Fearless Growth with Amanda Setili
22 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWe all want to do work we love, and as leaders, entrepreneurs and employees, wouldn’t it be great to create workplaces where work feels like play?
Where people are tuned in to changes going on in the world around them? Where they’re constantly learning, spotting new opportunities, and taking action to go after them? These traits are essential to an organization's agility and success.
In the Fearless Growth podcast, Amanda Setili and her guests explore the mindsets and choices that lead individuals, leaders and their organizations to outstanding performance.
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Episodes
Anthony Webb on Building Great Workplaces and the Secrets of Successful Acquisitions
August 07, 2023 13:55 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBToday’s guest highlights the importance of trust, empathy, and understanding in fostering meaningful experiences in the workplace. He also discusses the keys to successful acquisitions, how to avoid common mistakes by acquirers, and how to create post-acquisition strategy. Anthony Webb is a mergers & acquisitions lifer, licensed lawyer, venture capital investor, servant leader, and engaged father. Currently, he works in Corporate Development and M&A Integration for Adobe. ...
Colleen Francis on the Sales Revolution
April 21, 2022 18:41 - 44 minutes - 20.5 MBColleen Francis provides a proven, realistic gameplan to creatively adapt our sales and marketing efforts in a topsy-turvy world. Colleen is an award-winning speaker, consultant, and the author of Right on the Money: New Principles for Bold Growth. A successful sales leader for over 20 years, Colleen’s results have attracted hundreds of industry-leading clients, including Chevron, John Deere, NCR, Trend Micro, Merck, Abbott, Experian, Royal Bank, and Dow. Colleen is a re...
Play the Long Game, with Dorie Clark
April 01, 2022 18:40 - 46 minutes - 21.5 MBToday’s guest teaches us that by playing the long game, we future-proof our career. I’ve known Dorie Clark for 11 years, and it was so much fun to have her on my podcast. I especially loved her story about a woman who became part of her Recognized Expert community and got back in touch a year later to thank Dorie. “I made one million dollars in my first year!” she reported. But that’s not the best part, which is that the woman is 80 years old. This is an example of what Dor...
What Makes Google Culture Special? Guest Neil Hoyne, Google's Chief Measurement Strategist
March 24, 2022 01:21 - 38 minutes - 17.6 MBWhat makes Google’s culture so special that it has enabled them to have a 22% compound annual growth rate for a decade? How do they promote collaboration and keep growing even though they are already a huge company? Hint: it’s not the volleyball courts and free food. In part two of my conversation with Neil Hoyne, he shares insights into practices behind this amazing performance. As the Chief Measurement Strategist at Google, Neil has led more than 2,500 engagements with th...
The World is in Need of a New Model of Leadership; Ken Blanchard and Randy Conley
March 12, 2022 21:24 - 48 minutes - 22 MBThe world is in desperate need for a new model of leadership, say Ken Blanchard and Randy Conley. We have seen the results of self-centered leadership, the kind that loves power and status. They make the case that it’s just not working for us. The two are the authors of the new book, “Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust”, which features one simple truth for each week in a year. It’s an elegantly powerful approach to sharing some big ideas,...
Google’s Chief Measurement Strategist, Neil Hoyne, on using data to win customers’ hearts
February 17, 2022 15:21 - 28 minutes - 13.1 MBWhat makes a successful data-driven company? Today’s guest says that it has very little to do with the company’s ability to analyze massive data sets. Rather, what’s most important is identifying the right questions to ask, and then finding the simplest ways to answer these questions. Neil Hoyne is the Chief Measurement Strategist at Google. He has led more than 2500 engagements with the world’s biggest advertisers and has generated billions of dollars in incremental reven...
Roberta Matuson on Difficult Conversations
December 28, 2021 15:40 - 30 minutes - 14 MBIf you want to understand what often stops teams from being more productive and successful, look no further than the tendency of most people to avoid difficult conversations. Recognizing this fact is leadership and talent expert Roberta Matuson, who has dedicated her latest book Can We Talk?: Seven Principles for Managing Difficult Conversations at Work to this universal workplace conundrum. Asked to name the one topic that most people are afraid to bring up at work, Roberta...
Radical Product Thinking, with Radhika Dutt
December 08, 2021 14:40 - 32 minutes - 14.8 MBWhat's a "product"? Radhika Dutt argues it's the mechanism for creating the change you want to bring in the world. She is my podcast guest this week and is author of Radical Product Thinking. Her vison-led approach applies to anyone who wants to create change, from human rights activists to entrepreneurs to corporate innovators. “Each person in your organization should be able to use their own words to describe the problem you are solving, who you’re solving it for, and why it i...
"Unfear" with Gaurav Bhatnagar and Mark Minukas
December 02, 2021 02:53 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBHave you ever jumped to a conclusion that was dead wrong? Or assumed that everyone else on your team was seeing the world in the same way as you, but then found out that they saw things very differently? My guests Gaurav Bhatnagar and Mark Minukas are co-authors of Unfear: Transform Your Organization to Create Breakthrough Performance and Employee Well-Being. They explain how the failure to separate what we've actually observed from what is merely our interpretation of the situ...
Grand Challenges: A Proven Way to Solve Intractable Problems, with Seth Kahan
November 03, 2021 03:25 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBSeth Kahan is the Founder and CEO of Visionary Leadership. As a leadership and performance improvement authority in the Grand Challenge space, Seth has helped over 100 CEOs and other high-performers achieve large-scale change, innovation, and growth. Seth defines a “Grand Challenge” as “a big systemic issue that resists superficial solutions. It’s usually hard for a single mind to grasp because it’s systemic.” Climate change and lowering the stigma around mental illness, he says...
Moira Vetter, lifelong entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Modo Modo agency
October 26, 2021 12:43 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBMoira Vetter is the Founder and CEO at Modo Modo Agency, a strategic brand engagement firm that accelerates the way billion-dollar companies capture and grow their market. Moira has always been an entrepreneur at heart, having begun her journey working the cash register at her parents’ pharmacy at the ripe young age of 7. Asked about the human side of B2B marketing, Moira notes that “there is a huge fallacy about B2B in general”—that the entire process is about “computers sellin...
Greg White, CEO, LEARN Charter School Network, on Making a Difference on the Front Lines
October 04, 2021 18:53 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBGreg White is the President & CEO of LEARN, a network of 11 high-performing public charter schools that serve more than 4,400 students in Chicago and Washington D.C. After graduating from Harvard Business School, Greg worked at Salomon Brothers before eventually founding his own venture capital firm. He also taught at the Kellogg School of Management and served at the Chicago Community Trust before becoming CEO of the LEARN Charter School Network. Asked why he chose the unique c...
Ginger Bowman, Founder of Synergetic Media, Oscar Winner and Lifelong Learner
October 01, 2021 01:38 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MBGinger Bowman is the founder of Synergetic Media, a multichannel marketing services provider located in Alpharetta Georgia, offering commercial printing, web design, video marketing, social, and branding services. She reflects on her journey to success as a business owner in the world of design. It all began after she graduated from university with a fine arts degree. Without the knowledge and the skills to actually monetize her creative ambitions, Ginger found herself waiting t...
Ann Latham on the Power of Clarity
September 30, 2021 02:23 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBAnn Latham is author of The Power of Clarity (Bloomsbury 2021) and The Clarity Papers, two books that have made her the leading expert on clarity—where it is, where it isn’t, how to create it, why it is so uncommon, and its incredible and under-appreciated power. Leaders and employees are under relentless pressure to become faster, more efficient, and more adaptable in the face of change. People are stressed, and organizations aren't performing as well as they could. How can w...
Robbie Kellman Baxter on Making the Transition to a Subscription Model
September 21, 2021 16:52 - 30 minutes - 14 MBRobbie Kellman Baxter is author of The Forever Transaction and The Membership Economy, two books which have sealed her place as the number one expert in the world on subscription and membership-based businesses. Nearly every company is at least thinking about moving to a subscription model, or incorporating subscription models into their business strategy. The benefits are clear - recurring revenue, disruption-proofing customer loyalty, and more. But taking the leap can be scary...
Robbie Kellman Baxter on Navigating the Scary Terrain to a Subscription Model
September 21, 2021 16:52 - 30 minutes - 14 MBRobbie Kellman Baxter is author of The Forever Transaction and The Membership Economy, two books which have sealed her place as the number one expert in the world on subscription and membership-based businesses. Nearly every company is at least thinking about moving to a subscription model, or incorporating subscription models into their business strategy. The benefits are clear - recurring revenue, disruption-proofing customer loyalty, and more. But taking the leap can be scary...
Sandra Hughes, founder of Life Reinvented®
September 01, 2021 02:36 - 30 minutes - 14.1 MBSandra Hughes is the epitome of reinvention. While working as a former Gap, Inc. executive, building for-profit and nonprofit businesses and juggling her family life, she didn’t have time for graduate school. Then, she decided to start her own business, earned an MBA from Santa Clara University and founded Life Reinvented at age 50. Her Life Reinvented® Solopreneur Accelerator helps people gain traction in their business through highly effective work and life success strategies. Sa...
A conversation with Will Bachman, co-founder of Umbrex
August 17, 2021 03:18 - 40 minutes - 18.7 MBWill Bachman is the Co-Founder of Umbrex, the first global community connecting top-tier independent management consultants with one another and matching consultants with clients. Headquartered in New York, the company organizes in-person professional development and social events in major cities as well as an online discussion forum. Will is the host of the Unleashed podcast, where he explores how to thrive as an independent professional alongside other successful individuals, ...
Interview with Dr. Edy Greenblatt, Resilience expert and CEO of The Restoration Vacation
July 25, 2021 00:06 - 38 minutes - 17.5 MBEdy Greenblatt, CEO of Restoration Vacation, was one of the earliest researchers in the area of resilience. She has a PhD in organizational Behavior from Harvard University, and a masters degree in dance ethnology from UCLA. Edy’s definition of resilience is the ability to recover from trauma back to normalcy quickly. This means having the physical, emotional and cognitive resources needed, and the psychological, social, and spiritual energy to access to those resources, so that y...
Interview with Mitali Chopra, UK Coach of the Year for Best Client Results
July 24, 2021 22:28 - 36 minutes - 16.8 MBMitali Chopra is a veteran of PwC, GE Capital, Microsoft and GoDaddy, where she led a team that supported 17 markets, and spoke 15 languages. She was named UK Coach of the Year for Best Client Client Results, 2020 and is the founder of a non-profit that builds children’s entrepreneurial skills. Mitali shares how her Indian grounding in world abundance and the Karma equation has shaped her life, and why she finds it more rewarding to give money away than to earn money. She also ta...
Interview with Andy Bass, Author, Start with What Works
June 30, 2021 18:22 - 42 minutes - 48.4 MBAndy Bass, PhD, author of Start with What Works, shares how his early experiences playing in a rock band, skateboarding and teaching resistant psychology students about artificial intelligence taught him how to learn, and how to teach, and how to engage an audience. Andy sees an accelerating pace of change in the world. He says that mental agility—the ability to think on your feet and improvise, will be increasingly valuable. A key skill is understanding what your customers are...
Amanda Setili interviews Andy Bass
June 30, 2021 18:22 - 42 minutes - 48.4 MBWe explore how Andy's early experience playing in a Rush tribute band led to his success today, and how organizations can achieve outstanding results starting just with what they already have.