The Andy Storch Show (Own Your Career Own Your Life)

In this episode of OWN YOUR CAREER, Andy’s guest is author Liz Wiseman. She is the author of the NY Times bestselling book Multipliers and has a new book out called Impact Players. She is a researcher and executive advisor who teaches leadership to executives around the world. Her book Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools, Wall Street Journal bestseller Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work, and Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact.

Liz Wiseman is the CEO of the Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley. Some of her recent clients include Apple, AT&T, Disney, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Nike, Salesforce, Tesla, and more. She’s been listed on the Thinkers50 ranking, and in 2019, she was recognized as the top leadership thinker in the world. She has conducted significant research in the field of leadership and collective intelligence and writes for Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and a variety of other business and leadership journals. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at BYU and Stanford University as a former executive at Oracle, where she worked as the Vice President of Oracle University and is the global leader for human resources development.

In this interview, you’ll hear:

1. Why Liz Wiseman wrote her latest book and why it’s so timely right now.
2. The difference between rock-solid contributors and impact players and how their managers describe them.
3. The story of her rise at Oracle and how she eventually forged her own path.
4. How doing what’s on the agenda and important to the business and leadership can help you become an impact player in your organization.
5. The reason influence is more about having a service mindset than a big voice.
6. What upward empathy means and how you can use that in your role at your company.
7. Why some impact players have natural skills and others have learned skills.
8. How you can build a workforce of impact players and use your training dollars in other areas.
9. Why most managers prefer to hire people who are fun.
10. Some actionable advice from Liz Wiseman on how to help contributors become impact players.
11. Some practical tips for how you can help your employees convert from contributors to impact players.
12. How micromanaging your employees can prevent them from becoming impact players on your team.
13. What managers can do to give their people a fighting chance at working as impact players.
14. Some ways organizations can foster a culture of impact players.
15. A preview of Liz Wiseman’s new career advice blog.

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In this episode of OWN YOUR CAREER, Kelly Dozois joins Andy for a conversation about hope and humanity and using storytelling for influence. She’s been a consultant and leadership and organizational instruction designer for over 20 years, working with companies like Apple and Cargill to develop highly interactive, discovery-based learning programs.

Kelly Dozois is also an expert on leadership, influence, communication, storytelling, and inclusive leadership. She is also a solution partner with Advantage Performance Group. She’s the founder and creator of Ocean Beach Consulting, and before that, she was Vice President of Human Resources Development for Gap Inc., where she was responsible for the development of 160,000 employees worldwide and the executive development of senior management. She has been traveling part-time and working from her 24-foot Sprinter van since February 2021, observing, experiencing, and listening to stories.

In this interview, you’ll hear:

1. What prompted Kelly Dozois to begin traveling in her van and what she’s learning from the experience.
2. Why telling our stories and listening to others’ stories can significantly shift the relationship container, which can shift the work that we do together.
3. How she learned to engage in conversation with strangers because she was traveling solo and the conversations that stuck with her.
4. Why some people have a very optimistic outlook on life versus a more pessimistic outlook and how you can adjust your perspective.
5. How stories create connection and why that’s so important for businesses.
6. The reason stories guide our lives and how that happens.
7. How you can begin to change your internal voice to realize that you do have an interesting story to tell.
8. Kelly Dozois’s tips for leveraging storytelling lessons to influence positive change around us in our workplaces.
9. Her advice for using storytelling in talent development and creating better leaders.
10. Why crafting a good story has to have authenticity and vulnerability in the storytelling.

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Today I'm sharing my best advice on how to achieve big goals and make 2022 your best year ever. i'm also sharing a personal update about my cancer journey. I'm officially cancer free! Have a list.

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In this episode of the Own Your Career Podcast, Andy’s guest is Sabina Sulat. She is an accomplished HR and organizational development and learning executive. She’s spent the better part of the past two decades studying how organizations function and how people work. She’s been a consultant to multiple global and Fortune 1,000 organizations, and Sabina Sulat considers the primary purpose of her work to advise organizations on how to enable their employees to develop and grow.

In 2020, Sabina Sulat recognized the impact COVID-19 would have on the American worker, forcing millions of people to lose their jobs in the wake of the pandemic. Inspired by her own period of unemployment, she began working on a book to help others navigate the path of being unemployed. Her new book is called Agile Unemployment: Your Guide to Thriving While Out of Work. She is dedicated to helping those who are unemployed navigate the uncertain waters.

In this interview, you’ll hear:

1. The story behind Sabina Sulat’s new book and how she and Andy became friends.
2. Why she believes everyone should write a book and how it can change the trajectory of your life.
3. The reason she almost gave up on her book and why she pushed through to the end.
4. Why she wrote this particular book and feels so passionately about this subject.
5. What you can do to combat the loss of your identity during unemployment and reconstruct yourself outside of work.
6. How you can use a period of unemployment to get intentional about what you’re doing with your career and your life.
7. Sabina Sulat’s advice for reevaluating your career and deciding if it’s time to move in another direction.
8. Why she viewed being laid off as a blessing and how it allowed her to help others going through the same transition.
9. Who her book is written for and what she wants people to take away from it.
10. The advice she’d give to someone who is out of work right now.
11. How you can support someone if you know they’re out of work.

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In this episode of Own Your Career, Andy is joined by Mark Herschberg, Author of The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You. From tracking criminals and terrorists on the dark web to creating marketplaces and new authentication systems, he has spent his career launching and developing new ventures at starts up and Fortune 500s. He teaches MIT's Career Success Accelerator at MIT. At Harvard, he helped create a platform to teach finance at prominent business schools.

In this episode, he talks about the essential skills you need for career success; cryptography and how to stay safe online; and shares his career journey.

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In this episode of Own Your Career, Andy is joined by Erin Diehl, business improv educator, failfluencer, and professional zoombie who is ready to help you Improve It!

In this episode, Erin shares what improv is, why we should be thinking about it in business and meetings, and how it can help you own your career. She also gives insight into how run a great virtual meeting with virtual icebreakers.

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In this episode of Own Your Career, Andy is joined by Shawn Washburn, manufacturing engineer and consultant. He helps companies individuals solve problems, streamline and automate processes, and maximize the value of their people. He is also host of the Engineering Your Business Podcast, helping you optimize your processes and people to do more with what you have.

Andy and Shawn discuss the importance of curiosity in our careers; finding efficiencies in our businesses to maximize our time; and how to use google or excel for business success.

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You've probably never thought about it but you are a leader and influencer. You can make an impact on the people around you. You can set an example that inspires others to do great things.

Today is a short solo episode to inspire you to do great things. If you want more, check out my book, Own Your Career Own Your Life: https://amzn.to/3f1axXG

In this episode of Own Your Career, Andy is joined by Kent Sanders, creative mindset consultant, author, content marketer, and college professor. He is the author of two books, The Artist’s Suitcase: 26 Essentials for the Creative Journey and 30 Days of Evernote for Churches. In this interview, Kent gives you his practical advice on starting your writing career and how to build a business as a writer.

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Connect with Kent Sanders:

https://dailywriterlife.com/

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In this episode of Own Your Career, Andy is joined by Jeff Heggie, entrepreneur and success coach with a passion for helping other achieve their biggest dreams. We had a great conversation about mindset and overcoming limiting beliefs all in an effort to support you to achieve your peak performance in your job, life, or sport.

Connect with Andy Storch here:

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Connect with Jeff Heggie:

https://jeffheggie.com/

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