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Today we are visiting the township of Guildford, Southwest of London in the UK to chat with a gentleman who's all about innovation.

Mr. Elvin Turner is an award-winning innovation advisor and associate professor of innovation and entrepreneurship for MBA and executive education programs.

His clients include some of the world's most innovative organizations in the finance, technology, music, drinks, and publishing industries. He's coached hundreds of corporate innovative initiatives around the world, helping leaders and managers overcome the many barriers they face when trying to turn new ideas into action.

Elvin's experience extends from working with new and disruptive technology startups through the seasoned leadership teams inside conservative global institutions.

BTW – Elvin has a new book due for release in Oct. '23 – it's called "The Smartest Question in the Room"

Here is an extract from our conversation as we start to get into it…

"… Depends how fun you want it to be, I guess. Well, most people don't know I've lived in Latin America. I've worked out there up in the Andes for a little while. Sort of halfway through my career, I had a sabbatical. I've lived in a few places around the world, the US, and France as well during my university years. I love to travel. I live just southwest of London in the UK. I got three kids who are all about innovation, and parenting innovation is...

Is my number one job. I think it's trying to figure out... Trying to anticipate what's gonna come next and living with ambiguity. And it's an interesting ride trying to apply [chuckle] some of what I teach in business schools and incorporate it into myself. And eat my own dog food, as they say..."

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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 are heading over to Los Angels on the west coast of the USA AND I'm very happy to say, we also venture across to the east coast to a township called Cambridge in Massachusetts – yes were heading to the home of two legendary learning institutions, none other than Harvard and MIT.

Why, well because that's where our guest Ms. Janine Hamner Holman grew up. Born in New Orleans, she moved at a young age with her parents to Cambridge.

Janine is an internationally recognized speaker, bestselling author, and expert in so many areas related to the field of Leadership.

I first meet Janine earlier in 2023 and knew instantly that this wasn't going to be a one-off engagement. She is so full of life and knowledgeable on topics with whom I share similar interests and our studies overlap considerably.

After studying brain science, and obtaining degrees from Cornell, MHS, and NYU, and more than 30 years as an executive and consultant, Janine's insights on leadership and culture are rooted in deep experience and understanding.

Having spent the last ten years studying the intersection of brain science, emotional intelligence, and communication, Janine has now combined them into an accessible and revolutionary way to enable organizations and people to thrive.

The result is that she has developed a science-backed path to behavior change and is now a recognized expert trained in empowering people, teams, and organizations.

As I mentioned at the beginning of this episode, my greatest challenge is keeping our conversation in some logical structure and limiting us to a reasonable time allocation.

Here's a sampling of some of the topics we could dive into and yet I sense we may just need to circle back around for a second sitting in the future. Janine delivers keynotes about

· what it takes to attract and retain world-class talent,

· also about organizational culture change and development,

· conscious leadership, cognitive biases

· leading in a virtual workplace,

· diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging (DEI&B),

· psychological safety at work,

· emotional intelligence.

· And Neuroscience which of course is foundational across all of these topics

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Today, we're heading back to Santa Fe, New Mexico in the United States to visit one of the early professional coaching pioneers, Mr. David Goldsmith.

David's mission is to grow the quality of coaching and leadership worldwide. That's a big audacious goal.

David's also a senior partner of the Goldsmith Group, he's the founder and executive director of 7 Paths Forward, which is a training organization for coaches, where he partners with Mr. David Peterson.

In the early 1990s, David worked closely with Thomas Leonard on the Coach 100 concept and served as the first president of Coach University. Yes, that's more than 30 years back.

And during that time, he and Thomas founded the International Coach Federation, commonly referred to today as ICF, which is the leading coaching certification body for the global coaching profession.

As well, David was one of the first to attain from the ICF, his master-certified coach and board-certified coach credentials.

He later went on to lead coach-inc.com through its expansion as well as co-founding with Ruth Ann Harnisch the Foundation of Coaching, which later became the Institute of Coaching at Harvard, furthering the profession's commitment to research.

As coaching spread globally, David was invited to Japan to train the country's first coaches, and he worked closely with the Japanese groups, Coach 21 and COACH A to establish coaching in this part of Asia. His client list reads like a who's who of the business world, and today his focus is primarily on working with executives, professionals, and entrepreneurs.

Often known as the coach's coach. He's also worked with many of the leaders in the industry.

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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 are heading over to Zurich, Switzerland, and connecting with our guest Ms. Hanna Herbst.

As Ms. Herbst says her superpower is making things happen with lots of compassion, energy, and a smile :) and as you listen to our conversation today, and get to know and understand Hanna, you'll most likely form a similar opinion.

She wears different hats in her professional life: certified leadership & career coach, management consultant, and podcast host of the show called "Reaching your Goals", and not forgetting Hanna is also a mother to a delightful 15-month-old.

With more than 16 years of experience, Hanna's background is in business (management consulting, corporate finance, entrepreneurship, and coaching. She worked in Switzerland and the US for companies such as Procter & Gamble, Siemens, and Horvath before starting her own business.

Having received her MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, Hanna started a company called "Delygate" and you'll hear us dig a little deeper into that naming during the conversation.

Through the business, Hanna offers management consulting and life coaching for companies and individuals.

Hanna also lecturers on

• Why corporate values matter more than you may think

She's convinced that a return to values and human capital not only has an impact on interpersonal relationships but is also financially rewarding and forms the foundation for long-term corporate success.

Additionally, Hanna asks the question

• Women in management – where are you?

As she says, everybody talks about diversity and more and more studies confirm that diversity in companies is financially beneficial: "brings more innovation," "more sales," and "higher profitability," so if it is so beneficial then, why are there still so few female leaders, especially in the middle management and upwards?

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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 are visiting Bangkok, Thailand, and doing a little country hopping between India, Canada, and Australia to chat with our very international guest Mr. Ronnie Teja.

Today Ronnie is considered a serial entrepreneur and digital marketing expert with over 15 years of experience in e-commerce. He completed his bachelor's in Marketing and Micro-Finance from Xavier's College, Mumbai before moving to London to pursue his Masters in Welfare Economics at the prestigious London School of Economics.

Ronnie's entrepreneurial journey started way back in 2008 when he first dipped his toes into the world of e-commerce. He quickly realized the potential of this growing industry and decided to start his own online business.

Through his experiences, Ronnie has learned what it takes to build a successful business and succeed long-term — and he is currently the owner of various e-commerce websites and the boss of over 75+ employees around the world.

As we speak in addition to the online watches he owns and operates a number of other successful e-commerce businesses, selling a variety of products from accessories to men's jewelry to Software as a Service.

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Today, we're visiting Atlanta, Georgia to chat with our guest, Ms. Bernadette Boas, and if we're lucky, we may be joined by her four-legged best friend, Coco. Bernadette Boas is a renowned ball of fire in everything she does, from her corporate executive coaching, training, and speaking, to playing pickleball and loving on tons of dogs that she cares for in her spare time. With Ball Of Fire coaching, Bernadette brings her 25 years of corporate executive savviness with her entrepreneurial spirit to transform corporate executives, teams, and businesses around the globe into the powerhouse leaders they're meant to be. With what she's called her pink slip to freedom, Bernadette authored her first in a series of books, Shedding the Corporate Bitch: Shifting from Bitch to Rich in Life and Business.

During our conversation today, you'll hear Bernadette and I chatting about a central theme of who not to become as you ascend that corporate ladder. She's coined a couple of great expressions that we explore in our conversation, such as, "making money is 80% mindset and 20% skill." And, "shedding your bitches of fear, so you create riches in your work and life." And you'll hear that Bernadette defines the word, "bitch," to refer not so much to the outer persona that's displayed to the world but to the things happening within that person that is triggering this outer behavior. Bernadette is the founder and CEO of two aspiring Atlanta, Georgia-based companies; The Boas Group, which is a business management and consulting practice, and Ball of Fire Inc., a media, communications, and publishing firm, and home to the mega-brand, Shedding the Bitch, which is focused on the health, wealth and prosperity of individuals and organizations.

Prior to starting her companies in 2008, Bernadette spent over 25 years driving change and delivering significant revenue and profitability improvements to clients such as Walmart, Target Corporation, Office Depot, Sears, American Retail Group, and many others, in both consulting and management leadership positions. She's an active board of advisors member for Bring On The Music organization and an active member of CEO Space International and Atlanta Women in Business.

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Hello and welcome to Episode 42. I'm Wayne Brown and we are delighted that you could join us on The ET Project. This podcast is for Executive Talent all over the world who we're affectionately referred to as Team ET.

Today we're visiting Mr. Liu Liu, a colleague based in the small township of Horsham, some 30 kilometers southwest of London.

Liu is an ICF-certified cross-cultural intelligence coach, project manager, mentor, trainer, and facilitator. His cross-cultural management journey started when he was working as a foreign affairs secretary in a University Language Center in southwest China.

This is a highly important topic that all leaders are increasingly facing, through the application of virtual teams, located globally. With more diverse teams established inside one operation and with more people opting for freelance work that knows no boundaries.

Being able to understand your colleague that lives on the other side of the planet, speaks a different native language, and lives in a culture 180 degrees the opposite to your own.

Join us today ET as we chat, about cross-cultural communication, under the episode title, A Leader's Need for Becoming Culturally Sensitive and Aware.

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Hello and welcome to the first episode of the quarter, the first week of April 2023 in episode 41 of the ET Project podcast. I'm Wayne Brown, and 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 visiting Baja Mexico, the home of Milena Regos, a rebel entrepreneur, visionary, and founder of Unhustle.

Milena is on a mission to disrupt the status quo and revolutionize the way we live and work to design sustainable live workplace success without stress and burnout. Milena's thought leadership on the future of entrepreneurship, well-being, mental health, digital well-being, and the future of work awarded her a seat at the World Economic Forum agenda at Davos, and also the People's Choice Award at the Wisdom 2.0 conference, where she shared the stage with business luminaries and world leaders to activate change on a global scale.

You'll hear us chatting about a number of topics in this regard, including her decision to create the world Unhustle Day, which occurs each December. An award-winning digital marketer, Milena has worked with some of the most powerful brands in the wellness industry, such as The Hard Candy Fitness, founded by Madonna and Dr. Veil. In 2014, she left her seven-figure marketing career to start Unhustle after realizing that the way we are working just isn't working.

Through Unhustle, she's inspiring organizations to replace the hustle culture with human culture for increased well-being, autonomy, and flow. Unhustle has been called 'amazing' by Ariana Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global, and 'legendary' by Christopher Lochhead, number one Apple Business Podcast. Unhustle has been featured on CNN Business, NPR, Thrive Global, and multiple podcasts like Deloitte's WorkWell.

Milena has an MBA from Alliant University and is a certified Human Potential coach, which is recognized by the ICF. She's also trained in mindfulness-based stress reduction, chasing curiosity, passion and flow, Milena lives on the beach in Baja with her 10,000% supporting husband and Brindle Baja rescue dog, Taz, chasing more flow, kite surfing, mountain biking, and skiing.

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Welcome to The ET Project, a podcast for those executive talents determined to release their true potential and create an impact. Join our veteran coach and mentor, Wayne Brown, as we unpack an exciting future together. This is episode 40 and we're at the end of the first quarter of 2023.

As you can see, today is all about rounding up or summarizing, if you like, recapping the 12 guests that we've had on the show so far during quarter one of 2023. So, welcome to this final episode of the quarter. And as you can tell, episode 40, means we're edging closer to that infamous one-year mark when we hit that number 50 or number 52 guest. We'll be celebrating hard.

Wayne Brown is the founder of the Hong Kong-registered company Skills 4 Executives Limited and recently retired from the role of Asia Pacific Director for Learning with a multi-national organization. His company operates 4 divisions, one of which is Coaching 4 Companies.

He considers himself Australian-made and has been based out of Shanghai, China for the past 18 years. Having lived and worked in six countries, associating with multiple cultures across more than 85 cities in the US, Europe, India, the Middle East, and Asia, Wayne is passionate about working with individuals and teams helping them develop and realize their true potential.

Wayne is a published author of two books – SOLO executives: 5 Transformational Strategies for Leaders and Transforming Your Life Volume VI.

Wayne's Areas of Expertise

· Executive, Career, Leadership, and Team Coaching

· Elite Executive Talent Development

· Leadership and Change Management

· Business Operations – Sales, Project Management & Technical Services

· 360-degree assessment consultation

· Executive Communications and Facilitation

· Organisational Learning and Transformation

So thank you for joining us on the ET Project, a show for executive talent development. Check out our site for free videos, eBooks, webinars, and blogs at www.coaching4companies.com/learn-4-free.

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Our guest today is Mr. Sanjib Nandi. Sanjib hails originally from India and lived in London for a period before settling in Berlin, Wisconsin, in the States.

His journey so far means that he's able to bring a unique perspective to the table, a blend of both eastern and western cultures and medicines. Sanjib combines his knowledge of psychology, physiology, pharmacology, and the mind-body connection to produce a vibrant and practical approach to healing and human vitality.

During our conversation today, we turn our focus to wellness as an approach to leadership.

We'll be discussing connections between the brain and the body and how meditation impacts. We'll also touch on other important well-being factors to perform in parallel to meditation and how these can be combined to benefit leaders.

Sanjib's created an app called Luvo, L-U-V-O. This is an interesting development that brings a unique design to help people improve every area of their lives by adopting healthier habits. Luvo has an integrative approach to meditation and connects it with other powerful habits like water intake, exercise, cold showers, sleep hygiene, mindset, and energy flow.

LUVO leverages the growing research about electric and magnetic fields in the body that suggest changes in vibrational frequencies may affect us in ways that potentially benefit our health. In addition to being a father, working as a pharmacist, and developing apps, Sanjib is also an author and music composer.

He wrote a book in 2021 called The Man with Zero Talent and the lyrics for an album called Rise From the Ashes. Both of these speak to his philosophy and zest for life. Sanjib's passion is to share his journey and help others live healthy, fulfilling life. So with that, let's get started with this conversation titled, Bridging East and West for the Wellness of Leaders.

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