Leadership Lab with Dr. Patrick Leddin

Tricia Brouk, author of The Influential Voice: Saying What You Mean for Lasting Legacy, joins Patrick in the Leadership Lab to discuss how you can uncover and work through your limiting beliefs, use your voice with great responsibility, and move past fear. Tricia Brouk is an award-winning international director. She received the Empowered Woman of 2021 award from the International Association of Top Professionals. She has worked in theater, film, and television for over three decades. In addition to her work in the entertainment industry, she applies her unique expertise to the art of public speaking. She's the Executive Producer of Speakers Who Dare, the former Executive Producer of TEDxLincolnSquare in New York City, and currently hosts The Big Talk Podcast. Learn more about Tricia's work and get a free sneak peek at the first chapter of The Influential Voice at www.TheInfluentialVoiceBook.com/chapter

Oscar Suris is the President of Edelman’s New York operation. As New York president, Oscar oversees the company’s largest global office, which has 800-plus employees.  He joins Patrick in the Leadership Lab to discuss staying connected with stakeholders, putting situations into perspective, and exhaling and enjoying the moment. Oscar is a Corporate Communications professional with 20 years of experience providing strategic public relations leadership to Fortune 100 companies and 10 years of experience with national and local news organizations.

Kaylin Marcotte struck a deal with Mark Cuban on Shark Tank to help grow her business, Jiggy. She joins Patrick in the Leadership Lab to discuss paying attention to trends, auditing your own habits and practices, and finding a gap in the market that you can close. Entrepreneur.com explained that when Kaylin Marcotte, “set out to modernize the humble jigsaw puzzle, she had no idea what the journey would have in store. She launched Jiggy in November 2019 and has been at the forefront of the renewed puzzle boom, turning her unique mission-driven spin into a multi-million dollar business. As an early employee at theSkimm, Marcotte was accustomed to working long hours, being scrappy and resourceful — and often being stressed.” Learn more about Kaylin and Jiggy at https://www.jiggypuzzles.com

Chris Voss is the author of “Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It” and the CEO and Founder of the Black Swan Group Ltd. Chris has used his years of experience in international crises and high-stakes negotiations to develop a unique program and team that applies these globally proven techniques to the business world. He was the lead international kidnapping negotiator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the FBI’s hostage negotiation representative for the National Security Council’s Hostage Working Group. During his government career, he also represented the U.S. Government at two (2) international conferences sponsored by the G-8 as an expert in kidnapping. Prior to becoming the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator, Christopher served as the lead Crisis Negotiator for the New York City Division of the FBI. Christopher was a member of the New York City Joint Terrorist Task Force for 14 years.  He was the case agent on such cases as TERRSTOP (the Blind Sheikh Case – Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman), the TWA Flight 800 catastrophe, and negotiated the surrender of the first hostage taker to give up in the Chase Manhattan bank robbery hostage-taking. During Chris’s 24-year tenure in the Bureau, he was trained in the art of negotiation by not only the FBI but Scotland Yard and Harvard Law School. He also received the Attorney General’s Award for Excellence in Law Enforcement and the FBI Agents Association Award for Distinguished and Exemplary Service. Chris has taught business negotiation in the MBA program as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business and at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.  He has taught business negotiation at Harvard University, guest lectured at The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, The IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland, and The Goethe School of Business in Frankfurt, Germany. Learn more about Chris and his work at www.blackswanltd.com

Erica Ariel Fox talks to Patrick about how we can draw our four bits of intelligence, the importance of moving from limiting beliefs to liberating beliefs, and the need to rethink our leadership blind spots. Erica is a lecturer at Harvard Law School where she has taught for over 20 years. Her first book is the New York Times bestseller Winning From Within. She is a Senior Contributor for Forbes and a trusted advisor to CEOs worldwide. Learn more about Erica’s work at www.EricaArielFox.com

Andrew East is a rare combination. He’s an NFL athlete, content creator, and entrepreneur. Along with his wife, Olympic gold medal gymnast Shawn Johnson, Andrew creates family-friendly content, tackles tough challenges for worthy causes, and works to live out his purpose. Patrick and Andrew discuss leadership lessons including pivoting when things don’t go as planned, living out your purpose in unexpected ways, and enjoying the journey. Learn about Andrew and enjoy his content at: YouTube Channel, FamilyMade Media: https://www.youtube.com/user/andrewdeaneast Facebook Live-streaming: https://www.facebook.com/andrewdeast LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-east-771a714a/

Erica Keswin joins Patrick in the Leadership Lab to discuss how to attract, engage, and retain top talent. With two Wall Street Journal bestselling books to her credit, Erica shares how teams and organizations create rituals that foster engagement and create a human-centric workplace. Learn more about Erica and her work at https://ericakeswin.com. While you are there, be sure to check out her two books, Rituals Roadmap and Bring Your Human to Work.

Hitendra Wadhwa joins Patrick in the Leadership Lab to discuss success in life and leadership. Hitendra is a Professor at Columbia Business School and the Founder of the Mentora Institute. His simple yet profound insight that success in life and leadership originates from within has led to the training and transformation of thousands of executives worldwide. Much of the discussion focuses on his new book Inner Mastery, Outer Impact. Here’s a short exert from the book: “All of us hunger for success, but struggle to balance the drumroll of the world with the beat of our own heart. Some of us pursue Outer Success, wanting to be liked and loved, lauded and rewarded. But in our quest for worldly glory, we may ignore the subtle stirring of our heart, waking up one day to realize just how far we have drifted from our personal ideals.” Learn more about Hitendra’s work at www.hitendra.com

The world’s bestselling author, James Patterson, talks to Patrick about the importance of trusting your gut, peeking through doors, and taking action when you hear that Whoosh, Whoosh, Whoosh sound. Gain insights into how a boy from small-town New York becomes the world’s most successful writer. Listen to this podcast and then pick up a copy of his memoir James Patterson by James Patterson. James Patterson is the world’s bestselling author. His enduring fictional characters and series include Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Michael Bennett, Maximum Ride, Middle School, and Ali Cross, along with such acclaimed works of narrative nonfiction as Walk in My Combat Boots, E.R. Nurses, and his autobiography, James Patterson by James Patterson. Bill Clinton (The President Is Missing) and Dolly Parton (Run, Rose, Run) are among his notable literary collaborators. For his prodigious imagination and championship of literacy in America, Patterson was awarded the 2019 National Humanities Medal. The National Book Foundation presented him with the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community, and he is also the recipient of an Edgar Award and nine Emmy Awards. He lives in Florida with his family.

If you are looking to effectively influence others in positive ways, listen to this conversation with René Rodriguez. Patrick and René discuss human motivators, how to frame and communicate ideas, and the importance of storytelling. For over two decades, René has been researching and applying behavioral neuroscience as a dynamic keynote speaker, leadership advisor, world-class sales expert, and renowned speaker coach. He has also trained more than 100,000 people in applying behavioral psychology and neurology methodologies to solve some of the toughest challenges in leadership, sales, and change. In the episode, I mention a previous interview with Robert Cialdini (episode 14) https://leddingroup.com/episode-14-coming-soon-robert-cialdini/ Learn more about René and his work at https://www.amplifiimylife.com