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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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Mar 25, 2018

“The more comfortable people are with themselves and the more clear they are about who they are, the more everyone respects them.”

– Mark Fisher

In this episode of The Pivotal Leader, Gina Trimarco interviewed Mark Fisher, co-founder of Mark Fisher Fitness and Business For Unicorns, in addition to being an in-demand international speaker, consultant, and entrepreneur. His core expertise is helping business owners achieve financial success and personal freedom through community building, leadership development, and creating healthy organizational cultures. He's also excellent at playing with puppies.

Mark and his “non-sexual life partner” Michael created Business for Unicorns in 2016 and have since worked with clients like Sony Music, Sylvan Learning, and the ACLU, as well as many of the leading fitness studios across the US and UK. They are also proud alumni speakers of TEDx Broadway.

In addition to their consulting and teaching through Business for Unicorns, Mark and Michael also co-founded Mark Fisher Fitness, one of the most successful gyms in the history of the fitness industry. MFF has two physical locations in Manhattan and was recognized as #312 on the 2015 Inc. 500 fastest growing companies in America, as well as one of Men's Health's "Top 20 Gyms in America."

Podcast Topics Include:

  • Creating a talent pipeline
  • Giving the team veto power in the hiring process
  • When clients become team members
  • “Interning” new employees to test fit
  • Irreverent and escalation marketing strategies
  • How to be successful by being authentically kind and crass at the same time
  • Combining artistry and fitness to create a business that becomes a marketing vehicle for other revenue streams
  • Whether or not to franchise your business
  • Becoming a “conscious business” as a force for social change
  • Advice for speakers and why business owners need to be speakers
  • The power of unicorns, rainbows, profanity and naked men with wings
  • Lots of book recommendations!

Full Show Notes including book list: https://pivot10results.com/podcast62_mark-fisher

Mar 8, 2018

The biggest leading indicator to any success are the people.”

– Jason Williford

In this episode of The Pivotal Leader, Gina Trimarco interviewed Jason Williford, a professional business speaker and executive consultant focused on all human decisions, where he works with domestic and international organizations of all shapes and sizes. He also is a licensee and consultant for Culture Index.

Culture Index is a strategic advisory firm that works exclusively with visionary entrepreneurs, CEOs, business leaders, and management to scale and transform organizations using applied analytical traits. And if you’ve never taken the Culture Index profile assessment, it is like no other personality assessment you’ve ever taken.

Podcast Topics Include:

  • The history, process and benefits of the Culture Index
  • Studying, interpreting and mobilizing the 7 personality traits (Autonomy, Social Ability, Pace or Patience, Conformity, Energy Units or Mental Stamina, Logic, Ingenuity)
  • Getting people on the right bus in the right seats, mathematically
  • Keeping A players (harder to do than finding them)
  • Psychometrics = Psychology + Math to acquire valid assessments
  • Overcoming disengaged (70%) employees
  • Analysis of Gina Trimarco’s personality

Full Show Notes: https://pivot10results.com/podcast61_Jason-Williford

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