Evolve: Leadership Impactcast

Join Yvette Bethel as she interviews Giuliano Bottelli and Feliziano Crisafulli, partners at Dual in Milan Italy, as they explore the IFB® methodology and how it transformed their company's leadership and culture. This is the first in a seven-part series where we explore the IFB methodology that helps leaders to understand their organizations as ecosystems, perceiving long-term challenges from new perspectives.

Today Yvette will explore “Entelechy” with Chairman and Founder of Entelechy Academy, David Carter. Entelechy Academy is David’s mentoring legacy project – where he aims to make a positive difference to millions by supporting them to actualiae their potential and become the very best version of themselves. He is a tenacious visionary who bravely and courageously ‘gets stuff done’ that others often thought impossible. David’s belief in others is matched only by his restless frustration that so little is done to unlock the potential that we all have. The Entelechy Academy practically addresses this challenge, for the benefit of individuals and society alike.  Listen in to learn about Entelechy.

The topic for this episode of EVOLVE is “Managers’ First Aid Kit” and to explore this topic is change consultant, author, university lecturer, and Ambassador, Joan Underwood. Joan is the Managing Director, Lead Consultant and cofounder of Underwood Talent Development Services.  Like any other high performing woman she is multi-talented, serving leaders in so many ways. Joan has served on numerous boards in the private and public sectors and as an Ambassador to a number of Latin American countries. She has accumulated extensive experience in management, so she brings rich experiences as well as a theoretical understanding of management to our conversation. We hope you enjoy our conversation.

Our conversation for this episode of EVOLVE is about Employee Engagement in Hybrid Working Conditions and to explore this topic is with us is Consultant, Speaker and Change Strategist, Rick Cram. Rick has consulted for hundreds of companies and facilitated over 1,000 conferences, meetings, workshops and engagement events for clients’ employees and customers. After working on all sides of “the business” Rick founded Full Sail Strategic Communications, providing Fortune 1000 and small businesses alike with comprehensive strategic and creative marketing and communication services. Since 2011 he has been serving clients throughout North America under his brand, Rick Cram - PLAN TO BE YOUR BEST. Enjoy the episode!

To explore “Leading Through Love” from a faith-based, Christian perspective is Leadership and Strategic Business Consultant, and Executive Director with the John Maxwell Team, Candace Mae Gruber. Candace Mae offers a process that develops leadership teams in ways that result in sustainable employee engagement and effective business operations. Her training offering includes leadership with value-centric ethics, focusing on employee strengths, positive team engagement principles, and management systems that build strong business growth foundations. She is a licensed affiliate and Executive Director with The John Maxwell Team and is a Certified Communication and Behavior Consultant.  Her approach builds high-performance business teams led by engaging leaders. Her approach is based on Christian principles and she wholeheartedly believes the statement, “Improve your people and processes and watch your profits grow!” is the future of successful organizations. Contact Candace Mae at https://candacemae.com/ And

In this episode, Ralf Specht, Author, and Entrepreneur explores his book, "Building Corporate Soul", with us. Ralf Specht, called “a visionary business leader” by FastCompany Press, is the creator of the Soul System™, a framework that aligns value-creating employee action with broader corporate strategy through shared understanding & shared purpose. He introduces a new language of success into the world of business based on his mission to make the leadership behaviors that build soul synonymous with the behaviors which build success. Ralf was a founding partner of the startup Spark44, a global marketing communications powerhouse. He was the architect of an innovative, industry-first joint-venture with Jaguar Land Rover. During his time as COO and CEO, he successfully focused on the interdependence of the creative output with employee engagement and satisfaction. Previously, Ralf consulted for more than 20 years with global companies and brands such as Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, General Motors, and P

Today Yvette is speaking with Peter Docker. Peter is a Leadership Consultant, Executive Coach, Speaker, Author, and Pilot. He worked with Simon Sinek for over 7 years and was one of the founding ‘Igniters’ on Simon’s team. He took his years of practical experience to co-author "Find Your Why:  with Simon and David Mead. His latest book, "Leading From The Jumpseat: How to Create Extraordinary Opportunities by Handing Over Control," was published in October 2021. Peter's commercial and industry experience has been at the most senior levels. His clients include Google, Four Seasons Hotels, Accenture, American Express, NBC Universal and over 100 more. Peter served for 25 years as a Royal Air Force senior officer. He has been a Force Commander during combat flying operations and has been in service across the globe. His career spanned from professional pilot, to leading an aviation training and standards organisation, to flying the British prime minister around the world.

Join Yvette and Louise Goekel for a potent conversation about careers. You'll get something from the conversation no matter where you are in your career. Career consultant, life coach, and business advisor Louise Goeckel has more than 20 years of experience providing Business and Professional Development consulting. She specializes in leading individuals and facilitating groups, enlivening their gifts so that they may make new contributions to the world. Louise offers deep listening, extensive knowledge, and a keen understanding of leadership and change. As a leader, teacher and facilitator, she delights in watching people becoming more courageous, clear, and comfortable being their best selves. Louise loves her work and wants everyone to love theirs. You can contact Louise at http://letsgoforward.biz.   

Michael Landers is an Author, Speaker, and Founder of the global organization, Culture Crossing. Over the past 15 years, Michael has designed and facilitated programs for global executives and managers that help them to build essential skills in areas such as cross-cultural communication, leadership, team building, sustaining employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, and international recruiting and staffing.  Michael has conducted business in over 30 countries, including the creation of a cross-cultural consultancy in Japan, staffing a global advertising conglomerate throughout Europe, and leading various successful business development initiatives in Latin America, among other international endeavors. Michael shares some powerful insights into culture in multinational companies. If you would like to contact him, feel free to visit his website at: https://culturecrossing.net

Bryn Jones helps people lead with intention, wisdom, and heart so they can build momentum for change in their lives, organizations, and communities.  In doing so, she draws on backgrounds in social justice and conservation work, with an education in law and policy, professional training, and certification in coaching and facilitation. Bryn has experienced a long career as a leader in the nonprofit sector inspired by a desire to help build compassionate, healthy and resilient communities. Join our conversation to learn about community leader accelerators and how to sustain communities in the future. You can contact Bryn at https://elanconsulting.org. 

Rick Cram has consulted for hundreds of companies and facilitated over 1,000 conferences, meetings, workshops, and engagement events for clients’ employees and customers. After working on all sides of “the business” Rick founded FullSail Strategic Communications, providing Fortune 1000 and small businesses alike with comprehensive strategic and creative marketing and communication services.  Since 2011 Rick has been serving clients throughout North America under his brand, Rick Cram - PLAN TO BE YOUR BEST.  This episode of Evolve explores corporate and interpersonal communication. Join us for the conversation.  If you enjoyed the show you can connect with Rick at:  https://www.rickcram.com/.

Cherilyn's passion is the design of curriculum, assessments, and training about emotional intelligence (EI) to foster excellence around the globe.  Cherilyn is a Fulbright scholar and holds a master’s degree in curriculum design and instruction for the gifted and talented. Motivated by the belief that developing emotional intelligence is a fundamental skill for any age, Cherilyn served as an editor for the book Know Choose Give, one of the first internationally published EI courses for university students, and for Self-Science, 4th Edition, a collection of 80 lessons for the K-8 classrooms. Cherilyn co-authored a paper in 2017 for the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology on the schoolwide application of EI assessments. Committed to advocacy, she led the world’s first virtual conference on social emotional learning (SEL) in higher education and organized an innovative conference on neuroscience, instructional design, and experiential learning for Silicon Valley professionals hosted in partnership with

Sharon Deal has a passion to transform lives, life and leadership.  She is a courageous leader that not only walks the talk but has the ability to support leaders with becoming courageous. She believes courage is contagious and has a passion to scale courageous leadership in teams and organizations. Sharon believes that the key to courage is being anchored in Who you are and leading from this place.  This shifts everything about how leaders show up because courageous leadership leads to cultures of brave work, tough conversations, and whole hearts where the armoring up process is not necessary or rewarded. After her 25 years as a leader and owner in the corporate environment, she is especially effective in working with entrepreneurs, executives and their teams.  She is the founder of the Who am I Foundation where she engages individuals and organisations through educating, facilitating, coaching and training.  Sharon is an EQ Practitioner, Facilitator and Assessor and Conversational Intelligence Coach. 

Ajene Wilcoxson is a Professor of Business, a student of Logotherapy, and a Certified Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Facilitator and Assessor and Practitioner. He focuses on helping his students and clients to develop an EQ Mindset, and facilitates inspirational talks, workshops as a consultant, but most importantly, he is a teacher. A teacher from the perspective of being a guide, helper, and mentor in the Life-Learning Process. His passion and foundation are living and teaching how to experience a Soul-Centered, Emotionally Intelligent Life.  Ajené is the recipient of the Dr. John W. Rice Diversity and Equity Award, the Dr. Regina Stanback-Stroud Diversity Award, and the ACBSP National Teaching Excellence Award

According to Chiara, our systems are not equipped to provide the necessary support to adapt and ease the helplessness and inadequacy people experience when their territory is changing unprecedentedly. She supports leaders with or without titles to tap into an internal variable to achieve their goals mindfully and creatively to adapt to the impact of change.  Chiara has 10 years’ experience in senior management for high-end fashion houses and manufacturing, 10 years of personal and organizational development, and 6 years in collaborating with organizations to create human-centric self-managed teams or self-managed organizations. According to Chiara, "Just because a team is self-managed, it doesn't mean there is no hierarchy."   Learn more about Chiara at www.solutionsorg.ca

Des McCabe is an Entrepreneur, author, podcaster and humanitarian.  He is one of the UK's leading specialists in inclusion job creation and personal development. He helps to find work for 5,000 unemployed people every year and is recognized as one of Europe's Top 500 job creation entrepreneurs.  His humanitarian work includes the establishment of The Training Trust that supports orphanages in Romania, as well as anti-poverty work in Ghana and Madagascar.  Des' podcast is, "Thinking Differently About Everything" and in it, he challenges comfortable, traditional thinking!  Listen in to learn more about how Des Thinks Differently About Leadership.

Lea Brovedani - author and Trust Architect- has distinguished herself for many years of thought leadership in Trust by Trust Across America.  Listen in to learn about the purest form of trust and some of the things you can do to cultivate it. Get more information about Lea Brovedani at https://leabrovedani.com/blog/.  You're welcome to join our vibrant network of leaders who are challenging the leadership paradigm in an innovative learning and impact network. Check out our webpage at IFBNetwork.co to learn more about, and join our exciting ecosystem of high-performing leaders. Enjoy the episode!

Yvette Bethel interviews Joan Underwood, award-winning, co-founder of Underwood Talent Development Services, subject matter expert at the Cave Hill School of Business, and Ambassador to a number of Latin American Countries. They explore how leaders can integrate their own values and goals with the values and goals of their team members so they can inspire and build increasingly successful teams.

Yvette's guest, Bobby Ogilvie, is an emotional intelligence coach based in Canada who coaches leaders and facilitates team transformation helping these teams to achieve agility, and develop strategic insights. He recruits and analyses performance so he can support improved capacity and business value. In this episode, Bobby will share tools, methods, and strategies you can use to diagnose performance and enhance team capacity by improving the collective emotional quotient.

Maria Jackson is an author and writer for Six Seconds, the largest global emotional intelligence organization. Her noble goal is to nurture inner illumination and she is grateful to work and live in a world where she can practice her noble goal. In this episode, Maria and Yvette discuss sandpaper people and attachment styles. Listen in to learn more about who they are and how to navigate different attachment styles.