The Thoughtful Leader

Lilach Bullock

– The Thoughtful Leader with Mindy Gibbins-Klein

Episode 058 Living bold and being decisive with Lilach Bullock, Business and Mindset Coach

Business and mindset coach Lilach Bullock believes successful entrepreneurs make fast decisions to avoid negative energy. As a coach, Lilach wants clients to have exceptional results, and that often means one needs to get comfortable being uncomfortable.

Originally from the UK and now based in Israel, Lilach works with solo entrepreneurs to help them grow and scale their businesses. She has been named the #1 Influencer in the UK by Career Experts, listed in Forbes' top 20 women social media power influencers, named the Social Influencer of Europe by Oracle, and honored with the Global Women Champions Award for her outstanding contribution and leadership in business.

In our conversation, she shares some of the coaching advice she gives to her clients, including:

Being bold means taking big action and showing authenticity.

Being courageous takes vulnerability.

The importance of the 5 am rituals and mindset.

Focus on results with social media, not vanity metrics.

The importance of social media and getting over the fear of recording and posting videos.

The quality of great leadership.

The big tip–take massive, consistent action.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

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Website: https://www.lilachbullock.com

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Steve Sanders

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Episode 057 Your process of choices with Steve Sanders, Owner, Business Growth Mechanics

Steve Sanders, Founder of Business Growth Mechanics, has sage advice from his long-term career of working with major companies and ambitious entrepreneurs. He is a go-to-market strategist, boosting company-level value, re-thinking ambitions and then embedding systematic enablers for companies to scale.

Steve is a Fellow Institute of Directors, and MBA Strategy guest speaker at Warwick Business School. He co-authored a new book, Success Secrets of Entrepreneurs and authored and other soon to be released book, Five Horizons.

Our conversation is thought provoking and applies to all business owners, especially to what shifts are currently happening in the workplace.

Highlights include:

Steve's firm belief in the future of stakeholder capitalism-the awareness of impact of our business activities.

Business is shifting to making profits because the organization is doing the right thing.

Firms fail when they don't adapt and adopt.

Research shows that firms are changing to become more purposed based around belief and values.

People want to lead with their purpose.

Organizations thrive with a collective energy.

Thought processes to consider, strategic methods, and frameworks.

Perspectives on nonconformists.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

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Website: http://businessgrowthmechanics.com/

Connect: https://linktr.ee/stevesanders

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Mindy Gibbins-Klein

– The Thoughtful Leader with Mindy Gibbins-Klein

Episode 056 Know your truth, live your truth with Mindy Gibbins-Klein

Mindy Gibbins-Klein is an international speaker, trainer, and consultant who teaches leaders on how to be thoughtful and to create a culture of thought leadership in organizations.

This episode centres on living your truth. Mindy gives her perspective on how to be true to yourself and guidance on finding that truth.

Once again, she brings up the subject of self-reflection and its importance in thoughtful leadership.

Her thoughts also include:

Living your truth is living authentically.

When you are not in sync or flow, it's difficult to create relationships.

The role of trust and creating space for it.

The importance of remembering your precious importance in the world.

Self-awareness and reflection are key to relationships and decision making.

Being honest and creating self-boundaries.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

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Debbie Gilbert

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Episode 055 Award-winning leadership with Debbie Gilbert, Owner Viva Business Support & Mums UnLtd.

Debbie Gilbert is the author of the internationally best-selling book, The Successful Mumpreneur. She is also a multi-award-winning entrepreneur and owner of Viva Business Support, a marketing and events agency, and is the founder of Mums UnLtd, a networking company which provides support for Mums in business.

Debbie is a firm believer in supporting entrepreneurs in not being a best kept secret, but to be your best and be a winner. She also runs of The Best Business Women Awards, an annual event that recognises and rewards outstanding female entrepreneurs from across the globe.

In our conversation, we talk about being your best and what that entails as an entrepreneur. We also discuss:

What are you as an entrepreneur giving back to your community?

How is your business eco-friendly?

Consider how to grow and develop your reputation when running your business.

The best people power through challenges and find ways to move forward.

Advice to new entrepreneurs-plan, research, and gain insight into your industry.

Behind the scenes of setting up an awards program.

Recognize the strategy of entering an awards program, and how it relates to your marketing.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

Connect with Debbie:

Website: https://www.vivabusinesssupport.co.uk

Website: https://www.mumsunltd.co.uk

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debgilbert/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/best-business-women-awards

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Jan Koch

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Episode 054 Stoicism and leadership, with Jan Koch, Founder-Virtual Summit Mastery

This conversation started on the logistics of hosting a summit. Jan Koch is the creator of Virtual Summit Mastery, an online technology that allows summits to run with ease. Jan gives his insights and tips for running summits as expected.

There was an unexpected turn in the conversation, as the subject of burnout became front and centre. Jan was honest and vulnerable as he shared his personal confrontation with burnout that put him in hospital, and how it became a pivotal moment in his life.

Lessons learned from this episode include a very heartfelt discussion of thoughtful leadership, stoicism, and mental health. It's hoped that every listener will take to heart how thoughtful leadership and personal mental health are essential to truly succeed in work and life.

Highlights include:

The best questions to ask when organizing a summit.

The benefits of being the summit host.

Considerations for pricing your summit.

Understanding your target market and the ideal attendee.

The best times for hosting the summit.

The 90-day action plan for creating your summit.

Thoughtful leadership, stoicism, and mental health.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

Connect with Jan:

Website: https://virtualsummitmastery.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamjankoch/?originalSubdomain=de

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Jon Keel

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Episode 053 Choose to improve, with Jon Keel, CEO and Founder, Improved Results

Jon Keel, CEO and Founder of Improved Results, has helped over a thousand businesses create predicable and improved revenue since 1997. He has also co-developed the Xavier University MBA E-Business program, where he taught Online Marketing and E-Commerce, and in 2020 he founded Improved Together, a LinkedIn SaaS business.

Jon is also a pioneer in the Internet world as he co-developed the first pay-per-click search engine bid management software and wrote the first book on pay-per-click search engines, Instant Web Site Traffic.

In this conversation, Jon openly speaks about his failures and how he made deliberate choices to change his life. One of the big takeaways is his thoughts on leadership and the importance of deep, critical thinking.

Highlights of our conversation include:

The principle of business stays the same, but the techniques are different.

The value of business relationships and not treating them transactionally.

Continue to grow with masterminds, coaches, and the input of others.

Remember to keep your values and ethics and make sure they align with partner relationships.

Thoughtful leadership relies on deep thinking, not observation.

The importance of scheduling deep, critical thinking time and how it affects one's life.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

Connect with Jon:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonkeel/

Website: https://www.improvedresults.com/

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Malcolm Tullett

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Episode 052 Leadership responsibilities for safety in the workplace with Malcolm Tullett

This episode is especially helpful for business owners and employees. Malcolm Tullett runs Risk and Safety Plus, a company that advises organizations, from small to blue chip on health and safety matters. As a former Senior Operational Fire Officer, Malcolm understands the challenges of protecting the wellbeing and safety of staff and their workspaces.

That understanding also includes how to safely re-engage employees returning to the workplace after working remotely. In Malcolm's book, Risk It, he discusses safety and the responsibility of leaders to understand what is required of them, especially as thoughtful leaders.

In our conversation, we discuss:

Why reentering the workplace means considering and understanding various perspectives.

Dealing with the resistance of people not wanting to return to physical work locations.

The meaning behind the phrase duty of care.

Leaders provide solutions in collaboration with the workforce.

A case study to understand the causes of executive and worker burnout.

A specific example of poor planning equating to poor performance.

How a leader might make quick and correct decisions.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

Connect with Malcolm:

Website: https://riskandsafetyplus.com/

Amazon Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Risk-your-intuition-revolutionise-taking/dp/1784529451

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Mindy Gibbins-Klein

– The Thoughtful Leader with Mindy Gibbins-Klein

Episode 051 Meeting Change with Thoughtful Leadership with Mindy Gibbins-Klein

Mindy Gibbins-Klein is an international speaker, trainer and consultant who teaches leaders on how to be thoughtful and to create a culture of thought leadership in organizations.

We are living in times of extreme change and these times allow thoughtful leaders to shine if we take time to think, reflect and engineer positive outcomes.

Mindy walks listeners through a thinking and writing exercise to empower us to create plans we can put into motion. We have the power to control what our choices are, even if we cannot control outcomes.

Mindy helps us to understand steps to thought leadership, including:

Understanding that thought leadership is in your control.

Embed the thought leadership habit.

Acknowledging the change that you did not engineer.

What would it take for you to feel strong and empowered right now?

An exercise to practice and to remember how amazing we are.

Taking the time to create something positive from change.

Remember to share with Mindy your stories of empowering yourself and others through creating something positive with change.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

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URL: https://www.mindygk.com/

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Lorraine Thomas

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Episode 050 Our purpose is caring with Lorraine Thomas

Lorraine Thomas, Founder, and creator of View from My Window, describes herself as being a mentor, property developer and landlord with a social purpose. Lorraine believes in doing what she can to help lift others and she is on a mission to be a positive role model for young black people, showing them what is achievable if you are determined.

Lorraine shares her journey of leaving her career in business development in the legal sector, to take care of her father, living a wage that barely covered the bills. Through her willingness to be so loving and caring, she opened herself to a new role of procuring rental properties for disadvantaged young adults, and then buying and developing properties in this sector.

Lorraine believes that property is not the privilege of the rich and well-connected and strives to get people into homes that wouldn't normally be within their reach.

This is an episode where you will gain a different thoughtful leadership insight every time you to listen to it. Highlights include:

Believe in someone and give them a chance.

An example of how someone helped another to succeed.

How to change your behaviour to create change by listening, making a decision, and proceeding with a thoughtful choice.

The social responsibility that comes when having money.

Helping other family caregivers navigate NHS, CCG to help their parents.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

Connect with Lorraine:

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorrainethomasview/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/view_from_my_window__/

Website: https://viewfrommywindow.co.uk

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_LorraineThomas

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Nigel Vardy

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Episode 049 Taking a different path with Nigel Vardy

Nigel Vardy, better known as Mr. Frostbite, is an adventurer, speaker and writer who centers his work around mountaineering and the human experience.

Mindy puts Nigel in the thoughtful leader category because Nigel doesn't settle physically or emotionally. He goes beyond and pushes harder, even in extreme circumstances. As Nigel says, "I don't want to die in an unused body."

Nigel believes we should all take our own path, even if it's different from those around us, and to consider carefully why we do things.

In our conversation, Nigel shares his thinking about planning adventures and sharing experiences.

Highlights include:

Defining risk and the perception of risk taking.

Going places where every step is a learning experience.

Not receiving funding or sponsorships for expeditions.

How to consciously inspire the next generation.

Create top quality content, not quantity.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

Connect with Nigel:

Website: https://www.mrfrostbite.com/

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