Is Your Business Lean, Luxe, or Both? with Crista Grasso
Release Date: 07/07/2021
Building DEI Into Your Company DNA with Mitch Shepard
Libby's Leadership Lab
Libby chats with leadership development expert and CEO of HUMiN Inclusion Partners, Mitch Shepard. Mitch has been working with diverse people from various walks of life for the past 25 years, beginning with a decade spent leading people on wilderness expeditions. In 2015 she expanded her reach and impact by curating a diverse and extraordinary team of coaches, trainers, consultants, and DEI experts to create HUMiN, known for its approach to building the habits and behaviors of inclusion, at every level.
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How to Win at Work Through Learning Moments with Garry Ridge
Libby's Leadership Lab
This week Libby is chatting with chairman and chief executive officer of WD-40 Company, Garry Ridge. Garry is responsible for developing and implementing high-level strategies, all operations, and the oversight of all relationships and partnerships for the company and he is passionate about the learning and empowering organizational culture he has helped establish at the WD-40 Company. His vision and leadership have positively impacted the company in both measurable and immeasurable ways.
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Understanding Intrinsic Curiosity and Breeding Creativity with Dr. Alison Horstmeyer
Libby's Leadership Lab
Libby sits down with Dr. Alison Horstmeyer, a talent development consultant, executive coach, and humanistic researcher. Alison is considered a pioneering practitioner in workplace curiosity and her research focuses on associated mental, emotional, and motivational attributes. Alison partners and works with executives across a diverse set of industry sectors and has a knack for connecting and working with teams and leaders through real-world business acumen and evidence-based practitioner expertise.
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Transforming Difficult Leaders Into Powerful Visionaries With Dr. Katrina Burrus
Libby's Leadership Lab
Libby is joined by the CEO and founder of Excellent Executive Coaching LLC, Dr. Katrina Burrus. Dr. Katrina is known for "fast-tracking leaders to the C-Suite and Beyond" and for "Transforming Brilliant Jerks into Inspiring Leaders." She is a keynote speaker and published, “Managing Brilliant Jerks" and, "Global Leadership" a body of work used by Nestle, Novartis, the World Health Organization, the International Labor Organization, the United Nations, and many more.
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Leading with Truth, Justice, and Purpose with Ron Carucci
Libby's Leadership Lab
Libby sits down with the best-selling author, TEDx speaker, and business strategist Ron Carucci. Ron has a thirty-year track record helping executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization, and leadership — from start-ups to Fortune 10s, overhauling leadership and culture to re-designing for growth. Ron’s experience spans over 25 countries where he helps organizations articulate strategies that lead to accelerated growth, and then designs programs to execute those strategies.
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Aligning with Purpose and Decoding the Messages That Guide Us with Perry Marshall
Libby's Leadership Lab
Perry Marshall joins Libby in the leadership lab for the second time to discuss his new book, Memos from the Head Office: Channeling the Muse in Business and in Life. Perry shares why you don’t need to hustle harder, raise your IQ, or earn an MBA to solve your most pressing problems. The lines of communication are open if you’re willing to listen. Memos from the Head Office shows you how to resolve impossible conflicts, access new breakthroughs, navigate jagged situations, and reveal hidden insights.
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The SPARK Experience: Leadership Through Actions, Commitment, and Will with Angie Morgan
Libby's Leadership Lab
This week, Libby is joined by executive coach Angie Morgan. Angie and her business partner Courtney are executive coaches who work with high-performing leaders to help them achieve next-level results. After their service in the Marine Corps, Angie and Courtney co-created the leadership development firm Lead Star and co-wrote the New York Times best-selling books SPARK and Leading from the Front.
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The Whole Person Workplace: How to Build a Positive, Fulfilling, High-Performance Work Culture With Scott Behson
Libby's Leadership Lab
Libby is joined by professor of management and Silberman Global Faculty Fellow at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Scott Behson, Ph.D. Scott is a national expert in work and family issues as well as a best-selling author and professional speaker and is dishing all on how to succeed at work and what it means to be a whole person workplace. Libby and Scott discuss valuing employees beyond their work, the characteristics of a whole person workplace, victim mentality in the workplace, and more.
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Creating Human Connections Through Communications and Marketing with Zach Giglio
Libby's Leadership Lab
Libby is joined by Zach Giglio. Zach and his wife Emma have had the experience of traveling and living around the world and have seen the positive impacts that human connections have made on their lives and the lives of the people around them. Now, with more than 15 years of combined experience, they work to facilitate those human connections for organizations through their expertise in communications and marketing through their company, Giglio Communications and Marketing (GCM).
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Bring the Fun for a More Connected Culture with Dr. Bob Nelson and Mario Tamayo
Libby's Leadership Lab
This week, Libby is joined by the Authors of Work Made Fun Gets Done!, Dr. Bob Nelson and Mario Tamayo. Bob Nelson, Ph.D., is the president of Nelson Motivation Inc., the world’s leading authority on employee recognition and engagement and Mario is a principal with Tamayo Group Inc., a no-nonsense consulting firm specializing in leadership and organizational performance. Their combined expertise and results have a direct correlation to fun and its important role when it comes to success in the workplace.�
info_outlineIn this episode, Libby discusses going lean with Crista Grasso. Crista is on a mission to help entrepreneurs simplify success, get off the hustle hamster wheel, and run lean businesses where they optimize what's working and eliminate anything not adding value to their clients and profit to their business. Early in her entrepreneurial journey, Crista felt like she was doing all the right things but no matter how hard she worked, her big goals and vision seemed just out of reach. Upon reflection, she realized her jewelry business was far from lean. She had scaled it way too quickly, and without having taken the time to lean out the business first, she ended up scaling noise which resulted in making everything more expensive, more difficult to manage, and more difficult to sustain. From the outside, it looked like the business was wildly successful but it wasn't until she actually leaned out the business that the behind-the-scenes matched the outside illusion of success. This brought about the realization that so many big businesses were implementing a lean and agile way of working but so many small businesses had never heard of it. There was a whole world that they weren’t leveraging, and sadly neither was she before this epiphany. So she created the Lean Out Method (LOM), which she designed specifically with the busy entrepreneur in mind to utilize the same principles and practices that large companies had been using for decades to significantly scale beyond their competitors, skyrocket profits, and reduce complexities and overhead.
Libby and Crista discuss:
- What the Lean Out Method is
- Why you should be utilizing lean practices no matter what size your business is
- Lean vs luxe, and how to be both
- The importance and necessity of measuring
- Why you have to be practicing lean if you want to crack the 7-figure mark in business
- Hiring for fit over hiring for skill
- How she went from barista to consultant overnight
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