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The Talent Empowerment podcast with host Tom Finn delivers cutting edge stories for business leaders! Each week, host Tom Finn, co-founder and CEO of LeggUP, sits down with capable bold leaders, talent development savants, founders, and executives from every industry to learn how they’re driving people innovation, discovering their own purpose and building performance in their own world. Alongside CEO’s, entrepreneurs, athletes, and industry icons, we’ll learn how to find your own life’s purpose to accelerate your transformation. Why? Good leaders work for their company. Great HR leaders work for their people. If you’ve made it this far, we think you’re pretty great! So, what do you say? Let’s transform our worlds, build personal agility and move from a culture of isolation to community.  Subscribe to our podcast wherever you like to listen so you never miss an opportunity to empower your people.

Talent Empowerment with Tom Finn Tom Finn

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    • 5.0 • 132 Ratings

The Talent Empowerment podcast with host Tom Finn delivers cutting edge stories for business leaders! Each week, host Tom Finn, co-founder and CEO of LeggUP, sits down with capable bold leaders, talent development savants, founders, and executives from every industry to learn how they’re driving people innovation, discovering their own purpose and building performance in their own world. Alongside CEO’s, entrepreneurs, athletes, and industry icons, we’ll learn how to find your own life’s purpose to accelerate your transformation. Why? Good leaders work for their company. Great HR leaders work for their people. If you’ve made it this far, we think you’re pretty great! So, what do you say? Let’s transform our worlds, build personal agility and move from a culture of isolation to community.  Subscribe to our podcast wherever you like to listen so you never miss an opportunity to empower your people.

    Revolutionizing Real Estate Development with Tom Finn and Mike Kaeding

    Revolutionizing Real Estate Development with Tom Finn and Mike Kaeding

    This week, Mike Kaeding, the CEO of Norhart, shares his tips for building a successful company, including having the right mindset, accepting negative feedback, and being willing to work through tough times. He also shares his key principles for consistent results, including hiring amazing people, supporting them, and getting the heck out of their way. 

    Talking Points: 
    {02:30} How does a good culture look in real estate?
    {04:15} How to find the right people.
    {09:30} Working to change the world of real estate. 
    {11:05} Taking over the family business.
    {25:20} How to push through the mud.
    {29:10} Changing the real estate landscape so more people can participate.
    {36:44} Key principles for consistent results

    Mike Kaeding Bio:
    Mike Kaeding is a residential real estate builder and developer and the wizard behind the curtain at Norhart - a company that's all about designing, building, and renting out apartments while on a journey to disrupt an entire industry.

    His mission is to solve America's housing shortage once and for all. By transforming the way apartments are built and managed, they're not only creating awesome places to live but also improving everyone's quality of life.

    Mike’s team is changing the game by creating a unique, attractive culture in the construction industry and hiring the best talent out there. They solved chronic inefficiencies and even took some tips from the manufacturing industry to make their projects higher quality and lower cost. 

    Resources and Links:
    Website: https://www.norhart.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekaeding Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikekaedingNorhart Twitter:  https://twitter.com/NorhartNorhart Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/norhart/Norhart LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/norhart
    Connect with Tom Finn
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/therealtomfinn/Instagram: https://instagram.com/therealtomfinnYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@therealtomfinnTiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@therealtomfinnTwitter: https://twitter.com/therealtomfinn/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therealtomfinnPinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/therealtomfinn

    • 39 min
    Preview: Mike Kaeding

    Preview: Mike Kaeding

    [You can listen to the full episode on Thursday, June 1st]

    This week, Mike Kaeding, the CEO of Norhart, shares his tips for building a successful company, including having the right mindset, accepting negative feedback, and being willing to work through tough times. He also shares his key principles for consistent results, including hiring amazing people, supporting them, and getting the heck out of their way.

    • 4 min
    McLaren F1 Racing Culture with Tom Finn and Paul Teasdale

    McLaren F1 Racing Culture with Tom Finn and Paul Teasdale

    In this episode, we are joined by Paul Teasdale, a performance expert. Paul uses his experiences from Formula 1 to coach business leaders to improve the performance of their teams. Paul explains how to create a winning culture, find the leaders in your team, and manage imposter syndrome. 

    Talking Points: 
    {06:47} How to improve performance in your team.
    {13:28} Authenticity always wins the day.
    {15:32} Creating a Winning Culture
    {19:24} Finding Leadership in your virtual environment.
    {26:39} Managing imposter syndrome in a high-performance environment.
    {31:15} Why you should never hear, that’s not my job.
    {32:50} Dropping the ego to end the politically driven culture to become performance-driven.

    Paul Teasdale Bio:
    Paul has 20 years of helping businesses to drive performance, most recently spending some time with McLaren Racing. Now he helps clients take the approaches and ways of working that deliver elite motorsport performances and, of course, apply them to their own world through facilitation and speaking, and consulting.

    Paul worked for seven years with Formula 1 and supercar manufacturer McLaren, and has a ton of stories, examples, and approaches that can be applied to any organization that's really looking for high performance.  He also believes that people drive performance, not just automobiles, and when supported by the right process and technology, organizations can thrive. 

    Resources and Links:
    Website: https://paulteasdale.co.uk  Social: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauljamesteasdale 
    Connect with Tom Finn
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/therealtomfinn/Instagram: https://instagram.com/therealtomfinnYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@therealtomfinnTiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@therealtomfinnTwitter: https://twitter.com/therealtomfinn/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therealtomfinnPinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/therealtomfinn

    • 40 min
    Paul Teasdale: Preview

    Paul Teasdale: Preview

    [You can listen to the full episode on Thursday, May 25th]

    This week we are joined by Paul Teasdale, a performance expert. Paul uses his experiences from Formula 1 to coach business leaders to improve the performance of their teams. Paul explains how to create a winning culture, find the leaders in your team, and manage imposter syndrome. 

    • 3 min
    Red Chocolate Has Arrived with Tom Finn and Glenn Gardone

    Red Chocolate Has Arrived with Tom Finn and Glenn Gardone

    Glenn Gardone, a 30-year veteran of the Consumer-Packaged Goods industry, is a proven growth strategist. Glenn is the President of Red Chocolate and shares his experience in finding his purpose, building a culture, and bringing a European chocolate company to the US. 

    Glenn explains the importance of creating value for customers and building a culture. He also shares his personal advice for entrepreneurs: be positive, find people you can latch onto, and build relationships.

    Talking Points: 
    {03:22} Glenn the whirling dervish
    {04:57} The defining moment
    {08:40} Tactics to help build a culture within teams and organizations
    {10:50} The Chocolate business
    {16:62} Bringing a European company to America
    {18:50} The Art of Deal-making
    {25:48} The process to understand the value continuum

    Glenn Gardone Bio:
    Glenn is a 30-year veteran of the consumer packaged goods industry. He has had the pleasure of leading and building amazingly successful teams while helping people enjoy their Sunday nights! He has played the role of Multiple Award-Winning Chief Revenue Officer, with more than 15 years of revenue generation experience in building unified performance-based sales cultures He has worked in industry-leading organizations such as Del Monte Foods, Inc., The Kellogg Company, and Pepsico, Inc.

    He is now the President of RED chocolate. www.red-chocolate.com.

    RED was born from the passion of European Master Chocolatiers. They envisioned chocolate with the expected delivery of divine creaminess, yet without the added refined sugars of commercialized chocolate. It wasn’t intended to be a “healthy” alternative or a “dieter’s” chocolate. The intent was to simply create chocolate emphasizing the natural sugars we experience when consuming fruits. 

    He has worked at 4 of the top CPG (Consumer packaged goods) companies in the world in various positions such as sales, marketing, & finance. As an award-winning, entrepreneurial, multichannel growth strategist with a distinguished record of producing immediate results, along with massive sales growth for multinational Fortune 100 brands, including some of the largest direct store delivery (DSD) and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the world— his experience is broad ranging & encompasses small startups to enterprise-scale businesses. 

    Resources and Links:
    Website: https://www.red-chocolate.com Social: https://www.linkedin.com/in/Glenngardone 
    Connect with Tom Finn
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/therealtomfinn/Instagram: https://instagram.com/therealtomfinnYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@therealtomfinnTiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@therealtomfinnTwitter: https://twitter.com/therealtomfinn/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therealtomfinnPinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/therealtomfinn

    • 38 min
    Glenn Gardone: Preview

    Glenn Gardone: Preview

    [You can listen to the full episode on Thursday, May 18th]

    Glenn Gardone, a 30-year veteran of the Consumer-Packaged Goods industry, is a proven growth strategist. Glenn is the President of Red Chocolate and shares his experience in finding his purpose, building a culture, and bringing a European chocolate company to the US. 

    Glenn explains the importance of creating value for customers and building a culture. He also shares his personal advice for entrepreneurs: be positive, find people you can latch onto, and build relationships.

    • 3 min

Customer Reviews

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132 Ratings

Kenneth 0M ,

Incredible resource

As an entrepreneur, I'm always looking for ways to improve and grow my business. Talent Empowerment with Tom Finn has been an incredible resource for me. Tom's expertise and practical tips have helped me take my company to the next level. Thank you, Tom!

D. Phillips00 ,

Host are top-notch

The Talent Empowerment podcast is a bright spot in my week. Tom Finn's hosting skills are top-notch, and his guests are always engaging. Love it!

J. Witman ,

Not enough

Tom Finn is the perfect host for the Talent Empowerment podcast - he's funny, charming, and always keeps things interesting. Can't recommend it enough.

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