Steve Farber & John French
Twisted Business for High-minded Leaders
Steve Farber & John “Jay Jay” French
John “Jay Jay” French – Entrepreneur and Founding Member-Manager of Twister Sister
Steve Farber – Founder of The Extreme Leadership Institute
About Steve
Listed as one of Inc’s global Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts, Steve Farber is a Leadership Pioneer, Strategist, Keynote Speaker and Bestselling Author on Extreme Leadership. His expertise is in creating organizational cultures where leadership is not just an opportunity and obligation for those in authority, but for everyone at all levels.
Steve is the President of Extreme Leadership, Inc, and the founder and chairman of The Extreme Leadership Institute, organizations devoted to the cultivation and development of Extreme Leaders around the world. His accessible, deeply inspirational, and eminently practical Radical LEAP framework is widely used across the business, non-profit and education spectrum. Farber has been credited with redefining leadership in deeply personal yet practical terms and re-energizing thousands of people to make a significant difference in their businesses, lives, and the world around them.
About Jay
John “Jay Jay” French is a Keynote and Motivational Speaker, Reinvention Expert, Entrepreneur, and Founding member of the renowned heavy metal band Twisted Sister. He has a unique perspective on business leadership based on my 40+ years of experience with Twisted Sister (as Manager, Guitarist, and Director of Licensing, Publishing & Touring), as well as being a producer/executive producer/manager of rock bands. I’m also the founder of The Pink Burst Project, a nonprofit.
He is a natural storyteller and loves energizing and inspiring audiences through extraordinary tales of success, failure and reinvention through the lens of rock and roll.
He talks about the importance of vision, business transformation, hiring the right people, how to manage challenges, being an authentic leader and developing successful business practices. Everything is based on real-life experiences and he speaks very honestly and openly, with a good dose of humor.
Take home these learnings
1) The story of rising, fall, and the triumphant return of the Twisted Sister star
2) Business lessons that are applicable to every profession and even to life in general
3) Tips to voice your story, redeem yourself and develop your philosophy
4) Collaboration and Love at the core of leadership
Episode Transcript:
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Dave Ulrich
Thriving in Uncertainty: A Discussion on Abundance, Certainty, and Identity with Dave Ulrich
Dave Ulrich
Speaker, Author, Professor, Thought Partner on Human Capability
Dave Ulrich
Dave Ulrich is a renowned author, speaker, and management expert who has made significant contributions to the field of human resources and leadership development. He is a professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and a partner at The RBL Group, a consulting firm that helps organizations create value through leadership, talent, and HR. Dave has authored over 30 books and published hundreds of articles in prestigious journals, and he is known for his research on human resource management, leadership, and organization design. He has been named as the "#1 Management Educator & Guru" by BusinessWeek and one of the "Top 10 Influential Business Thinkers in the World" by Thinkers50. Dave has also received numerous awards for his contributions to the field, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Federation of People Management Associations.
Take home these learnings:
2. How can your commitment to learning create value for others?
3. How can you prepare for the future by anticipating settings where your identity and values can be played out?
4. How can you focus on caring, nurturing, and compassion in your interactions with others?
5. How can you validate and reinforce your brand and identity?
6. How do you balance the liability of success?
Parth Bhatt
Global vision is not a matter of age.
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Parth Bhatt
UN Institution Alumnus
About Parth
Parth Bhatt is a student from India and an alumnus of many prestigious UN institutions like The United Nations Climate Change Learn in Geneva, Switzerland. As a child, he grew with an internal realization that he needs to take part in empowering others in order to make this world a better place to live. He wanted to do more than academics and become a person with practical knowledge and experience. He always followed current issues.
In 2017, Parth was conferred with the coveted AWWA Award of Excellence by wife of Chief of Army Staff of Indian Army for my works in field of Science & Technology and Community Development through Sustainable Development.
I actively participate in Ambassador Series conferences as Official Youth Delegate and have attended many high level diplomatic meetings & conferences with Presidents & Diplomats from many foreign nations in various capacities.
He completed more than 545 courses with organizations like the United Nations, United States Institute of Peace, and Ivy League Universities. In August 2019, he completed Specialized Training in Military Studies from Peace Operations Training Institute USA.
Take home these learnings
1) How to use technology to transform your life for the better?
2) How to approach artificial intelligence and get comfortable with it?
3) Befriending technology for business transformation.
4) Finding ways to bring peace in your life with technology.
Ritu Mehrish
Break out of a Leader's Block
Ritu Mehrish
Leadership Troubleshooter: Global Speaker, Executive Coach, and Author.
About Ritu
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Ritu is a Leadership Troubleshooter and an Executive Leadership Coach who helps you create engagement, professional growth, and personal development for yourself and your people! She comes with the experience of being a former business leader, who has managed a multi-million-dollar business vertical with 1000 people, across 8 countries and 5 continents and also understands the joys and challenges of leading diverse and global teams. With 20 years of corporate experience of working across the globe with companies like Procter & Gamble, GE Capital, and its spin-off Genpact, she has experienced leadership from close quarters. She is also the author of the book 'Leader's Block: How great leaders recover after they stumble’.
Her business and corporate experience enables her to bring in a pragmatic approach to leadership development. It helps her pivot at the moment from executive coach/ facilitator to the corporate sounding board and strategic advisor, and clients view this as a key competitive advantage.
In the last 7 years, she has worked with a slew of first-class organizations, as a Coach and Speaker, which include: Google, PayPal, Seagate, Swiss Re, JP Morgan, AbbVie, Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific, Becton Dickinson, Medtronic, Deloitte, IKEA, Nordics Business Forum, Asia School of Business and Wharton Executive Education…This adds to the insights into leadership and the paradigms that she brings.
Take home these learnings
1) Influence. Inspire. Impact. What type of Leader are you?
2) Finding and asking for help
3) Being comfortable despite losing identity.
4) Inspiring disengaged employees
5) Humanizing Leadership
Kara Goldin
Being A Credible Leader
Kara Goldin
Founder and CEO at Hint Inc.
About Kara
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Kara Goldin is the Founder and CEO of Hint, Inc., best known for its award-winning Hint® water, the leading unsweetened flavored water. She has been named one of InStyle’s Badass 50, Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, Fortune's Most Innovative Women in Food & Drink, and EY Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California. The Huffington Post listed her as one of six disruptors in business, alongside Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. Kara has successfully navigated the world of large companies and startups in many industries including media, tech, and consumer products. In addition, she understands retail and direct to consumer well. She is an active speaker & writer and hosts the podcast The Kara Goldin Show where she interviews founders, entrepreneurs, and other disruptors across various industries. Kara’s first book, Undaunted, published by Harper Leadership, was released in October 2020. She lives in the Bay Area.
Take home these learnings
1. Understanding where fear comes from
2. The journey of an entrepreneur as a seeker
3. What does it mean by being Undaunted?
4. How can a leader demonstrate kindness on a day-to-day basis?
Rohit Thakur
Realities Of The Two Worlds: The Corporates and The Start Ups
Rohit Thakur
CHRO at LEAD School
Rohit Thakur
Rohit Thakur is Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) at LEAD, India’s largest School EdTech company, and the first unicorn in the segment. At LEAD, Rohit is responsible for spearheading employee engagement, talent management and development, stakeholder engagement, internal communication, compliance, and health and safety environment. Prior to joining LEAD, he was the CHRO at Paytm. He has also worked with Microsoft India. He spent 11 years at General Electric in various HR leadership roles across multiple businesses such as energy, capital, engineering, corporate and aviation, both in India and the US. He was also associated with Eicher Tractors, Cadence Design Systems and Bausch & Lomb.
Take home these learnings:
2. Tips to expand a start-up environment
3. What is the importance of coaching in organizational development?
Rajesh Setty
Identifying Superpowers in Others
Rajesh Setty
16x Author, Teacher & Speaker and Co-founder of Audvisor.com
About Rajesh
Rajesh Setty is a Silicon Valley-based serial entrepreneur and business alchemist. He has co-founded more than a half-dozen technology and publishing companies. He has been a member of the founding teams of various technology and publishing companies (10x) since 2000. A few have gotten out, a few have made it to the startup graveyard, and the remainder are making progress. Audvisor is the company's newest initiative, a mobile audio streaming app with micro-podcasts from over 125 world-class specialists.
He has written and published various novels (18x) since 1983, with his first book being published when I was thirteen years old. Four murder mysteries, a collection of poems, a book on mathematics, six business books, and two books on how to get people to think are among the books available and has around 2,000 blog articles.
Since 2016, he has produced over 2500 Napkinsights (a napkinsight is an insight that fits on a paper napkin). Rajesh has also produced a package of 101 thank you cards with distinctive designs, two decks of playing cards with mini sagas (stories of exactly 50 words each), and more.
He's been training first-time entrepreneurs (1400x) various parts of how to bring their ideas to life since 2010. He's also lectured in front of audiences ranging from a small group of CEOs to several hundred conference attendees in the United States, India, Singapore, Malaysia, and Mexico.
Finally, Rajesh considers himself to be a "work in progress," which translates to "He guarantee his work, but leave the progress to God."
Take home these learnings
2) What are your superpowers?
3) From where do you pick up your philosophies of life?
4) Why is it important to look at possibilities in situations in life?
