Leadership Development News

Dr. Noel M. Tichy Professor of Management & Organizations at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, is the director of the Global Business Partnership, which for over a decade ran the Global Leadership Program, a 36-company consortium of Japanese, European and North American companies who partnered to conduct action research on globalization in China, India, Russia and Brazil. In 2003 he launched the Global Corporate Citizenship Initiative in Partnership with General Electric, Procter & Gamble and 3M, to create a national model partnership for opportunities between business and society emphasizing free enterprise and democratic principles. He recently has partnered with the Boys and Girls Clubs of American to build a world class capability for leadership development, and is currently partnered with two charter schools in Texas, Uplift Education & IDEA, to develop their leadership capacity. Professor Tichy also conducts the LEADERSHIP JUDGMENT PROGRAM executive workshop at the U

Drs. Greenberg and Nadler are into their 3rd year on Voice America. They will explore their focus for 2011 and will look back at 2010 highlights of the best and worst leadership in action. They will unpack some of the key components on how leaders succeed and fail. Looking through the lenses of Emotional Intelligence, Positive Psychology and Happiness they will examine how the person of the Year Mark Zuckerberg rates on Emotional Intelligence leadership and identify any derailers. What competencies did the Chilean miners use to use survive for almost 3 months 2300 feet below the ground. In addition they will share examples of leadership challenges they face every day in organizations where they consult, coach and train and what are some of the solutions that will help you with similar challenges. Come and enjoy hearing these experts talk about real issues and practical solutions.

Relly the co-host of Leadership Development News and his fifth book Leading with Emotional Intelligence will be the focus of this show. It is published by McGraw-Hill, a 2011 release and out now. It contains over 100 strategies on how to raise the EI for leaders and their teams and includes 7 EI Profiles of leaders in action, EI Hiring questions, EI Star Profile Assessment , the Derailer Detector and the Meeting Menace checklist and much more. Relly has coached CEOs, presidents and their staffs, developed and delivered innovative leadership programs for such organizations as Anheuser-Busch, BMW, EDS, MCI, DreamWorks Animation and Vanguard Health Systems. Relly is known for his practical easy to use tools and is a sought-after speaker and consultant on leadership, emotional intelligence, teambuilding, and executive coaching. Get your FREE EI assessments and action plan at: leadingwithei.com or you can reach him at: www.truenorthleadership.com

Are you a busy executive who needs more sources of positive energy? The single most important thing you can do to increase your level of health, wealth, and success in your life is to increase your level of happiness. Marci Shimoff, star of The Secret Video and the undisputed expert on the Law of Attraction, shows you how happiness is the shortcut to anything. Tune into Marci to hear about her book “Happy for No Reason” and learn the remarkable secrets to her seven-step process to easily and systematically raise your everyday level of happiness.

KAREN FRIEDMAN is a leading international communications expert who has worked with executives on four continents. A former award-winning television news anchor and reporter whose breaking coverage of local and national events has aired on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, the Today Show, Good Morning America and Nightline. She now leads Karen Friedman Enterprises, Inc. which teaches executives, spokespeople and celebrities across the globe how to make the most of every interview, appearance, meeting and presentation. Catch today’s program to learn tips and tools for winning leadership presentations!

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 an author of the “You Plan” and speaker, Dr. Woody focuses on the psychology of communication, leadership, and career re-engagement. As a coach and consultant, Dr. Woody works with clients on career development and building management/leadership capacity. Dr. Woody is also the founder of DrWoody.com a dynamic media site dedicated to work-life issues and career entrepreneurialism in the new economy. Dr. Woody also serves on the Academic Advisory Board for the Florida International University Center for Leadership. Dr. Woody served as a management and human resources consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting (PwC) and for IBM Business Consulting Services in Washington DC. From 2007 to 2009, Dr. Woody wrote a regular column for Go Jobing magazine on issues around hiring and coaching. Dr. Woody has been quoted in the Miami Herald, Miami Today, and the South Florida Sun Sentinel as an expert on career re-engagement.

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.

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.

Dan Siegel is a physician and a board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist whose pioneering work on bringing brain science into the practice of psychotherapy has made him a well-known speaker throughout the world. Dr. Siegel is the founding editor of a series of over a dozen books for mental health practitioners in the emerging field of interpersonal neurobiology. He is the author of the The Developing Mind and The Mindful Brain, and is a clinical professor at the UCLA school of medicine. He has been asked to present his work on MINDSIGHT to audiences that have included His Holinesses The Dalai Lama and Pope John Paul II as well as judges, policy-makers, therapists, the nation’s public school superintendents and the National Institute of Mental Health. MINDSIGHT: The New Science of Personal Transformation helps harness the power of our minds to resculpt the neural pathways of our brains in ways that can be life-transforming. Come hear about the new science.

Representing a new generation of life and relationship coaches, Dr. Nicole has changed the lives of all who dared to strive for their personal best. Her passion and championing of clients is what many have said sets her apart. Author of “A Woman’s True Purpose: Live Like You Matter”, she inspires you to confront avoidance, take ownership of the truth, and make choices that result in more fulfilling careers, relationships, and experiences. As the CEO of Volition Enterprises, Inc. and former Director of Training and Organization Development for News Corporation, parent company of all FOX entities, her consulting career included work with professionals from 20th Century Fox, Fox Sports, Fox Searchlight, Fox News, Anheuser-Busch Corporation, and Southwestern Bell, to name a few. Nicole’s doctorate is in Organizational Psychology, come listen to her give life enhancing tips. Her website is www.askdrnicole.com

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.

Relly the co-host of Leadership Development News and his fifth book Leading with Emotional Intelligence will be the focus of this show. It is published by McGraw-Hill, a 2011 release and out now. It contains over 100 strategies on how to raise the EI for leaders and their teams and includes 7 EI Profiles of leaders in action, EI Hiring questions, EI Star Profile Assessment , the Derailer Detector and the Meeting Menace checklist and much more. Relly has coached CEOs, presidents and their staffs, developed and delivered innovative leadership programs for such organizations as Anheuser-Busch, BMW, EDS, MCI, DreamWorks Animation and Vanguard Health Systems. Relly is known for his practical easy to use tools and is a sought-after speaker and consultant on leadership, emotional intelligence, teambuilding, and executive coaching. Get your FREE EI assessments and action plan at: leadingwithei.com or you can reach him at: www.truenorthleadership.com

Karen is the author of Full-Time Woman, Part-Time Career. For twelve years, Karen Steede-Terry operated her own business in Austin, Texas. She built a successful training practice in the high-tech fields of GPS (Global Positioning Systems) and GIS (Geographic Information Systems). She is consistently ranked as a “Top 5” instructor in these areas. As a self-employed professional, many women (and some men) approached Karen, wanting to learn how to start their own businesses. Almost all of the women, many of them new moms, sought a flexible or part-time career they could cultivate while raising a family. Karen would offer advice and informally coach them. This experience combined with her collective knowledge, insight, and experience, led her to write her award-winning second book, Full-Time Woman, Part-Time Career. As a coach, Karen brings diverse life experiences, wisdom and coaching tools - to guide you. Karen is a Certified Life Coach (CLC).

Joyce Odidison is a Conflict Analyst, Strategist, Speaker, Author and Coach, who has done extensive work, research and writing on Interpersonal Wellness for life success. She is president and owner of Interpersonal Wellness Services Inc and has been a consultant for the past 15 years. She is the author of books: Getting Ready for Mediation and of Interpersonal Wellness System – A Coaching Tool Kit. She is the developer of the Interpersonal Wellness System model, the Interpersonal Wellness Coach program and the designer of the Interpersonal Wellness Quotient (IWQ) assessment instrument. Joyce is a mentor coach and trainer through her Interpersonal Wellness Practitioner course. Joyce brings a diverse perspective to her work, as a former instructor of both Conflict Management and Sociology at the university and college levels. She is a trained mediator and holds a Masters degree in Conflict Analysis and Management. She is also a certified PCC coach with the International Coach Federation.

Are you a busy executive who needs more sources of positive energy? The single most important thing you can do to increase your level of health, wealth, and success in your life is to increase your level of happiness. Marci Shimoff, star of The Secret Video and the undisputed expert on the Law of Attraction, shows you how happiness is the shortcut to anything. Tune into Marci to hear about her book “Happy for No Reason” and learn the remarkable secrets to her seven-step process to easily and systematically raise your everyday level of happiness.

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.

Carol Frohlinger is a co-author of Her Place at the Table: A Woman's Guide to Negotiating Five Key Challenges to Leadership Success (Jossey-Bass/John Wiley, September 2004). She also co-founded Negotiating Women, Inc, which provides practical skills training women can use immediately to be more successful at work. Carol gives talks to groups and organizations who understand that promoting and retaining talented women is a win, win, win; good for women, good for men and good for the bottom line. She shares stories and lessons learned from the thousands of women she has helped to become more successful at work by negotiating more effectively with clients and colleagues, bosses and boards. Join Carol and learn how you can get the best out of everyone at your business or boardroom table.

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. Cathy and Relly will share leadership and coaching tools and strategies that they find useful for busy executives who want powerful tips to better lead their teams and themselves.

Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Her honors include a Faculty of the Year Award, Faculty Mentor of the Year Award, a Templeton Positive Psychology Prize, and a million-dollar grant from National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) to conduct research on the possibility of permanently increasing happiness. Her book, The How of Happiness, was released in January, 2008 by Penguin Press and translated into 17 languages.