60 episodes

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.

Great Companies! Great Leaders‪!‬ Christine Gannon

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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

    Episode 60: Michelle Clare, Intuitive Life Coach

    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 a reminder of an unconditional love and connection that surpasses our earthly life.

    https://www.michelleclare.net/

    • 16 min
    Episode 59: Carol Poore, PhD., MBA

    Episode 59: Carol Poore, PhD., MBA

    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 and public power utility companies – Salt River Project, serving as Vice Provost at Arizona State University at the West Campus, and serving as CEO at Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS, raising more than $23 million in donor and grant funding to grow the agency and establish a community health center in downtown Phoenix.

    Carol received her Ph.D. in Public Administration, her MBA and her Bachelor of Science Degree in Journalism and Broadcasting from Arizona State University.

    Dr. Poore has served on a number of nonprofit and community-based boards spanning social services, healthcare, arts and culture, community development, and higher education. Endorsed by the Association for Strategic Planning, Carol serves on numerous for-profit, nonprofit, and higher-education boards.

    www.CarolPoore.com

    • 28 min
    Episode 58: Howard Partridge, International Business Coach & Best Selling Author

    Episode 58: Howard Partridge, International Business Coach & Best Selling Author

    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 his first business out of the trunk of his car in 1984 and built it into a multi-million dollar enterprise.
    He has owned 9 small businesses altogether and owns 4 companies at the time of this printing.
    He is president of Phenomenal Business Coaching, which helps small business owners stop being a slave to their business by transforming it into a predictable, profitable, turnkey operation. Since 1998, Howard has helped small business owners around the world dramatically improve their businesses.

    He has led hundreds of seminars, webinars, workshops and holds his own live multi-day events which have featured some of America’s top business trainers including John Maxwell, Michael Gerber, Bob Burg, Dr. Joseph A. Michelli, Darren Hardy, Dr. Robert Rohm and American legend Zig Ziglar.

    Howard is married to Denise, has one son, Christian, and is a proud grandfather to Gianna and Elijah Partridge.

    • 37 min
    Episode 57: Kellie Walenciak, Head of Marketing and Communications, Televerde

    Episode 57: Kellie Walenciak, Head of Marketing and Communications, Televerde

    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 closest friends and family.

    Kellie gives back to her community by volunteering for the Televerde Foundation and Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, New York. Outside of work, Kellie cherishes moments with her husband Matt and their three children.

    Connect with Kellie:

    https://televerde.com/
     
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellie-walenciak-99682a28/

    • 28 min
    Episode 56: Sharon Lechter, CGMA

    Episode 56: Sharon Lechter, CGMA

    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 and Think and Grow Rich for Women and Success and Something Greater. She is also featured in the movie Think and Grow Rich: The Legacy and on the national television series World’s Greatest Motivators. Sharon is currently launching her newest title, Exit Rich to support entrepreneurs in building value and scalability in their businesses so they can be in the position of greatest potential.

    Buy Sharon's new book: https://sharonlechter.com/product/how-money-works-for-women/

    • 21 min
    Episode 55: Dr. Amanda King, VP, Software Services, Axon

    Episode 55: Dr. Amanda King, VP, Software Services, Axon

    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 community as an Arizona Highway Patrol officer.    

    Axon Careers: https://www.axon.com/careers

    • 24 min

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