of sustainability frameworks and principles, advising people and projects around the globe. Darcy Winslow says we need leaders now who can help companies and communities envision a different future. How can current leaders understand more deeply their responsibility to the sustainability of our species? Understand that choices we make not only have impact today, the impact can be multi-generational – positively or negatively? It is up to us…to make change, to create new business practices, to shape leaders of the future to be able to meet the challenges of a new day. Join Cheryl & Darcy as they explore Reinventing Business As Usual.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Shailja Patel, an award-winning Kenyan poet, artist & political activist. Growing up in Kenya Shailja experienced the impact of war on the lives and spirit of the people. Her path took her on a journey from working on Wall Street to living a monastic life, running non-profits, eventually finding her voice in poetry. Today she is a performance artist bringing her work to people around the world. Her one-woman show, Migritude, unfolds hidden histories of women's lives in the bootprint of Empire, from India to East Africa. Shailja’s powerful performances bring her audiences to an introspective space of connection with the raw emotion and impact of war and oppression. The irresistible passion and eloquence of her words touches people at a core level and inspires them to take action. Shailja recently performed at Bioneers and said, “The fifteen-second pindrop silence after I finished my performance was worth three standing ovations.” Words shape us. They inspire. Join the conversation.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Michael Strong, CEO of Radical Social Entrepreneurs, a non-profit devoted to driving innovation in the world through entrepreneurial creation of law, governance, & communities. He authored Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs & Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World's Problems. Social Entrepreneurship is good, but not enough, says Michael. Social entrepreneurs have innovated within paradigms — radical social entrepreneurs must shift the paradigms themselves: disrupt the market. Radical Social Entrepreneurs (RSE) is an initiative of the FLOW project, a non-profit started in 2005 by Michael Strong & Whole Foods CEO John Mackey. Commerce with a clear vision of a better future is a powerful tool for a world of prosperity, peace, & human flourishing. Want to make a real difference? Become a disruptor! Join Cheryl Esposito and Michael Strong to get radical!

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Michael J. Gelb, the leading authority in the fields of creative thinking and accelerated learning. He has authored 12 books on creativity and innovation, including the international best seller How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day. What is genius? Michael Gelb says you don’t have to be born a genius; you just have to learn to think like one. Having studied some of the world’s greatest minds, including Plato, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Edison, and Albert Einstein, he found traits and behaviors common across the lot. Michael challenges us to choose our path to a happy and fulfilled life. Are you curious? Good. You are on your way! Join Cheryl Esposito and Michael J. Gelb to get your genius on!

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Gail Larsen, author of Transformational Speaking: If You Want to Change the World, Tell A Better Story. Gail is founder of Real Speaking, designed to support people in mining the deep well of their life experience and self-expression to become powerful platform speakers. We all have a story. How we tell it matters. Gail says: “I have learned there is no art in speaking without heart, and heart is present only in what is real. It is the gift of authenticity - yours and mine - that affirms my trust in life's journey and our collective capacity to create the world to which we want to belong.” Is it time for your voice to be heard? Join the conversation to learn how to bring heart and meaning to your story!