The People Catalysts

On today’s episode of The People Catalysts’ Podcast, join my co-host Allen Fahden and I as we discuss the one thing leaders completely miss when working with their team: the importance of fit and sequence.

Anyone who knows Karla Nelson describes her as an experience. She is as close as a human being can ever be to a human doing. It’s simple. She finds an idea that’s different and valuable, and then she builds it with a team. Swiftly, and relentlessly. She does this by a rare process of how to fit people together, that goes far beyond just connecting them. Karla has built several businesses since her early twenties and learned that in business and in life, “Relationships Are Everything.” And now she has put it all in a form that’s easy to learn and use: The People Catalysts.

When the world zigs, Allen Fahden zags. His first book introduced the unifying theory of creativity. Using his own method he created the one-book bookstore, and got media exposure in front of 50 million people without doing anything. Next, he launched the first strength-to-strength work process that gets three to eight times more done in less time. He beat Gallup and the Strengths Finder by five years. One company used his method to take their division from $20 million to $60 million in two years, while the rest of the company was flat. His clients include Jeff Bezos of Amazon, and dozens more.

Between them and their team, Karla and Allen have used the WHO-DO Method with 25 of the Fortune 100 and dozens of mid market companies and startups. Typically, The WHO-DO Method cuts 50-80% off cycle time and produce better results with happier people. The Who-Do Method’s client list includes Target, Best Buy, Disney, Comcast, 3M, Amazon, General Mills, HP, Coca-Cola, Deloitte, Cargill, Chase, US Bank, State Farm Insurance, IBM and many other corporate market leaders.

• The biggest problem with leadership & why the old style of leadership just doesn’t work anymore
• How the performance analysis works
• How a leader can get out of the way & enable their team
• How to determine if you all fit together as a team
• The importance of determining the sequence of your work processes
• Peak work vs. weak work
• A predictable process for adopting things when it comes to products & companies
• Why you need to know how to connect with another individual & determine if they are a doer or thinker
• Why concept & reality don’t mix
• Why you need to be looking at someone’s strengths rather than just their title
• The key to knowing what to do, doing it & repeating it
• Our tendency to go against somebody’s nature

• Email: [email protected]
• Schedule a Strategy Session: meetme.so/Karla-Nelson

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We all agree that technology is changing everything and you'll have to adapt or your business will be rendered irrelevant. Don't miss this episode of The People Catalysts Podcast where my co-host and I discuss the critical four strategies you must be aware of to make change so you can keep the change.

Anyone who knows Karla Nelson describes her as an experience. She is as close as a human being can ever be to a human doing. It’s simple. She finds an idea that’s different and valuable, and then she builds it with a team. Swiftly, and relentlessly. She does this by a rare process of how to fit people together, that goes far beyond just connecting them. Karla has built several businesses since her early twenties and learned that in business and in life, “Relationships Are Everything.” And now she has put it all in a form that’s easy to learn and use: The People Catalysts.

When the world zigs, Allen Fahden zags. His first book introduced the unifying theory of creativity. Using his own method he created the one-book bookstore, and got media exposure in front of 50 million people without doing anything. Next, he launched the first strength-to-strength work process that gets three to eight times more done in less time. He beat Gallup and the Strengths Finder by five years. One company used his method to take their division from $20 million to $60 million in two years, while the rest of the company was flat. His clients include Jeff Bezos of Amazon, and dozens more.

Between them and their team, Karla and Allen have used the WHO-DO Method with 25 of the Fortune 100 and dozens of mid market companies and startups. Typically, The WHO-DO Method cuts 50-80% off cycle time and produce better results with happier people. The Who-Do Method’s client list includes Target, Best Buy, Disney, Comcast, 3M, Amazon, General Mills, HP, Coca-Cola, Deloitte, Cargill, Chase, US Bank, State Farm Insurance, IBM and many other corporate market leaders.

• The law of diffusion of innovation and how it applies to people and their natural ability to accept or resist change
• How you coordinate both the early & late adopters together
• Why the relay method of adopting change is critical
• How the companies who embraced change during the Great Depression gained ground on their competitors
• Why you need to identify the movers in your company
• A great question for change
• How the work that drains you can energize someone else
• The importance of putting people in a spot where they will thrive the most
• Why change needs to be embedded into the culture of a company
• Why you need to find out if a person prefers to be a thinker or a doer
• The benefits of spending more time thinking rather than doing

• Email: [email protected]
• Schedule a Strategy Session: meetme.so/Karla-Nelson

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Anyone who knows Karla Nelson describes her as an experience. She is as close as a human being can ever be to a human doing. It’s simple. She finds an idea that’s different and valuable, and then she builds it with a team. Swiftly, and relentlessly. She does this by a rare process of how to fit people together, that goes far beyond just connecting them. Karla has built several businesses since her early twenties and learned that in business and in life, “Relationships Are Everything.” And now she has put it all in a form that’s easy to learn and use: The People Catalysts.

When the world zigs, Allen Fahden zags. His first book introduced the unifying theory of creativity. Using his own method he created the one-book bookstore, and got media exposure in front of 50 million people without doing anything. Next, he launched the first strength-to-strength work process that gets three to eight times more done in less time. He beat Gallup and the Strengths Finder by five years. One company used his method to take their division from $20 million to $60 million in two years, while the rest of the company was flat. His clients include Jeff Bezos of Amazon, and dozens more.

Between them and their team, Karla and Allen have used the WHO-DO Method with 25 of the Fortune 100 and dozens of mid market companies and startups. Typically, The WHO-DO Method cuts 50-80% off cycle time and produce better results with happier people. The Who-Do Method’s client list includes Target, Best Buy, Disney, Comcast, 3M, Amazon, General Mills, HP, Coca-Cola, Deloitte, Cargill, Chase, US Bank, State Farm Insurance, IBM and many other corporate market leaders.

• Creating innovation and making change by engaging early adopters
• How important early adopters are to launch or sell anything
• Why so many tech startups die
• The importance of removing the resistance in the bottleneck in order to get things done
• Why it’s not just about understanding who you are, but how you fit with the rest of the team
• Why you need to be open to change if you are in business today and how to do it
• How you go about finding your early adopters and what happens when you find them
• People failure vs. process failure
• How much time we spend on average working on our strengths vs. our weaknesses
• How the assembly line was born
• How to accelerate the social process
• How we can all get caught in stereotypical thinking

• Email: [email protected]
• Schedule a Strategy Session: meetme.so/Karla-Nelson

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Anyone who knows Karla Nelson describes her as an experience. She is as close as a human being can ever be to a human doing. It’s simple. She finds an idea that’s different and valuable, and then she builds it with a team. Swiftly, and relentlessly. She does this by a rare process of how to fit people together, that goes far beyond just connecting them. Karla has built several businesses since her early twenties and learned that in business and in life, “Relationships Are Everything.” And now she has put it all in a form that’s easy to learn and use: The People Catalysts.

When the world zigs, Allen Fahden zags. His first book introduced the unifying theory of creativity. Using his own method he created the one-book bookstore, and got media exposure in front of 50 million people without doing anything. Next, he launched the first strength-to-strength work process that gets three to eight times more done in less time. He beat Gallup and the Strengths Finder by five years. One company used his method to take their division from $20 million to $60 million in two years, while the rest of the company was flat. His clients include Jeff Bezos of Amazon, and dozens more.

Between them and their team, Karla and Allen have used the WHO-DO Method with 25 of the Fortune 100 and dozens of mid market companies and startups. Typically, The WHO-DO Method cuts 50-80% off cycle time and produce better results with happier people. The Who-Do Method’s client list includes Target, Best Buy, Disney, Comcast, 3M, Amazon, General Mills, HP, Coca-Cola, Deloitte, Cargill, Chase, US Bank, State Farm Insurance, IBM and many other corporate market leaders.

• Where we’ve been
• A refresher course on the WHO-DO Method
• Why the WHO-DO Method has traditionally been for large businesses and the research we’ve done to adapt it to smaller businesses
• The non-profit of small business owners that wanted to help other small businesses who we worked with to implement our strategy
• The profile that we had the members of the non-profit take
• Why the non-profit’s facilitator had trouble keeping the other members of the non-profit in their lanes and why we took over as Master Facilitators
• What we accomplished in the first three hours
• The challenges that happen when you don’t have a balanced team
• Physically removing people from the room to keep people focused on their strengths
• The correlation between having fun and getting things done
• Why repetition is the key to success with the WHO-DO Method and the video training we’ve created to solve that problem

• Email: [email protected]

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Mark is a serial entrepreneur and investor who’s built several multi-million dollar companies. In the nineties, he purchased a video rental store business and grew it to twelve locations. A few years later, Mark, with his brother, acquired a professional video and surveillance reseller which they grew to over $200 million in annual revenue and nearly 300 employees. In 2010, Mark led the merger of the two largest independent security distributors in the US resulting in a company with annual sales of over $400 million. The combined group is now part of the largest security distributor in the world.

Having scaled the entrepreneurial mountain and achieved many of his lifelong dreams, Mark has turned his attention and resources towards helping entrepreneurs succeed. In 2011, Mark launched Haney Business Ventures, a group of businesses focused on investment and growth of hometown entrepreneurial opportunities. Through HaneyBiz, Mark has invested or partnered in over 25 ventures across multiple industries including, Security, Commercial Audio/Visual, Real Estate Brokerage, Property Development, Construction, Commercial Landscaping, Transportation, Bookkeeping, Internet Commerce, and many others.

In 2015 Mark became a media personality with the launch of Entrepreneurs Unlimited, a weekly radio interview show focused on entrepreneurial education and inspiration. Since its debut, the show has garnered widespread acclaim, attracting some of Northern California’s most notable billionaires, millionaires, and startup founders as interview guests.

In keeping with his dedication to community and hometown patriotism, Mark founded Allegiant Giving, a charitable organization which invests in combat wounded veterans (Today’s Heroes) and local youth (Tomorrow’s Leaders). Mark also serves on numerous Boards including Entrepreneurs Organization and Region Business.

Mark’s greatest passion is his family – he has been married for 31 years, has two children and three grandchildren. His hobbies include family time, health and fitness, wakeboarding, deep sea fishing…and of course, building businesses!

• Mark’s background and how his entrepreneurial journey started
• Mark’s radio show, The HaneyBiz Project, on KHTK radio Saturday’s at 9 AM
• The best part of being an entrepreneur
• Choosing the right people to surround yourself and how that determines the success of your company
• What Mark’s #1 core value is and why
• The story behind the ‘Entrepreneur Next Door’ and how that can affect the growth of your business
• The importance of building trust and establishing a culture where there is open communication within your organization
• Why you need to be more hands-on with your employees and have more face-to-face interactions
• The benefits of finding a ‘workplace soulmate’
• Listening: one of the most underrated skills as a business owner
• Why you need to over deliver to your customers

• Website: www.haneybiz.com

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Clifton Anderson is Founder and CEO of Treasure Holders International, which was founded to empower highly successful individuals to match their business mind with a leader’s heart. As an executive coach, he has guided business leaders throughout the world to achieve remarkable results and lasting influence. Prior to forming his own consulting firm, Clifton served as a senior executive of three world-class, multibillion-dollar companies including serving as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of The Wonderful Company, which owns Fiji Water, POM Wonderful, and Teleflora, among other brands. He reached this position 17 years faster than the typical CFO of a major company. Clifton has been retained by such organizations as General Electric, Dell, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Amgen, First Solar, Broadcom, Amerijet, and the City of Commerce. He has advised dozens of diverse industries in twenty-five countries on four continents. He holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School, where he received the prestigious Dean Patrick Harker Leadership Award – the highest honor bestowed upon a graduating student. Clifton resides in Southern California.

• Clifton explains how he got to the top of his ‘career mountain’ only to discover that it wasn’t his mountain
• Learning from other people who excel in different areas
• Strategies for developing a successful and diverse team
• The power of tapping the collective intelligence
• Why everyone can be a leader
• Being deliberate and intentional about the cultures that we’re creating
• Protecting the culture that you’re trying to build
• Getting clear about the culture & the vision of your company
• How employees can qualify or disqualify themselves from a position
• Why you need to create a clear sense of urgency
• Why it’s important to realize that it’s not about what you get – it’s about what you give

• Website: treasureholders.com
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/cliftonanderson

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Greg Zlevor is the CEO, President, and Founder of Westwood International, a consulting collaborative that’s reimagining what it means to lead wisely in a global age. Westwood’s signature, global-scale action learning programs and change management initiatives have energized the vision of global brands like Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Volvo, Pfizer, the Singapore Police Force, BARD and General Electric.

Westwood International’s highly customized leadership solutions include:

• Executive and Management Leadership Development (3, 6, and 12 Month Programs)
• Customized Team Events
• Global-Scale Action Learning Programs
• Executive and Team Coaching
• FOG – For Our Growth (an annual gathering of experts and leaders)
• Teamwork and Group Facilitation
• Leadership Webinars

Greg has over 25 years of experience in executive development and education. He has served as a coach, consultant, and facilitator for companies in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and Australia. Under Greg’s leadership, Westwood International has a mission to give back, supporting not-for-profit organizations that help homeless children and at-risk youth across the United States, Mexico, Thailand, India, and South America.

Greg is also the founder of FOG (For Our Growth) and he is a frequent speaker and facilitator at the Global Institute of Leadership Development.

• The path that led Greg to start consulting full time
• How having a great team creates more productivity in a company
• Critical pieces for an effective team
• Why the story that you tell yourself is important
• The mindset and approach that leads teams to create great things
• A study that describes what most successful teams have in common
• How to stay content and goal neutral as the facilitator in a team or group
• An example of how a successful team dynamic makes each person feel valued
• How Allen Fahden and Greg differ in the way they work with teams
• What a healthy and successful team culture should look like
• Why trust is essential for teamwork
• How to facilitate a group to make sure everyone has a voice
• Why social activities help teams work better together
• A story explaining how being likable can make a huge difference in any situation
• The real challenge to being a good leader
• Why Allen says Greg is a quiet mixture of strength and humility, and how this makes people feel comfortable
• Why it’s important to think about how your day will go before you start a company
• Why entrepreneurs should work harder on themselves than they do their job

• Twitter: @gregzlevor; @westwoodintl
• Company website: www.westwoodintl.com

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Anyone who knows Karla Nelson describes her as an experience. She is as close as a human being can ever be to a human doing. It’s simple. She finds an idea that’s different and valuable, and then she builds it with a team. Swiftly, and relentlessly. She does this by a rare process of how to fit people together, that goes far beyond just connecting them. Karla has built several businesses since her early twenties and learned that in business and in life, “Relationships Are Everything.” And now she had put it all in a form that’s easy to learn and use: The People Catalysts.

When the world zigs, Allen Fahden zags. His first book introduced the unifying theory of creativity. Using his own method he created the one book bookstore and got media exposure in front of 50 million people without doing anything. Next, he launched the first strength-to-strength work process that gets three to eight times more done in less time. He beat Gallup and the Strengths Finder by five years. One company used his method to take their division from $20 million to $60 million in two years, while the rest of the company was flat. His clients include Jeff Bezos of Amazon and dozens more.

Between them and their team, Karla and Allen have used Who-Do Method with 25 of the Fortune 100 and dozens of mid-market companies and startups. Typically, they cut 50-80% off cycle time and produce better results with happier people. The Who-do Method’s client list includes Target, Best Buy, Disney, Comcast, 3M, Amazon, General Mills, HP, Coca-Cola, Deloitte, Cargill, Chase, US Bank, State Farm Insurance, IBM and many other corporate market leaders.

• The story behind how Allen developed the strength to strength model
• Why learning to sell a great idea is a bigger problem than learning to have a great idea
• How the consistency of human nature led Allen to develop his model
• What diffusion of innovation is and how to use it to your advantage in your company
• How to find out who early adopters are
• How to get new ideas implemented without killing them
• The difference between movers, shakers, provers, and makers
• Where movers, shakers, provers, and makers fit into the culture of a company
• How to play to the strengths of each personality strength
• A story of how this model made a team get further, in a shorter amount of time, than they ever had before
• How eliminating things that don’t work can save an immense amount of time
• A culture study that shows what percentage of people in your company are actually on your side
• How this model can make employees more satisfied and happy in their jobs
• Why traditional meetings are ineffective and unproductive
• How to restructure meetings and idea pitches to make them more productive
• How to improve ideas before you start
• A story of a company that greatly increased profit and productivity through this model

• To receive our white paper, email [email protected]

President of the design consultancy, Compass52 and co-author of The Art of Opportunity, Parker Lee is a veteran of the technology, entertainment, and sports marketing industries. Most recently, Parker was president and executive vice president of business development at XPLANE. During his eight-year tenure there, he was responsible for leading sales and marketing efforts, which under his leadership, enjoyed significant annual growth — and delivering innovative design thinking engagements for global clients.

Parker has been actively designing organizations for better performance since the 1970s. During the dot-com era, Parker acted as vice president of business development for four pre-IPO technology companies. Parker pioneered the use of social media when he was responsible for the development and implementation of online marketing and communications for the California State Democratic Party during the 2004 election.

Prior to breaking into the technology field, Parker enjoyed a varied career in the entertainment and sports industries. Notably, in the 1980s he acted as director of entertainment and special events for Caesars Palace Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, and agent for cycling star Greg LeMond.

• Parker’s background
• How business owners should be thinking in regards to business design thinking
• How to use storytelling and collaboration to get better and faster results
• Understanding both your customers and non-customer’s needs
• Experience journey mapping
• Turning your customer into your biggest advocate
• How you get better results with collaboration and co-creation
• Why you are a stronger team when conflict is present
• Why it’s important to manage expectations
• Why it’s critical to build trust and support within your team

• Website: www.theartofopportunity.net
• LinkedIn: Art of Opportunity group

Randy Haykin is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, philanthropist ,and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Randy currently is a Chair for Vistage, a global organization that facilitates CEO/leader peer groups. Randy facilitates a Vistage group in the Bay Area with 12 high-profile growth CEOs.

In 2011, Randy co-founded the philanthropic venture entity The Gratitude Network to mentor social entrepreneurs globally. Today the organization has nearly 70 volunteers and has worked with more than twenty high-impact entrepreneurs. The organization’s focus is on children and education.

Randy co-founded Outlook Ventures a $200m early-stage tech fund in 1997. The fund invested in over 30 companies and had numerous portfolio exits. Randy founded Haykin Capital in 2006 to provide mentor capital to early stage entrepreneurs and has funded over 30 angel deals to date.

Prior to Gratitude and Outlook, Randy served as founding VP of Marketing & Sales at Yahoo and played early roles at Overture, NetChannel, Electric Minds, and AOLs Greenhouse program, a successful venture incubator. He has also held management roles at Apple Corporation, Paramount/Viacom.

For the past 6 years, Randy has taught courses on innovation, entrepreneurship and finance at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business as well as Cambridge U. Judge School of Business. He holds a BA in Organizational Studies from Brown University, magna cum laude, and an MBA from Harvard.

• The catalysts that brought Randy to work with entrepreneurs
• How he brought exposure to himself when he was just starting out
• Why culture is the core of any great team
• How his time at Yahoo taught him the importance of a common rallying cry
• The different types of values that culture can be built around
• The story of how the culture of Netflix was created
• Why Randy works best when he takes on the mentor or coach role in a team
• Tips for finding your own strength in team settings
• The importance of delegating responsibility
• His three tiered approach to helping teams work together to achieve goals
• Teamwork strategies for setting and achieving goals
• Randy’s process of creative group problem solving for when there is pushback and/or disagreements
• The criteria for recipients of The Gratitude Network’s Gratitude Awards
• The supports and resources that are provided to recipients of Gratitude Awards
• How to apply for an award and how to become a mentor
• Why it’s important to treat everyone with respect and to create lasting relationships

• Website: gratitudefund.org Twitter: @randyhaykin

• Evernote: evernote.com
• Slack: slack.com
• Netflix culture slideshow: www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
• StrengthsFinder 2.0: strengths.gallup.com/default.aspx