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Catherine Allen is Co-founder and Chief Impact Officer of AO People Partners, a Leadership Development and Culture Transformation firm dedicated to inspiring and supporting the conscious practice of people development in the workplace. 

 

Catherine specializes in helping executive leaders and teams Own, Model and Drive business and people development integration in their organizations.  Skilled in conflict resolution, communications, business strategy and change management, Catherine has a 30-year track record in organizational leadership and management consulting helping executive leaders and their teams design strategies and work through the messy human realities of organizational life. Catherine is a sought-after executive coach to executive leaders seeking to take their business to the next level of conscious growth and senior leaders transitioning to executive roles.

 

As AO’s Chief Impact Officer, her focus is on guiding her team to build and deliver the full suite of service capabilities to help leaders lead effectively, develop their people and design and build integrated and holistic people development cultures that are sustainable, practical and cost efficient.  She also guides AO’s thought leadership and commitment to helping clients achieve their desired results and impact. Catherine holds an M.S. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University and is a board-certified professional coach.

 

Catherine is co-author with Ed Offterdinger of the book: Conscious, Capable and Ready to Contribute: How Employee Development Can Become the Highest Form of Social Contribution. 

 

Catherine is also a contributing author to the recently published book from the Association for Talent Development: Organizational Development Handbook.  Her chapter is titled: A Holistic Approach to Developing a Leader’s Soft Skills

 

Catherine writes and speaks regularly on leadership and people development integration and why people development in the workplace should become a recognized and incentivized form of social contribution.

 

Catherine lives in Rockville, Maryland with her husband and two children.

More Info:  https://aopeoplepartners.com/

Robin Daniels is the Chief Business and Product Officer at LMS365. Robin has previously been a 3 x CMO with more than 20 years’ experience in marketing and growth leadership roles at Salesforce, Box, LinkedIn, Matterport, and WeWork. 

He's done 2.5 IPOs, several acquisitions, and led companies through hyper-growth to become category-leaders. 

Robin is also a mentor to several fast growing companies, including Uizard, Custimy, Cutover, Rhombus Systems, and Labster. His passion is creating winning teams that do outstanding and meaningful work.

Topaz Adizes is an Emmy Award-winning writer, director, and experience design architect. He is an Edmund Hillary fellow and Sundance/Skoll stories of change fellow. His works have been selected to Cannes, Sundance, IDFA, and SXSW; featured in New Yorker magazine, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times; and have garnered an Emmy for new approaches to documentary and Two World Press photo awards for immersive storytelling and interactive documentary. He is currently the founder and executive director of the experience design studio The Skin Deep. Topaz studied philosophy at UC Berkeley and Oxford University. He speaks four languages and currently lives in Mexico with his wife and two children.

This show will explore how your hope, inspiration, acceptance, goals, and habits can help you navigate this uncertain future. How did you successfully get through 2020? Who are you grateful for? What are the key learnings for you? What steps do you need to take to be Emotionally Brilliant in 2021? How do you set realistic expectations for 2021 and sustain them? How do deal with your copious and intense emotions generated from the losses and uncertainties from the pandemic, divisive politics, and racial inequities? Being emotionally brilliant is pulling out of your bag of tricks the right response for you to get the right results for each particular situation. Drs. Greenberg and Nadler have helped thousands of leaders to be their best version of themselves. You can go to their website for free tools and resources to be more emotionally brilliant. www.eblifebook.com

How do we handle a COVID Holiday? This holiday time is full of high expectations and we are often let down. Why do we become our worst selves during the holidays? There are four reasons why this happens and four actions to go from holiday hurts to happiness, which we will highlight. Today 42.6% of us in the US are feeling either anxiety or depression because of COVID consequences. Now with the holidays here our emotions are even more intense. Add in loneliness, sadness, boredom, isolation, irritability, and more alcohol and drug use into the emotional cocktail from 9 months living with COVID. It’s a recipe for feeling empty, unfulfilled, and more depressed and hijacked where we become our worst version of ourselves? As we are limping forward to a hopeful happy time; is easy to project our disappointment on others. So, what are Four Holidays actions from Hijacks to Happiness to best manage this time? Join Cathy and Relly to explore tools to be more brilliant.

Too many people who have been deeply traumatized by COVID, violence, cancer, bankruptcy or divorce will tell you that they got past it, but they never got over it. They're not the same person as they were before. They feel more tentative, have their guard up, and don't step into anything new with two feet. They'll tell you that coping is better than not coping, but it's not the same as feeling fully alive, solid, and secure. What if there were a way to not just cope, but begin to heal from trauma to feel fully alive? In his new book, Why Cope When You Can Heal?, co-authored with Dr. Diana Hendel, our guest Dr. Mark Goulston introduces the world and now us to Surgical Empathy an approach he invented and expanded to people with PTSD that helps them to finally begin to heal.

Zach Levy currently serves as the Managing Director of Federal at Cognovi Labs on the subject of Emotion AI. Join us to learn about Cognovi Labs and how Emotion AI is influencing everything from how you choose a fast food restaurant to your leadership approach. Before pivoting to the private sector, Zach served in the US Army and Joint organizations with distinction in various special operations forces across the Dept. of Defense and Intelligence Communities.

Join Business Journalist and author Stan Silverman as he shares leadership insights from President Trump. Four years of the presidency of Donald Trump has provided a treasure trove of lessons on leadership. Some people judge Trump favorably because he fulfilled some of his campaign promises. Stan will go beyond these and consider more fundamental areas where he has fallen short – Trump’s leadership traits, character, and values.

We are very excited today to be joined by Adam Contos, Chief Executive Officer of RE/MAX, responsible for providing strategic direction on all aspects of major RE/MAX corporate decisions, operations, and resources of the company. Following a successful career in law enforcement, Adam came to the RE/MAX organization in 2003 as an independent contractor presenting a safety training program he created specifically for real estate professionals. He introduced his highly regarded S.A.F.E.R. (Safety Awareness For Every Realtor) program to RE/MAX Affiliates and other agents across North America. In 2004, he joined RE/MAX full-time as a Senior Franchise Development Consultant for the RE/MAX Mountain States Region. He was named Region Vice President the following year. After being promoted through the company to higher and higher positions and responsibilities, he was named Chief Executive Officer in February 2018.

Today we are going to focus on how to get cutting edge tips & tools for top performance from our new website: www.eblifebook.com and our online learning programs with a free 7-day trial to check it out. We will highlight the key areas where you can get ongoing tips and strategies from Drs. Greenberg and Nadler along with any other thought leaders and top performers like Marshall Goldsmith and Daniel Goleman on leadership, Jennifer McCollum from Linkage on Women in Leadership, Marsha Reynolds and Michael Bungay Stanier on masterful coaching, and Chester Elton on gratitude to name a short selection. You will find expert tips in Leadership, Stress & Success, Your Fearless Future, and a section on how to get started with an Emotional Intelligence assessment. We will also look at: • What is Emotional Brilliance and how does it compare with Emotional Intelligence? • How to navigate your emotions using the NAME process. • What is your “Go to” and examples of leaders using it. eblifebook.com