Inspired Leadership Podcast

The Inspired Leadership Podcast is sponsored by PowerUp Leadership and Tyler Bayley. On this episode we have Kim Watson, the President and Managing Director for Wipro Canada. In her role, Kim is focused on Wipro's vision for business growth, localization, brand building and transformational engagements with clients in key sectors within Canada. She is a veteran in the Information and Communications Technology field with over 30 years of experience in various leadership roles including development, sales, engineering, delivery, software, managed services and outsourcing. Prior to joining Wipro, Kim was Vice President and General Manager for the Federal Market at IBM Canada. Kim is best known by her clients and co-workers as an energetic and motivating leader, with a proven ability to construct creative, collaborative and innovative approaches to drive new business and deliver large programs.

Tyler Bayley (Virtual Communication Coach) and Susan Power, PowerUp Leadership co-sponsor the production of the Inspired Leadership Podcast. This podcast highlights how to inspire better leadership in our workplaces for higher performance. Our guest, Jason Jordan is a professional speaker, speaking coach, and founder of the FireStory Communication Academy.  His Academy is a place where companies, professionals, and middle and high school students can come to learn critical communication and public speaking skills which will serve them in every aspect of their lives and career. Thank you to our listeners for your ongoing support and suggestions! Please share this podcast,  give it a like, and if you would like to be a guest or have a suggested topic for a future episode, email susan@powerupleadership.ca or bayleyty@gmail.com.

Tyler Bayley (Virtual Speaker) and Susan Power, PowerUp Leadership co-sponsor the production of the Inspired Leadership Podcast. This podcast highlights how to inspire leadership capability in our workplaces for higher performance.  Our guest, Annee Ngo is the CEO and Co-Founder of SoftServe, a game-based platform designed to develop and track soft skills in middle school and high school students in just five minutes a day. With one prior exit in 2016, Ngo is a true leader in the local tech community, having founded and sold companies such as GH Nutrition. Strong, empathetic leadership is a guiding principle for Ngo, and as the CEO of a game designed to develop many of the skills that make leaders so great (empathy, curiosity, communication, etc.), Ngo is passionate about empowering other leaders to harness their soft skills in the workplace. Not only this, but SoftServe is actually making it easier for leaders to be successful. The anonymous data gathered from SoftServe's use in schools is being used to build another world's first, a Soft Skills Index, quantifying what was once unquantifiable and giving leaders unbiased soft skills data for better hiring and retention practices. https://getsoftserve.com/ Thank you to our listeners for your ongoing support and suggestions! Please share this podcast,  give it a like, and if you would like to be a guest or have a suggested topic for a future episode, email susan@powerupleadership.ca or bayleyty@gmail.com.

Tyler Bayley (Virtual Speaker) and PowerUp Leadership co-sponsor the production of the Inspired Leadership Podcast. This podcast highlights how to inspire leadership capability in our workplaces for higher performance. If you would like to create more inspired leadership in your workplace, sign up for a new online course to learn more. Our guest, Kathy Woods, helps organizations and executives with organizational transformation and is sharing best practices on Building the Future-Ready Workforce. As a partner in Deloitte’s Canadian Human Capital Consulting practice, Kathy is responsible for the National Workforce Transformation offering and sits on Deloitte’s Global Workforce Transformation Leadership Team. With the rapidly changing world of work and the demands of our digital world, Kathy believes there has never been a more chaotic and exciting time to be in the people business.  She is focused on working with leaders, their organizations and their people to build the agile organizations with the people and talent they need to thrive in this new environment – quickly and successfully. Kathy draws on her extensive experience working with clients across industries and around the world.  She has designed and led projects covering all aspects of leadership and team effectiveness, talent strategy and organizational effectiveness, all in the context of creating a practical and integrated talent agenda that is tightly connected to business outcomes. Kathy has worked extensively with Board and C-suite clients in executive team alignment, executive development, succession planning and strategy facilitation. An engineer by training, Kathy brings an analytical approach to addressing leadership and people issues. Her experience as a global HR executive and line business leader means she also approaches her work from a pragmatic perspective with a strong results focus. Thank you to our listeners for your ongoing support and suggestions! Please share this podcast,  give it a like, and if you would like to be a guest or have a suggested topic for a future episode, email susan@powerupleadership.ca or bayleyty@gmail.com.

Tyler Bayley (Virtual Speaker) and PowerUp Leadership co-sponsor the production of the Inspired Leadership Podcast. This podcast highlights how to inspire leadership capability in our workplaces for higher performance. If you would like to create more inspired leadership in your workplace, sign up for a new online course to learn more. Shadi McIsaac is the CEO of Ownr, an RBC Ventures company that offers a simple and convenient way to register or incorporate a business as well as other tools to help entrepreneurs manage their businesses. As a daughter of immigrant parents, Shadi saw firsthand how entrepreneurship can give Canadians the opportunity to shape their lives and provide for their families and wanted to build a platform that makes it easy to start. Now, Ownr is the largest platform for incorporating businesses in Canada, with 35,000 new corporations and sole proprietorships launch and grow their business. As the leading small business and legal management platform in Canada, Ownr has seen positive trends in new business creation in Canada during the pandemic, with 165% growth in business formations from March 2020-February 2021. Thank you to our listeners for your ongoing support and suggestions! Please share this podcast,  give it a like, and if you would like to be a guest or have a suggested topic for a future episode, email susan@powerupleadership.ca or bayleyty@gmail.com.

Tyler Bayley (Virtual Speaker) and PowerUp Leadership co-sponsor the production of the Inspired Leadership Podcast. This podcast highlights how to inspire leadership capability in our workplaces for higher performance. Our guest, Pieter Geldenhuys of Shoshin Walks shares his perspective from Cape Town, South Africa as a tourism professional, entrepreneur and hiking enthusiasist.  Pieter also operates a coaching business, PG Tops, as a leadership coach skilled at one-on-one coaching, team facilitation, and virtual team building.  Pieter's perspectives are grounded in how to get real quickly based on his entrepreneurial prowess and family business experience, and facilitator skills as a regular presenter through the Entrepreneur Organization. Check out Pieter's setting intention exercises talked about on the podcast. One of Pieter's guiding quotes is:  "You must unlearn what you have learned" - Master Yoda and it is really part of Shoshin ("beginner's mindset). Thank you to our listeners for your ongoing support and suggestions! Please share this podcast,  give it a like, and if you would like to be a guest or have a suggested topic for a future episode, email susan@powerupleadership.ca or bayleyty@gmail.com.

PowerUp Leadership and Tyler Bayley (Virtual Speaker) co-sponsor the production of the Inspired Leadership Podcast. This podcast highlights how to inspire performance and leadership capability  in our workplaces. Our guest, Dr. Matt Barney, Ph.D. is the Founder and CEO of LeaderAmp, an award-winning platform for expert and Artificially Intelligent coaching and assessment.   In his 25+ year career in multinationals such as AT&T, Motorola, Merck and Infosys, Dr. Barney has innovated interdisciplinary science and technology resulting in four patents, nine books, 43 peer-reviewed works and over 150 global presentations. In 2018, Dr. Barney’s team won two competitive international awards from the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology and the Association of Test Publishers.  Since 2014, he has served on the Business Affairs committee of the board of not-for-profit scientific publisher Annual Reviews. He holds a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Tulsa.   PowerUp Leadership is currently the only certified LeaderAmp Canadian Coaching firm that offers AI enabled coaching through LeaderAmp as part of its coaching solution. Thank you to our listeners for your ongoing support and suggestions! Please share this podcast,  give it a like, and if you would like to be a guest or have a suggested topic for a future episode, email susan@powerupleadership.ca or bayleyty@gmail.com.

Tyler Bayley (Virtual Speaker) and PowerUp Leadership co-sponsor the production of the Inspired Leadership Podcast. This podcast highlights how to inspire performance and leadership  in our workplaces. Jayson Lowe is founder of Ascendant Financial Inc headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta with locations across Canada.  Jayson has over 22 years experience as a highly regarded coach, speaker and advisor to individuals and business owners nationwide. Jayson leads a team of professionals, highly sought after for their strong belief in and commitment to the process of Becoming Your Own Banker, developed by the late R. Nelson Nash.   Ascendant Financial works to help People achieve financial prosperity in both their personal and business lives. Jayson works closely with Accountants, Lawyers, and Strategic Partners to provide unique and unrivaled solutions that maximize our Client’s wealth. Jayson is recognized as one of Canada’s top overall Advisors, author of several publications.  Jayson is internationally recognized as one of the leading educators and advisors of Becoming Your Own Banker, The Infinite Banking Concept. Jayson is a Chartered Life Underwriter, an Authorized Infinite Banking Practitioner with the Nelson Nash Institute, maintains multiple affiliations and is very active in the financial services industry.  Thank you to our listeners for your ongoing support and suggestions! Please share this podcast, like it, and if you would like to be a guest on the Inspired Leadership podcast or have a suggestion for a topic for a future episode, email susan@powerupleadership.ca. Until next time, stay inspired!!!

Tyler Bayley and PowerUp Leadership sponsor the production of the Inspired Leadership Podcast. This podcast highlights how to build leadership capability in our workplaces.  On this episode, we talk to Kari Lee, a part-time Chief Financial Officer for high growth businesses.  Kari helps businesses thrive by tapping into her years of progressive financial management experience. As a Chartered Professional Accountant, Kari is positioned to determine the financial impact of any business challenge.  Kari is the Owner & CEO of Inspired Financial Consulting based in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.  She has worked with various organizations consulting across industry and sector as well as clients at different phases of growth – from start ups to well established brand names. In her consulting practice Kari guides business owners in determining the most profitable set up of staffing and resources, including securing bank financing, funding applications, and strategic growth initiatives. Currently Kari is working as a financial coach and mentor, and part time CFO where she manages cash flow forecasting, financial statement analysis, and KPI dashboards to help clients achieve their strategic goals. Kari has worked with many of Atlantic Canada’s top companies including J.D. Irving - RST Sunbury, Source Atlantic, Actemium Canada, and Mrs. Dunster’s.  Her experience includes financial analysis, financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting, and ERP implementation. Kari is a valuable business partner because she understands that a business is the sum of its finances, operations, marketing, sales, and HR. The financial statements will tell about past performance but it is the plan for future performance that will plot the trajectory of any company. Kari understands business and knows that the whole must work together to make something amazing. Kari is a visionary and can see how each part fits together to form a plan that empowers key stake holders to march in the same direction. To contact Kari, email her at kari.lee@inspiredfc.ca.  Check out more about her company at Inspired Financial Consulting. Thank you to our listeners for your ongoing support and suggestions.  If you would like to be a guest on the Inspired Leadership podcast or have a suggestion for a topic for a future episode, email susan@powerupleadership.ca. Until next time, stay inspired!!!

PowerUp Leadership and Tyler Bayley sponsor the production of Inspired Leadership. On this episode, leadership expert, Jeremy Moore shared his insights on engaging the team in a way that has an impact. Jeremy Moore, Managing Director of Zoomcow, started his career in private equity before becoming an international coach, coaching hundreds of executives worldwide. He has also been a coach to the Great Britain Junior Rowing Squad since 1994 and during his MBA at Henley Management College in 1999 he studied the application of sports coaching in Business.  Jeremy has specialized in corporate and executive development using advances in neuroscience, physiology, and cardiology - in the knowledge that emotions drive behavior - and eventually our long term performance.

Inspired Leadership is sponsored by PowerUp Leadership and Tyler Bayley.  On this episode, we talk about tapping into humor to relieve some of the heaviness from social isolation and to help relieve some of the stress people are feeling right now. Jody Urquhart has been a keynote speaker for large organizations, healthcare associations, and corporate teams for over 23 years. As a top motivational women speakers, she has the ability to manage a large crowd of 250 - 500 +, while making them laugh and inspire a sense of purpose. Her presence is dynamic, endearing and not reliant on a stage or PowerPoint. She will connect and motivate your people in ways other motivational speakers can't. As a former stand up comedian, Jody uses clean, clever comedy, well researched, relevant content and audience interaction to bring audiences together around a shared purpose.   Book Jody today for your next event and follow her on social media and Jody's youtube channel. Share this podcast with your employees, give it a like, and share your thoughts with Susan and Tyler on what you what to hear on future episodes, or if you would like to be a guest on the podcast.

Inspired Leadership is sponsored by Power HR, Multiply Your Leaders, Grow Your Business.  Our guest for this episode is Craig Valentine, MBA, an award-winning speaker, and trainer, Craig has traveled the world helping thousands of individuals and hundreds of organizations reap the profitable rewards that come from presenting with impact and persuading with ease. As mentioned on the podcast to up your speaking game, check out Craig's: 52 Speaking Tips As a motivational speaker, Craig has spoken in the United States, Taiwan, Canada, Jamaica, Qatar (Doha), England, Bahamas, Hong Kong, China, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Indonesia, Japan, South Africa, India, Sri Lanka, and Australia giving as many as 160 presentations per year. He is the 1999 World Champion of Public Speaking for Toastmasters International. Craig has used his proven World Class presentation processes to… win Salesperson of the Year (3 times) for Glencoe/McGraw-Hill’s Mid-Atlantic Division become a top-rated award-winning management trainer for one of the most prestigious and largest seminar companies in the United States produce sales years of  233%, 157%, and 152% of goal for McGraw-Hill sell more than $8 million in educational resources in a single year win Events Manager of the Year for the National Small Business Council, Inc. win a Congressional Achievement Award from the United States Congress for excellence in communications earn the Distinguished Alumni Award from Johns Hopkins University receive hundreds of speaking awards from Toronto to Taipei help the United Way of Central Maryland reach its $45 million fundraising goal in the year 2000 by training their Loan Executives Co-author the Amazon.com #1 Bestselling book, World Class Speaking In Action Craig Valentine is the President of The Communication Factory, LLC, which is an award-winning company that helps organizations profit by presenting with impact and persuading with ease. Craig has an MBA from Johns Hopkins University. Craig Valentine is also the Co-Founder of the World Class Speaking program, which helps up-and-coming speakers and speech coaches turn their presentations and programs into huge profits. Craig is the author of the ground breaking book, The Nuts and Bolts of Public Speaking, Co-Author of the books, World Class Speaking and World Class Speaking In Action, and contributing author for the books Guerrilla Marketing on the Front Lines, Success Secrets of the Social Media Marketing Superstars, and Guerrilla Marketing Remix. Finally, if you would like to support Tyler's upcoming December/January speaking mission to train and develop young girls speaking and communication skills in third world countries, check out his go fund me page, and contribute as a holiday present to a loved one. Together We Can Change the World  Thank-you to our listeners and supporters.  Please share, like and comment on this podcast.  We would love your suggestions for future guests and topics.   Email susan@powerhr.ca if you have ideas for the Inspired Leadership Podcast. Power HR  Multiply Your Leaders, Grow Your Business

Inspired Leadership is brought to you by Power HR, Multiply Your Leaders to Grow Your Business.  Our guest for this episode is Vicki Saunders who is an entrepreneur, award-winning mentor, advisor to the next generation of change makers and leading advocate for entrepreneurship as a way of creating positive transformation in the world. Vicki is Founder of SheEO and #radicalgenerosity a global initiative to radically transform how we support finance and celebrate female entrepreneurs.  Vicki has co-founded and run ventures in Europe, Toronto and Silicon Valley and taken a company public on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Vicki was recently named as 1 of 30  “World-Changing Women in Conscious Business” by Conscious Company Magazine and one of the 100 most influential leaders of 2015 from “EBW – Empowering A Billion Women”, In 2001, Vicki was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum.

Inspired Leadership is brought to you by Power HR, Multiply Your Leaders to Grow Your Business.  Check out our new Live Video Group Mastermind Coaching Programs starting in September, 2019. Our guest on this episode is Author, Speaker, Teacher, Healer, & Guide, and Founder of the Good Deeds Project, Laura Louise Persichetti.  The Good Deeds Project is a global movement to inspire, empower and ignite great change, bringing all people together in oneness and in peace. We begin with one good deed at a time. When we ask the question, “what good deed can I do right now?” we immediately move out of our own head and into an awareness of others through our heart. When we take part in helping someone else, we not only potentially become a hero for that moment, we also physically, mentally and emotionally feel good afterwards. We never know what challenges or struggles a person may be having at a time they are in need of a helping hand. Offering a good deed can potentially save a life. The ripples are unspoken. Laura Louise is an Amazon Best-Selling author of her book: Discover You Discovering the World: Confessions of a Travelling Monkette. This book was dedicated to those contemplating suicide and designed to bring readers through a series of life lessons and adventures of world travels.  Laura wrote a children's book: Free to Be Me, which she uses in children & family workshops.  Laura loves participating in events and experiences that provide the opportunity to speak to large groups of people to share her stories, vision, and take-home tools.  Through the power of her heart and passion, Laura often leaves audiences feeling inspired and lit up.  You can book Laura as a guest speaker for your events, school, church or community organizations.  Her upcoming book, The Tired Nurse will be available soon.

Inspired Leadership is brought to you by Power HR, Multiply Your Leaders to Grow Your Business. Check out our new Live Video Mastermind Programs. Our guest for this episode is Leadership Speaker, Author, and Founder of Day One Leadership, Drew Dudley. Prior to Founding Day One, Drew spent 8 years as the Director of one of Canada’s largest leadership development programs at the University of Toronto and served as National Chair of Canada’s largest post-secondary charity, which mobilized 35,000 volunteers annually to support the work of Cystic Fibrosis Canada. Recognized as one of the most dynamic keynote speakers in the world, Drew has spoken to over 250,000 people on 5 continents, been featured on The Huffington Post, Radio America, Forbes.com, and TED.com, where his “TED talk” has been voted “one of the 15 most inspirational TED talks of all time”. Time, Business Insider and INC. magazines have all included his talk on their lists of “speeches that will make you a better leader”. Drew’s clients have included some of the world’s most dynamic companies and organizations, including McDonald’s, Proctor & Gamble, JP Morgan Chase, Hyatt Hotels, the United Way and over 75 colleges and universities. Check out Drew's book A Practical Guide to Leadership That Matters.

Inspired Leadership is brought to you by Power HR, Multiply Your Leaders to Grow Your Business.  Do your employees need to up their leadership? Sign up for video based leadership coaching, starts September, 2019. Group Mastermind Program. -- Our guest, Major General Craig Whelden, spent 30 years in the U.S. Army, followed by seven in the private sector, and another nine as a member of the Senior Executive Service (SES) with the U.S. Marine Corps. Along the way, he led soldiers at each level from lieutenant to General Officer while serving 10 years in Europe, and another 12 in the Pacific. An Armor and Cavalry officer, he commanded a base in Germany as a colonel and, as a brigadier general, oversaw a $1.6B program supporting soldiers and family members world-wide. Present at the Pentagon on 9/11, he subsequently led the effort to secure the state of Hawaii from terrorist attack, an effort that received national recognition. After retiring from the Army in 2003, he chaired a national conference entitled Information Sharing and Homeland Security for three years. In 2008, he was asked to organize and run a Secretary of the Army initiative to bring greater awareness to the American public of the sacrifices of service members and their families during a time of war. For this effort, he was recognized by Secretary Pete Geren with the top two awards for civilians. In 2010, he became the Executive Director for Marine Corps Forces Pacific, overseeing a multi-billion-dollar program to reposition Marines in the Pacific—the largest such effort since World War II. In 2011, he was inducted into the Purdue University Tri-Service ROTC Hall of Fame. In October 2019, he will transition to the next chapter of his life in Bluffton, South Carolina: becoming a motivational speaker on leadership and performance excellence. To order a copy of Major General Whelden's book, go here: Leadership The Art of Inspiring People to Be Their Best Thanks for listening! Susan & Tyler If you would like to be a guest on Inspired Leadership, email Tyler Bayley (bayleyty@gmail.com) or Susan Power (susan@powerhr.ca). We would love to hear your leadership story.

Clifford Tindall of Sandler talks to cohosts Tyler Bayley and Susan Power (Power HR) about Leadership and its Impact on Selling.  Clifford is a successful millennial based out of Burlington, Ontario, Canada and works with Business Owners, Presidents, CEOs, Executive Leaders, and Professionals who are constantly working with their team to grow and expand, but may be finding that: * Their business or firm has plateaued and they don't have a clear path for continued growth * Their products or services are being commoditized which adversely affects deal closure probability * Concerned with underperforming sales staff * An inefficient sales, business development, and management process is adding unintentional wastes of time and resources * Client Care does not happen systematically so client development and retention is volatile * Simply looking to develop their sales organization from good to great Thanks for listening! Susan & Tyler If you would like to be a guest on Inspired Leadership, email Tyler Bayley (bayleyty@gmail.com) or Susan Power (susan@powerhr.ca). We would love to hear your leadership story. Inspired Leadership is brought to you by Power HR, Multiply Your Leaders to Grow Your Business.

In the episode, the Inspired Leadership cohosts (Tyler Bayley and Susan Power, Founder of Power HR), interview Robyn about how millennials can accelerate their success in the workplace.  Our guest Robyn Tingley, Founder and President of GlassSKY, and author of the 10 Essentials for the Motivated Millennial: A Guide to High Performance for New Grads, talks about how a millennial can find their best path forward when transitioning to the workplace.  Robyn was named one of Canada's Most Powerful Women in 2017, Robyn is an experienced international executive, board advisor, author and social entrepreneur.  Robyn believes in the power of people, collaboration and global perspective. To learn more about Robyn and how she can contribute to your organization check out GlassSKY. Thanks for listening! Susan & Tyler If you would like to be a guest on Inspired Leadership, email Tyler Bayley (bayleyty@gmail.com) or Susan Power (susan@powerhr.ca). We would love to hear your leadership story. Inspired Leadership is brought to you by Power HR, Multiply Your Leaders to Grow Your Business.

Jeremy Moore from Riddlebox provides a convincing case for how feelings drive business performance.  Jeremy provides valuable insight as to what is culture and what are the key drivers of culture.  He gives us helpful tips on how to cultivate trust and empathy, and how to get leaders on board to create a culture that drives business results and one where leaders care and demonstrate that care. Thanks for listening! Susan & Tyler If you would like to be a guest on Inspired Leadership, email Tyler Bayley (bayleyty@gmail.com) or Susan Power (susan@powerhr.ca). We would love to hear your leadership story. Inspired Leadership is brought to you by Power HR, Multiply Your Leaders to Grow Your Business.

This is part two of a two part interview with a McMaster University thought leader in sociology and author, Professor Maja.  A lively discussion on the imposter syndrome, how to replace perfectionism tendencies with more healthy behaviours and mindset, how leaders can support their teams to realize their potential and how we can all shut down the shitty committee that can live from time to time in our head. Check out more about Professor Maja is speaking next or how to order one of her phenomenal books. Thanks for listening! Susan & Tyler If you would like to be a guest on Inspired Leadership, email Tyler Bayley (bayleyty@gmail.com) or Susan Power (susan@powerhr.ca). We would love to hear your leadership story. Inspired Leadership is brought to you by Power HR, Multiply Your Leaders to Grow Your Business.