Erin Diehl joins The Frontline this week to discuss how improv and levity are the magic and secret sauce to engagement, team building, and connection.

Erin “Big” Diehl is a Business Improv Edutainer, Failfluencer, and Professional Zoombie. Through a series of unrelated dares, Erin created improve it!, a unique professional development company that pushes others to laugh, learn, play, and grow. Among her many accolades, Erin is most proud of successfully coercing over 26,000 professionals to chicken dance.

Erin Diehl is a graduate from Clemson University, and a former experiential marketing and recruiting professional as well as a veteran improviser from the top improvisational training programs in Chicago, including The Second City, i.O. Theater and The Annoyance Theatre. Erin has spoken on stages nationwide for all types of events and associations including Disrupt HR, SHRM, HRMAC, and ATD. She is a member of The Chicago Innovation Awards Women’s Cohort and graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program.

She is also the proud host of The improve it! Podcast, which you can find anywhere you listen to pods!

Connect with Erin here:

Insta: @keepinitrealdiehl

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/erindiehl

Instagram: @learntoimproveit

Facebook: @learntoimproveit

Website: www.learntoimproveit.com

Connect with Traci and The Frontline podcast here: https://linktr.ee/thefrontlinepod

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Karen Mangia joins The Frontline this week to discuss how agency and ownership are critical to empowering and engaging teams.

Karen Mangia is a WSJ Best Selling Author and one of the most sought after thought leaders in the world, sharing her thought leadership with over 10,000 organizations during the course of her career.   She is the author of four books: Success from Anywhere:  Create Your Own Future of Work From the Inside Out (Wiley),  Working from Home: Making the New Normal Work for You (Wiley), Listen Up! How to Tune in to Customers and Turn Down the Noise (Wiley) and also Success With Less (Marie Street Press). A prolific blogger and sought-after media interview, she has been featured in Forbes and regularly contributes to Thrive Global, Authority Magazine and ZDNet.  Thinkers 360 named her as #9 on their List of Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Health & Wellness, #12 for Mental Health and one of the top 150 B2B Thought Leaders to Follow. 

As Vice President of Customer and Market Insights at Salesforce, she engages current and future customers around the world to discover new ways of creating success and growth together. She leads the company’s Work from Home Taskforce and is shaping the strategy for the workplace of the future globally.  Passionate about diversity and inclusion, she also serves on the company’s Racial Equality and Justice Taskforce. Prior to Salesforce, she spearheaded Customer Experience at Cisco Systems.

Connect with Karen here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenmangia/

Read about The Gift of Choice here: https://www.readsuccessfromanywhere.com/post/the-gift-of-choice

Connect with Traci and The Frontline podcast here: https://linktr.ee/thefrontlinepod

Read more about this episode and Legion Technologies at legion.co

Leighanne Levensaler joins The Frontline podcast for our very first episode to talk all things people and technology and how, when working together, they can drive positive change.

Connect with Leighanne here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leighannelevensaler/

Learn more about Leighanne:

Leighanne Levensaler has spent her 25-year career operating at the intersection of people, career development, and technology. Her passion and personal "why" is working with entrepreneurs to create inclusive solutions designed to help people maximize their potential and economic mobility.

Leighanne Levensaler currently serves on the board of directors for Guild Education and Legion Technologies. She also serves as senior advisor for Opportunity@Work and contributes as an advisory board member for Landit, League, and Jobcase.

Previously, Leighanne was executive vice president of corporate strategy at Workday, where she led the organization responsible for developing integrated business strategies. In addition, Leighanne was managing director and co-head for Workday Ventures where she oversaw Workday investments in emerging enterprise technologies. During Leighanne's tenure at Workday, she led product management for Workday applications including Workday Financial Management and Workday Human Capital Management. Prior to joining Workday in 2009, Leighanne was principal analyst and director of talent management research at Bersin & Associates.

Leighanne holds a master’s degree in human resource development from Georgia State University and a bachelor’s degree in education from Clemson University. Leighanne also serves on the board of Clemson University's Arthur M. Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership and is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.

Connect with Traci and The Frontline podcast here: https://linktr.ee/thefrontlinepod

Read more about this episode and Legion Technologies at legion.co

Hourly employees want and need flexibility and predictability; they desire more connection and belonging with their peers and Companies. And businesses want to maximize productivity while enhancing employee engagement to reduce turnover. Who said we can't have it all? The Frontline podcast is focused on discussing the challenges that come along with having an hourly workforce and shedding light on these important employees who are often overlooked. You'll hear from leaders bringing transformational and innovative change to their organizations and ways you can improve your own experience and the experiences of your employees, no matter where you sit in your organization.

This podcast is brought to you by Legion Technologies and is hosted by Traci Chernoff, Director of Employee Engagement at Legion Technologies. Traci is also the host of the podcast "Bringing the Human back to Human Resources". 

New episodes every Thursday. Learn more at legion.co