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Jason Sperling is an executive creative marketing lead with a proven ability to lead multiple teams and agencies, and create smart, strategic, breakthrough work. Continually earning the trust and appreciation from global brands, which have included Facebook, Honda, Apple, TikTok, Amazon, Disney Pixar, FOX, UNICEF and the LGBT Center Los Angeles.

Accolades include: Grand Effie for ad effectiveness, Cannes Gold Lions in Film, Social Good, Design, Cyber and Health categories, multiple One Show Gold Pencils, and an Emmy nom.

Apple 'Mac vs PC' campaign declared "Best of the Century" by AdWeek.

2020 Tedx Speaker @ Carnegie Mellon University.

Top 30 US Creative Directors, Adweek Top 40 over 40 Digital Creatives, Campaign US

Author of Creative Directions: Mastering the Move from Talent to Leader (publisher: Harper Collins Leadership).

Author of Look At Me When I'm Talking to You: Building Brand Attraction in an Age of Brand Aversion (on Instagram at @lookatmebook).

Board member at UCLA School of Sociology and Depressed Cake Shop. Distinguished Alumni Award winner, Academy of Art University.

Guest: Jason Sperling Title: Global Executive Creative Director Company: Facebook Reality Labs Website: https://about.facebook.com/

Tonille Miller is a Global Transformation and People Experience Leader | Helping Leaders Create the Conditions for Their People and Organizations to Thrive.

After spending over 15 years as an executive, management consultant, and I/O psychologist, advising and partnering with leaders to drive the optimal performance of their people and organizations, she has seen the things that trip leaders and organizations up in doing this work.

She also discovered what works and built playbooks to bridge the gap between what leaders are trying to accomplish and what their people need to do the best work of their lives and drive the organization forward.

This flywheel effect, when harnessed, is extremely powerful…and it's easier than you think.

Guest: Tonille Miller Title: Founder Company: EXT - Experience and Transformation Website: https://https://www.experienceandtransformation.com/

Matt Doherty played and coached basketball at the University of North Carolina. He started on the 1982 National Championship team with NBA greats Michael Jordan and James Worthy. The program was led by legendary coach Dean Smith. After one year as the head coach at Notre Dame, Matt took over the UNC program and led them to the 2001 regular season ACC Championship while being named AP National Coach of the Year.

Since his time at UNC, Coach Doherty worked as the head coach at FAU and SMU in addition to working at ESPN, the Indiana Pacers and the Atlantic 10 Conference. He currently runs the Doherty Coaching Practice which includes executive coaching, seminars, and corporate talks. He continues to work in the media with weekly radio shows in Charlotte on WFNZ (sports talk) and WBT (news and current events), and the ACC Network where he is a color analyst for basketball games. Matt is married to Kelly and has two children, Tucker and Hattie. They reside in Mooresville, NC.

Guest: Matt Doherty Title: Chairman, Leadership Author and Public Speaker Company: Vistage Website: https://www.vistage.com/

Music degree in college, 1st job was a Gatorland (alligator farm in Orlando), 6 years as a middle school teacher, 21 years at Hard Rock International as Head of Training & Development. Now, a keynote speaker, best-selling author, podcaster, and entrepreneur. Delivers 35-40 engagements/year around company culture, leadership, customer service, and building rock-star teams. Best-selling author of "Culture That Rocks" (2014) and "Leadership That Rocks" (2021). Co-host of Top 200 business podcast, "Thoughts That Rock".

Guest: Jim Knight Title: Founder & CEO Company: Knight Speaker LLC Website: https://www.knightspeaker.com/

Jennifer Chapman, an Indy native and Ball State graduate, has had a unique road to get here to where she is today. Life challenged her first at 11 with the unexpected loss of her mom and again at 34 while excelling in Corp Sales. After doing consistent work with a life coach to overcome the mental and emotional challenges internally, Jennifer shifted in 2020 and found the passion and need to coach others through life's challenges.

She created Just Commit Coaching and offers a 1:1 coaching program for career professionals who are just surviving go from feeling depleted to physically, mentally, and emotionally thriving by embracing their inner warrior.

Guest: Jennifer Lynn Chapman Title: Founder & Certified Life Coach Company: Just Commit Coaching Email: [email protected]

As a Silicon Valley veteran with 15 years of experience as the Executive Business Partner for Jeff Bezos (Founder and CEO of Amazon), Marissa Mayer (former CEO of Yahoo!) and Chief of Staff to Eric Schmidt (CEO/Executive Chairman of Google), Ann applies lessons of innovation, ambition, growth at scale, and forward-thinking leadership to expand businesses and individual careers.

As a Leadership Strategist, she helps entrepreneurs do this in the following ways:

✔️One-on-One Strategy Consulting

✔️Keynote Speeches & Workshops

✔️Mastermind Group Training (coming soon!)

✔️Corporate and Entrepreneur Leadership Retreats

✔️Weekly Newsletters with Articles and Videos

✔️Weekly podcast, Bet on Yourself Her new book, Bet On Yourself, published by HarperCollins Leadership, offers guidance and stories from my experiences in Silicon Valley.

These lessons help readers:

✔️Define your abilities and speak up to be recognized for your work and capabilities.

✔️Create a career of your own, independent of the people and company you work for.

✔️Understand what it takes to build the confidence you need to be successful in your career.

Her book shares the skills she developed working for Jeff Bezos, Marissa Mayer and Eric Schmidt to reverse engineer moonshot goals into strategic, actionable steps across your entire organization. She helps companies grow, scale, and innovate to increase revenue, attract the right investors, hire competitive talent, and align internal growth strategies. She also shows how she reinvented her role at Google three times during her twelve years at Google and how any employee can also create opportunities for professional growth and advancement regardless of their current title or seniority. Available for purchase everywhere books are sold.

Learn more about where to grab your copy here: betonyourselfbook.com

Guest: Ann Hiatt Title: Leadership Strategist and Author

Book: Bet On Yourself Website: https://annhiatt.co/

John Lee Dumas is the founder and host of the award winning podcast, Entrepreneurs On Fire. With over 100 million listens of his 3000+ episodes, JLD has turned Entrepreneurs On Fire into a media empire that generates over a million listens every month and 7-figures of NET annual revenue 8-years in a row. His first traditionally published book, The Common Path to Uncommon Success is the modern day version of Think and Grow Rich with a revolutionary 17-step roadmap to financial freedom and fulfillment.

Learn more at UncommonSuccessBook.com

Entrepreneurs On Fire Website: https://uncommonsuccessbook.com/

Dave "Mr. Accountability" Anderson is a leading international speaker and author on personal and corporate performance improvement. After an extensive career in the automotive retail business Dave, along with his wife Rhonda, began LearnToLead - entering its third decade - to help individuals and organizations reach their personal and corporate potential.

The author of 15 books (Intentional Mindset: Developing Mental Toughness and a Killer Instinct due out April 13th), and host of the wildly popular podcast, "The Game Changer Life," Dave's no-nonsense messages impact readers and listeners in over 145 countries. Dave has spoken in twenty countries and presents 100+ times annually to various businesses, athletic teams, and nonprofits.

His immediately applicable messages, energized and dynamic presentation style and unmatched content positively focuses, equip, and inspire teams to do better – and the principles he shares resonate with audiences from a wide array of industries.

His direct, often humorous, and somewhat politically incorrect approach has earned him the nickname "Mr. Accountability." Dave's "in-the-trenches" background of starting and running world-class businesses, coupled with his relatable non-academic approach, creates an unmatched connection that resonates with his audiences and moves them to action.

Guest: Dave Anderson Title: Autor, President Company: Learn To Lead Website: https://www.learntolead.com/

Welcome to Unlocked! A show all about unlocking the potential of you and the people you do life with.

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