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The Challenge of Leadership Transformation with Ken Kilday – Ep. 26

November 14, 2022 by Scott Ritzheimer

In this timely episode, Ken Kilday, Founder and Creator of the Leader’s Cut, reveals the secret to recognizing when it’s time to change the way you lead.
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"Ken is a former executive leader and current full-time Executive Business Coach. He uses the diversity and depth of his leadership experience to help CEOs, Business Owners, and Executives become better leaders, make better decisions, and deliver better results, both personally and professionally.

The Surprising Gift of Doubt with Marc Pitman – Ep. 23

October 30, 2022 by Scott Ritzheimer

In this exceptionally encouraging episode, Marc Pitman, Founder of the Concord Leadership Group, shares how he helps his clients mine for their brilliance within.
 Concord Leadership Group founder Marc A. Pitman, CSP® helps leaders lead their teams with more effectiveness and less stress. Whether it’s through one-on-one coaching of executives, conducting high-engagement trainings, or growing leaders through his ICF-accredited coach certification program, his clients grow in stability and effectiveness. He is the author of The Surprising Gift of Doubt: Use Uncertainty to Become the Exceptional Leader You Are Meant to Be. He’s also the author of Ask Without Fear!® – which has been translated into Dutch, Polish, Spanish, and Mandarin. 

Finding Work-Life Integration with Michael Seaver – Ep. 21

October 27, 2022 by Scott Ritzheimer

In this moving episode Michael Seaver, author of A Practical Guide for Awakening to What’s Within and Finding Work-Life Integration shares how he transformed the pain of his personal story into progress for his clients.

Michael S. Seaver is an award-winning executive coach, leadership consultant, keynote speaker, and author. He’s on a mission to unlock human potential to help people uncover and live their purpose, and live a more meaningful and authentic life. His unique methodology has revolutionized how leaders can live authentically and how organizations engage employees. He offers no-nonsense strategies to help people find confidence in their life’s narrative, commonalities across generations working today, and ways to communicate with emotional intelligence. Michael’s newest book, I Know, is available in print, ebook, and audiobook. For more, visit michaelsseaver.com.

Who is President When You are out Driving the Truck with Jeff Abbott – Ep. 17

October 5, 2022 by Scott Ritzheimer

In this fantastic episode, Jeff Abbott, Principal at Greater Things Consulting shares some of the greatest lessons he’s learned over decades of sustained success working with organizations from the smallest start ups to billion dollar businesses.

Jeff Abbott is a chairperson at Convene. He’s a proven leader, well known in the aircraft and space industry with 25 - plus years of operations experience from the ground floor to President. Jeff is active in his community and also serves as a Convene Chair for dozens of Christian CEOs since 2003 several of them generating annual revenues over $1 billion.

You can learn more about Jeff and Convene at https://www.convenenow.com/jeffabbott

Building the Environment in Which You Can Thrive with Marriot Winquist – Ep. 16

October 5, 2022 by Scott Ritzheimer

In this intriguing episode, Marriot Winquist, Principal Consultant at BrightTree Consulting, shares how she helps leaders take ownership of building the environment in which they can thrive.

 Marriot is a seasoned executive in the technology industry with over 20 years of experience in technical and business leadership roles. She brings a powerful blend of proven results and executive experience along with outstanding coaching and consulting skills to help her clients achieve extraordinary results. Marriot enjoys coaching ambitious leaders to unlock the joy in leadership and create thriving teams, cultures, and organizations.

 Want to learn more about Marriot’s work at BrightTree Consulting? Check out her website at https://www.brighttreeleaders.com/.

You do not exist unless you have an online presence with Paige Arnof-Fenn – Ep. 15

September 27, 2022 by Scott Ritzheimer

In this gold mine of an episode, Paige Arnoff-Fenn, founder and CEO of Mavens & Moguls, shares nugget after nugget after nugget of sounds wisdom for CEOs of companies of all sizes.

She shares the power of focusing on what you do best and building a community of supporters around to to carry everything else.
 Paige Arnof-Fenn is the founder and CEO of Mavens & Moguls, a global branding and digital marketing firm whose clients range from early stage start-up to Fortune 500 companies including Colgate, Virgin, Microsoft and The New York Times Company. She was formerly VP Marketing at Zipcar and VP Marketing at Inc.com. Prior to that she held the title of SVP Marketing at Launch Media, an Internet start-up that was later sold to Yahoo.

Arnof-Fenn has also worked as a special assistant to the chief marketing officer of global marketing at The Coca-Cola Company and held the position of director of the 1996 Olympic Commemorative Coin Program at the Department of Treasury.

Arnof-Fenn is a founding Board member of Women Entrepreneurs in Science & Technology and she is the past Board Chair of the Alumni Board of Stanford University. She was the Appointed Director for Harvard Business School on the Harvard Alumni Association Board, which governs all the schools across the university. She is also the former Vice President of the Harvard Business School Global Alumni Board and the only woman Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Sports Museum at the Boston Garden, is an advisor to several early stage private companies and non profit organizations and is also a 3 time past president of the Stanford Club of New England which serves alumni in a 5 state region. She holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
 Want to learn more about Paige’s work at Mavens and Moguls? Check out her website at www.MavensAndMoguls.com.

When to Exit Your Business with Michael Vann – Ep. 14

September 27, 2022 by Scott Ritzheimer

"In this super-practical episode, Michael demystifies growing and selling your business and provides real-world advice for real owners and their businesses. Michael Vann is the president of the Vann group, a strategic consulting and transactional advisory firm that works with the owners and leadership teams of privately held small/mid-size businesses. He is also the co-author of “Buying Out the Boss: The Successor’s Guide to Succession Planning. He is also a fellow Scale Architect and hails from the northeast! Want to connect with Michael or learn more about his work? Check out his website https://www.vann-group.com or his brilliant book “Buying Out the Boss: The Successor’s Guide to Succession Planning”."
He started his coaching business and this podcast in order to reach founders and celebrate amazing coaches. If you're a seasoned business coach or consultant who is also an entrepreneur and feel you're a great fit for the show, apply here.

Finding and Funding Your Nonprofit Vision with Cherian Koshy – Ep. 12

September 19, 2022 by Scott Ritzheimer

In this vision-packed episode Cherian offers nonprofit leaders a bigger vision for the future AND the path to get there!
 Cherian is the Chief Development Officer for Endowment Partners, LLC, leading the firm's fundraising solutions division. Unique among investment firms, Cherian's division provides consulting services to the firm's clients including feasibility studies, capital campaign counsel, and strategic planning services to grow annual and endowment revenue.

He’s also a Certified Scale Architect and as you would likely guess from his bio focuses his time and energy on helping nonprofits achieve Predictable Success. To find out more about Cherian, visit http://www.cheriankoshy.com, and https://www.endowmentpartners.com to learn more about his exciting work.

Transformation from the Inside Out with Dr. Rosie Ward – Ep. 11

September 12, 2022 by Scott Ritzheimer

In this thought-provoking episode Dr. Rosie Ward takes us to the unavoidable intersection of our personal and professional lives and gives us the power and path to transform our workplaces for the better.

 Dr. Rosie Ward serves as CEO and co-founder of Salveo Partners, LLC, a consulting and professional development firm focused on equipping organizations to find success while putting people back at the forefront of their business. Rosie and her team focus on leveraging The Fusion (which is the inextricable interconnectedness of organizational and employee wellbeing) to help transform workplaces and support people in integrating their personal and professional lives.

 To find out more about Dr. Rosie Ward, visit https://www.drrosieward.com, and https://www.salveopartners.com to learn more about her work.

The Unexpected Route to the Resources You Need with Benj Miller – Ep. 3

August 24, 2022 by Scott Ritzheimer

In this engaging episode, Benj Miller, Co-Founder & Chief Architect of System & Soul, shares how he went from teenage night club owner to accidental entrepreneur to a coach & consultant that helps entrepreneurs build businesses they love. Along the way he discovered the power of and path to achieving clarity and control for your business.
 Benj is a proven entrepreneur who values character, culture and innovation. He founded his first company 17 years ago as the strategist and visionary behind Syrup Marketing , where he has launched hundreds of brands for clients -- and eight additional operating companies of his own.

One constant runs through all that Benj does: he has a passion for creating amazing organizational culture … culture that pours into people; that develops and sustains them.
Notably, he brings that heart to his family, too -- his wife of 21 years and their four amazing kids!

Benj’s coaching journey started with an implementation during a merger of two of his companies. It was such a success that he began coaching all of his other companies. He then went on to create ninety.io, a software platform, authored The Clarity Field Guide, co-hosts the System & Soul Podcast.

In 2021, Benj founded System & Soul. It’s the only operating framework that combines the systems and soul of a business. System & Soul pulls in some of the same systems and principles that have helped businesses run better for decades but has a deeper focus on the Soul of the company… the identity, culture, and people development. Together, these elements are proven to create breakthrough in companies across industries to accelerate growth.
 Want to learn more about Benj's work at System & Soul? Check out his website at www.systemandsoul.com and for a free daily leadership reminder visit the261.com.

Be Our Guest!

August 1, 2022 by Scott Ritzheimer

Scale Architects, founder, CEO and Secrets of the High-Demand Coach podcast host Scott Ritzheimer has helped start nearly 20,000 new businesses and nonprofits. He has done countless speaking events all across the country and has been dozens podcast guest appearances himself. In the very first week, the Secrets of the High-Demand Coach podcast hit that Apple Top …

Is Your Organization Innovative? Or Is It Just You? – Part 3

May 24, 2022 by Scott Ritzheimer

The most tempting strategy for most leaders is to do more of what we're already doing and do it better. That same strategy will suffocate even the best innovators if we aren't careful. So how do we protect innovation from process and use process to scale up innovation?