Consulting Matters

JULY 7, 2022

Do you want to know what executives in world-class companies think about leadership and why they hire consultants and coaches? Today, I'm chatting with one of my favorite executives of all time, Jim MacPhee, recently retired Chief Operating Officer and self-proclaimed Experience Steward for Walt Disney World Parks and Resorts.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 4, 2022

Want a common sense, down-to-earth approach for developing leaders, growing organizations, and creating a profitable consulting or coaching business? Today I'm talking with Lee Cockerell, the former Executive Vice President of Operations for Walt Disney resort and currently a consultant, author, and speaker. Lee Cockerell [link].

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

And there are just as many consultants and coaches who want to help them on their journey towards leadership, team, and organizational performance excellence. There are a lot of companies that aspire to what Disney has accomplished. And when you’re done listening, I got a brand-new freebie.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Meg's impressive journey to the top and her insights on leadership and personal development are truly enlightening. Growing up with a father involved in the space program and an education in marketing, Meg’s roots have significantly influenced her perspective on leadership.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Meg's impressive journey to the top and her insights on leadership and personal development are truly enlightening. Growing up with a father involved in the space program and an education in marketing, Meg’s roots have significantly influenced her perspective on leadership.

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Stories of executives who transition to consulting are not that uncommon. Tom is the co-founder of The Sales Conservatory and CEO of The Conservatory Group, a management consulting firm where you help businesses with their management, leadership, and sales. But how does one successfully venture out of corporate?

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 9, 2020

The two most popular paths high achievers take when they leave corporate is to either start their own consulting business or start their own coaching business. Consultants and coaches are both executive advisors. As a consultant - your role is to enhance leadership and organizational capacity.

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 15, 2023

Puja Madan, a leadership coach who blends spirituality and entrepreneurship, shares her journey through the contrasting worlds of meditation centers and tech startups and how she developed her Amplify Model to help entrepreneurs find clarity in their values, vision, and voice.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The business landscape for all enterprises is rapidly changing. Executives must question the obvious and address challenges with new, multi-layered approaches.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Want to grow your own consulting or coaching business, thought leadership, and breakthrough brand?

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Consulting Matters

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Unsure about how to influence and guide executives through organizational transformation? Here’s what you need to know Have you ever wondered if you have what it takes to influence executives to engage in transformational change …especially in today’s complex, volatile, ambiguous marketplace?

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Consulting Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It’s a common career trajectory: An employee becomes a front-line supervisor, then a manager, then a leader of leaders and then eventually an executive over a department or an even broader entity. From that perspective, leadership is leadership and executives merely have a larger scope and span of control.

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Rick Conlow

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Most managers lack excellent execution skills. “Execution is the great unaddressed issue in the business world today. ” Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan declared this in their book, Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done. Poor Results the Norm not Excellent Execution. Pulling It All Together.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Failure has everything do with ineffective change leadership at the top. Related: The Little Known Strategy for Becoming an Executive Advisor. Related: Five Essential Competencies for Executive Leadership. And when they are at another leadership defining moment they will embrace it and ask for help.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 18, 2024

If you want to speed up and sustain your success with your consulting or coaching business – you need to first slow down Want to know the fastest way to make serious money and impact as a consultant or coach? It’s time to take your own advice and apply it to your own business so that you can achieve lasting success and scale.

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Consulting Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It’s a common career trajectory: An employee becomes a front-line supervisor, then a manager, then a leader of leaders and then eventually an executive over a department or an even broader entity. From that perspective, leadership is leadership and executives merely have a larger scope and span of control.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 11, 2024

Leaders striving for a better workplace may suffer consequences In a recent post on LinkedIn from the Business & Management Consultants open group, a contributor posted, “A manager who challenges the boss and stands up for their team, despite risking their own career, is a true leader.” Regrets to Leadership Risks? Not necessarily.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

At the end of the day, executive leadership is about power. The quality of an executive isn't defined by whether or not they take the time to get to walk their areas and get to know their employees personally. Related: Five Essential Competencies for Executive Leadership. The Two Kinds of Power.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Project managers who aspire to be CEOs are often surprised to learn that their skills, while highly valuable, do not directly align with those needed for positions of executive leadership. Why isn’t successful management of high-stakes projects and organizational resources sufficient to ascend to the top ranks of the business?

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 22, 2021

While these are excellent personal values, they don't translate into measurable behaviors or tools used at the executive level in daily decision-making. On today's Ask Betsy, I open up my library of resources to two coaches, so they can figure out how to align executives with company values! Don Knagge.

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 1, 2023

We discussed her various pursuits, from her time as a non-profit executive director and spokesperson for political campaigns, to her experience as a newspaper reporter and theology student at Harvard Divinity School. Dorie is a speaker, author, writer, Broadway producer, and lyricist, with a diverse and inspiring career journey.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In the modern competitive business environment, innovative social initiatives offer a unique avenue for growth, customer loyalty, and employee engagement, often overlooked by organizations. Exemplary cases from Barclays, Dove, Hellmann’s, and Thrivent demonstrate the transformative impact of well-executed social initiatives.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 27, 2023

Executive coaching is a powerful tool to transform your leadership and your organization. Coaching has a direct impact on business performance while accelerating personal development and performance. Here are four reasons to consider executive coaching. Leaders who are self-aware are more effective in their leadership.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 28, 2023

Building trust is increasingly challenging and vital for executive leadership teams. Trust is the currency of any business and is what holds a business together during change. Why executive leadership trust matters "The reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something."

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 30, 2023

Today, Denise Musselwhite shares the moment when she decided to shift from CIO to executive coach and business owner. About the guest: Denise Musselwhite is a Chief Information Officer turned executive leadership coach and consultant dedicated to helping tech professionals thrive and succeed as industry leaders.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Critical is connecting the dots between sustainability risks and opportunities, investor demands, government regulations, finance, and business operations to think holistically about integrating ESG into every company function. This is where we come in. Your Strategic Partner. Our Results.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Great leaders dream of a better future – from business sustainability to growing future leaders, increasing speed to market, or operating with greater purpose. Unfortunately, many organizations keep strategic plans a secret and don't involve leaders outside the executive leadership team.

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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

How a Sustainability Business Framework Aligned the Leadership Team and Accelerated Progress. A Director of Sustainability in a billion + life sciences company was tasked with designing her division’s first sustainability strategic business framework. CASE STUDY. prioritizing her team’s goals for the next 18 months.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 24, 2023

A recent survey by McKenzie revealed that less than half of the workforce experiences a positive workplace climate, and only 38% of employees believe business puts people before profits. According to the CEOs representing America's top business leaders, shareholder value is no longer the primary objective of a business.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Wrong projects are ones that defy conventional business rationale, creating outputs that either few people want, that add little to no real value, or that undershoot the desired benefits because they are so difficult to achieve. A final obstacle to project success is too much or too little management.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 25, 2024

Strong manager-employee relationships through great leadership leads to positive outcomes After hearing so many people talking about the Apple TV show Ted Lasso and using it in the context of business leadership, I had to see what caused all the buzz. The show has captured my attention and a little of my heart.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Assessing Executive Capabilities: A Comprehensive Guide We know from our organizational alignment research that executives play and outsized role in driving organizational success. Accurately assessing executive capabilities should alleviate bad executive hiring and promotion decisions.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 22, 2023

Most executives want more out of life and work, and businesses want to grow. So, how can busy executive leaders and businesses avoid revenue dips or wasted time chasing ideas that don't move the needle in today's turbulent and uncertain environment? link] What is the ROI of Executive Coaching?

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Brimstone Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Almost 70% of well-formulated strategies fail because of poor execution. While there are many reasons for this high rate of failure, in our work, we have found that the bridge from strategy to execution tends to fail due to one or more of the following reasons: The leadership team is not aligned.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 8, 2024

As we begin this new year, I encourage you to spend some quiet time reflecting on this past year - the unforeseen challenges, the changes you made to your leadership habits, and what is most important. Why critical reflection matters Reflection is a powerful leadership tool. Biases are present in all leaders. Open-mindedness.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 7, 2022

Too often, in these situations, we have seen leaders take a reactive approach and execute Band-Aid solutions. Through our work, what we have found to be effective is when leaders bring in high performers from across the organization to come together to identify the real problem, develop a solution, and work together on execution.

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Rick Conlow

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Leadership worldwide is in crisis mode. In all areas of life, leadership distrust has hit rock bottom. Seldom does a day go by without another story in the media about a leader–in government, religion, or business–that bites the dust because of an ethical or behavioral failure. In the business arena leadership failures abound.

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