The Game Changer

This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews SHARK TANK star and self-made billionaire Barbara Corcoran. The original live interview was 4/13/12.

After failing at twenty-two jobs, Barbara Corcoran borrowed $1,000 from a boyfriend, quit her job as a diner waitress, and started a tiny real estate office in New York City. Using the unconventional lessons she learned from her homemaker mom, she gradually built it into a $6 billion business. Now Barbara’s even more famous for the no-nonsense wisdom she offers to entrepreneurs on Shark Tank, ABC’s hit reality TV show.

Shark Tales is down-to-earth, frank, and as heartwarming as it is smart. After reading it don’t be surprised if you find yourself thinking, “If she can do it, so can I”! Nothing would make Barbara happier.

Barbara’s website is http://barbaracorcoran.com/

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews process improvement expert Holly Green. The original live interview was 3/23/12.

Clinging to what has worked in the past puts the brakes on innovation. It also puts you out of touch with your customers’ changing needs — a dangerous circumstance in today’s highly volatile markets. If you’re trying to innovate but not having success, join us as strategist Holly Green tells us how to unlearn YOUR way to success by unlocking old ideas, attitudes, and assumptions.

Holly's book, More Than a Minute, provides a refreshing look at the original "secrets" of effective managers explored in The One Minute Manager more than 25 years ago. It offers up-to-date methods and practices to prompt the thinking required to address today's challenges.

Holly is the CEO and Managing Director of THE HUMAN FACTOR, Inc. Ms. Green has more than 20 years of executive level and operations experience in FORTUNE 100, entrepreneurial, and management consulting organizations. She was previously President of The Ken Blanchard Companies, a global consulting and training organization as well as LumMed, Inc. a biotech start up.

Holly’s websites are http://thehumanfactor.biz/

http://www.morethanaminute.com/morethanablog

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews marketing guru Maribeth Kuzmeski. The original live interview was 3/09/12.

While social media is doing much to change the marketing landscape, it doesn't mean you have to take an either/or approach between it and more traditional methods. ....And the Clients Went Wild! gives you the tools to take an eclectic approach to your marketing, and pick the best, most wildly successful marketing methods — traditional, online, or both — to win at achieving your marketing goals.

And the Clients Went Wild! is an essential marketing toolbox for fostering the fans whose word-of-mouth will drive your growth to exponential levels. Focusing on the practical—what's worked for a wide range of businesses—and employing an eclectic mix of methods, platforms, and technologies, this go-to guide shows you five key principles for cultivating passionate and vocal clients. Access a complete playbook of techniques and approaches for connecting with clients as well as a template to build your own successful strategy.

Maribeth Kuzmeski and her firm, Red Zone Marketing consult and speak for businesses from financial services firms to Fortune 500 corporations on strategic marketing planning and business growth. Maribeth has personally consulted with some of the world’s most successful CEO’s, entrepreneurs and professionals. An internationally recognized speaker, she shares the tactics that businesspeople use today to create more sustainable business relationships and sales and marketing successes.

Maribeth's Website is: http://www.redzonemarketing.com/

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Cecilia Dahl interviews Renie Cavallari. The original live interview was 2/02/12.

Renie Cavallari is an energetic trainer, strategist, speaker, author and leader who has delivered measurable results for businesses around the world over the past 20 years. She is best known for collaborating with teams to inspire success and unleash the uncharted possibilities of people and the businesses they impact. Renie’s distinct and captivating speaking style has educated and entertained people from all walks of life.

Renie founded Aspire Marketing in 1995 and since then has worked with thousands of clients around the world. As a powerhouse business leader, Renie helps individual assets to global brands achieve breakthrough results by utilizing her time-tested sales approaches, training/learning techniques, strategic marketing processes, team building and revenue optimization solutions.

Renie spent her career working with outstanding coaches and achieved dynamic results in a wide range of capacities including operations, sales and marketing, new business development, product repositioning, management training/learning and asset management and growth strategies.

Renie's website is http://aspiremarketing.com/

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Cecilia Dahl interviews Dr. Jan Yager. The original live interview was 3/08/12.

A practical guide to developing productive business relationships to hasten your success, whether you work for a major corporation, a small business, or are a self-employed entrepreneur or freelancer. The book's subtitle is: 57 Strategies for Building Stronger Business Connections. A follow-up to Yager's previous book on work relationships, Who's That Sitting At My Desk? Yager covers everything from dealing with workplace bullies -- coworkers as well as bosses -- as well as negative and positive types you may encounter at work and how to cope with each one, workplace violence, and using social media effectively for more productive relationships. Sociologist and business coach Yager did extensive original interviews and observations throughout the United States and internationally for this useful book.

Jan Yager, Ph.D., whose bosses, over the years, have included legendary publisher Barney Rosset, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer, academic chairs, and many executives, is the award-winning author of numerous business and relationship books, translated into 30 languages. A workshop leader and speaker, find out more about the author by visiting her website: www.drjanyager.com

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews American leadership icon, Frances Hesselbein. The original live interview was 3/2/12.

Tracing her development as a leader, Frances Hesselbein reveals her remarkable personal story and the principles that have served and guided her well throughout her extraordinary life. Written in an intimate and compelling voice, this book delivers key leadership lessons applicable to leaders in every walk of life.   

    My Life in Leadership offers a look at what shaped Frances Hesselbein personally and as a leader, from her youth in the hills western Pennsylvania to her professional journey with the Girl Scouts of the USA where she went from troop leader to transformational CEO, to how Peter Drucker handpicked her to found and lead the Drucker Foundation, and how she later transitioned the Foundation to the Leader to Leader Institute. With excitement and humility, she relives the key moments that have shaped her life of leadership including the day she received the country’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Frances Hesselbein is editor-in-chief of Leader to Leader, founding president of the Drucker Foundation, is currently the president and CEO of the Leader to Leader Institute, and former chief executive of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.

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Frances’ website is http://www.hesselbeininstitute.org/about/fhbio.html

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald is interviewing negotiation expert Deborah Kolb. The original live interview was 2/24/12.

Dr. Kolb's book,  Her Place at the Table: A Woman's Guide to Negotiating the Five Challenges of Leadership Success is a practical guide for any woman dealing with a demanding role. Drawing on extensive interviews with women leaders, the authors isolate five key challenges: Intelligence; Backing; Resources; Buy-In; and Making a Difference. For each challenge, we offer tips on avoiding common traps. But knowing what tests to expect and the traps to avoid is not enough. You have to be equipped with the strategic moves that position you for success. The bottom line is that only you can negotiate the conditions for success - no one else will do it for you!

Dr. Kolb is an authority on gender issues in negotiation and leadership, especially how women can negotiate the conditions for their own success while contributing to the effectiveness of their organization. Dr. Kolb is Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Professor for Women and Leadership (Emerita) and Distinguished Research Fellow at the Center for Gender in Organizations at the Simmons School of Management. From 1991-1994, Kolb was Executive Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.

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Deborah's websites are http://www.simmons.edu/som/programs/undergraduate/faculty/kolb.php

http://www.negotiatingwomen.com/about/about-debbie-kolb-phd/

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald is interviewing sustainable success expert Kristin S. Kaufman. The original live interview was 2/17/12.

Is This Seat Taken? offers important lessons that force the typical executive, and indeed all of us, to ponder what it means to truly be present in the now, what we can learn from these incidental encounters, and how these random encounters can become a compass, pointing us on our own road to alignment, fulfillment, and success.

Kristin Kaufman is founder of Alignment, Inc.™, formed in 2007 to help individuals, corporations, boards of directors and non-profits find alignment within themselves and their organizations. Alignment, Inc. is a unique services organization that works with companies and individuals to create sustainable success individually and collectively.

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Kristin's website is http://www.alignmentinc.com/

and http://www.kristinkaufman.com/

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald is interviewing entrepreneur & philanthropist Gina Lemos. The original live interview was 2/10/12.

Gina Lemos has been on a 10+ year journey that led her to find the keys to true success, which can’t be measured by the number of dollars in a bank account. It has been a journey of discovery, one of humility, acknowledgement, acceptance and forgiveness.

Her blog http://www.getreelblog.com/ is the culmination of her experiences along the way, and it her fervent wish that every reader of her blog will be able to use the tools, resources and information on this site to succeed, achieve, grow, and most importantly, to give and pay it forward 10 fold!

Gina’s website is http://www.getreelblog.com/

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald is interviewing leadership expert Jeanne Bliss. The original live interview was 2/3/12. To order the book click HERE.

Corporate Culture is the competitive advantage of beloved and prosperous companies. They have clarity for what they are accountable for regarding customer treatment, experiences and management.  Most importantly, they thrive in an environment, which allows those things to occur.

This golden rule behavior is embraced by the winning companies and organizations Jeanne Bliss covers in her book I Love You More Than My Dog, Five Decisions That Drive Extreme Customer Loyalty in Good Times and Bad.

Jeanne has been at the apex of remarkable customer creations and has driven achievements inside large corporate machines. Jeanne’s vim and vigor and passion for customers are the result of the collision of her Italian heritage and the serendipitous circumstances, which brought her to the Wisconsin farmlands in 1983.

Jeanne’s website is http://www.customerbliss.com

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