Great Companies! Great Leaders!

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By: Christine Gannon

Great Companies! Great Leaders! is a series of real conversations with the world's most thoughtful leaders. Entrepreneurs, CEO's, World-Class Athletes, Coaches, Best-Selling Authors, and much more.

Episode 60: Michelle Clare, Intuitive Life Coach
#60
01/23/2024

Michelle Clare is a Certified Medium, Angel Intuitive, Spiritual Coach, Medical Intuitive, Energetic Healer, Intuitive Life Coach and 3 time Near Death Experience (NDE) survivor. She receives messages from loved ones who have crossed over, as well as Angels and Life Guides. In a span of 11 years she had 3 near death experiences, the first was in April 2000, the second was in May 2006 and a monumental life changing event in which Michelle suffered a traumatic brain injury on November 1, 2011. Shortly after this life altering event, she started receiving information for other people from their loved ones who had transitioned. All 3 NDEs were...


Episode 59: Carol Poore, PhD., MBA
#59
12/12/2023

Carol A. Poore is President of Poore and Associates Strategic Planning and author of Strategic Impact: A Leader’s Three-Step Framework for the Customized Vital Strategic Plan, published by Fast Company Press in 2021. Carol provides strategic planning expertise for corporate, nonprofit and social sector executive teams, expanding organizational capacity and strategic impact. Her vital strategic planning framework has assisted client organizations with innovative growth and turnaround, strategic fundraising, venture capital development, storytelling, branding, identity building, and civic engagement. Dr. Poore’s executive background includes serving as a marketing and business start-up executive at one of the nation’s largest private water...


Episode 58: Howard Partridge, International Business Coach & Best Selling Author
#58
12/05/2023

Howard Partridge is an international business coach with coaching members in over 100 industries in 20 countries. He is a best selling author of twelve books, a TEDx Speaker, the exclusive business coach for the Zig Ziglar Corporation, the first Ziglar Legacy Trainer in the world, the first founding member of The John Maxwell Team and a Master Trainer DISC Certified Human Behavior Expert. He is also now a Business Made Simple Coach. Howard grew up on welfare in Mobile Alabama and left home at 18. He arrived in Houston, Texas on a Greyhound bus with only 25 cents in his pocket. He started...


Episode 57: Kellie Walenciak, Head of Marketing and Communications, Televerde
#57
11/21/2023

Kellie is responsible for developing and executing the Televerde marketing strategy and brand image. Previously, Kellie spent 14 years at Avaya, where she served as global head of Employee Engagement and an executive communications partner to the CMO, head of HR, and General Counsel. Before Avaya, Kellie held marketing and communications roles at Prudential Financial and PSEG Energy Technologies. With a communications career spanning over two decades, Kellie has honed a keen sense of ambiguity, contradiction, and subtlety. She's a staunch grammar aficionado with a penchant for the red pen—a trait celebrated by her colleagues but often lamented by her cl...


Episode 56: Sharon Lechter, CGMA
#56
10/03/2023

Sharon Lechter is internationally recognized as a financial literacy expert, keynote speaker and business mentor. She is a New York Times Bestselling author, successful entrepreneur, philanthropist, and has enjoyed a 35 year career as a licensed CPA. She has advised two US Presidents on the topic of financial literacy. Sharon co-authored the international bestseller Rich Dad Poor Dad and 14 other books in the Rich Dad series. In 2008, when the economy crashed, she was asked by the Napoleon Hill Foundation to help re-energize the teachings of Napoleon Hill. Her best-selling books with the Foundation include Three Feet from Gold, Outwitting the Devil...


Episode 55: Dr. Amanda King, VP, Software Services, Axon
#55
08/30/2023

Dr. Amanda King served in the US Army, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) in the early 2000s. She deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom 2005-2006, then again as a civilian contractor 2009-2010. She spent 17 years in the Aerospace & Defense industry, transitioning two years ago to public safety technology as VP of Software Services at Axon. In her free time, Amanda enjoys serving the veteran and law enforcement communities, doing STEM activities with her two boys, and spending time with her husband who she calls “Captain America” as he is a Master Gunnery Sergeant in the Marine Corps Reserves (30 years), and protects our...


Episode 54: Sondra Radcliffe, JD, MBA, Fortune 50 Global Executive
#54
08/07/2023

Sondra Radcliffe is a strategy-oriented, global executive who has had a successful career as an attorney at an Am Law 100 firm and a Fortune 50 business executive. She has a full spectrum background comprised of operational roles with P&L ownership, project management, business development, accounting and legal experience. Sondra spent the last ten years in various roles with Raytheon Technologies. Prior to joining Raytheon, Sondra was an attorney with two national law firms where she worked with companies in healthcare, financial services, and other highly regulated industries. She also served as a Business Development Analyst for alcoholic beverage distributor Mesa...


Episode 53: Jennifer Stein, Director Economic Development, City of Peoria
#53
06/28/2023

Jennifer Stein, is the Director of Economic Development for Peoria, Arizona. Her primary focus is leading a team of experts who specialize in business attraction and development, business retention and expansion. Jennifer brings more than 25 years of experience in public and private sector communications, marketing, strategic planning, management, and community relations to her new economic development role in the City of Peoria. Peoria ranks number 29 out of 100 on money magazines best places to live report. As the communications director for eight years in Peoria, she oversaw the award-winning public affairs, marketing, advertising, and tourism efforts and attracted restaurant and hospitality...


Episode 52: Are you chasing your future or preparing for it?
#52
04/25/2023

Renee has 32 years of experience providing comprehensive financial planning, including portfolio risk management, income strategies, retirement planning and insurance planning. As a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst®, she has helped clients navigate the financial aspects of divorce and other major life transitions such as retirement, job change, widowhood and business liquidity. She has a passion to help her clients define and pursue what is most important in their financial life by using a personalized approach offering holistic advice to build a lasting relationship. All individuals experience changes in their lives. Her focus is on helping her clients manage the four stages o...


Episode 51: Amber Cordoba, Director of Business Education and Consulting, Prestamos CDFI (Part 1)
#51
04/04/2023

Amber is on a mission to make the world a more equitable and just place. Her primary focus is bringing vital resources into overlooked and underserved small business communities because she believes that everyone deserves inclusive, equitable access the resources they need to make their small business thrive.

 She achieves this through her work as the Director of Business Education and Consulting Services at CPLC Prestamos; a CDFI serving Arizona, California (Southern), Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas. In 2021, Prestamos was the top originator by volume for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) nationwide serving 70% minority owned small businesses. In late 2021, she also...