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Bill Ringle and MaryBeth Hyland discuss how workplace culture is really a product of values and behavior while working from anywhere and especially in small and mid-sized businesses.
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.
Author, speaker, and award-winning company culture expert MaryBeth Hyland found her passion as a facilitator and mindfulness coach, engaging with leaders within all industries to create possibility and ignite alignment between their values and their actions. MaryBeth is the founder and chief visionary of SparkVision and her awards include Circle of Excellence, Innovator of the Year, and Top 100 Women. With a BA in Social Work, MS in Nonprofit Management, and over a decade of experience transforming workplace cultures into flourishing and connected communities, she is committed to values-based mindfulness in the workplace. The Washington Post, HuffPost, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal have recognized her as a powerful thought leader in workplace culture.
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Bill Ringle and Scott Mautz discuss the pressures and opportunities to make a difference as middle managers in a small business.
Scott Mautz and Bill Ringle discuss Leading from the Middle: A Playbook for Managers to Influence Up, Down, and Across the Organization for small business leaders
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.
Scott Mautz is a former Procter & Gamble senior executive who successfully ran four separate multi-billion-dollar businesses. He’s the author of three multi-award-winning, best-selling books, including his latest, “Leading from the Middle: A Playbook for Managers to Influence Up, Down, and Across the Organization” Scott is faculty at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business for Executive Education. He’s a former top columnist for Inc.com where he drew 2 million readers a month and where he was named a “Top 50 Leadership Innovator.” Scott frequently appears in a variety of national media.
Scott Mautz , author of Leading from the Middle: A Playbook for Managers to Influence Up, Down, and Across the Organization.
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Bill Ringle and Erik Qualman discuss strategies, stories, and practical tips for directing your attention and effort where they will have the biggest payoff for you in your personal and business life.
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these
5x Bestselling Author and Keynote Speaker Erik Qualman has performed in over 55 countries and reached 50 million people.
He was voted the 2nd Most Likeable Author in the World behind Harry Potter’s J.K. Rowling.
He is the host of the popular Super U Podcast and his work has been used by the National Guard to NBCUniversal to NASA.
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Bill Ringle and Rob Cornilles discuss how when guided by the correct principles, selling becomes a vehicle for mutual benefit based on trust, not tricks and gimmicks that cause remorse.
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.
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Rob Cornilles has been transforming the way salespeople around the world sell. The first to provide sales training to the powerful and high-stakes world of sports and entertainment, Rob quickly became known as “the sales coach for sports”, consulting with more than 300 teams, leagues, and entertainment companies.
First launching Game Face Inc., in 1995, with a focus on pro sports and intercollegiate athletics, Rob has gone on to advise, coach, and mentor more than 50,000 executives at over 400 brands worldwide. Rob’s diverse clientele is found not only in sports and entertainment, but also in such sectors as tech, retail, manufacturing, media, and professional and financial services.
In the summer of 2020, The Sales Game Changer: How to Become the Salesperson People Love, became a bestseller on four continents. On his new podcast, GAME FACE EXECS, he has interviewed such prominent business and entertainment personalities as Meg Whitman, Stephen M.R. Covey, “Gold Rush” creator and star Todd Hoffman, as well as the CEOs of Columbia Sportswear, Cotopaxi, the Houston Texans, and AtHome.
Rob has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, LA Times, FOX-TV, Sports Business Journal, FOX News’s Your World with Neil Cavuto, and many other television and radio programs, newspapers, and podcasts.
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Bill Ringle and Kurian Tharakan discuss the rudderless leader and how to avoid becoming one by telling a better story to yourself, your team, and other stakeholders.
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.
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Kurian Mathew Tharakan is the founder of the sales and marketing strategy firm StrategyPeak Sales & Marketing Advisors and a 27-year veteran of the sales and marketing industry. Mr. Tharakan is also the author of the Amazon Bestseller, “The 7 Essential Stories Charismatic Leaders Tell,” which details how anyone can move people and mountains with the power of story.
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Bill Ringle and Michelle Tennant discuss how PR can catapult your expertise and business to the readers and listeners of major business media like CNN and the WSJ to attract new clients and customers.
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.
Michelle Tennant , author of 21 Day PR Action Guide: The Who, What, When, and Where to Launch a Successful PR Campaign.
Good Morning America Producer Mable Chan calls Wasabi Publicity’s Chief Creative Officer Michelle Tennant Nicholson a “five-star publicist.”
Michelle calls herself a “storyteller to the media.”
For 30+ years, media friends have solicited her help in crafting news stories by requesting sources, sound bites, and statistics.
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Bill Ringle and Doug Conant discuss the importance of creating a blueprint for your leadership style, so that you can share it and have greater impact and fulfillment in your business and life.
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.
Doug Conant is the founder and CEO of Conant Leadership, which is dedicated to helping improve the quality of leadership in the 21st century. He is passionate about employee engagement and firmly believes in the importance of coming up with your own leadership model.
Visit his BLUEPRINT Bootcamp and BLUEPRINT Summit to learn more.
Doug was appointed President and CEO of Campbell Soup Company in 2001. Under his leadership, Campbell reversed a precipitous decline in market value and employee engagement; the company has won wide recognition since, including the prestigious 2010 Catalyst Award. When Doug retired in 2011, he received the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) 2011 Champion of Workplace Learning and Performance Award.
Doug joined Campbell with 25 years of experience from three of the world’s leading food companies: General Mills, Kraft, and Nabisco. He began his career in 1976 in marketing at General Mills. After 10 years, he moved to Kraft where he held top management positions in marketing and strategy. Immediately prior to coming to Campbell, he was President of the $3.5 billion Nabisco Foods Company where he led his team to improved marketplace performance and five consecutive years of double-digit earnings growth.
During his tenure at Campbell, Doug established the Campbell CEO Institute to train the company’s future leaders and ensure that the company’s highest-potential employees were well-equipped to handle the challenges and surprises that inevitably create a leader’s impact and legacy.
He is now a sought-after speaker on leading with integrity and other business topics and is the co-author of the New York Times bestselling book TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments.
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Bill Ringle and Jennifer Wisdom discuss how to build bridges to greater satisfaction and personal happiness for small business leaders of all ages and levels.
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.
Jennifer Wisdom, Ph.D. MPH ABPP helps curious, motivated, and mission-driven professionals achieve their highest potential by identifying goals and then providing them with the roadmap and guidance to get there. Jennifer is a former academician who is now an author, consultant, and speaker. Her book, Millennials’ Guide to Work, has been highly praised. Recently, she launched her podcast Millennial Wisdom in which she speaks to the Millennial Generation on several topics brought to attention. She has worked with complex health care, government, and educational environments for 25 years, including serving in the U.S. military, working with non-profit service delivery programs, and as faculty in higher education. She is an intrepid adventurer based in New York City and Portland, Oregon.
Bill Ringle and Erika Andersen discuss what it really takes to change at the personal, team, and organizational levels for small business leaders.
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.
Erika is the founding partner of Proteus, a coaching, consulting, and training firm that focuses on leader readiness. She and her colleagues at Proteus support leaders at all levels to get ready and stay ready to meet whatever the future might bring.
Erika advises leading executives in companies like NBCUniversal, Tory Burch, GE, Madison Square Garden, HULU and Viacom, focusing with them on organizational visioning and strategy, team development, and their own management and leadership evolution.
She also shares her insights about leading people, staying ready for the future, and creating successful businesses through her books and speaking engagements, and via social media. Erika is one of the most popular leadership bloggers at Forbes.com, and is the author of Leading So People Will Follow, Being Strategic, and Growing Great Employees, and the author and host of the Proteus Leader Show, a regular podcast that offers quick, practical support for leaders and managers.
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Peter LeSar and Bill Ringle discuss the idea of business first principles, which allow you to focus on the few key factors that make your business stand out as distinctive, rather than trying to be all things to all customers.
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.
Peter LeSar has gone from ground zero through IPO in the hospitality business.
He has spent a decade breaking down the First Principles of Restaurants, meaning the base layer of knowledge of what matters most and what works best in this industry.
Peter LeSar is an officer and 2nd largest shareholder of Thunderbird Resorts, a publicly-traded hospitality company.
Peter has been President of a $50M, 1,500+ employee hospitality company in Asia and CFO of a publicly-traded hospitality company with $200M in sales in 7 countries across the globe. He is the founder of two restaurants that were recognized by The World’s Best in its Discovery Series.
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