Myles Downey is recognized as one of the world’s leading business coaches. He was the Founder of The School of Coaching in 1996, the first institution in Europe to focus solely on the development of coaching skills for coaches, managers and leaders. He is the author of Effective Modern Coaching, Enabling Genius and The Enabling Manager (LID).

• How do you describe your approach to coaching?
• What underpins it? What are the foundational principles?
• You say that coaching has 'lost its shine’. What do you mean and how can we remedy that?
• What is the essence of Enabling Genius?
• Why are coaching and enabling genius important?

Myles Downey is recognized as one of the world’s leading business coaches. He was the Founder of The School of Coaching in 1996, the first institution in Europe to focus solely on the development of coaching skills for coaches, managers and leaders. He is the author of Effective Modern Coaching, Enabling Genius and The Enabling Manager (LID).

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Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of Excellent Executive Coaching a company specialized in leadership development.

The fuel that powers a lit-up culture is the incredible potential of your people. But to harness that fuel power, you need heat. Whether transforming your leaders, overcoming unconscious bias, embedding DEI, or navigating change and disruption, Tony Chatman brings the heat that will ignite the potential in your people to create a culture that shines.

• What does the phrase "Light Up Your Culture" mean and how does that apply in organizations today?
• Would you help us understand what a Force Multiplier is?
• How can we all learn more about discovering our own unconscious biases?
• What direction do you see DEIA going in the near future?
• How does an organization's culture impact their performance?

The fuel that powers a lit-up culture is the incredible potential of your people. But to harness that fuel power, you need heat. Whether transforming your leaders, overcoming unconscious bias, embedding DEI, or navigating change and disruption, Tony Chatman brings the heat that will ignite the potential in your people to create a culture that shines.

With over 20 years’ experience working with some of the most successful and diverse organizations in the world—including Chase Bank, the U.S. Secret Service, Phillips 66, Clear Channel, and St. Joseph’s Health—Tony unites the variance in people’s beliefs, backgrounds, personalities, perspectives, and levels of power by speaking to the need we all have to be seen.

As a scientist and chemical engineer and as a husband, father, and former leader of a nonprofit dedicated to improving lives and livelihoods, Tony is equal parts head and heart, combining rigorous scientific research into human behavior and psychology with a deep love for humanity and a passion for cultural transformation. With his powerful stage presence and command of his subject, Tony delivers his highly entertaining and life-changing keynotes in a way that will make each of your participants feel he is speaking directly to them, allowing everyone to grow and laugh with each other over the shared, extraordinary experience of being part of the same human family. And with Tony and his team’s finely tuned and transformative training, you’ll experience firsthand what it feels like to finally get to the bottom of your cultural issues and experience the full power of your people.

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The EEC podcasts are sponsored by MKB Excellent Executive Coaching that helps you get from where you are to where you want to be with customized leadership and coaching development programs. MKB Excellent Executive Coaching offers leadership development programs to generate action, learning, and change that is aligned with your authentic self and values. Transform your dreams into reality and invest in yourself by scheduling a discovery session with Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC to reach your goals.

Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of Excellent Executive Coaching a company specialized in leadership development.

Kristin Burke is a goal achievement coach who collaborates with women, entrepreneurs and leaders to help them maximize their potential and achieve their definitions of success.

• How can business owners become more confident about setting and achieving goals?
• What does your process look like for setting long-term business goals?
• What are some results your clients have seen since working with you as their goal achievement coach?
• What is the best way to track/measure the success of your goals?
• How has focusing on goal setting and achievement helped you find more work-life balance?

Kristin Burke is a goal achievement coach who collaborates with women, entrepreneurs and leaders to help them maximize their potential and achieve their definitions of success. She launched her coaching practice with over a decade of experience coaching and developing hundreds of financial advisors for a FORTUNE 200 firm. She designed her coaching platform around the elements necessary to achieve breakout performances. Her clients excel with goal clarity, grow their confidence and consistently pursue progress in the direction of their goals. Kristin is committed to empowering you to elevate your career and achieve your definition of success.

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The EEC podcasts are sponsored by MKB Excellent Executive Coaching that helps you get from where you are to where you want to be with customized leadership and coaching development programs. MKB Excellent Executive Coaching offers leadership development programs to generate action, learning, and change that is aligned with your authentic self and values. Transform your dreams into reality and invest in yourself by scheduling a discovery session with Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC to reach your goals.

Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of Excellent Executive Coaching a company specialized in leadership development.

Christine Jewell is an author, keynote speaker, and faith-based executive coach with over 25 years of experience in the fields of Health + Peak Performance, Entrepreneurship + Human Behaviour. She is also the host of the Breaking Chains Podcast.

• Drop the Armor: How to release the past and create a life that is a FULL YES
• Fight Different: Leading with the Heart of a Warrior in a world of Chaos
• Overcoming the Battles we Face on a Daily Basis
• Leading from Abundance and Flow as the Norm, not the exception
• Upgrade your Standards, Change your Life

As the Founder of Warriors Of The Heart, she specializes in guiding highly successful CEO’s and Impact driven leaders to break out of the superficial “life” they’ve built, redefine success and step into a whole new playing field grounded in eternal, life giving principles.

Christine bridges the gap between the heart, fueled by faith & logic, fueled by practicality - to help people receive more than they could ever imagine and claim the rich life they were created for.

As a mother of 6, ages 6-20, through a blended family, a wife, high level athlete, multiple business owner and entrepreneur since her 20’s, she is intimately familiar with the overwhelm and burnout that can come when building a ‘dream’ life, as well as what’s possible on the other side.

Through years of trials, burning things down and rebuilding from the ashes of her past, she has ditched the rules of this world, following the calling on her heart to cultivate a life of total alignment - where there is more than enough time for her most meaningful work, extraordinary relationships, a legacy of impact - and plenty of rest! Her vision is to create a community of Kingdom Minded Men and Women who are rising together as powerful co-creators rather than competitors - and are redefining the way we lead at work, in relationships, and every arena of life!

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The EEC podcasts are sponsored by MKB Excellent Executive Coaching that helps you get from where you are to where you want to be with customized leadership and coaching development programs. MKB Excellent Executive Coaching offers leadership development programs to generate action, learning, and change that is aligned with your authentic self and values. Transform your dreams into reality and invest in yourself by scheduling a discovery session with Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC to reach your goals.

Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of Excellent Executive Coaching a company specialized in leadership development.

Brian O’Neill is a Chicago-based real estate investor, author, podcast host, and coach who turned his life around from being stuck in a high-earning yet unfulfilling corporate sales job.

• How do you use TikTok/Instagram to promote your brand?
• What is your strategy? How often do you post and what do you post?
• How did you grow your following to where it is now?
• Why should someone with a product or service be on TikTok?
• What advice would you give to someone just starting out? What if they are camera-shy?

Brian O’Neill is a Chicago-based real estate investor, author, podcast host, and coach who turned his life around from being stuck in a high-earning yet unfulfilling corporate sales job. For 25 years, Brian felt trapped, living a lifestyle that demanded he stay in his job, despite it costing him precious moments with his young son and leaving him filled with regret. Flying over 100,000 miles a year, he was missing life at home, and it was eating him up inside.

The turning point came when his son expressed how much he missed him. This was the wake-up call Brian needed to break free from what he calls the 'W2 prison' he had built for himself. He realized that the real barriers holding him back were all in his head.

Now, Brian is living proof that it's possible to break free and live life on your terms. He's made it his mission to help others who feel stuck in their jobs, believing that a shift in mindset is all it takes to change your life. He speaks from experience when he says you're never too trapped to make a change. Brian's message is clear and simple: believe in yourself, change how you think, and you can change your life. Brian firmly believes it's never too late to chase the life you’ve always wanted.

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The EEC podcasts are sponsored by MKB Excellent Executive Coaching that helps you get from where you are to where you want to be with customized leadership and coaching development programs. MKB Excellent Executive Coaching offers leadership development programs to generate action, learning, and change that is aligned with your authentic self and values. Transform your dreams into reality and invest in yourself by scheduling a discovery session with Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC to reach your goals.

Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of Excellent Executive Coaching a company specialized in leadership development.

Carrie Lovelace Petr holds a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She trained as a certified professional and executive coach at the ICF-accredited College of Executive Coaching and is recognized as both an Associate Certified Coach from the International Coaching Federation a Board-Certified Coach by the Center for Credentialing Education.

• How are coaching and teaching similar?
• How to human beings learn new information?
• How can we use classroom teaching strategies to create and develop trust in a coaching relationship?
• How can we teach our clients how to apply education acquisition techniques in their own organizations?

A seasoned executive administrator, Carrie Lovelace Petr holds a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She trained as a certified professional and executive coach at the ICF-accredited College of Executive Coaching and is recognized as both an Associate Certified Coach from the International Coaching Federation a Board-Certified Coach by the Center for Credentialing Education.

Carrie has lived her professional career in service to higher education staff, students and faculty. Prior to founding her full-time coaching practice, Carrie served as senior student affairs officer at two institutions; throughout her career in higher education she has supervised all traditional areas in the field of student affairs. Outside of the student affairs arena, Carrie has enjoyed work as a faculty member, academic adviser and academic administrator. Of note for clients interested in their own professional growth, Carrie was the founding director of the Zenon CR Hansen Minor in Leadership Studies at Doane University and has practiced leadership development and higher education administration for more than 25 years. Partnering with long-time professionals and aspiring leaders to help them thrive and nurture their talents is her passion.

Beyond her professional life, Carrie is an avid reader and enjoys biking, craft cocktails, and storytelling. She and her husband of 25 years share a college-age daughter and Felix, the most adorable King Charles Cavalier Spaniel in the universe.

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Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of Excellent Executive Coaching a company specialized in leadership development.

For more than 25 years, Lisa Tromba has guided companies from mid-market enterprises to Fortune 100 powerhouses in searching for and selecting their executive leadership.

• You talk about what you call “mind knots.” What exactly are they, and how do they impact leaders?
• What are some strategies leaders can use to identify their own prominent mind knots?
• You suggest leaders should ask themselves one key question every day: Who am I practicing becoming? Why is this question so important, and how can it help leaders transform their mind knots into tools that move them and their organizations forward?
• You call attention to the fact that while cognitive and emotional biases are important to understand when selecting leaders, it’s a leadership lens that is overlooked in most organizations. Can you explain more about the importance of this lens and why it matters?
• In your book, you refer to what you call a “Captain’s Compass.” Can you describe what a Captain’s Compass is and how it can help leaders overcome their cognitive biases?

Managing partner Lisa Tromba is founder of Leadership Intelligence Services, LLC and founder of Lisa Tromba Associates – Executive Search (formerly Luisi Tromba Advisors, of which she was co-founder). For more than 25 years, Tromba has guided companies from mid-market enterprises to Fortune 100 powerhouses in searching for and selecting their executive leadership.

Today, she caters to lower- to mid-market companies in search of executive leadership. Her high-touch, high-impact, solution-oriented approach includes assessing the impact of psychological bias on leadership.

Tromba has spoken on leadership topics to corporate, trade, and academic audiences, including Executive MBA participants. Publications featuring her work include Chief Executive Magazine, the AMA Quarterly, and she is quoted in the book From Cinderella to CEO.

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The EEC podcasts are sponsored by MKB Excellent Executive Coaching that helps you get from where you are to where you want to be with customized leadership and coaching development programs. MKB Excellent Executive Coaching offers leadership development programs to generate action, learning, and change that is aligned with your authentic self and values. Transform your dreams into reality and invest in yourself by scheduling a discovery session with Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC to reach your goals.

Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of Excellent Executive Coaching a company specialized in leadership development.

The future of winemaking is moving towards quality over quantity. Both Tom Meadowcroft and Dr. Katrina Burrus acknowledged this shift in consumer preferences towards affordable luxuries and high-quality products.

The challenge lies in the differences between old world and new world winemaking practices.

In this podcast, Tom Meadowcroft, a viticulturist with his own winery in California discusses the evolving trends in the wine industry, emphasizing a shift towards quality over quantity.

He highlights the importance of leadership in the wine-making process, showcasing a collaborative approach in decision-making within a flat organizational structure. Tom also delves into the business aspect of winemaking, comparing the management styles between Europe and the United States.

Overall, the episode provides insights into the intersection of wine trends, leadership strategies, and business practices in the ever-changing world of winemaking.

A must-listen episode.

What You’ll Learn From this Episode

• Discover the benefits of the holistic European winemaking approach that combines viticulture and oenology, compared to the specialized American system.
• Learn about the differences between European and American leadership styles in the winemaking industry, and how collaboration and hierarchy influence decision-making.
• Explore the shift towards quality over quantity in the wine industry and understand how California's position in the global market compares to regions like South America.

"I look at winemaking from the standpoint that people are gravitating towards quality, not quantity.” - Tom Meadowcroft

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The EEC podcasts are sponsored by MKB Excellent Executive Coaching that helps you get from where you are to where you want to be with customized leadership and coaching development programs. MKB Excellent Executive Coaching offers leadership development programs to generate action, learning, and change that is aligned with your authentic self and values. Transform your dreams into reality and invest in yourself by scheduling a discovery session with Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC to reach your goals.

Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of Excellent Executive Coaching a company specialized in leadership development.