The Fast Leader Show | Strategy Execution & Systems Design

Chris Griffiths sold his company at the age of 26 and thought that he had the knowledge to turn anything into gold. After losing his home and several cars he learned that it’s not knowledge that creates success, but instead it’s the ability to improve your creative thinking skills.

Tamra Chandler had just bought into a partnership and lost all of her equity when the firm experienced a forced closure. Tamra responded by building a successful organization elsewhere and has continued positively impact the lives of colleagues and clients. She’s now on a mission to reboot feedback.

Jeff Grimshaw, author of Five Frequencies, was treating his life like a dress rehearsal for the real thing. He finally realized this and it became the catalyst for him to put things into perspective, make some tough decisions, and do something different.

Lonnie Wilson was working with a client on a culture transformation and was staring failure right in the face. Then he received a piece of advice from his Pastor that enabled him to step back and work on guiding the transformation at a much smaller scale to move forward faster.

Steve Coughran came into a 50-year old organization with a lot of systems and legacy things in place. Needing to innovate, Steve began to break things down into small pieces, executing on them and gaining team confidence and repeating the process.        

Andrew Tarvin tries to look at any situation differently. From being the teacher’s pet to becoming the corporate humorist at Proctor & Gamble, Drew has worked to continually hone his skill of bringing humor to work and helping others to make the workplace more engaging, one smile at a time.

Leslie Peters was testing herself to be perfect and realized she needed to be on her own quest. She reminded herself not to set expectations that keep her from doing things but instead have a sense of possibility.

Steve Pacinelli was in a rut for the first several years in his career. Then he began to work with a leader that showed him that is was possible to get “the numbers” and do it in a more compassionate, kind and friendly way. His career really started to skyrocket when he learned to care more about people and less about the numbers.

Chris Duffey started as a content creator and creator of digital customer experiences and he witnessed first-hand the power of the intersection of human creativity amplified by artificial intelligence. But nothing prepared him for the moment when the publisher asked for the next chapter and all he had was a blank page.

Claudette Rowley was in a toxic workplace that caused her to undergo a lot of soul searching and a career change. She was so impacted by her experience that she now coaches organizations to create their own cultural brilliance.