REVUP Your Leadership with Hilda Gan

Have you ever been inspired by the journeys of successful business owners? After hearing the stories that business owners would tell  other entrepreneurs, but never share out to prospects and clients, Katherine Burrows discovered how effective these stories would be at scaling their businesses and profitability. This conversation gives listeners insights into the importance of crafting compelling business stories, tips on choosing the right words, seeking help and coaching, and much more!

Katherine Burrows is a Big Impact Ghostwriter, who helps purpose-driven experts make a bigger difference by getting their big ideas into books and out into the world to multiply their impact and their profit. She is known internationally for her intuitive understanding, perceptive observations, and ability to write accurate descriptions. Katherine hosts The Write Connection podcast, which is designed to help you choose the right words and stories in your business book to create authentic connections with your prospects, clients, network, and communities. Katherine’s personal alchemy of literary storytelling, human psychology, business marketing, and unwavering passion provides her with the unique and powerful insight to bring out the authentic character of the expert and their business in a voice - YOUR voice - that will improve lives, influence others, and even change the world.

In this episode we discuss:

• Her story / how she got into writing business stories 1:15
• Her career pivot 06:48
• Tips on writing your own business story 08:09
• Her process 10:48
• HR - Onboarding / Placements 13:38
• Advice she would give to her younger self 18:06
• Legacy 20:05

This is REVUP Your Potential with Hilda Gan - the stories about entrepreneurs, business leaders, and HR professionals and their successes and struggles along their journey. If you love to learn through story telling, like, comment and subscribe to us on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

👋 Connect with Katherine - linkedin.com/in/katherineburrows/

Visit Katherine’s website - www.katherineburrowscreative.com

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🤗 Visit us at - peoplebrightconsulting.com

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Hilda Gan is a sought-after expert on effective HR strategies, work culture enhancement, and employee engagement. Unique among HR consultants, Hilda combines over 25 years of HR expertise with business acumen and business owner experience.

People Bright Consulting is an award-winning HR Management Consulting firm that helps leaders of companies build the foundations for successful hiring, healthy and inclusive work culture, and engaged staff. It starts with listening to our clients and finding pragmatic customized business solutions to HR problems.

“The only person in control of your speaking is YOU”. After struggling with stuttering as a child, Carl Richards is now a Professional Speaker and Speaking Mentor with more than 20 years in radio broadcasting, as well as a Podcast Strategist and Published Author. Whether you are an entrepreneur, business leader, or working professional, being impactful and confident with your voice is often a crucial element for success. This conversation gives listeners the insights into finding their voice, staying confident and motivated, top speaking tips, and much more!

Carl Richards has spent more than 25 years behind the microphone, entertaining and influencing audiences worldwide. He’s a 3x best selling author, TEDx Speaker and emcee, host of the Speaking of Speaking Podcast and the founder and CEO of Podcast Production Made Simple. Carl helps entrepreneurs find their voice, launch world class podcasts and grow thriving and profitable businesses. He lives with his spouse in Gananoque Ontario Canada and enjoys boating in the 1000 Islands.

In this episode we discuss:

• Intro, career beginnings, how Carl got into Radio Broadcasting 0:59
• Tips for people to find their voice 02:30
• His story, what he learned along the way 05:53
• What motivated him, how he developed confidence 09:13
• How he got into radio 12:07
• Struggles along the way 14:37
• Piece of business or career advice 18:35
• HR strategies, making teams work 25:43
• Legacy 28:50

This is REVUP Your Potential with Hilda Gan - the stories about entrepreneurs, business leaders, and HR professionals and their successes and struggles along their journey. If you love to learn through story telling, like, comment and subscribe to us on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

👋 Connect with Carl - ca.linkedin.com/in/carl-richards-3a0a223

Visit Carl’s website - https://carlspeaks.ca

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🎙️ Hosted by Hilda Gan - ca.linkedin.com/in/hildagan 

🤗 Visit us at - peoplebrightconsulting.com

Follow us

Linkedin - www.linkedin.com/company/pplbright

Twitter - twitter.com/pplbright 

Facebook - www.facebook.com/pplbright

Instagram - www.instagram.com/pplbright/ 

Hilda Gan is a sought-after expert on effective HR strategies, work culture enhancement, and employee engagement. Unique among HR consultants, Hilda combines over 25 years of HR expertise with business acumen and business owner experience.

People Bright Consulting is an award-winning HR Management Consulting firm that helps leaders of companies build the foundations for successful hiring, healthy and inclusive work culture, and engaged staff. It starts with listening to our clients and finding pragmatic customized business solutions to HR problems.

After experiencing first-hand the struggles that Asian Women face in society and in their careers, Sheena embarked on her mission to help Asian Women boost their confidence to live their authentic selves, create a voice in the world, and create a stronger representation for Asian women. In this episode, we discuss Sheena’s background and mission, diversity and representation in the workplace, treating people with respect, and much more!

Sheena Yap Chan is a keynote speaker, coach, podcaster, consultant, and author on building self-confidence. She currently inspires women through her award-winning podcast called The Tao of Self Confidence where she interviews Asian women about their inner journey to self-confidence. Sheena has been featured on MindValley, slice.ca, Marketing in Asia, Manila Times and more. She is also in the TOP 100 Filipinos to follow on LinkedIn for inspiration and learning in 2021. She is also the co-author of the International bestselling book Asian Women Who Boss Up.

In this episode we discuss: 

• Her background and early career beginnings 0:38
• Diversity and representation in the workplace 06:19
• What drives her 07:47
• How her business addresses diversity and equality for Asian women 11:45
• Asian Women Who BossUp 14:30
• Successes and Struggles 20:04
• DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) 22:01
• Treating people with respect, looking at them as equals 28:00
• Finding help and support network 30:04
• Advice she would give to her younger self 32:09
• Legacy 33:37

This is REVUP Your Potential with Hilda Gan - the stories about entrepreneurs, business leaders, and HR professionals and their successes and struggles along their journey. If you love to learn through story telling, like, comment and subscribe to us on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

👋 Connect with Sheena - linkedin.com/in/sheenayapchan/

Visit Sheena’s website - https://sheenayapchan.com

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🎙️ Hosted by Hilda Gan - ca.linkedin.com/in/hildagan 

🤗 Visit us at - peoplebrightconsulting.com

Follow us

Linkedin - www.linkedin.com/company/pplbright

Twitter - twitter.com/pplbright 

Facebook - www.facebook.com/pplbright

Instagram - www.instagram.com/pplbright/ 

Hilda Gan is a sought-after expert on effective HR strategies, work culture enhancement, and employee engagement. Unique among HR consultants, Hilda combines over 25 years of HR expertise with business acumen and business owner experience.

People Bright Consulting is an award-winning HR Management Consulting firm that helps leaders of companies build the foundations for successful hiring, healthy and inclusive work culture, and engaged staff. It starts with listening to our clients and finding pragmatic customized business solutions to HR problems.

For many, the prospect of changing jobs can be daunting. For others, it’s a necessary step toward a rewarding career. Gay Hamilton is Director of Business Development at WW Works and CEO of GoInnovation Consulting. After working in corporate for many years, Gay decided it was time to use her diverse experience to help small and medium-sized companies gain some of the advantages that larger companies have. In this episode, we discuss managing uncertainty and risk, going with your gut, balancing family life and career, managing difficult conversations, and much more!

Gay began her career with a $300 million wholesale company and held many positions, but was promoted to the Treasury Operations Manager for the Ontario based firm. Three years later she chose a new career path and moved to Director of Customer Service for a web-based software start up that provided online, mission critical applications for exchanging business documents. Seven years later, Gay purchased the company with two business partners and grew it to exchanging $2 billion worth of documents annually. She then took the opportunity of a lifetime and moved to Ireland for 18 months to be COO for a software FinTech company to help the company rebrand and change ownership. Those combined experiences led to a consulting business providing small and mid-sized enterprises with innovative technology solutions designed for future growth and constantly changing requirements. 

In this episode we discuss:

• Her early career beginnings 01:17
• Uncertainty and risk, going with your gut 06:41
• How she got into software 9:00
• Where she gets her energy 16:10
• How she balanced family life and her career 17:55
• About GoInnovation 22:50
• HR Struggles, managing difficult conversations 24:55
• One piece of advice she would give to her younger self 28:06
• Career advice to listeners 29:48
• Legacy 31:56

This is REVUP Your Potential with Hilda Gan - the stories about entrepreneurs and their successes and struggles along their journey. If you love to learn through story telling, like, comment and subscribe to us on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

👋 Connect with Gay - linkedin.com/in/gayhamilton

WW Works - wwworks.com

GoInnovation - goinnovation.ca

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🎙️ Hosted by Hilda Gan - ca.linkedin.com/in/hildagan 

🤗 Visit us at - peoplebrightconsulting.com

Follow us

Linkedin - www.linkedin.com/company/pplbright

Twitter - twitter.com/pplbright 

Facebook - www.facebook.com/pplbright

Instagram - www.instagram.com/pplbright/ 

Hilda Gan is a sought-after expert on effective HR strategies, work culture enhancement, and employee engagement. Unique among HR consultants, Hilda combines over 25 years of HR expertise with business acumen and business owner experience.

People Bright Consulting is an award-winning HR Management Consulting firm that helps leaders of companies build the foundations for successful hiring, healthy and inclusive work culture, and engaged staff. It starts with listening to our clients and finding pragmatic customized business solutions to HR problems.

Owning and running a family business has a lot of ups and downs. Anthea Mumby is the President of Dream Team Consulting, which helps family owned businesses to increase prosperity, freedom, and harmony. As a family-run business owner and entrepreneur, Anthea shares her journey, the importance of investing in yourself, her biggest HR headache, and much more!

Anthea started her insurance career at her Father’s insurance brokerage at the age of 15, she acquired the Family Brokerage in 2002. Anthea’s passion is to consistently explore new ways of raising the bar in providing superior customer service. Her commitment has led to her being recognized as "Best Insurance Agent" by the People's Choice Awards in Waterloo! Anthea’s strong work ethic and commitment to fulfilling her Father’s legacy of always putting clients’ interests first.

In this episode we discuss:

• How her family run business got started 1:23
• The high’s and low’s of being a family business 5:09
• Dream Team Consulting 10:00
• The importance of Mission, Vision, and Values 13:03
• Success and Struggles in her career 16:39
• The Staffing Tsunami 20:21
• The advice she would give to her younger self 26:02
• One of her HR headaches 28:02
• The importance of investing in yourself 30:50
• Legacy 33:57

This is REVUP Your Potential with Hilda Gan - the stories about entrepreneurs and their successes and struggles along their journey. If you love to learn through story telling, like, comment and subscribe to us on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

👋 Connect with Anthea - linkedin.com/in/antheamumby 

Dream Team Consulting - https://www.dreamteamconsulting.ca

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🎙️ Hosted by Hilda Gan - ca.linkedin.com/in/hildagan 

🤗 Visit us at - peoplebrightconsulting.com

Follow us
Linkedin - www.linkedin.com/company/pplbright

Twitter - twitter.com/pplbright 

Facebook - www.facebook.com/pplbright

Instagram - www.instagram.com/pplbright/ 

Hilda Gan is a sought-after expert on effective HR strategies, work culture enhancement, and employee engagement. Unique among HR consultants, Hilda combines over 25 years of HR expertise with business acumen and business owner experience.

People Bright Consulting is an award-winning HR Management Consulting firm that helps leaders of companies build the foundations for successful hiring, healthy and inclusive work culture, and engaged staff. It starts with listening to our clients and finding pragmatic customized business solutions to HR problems.

In this episode, Diane O’Ball, HR Manager at the National Ballet School of Canada, and Hilda Gan, People Bright Consulting, talk about HR. It’s more than just hiring, terminations, and organizing the annual Holiday Party. Diane has a passion for startups and high growth companies, and shares how she took chances in her career, and shifted her growth and passion for HR and the companies where she works. This conversation gives Business Owners and HR Professionals the insights into what HR really does to help advise and support company growth, through the lens of developing and retaining your staff.  

Diane O’Ball is the HR Manager at the National Ballet School of Canada. She discovered that with her love of business and psychology, HR became the perfect career path for her. A strategic and tactical senior Human Resources professional she has had progressive experience in generalist and managerial roles. With over 30 years of HR experience in corporate, entrepreneurial and manufacturing/distribution environments, Diane has a passion for Startups and enjoys helping companies develop their program and policy, provide management coaching & development, and work on HR strategy and employee relations.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why the HR field is different 03:32
• How she got into HR 05:27
• The value of HR in an organization 07:48
• Her career successes 11:24 and struggles 13:47
• HR Advice for entrepreneurs 19:23
• Today’s two biggest HR Headaches (The Employee’s Market & Ghosting) 24:12
• Legacy 28:45

👋 Connect with Diane - www.linkedin.com/in/dianeoball/

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🎙️ Hosted by Hilda Gan - ca.linkedin.com/in/hildagan 

🤗 Visit us at - peoplebrightconsulting.com

Follow us
Linkedin - www.linkedin.com/company/pplbright
Twitter - twitter.com/pplbright
Facebook - www.facebook.com/pplbright
Instagram - www.instagram.com/pplbright/ 

Hilda Gan is a sought-after expert on effective HR strategies, work culture enhancement, and employee engagement. Unique among HR consultants, Hilda combines over 25 years of HR expertise with business acumen and business owner experience.

People Bright Consulting is an award-winning HR Management Consulting firm that helps leaders of companies build the foundations for successful hiring, healthy and inclusive work culture, and engaged staff. It starts with listening to our clients and finding pragmatic customized business solutions to HR problems.

Carolina Gutierrez focuses on building businesses from the inside out. Diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood, she shares her journey from learning, to understand her struggles with ADHD in adolescence, to harnessing her energy to create multiple successful businesses focused on organizing business operation effectiveness with owner mental wellness. 

Carolina Gutierrez is a serial entrepreneur that focuses on prioritizing mental wellness for business owners through all her endeavours. Her company Business In Order helps both online and brick and mortar businesses find peace, time and profits through getting their administration in order. She helps businesses achieve their goals through organizing, prioritizing & strategizing appropriate tech & admin solutions; freeing up time & increasing revenue.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How she overcame being diagnosed with ADHD 03:06
• How it became her superpower and how she incorporated it into her business 07:09
• Her successes and struggles as a business owner 08:35
• Finding her uniqueness 18:32
• HR and people management headaches 20:30
• One piece of business or career advice 24:02
• Her legacy 25:46

This is REVUP Your Potential with Hilda Gan - the stories about entrepreneurs and their successes and struggles along their journey. If you love to learn through story telling, like, comment and subscribe to us on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

👋 Connect with Carolina - linkedin.com/in/1carolinagutierrez/

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🎙️ Hosted by Hilda Gan - ca.linkedin.com/in/hildagan 

🤗 Visit us at - peoplebrightconsulting.com

REVUP Your Potential with Hilda Gan - the stories about entrepreneurs and business leaders, and their successes and struggles along their journey. Each week we also talk about HR struggles, tips and strategies to help. If you love to learn through story telling, join us.