Build a Vibrant Culture
Podcast
In each episode, you’ll learn how to improve business culture, leadership effectiveness, team communication, accountability, and project management, all essential to building a strong and sustainable organization. We equip leaders with the strategies, systems, and mindset needed to create a truly vibrant organizational culture that drives results.
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Finding Career Fulfillment with Rich Salon
This week on the Build a Vibrant Culture Podcast, Nicole interviews author and HR expert Rich Salon. Rich is a seasoned HR leader, keynote speaker, and author of two books: Career Trust and Unleashing Your Career. Known as “Rich the HR Guy,” he’s passionate about helping individuals achieve career fulfillment and fostering employee engagement. Rich has held pivotal roles at … Read more
Sail to Scale with Heather Jerrehian: Avoid 18 Mistakes in the 4 Waves of Business
In this week’s episode, Nicole interviews Heather Jerrehian, an entrepreneurial futurist and investor who has driven innovation and go-to-market strategies for startups and Fortune 500 companies for over two decades. As a serial founder and tech executive, she has led turnarounds at unprecedented speed, scaled 10X growth, and engineered profitable exits. In her book Sail to … Read more
Secrets to Becoming a Millionare with Dominic Rubino
This week on the Build a Vibrant Culture Podcast, Nicole interviews Dominic Rubino. Dominic is a construction business coach and author who has also built and sold two of his own multi-million dollar companies. For over 20 years, Dom has worked closely with contractors, showing them how to put simple systems in place. He knows … Read more
Make Time for Strategy with Richard Medcalf
This week on the Build a Vibrant Culture Podcast, Nicole interviews Richard Medcalf, author of Making TIME for Strategy: How to be less busy and more successful. Richard describes himself as “what you get if you were to put a McKinsey consultant, a slightly unorthodox pastor and an entrepreneur into a blender.” Richard is the founder of … Read more
Create an Inclusive Culture with Jonathan Zur
This week on the Build a Vibrant Culture Podcast, Nicole interviews Jonathan Zur. Jonathan is President & CEO of the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities (VCIC), an organization that works with schools, business, and communities to achieve success through inclusion. An experienced facilitator and consultant on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, Jonathan was appointed … Read more
How Married Entrepreneurs can Find Greater Work – Life Balance with Robert & Kay Lee Fukui
This week on the Build a Vibrant Culture Podcast, Nicole interviews Robert and Kay Lee Fukui, bestselling co-authors of Tandem: The Married Entrepreneur’s Guide for Greater Work – Life Balance. Robert and Kay Lee Fukui have used their shared passions and business expertise to help entrepreneurs and ‘couplepreneurs’ strengthen and grow since they officially merged as husband and … Read more
Five Steps to Transform your One-on-Ones with Paul Morton
This week on the Build a Vibrant Culture Podcast, Nicole interviews Paul Morton. Paul is a seasoned CEO, leadership expert, and the visionary behind the Practical Leadership Academy. Paul knows that many managers find themselves in leadership roles by accident—promoted for their technical skills without ever being shown how to manage effectively. His work centers … Read more
Change! How to Turn Uncertainty into Opportunity with Curtis Bateman
This week on the Build a Vibrant Culture Podcast, Nicole interviews Curtis Bateman. He is the bestselling co-author of Change: How to Turn Uncertainty Into Opportunity and is vice president of direct international offices for FranklinCovey. With over 24 years of experience in the training industry, Curtis is an internationally recognized presenter, content developer, change … Read more
How to Build a Peer to Peer Culture with Mark Budzinski
This week on the Build a Vibrant Culture Podcast, Nicole interviews Mark Budzinski. Mark is a management executive who advises business leaders how to get the most out of their investment in analytics. With an acute interest in organizational behavior, his book is published on Amazon under the title “Peer-to-Peer Culture.” In this episode we … Read more
Engineering Dreams with Mary Miller
This week on the Build a Vibrant Culture Podcast, Nicole interviews Mary Miller, author of Changing Direction: Ten Choices that Impact Your Dreams. Mary Miller has empowered ten million individuals to pursue their dreams. With over 20 years as an Entrepreneurial Coach at Strategic Coach Inc., she equips business owners with tools for success. Mary’s … Read more
Elevate: The Art of Clarity in Communication with Davina Stanley
This week on the Build a Vibrant Culture Podcast, Nicole interviews Davina Stanley, author of Elevate: How to Lift the Quality of Thinking in Your Team’s Board Papers without Rewriting Them Yourself and Engage: How to Engage Senior Leaders and Boards without Burning Nights and Weekends Iterating on Your Papers. Davina Stanley has been helping … Read more
The ADKAR Advantage: How to Do Change Management with Karen Ball
ADKAR is a change management model that focuses on guiding individuals through the change process.
TRUTH TELLING, HONESTY,
AND CANDOR
ARE SOME OF MY CORE PRINCIPLES.
Name the challenge you're facing in your culture, and I will help you solve it.
From culture-shifting keynotes and workshops, executive coaching, or long-term partnerships, my work is to help you develop your next leaders.
I was fortunate to learn this early from an exceptional leader. She took an eager, overconfident new hire and developed me into a capable leader.
I went on to lead marketing and training for 80+ sites across the United States. Later, I achieved almost every credential in leadership development you’ve heard of. (see the list)
Since that time, I’ve joined organizations in almost every industry to BUILD VIBRANT CULTURES where employees take initiative and true ownership in their work.
Let’s build your leadership development strategy together.
