Episode 160: Leslie Ehm: First Time Facilitator Podcast Interview
Leslie Ehm will reach into your soul, pull out your most powerful authentic self, and help release your badass swagger into the waiting world.
Former TV host and advertising Creative Director turned training guru, Leslie Ehm has spent decades travelling the globe with her award-winning company Combustion, working with executives and teams from top organizations like Google, Disney, Pepsico, TD Bank, Uber, HBO, Lenovo, and more. She’s turned technologists into creative forces, bankers into storytellers, and has brought a serious dose of badass-ness to boardrooms everywhere.
Episode 159: How to win friends and influence your online colleagues with Leanne Hughes
Do you rely on your colleagues to provides input and decisions to move a project forward? Do you find that you're constantly chasing people to get things done, and finding it hard to build relationships because you can't catch up with people in person?
Then, this episode is for you.
You’ll find this helpful if you’re:
Having to get people’s time/attention and you’re struggling because they don’t respond to your emails / you don’t have direct authority (you’re influencing / in a dotted line relationship)
Partnering with an organisation to achieve goals, and you need to work with leaders/subject matter experts, but they’re too busy to give you the input you need to move forward.
Episode 158: Facilitating digital change? Prioritise the people, not the tech with Mike Knapp
Mike Knapp believes there is a better way for business owners and leaders to build their businesses and achieve their big goals.
A better way that creates resilient, agile companies. An approach that ties people together through purpose, building amazing teams and excellent places to work. That creates a balance, so everyone has more fun on their journey.
Episode 157: Driving word of mouth marketing through your workshops with Suzi Dafnis
Move over virtual workshops, let’s talk about virtual marathons - more specifically, online events that can span over a couple of days. It’s a different game, with longer interaction, so how do you maintain your energy, and keep your participants wanting more, too?
This week’s guest is the perfect person to answer this question because she’s been running online events since 2007. Her name is Suzi Dafnis, she’s the CEO of HerBusiness, a collaborative online community of women who are growing and scaling a business.
Episode 149: Anyone can use Lego® Serious Play® in their workshops (and here’s how you do it) with Michael Fearne
MIchael Fearne helps clients to break out of the “business as usual” dynamic and be more innovative using the awesome power of Lego® Serious Play®. That’s right Lego + Work = A More Innovative Business.
Episode 148: Using the House of Communication to Create Contrast in Your Workshops with Michael Grinder
Michael Grinder has over 40 years of experience training thousands of groups. Known as the pioneer of nonverbal communication, Michael helps executives and educators assess people more accurately, connect with others more deeply, and build their charisma.
Episode 147: Lecture-breakers and smart tips for virtual summits with Barbi Honeycutt, Ph.D.
She works with professors, instructors, faculty development professionals, instructional designers, graduate students, postdocs, and entrepreneurs who want to design engaging learning experiences.
Whether you're designing your first course or you've been teaching for many years, the resources Barbie shares will help break up your lectures, increase student engagement, and improve learning.
Episode 146: Workshop Design in the Moment (and from your back pocket) with Meg Bolger
Meg Bolger is a facilitator working to create a more beautiful and just world. She's the co-developer of Facilitator Cards, a deck of 60 processing tools for facilitators. Meg is also the co-author of Unlocking the Magic of Facilitation and the co-creator of The Safe Zone Project, a free online resource for creating powerful, effective LGBTQ+ awareness and training workshops.
Episode 145: Activate your attention: How to prime your natural listening and observation skills for meaningful and rich conversations with Marisa Agrasut
As a practitioner, facilitator and enabler, for the last 18 years, Marisa has been working with teams helping them understand, apply and leverage tools, frameworks and methodologies to optimise value creation. From consulting to co-creating, working with Fortune 500 companies to national ministries and non/not-just-for-profits.
Episode 144: Discovering your facilitation home base with Jordan Mendoza
Jordan Mednoza is a sales & training professional with over 25 years experience in sales & marketing and 14 years experience in the Multi-Family Housing industry. In this episode Leanne and Jordan talk about finding your facilitation home base and inspiring people to take action.
Episode 143: How to deliver hybrid workshops (sessions with both in-person and virtual participants) with Leanne Hughes
How do you deliver engaging workshops when 50% of your participants are in-person at your event, and the other 50% are dialling in? Leanne Hughes shares her responses, and answers other listener questions in this live-stream, podcast recording!
Episode 142: Curing decision-making disorders through the craft of consulting with Deb Zahn
Deb Zahn is a sought-after consultant with 10 years of successful consulting under her belt. As a go-to source in her market, she routinely brings in 6- and 7-figures a year and has built a steady, reliable pipeline of work. Her consulting methods turn her clients into her biggest fans and best marketers. They come back to her again and again and continually send her new clients.
Episode 141: Getting you further, faster in career (and in life) with Warren James
Warren James is a Brisbane-based coach and mentor providing online mentoring, coaching and training to some of Australia’s most talented graduates and employees early in their careers.
Today, as the founder of Rapid Mentoring, he partners with businesses across Australia who are genuinely interested in the development of their staff. For the manager who cares, they give your employees the resources they need to take their career and life further, faster.
Episode 140: Ready, Fire, Aim: Co-facilitator reflections from Virtually Possible with Joeri Schilders
Welcome to the coolest virtual facilitation program. Made by facilitators for facilitators, you'll get the tools, skills and confidence to take your virtual facilitation game to the next level.
Episode 139: Activating your strengths to facilitate results in workshops (and in business) with Charlotte Blair
Charlotte works with Individuals, Managers and Teams to work to specific outcomes that can be measured. She helps organisations become Strengths based.
She has been a Gallup Accredited Coach and ICF Coach for over 6 years and is one of Australia's most experienced Coach and Facilitators using Gallup CliftonStrengths Assessment.
She is also a Learning Republic Revolutionary using 'Issues Based' coaching and Leadership development to get a better return on investment for Learning programs to create lasting impact.