Leadership School

Dr. Cathy Owens-Oliver is an accomplished speaker, author, instructional coach, education policy analyst, and National Board Certified Teacher. For more than 25 years, in 46 of 50 states as well as Canada, she has provided consulting services for instructional coaches, college faculty, state boards, and state departments of education.

​She is the President and CEO of Educational Effectiveness Group, a coaching, and consulting practice that helps K-12 schools and colleges of education improve teaching and solve problems that hinder student learning.

​She is the author of Why Schools Fumble, a national bestseller in Pedagogy and Educational Problem-Solving. She has presented at countless national conferences and written for leading education journals including Accomplished Teacher Magazine, the Journal of Staff Development, and the Hope Foundation’s What Works in Schools newsletter. Her work also appears in the college textbook: Black Star: An Introduction to African-American Studies.

​She earned her doctorate in Education, Leadership, Management, and Policy at Seton Hall University, and completed studies at NC A&T State University, and the University of NC - Greensboro (where she was a NC Teaching Fellow).

She has held senior roles at the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, Learning Forward, Educational Testing Service, and the NC Department of Public Instruction. She has served as adjunct faculty for several colleges.

She completed leadership and coaching training with the NC Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Dale Carnegie Corporation, Institute for Management Studies, Jack McDowell School for Leadership Development, and the Parker Palmer Center for Courage and Renewal.

​She has served as a director of ministerial training in NC, MI, and PA. She is the Dean of Education for the COGIC International Sunday School Department and President of the GirlsGotLIFE Foundation. Affectionately known as Dr. O, she has assisted several faith-based groups in implementing organizational change. She enjoys golf, gardening, and mentoring millennials.

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Kris Kelso is a keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and is the author of “Overcoming The Impostor: Silence Your Inner Critic and Lead with Confidence“.
In this episode:

• We get honest and real about feeling "not good enough"
• We explain Imposter Syndrome
• We talk candidly about how to believe in yourself
• And we address what it means to truly be successful

Trained and certified as an executive coach, Kris Kelso has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs, business owners, and their leadership teams. He is a faculty instructor at the Professional Christian Coaching Institute, an advisor and instructor at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, and is a contributing writer for publications including Fast Company Magazine, Yahoo Finance, and The Nashville Business Journal.
Kris has founded multiple companies and has served on the boards of directors of several non-profit organizations. He is an active member of Cornerstone Nashville, where he serves, teaches, and coaches other leaders. He lives with his wife and three teenaged sons in a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee.
Where to find Kris:
Website: https://www.kriskelso.com/
Book: https://www.overcomingtheimpostor.com/
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Dilip Ramachandran is an experienced product leader and entrepreneur with 15+ years of experience leading teams, shipping delightful and highly successful enterprise software products in MarTech and FinTech at companies like Walmart, Experian and Marqeta.Currently, Dilip is Chief Product Therapist at Nimi, a transformative product development agency focused on matching high growth FinTech startups in the US with highly reliable and skilled experts in Sri Lanka.Dilip's current book is called "Gangsta PM" and it is exploring the intersection of finding personal purpose and growing in your product management career and breaking into a senior leadership. A lot of us hit our glass ceiling due to a variety of reasons ranging from environment, ethnicity, imposed or presumed limitations that hold us back from achieving our true potential. The book is the one he wished he had so many years ago and intends to provide #productherapy and the mindset shift required to help a future leader #unleashyourself.Dilip has a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and resides in Oakland, California with his partner Alla, daughter Ariadna and son Wiley (a papillon-sheltie rescue). The family occasionally travels to Colombo, Sri Lanka for his work with Nimi.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kyla-cofer/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kyla-cofer/support

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Have you ever had a cross-cultural business experience? Was it easy to navigate? In this episode, I have the privilege of interviewing Liu Liu, a global communications coach, on this exact issue. We touch on topics such as

• how to quickly build trust
• how to understand our own bias
• cross-cultural money management
• and so much more!

Liu Liu is a coach and manager with decades of experience. As a Cross Cultural Intelligence Coach who specializes in helping international organizations and
businesses to improve the communications and cooperation among staff for better individual and team performance.
He coaches managers and leaders working in a cross cultural context to build trust,
communicate effectively, and to deliver results. He also coaches people on management, leadership and career development.
He is someone who helps you to imagine a greater possibility for yourself and supports you in achieving it. As a senior manager in an international relief and
development organization, he has worked with people in over 30 countries over his two decades long career.
He uses a coaching approach to manage cross country teams and complex programs to deliver results and impacts. He is also an experienced trainer and facilitator who
has delivered training on management related and other subjects in over 30 countries.
With a cross country marriage, developing a career in a second country and working in an organization that has a reach of 50 countries, Liu Liu understands the importance and pitfalls of working cross culturally and developing a career in an unfamiliar environment.
Liu Liu is an Associated Certified Coach(ACC), a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and an Executive Contributor in Brainz Magazine. He holds a BA(Hon) in International Studies and a MsC in Development Management.
You can find him at liuliucoaching.com and on LinkedIn.

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Dr. Steve Yacovelli (a.k.a. “The Gay Leadership DudeTM”) is Owner & Principal of TopDog Learning Group, LLC, a leadership, change management, and diversity and inclusion consulting firm based in Orlando, Florida, USA but with affiliates (“TopDoggers”) throughout the globe. Steve and TopDog provide guidance and solutions in leadership and organizational development, change management, diversity and inclusion consulting, instructional design, and custom e-learning creation. Whether it be through providing keynotes and facilitating leadership development programs for Fortune 500 companies like The Walt Disney Company, Bayer AG, or accenture, to providing one-on-one coaching experiences for groups like IBM, Covestro, and The Public Library Association, or creating engaging, effective training solutions for various delivery formats for folks like Tupperware Brands Corporation, The Ohio State University, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Steve is passionate about helping others be their best selves, in and out of the workplace.

Steve holds a B.S. in Public Relations from Millersville University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in Educational Policy & Leadership Development from The Ohio State University, and an Ed.D. in Instructional Technology & Distance Education from Nova Southeastern University.

A published author, Steve has written books and articles on a variety of topics: from how adults learn and communicate using technology to how to design effective training solutions for the modern, adult learner in the 21st century workplace to the impact of unconscious bias within organizations and how it can undermine organizational effectiveness. His current, award-winning and critically acclaimed book, “Pride Leadership: Strategies for LGBTQ+ Professionals to be the King or Queen of their Jungle” “came out” in June 2019.

Steve is passionate about workplace equality, and specifically how leaders can be more “consciously inclusive” to foster a feeling of inclusion and belonging for all team members. His signature keynote, “Being a Consciously Inclusive Leader,” has won praise for its engaging, approachable, and memorable way to think about unconscious bias in the workplace. But don't think he’s just an academic nerd: Steve is a rare breed of professional that understands the power of using academic theory, his experience in a variety of public and private settings and applying this knowledge to the client’s workplace to achieve better results. (Oh, and he’s pretty good with dogs, too!).

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Leadership School Production:
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Edited by Neel Panji @ PodLeaF Productions
Assistant Production Alaina Hulette