Download Interview with Dr. Mark Goulston, author of “Just Listen” (mp3)

Dr. Mark Goulston is a best-selling author whose new book is called new book is called Just Listen. His books include Get Out of Your Own Way and Get Out of Your Own Way at Work, he writes an Internet column on leadership for Fast Company as well as a syndicated column, “Solve Anything with Dr. Mark,” for Tribune Media Services and contributes to The Huffington Post. Frequently called upon to share his expertise with the media, he has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, and Reuters; has offered commentary on NPR, CNN, and Fox News,; and has appeared on “Oprah” and “The TODAY Show.” Dr. Goulston also helped advise the prosecution during the O.J. Simpson trial. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

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Joseph Cardillo is a top selling author in the fields of health, mind-body-spirit, and martial arts. His books Be Like Water and Bow to Life have inspired people of all ages and backgrounds worldwide. As an educator, he has taught more than 20,000 students at several universities, including the University of Albany and Hudson Valley Community College, where he is a professor of English and creative writing. Cardillo also writes a blog on Attention Training for Psychology Today. His newest book is Can I Have Your Attention? available from Career Press.

Download Interview with Duncan Mathison, author of “Unlocking the Hidden Job Market” (mp3)

Duncan Mathison is an executive career coach and co-author of “Unlock the Hidden Job Market: 6 Steps to a Successful Search When Times Are Tough.” For 18 years he served as Vice President and consultant for Drake Beam Morin, an international career transition firm working with thousands of people to find new careers whether they were entering the job market or looking for new careers after job loss.

Visit the Unlocking The Hidden Job Market web site which features a blog and includes sample chapters of his book.

Download Interview with Vanessa Hall, author of “The Truth About Trust in Business” (mp3)

Vanessa Hall

Vanessa Hall, founder and president of an Australian consulting firm, Entente Pty Limited, is the author of The Truth About Trust in Business. It was originally published in Australia and is now scheduled for release in China and the United States. The book won a Bronze Medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards for Business Ethics and a silver medal in the Nautilus Book Awards for Conscious Business Leadership.

The award-winning author, speaker, entrepreneur, and advisor to business leaders is a globally recognized thought leader on trust. Her clients include the Financial Planning Association, CEO Institute, CGU Insurance, Macquarie Bank, Deloitte, PRD Nationwide Real Estate, and Optus.

Over a 22-year business career that stems from her consulting and numerous jobs at banks as a compliance and risk manager , she has learned what it takes to receive, give, manage, and seek out trust in the workplace and corporate arena. She regularly facilitates trainings and workshops on the three R’s of Trust (results, retention, relationships). Based on research, CEO interviews, and discussions with psychologists, professors and teachers on issues of trust in business and personal relationships, Vanessa developed a 10-step method to building trust. She also designed a trust survey to help facilitate more efficient business interactions.

Vanessa developed a uniquely simple, but powerful and memorable model to expose the truth about trust—what it is, how we inadvertently break it down each day, and how to harness its power and learn to build it in our business and personal lives.

Free E-book: 7 Truths about Trust Every Leader Needs to Know.

Download Interview with Charles Garcia, author of “Leadership Lessons of the White House Fellows” (mp3)

Charles Garcia

Charles P. García leads Cabrera Capital Markets, LLC, an investment banking group focused on the global hispanic market, in the media, healthcare, real estate, energy, food and beverage, consumer products and project finance sectors in the U.S. and Latin America. In 2002, his company was named as the  8 fastest growing privately held company in the country by Inc. magazine and he was named Entrepreneur of the Year by three national organizations.

Hispanic Business magazine recognized Mr. Garcia as one of the “100 most influential Hispanics in the United States” and he received the Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez Public Service and Integrity Award for his leadership championing rights for all persons, especially Latinos.

Garcia currently serves as the chair of the U.S. Air Force Academy Board of Visitors which oversees all operations at the military academy. The 15-member board, includes four U.S. Senators and four members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Garcia also serves on the Board of Directors of Winn Dixie Stores.

Mr. Garcia graduated in 1983 with a Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Air Force Academy achieving the rank of Deputy Wing Commander.  A distinguished graduate of the skydiving program and the Army Reconnaissance Commando School, his peers elected him to serve as the Chairman of the Cadet Wing Honor Committee and he was awarded the “Class of 1983 Honor and Ethics Trophy.” He has a Masters degree in Public Administration from the University of Oklahoma and law degree from Columbia Law School.

Charles Garcia was part of the 1988 – 1989 class of White House Fellows. The White House Fellows program is one of America’s most prestigious programs for leadership and public service. White House Fellowships offer exceptional young men and women first-hand experience working at the highest levels of the federal government.

Selected individuals typically spend a year working as a full-time, paid Fellow to senior White House Staff, Cabinet Secretaries and other top-ranking government officials.

Download Interview with Alan Deutschman, author of “Walk the Walk: The #1 Rule for Real Leaders” (mp3)

Alan Deutschman

Alan Deutschman is one of America’s most provocative thinkers about leadership and change. In his highly anticipated forthcoming book, Walk the Walk: The #1 Rule for Real Leaders he presents a compelling new theory of leadership.

His earlier books include, Change or Die: The Three Keys to Change at Work and in Life, The Second Coming of Steve Jobs and A Tale of Two Valleys: Wine, Wealth and the Battle for the Good Life in Napa and Sonoma.

In a 22-year career as a journalist, Alan Deutschman has been Fortune magazine’s Silicon Valley correspondent, GQ‘s “Profit Motive” columnist, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and New York Magazine. Most recently, he was a senior writer for Fast Company.

He has taught at General Electric’s Crotonville executive training center and delivered keynote addresses to leadership conferences for organizations such as National Public Radio.

Download Interview with Sharon Lechter, co-author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad and Three Feet from Gold (mp3)

Sharon Lechter

Sharon L. Lechter is a CPA, author, entrepreneur, educator, international speaker and philanthropist. Lechter is best known as the co-author of the international best-selling book Rich Dad, Poor Dad and the Rich Dad series of books as well as one of the founders of the Rich Dad companies. In addition, Lechter is the co-inventor of the Cashflow for Kids board game and propelled the launch and development of a Web site designed to teach children financial literacy through fun, educational and interactive games.

In January, 2008 Lechter was appointed to the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy to serve a two-year term. It is the council’s responsibility to keep the American public financially competent and competitive.

She is co-author with Greg Reid of the forthcoming book “Three Feet from Gold”—which is presented by the Napoleon Hill Foundation.

Download Interview with Jonathan Sandys, Great-Grandson of Sir Winston Churchill (mp3)

Jonathan Sandys

Jonathan Sandys, Chairman and Founder of Churchill’s Britain Foundation, is a great-grandson of Sir Winston Churchill. His grandfather Lord Duncan-Sandys, married Sir Winston’s first child Diana in 1935. They had three children: Jonathan’s father, Julian Sandys QC, was a barrister in London. Celia Sandys, author of: From Winston With Love and Kisses, Churchill, Wanted Dead or Alive and Chasing Churchill.

Edwina Sandys, an artist and sculptress, whose work is renowned worldwide.

Many of Sir Winston Churchill’s talents have been passed to his descendants. Over the thirty-three years of Jonathan’s life, it has become apparent that he too shares some of those interests and passions.

Sir Winston’s love of art and writing, his interest in history, his passion for Britain and America, his fascination with the American culture and its people, these too are talents and passions Jonathan says:“I have been very fortunate to inherit.”

Hampered with dyslexia throughout his school life, a learning difficulty scarcely recognised in those days, Jonathan suffered many setbacks, and like his great-grandfather, had a miserable time at school.

With the encouragement and life lessons of his great-grandfather, Jonathan has already been opening the minds of both children and adults and introducing them to the significance of Churchill’s philosophy of “Never Surrender!”

New Jersey PBL has won the March 15 deadline for largest percent increase in PBL membership by the deadline of March 15. This entitles their state to obtain preferred seating at this year’s PBL Opening Session and Awards Program at the National Leadership Conference.

On April 15, the second and third place winners will be announced.

Download Interview with Power Presenter Bob Beaudine (mp3)

Bob Beaudine, CEO of Eastman & Beaudine, manages the nation’s leading executive search firm in sports/entertainment. Bob, the author of The Power of WHO, has helped shape the leadership teams of some of the world’s most innovative and dynamic businesses- NBA, Major League Baseball, Hockey, Tennis, Rodeo, PGATOUR, Arena Football, US Olympics, NASCAR, Horse Racing, and Ultimate Fighting Championships. He has interviewed & coached Senators, Governors, Generals, CEO’s, University Presidents, Top Athletic Coaches and Studio Presidents. Sports Illustrated recently named Beaudine the “Top Front Office Matchmaker in Sports.”

Bob also works with major college athletic programs and has placed 33 Athletic Directors at major universities across the country as well as 24 Head Coaches in Football and Basketball.

Bob’s leadership also extends into the local community. He recently served as Chairman of the “Doak Walker National Running Back Award”. He is a graduate (1977) of Southern Methodist University with a bachelor of business administration degree. He is on the Board of SMU’s Cox School of Business. His wife Cheryl and he recently celebrated their Twenty Fifth Wedding Anniversary and have three daughters.