Leveraging Leadership

Communication and relationships at work often act as the lifeblood of organizational success. So how can we improve both? This week, Emily has a conversation with Dr. Julie Pham, the multi-talented founder and CEO of CuriosityBased, an organizational development firm with an intriguing approach to bettering workplaces.

From arriving in the U.S. as a boat person to becoming a Gates Cambridge Scholar and renowned author, Dr. Pham's journey is as unique as it is inspirational. Her book "7 Forms of Respect" offers a transformative guide to understanding the nuances of communication, and her firm CuriosityBased champions the same cause at an organizational level. Dr. Pham also shares her deep-rooted passion for community service, a trait evident through her numerous awards and recognitions.

Learn more about Julie by visiting her website.

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Emily Sander is a C-suite executive turned leadership coach. Her corporate career spanned Fortune 500 companies and scrappy startups. She is an ICF-certified leadership coach and the author of two books, An Insider’s Perspective on the Chief of Staff and Hacking Executive Leadership. Emily works with early to senior executives to step into effective leadership with one-on-one coaching. Go here to read her story from seasoned executive to knowledgeable coach.

To learn more about Emily and Next Level Coaching, click here.

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I think we can all agree that the best team members are engaged team members. Where things can become a debate is when we discuss HOW to keep them engaged, happy, and committed to the team. 

In this episode of Leveraging Leadership, host Emily Sander is joined by culture catalyst and human resources strategist, Lori-Ann Duguay, to discuss how we can all go about building and maintaining engagement and happiness among our workforce. 

During their discussion Emily and Lori-Ann talk about how to facilitate connection while working remotely, why information flow must be a two-way street, the importance of giving opportunity for growth and progress, and much more.

Want to learn more about creating a happier, more productive workplace? Visit here to learn everything Lori-Ann has to offer, and to book a free consultation call with her. 

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Introduction (00:00)

Lori’s Background and Learning to Create Happier Workplaces for Others (01:45)

Facilitating Connection When Working Remote (05:15)

Information and Communication Must Flow Two Ways (08:15)

Giving Opportunity to Grow and Progress (19:40)

Lori’s Book: The Happiness Factor (25:45)

Phase that is Most Neglected in Employee Life Cycle (28:35)

Where to Find and Connect with Lori (31:50)

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Emily Sander is a C-suite executive turned leadership coach. Her corporate career spanned Fortune 500 companies and scrappy startups. She is an ICF-certified leadership coach and the author of two books, An Insider’s Perspective on the Chief of Staff and Hacking Executive Leadership. Emily works with early to senior executives to step into effective leadership with one-on-one coaching. Go here to read her story from seasoned executive to knowledgeable coach.

To learn more about Emily and Next Level Coaching, click here.

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Do your customers feel like you actually care about knowing who they are and what they need? In today’s age of mass messaging and fast-paced everything, it’s such a value add when you actually take time to know, understand, and speak directly to an individual consumer of your products or services. 

That personalization and why it’s so important is the driving force behind today’s conversation on Leveraging Leadership, as host Emily Sander welcomes the Executive Director of BNI Melbourne, Braith Bramkin, to the podcast.

During their conversation, Emily and Braith touch on finding your ideal customer, keeping things personal in the age of AI, why every customer should have their own value proposition, making touch points meaningful, and much more. 

Learn more about Braith, his courses, books, and all additional resources by visiting his website. 

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Introduction (00:00)

Laughter Yoga (01:20)

Who and What BNI Is and Does (05:00)

How to Begin to Find Your Ideal Customer (06:20)

Making Your Message Personalized (10:40)

AI Tools and How to Keep Things Personal (14:40)

Value Proposition of a Particular Customer (17:25)

Making Every Touch Point Meaningful (23:00)

Purpose, Intention, and Connection (25:10)

Sharpen the Ax Before You Swing It (30:15)

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Emily Sander is a C-suite executive turned leadership coach. Her corporate career spanned Fortune 500 companies and scrappy startups. She is an ICF-certified leadership coach and the author of two books, An Insider’s Perspective on the Chief of Staff and Hacking Executive Leadership. Emily works with early to senior executives to step into effective leadership with one-on-one coaching. Go here to read her story from seasoned executive to knowledgeable coach.

To learn more about Emily and Next Level Coaching, click here.

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Humans are creatures of habit, which means any bad habits we create are incredibly difficult to break free of. That feeling of being stuck in an unhealthy, or unmotivated place can lead to change being the scariest thing imaginable. 

One person who has faced that fear and found a way to overcome it is Dai Manuel. Having had multiple moments in his life where he had to look in the mirror and ask the powerful questions that allow one to get unstuck, he turned things around and is now a thriving example of living a life with purpose and passion, and coaches others to do the same.

In this episode of Leveraging Leadership, host Emily Sander sits down with Dai to discuss all things getting unstuck and creating positive change in your life. Throughout their conversation they discuss how Dai broke out of his unhealthy lifestyle, why being vulnerable matters so much, how to ask yourself the powerful questions, creating a positive relationship with change, and much more. 

Learn more about Dai, his coaching programs, and his available books and content by visiting his website. 

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Two-a-Day Smoothies (00:00)

How Dai Broke Out of an Unhealthy Lifestyle (04:10)

Iron Sharpens Iron (09:55)

Removing Your Mask and Being Vulnerable (14:15)

Asking Yourself, and Others, the Powerful Questions (20:30)

Taking the First Steps; Instant Gratification in a Positive Way (26:20)

Our Relationships with Change (31:25)

Where to Connect with Dai (35:55)

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Emily Sander is a C-suite executive turned leadership coach. Her corporate career spanned Fortune 500 companies and scrappy startups. She is an ICF-certified leadership coach and the author of two books, An Insider’s Perspective on the Chief of Staff and Hacking Executive Leadership. Emily works with early to senior executives to step into effective leadership with one-on-one coaching. Go here to read her story from seasoned executive to knowledgeable coach.

To learn more about Emily and Next Level Coaching, click here.

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As today’s guest, Jeffrey Ton, says, “in today’s world, every company is a tech company to some degree.” With that being true, it’s more important than ever that we are properly integrating and communicating with our IT teams within our organizations. 

In today’s episode of Leveraging Leadership, host Emily Sander sits down with Jeffrey Ton to discuss how that communication can be done better and the benefits brought by proper synthesis between all departments of an organization, including IT. 

During their conversation they discuss the difference between a CIO and CTO, what upward mobility for a tech professional looks like, why you need to understand the entire business to be a department leader, communicating effectively, and much more. 

To learn more about Jeffrey, his books, and his speaking, visit his website.

To check out the The Status Go podcast, visit here.

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00:00 Introducing Jeffrey and His Background in IT and Technology

05:00 Difference Between CIO and CTO

06:10 Upward Mobility for a Technology Professional

09:50 Understanding The Entire Business as Well as Your Department

17:30 Learning to Communicate With and Get the Most Out of All Team Members

24:00 Tools and Frameworks that Work Well for Leaders in Technology

28:30 Navigating the Fork in the Road: Management vs Deeper Subject Matter Expert 

35:55 Different People See Different Opportunities

40:20 Learning How to Better Converse with Your Tech Professionals

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Emily Sander is a C-suite executive turned leadership coach. Her corporate career spanned Fortune 500 companies and scrappy startups. She is an ICF-certified leadership coach and the author of two books, An Insider’s Perspective on the Chief of Staff and Hacking Executive Leadership. Emily works with early to senior executives to step into effective leadership with one-on-one coaching. Go here to read her story from seasoned executive to knowledgeable coach.

To learn more about Emily and Next Level Coaching, click here.

Follow Emily on: Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube

Giving a great presentation, i.e. one that is both engaging and informative, delivering the necessary information in an understandable and entertaining way, is one of the most powerful tools in a leaders tool belt. However, so many people in leadership positions take this skill for granted. Maybe it's due to terrible stage fright, maybe it’s a lack of knowledge about how to craft a great presentation, maybe it’s something else, but when you fall short with a presentation it almost certainly means your team is going to fall short of the goal/objective/project that that presentation pertained to. 

One person who has mastered the skill of presentations is today’s guest, Danny Brassell. Danny is a keynote speaker, best-selling author, coach, and results coach, who loves a great presentation and really loves a great book. 

Danny joins Emily this week to discuss all things presentations as well as the idea that reading can really benefit a leader. During their conversation, the two discuss the role reading plays within leadership, Danny’s “four I’s” of an engaging presentation, why you should have a signature talk and how to create it, and much more.

Learn more about Danny, his teachings, and all his services by visiting his website.

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Learn more about The Reading Habit by visiting here.

Learn more about Cyber Smarties by visiting here.

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Guest Introduction (00:00)

Danny’s Mission to Bring Joy Back Into Education (00:45)

Last Thing Danny Read (02:45)

What Role Reading Plays in Leadership (05:00)

The Four I’s of an Engaging Presentation (10:00)

Creating Your Signature Talk (18:30)

Getting Over Stage Fright (21:15)

Who Danny Helps, How You Can Find Him (27:10)

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Emily Sander is a C-suite executive turned leadership coach. Her corporate career spanned Fortune 500 companies and scrappy startups. She is an ICF-certified leadership coach and the author of two books, An Insider’s Perspective on the Chief of Staff and Hacking Executive Leadership. Emily works with early to senior executives to step into effective leadership with one-on-one coaching. Go here to read her story from seasoned executive to knowledgeable coach.

To learn more about Emily and Next Level Coaching, click here.

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Everyone remembers Abraham Lincoln as one of our great Presidents, a man who led us through one of the most trying times in our country’s history. But knowing that, have you ever stopped to ask yourself what exactly about Lincoln made him capable of such success? 

In this episode of Leveraging Leadership, host Emily Sander gives us all a little history lesson on Lincoln and the five key traits or skills he possessed that made him such an exceptional leader. From the self-assured nature that allowed him to invite political rivals into his cabinet, to the vision he had for the country and how he was able to always move things towards it, there is a lot to be learned about leadership from Honest Abe that is still just as profound and applicable today.

The book Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin can be found here.

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Introduction (00:00)

Being Humble and Self-Assured (01:14)

Self-Deprecating Humor (05:04)

Master of Words (09:13)

Empathy for All (13:43)

Having a True Vision (17:02)

Recap (19:22)

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Emily Sander is a C-suite executive turned leadership coach. Her corporate career spanned Fortune 500 companies and scrappy startups. She is an ICF-certified leadership coach and the author of two books, An Insider’s Perspective on the Chief of Staff and Hacking Executive Leadership. Emily works with early to senior executives to step into effective leadership with one-on-one coaching. Go here to read her story from seasoned executive to knowledgeable coach.

To learn more about Emily and Next Level Coaching, click here.

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You’ve started a business, grown a team, and revenue is steady. Now what? That first plateau you hit as a business owner can be extremely difficult as you don’t want to do something that destroys what you’ve built but you know change is needed to take those next steps. Those moments are exactly where this week’s guest, Dr. Kelly Henry, steps in.

Dr. Kelly specializes in customer retention and marketing for small business owners. His experience has helped him develop the skills to quickly and effectively teach business owners how to successfully apply the right strategies in the right order that allows them to grow their business to its maximum capacity.

In this episode of Leveraging Leadership, host Emily Sander sits down with Dr. Kelly to discuss scaling a small or medium sized business to its maximum capacity, why he harps on the Pareto Principle with all of his clients, how taking away is the best path to adding more, and much more. 

To learn more about Dr. Kelly, download his free ebook, or book a free consultation call with him, visit his website.

To purchase Dr. Kelly’s book, Define and Deliver Exceptional Customer Service: Proven Strategies to Maximize Your Profits, visit here.

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Guest Introduction (00:00)

Scaling Small to Medium Businesses (03:55)

The 80/20 Rule aka The Pareto Principle (06:25)

Taking Away Not Adding More (09:15)

Defining Top Priorities for All Team Members (14:18)

What Gets Monitored and By Whom (18:30)

Typical Places Companies Plateau (21:50)

One Thing Business Owners Underestimate (27:10)

Kelly’s Books and Where to Find Him (29:12)

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Emily Sander is a C-suite executive turned leadership coach. Her corporate career spanned Fortune 500 companies and scrappy startups. She is an ICF-certified leadership coach and the author of two books, An Insider’s Perspective on the Chief of Staff and Hacking Executive Leadership. Emily works with early to senior executives to step into effective leadership with one-on-one coaching. Go here to read her story from seasoned executive to knowledgeable coach.

To learn more about Emily and Next Level Coaching, click here.

Follow Emily on: Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube

Delivering results under pressure feels like one of those prerequisites to building a successful career; it’s just something you’ll have to be able to do. But high-pressure situations can break down even the best of us if we don’t plan and prepare for how to handle and overcome them.  

In this episode of Leveraging Leadership, host Emily Sander breaks down the idea of Mental Prompts and how they can help you keep your focus and bring the best version of yourself to the highest pressure situations. 

Coined by famed sports psychologist Trevor Moawad, the idea of Mental Prompts have helped elite athletes perform at the peak of their industries for years. Over the course of the episode, Emily gives the background on what Mental Prompts are, how they can be used within the business world, gives real world examples from her career, and more.

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Introducing the Idea of Mental Prompts (00:00)

How Mental Prompts Work in the Business World (02:20)

Example of How Emily Used Mental Prompts in Her Career (03:35)

Habit Stacking Your Mental Prompts (10:00)

Recap and Takeaways (11:10)

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Emily Sander is a C-suite executive turned leadership coach. Her corporate career spanned Fortune 500 companies and scrappy startups. She is an ICF-certified leadership coach and the author of two books, An Insider’s Perspective on the Chief of Staff and Hacking Executive Leadership. Emily works with early to senior executives to step into effective leadership with one-on-one coaching. Go here to read her story from seasoned executive to knowledgeable coach.

To learn more about Emily and Next Level Coaching, click here.

Follow Emily on: Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube

Are you a generous leader? Of the many ways we assess our leadership style and abilities, the lens of generosity is rarely one of them, but as Bob DePasquale points out, maybe it should be.

In this episode of Leveraging Leadership, host Emily Sander sits down with The Generosity Guy himself, Bob DePasquale, to talk all things giving and the positive effects it has on the giver, not just the receiver. 

Their conversation covers what radical generosity is, why giving is good for business, how to develop a giving mindset, why good leaders are giving leaders, and much more!

To learn more about Bob visit his website. 

To listen to Bob’s podcast, Speaking of Impact, visit here.

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Guest Introduction (00:00)

What is Radical Generosity (01:25)

Giving is Good Business (02:40)

Developing a Giving Mindset (06:30)

Good Leaders are Giving (13:30)

Presence Not Presents (23:35)

Deciding How and Where to Give (26:35)

Where to Find Bob and Connect (34:10) 

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Emily Sander is a C-suite executive turned leadership coach. Her corporate career spanned Fortune 500 companies and scrappy startups. She is an ICF-certified leadership coach and the author of two books, An Insider’s Perspective on the Chief of Staff and Hacking Executive Leadership. Emily works with early to senior executives to step into effective leadership with one-on-one coaching. Go here to read her story from seasoned executive to knowledgeable coach.

To learn more about Emily and Next Level Coaching, click here.

Follow Emily on: Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube