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About Gleb Known as the Disaster Avoidance Expert, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is on a mission to protect technology leaders from dangerous judgment errors known as cognitive biases by developing the most effective decision-making strategies via his consulting, coaching, and training firm Disaster Avoidance Experts. A cognitive neuroscientist and behavioral economist, Dr. Tsipursky writes for Inc., Time, and CNBC. A best-selling author, his new book, available on Amazon and in bookstores everywhere, is Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters and his latest book, Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams: A Manual on Benchmarking to Best Practices for Competitive Advantage Today We Talked About Background Different types of research Surveys about returning to the office Funding Work from Home Why write the book? Fairness of your job choice The Great Resignation Bad Decision making Zoom Fatigue Don’t mistake the feeling of comfort as something that is true Learn to be comfortable being uncomfortable   Connect With Gleb Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Book Website I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcast and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even 1 sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again! Live@Manning APIs are the backbone of modern, interconnected software systems. Join us at the API live@manning conference and ensure your APIs are flexible, functional, and user friendly. Register for the API conference, August 3, for FREE! https://ageekleader.com/api  #APIs #APIDesign

About Atholl Atholl Duncan is an Insead qualified executive coach. He blends his wisdom of having “been there and done it” in a range of board roles with his experience from a decade of coaching CEOs, CFOs and high potential leaders. He is currently Chairman of three organisations – Black Isle Group, UK Coaching and Scottish Salmon, which represents a one billion-pound sector of the UK economy. He is also a former Chairman and non-executive director of the British Horseracing Authority – which runs the UK’s second largest spectator sport – and Audit Chair of a cinema business which runs the Edinburgh Filmhouse, the Belmont Cinema in Aberdeen and Edinburgh International Film Festival. Atholl was a senior executive at the BBC for many years. He led the BBC’s coverage of the Lockerbie disaster and the Dunblane shootings. Atholl’s executive education is from Insead, Harvard and Cranfield where he studied leadership, strategy, emotional intelligence, group dynamics, organisational politics, executive coaching and systems psychodynamics. He also specialises in personal brand building, individual impact and presentation skills. He relishes “speaking truth unto power”.   Today We Talked About Atholl's career BBC COVID Agility Focus Working together Trust Mindsets Shape the new future Dynamics and Mechanics Seven Themes New Age of Purpose New World of Work Tackling Inequality Global Cooporation Resilience Resetting the Supply Chain Just in time to Just in case Maximizing Potential Empathy and Compassionate leadership The Great Resignation Leading Model Look like a leader Empathy, empowerment, emotional intelligence Awareness Deliver Impact Nurturing Game changers Think Purposely Listening Connect with Atholl Website Twitter LinkedIn Book I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again! Live@Manning APIs are the backbone of modern, interconnected software systems. Join us at the API live@manning conference and ensure your APIs are flexible, functional, and user friendly. Register for the API conference, August 3, for FREE! https://ageekleader.com/api  #APIs #APIDesign

About Kevin A successful entrepreneur, speaker, mentor, husband, and father, Kevin has spent several decades managing customer and employee relations across a wide range of industries and organizations. He has been a guest speaker at the USC Marshall School of Business, the UCLA Anderson School of Business, and Woodbury University, among many others. Since his first paper route at the age of seven, growing up in Hollywood, California, he has worked as a janitor, a switchboard operator, a busboy, a waiter, a manager, a doorman at Grauman’s Chinese Theater, and a tour guide at Universal Studios. He then went into the hospitality world as a corporate trainer until he created his own small group of restaurants that have been in business since 1984. Kevin has served on the board of directors of the California Restaurant Association (Chairman 2014), State Compensation Insurance Fund, the Burbank Arts in Education Foundation, the Boys and Girls Club of Burbank, and the Universal City North Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Every job he worked at, every organization he served, would add to his observational knowledge that showed him how everyday communication was the key to success in any relationship. Every moment creates opportunities. Every encounter has a ripple effect good or bad. The key is to control your moments so you can direct a positive ripple effect. Today we Talked About Kevin's past Big Brain Little Brain Communication React vs. Respond Go to Neutral "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response..." - Viktor Frankl Legacy Tone Time Parachutes S.E.T Smile Eye Contact Tone Don't take it personal Walk and Talk Rumors Good Gossip No expiration date on an apology Groundhog Day Connect with Kevin Twitter LinkedIn Website Book I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again! Live@Manning APIs are the backbone of modern, interconnected software systems. Join us at the API live@manning conference and ensure your APIs are flexible, functional, and user friendly. Register for the API conference, August 3, for FREE! https://ageekleader.com/api  #APIs #APIDesign

About Paula Dr. Paula Caligiuri is a D'Amore-McKim School of Business Distinguished Professor of International Business at Northeastern University, and lives in Boston, Massachusetts. She has been named as one of the most prolific authors in international business for her work in cross-cultural management, global leadership development, and cultural agility. She is president of TASCA Global, a consulting firm that specializes in assessing and developing culturally agile professionals and boasts a client list that includes the U.S. Army, Peace Corps, Cigna, 3M, and Johnson & Johnson. She is a frequent expert guest on CNN and CNN International and author of the LinkedIn Learning course "Managing Globally." Her new book is Build Your Cultural Agility: The Nine Competencies of Successful Global Professionals (Kogan Page; March 30, 2021). Learn more at TASCAglobal.com and myGiide.com. Today We Talked About Paula's past Culture Empathy Communication ground rules Cultrual norms 9 Competencies mygiide.com Connect With Paula Website Twitter Linkedin Book I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again! Private Internet Access I’ve been a customer of Private Internet Access for over 3 years now and I love this service.  I was at a security conference a few years ago and I connected to the hotel wifi.  Immediately my endpoint protection software began to alert me of hacking attempts.  I launched my VPN from Private Internet Access and all of the attempts were stopped. My data and internet connection was secure.  Another great use of the VPN service is connect from different geo locations, which is very helpful when testing DNS and CDN caching. To get a your VPN account starting at $3.33 per month, please visit https://ageekleader.com/vpn

About Jeff Jeffrey Hull, Ph.D. is an author, educator and consultant with over twenty years experience partnering with C-suite executives on issues of high performance leadership, change management, organizational strategy, structure and culture. Dr. Hull is a highly sought-after facilitator, keynote speaker and executive coach to both non-profit and for-profit global organizations. Dr. Hull is Director of Education & Business Development at the Institute of Coaching, McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School Affiliate. He is also a clinical instructor in psychology at Harvard Medical School and an adjunct professor of leadership at New York University. Today We Talked About Jeff's background What is coaching Self-Awareness Flexibility Why Flex? Why now? Connect with Jeff Website Book LinkedIn   I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again! Private Internet Access I’ve been a customer of Private Internet Access for over 3 years now and I love this service.  I was at a security conference a few years ago and I connected to the hotel wifi.  Immediately my endpoint protection software began to alert me of hacking attempts.  I launched my VPN from Private Internet Access and all of the attempts were stopped. My data and internet connection was secure.  Another great use of the VPN service is connect from different geo locations, which is very helpful when testing DNS and CDN caching. To get a your VPN account starting at $3.33 per month, please visit https://ageekleader.com/vpn

About Ruben Ruben Ugarte is an expert in data, decision-making and the author of the Data Mirage: Why Companies Fail to Actually Use Their Data. He has helped over 75 medium-sized and large enterprises, including the Fortune 1000, across 5 continents, use data to make higher quality decisions. These decisions helped companies significantly boost performance, increase profitability, dramatically lower costs, and make their teams world-class. He also maintains a popular blog that over 100,000 readers have read. In his free time, you can find him dancing or trying to learn something new. Today We Talked About Data Ruben's history What can data do for a company Approaches for BI Data warehouse and Data Lake for dashboard (legacy) approach 2 - assumes data is decentralized (APIs) Privacy Deletion of Data Looking for Insights Expectations Summaries vs. Dashboards Emotions Numbers are more than just numbers Limit the Inputs Track less KPIs The North Star Metric GateKeepers COVID data Connect with Ruben LinkedIn Twitter Website YouTube I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again! Private Internet Access I’ve been a customer of Private Internet Access for over 3 years now and I love this service.  I was at a security conference a few years ago and I connected to the hotel wifi.  Immediately my endpoint protection software began to alert me of hacking attempts.  I launched my VPN from Private Internet Access and all of the attempts were stopped. My data and internet connection was secure.  Another great use of the VPN service is connect from different geo locations, which is very helpful when testing DNS and CDN caching. To get a your VPN account starting at $3.33 per month, please visit https://ageekleader.com/vpn

About Kent C. Dodds Kent C. Dodds is a world renowned speaker, teacher, and trainer and he's actively involved in the open source community as a maintainer and contributor of hundreds of popular npm packages. Kent is the creator of EpicReact.Dev and TestingJavaScript.com. He's an instructor on egghead.io and Frontend Masters. He's also a Google Developer Expert. Kent is happily married and the father of four kids. He likes his family, code, JavaScript, and React.   Today We Talked About Kent's Background What he's been doing the last 2 years leadership remote teams Training, testing, etc. opensource business engineering alignment blog opensource gives you free mentors why I love react blog ReMix Connect with Kent Twitter LinkedIn Website I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again! Private Internet Access I’ve been a customer of Private Internet Access for over 3 years now and I love this service.  I was at a security conference a few years ago and I connected to the hotel wifi.  Immediately my endpoint protection software began to alert me of hacking attempts.  I launched my VPN from Private Internet Access and all of the attempts were stopped. My data and internet connection was secure.  Another great use of the VPN service is connect from different geo locations, which is very helpful when testing DNS and CDN caching. To get a your VPN account starting at $3.33 per month, please visit https://ageekleader.com/vpn

About Vincent Vince currently serves as the Founder and President of Defense Cybersecurity Group, focused on DoD cybersecurity, cyber compliance and assessments. He also currently serves as the Chief Security Officer for STI-TEC, a medium sized government contractor. Vince had a diverse career in military operations, cyber and information warfare, and intelligence operations. He served with national intelligence agencies and deployed numerous times including both the first and second Gulf Wars, Bosnia and elsewhere. After his Navy career, Vince served with Oklahoma State University’s Multispectral Laboratory (UML) as Chief Information Officer and the Director of C5ISR. In that role he also lead the UML Security organization. Following his tour at Oklahoma State, Vince held positions with Procter and Gamble as their global leader of cyber incident response and threat intelligence, served as a Director in PwC’s Cybersecurity and Privacy practice, and led PwC’s national cyber threat intelligence organization, developing a deep reservoir of experience in government and commercial industry. He used to play offense, and now coaches defense. Today We Talked About Vincent's Background Cyber Security Training Leadership Privacy Military Career Motivation Love Finding the right seat on the bus Integrity Transparency Leadership is a technical skill 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Accomplish the mission through people staying technically competent asking good questions Connect with Vincent Website LinkedIn YouTube I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again! Live@Manning Looking to increase your coding productivity? Listen to expert speakers discuss good coding practices, effective development methodologies, and amazing automation tools. Register for the Developer Productivity conference, June 15, for FREE: https://www.ageekleader.com/productivity

About Christian Christian Espinosa is an entrepreneur, a cybersecurity engineer, a certified high-performance coach, a professor, and a lover of heavy metal music and spicy food. He’s also an Air Force veteran and Ironman triathlete. Christian used to value being the “smartest guy in the room,” only to realize that his greatest contribution to the fight against cybercrime is his ability to bring awareness to the issue through effective communication and leadership training. Christian is a speaker, coach, and trainer in the Secure methodology, helping to make the smartest people in the room the best leaders in the field. In his best-selling book, The Smartest Person in the Room, Christian shows leaders how to leverage their company’s smartest minds to the benefit of the company and the employees themselves. He describes why a high IQ is a lost superpower when effective communication, true intelligence, and self-confidence are not embraced. With his seven-step methodology and stories from the field, Christian helps leaders develop their teams’ technical minds so they become better humans and strong leaders who excel in every role. His book provides an enlightening perspective of how to turn your biggest unknown weakness into your strongest defense. Today We Talked About Ego Learning Christian's Background Communicating with Technical People Clarify and Verify Awareness Take self assessment tests Get a coach Tactfully Transparent Crucial Conversations Mono-tasking vs Multi-tasking Being Present in the conversation Empathy cognitive affective Perspective and point-of-view People are generally doing the best they can with what they have Ownership Ironman Training Connect with Christian Twitter Book Website LinkedIn I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again! Live@Manning Looking to increase your coding productivity? Listen to expert speakers discuss good coding practices, effective development methodologies, and amazing automation tools. Register for the Developer Productivity conference, June 15, for FREE: https://www.ageekleader.com/productivity

About Michelle Michelle Natalya Moore is the Founder of MindEQuity, a management consultancy bringing 21st-century tools and practices to the forefront of team performance. Michelle brings 20 years of experience building successful teams, having done so while a Partner at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, at Ernst & Young, and at a tech start-up. Now she helps organizations do better work in half the time. How? By managing organizational attention. Michelle and the team at MindEQuity work with groups of consultants, advisors, innovators, IT professionals, HR leaders, lawyers, engineers, and others to design work keeping in mindall 5 elements impacting attention. Focus BetterJourneys result in sustained value creation and market advantage. In addition to her work with MindEQuity, Michelle is a member of MIT’s Social Presencing teaching team, is featured in the 2020 Digital Wellness Report, and speaks at MacKay CEO Forums and McGill University. Today We Talked About Michelle's Background Focus Instant Responses Distractions Task Switching Time Management Work In Progress Value Creation Portfolio Productivity... how to do you measure it?  Measure Effectiveness instead Schedule time Connect with Michelle Website Twitter LinkedIn I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again!   Live@Manning Looking to increase your coding productivity? Listen to expert speakers discuss good coding practices, effective development methodologies, and amazing automation tools. Register for the Developer Productivity conference, June 15, for FREE: https://www.ageekleader.com/productivity