Missing Conversations Altus Growth Partners

Dan Winter and Pam Fox Rollin connect with Michelle Tinsley, co-founder and former President/COO of YellowBird Holdings. YellowBird simply and easily matches highly qualified Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) professionals with businesses. Together they explore how to learn on-the-go as a leader with an experimental, adaptive mindset.
In today’s conversation, we cover:
How to shift your team’s mindset to embracing learning and experimentation
How to pivot when the plan changes dramatically
Building trust and community for gig economy professionals engaging with established teams
Prioritizing your own well-being to lead personal and professional growth
About Michelle Tinsley: Michelle Tinsley is the co-founder and former President/COO of YellowBird Holdings. Prior to founding YellowBird, Michelle served as CEO of Tinsley Retail Insights,  a consulting firm helping retailers drive actionable innovation to compete with digital disruption, which she formed in January 2018. Since 2013, Michelle has been an angel investor in the Arizona Technology Investors group. She is happily married and together with her husband, Alan, raises her two sons aged 16 and 10 in Phoenix, Arizona.   
About the book, Growing Groups Into Teams: How do you turn a group of individuals into a highly effective, productive team? Growing Groups into Teams is an unusually useful book written by a team of generative consultants and coaches that has helped thousands of groups become effective teams.
Through real-life stories combined with pragmatic advice, this book strengthens your ability to see what’s needed and take effective action:
What two promises turn a group into a team
How to engage people to make those promises
How to invite responsibility and accountability
How to include and inspire people across differences
How to build and rebuild trust, and more!
Regardless of how productive your teams are today, the insights in this book will help you grow to the next level to drive your business or organization forward. Order your copy today!
Order from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Groups-into-Teams-Real-life-ebook/dp/B0CJLC23VS 
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If you're looking to expand your leadership influence, shift your results, and develop a highly engaged, accountable team, we’d love to talk to you. Schedule a conversation with an Altus Team Member here: https://calendly.com/prollin-altusgrowth/zoom-video-30-min
 
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Keywords: #TeamCulture #TeamGrowth #Leadership #BusinessBook #LeadershipBook

Kobe Bogaert and Amy Vodarek speak with Paymon Hamidi, CEO of Infracore, an Information Technology Consulting and Managed Services firm founded in 2003. Their conversation focuses on the three major areas where Paymon recognized his team needed support in order to start acting less like a group and more like a team: communication that sparks action, filtering negative information, and letting go.
In today’s conversation, we explore:
How to improve communication in a growing company
When and where to be transparent and when to hold back information
Building trust in a business partnership
How to engage in “breakdown conversations” or what Paymon prefers to call “conversations for a better future”
How to build strong organizational culture through values alignment, guiding principles, and capacity management
About Paymon Hamidi: Paymon co-founded Infracore in 2003 to provide best-in-class IT services to organizations struggling with IT issues due to lack of expertise and/or capacity. Throughout his career, Paymon has focused his efforts toward mentoring IT professionals and cultivating a culture centered around mutual respect and personal growth.
About the book, Growing Groups Into Teams: How do you turn a group of individuals into a highly effective, productive team? Growing Groups into Teams is an unusually useful book written by a team of generative consultants and coaches that has helped thousands of groups become effective teams.
Throgh real-life stories combined with pragmatic advice, this book strengthens your ability to see what’s needed and take effective action:
What two promises turn a group into a team
How to engage people to make those promises
How to invite responsibility and accountability
How to include and inspire people across differences
How to build and rebuild trust, and more!
Regardless of how productive your teams are today, the insights in this book will help you grow to the next level to drive your business or organization forward. Order your copy today!
Order from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Groups-into-Teams-Real-life-ebook/dp/B0CJLC23VS 
Order directly:
https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?l8SxF4Aexn9gq08iz7jFBbwutleujrftoZ2wAOFzCVH 

If you're looking to expand your leadership influence, shift your results, and develop a highly engaged, accountable team, we’d love to talk to you. Schedule a conversation with an Altus Team Member here: https://calendly.com/prollin-altusgrowth/zoom-video-30-min
 
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Keywords: #TeamCulture #TeamGrowth #Leadership #BusinessBook #LeadershipBook

Kobe Bogaert and Heather Neely connect with Garry Ridge, former CEO of WD-40, about his experience as a servant leader. Garry is also the founder of The Learning Moment, where he shares his wisdom with organizations and leaders to help them build their cultures. This episode is like a crash course of The Learning Moment—packed with memorable anecdotes and leadership insights.
In today’s conversation, we explore:
The importance of humility, learning, and putting people first in leadership
How to create a culture of belonging and high-performance
How to prioritize and embed your company’s values in everyday conversations
A permission statement for responsibility or the “maniac pledge”
How to develop a positive company culture through relationship and trust-building


About Garry Ridge: Garry Ridge spent 25 years as CEO building one of the world’s most beloved and recognized branded companies, the WD-40 Company, starting with creating a culture of leaders and individual contributors who are genuinely joyful in their work. He refers to this time of his career as his apprenticeship. And now, he fulfills his life’s purpose by transforming his learnings into teachings, extending his guidance as a coach to companies and executives worldwide. Garry co-authored Helping People Win at Work with Ken Blanchard and contributed a chapter to the Marshall Goldsmith/Frances Hesselbein book Work is Love Made Visible. You may also know Garry from his foreword in Growing Groups Into Teams. His forthcoming book, Any Dumb-Ass Can Do It, is scheduled for release in 2024.
About the book, Growing Groups Into Teams: How do you turn a group of individuals into a highly effective, productive team? Growing Groups into Teams is an unusually useful book written by a team of generative consultants and coaches that has helped thousands of groups become effective teams.
Through real-life stories combined with pragmatic advice, this book strengthens your ability to see what’s needed and take effective action:
What two promises turn a group into a team
How to engage people to make those promises
How to invite responsibility and accountability
How to include and inspire people across differences
How to build and rebuild trust, and more!
Regardless of how productive your teams are today, the insights in this book will help you grow to the next level to drive your business or organization forward. Order your copy today!
Order from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Groups-into-Teams-Real-life-ebook/dp/B0CJLC23VS 
Order directly:
https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?l8SxF4Aexn9gq08iz7jFBbwutleujrftoZ2wAOFzCVH 

If you're looking to expand your leadership influence, shift your results, and develop a highly engaged, accountable team, we’d love to talk to you. Schedule a conversation with an Altus Team Member here: https://calendly.com/prollin-altusgrowth/zoom-video-30-min
 
Follow us on social media:
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Keywords: #TeamCulture #TeamGrowth #Leadership #BusinessBook #LeadershipBook
 

Dr. Steven Jones and guest host Sonia Bu catch up with Andrea Bordenca, CEO of DESCO Service and co-author of Growing Groups Into Teams. Andrea shares her personal journey of self-discovery and learning to learn which fundamentally shifted her relationship to leadership and working with others.
In this episode, we explore the critical conversations needed around: 
Reframing your story and building trust 
Recognizing the power of reciprocity in both personal and professional relationships
Valuing and leveraging multiple perspectives to achieve a shared future and desired results
Being committed to taking care of what truly matters to you as a person and as a leader
Setting boundaries and prioritizing values as a leader
Transforming your leadership style to enact a culture shift 
 
About Andrea Bordenca: Andrea Bordenca is an entrepreneur, executive coach, and youth and adult leadership educator. Andrea serves as Managing Partner of Generative Consulting, CEO and chairperson of DESCO Service, founder of Lead Yourself Youth, principal of Venture Way Collaborative, and co-founder of The Women’s Collaborative. Andrea thrives when people of all ages, races, and genders are in dialogue together. She believes that the only way toward systemic change is by bringing all community stakeholders together to create change.
 About the book, Growing Groups Into Teams: How do you turn a group of individuals into a highly effective, productive team? Growing Groups into Teams is an unusually useful book written by a team of generative consultants and coaches that has helped thousands of groups become effective teams. 
Through real-life stories combined with pragmatic advice, this book strengthens your ability to see what’s needed and take effective action:
What two promises turn a group into a team
How to engage people to make those promises
How to invite responsibility and accountability
How to include and inspire people across differences
How to build and rebuild trust, and more!
Regardless of how productive your teams are today, the insights in this book will help you grow to the next level to drive your business or organization forward. Order your copy today!
Order from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Groups-into-Teams-Real-life-ebook/dp/B0CJLC23VS 
Order from IngramSpark: https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?l8SxF4Aexn9gq08iz7jFBbwutleujrftoZ2wAOFzCVH 

If you're looking to expand your leadership influence, shift your results, and develop a highly engaged, accountable team, we’d love to talk to you. Schedule a conversation with an Altus Team Member here: https://altusgrowthpam.as.me/Zoom30min
 
Follow us on social media:
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Keywords: #TeamCulture #TeamGrowth #Leadership #BusinessBook #LeadershipBook
 

Amy Vodarek and Heather Neely talk with Juliana Vergara, VP of Leadership and Executive Coaching with accounting firm FORVIS and co-author of Growing Groups into Teams. Juliana explains how she came to recognize the distinction between accountability and responsibility. 
In today’s conversation, we explore:
What it looks like to be accountable versus responsible 
How a responsibility mindset empowers you and your team’s success
Acknowledging personal responsibility in times of success and failure
Identifying signs of unproductive team dynamics
Actionable responsibility-building practices you can bring to your team
About Juliana Vergara: Juliana Vergara, PCC, MS Clinical Psychology, coaches senior and emerging leaders in both the United States and Latin America. Her passion for leadership development and intentional growth has led her to impact the careers and lives of the people she coaches. Juliana’s clients have experienced significant transformation based on better understanding of themselves, who they lead, and what matters to them. She deeply cares about creating a world where people play bigger games without sacrificing their well-being.
About the book, Growing Groups Into Teams: How do you turn a group of individuals into a highly effective, productive team? Growing Groups into Teams is an unusually useful book written by a team of generative consultants and coaches that has helped thousands of groups become effective teams.
Through real-life stories combined with pragmatic advice, this book strengthens your ability to see what’s needed and take effective action:
What two promises turn a group into a team
How to engage people to make those promises
How to invite responsibility and accountability
How to include and inspire people across differences
How to build and rebuild trust, and more!
Regardless of how productive your teams are today, the insights in this book will help you grow to the next level to drive your business or organization forward. Order your copy today!
Order from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Groups-into-Teams-Real-life-ebook/dp/B0CJLC23VS 
Order from IngramSpark: https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?l8SxF4Aexn9gq08iz7jFBbwutleujrftoZ2wAOFzCVH 

If you're looking to expand your leadership influence, shift your results, and develop a highly engaged, accountable team, we’d love to talk to you. Schedule a conversation with an Altus Team Member here: https://altusgrowthpam.as.me/Zoom30min
 
Follow us on social media:
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Keywords: #TeamCulture #TeamGrowth #Leadership #BusinessBook #LeadershipBook #PersonalResponsibility
 

Pam Fox Rollin and Elayna Alexandra talk with Papanii Okai, CTO of Venmo Engineering at PayPal, about lessons on leadership from the late Marc Smith Sachs. Marc, a principal of Altus Growth Partners and an extremely valued member of our team, passed away in June 2023. 
Over the years, Marc mentored and inspired numerous leaders in many organizations. His memory and legacy lives on through the success of these great leaders around the world.
In today’s conversation, we explore:
The conversations that go missing when working remotely
Exploring leadership styles and finding the right fit
Leadership and personal growth after losing a mentor
The importance of gradual, long-term coaching to build leaders
Lessons learned from Marc, both personal and professional
About Papanii Okai: Papanii Nene Okai is CTO and VP of Venmo Engineering at PayPal. He has over two decades of experience in the tech world, working at numerous startups. Before assuming his current role, Papanii was Senior Director of Engineering and Chief Architect at PayPal, where he helped build the next generation of Venmo’s payment platform. Papanii is a software engineer at heart who loves to build solutions that delight customers. Whether it’s building mobile apps or backend distributed platforms, monoliths or microservices, Papanii happily immerses himself in both new and old technology.
 
Papanii gained a unique perspective from growing up and studying in Africa, Europe, and America. He holds multiple degrees from the University of San Francisco in Computer Science and Internet Engineering. Papanii loves to develop and mentor the next generation of software engineers and leaders, because he attributes a significant part of his success to the mentors who helped him develop not only as an executive but as a person. He loves good food, learning new languages, and Japanese anime. 
In Memory of Marc Smith Sachs: Learn more about Marc
About the book, Growing Groups Into Teams: How do you turn a group of individuals into a highly effective, productive team? Growing Groups into Teams is an unusually useful book written by a team that has helped thousands of groups become effective teams.
 
Through real-life stories combined with pragmatic advice, this book strengthens your ability to see what’s needed and take effective action:
What two promises turn a group into a team
How to engage people to make those promises
How to invite responsibility and accountability
How to include and inspire people across differences
How to build and rebuild trust, and more!
Regardless of how productive your teams are today, the insights in this book will help you grow to the next level to drive your business or organization forward. Order your copy today!
Order from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Groups-into-Teams-Real-life-ebook/dp/B0CJLC23VS 
Order from IngramSpark: https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?l8SxF4Aexn9gq08iz7jFBbwutleujrftoZ2wAOFzCVH 

If you're looking to expand your leadership influence, shift your results, and develop a highly engaged, accountable team, we’d love to talk to you. Schedule a conversation with an Altus Team Member here: https://altusgrowthpam.as.me/Zoom30min
 
Follow us on social media:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/altus-growth-partners/
https://www.facebook.com/AltusGrowth
https://www.instagram.com/altusgrowthpartners/

Keywords: #TeamCulture #TeamGrowth #Leadership #BusinessBook #LeadershipBook