December 18, 2018
Helping women owned businesses in Africa succeed | With Jean Chawapiwa
A Supplier Gender Diversity program is a proactive business program which encourages the use of gender neutral supply chain selection and promotes women owned businesses. This is important because women-owned business enterprises are among the fastest-growing segments in the world-wide economy.
December 11, 2018
Helping female entrepreneurs succeed with Lara Morgan | With Lara Morgan
On paper, things have never looked better for female entrepreneurs. In fact, more than 11 million U.S. firms are now owned by women, employing nearly 9 million people and generating $1.7 trillion in sales, according to 2017 data from the National Association of Women Business Owners. But these numbers only tell part of the story.
December 4, 2018
Reaching the next level of leadership with Scott Eblin | With Scott Eblin
Leadership is the most influential and critical element in business. Effective leaders have the necessary tools and skills to inspire and impact their teams allowing firms to run competently and smoothly. But there are different levels of leadership ranging from non-effective to highly effective, so how does one become a highly effective leader?
November 27, 2018
The legal considerations surrounding The Internet of Things | With Richard Chapo
The power of the web has affected more than just the way we communicate and the vast access to information we now have, it also carries with it a variety of legal issues. These issues are o related to intellectual property concerns, copyright, trademark, privacy, and more, particularly in the context of doing business on the Internet. Authorities are seeking to apply new laws in traditional ways that expand the legal control over the connect world, but they are facing many challenges due to the global nature of the Internet.
November 13, 2018
How AI is supporting network marketing and sales | With Dane Reis
The Network Marketing and Direct Sales profession hit a new record in 2016 with $184 BILLION in global sales and in 2018 it is one of the fastest growing industries. It has become the new marketing method with intelligence, using AI to match buyers and sellers. Network marketing is no longer just a way to sell products by putting feet on the street.
November 6, 2018
Inspiring Leadership with Liz Walton, VP Marketing Yext | With Elizabeth Walton
The new trend shaping the future of marketing is the notion of Purpose. Influential marketing leaders say that becoming more focused on purpose-driven marketing will help increase business because both businesses and consumers are demanding it. As marketing becomes more purposeful with an increased focus on customer experience, engagement, right time marketing and technology changes such as AI, it needs visionary leadership.
October 30, 2018
How can proper business etiquette propel your career? | With Ann Marie Sabath
Business Etiquette is a set of rules by which we conduct business. Essentially, business etiquette enables a company to function smoothly in its interactions with other businesses, its own employees and the general public, although today it has taken on new dimensions. In this global environment, we need to pay attention to the subtle differences in behaviour that lie behind proper etiquette.
October 23, 2018
Your choice in Peers can be the road to success | With Leo Bottary
“Show me your friends and I will show you your future” Mark Ambrose. We all have friends, peers and associates that are part of our everyday life. Very often they provide us with support, they motivate us and give us a sense of community, but if we do not surround ourselves with the right people, it can also affect us negatively and hold us back.
October 16, 2018
The Future of Tech is Female: An interview with Douglas Branson | With Douglas M. Branson
If we really want to break down the boundaries and have diversity in all industry sectors, we had better start reversing the trends, and one of the most difficult sectors to do this in is technology. The number of women that tech companies employ has declined from 37 percent in 1995 to 24 percent in 2016, and this trend should really be going the other way. There are many reasons why this industry belongs at the top of the list of industries that do not promote and, in many instances, do not hire women for important jobs.
October 9, 2018
The success of influencer marketing | With Davor Gerbus
Influencer marketing has gotten big in the past few years, but what is it about? It is the process of leveraging existing social media influencers—people who carry a strong reputation with a large number of people in a given niche—by having them endorse your brand, support your content, or co-create content with you and your brand. In 2017 research showed that 39% of marketers were increasing their marketing budgets for 2018, with 86% of marketers integrating some kind of influencer marketing in their campaigns.
October 2, 2018
How strong partnerships can lead to strong sales | With George Leith
Powerful partnerships are the key to improving sales revenues, margins and profits. They are also the best way for you to exponentially increase your business success and grow you company. Partnerships help you increase market share, get more qualified leads, give differentiation & a competitive edge, gain and Close ratios and margins.
September 18, 2018
Understanding and Engaging Generation Z | With Meghan Grace
The world is no longer obsessed with the Millennial Generation. Today we are more concerned about understanding Generation Z, and the two are different. Although the two generations share the same affinity for technology, a better understanding of Global culture and both generations have endless opportunities, they do not always share the same concerns and values.
September 4, 2018
How Opioid Abuse is ruining our businesses | With Marc Treitler
In 2015 CBS news reported– according to a government study– 1 in 10 adults in the workforce have either an alcohol or drug addiction problem. In 2016, Quest Diagnostics analysed 10 million workforce urine test results and noted an increase across the board for cocaine, marijuana, and methamphetamines meaning employees were using more drugs. The Drug Testing Index statistics in 2018 are constantly revealing the increase of drug use in the workplace and the on-going threat drugs pose to workplace productivity and safety.
August 28, 2018
The Digital Landscape of Small and Medium Businesses | With Renato Bottini
Small and Medium size businesses (SMBs) want to stay ahead of their competition, but do not always understand how to do it. Digital marketing, although very effective, is confusing and time consuming for the SMB. While most local businesses have some kind of presence on the web, they seldom understand that poor presence is almost like having no presence at all. And because SMBs do not have huge marketing budgets, much of the digital marketing is done by non-professionals, leaving a gap in their presence.
August 21, 2018
Love and Profit with David Papa | With David Papa
Today’s organizations and leaders are focused on doing things effectively and producing good financial results. We have created a competitive world where only business counts and the individual is lost in the process. The result is very often dysfunctional behaviour by leaders, a lack of respect for business partners and customers and certainly no sense of deeper purpose at both the individual and organizational level.
August 7, 2018
How the direction of E-Privacy is affecting the AdTech Ecosystem | With Vincent Potier
Privacy is dead, right? Facebook knows everything about us, LinkedIn has our entire careers documented and consumer behaviour shows, that people just don’t care about privacy, no matter how much they complain about it. Research shows that most U.S. adults — 60 percent —claim they care about privacy but will barely lift a finger in an effort to preserve it.
July 31, 2018
WEConnect International, promoting diversity in the supply chain | With Maggie Berry
State of Women-owned business reports that in the USA alone, there are an estimated 11.6 million women-owned businesses that employ nearly 9 million people and generate more than $1.7 trillion in revenues. Even with the growth in women owned businesses, these businesses are having difficulty competing for corporate and government contracts and earning less than 1% of the money spent by these organizations. They are simply not getting their share of the contracts.
July 17, 2018
How to leave behind a good impression with everyone you meet | With Allan Pease
Communication is not just about the words we speak, it is also about the questions we ask, how we listen and the body language we use. We give off thousands of unconscious signals through our body language that help others learn instantly and instinctively something about ourselves, which normally ends in a judgement, very often what we call a first impression. A huge part of the judgments we make are VISUAL.
July 3, 2018
Why the Danish lead the world in work-life balance | With Louise Lachmann
According to OECD Better Life report, the Danish have a better work-life balance than any other country surveyed. Danes also rank above average in other areas like environmental quality, civic engagement, education, skills, jobs, earnings and general well-being. And when it comes to Gender Diversity, they are in the Top 5 for Gender equality, with both men and women working, and very often in high-level jobs, but they are able to balance this with a great work-life balance.
June 26, 2018
How our hidden behaviours are the commodity of the future | With Thomas Koulopoulos
We are moving from an industrial era to a pure digital era where AI will play a role and these changes are coming at us so fast and furiously that we do not have time to think about them. In such a short span of time, technology has created new social norms, new human behaviours, new business models and new ecosystems. We as individuals, have also developed digital profiles, defined by the technological touch points we engage with every day.
June 19, 2018
Selling Online-The Success Factors of eCommerce | With Chloe Thomas
The UK, Germany and the US are leading the percentages of online retail sales. For consumers around the globe the most well-known form of eCommerce is business-to-consumer, which includes online retail or online shopping. It is predicted that online commerce will reach to 4.48 trillion US dollars by 2021.
June 12, 2018
Intellectual Property Protection in a Digital and Global Economy | With Betty Tufariello
In the business and cultural world, individuals and organizations create, innovate, come up with new ideas and create new experiences for us every day but this Innovation and creativity would not happen if we did not have intellectual property laws. Intellectual property protection (IP) is important to fostering innovation and encouraging creativity. Without the protection of ideas, businesses and individuals would not get the full benefit of their inventions and creations and this could stifle innovation.
June 5, 2018
Helping Women Achieve Economic Equity | With Fran Pastore
Today, even though we are seeing more and more women starting businesses, there continues to be a shortage of capital for women when they do. In 2017 only 2.2% of the Venture Capital money available went to women, even though women founded 17% of the start-ups. But even the number 17% is too low a number, we need more women starting businesses.
May 29, 2018
Advice from a Millennial/Generation Z Influencer | With Javier (Javi) Minguez
The late Millennials, and Generation Z, are shaking up the workforce, they are changing purchasing channels, customer service expectations and they have developed what we call a sharing society, but at the same time, they have the reputation for making some of us from other generations crazy. There have been numerous books written about the new generations, seminars how to integrate them into the workforces, but it is seldom we have the opportunity to hear advice straight from the horse’s mouth. This episode is dedicated to hearing not what people think about millennials and Generation Z but what they think about the world.
May 22, 2018
Hiring and getting hired in the Digital World | With Steve Acho
The hiring process has transformed dramatically over the years, in large part due to technological advancements. Beyond just the rise of the internet, tools like video interviewing and interview scheduling software have helped to streamline the hiring process, saving both time and money and making a hiring manager’s life much easier. Before social media and the internet, a person looking for a position would send in a resume, and if they wanted to draw attention they used tricks like sending the resume in a sneaker with a note saying, “I would like get my foot in the door”.
May 15, 2018
The Art of Negotiation | With Sue Preston
You’re sitting in a meeting or conference staring at the face of someone and you want one thing and they want something entirely different. It occurs to you that neither party is going to get what they want. Negotiating is not getting what you want or giving in to what the other party wants.
May 8, 2018
The Internet of Things | With Joseph M. Bradley
Artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things is changing everything and it very often raises more questions than it does answers. Our guest in this episode is convinced that asking the right questions will help us adapt to this changing world. As leaders are aware of many of the opportunities technology changes are bringing us, but we also recognise the challenges.
May 1, 2018
The changing face of digital media | With Dr. Johnny Ryan
We live in a digital world and businesses are taking advantage of the increasing marketing channels available, such as mobile, but at the same time we are seeing stricter controls with ad blockers and data privacy regulations. Marketing departments are also facing new challenges. Maybe what is happening today is a result of the media misuse in the past, or are we finally making digital marketing and advertising more ethical and possibly more effective.
April 24, 2018
Women at the Helm in Technology | With Claire Priestley, CIO
Men hold the overwhelming majority of positions in IT leadership, where women fill less than 17% of CIO. The lack of diversity remains an issue and the numbers are unlikely to improve a lot right away but there is hope. Initiatives like Europe’s 2020 legislation, which has the goal of reaching a 40% gender diversity on the Boards of publicly held companies, has boosted the initiatives for more CIOs.
April 10, 2018
Patricia Raskin- An Entrepreneurial Role Model for Women | With Patricia Raskin
In 2016, an estimated 163 million women were starting or running new businesses in 74 economies around the world. In addition, an estimated 111 million were running established businesses. These statistics are more impressive when we consider that women’s entrepreneurship rates increased by 10% on average vs 5% for men.
April 3, 2018
The Human Aspect of Artificial Intelligence | With Nell Watson
In 1956, the term artificial intelligence was used at a conference at Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire, and in the years after that government, corporate and public interest had waned and risen until in 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue became the first computer to beat a human at chess when it defeated world champion, Gary Kasparov. This brought to light the question of what else could we teach a computer to do? Voice-detection technology, suggestive searches, and autonomous cars are just a few of the ways that artificial intelligence has burrowed into our lives, and companies are quickly bringing AI to the next level.
March 27, 2018
Making Improvement Business Simple with EOS | With Sergiu Simmel
There are hundreds of different management methodologies. Google management methods or leadership styles, and you’ll get plenty of advice but little of which truly covers the entire spectrum of managing a business from A to Z. Business leaders come up with our own methods by based on our years of experience.
March 13, 2018
The secret of high performing teams | With Dr. Peter Hawkins
The value of a high-performing team has long been recognized. 90 percent of investors think the quality of the management team is the single most important non-financial factor when evaluating an IPO and this is why the value of high performing teams has long been recognized. Its importance is not about to diminish as digital technology reshapes the workplace.
March 6, 2018
Helping sales teams bring top results | With Donald C Kelly
Sales used to be a structured approach and the heart of the approach was questioning, fact finding, reflecting back and closing. But today customer behaviours and demands have changed. Customers don’t want to spend 40 minutes telling you about their problems and then listening to you while you tell them how you can help them.
February 27, 2018
Shawn Anderson talks about Going The Extra Mile | With Shawn Anderson
The expression “go the extra mile”. can be traced back to the New Testament injunction ‘And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain’ (Matthew 5:41). Today when we use this expression it generally means going above and beyond the call of duty or using your own efforts to reach beyond normal expectations. But going the extra mile also takes effort.
February 20, 2018
Promoting African-American Leadership | With Professor Dr. Max Hilaire
Everyone agrees that the more diversity there is in politics the more innovative we will be and, the more likely we’ll address the needs and challenges of the diverse communities that are emerging in this Global Economy. But the lack of progress in the representation of some groups, such as African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and other minorities in many industries and in politics is particularly notable, especially in the United States and Europe. This episode celebrates minorities.
February 13, 2018
Leading the Digital Transition | With George Leith
The digital transition has been going on now for over a decade and although we see it and live it every day we will not have made the transition to a fully digital life until the work flows and processes around new technology are modernized and adapted. This means that companies need to look at digital transition with a 360-degree view. They have to understand what digitalization means to sales, marketing, customer relationship management, recruiting and just about every process in their company.
January 30, 2018
How can we increase the numbers of women in engineering? | With Inhel Rekik
Engineering continues to be a male dominated profession despite encouragement from women’s groups and the fact that the career has real prospects for women. It is one of the most diverse areas to work in. and the numerous engineering careers offer variety and opportunity. Engineers find new ways of doing things, develop creative solutions for modern problems and help create a better world.
January 23, 2018
How to build a great Linkedin profile that can propel your career! | With Donna Serdula
Now there is no debate that your professional image is important. Normally, when we think of professional image, we think about meeting or seeing someone in person, although in today’s global marketplace we live in a world where contacts take place online. Images are built on social media and on professional online networks.
January 16, 2018
Turn Your Passion Into Your Career | With Jim Hughes
Jobs, we need them and when you have one the golden rule has always been “never quit a job before you have another job to go to!”, but maybe this has now changed. Although this advice seems sensible, it is sometimes difficult to follow when you find yourself in a job or position that you really do not want to be in. Even if it is harder to get hired when you’re unemployed, sometimes you reach a point where you can’t force yourself to go a job you do not like.
January 2, 2018
Big Data and Compliance, What Leaders need to know | With Rebecca Herold
Big data, it can, can bring big benefits such as targeted advertisements, smart cars and more. It is available in wearables, implantable devices and as artificial intelligence in normal household gadgets. But It can also lead to big privacy problems.