All the things that make great teachers also make great leaders: encouragement, adaptability, kindness, care. Our guest today, Lisa Collum, is a former teacher who has built a multimillion-dollar curriculum company using all those skills she used to use in the classroom to now drive a great culture.

Do you want to improve employee satisfaction, engagement, and retention in your organization? Are you searching for a solution to achieve this desired outcome? Look no further because, in this interview, Mary Ogle will be sharing the leadership strategies she uses as Chief Executive Officer of A New Leaf, which provides individuals with developmental disabilities with life and job skills.

Akhtar Badshah and Aaron Hurst are Co-founders of Purpose Mindset which asks the question: what happened to the purpose in work? Akhtar and Aaron are on a quest that takes them across industries, igniting a fire within them to help companies rediscover their true essence.

Jeff believes that paying attention to your people makes a huge difference and it demonstrates that you care about the work; by doing the work, they are bringing their personalities to the table.

There aren’t many entrepreneurs whose career experience includes police officer, presidential campaign fundraiser, marketing strategist and founder of two healthcare IT startups. Cindy Jordan’s current venture came to light in 2017 motivated by her stepdaughter’s struggle with a mental health crisis.

When Thomas Shivers, CEO of Fourstone Partners, started the business they had rapid growth. However, the culture he started with was not the culture that was going to sustain them. He encountered problems that many leaders face when scaling a fast growth company and on this episode, he is willing to share honestly and openly about the lessons learned and how he made the pivot.

Do you know how rare it is to see a huge focus on culture and people in a 10-year strategic plan? When you focus on your people, you get more profitability, which is what Jim and his business partner have done.

Do you ever feel like maybe we leaders take ourselves too seriously? If you find yourself wound up about a missed detail and yelling at one of your employees because of it, you need to hear from Steve Cody about the importance of humor. He is the CEO and Founder of Peppercomm where humor is a core value of his highly successful and recognized strategic communications firm. He is also co-authoring a book called the ROI of LOL due out this year.