Inspired Wisdom Podcast

Beverley Wright, 30+ Years with IBM as a Leader and Coach

Beverley Wright: A Successful Business Leader, Community Advocate, and Leadership Coach 

Beverley held leadership and management roles at IBM for over 30 years.

Beverley started at IBM thinking she’d stay for 5 years at most. However, she had a paradigm shift and saw an opportunity to pivot from doing a job to driving her career choices. Beverley successfully transitioned from her role as an individual contributor to climbing the leadership ladder in marketing and sales. In the late 90’s she pivoted again and gained expertise in coaching sales teams and executives 

Today, Beverley continues to work with leaders and helps them become more people-centered while achieving professional and personal goals. 

You won’t want to miss my interview with Beverley Wright if you are a

• high-energy, successful salesperson and you now find yourself leading a sales team
• entrepreneur and want to shape your leadership brand as a team leader
• business owner and you want effective methods for building a high-performance team

For show notes and links, please go to Inspired Wisdom.

Katie Hill, TED Fellow, Social Entrepreneur,

Katie Hill, TED Fellow, Young Global Leader and Social Entrepreneur

Katie Hill is a social entrepreneur, TED Fellow and  Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum. She solves problems that impact billions of people.

Katie took a year off between high school and college to live in Nepal. She began college knowing she wanted to work on issues of global poverty and economic development. After graduating from Stanford, Katie joined Acumen and lived in India for 4 years where she focused on energy, water, and agriculture investment

Katie shares with us her journey from living in Nepal and India and then returning to Stanford to complete an MBA and MA in Environment & Resources.

In 2013, she joined Apple in Silicon Valley. Building on her core interests and strengths in leadership, product innovation, and sustainable investing, Katie set out to convert Apple’s entire supply chain to renewable energy.

Earlier this year, Katie quit a job she loved at Apple and moved to Nairobi, Africa with her husband to fulfill their shared mission of making positive social change.

If you want to make a positive social impact, you don’t want to miss Katie’s inspiring story on the Inspired Wisdom Podcast.

Millennial Steven Huang shares his career journey from a Job to a career of meaning and purpose

Growing up, Steven had a vision for his future. However, he had to put his vision aside and work in a career that he did not find meaningful.

Steven graduated with a B.S. in Business from Babson College in 2009. With a skill set that was still in demand during the recession, he started his career as an actuary but left after a few years in the pursuit of meaningful work.

Steven shares with us how he found his way out of a job in Connecticut and into Facebook as their first HR analyst.  From Facebook, he pursued a path filled with side steps and back steps and jumps forward that ultimately landed him in a role where he gets to do meaningful work every day.

At Culture Amp in San Francisco since Apr 2015, Steven is the Head of Diversity and Inclusion where he built the Culture Amp & Paradigm Inclusion Survey. He has become a champion of blending analytics, psychology, and empathy to solve 21st century’s most pressing problems.

If you are a

• millennial frustrated with your role and looking for an inspired next step
• approaching your mid 30’s and you are worried you won’t find “your purpose”
• conflicted about how to engage millennials

You won’t want to miss the show as Steven Huang shares his most important lesson. “The little lessons we take away from the obstacles in life that often lead us to our most passionate and impactful next chapter.”

Simon Kozlowski Shares his Entrepreneurial Journey

Simon Kozlowski is unapologetically obsessed with unlocking legacy

In Episode 6 of the Inspired Wisdom Podcast, Simon Kozlowski from the sunny East Coast of South Africa shares his roller-coaster ride from a corporate role to successful entrepreneur.

Between early 2013 and late 2016, Simon built a vibrant business in a competitive industry only to have the business killed in a messy legal battle. He then joined another small business with huge aspirations, and found himself unemployed less than a year later and having to start from the beginning all over again.

His journey led to the Creative Spark that inspired his current work - helping people and businesses reinvent themselves. 

Our stories tell us who we are. Redefine your stories; it takes an independent thinker to separate yourself from other people’s stories and expectations of you.

Simon's work with executives in pitching and presenting has enabled them to significantly grow revenue, transform organizational culture and convert resistors into raving fans. His sales coaching has enabled clients to increase sales an average of 30% within 3 months

Highlights From the Show

• Our stories tell us who we are. Redefine your stories if you don’t like where you are. It takes an independent thinker to separate yourself from other people’s stories and expectations of you.

 

• In his work with sales leaders, communication is the single biggest differentiator. [22:40]

Co-producer Charlotte Guilmenot Shares Her Vision for the Inspired Wisdom Podcast

Charlotte Guilmenot, co-producer of the Inspired Wisdom podcast shares her journey and vision for the podcast. Shas more than 30 years of experience in organizational effectiveness and employee engagement, as well as extensive experience in learning and development, and designing leadership programs for both large and small organizations.

Trisha Mason Parsad Shares Her Journey from Leader to Entrepreneur

Over the past 20 years, Trisha Parsad held Leadership positions in Coaching and Leadership Development at  Southern California Edison, Bank of America, and Price Waterhouse Coopers.

Due to her outstanding performance, in 2015, she was nominated for the Edison International Chairman’s Award.

While at the height of her career, Trisha left her corporate role in 2016 to start her own independent practice.

If you are a leader in transition to a new company, new role, or to entrepreneurship and you struggle with:

• Making a living under uncertainty
• Priority management
• Networking and Business Development
• Using your time well and making consistent progress
• Finding a Mentor
• Feeling relevant and the self-confidence that comes from doing meaningful work

Then, you've come to the right place!

 

Finding Your Voice With Internationally Known Voice Expert Tracy Goodwin

To be an authority in your field, a leader, Tracy Goodwin says you must be an impactful storyteller; you must affect us. How you speak is what will make that happen. 

If any of these challenges sound familiar, you won't want to miss this episode with Internationally known voice expert, Tracy Goodwin:

• You find you are not respected when you speak or you feel like you’re being pushed around
• You don’t feel or sound confident
• People cut you off when you talk
• You have a hard time asking for what you want
• Colleagues don't see you as the expert you truly are
• Your voice falls flat or changes tone especially when you are nervous
• You aren't getting the results you want in your personal life and/or career

Tracy Goodwin, owner of Captivate the Room, started speaking and winning awards at the age of 12.  She later went on to become a professional actor and directed plays all over the world all while running from her purpose of being a voice coach. 

Tracy has a BFA in Directing and two Masters.  Over the last 25 plus years, Tracy has coached hundreds of people around the globe how to step into their voice power, sound more confident, heal their voice story, free their voice and make a big impact with their message. 

Tracy’s approach to the psychology of the voice is unique in that gets to the core of the voice story and changes the bad voice habits that story laid in, changing them for good.  People all over the world seek her out for her expertise because she unravels the voice story and frees the barriers that keep her client’s from connecting and captivating their audience. 

Resources shared during this episode:

• Tracy talking about her upcoming documentary, You Took My Voice
• Tracy's website and podcast, Captivate the Room

Lion Goodman: How Your Beliefs Created Your Current Life, and How To Change Them For A Better Life

During the process of becoming you, you took on other people’s beliefs, values, and ways of behaving. 

You came to some conclusions about yourself, other people, and the world.

These conclusions have consequences in how we think, act and form relationships. And, no matter who you are or what you want to accomplish, it seems as though something is preventing you from moving forward toward meeting your goals and living a fulling life. 

If you want to live a more fulfilling and extraordinary life AND you experience any of the following, then you don't want to miss my interview with Lion.

• Low-self-esteem, negative self-talk
• Feeling stuck in your work and/or personal life
• Lack of motivation
• Difficulties in personal and work relationships
• Weight and health problems
• Inability to bounce back quickly from challenges or failure
• Bad habits you can't seem to break
• Comparing and judging oneself and others
• Uncomfortable feelings, sensations, & emotions

Lion explains how negative and limiting beliefs can result in any of these symptoms and conditions. More importantly, he discusses how to clear out old beliefs that are holding you back.

Link:

• Lion Goodman's free webinar, Clear Your Beliefs, is on April 5, 5 pm PT

 

 

 

Cynder Niemela Shares Her Vision for the Inspired Wisdom Podcast

Cynder Niemela, Co-Producer, and Host of the Inspired Wisdom Podcast shares her journey from corporate executive to Podcast Host.

In this episode, Cynder shares her story of overcoming polio, growing up in Saudi Arabia and returning as a marine biologist for Saudi Aramco. After completing an MBA, Cynder was recruited by an insurance company in Hartford, CT to be their first female executive. This began her 25 years as a corporate executive and climbing the corporate ladder.

In 2016, after 25 years of working for global organizations, Cynder left her corporate leadership role to embark on a creative journey. Life is full of creating beautiful things, travel, being in nature, and meeting new people.

If you are an aspiring leader or transitioning into an expanded role, or you are in transition out of a corporate job into your own business then you've come to the right place!