Episodes

  • 45 - Aligning your Purpose + Vision = Success, with Tracey Watts Cirino

    45 - Aligning your Purpose + Vision = Success, with Tracey Watts Cirino
    Mar 21 2024
    In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Tracey Watts Cirino about how aligning your purpose with a compelling vision can lead to success. Tracey Watts Cirino (https://www.linkedin.com/in/traceywattscirino/) is a 5-Time #1 international best-selling author, award-winning business owner, highly engaging empowering speaker, and podcast host of Beyond Common Business Secrets. Tracey is passionate about helping people become successful entrepreneurs and reach their highest potential. Through her dynamic keynotes, retreats, workshops, digital training programs, and mastermind groups, Tracey helps business owners and leaders discover their own personal power so they can develop customized success systems. As the founder and CEO of Beyond Common Coaching & Training Company, a Cleveland, OH-based business that provides success strategies and speaking services to business owners across the world, Tracey is a Certified Success and Mindset Coach, Certified Canfield Success Principles Trainer, and John C. Maxwell certified speaker, coach, and trainer. With her gifts of clarity and cutting through the B.S. while serving business owners all across the globe, Tracey has developed the proven BEYOND Common Success Method and the BEYOND Business Method and is dedicated to helping clients get out of their own way in order to achieve their business dreams while building a life they love. On any given day you will find Tracey passionately doing work she loves or enjoying spending time outdoors hiking, or cooking with her family and their beloved dog, Rocky right at their heels. To learn more about how Tracey can help you achieve your goals or to book Tracey as your speaker at your virtual or in-person next event, please visit www.traceywattscirino.com. Check out a free gift: https://www.beyondcommoncoaching.com/strategies Check out all of the podcasts in the HCI Podcast Network!
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    30 mins
  • 44 - Building Intentional Community in Hybrid Work Settings, with Surabhi Lal

    44 - Building Intentional Community in Hybrid Work Settings, with Surabhi Lal
    Mar 14 2024
    In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Surabhi Lal about building intentional community in hybrid work settings. Surabhi Lal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/surabhilal) is in the business of creating a better future of work—whether it be remote, hybrid, or in-person. A boundary spanning leader, she is a facilitator, professor, and storyteller who creates spaces where people feel seen and builds workplace communities where people want to go to work. Using empathy and strategy she guides leaders in creating cultures grounded in inclusion, belonging, and learning. She has coached thousands of job seekers, entrepreneurs, and organizations to help them create a better future of work. Check out all of the podcasts in the HCI Podcast Network!
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    33 mins
  • 43 - Using Virtual Reality for Upskilling and Professional Development, with Sophie Thompson

    43 - Using Virtual Reality for Upskilling and Professional Development, with Sophie Thompson
    Mar 7 2024
    In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Sophie Thompson about using virtual reality for upskilling and professional development. Sophie Thompson (www.linkedin.com/in/sophiethompsonvr) is the Co-founder and CEO of VirtualSpeech, an award-winning education platform that combines e-learning with practice exercises online and in virtual reality. Sophie started VirtualSpeech in 2015 as a way to overcome her fear of public speaking using VR. Since then, VirtualSpeech has developed a catalogue of 30+ courses focused on communication and interpersonal skills, from public speaking to active listening, leadership, sexual harassment prevention, and more. VirtualSpeech has helped hundreds of thousands of people across 130 countries to improve their skills and confidence using VR, and Sophie has appeared on BBC World News, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal talking about VR for learning. Check out all of the podcasts in the HCI Podcast Network!
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    31 mins
  • 42 - Why Return to Office Plans are Failing, and What Companies Should Be Focused on Instead, with Kevin Eikenberry

    42 - Why Return to Office Plans are Failing, and What Companies Should Be Focused on Instead, with Kevin Eikenberry
    Feb 29 2024
    In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Kevin Eikenberry about why return to office plans are failing, and what companies should be focused on instead. Kevin Eikenberry (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevineikenberry/) is a recognized world expert on leadership development and learning, and is the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. In the last thirty years, he has helped organizations across North America, and leaders from 53 countries on leadership, teamwork, communication and more. Twice, he has been named by Inc.com as one of the top 100 Leadership and Management Experts in the World and has been included in other similar lists. Check out all of the podcasts in the HCI Podcast Network!
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    32 mins
  • 41 - Reassessing Your Organizational Values at Work, with Dr. Donte Vaughn

    41 - Reassessing Your Organizational Values at Work, with Dr. Donte Vaughn
    Feb 22 2024
    In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Dr. Donte Vaughn about reassessing your organizational values at work. Dr. Donte Vaughn, DM (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-donte-vaughn-dm-msm-73386a34/), is the Founder and President of LightPoint Advisors. Check out all of the podcasts in the HCI Podcast Network!
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    26 mins
  • 40 - The Strategy Legacy: How to Future-Proof a Business and Leave Your Mark, with Alex Brueckmann

    40 - The Strategy Legacy: How to Future-Proof a Business and Leave Your Mark, with Alex Brueckmann
    Feb 15 2024
    In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Alex Brueckmann about his book, The Strategy Legacy: How to Future-Proof a Business and Leave Your Mark. Alex Brueckmann (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderbrueckmann/) is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Strategy Legacy, and Secrets of Next Level Entrepreneurs. He is the founder and president of Brueckmann Executive Consulting based in Vancouver, Canada. Alex has impacted thousands of leaders across the world. His clients include high-growth start-ups and Fortune 500 executive teams. He holds degrees and certificates in management, leadership, and strategy from EBS University, INSEAD, and Harvard Business School. Check out all of the podcasts in the HCI Podcast Network!
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    32 mins
  • 39 - Self-Leadership and the Difference Between a Job and a Career, with Dr. Benjamin Ritter

    39 - Self-Leadership and the Difference Between a Job and a Career, with Dr. Benjamin Ritter
    Feb 8 2024
    In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Dr. Benjamin Ritter about self-leadership and the difference between a job and a career. Dr. Benjamin Ritter (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritterbenj/), founder of Live for Yourself Consulting, is a leadership and career coach, Talent Development Executive, values geek, international speaker, online instructor of the course Be the Leader of Your Own Career and Create a Career You Love, and podcaster (The Executive, and The Live for Yourself Revolution), who’s passionate about guiding leaders to be the leader of their own career and create a career they love. With over 11 years of experience working with clients from companies such as Amazon, Coursera, Doordash, Google, Fiserv, Northwestern, Pinterest, and Yelp, Ben understands how to navigate any career path you decide you want to travel. From empowering professionals to get unstuck, to guiding senior leadership on how to stand out from the competition, develop executive presence, and feel confident in being a leader, Ben is an expert in his field and will guide you toward truly living for yourself at work and in life. Ben received his Doctorate in Organizational Leadership with a focus on value congruence and job satisfaction and earned an MBA in entrepreneurial management, and an MPH in health policy administration. Check out all of the podcasts in the HCI Podcast Network!
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    29 mins
  • 38 - Engaging and Retaining Young Talent, with Elan Divon

    38 - Engaging and Retaining Young Talent, with Elan Divon
    Feb 1 2024
    In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Elan Divon about engaging and retaining young talent. Elan Divon (https://www.linkedin.com/in/elan-divon-96849680/)is a Harvard-trained author, speaker, and founder of Divon Academy: an organization that helps students and young professionals develop essential work, life, and leadership skills that companies want but schools don't teach and technology has disrupted at a time when they're needed most. Elan’s clientele includes Fortune 500 companies, universities, and governments, where he works to train and develop the next generation of young leaders.
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    25 mins