Kim never knows what face to make while somebody is reading her bio.

Kim Crowder is the founder & CEO of Kim Crowder Consulting. She is also one of the country's most sought-after and transformative leadership, marketing and communications facilitators, speakers, and advisors. Kim has been named by Forbes as a "Top Anti-Racism Educators Companies Need Now" and has been featured pretty much everywhere.

We chat about the importance of noticing who we are including and who we are leaving out, having even a distant connection with leaders who are doing this, and why this is smart business.

Connect with Kim on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimcrowder/ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/kimcrowderconsulting/ and sign up for her newsletter at kimcrowderconsulting.com.

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Nalani believes it's ok to want something and yet not be willing to do the work to get it.

Nalani Rodriguez helps leaders transform their relationship with work for both themselves and their teams. She believes that leaders hold particular power, influence, and responsibility to create the conditions for themselves and others to live this reality.

We chat about building the muscle of awareness, getting in touch with our intuition, and the many ways we can use the people in our life to support our growth journey.

Nalani's blog post on nonviolent communication: https://nalanirodriguez.com/blog/using-needs-to-get-unstuck-and-create-connection-while-in-conflict

Connect with Nalani at https://nalanirodriguez.com and https://www.linkedin.com/in/nalanirodriguez/

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Ray would rather talk with anyone who is available than the "right" person he can never get a hold of.

Ray Myers is Tech Lead of Chaos Engineering at Indeed.com and host of Craft vs Cruft on YouTube.

We chat about leveraging curiosity to find and resolve people's pain, understand their concerns and priorities, and find innovative solutions to the systems behind tough technical and people problems.

Ray's YouTube channel Craft vs Cruft: https://www.youtube.com/@craftvscruft8060

Connect with Ray at @lambdapocalypse on Twitter and Mastodon, and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/cadrlife

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Faye finds 75% of her job is convincing people that if they would stop treating their employees like crap, most of their problems would go away.

Faye Thompson brings humanity to the workplace and supports organizations as they adopt modern ways of working.

We chat about how encouraging employees to express their authentic selves at work brings greater creativity, innovation, and job satisfaction and how fostering authentic connections among colleagues brings a more positive and productive work culture.

Faye's book recommendations:

• Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
• David McRaney, You Are Not So Smart podcast: https://youarenotsosmart.com/ and books
• Daniel Coyle, The Culture Code: https://danielcoyle.com/the-culture-code/

Connect with Faye on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fayethompson/ and Twitter: https://twitter.com/agilefaye

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Samantha believes that people deserve to be their biggest selves.

Samantha Hartley helps consultants multiply their revenues without exhaustion by working with perfect clients on transformational engagements. As a result, they build profitable, joyful consultancies.

Before starting her business, Samantha worked in international marketing for The Coca-Cola Company in Moscow, Russia, and its Atlanta headquarters. She lives on Martha's Vineyard with her husband and their fur kids.

We chat about the power of our inner child, bringing the fullness of ourselves to our work, and how we benefit the world when we are our biggest selves.

The Definitive Guide to Landing Six-Figure Clients: http://6figureclients.com/

Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast: https://samanthahartley.com/blog-podcast/

Contact Samantha at samanthahartley.com and https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthahartley/.

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Anu's first job was building helicopters.

An experienced technology leader, trainer, author, leadership and executive coach, Anu Arora thrives in complex environments that require both technical and interpersonal excellence.

As the founder of Infinite Potential Leadership, she helps leaders find their way to thrive.

We chat about identifying our strengths and purpose, showing value at every level, and the power of asking questions that have no answers.

Anu's mindfulness library is Mindful Leader Practices on Apple Podcasts

Connect with Anu via email: [email protected], LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuarora/, and her website: https://infinitepotentialleadership.com/

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Karin wants each person to experience their life rich with purpose and meaning, integrating their unique body and soul wisdom.

Karin Lubin is a well-being coach, trainer, and exercise enthusiast driven by a desire to inspire and energize leaders and teams. She does this through self-reflection for clarity and wisdom while building inner and outer strength. She uses body building, passion, reflective journaling, and self-connection as the foundational basis for inner mastery.

We chat about helping people leverage their passions and talents, how leading requires us to grow ourselves as well as our people, and the importance of taking time to self-reflect.

Karin's Intuitive Leadership PDF: https://uncommonteams.com/downloads/intuitiveleadership.pdf

Contact Karin:

• https://drkarinlubin.com/
• https://AppointmentwithKarinLubin.as.me/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/karinlubin/
• https://www.instagram.com/karinlubin/
• https://www.facebook.com/drkarinlubin/

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Paul believes we must help our people become whole and complete if we want our people to make whole and complete pictures for our customers.

Paul Carvalho is a leadership coach and psychotherapist often disguised as an Enterprise or Agile coach and consultant. He helps motivated people discover, ignite, and develop their inner strengths to improve relationships with themselves and with others so that they can go far beyond where they are right now.

We chat about emotions being information, the power of bringing our uniqueness and openness, and how growing people can adapt the systems we work within.

Contact Paul at [email protected] and @can_agile.

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"I've made plenty of mistakes along the way," Louise readily states.

Louise Perold has been leading teams for several decades, first in South Africa and now in Portugal. She's been focused on quality throughout, including co-organizing a testing conference in South Africa for a number of years, and she currently serves on the board of the Association for Software Testing.

We chat about becoming an effective people manager, building trust within teams, and allowing a team to discover its best ways of working.

Some things that help Louise:

• Studying nonviolent communication is a lifelong journey. https://www.nonviolentcommunication.com/resources/
• Nancy Kline's book Time to Think had a big impact on me especially because it is something I truly relate to: https://www.timetothink.com/thinking-environment/
• Esther Perel's podcast: https://www.estherperel.com/podcast
• Problem Solving Leadership workshop: https://www.estherderby.com/workshops/psl/

Contact Louise at [email protected]; @lperold on Twitter; https://www.linkedin.com/in/lperold/.

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Vanessa believes that if work is constantly feeling difficult, we're not doing it right.

Vanessa Bennett is the CEO of Next Evolution Performance, a global high-performance coaching business using neuroscience to help driven leaders and teams to optimize profitability, productivity, and energy, and to decrease their effort, sickness, burnout, and mental health problems. This ensures that success, and therefore profitability, is sustainable.

Vanessa and I chat about helping teams succeed without burning out, optimizing our work to optimize our cognitive energy, and sustaining our ability to work at our best.

Links Vanessa mentions:

• Online course The Neuroscience of Getting More Done: a great way to help people understand cognitive energy and how to use it effectively https://www.nextevolutionenergy.com/
• Weekly Insights newsletter: https://nextevolutionperformance.com/insights/
• Complimentary 20-minute performance call to discuss one of your biggest challenges: https://nextevolutionperformance.com/performance-call-individuals/

Contact Vanessa via email: [email protected], LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/high-performance-coach-vanessa-bennett/, and her company website: https://nextevolutionperformance.com/.

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