Joseph A. Michelli, Ph.D., C.S.P., is an internationally sought-after speaker, author, and organizational consultant. His insights encourage leaders and frontline workers to grow and invest passionately in all aspects of their lives. Dr. Michelli is the author of numerous national bestsellers, including The Starbucks Experience, The New Gold Standard, and the New York Times #1 bestseller, Prescription for Excellence. He was named as one of the Top 10 thought leaders in Customer Service by Global Gurus. His new book is The Airbnb Way: 5 Leadership Lessons for Igniting Growth through Loyalty, Community, and Belonging (October 2019, McGraw Hill). Learn more at www.airbnbway.com. For more information on this topic and others, visit www.TheAssessmentCompany.com or call, 800.434.2630. Subscribe on iTunes  |  Google Play  |  Subscribe on Android  | Subscribe by Email

Lee McEnany, Author of Millennials & Management: The Essential Guide to Making it Work at Work Lee McEnany Caraher is the founder and CEO of Double Forte PR & Digital Marketing, a 15-year-old national agency that works with beloved and up-and-coming consumer, technology, and wine brands. An acclaimed communication strategist, Lee is known for her practical solutions to big problems. Lee has a reputation for building cohesive, high producing teams who get a lot done well and have fun at the same time. She is a straight talker who doesn’t hold too many punches, although she does her best to be pleasant about it. Her big laugh and sense of humor have gotten her out of a lot of trouble. The author of Millennials & Management: The Essential Guide to Making it Work at Work, Lee based the book on her experience with epically failing and then succeeding at retaining Millennials in her business. Her second book, The Boomerang Principle: Inspiring Lifetime Loyalty From Employees, published in 2017, is a pragmatic and actionable guide to creating high-performing work cultures ready for the future. Lee is a popular guest expert on leadership, intergenerational workplaces, public relations, crisis communications, social media and integrated marketing. She splits her time between San Francisco and New York City and puts her medieval history degree to work every day. For more information on this topic and others, visit www.TheAssessmentCompany.com or call, 800.434.2630. Subscribe on iTunes  |  Google Play  |  Subscribe on Android  | Subscribe by Email

Kris Oestergaard is a sought-after speaker, facilitator, researcher and an expert on innovation in legacy organizations, corporate cultures and exponential organizations. He is co-founder and Chief Learning and Innovation Officer of SingularityU Nordic, a collaborative venture with Singularity University in Silicon Valley. His new book is Transforming Legacy Organizations: Turn Your Established Business into an Innovation Champion to Win the Future (Wiley, June 10, 2019). Learn more at sunordic.org. For more information on this topic and others, visit www.TheAssessmentCompany.com or call, 800.434.2630. Subscribe on iTunes  |  Google Play  |  Subscribe on Android  | Subscribe by Email

In Episode 35, John Beck interviews Stephen Pacinelli, coauthor of  Rehumanize Your Business: How Personal Videos Accelerate Sales and Improve Customer Experience (Wiley, April 2019) and Chief Marketing Officer at BombBomb. Steve is a longtime customer and advocate of personal video for its benefits to his sales team and has delivered presentations to more than 1,000 audiences. His new book, Rehumanize Your Business, asserts that people are the most powerful communication tool. Despite the ubiquitous nature of text, interpersonal communication over millennia affirms that we yearn to be viewed as approachable and invested, and to feel valued and respected. Conversational, informal video messages satisfy these inherently human needs. When we communicate face-to-face, replies and results improve and satisfaction increases—and our business relationships become sources of meaning and joy. For more information on this topic and others, visit www.TheAssessmentCompany.com or call, 800.434.2630. Subscribe on iTunes  |  Google Play  |  Subscribe on Android  | Subscribe by Email

In Episode 34, John Beck showcases Isaac Tolpin, Microlearning Expert & Ed Tech Disrupter. Tolpin.jpeg"> Isaac is one of the founders of ConveYour.com, the #1 Microlearning platform for learner engagement. He’s a tech entrepreneur and futurist at heart, on a mission to enable brands to align their training with human behavior leading to breakthrough learner engagement. His success come from understanding the relationships between human behavior, business, and technology. This expertise has helped celebrity influencers and companies transform their training programs. He brings a visionary mindset to his family by creating a legacy raising their 7 children with his wife Angie Tolpin of Courageousmom.com. Isaac refuses to waste his life achieving the world’s definition of success that leave so many empty, but instead does what matters through the projects he’s involved with, those he serves, and the family he leads. For more information on this topic and others, visit www.TheAssessmentCompany.com or call, 800.434.2630. Subscribe on iTunes  |  Google Play  |  Subscribe on Android  | Subscribe by Email

In Episode 33, John Beck has guest Billy Arcement, in studio, to discuss his new book, “Leading Yourself, Leading Others”. As a business leader, Billy Arcement is respected for his knowledge of human relations, leadership, success principles and problem-solving skills. He is a very results oriented individual. He understands that without results, nothing new can happen, no change can be implemented, and individuals and organizations will eventually stagnate. As a teacher, Billy was a successful coach and teacher of science. As a coach, he learned how to identify the talents of his athletes and how to specifically use them to win. As a science teacher, he prepared his students for their future careers such as nurses, physicians, teachers, and business leaders. As a native of Louisiana, he shares in a unique Cajun Culture that shaped his ethics, values, desires, and sense of humor. It’s the latter that has branded him as an entertaining story teller of the antics of the best known Cajuns in the world, Boudreaux and his friends. For more information on this topic and others, visit www.TheAssessmentCompany.com or call, 800.434.2630. Subscribe on iTunes  |  Google Play  |  Subscribe on Android  | Subscribe by Email

In episode 32 of the Hire Up Podcast, John interviews guest, Chris Kunze. Chris is a multi-lingual assessment specialist with over 15 years of experience analyzing psychometric and workforce data. Assisting hundreds of companies all over the globe implement HR software, Kunze has used statistical trend line analysis to translate assessment results into the language of employee job performance. As a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Marquette University with a liberal Arts degree, Kunze also completed studies in Philosophy at the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. He was a recruiter throughout Europe and worked three years as a student counselor at the Albertus Magnus University in Cologne and the Heinrich Heine University in Duesseldorf, Germany. President of Kunze Analytics, LLC, Chris recently worked four years in R&D at John Wiley & Sons’ Workplace Learning Solutions Division. While there, he leveraged governmental workforce and client data to publish a library of 139 job-related performance models for PXT Select™ Certified Partners and their clients. He is known for calculating ROI using the venerable BCG Utility Formula. Finally, Kunze enjoys the challenge of optimizing performance model validity by writing software code in SPSS Syntax and Excel Visual Basic languages. For more information on this topic and others, visit www.TheAssessmentCompany.com or call, 800.434.2630. Subscribe on iTunes  |  Google Play  |  Subscribe on Android  | Subscribe by Email

In episode 31 of the Hire Up Podcast, John interviews guest, Lain Hensley. Lain Hensley is the co-founder and chief operating officer of Odyssey Teams, which develops philanthropic team-building programs for large corporations: the prosthetic hand-building program, Helping Hands, and the bicycle-building event, LifeCycles. He is an inspirational speaker and corporate trainer with an eye for introducing organizational change. Everyone wants to be Lain Hensley’s friend. Lain is one of those rare people who sees what people often don’t see in themselves. The beautiful beginner. The sacred wonder. He’ll reveal your magic and he’ll get you to believe. He is generous, smart, and oriented to making things better. As the COO of Odyssey Teams, Inc., Lain and his company have changed the team building industry and keep pushing the envelope with their latest projects. Odyssey Teams gives you a way to improve your team and the world at the same time. The benefits of team building are well studied. Team building boosts productivity, increases motivation, sparks problem solving and catalyzes creativity. Together, Odyssey Teams have built and donated over 18,000 bicycles, 25,000 prosthetic hands, hundreds of playhouses, a “rad” amount of skateboards and they are just getting started. Friends and clients are all over the world and worthy recipients are in more than 75 countries. They hope you enjoy learning more about their passions and decide to become a part of the movement. Make your meetings matter and go beyond the training room walls and into the hearts and minds of a world in need! For more information on Lain Hensley and Odyssey Teams, Inc., click here For more information on this topic and others, visit www.TheAssessmentCompany.com or call, 800.434.2630. Subscribe on iTunes  |  Google Play  |  Subscribe on Android  |  Subscribe by Email

In episode 30 of the Hire Up Podcast, John interviews Shawn D. Madden, Ambassador of Fun at Underdog Sports Leagues, League Lab Software, and FunCorp Parties and Events. Underdog runs adult co-ed sports leagues in the Seattle and Portland areas. League Lab provides league software to sport and social clubs around the country. FunCorp puts on Friend-Building Corporate Events designed to build social connections between co-workers. Through his experiences with Underdog, League Lab, and FunCorp, Shawn is an expert in the Friend-Building arena. For more information on Shawn Madden, and FunCorp, click here. For more information on this topic and others, visit www.TheAssessmentCompany.com or call, 800.434.2630. Subscribe on iTunes  |  Google Play  |  Subscribe on Android  |  Subscribe by Email

In episode 29 of the Hire Up Podcast, John interviews Scott Mautz, the CEO of Profound Performance – a keynote, workshop, coaching, and online training company that helps you “Work, Lead, & Live Fulfilled”. He is also a Procter & Gamble veteran who ran several of the company’s largest multi-billion dollar businesses, including their single largest, a $3 Billion Dollar division. At P&G, Scott consistently transformed business results and organizational/cultural health scores along with it. Scott is a popular keynote speaker and author of the October 2017 release, Find the Fire: Ignite Your Inspiration and Make Work Exciting Again. The book is the follow up to Make it Matter: How Managers Can Motivate by Creating Meaning, a book that’s been named “The 2016 Leadership Book of the Year – First Runner Up” by Leadership & Management Books and a “Best 30 Book of the Year” by Soundview Business Books. Scott’s been named a “CEO Thought-leader” by the CEO Executive Guild and a “Top 50 Leadership Innovator” by Inc. Magazine, where he writes a weekly column for the national publication on topics such as employee engagement, others-oriented leadership, meaning in and at work, workplace culture, the how to’s of motivation/inspiration, success, and entrepreneurship. Scott also teaches leadership and employee engagement/motivation at Indiana University. He’s appeared in Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur, and many other national publications and podcasts. Scott was born in Central New York and has an undergraduate degree from Binghamton University (1991) and an MBA from Indiana University (1994). He lives in Cincinnati with his wife and daughter who is growing up way too fast. For more information on Scott Mautz’s new book, Find the Fire: Ignite Your Inspiration and Make Work Exciting Again, click here. For more information on this topic and others, visit www.TheAssessmentCompany.com or call, 800.434.2630. Subscribe on iTunes  |  Google Play  |  Subscribe on Android  |  Subscribe by Email