Katie is from Harvey, ND and earned her degree in Business Administration from NDSU in Fargo, ND. Her career started in talent acquisition and performance management for technology and professional services firms. She became a highly leveraged Dale Carnegie contract trainer in 2015. In 2019 Katie became the VP of Training and Quality for Dale Carnegie of ND & MN and in December of 2020, she became the co-owner of the local franchise with her business partner, Bethany Berkeley. Katie leverages nearly 20 years of experience in training, organizational development, talent management and human resources to strategically partner with organizations to achieve results. She assists individuals, groups and organizations to increase their effectiveness through executive and leadership coaching and has extensive experience delivering customized training solutions for clients across various industries:

o Professional and Financial Services, Technology

o Agriculture, Manufacturing and Construction

Connect with Katie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katiemunion/

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Laura Caroon is a creative strategist, entrepreneur and advocate with an insatiable desire to see women succeed. Laura is president and co-founder of Ladyboss Midwest, an organization built to connect and empower women all across the region. Laura believes in the power of community and was recently elected to City Council in her hometown of Moorhead, Minnesota.  With a background in startups and small business, Laura is always up for conversations about new ventures and entrepreneurship, but her favorite place to be is at home or at the lake with her husband and eight-year old daughter. 

Connect with Laura: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauracaroon/ 

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Nicole Phillips is a champion for using kindness and the power of prayer to overcome all of life’s difficulties, including her own battles with alcoholism, depression and breast cancer.

In this podcast, Nicole Phillips gives some golden nuggets about how to find more joy and fulfillment in life, simply by being kind.

Setting boundaries and overcoming a constant need to hurry, are two of the many great topics covered in this podcast.

Check out her website

About Nicole: She spreads the message of the healing power of kindness as host of the show “The Kindness Podcast,” which received the honor in 2021 of being named by Oprah Magazine as one of the Top Three Happiness Podcasts!

You may have seen Nicole on Hallmark Channel’s Home & Family show, HGTV’s House Hunters or on The Price is Right (where she learned a lot about kindness and won a car!).

Nicole is the author of three books, Kindness is Contagious, Kindness is Courageous and The Negativity Remedy.

She is married to her childhood crush who is a very handsome college men’s basketball coach. The couple lives in Aberdeen, South Dakota with their three children and oversized Goldendoodle.

Here's a link to the 30 Day Kindness Challenge she recommends in the podcast.

She also mentions this book: The Best Yes

Carrie Haugen is the Campus Recruitment Manager at Eide Bailly in Fargo, ND. She graduated from North Dakota State University with a degree in Human Resources Management. In this episode, Carrie dives deep into recruiting and retention and gives some great tips on how to find young employees and how to keep them. 

Connect with Carrie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carrie-haugen-17b37ab6/ 

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In this episode, Brady talks about the importance of clarity, understanding, and passion within teams. He is all about the importance of surrounding yourself with good people. He also believes that the more we reflect on what our dreams are, the better people we become and the more impact we can make on the world.

Brady's LinkedIn

BNG Website

Brady's Bio: 

Brady leads BNG's overall company direction. Spending most of his time, negotiating contracts and new partnerships. BNG has many departments, so he needs to make sure that they are all working together in the same direction to achieve the companies goals. He has taken proactive steps in recent years to stop micromanaging and to give more control to department heads. Having very skilled individuals in each division of the company has been crucial to the companies recent growth. He now leads from a higher view and leaves more of the smaller but important details to his trusted team members. His passion and skills are still in sales and still dips in on the sales side to satisfy his passion and to still prove to himself that he still has it :-) He wants to make sure that he understands the hurdles that the sales and customer services team face everyday, so that the company is in great position to be setting the industry standards. He has recently done a lot more public speaking in regards to entrepreneurship and the process of automating getting paid. Instilling belief in merchants that they deserve to get paid and to get paid on time. Then not only believing this, but then implementing this process throughout a company from top to bottom, significantly improving a companies cash flow and ability to survive and then thrive.

Mike Zani's Bio:

Mike Zani is the WSJ Best Selling Author of “The Science of Dream Teams”. Mike has a remarkably varied background. After graduating from Brown University, he coached the 1996 U.S. Olympic Sailing Team, where he was named Coach of the Year for the sport of sailing. After his career as a sailing coach, he attended Harvard Business School. Zani later partnered with a fellow graduate school classmate to form a search fund called Phoenix Strategy Investments, which searches to acquire companies where there is the potential to apply better management practices to dramatically improve business results. The first company Phoenix Strategy Investments acquired was LEDCO, a computer docking station manufacturer. As CEO, Mike increased LEDCO’s revenue by 350% in four years. After selling LEDCO, Mike acquired and ran ShapeUp, a SaaS wellness platform, and grew revenues by 600% in three years.

At both of these companies, Mike and his team used The Predictive Index®, a workforce assessment methodology, to ensure they were doing the best possible job hiring and managing people. The Predictive Index had been family run since its founding in 1955. In 2014, Mike led an investment to purchase The Predictive Index and has been CEO of the company since.

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We had the great opportunity to be interviewed by Fargo's Fit Friend, Founder of the Fargo Fit Friend Podcast, Kay Cote! 

Connect with Kay: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaylacote/

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Matt's Bio: 

Matt Skoy received his bachelors degree in Business Administration from North Dakota State University, masters degree in Education Administration from Iowa State University, and recently completed his PhD in Organizational Effectiveness from NDSU. Matt started his career at NDSU where he served for 11 years in Student Affairs. When he was the Director of Student Activities, Matt was responsible for leading his department and creating curriculum designed to ensure growth and development of students, faculty, and staff. After his time at NDSU, Matt joined the private sector and is currently serving as the Learning and Development Manager at Aldevron. Matt has held several different positions throughout his career, but one element remains consistent. Learning has always been at the forefront. As a life-long learner, Matt is passionate about providing value to others through intentional learning and development. When Matt is not at work, he is grateful to be a husband and father of three. Matt believes his life is a blessing and takes nothing for granted.

Interested in learning more about Matt? Connect with him here: LinkedIn 

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Shawna's Bio:

Shawna’s drive for reimagining what is possible in the workplace through strategic planning and execution has been amplified over her extensive career, where she was a trusted advisor to business owners and HR executives across various industries. Her expertise lies in her ability to see the big picture, gather the needed information, and then translate the vision and corresponding data into clear strategic action that is aligned to the desired outcome.

Over the years, her excitement grew around reshaping common beliefs within the corporate structure, including culture development and workforce planning. She recognized that the biggest challenge for most companies revolve around its single greatest asset, people. The need to effectively align people to the business strategy, while increasing productivity and retaining the best talent is paramount. It is because of this that she started EmFluent with her husband in 2019 and now leads the corporate culture training and workforce planning and development side of their business.

Her proficiency and passion are now delivered by building dream teams within organizations through talent optimization.

You can connect with Shawna on LinkedIn or visit her website emfluent.com . 

People just want to be heard. It's simple. 

It's not easy to stay consistent, though. Gaining your employee's trust doesn't happen immediately, and it takes consistency and courage. 

Biggest takeaway: Reserve the first 15 minutes of your weekly team meetings to chat about things other than work. Be intentional about it. 

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-marshall-54614210/

Show notes I promised: 

Melissa is one of our keynote speakers at our first annual Women's Goal Setting Summit on January 14th, 2022! Check it out and register today: https://burnoutpreventionproject.com/the-burnout-prevention-project/events/ 

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A - Attempt

I - In 

L - Learning