Square Peg Round Hole Small Business Massive Action

Steve Lishansky is the CEO of Optimize International, the company he founded in 1992 specifically for successfully maximizing the development of top leaders and high performing executive teams in the US and internationally.  He has worked with leaders and top performers from over 40 countries. Optimize International was one of the first firms in the world pioneering leadership development through high-level executive coaching, and strategically aligning senior management teams.  In 2012, he was elected to the International Coach Federation of New England's Hall of Fame for his contributions to his clients' success and the coaching profession.

Steve speaks to Matt and Dan about the most important driver of effectiveness in life and business - adding value. He speaks about how adding value can ensure you have a solid foundation as a start-up, create valuable networking opportunities and bring in more clients or customers for your business.

You can get in touch with Steve through his website, social media platforms or call:

Website:  www.OptimizeIntl.com

Twitter: @slishansky

Facebook: SteveLishansky

LinkedIn: Steve Lishansky

Phone number: 978 369 4525

You can also get Steve's book here: The Ultimate Sales Revolution.

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Start your day with the right positive affirmations by joining Dan's The Success Happens Movement Facebook group.

Are you taking massive action in your life? Want to share your successes and support others who are also taking massive action? Then join Matt's Facebook group The 3% Tribe.

A serial entrepreneur since her early 20's, Lisa has created, owned and managed a variety of businesses including a travel agency, a real estate company and even a road construction supply company. Lisa has a M.S. degree in Nonprofit Management and Strategic Fundraising and a B.S. degree in Applied Behavioral Science with a focus on organizational behavior. She has served on countless boards for nonprofits and associations, including being president of the Westlake Chamber of Commerce in Austin, Texas. Lisa is now a full-time business coach serving small businesses.  

Lisa talks about how systems and processes can make or break your business. If you find yourself constantly saying you have no time then you really need to make time to listen to Lisa, Matt and Dan's views and experiences on how implementing systems in their businesses saves them a boatload of time.

You can get in touch with Lisa through her website and social media platforms:

• Website: http://zubaacademy.com/
• Twitter: @lisakellyzuba
• Facebook: Zuba Academy
• LinkedIn: Lisa Kelly Zuba

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Start your day with the right positive affirmations by joining Dan's The Success Happens Movement Facebook group.

Are you taking massive action in your life? Want to share your successes and support others who are also taking massive action? Then join Matt's Facebook group The 3% Tribe.

Howard Shore is the founder of Activate Group, Inc and he is one of the country's premier business and executive coaches who has helped hundreds of executives and teams to inspire change and growth in companies. With more than a 20-year track record of exceptional results, he has held various leadership positions in multinationals, public and private companies and businesses that range from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. His clients work in family-owned, multinational, public and private companies with revenues ranging from US$1 million to over US$1 billion, spanning most industries. Over the years, Howard has owned and founded 5 businesses. In his new book, Your Business is a Leaky Bucket, he details how millions of dollars disappear from businesses every year and what can be done to remedy those losses.

Howard shares an essential framework to ensure your business moves forward in this rapidly changing and competitive economy. He talks about the three guiding elements - strategy, execution and people - to finding success in your business and how if you're not paying attention to these then you're probably "leaving significant money on the table". Howards tells Matt and Dan the story of a US$10 million company with a negative US$200,000 in cash flow on the verge of bankruptcy, whose leaders were unaware of how bad the situation really was, which he turned into a US$12.6 million company with a positive US$2 million in cash flow in 6 months using his three guiding elements.

You can get in touch with Howard via his website and social media platforms:

• Website: http://www.activategroupinc.com/blog/
• Twitter: @howardshore
• Facebook: @ActivateGroupInc
• Instagram: howardmshore
• LinkedIn: Howard Shore
• YouTube: Activate Group, Inc
• Phone number: (305) 722-7216

You can get Howard's book here:  Your Business is a Leaky Bucket: Learn How to Avoid Losing Millions in Revenue and Profit Annually.

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Start your day with the right positive affirmations by joining Dan's The Success Happens Movement Facebook group.

Are you taking massive action in your life? Want to share your success and support others who are also taking massive action? Then join Matt's Facebook group The 3% Tribe.

Scott MacKenzie is a husband, father, and passionate industry educator. From humble beginnings as a lathing contractor and certified journeyman/lineman to an Undergraduate and Master's Degree in Business Administration, he has applied every aspect of his education and training to lead and influence. He believes in serving and adding value whenever he is called upon. He has led a team onto the NASDAQ Stock Exchange while serving as President of a multi-national terminaling corporation. He says that the purpose that drives him is people. He believes that accomplishments are rungs of a ladder, tasks undertaken are to prove one's abilities while changing lives and building futures are the destination and the reason we climb.

Scott's own company, Leaf Services LLC, provides labour for the industrial market. He shares why traditional marketing methods, such as billboards, did not work for his company and how he has used his podcast instead to become an industry educator as well as find more business. His experience of working with new marketing platforms in an industry that is quite old-school and set in its ways is a great lesson for how to bridge the gap between two very different generations in business.

You can get in touch with Scott via his website and social media platforms:

•      Website: www.industrialtalk.com & www.leafservicesllc.com
•      Twitter: @Industrial_talk
•      Facebook: @IndustrialTalk
•      LinkedIn: Scott MacKenzie & Industrial Talk Podcast
•      YouTube: Industrial Talk

You can get Scott's free materials here: Industrial Labour Model and Customer-Centric Toolkit

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Groups to support your aim to take massive action!

Start your day with the right positive affirmations by joining Dan's The Success Happens Movement Facebook group.

Are you taking massive action in your life? Want to share your success and support others who are also taking massive action? Then join Matt's Facebook group The 3% Tribe.

Dorie Clark is an adjunct professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and the author of Entrepreneurial You. She also authored Reinventing You and Stand Out, which was named the #1 Leadership Book of 2015 by Inc. magazine. A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, the New York Times described her as an "expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives." A frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, she consults and speaks for clients including Google, Microsoft, and the World Bank.

Dorie begins by recounting an inspiring example of how she focused all her energies and took massive action over a two day period which ended in her being invited to write a regular column for Forbes. Drawing from her experiences in cultivating multiple income streams she shares with Matt and Dan how all businesses can identify and create new revenue streams by synchronising their service and product offerings. This is the focus of her new book Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple Income Streams, and Thrive.

You can also get in touch with Dorie via her website, email and social media platforms:

•      Website: dorieclark.com
•      Twitter: @dorieclark
•      Facebook: Dorie Clark
•      LinkedIn: Dorie Clark
•      Instagram: @dorieclark

Get Dorie's latest book here, Entrepreneurial You. You can also find her two other books here: Reinventing You and Stand Out.

Have a listen to the episode to find how you can get your hands on her FREE 88 question Entrepreneurial You assessment to help increase the number of revenue streams for your business.  

Conference Highlight

Harvard Business Review: Entrepreneurial You

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hbr-live-entrepreneurial-you-tickets-37338164455

London, England: 14 November 2017

Start your day with the right positive affirmations by joining Dan's The Success Happens Movement Facebook group.

Are you taking massive action in your life? Want to share your success and support others who are also taking massive action? Then join Matt's Facebook group The 3% Tribe.

Jeffrey Ritter currently serves as an External Lecturer at two of the world's great universities for computer science, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Oxford, where he teaches graduate-level courses in privacy engineering, information governance, and information security policy design. His career includes legal services to global corporations, leadership in the work of the United Nations and the American Bar Association, and ongoing academic research and writing on digital trust.

Jeffrey shares what trust means in business, how it is calculated and how digital trust can be built. He gives some insights into making digital trust a competitive advantage for your small business especially when you have a new product on the market.

You can also get in touch with Jeffrey via his website, email and social media platforms:

•      Website: www.jeffreyritter.com
•      Twitter:  @Jeffrey_Ritter
•      Facebook: Jeffrey Ritter
•      LinkedIn: Jeffrey Ritter
•      YouTube: Jeffrey Ritter

You can get Jeffrey's  book here: Achieving Digital Trust: The New Rules for Business at the Speed of Light.

Conference Highlight

Privacy, Security, Risk

https://iapp.org/conferences/

San Diego, CA: 17-18 October 2017

Matt's group on Facebook which supports those who are taking massive action in their lives can be found here: The 3% Tribe.

Anthony Iannarino is an international speaker, an author, and entrepreneur. He is the Managing Director of B2B Sales Coach & Consultancy, a coaching and consulting firm he started in 2007. Anthony has worked for and spoken to global giants like Accenture, Abbot Laboratories, Toro, TransUnion, Wells Fargo, GE, RR Donnelly and CH Robinson. Anthony also owns part of his family's temporary and contingent staffing business, a company he has grown from 3M to 45M with a small sales force of 8 people. Anthony teaches Professional Selling, Persuasive Marketing, and Social Media Marketing at Capital University's School of Management and Leadership. He has also recently released his second book on sales titled, The Lost Art of Closing.

Anthony shares how you can make a difference in your business once you understand that all businesses are essentially sales organisations. He elaborates on what he means by this and also how the sales world has changed over the years and what you need to know to keep up sales for your small business today.

You can get in touch with Anthony via his website, email and social media platforms:

• Website: www.thesalesblog.com
•      Twitter: Iannarino
•      Facebook: The Sales Blog
•      LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iannarino
•      YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/iannarino
•      Instagram:  Iannarino

You can get Anthony's books here: The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need and The Lost Art of Closing.

Conference Highlight

Sales 3.0 Conference

http://www.sales30conf.com/Vegas2017/

Las Vegas: 18 – 19 September 2017

Matt's group on Facebook which supports those who are taking massive action in their lives can be found here: The 3% Tribe.

Monique Mills is the Founder of Making Waves Sailing, a private charter company providing eco-friendly sailing adventures. Her mission is to use sailing to connect her guests to the ocean in the hopes for greater understanding and appreciation of the ocean ecosystem, its inhabitants and conservation. She captains her 46ft yacht through the Windward Islands of the southern Caribbean Sea, island hopping her guests between Grenada and Martinique and has recently expanded her fleet to include a 47'ft catamaran, operating out of Columbia and Panama.

Monique tells us the story of how she quit her corporate career to pursue something else. She had no idea what this something else was when she quit but she just knew she wanted something different. She shares how she had many ideas, all of which "terrified" her but how she took charge and turned them into successes. Monique truly lives by her motto,

"Dream the impossible dream and then live it" and is an inspiration for anyone who has an idea and may be afraid to take the leap to make it a reality.

You can also get in touch with Monique via her website, email and social media platforms:

• Website: www.makingwavessailing.com
• Twitter: Making Waves Sailing
• Facebook: Making Waves Sailing
• LinkedIn:  Monique Mills
• YouTube: Making Waves Sailing
• Instagram:  Making Waves Sailing

Conference Highlight

Customer Service Summit

http://www.incite-group.com/events/customerservice/

New York, NY: 16 - 17 November, 2017

Matt's group on Facebook which supports those who are taking massive action in their lives can be found here: The 3% Tribe.

Matt Young is a passionate health, recreation and sports servant leader who believes that supporting quality athletic achievement is good for our children, communities and society. He has 25 years of experience in the allied health care sector where he was recognized as one of British Columbia & Canada's Top 40 U 40 business leaders of the year and has 15 years of experience in coaching at the grassroots level. Matt now consults with sports organizations locally, nationally and internationally on physical literacy, long term athlete development resources, and tools and support.

Matt saw a flaw in the system of youth sports and decided to fix it. He shares how his observation of youth sports led him to develop a service which looks beyond traditional success measures for teams and athletes. The idea for his system was born out of a great passion for sport and desire to add value to youth involved in sports. His unique idea and value proposition may give you a thing or two to think about when it comes to developing systems of excellence for your business.

You can also get in touch with Matt via his website, email and social media platforms:

• Email: [email protected]
• Website: http://personalsportrecord.com/#/
• Twitter: Matt Young
• Facebook: Matthew Young
• LinkedIn: Matt Young

Conference Highlight

Pathways to Leadership Conference

http://www.pacificsportinteriorbc.com/pathways-to-sport-excellence

Vancouver, BC, Canada: 29 October 2017

In this special episode, Matt and Dan get personal. They dig into why small business owners experience periods of funk. They share their own funk stories, how they pulled themselves out of them and got back on track. Matt shares what he calls his "US$6,000 mistake" and Dan shares the hypnotic techniques he uses to help clients regain confidence and get going again.

You can also get in touch with Matt and Dan through the Square Peg Round Hole Podcast  website, email and social media platforms:

• Email: [email protected]
• Website: sprhpodcast.com
• Twitter: @sprhpodcast
• Facebook: SPRHPodcast

Amy Cuddy's book Presence can be found here.

Conference Highlight

Jeff Walker's Launch Con

http://launchcon.com/

Dallas, TX: 27 - 29 October 2017

SPRH Podcast is sponsored by:

Knight Dik Insurance

http://www.knightdik.com/