Excellent Executive Coaching: Bringing Your Coaching One Step Closer To Excelling

Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC interviews Milli Brown about her vision and goals to provide responsive publishing solutions for entrepreneurs, executives, thought leaders, and corporations. What is your story? How did you get into publishing? What is the most rewarding aspect of this job? How do you develop award-winning books for those who wish to retain the rights to their intellectual property? What is a hybrid Publishing system? What is the benefit to authors? Where do you see the business going in the next five to ten years? Milli Brown Ms. Brown forged a New Era in Publishing® in 1994 by launching a fiercely independent publishing house with an innovative business model that is now recognized by the industry as The First Hybrid Publisher. Milli Brown’s commitment to authors--building successful relationships and developing award-winning books for those who wish to retain the rights to their intellectual property—is the cornerstone of her company. This dedication has resulted in a roster that includes CEOs, b

Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC talks with Elaine Bennett about the importance of “being you” in all communication as they answer the following questions. What are the top communications mistakes that keep executives from advancing? How can clients position themselves for growth through speaking? Why you shouldn't try to be Oprah (unless you're Oprah) Why do you hate bullet points so much? What kind of humor works best in a business setting? Elaine Bennett Elaine Bennett’s name may sound familiar. She is an award-winning speechwriter and definitely not the lady from Seinfeld, whose last name was Benes. Elaine is a strategic messaging consultant. She advises clients from Fortune 50 CEOs to entrepreneurs on their messaging. She also creates and delivers trainings on how to improve the writing of everything from internal communications to speeches. Her 2019 TEDx Talk tackles the topic of how language can change the world. She began her career on Wall Street 25+ years ago, as speechwriter for the CEO of Salomon Brother

Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC interviews Meredith Bell about the importance of sharpening your communication so that your leadership skills improve as well as the cohesiveness of your team. I’ve noticed that the name of your company is Performance Support Systems. What is the No. 1 thing organizations should be focused on improving to boost their performance? Which communication skills are most essential for effective leader-team interactions? Why is it that most learning and development programs don't produce lasting improvement in performance, and what's the solution? Frustrations are inevitable while learning a new skill, so what will motivate people to stick with it? What do you mean by “peer coach” and what does it take to be effective in that role? Meredith Bell Meredith Bell is co-founder and President of Performance Support Systems, a global software company providing assessment and development tools for the workplace. Their award-winning software and books guide leaders and team members to make the shift

Vikrant Shaurya shares his expertise in how to get a book published as he answers the following question during his interview with Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC. Why should anyone write a book? How do you build authority in your area of expertise? What do you need to do to create a best-selling book from scratch? How do you go from writing a book to winning high-value clients? What can your business do to help my listeners to get a best selling book? Vikrant Shaurya Vikrant Shaurya is the CEO and founder of BestsellingBook.com and is also a bestselling author. Back in 2017, Vikrant wrote P.O.W.E.R: The Success Mantra, which became a number one bestseller in one of the most competitive categories on Amazon, the Entrepreneurship category. It basically talks about how success has a lot to do with loving your job. Vikrant's latest book How to Write a Bestseller came out in 2020 and it became a number one bestseller in the electronic publishing category. This covers our whole process of ideation, writing, publishing,

Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC interviews Sean Ryan as he shares his success in guiding organizations to develop strategies that lead to results. How do you align everyone in the organization? What are the seven gears that help organizations outperform? How do you help someone develop their strategy to create unique value? How do you help leaders engage their team to get results? Sean Ryan Sean Ryan is a world-renowned business consultant, speaker, trainer and executive coach. As the founder of Whitewater International Consulting, he has worked internationally with companies such as Disney, Nucor Steel, FedEx and Nestle Waters of North America/Perrier Group of America. With more than two decades of industry experience, Sean is highly regarded for his ability to guide organizations through complex transformational change in what he describes as “a world of perpetual whitewater.” His new book is Get in Gear: Seven Gears that Drive Strategy to Results (Productivity Press, Aug. 20, 2020). Learn more here. Excellent Ex

Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC interviews Matthew Mottola as he explains how entrepreneurs will be shifting to the “Human Cloud” to conduct business in the future. What are the benefits and drawbacks of building your business with freelancers? What will the world of work look like in 5 years? How to gain control over your career by hiring freelancers? How can companies reinvent themselves through hiring freelancers? How do you hire freelancers? Matthew Mottola Matthew R Mottola is a leading voice and entrepreneur building the ‘Human Cloud’, the remote and independent model of work that over half the US workforce will transition to within the next five years. As the author of #1 New Release The Human Cloud, he sets the standard for the Future of Work. As the CEO of Venture L, he enables freelancers and clients to execute remote outcomes at scale. As a Forbes Contributor, he shares the stories and operating insights driving our shift to the human cloud. Excellent Executive Coaching Podcast If you have enjoyed this e

Robert Mixon shares his strategies of empowering leadership styles in his interview with Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC. What has your leadership journey been like since you entered West Point in July of 1970? What did you learn by working for the army 33 years, then you worked for corporations for 22 years and now you are an independent for the last 5 years? What are your “Big 6” Leadership Principles? What are the leadership development program that Level Five offers individuals and teams? Tell us about your latest book," Who Saw This Coming: Now What Do We Do?" Robert Mixon Major General Robert W. Mixon, Jr. has achieved over three decades of extraordinary leadership success in diverse organizations, including the United States Army where he commanded the 7th Infantry Division and Fort Carson, Colorado prior to his retirement in 2007. Subsequently, he served in executive leadership positions in both for-profit and not-for-profit companies prior to starting his own leadership company, Level Five Associates, in 2

Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC interviews Janet Fouts about how individuals often get in their own way of reaching their full potential. You transition from being a digital marketer for 20+ years to being a Mindful Coach. What instigated this transition? How do you define mindfulness-based emotional intelligence? As a marketer, how has mindfulness helped you? What do you mean by "Microdosed Mindfulness"? How do those small moments impact the day-to-day of running of a business? How does compassion affect leadership skills and how is it different from empathy? Janet Fouts After 20+ years in the digital marketing industry, Janet's seen some things. She combines her love for entrepreneurship, communication, leadership, and community to offer approachable and real-world ways to deepen engagement in the workplace through mindfulness-based emotional intelligence. Excellent Executive Coaching Podcast If you have enjoyed this episode, subscribe to iTunes. We would love a review on iTunes or other platform. The EEC podcast

Ford Saeks share his strategies for helping entrepreneurs improve their results and dominate their market as he answers the following questions in his interview with Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC. What recommendations can you give to grow your business? What is the mindset for success? How important is digital marketing for business? What do you consider to be a thought leader vs an expert? What is the difference in pitching to the media versus doing marketing? Ford Saeks Ford Saeks, CSP, CPAE - Hall of Fame Speaker, is a founding member and past chair of NSA’s Million Dollar Speakers Group, he runs his own 7-figure speaking business, and has helped many well-known professional speakers, past presidents, CSP’s, CPAE’s, authors and consultants grow their businesses. From start-ups to Fortune 500’s, Saeks is widely recognized as a Business Growth Innovator. With over 20 years’ experience (ranging from retail to wholesale), he has founded over ten companies, authored four books, awarded three U.S. patents, and recei

Erin Jewell explains to Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC her techniques on how to implement learning, coaching and organizational effectiveness. What instigated you to transition from healthcare to being a Mindset coach? What are some of the key components for a winning team? How can we developing a winning language? — that covers everything from creating a self-talk “script” to shifting the terms we use with teammates. How can we identify isolation in the team and in ourselves? What are 2 mindfulness techniques that we can apply as leaders to shift from stress to rest within a few minutes? Erin Jewell Erin Jewell, is an Executive Mindset and Performance Growth Coach, an International Speaker and a Professor of Leadership at Villanova University. She has over 20 years of leadership experience in the healthcare sector at fortune 500 companies like Pfizer, Boston Scientific, and Medtronic, and was the founder of her own healthcare Start-Up. As a global director, Erin was responsible for 80 million in revenue and manag

Pari Livermore shares her match-making strategies and insights with Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC and Pari answers the following questions. What made you start as a match maker? How do you match people together and on what criteria? What makes a good match maker? How do you get remunerated? What satisfaction do you get from being a match maker? How do you select your charities to donate what you make match making? According to you what are men and women looking for in their partner? How has that changed? Garland Vance Television host and charity fundraiser Pari Livermore is one of the nation’s most famous matchmakers. She is the author of, "How to Marry a Fabulous Man" and is best known as the host of Everybody’s Angels. She is often referred to as the Robin Hood of Matchmaking. Her matchmaking fees are contributed to non-profit organizations. Pari is currently raising funds for California Education. Excellent Executive Coaching Podcast If you have enjoyed this episode, subscribe to iTunes. We would love a review

Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC talks with Garland Vance on how busyness does not always mean success for leaders as they discuss the following questions. What is busyness and how is it affecting us physically, emotionally, and relationally? What is busyness doing to leaders who we might coach? What are the 5 steps to get (un)busy? What are the four best practices of highly productive people who aren't busy? Garland Vance Dr. Garland Vance is an author, speaker, coach, and consultant. He cofounded AdVance Leadership to help overwhelmed influencers and leaders live with purpose, productivity, and peace. He is the author of Gettin' (un)Busy, which Forbes named as "one of the seven books everyone on your team should read." He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with his wife of twenty years, Dorothy, their three kids and turtle. Learn more at AdVanceLeadership.live and killbusy.com. Excellent Executive Coaching Podcast If you have enjoyed this episode, subscribe to iTunes. We would love a review on iTunes or other platform.

Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC talks with Dan Clark on how to create powerful and positive momentum shifts in your personal and professional lives as they discuss the following questions. How did you become a professional speaker? How did you transition from the HOW to the WHY? What is the Art of Significance? How do you turn a struggling organization around? What makes a good speech? What I need to do to go from where I am to where I want to be? Dan Clark Professor; High Performance Business Coach; Alumnus of the University of Utah (Psychology); Podcast Host; Gold Record Songwriter; Film Maker; an Award Winning Athlete who fought his way back from a paralyzing injury that cut short his football career; New York Times Best Selling Author of 36 books; a primary contributing author to the Chicken Soup For The Soul series; and was named 2012 Utah Father of the Year. Since 1982, Dan has spoken to more than 6000 audiences, to over 5 million people, in 71 countries, on 6 continents, to most of the Fortune 500, Super Bow

Atholl Duncan shares with Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC his strategies for success that will help leaders transform what they do and how they do it. What are the most memorable stories of, “Leaders in Lockdown”? How will the world of business change after COVID? What have global business leaders said about change? Will people want to get back to the way things were? Will the pandemic change what it means to be a successful business leader? Atholl Duncan Atholl Duncan is an evangelist for change in the post-COVID world of business. He is Chair of Black Isle Group, a group of leadership performance development specialists. Atholl is an executive coach. His new book is, "Leaders in Lockdown: Inside Stories of COVID-19 and the New World of Business." You can learn more at: www.athollduncan.com, https://blackislegroup.com/lockdown/. Excellent Executive Coaching Podcast If you have enjoyed this episode, subscribe to iTunes. We would love a review on iTunes or other platform. The EEC podcasts are sponsored by MKB Excell

Dr. Joli Hamilton talks with Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC about finding the game-plan in your relationships that will lead to better business results. Why is an entrepreneur's personal relationship different? What can someone do when they are struggling to decide whether to stay or leave a relationship? How does this relate to Brilliant Jerks? Is there a secret to having a fantastic sex life even if you have a massively busy life? How does relationships impact our lives and the business bottom line? How should one wait for a great relationship and instead plan for it? What advice would you give regarding jealousy? Joli Hamilton Dr. Joli Hamilton is a research psychologist, best-selling author, TEDx speaker, and AASECT (pronounced ay-sect) certified sex educator. She has spent the past two decades balancing a wild entrepreneurial spirit with a deep desire to have a secure, passionate partner (and she raised 7 kids along the way!). Joli is committed to helping people create sustainable, soul-nourishing relationshi

Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC interviews Tim Ash and discusses the actions of entrepreneurs and explains the reasoning behind those as he answers the following questions. You wrote a book called "Unleash Your Primal Brain" What enticed you to write the book? Why should executives care about evolutionary psychology? How do you get more in-tune with your operational brain? What is important for your operational brain to function optimally? How does storytelling fit into creating powerful companies and brands? Can a corporate culture be created? How can a new leader identify the corporate culture in his new position? How do you relate digital marketing to evolutionary psychology? Tim Ash Tim Ash is an acknowledged authority on evolutionary psychology and digital marketing. He is a sought-after international keynote speaker, and the bestselling author of, “Unleash Your Primal Brain.” Tim has been mentioned by Forbes as a Top-10 Online Marketing Expert, and by Entrepreneur Magazine as an Online Marketing Influencer To

Dr. Mary Kelly talks with Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC on how she guides professionals to navigate the economy, build their business and be true leaders. What do business owners and speakers need to know about the economy right now? What can businesses do right now that will increase revenues in 2022? How can business leaders and owners immediately increase team productivity? How should business leaders hold themselves accountable? How did being in the Navy equip you for running a business? Dr. Mary Kelly Dr. Mary Kelly improves profit growth. As an economist, corporate strategist, former Navy intelligence officer, and leadership development expert, Mary translates economic data into relevant information that business leaders can use to make the right decisions and grow their organizations. Author of 15 business and leadership books including The Five Minute Leadership Guide, 15 Ways to Grow Your Business in Every Economy, Money Smart, Why Leaders Fail and the 7 Prescriptions for Success, 5-Minutes Per Week, and

Mark Butler shares with Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC his tips and insights of how he can help entrepreneurs achieve their financial goals as he answers the following questions. You work closely with people's money. How did you start your career taking care of coaches booking? What would you say about a client’s relationship with money? How does a person's mindset regarding money affects the success or non-success of an entrepreneur? How do you shift their perceptions to foster a more effective relationship with money? Too many entrepreneurs avoid looking at their financials because they’re terrified that the numbers might confirm their subconscious fear that their business is going to fail. How do you handle this and what are the advantages of being clear about your company's financial situation? Mark Butler Mark Butler is the founder of the accounting startup Let’s Do the Books, as well as the bookkeeper, CFO, and confidante to top online entrepreneurs like Brooke Castillo. Before working in finance, Mark co-fo

Helping individuals discover their deepest leadership potential is the goal of Elie Dagher. Elie shares his insight with Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC as they discuss the following questions. What made you shift from your corporate job to founding your own business, "Lead From Within?" How did your coach certification help your career? How do you define leadership? What are your core values and how do you integrate your client's core values in their coaching journey? How has traveling and speaking several languages influenced your coaching? Tell us about your coaching retreats? Elie Dagher Elie is a Lebanese entrepreneur, business coach, and founder of Lead From Within. In the last couple of years, Elie has been invited as a guest teacher in universities and start-up incubators in the US and the Middle East (of which for example Columbia University). He has also been coaching high-achieving professionals and entrepreneurs since 2016, ranging from CEOs to mid-managers from companies such as Facebook, Goldman Sachs

Ed Tate presents his expertise in becoming a high-stake presenter with Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC as he answers the following questions. What is a high-stakes presentation? What does it take to become a high-stakes presenter? How do you help your clients become high-stakes presenters? Give us examples of how you helped non-sell people to win big contracts. How do you research information on the people you are presenting to? How can you use personal stories to make a difference? Ed Tate Ed Tate is an award-winning international keynote speaker, trainer, and author. To date, he has spoken professionally in 50 states, 25 countries, and on five continents. Using the principles he teaches, Ed Tate won the “American Idol of Public Speaking.”. He became the 2000 World Champion of Public Speaking - Toastmasters International’s most prestigious speaking award among its 357,000+ members. In 2008, Ed earned the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation from the National Speakers Association. For 14 years, he was