Stephane Fitch, founder of FitchInk, shares how his journey to pursue a more authentic life led to him developing his own content development company and ultimately reaching his own  personal and professional potential.

A group of experts explores how to deal with different decision-making styles in order to alleviate potential conflicts and, ultimately, work better together with your bosses, your clients, and your colleagues.

Is one style of decision making – data-driven or gut-driven – more effective than the other? We talk to five experts in their field to find out.

Tom Schuh, founder of Optimum Effect Group, spent over a decade in the military before working his way up the corporate ladder at American express and other financial institutions before transitioning to being an entrepreneur.

Tom’s journey in the military not only mirrored his career arc in the corporate world and then into entrepreneurship, but that experience on the battlefield provided guidance and focus throughout his corporate and entrepreneurial journey.

Now a 20-year sales veteran, he shares his perspective on the challenges that he commonly sees in the sales profession and what it takes to build that strategic momentum.

Deepak Shukla, founder and CEO of the SEO agency Pearl Lemon, didn’t take a linear career path. In fact, it took 23 jobs and all the experiences and learnings that came with it to figure out what he wanted to do. In this episode, Deepak shares his perspective on how to overcome the fear of the course, act on your impulses, create accountability, and test and learn your way to career success.

Joseph Ney and his partners have built Reingold into a leading marketing and communications firm servicing the private sector. It took continuous experimentation, evolution, and an opportunity mindset to get to where they are today. And of course, they are they are still tweaking. But through it all, they were always mission-focused – not only for their clients but for themselves.

John Newtson, Co-Founder of the Financial Marketing Summit has built a B2B business development ecosystem that takes a fundamentally different approach to event marketing. For him, it always been around focusing on others’ needs, helping to shake people out of their me-centered mindset and breaking through the business inertia by doing more together.

Breaking through the noise in today’s multi-channel, 24/7 news cycle is a challenge. Media Relations experts Keith Blackman and Chris Blackman help you understand what it really takes to create buzz for your company from strategy to execution.

What’s the  science of altruism and why is mission and purpose  more than just trendy? To learn more, I talked with Dr. Richard Shuster, a former IT executive turned licensed clinical psychologist and the host of the popular, internationally downloaded podcast, The Daily Helping.

What does it take to develop a sound business strategy? Kevin Garton, Chief Operating Officer of Context Capital Partners walks us through what it takes and just as important, the misconceptions many people have around what a strategy actually is.

The idea of creating a strategy may sound simple, even obvious, but as you’ll learn in this episode, the choices you have to make almost never are.

Steve King, Partner at Emergent Research, joins us to talk about the trends in the independent workforce and the impact that independent workers are having on businesses.

In business development, it’s all about the “value exchange” – so to help break through the inertia that may exist in organizations, you have to understand that BD involves so much more than sales. John Keeling, SVP of Business Development at The Motley Fool, joins us for this episode.

Dana Cavalea spent 12 years with the New York Yankees Organization, including many years as the Director of Strength and Conditioning and Performance Enhancement. Today, Dana brings those same performance optimization techniques to business leaders, and we discuss the parallels between optimizing for sports and business.

Dan Yu is the Founder of FastBook Advisors, a new kind of talent agency that focuses on strategic consultation in sales and marketing, organizational structure and design, talent acquisition, and human capital management. We discuss the biggest challenges faced by both hiring managers and job hunters in identifying the best talent and roles, and how both can more effectively navigate their way through this process with a strategy.

WGN Morning News is the #1 morning news show in Chicago. As a station that has been around for 70 years, they have a unique brand that people trust – a brand that today’s guest, Executive Producer Aline Cox, strives to maintain. She shares how they continue to evolve, every day, testing and learning to determine what makes good TV while staying true to their brand.

Stephanie Balderrama, President of Consumer Insights Group shares her perspective on why it’s now more important than ever to be plugged into your consumers’ needs and behaviors. Because of their ever evolving behavior, companies need to reconsider how they approach the way they gather learnings about them particularly in today’s agile environments.

What does it take to implement artificial intelligence to create business momentum? Steve Brown, Director of Einstein Analytics Specialists at Salesforce, says being agile is the key.

Beth Freedman is the Managing Director of gyro:UK, a leading global B2B creative agency, and has spent her career working for some of the biggest agencies in the world, including Saatchi & Saatchi and Fallon.

Beth believes real business momentum happens when service-based businesses invest in the growth and development of their people. It’s the human part of the business that agencies often forget. She attributes her own upward mobility to those who nurtured her talents throughout her career. And  as a result, it is an imperative that she is championing in her leadership role today.

In this interview, Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo, renowned social psychologist, gives us a look into the foundation and purpose of his latest initiative, The Heroic Imagination Project. The project explores everyday heroism and how to train “ordinary” people to be heroes, with the rallying cry: “Stand Up, Speak Out, Take Action Against Injustice.”  

Joanie Rufo, Founder of Initiate Consulting, shares why the key to effectively leading others is, first, learning to effectively lead yourself – a concept she calls Leading Self.