In this episode with Kotryna Kurt - Founder and CEO of Linkedist:

✔️ Why should caring leaders build a strong online presence,

✔️ The latest trends and happenings around #care on LinkedIn,

✔️ What to share on social media as a leader (and you should!)

✔️ The importance of reducing transactional relationships,

✔️ How to practice caring leadership in your everyday life, and more!

Kotryna Kurt is the founder of a consulting company called Linkedist, a company that built LinkedIn strategies for companies such Lego, Danfoss, Visma, Nordic Secondary Fund, and many others. She is also an active contributor and a thought leader on LinkedIn, where she talks about entrepreneurship, leadership, sales, and marketing.

In addition, Kotryna has delivered +300 company and public workshops over the last five years and helped various European accelerators educate their startups about marketing and sales. Within the previous years, she has shared her knowledge at the events like TechBBQ, Login, Growth Marketing Conference San Francisco, Startup Wise Guys Accelerators, Sales Formula, and more.

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In this episode, Stoyan Yankov, Co-Founder and Co-Host of The Leaders Who Care, welcomes to the podcast Estelle Morrison - Registered Psychotherapist, M.Ed, CCTP.

Tune in to hear about:

✔️ How to best address feelings of overwhelm, helplessness, and confusion in uncertain times,

✔️ Practical ideas to sustain good mental health,

✔️ Returning to in-person work: how to involve your team in decision-making and why,

✔️ How would the ideal hybrid model work look like,

✔️ Living authentically on and off your social media profiles, and more!

Estelle Morrison is an industry leader who is committed to addressing the mental health crisis in a truly meaningful way. Her career history includes senior leadership of clinical services for several Canadian and Global Employee and Family Assistance Programs (EFAP), with oversight for the creation, development, training and delivery of all mental health programs and staff. In these roles, Estelle provided support for hundreds of executives and employees alike.

Her direction included crisis management for first responders, as well as local and large-scale traumas including 9/11, SARs, and most recently, the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, Estelle has enjoyed a long-standing private psychotherapy practice, providing direct service using creative and intuitive clinical approaches across a wide range of mental health concerns. She has mentored and supervised new and experienced clinicians around the globe.

Estelle is a huge proponent of preventative mental health programming and has included expanding accessibility through digital and virtual means. She enjoys running a variety of workplace training programs, including those for Leaders regarding employee mental health and wellbeing.

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In this episode with Andrey Iliev - Co-Founder & CEO of the Leader Academy:

✔️ How to develop talents into actual strengths,

✔️ Supporting purpose-driven future leaders on their journey,

✔️ The role of inspiring young leaders to fall in love with knowledge,

✔️ Exchanging knowledge instead of giving an unhelpful “adult” attitude,

✔️ Understanding intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and much more!

Andrey Iliev has a diverse educational background - 2 Bachelor's degrees - in Engineering ("Automation and Information Technology" from Technical University - Sofia), and Linguistics ("Bulgarian Philology" from Sofia University). He spent one academic year at the University de Granada, Spain, deepening his knowledge in Slavic languages and literature, and acquired 2 Master's degrees specializing in Cognitive Science & Linguistics ("Cognitive Semiotics" from Aarhus University, Denmark), and Business ("Executive MBA" in American University, Bulgaria). For the eMBA program, he was granted a scholarship for contribution to Social Entrepreneurship with the Leader Academy.

Andrey's professional journey has always been as an entrepreneur. He has had various business ventures. Currently, Andrey is a Co-founder & CEO of Leader Academy (focusing on a purpose-driven career). The emphasis is on helping young people (GenZ) identify their talents & strengths, what they are good at, what their values are, what their mission is, and find a purpose-driven career accordingly - thus helping companies grow and build potent and productive teams.

Andrey is a professional trainer and lecturer. His domains of interest are Social Cognition, Mental Health, Talent Acquisition & Development, Leadership & Social Entrepreneurship.

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In this episode, Marian M.P. Temelkov, Global CEO at Dynamis Group, welcomes to the podcast Dr. Alden Cass - licensed clinical Psychologist and Author of “Bullish Thinking”.

Tune in and discover:

✔️ The power of perception and why it’s our job to control it,

✔️ How to take control of emotions and adopt “bullish thinking”,

✔️ Over-communication as a leadership philosophy,

✔️ How to create a safe space for our employees,

✔️ Practical leadership tips on navigating times of crises, and much more!

Dr. Alden Cass, author of “Bullish Thinking: The Advisor’s Guide to Surviving and Thriving on Wall Street” and “The Bullish Thinking Guide for Managers,” specializes in working directly with senior executives, including high-profile CEOs, traders, financial advisors, planners, athletes, musicians, and bankers, helping them to achieve their corporate, career, and personal goals. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and an expert on the use of psychology in the brokerage industry. Additionally, he is a board member of The National Association of Investment Professionals (NAIP) and FM World Charities.

He conducted a groundbreaking behavioral healthcare study on retail stockbrokers that indicated that 23 percent of the group measured met criteria for major depression. He writes columns for thestreet.com, On Wall Street Magazine, and Traderdaily.com where skills are offered to improve the traders’ and advisor’s performance edge throughout volatile markets. Alden has created the “Bullish Thinking Workshop,” “Subtle Sales” and “Channeled Rage workshops” for use in both the financial and legal realms. His company works directly with brokerage houses and hedge funds to assess, intervene, and eventually meet the bottom lines of each employee in terms of productivity. Workshops are also focused on team building and team effectiveness. His research has been presented at both national and international conferences (A.P.A., ICPP).

Cass has also conducted workshops with the Security Industry Association, The Wall Street Branch Managers Meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, The Silver and Zinc Institutes, and the London Bullion Market Association.

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In this episode, Marian M.P. Temelkov, Global CEO at Dynamis Group, welcomes to the podcast Lydia Hurlbut - CEO of the Filmmakers Academy.

Tune in and discover:

✔️ Implementing well-being practices while working in a demanding industry,

✔️ Why expertise + passion make an exceptional team leader,

✔️ The role of understanding and managing energy,

✔️ How following a schedule isn’t always the way,

✔️ Checking in with other leaders to remind them of self-care, and much more!

Lydia Hurlbut is CEO of the Filmmakers Academy. Founded in 2009, the business delivers outstanding professional education and mentorship to filmmakers worldwide. The business changed its name from Hurlbut Academy in November 2021.

In 2014, Hurlbut created Shane’s Inner Circle, an online membership community committed to boosting member’s film expertise and productivity. With courses on lighting, lensing, composition and theory, the group learned about storytelling with emotion and leadership. The community expanded rapidly. It quickly evolved with Hurlbut’s design for its members’ rapid career growth, while leveraging learning and networking opportunities. It taught new technologies and techniques from the set of feature films, commercials and music videos.

Hurlbut systematically changed the way people view filmmaking education. Her various projects — Hurlbut Visuals Blog (2009), the HV Bootcamp (2010), the Illumination Experience tour (2013) Shane’s Inner Circle (2014), the sold-out Oct. and Nov. workshops of 2016 — morphed into the Hurlbut Academy by 2018.

Hurlbut earned her master’s degree in forensic nursing at the University of Virginia. From there, her career path journeyed through pediatric nursing and forensic science to life coaching and strategic marketing. She is passionate about wellness and techniques for optimizing health.

Hurlbut has been married to her cinematographer husband for 33 years and is mother to Kyra and Myles. With a creative mind and unique skill set, enhanced by strong relationships in the film industry, Hurlbut continues to define the Filmmakers Academy as an innovator and trusted source. Both achievements reflect her passion for improving the lives of next-generation filmmakers.

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In this episode, Marian M.P. Temelkov, Global CEO at Dynamis Group, welcomes to the podcast Yasar Ahmad and Thomas Klein from HelloFresh!

Tune in and discover:

✔️ The leading global trends in recruiting,

✔️ What to focus on when hiring top-talent,

✔️ What people need the most when working through a pandemic,

✔️ How to create better employee engagement,

✔️ Maximizing productivity with Health Metrics instead of KPIs,

✔️ How to lead a hybrid work model team,

✔️ How should recruiters approach self-care and wellness,

✔️ Working for several companies at once: a trend or shift?

✔️ Proven tactics to secure deep work daily, and certainly more!

Yasar Ahmad is the Global Vice President of Talent at HelloFresh. He is an accomplished people leader with experience in various HR roles, with a passion for Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Inclusion and Diversity, learning and development, and employer's branding. Yasar is also a member of the RL100 and a committed speaker on industrial challenges and creating human-shaped experiences, with his team winning the 2019 HRD Award for Diversity & Inclusion and the 2018 Award for Innovative Recruitment and On-boarding.

Thomas Klein is the Global Head of International Talent Acquisition at HelloFresh. The company’s People team works to attract and retain the best talent for HelloFresh by providing the best-in-class employee experience at all stages of the employee lifecycle. Welcoming talented and motivated employees from around the globe, the People team plays an active role in ensuring they have a good start, but stay and grow with the company, with employee satisfaction and well-being at the core of what they do. Managing the workplace in a way that employees are happy, motivated, and productive is as important to the company as having an open ear for their employees.

About the company: HelloFresh is the global meal kit sector leader, operating in 14 markets across 3 continents, and with thousands of employees working to deliver over 21 million meals a month. The meal kits include easy-to-follow full recipes made from fresh, responsibly sourced ingredients and not only take the hassle out of making dinner, but change the way people eat - forever.

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In this episode, Marian M.P. Temelkov, Global CEO at Dynamis Group, welcomes to the podcast Ryan Foland - Speaker, Author, Artist at Ryan Foland Inc.

Tune in and discover:

✔️ What does authentic leadership really mean,

✔️ How to claim and build your personal brand,

✔️ Why living up to “expectations” does not serve you,

✔️ How to improve your communication and public speaking skills, and more!

Ryan Foland is a high-energy speaker, author, and consultant who teaches entrepreneurs and executives how to grow their influence. His 3-1-3® Method uncovers core brand messaging to guide bespoke branding strategies. He specializes in helping leaders harness the power of authenticity by teaching them how to create content that reveals their whole self to drive differentiation, growth, and loyalty.

Ryan believes in the simplicity of messaging and of simply being you. He is recognized for his expertise when it comes to marketing people, which is most commonly known as "personal branding." His clients include New York Times bestselling authors, venture capitalists, and Fortune 500 executives. In his book, Ditch the Act, published by McGraw-Hill, Ryan shares the art of being perfectly imperfect.

Ryan is a four-time TEDx speaker and has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, Inc., Entrepreneur, and more. For fun, Ryan loves to sail, rap, and draw Stick Figure NFT art. Learn more at ryan.online

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In this episode, Marian M.P. Temelkov, Global CEO at Dynamis Group, welcomes to the podcast Lauren Pleydell-Pearce - Executive Creative Director at PwC UK. In this episode:

✔️ Leading teams with an outcomes-focused approach,

✔️ Benefits of a dedicated career coach for each team member,

✔️ Why leaders should ask for performance feedback as well,

✔️ Does care have cultural borders, and much more!

As a design specialist, Lauren has nearly 20 years of experience as a design leader in some of the world’s leading digital and creative agencies, building diverse teams of art directors, product designers, and creatives.

Lauren’s journey has been powered by a strong belief that designers are inherently problem solvers, leading her down many paths, from interactive films for Heineken, to building the joy into the purchase experience for Dyson, to shooting campaigns with Scarlett Johansson, and even designing coffee table books.

She now co-leads Experience Consulting UK and is responsible for the design of new products and services. With PwC rated as a global digital experience leader, she sits in the Leadership team that ensures EMEA success.

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What is Psychological First Aid? How to help yourself, and others, in a moment of psychological crisis? How to build up resilience to stress and establish coping strategies for stress and trauma?

In this episode, Stoyan Yakov, co-founder and co-host of The Leaders Who Care, welcomes to the podcast Don Marentette - Director of First Aid Education programs at Canadian Red Cross.

Tune in and discover:

✔️ What is Psychological First Aid, and where to access it,

✔️ Creating a workplace culture of safety and wellness,

✔️ Why your personal self-care strategy is a necessity,

✔️ What metrics to use to evaluate a caring culture,

✔️ How can we learn to ask for support in a crisis, and much more!

Creating safe environments through strategic collaboration has been Don’s focus for the majority of his career. As a Paramedic and Firefighter in both the civilian and military communities for 17 years, Don Marentette has a vast degree of experience in diverse areas of expertise. Don has been employed as an Educator, facilitated various workshops including Critical Incident Stress Management, CQI programs, Suicide Awareness and multiple Emergency Medical responder programs.

Over the last 10 years, Don has helped shift the Canadian Red Cross from a routine, workplace-compliant training agency into a solution provider and partner in creating safe environments. He has led the creation of a new curriculum employing case-based learning focused on individuals and populations’ mental wellness. Already in the first year of implementation, the new curriculum has been transforming health outcomes across urban and rural communities throughout Canada.

About the Psychological First Aid Courses:

Psychological First Aid (PFA) is about taking care of yourself – your thoughts, feelings and emotions when you have experienced stress, crisis or trauma – and then being there for family, friends and community when they are having difficulty coping.

Learn how to anticipate stress and crisis whenever possible, and equip yourself with the skill set to practice self-care and to provide care for others during particularly challenging times.

Two Psychological First Aid courses are available online to learn at your own pace: Self-Care and Caring for Others. In both courses, learn the impact of stress, trauma, and grief while developing useful tools for handling difficult situations. These online courses are quick, accessible and practical, equipping you with skills you can use in daily life.

Learn more via RedCross.ca

In this episode with Patrick Flesner, Ph.D. - Growth Capital Investor and Partner at LeadX Capital Partners:

✔️ What is FastScaling and how does it differ from Blitzcaling,

✔️ The difference between founders, entrepreneurs and leaders,

✔️ How to build successful boards and leadership teams,

✔️ How to scale sustainably and with care,

✔️ Why customer success is the key, and much more!

Patrick Flesner is a growth capital investor and a partner at the investment firm LeadX Capital Partners.

Each year, he looks at hundreds of tech companies that want to raise capital in order to accelerate growth. He sees patterns in companies that fail and companies that succeed. His respective growth expertise and his knowledge deriving from more than 16 years in Private Equity and Venture Capital have gone into his latest book, FastScaling.

Prior to joining LeadX Capital Partners, where he built one of the largest European portfolios of B2B and B2B2C tech companies active in consumer industries, Patrick Flesner had been a lawyer and partner at reputable German business law firms.

His articles on Venture Capital and M&A have been published by renowned magazines like the MIT Sloan Management Review and the Global Corporate Venturing Magazine.  Patrick Flesner received a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Cologne and holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from INSEAD Business School. He lives with his wife and children in Cologne, Germany.

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