Live Like a Leader with John Bates

Sir Steven Wilkinson has been involved in business finance and investment for the best part of 30 years having started working for Merrill Lynch Investment Bank in Munich, Germany in 1987 at the tender age of 24. He now runs an investment company and a knowledge platform teaching finance to entrepreneurs which goes by the name of Good & Prosper. His focus has always been on Small & Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) primarily in Germany and Europe and mostly in some sort of distress or need of restructuring. He works at the seam between strategy, finance, and leadership and brings three decades of experience as a finance and investment professional to the world of SME operations. Good & Prosper also offers courses to entrepreneurs and SME business owners to enable them to further their expertise in finance, capital allocation, leadership, culture, and strategy, as well as individual leadership coaching and mentoring.

Steven's perspective on business, politics, and society is shaped primarily by his alignment with the Austrian School of Economics. He was irredeemably inspired by his early reading of the Intelligent Investor at the age of 24 and was at a loss to understand why anyone would want to think differently about investing and capital allocation other than from a value perspective. He is a Christian Libertarian by conviction.

Steven is an Englishman, born in Lancashire in 1963 who moved to Germany at the age of 24 after completing his education at Rugby and Durham University. Starting in 1987, he spent almost all of his investment career in Munich, Germany, before moving to Ireland with his family in early 2015. He's been married to Britta since 2000 and his family consists of four children, three dogs, and a horse, all of whom live in Delgany, Co. Wicklow. He's an avid long-distance trail walker, cross country skier, and sailor,  reads voraciously, listens to an unhealthy amount of podcasts, writes enthusiastically, and drinks large quantities of green tea every day.

Steven is also a founding member of the Small Giants Community, a wonderful, US-based organization, that caters to companies that choose to be great instead of big and provides resources and a community to value-based leaders.

In addition, Steven is an active supporter and mentor within the Ashoka Social Entrepreneurship network, both here in Ireland and in Germany and Britta and he's been actively involved with Ashoka in one way or another since 2002.

In 2015, Steven was invited to join an interfaith delegation to the Caribbean Island State of Grenada, whose purpose was to coordinate a number of reconstruction and redevelopment projects for infrastructure seriously damaged by hurricanes a decade earlier. As part of that delegation representing the Anglican community, he was awarded an honor bestowed by the Governor-General into the Order of the Nation of Grenada with the rank of Knight Commander.

Since 2017 Steven served as one of a number of business professionals working as mentors to high-growth entrepreneurs with the Ryan Business Academy's Mentoring for Growth' Program.

In 2018 Steven was elected to serve on the founding steering committee (supervisory board) of the MyData Global Organisation, a Helsinki-based foundation set up to 'empower individuals with their personal data, thus helping them and their communities develop knowledge, make informed decisions, and interact more consciously and efficiently with each other as well as with organizations.'

Steven believes that business can and should be a force for good in society and that the more people take entrepreneurial responsibility for their lives, the better the society will be. He also believes in Benjamin Franklin’s dictum of “doing well by doing good.”

Connect with Steven via LinkedIn or visit his website GoodAndProsper.com

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John K. Bates provides private executive communication coaching and leadership development for accomplished leaders and teams. His programs have earned 92+ Net Promoter Scores with organizations including NASA, Johnson & Johnson, Google, Intuit, and Boston Scientific.

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Viral filmmaker-turned-life coach, Imari Anderson has always had an ability for shifting perspectives and provoking thought. With the philosophies of an ancient guru and the playfulness of a rambunctious child, Imari’s charisma, passion, and sense of humor has left ripples in the universe and in the lives of the hundreds of people he’s worked with

Imari has lots of ideas. Lots. He used to turn these ideas into videos that touched hundreds of millions of lives but then shifted gears and now uses them to transform individual lives across the globe. As a life coach and keynote speaker, he takes abstract ideas and transformational concepts and delivers them in a tangible way that allows the people he works with to rewire their minds, literally changing their reality from the inside out. His passion for perspective-shifting and electric charisma has turned this former filmmaking powerhouse into a transformational force that has left ripples in the lives of hundreds of his clients.

As a former artist-leader-innovator, Imari has taken the learnings of what it is to be in that position and combined it with the expansive world of personal transformation to create a generation of change-makers. 

Connect with Imari via LinkedIn or visit his website HowToHuman.io

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John K. Bates provides private executive communication coaching and leadership development for accomplished leaders and teams. His programs have earned 92+ Net Promoter Scores with organizations including NASA, Johnson & Johnson, Google, Intuit, and Boston Scientific.

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Dr. Sabrina Starling is the author of the How to Hire the Best series and co-host of the Profit by Design Podcast. Dr. Starling has coached thousands of entrepreneurs to overcome the day-to-day struggles of business growth by getting out of their own way and developing a success mindset that propels them to higher and higher levels of success (and profitability). With a passion for bringing entrepreneurs together to share best practices and trigger powerful “A-Ha!” moments to move one another forward, her company Tap the Potential is a breath of fresh air for top-level entrepreneurs seeking to connect with other life long learners undergoing life-changing business transformations. Dr. Starling has rolled up her sleeves and gotten in the trenches with her clients to apply her psychological expertise in helping them successfully deal with the greatest PEOPLE challenges small business owners face— attracting, hiring, and retaining top-performing team members. Dr. Starling holds a doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. Throughout her career, Dr. Starling has studied workplace morale, employee motivation, and advocated for Psychologically Healthy Workplaces. A licensed Provendus Strategist, Certified Profit First Professional, Peoplemap™ Facilitator, Board-Certified Coach and Professional Certified Coach, Dr. Starling goes to great lengths to bring the best training and programs to her clients. Dr. Starling works closely with other industry leaders to bring Tap the Potential clients cutting-edge business practices that work. She “keeps it real” by regularly interviewing successful entrepreneurs to stay on the pulse of what’s working, while bringing innovative strategies to her clients.

Visit Dr. Starling on Facebook and LinkedIn.

Ready to make your communication a match for how good you really are?

John K. Bates provides private executive communication coaching and leadership development for accomplished leaders and teams. His programs have earned 92+ Net Promoter Scores with organizations including NASA, Johnson & Johnson, Google, Intuit, and Boston Scientific.

Explore private coaching and leadership programs:
https://executivespeakingsuccess.com/

Build your communication practice with John’s free weekly mini-trainings:
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Dr. Shauna Springer is a graduate of Harvard University and is one of the world's leading experts on PTSD, Trauma, and Moral Injury among veterans. She co-hosts a weekly podcast on these topics in collaboration with MilitaryTimes. Her work has been featured on CNN, VICE, Dr. Oz, NPR, NBC, CBS Radio, Forbes, The Philadelphia Tribune, Washington Post, and Military Times. She is a regular contributor to Psychology Today.

Connect with Shauna on LinkedIn and visit her website.

Ready to make your communication a match for how good you really are?

John K. Bates provides private executive communication coaching and leadership development for accomplished leaders and teams. His programs have earned 92+ Net Promoter Scores with organizations including NASA, Johnson & Johnson, Google, Intuit, and Boston Scientific.

Explore private coaching and leadership programs:
https://executivespeakingsuccess.com/

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Peter Lacy is senior managing director for Europe as well as for UK and Ireland within Accenture Strategy. Additionally, he is a member of Accenture’s Global Leadership Council and leads Accenture’s relationship with the World Economic Forum, and it's Digital Transformation of Industries program.

Peter advises senior leaders of Fortune 500 companies and public organizations such as the United Nations, the European Union, and the UK government on issues related to strategy development, digital transformation, innovation, and acquisitions. Peter is a respected authority on sustainability and growth, and innovation amid technological disruption.

Before joining Accenture, Peter worked for McKinsey & Company and served as founding executive director of the Academy of Business in Society. He is an alumnus of full-time and executive programs at INSEAD, Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, and Nottingham and is a Business Fellow at Oxford University. Peter is based in London, United Kingdom.

Ready to make your communication a match for how good you really are?

John K. Bates provides private executive communication coaching and leadership development for accomplished leaders and teams. His programs have earned 92+ Net Promoter Scores with organizations including NASA, Johnson & Johnson, Google, Intuit, and Boston Scientific.

Explore private coaching and leadership programs:
https://executivespeakingsuccess.com/

Build your communication practice with John’s free weekly mini-trainings:
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Dr. Maria Church knows what it is like to lead a team. With over 25 years working for Fortune 500 companies, local governments, non-profits, and academia, she is intimately familiar with all the ups and downs of holding a senior leadership position in both the public and corporate worlds.  

Today, as CEO of Dr. Maria Church International, including Government and Corporate Leadership divisions as well as Leadership Development University, Maria brings that depth of knowledge and her unique qualifications – specializing in organizational culture, change agility, and leadership development – to the aid of companies, teams and individuals.  

Dr. Church, author of the best seller Love-Based Leadership: The Model for Leading with Strength, Grace, and Authenticity, as well as the upcoming book, A Course in Leadership: 21 Spiritual Lessons on Power, Love, and Influence has started a long-needed movement to revolutionize the workplace by transforming leadership at all levels through a seismic shift from fear to love.

Her organizational culture work has realized her clients over 300% ROI, intentionally reshaping their cultures to pursue clear strategic objectives and become differentiators in their marketplace. She holds a Doctor of Management degree in Organizational Leadership and has been teaching for several universities for the past 20 years winning numerous faculty awards.  

Maria is part of the elite 17% worldwide that has earned a CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) designation from the National Speakers Association. And, as probably the recognized expert in organizational culture and leading with love, she has been sought out to speak on many in-person and virtual stages across North America for associations, corporations, local governments, and non-profits. 

Her message is simple, compelling, and transformative. Because of that, she has been featured on radio shows, television interviews, and in both magazine and newspaper features. Maria writes numerous articles on leadership for a variety of periodicals and hosts an online leadership series, Dr. Maria TV. Splitting her time between Scottsdale and the restorative canyons of Southern Arizona, Maria continues to work with high-performing local governments while working on her next book about exemplary corporate and local government cultures.  

She is a classic rock and classic Motown junkie who one day hopes to learn drums from Keith Moon and Benny Benjamin in Rock-n-Roll Heaven.

Ready to make your communication a match for how good you really are?

John K. Bates provides private executive communication coaching and leadership development for accomplished leaders and teams. His programs have earned 92+ Net Promoter Scores with organizations including NASA, Johnson & Johnson, Google, Intuit, and Boston Scientific.

Explore private coaching and leadership programs:
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Joshua Spodek Ph.D. MBA is a three-time TEDx speaker, #1 bestselling author of Initiative and Leadership Step by Step, host of the award-winning Leadership and the Environment podcast, and professor and coach of entrepreneurship and leadership at NYU and Columbia Business School.

He speaks on leadership, entrepreneurship, and environmental leadership at institutions such as Boston Consulting Group, Google, IBM, PwC, S&P, Children’s Aid Society, The New York Academy of Science, NY Public Library, Harvard, Princeton, West Point, MIT, Stanford, Rice, USC, Berkeley, INSEAD, the NY Academy of Science, and more.

He holds a Ph.D. in astrophysics and an MBA from Columbia, where he studied under a Nobel Laureate, having emerged from childhood including years in some of Philadelphia’s most crime-ridden neighborhoods. He helped build an X-ray observational satellite with the European Space Agency and NASA.

He left academia to found a venture to market his invention—a technology to show motion pictures to moving subways—installing displays on four continents. He holds six patents. He also founded two education ventures.

He has been called “best and brightest” (Esquire’s Genius issue), “astrophysicist turned new media whiz” (NBC), and “rocket scientist” (Forbes).

His clients include start-up founders, executives of publicly traded companies, and employees of McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Deloitte, JP Morgan Chase, Google, IBM, Exxon, and the US Navy and Army, as well as graduates of Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and others. He has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, Forbes, Esquire, Entrepreneur, Nikkei Shimbun, the South China Morning Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, Fox, and CNN.

He credits his stellar reviews to his experiential, active, project-based technique with minimal lecture or reading or writing papers.

As an artist, he has installed public works in Bryant Park (NYC), Union Square (NYC), and Amsterdam’s Dam Square. He has had solo shows in New York and group shows nationwide, including Art Basel Miami Beach. He studied Meisner Technique at the William Esper Studio. He has taught art at Parsons and NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. He devoted years to learning and practicing the social and emotional skills of attraction and dating, becoming the #1 coach in the #1 market for the #1 guru. Since those years were in his late 30s and early 40s, he tended to coach people in long-term relationships or just exiting them.

He ran six marathons (3:51 best), rowed one, competed at the world and national level of Ultimate (#5 at nationals, and #11 at worlds), including the first ultimate tournament in North Korea. He swam across the Hudson River twice, did over 155,000 burpees, wrote over 3,700 blog posts, took over 500 cold showers, and jumped out of two airplanes.

He hasn’t flown (by choice) since March 2016, has picked up at least one piece of street trash per day since April 2017, and takes over a year to produce a load of garbage.

He has lived in Paris, Ahmedabad (India), and Shanghai. He lives in New York and blogs daily at joshuaspodek.com.

Ready to make your communication a match for how good you really are?

John K. Bates provides private executive communication coaching and leadership development for accomplished leaders and teams. His programs have earned 92+ Net Promoter Scores with organizations including NASA, Johnson & Johnson, Google, Intuit, and Boston Scientific.

Explore private coaching and leadership programs:
https://executivespeakingsuccess.com/

Build your communication practice with John’s free weekly mini-trainings:
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Mike Hulvey is the Chief Operating Officer for Neuhoff Communications, Inc which owns and operates 20 radio stations in Illinois and Indiana along with 18 revenue-generating websites. 

Mike serves nationally on the Executive Committee of the RAB and is Vice President of the International Broadcasters Idea Bank Board of Directors. He is active in many local, state, and national organizations. 

Mike is also the founder of a nationally recognized summer mentoring program for aspiring broadcasters.  

Mike has been named a past finalist as America’s Best Broadcaster by Radio Ink Magazine. He has also served as Steering Committee Chairman of the National Radio Show in both 2015 and 2016. He was inducted into his high school “Wall of Fame” joining previous honorees such as Dick Van Dyke, Gene Hackman, and Irving Azoff.

Mike and his wife Julie have 4 adult children and one grandchild.

Connect with Mike Hulvey  via LinkedIn

Ready to make your communication a match for how good you really are?

John K. Bates provides private executive communication coaching and leadership development for accomplished leaders and teams. His programs have earned 92+ Net Promoter Scores with organizations including NASA, Johnson & Johnson, Google, Intuit, and Boston Scientific.

Explore private coaching and leadership programs:
https://executivespeakingsuccess.com/

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Capt. Oscar Rojas is the Commodore of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 1 (EODGRU1). Capt. Rojas was raised in Dumas, Texas, and enlisted as a Hospital Corpsman in June 1990.  After graduating from Wayland Baptist University in 1996, with a Bachelor’s of Science, he attended Officer Candidate School in Pensacola, Florida, and commissioned as an Ensign in November 1997.

After completing Surface Warfare Officers School (SWOS) in Newport, Rhode Island. Rojas served three SWO tours with USS Peleliu (LHA 5), Special Boat Squadron Two, and USS Whirlwind PC-11. He lateral transferred to the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) community and in January 2002, he attended Basic Diving Officer, Mixed Gas Diving, and Salvage Officer courses in Panama City, Florida, and Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal at Eglin AFB, Florida.

Rojas first served with EOD Mobile Unit Eight in Sigonella and led highly specialized EOD teams throughout the USEUCOM and USCENTCOM AORs.

In May 2006, Rojas transferred to EOD Mobile Unit FIVE, Apra Harbor, Guam, and served as the Operations Officer.  Additionally, he also served as the JSOTF-Philippines EOD Task Unit Commander in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines.

In Jan 2008, Rojas transferred to Mobile Diving Salvage Unit ONE (MDSU 1), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and served as the Executive Officer.  During this assignment, Rojas also served as MDSU 1 Liaison Officer to Commander, Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific during the de-beaching and salvage operation of Uss Port Royal (CG 73).

In November 2010, Rojas reported to Joint Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, NC, and served as the EOD Branch Chief.

From August 2013 to April 2015, Rojas served as the Commanding Officer, EOD Mobile Unit FIVE, Apra Harbor, Guam.  Due to EODMU 5’s extraordinary accomplishments during this period, Rojas was selected as a finalist for the 2015 Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale Leadership Award.  

Rojas served as a Deputy Branch Chief for Expeditionary Warfare (OPNAV N95) on the CNO Navy Staff from July 2015 to December 2016.

From December 2016 to Jan 2019, Rojas served as the Director, Joint Special Operations Command Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Coordination Cell.

Rojas is designated as an EOD Warfare Officer.  He has also earned the designation of Master Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician, Deep Sea Dive Officer, Naval Freefall Parachutist, and Surface Warfare Officer.  He earned a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College in October 2010.

Rojas is proud to wear two Joint Meritorious Unit Awards, four Navy Unit Commendation Awards, the Coast Guard Meritorious Unit Commendation with Operational Distinguishing Device, and the Battle Efficiency Award for service while assigned to joint, EOD, and MDSU commands.  

To learn more about EODGRU1, visit their Facebook page Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 1

Connect with Commodore Rojas  via LinkedIn

Ready to make your communication a match for how good you really are?

John K. Bates provides private executive communication coaching and leadership development for accomplished leaders and teams. His programs have earned 92+ Net Promoter Scores with organizations including NASA, Johnson & Johnson, Google, Intuit, and Boston Scientific.

Explore private coaching and leadership programs:
https://executivespeakingsuccess.com/

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Jordan Paris is an author, podcast host, and entrepreneur featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Men’s Health, Yahoo! Finance, and Market Watch.

Jordan’s podcast, Growth Mindset University, was ranked #6 in Apple’s Self-Improvement category, #3 in the Training category, #5 in the How-To category. In Education, one of Apple’s most competitive categories, the show was ranked #15. The show has also ranked highly in 40+ countries worldwide. On the show, Jordan interviews the most successful people on planet earth like James Altucher, Grant Cardone, Robert Greene, Mark Manson, Seth Godin, Ryan Serhant, Dean Graziosi, and Naveen Jain.

Jordan is the founder of Trend Up Media, a one-stop podcast agency that produces podcasts to help businesses grow in both profit and influence.

His approach to life and business is simple yet powerful: Don’t make a living, design a life. With this creator’s mentality, Jordan has been able to produce outstanding results for himself and challenge others to rise above circumstances, break the mold of society, and take control of their lives.

Visit Jordan at JordanParis.com and TrendUp.Media.

Ready to make your communication a match for how good you really are?

John K. Bates provides private executive communication coaching and leadership development for accomplished leaders and teams. His programs have earned 92+ Net Promoter Scores with organizations including NASA, Johnson & Johnson, Google, Intuit, and Boston Scientific.

Explore private coaching and leadership programs:
https://executivespeakingsuccess.com/

Build your communication practice with John’s free weekly mini-trainings:
https://johnbates.com/mini-trainings/