Business Consultant Episodes

Edward J. Doherty on Success to Meaningful Leadership | 1,598 Edward J. Doherty believes leadership is measured not by personal success, but by the lives you help grow along the way. A business executive, consultant, author, and nonprofit leader, Edward has spent decades leading organizations, developing people, and building cultures where individuals can thrive. From overseeing more than 135 restaurants as a Regional Vice President to serving as Chief Human Resources Officer for an 11,000 employee company and leading a multimillion dollar business, his career has been defined by one consistent priority: investing in people. Edward's leadership extends far beyond the corporate world. As the father of an adult son with disabilities and a longtime nonprofit leader, he has gained a deeply personal understanding of resilience, compassion, and the importance of serving others. Those experiences have shaped a leadership philosophy grounded in optimism, perseverance, and the belief …

Amy K Nunn on Leadership Development and Self Awareness | 1,586 Amy K. Nunn believes leadership is not about having the answers. It is about creating the conditions for others to thrive. A leadership consultant, executive coach, and creator of the Next to Nunn Diagnostic Method, Amy helps organizations uncover the hidden patterns that quietly limit performance. Drawing from years of leading large teams across churches, ministries, and community organizations, she understands that the greatest leadership challenges are rarely strategic. They are human. Amy's work was shaped as much by her own mistakes as her successes. Having experienced both poor leadership and her own leadership blind spots, she learned that lasting influence begins with self awareness. Today, she helps leaders recognize the patterns that hold them back, strengthen communication, develop healthier teams, and build cultures where people take genuine ownership. Rather than offering quick fixes, Amy equips l…

Dr Chidimma Abuka on Shared Leadership and Team Success | 1,583 Dr. Chidimma A. Abuka is rethinking one of leadership's oldest assumptions: that every organization needs just one person at the top. An author, researcher, and leadership consultant, Dr. Abuka is the Executive Director of Global Co-Leadership Development and Change Management at Polymathes Consulting. Through her doctoral research at Pepperdine University, she developed the Dualis Co-Leadership System™, a research informed framework designed to help organizations lead through intentional partnership rather than individual authority. As the author of Co-Leadership: One Role. Two Leaders. and The Workbook for Co-Leaders, she equips executives, organizations, and leadership teams with practical strategies for building trust, strengthening shared accountability, and creating collaborative leadership cultures that thrive in today's complex world. Dr. Abuka's work challenges conventional leadership models with a po…

Rita Rai on Business Strategy and Operational Excellence | 1,582 Rita Rai has spent her career solving the complex challenges that keep organizations from reaching their full potential. A senior executive and strategic advisor, Rita has led high impact transformation initiatives for Fortune 500 companies, helping executive teams navigate growth, operational complexity, and organizational change. Her expertise spans strategic planning, operational excellence, process optimization, technology strategy, program leadership, and change management. Known for her ability to connect big picture vision with practical execution, Rita helps organizations improve performance, streamline operations, reduce costs, and create better experiences for both customers and teams. At the heart of her work is a simple belief: sustainable success comes from aligning strategy, people, and execution. Through thoughtful leadership and a talent for solving complex problems, Rita helps organizations m…

Todd A. Krause on Scaling a Business with Better Systems | 1,572 Todd A. Krause believes businesses don't struggle because they lack opportunity. They struggle because they outgrow the systems that once made them successful. A CPA, MBA, entrepreneur, and business strategist, Todd has spent his career helping organizations scale with clarity and purpose. As the owner of The Cleaning Authority in Fishers, he grew the business from $1.8 million to more than $4 million in revenue while creating an award winning workplace culture built on strong leadership and engaged teams. Today, through Silversun Consulting, Todd helps home service business owners overcome the challenges that prevent sustainable growth. His work focuses on building leadership, creating scalable systems, and developing healthy workplace cultures that allow companies to grow without relying on constant owner involvement. Drawing from decades of experience across finance, banking, entrepreneurship, and operatio…

Andy Johnson on Unlocking Your Full Potential 1,557 Andy Johnson has spent a lifetime helping people perform when it matters most. A Master Certified Coach (MCC), leadership consultant, educator, and speaker, Andy brings more than 25 years of experience guiding individuals, leaders, and organizations toward higher performance, stronger leadership, and sustainable success. As the Founder and Director of Total Focus, he has worked across industries and continents, helping people unlock potential that often exceeds what they believed possible. What makes Andy's perspective unique is the breadth of his experience. From competing as a professional rugby player to serving as a Training Officer with the London Fire Brigade, he understands firsthand what leadership, resilience, and performance look like under pressure. Those lessons became the foundation for a coaching career dedicated to helping others thrive in demanding environments. Over the past two decades, Andy has coached…

Matthew Fornaro on Avoiding Costly Business Mistakes | 1,530 Matthew Fornaro helps business owners navigate legal challenges before they become costly problems. With more than two decades of experience serving businesses throughout South Florida, Matthew has built a reputation for providing clear, practical legal counsel in areas where entrepreneurs often need it most, contracts, disputes, negotiations, risk management, and business growth. Rather than overwhelming clients with legal jargon, he focuses on helping business owners make confident, informed decisions that protect what they have built and position them for long term success. Whether advising startups taking their first steps or established companies managing complex business issues, Matthew brings a strategic mindset that balances legal protection with real world business objectives. His philosophy is straightforward: the best legal strategy is not just about solving problems. It is about helping businesses …

Kristopher Grey on Simplifying Business Complexity | 1,495 Kristopher Grey is a project management expert and the founder of Creatapult, where he helps companies bring structure, clarity, and consistency to how work gets done. With more than 20 years of experience, Kris focuses on solving a common problem inside growing businesses. Too much reliance on individual effort and not enough systemized execution. His approach simplifies complexity into a clear framework of who is responsible, what needs to be done, and when it needs to happen. By building repeatable systems, he helps organizations protect their margins, reduce risk, and operate with greater predictability. The result is a business that no longer depends on last minute heroics, but runs on structure that can scale. Kris works with teams that are ready to move from reactive to intentional, creating a foundation that supports sustainable growth and long term performance. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? S…

1,385 | Rich Potter on Aligning Lifestyle and Business Ownership Rich Potter is a franchise consultant, entrepreneur, and the founder of Franchise Heroes, where he helps professionals leave the traditional 9 to 5 by investing in proven, scalable business models instead of starting from scratch. With more than a decade of experience as a business owner and operator, Rich has built and scaled multiple companies across e commerce, service based businesses, and marketing. Today, he works one on one with aspiring business owners, including executives, healthcare professionals, high income W 2 earners, and veterans, guiding them through franchise ownership with clarity and confidence. As a Senior Agent with Quantum Franchise Group and a recognized Rising Star within the Franchise Brokers Association, Rich is known for his data driven, no pressure approach. He prioritizes lifestyle alignment, financial transparency, and long term success, helping clients avoid costly mistakes and ch…

1,348 | Oksana Lukash on Navigating Hypergrowth Without Losing Culture Oksana Lukash is a leadership advisor, executive coach, and former Chief People Officer who helps organizations and leaders navigate growth, change, and complexity with heart and clarity. An immigrant from Moscow who came to the U.S. at 13, Oksana learned early how to lead through uncertainty, connect across cultures, and build belonging from the ground up. Over the past 20 years, she’s guided startups, Fortune 500s, and mission-driven organizations through hypergrowth, turnarounds, and cultural transformation. Her philosophy is simple: people strategy is business strategy. Confidence and clarity can be taught. And the way you treat people is your ultimate competitive advantage. Through coaching, speaking, and facilitation, Oksana helps leaders lean into their “No Matter What Values” and create cultures rooted in purpose, resilience, and real human connection. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show…

1,227 | Success Mindsets: Ryan Gottfredson’s Blueprint for Better Leadership Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is a renowned leadership development author, researcher, and consultant who helps organizations elevate their leaders by transforming how they think and operate. His groundbreaking work centers on vertical development and the power of mindsets to unlock greater effectiveness, agility, and impact. Ryan is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of Success Mindsets, The Elevated Leader, and Becoming Better. He also serves as a professor of leadership at California State University, Fullerton’s College of Business and Economics. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://ryangottfredson.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price tag. Perfect for creators, coaches, and brands ready to le…

1,206 | How Charlie Sheppard Unlocks Breakthrough Performance in Leaders and Organizations Charlie Sheppard is a Professor of Leadership, Organizational Development Consultant, and transformational coach to executives. He is known for unlocking breakthrough performance in individuals and organizations through behavior-based change, grounded in the conviction that performance is not a mystery. It is a repeatable pattern that can be identified, modeled, and scaled. As a consultant, Charlie helps architect high-performance cultures by identifying critical leadership behaviors through rigorous job analysis and cascading them across teams and functions. His work has aligned global organizations around strategic behavior shifts that endure. He has facilitated high-stakes union management negotiations that have helped avert strikes and foster long-term trust. He has an unparalleled track record over three decades of helping teams negotiate wise and sustainable agreements. ━━━━━━━━━━━…

1,136 | Jen Mueller on What Sports Taught Her About Business & Breaking Barriers Jen Mueller is an Emmy-award winning producer and sports broadcaster. She is the Seattle Seahawks sideline radio reporter and is a member of the Seattle Mariners television broadcast team on ROOT SPORTS. Jen specializes in building relationships, delivering meaningful content. Throughout her 24-year career she has been on the sidelines of NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, WNBA and college football and basketball games. Jen was honored for her work in the industry in 2022, as the recipient of the Keith Jackson Media Excellence Award presented by the Seattle Sports Commission. In addition to her work on the sidelines, Jen is established as a business communication expert and the founder of Talk Sporty to Me. She delivers keynote presentations that motivate and inspire. Jen works with companies that want to level up their communication skills and provides actionable conversation strategies based on her locker r…

1,131 | Optimize Your SUCCESS: Lisa Heintzelman on Leadership & Business Growth Lisa L. Heintzelman, M.Ed., is the President of Illuminations Consulting, founded in April 2000. As a Business, Sales, and Leadership Coach, she excels in lifelong learning and continuous quality improvement. Lisa earned her Master’s in Educational Administration from Temple University and graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s in Elementary and Early Childhood Education from Elizabethtown College. In 1999, Lisa was named Sallie Mae’s First Class Teacher of the Year for Pennsylvania. Noticing a gap between education and business, she broadened Illuminations Consulting’s scope. Today, she thrives as a business success consultant, focusing on efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity, and coaching individuals and teams to “Optimize Your SUCCESS!” ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://illuminationsconsulting.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos…

1,128 | Leadership as Art: Charles Spinosa on Culture & Creating Organizational Masterpieces Charles Spinosa has been a management consultant for the last 28 years. He draws on thinking from philosophy and literature to develop leaders, change organizational cultures, and develop new customer propositions. He has worked with clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups in Europe, the US, Canada, Latin America, and China. Before entering management consulting, he taught Shakespeare at Miami University in Ohio and then philosophy at U. C. Berkeley. With Fernando Flores and Hubert L. Dreyfus, Charles published Disclosing New Worlds (The MIT Press, 1997). The book looks at innovation in business, politics, and culture from a philosopher’s perspective. In 2024 with Matthew Hancocks, Haridimos Tsoukas, and Christopher Davis (on culture), Charles published Leadership as Masterpiece Creation (The MIT Press). The book provides the conceptual and practical frameworks for leaders t…

Marty Strong has been a leader and business consultant for decades, first in uniform as a combat-decorated Navy SEAL, and then in commercial business. Marty is a thought provoking writer, speaker, and guest expert with over 350 appearances on national cable TV and hundreds of radio and Podcast interviews to his credit. Marty is the author of Be Nimble – How the Creative Navy SEAL Mindset Wins on the Battlefield and in Business. Support our podcast show by: https://www.positivetalkradio.net/support/ https://kmmedia.pro/our-store Patreon - patreon.com/positivetalkradio Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/positivetalkradio Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/positivetalkradio/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@positivetalkradio?lang=en Twitter - https://twitter.com/positivetradio