Leadership Development News

Join us for an insightful conversation with Michael Tompkins, visionary CEO of Miraval- recognized as one of the nation’s finest health resorts and creator of the new “Mindful Living” experience. A fifteen year veteran of the luxury hospitality industry, Tompkins has been instrumental in the creation of the Andrew Weil, M.D. Integrated Wellness Center. Today Michael Tompkins joins us to discuss his new project with Miraval’s latest book– “Mindful Living”.

Phil Jones is known as “The Connector” because he is one of the country’s best Professional Powerbrokers of deals, money and relationships. He leverages his vast field of influence and extensive contact base to bring a range of serious players together to get exceptional deals completed and outcomes banked for his clients that few others are able to achieve. His companies have completed over one billion dollars in real estate purchases and he is a Bestselling Author who has written seven books. A sought after public speaker who has taught over 100,000 people, Phil is considered a master of teaching business, marketing and real estate wealth accumulation and retention strategies. Featured on TV, radio, magazines and newspapers, Phil has also received hundreds of letters from students that credit his expertise, advice and education with earning them hundreds of thousands of dollars.

This show will highlight some of the hands-on practical tools that our co-host Dr. Relly Nadler uses with his corporate clients daily to help them raise their Emotional Intelligence through executive coaching and leadership development training. Dr. Nadler is a licensed psychologist, Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coach Federation. He is the author of Leading with Emotional Intelligence and teams up with Dr. Cathy Greenberg, author of Fearless Leaders and What Happy Companies Know to help organization develop more top 10% performers using emotional intelligent assessments, strategies and tools. Dr. Nadler shares: • Why now is the perfect time to develop more leaders • What is the “Brain Drain” • History of Emotional Intelligence • The seven leadership errors that are common in development • The three components of trust • A few of his Leadership Keys: White Space and the Leadership Two Step.

Jim Kouzes is the coauthor with Barry Posner of the award-winning and best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge, with over 1.5 million copies sold. He's also the Dean’s Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. The fourth edition of The Leadership Challenge was released in August 2007 and is available in fifteen languages. The Leadership Challenge was #3 on Amazon Editor’s Pick for the Best Business Books of 2007. A Leader’s Legacy (2006), was selected by Soundview Executive Book Summaries as one of the top thirty books of the year. Based on solid research involving over 70,000 surveys, 1,000 written case studies, and 100 in-depth interviews, their books describe the leadership practices that generate high performance in individuals and organizations. Jim is not only a highly regarded leadership scholar; The Wall Street Journal has cited Jim as one of the twelve best executive educators in the U.S. A popular speaker and seminar lead

Delia Horwitz is an entrepreneur, collaboration specialist, leadership coach and professional facilitator. In addition to founding and owning several businesses, she has extensive experience helping good people do great things….together: strategic planning with non-profit Boards of Directors, teambuilding with small and large corporations, goal setting with City Councils, corporate culture work with Fortune 500 senior leadership teams, and visioning with community stakeholders. She even taught collaboration in Moscow, and her Achieving Agreement Workbook is used as curriculum in the Russian schools. Delia is also co-founder and served for three years as Executive Director of Leadership Santa Barbara County. In addition to partnering with Paula Vigneault to write COLLABORATION SOUP:A Six-Step Recipe for Co-Creative Meetings and Other Conversations, she is the author of The Achieving Agreement Workbook and Letters From My Future Self

Sharon Jordan-Evans is a pioneer in the field of employee retention and engagement. She serves as a prominent speaker for numerous conferences and works with Fortune 500 companies such as American Express, Boeing, Disney, Lockheed, Cheesecake Factory, Monster, MTV, PBS, Sony, and Universal Studios. She co-authored two Wall Street Journal bestsellers. The first, Love ‘Em or Lose ‘Em: Getting Good People to Stay, is the world’s best-selling employee retention book and has been translated into 20 languages. The second, Love It, Don't Leave It: 26 Ways to Get What You Want at Work, offers anyone who works easy-to-implement strategies for increasing job satisfaction. Love It, Don't Leave It has been translated into 15 languages. She also serves as a resource for a number of national media, including Business 2.0, Chief Executive, CIO, Harvard Management Update, Working Woman, Investor Business Daily, Business Week and the LA Times.

Srinivasan Pillay, M.D. is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Pillay is known for bringing brain science to life in the simplest terms that he then translates into recommended action steps that you can take. In his newest book: “Your Brain and Business: The Neuroscience of Great Leaders” was peer-reviewed by Wharton Business School and was released in March of 2011. Dr. Pillay is widely regarded as a motivational speaker who is able to explain the science behind seemingly non-rational phenomena. Dr. Pillay has been featured in The Boston Globe, Oprah radio (Dr. Laura Berman), Martha Stewart Whole Living, Cosmopolitan, Fox News and CNN. He is able to apply this methodology to the business environment as well, and has been invited to speak on related topics in New York, California, Washington DC, Toronto, Switzerland, Greece and Singapore. Business clients have included The World Bank, Novartis, Genzyme and McKinsey.

Harvey Mackay is author of five New York Times bestsellers. His first two books -- Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive and Beware The Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt -- have been translated into 37 languages and distributed in 80 countries. Both books were New York Times #1 bestsellers and are also listed by the Times among the top 15 inspirational business books of all time. Harvey’s latest book is Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door: Job Search Secrets No One Else Will Tell You, arrived Feb. 22, 2010. His book We Got Fired! … And It’s The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Us (2004) became his third New York Times #1 bestseller. His books have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. He also is one of America's most popular and entertaining business speakers, speaking -- on average – once a week to Fortune 500-size companies and associations. Today we will hear Harvey’s job search secrets no one else will tell you.

Join us for an insightful conversation with Marshall Goldsmith - recognized as the world’s most influential leadership thinker in the bi-annual Thinkers50 survey (sponsored by the Harvard Business Review). He is the million-selling author or editor of 34 books. Marshall is one of a select few executive educators who have been asked to work with over 150 major CEOs and their management teams. He has been given the Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Institute for Management Studies (one of only two ever awarded). He is a fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources (America’s highest HR honor) – and his work has been recognized by almost every major publication and professional organization in his field.

During his basketball career he lead his University of Illinois team to the Final Four 1989. From there Stephen played 10 years professionally with stops in the NBA (Dallas, Detroit, and San Antonio) and overseas (France, Japan, Italy, Spain, and Venezuela). Bardo made a smooth transition into sports broadcasting and has worked with CBS and ESPN. He currently is a college basketball analyst for the Big Ten Network and motivates audiences with his presentations on leadership to youth, associations, and corporations. His book - “HOW TO MAKE THE LEAGUE WITHOUT PICKING UP THE ROCK” – celebrates Bardo’s experience in a message anyone can relate to - Don't Let The Stone Stop You”. Bardo is a Big Ten Network College Basketball Analyst. Author, speaker, and proud papa of two wonderful sons!!! Please join us and Stephen Bardo for a motivating program.

Jonathan pursues research on consciousness, memory, the relationship between language and thought, problem-solving, and decision-making. He is particularly interested in exploring phenomena that intersect between the empirical and the philosophical such as how fluctuations in people’s awareness of their experience mediate mind-wandering and how exposing individuals to philosophical positions alters their behavior. We will focus on how these discoveries can help leaders today. In 2007 he joined the faculty at UCSB. Dr. Schooler is the author or co-author of more than one hundred papers published in scientific journals or edited volumes. Dr. Schooler is currently is on the editorial boards of Consciousness and Cognition and Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. His work has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Center for Consciousness Studies..

Since the Declaration of Independence, Americans have been free to pursue happiness, but there’s no guarantee we’ll achieve it, the secret is knowing where to look. Building on this great heritage, experts Nadler and Greenberg share exciting news on the state of the art about “the science of happiness” and how it impacts our emotional and social intelligence. New insights include how we can choose to joyfully respond to such factors as money or consumptive happiness, the genetics of adventure and their long term effects on daring, immigration, creativity and innovation and how our need for “doing” vs “being” can decrease empathy while increasing pessimism. Tune in to tune up your chances for more states of happiness with tools and tips from Greenberg’s new leading edge e-book “Top Secrets of The Best Companies To Work For” and take a deeper dive into Nadler’s “Leadership Keys Field Guide” in today’s show to be free to be happier.

Dr. Lois Phillips is a dynamic public speaker whose clients say she “practices what she teaches.” Her academic background combines with executive experience in Higher Education to inform her training and coaching. Using principles gained from interviews with successful speakers and outlined in “Women Seen and Heard: Lessons Learned from Successful Speakers” she provides coaching and training to spokespersons, managers and executives. Dr. Phillips has a special interest in advancing women’s careers, companies, and Board leadership and has produced conferences on women’s leadership, produced and moderated two television programs about women’s changing role. On the show Dr. Phillips talks about the Sheryl Sandberg book Lean In, the controversial book from the Facebook COO. In recent years, our guest has taught Creating a Culture of Innovation and also Negotiation Skills for Professional Women for UCSB Extension.

Dr. Laura Sicola has spent more than a decade coaching, lecturing, researching and publishing on cognition, pronunciation, culture, the voice and related effects on learning. Her primary goal is to help people develop their Vocal Executive Presence (VEP), establishing themselves as leaders whose voices are heard and messages are accurately received, while making authentic connections with their audience. She has given presentations on the intersection of pronunciation, cognition, culture and learning, and done trainings from Kyoto to Cairo, and California to Connecticut. Her clients include Fortune 500 companies as well as not-for-profit, women's leadership and international education organizations. Dr. Sicola is also faculty at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. Join Dr. Laura Sicola on today’s program and to learn more about VEP and visit her at: www.vocalimpactproductions.com

Kim S. Cameron is Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Michigan Business School and Professor of Higher Education in the School of Education. Dr. Cameron’s research on organizational effectiveness, virtuousness, and the development of management skills has been published in more than 80 articles. Join us for an energizing discussion on corporate virtuousness and its relationship to industry success.

Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard. His research and lectures on happiness and human potential have received attention in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, as well as NPR and CNN. When not at Harvard, Shawn travels the world giving talks on positive psychology to Fortune 500 corporations, financial institutions, schools, and non-profit organizations. He is the CEO of Aspirant, a global positive psychology consulting firm which researches positive outliers and helps organizations apply their human potential to discover where success and happiness intersect.

Jane Buckingham is a self made Life Coach for the Modern Girl. She appears regularly on the airwaves and in print. In her new book, “The Modern Girl's Guide to Sticky Situations,” Jane gives welcome advice with warmth and humor at home or at work. What can you do if you sent an email you should have “deleted”? What if your cell phone gets wet or worse- the toilet? What should you do if your date or co-worker shows up drunk? When should you share a big secret with someone new? Jane’s award winning book answer these questions, and covers a wide range of other issues that may crop up, including problems relating to work, dating, romance, family relationships and beauty. Read an excerpt of her newest book at the GMA Library. Go to: abcnews/go.com/books/modern-girls-guide-to-sticky-situations-jane-buckingham. Join Jane Buckingham as she shares life’s little secrets for daily success.

Bruce Tulgan is internationally recognized as the leading expert on young people in the workplace and one of the leading experts on leadership and management. Bruce is a best-selling author, an adviser to business leaders all over the world, and a sought-after keynote speaker and management trainer. His new book is “Not Everyone Gets a Trophy.” He has been called the new Tom Peters by many who have seen him speak. Bruce was named by Management Today as one of the few contemporary figures to stand out as a management guru and was included in a Financial Times listing of the world's greatest management thinkers. And in January 2009, Bruce was honored to accept Toastmasters International's most prestigious honor, the Golden Gavel. This honor is presented to a single person who represents excellence in the fields of communication and leadership. Past winners have included Marcus Buckingham, Stephen Covey, Zig Ziglar, Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, Ken Blanchard, and Tom Peters.

As a filmmaker, author, professor, and motivational speaker specializing in happiness, Lisa Cypers Kamen is recognized as an expert. Lisa’s acclaimed documentary film, “H-Factor…Where is your Heart?,” explores how various people find, generate, and share happiness. Lisa travels the US presenting “Harvesting Happiness” workshops and seminars to groups such as the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Equinox Fitness, and Motherhood, Inc. As a guest lecturer at the University of Southern California and a participant in Project +, a research project on how happiness can impact the world, Lisa brings her up to date “Happiness” workshops and information - combined with her simple no nonsense, warm and humorous approach to facilitate true joy. Learn more about Lisa’s global work at: www.lisakamen.com, www.harvestinghappiness.com, and www.whatisyourhappiness.com. Join Lisa as she shares personal highlights about leadership, happiness and success in today’s show.

In this show Dr. Greenberg and Dr. Nadler interview Management GURU, Ken Blanchard. Few people have influenced the day-to-day management of people and companies more than Ken Blanchard. A prominent, sought-after author, speaker, and business consultant, Dr. Blanchard is universally characterized by his friends, colleagues, and clients as one of the most insightful, powerful, and compassionate individuals in business today. Ken is one of the most influential leadership experts in the world and is respected for his years of groundbreaking work in the fields of leadership and management.