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  • Ep 65 – Jeffrey Pfeffer, Professor at Stanford: What Leaders Should Care About Most

    Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

    SHOW NOTES:

    Jeffrey Pfeffer is Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford Business School. A year ago on 97% Effective, I discussed with Jeff his best-selling book, the 7 Rules of Power (HERE: https://tinyurl.com/3y56bzcz). In this episode, we go beyond his book, and get personal: We cover double-binds, intergender comparisons, leadership and likeability – and how Jeff’s views on power have shifted over the past four decades. An honor to ask Jeff tough questions and expose more people to his thought-provoking work that challenges prevailing leadership advice -- and has shaped my own thinking and executive coaching practice.

    • Two problems with the existing research literature on double-binds: Reward-interdependence and intergender comparisons
    • Projecting and Acting…Fake it until you become it
    • “Practice and Get Coaching”
    • Two critical points to keep in mind as you rise as a leader (Machiavelli’s important insight that people forget)
    • A lot of power is generated positionally
    • Being liked vs. your responsibility as a leader
    • Michael’s “zoom out” question: Where Jeff’s views on power, over his career, have most shifted
    • Warmth vs competence
    • Two book recommendations
    • Comments on the replication crisis in the social sciences

     

    BIO AND LINKS:

    Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business where he has taught since 1979. He is the author or co-author of 16 books including his latest, the 7 Rules of Power. Jeffrey Pfeffer has published extensively in the fields of organization theory and human resource management. His current research focuses on the effects of work environments on human health and well-being, power and leadership in organizations, evidence-based management, the knowing-doing gap, and how thinking of time like money affects people’s choices about spending time in ways that promote unhappiness.



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    19m | Dec 6, 2023
  • Ep 64 - Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach – What You’re Missing in Your PIE: Keys to Getting Ahead at Work

    Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

    SHOW NOTES:

    Why is doing great work not enough to advance your career? Are you paying enough attention to all parts of your “PIE”? In this short episode, Michael helps you re-examine your PIE, sharing the thinking and actions that will disproportionately drive promotions, bigger bonuses – and your power and influence at work.

    • Performance and PIE
    • Think about yourself as a product
    • Does this mean I should stop doing great work?
    • Why organizations are different than school and many sports
    • 3 “sad but true” research findings that reveal who gets credit, and who gets picked
    • Insight on perception from photographer Richard Waine: “You’re professional headshot is not about you.”
    • Flip the script: how do others see you?
    • “I” = Image
    • The definition of brand and a quick exercise to uncover your brand
    • A warning from executive coach Anne Marie Segal about typecasting – and the leap you need to make
    • How are you showing up?
    • “E” = Exposure, which can come in many ways
    • How award-winning speaker Alex Tremble did two things to catapult his early rise in the Federal Government
    • Exposure in a remote world
    • Do you need to make radical shifts?
    • If you don’t manage your Image and Exposure, what’s likely to happen

     

    BIO AND LINKS:

    Michael Wenderoth is an Executive Coach that helps executives re-examine their assumptions about power, politics, and authenticity to get promoted, become more effective at work, and break glass ceilings holding them back. Having served 20 years in senior roles with companies across the globe, and then 7 years as a professional coach, he has helped accelerated the careers of clients from diverse industries, backgrounds, and levels of seniority, helping them get ahead – without having to sell their souls in the process. Michael is the award-winning author of Get Promoted, host of the 97% Effective career acceleration podcast, and a frequent speaker and media contributor on career advancement, leadership and navigating power and politics. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Stanford Business School Executive Education and IE Business School, where he collaborates with renowned professors, coaches, executives and experts. Michael holds an MBA from Stanford and trained as an executive coach at Columbia University (3CP).



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    14m | Nov 29, 2023
  • Ep 63 - Jakub Kocinski, Expert in Digital Trust & Safety (Former Google, Tik Tok and Meta): “Trust & Safety” Strategies That Will Boost You At Work

    Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

    SHOW NOTES:

    How do you avoid living in an echo chamber, deal with someone who has more influence, and prevent others from sowing misinformation? In this continuation episode, Michael and Jakub (Kuba) Kocinski debate how Jakub’s trust and safety insights can be applied to improving organizations, work relationships and careers. Jakub shares why things are not spiraling out of control, what Tik Tok is great at – and how to adapt to new technology. We end on Jakub’s definition of success, and how he has “adapted without losing himself” to life and work in the U.S.A.

    • Previous episode (Part 1) with Jakub: https://tinyurl.com/2ezpdx8h
    • The #1 thing we can learn from bad actors
    • “Things are not spiraling out of control” – Why Jakub is optimistic
    • Deal with bad actors daily? Best practices on taking care of yourself at work
    • Discussion #1: Trust and safety applied to your career: How to manage someone more powerful and influential, when you have less voice?
    • Truth: People want to hear things that align with their worldview
    • Solution from Tik Tok? “Sparse and interject different types of content”
    • Solution from Twitter? “Birdwatch” to allow crowdsourced fact checking
    • Discussion #2: Trust and safety applied to your career: How to prevent the sowing of misinformation?
    • Solution? Yellow and red cards..but where do you cross the line?
    • Solution? Communicating and building strong relationships
    • Mastering communication in the Tik Tok era
    • How he adapts without losing himself – and a practical way to assesses a new employer
    • Jakub at Tik Tok: The backlash he got from Silicon Valley peers
    • How Jakub defines success – and what he means when he says he is “still very European”
    • Jakub on his “controlled midlife moment”


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    34m | Nov 22, 2023
  • Ep 62 - Jakub Kocinski, Expert in Digital Trust & Safety (Former Google, Tik Tok and Meta): How to Combat “Bad Actors” – Insights from a Trust & Safety Expert

    Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

    SHOW NOTES:

    What can we learn from a trust and safety expert about creating better workplaces and navigating our careers? In this episode, Jakub (Kuba) Kocinski shares his path from communist Poland to leading digital trust and safety in Silicon Valley for Google, Bytedance (Tik Tok), and Meta. Listen to how the world’s best seek to prevent harm and deter “bad actors.”

    • The two words that most resonate with today’s youth
    • Jakub’s journey from growing up in communist Poland to leading in trust and safety in Silicon Valley
    • Keys to his career moves: On mentors and building out a “set of specialists” in your network
    • Want to get promoted? How to advocate for yourself
    • The mandate of “trust and safety” at a tech company
    • The triangle structure – and the immense power that comes from controlling the top of the pyramid.
    • Is it easy to detect misinformation and bad actors?
    • Dealing with misinformation
    • The top strategies used by bad actors
    • Important tools: Incident trend analysis, third party intelligence and building internal red teams
    • Can a community police itself? One company model worth studying

     

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    29m | Nov 15, 2023
  • Ep 61 - Martin Young, Managing Director at M3 Partners – Finding the Moral Center: A Wall Street Executive On Turnarounds, Leadership and his Work as a Military Chaplain

    Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

     SHOW NOTES:

    Martin Young, Managing Director at M3 Partners, explains what turnaround and restructuring experts do – and how his training as a military chaplain has served him and his work on Wall Street. We discuss: thinking in terms of best interests, understanding organizational behavior through the theological concept of total depravity, how a chaplain approaches contentious situations – and the misunderstood paradigm between communication and being effective.

    • How Martin’s religious side emerged
    • How his theological training and military service shaped his worldview – and connect to his Wall Street job
    • The US Constitution on bankruptcy and the idea of a fresh start
    • How Marty defines power: formal and informal
    • Thinking in terms of “the best interest” tests
    • Is the restructuring world all about brutal cost cuts and layoffs?
    • The two core things that turnaround professionals look at
    • Income Statements and Balance Sheets, Turnarounds vs Restructuring
    • Managing constituencies who have influence & navigating egos and politics: The first thing you need to do
    • Triangulate to the core, shed and thinking it terms of a bankruptcy paradigm
    • The grey areas create the most contention
    • Looking at organizations through the theological lense of “total depravity”
    • Forcing a process upon people where they actually have to do things that are in their best interest
    • How his chaplain training helps him when advising executives and companies
    • Going into contentious meetings, what Marty does to stay self-controlled, be able to listen and understand other perspectives
    • How to share bad news without pissing off the CEO
    • What are people’s anchors?
    • “Leadership is identifying a problem with a moral center that people can get behind and want to solve”
    • The “Theology -> Ethics -> Leadership” progression that is sadly being lost
    • The basic issues we all struggle with
    • The misunderstood paradigm around communication and being effective

     

    BIO AND LINKS:

    Marty Young is a globally recognized restructuring, turnaround, performance improvement and investment banking professional and executive with over 25 years of financial and operational experience in addressing over 75 special situation investments. He is a Managing Director at M-3 Partners, a top Wall Street boutique restructuring advisory and investment firm, serves on the Advisory Board of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering of Georgia Tech, and has held executive roles with Noragh Analytics, Young Broadcasting, Best Textiles and most recently as CEO of Buckle, an innovative insurance company that serves the shared economy. Marty has been globally recognized by the Turnaround Management Association, Turnaround and Workouts, and the Global M&A Network, including being named one of the Top 100 Restructuring Professionals. Marty is a West Point graduate and served as an Officer in the U.S. Army Infantry, earned an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business and an MS in Operations Research from Georgia Tech, and trained at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, from which he holds a Masters of Divinity, Masters of Theology (Biblical Theology), and Doctorate of Ministry in Workplace Theology, Ethics and Leadership. Marty serves as a Chaplain in the Delaware National and is a graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College.

     



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    35m | Nov 8, 2023
  • EP 60 – Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: The Rock, the Map & the Snowball – Take These 3 Steps to Get Promoted

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     SHOW NOTES:

     It's that time again: Promotions are being decided, and the path for the next year is being determined. Do you want to be in the driver’s seat, or frustrated that you got passed over? Does it feel like some of your peers operate by a playbook that you never got? In this short episode, Michael shares “The Rock the Map and the Snowball”, a 3-step framework to help you Get Real, Get Strategic and Get Doing – so you Get Promoted. In each step, he offers one question to ask yourself, and one action – so you get moving in the right direction.

    •  Step #1, The Rock: Better to build your strategies on truths and evidence, not comforting fantasies
    • In organizations, the hard truth about who promotes us
    • Can’t articulate how the promotion process works in your organization? Then you need to this.
    • What is your organization promoting (vs saying it promotes)? Find out through this short exercise.
    • What’s holding you back? Kara Williams, Partner at Credera, shares what held her back.
    • All progress starts by doing this.
    • Step #2, The Map: What good is knowing north if you don’t assess the landscape?
    • Why you should first ask “Who?”
    • Peter Belmi, Professor at Darden: Your job is to find the right people!
    • How a frank talk with his boss got my client out of daydream mode and into the leadership program
    • How are you spending your time?
    • Step #3, The Snowball: Nothing happens unless something moves
    • Are you waiting for the stars to totally align?
    • Doing vs Thinking
    • Gorick Ng, Harvard Career Advisor and Author “The Unspoken Rules”: The #1 career limiting move
    • The value of being uncomfortable
    • 3 Questions, 3 Actions

     

    BIO AND LINKS:

     Michael Wenderoth is an Executive Coach that helps executives re-examine their assumptions about power, politics, and authenticity to get promoted, become more effective at work, and break glass ceilings holding them back. Having served 20 years in senior roles with companies across the globe, and then 7 years as a professional coach, he has helped accelerated the careers of clients from diverse industries, backgrounds, and levels of seniority, helping them get ahead – without having to sell their souls in the process. Michael is the award-winning author of Get Promoted, host of the 97% Effective career acceleration podcast, and a frequent speaker and media contributor on career advancement, leadership and navigating power and politics. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Stanford Business School Executive Education and IE Business School, where he collaborates with renowned professors, coaches, executives and experts. Michael holds an MBA from Stanford and trained as an executive coach at Columbia University (3CP).



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    17m | Nov 1, 2023
  • Ep 59 - Samia Qamar, Director People (S&P Global Pakistan) – The Keys to Your Rise: Lead with Generosity and Think Win-Win

    Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

     SHOW NOTES:

     Life is not fair, so why do we pretend that it is? Samia Qamar, Director People at S&P Global Pakistan, shares how hard work and educational degrees might be necessary – but are not sufficient – to accelerating your career and impact. She shares how a mid-career meeting in Dubai dramatically shifted her trajectory, encouraging her to surround herself with the right people, speak her mind, and take risks. Listen for inspiration and to pick up practical tips on how to self-advocate and create win-win scenarios. Samia has been named one of South Asia’s Top 100 Power Women, and was inducted to the WAW Hall of Fame.

    •  The extra-ordinary story of an ordinary woman
    • “Degrees don’t help people in the practical world”
    • A mentor’s advice in Dubai that shifted her trajectory
    • Why you should ask
    • “The flywheel effect”
    • The special sauce at S&P: Putting people first
    • How Samia practically applies career-accelerating advice
    • Reframing feedback and articulating your self-development goals
    • Don't wait for the role – do this instead
    • The power of thinking win-win
    • Plant the seeds early
    • Why Asians and women need to speak up and self-advocate, particularly in Western multinationals
    • Cutting “second-order” details: How Samia dramatically improved her presence and public speaking
    • Top People Trends on Samia’s radar
    • Samia’s networking tips: make a list, offer support, be a connector – and create a Thanksgiving Day tradition

     

    BIO AND LINKS:

     Samia Qamar is a Pakistani citizen with more than 16 years of rich experience in human resources across leading companies in healthcare, management consultancy, hospitality and financial services. As Director People at S&P Global, she works as a trusted partner for business. Her purpose is nurturing talent for scalable business and a sustainable planet, and she has an innate passion for philanthropy through community outreach. Samia has been listed as one of South Asia’s Top 100 Power Women (2022), inducted to the WAW Hall Of Fame (2021) and Global Library of Female Authors (2020), recognized by the Women Economic Forum as “Exceptional Woman of Excellence” in Cairo (2020), and appointed as Global Goodwill Ambassador for Pakistan (2019). Samia is member of the LEAD Alumni community at the Stanford GSB.



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    39m | Oct 25, 2023
  • EP 58 – Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach and Award-Winning Author: 6 Hard Truths – Celebrating 1 Year of 97% Effective!

    Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

     SHOW NOTES:

     To mark the first anniversary of 97% Effective, host Michael Wenderoth highlights memorable moments from the more than 52 guests he’s interviewed. He shares 6 “hard truth” clips about accelerating our careers that most of us would rather avoid. May these provide bite-size fuel to challenge your thinking, embody the show’s goal to dispense with feel-good happy talk – and speak instead to what it really takes for good people to get ahead. He ends with a sneak peek at what’s coming in year two. Enjoy.

    • The singular goal and focus of 97% Effective
    • Political Skills: Giselle Timmerman on “positive manipulation”
    • Networks: Michael Melcher on your feelings and building effective relationships
    • Visibility and Brand: Lisa Bragg on coming to terms with self-promotion
    • Executive Presence and Communication: Professor Don Moore on artfully and honestly delivering with confidence – when inside you’re actually not
    • Confronting our deepest fears about leadership: Words of wisdom from Ron Carucci and Professor Maggie Neale
    • What’s ahead of 97% Effective
    • Thanks

     

    BIO AND LINKS:

    Michael Wenderoth is an Executive Coach that helps executives re-examine their assumptions about power, politics, and authenticity to get promoted, become more effective at work, and break glass ceilings holding them back. Having served 20 years in senior roles with companies across the globe, and then 7 years as a professional coach, he has helped accelerated the careers of clients from diverse industries, backgrounds, and levels of seniority, helping them get ahead – without having to sell their souls in the process. Michael is the award-winning author of Get Promoted, host of the 97% Effective career acceleration podcast, and a frequent speaker and media contributor on career advancement, leadership and navigating power and politics. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Stanford Business School Executive Education and IE Business School, where he collaborates with renowned professors, coaches, executives and experts. Michael holds an MBA from Stanford and trained as an executive coach at Columbia University (3CP).



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    17m | Oct 18, 2023
  • Ep 57 - Chris Fenning, Award-Winning Author of Effective Emails -- How To Write Effective Emails: A Communications Expert vs ChatGPT

    Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

     SHOW NOTES:

     Chris Fenning, award-winning author of Effective Emails, wants e-mail to stop being such a time sink, and help you write ones that get to the point, and get results. In this episode, Chris analyzes and rewrites two e-mails, which Michael also runs through ChatGPT. You assess the difference – but listen closely to Chris’s thought-provoking critique. When it comes to communicating clearly and concisely, the hard truth is that there’s a lot on the line: Business e-mails suck up more than 2 hours a day, and poor communication is one of the top reasons people don't get promoted.

    • Isn’t e-mail dead? Why Chris wrote his book.
    • How being clear, concise and organized will help you in all your communication.
    • A key difference between written and spoken communication
    • Keys: Structure, introduction and framing
    • The evidence and research that backs his recommendations
    • Tip #1: The surprising benefit of adding “white space”
    • Tip #2: “Short and brief” improves response rate and retention by 60%
    • When to use e-mail – and when NOT to use e-mail
    • Tip #3: Audit your last 5 emails
    • Case Study#1: Chris analyzes a dense, info-rich email (for copies of the Before-After, visit: https://changwenderoth.com/podcast/)
    • Tip #1: Lots of text will cause people to put your email aside for later.. or never
    • Tip #2: Instead of long URL’s, do this instead
    • Tip #3: Pick one powerful point! (Beware of cognitive overload)
    • Tip #4: Subject lines: When you read it, do you know what it’s about – and why you need to open it?”
    • Tip #5: A lot of information is ok, but the key is how you structure it and highlight it
    • Tip #6: Requests and actions: make them stand out by doing 2 things
    • Tip #7: Summarize and be explicit at the beginning (Don’t bury the lede!)
    • Tip #8: Add white space to mark where the message ends, and the info begins
    • Tip #9: Provide structure with headings, and put info in small chunks
    • THE TOP TAKEAWAY FROM CASE #1 (Because no one reads a long e-mail)
    • Case #2: Chris analyzes an email between an assistant and their boss (for copies of the Before-After, visit: https://changwenderoth.com/podcast/)
    • Tip #1: Subject lines should address topic AND purpose: What are they supposed to do with the message?
    • Tip #2: Make it easy for the other person to avoid ambiguity and unintentional problems
    • Tip #3: When to write separate emails, instead of just one
    • Tip #4: If there’s a deadline or time frame, highlight it!
    • Tip #5: Be consistent with your structure and highlights
    • How to prevent “whack a mole” e-mails that multiply
    • You be the judge: Michael compares Chris’s rewrite vs a ChatGPT rewrite
    • Chris’s thought-provoking critique of ChatGPT’s workmanship.
    • Making your e-mail effective always come back to this one thing
    • Michael’s half-serious musing: How to rewrite the prompt in ChatGPT, to make the e-mail rewrite better?
    • Chris’s personal bugbear: never do this when you forward an e-mail!

     

    BIO AND LINKS:

     Chris Fenning is on a mission to help make communication less painful. Through his books, keynotes and training programs, he helps technical and business professionals communicate clearly – and get results. His award-winning books (The First Minute and Effective Mails: How to Start Conversations That Get Results; and Effective E-mails: The Secret to Straightforward Communication at Work) show you how to be concise, step by step. His insights draw from tens of thousands of conversations, decades leading technical and business teams across the world, and training individuals and teams from start-ups to Fortune 50 companies. He occasionally uses ChatGPT.

     



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    54m | Oct 11, 2023
  • Ep 56 - Don Moore, Professor at the Haas School of Business: Expand your influence through “Decision Leadership”

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     SHOW NOTES:

     What if leadership did not require changing hearts and minds? What if you could make a big impact by making small adjustments that lead people to make better decisions, which created better outcomes? In this episode, I speak with decision-making and leadership expert Don Moore, Professor and Associate Dean at the Haas School of Business, about his latest book, Decision Leadership: Empowering Others to Make Better Choices. Don is on a mission to expand how we think of leadership. We discuss when to deliberate vs rely on intuition, how to get quality advice from experts, and ways to create more ethical organizations. It’s not all happy talk: He lays the smack down on Malcolm Gladwell and cautions against the downsides that his field may unwittingly produce.


    • Behavioral economics 101: major advancements since the field emerged in the 1990s
    • Why he wrote his new book
    • 3 “non-traditional acts” that Don argues should be included in the field of leadership
    • How his message has been received by leadership scholars
    • The upside – and risks -- of simple, cheap behavioral science interventions (example of overstated results with “belongingness interventions”)
    • Skeptical? Run more experiments (and how to do them properly)!
    • Be skeptical of grandiose claims – and make bets through “contingent contracts”
    • The smackdown-breakdown on the usefulness of intuition, popularized in Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller, Blink.
    • The value of deliberation
    • The strengths of algorithmic models – and how are they trained
    • Mobs vs Crowds: How to get advice from others, without amplifying overestimation
    • The role leaders play setting – and designing -- the ethical tone
    • Don’s next inspiring challenge: “You can’t pick the moment when greatness calls”
    •  

    BIO AND LINKS:

     

    Don Moore is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and holds the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Carleton College and his Ph.D. in Organization Behavior from Northwestern University. His research interests include overconfidence, including when people think they are better than they actually are, when people think they are better than others, and when people are too sure they know the truth. His research has appeared in popular press outlets and academic journals, from Psychological Review to Harvard Business Review. Don is the author, with Max Bazerman, of Decision Leadership and the widely used textbook, Judgement in Managerial Decision Making. He teaches popular classes on managing organizations, negotiation, and decision making. He is only occasionally overconfident.

     



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    45m | Oct 4, 2023
  • Ep 55 - Gabor Holch, Author of Dragon Suit -- What You Need to Know About China: The East-West Perspective

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     SHOW NOTES:

     What can we learn from China about leadership, power, and influence? Gabor Holch, intercultural leadership expert who has helped thousands of Western and Chinese leaders, discusses his latest book, Dragon Suit: The Golden Age of Expatriate Lives in China. Gabor busts myths, shares how working in China enhances your leadership, and points to top trends most people overlook. He offers practical ways to engage and learn from the Chinese, which he argues is even more important in a divided world.

    •  “If you don’t come to China, China will come to you”
    • Why Gabor wrote Dragon Suit, and the voices he draws from
    • Did Gabor self-censor?
    • The impact China has had on Gabor’s career
    • It’s a glimpse into the future: What relation do you want with that?
    • The pressure – and benefits – of scale and speed
    • Challenges expats encounter when they return home
    • How Chinese companies found Gabor when he moved back to Europe
    • The trends to keep your eye on
    • Going abroad: Top issues Chinese experience outside China
    • How do we restore trust between the West and China?
    • Building personal bonds and connections: the tool to use
    • What the “exposure index” reveals
    • The shifting nature of “foreigners” in China
    • Optimistic or pessimistic?
    • The stories you don't hear
    • His concern about exchanges drying up
    • Ways to find out what’s really going on in China
    • What we can learn about power and influence from China
    • Does it work, does it get results… Is there a Chinese leadership style?
    • Open your eyes: How China is harnessing technology
    • Understanding China’s social security system as a route to understanding their behavior
    • Tearing up “guanxi”
    • Where China has most changed since he started writing his book
    • How going online shattered “time to prepare culturally” – and how Gabor’s book seeks to remedy that


    BIO AND LINKS:

     Gabor Holch, founder of GM of Campanile Consulting, is an East-West intercultural leadership expert, coach, author and keynote speaker who has served 100+ clients in 30+ countries. An expat since age 4 and China-based since 2002, he is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) in English and Mandarin. Dragon Suit: The golden age of expatriate executives in China is his latest book.



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    48m | Sep 27, 2023
  • Ep 54 - Richard Waine, Professional Headshot Photographer – The Game of Inches: Getting the Professional Headshot That Elevates Your Brand

    Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

     SHOW NOTES:

     How you look matters, much more than we think. And your headshot, on LinkedIn and the web, shapes that critical first impression people form about you. Richard Waine, professional portrait photographer, helps you elevate your personal brand – and makes sure you don’t lose out on job offers, opportunities, or even meeting the love of your life. He takes us through “the game of inches,” by analyzing the before-after headshots of two clients, so you get the headshot – and photographer – that supports and accelerates your personal and professional goals.

    •  Ellen and the power of how you feel
    • Counterintuitive truth: Your headshot is actually NOT about you
    • Considering a headshot? The first thing you should know – and then do
    • Before-After example #1, Lisa. (To see images, visit https://changwenderoth.com/podcast/ )
    • The four tenants Richard uses to start a photo session
    • Striking the visual balance between confidence and approachability
    • Nuances most clients are not aware of, that great headshot photographers address
    • The single most important thing in your photo
    • How Richard crops your headshot to convey information
    • Why Richard favors simple backgrounds
    • Before-After example #2, Michael. (To see images, visit https://changwenderoth.com/podcast/ )
    • The devil is in the details: Examples where Richard removed distracting elements
    • Clothing, makeup, and prep: what matters most in the shooting process
    • Times the client isn’t right
    • Visual conventions that send signals about who you are
    • Does your photographer have a vested interest in your success?
    • Should I get my image photoshopped or manipulated?
    • “A game of inches”: What separates a good headshot photographer from a great one
    • Get on the phone when you want to ensure you’ve got the right headshot photographer
    • Company headshots: the importance of consistent visuals of your team

     

    BIO AND LINKS:

     Richard Waine is a headshot and commercial portrait photographer who serves diverse clients across the Northeastern USA, based out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Born and raised in Queens, New York, he is a graduate of Hofstra University who spent his career in finance – until a YouTube video of the famed Peter Hurley inspired him to shift gears and become a professional headshot photographer. He has never looked back.



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    44m | Sep 20, 2023
  • Ep 53 - Maíra Gracini, LATAM Business Leader and C-Suite Mentor: How to “Get New Oxygen” to Propel Your Career Ascent

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     SHOW NOTES:

     How do you navigate a career in technology – even more so in fast moving, emerging markets? Maíra Gracini, GM Latin America at Atlas and C-Suite mentor of the year at Endeavour, shares how to “get new oxygen” to keep your career moving in the right direction. We discuss how to get out of your comfort zone, shift how you view and talk about yourself, and the unique challenges that women in tech face.

     

    • The impact of growing up in a small city of Sao Paulo State, as the child of public school teachers
    • Early mentors
    • Stay or switch?
    • The first and most important thing you need for career progression
    • The biggest challenge that mid-level managers face
    • Taking advantage of “internal channels”
    • How solving problems is a great way to show your leadership potential
    • The reframe: Is it overselling or sharing information?
    • The big personal and professional awakening – and how Maíra talks about it today
    • “Getting Out of Your Own Way,” a skill Maíra believes more women could use in the workplace
    • “Getting New Oxygen”
    • Affiliations as “hubs” to expand your learning and network
    • Top themes she sees mentoring Latin American leaders
    • The importance of building a “trust circle”
    • Maíra’s “3 Cons” that guide her career

     

    BIO AND LINKS:

     Maíra Gracini is General Manager of Latin America at Atlas, a global technology platform that enables critical people ops, without the need of a local entity. Prior to Atlas, she served in senior marketing roles across Latin America with technology pioneers including Atos, Salesforce and Zendesk. Based in Brazil, Maíra advises startups, angel invests and mentors C-level executives through Endeavour, which named her Mentor of the Year in 2020. Maíra holds a BS in Marketing & Advertising from ESAMC, holds Board Membership Certification through the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance, and got plenty of “new oxygen” through Executive Education at Stanford Business School.

     



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    32m | Sep 13, 2023
  • Ep 52 - Liz Banse, Senior Program Director at Resource Media -- Get Heard and Lead: Embrace a New Approach to Dial Up Your Communications

    Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

     SHOW NOTES:

     Liz Banse, visual storytelling and communications expert at Resource Media, wants you to dial in your ability to be heard, shape conversations and get others to take action. She shares the biggest mistake people (and her clients) make in their presentations, how to test your approach – and the code of ethics to follow. We end with a simple exercise that will ensure the “psychology behind visuals” stays front and center in your communications and leadership toolkit.

    • The biggest mistake most people make presenting
    • Reframing how you go about your work
    • Enragement, engagement and ethical guidelines that Liz follows
    • The one true universal that applies across gender, culture, age.
    • You and I disagree on what visual will work best: how to determine which is better
    • Why bullets (in powerpoint) kill
    • The exercise to make sure visuals hold the place they deserve in your leadership toolkit
    • Reaching Liz, Resource Media and their FREE Visual Storytelling resources

     

    BIO AND LINKS:

     Liz Banse is Senior Program Director of Resource Media, the leading communications firm focused on social change. She is author of Seeing is Believing, A Guide to Visual Storytelling Best Practices, and manages the Visual Story Lab, a Resource Media website that shares cutting edge approaches for issue-oriented visual storytelling. A veteran of Resource Media’s Seattle office since 1999, Liz’s practice areas span communications planning, traditional and online media strategy, opinion research, presentation skills and crisis communications. Before joining Resource Media, Liz worked with MWW/Savitt, where her expertise supported Starbucks and the (former – sniff) Seattle Supersonics. She holds a BA from Carleton College.



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    28m | Sep 6, 2023
  • Ep 51 - Liz Banse, Senior Program Director at Resource Media -- Get Heard and Lead: The 3 Keys to Powering Up your Communication

    Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

     SHOW NOTES:

     How do you get heard, shape conversations, mobilize support, and ultimately get others to take action? Liz Banse shares why pictures -- much more than words – are the key to your communication success. An expert in visual storytelling and strategic communications at Resource Media, Liz breaks down the science and shows how “dialing in” your visual communications will accelerate your career, work and leadership.

    •  The critical pivot Resource Media and Liz made to serve their clients… and how that relates to upping your leadership game.
    • The 3 things you need to be a great visual communicator (technical background is not one of them)
    • What we can learn from National Geographic in how they hire their top photographers.
    • Is visual storytelling more science or art?
    • What does it mean to be beautiful?
    • Presenting: much more than speaking to a room of people
    • Liz’s epiphany on leadership, sitting years back next to pioneer Dennis Hayes
    • Get comfortable with being uncomfortable, and “unlearning” if you want to shift and learn these skills
    • The first question to ask yourself, before assessing what images to use
    • Who has the power, and what do they care about?
    • Liz geeks out on the neuroscience around setting “mental frames” (Key #1: “We are visual first and verbal second.”)
    • The pictorial superiority affect, and how to use words for maximum impact (dual coding “yellow stick notes” theory)
    • Key #2: Decisions are made in the brain’s emotional region
    • Mentors vs Sponsors – and how that ties to using visuals
    • Is that manipulation -- or strategic?
    • Key #3 when choosing your visual: What do you need people to feel to take action?
    • Seeing the “emotional payoff”
    • Liz turns the tables on Michael, asking how he marketed Invisalign


    BIO AND LINKS:

     Liz Banse is Senior Program Director of Resource Media, the leading communications firm focused on social change. She is author of Seeing is Believing, A Guide to Visual Storytelling Best Practices, and manages the Visual Story Lab, a Resource Media website that shares cutting edge approaches for issue-oriented visual storytelling. A veteran of Resource Media’s Seattle office since 1999, Liz’s practice areas span communications planning, traditional and online media strategy, opinion research, presentation skills and crisis communications. Before joining Resource Media, Liz worked with MWW/Savitt, where her expertise supported Starbucks and the (former – sniff) Seattle Supersonics. She holds a BA from Carleton College.



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    48m | Aug 30, 2023
  • Ep 50 - Lisa Bragg, Author of Bragging Rights: How to Purposely Self-Promote, Without Being Obnoxious

    Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

     SHOW NOTES:

     Deep down you agree that speaking about your success is important – but you cringe at the thought of doing so, and can’t bring yourself to doing it. And being humble has cost you key projects, promotions, and more money that you rightly deserve. Enter Lisa Bragg, speaker and author of Bragging Rights. We discuss why self-promotion and bragging is important, how to overcome what holds you back – and practical tips so you are seen and heard. By the end of this episode, you’ll see bragging in a new light, and in your next social media post will surely add the hashtag #Braggingrights.

    •  Michael puts Lisa on the spot: Not 1, but 3 introductions
    • A simple way to think about the goal of your introduction
    • Practical Tip #1: “Present, Past, Future”
    • How to make your introduction crisp, effective – and leapfrog the credibility conversation
    • Tip #2: How Lisa builds comradery, even before she meets people at an event
    • Tip #3: How to make it easy for someone to highlight you
    • Even the best bosses are not always thinking or advocating for you
    • Bragging vs self-aggrandizement
    • How the comparison put-down backfires
    • The impact of giving some people a pass, while and censoring others
    • “Fear + 10%” and how Lisa got over the dilemma of talking about herself
    • The “red thread” that runs through Lisa’s upbringing and career
    • The corrosiveness of being invisible
    • Why we should nurture an environment of bragging and self-promotion, if we want to retain good people
    • Tip #4: Keep a brag sheet
    • Counterintuitive finding from Lisa’s survey: 85% ?!
    • Survey finding: Being humble just not a Canadian thing
    • Fitting in, but also standing out
    • Tip #5: “Think of perfect as 70%”
    • Showing up as a 10 and the importance of first impressions
    • How to asses if your self-promotion work is working – and stay motivated?
    • “Nurture and mature”… but make sure you have a strategy
    • NOT TRUE: “There is no I in team and everyone shares the credit”
    • How orgs are creating cultures of talking about their successes
    • Case study: How one team went from disjointed to a cohesive force, by bragging about their individual and team achievements
    • Tip #6: from me, me, me to how do we partner, and think win-win?
    • The benefits of putting the spotlight on others

     

    BIO AND LINKS:

     Lisa Bragg is a speaker, advisor, professional mentor, founder of MediaFace, and spent years as an award-winning journalist. She helps high-achievers be seen, heard and share their value to the world – and how leaders can help those less visible on their teams do the same. Her book is Bragging Rights: How to Talk about Your Work Using Purposeful Self-Promotion. Lisa is based in Toronto, Canada, where she lives with her husband, daughter and 95 pound dog.



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    43m | Aug 23, 2023
  • Ep 49 - Joe Haslam, Scale-Up Expert and Professor at IE Business School: Learn from “Scale-Ups” To Accelerate Your Career, Impact and Happiness

    Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

     SHOW NOTES:

     Forget start-ups and large corporations -- the more interesting place to work, learn, and grow is at “Scale-Ups,” says Joe Haslam, professor at IE Business School. We discuss why founders get ousted, power as the ability to cast a spell – and other insights from scale-ups that can help you accelerate your career – and impact. Joe is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and Executive Director of the OMP at IE Business School, a top executive education program that guides small and medium-sized business through their massive growth phase.

    •  “Already started 6, going to start 6 more”
    • Start-ups, corporations and that “teenager in the middle” that no one talks about
    • Why scale-ups interest Joe – and are terrific places to work
    • When it comes to scaling, 2 things Joe says that we know *doesn’t* work
    • Joe’s “Scale-up checklist”
    • Why we should work on hard problems
    • Are start-ups and scale-ups devoid of politics? Joe and Michael disagree.
    • Why most founders get ousted
    • Joe’s advice: Have a “minder”, focus on your strengths, be indispensable
    • If you put balls in the back of the net, don’t try to be a goal keeper!
    • Is narcissism a problem with founders and serial entrepreneurs?
    • “Power” in the scale-up world as the ability to cast a spell
    • Technology vs humans –the question we should be asking
    • Joe on soft skills and the need to stand up for yourself
    • Getting rich and making an impact
    • Reaching Joe

     

    BIO AND LINKS:

    Joe Haslam is Professor at IE Business School (Madrid, Spain) and Executive Director of the OMP Owners and Managers Scaleup Program at IE – a best-in-class program for small and medium sized companies that want to scale successfully, and sustainably. Joe founded and scaled multiple startups (including Marrakech and Hot Hotels); invests in, mentors and serves on the board of numerous others, and lectures on scaling. At IE he teaches the popular and highly rated courses “Trillion Dollar Opportunities,” “Scale Up your Startup” and “Scale Up Yourself.” Joe was born in Ireland, holds an MBA from IE Business School, and has lived in Madrid with his family for more than 15 years.



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    24m | Aug 16, 2023
  • Ep 48 - Anne Marie Segal, Author and Founder, Segal Coaching LLC: To Reach Senior Leadership, Why You Need to Take a Step Back

    Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

     SHOW NOTES:

     To reach the C-Suite and Board, you need a robust network, personal brand and interviewing skills. But you also need to “take a step back”, says Anne Marie Segal, Execute Coach and Author. Anne Marie shares why and how this non-intuitive move raises your “inner game” and will accelerate your next career transition. Head of Segal Coaching LLC and a former General Counsel, Anne Marie discusses being “authentic but not transparent,” the upsides of group coaching, and career growth strategies that are “robust enough to eclipse bias -- and get results.”

    •  Lessons from getting canned at age 15
    • Art & Law: the Yin and Yang she brings to Coaching
    • “You can’t [rewire] through telling”: Mentoring vs Coaching
    • Keys to transitioning: Networking, Personal Branding, Mastering the Interview
    • On Networking: “Networks are not static!”
    • On Branding: Beware of Typecasting Yourself
    • On Interviewing: Get more at bats!
    • New updates in the 2nd edition of her book, Mastering the Interview
    • The Keys to “Taking a Step Back”
    • The only question that matters in an interview
    • “Be Authentic, but not Transparent”
    • Self-care
    • Be aware of how you speak, pause and present
    • “Develop strategies that are robust enough to eclipse bias and get results”
    • Tips on forming your Personal Board of Advisors
    • The value of women’s only leadership groups
    • 1-1 vs group coaching
    • How Anne-Marie elevates her own inner game

     

    BIO AND LINKS:

     Anne Marie Segal is an executive coach, writer and the founder of Segal Coaching LLC. She and her team partner with senior and high-potential leaders to accelerate and refine their gravitas, emotional intelligence, personal branding and executive presence. They also draft and assist with resumes, board and professional bios and LinkedIn profiles, with a particular focus on how these key “career marketing documents” tell a concise, compelling and convincing story. Anne Marie is the author of two highly regarded books, and has been quoted by multiple media outlets on the topic of careers. Prior to launching her executive coaching practice, Anne Marie served as VP and Deputy General Counsel to Wexford, a $6B+ private equity and hedge fund advisor, and as a corporate associate at White & Case. She holds a JD from New York University School of Law, a MA from the University of Chicago, and a BA from Loyola University in Chicago.



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    39m | Aug 9, 2023
  • Ep 47 - Gorick Ng, Harvard Career Advisor and Bestselling Author: What You're Not Taught in School - The Unspoken Rules that Accelerate Your Career

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    SHOW NOTES:

     Feel frustrated that classmates or peers at work seem to be operating from a rule book that you never got? Or are you beginning your career, and want to make sure you start it off right? Gorick Ng, Harvard career advisor and bestselling author, is on a mission to help first-generation students and professionals better navigate and accelerate their careers. We discuss his bestselling book, “The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right,” focusing on what you aren’t taught in school – and the critical things you need to know, and do, as you enter the workforce.

    •  The surprising genesis of his book and career: Helping his mom at 14… Why is life so hard?
    • What powers him through his journey
    • The value of sharing your personal story
    • Owning your personal brand framework
    • The surprising way that his book is being used
    • What motivates the next generation.
    • The invisible rubric that we’re evaluated against
    • Your job at work: demonstrate and get into the green zone of “the 3Cs”
    • The keys to propelling yourself at work, in an imperfect world: Self-help and collective help
    • How much should you show your true self, how much do you “adapt”?
    • “First close the knowing gap”
    • Gorick and Michael reflect: What are best practices vs personal preferences?
    • The #1 point you need to master early on -- managing your manager – and some practical tips to do that.
    • Overcoming a cultural deference to authority, if that affects you
    • How to speak up (or not) when you are not totally confident
    • The Career Limiting Move of “self-rejection”
    • Turning anxiety into confidence: Wisdom from the Simpsons
    • Rethink “expertise”
    • How to make sure someone doesn’t steal your work and get credit for it
    • What it takes to succeed in the world of hybrid and remote work
    • Getting to the center of gravity
    • “Running two legs of the same relay race”: Gorick and Michael discuss the parallels in their books

     

    BIO AND LINKS:

    Gorick Ng helps first-generation professionals accelerate their careers. He is a Harvard career advisor, UC Berkeley faculty and author of the Wall Street Journal Bestseller, “The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right.” A first-generation college student from Canada, Gorick is a graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Business School. Prior to becoming a best-selling author and keynote speaker, he worked in investment banking at Credit Suisse, as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, and on education policy with the Toronto School Board.

     



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    51m | Aug 2, 2023
  • Ep 46 - Raj Shiva, Wall Street Professional & Mentor: Embrace the ‘Squiggly Line’ - Secrets to Never Missing an Opportunity

    Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

    SHOW NOTES:

    Raj Shiva oversees market conduct compliance at one of the largest financial firms on Wall Street. A former Fx sales and derivatives trader who grew up in Africa and Asia, she shares her “squiggly” career path, the keys to re-enter the workforce after an absence – and the bold and intentional moves to design the career and life you seek. We discuss how serving in an ERG (Employee Resource Group), volunteering and mentoring can make you better at your job – and accelerate career opportunities. All statements by Raj reflect her personal opinion.

    • Growing up as a "culture vulture" and learning to speak up
    • Choices: How she challenged the safe career trajectory of her conservative Asian background
    • Mechanisms to gain valuable experience early in your career
    • When you need to act: How she got onto the trading desk
    • Advantages of being an outsider, starting on a smaller desk and making mistakes
    • Yes, you have to work harder than other people – but strategies women can use to avoid being shut out of critical organic networking opportunities.
    • Connect & Humanize: Your first few interactions with others should be about this.
    • What happened when Rajalakshmi shortened her name to Raj, a traditionally male name
    • Exercise: Identify your “transferable skills” to manage career gaps
    • Don’t sit around: How Raj started the Harlem junior tutoring tennis program.
    • The value of finding people who look at you in new ways ....
    • We are constantly changing, get your foot in the door – and tell your story
    • Her “concentric circles” exercise
    • “The word women includes the word men” & “Join ERG’s where no one looks like you”
    • How upskilling led to executive education led to her DYC platform on WEAVR
    • How ERGs help you break silos, do your day job better, build new skills -- and discover “mobility opportunities”
    • 2-way flow: The value of reverse mentoring
    • Women and people of color: “You don’t need to do things differently, but you do need to be aware of specific dynamics.”
    • What makes you, you?
    • Never stop learning: Raj’s to do this year, using Michael’s Power Map tool
    • Embrace the squiggly line: Graduated from Stanford Exec Ed the same time her son graduated from Stanford undergrad!

     

    BIO AND LINKS:

    Raj Shiva is a financial markets professional who oversees market conduct compliance at one of the top financial firms in on Wall Street. A former FX and derivatives trader and salesperson who has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, Raj wants you to “never miss an opportunity.” She volunteers, mentors and advises others, particularly women, on how to design their careers. Raj is Founder of the Academic and Creative Engagement (ACE) program at the Harlem Junior Tennis and Education Program; Mentor at the Financial Women’s Association at Baruch College; and member of the leadership team of “Women on the Move,” her bank’s initiative to fuel female ambition and advance financial equality. Raj holds a BA in Mathematics and Economics from St. Stephen’s College; an MBA in Finance from the University of Delhi, and completed executive education at Pace University and Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

     



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    55m | Jul 26, 2023
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