The Me-Suite

Donna Peters interviews Chair and CEO of DNA Behavior International, Hugh Massie.  Hugh is an author and most recently published, Leadership Behavior DNA. Discovering Natural Talents and Managing Differences.

HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE

--Hugh's Core Values: Reliability, Openness/Mutuality, Courage
--Hugh shares how our own leadership behavior DNA brings unique strengths and struggles that we must manage both professionally and personally.  He also discusses how understanding the leadership behavior DNA of ourselves and others helps us discover our own natural talents and manage differences--at work and in our personal lives.

Hugh's experience is anchored in more than 25 years of research and working with Ph.D.s to develop world-class behavioral assessments that measure the natural talents that are unique to each person. These are the talents (strengths and struggles) that each person brings into the leadership role. Understanding them is the basis for the self-awareness needed to reach our full potential.

Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
A Listener Shares Her Me-Suite Morsels
A Chief Strategy Officer Maps It Out For Us
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power

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We've heard there's no "i" in team, but, let's be real.  Teams don't get the promotion.  This bonus episode takes lessons from the amazing Alaskan Iditarod race on how to lead in a pack of alpha dogs.  How do you lead when everyone around you is a high-performing achiever?  How does everyone play to their strengths?  How do we collaborate and be a good team player?    AND...how do we demonstrate our individual contribution and merit and stand out to get the bonus or the promotion that is available to only a few? 

Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Inclusion and Diversity
Your Personal Brand
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power

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*Note the F-word is used once in this episode at minute 20:40.

Donna Peters interviews her mentor and career C-Suite leader, Walt Shill.  Walt has held multiple C-Suite positions (CEO, COO, CSO, CCO) and served as a McKinsey partner across industries and geographies.  He leads and coaches through the power of storytelling.

HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE

--Walt's Core Values: Curiosity, Making a Difference, Family
--Walt shares the process he went through to identify his own core values (and has tips for us to think about)
--Walt uses storytelling to drive home Me-Suite mindset messages around the power of strategic planning, the value of being truly present, and the importance of trust.  

Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
You Are Your Brand
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
Options Are Power

In this Bonus episode of The Me-Suite, we talk about the reality that the family is a team, our most important team. And we learn from Google's research on what makes an effective team: listening and empathy.

Donna Peters interviews Me-Suite subscriber and Me-Suite mindset role model, Felisha Liu Faulkner, for tips on living with a Me-Suite mindset.  Felisha is a Corporate Strategy and Business Development leader and start-up co-Founder in the healthcare industry.  She has an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Chicago's Booth School and an undergrad from U Penn's Wharton School.  She has also taken time off along her career path to support not-for-profit causes internationally.

HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE

--Felisha's Core Values: Responsibility (as first-generation in the US) and Adventure
--Felisha has inspirational and practical tips for living her core values with discipline.  She makes it sound easy yet recognizes it takes work and focus.  She shares tips we can start doing on Monday to lead our own lives with more purpose, planning and power.

Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
You Are Your Brand
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
Options Are Power

Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded.  Subscribe to the podcast.  Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.

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Donna Peters interviews Tina Gilbert, Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer, on what it means to have an I&D mindset in the way we run our own lives, every day. 

HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE

--Tina's Core Values: empathy, authenticity, purpose-driven
--I&D is bigger than work.  It's fundamental to the way we live in the world.  Tina offers inspirational and practical advice for living our lives with more inclusion (the soil) and diversity (the seeds)

Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
You Are Your Brand
The Culture At Home
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
Options Are Power

Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded.  Subscribe to the podcast.  Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.

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In The Me-Suite, we build options through the decision we make in 4 areas: People, Skills, Health and Finances.  This episode focuses on Health, specifically nutrition.

Donna Peters interviews Jon Dobzelecki, founder of Performing Nutrition, clinical nutrition and nutrition coaching.  Jon is the real thing and knows first-hand the struggles of managing your nutrition while meeting high-pressure demands like family, entertaining clients and traveling extensively.  Jon in inspirational and practical.

Jon challenges us to find "your why," and take the first step, or a renewed step, to change your life. 

HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE
--2:30 Jon's Core Values: Consistency, Purpose, Responsibility
3:25 Being the CEO of Your Own Life
4:00 Run Your Day According to Habits
11:30 Getting Real About Social Pressures
13:10 Be In Control Of Your Own Life
19:15 Take Time for Yourself

Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
You Are Your Brand
The Culture At Home
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
Options Are Power

Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded.  Subscribe to the podcast.  Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.

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This episode focuses on being the brand ambassador for your personal brand--just like a Chief Marketing Officer or Chief Communications Officer would do.

Donna Peters interviews Precious Price, former Management Consultant and 2023 TEDx speaker. She has pivoted her brain, talents, and passions toward the cause of affordable housing.

HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE
--Precious' Core Values: integrity, self-fulness, evolution
--Tips for how to answer "what is my brand?"
--provocative advice on identifying your brand value

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Donna Peters interviews Dipak Patel, Chief Growth Officer,  former Strategy consulting partner and Venture Capital Operating Partner.  And crazy Pearl Jam fan.

HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE

--2:05 Dipak shares a helpful take on how to define your own core values, using lessons from the Samurai way of life, concept of Bushido, reflecting on your actions, not your aspirations

--10:15 Chief Growth Officer mindset includes managing noise, simplicity, pulse on what's changing, partnerships, protecting your time, staying calm

--Growth is required in 5 areas: learning, spiritual, physical, emotional and social

--a final challenge to us all to exercise our minds, protect our time, and take up the ukulele

Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
You Are Your Brand
The Culture At Home
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
Options Are Power

Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded.  Subscribe to the podcast.  Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.

www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
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Donna Peters interviews Dr. Claudy Jules on the topic of culture.  Recognizing that our families are the first Culture any of us ever knows, Dr. Jules challenges us to define Culture and to shape the Culture we want to live in as the CEO of our own life.

Dr. Claudy Jules is a leading expert in organization, leadership and change. He  currently heads Google’s Center of Expertise on Organizational Health and Change.  He also serves as an advisor to CapitalG (Alphabet's growth equity investment fund) and the firm's portfolio companies on leadership, talent, organizational design, culture and change. 

Dr. Jules sits on the board of Leading Educators, a nonprofit disrupting the multibillion-a-year teacher professional development industry. He is also a sought-out speaker with a significant body of published thought leadership. He is a Forbes contributor, speaks and presents at professional and academic conferences and lectures at leading universities, including Columbia University’s graduate program in social and organizational psychology. He is well known for his research on digital and global leadership, operating models, and top team effectiveness with published articles in the MIT Sloan Management Review, The European Business Review, Leader to Leader, Strategy & Leadership, the Ivey Business Journal and Organizational Dynamics. 

Dr. Jules earned his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University. He also holds a Master’s degree from the joint program in Organization Development at The American University and NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science and completed post-graduate studies at The Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and Gestalt Organization & Systems Development Center, focusing on the application of Gestalt Therapy to organizational consulting and change. 

Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
You Are Your Brand
When People Hear Your Name, How Do They Feel?
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
Options Are Power

Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded.  Subscribe to the podcast.  Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.

www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite