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ERG PowerTalk

39 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 239 ratings

An inside look at the “secret sauce” ingredients that makes top performing company ERGs, BRGs and Councils Great, led by host and Supercharge Your ERG Author, Joe Santana!

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Episodes

How to Build ERG Communities Where We All Belong

June 07, 2021 05:00 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MB

In this episode, Author, Entrepreneur, and Social Justice Champion Howard Ross shows you how to build inclusive ERG/BRG communities. Communities that fully satisfy our need to be with others like us, without creating an exclusive tribe that keeps us away from enriching diversity.

How to Build a Strong Foundation for Leadership Success

May 31, 2021 05:00 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MB

In this episode, trusted CEO adviser and NYT Bestselling Author Bob Rosen, shows us how to build the internal psychological foundation we need to become a successful 21st-century leader.

How to Leverage Your ERG Role to Develop Executive Presence

May 24, 2021 05:00 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MB

In this episode, Joseph Kwon, a Udemy instructor known as the Connection Counselor teaches you how to leverage your role as a resource group leader to practice and develop the executive presence that will propel you into higher leadership roles.

How to Enhance Your Group Leadership by Building Your EQ

May 17, 2021 05:00 - 43 minutes - 59.6 MB

In this episode, Kelly Newman, Lead Facilitator for BlueEQ, teaches you how to be a better more engaging resource group leader and get more out of your life by increasing your emotional intelligence.

How to Help Your Company Keep Bias Out of Their AI Tools

May 10, 2021 05:00 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MB

In this episode, Amin Venjara an ADP expert on AI discusses what you and your ERGs can do to keep biases from sneaking into your company through your artificial intelligence tools.

How to Use True History to Remove Barriers to Inclusion

May 03, 2021 05:00 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MB

In this episode, Historian, Actor, Businessman, and Speaker Sylvester Boyd, shares hidden element of history and how we can leverage true history to remove barriers to the corporate ivory tower.

How to Win Hearts and Minds Using Choice Theory

April 26, 2021 05:00 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MB

In this episode, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and President of The Relationship Center, Kim Olver, will teach you how to win the hearts and minds of people in your company toward inclusion by leveraging Choice Theory.

How to Become a Powerful Speaker

April 19, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MB

In this episode, Dez Thornton, a past President of the Georgia Chapter of the National Speakers Association and a current board member who trains and coaches CEOs, will teach you how to be a more powerful speaker even if you have little time to prepare and practice.

Bringing Everyone on the Inclusion Journey

April 12, 2021 05:00 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MB

In this episode, bestselling author and organizational development consultancy CEO Moe Carrick talks about why ERGs need to bring everyone on the inclusion journey and how to do it.

How to Start an ERG Mentoring Program

April 05, 2021 05:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MB

In this episode, Julie Kantor, President & CEO of Twomentor will show you how to turn your ERG into a mentorship engine that propels your career and the career of all you members.

How to Sell Membership and Secure Support

March 29, 2021 05:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MB

In this episode, Adam Shapiro, President of SalesReformSchool will teach you how to turn membership in your ERG which people need into the burning want that will have them signing up.

How to Increase Your Energy and Focus

March 22, 2021 05:00 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MB

In this episode, Medical Doctor and peak performance expert Dr. Tharaka Gunarathne (Dr. T), shares his techniques for increasing your performance energy and focus.

How to Make Your Group Attractive and Engaging to Your Members

June 22, 2020 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MB

ERGs need to be attractive and engaging in order to thrive and grow. In this episode, you will hear two group Chairs, Monifa D. Drayton from Atrium Health and Lynn Pellerano from MassMutual sharing the secrets that have helped them grow robust and highly engaged groups.

How to be a Good Group Manager and Reap Top Benefits

June 15, 2020 05:00 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MB

In this episode, we will talk with a management practice expert on the advice she gives leaders and department managers, which is also of equal value to informal managers like ERG leaders.

How Your ERGs Can Support a Reduction in Bias and Increased Inclusion

June 08, 2020 05:00 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MB

Companies spend billions of dollars a year on unconscious bias training programs in an effort to create greater workplace inclusion. In this episode find out how you and your ERG can provide a vital element of support toward success to these efforts.

The Benefits of Partnering L&D and ERGs

June 01, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 58.1 MB

ERGs and Learning and Development professionals have a lot to gain by forming mutually respectful and beneficial partnerships. In this episode, we will explore the specific ways of forming and sustaining these partnerships effectively with my three guests: Theo Bowling a diversity manager at Lowes Corporation, Kee Meng Yeo Adjunct Professor at Grand Valley State… Read more

How ERGs Can Increase Their Impact and Get More Benefits by Partnering with Supplier Diversity

May 11, 2020 05:00 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MB

ERGs and Supplier Diversity efforts have a great deal to gain by partnering. In this episode, we will explore the functions and needs of the supplier diversity manager in a corporation and how ERGs and their leader can benefit by supporting them.

How ERGs Can Help Make The Physical and Virtual World More Accessible

May 04, 2020 05:00 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MB

In the last couple of years, many organizations have had to pay to retrofit physical space that was built without consideration of people with different ranges of physical, intellectual. developmental and sensory abilities. As technologies that will one day make working from home easier than ever are developed, we need to “bake-in” those considerations, instead… Read more

How to Build More Influential and Inclusive ERGs

April 27, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 62.2 MB

There is a huge opportunity for you to lead your company to a new level of inclusion and flexibility by starting with your ERG. In this episode learn from Dr. Inga Carboni of the College of William and Mary, Christian Baldia Constellation SAS CEO and Brian Vigeant CEO of CultureHQ how to apply the relatively… Read more

How ERG Membership Ignites Your Passion

April 20, 2020 05:00 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MB

Have you ever felt that you needed something to spark your passion and get you up and moving forward? So did my guest in this episode of ERG PowerTalk. Simone Morris, who once found herself less than enthusiastic about her career,is currently the highly energized and dynamic CEO of her own company, Simone Morris Enterprises… Read more

How to Leverage Your ERG to Make Yourself Visible

April 13, 2020 05:47 - 1 hour - 55.7 MB

Would you like to know how to leverage your ERG to acquire the 7 skills that can put you on your companies radar? Then join me and my guest Stephen Krempl, executive and expert on making yourself stand out in this episode of ERG PowerTalk. And learn how to stop being invisible. After my interview with… Read more

How ERGs turn Your Employees into Performance Rock Stars

April 06, 2020 05:00 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MB

Since 2015 companies have been futilely spending about $721 million dollars per year and climbing towards $1.5 billion to achieve greater employee engagement. All of this investment, in the hopes that this will increase employee productivity. However, new research shows that there is another ingredient in addition to engagement that’s needed to spark this productivity and its one… Read more

What’s Your ERG Worth?

March 30, 2020 05:00 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MB

Imagine you’re caught in the middle of a budget cuts and you’re asked “so what value does your ERG bring to the company?” The fact is that you are very likely bringing more value than you think, but if you can’t prove it you’re out of luck. Before that happens to you, join me and… Read more

Keeping Your Groups Going In Spite of Coronavirus

March 23, 2020 05:00 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MB

If you are looking for more ways to keep your ERGs and other diversity groups going while respecting social distancing, this episode will give more then a dozen ways to do it. Join host, Joe Santana, and his panel, Shary Tran of Froedtert Health & Medical College of Wisconsin, Erica Fletcher of Avanade, and UK… Read more

Season One Bonus

January 13, 2020 06:00 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MB

A brief look at how others are using this podcast to get the most out of it.

Engaging Middle Managers

November 11, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 70.6 MB

An interview on the benefits and ways of engaging middle managers in D&I and ERG efforts with Andres Gonzalez of Froedtert Health, Rosanna Durruthy of LinkedIn and Dan Lester of Clayco.

Good Stewardship

November 04, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 61.7 MB

An interview on the power and benefits of being a good steward of ERG resources and what it takes to succeed with Charlie Moore of Froedtert Health, Denise Reed Lamoreaux of Atos, Theresa Welbourne of eePulse and Neddy Perez of McCormick.

Broadening Your Network’s Reach

October 28, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 57 MB

An interview on the benefits and ways employee network leaders can expand their national and global reach with Paul Martin of SONY Pictures Entertainment, Erica Fletcher of Avanade and Dwight Roache of Atrium Health

Forming Partnerships

October 21, 2019 05:00 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MB

An interview on the power and benefits of partnerships between employee networks with Peggy Harris of Atrium Health, Dr. Benjamin F. Simmons of Atrium Health and Cheryl Kern of Lockheed Martin. 

Going Strategic

September 16, 2019 05:00 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MB

An interview with Arlene Cash from Atrium Health, followed by a panel discussion with Jewell P. Carr MD and Elaine Kressin from Manpower.

Attracting and Leveraging Allies

September 09, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 55.7 MB

An interview with Jamie Schounard from Froedtert Health, followed by a panel discussion with Calvin Hung of Atrium Health and Marisa Chambers from Structure Tone. 

Finding and Leveraging Stakeholders

September 02, 2019 05:00 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MB

An interview with Aaron Harper of Atrium Health, followed by a panel discussion with Diana Gueitsd from The Cleveland Clinic and Vanessa Nazario from RWJ Barnabas Health Hospital.

Starting a New Employee Network

August 26, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MB

A how-to discussion with guests, Shary Tran of Froedtert Health, Nisha Pasupuleti of Atrium Health and Orly Lynn former US Head of Diversity and Inclusion at HSBC.

Developing Leaders

August 19, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 57.1 MB

A discussion with guests: author Simon Morris, Theo Bowling of LPL Financial, David Casey currently with CVS and formally with Anthem and Tracie Taylor from Atrium Health.

An Awesome Opportunity to Grow and Have an Impact

August 12, 2019 07:00 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MB

Interview with Lori Valle-Yanez Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Mass Mutual 

Co-Inventors of Our Organizations Future

August 05, 2019 07:00 - 1 hour - 60.2 MB

Interview with Andres Gonzalez, Froedtert Health and Wisconsin Medical Center Vice President and CDO

Breeders of Future Leaders

July 29, 2019 05:00 - 57 minutes - 53 MB

Interview with Kinneil Coltman, Atrium Health Vice President and CDO

Season 1 Preview

July 10, 2019 05:00 - 3 minutes - 3.18 MB

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