A SEAT at THE TABLE: Helping business leaders grow their influence
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263 episodes
Breaking Through the Noise: Proven Strategies for B2B Brand Visibility
In a hyper competitive market, you need to differentiate in any way that you can.It’s the only way you can not get visibility - but also you need to justify why your product is worth more. You want to get out of what Seth Go...
What If We've Got the AI Story Wrong?
What if we are missing the point about AI’s real role in the future of work?The narrative is that AI will wipe out most jobs as bots and AI agents take over the world.However, in the many conversations I’ve had with people insid...
Support Systems for Solo Marketers (When You're Trying to Do It Alone)
You’re trying to develop a marketing program for your company and you're stuck.You have a general idea of what you want to do. But for some reason you just can’t get started.You find yourself spending way too much...
Why Great Products Fail to Sell
It's a story I hear all the time. We have a great product, but our sales are not where we want them to be.Your customers know you, but let's be honest, your product is not seen as the market leader. It's not seen as th...
From Overlooked to Influential: The Power of Quiet Presence in Personal Transformation
When your image, presence, and brand aren't aligned, the cost isn't always visible, but it shows up in the rooms you're not invited to, the leadership that gets overlooked, and the opportunities that go to someone less qualified.Meet Je...
June Market Outlook: From Panic to Disciple
This is a short executive briefing built for sourcing leaders at brands and suppliers who need a fast read on where the market stands right now.The core message from Inside Fashion's June coverage is that conditions feel less chaotic tha...
The AI Accountability Crisis No One Is Talking About
Everyone feels that agentic AI is the next big thing and that they need to make haste in order to stay ahead of the curve - or at least not be left behind.However, the tremendous benefits of using agentic AI also come with an inc...
Beyond the Hustle: Transformative Strategies for Calm, Confident Leadership
If you’re like most leaders, you’re facing an increasingly business landscape which is making leadership even more challenging.The popular narrative is to develop a more resilient mindset. The reality is “how exactly do I do that?...
Real World AI Adoption: What Works and What Fails
There’s an abundance of information about how some of the newer tech solutions work. What tasks we need to consider automating and macro views of how AI could reshape work.Yet most business leaders are less certain than ever about ...
Transforming Office Culture: Going from Stress to Success
If you’re like most of us, being able to destress your life - or at least your work life - is something we only dare to dream about .Today most of us are running on all cylinders. Goals are set high. Winning is everything an...
The Quiet Loneliness of High‑Achievers – and How to Heal It
Are you the person who everyone else leans on — steady, capable, high-functioning?To the outside world you appear to be unshakable. Yet, inside there’s a gap between how competent you appear and how uncertain - or even lone...
Why Your AI Strategy Is Stuck – and How to Fix It
Most of us have used ChatGPT, Claude, CoPilot or one of the many AI platforms. Yet few of us really understand how to integrate AI into our organizations so that we get maximum benefits with the fewest possible disruptions.
When Everyone Agrees but Nothing Gets Done
How often have we experienced a meeting that we think went really well. Everyone on the team agreed what needed to be done. But then nothing actually got done. Or work was started but goals were not met.Why? How...
The 90-second Reset to Reclaim Your Calm
If you’re like most senior executives, you never get enough rest. I know I rarely do.There’s always 10 more things that need to be done – and another 10 ready to add to that list.We think that we can handle an ‘alw...
How to Build a Successful Tech Product
One of the most difficult things to do is build successful tech products. That seems counterintuitive at a time when its seems that everyone - from tech giants to a guy in his bedroom - is rolling out apps, setting up ...
Smart Scaling: Rethinking Who and How We Hire
One of the biggest challenges for growing companies is not having the staff to help the business get to the next level. And not having the bandwidth to fill multiple positions at the same time - even though you really need people i...
How to Turn Storytelling into a Brand Strategy
Marketing these days feels overwhelming. Most companies lurch between scattered marketing efforts with no clear path to take them from where they are to where they want to be.Yet in today’s hyper competitive market, marketing is n...
Why Successful Founders Have Executive Mentors
We all want to grow our businesses, but often get stuck trying to make that happen.This can be especially true for leadership at smaller to medium sized companies that are trying to scale but struggle to find ways to differentiate thems...
UX Band-Aids that Hide Real Problems
Most companies don’t realize that bad UX shows up in support ticket patterns before it shows up in their metrics.As more organizations lean into greater automation, a poorly designed UX results in slowdowns and user frustration, a...
How Not to Be Decieved By Data
What if we are hardwired to fall victim to data illusions?Those spurious patterns, those misleading headlines, and and those cognitive traps - often result in costly human mistakes.It turns out that we can avoid these ment...
How to Make Work Less 'Work'
It seems like no matter how hard we work, no matter how efficient we try to be, there is always more to do than days in the week (and I’m including weekends here … if you know, you know)The technology that was supposed to reduce workloa...
Evidence-Based Impact: Applying Corporate Rigor to Philanthropy and Beyond
One of the biggest challenges in business is being able to turn one-off projects into repeatable, profitable project management systems.It sounds simple. Lean into process documentation. Gather deep data. Use advanced ...
The Key to B2B Sales Mastery: Precision Over Volume
Winning sales isn’t as easy as it used to be - especially in a challenging economic environment with a never ending stream of new competitors coming onto the scene.It’s no longer enough to have a standout product, a great team or even m...
From Burnout to Buy-In: Navigating Senior Leadership’s Toughest Moments
Sometimes the most difficult challenge senior leadership faces is finding purpose in their work. It’s not that they don’t care about the company or their teams. It’s a more subtle sense that something is missing. ...
Modernizing Heritage Brands – Without Losing Their Legacy
One of the biggest challenges companies face is how to maintain their heritage while adapting to changing consumer preferences.The task can be even more daunting for legacy brands that on the one hand have built their reputations on the...