What's Next! with Tiffani Bova

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am thrilled to bring you an encore of a What's Next! Linked Live episode I recorded earlier this year with the absolutely delightful Bonin Bough! This conversation was high-energy, high-impact, and extremely insightful, so I'm bringing it back as this week's episode of the What's Next! Podcast. Bonin is one of the foremost-awarded marketing executives in the world, the host of CNBC's Cleveland Hustles, and the author of Txt Me (646) 759-1837. As one of the youngest-C-suite executives at a Fortune 50 Company, he has worked for billion-dollar CPG brands including Mondelez and PepsiCo before starting Bonin Ventures - a growth accelerator that helps businesses of all shapes and sizes achieve revenue growth faster than they ever believed possible. He has been responsible for some of the most successful organization transformations, and the rapid growth of some of the world's most-loved billion-dollar brands including Oreo, Cadbury's, Pepsi, Gatorade, and Frito-Lay. Most recently, as the Chief Growth Officer of SheaMoisture, he helped grow the business by close to 50% in 12 months leading to the company being acquired by Unilever for close to $1 billion dollars. He has been inducted into the Advertising Hall of Achievement. He can also be found in lists such as Fortune's "40 under 40", Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business, Ebony's Power 100, and The Internationalist's Internationalists of the Year. THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… everyone! TODAY'S MAIN MESSAGE… Bonin gives us some wonderful insight into his history as one of the most innovative, engaged, and impactful players in the marketing space. As one of the most lauded marketing executives in digital marketing, he explores the exciting impact of digital communication on individuals, companies, and society. In this special episode of the What's Next! Podcast we discuss some of his past work and the effects of COVID-19 on marketing and innovation, as well as what we are doing to support change in our communnities. There are countless lessons to have been and have yet to be learned in this time–from product to employee work/life balance to human rights–and Bonin is here to help us spotlight the opportunities. WHAT I LOVE MOST… Bonin's fantastic energy and drive to push forward and impact change! Running time: 41:53 Subscribe on iTunes Find Tiffani on social: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Find Bonin online: LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube Bonin's Website Txt Me Book

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am excited to welcome Michael Canic to the What's Next Podcast! Michael is the President of Making Strategy Happen, a consulting firm that helps committed leaders turn ambition into strategy, and strategy into reality. For the past 20+ years, he has instituted the structure and discipline of his strategic management system in organizations across North America. Previously, he managed the consulting division at The Atlanta Consulting Group, and prior to that held a leadership role at FedEx. He earned a Ph.D. in the Psychology of Human Performance from the University of British Columbia and is a former national championship-winning college football coach–he is also a member of Marshall Goldsmith's 100 Coaches global initiative. His new book, RUTHLESS CONSISTENCY: How Committed Leaders Execute Strategy, Implement Change and Build Organizations That Win published in September of 2020. THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… leaders and organizations that are taking on too much and need to refocus for success. TODAY'S MAIN MESSAGE… It's easier to say than do...that's why 70-80% of strategic change initiatives fail. So, what can you do? Well, Michael has a few questions for you? Have you developed the right focus - a concise, compelling, clear-focus? Have you created an environment of both engagement and performance where you can capture people's hearts as well as their heads? And importantly, have you built the right team? That's what MichaelCanic is here to talk about. That, and how important it is to be ruthlessly consistent when going about it. WHAT I LOVE MOST… Sometimes we get so enamored with the BIG things that we have to do that we forget the little things, and consistency is one of those "little" things that is key! Running time 28:50 Subscribe on iTunes Find Tiffani on social: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Find Michael online: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Making Strategy Happen Website Ruthless Consistency Book

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am beyond thrilled to be speaking with Dave Smith and Brad Johnson on the What's Next Podcast! David G. Smith, Ph.D., is a professor of sociology in the National Security Affairs Department at the U.S. Naval War College. As a sociologist trained in military sociology and social psychology, he focuses his research on gender, work, and family issues. He is the co-author of Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women along with Brad Johnson. W. Brad Johnson, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology in the Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law at the United States Naval Academy and a faculty associate in the Graduate School of Education at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of thirteen books, including Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women and his newest book, also co-authored with Dave Smith, Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace. THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… men in positions of power and leaders looking to be allies and mentors in the workplace to further workplace gender equity and inclusion. TODAY'S MAIN MESSAGE… Diversity is often looked at as just counting heads without much thought given to how much individuals feel that they are included and included meaningfully. The research is really clear in terms of increased performance, creativity, and innovation, but diversity without thought to real inclusion does not often lead to those outcomes. Good leadership values this and takes it into account. So, how do leaders show that they have this awareness and demonstrate allyship in the workplace? That's what Dave and Brad are all about, and that's what they're sharing with us in this episode! Diversity expands capacity and ability in an organization and creates more opportunities, not less. But to get there, you need to be intentional and set clear objectives. This also applies to mentors and mentorship, and it also applies to workplace culture and how men in positions of power and leadership speak to, with, and about the women in their organizations. Mentorship is the key to creating meaningful change, inclusion, and allyship in an organization. This isn't about white-knighting or rescuing, this is about creating space, stepping back from the spotlight granted by privilege, and intentionally moving the dial on inclusion with that power. WHAT I LOVE MOST… Dave and Brad's mission to create more allyship and inclusivity in the workplace. Running time 35:03 Subscribe on iTunes Find Tiffani on social: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Find Dave and Brad online: Dave Smith's Website Brad Johnson's Website Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace Book Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women Book

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am beyond thrilled to welcome the absolutely lovely Mitzi Perdue to the What's Next Podcast! Mitzi is an author, speaker, and businesswoman. She is the founder of CERES Farms, the second-generation, family-owned, commercial and agricultural real estate investment company that has owned rice fields, commercial and residential real estate, and today the family vineyards sell wine grapes to wineries such as Mondavi, Bogle, Folie a Deux, and Toasted Head. Her talk, Timeless Secrets of Success, comes from observing how her father, co-founder of the Sheraton Hotel Chain, and her late husband, Frank Perdue, each built their companies from no employees to more than 20,000 employees strong! Mitzi is also the Founder and Chair of Win This Fight, a novel approach to combatting human trafficking. PBS has recently filmed a half-hour documentary on the organization. THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… everyone! TODAY'S MAIN MESSAGE… We all crave appreciation and recognition for the hard work we do. We also all desire loyalty… But, in order to receive these, we must first be willing to give that appreciation and loyalty sincerely. Mitzi Perdue shares her story of gratitude, appreciation, and loyalty–based on her own experiences with two titans of business–during a time when we need them most! She also shares the strength of family legacy and how you can build a family business that will stand the test of time, as well as "How to be Up in Down Times!" It's Mitzi's piece of service–in partnership with friend of the show Mark Victor Hansen–to the world in this "down time." WHAT I LOVE MOST… Mitzi's focus on gratitude and the importance of recognizing and rewarding your employees for the value they create for your business and the people your business serves! Running time 30:00 Subscribe on iTunes Find Tiffani on social: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Find Mitzi online: LinkedIn Twitter Mitzi's Website How to Make Your Family Business Last Book How to be UP in Down Times: 40 Tips Book for $4.58! For FREE chapters go to AuntMitzi.com And to contact Mitzi: Mitzi@AuntMitzi.com

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am thrilled to bring you our fifth What's Next! Bonus Episode with the unstoppable Kara Goldin! For this special episode, I'm sharing my recent LinkedIn Live chat with the CEO of Hint Inc. Kara Goldin is the Founder and CEO of Hint Inc., best known for its award-winning Hint water, the leading unsweetened flavored water. She has received numerous accolades, including being named EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 Northern California, one of InStyle's 2019 Badass 50, FastCompany's Most Creative People in Business, WWDBeauty Inc.'s Feel Good Force, and Fortune's Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs. The Huffington Post listed her as one of six disruptors in business, alongside Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. Previously, Kara was VP of Shopping and Ecommerce at America Online where she helped lead the growth of its shopping and ecommerce business to over $1 billion in revenue. She is an active speaker and writer and, in 2017, she launched Unstoppable with Kara Goldin, a podcast where she interviews founders, entrepreneurs, and disruptors across various industries. Kara's first book, Undaunted, is out this month! THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… entrepreneurs, self-starters, women in business, new entrepreneurs looking for their starting point, and those looking to build businesses and brands with a mission! TODAY'S MAIN MESSAGE… Kara shares her journey through health to entrepreneurship and how she saw a need and built an unstoppable brand. So many of us create our own obstacles and barriers to innovate and succeed… Kara is here to prove that you don't have to stand in your own way! As a mother of four children under the age of six, she started one of the most successful beverage brands of all time and kick started her own health journey as well as the journeys of many, many others. In this BONUS episode, Kara walks us through the process from idea to execution and pushing past limiting beliefs and doubters along the way. So, get started! WHAT I LOVE MOST… Kara's unstoppable attitude and undaunted philosophy to create a brand with a mission! Running time: 40:53 Subscribe on iTunes Find Tiffani on social: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Find Kara online: LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Twitter The Kara Goldin Show Podcast Undaunted: Overcoming Doubts and Doubters Book

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am thrilled to welcome Steve Herz to the What's Next Podcast! Steve is President of The Montag Group, a sports and entertainment talent and marketing consultancy. He is also a career advisor to CEOs, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and young professionals. Prior to joining TMG, Steve was the President and Founding Partner of IF Management, an industry leader whose broadcasting division became one of the largest in the space, representing over 200 television and radio personalities. THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… Anyone looking to improve their non-verbal communication. TODAY'S MAIN MESSAGE… Steve breaks down the importance of body language, voice, and energy on the impressions you make! We discuss the influence of and interaction created by your body language, the often forgotten but highly influential nuances in your voice that make or break a conversation (or keynote), the undeniable influence of your energy and how you modulate your energy, and how we identify our bad habits. As Steve puts it, inflection is infection–with the right signals and energy you can infect others with your enthusiasm! Steve also helps us identify our bad habits and figure out how we can change them into good habits that will work for us instead of against us. He uses Steve Jobs as the ultimate case study and gets to the nitty-gritty of how we are perceived to be in terms of skill and competence and how we can influence that for the better. WHAT I LOVE MOST… We had such a great conversation about authority, warmth, connection, and the kinetic relationships you develop with people, that we did not even get to discuss his book! Running time 32:00 Subscribe on iTunes Find Tiffani on social: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Find Steve online: LinkedIn Twitter Steve's Website Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Using Authority, Warmth, and Energy to Get Exceptional Results Book

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am thrilled to bring you our fourth What's Next! Bonus Episode with the wonderful Roger Martin! For this special episode, I'm sharing my recent LinkedIn Live chat with my friend Roger. In 2017, Roger was named the world's #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers. He is a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of companies worldwide including Procter & Gamble, Lego, and Ford. He is also a Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto where he served as Dean from 1998-2013, Academic Director of the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship from 2004-2019 and Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute from 2013-2019. In 2013, he was named global Dean of the Year by the leading business school website, Poets & Quants. His newest book is When More is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency. THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR…Leaders looking to find a productive balance between purpose and profits. TODAY'S MAIN MESSAGE… Roger and I discuss his new book and the history of American economics. For the first 200 years of the American economy, we witnessed a truly impressive performance and the economic life of the average American family got better. But, in recent decades, growth in the economic prosperity of the average family in America has slowed to a crawl. At the same time, the prosperity of America's richest families has grown to a level never seen before. This combination of the stagnation of the average family and the enrichment of the richest Americans threatens American democratic capitalism. Roger provides a unique viewpoint on what has changed and why the helpful pursuit of efficiency has turned into a damaging obsession. He also begins to lay out how to bring about more productive balance. WHAT I LOVE MOST… Getting the opportunity to talk to Roger about a phenomenon that has become more apparent than ever in recent months! Running time: 42:04 Subscribe on iTunes Find Tiffani on social: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Find Roger online: LinkedIn Twitter When More is Not Better Book

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am thrilled to welcome Stephen Shedletsky to the What's Next Podcast! Stephen leads Brand Experience and lead igniter at Simon Sinek, Inc. He ensures that every product, partnership, and communication reflect the organization's most deeply-held beliefs. As an Igniter himself, Stephen is first in line to support those who seek to discover, articulate, and bring their WHY to life. With a knack for sharing the right words at the right moment, he delivers evidence-based content in a provocative, captivating, and light-hearted way. Stephen joined Simon Sinek's team in 2012, answering fan email. THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… anyone looking to be inspired, find their "why," and pivot themselves and/or their businesses into a purpose-driven, fulfilling venture in this strange new world! TODAY'S MAIN MESSAGE… Stephen is all about inspiring people to live their purpose and live more fulfilled life. It's very powerful when you can move around and through your purpose, or your vision of what you are trying to create! Earlier this year, the world seemed to change overnight… and suddenly we all needed to pivot rapidly. Stephen and the team at Simon Sinek immediately took to their task of creating–and helping others create–a safer, more inspired, and more fulfilled world in a NEW way. Like the rest of us, they knew they needed to reinvent themselves, their jobs, and their business models… Stephen explains that it wasn't, and shouldn't be, about individual credit. It's all about improvement and cooperation. He also breaks down some of the work he and others are doing at Simon Sinek to help others jumpstart their "why" and articulate their purpose, identify the difference between confidence and arrogance, and internalize the power and process of the pivot! He also dives into finite vs infinite and which side the "game of business" falls. WHAT I LOVE MOST… It's not just about pivoting your company, but pivoting yourself and it's not a game of credit, it's a game of improvement! Running time: 33:34 Subscribe on iTunes Find Tiffani on social: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Find Stephen online: LinkedIn Twitter Simon Sinek Resources: https://simonsinek.com/ https://simonsinek.com/InspireU

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am thrilled to welcome Jim McKelvey to the What's Next Podcast! Jim is a serial entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, artist, and author of The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time. He's the co-founder of Square and served as the chairman of its board until 2010, and still serves on the board of directors. In 2011, his iconic card reader design was inducted into the Museum of Modern Art. Jim also founded Invisibly, an ambitious project to rewire the economics of online content. In 2016, he became a deputy chair of the St. Louis Federal Reserve. THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… budding entrepreneurs and those who never saw themselves as the fabled "entrepreneurial type." TODAY'S MAIN MESSAGE… Jim shares his own history with and relationship to entrepreneurship, as well as the process of writing his exciting new book The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time! Jim knows what it's like to get excited about problems that need to be solved–like the genesis of Square. He takes this time with the What's Next! audience to demystify the "myth of the entrepreneur" and drive home that it's not just okay, but normal, to not necessarily be "qualified" to innovate. By definition, no one is yet qualified to do what hasn't been done! If you're doing something new you don't get to copy, and you don't necessarily get to feel qualified. Your awareness of timing is also huge, you can do the "right thing" at the wrong time and get a terrible result. You don't get a guarantee, so get comfortable with discomfort and stop worrying about being the most "qualified." Focus on the problem and fix through the fear! WHAT I LOVE MOST… His perspective and his bias for copying and competence. There's no time to waste! Running time: 35:40 Subscribe on iTunes Find Tiffani on social: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Find Jim online: LinkedIn Twitter The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am excited to welcome Alison McCauley to the What's Next Podcast! Alison is the founder and CEO of Unblocked Future, a firm that helps organizations pushing the frontier of emerging technology to communicate vision, build ecosystems, and go to market. Alison is also the best-selling author of Unblocked: How Blockchains Will Change Your Business, and a frequent keynote speaker about the impact of emerging technology on our lives and our world. THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… anyone working on or interested in data science and analytics or blockchain technology and anyone intimidated by it and seeking to learn! TODAY'S MAIN MESSAGE… We've seen a dramatic breakdown in supply chains during this time and this pandemic… In this episode, Alison McCauley breaks down emerging technologies in a way that informs the laymen and the savvy professional alike. She discusses the reshaping of the ways in which we conduct business, supply chains, selling and marketing, even cybersecurity and bringing humanity to tech, and (of course) blockchain! According to Alison, blockchain can provide hugely beneficial transparency and visibility when you have competing interests all touching the same ecosystems, and simplify otherwise unnecessarily convoluted processes. WHAT I LOVE MOST… Alison's Protopian viewpoint of technology and her enthusiasm for human-focused design in tech! Running time: 29:11 Subscribe on iTunes Find Tiffani on social: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Find Alison online: LinkedIn Twitter Unblocked: How Blockchains Will Change Your Business