The Fast Leader Show | Strategy Execution & Systems Design

Shep Hyken took over as President of the National Speakers Association, a volunteer position, and he had no clue what he was in store. After months of consideration, the association leadership team decided to change the name of the association. After the announcement of the name change at the annual member meeting, within 48 hours Shep received 800 emails and 750 of them threatened to quit the association. Shep was now faced with the biggest crisis he had ever faced. That’s when Shep turned to his 5-step process. Listen and learn Shep’s process and what happened to see how it can help you get over the hump.

Jeff Furst was elected as the Alumni Chair, as a sophomore, of a historical fraternity chapter at Northwestern University called Phi Kappa Psi. Instead of doing the typical homecoming duties and the once a year meeting Jeff decided take on the needs of a deteriorating chapter house. Over the next two years Jeff spearheaded the fund raising of over 1 million dollars to help restore the chapter house. Listen to Jeff tell his story of how he overcame low confidence, low engagement and high doubt and flipped things over.

Carrie Weston was given a job offer to leave her current employer. When she looked around, the company had experienced a downturn in sales and a lot of internal movement and uncertainty. A pivotal moment in her career led to a lot of self-reflection. While the time may have been right for others, Carrie decided making a move was not right for her. With an offer in hand, she did something that many others would never do. Listen to Carrie’s story and how she got over the hump.

When Carol Sharicz was a new professor and tasked with inviting a guest speaker for an annual conference at her college she came up with an idea to invite a high-profile local celebrity. Once she shared her idea the senior leadership she was met with negativity as to the unlikelihood of this celebrity accepting the invitation. Not permitting this negativity to stop her Carol moved forward, obtained acceptance and got over the hump.

Lance Miller had a life plan set in front of him. As the third generation in a family business Lance was all set. But then he found himself looking in the mirror one morning thinking he was emotionally and spiritually dead. Listen to Lance tell his story. #leadership #podcast

Parrish Arturi was not always calm, cool, and collected. Once while leading a project team for a new product the funding for it was removed. Parrish was very passionate about the work his team was doing and took the news of the project cut personally. Parrish lost his cool and then learned a valuable lesson. Listen to Parrish as he tell his story and what he learned on how to get over the hump. 

Dave Rendall was in college and was asked by his resident director if he was going to sign up to be a resident assistant. Thinking he was the reason resident assistants existed Dave failed to see that he was a good candidate. His resident director then became the first person to tell Dave that what he sees as weaknesses are actually his strengths. This was a major breakthrough for Dave that started him on the path to seeing goodness where everyone else had only seen badness which set a new course for his life. Listen to Dave’s story about how you can amplify yourself and get over the hump.

When Dr. Cliff Hurst was a Consultant and Executive Coach he often was met with a degree of defensiveness and people would put up a mask and a shield to avoid getting real. Cliff found himself spending a lot of time and effort trying to break through their defenses until he changed his methods. Once that happened he was able to have more genuine conversations than he was ever able to have before. And this is when Cliff started a new journey. Listen to Cliff’s story and learn how you might find a new way to get over the hump.

Tema Frank needed to make some technology changes with her company. The change required that her systems be out of service for a few days. In an effort to notify her customers via email, a technology glitch caused many people to receive a flood of emails about the system change issue. By the time Tema found out, over 650 people were negatively impacted. In the heat of her frustration and fear that her company was ruined, Tema’s 5-year old daughter gave her some advice that saved her company. Listen to Tema tell her story about how she got over this huge hump.

Joan Pepper spent almost a year completing all of the necessary paperwork for adopting a girl from the country of China. She completed all of the requirements and mailed all of the documents, but they got lost. Then Joan constructed a daring FBI MOST WANTED type of plan.