Breakfast Leadership Show

A lifelong entrepreneur, Tony Drockton began his career with an MBA from Bowling Green in his home state of Ohio. He then established a pattern of success through his start-ups in the construction and finance industries before moving on to high fashion, where you'll find him today as the driving force and creative genius behind Hammitt, the American luxury accessories brand based in Los Angeles. Tony’s primary goal at Hammitt is to create a successful American brand built on the European model, where versatile design and master craftsmanship come together to create high-value quality you can trust and products that will last a lifetime. Tony is a member of the Accessories Council Board of Directors, as well as a member of the advisory board for BuyingTime. He has judged multiple pageants for the Miss USA organization and has been featured on numerous podcasts and television shows. Tony is respected for his business success and remembered for his endless optimism, inspiring positivity, and ever-present smile. Social Media Links: Website: https://www.hammitt.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hammittla Twitter: @hammittla | https://twitter.com/hammittla Pinterest: https://za.pinterest.com/Hammittla/ Instagram: @hammittla | https://www.instagram.com/hammittla/

Chris Roebuck’s combination of personal leadership experience in the military, business, and public sector, gives him unique insight as a globally recognized expert speaker on delivering success. Through business case studies, psychology, neuroscience, and insights from his career Chris inspires leaders to unleash the power of their own experience and potential to deliver what their organisation needs immediately via a simple 3 step system. In over 200 keynotes he has shown over 21,000 leaders from over 650 organisations globally how they can be more successful to beat their objectives, beat their challenges and build the future, and, more recently, in a way that defuses their Covid Great Resignation “People Time Bomb” and optimises hybrid working to enhance performance, wellbeing & retention. In his role as Global Head of Leadership at UBS Chris worked on building a strategic leadership team of 500 for the newly created global bank which is now a Harvard Case study. He also led Management Development at HSBC Investment Bank and helped KPMG set up a leadership enterprise. Chris worked on the top team at London Underground, the London subway, leading the creation of a partnership culture during a part privatisation working with management, employees & Government. He subsequently helped the UK National Health Service, 1.4m staff, create the first nationwide talent and leadership identification systems and was commissioned to write a report for Government on developing leadership in NHS. Chris also helps even expert leaders get better by delivering a 1 Day Masterclass on “Leadership Integrity” to 300 senior military officers and civil servants at the UK Defence Academy and also to speak on leadership at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. During his military service, he developed the pipe fascine. He was co-author of his first book on strategic leadership development and has published a number of books on leadership one of which was translated into 11 languages, published over 100 articles, has been on the list of HR Most Influential Thinkers 10 times in past 11 years and taught senior executives as Hon Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership at Bayes Business School. Chris was on a Government Expert panel on boosting Employee Engagement across sectors via the Engage for Success report and initiative. Chris writes articles for Newsweek, has been quoted as a business leadership expert globally in the Harvard Business Review China, FT, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Business Week, Washington Post and many other titles. He has done over 350 TV interviews on leadership and business on BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC and other channels and regularly judges business awards.   Social Media Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-roebuck-ccmi-fcipd-70b1283/ https://www.youtube.com/user/chrisroebuck56/featured https://twitter.com/chris__roebuck

Charles is the founder and CEO of Legislate, a legal tech company making contracts searchable at scale using patented knowledge graph company. Prior to starting Legislate, Charles was one of the first employees at Mind Foundry, a spin-out of the University of Oxford specialising in AI for high-stakes applications. https://www.legislate.tech Social Media Links: https://www.legislate.tech https://www.linkedin.com/company/legislate https://www.twitter.com/joinlegislate https://www.facebook.com/joinlegislate

Karl Alomar serves as Managing Partner of M13, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage consumer technology companies and supporting founders who are building the future of work, commerce, health & money.      Karl is a tech investor, serial entrepreneur, and most well known for building DigitalOcean from the ground up, which is one of the fastest-growing cloud infrastructure companies that is becoming a strong challenger to Amazon. DigitalOcean is valued now at over $10 billion. Ticket symbol is DOCN. Karl is also the Co-founder, CEO, for China Export Finance, Co-founder CEO for Clearview Networks.   For more info on Karl, https://www.linkedin.com/in/karl-alomar-0516a219/

Sara Webb is an author, motivational speaker, and certified yoga teacher. She considers herself a spiritual activist, choosing this nomenclature as opposed to the traditional term Coach. She advocates for clients and audiences to find their own power within by getting aligned with themselves spiritually, through introspection that begins with meditation. She inspires people to access the power within themselves by teaching pocket-sized techniques to process stress, improve daily happiness, and bring the best versions of themselves to their own lives. Sara's new book: Look Lush:  https://amzn.to/3RSTaLB IG: https://www.instagram.com/sarawebbsays/ FB: facebook.com/SaraWebbSays LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/SaraWebbSays https://www.sarawebbsays.com  

Medical Humanities Professor, specializing in anxiety about epidemic diseases and public health adoptions Kari Nixon is a professor specializing in social reactions to infectious diseases. She works at Whitworth University, where she teaches about social responses to contagion and quarantine in medical humanities and Victorian literature courses. Her work on public health has been published for lay audiences in HuffPost, YES! Magazine, and CNN. Her academic book, Kept From All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact, was published by SUNY University Press and tracks the social history of humankind’s responses to disease in Victorian literature and popular culture. Social Media: @HalfSickShadows Kari's book:  https://amzn.to/3nx1W4p

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Our guest today is Dr. Michelle K. Johnston who is the Gaston Chair of Business at Loyola University New Orleans' College of Business. Dr. Johnston is an executive coach with over 20 years of experience, and she was named to the prestigious 100 Coaches Group which consists of the top executive coaches around the world. She has her Ph.D. in Communication from Louisiana State University, and her new book, The Seismic Shift in Leadership, shares what she has learned in her years as an executive coach: primarily that connection — with yourself, your team, and your organization — is the key to a leader's success. http://www.michellekjohnston.com/  

Glen is the Founder and CEO of Brandheart, a leading leadership coaching firm that helps C-suite executives get clarity, focus, and certainty about their best selves so they can lead fulfilling and prosperous lives.    Brandheart has worked with over 500 business leaders, entrepreneurs, and athletes from around the world to develop their personal and organizational brands.   For over 20 years, Glen held Director and CEO positions at some of the world’s top brand strategy and communication companies like Clemenger BBDO, Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, and Idea Works across four continents. As a brand specialist, he helped brands such as Toyota and Gatorade enter and grow their market share in Australia.   What he learned leading and working with these top companies led him to start Brandheart to empower current and future leaders.   Glen shares:   Discovering your personal brand, or what he calls your Best Self Identity (BSI), and how this can help you live a fulfilling and prosperous life as your authentic higher self.  How to become a conscious leader that leads from the heart and accordingly is vastly more influential and successful.  The four core capabilities of remarkable leaders and how you can adapt them so you can lead more effectively. 

Chris is one of the veteran marketers out there - he is the senior advisor to CMOs at Zappos, Harley Davidson, Best Buy, Godaddy, and dozens of other brands. Before founding Cult, he was the Marketing leader at John Deere and The Home Depot. On the podcast, he would love to talk about: Cult brand principles - how the most iconic brands in the world achieved their success and adoration Marketing/Advertising - how brands need to spend less money on paid media and markdowns and instead rise up to do "real" marketing by providing better products, services, and customer experiences Internal Engagement: how the world's best brands are built from the inside out. Business leaders have a greater responsibility to convert employees into evangelists by focusing more effort and resources into their culture Social Media Links: https://cultideas.com/