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Workplace Warrior®

by Jordan Goldrich

Workplace Warrior®: where you hear unique perspectives on leaders with an uncommon desire for results, who take charge, lead their teams and accomplish the mission. They are critical for success in our volatile, complex, and uncertain times. Sometimes, they are perceived as abrasive and occasionally called names like bully. Your host, Jordan Goldrich, grew up in a loud New York family and once lost an executive position because of his style. He is co-author of the Amazon Best Seller, Workplace Warrior®: People Skills For The No-Bulls**t Executive, Chief Operations Officer, Master Corporate Executive Coach, and Licensed Clinical Social Worker. His guests are part of his international network of Workplace Warrior® executives, master corporate executive coaches, and thought leaders. Each guest will engage you in conversation about their successes, mistakes, and solutions. You will get strategies for being completely authentic, while you fulfill your commitment to your organization, buil

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  1. Kelly Feldkamp: Realities of The Job Site Athlete Keeping Laborers Safe, Strong, and Loyal

    About Kelly Feldkamp: Kelly is the founder of ProVention Plus, which is an on-site injury prevention company that is changing the way companies take care of their manual labor and craft employees. She has a master's degree in exercise and wellness and is the creator of the Move Better Program…

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  2. Ryan Tansom: The Intentional Growth Framework™ For Entrepreneurs

    About Ryan Tansom: Ryan started his entrepreneurial career at his family business where he was the executive VP. He was responsible for the strategic operational and financial strategy of a $21 million company. By the age of 27, he helped turn the company around and bring intentional focus to the...

  3. Stephanie Coradin: Building Accountable Leaders, Bold Problem Solvers and Exceptional Service Providers

    About Stephanie Coradin: She is the Founder of Dembo Inc. She has over 18 years of experience in providing leadership and development training and life coaching to individuals and groups from various industries. She holds an MBA and a master's degree in mental health counseling. She has a unique...

  4. Susan Power: Diamonds Are Rocks Under Pressure For A Long Time

    About Susan Power: Susan is the Founder & CEO of PowerUp Leadership, a boutique consulting advisory and leadership coaching firm based in Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada. PowerUp Leadership focuses on creating inspiring workplaces The firm specializes in building leadership capability for Executive...

  5. Randi Roberts: Change Your Perspective Before Changing Your Career

    About Randi Roberts: Randi is the president of Randi Roberts Coaching LLC., and founder of the Fulfilling Career, Happy Life Community. Randi is an executive coach and a career life coach, and she helps accomplished professionals love their work and achieve their career goals. She has seen too…

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  6. Eric Chriss: Managing Succession with Life Insurance as a Form of Stock Options

    About Eric Chriss: As the CUSTOMatrix Founder and CEO, Eric Chriss' dynamic, direct and innovative leadership guides their Executive Services Division. A nationally recognized trailblazer in the executive leadership and management field, Eric pioneered the CFO practice model – a model that has...

  7. Steven Gaffney: Unconditional Power

    About Steven Gaffney: Steven Gaffney is the CEO of the Steven Gaffney Company. He is the leading expert on creating Consistently High Achieving Organizations (CHAO)™ including high-achieving teams, honest communication, and change leadership. He is one of the few leadership experts that can...

  8. Bill Kieffer: A No-Bs Discussion Of Success Before, During And After Career Transition

    About Bill Kieffer: Bill is a former U.S. Army officer with over a decade of active duty service. He also possesses extensive experience as a human resource and talent management executive, with more than two decades of senior leadership roles in large, complex, global companies. His practical,...

  9. John Baldoni: What It Takes to Lead with Grace When the Heat Is On

    About John Baldoni: John Baldoni is an internationally recognized keynote speaker and author of 16 books that have been translated into ten languages. John's thought leadership is reflected in his writing as well as his choice of media: columns, videos, and books. John also integrates piano...

  10. Debbie Allen: Confessions of a Successful Shameless Self-Promoter

    About Debbie Allen: What makes Debbie Allen's business mentoring unique is her 'hands on'​ personalized attention to her clients. Integrity, follow up and commitment to excellence are all core business values. She supports small business owners, entrepreneurs, speakers and coaches to create and...

  11. Creating Respectful Work Cultures Through Coaching Abrasive Leaders with Catherine Mattice

    About Catherine Mattice: Catherine founded Civility Partners in 2008 as a result of working in a toxic environment and has since served a huge array of clients with consulting, training and coaching services. She's written three books, one of which Ken Blanchard called, "the most comprehensive…

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  12. Digital Avatar Coaching: Expanding Your Coaching & Consulting Reach

    Nancy Parsons is CEO and President of CDR Companies, LLC, which is a globally recognized expert in combining the science of assessments with the art of developing people. Nancy was the ACEC/MEECO International Institute Thought Leader of Distinction in Executive Coaching (2019) and author of the...

  13. EP 87: Jeff Eschliman: From Combat to the Boardroom - Lessons in Leadership Development

    About Jeff Eschliman: Jeff Eschliman is an executive coach with 30 years of experience from combat in Iraq to the corporate boardroom. Personal development, consistency, and a tenacious work ethic are hallmarks of Jeff's leadership style. Jeff communicates a crystal clear vision and bold...

  14. Angela Johnson: Secrets Leaders and Coaches Should Know

    About Angela Johnson: Angela Johnson calls herself "professional people geek." She is a Certified Scrum Trainer, Agile Guide and author of The Scrum Master Files, Secrets Every Coach should know. She has 25+ years of experience working with teams and leaders in both project management and Agile...

  15. Robin Osborn: Adversity Warrior - The Freedom Framework

    About Robin Osborn: Robin has a 33-year history of being at the helm of her l family business in Southern California. Her remarkable entrepreneurial journey started at the young age of 21 when she, her twin brother and their sister took over her father's business after his suicide! She managed…

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  16. Jennifer Fondrevay: How to Navigate The Personas That Emerge During Mergers and Acquisitions

    About Jennifer Fondrevay: Jennifer J. Fondrevay is the Founder of Day1 Ready™, a consultancy that advises forward-thinking business leaders, owners, and C-Suite executives on how to prepare for the human capital challenges of M&A. As a Fortune 500 C-Suite "survivor" of three multibillion-dollar...

  17. Laura Crawshaw: Grow Your Spine - Insights For Managing Abrasive Leaders

    About Laura Crawshaw: Dr. Laura Crawshaw (aka "The Boss Whisperer®") is the world's leading expert on coaching abrasive leaders and relieving the organizational disruption and workplace suffering they cause. With more than 35 years' experience as a psychotherapist, corporate officer, executive...

  18. Bill Flynn: How Leaders Doom Their Company

    About Bill Flynn: Bill has more than 30 years of experience working for and advising hundreds of companies including startups, where he has a long record of success. He worked for 10 different high-tech startups in different market segments such as speech recognition, e-commerce, and affiliate...

  19. Shaara Roman: Key Strategies For Building a Workplace Culture of the Future

    About Shaara Roman: Shaara Roman is an author, board member, entrepreneur, and former CHRO. She has had senior roles at CGI, Fannie Mae, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and Visa. She is the founder and CEO of The Silverene Group, a boutique culture consulting firm that is on a...

  20. Wendy Swire: What's New in Executive Mental Fitness and Applied Neuroscience

    About Wendy Swire: Wendy has more than two decades of experience coaching thousands of leaders in the US and globally. A thought leader in the field of Neuroleadership and Mental Fitness, Wendy is known for teaching practices that slow down the brain to allow leaders to work more effectively with...

  21. Brenda Harrington: Leading With Inclusion

    About Brenda Harrington: Brenda Harrington, PCC is the Founder of Adaptive Leadership Strategies, LLC. As the Executive Coach to global leaders in private, public, nonprofit, government, humanitarian and intergovernmental organizations (IGO's), she helps clients refine the leadership competencies...

  22. Paul ter Wal: Happiness Makes Money - How Shared Core Values Influence Company Results

    About Paul ter Wal: Paul is an international engagement explorer, employability expert, and workplace architect. For more than 25 years, he's been in the speaking, consulting, and training business for executive directors and employees. His motto is, "happiness makes money." He helps companies…

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  23. Michelle Harris: Key Strategies For Women Leaders

    About Michelle Harris: With over 20 years of successful leadership in finance and accounting for privately held and publicly traded as well as PE backed companies with global revenues as high as $6B, Michelle is an expert in team development, change management, business process improvement,...

  24. Tracy Sinclair: The Future of Executive Coaching - An International Perspective

    About Tracy Sinclair: Tracy works as an international Corporate Executive and Board Level Coach, and a leadership development designer and facilitator working with a wide range of organizations. She also specializes in working with organizations to develop a coaching culture. Tracy was named as…

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  25. Jen O'Ryan: Inclusion And Authenticity - Don't Screw It Up By Over-Correcting

    About Jen O'Ryan: After an extensive career of instigating change at Fortune 100 companies and a few small-but-mighty startups, she created Double Tall Consulting. This new company would fill a gap faced by many organizations – how to get their inclusion and diversity initiatives from "good...

  26. Julie Noonan: The Last Of The Boomers - What Will We Keep and What Will We Change

    About Julie Noonan: She is an executive coach, transformational change leader, speaker, consultant, and futurist. She spent her career working with companies of all sizes helping people, as she says, "ride the waves of change." Julie believes in unapologetic authenticity, candor, integrity, and...

  27. Maureen Rabotin: Leveraging Intercultural Intelligence for Innovation and Inclusion

    About Maureen Rabotin: She has over 15 years experience accompanying executives in transition from manager to leadership roles, from country to country. Her understanding of the corporate environment comes from years as a European product leader for a medical diagnostics, multinational and Asian...

  28. Philippe Rosinski: Global Coaching Across Cultures - DEI and Abrasive Leadership

    About Philippe Rosinski: He is a world authority in executive coaching, team coaching, and global leadership development. He is the first European to have been designated Master Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation. He is the author of two seminal books, Coaching Across Cultures...

  29. Philip Jack: A Dialogue Around Race and Class, Life in a 1950s NYC Housing Project

    About Philip Jack: He's a retired educator who humorously describes himself as a jack of all trades, master of some. He was once described as a good educator as he didn't teach subjects; instead, he taught students. In his early life, his family lived in the projects in the northern Manhattan...

  30. Dan LeFave: Fundamentals For Extreme Progress

    About Dan LeFave: Dan received life's second chance after surviving a tragic head on collision that took three lives and resulted in his struggling through a coma. He has also experienced marathons, business failures, and battles with fear and doubt. He helps growth minded entrepreneurs scale to...

  31. Alinka Rutkowska: Turning Book Ideas Into Best Sellers

    About Alinka Rutkowska: She is the CEO of Leaders Press (www.leaderspress.com), a USA Today and Wall Street Journal best-selling press, where she creates books for entrepreneurs from scratch and launches them to best-seller with a 100% success rate. She's worked with top business leaders such as…

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  32. Kute Blackson: The Magic of Surrender

    About Kute Blackson: He is a beloved inspirational speaker and transformational teacher. He speaks at countless events that he organizes around the world as well as outside events including A-Fest, Young Presidents Organization, and the Entrepreneur's Organization. He is a member of the...

  33. Brandon Miller: CliftonStrengths - Building Strengths-Based Organizations with High Performance Teams

    About Brandon MIller: Brandon is one of the first seven certified Gallup Clifton Strengths Finder Coaches in the world. He was a very early practitioner of the assessment; over 15 years ago, he used it as the executive leader of a nonprofit organization. He has since coached hundreds of leaders…

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  34. Ep 66: Bill Sommers: Iron Underwear - How Does Someone Turn Around Schools & School Districts?

    About Bill Sommers: He is a learner, a teacher, a principal, an author, a leadership coach and a consultant. He's come out of retirement multiple times to help principals to put theory into practice. He is a former executive director for secondary curriculum in professional learning for…

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  35. Ep 65: Jon Zieve: The Axiology Based MindScan Assessment For Leadership Success

    About Jon Zieve: Jon invested 34 years in a corporate career, starting as a sales rep and working his way up to VP level positions in Sales, Marketing and Customer Service. He experienced anxiety which he did his best to hide because he perceived it as a weakness. Jon became addicted to work as a...

  36. EP 64: Jordan Goldrich, MCEC, PCC, MG100: Victim or Target - Tips For Thriving With A Tough CEO

    About Jordan: Jordan Goldrich partners with senior executives to be completely authentic, fulfill their mission, and drive results without damaging relationships® These are strong leaders with an uncommon desire for results, who take charge, lead their teams, and accomplish the mission.…

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  37. Ep 63: Wayne Hart, Ph.D: Transactional Analysis - Practical Tools For Leaders-Coaches and Organizations

    About Wayne Hart: He has over 50 years of experience applying transactional analysis as an executive coach, as a petroleum company executive, as a business owner of an information management company, as a psychologist, as a leadership development trainer, and he was a board member of three...

  38. Ep 62: Ron Carucci: Lead With The Power Of Truth, Justice, And Purpose

    About Ron Carucci: Ron is co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, a company that works with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. He has a thirty year track record helping executives tackle challenges of strategy…

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  39. EP 61: Nancy Murphy: Leading Change Like Indiana Jones

    About Nancy Murphy: Nancy has spent her career saying what others are afraid to – and learning to say it in ways that others will listen. She's the Founder and President of CSR Communications and creator of Intrapreneurs Influence Lab. Her passion is helping leaders of change within established...

  40. Ep 60: Christine Billy High Potential To High Performance

    About Christine Billy: She is a scientist who is now a master coach who helps leaders transform high potential to high performance. She has more than 20 years experience leading global scientific technology and organizational change projects in the pharmaceutical industry at Pfizer and Novartis....

  41. EP 59: Ana Melikian: You Are Your Own Worst Boss

    About Ana Melikian: Ana is an optimist who had to overcome two bouts with cancer to learn that pursuing happiness is a fallacy and that choosing happiness is a much more powerful strategy to tap into your highest potential. Either by working with leaders and their teams or other coaches and...

  42. EP 58: Guillaume Wiatr: Building A Strategic NarrativeThe Key To Inspiring Buy-In

    About Guillaume Wiatr: He is a strategy consultant and leadership coach who guides CEOs and founders to align people and accelerate the adoption of innovation. He is the founder of MetaHelm which is a consulting firm focused on building strategic narratives for established companies. For…

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  43. EP 57: Grace Odonnell: How To Be A WSJ/USA Today Best Selling Author

    About Grace Odonnell: She is an interviewer and story teller who's been crafting stories for over 10 years. She's had the privilege of working for Leader's Press for two years. Because she's authentic and empathic, she has the ability to empower people to let their guard down, revealing the most...

  44. Ep 56: Jordan Goldrich: The Big Leap - A Different View of Self-Sabotage

    In this episode, Jordan discusses: "Imposter Syndrome" and self-sabotage What is our upper limit? Four reasons why we have an upper limit A different way of responding to our upper limit internal conversation Key Takeaways Many high-level leaders struggle with a voice in their head that says that...

  45. Ep 55: Steve Fretzin: Sales Free Selling - The Death of Sales and The Rise of a New Methodology

    About Steve Fretzin: He is passionate about helping attorneys reach their full potential. He's regarded as the premier coach, skills trainer and keynote speaker on business development for attorneys. Over the past 17 years, he's devoted his career to helping lawyers master the art of business...

  46. Ep 54: Dr Katrina Burrus: Transforming Brilliant Jerks into Inspiring Leaders

    About Dr Katrina Burrus: She is a master certified coach and is one of the world's leading experts on international leadership. She facilitates a mastermind for CEOs of international companies and she's also the author of three books: "Abrasive Leaders", "Global Nomadic Leaders", and "Managing...

  47. Ep 53: LaTonya Jackson: Unintentional Still Hurts, Getting Real About Equity and Inclusion

    About LaTonya Jackson: LaTonya Jackson is Vice President of Services & Operations at Media Partners Corporation which provides best-in-class training content, technology, tools, and services to help organizations elevate workplace behaviors and culture. She is a 4-time author whose latest book is...

  48. Ep 52: Rekha Saleela Nair - Women Workplace Warriors Around The World

    About Rekha Saleela Nair: Rekha is a personal brand strategist, consultant, and coach who works with women in leadership as well as women with leadership aspirations. She was born and raised in a matrilineal clan in India. Matrilineal means the lineage is traced through the mothers. Rekha says…

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  49. Ep 51: Erica Komisar: Raising Resilient Adolescents In The New Age of Anxiety

    About Erica Komisar: She is a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst and parent guidance expert who's been in private practice in New York City for over 30 years. She is a graduate of Georgetown and Columbia Universities and the New York Freudian Society. She's a psychological consultant who…

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  50. 050: Walter G. Meyer: Living Life As A Diverse Adventure - Summer Break Stories With My Co-Author

    About Walter G. Meyer: Walter is co-author of my book, Workplace Warrior: People Skills For The No-Bullshit Executive. He is a freelance writer who has written for dozens of magazines and newspapers including Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Los Angeles Times, The Orange County Register, and many...

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Workplace Warrior®: where you hear unique perspectives on leaders with an uncommon desire for results, who take charge, lead their teams and accomplish the mission. They are critical for success in our volatile, complex, and uncertain times. Sometimes, they are perceived as abrasive and occasionally called names like bully. Your host, Jordan Goldrich, grew up in a loud New York family and once lost an executive position because of his style. He is co-author of the Amazon Best Seller, Workplace Warrior®: People Skills For The No-Bulls**t Executive, Chief Operations Officer, Master Corporate Executive Coach, and Licensed Clinical Social Worker. His guests are part of his international network of Workplace Warrior® executives, master corporate executive coaches, and thought leaders. Each guest will engage you in conversation about their successes, mistakes, and solutions. You will get strategies for being completely authentic, while you fulfill your commitment to your organization, buil

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