Episode 152
Released November 2, 2023
This episode of The Executive Edge features Grayson James, a highly knowledgeable individual who is the CEO and Founder of Grayson James Consultants, LLC. He also runs a business called Full Contact Institute where you can find copies of his excellent book on this topic.
Grayson's business is a globally recognised company that specialises in leadership collaboration and performance improvement. With more than thirty years of expertise in guiding senior executives and their teams, Grayson is a consultant for organisations aiming to achieve genuine organisational change.
The episode opens with a discussion about Grayson's interest in how people collaborate and communicate effectively. He shares his background as a professional mediator and coach, emphasising the importance of awareness in leadership. He believes much of our behaviour is automatic and habitual, making it essential to become aware of our patterns in order to make positive changes.
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Episode 169
Released March 7, 2024
This week I talk to Lisa Tromba.
Lisa is a well-experienced Executive Search and leadership assessment advisor delivering diverse leadership solutions across Consumer, Food & Beverage and Industrial markets globally.
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Episode 168
Released February 29, 2024
This week's guests is Shanil Ebrahim
Shanil is a partner in Deloitte in Canada, working with organisations, implementing AI and health solutions to prepare business for the workforce of the future.
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Episode 167
Released February 22, 2024
This week's guest is Richard Clarke
Richard found it difficult to decide what he wanted to do in life, but he resolved to be happy while he searched. He travelled, did a variety of jobs and spent several years experiencing life before starting an IT company with a colleague.
At work he wanted to make sure his employees felt happy as he recognised this feature of their working life made a big difference. Money was less important to him, but being surrounded by a team was important.
On the show, Richard discussese the 5 drivers for happiness at work.
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Episode 166
Released February 15, 2024
This week's guest is Stephanie Coradin
With a background in counselling and business development, Stephanie talks passionately about how executives in the hospitality industry need to connect with employees – at all levels.
In her experience, "emotional leadership", as she calls it, fosters a compassionate and caring environment which in turn leads to increased profitability and productivity.
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Episode 165
Released February 8, 2024
This week's guests is Anita Chaudhuri.
Anita is a Guardian journalist who previously wrote for Psychologies magazine. Her main area of interest, which is close to my heart, is that of handling stress and finding creative ways to feel good.
She is also a talented photographer. In this episode she does a great job of explaining how she came to master it. In the process of taking pictures there is a great deal of concentration, focus and single-minded determination. She finds these qualities give her a complete break from her thoughts and the inevitable ‘busyness’ of life.
This episode is very much about the benefits of incorporating creative practice in your daily life.
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Episode 164
Released February 1, 2024
This week's guest is Jeanne Omlor
Jeanne is a business accelerator expert for coaches and consultants. With a background in fashion before deciding to become an actress, she grew up in Australia and settled in Paris for several years. Then took up translation work from French and after 8 years in Europe, she moved to New York.
She became an executive recruiter for Wall St and a consultant for them. Hiring top level people for business. She’s had an interesting life and learnt how to promote herself on social media. Driven to coaching and securing clients quite quickly, she excelled at it but taught herself well.
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Episode 163
Released January 25, 2024
This week's guests is Dr Randy Ross – a globally celebrated authority in corporate culture.
He pairs passion and profit by fortifying emotional health and fostering an unparalleled sense of well-being in the workplace.
Renowned for his bestselling books, Fireproof Happiness, Relationomics, and Remarkable, he believes in creating an ecosystem where top talent thrives. He also finds the bottom-line flourishes.
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Episode 162
January 16, 2024
This week's show has two guests: Phil Lewis and Claire Croft. Together they form the dynamic business consulting service Corporate Punk that helps businesses to navigate change, conflict and work more effectively.
Bottom line, they work to make businesses work better using a combination of business diagnostics, planning, consultancy and coaching.
On the show, the pair discuss ways in which they help businesses and their transition from marketers to business consultants.
The discussion also looks at how business teams often fall into conflict aversion where people avoid having healthy, important conversations that would otherwise result in positive change.
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Episode 161
Released January 11, 2024
This week's guest is Neal Frick.
Neal has worked in executive leadership positions in a traditional, conservative industry of defence in the US. He found it more difficult because leaders miss the mark by not focussing on inclusion and instead espouse old school ways of doing business. He feels this does not serve business anymore.
He advocates a new wave of doing business. More often we respond to a singular issue such as the need for flexible working practices after women return to work from maternity leave. This specific response to an issue happens because a group of people demand it. Business then tries to rise to that challenge. Neal feels things should be more rounded than that. He suggests that we can continuously stay ‘on top of inclusion’ if we talk to people more.
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Episode 160
Released: January 4, 2024
This week's guest is Chris Wood.
Chris runs his own business Chris Wood Leadership and is with me in this episode to talk about how our nervous system works. He believes if we can control the fight or flight reaction of our body. We can have more input at times when we need to be more alert; make important decisions or do things that matter.
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