In this episode, I sit down with Alvin Law – an international Hall-of-Fame keynote speaker, Emmy Award winner, and award-winning musician who was born without arms and built a remarkable life by refusing to let other people’s labels define him.Alvin and I talk about what it really means to step into your greatness when your
Image credit: alphaspirit“Where did you train?”The woman at the National Speakers Association meeting looked at me expectantly.“I taught myself,” I said.Her face scrunched up. “No, I mean where did you learn improv?”“That’s what I’m saying. I read books and figured it out.”She looked at me like I’d just admitted to performing surgery after watching YouTube
When everything feels messy, most leaders reach for more tactics and more meetings. In this conversation, I sit down with Maartje van Krieken – engineer, skipper, crisis strategist, and host of The Business Emergency Room Podcast – to talk about how to triage chaos, make cleaner decisions, and realign people and processes without burning everyone
Image credit: Freigeist67“How can we do that?”Five words. Two completely different meanings. One choice that determines whether your organization thrives or dies.After 20+ years as the World’s Only Motivational Improviser (Yes, I made that up. No, no one has ever contested it…yet.) teaching thousands of leaders how improv principles can transform organizations, I’ve discovered this
Image credit: robbin0919@gmail.com“My people are stuck in their ways. They resist every change we try to implement.”I hear this from every type of leader rolling out change; from CEOs modernizing operations to IT directors implementing new systems to association heads navigating industry disruption.They all say it with the same mix of frustration and resignation. Like
In this conversation with change-management expert April Callis-Birchmeier (CCMP™, PMP®, CSP®), we unpack her R.E.A.D.Y. framework from her READY, Set, Change! Book and framework and translate it into practical moves you can make this quarter. We cover how to turn corporate buzzwords into relevant, relatable stories, why one accountable executive sponsor changes everything, what “just
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