The Drop In CEO

This week on the Drop In CEO, Operations, Sales & Digital Marketing expert and CEO Jasper Schouten shares how his diverse background and network have helped him build a successful business creating solutions for small and medium businesses. Listen in as Deborah and Jasper discuss building the right team with similar values, giving people the ability to self-serve, and helping your team embrace new strategies while focusing on implementation over theory.

Jasper Schouten is CEO & Co-Founder of 1-2-Taste, a digital market place for Taste ingredients and Service. Jasper has extensive experience in the Taste Industry ranging from Operations and Finance to Commercial leadership positions. Jasper is passionate about changing the status quo of the Taste Industry through 1-2-Taste.

You can connect with Jasper in the following ways:

linkedin.com/in/jasper-schouten-967397

https://www.12taste.com/

https://www.facebook.com/12TasteFlavours?_rdc=1&_rdr

https://www.linkedin.com/company/12taste/

To learn more about how you can connect with Deb, go to https://www.dropinceo.com/ or join the Drop in CEO Facebook group for more conversations on how to lead, inspire, and achieve your goals.

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This week on the Drop In CEO, Operations, Sales & Digital Marketing expert and CEO Jasper Schouten shares how his diverse background and network have helped him build a successful business creating solutions for small and medium businesses. Listen in as Deborah and Jasper discuss building the right team with similar values, giving people the ability to self-serve, and helping your team embrace new strategies while focusing on implementation over theory.

This week on the Drop In CEO, systems creator and performance expert Meredith Bell shares how her passion for supporting people in leadership roles led to the creation of assessment tools for long term success. Listen in as Deborah and Meredith discuss dealing with pain and conflict in the workplace, the importance of assessment tools for accountability, and the difference between core strengths and skills.

Meredith Bell has been an entrepreneur since 1982, and she’s an expert in helping companies develop the people side of their business. Meredith is co-founder and President of Performance Support Systems, a global software company based in Virginia. Their assessment and development tools support ongoing improvements in a leader’s performance. Business consultants, leadership coaches and Human Resource professionals use their products to help managers become more effective leaders.

Meredith is the author of the #1 Amazon best-seller, Strong for Performance: Create a Culture with Learning & Development Programs That Stick.  She’s also host of the popular Strong for Performance podcast.

One of Meredith strengths is building strong relationships. She and her business partners have worked together for almost 30 years, and many of their clients and resellers have done business with them for 25 years. She understands what’s required to build the loyalty and commitment that lead to repeat business and referrals.

 

You can connect with Meredith in the following ways:

Email: [email protected]

Phone: (757) 656-4765 (office)

Website: https://GrowStrongLeaders.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithmbell

Twitter: https://twitter.com/meredithmbell

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MeredithMBell

 

To learn more about how you can connect with Deb, go to https://www.dropinceo.com/ or join the Drop in CEO Facebook group for more conversations on how to lead, inspire, and achieve your goals.

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This week on the Drop In CEO, systems creator and performance expert Meredith Bell shares how her passion for supporting people in leadership roles led to the creation of assessment tools for long term success. Listen in as Deborah and Meredith discuss dealing with pain and conflict in the workplace, the importance of assessment tools for accountability, and the difference between core strengths and skills.

This week on the Drop In CEO, food safety expert Jennifer Crandall shares how she built her services specifically to serve small businesses and how customization has led to her success. Join Deborah and Jennifer as they discuss communicating in a way that does not overwhelm your client, helping your niche understand their needs through smaller opportunities, and how to have closing conversations that inspire action.

Jennifer Crandall founded Safe Food En Route, LLC in 2018, a food safety consulting firm that provides assistance to small and medium sized companies with FSMA regulations and food safety programs. Jennifer is passionate about providing full solution, corporate-like food safety and quality programs to businesses that want to level up. She has also has a passion for education as a regular guest lecturer and alumni contact for Purdue University Food Science students; also she served on the Curriculum Advisory Committee for Cincinnati State’s recently approved Culinary Arts and Applied Food Science Bachelor of Arts program.

 

You can connect with Jennifer in the following ways:

Follow #JenTheFoodScientist:

On the web: www.safefoodenroute.com

On LinkedIn: @Jennifer Crandall and @Safe_Food_En_Route

On Twitter: @safefoodenroute

On Facebook: Safe Food En Route, LLC

On Instagram: safefoodenroute

 

To learn more about how you can connect with Deb, go to https://www.dropinceo.com/ or join the Drop in CEO Facebook group for more conversations on how to lead, inspire, and achieve your goals.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on the Drop In CEO, food safety expert Jennifer Crandall shares how she built her services specifically to serve small businesses and how customization has led to her success. Join Deborah and Jennifer as they discuss communicating in a way that does not overwhelm your client, helping your niche understand their needs through smaller opportunities, and how to have closing conversations that inspire action.

This week on the Drop In CEO, brand strategist Ben Baker shares the importance of building a brand from the inside out. Listen in as Deborah and Ben discuss the best way to support your staff in order to create an excellent customer experience, how to help your customer communicate your brand values with others (hint, it’s not a new t-shirt with your logo), and how a high quality pen created multi-year brand loyalty for one tech company.

Storytelling has always been a way of life for Ben Baker. From a young age, he realized that through telling stories people listened to him, understood him and engaged. Professionally, this is what he has been doing now for over two decades. He helps brands tell engaging stories that compel their customers to take action.

 

You can connect with Ben in the following ways:

Book  www.powerfulpersonalbrands.com

Podcast  www.yourlivingbrand.live

Workshops  www.yourbrandmarketing.com/workshops

Developing the Leader in you course www.yourbrandmarketing.com/the-leader-in-you

Webinar on promotional marketing https://youtu.be/UahWC3l-FNg

 

To learn more about how you can connect with Deb, go to https://www.dropinceo.com/ or join the Drop in CEO Facebook group for more conversations on how to lead, inspire, and achieve your goals.

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This week on the Drop In CEO, brand strategist Ben Baker shares the importance of building a brand from the inside out. Listen in as Deborah and Ben discuss the best way to support your staff in order to create an excellent customer experience, how to help your customer communicate your brand values with others (hint, it’s not a new t-shirt with your logo), and how a high quality pen created multi-year brand loyalty for one tech company.

This week on the Drop In CEO, chief creative officer and author Geoff Thatcher shares how his love of amusement parks led to a flourishing career, helping executives communicate company values and experiences with their teams and clients. Listen in as Deborah and Geoff discuss the importance of self-advocacy, writing a book chapter-by-chapter on Linkedin, and how he successfully published a book during a pandemic

Known by his peers for his infectious creativity and enthusiasm, Geoff Thatcher is an experienced creative leader who knows how to take a project from concept to reality. For most of his career, these projects have been about world-class experiences such as the grand opening of Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi and the American Airlines Museum. Whether it’s the world’s largest video dome on a beach in Dubai or the opening ceremonies of the Rio 2007 Pan American Games in Maracanā Stadium, Geoff has been there. He is a writer and teacher who once facilitated a leadership communication workshop at The CIA University (yes, that CIA). In 2020, he published his first book The CEO’s Time Machine that reviewers have called “clever,” “thought provoking,” “stunning” and “amazing.”

 

You can connect with Geoff in the following ways:

Website: https://www.creativeprincipals.com/ceotimemachine

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffthatcher/

 

To learn more about how you can connect with Deb, go to https://www.dropinceo.com/ or join the Drop in CEO Facebook group for more conversations on how to lead, inspire, and achieve your goals.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on the Drop In CEO, chief creative officer and author Geoff Thatcher shares how his love of amusement parks led to a flourishing career, helping executives communicate company values and experiences with their teams and clients. Listen in as Deborah and Geoff discuss the importance of self-advocacy, writing a book chapter-by-chapter on Linkedin, and how he successfully published a book during a pandemic