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The Pivotal Leader

The Pivotal Leader podcast, hosted by Gina Trimarco, Chief Results Officer of Pivot10 Results, features 30-minute interviews with modern and pivotal business leaders who share their experiences and anecdotal success stories to inspire rising leaders to shift their own organizational cultures to higher success.
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Jul 27, 2017

 

In this episode of The Pivotal Leader, Gina Trimarco interviewed Trevor Longino, an American marketer with 20 years of experience in the industry, focused mostly on strategic, digital and event marketing, and he has been a consultant at Disney's Yellowshoes Interactive, Universal Studios, Stratosphere Casino, Cox Communications, CD Projekt, and many more companies. He has taken 4 different startups from newly launched to #1 in their industries.

 

Podcast Topics Include:

  • Having an open and honest culture
  • When leaders “screw up” - Making and learning from mistakes (and how companies give lip service to this)
  • Being a leader vs a manager
  • “Why” starts with leaders and employees fill in the “how”
  • The difference in between Gen X & Gen Y in problem solving
  • The leadership approaches of Steve Jobs, Elon Musk & Google
  • Understanding personalities and having emotional intelligence
  • Getting extraordinary talent at less cost
  • Explaining your leadership style and sharing expectations when hiring team members
  • Balancing your craft/expertise with being a leader

Full Show Notes at http://pivot10results.com/podcast39_trevorlongino

Jul 18, 2017

“Approachable is not about being your best friend or even that nice. The question [about a leader] is ‘Is this person someone you feel safe coming to?’”

- Phillip B. Wilson

In this episode of The Pivotal Leader, Gina Trimarco interviewed Phillip B. Wilson, Founder and Chief Evangelist of Approachable Leadership, a leadership consulting firm.

For over two decades as a labor expert, Phil has helped thousands of companies survive – and triumph over – life-or-death employee relations disasters. Over and over, he’s been an eyewitness to leadership train wrecks.  Over years of watching what doesn’t work (including a lot of traditional leadership advice) he’s stumbled upon what he calls “the One Ring of leadership,” approachability. Yeah, he’s also a self-proclaimed nerd.

Like all business owners, Phil is a leader too. He is an Entrepreneur's Organization board member and owner of an Inc. 5000 consulting business. Before that, he was a labor lawyer and HR Director of a riverboat casino (really!) – he has struggled through the same leadership challenges each of us face every day.

Podcast Topics Include:

  • Going from broken to positive leadership
  • The employment relationship – a different kind of marriage
  • Leveraging leadership to turn things around
  • The “one ring” of leadership philosophy
  • Understanding leadership styles
  • Focusing on connection and approachability
  • The 3 most important questions a leader should ask
  • “Power Distance” – a leadership failure
  • The “Stop, Listen & Confirm” approach
  • Strategies for leadership training consultants

Full Show Notes: http://pivot10results.com/podcast38_philwilson

Jul 12, 2017

“I believe that there is currency in humanity. People are currency with value while money is superficial.” – Paul Amelio, CEO, N2 Global Solutions

In this episode of The Pivotal Leader, Gina Trimarco, Chief Results Officer of Pivot10 Results, interviewed Paul Amelio. Paul is a creative ad genius and inventor. He’s also the co-founder and CEO of N2 Global Solutions, Inc., a New York City-based technology company that has developed the first integrated wireless network of its kind—an Internal ‘Super Grid’ that consists of modules that retrofit into a building’s existing electrical junction boxes, that communicate remotely with an existing Building’s Management Systems (BMS).

What’s most interesting about Paul is his journey from Italy to the Bronx, living his own “Bronx Tale” in the 60s. He arrived in America, as a child, with his family one month prior to the assassination of Martin Luther King. His mother didn’t want him to end up a Shepard, so they boarded a cruise ship as "vacationing" passengers to America with no intention of returning to Italy so they could have a better life. His story of growing up and grabbing the American dream is inspirational. Ironically, the cruise line was called the SS Michelangelo. Paul is a true “Renaissance Man” you need to know!

Podcast Topics Include:

  • The journey from immigrant to US citizen to entrepreneur
  • Realizing your talents and leveraging them
  • The difficulty of creating a product “that’s a piece of you” and needing the help of others to sell it
  • Selling a necessity vs, a commodity
  • Building currency in relationships to create real equity
  • Creating jobs while fixing the environmental climate
  • Providing training and opportunities for minorities
  • Having a “CBO” as a secret weapon for success

Full Show Notes: http://pivot10results.com/podcast37_paulamelio

Jul 4, 2017

“Diversity of thought is one of the most critical things in business today.” – Kendley Davenport, CEO, Source4Teachers

In this episode of The Pivotal Leader, Gina Trimarco spoke to Kendley Davenport, Chief Executive Officer for Source4Teachers, a leader in the K-12 education staffing space. He leads a team of more than 250 corporate employees, in addition to 30,000 daily and long-term substitute teachers and support staff across eight states.

Source4Teachers offers educational talent management solutions, specializing in teacher recruitment. They are the fastest growing company in their space, the 7th largest staffing firm in America and on the 2017 Forbes list for Best Large Companies in America.

Podcast Topics Include:

  • How and why to be disruptive
  • Managing fast growth (50-60% growth in one year)
  • Having a collaborative decision-making approach
  • Diversity of thought as a tool for solutions
  • Predicting client needs to forecast growth
  • Ways to engage talent pools
  • Keeping remote teams feeling connected
  • Discovering and understanding employee needs
  • Choosing the right customers
  • Maintaining a high level of innovation and entrepreneurial spirit

Full Show Notes: http://pivot10results.com/podcast36_kdavenport

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