The Business Elevation Show With Chris Cooper - Be More. Achieve More

Is it best to always use love rather than fear for personal, business or political progress? Should we be encouraging qualities such as integrity, love and peace rather than using fear to gain power at all costs as embodied in Machiavelli’s 16th century teachings ‘The Prince’? Or do we need to teach our kids and students dubious as well as honourable qualities so they can survive in the 21st century ‘Game of Thrones’? I am joined by Elisabet Vinberg Hearn CEO of Katapult Partners, Award-winning Author of 'The Team Formula’, 'Leading Teams: 10 Challenges, 10 Solutions’ and The Leader’s Guide to Impact. Roelien Bokxem co-founder and principal of PresenceAtWork, a very successful collective leadership company in the Netherlands. Steven Morris, artist, author, entrepreneur whose thriving business & painting practice is based in San Diego. Join us as we put the world to rights on this most challenging and topical subject.

Knowing how to grow and build a business can be difficult - so where do you go begin? Everything has to start with, what Rupert refers to as the “12 Pillars”. The first two pillars being reflected in you as a person (your “why”) and your personal plan and these should be reflected with desired outcomes in your business. There should be a further “10 Pillars” devoted to continued business growth to achieve ultimate success… I’m delighted to welcome back to the show Rupert Honywood, who joined us last year on The Business Elevation Show. He is the CEO and Founder of Business Growth Bureau and loves working with directors and leaders to help them grow their businesses at an accelerated rate built on solid foundations. On this show, Rupert explains why you should adopt these “12 Pillars For Growing You And Having A Successful Business” and he will be pleased to give all listeners free access to a special diagnostic tool to plan this out. Don’t miss it!

How do you use surveys powerfully to build your business? Laura McInerney is an investigative journalist and co-founder of the daily survey platform, Teacher Tapp. A formidable blogger, she was taken to court by the UK education secretary for asking to see documents that exposed government incompetence – three years later she walked away with the information, and became a columnist for The Guardian newspaper and editor of the investigative paper Schools Week. She now runs Teacher Tapp, a daily survey platform co-founded with Profes-sor Becky Allen, which is the largest daily survey of teachers. Laura is a regular public speaker and broadcaster, often appearing on BBC and Sky News, and co-author of the book ‘The Leadership Factor’. Join us to find out more about how to survey effectively and to hear some expert tips on how to blog formidably!

If you want to be exceptional and grow, the ability to give and receive quality feedback is essential. Yet why do we find it so difficult? Host of The Elevation Show, Chris Cooper, will discuss the art of feedback, and how to keep it positive and elevatory with his business colleague, John Jennings, asking the questions! Chris is the creator and host of the Business Elevation Show, the most listened to business show on Voice America. Chris and John help leaders to elevate business performance by developing exceptional leaders, teams and highly engaged workforces. He is co-Author of The Power To Get Things Done (Whether You Feel Like It Or Not) and a fellow of the Professional Speaking Association. Join us and consider how to do feedback well.

Creativity in the workplace is an important part of building a successful business. Yet sometimes, it can be hard to know where to draw the creativity from, and how to keep it flowing throughout your teams! Christopher O’Donnell is a technologist, musician and public speaker who has built dozens of web and mobile products. His product portfolio ranges from language learning products for the U.S. military to the most popular free CRM product in the world. Today, Christopher serves as Senior Vice President of Hubspot Product, which he led from startup ($50M in revenue) to successful publicly traded company ($600M in revenue). Christopher has become a staple in the product management community and was recently named one of the Best Product Leaders of 2019 (via Comparably). Do join us as we discuss the best ways to get creative in the workplace and lead your team to success!

Would you like to attract clients online, get recognition, build a brand and make a positive impact in the world? If so my guest Genecia Alluora is a renowned expert at helping women to do just that. She is a former Miss Singapore and South-east Asia Woman of Excellence 2010. She is the Founder of Soul Rich Woman, the #1 female entrepreneur network in Southeast Asia that connects more than 200,000 women across the region, with presence in 7 countries. Genecia has gone through the highs and lows of being a business owner. Her epic journey from six-figure debt to making her first million, fueled her passion to empower women into being fabulous, acquiring freedom and financial independence. Join us for inspiration and wisdom to help you to successfully build your business.

Do you plan to write a book to help elevate your business? Or have written one before and wish to do an even better job next time around? How do you best write a book and what is the ideal route to get your hard work published? Sue Richardson created The Right Book Company - a publishing company with a difference – one that chooses to put the author and their business first while creating high quality books on their behalf. Sue is a judge of the Business Book Awards and the author of The Authority Guide to Publishing your Business Book. Sue is someone whom I greatly respect to give us authentic advice in this complex world. She was an excellent guest 4 years ago and with lots of change in the world of publishing and reader expectations it is time to revisit and discover once again how to navigate this complex world.

If you give generously there is the tendency that you will receive in return. Where this is done in business with great integrity and purpose it can also prove to be an exceptional growth strategy. My guest Cherie Concannon's greatest motivation is helping people. She believes that businesses can thrive when they act with each other’s best interest in mind, even within markets they usually compete in. This philosophy of working together, was forged in her early years growing up on a sheep farm in Australia. Today she and her company Concannon Connection are based in Leicestershire in the UK where she splits her time between consulting global corporations, raising their performance outcomes with her popular YouMatter reports, and mentoring the next generation of start-up entrepreneurs. Knowing Cherie for several years, I have been positively impacted by her generosity and am confident that you will find great value in this conversation. Do join us!

Today we have incredible technology available at our fingertips… yet we tend to use only a small amount of its potential! This week’s guest, IT entrepreneur, author, and speaker, Thorsten Jekel is a leading expert on Digital Working. He speaks from 25+ years of professional experience in sales, in project management for the service and IT industries, and from his long-time experience in management in the SME sector. Since 2010, Jekel has been supporting people and businesses in the productive use of new digital technologies. He has worked with, for example, Coca-Cola, Trans-gourmet (REWE-Foodservice), and Sparkasse Insurance to successfully introduce up to 1,700 iPads for use in sales. Whether you are an entrepreneur, business employee or are considering technology for your business this interview will help you to make the most of your tech.

This week I am delighted to welcome a very distinguished guest, Raj Sisodia, to discuss why a workplace should also be a place of healing, whether it be for employees, their families or customers. A founding member of the groundbreaking Conscious Capitalism movement, Raj Sisodia is the FW Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business and Whole Foods Market Research Scholar in Conscious Capitalism at Babson College. He is also the Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Conscious Capitalism Inc. Raj was born in India and spent parts of his childhood in North America. He pursued an MBA in Marketing from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies in Mumbai after which he earned a Ph.D. in Marketing and Business Policy from Columbia University. He has published ten books and over 100 academic articles. Join us as we discuss Raj’s new book written with Michael J. Gelb ‘The Healing Organization: Awakening The Conscious Of Business To Help Save The World’.

The ever changing world we live in means business is increasingly fast paced, technologically led and at times chaotic. ‘Burn out’ is becoming so common it will soon be officially recognised as a disease So how do we learn to engage better when immersion in often complex digital worlds combined with constant change can easily damage engagement? As I am personally passionate about engagement, I have found a guest in Maria Bourke whom I believe has a very valuable and unique perspective. Maria is the founder of multi award winning Lets Get Healthy. Her teams work across Europe delivering unique and innovative health and wellbeing programmes to many organisations. Maria also walks the health and wellbeing talk having competed at a senior level in eventing, hockey and represented her country at handball. Do not miss this show as we discuss how you can build highly engaged organisations within this increasingly sophisticated and chaotic new world!

Esther Wojcicki is famous for three things: teaching a high school class that has changed the lives of thousands of kids, inspiring Silicon Valley legends like Steve Jobs, and raising three daughters who have each become famously successful. What do these three accomplishments have in common? They are the result of TRICK, Esthers secret to raising successful people: Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. Simple lessons, but the results are radical. Esther Wojcicki is a leading American educator and journalist. Mother of YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, Fulbright scholar Janet Wojcicki, and 23 And Me founder Anne Wojcicki, as well as a teacher and mentor to James Franco and Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Esther is widely heralded as the most successful parent and educator in the United States. In this interview, Esther offers essential lessons for raising, educating, and managing people to their highest potential. Change your parenting, change the world!

When it comes to pitches, is it true that the longer, flashier and more elaborate they are, the more likely you are to be successful? This weeks guest, Brant Pinvidic, does not think so Brant Pinvidic is an award winning film director, veteran television producer, C level sales and presentations coach, keynote speaker, top rated podcast host, and a columnist for Forbes. He has been named to the Hollywood Reporters 30 Most Powerful Reality TV Sellers and is widely recognized as one of the great creative sales leaders in Hollywood. In 2019, Penguin Random House will release the highly anticipated book, The 3 Minute Rule. In it, Brant details the system that has helped hundreds; from Fortune 100 CEOs to PTA presidents, Say Less To Get More both personally and professionally. Join us for an interview where Brant will spill his bag of pitching tricks to show you how to turn any proposition into an effective, compelling 3 minute pitch

How do we best use humor or as we spell it in the UK ‘humour’ to enhance success in our work? My guest Andrew Tarvin describes himself as the world’s first humor engineer, teaching people how to get better results while having more fun. Through his company, Humor That Works, Drew has worked with more than 35,000 people at over 250 organizations, including Microsoft and the FBI. He is a best-selling author; has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Fast Company; and his TEDx talk has been viewed more than 4 million times. Join us to find out how you can bring this engaging skill into your work and elevate your success.

How do you mobilise people and build an incredible network of trust around your work? My guest David Campbell completed a successful 40 year technology career, including being CEO of two public companies, when he went alone to Thailand after the 2004 tsunami to ‘use the Internet to tell the stories’. This adventure led him to founding ‘All Hands and Hearts’ which in the past 15 years has engaged over 50,000 volunteers and completed over 100 projects around the world in response to many disasters. Recognition has included being the winner of the dollar 100K 2014 Purpose Prize and so much feedback from those impacted ‘you are like angels falling from the sky’. Join us to hear the incredible story of ‘All Hands and Hearts’, understand how to mobilise people around an engaging purpose and how with creativity value can be delivered and an incredible network of trust built. Be prepared to be inspired whilst considering how these lessons can you help you further your endeavours.

In Autumn 2018, I committed to participate in one of the toughest endurance events in the UK. The ‘Artemis Great Kindrochit Quadrathlon’ created by inspiring former show guest, David Fox-Pitt MBE to raise vital funds for charity. With the death of my father in November this extreme journey took on even greater meaning as a metaphor for life. Yet as I became fitter and stronger so did the volume of exciting business opportunities coming my way. Two of my favourite people are joining us – Quadrathlon winner and marketing expert Jane Hansom whose quest to transform her health at age 40 led to becoming 2016’s Ironman and Triathlon world champion! Also, Professional Speaker, author and English Channel relay swimmer Mike Pagan who foolishly partnered with me on the event! So why should busy business-people take on such challenges, what are the benefits and what can you do to ensure you succeed whilst also elevating your performance at work? Join us for inspiration to help your journey!

From my experience a business’s culture and behaviour is a mirror reflection of the thinking and behaviour of its leaders over the last 2 or 3 years. Whilst some businesses thrive others are relegated to mediocrity and sometimes failure. So how so you adopt new ways of thinking that transform? My guest Mitzi Wyman started as a London lawyer before moving into television as Producer for the Law Channel writing business programmes. Fascinated in people and organisational culture she retrained as a coach and facilitator, gaining an MSc in Organisational Psychiatry and Psychology (KCL). She became Head of Practice Management at the Law Society, Non-Executive Director in the UK’s National Health Service and Founder and Chair of FulcrumLeaders.com. Passionate about inclusive cultures she uses her life experiences to explore race, gender & class sues underpinned by the Thinking EnvironmentTM, a methodology developed by author Nancy Kline. Join us as we explore how to transform your thinking.

The phrase ‘office politics’ can often come with a negative connotation, suggesting dirty tricks and Machiavellian manipulation. But can there be a more positive benefit? This week’s guest, Adrian Furnham, has written over 1200 scientific papers and 85 books. In combination, there is no other psychologist who has written more! He is on the editorial board of several international journals, as well as the past elected President of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences. He is also a founder director of Applied Behavioural Research Associates (ABRA), a psychological consultancy. Join us as we discuss how you can become politically savvy and have high integrity in the workplace!

How do you make positive change from challenging unfair systems? Unhappy with the US Healthcare system and the impact on the health of clinicians, my guest today Dr Tom Davis has taken a stand. He is teaching clinicians about a new way to make a living in a system that taking some to breaking point. In fact, he is one of many businesses that create opportunities from disrupting tired systems with the aim of creating a better world. A family physician for over 25 years, angel investor, founder of 6 companies, co-founder of 8, Tom has successfully managed thousands of patients under Medicare Advantage and other value-based care programs. Today, as the founder and president of Tom Davis Consulting, Tom enables clients to leverage value-based systems for sustainable revenue generation, strong clinician engagement and the delivery of superior patient care. In this interview, Tom will share his wealth of knowledge, and how you too can stand up for positive change!

What would happen if love and peace were adopted as deep fundamental values of leadership and business today? When the world needs us to unite like never before, surely the time is now to end selfish ways such that together we can solve the complex problems in the world. My guest Dr Mansour Malik is an international lawyer, Legal Consultant and the Owner of Diplomat magazine and the Diplomatic Business Club London and Dubai. As a consequence, he has an extensive network of highly proficient, professional and influential contacts worldwide. He strongly believes and places paramount importance on integrity, reputation and professionalism and moral and ethical practices in his private and professional life. I am really excited about this interview and the potential that exists to bring more humanity into humanity today. Join us for what will be a fascinating and heartfelt conversation that will have you considering your personal contribution to this most essential global movement.