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

2016 was a year full of huge changes, with Brexit in the UK and the shock presidential outcome in the United States. So how can we navigate our businesses in these uncharted waters in 2017 and beyond? Having studied Economics at Sussex and London Universities, Mark is now Head of Economics for HSBC’s commercial bank-ing business in the UK. He is responsible for advising the Bank in the UK and its business customers on developments in the British and global economies. In order to ensure that HSBC’s commercial customers in the UK are as well informed as possible about the issues arising from ‘Brexit’, he spoke at more than 150 such events during 2016. Do join us for a show full of invaluable insights into the economics affecting us today and those things you need to be aware of. Also, hear Mark’s inspirational story of how, blind from the age of 4, he has built a successful corporate career.

Are you in the business of educating others? Perhaps you are a trainer, coach or subject expert and want to have a great impact. If so, on this show we will discuss how to create online programmes that take skills to the next level, while delivering you a healthy revenue stream. My guest Danny Iny is the founder of Mirasee, host of the Business Reimagined podcast, bestselling author of multiple books including Engagement from Scratch! and The Audience Revolution, and creator of the acclaimed Audience Business Masterclass and Course Builder’s Laboratory training programs, which have together graduated over 5,000 value-driven online entrepreneurs. Join us to hear how to develop programmes that allow you to share your knowledge, create global impact, freedom and wealth.

Ever questioned the authenticity of sales? Would you like to generate more sales the trusted way? My guest Nicci Bonfanti helps put the soul back into selling. She helps female business owners, in particular, find their Inner Sales Superhero so they can find their own way of selling with authenticity, integrity and alignment. Through her own company, Trusted Sales Dynamics, Nicci has helped hundreds of business owners through applying her 5 principles for Trusted Selling. During her 15 year career in Global Sales and Marketing her unique approach to sales ensured she was promoted or hired for a new post every year due to her direct sales results and through the results gained from coaching her sales teams. Join us for inspiration and practical tips to grow your sales results in 2017 in a more trusted and authentic way.

At some point, in both our professional and personal lives, we will be faced with possible changes and challenges. How can we navigate through these? Joy Marsden says we need to Keep Stepping! Joy has over 20 years business experience in technical textile design, Marketing, Customer Service and Area Sales Management working with blue chip companies including Marks and Spencer, Mars, Next PLC and Avon Cosmetics. Today as an influential change advocate, Joy works internationally in both the public and private sectors with leaders, managers and their teams using her uniquely designed Keep Stepping!® programme, which focuses on key principles that must be mastered when going through challenge and change. Join us to discover some essential ways to help lead yourself and others through challenge and change!

Are you really harnessing the power of imagery in your business? Today about 90 percent of everything shared online is visual—selfies, GIFs, smartphone videos, and more. This explosion of communication through pictures isn’t a millennial-driven fad; it’s as natural as those lines first drawn by cavemen, Just turbo-charged by the latest technology. Dan Roam is the author of the international bestseller The Back of the Napkin, the most popular visual-thinking business book of all time. Dan is the founder and president of Digital Roam Inc., a management-consulting firm that uses visual thinking to solve complex problems for such clients as Google, Boeing, eBay, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, Wells Fargo, the U.S. Navy, and the United States Senate. Join us this week to talk about lessons from his latest book ‘Draw To Win’ and get ready to work smarter, communicate more clearly, and get better at whatever you do, just by picking up a pen!

Organising and running your own event can be a daunting and stressful experience. With so much to think about it can be hard to know where to start, let alone ensuring the event is successful! Fiona Duncan has been running events for over 10 years and now runs possibly the most successful business network in my region with a difference, The 'RSViP Network Socials', attracting well over 100 paying guests every month - a feat the big National players would love to emulate! Join us this week as Fiona will share some of the key components you’ll need to consider when putting on your own event, as well as some top tips for when you are attending an event. For those of you with events coming up in the future, whether you’re organizing or attending, this is a show not to be missed!

How do you best deal with highly chaotic and complex situations in your business? Marc Amerigo is a leading expert in this field after 25 years of some quite amazing achievements in business and sport. From his experience he has consolidated his approach into ‘The Brainshift method’. He will share the process he used to break extreme World Records (world speed records for a bicycle and snowboard) and also in the application in leading critical industrial situations from nuclear plants to automative and aviation. During this interview Marc will explain his brainshift method and share the 3 critical steps to help you move forward and get out of those tough situations. Join us to here how to move from “Chaos & Complexity” to “Performance & Harmony”.

Ever considered whether there is a Smartr way to living? In a fast paced world, with new information constantly being presented to us, how can we grow and evolve as entrepreneurs and business-minded people, whilst keeping up the pace? Jason Criddle was the CEO of Legacy Status Investments before starting The Smartr App Company in 2015. His primary project now is the Smartr Foundry; an app-based Global accelerator serving as a guide and on the go platform to help owners and founders evolve their companies, while focusing on the metaphysical & spiritual as-pects of what it takes to drive greatness within oneself. Make sure you join us for a show where Jason will discuss what will become his latest book ‘Smartr Living’ and some of the principles he believes as a millennial are essential for success in the present world!

So how well do you really plan the life you want to live while effectively managing your finances to support it? Are you someone who lives from day to day, month to month or are you someone who really very carefully plans both their vision, life strategy and their finances. My guest Tina Weeks is the founder of Serenity Financial Planning, a unique financial planning company breaking the mould of what a financial planning company should do! Tina came highly recommended by one of my trusted connections as someone who is really breaking the mould. As a fully qualified financial adviser for over 20 years, Tina was frustrated at how the financial services industry was more interested in peoples' money rather than encouraging and helping them to manage their money effectively to support the life they want to live. Join us to discover how you can do just this.

Would you like to one day sell your business? Or set up a new business that when the time is right, you could sell? If so, you will need to think carefully about designing it in such a way that it becomes a valuable concern that someone will want to purchase. During this interview, we will cover the do's and don'ts from the expert I would got to for help in my network. Tim Luscombe has been helping owner managed businesses with strategy, funding, exit planning and acquisitions since 2002. He's a principal in KLO Partners, a corporate finance advisory business, the immediate past president of the Professional Speaking Association in the UK and chairman of Thames Valley Business Advisors. He is a man of integrity and high quality practical advice. I for one will be listening to this interview pen at the ready. Join us for what for some of you could be incredibly high value interview on the Business Elevation Show.

So what are the keys to doubling your sales, profits and time off? My guest Dan Kuschell has started and built 11 companies, his first in 1992 at the age of only 22. As an expert at building and growing companies he has become a regular guest on radio and TV shows, including NBC, Spike TV, History Channel, ESPN and more. During this show, we will discuss Dan’s unique perspectives on business growth and why Dan says ‘traditional sales and marketing are dead’. Also, discuss wisdom acquired from networks including the Genius Network® that is helping clients bring simplicity to their current complexities, chisel away the nonsense, leaving them with a refined sense of what needs to be DONE. There is a reason why for thousands of years the smartest people have tended to congregate together! If you would like to double your sales, profits and time off then join us for ideas to help you do just that!

Business change is moving at the speed of light and to keep pace your organization needs you to be your own career architect. But what is driving this line of thinking? Renowned speaker and author Simon T. Bailey is the leader of the “brilliance” movement – helping more than 1 million people find their brilliance, shift their thinking and produce sustainable results. Author of seven books including Release Your Brilliance -HarperCollins- and Shift Your Brilliance: Harness the Power of You Inc.-SoundWisdom-, Simon has also spoken on six continents to 1,000 plus organizations including ATandT, IBM, MasterCard, Microsoft and Toyota. Join us as Simon shares strategies for staying relevant in every economy.

Do you dread going to networking events? Do you hide at the back of the room when you have the opportunity to present? In 1984 a New York Times Survey on Social Anxiety placed death third in the list of people's biggest fears. The top two responses were walking into a room full of strangers and speaking in public. And death came third! During this show, business networking strategist Andy Lopata, and Business Development Strategist Peter Roper, will talk us through their top tips for net-working and speaking and why their book is still as relevant today as it was when it was first published ten years ago!

Are your people really giving their best? Possibly the most fundamental issue impacting productivity today is a lack of engagement. This is such an issue that within my own business we are determined to help address the problem. I am therefore absolutely delighted to welcome ‘Engage For Success’ who have created the voluntary movement promoting employee engagement in the UK. Their aim is that everyone working in the UK should want, and be able, to give their best each day, so that each day is a great day at work, and that workplaces in the UK are thriving, growing and developing through the commitment, energy, and creativity of the people that work in them. My guest Cathy Brown is Executive director for Engage for Success, and passionately believes that helping people find a better way to work can make a big difference to people’s lives, their organisations and ultimately to the country.

What is the smart way to get to the top of the professional ladder? Such that you still have a life! My guest Heather Townsend is an expert at how to get to the top of the professional services industry. During this interview we will discuss Heather’s advice on getting on in your career drawn from her research for her successful book ‘How to make partner and still have a life’. Whatever your industry there will be tips and ideas in this interview that can help you. Heather Townsend is the award winning and best-selling author of 4 books including ‘The Go-To Expert’ and ’The FT Guide To Business Networking’. Her books have sold over 20,000 copies and been translated into at least 6 different foreign languages. Over the last 12 months she has helped her clients add at least £1 million in fees to their client portfolio.

With the technological revolution, podcast and online radio have become an increasingly popular way to elevate your business, add more value, build connections, communication skills, learn from experts and elevate your brand. My guest Eamonn O’Brien from Ireland has for several years hosted his own successful podcast show ‘The Reluctant Speakers Club’. Eamonn is also a highly experienced speaker and has run countless training courses about developing communication skills in the USA and Ireland. Therefore with my own Business Elevation show currently running to over 210 hours of interviews, I thought it was time to collaborate with one of my experienced podcast pals to share our top tips to creating a successful show and platform. So if you are looking to develop your own show, are running a show currently or simply want some inspiration about how to become a great guest then this will be one interview you must listen to!

In today’s world, sustainability is in the forefront of many leader’s minds. But how can that be translated into the way we lead our businesses? After 13 years with American Express leading an international cultural change initiative, Elisabet Vinberg Hearn started leadership consultancy Think Solutions in 2001. She has a proven track record in building strong teams, developing exceptional leadership, driving cultural change and creating excellent customer experience. Elisabeth is also award-winning author of “The Team Formula” and “Leading Teams – 10 Challenges: 10 Solutions. Join us as we discuss how we can become a sustainable leader by managing the environmental, human and financial resources of our business.

If you were asked right now how much your reputation is worth, what would you say? It’s hard to put a monetary value on something that you may think is intangible…but, if your reputation were damaged or ruined, you’d be willing to pay almost anything to get it back! Mike Mooney is currently Senior Vice President of Business Operations for Roush Fenway Racing, one of NASCAR’s premier racing organizations. He has launched and led high profile sponsorships for companies such as Sprint, Walmart, Johnson and Johnson and Mercedes-Benz. His experiences led him to write Reputation Shift – 5 High-Performance Truths to Win in the Reputation Economy. Mike states a consistent disconnect between two key elements that drive strong reputations - values and behavior. Join us this week as Mike explains how we can avoid damage to our reputation, and how proactive reputation management can lead to a better life.

So how do you create a breakthrough idea and then generate a following around it? Recently, we had some great insight from marketing expert David Newman on Thought Leadership Marketing. However, I wanted build on this show and welcome Dorie Clark, author of ‘Stand Out’ which was named as the #1 Leadership Book of 2015 by Inc. Magazine. When, as Dorie puts it, ‘the best career insurance for individuals and the best growth strategy for a business, is to become the recognized expert in your field’ this an area we must understand. People trust experts and will of course pay a premium to work with them. A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, Dorie is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, TIME, and Entrepreneur and today a marketing strategy consultant and speaker for clients including Google, Microsoft, Yale University, Fidelity, and the World Bank. Join us to hear the wisdom from someone who walks the talk and can help us to elevate our business and personal success.

If you want to be the number 1 influencer in your industry, you’ve got to get bigger media visibility. Based on her international bestseller, Guerrilla Publicity, I will be discussing with guest Jill Lublin her simple strategies to go from unknown to newsworthy. Jill Lublin is an international speaker on the topics of Radical Influence, Publicity, Networking and referrals. She is the author of 3 Best Selling books including Get Noticed...Get Referrals' McGraw Hill and co-author of Guerrilla Publicity, Adams Media and Networking Magic Morgan James. She is CEO of a strategic consulting firm and has over 20 years’ experience working with over 100,000 people plus national and international media. Jill teaches Publicity Crash Courses as both live events and live webinars and consults and speaks all over the world. Join us to learn proven secrets to understanding what the media wants, and short-term doable tactics that boost visibility for you and your brand.