Leadership Development News

John O'Neil is currently the President of the Center for Leadership Renewal. He serves on several boards and is a best selling author, speaker, and advisor on leadership issues, providing leadership advisement and development services to senior leaders serving across a wide range of organizations from start-ups to mature enterprises. Today John will share his perspectives on “The Good Life” an innovative executive program which John co-created to help all leaders truly master the “life of their dreams”.

Kevin is one of the leaders in the new field of Social Cognitive Neuroscience, which is generating a lot of interest in new findings that have previously been in the black box of the brain. He was recently interviewed by Wall Street Journal about managing the fear in the financial marketplace. He currently is the director of Social Cognitive Neuroscience and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Columbia University. Kevin's research interests include the psychological and neural processes involved in emotion, pain, self-regulation, self perception, and person perception. All of his work employs a social cognitive neuroscience approach that seeks to integrate the theories and methods of social psychology on the one hand, and cognitive neuroscience on the other.

Leaders drive engagement, engagement drives productivity and Emotional Intelligence drives leadership. In today’s show Cathy and Relly give some of the latest updates about Emotional Intelligence (EI) research and the new Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQi 2.0) assessment. They also will take a deeper dive looking at three of the EI leadership competencies for Decision Making and strategies on how to raise and enhance these competencies. Cathy and Relly will discuss the Emotional Intelligence history, ROI research and the EQi 2.0 assessment. The EQi 2.0 is used to help your leaders better assess, predict and to have more leaders perform in the top 10%. Drs. Greenberg and Nadler use the EQi and other leadership tools in their XCEL (Excellence in Coaching for Executive Leaders) program, their landmark executive leadership and coaching programs, where emotional engagement meets performance.

Dr. TC North is a high-performance executive coach and speaker who accelerates and motivates individuals and organizations to attain their visions and dreams by becoming high performers. Cathy L. Greenberg is a best selling, award-winning author, ICF Certified Coach and abc TV’s “First Lady of Happiness”. Together they share the secrets of success in their new book, “Fearless Leaders”, just one of many titles in their forthcoming hardback and digital Fearless Book Series. Tune in to learn more about the principles for being truly fearless in life, love, business and relationships. It’s Emotional Intelligence at it’s best.

Dr. TC North is CEO and founder of Catalyst High Performance. For the past two decades Dr. North has been providing executive coaching and consulting to small- and medium-sized businesses to create high-performing organizations that have extraordinary profitability and that people love to work for. He coaches and accelerates the success of CEOs, entrepreneurs and sales professionals by helping them train their minds like world-class athletes to blast through fear, build courage and confidence and develop their business plans and culture to maximize success. Dr. North¡¦s work has resulted in dramatically increased revenues (sometimes increases of 200 percent to 300 percent). Dr. North delivers keynotes and workshops on two topics. Success Secrets of world-class athletes and business leaders„§ and Blast Through Fear!„§ Dr. North has been featured on TV and in newspapers, business journals and scientific journals. Listen to his tips for raising your performance.

John O'Neil is currently the President of the Center for Leadership Renewal. He serves on several boards and is a best selling author, speaker, and advisor on leadership issues, providing leadership advisement and development services to senior leaders serving across a wide range of organizations from start-ups to mature enterprises. Today John will share his perspectives on “The Good Life” an innovative executive program which John co-created to help all leaders truly master the “life of their dreams”.

Ben Dattner, Ph.D. is an organizational psychologist, and the founder of Dattner Consulting, a workplace consulting firm based in New York City. He has helped a wide variety of corporate and non-profit organizations sort through their credit and blame issues to become more successful. Ben's consulting services enable organizations to make better hiring and staffing decisions, to enhance the professional capabilities of managers and employees, to configure teams more effectively, and to reduce the amount of interpersonal and inter-group conflict by, in part, embracing candor and accuracy when it comes to handing out credit and blame. We will explore these concepts from his new book, the “Blame Game.” Ben is an Adjunct Professor at New York University, where he teaches Organizational Development in the Industrial and Organizational Psychology MA Program in the Graduate School..

After spending years in human resources and discovering that most companies weren’t doing an adequate job developing their number one asset—employees—Rene D. Petrin had a mission: to create an organization devoted solely to teaching businesses how to mentor talent. This entrepreneurial spirit combined with his keen insight into human behavior led Rene to found Management Mentors, Inc. His philosophy is simple: to show companies how structured mentoring programs are the most powerful and effective strategy for professional development. Rene has experience managing all areas of human resources, but he’s always maintained a special interest in employee development. Join Rene today as a leader in the mentoring field to learn how he developed mentoring tools, such as online tutorials, that are unique in emphasizing the interpersonal dynamics in mentoring while at the same time working toward creating standards of excellence so that the mentoring profession maintains its integrity and promise.

Dr. Adson with the help of her daughter, Jennifer Van Homer, a certified coach, recently wrote A Princess and Her Garden: A Fable of Awakening and Arrival---with a Guided Journal.. It’s goal was to help women improve their emotional lives, self-care and self-responsibility. Dr. Adson is currently a certified Hudson Institute coach and is on the Leadership Team of the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara. She has written two other books, Finding Your Own True North & Helping Others Find Direction in Life (1999), Depth Coaching: Discovering Archetypes for Empowerment, Growth, and Balance (2004). Jennifer Van Homer, Pat’s daughter is a Master Certified Strozzi Institute Somatic coach and Certified Hudson Institute Coach. She has 20 years of experience in leadership, team development and strategic planning. Jennifer is a past HR Director and training and development manager at Patagonia, where she worked for 10 years.

Dr. Steven Stein is the author of Make Your Workplace Great: The 7 Keys to an Emotionally Intelligent Organization , Emotional Intelligence for Dummies , and co-author of the international bestseller The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success . . Dr. Steven Stein is a clinical psychologist and the founder and CEO of Multi-Health Systems Inc. (MHS), and publisher of the world’s premier Emotional Intelligence assessments, the EQ-i, the BOEI, and the MSCEIT, as well as other leading psychological assessments Dr. Stein and MHS have tested the Emotional Intelligence (EQ) of more people in the world than anyone else. Dr. Stein has consulted with the Canadian Armed Forces, the U.S. Air Force, the FBI, and special units of the Pentagon. Dr. Stein has also worked with numerous corporate clients, including American Express, Air Canada, Coca Cola, CIBC, and several professional sports teams.

Steve Jobs had a Superman Syndrome and changed 7 different industries. What if you had superman powers of vision, could see things others couldn’t and everyone in your world catered to your special powers? What tall buildings could you leap and what could you accomplish? Drs. Cathy Greenberg and Relly Nadler, the show hosts will look at the complex leadership profile of Steve Jobs where he excelled in EI and what areas he derailed in and people just tolerated. They will also speak about Emotional Intelligence new research and the new EQi 2.0 assessment. The EQi 2.0 is used to help your leaders better assess, predict and to have more perform in the top 10%. Drs. Greenberg and Nadler use the EQi and other leadership tools in their XCEL (Excellence in Coaching for Executive Leaders) program, their landmark executive leadership and coaching programs, where emotional engagement meet performance.

Chip Conley is an author, international speaker and innovative CEO of Joie de Vivre (JDV), the second largest boutique hotel company in the US. JDV expanded to over 35 award-winning hotels, restaurants and spas, with over 3,000 employees. Chip and his company's transformational leadership practices have been featured in TIME, USA Today, Fortune and The Wall Street Journal. The SF. Business Times named Chip the Most Innovative CEO – and JDV the 2nd Best Place to Work – in the entire Bay Area. As a thought leader at the intersection of psychology, business, and emotional intelligence at work, Chip shared his unique prescription for success in his bestselling book, PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. In his new book, Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success, out January 10th, guides us from emotional intelligence to emotional fluency – using math to better understand and manage our emotions.

Dr. Steven Stein is the author of Make Your Workplace Great: The 7 Keys to an Emotionally Intelligent Organization , Emotional Intelligence for Dummies , and co-author of the international bestseller The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success . . Dr. Steven Stein is a clinical psychologist and the founder and CEO of Multi-Health Systems Inc. (MHS), and publisher of the world’s premier Emotional Intelligence assessments, the EQ-i, the BOEI, and the MSCEIT, as well as other leading psychological assessments Dr. Stein and MHS have tested the Emotional Intelligence (EQ) of more people in the world than anyone else. Dr. Stein has consulted with the Canadian Armed Forces, the U.S. Air Force, the FBI, and special units of the Pentagon. Dr. Stein has also worked with numerous corporate clients, including American Express, Air Canada, Coca Cola, CIBC, and several professional sports teams.

Not just another book about how to start the next Microsoft or Apple in your garage. Better yet, it’s about low-risk entrepreneurship. It’s a book about how to build slowly, sustainably and profitably. It includes real-life examples from authors Jim Beach and Chris Hanks, experienced entrepreneurs who proved how even in a college classroom, businesses can be started from scratch and turn a profit quickly, in turbulent economic times and across international borders. School for Startups, (www.SchoolforStartups.com) argues that entrepreneurship is not about risk or creativity. In fact 72% of Americans wish they were entrepreneurs. When this group sees that risk and creativity can be removed, no excuses remain. Featured in global TV, media and Amazon's business section, the book features inside stories about several interesting, yet very real and relatable, entrepreneurs. Go to http://www.schoolforstartups.com/media/ to learn more

Steve Jobs had a Superman Syndrome and changed 7 different industries. What if you had superman powers of vision, could see things others couldn’t and everyone in your world catered to your special powers? What tall buildings could you leap and what could you accomplish? Drs. Cathy Greenberg and Relly Nadler, the show hosts will look at the complex leadership profile of Steve Jobs where he excelled in EI and what areas he derailed in and people just tolerated. They will also speak about Emotional Intelligence new research and the new EQi 2.0 assessment. The EQi 2.0 is used to help your leaders better assess, predict and to have more perform in the top 10%. Drs. Greenberg and Nadler use the EQi and other leadership tools in their XCEL (Excellence in Coaching for Executive Leaders) program, their landmark executive leadership and coaching programs, where emotional engagement meet performance.

Dr. Marcia Reynolds has a passion for discovering and sharing how the brain works, especially the brains of today's smart, strong women. Her new book Wander Woman: How High-Achieving Women Find Contentment and Direction was released in June and reached #1 in Leadership and Management books for women on Amazon. She is the also the author of the book Outsmart Your Brain and has been in many publications including Harvard Communications Newsletter, U.S. Business Review, Cosmopolitan and The New York Times and has appeared on ABC World News. She is also a regular blogger for Huffington Post and Psychology Today. You can watch videos and download the first chapter of Wander Woman at www.WanderWomanBook.com. Reynolds is past president of the International Coach Federation (ICF). She was one of the first 25 people to earn the designation of Master Certified Coach (MCC) and was instrumental in designing the certification and accreditation programs for the ICF.

Today’s show will feature the co-hosts, Dr. Cathy Greenberg and Dr. Relly Nadler sharing their expertise on leadership development. Together they have over 50 years of experience helping leaders and their teams become star performers. They have created the Xcel Institute to accelerate leadership development in your organization. Their mission is to meet the demands for leaders who can coach others to perform in the top 10% with high emotional intelligence. They will explain the benefits of the Institute for experienced and emerging leaders. Their collaboration brings leaders a handbook of cutting edge tools drawn from positive psychology, the science of happiness, emotional and social intelligence, executive coaching, neuroscience and years of work in the trenches with CEOs and top executives and their teams.

Ann Farrell worked for 30 years in a various leadership roles at NAVISTAR INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, FORTUNE 200 COMPANY. SHE IS the only woman to rise from entry level to the top of the house in its 150-year history of this Fortune 200 company. She has combined her years of corporate experience with coaching best practices to create trademarked programs and tools for more than 50 Fortune 500 companies, small businesses and wildly successful individuals. Her client companies include The Chicago Cubs Organization, General Electric (GE), Navistar International, Allstate Insurance Company, British Petroleum (BP), and Alcoa Corporation She is an executive, business and leadership coach who ignites high performance in people and organizations through “Revealutionary Leadership”. Her passion for empowering people to fully step into their personal and professional best is at the heart of my coaching.

As co-founder of the Human Performance Institute, Dr. Jim Loehr has worked with hundreds of world-class performers from the arenas of business, sport, medicine, and law enforcement including Fortune 100 executives, FBI Hostage Rescue Teams, and Army Special Forces. He is the author of several books on mental and physical training for peak performance, including the Power of Full Engagement (2003) and “Power of Story”, which we will focus on today. Dr. Loehr’s ground-breaking, science-based energy management training system has achieved world-wide recognition and has been chronicled in leading national publications including the Harvard Business Review, Business Week, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, Success, Fast Company and Omni. He has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Nightline withTed Koppel, The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and CBS Morning News and the OprahWinfrey Show. Dr. Loehr possesses a masters and doctorate in psychology. Come listen and learn about your story.

James Gottfurcht, Ph. D., is an internationally recognized money coach and keynote speaker. He is President of Psychology of Money Consultants, a Los Angeles firm, where he coaches financial service and mental health professionals and helps individuals and couples in his specialty. He is a pioneer in the field and has been practicing for over thirty years. In 1982, he developed The Psychology of Money Profile which is a standard and is used with professionals and the public to assess ten psychological money skills associated with financial success. He is also a clinical psychologist specializing in challenges with money, career, relationships, and stress. He is a popular media guest who has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN, and the BBC and in Time, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, etc. He is on the faculty of UCLA Extension and the College of Executive Coaching. He has also written a chapter in Dr. Stephen Covey’s and Dr. Ken Blanchard’s book, Blueprint for Success.