Talent Empowerment with Tom Finn Tom Finn

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

[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.

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

[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. 

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

[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.