Episodes - Page 5 | Working on Purpose

May 25, 2023

Riding the Wave of Technology to Elevate Innovation and Individual Distinction

Travis James, a long-time tech entrepreneur, celebrates the genius of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, natural language processing, IoT, and the recent splash, ChatGPT. In this episode, he shares his work on creating a technology...

May 18, 2023

Developing Your Y.O.D.A. to Make Better Decisions that Elevate Your Whole Life

Did you know we each have our own Y.O.D.A.? - Your Own Decision Advisor, which is the inner voice that guides our choices? Anxiety, depression, loneliness, hopelessness, and fatigue are all capable of sabotaging a person’s Y.O.D.A. In this episode, an...

May 11, 2023

On Coaching Men to Greater Connection, Success, and Happiness

In a world where women are making increasing strides in their education, career, and finances, how are men moving forward? Culture dictates that men be strong and provide for their families. But society is changing, and so are men, if Dr. John...

May 4, 2023

Awakening Souls and Restoring Humanity in Corporate America

There is an intense and growing need for people to have something they can believe in, something that demands and engages their deepest longings. They seek to ensure that their lives are fueled by passion, have meaning, and that they are needed in the...

April 27, 2023

Are Blame and Toxicity Killing Your Company?

As the employee-driven workplace continues taking stock of where it wants to contribute their talent, one critical variable they are closely monitoring is the level of toxicity they experience in a company. Companies increasingly recognize they must...

April 20, 2023

The Ownership Approach: Building Your Best Culture from the Bottom Up

Much culture transformation is driven from a top-down approach where senior leaders dictate the results designed. This approach is increasingly ineffective because the workplace is changing so fast and it does not mobilize the bottom-up energy and...

April 13, 2023

Building High-Performance and Unstoppable Teams

Building great teams who are united in purpose and fueled by meaning is essential to keep your company flourishing. Taking a page from a three-time Navy seal platoon commander, you’ll learn how the CARE framework of connecting, achieving, respecting,...

April 6, 2023

The Emotion Decoder: Activating the Power of ALL Emotions to Fuel Relationships and Performance

There is a long-standing assumption that strong emotions lead to reactive behavior and irrational decision-making and therefore cannot be trusted. In this episode, we learn why the guest disagrees with this idea and hear about his new approach to...

March 30, 2023

Transformational Leadership: The Way to Lead Amid Revolutionary Global Changes

Today we find ourselves living in the Fourth Industrial Revolution where emerging technologies and their interactions with one another are upending how we work, play, educate, and govern ourselves. Disruption and change are constant. People need to...

March 23, 2023

From Leadership as Position to Activity Where Everyone Leads

The world is full of bad and mediocre bosses, coaches, presidents, and CEOs. With the world moving so fast, the “leadership as a position” model is rapidly collapsing. Organizations that expect people at the top to do all the leading won’t thrive but...

March 16, 2023

High-Stakes Leadership Needs Expert Coaching

Everybody needs a coach in life when tasked with delivering results from a high-stakes job. We need clarity of what the ultimate win looks like, to constantly cultivate our character and emotional intelligence, and to motivate the team to produce...

March 10, 2023

Eight Key Areas that Take You from Being an Awful to Effective Manager

Work holds the promise of being a place and an experience where people can contribute their talents passionately and grow into their highest potential. Yet, that’s not the experience for many employees working in companies. The number one reason...

March 2, 2023

Your Transformational Journey to an Emotionally Strong Leader

Emotions provide such rich color in our lives. They are also a tremendous source of data from which we can learn to improve the quality of our decisions. Yet, many people are afraid of their own emotions, worried they will get out of hand and risk the...

Feb. 23, 2023

From Overcoming Adversity to Resilience and Achievement

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit,” says Napoleon Hill. What seemingly impossible thing has life thrown at you? The question isn’t “what,” but “how” you will navigate through the...

Feb. 16, 2023

In it Together: Six Universal Truths to Unite Humanity

We live in a world that seems fixated on the differences between people, races, religions, and nations. But constantly focusing on our differences often leads to distrust, separation, conflict, and the marginalization of entire groups of people. By...

Feb. 9, 2023

Turn Up Your Own Intrinsic Motivation and Turn ON Your Life

Hate your job? You can learn to love most any activity by learning to engage in exciting outcome-focused behavior, rather than the oft-practiced activity-focused behavior. To satisfy our own psychological needs at work, we must learn to apply our own...

Feb. 2, 2023

Foster an Enlivening Experience Through Your Company Culture

People want desperately to contribute and cultivate their passions at work, to enjoy meaningful connection with their colleagues, and to know they are part of an organization doing purposeful work that aligns with their values. When people do not...

Jan. 26, 2023

Develop Your Quantitative Intelligence ™ to Power Today’s Business and Make Way for More Creativity

Today’s business pace is brisk, and it’s only going to accelerate as information and opportunity accumulate. Successful leaders and their teams will need to develop the capacity to make decisions using the head and heart, swiftly balancing data,...

Jan. 20, 2023

Leveraging Your Experiential Intelligence to Distinguish Contribution and Elevate Breakthrough

We all have the opportunity to more deeply understand and then explicitly leverage what we’ve gained from our life experiences, whatever they may be. When we develop awareness of our strengths, lean into our assets, and move beyond the self-limiting...

Jan. 12, 2023

Love: The Heart of the Best Business and Leadership

Love is increasingly being spoken and practiced in the workplace. But what does it look like when leaders put love at the very center of company culture? In this episode, the leaders of Softway share the transformation of themselves and their company...

Jan. 5, 2023

Your Organizational Purpose Upgrade Beckons

Organizational purpose should never be a one-stop North Star baked into its operational code – the changing world is much too dynamic to suit this static model. What is necessary for a vibrant, relevant enterprise that positively impacts its...

Dec. 29, 2022

The Toolkit for Women and People of Color to Transcend Career Limitations

Here’s your opportunity to take sexism and racism you encounter in the workplace and transcend them to realize your own dreams. Data has shown that women, women of color, and people of color tend to have micro-inequities and blatant discrimination...

Dec. 22, 2022

Reaching for the Stars Through Mentoring from the Greats

Reaching for your potential requires constantly challenging yourself and seeking ongoing learning from those who have gone before you and are reaching to help pull you up. Scott Jeffrey Miller has made it a practice to gather prominent mentors whose...

Dec. 15, 2022

Radically Authentic and on Fire to Unleash Dreams

Jaime Konzelman is a walking billboard for reaching far and wide in life. She goes for the gusto in everything she does and now channels this intensity to help others live with passion and purpose. One, precious and rare existence for us all, and...