How can big teams and companies tackle growth strategies? It often requires them to move faster, be more nimble, and make faster decisions — basically to act like a startup. But this is not something that comes easily to massive companies with multiple layers of processes and systems in place. Chris Roark helps organizations achieve that startup speed.

Amy Franko is a keynote speaker, sales strategist, and author of The Modern Seller, an Amazon bestseller which was also named a 2019 top sales book by Top Sales World. Amy’s specialization is in B2B sales and sales leadership development. She works with a variety of organizations to accelerate their growth results and has been recognized by Top Sales World as one of the top 50 sales keynote speakers and top 50 sales bloggers in the world.

We’re adding in a new format to the podcast to answer your questions! Whatever your challenges, hurdles, and roadblocks are, I want to address them so that we can all keep learning and keep moving forward. I’d also love to hear of best practices of what’s worked for you in pushing innovation and change forward and how all of us can implement these ideas.

Jeff Grimshaw has worked with senior leaders for more than 25 years. Along the way, he’s helped hundreds of executives in dozens of companies to align people and strategy to produce important business results. Jeff is the co-author of two books and has also published articles in various publications. His latest book, Five Frequencies: Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Competitive Advantage, dives into the ways in which leaders create culture through the signals they broadcast.

Lee Carter is a top communications specialist, a sought-after speaker, television personality, and author of Persuasion: Convincing Others When Facts Don’t Seem to Matter. As an expert in finding the right language to promote a brand or to fix a company’s reputation following a corporate crisis, Lee is skilled at not just communicating clearly or concisely, but also in the art of speaking the language of your audience.

Tristan Wright, founder of Evolve to Grow, offers business owners more than just buzzwords and vague advice. Built on the experience of his own business successes and failures, he shows business owners how to grow their businesses while reducing workload, and keep them focused and accountable along the way.

Most of us have a sense that if we’re really brilliant at our job, we’ll eventually get promoted to a leadership role, but something we often don’t realize is that doing and leading are two different things. And being great at doing, doesn’t mean that you’ll be great at leading.

In this episode, I talk about my childhood — you’ll hear how my tendency to do things differently and challenge how things were done started at a young age, and my early career. Working at some of the biggest global agencies and interacting with international brands really shaped my outlook on innovation, as did my first (failed) business venture.

Let’s face it: To be a good, effective leader in today’s complex and crowded marketplace, leaders need some new skills, and they are skills that we don’t normally talk about or associate with the traditional viewpoint of leadership — things like empathy and intuition. Apart from just the “right-brain” skills, leaders need to tap into their “left-brain” skills and put them all together in the form of Whole-Brain Leadership. Katherine LaVelle joins me on this episode to dive into just what thi

We often take innovation, which should be an “all-the-time” thing, and turn it into a point-in-time exercise, and that’s where companies often get stuck and don’t see innovation happening in their organization. Innovation is about thinking differently across the board, and Tristan Kromer is helping companies make innovation actionable through experimentation.