TEDx Speaker, #1 Bestselling author of The Six Habits and Life Mastery Coach, Laura DiBenedetto teaches how to create the life of our dreams without sacrificing what we love. Laura is the founder and CEO of the award-winning marketing company, Vision Advertising, located in the greater Boston area. Laura created, built and ran the growth-oriented enterprise for 19 years with tremendous success, before retiring from active involvement in 2018 at age 37, passing the reins to her successor. Over the years, Laura personally sold several million dollars in ongoing contracts, was featured on Fox News and other Boston programming several times, was publicly recognized for business accomplishments, and was named a 40 Under Forty winner at only age 23.

Having started her first business at 19, Laura began to search for her next big project in 2012, finally finding it right on the cusp of retirement. While Laura’s career had been speckled with accomplishments and accolades, when she retired, she was simply burnt out and unhappy. After years of classes, workshops, books, and more, Laura was confused and wondering why the personal development world had let her down and sought to solve the problem. She went on a radical journey of self-discovery, research, and testing, determined to find energy and lasting, fulfilling happiness in all areas of life.

Laura found the answers to the question that plagued her (and so many of us) – six of them, in fact. She is devoted to sharing the universally applicable and deeply liberating truths she discovered, so that others may find their own path out of misery and into lasting, fulfilling happiness and limitless possibility.

Laura DiBenedetto Links

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lauraldibenedetto/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/lauraldibenedetto/

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lldibenedetto/

Website 1: https://lauradibenedetto.com/

Website 2: https://www.thesixhabits.com/

Join Jason Butler, author of “The Village Mindset,” on Dave Hollenbach's show "From Embers to Excellence" to learn how to become a better leader. Jason has 20 years of executive leadership experience and is a keynote speaker and leadership coach. He holds a Master’s in Intercultural Studies, a Doctorate in Leadership from Duke University, and is the author of “The Village Mindset.” Learn how to strengthen your organization's culture and increase belonging by embracing servant leadership. Tune in to hear from Jason Butler now!

https://jasonbutler.me/

In this episode of "From Embers to Excellence," Dave Hollenbach interviews Seth Earley, a renowned speaker, author, and influencer with over 20 years of experience in Knowledge Strategy, Data and Information Architecture, Search-based Applications, and Information Findability solutions.

Seth is the author of "The AI-Powered Enterprise," a book that was released in April 2020, and went on to receive the Axiom Business Book Silver Medal in the Artificial Intelligence / Robotics / Algorithms category in 2021.

In this insightful interview, Seth shares his expertise in achieving higher levels of operating performance by making information more findable, usable, and valuable through integrated enterprise architectures supporting analytics, e-commerce, and customer experience applications.

Seth's writing has appeared in prestigious publications such as IT Professional Magazine from the IEEE, Harvard Business Review, CMS Wire, CEO World, TechTarget, eCommerce Times, and Analytics Magazine, and he co-authored “Practical Knowledge Management” from IBM Press.

Tune in to this episode to learn from a true expert in the field of leadership excellence and gain valuable insights into how to make your enterprise more efficient and effective through the power of AI.

https://www.earley.com/

On this episode, Jim Knight, renowned keynote speaker, author, and training and development expert, is here to discuss his incredible journey of taking organizations from embers to excellence. Jim shares his experience at Hard Rock International, where he led Global Training for two decades, and the methods he used to create and manage staff and management training materials and programs, facilitate Hard Rock’s corporate university, oversee management training locations, and more. Tune in to learn how Jim teaches organizations of all sizes how to become “rock star” teams and leaders, and how to achieve leadership excellence.

https://www.knightspeaker.com/

Introducing "From Embers to Excellence" hosted by Dave Hollenbach and featuring Claudia Miller, a sought-after Career Coach for Women In Tech. With her talents and expertise, Claudia has helped her clients land fulfilling jobs at a senior level, and partnered with companies and organizations in identifying rising stars within their organizations, providing strategic insights and support in developing a leadership and talent pipeline with a focus on Women and Women of Color. Her efforts have been recognized by Top Fortune 500 Clients, World Business Chicago and other organizations. Claudia is also the Creator & Host of her own podcast, "Roadmap To The Executive Suite", featuring leadership excellence examples and stories of success. Due to her client's success, she's been featured multiple times in Forbes, MSNBC, Thrive Global, and Business Insider put her in their top global list of Top Innovative Career Coaches. Tune in to "From Embers to Excellence" to find out more about Claudia's inspiring story.

https://www.claudiatmiller.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudiatmiller/

Welcome to the "From Embers to Excellence" show with your host, Dave Hollenbach! In this episode, we're joined by Velma Knowles, a leadership expert and membership strategist who works with purpose-driven organizations to drive sustainable growth through membership consulting, leadership coaching and relationship marketing. Velma shares her expertise on how to achieve leadership excellence and how to create sustainable growth using her 4-driver approach: Clarity in Numbers, Alignment in Resources, Relevance in Value, and Accountability in Planning. Plus, Velma provides examples of leadership excellence from her own experience so that you can learn how to implement these strategies in your own organization. Tune in now to get the insights and strategies you need to take your leadership and business to the next level!

https://velmaknowles.com/

Join us for an exciting episode with Roy Osing, former president and CMO, as he shares his 40+ years of unmatched executive leadership experience with show host Dave Hollenbach. As the former president of a major data and internet company, Roy's audacious 'unheard-of ways' took the company from its early stage to a $1 Billion in annual sales. Hear about his journey from embers to excellence and learn from his leadership excellence examples.

Roy is not just a successful business leader, he is also a blogger, content marketer and mentor to young professionals. He is the author of the popular no-nonsense book series 'Be Different or be dead', with 'The Audacious Unheard-of Ways I took a Startup to A BILLION IN SALES' as his seventh.

Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights and advice from one of the industry's leading experts on leadership excellence. Tune in now!

https://www.bedifferentorbedead.com/

Join Dave Hollenbach as he sits down with Seth R. Silver, Ed.D., and Timothy M. Franz, Ph.D., authors of "Meaningful Partnership at Work: How the Workplace Covenant Ensures Mutual Accountability and Success between Leaders and Teams". In this episode, Dave explores the concept of transforming working relationships into great partnerships, with a focus on the importance of mutual accountability, support, and well-being for team members. Additionally, Silver and Franz share how to instill shared purpose, build empathy, respect, trust, alignment, partnership, and create authentic engagement among virtual, co-located, and on-site teams. Discover how to turn leadership excellence examples into actionable steps for your organization. Tune in for a thought-provoking conversation on the path to leadership excellence.

Learn more at https://teambuildingprocess.com/ or https://silverconsultinginc.com/

Nicholas Janni, Founder/Director Core Presence, is an expert in transformational leadership, presence, peak performance and innovation. He is also the author of “Leader as Healer.” His book serves the reader as a guide to reaching the highest levels of presence and performance. It is a call to break from the chronically imbalanced ways of thinking and functioning that have become the norm in so many corporate cultures - where doing eclipses being, and hyper-rational, analytical thinking relegates feeling, sensing, intuiting and the transpersonal to the outer fringes of life.

His work is focused around what he calls ‘Core Presence' - a deep grounding in our bodies, a conscious and inclusive relationship to our emotions, a rebalancing of left and right brain, and meditative practice. From this, the biggest expansions of consciousness take place, both in an individual and a group, which then allow us to align with the highest evolutionary intelligence.

As a consultant, Janni mentors CEOs and senior leadership teams worldwide on reaching advanced levels of consciousness and effectiveness. He also teaches at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School and the IMD Business School in Switzerland.

https://www.nicholasjanni.com/

Welcome to the 'From Embers to Excellence' podcast, hosted by Dave Hollenbach. In this episode, we have a special guest, Bryan Gillette, who has over 25 years of experience in Leadership and Organizational Development. With executive and senior-level responsibilities in small and large companies, Bryan has a wealth of knowledge to share. He was a Vice President of Human Resources for a mid-size, global-technology company and has extensive experience in Leadership Development, Organizational Design, Communications, and Mergers & Acquisitions.

Bryan's approach is pragmatic and he brings firsthand experience having managed teams of 2 to 270 people and multi-million-dollar projects. He's not afraid to roll up his sleeves and do whatever it takes to get the job done. Bryan is also a dedicated endurance athlete, having completed many long-distance cycling or running events including cycling across the United States, cycling 300 miles in 24 hours, and running 200 miles around Lake Tahoe in 76 hours.

In this episode, Bryan will share his leadership excellence examples and insights on how to reach your peak performance, drawing from his own experiences and those of over 100 CEOs, CxOs, founders, and endurance athletes. He will also discuss his upcoming book, 'EPIC Performance: Lessons from 100 Executives and Endurance Athletes on Reaching Your Peak', which will be published Summer 2022. Tune in to hear Bryan's valuable insights and tips on how to take your leadership skills to the next level.

In this episode, join host Dave Hollenbach as he sits down with data literacy expert and author, Kevin Hanegan, to discuss how organizations can use data and analytics to transform and improve performance. From understanding the brain's decision-making process to overcoming implicit bias and groupthink, Kevin delves into the intersection of business, technology, learning, and psychology. He also shares his insights on the importance of data literacy and explains how to turn data into wisdom through a clear process and methodology. Additionally, Kevin covers the topic of resilience and the benefits of conflict in the workplace, and the difference between active and passive listening. With real-world leadership excellence examples, Kevin explores how we can collaborate with data to change ourselves, our organizations, and even the world. Don't miss this opportunity to learn about how to take your organization from embers to excellence. Be sure to check out Kevin's website at https://www.kevinhanegan.com/ and The Data Literacy Project at https://thedataliteracyproject.org/ for more information.

Joshua Womack is the author of 'I'm not a copywriter, but ...: Lessons Learned from a Late Bloomer.' He is a Senior Copywriter who lives in Downtown Cleveland with his wife Lauren, and his dog, Dori.

Stand-up comedy. Speechwriting. Pro wrestling? Somehow, these oddball life choices led Josh Womack to copywriting. In his debut book, he talks about these experiences and more. If you're a junior or mid-level copywriter out there still trying to find your way, congrats! So is the author of this book. Have fun and keep slingin'.

https://www.joshwomack.net/

Tim is the host of the Ordinary People's Extraordinary Stories podcast, #1 best-selling author on Amazon, and 40+ year British Army veteran.

Tim played a lot of rugby as a scrum half. He likes to ski telemark and has competed several times at the British Telemark Championships. He was a Hang-Gliding Instructor, played American Football for Milton Keynes Pioneers, and is a reasonably experienced offshore sailor. I believe he is Great Britain’s version of the Most Interesting Man in the World. I really enjoyed this conversation with Tim and I think you will too.

To learn more about Tim visit his website here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1118723

https://www.facebook.com/tim.heale.1

https://www.instagram.com/timheale9/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-heale-9-797488238/

Kevin hosts the Unlock Your Freedom podcast which is ranked in the top 5% of all podcasts globally. He is a Gallup-certified Strengths Coach who has helped thousands of professionals look inside themselves to find clarity, discover what they love, and live a life of freedom. Through weekly episodes, Kevin provides step-by-step training, coaching and accountability to leaders who want to take their life & business to the next level! I have been a guest on his show, which led to a post interview conversation, that then led to me signing up to be a part of his mastermind group. He doesn’t just talk the talk. Kevin walks the walk so many of us want to. I have been fortunate to meet people from all over the world that are doing some amazing things. Kevin is one of those people and he has impacted me in some incredible ways. I am so grateful to have him on the show to share with all of us.

https://www.kevinkepple.us/

CERTIFICATIONS

Advanced degree in strategic management

Gallup certified strengths coach

Certified Leadership Coach with thousands of hours of 1:1 client work.

Trusted coach of managers, directors, VPs, C-level executives, and business owners.

Morgana Rae is the international #1 best-selling author of “Financial Alchemy®: Twelve Months of Magic and Manifestation.” She is regarded to be the world’s #1 authority on transforming relationship with money. She has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance, all the major television networks, Coast to Coast Radio, and she was a recurring Money Maven on Fox TV. Morgana’s fans call her a “the Money Honey Lady” because of the many documented examples of clients making unexpected income of 4, 5, 6, and even 7 figures within hours of changing their relationship with money. A pioneer in personal development for close to 30 years, Morgana writes, speaks, and coaches from a desire to empower idealistic entrepreneurs, artists, healers, and humanitarians to have a big impact in the world… and to heal the rift between heart, spirit, and money.

https://www.morganarae.com/book-prelaunch-2023/

https://www.morganarae.com/

How’s your relationship with money? Test yourself:

http://DoesMoneyLoveYou.com

Join Morgana’s community of 10.7 thousand followers on Facebook:

www.facebook.com/MorganaPage

Neil is the VP at Pederson’s Natural Farms, a farm with humane, organic, and natural practices.

As for the Cowboy Perspective Podcast… He says that most of the things he is confident in today stem from the things he learned and continues to learn from the cowboys and cowgirls in his life. The Cowboy Perspective is his way of telling that story in hopes of being a resource to others.

Neil and I discuss how you can deploy grit, determination, humility, and faith daily. We discuss some of the leadership lessons that he has learned in his life and career. Neil goes on to tell me about some of the lessons that he has learned from his wife and daughters, as well as the lessons he hopes he has imparted on them in return. This is a great conversation that is packed with wisdom from a cowboy’s perspective.

https://pedersonsfarms.com/

https://thecowboyperspective.com/

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Oak is the author of the 2021 release, Your Leadership Legacy: Becoming the Leader You Were Meant to Be. Based on 40+ years of leadership in the U.S. Army and subsequent civilian positions, Oak highlights principles that will benefit today’s leaders and inspire the leaders of tomorrow. Oak is also a well-known speaker who gives presentations on a variety of topics including leadership, success, military history, college preparation and others.

During his 23-year career in the Army, Oak McCulloch held numerous leadership positions in the Infantry and Armor branches. He assisted in disaster relief operations for Hurricane HUGO in Charleston, SC and Hurricane ANDREW in south Florida.

Oak's operational deployments include: Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm in Saudi Arabia and Iraq as a General's Aide-de-Camp; Support operations in Bosnia as a Congressional Liaison Officer; and A peacekeeping deployment to Kosovo as an Operations Officer.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/oakland-mcculloch-34293256

https://www.ltcoakmcculloch.com/

Ashlee is a veteran with 14 years of active-duty service in the United States Coast Guard. Her primary job was an avionics electrical technician and flight mechanic instructor. She flew hundreds of missions during her time with the Coast Guard, rescuing over 100 people throughout her career. She trained over 60 basic aircrewman and flight mechanics who served bravely and effectively under her tutelage and beyond. In 2019, Ashlee retired due to a medical diagnosis of Myasthenia Gravis.

Leppert received 16 medals and awards throughout her career, to include the prestigious Air Medal, Achievement Medal (2), and Letter of Accommodation (7).

Ashlee and I discuss her book and her latest project that she intends to publish in the very near future. We have a conversation related to PTSD related to military sexual trauma (MST) and her experiences operating during Hurricane Harvey.

To learn more about Ashlee or to connect with her through social media, visit her website here: https://ashleeleppert.com/

Doug is the host of the Terminal Value Podcast and the Founder & Principal for Terminal Value Consulting. His career began with 20 years of progressive leadership experience in corporate Finance and Technology. He attained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) alongside his wife while both were working full-time. He served in the Marine Corps Reserve while in college and at the beginning of his career. During this time, he engaged in a continual string of ‘side hustle’ entrepreneurial ventures. All of these experiences gave him the tools to succeed and to help others succeed as well.

For additional information, visit: https://terminalvalue.biz/

Angie Morgan is a dynamic, creative thought leader who knows how to unlock the capability and talent of leaders at all levels.

After serving as a Marine Corps officer, Angie led in pharmaceutical sales for Merck and Pfizer. She’s been a special advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on diversity initiatives, and engages routinely with boards and organizations to drive performance. Angie is an avid athlete — her competitive nature and motivation to win shows up in every client engagement as she inspires others to be their best.

To learn more about Angie or to connect with her, visit: https://leadstar.us/