Karen Laos shares her journey from corporate life to empowering keynotes. She has made an incredible transformation as she has carved her own path as a keynote speaker and leadership coach equipping women to stand out with unshakable confidence. She specializes in communication, executive presence, and compelling messages.

Dr. William Sprankles is Assistant Superintendent of Innovative Teaching and Learning at Butler Tech. Butler Tech has always been an organization that embraced innovation and educational change for the betterment of Career Tech and Public Education, but they have made significant shifts in the last five years thanks to high impact creatives like William and the Butler Tech leadership team. They don’t just talk about their visions for what could be; they take action and allow students to take part in their future by creating what it will be.

After retiring from his role as Executive Vice President of Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, Lee Cockerell has worked to help others create magic in their leadership and life. His less than traditional upbringing inspires many as he shows the lengths you can go with a bit of hard work.

He's Magical. He's a Dude. And he's here on the podcast! If anyone has ever defined their purpose as a kid and taken incredibly intentional actions every step of the way to live that purpose, it's Lee Kitchen. From creating background music in his bedroom to a 32 year career with The Walt Disney Company, everything Lee does is around harnessing creativity and having a whole lot of fun.

Claudine Pohl is the Founder and President of Lemoneight Consulting, known as the entrepreneur that successfully launched her business with the cruise industry in early 2020 while the rest of the world was shutting down! That is a purpose driven business if I’ve ever seen one.

After a fulfilling and exciting 26-year career with the Walt Disney Company, Dan and his wife Valerie made the decision to set out on a new venture and start their own consulting and speaking business where they leverage their expertise to focus on their clients’ most critical issues and areas of opportunity in order to help them create a path to excellence.

Today's conversation with Tim Schurrer is full of stories that will encourage you to reevaluate the definition of success and learn a new, freer way to go about achieving it.

Amanda is a speaker, trainer, MC, and all around Pop Culture Maven, hence the name The Pop Coach. She helps organizations develop their people and create a world-class company culture - all while improving their bottom line… all while incorporating her unique ability to relate any concept, lesson, skill, system or process to aspects of Popular Culture.

D'Shawn van Kerkhoff is a 21 year old student that recently took a solo trip from the Netherlands to board a cruise with people he had only met online. Sounds concerning, right? For D'Shawn, it was perfectly aligned with his future goals and an opportunity he wasn't going to let sail past.

This episode is a great conversation on how to leverage your professional passion to connect with people that share a common purpose.

The tables have turned! Rita Richa, host of the Bippity Boppity Business podcast, and I recently recorded a live conversation about professional purpose. While it was done as an experiment, it was a great way to highlight the value of leaning into curiosity.

Before becoming a consultant and instructional coach Jessica Magee spent years as a math teacher. She has helped design and implement math curriculum, and countless professional development around topics including one of my favorites regarding the use of visuals in math to enhance understanding. Today we tackle conversations around that big buzzword “common core”, the reality of burnout in education, and how building community is what helps ensure positive engagement.

This episode is a great conversation about the power of authentic connections with Rob Miridi.

Rob is a certified project manager in healthcare and is currently serving as the director of operations for an expanding pharmacy practice. Rob has years of experience in running projects of varying size and complexity in healthcare, leveraging data analytics to implement mitigation strategies for diversion and loss as well as leading successful teams to increase margins, operational efficiencies and implement best practices.