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Steve Cockram is dedicated to empowering the leader in everyone. He is an international speaker, author, and consultant to top-level executives and leaders around the world. He is a subject matter expert on personality and wiring, organizational leadership, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal communication. Steve is the co-founder of GiANT Worldwide, a global leadership consultancy. He is also co-author of the books 5 Gears and 5 Voices and their newest book, The 100XLeader. Steve’s passion for leaders, team communication, change management and work/life balance is clearly echoed through his books, speaking and executive consulting. He is the coach to a number of CEOs and is a sought after speaker both in the US and in his native UK. He inspires audiences to create better organisations through his heart-level stories, use of humour and expertise in human interactions.

Corey began his storytelling career as an actor, starring in one of the 50 greatest super bowl commercials of all time (Mountain Dew, Bohemian Rhapsody) and in campaigns for American Express, Miller Beer, Mitsubishi, Wrigley's Gum, Hasbro, and other name brands. Today, Corey is the founder and CEO of Round Table Companies (RTC). He has been featured on the cover of the Wall Street Journal and his work in storytelling has been quoted/featured in the New York Times, USA Today, and Inc., Forbes, and Wired Magazines. Corey pioneered the business comic book, packaging and publishing dozens of titles—including best sellers by Tony Hsieh, Marshall Goldsmith, and Robert Cialdini—and has spent over a decade guiding CEOs, founders, and thought leaders to set up a storytelling ecosystem around their brand, including writing the book they were born to write.  He is an avid supporter and sponsor of Conscious Capitalism, and the publisher of Conscious Capitalism Press. His work has yielded 15 Independent Publisher Awards, a Belding, a Bronze Lion, and a London International Advertising Award. His articles have been published in Writer Magazine, and on FastCompany, Forbes.com and The Huffington Post. He is also the creator of the Vulnerability Wall—whose clients include Microsoft, ADP, Marketo, and Workday—and the Vulnerability is SexyTM card game. His documentary of the same name won 2017 ADDY and HERMES awards for branded content. Corey travels around the country delivering keynotes and facilitating storytelling workshops for organizations of all sizes.

Mila Grigg is passionate about brand, leadership and image. Her consulting firm, MODA, was born out of Mila's passion to help others succeed by sharing what she has learned in the world of business, fashion, brand, sales and marketing. Her career began in the insurance industry with a quick transition to the music industry; and then to a firm where she worked with athletes, entertainers, professionals and businesses in the area of brand and marketing. She has even spent a tremendous amount of time working in the ultimate branding sport of NASCAR, and has worked with some of the top stars bringing together their corporate sponsorships. She was working with BRAND before it became the word of the century. As a business owner and someone who has worked in and up the leadership, image and brand business, Mila brings something of added value to every client she has, sharing her strong faith, hard work ethic, values, integrity, extensive relationships and business savvy with everyone she serves. She is often a guest contributor to numerous publications, speaking to groups and associations across the U.S., while being an expert consultant on television and hosting seminars and training thousands. She has been honored as a Forty under 40 recipient and a Woman of Influence by the Nashville Business Journal.

Jonathan Keyser is the founder and thought leader behind Keyser, the largest commercial real estate tenant brokerage/consulting firm in Arizona. Through his disruptive focus on selfless service, Jonathan is re-shaping the commercial real estate industry, and his firm has quickly become one of the fastest-growing firms of its kind in the country, representing companies globally across multiple industries. Jonathan is thrilled to share his journey and mission of selfless service through his highly-anticipated book, You Don’t Have to Be Ruthless to Win, anticipated to release this summer. A strong supporter of the Conscious Capitalism movement, Jonathan is working toward the upcoming launch of The Keyser Institute to inspire and equip the next generation of selfless leaders.

A “Top 10 Executive Coach on LinkedIn,” John Murphy is a results oriented business coach and mentor to senior executives and CEOs around the world. He’s a great communicator with broad experience and is skilled at discussing issues that make businesses and individuals grow and thrive. John is a #1 Best Selling Author on Amazon. His book, 10 Key Traits of Top Business Leaders is a must read for any executive with leadership aspirations. Living and working in the south of France, John is originally from Ireland. Before starting his own business John enjoyed a highly successful career in the corporate world. He began as a door-to-door life assurance salesman and culminated as the CEO of a Pan European Life Assurance Company in Ireland. John started his business, John Murphy International, in 2004 and has worked worldwide across a broad range of industries. His clients include Pfizer, Airbus, State Street Bank, Vodafone and Johnson & Johnson. Your entrepreneurial audience will benefit from John’s succinct and pithy insights into emotional intelligence, leadership, team success, mindset, strategy and more. John is absolutely passionate about helping people to win in their careers and to win in their personal lives!

Matt Malouf is a passionate business coach, entrepreneur, speaker, author, and podcast host on a mission to help entrepreneurs around the world break the shackles of mediocrity and reach new levels of personal and business success. Matt has experience at every stage of the business lifecycle, from conception to exit strategy. His business coaching methodology is simple: understand your current position, map out your journey, and establish measurable goals to track progress along the way. By focusing more on accountability than quick fixes, Matt’s coaching has helped his 1,000+ clients add millions of dollars in turnover without adding pressure on internal resources. Matt takes a holistic approach to uncovering business roadblocks, then utilizing a hybrid of tools to creatively overcome challenges by implementing and fine-tuning proven business systems. Whether working with startups or established businesses, Matt refines every detail from the ground up, ensuring each business is both efficient and profitable. Matt’s coaching program, Profitable LIfestyle Business, incorporates strategies outlined in his best-selling book The Stop Doing List, inspiring entrepreneurs in any industry to address their most crucial business needs and build a thriving business allowing them to live a 500/40/30 lifestyle ($500,000 annual profit, working no more than forty x 30-hour weeks per year).

Joe Calloway helps great companies leaders and companies get even better. His workshops and interactive keynote presentations help develop leaders, create more effective teams, and improve performance for successful businesses who know that they can, and should, be doing more with the people and resources that they already have. Joe’s client list reads like an international Who’s Who in business, ranging from companies like Proctor & Gamble and Coca Cola to Cadillac and American Express. Joe also works extensively with small to mid-sized businesses, franchisees, and a range of professional services organizations. Joe is the author of seven books on business performance, including Becoming A Category of One, Be The Best At What Matters Most, Magnetic: The Art Of Attracting Business, Keep it Simple: Unclutter your Mind. Uncomplicate your Life, and his latest book The Leadership Mindset: How Today's Successful Business Leaders Think.

CEO and Founder of DiversyFund, Craig Cecilio’s mission is to disrupt traditional alternative asset investing and empower the average investor by giving them the same wealth building opportunities available to the 1%. Craig’s visionary approach to democratizing alternative asset investing combines the power of crowdfunding with cutting-edge technology through DiversyFund’s online platform. As CEO, Craig oversees the daily development and strategic execution of DiversyFund. This includes delivering the messaging and branding to the public, hiring the best people and constantly innovating to break down the barriers that prevent the average investor from participating in alternative asset investing. Craig is also an experienced fund manager and manages DiversyFund’s no-fee real estate fund that has returned over 10 percent since inception. Prior to founding DiversyFund in 2014, Craig worked for nearly 20 years in real estate as a joint venture equity partner, lender and sponsor. A natural entrepreneur, Craig has utilized his networking skills to lead the development of over 1,000 single family residences, financing more than $1 billion worth of real estate assets.

Businessman and Life Coach, Aaron Walker, has inspired many through his leadership, mentorship, and consistent pursuit of excellence. He enjoys helping others and believes experience is a great teacher. 36 years of entrepreneurship and marriage have given Aaron a wealth of experience. Aaron continues to reach new heights and broaden his perspective of the terrain by examining his experiences and growing from them. Aaron has two life mantras: Fear missing an opportunity more than you fear failure Can’t couldn’t do it, and Could did it.

With nearly two decades experience in traditional corporate jobs (including time in investment banking, consulting and industry), Kristen Zavo understands the frustrations, fears and challenges that come with realizing you’re in the wrong profession – and figuring out what to do next. As a recovering workaholic and former consultant and corporate strategist, she understands the frustrations, fears and challenges that come with realizing that you’re in the wrong profession. She believes everyone deserves a career that excites and inspires them – and the feeling of happiness and fulfillment that comes from meaningful work. Through her work as an executive coach, speaker, workshop facilitator and as the author of Job Joy, she has formally and informally helped thousands of clients, colleagues and friends find job satisfaction – whether they chose to stay put, find a new job or completely change careers.

Jeremie Kubicek specializes in getting leaders to a higher level through his speaking, consulting and books. He takes complex concepts and adapts them into powerful tools that are practical and scalable. Jeremie speaks worldwide to audiences of all sizes across various industries and sectors. In addition, Jeremie is a best-selling author of the books Making Your Leadership Come Alive; 5 Gears: How to be present and productive when there is never enough time; 5 Voices: How to Communicate with everyone you lead; & The 100X Leader.  

Dr. Gus Vickery is a committed family physician with extensive experience working in the medical field. He specializes in helping people with a wide array of chronic health conditions to take the actions necessary to reverse these conditions and feel their best. By providing comprehensive health assessments based on extensive biometric data and intensive personal engagement, Gus helps his patients create a detailed lifestyle and medicinal health optimization plan built around their unique needs. Gus is passionate about healing people, not just treating their symptoms, and he’s radically changing the way we view health. His mission today is educating people to transform old habits into new patterns for living by mastering stress, increasing movement, practicing meditation, improving willpower, maximizing sleep, and enjoying nutrition. In his book Authentic Health, Gus dives into each of these themes, inspiring us all to dig a little deeper and reclaim the good health that’s within each of us.

Biagio Sciacca, or Bill as his friends call him, is one of the most dynamic speakers on the planet. He has a way of melding social sciences, humanities and plain old common sense into a unique, action packed message that resounds with self motivation and enthusiasm. Over the years, Bill has owned an award winning consulting and training organization, a chain of donut and ice cream franchises, and several businesses in the automotive/car care industry. Bill’s consulting company touts several thousand clients from locally owned firms to multinational Fortune 500 companies. Now he’s empowering leaders of all levels to grow through an experiential leadership training program in Costa Rica.

John Fairclough founded The Resicom Group to help retailers optimize the way they improve and maintain their store environment. Under his leadership, the company has evolved from a local construction company into an international provider of facility maintenance and construction services. Now John enjoys sharing his story to inspire others. John leans on his faith to help him persevere through the difficulties of overcoming the status quo. He values people and understands the balance needed between the strength and consistency of process and the value of personal dignity. He relishes the oxymoronic tone to solutions. What people quickly discard is often the best course of action. His best virtues were incubated by extreme poverty and forged through his unlikely business success. Humility and justice are the invisible stains of his diverse and adverse experiences. Naturally, people come first for him and finding a way to see their good, wanting them to obtain their missing good, staying hopeful for them are the things he works very intentionally on.

It’s 100% certain that everyone listening to this podcast is experiencing some kind of change or transition in their life or business. How you navigate these transitions determines your ultimate success. Today’s guest is John Hinkle, an author, speaker, and personal growth coach who’s empowering men and women to navigate those changes and find their “second-half purpose.” John’s experience working with Fortune 500 companies has equipped him with unique tools to help others reach their own personal and business success goals. He’s here today to share 5 practical and transformational principles from his book, Shift: Moving from Where You Are to the Life You Want, to empower you to move from your current unfulfilled status to a future of success and purpose. Welcome to the show, John! After a successful career as a global corporate leader responsible for building some of the world’s most notable brands, John Hinkle began his own SHIFT journey. It began when his career was unexpectedly upended through a corporate merger. The event became a pivotal time of questioning and reflection, which led to the discovery of five core principles he developed to master his own life and career change. It was during that same time that John began sharing these principles with many other mid-career people, who he describes as the ‘working worried:’ men and women who no longer feel vital or safe in their careers, who (like John himself) want to take control of their futures, yet feel stuck not knowing what steps to take to achieve the career and life they’ve longed to have. What started out as a personal discovery has now developed into a powerful and life-changing program called SHIFT Principles. SHIFT Principles is teaching men and women around the world how to navigate and master their own SHIFT journeys and to realize their success and purpose on their own terms. John is the co-founder of SHIFT Principles, LLC, a personal coaching organization. He is also co-author of Shift: Moving From Where You Are to the Life You Want, in which he empowers readers with big dreams to chase their goals and achieve success.

Krister Ungerboeck is a keynote speaker, CEO Coach, and global expert in The Language of Leadership. Prior to retiring at age 42, Krister was the award-winning CEO of one of the largest family-owned software companies in the world. His expertise in the Language of Leadership is based upon his unique experience as a global CEO leading teams in three languages while observing and doing business with executives in over 40 countries, building businesses in six and living in three. As a corporate keynote speaker, Krister is passionate about sharing the secrets that his team used to win 5 consecutive Top Workplace awards and achieve remarkable employee engagement levels of 99.3%. His upcoming book, The Language of Leadership: Words to Transform How We Lead, Live and Love, will be published in spring 2019.

Dr. Daphne Scott, the founder of DS Leadership Life, specializes in creating mindful leaders and mindful organization through leadership coaching programs that focus on mindfulness, positivity, creativity, and fun. Daphne has developed her coaching programs throughout two decades of real world coaching and corporate development experience. She draws on her unique background in improv theater and physical therapy to bring engaging embodiment and team-building elements to her coaching, along with strong leadership abilities and highly-trained facilitation skills to bring individuals and teams into greater relationship, creativity, and ultimately, success. Daphne holds a Masters Degree in Applied Positive Psychology and a Doctorate of Science in Physical Therapy, as well as multiple accolades in the field of professional coaching and development. She’s studied with top-level executive coaches, consciousness experts, and organizational psychologists, and she’s here to share her insight to help us all take our work and lives to the next level.

Two of the key principles of a Catalyst Leader is being “committed to growth” and a “builder of strong relationships”. Mastermind groups have been around since the beginning of time. Even Benjamin Franklin belonged to a mastermind. But it was Napoleon Hill who explained it clearly and encouraged people to gather together in a structured, repeatable environment for the success of all. Napoleon Hill wrote about the mastermind group principle as: “The coordination of knowledge and effort of two or more people, who work toward a definite purpose, in the spirit of harmony.” Today we’re going to unpack the idea of a mastermind in our conversation between Jay Sharp and Dr. Jason Brooks

Michael Melcher is one of America’s leading executive coaches and is an expert on leadership and career development. He is currently a partner at Next Step Partners, a firm based in New York and San Francisco. He is also the host of the podcast, “Meanwhile: A Podcast to Improve Your Life.” He previously held positions in business, law and the U.S. Foreign Service. His clients have included Google, Goldman Sachs, Doctors Without Borders, Ford Foundation, Population Services International, National Resources Defense Council, and many others.

Chris Aarons has helped launch dozens of companies and products using a unique mix of digital, sales, and marketing strategies.  Now, Chris has co-authored a powerful blueprint, The Digital Helix, to guide executives and business owners, and their companies, to thrive in the digital age. The power to act faster and do it better than before sits at the heart of truly digitally transformed organizations.