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Here’s a personal branding forecast sure to intrigue you in the coming years: – The world is moving at an extremely high speed, and it’ll take the self-proclaimed “fastest gun alive” to keep up. Think of how quickly things change today compared to 20 years ago. It’s all about the growth mindset & coolness; staying current with what’s trending. According to Entrepreneur.com, when building a personal brand for business: 561% more reach from employees sharing messaging Content is shared 24X...

Your personal brand is a representation of who you are. Creating a personal brand that works in your favour is time-consuming but a necessity in today’s world. It’s about how people perceive you and interact with you. The way in which they feel about what they see on social media, read online or hear in person. Creating an authentic personal brand is important to ensure successful connections both professionally and personally. We all know that we need to create a personal brand, but what...

Sam Morhaim has helped startups create and deploy ideas into reality. From web and mobile applications to IoT and everything in-between. His skills have been applied in many industries like Healthcare, Marketing Automation, and FinTech and for clients of all sizes from startups to Fortune 500’s. And this is a really, really interesting conversation that we have here. Sam is Founder & CEO Vantage IO Well, it’s really great to speak to you Samuel. I’m quite interested to learn about what...

Your personal brand is a representation of who you are. Creating a personal brand that works in your favour is time-consuming but a necessity in today's world. It's about how people perceive you and interact with you. The way in which they feel about what they see on social media, read online or hear in person. Creating an authentic personal brand is important to ensure successful connections both professionally and personally. We all know that we need to create a personal brand, but what...

Sam Morhaim has helped startups create and deploy ideas into reality. From web and mobile applications to IoT and everything in-between. His skills have been applied in many industries like Healthcare, Marketing Automation, and FinTech and for clients of all sizes from startups to Fortune 500's. And this is a really, really interesting conversation that we have here. Sam is Founder & CEO Vantage IO Well, it's really great to speak to you Samuel. I'm quite interested to learn about what...

Mentoring Stephen Gillen CEO: shares massive insight to his important work here! So today I'm joined by Stephen Gillen, and he is the CEO and executive producer of Shooting Stars Events. Recently, he was nominated by the UKs peace ambassador for the 2020 'Sunhak' International Peace Prize. Stephen Gillen'S YouTube Channel (top business/life/Crime Content) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw-gTnVyH3DqOlh3eiGlxGQ Stephen Gillen personal brand & to buy a limited Edition of his bestselling book...

Today I'm interviewing Laura Gassner Otting and she is a confidence catalyst who works with leaders, entrepreneurs and change-makers to help them get unstuck and accomplish extraordinary results. Her new book "Limitless - How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path and Live Your Best Life." Do also check out this interview with Laura from PPP Podcast. https://audioboom.com/posts/7611791 Limitless debuted at number two on the Washington Post's bestseller list, right under Michelle...This is...

In this episode, Max shares the secrets of successful learning and giving feedback and you will understand so much more about Lessonly as a business and how he managed to get to grow to over 2 million users! In this interview we learn more about successful learning and giving feedback Max Yoder CEO and co-founder of Lessonly – “The powerfully simple training software that helps teams learn, practice and Do Better Work.” And don't forget to buy Max's new book. Do Better Work. Checkout our...

Nathaniel Schooler 0:05So today I'm joined by Stephen Gillen, and he is the CEO and executive producer of Shooting Stars Events. Stephen Gillen'S YouTube Channel (top business/life/Crime Content) link below https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw-gTnVyH3DqOlh3eiGlxGQ Stephen Gillen personal brand & to buy a limited Edition of his bestselling book 'The Monkey Puzzle Tree' , : www.stephengillen.com Recently, he was nominated by the UKs peace ambassador for the 2020 'Sunhak' International Peace...

Customer service and retention are so important and Jon Bostock Co Founder of Trumans shares his leadership insights from nearly a decade at General Electric and his time at Big Ass Fans before they sold for 500 Million USD. Trumans is disrupting the cleaning category with a innovative new range of cleaning products, reducing wastage and environmental damage. "Fast Company has honored Truman’s as part of its World Changing Ideas Awards, which were announced today. Launched just two months...

Internal Communications and Teamwork are two really important topics and who better to discuss them with than the Microsoft Insiders: Jeremiah Marble and Dona Sarkar Jeremiah Marble and Dona Sarkar from Microsoft were such inspirational guests. This episode was really fun to record and we packed in so much information into this it is insane... Jeremiah is Director of Developer Marketing for Windows and was the founder of the windows insider program with well over 16 Million members. Dona...

In this episode I have been joined by Sheri Hinish "Supply Chain Queen" and she shares with me :- The Latest in Reimagined Supply Chain, Sustainability, Talent Management, and Leading Transformations. For anyone in technology, purchasing and in particular business management it is important to understand the threats and opportunities around supply chain management. These are some of the questions she answered and the value she delivered here is huge! Recent media engagements include:...

Gaby Juergens - CEO and founder of Homefront Girl, a lovely person and such a powerful story. Founder and CEO of “Homefront Girl”, an organization that has donated over $100,000 to military charities, Gaby Juergens sat down with Big League Politics to discuss her involvement with military families. Juergens has created close to 2,000 designs with inspirational quotes on merchandise like coffee mugs, pillows, candles, and the newly announced clothing line that are meant to encourage and show...

Product marketing, writing skills and copywriting are important to understand, getting your message across is a great skill to have. In this interesting interview Eric Moeller and I discuss product marketing and copywriting and creative writing. I have known Eric online for about 6 years and met up with him in Exeter a few times and discussed marketing and branding and all those exciting business topics that make us tick! He shares a lot of value in this episode and some great resources to...

Stacking your sales pipeline is a key topic for management teams and sales profs alike and Steve is no stranger to building pipeline... More often than not sales profs and management are too focused on what is already in the quarter to even think about the most important part of selling:- "Stacking Your Sales Pipeline". In this no holds barred interview Steven Dickens shares insight from 20+ years in Technology sales. He oversees a team of 50+ sales representatives for IBM. We discuss the...

GDPR and Data Management are Key topics in today's hi-tech world, the main issue we have is data privacy and how to navigate the abyss. David Clarke shares so much value in this episode about GDPR and Data Management. This is a must listen for all executives and anyone wanting to understand the minefield of GDPR and Data Management. It will alleviate many of the myths around it and some of the panic... WARNING — AI Transcriptions May Cause Grammatically Correct People Serious Stress In...

Vendor negotiation is very important, seeing the "vendor" as a partner is crucial to success in business. Being flexible and understanding how you can work together is key. Making sure your "vendor negotiation" is done ethically is also so important. As opposed to seeing the vendor negotiation as just another way to win and you lose. Fortunately now many vendor negotiation has become Win / Win scenarios, enabling both you the purchaser and the seller to make a strong long term working...

Digital Transformation and digitization are two huge topics and Brian Gracely shares his insights here in this great interview! Brian Gracely (@bgracely) is Director of Product Strategy at Red Hat, the world's leading open source software company. He brings 20+ years of experience (Red Hat, Wikibon, EMC, Virtustream, NetApp, Cisco) in Strategy, Product Management, Systems Engineering, Marketing and M&A. He is recognized as an industry thought-leader in Cloud Computing and DevOps, as well as...

We discuss Big Data and Gamification and how they work together. Nicolas Babin is an agile senior executive with over 30 years international multi lingual and multicultural experience. A strong leader with working and living experiences in North America, the UK, France Benelux Germany, Japan and China. He has a proven track record in marketing sales, communication and digital transformation, management experience of all European Eastern West countries set up and management of international...

In this episode we discuss digital inclusion and who is better than DR Melissa Sassi who is a pioneer in this space, she runs her own non-profit on top of her day job at IBM.