Today we once again are sitting in the Big Apple and this time chatting with the President and Founder of Talent Boost, Ms. Claire Chandler.

Claire specializes in leadership and business value creation. Tapping into nearly 30 years of experience in people leadership, human resources, and business ownership to help organizations achieve strategic alignment, culture integration, and sustainable success.

Claire gets results because she's insanely easy to work with, cuts through the corporate clutter, and has proven, agile, and customizable frameworks for aligning people, processes, and performance with the long-term business strategy.

Her clients often refer to her as their leadership therapist, because they have real, actionable conversations that remove obstacles, alleviate worries and get things done.

Claire holds a certificate in strategic HR leadership from Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, a master's degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and a bachelor's degree from Fairfield University. She has appeared as a guest on over 150 podcasts, is the author of several books on leadership and business strategy, and is a contributing writer for Forbes.

During our conversation, you'll hear us dive deep into the challenges faced by HR to gain real traction in taking a seat at the table of business operations.

I like this quote from Claire as it rings so loud and true in my experience.

"The greatest impact on a company's culture is the behavior of its leaders."

• Claire Chandler

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Hello, I'm your host Wayne Brown and welcome to the ET PROJECT. We're delighted to be delivering this podcast for executive talent all over the world whom we're affectionately referring to as TEAM ET.

Today we're staying put in the UK and visiting the coastal city of Southend-on-Sea, located in Essex, and we're meeting up with our addiction counselor Luke Worsfold.

It's an important episode as Luke and I unpack the challenges faced by what research is suggesting is affecting a growing number of people – and that is substance abuse and drug addiction.

When you hear Luke's own story you will learn that he speaks from first-hand experience, with his mother struggling with addiction throughout her life. She was in and out of rehab and prison, and her drinking progressively worsened until she passed when Luke was 10.

Luke himself embraced drugs during secondary school as a means to find solace and escape.

Becoming an entrepreneur and forming his own company, he soon found that the stress and pressure of running the business fueled his addiction, and his life quickly spiraled out of control.

Living in denial, it took a brutally honest comment from his mentor and friend that forced him to confront his addiction and seek help.

Through various avenues, including AA meetings, therapy, and personal development seminars, he ultimately discovered addiction therapy. This proved instrumental in addressing the root causes of his addiction, helped him to feel his emotions again, and raised his awareness, thus helping him to recover.

Today, as a successful entrepreneur and specialized counselor, it's Luke's mission to help others to win their battles with addiction. His journey taught him the importance of self-awareness, emotional healing, and the power of choice, and he strives to inspire and empower others to reclaim their lives.

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Hello and welcome to the ET Project. I'm your host, Wayne Brown, and as usual, we're delighted to be delivering this podcast for executive talent all over the world whom we're affectionately referring to as Team ET.

And team, today we're traveling to the UK to a township southwest of London to meet with our very special guest. She's a catalyst, a mentor, a guest lecturer, a trustee, a non-executive director, a JP, an advisory board member, and a CEO by day. And she's also a twin mom. I'm very happy to be chatting today with Ms. Brandie Deignan.

Brandie is a self-proclaimed industry agnostic, and as you'll hear shortly, throughout her career has not only held senior roles across multiple industries where she had no background. But with each transition moved into higher office. In early 2021, Brandie joined the primary care within NHS in general practice as the Chief Executive Officer highlighting that leadership is leadership and cuts across all sectors.

Prior to the switch to primary care in NHS, Brandie was managing director at Marco Pierre White Restaurants cementing her 20 years of experience in consumer service delivery industries across hospitality, retail, and aviation.

Before her MD role, Brandie held senior leadership positions in British Airways, Tesco, Whitbread, Travelodge, and Hilton Hotels, where she started her career as a graduate trainee and worked her way up.

A true trailblazer, Brandie was the first female MD at MPW Restaurants, and as of 2020, was the first black female MD within branded restaurants across the UK. She's presently the only black female CEO within NHS primary care.

Brandie has been named as one of the top 15 BAME high fliers in travel and tourism, and nominated in multiple other British Business Awards plus has been voted as one of the top 50 listening leaders.

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Today I'm pleased to say that although I've enjoyed my prolonged 6 week stay in the States, it's nice to moving to a new country location. And this week we are in Sydney, Australia visiting Mr. Mark Hodgson a Transformational Leadership Expert.

Mark is an Executive Coach, Author, Advisor and Keynote Speaker.

He helps motivate professionals to unlock their inner talents and create the successful and meaningful lives we all crave. Mark has inspired large teams in commercial and not-for-profit businesses and is a natural disruptor. Mark works with executives, entrepreneurs, and business owners to build their personal brand and influence and is an expert in leading change.

With so much career competition today, it's important that you show up at your best and this is where Mark can help.

He comes from a corporate background, holding senior roles in the UK, Australasia, Central Europe and Russia. Today, he is a leading thinker in Transformation and what it takes to thrive in complex times.

When you check out his website you'll see that he speaks about the personal brand, marketing yourself and focusing on becoming that Second Half Hero. All of which we discuss at length.

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Hello and welcome to the ET Project. I'm your host, Wayne Brown, and as usual, we're delighted to be delivering this podcast for executive talent all over the world whom we're affectionately referring to as Team ET.

And yes, this is week five, and I'm still doing the rounds in the USA with today's guest, Ms. Minette Norman, sitting in Fairfax, California. And as a point of reference, that's a little north of Silicon Valley. Minette Norman is an author, speaker, and leadership consultant who previously spent decades leading global technical teams in the software industry.

Minette has extensive experience in leading internationally distributed teams and believes that when groups embrace diversity in all its forms, breakthroughs emerge and innovation accelerates. Before branching out on her own consultancy business, Minette was Vice President of Engineering Practice at Autodesk.

During the conversation, we touch on the challenges of working with diverse teams and the ways that leaders can apply themselves to overcome those obstacles. It is really a very timely discussion with so many leaders struggling to cope with virtual, globally constructed teams.

And of course, we also speak about Minette's two books

1. The Psychological Safety Playbook
2. Boldy Inclusive Leader - which releases this month

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Hello, I'm your host, Wayne Brown, and welcome to the ET Project. We're delighted to be delivering this podcast for executive talent all over the world, whom we're affectionately referring to as team ET. Can you believe it we're still here? 4 weeks in a row, doing the rounds in the USA, and with today's guest, Mr. Steve Farrell sitting in Boulder, Colorado, which I guess just happens to be another beautiful part of the world.

Let me introduce you to Steve. He attained the pinnacle of success as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, founding 2 high-tech firms during the 1990s, and then pivoting to follow his heart, leaving the American dream behind and co-founding Humanity's Team in 2003. Humanity's Team is a global nonprofit helping people everywhere awakened to our interconnectedness through platforms such as their Humanity Stream+ streaming service.

Steve has a new book called A New Universal Dream, which details his journey from a young entrepreneur to a life in service to humanity.

Today, Humanity's Team has approximately 700,000 friends in over 150 countries. Their projects include conscious business declaration training and conscious business change agents. As well they host transformational education programs in business, science, spirituality, creativity, relationships, healing, and conscious living.

Plus, they offer a large range of free developmental packages from luminaries such as Gregg Braden, and Bruce H Lipton, Ph.D. And Lynne McTaggart. With that team ET, let's jump straight into our conversation with a guest, Mr. Steve Farrell, to find out exactly what it's like to work in Silicon Valley, and also to shift focus midstream to fulfill your calling.

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Hello. I'm your host Wayne Brown and welcome to the ET Project. We're delighted to be delivering this podcast for executive talent all over the world whom we're affectionately referring to as Team ET. It seems we've really become super budget conscious lately as this week we're still on the West Coast of the USA, albeit further south near Los Angeles in Burbank, California. And we're here to visit our guest, Ms. Joy Meserve.

Joy is a business and leadership consultant and the former COO of iD Tech. With 22 years of executive experience in scaling operations from start-up to international, with expansions culminating in a $200 million acquisition and delivering service to 50,000 students a year.

Joy found that supporting the growth of her employees was inextricably linked to both the company's award-winning culture, as well as its financial success. Today, she's on a mission to help other executives develop leaders that foster high-performing and joyful workplace cultures where it's a win-win for everybody.

Together, Joy assists her clients create more leaders in workplaces that focus on building, trusting, authentic, collaborative, aligned, and accountable growth cultures where people are intrinsically motivated and achieve success on behalf of the business.

We have a great conversation on a wide range of topics, which includes working with diverse multicultural virtual teams, as well as how to create an inclusive environment. This is the episode that you wanna listen to if you're feeling unsure about how to alter your own leadership style while embracing a forward-thinking culture for your organization.

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Hello. I'm your host Wayne Brown and welcome to the ET Project. We're delighted to be delivering this podcast for executive talent all over the world. Whom we're affectionately referring to as team ET. Today we find ourselves cutting down on our travel costs by engaging with yet another guest in the same location as our previous episode that's in Seattle Washington State USA. This time we're very happy to welcome Mr. Eric Girard to the show.

Eric is a very experienced and accomplished learning and development professional who specializes in management and employee development with over 30 years of helping improve the performance of managers and employees. His current focus is on new managers and helping them transition successfully to their role while making their teams as effective as possible. Eric has a highly engaging facilitation style and through his company Girard Training Solutions has designed, developed and delivered leadership management and employee training for multiple well-known large corporations in high tech, academia, advertising, healthcare, and education.

He has successfully delivered training and improved performance in locations all around the world. London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Paris, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Shanghai, Bangalore, and even Cook Island as well as all over the United States. Eric holds a large number of certifications, qualifications, and achievements, which we will include in our show notes. For now, it's best that we get started.

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Hello, I'm your host, Wayne Brown, and welcome to the ET Project. We're delighted to be delivering this podcast for executive talent all over the world, whom we're affectionately referring to as team ET.

Today we're off to the greater Seattle area in Washington state. For the non-Americans, this is located at the top northwest corner of the USA and it's not Washington DC which is on the East Coast and where you'll find the White House, this is so often a point of confusion for many of us. We're heading to Seattle to visit our guest, Ms. Sharon Rolph.

As a behavioral scientist, and an essence and retirement coach, Sharon is known as the queen of courage. After working 50-plus years in the corporate world, and being a maximizer, she loves to bring out the best in people. She's passionate about helping others find their joy, helping them repurpose their unique talent, experience, knowledge, and values into their defined sparks so that life becomes an effortless, priceless expression of themself.

For most of her life, Sharon felt invisible. And when she retired, wondered how she'd know if she was being productive. Today, at the young age of 75, Sharon is a motivational influencer. Her days now feel right since finding her spark.

This transformation that Sharon experienced is now offered to her clients. Sharon's sparkle, passion, and youthful appearance are easily confirmed. Mental strength and faith have given her a healthy lifestyle. And the concept of potential has intrigued Sharon from a very young age, and she loves to help others find their uniqueness. That's what she sees in people from their behavioral science perspective. She inspires curiosity and possibility in everybody.

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Hello, I'm your host, Wayne Brown, and welcome to the ET Project. We're delighted to be delivering this podcast for executive talent all over the world, whom we're affectionately referring to as team ET.

Today we've been grounded, meaning we are not flying anywhere, we're staying put right here in my little recording studio in Shanghai.

Why? Because we've reached the end of another quarter, in fact, quarter four, and therefore we're also celebrating our first anniversary. Yee-haw, party time. In today's episode, I'll be doing a short recap on all 12 guests that graced us on the show with their presence, insights, and their wisdom.

What you'll notice is just how much territory and diversity we cover geographically as well as across industries and roles.

Our guests during this final quarter were incredible;

1. Milena Regos
2. Liu Liu
3. Bernadette Boas
4. Ronnie Teja
5. Hanna Herbst
6. David Goldman
7. Janine Hamner Holman
8. Elvin Turner
9. Bethany Corbin
10. Terry Tucker
11. Joseph Van Dusen
12. Kara Payton

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