EP #260 THE BOOK JEDI - CHIP HOPPER
The VIBE with Kelly Cardenas
The Importance of Hearing No All the Time
LZ Granderson says he is inspired by the ingenuity of LDS culture. He also believes that every entrepreneur needs to be able to hear no all the time in order to become successful. LZ: "The sooner you can accept that you're in sales, the sooner you can start to create the life you want"
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Chip Hopper is the founder of bookjedi, a personal evolution company focused on improving the way we live and love. Chip helps people tell their stories to shape their futures. Our lives are defined by the stories we tell. Chip writes with top authors, celebrities, athletes, business leaders, and influencers. He is also involved in many strategic partnerships tackling massive moonshots on an exponential scale. Chip is passionate about connecting people and resources and is a highly sought-after futurist and strategy consultant. As Chip likes to say, you’re only one relationship from your best life. He sits on several advisory boards with a focus on companies passionate about positively disrupting the way we live, learn, and work. Chip partners with other entrepreneurs, authors, thought leaders, and visionaries around the world to create and amplify knowledge, tools, and connections that help people thrive and live their best lives. He also runs masterminds and retreats helping people live life by design.
Over the last thirty years, Chip has consulted numerous businesses and business leaders and held executive leadership and advisory roles including, Chief of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships for Powerful U, a personal evolution company, Head of Strategy for Lucid Software, a leader in diagramming software, Chief Sales and Marketing officer at Momni, an information technology and caresharing network for mothers, and President of Dunn Hoisington Leadership, a global leadership development company. He has held leadership positions with or consulted for companies including Nike, Intel, IBM, Coke, Franklin Covey, Soar, BluNovus, Everspire, Profluent, Amplified Minds, Walmart, Edward Jones, Fidelity Investments, Medecision, and the Women’s Information Network. Chip also spent over a decade with Verisk Analytics and Xactware, a $2B leading data analytics provider, where, as part of the senior leadership team, he played a significant role in driving innovation and growth; helping lead Verisk Analytics to be named by Forbes as one of the most innovative companies in the world in both 2015 and 2016.
Chip’s passion for helping develop people and leaders also extends to working with youth and is a big factor in his love of coaching youth sports including football, basketball, baseball, and soccer. Chip’s own children are a central focus in his life, from coaching sports, to dancing in the Nutcracker, to reading teen romance novels, to playing video games. Chip has also served in elected community positions including as Chairman of the Board for his local Chamber of Commerce, and as a member of the Board for Alta Youth Football. Chip received a BA from Brigham Young University where he pioneered the animation program and an MBA from the University of Utah.
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