The Me-Suite

Donna Peters interviews Phil Bienert, a career Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), about the brand promise lessons we can apply to our own personal brand and how we want to show up in the world.

Phil has been a CMO and steward of the brand promise across industries including, Volvo, Citi, AT&T, GoDaddy and 1800Contacts.  He has an undergraduate degree from Georgetown, an MBA from UT-Austin and extensive international experience including fluency in Mandarin.

This is a thoughtful discussion about the personal brand promise and the value of bringing your family into that promise.

Phil’s Core Values: exploration/open-mindedness, know what’s important, be 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

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Donna Peters interviews Dr. Meg Powell, Chair and CEO.

Dr. Powell has over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry including assignments at McKinsey, Eli Lilly and GlaxoSmithKline. Currently she is serving as Board Chair and is the Co-Founder of TARGET PharmaSolutions.  Dr. Powell received her Doctorate of Pharmacy degree from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill where she was a Hollingsworth Scholar.  She also received a Master’s of Business Administration from Stanford University.

HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE
Meg shares aspirational yet practical advice on:

1) How to define Core Values for yourself and your family and live them daily
2) The "3 Pages" approach to family strategic planning: annual use the  "3 Pages" to define your personal, professional and financial goals for the next 1/3/5 years.  This helps you and your family identify priorities and align on where tradeoffs may be required
3) real-world, humble advice on the importance of finding the right mentors

Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
Options Are Power
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
The Culture at Home

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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This episode is focused on Chief Communications Officer (CCO) learnings.

Donna Peters interviews Ed Patterson, a career Chief Communications Officer and expert in Public Relations and Public Affairs. 

Your ability to define and manage your own personal brand is more important than ever in the age of social media.  Learn tips for thinking like the Chief Communications Officer of yourself and your own brand so that you show up in the world in a planful, thoughtful way that is aligned to your own core values.  And learn what to do when you mess up.

HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE:

1:40 The Chief Communications Officer role--what is it, how has it changed, and why is it more important than ever in the age of social media?
10:50 Ed's Core Values: Accountability, Empathy, Equality
13:07 Tips for thinking like the Chief Communications Officer of yourself and your own brand

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
Options Are Power
When People Hear Your Name, How Do They Feel?
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
The Culture at Home

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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Having a Chief Learning Officer (CLO) mindset is critical to staying fresh and relevant for the future you desire to have.  Donna Peters interviews Brian Mitchell, a true renaissance man.  He is the Chief Learning Officer for next-generation C-Suite leaders and truly the CLO in his own Me-Suite.  Brian is head of the Emory Goizueta Business School full-time MBA program.  Graduate of Morehouse, Emory and Harvard.  CEO. Entrepreneur.

HIGHLIGHT OF THE EPISODE:
- 3:07 Brian's Core Values: education, pragmatism, patience, visionary, globalism
- 11:04 How to have a Chief Learning Officer mindset to stay fresh and relevant for the future you want to have.  Continuous learning not only increases intelligence, it builds confidence and trust
- 23:30 What you can start doing Monday to build a CLO mindset
- 32:47: Brian challenges the listeners to bring a global, world-view mindset to all we do

James E. Ryan, author of Wait, What? And Life's Other Essential Questions is referenced in the discussion.

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?
Options Are Power
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
The Culture at Home

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 Ana Dutra.  Ana is a career CEO and Board Director across a variety of companies and industries.  She is the author of Lessons in LeaderShiT: Detoxing the Workplace.

Ana and Donna discuss the WHY and HOW, practical tips and traps, for building your own board of directors to nurture the Me-Suite mindset and discipline. 

2:25 Ana's core values: Honesty, Helpfulness, Hope
8:26 Building your personal board of directors:
    1) How many people to target for your board
    2) How to select and invite your board members
    3) How to focus the board on your priorities
    4) How to manage and refresh the board over time
23:13 Ana is a certified yoga instructor and challenges our career-oriented listeners to practice mindfulness

Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Options Are Power
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
The Culture at Home

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

Do you know what your own core values are?

C-Suites run companies with clear, shared Core Values that steer the culture and key decisions.  Do you have Core Values for the way you want to lead your own life?

In this episode we look at examples of Core Values--Tesla, Starbucks, Virgin Atlantic, Amazon, Alibaba, BMW, Boys & Girls Club--for some inspiration to define our own Core Values for the Me-Suite.

Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
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
The Culture at Home
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

Think like the Chief Strategy Officer.  Those who have options have power.

Having options means we are not trapped.  Options allow us to be in control, and behavior science shows we desire to be in control.  Options put you in control.   Options are power.   

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE EPISODE
In this episode, we think like a Chief Strategy Officer and discuss the 4 ways to build a surround-sound of options in The Me-Suite through:
1) People Networks
2) Fungible Skills
3) Prioritized Health
4) Sound Finances

Books and authors referenced in this episode: Never Eat Alone, TrustedAdvisor.com, Suze Orman.

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
Your Are Your Brand
When People Hear Your Name, How Do They Feel?
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
The Culture at Home

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

Meet The Me-Suite founder and host, Donna Peters.  Donna is a recognized executive coach, speaker, and workshop leader with 20+ years advising senior executives and next generation leaders at the world's most admired companies.  She acted professionally on stage, film and stand-up for 10 years before pursuing an MBA and becoming a senior partner and practice leader at a premier consulting firm. 

Donna is career-oriented and life-minded--just like you--and brings both an aspirational and practical approach to her executive life coaching services.

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
The Culture at Home

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

The Me-Suite is for those who are career-oriented and life-minded.  At the soul of the Me-Suite is the conviction that we should run our own personal lives with the same mindset and discipline that C-Suites use to run the companies we most admire. 

Each episode interviews a senior leader, a member of the C-Suite, in a relaxed, humble, sometimes humorous discussion.  We learn C-Suite mindsets and disciplines, across functions, to help us run our own lives like the companies we most admire.  We each need a Me-Suite to: 

• stay true to our own core values
• keep the day-to-day activities of our lives running smoothly
• ensure we stay fresh and relevant for the future we want to have

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
The Culture at Home

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