People Good hosted by Braven Greenelsh: Lean Conversations with Leading Executives on the Future of Work

How to build a team that thrives in uncertain times. Heart-centered leadership for the modern workforce with Mark Crowley

People Good hosted by Braven Greenelsh: Lean Conversations with Leading Executives on the Future of Work

07/06/20 • 25 min

In this episode we discuss the future of leadership. And it’s all about the heart. How leading from the heart can be utilized within your organization to build healthier, happier, and higher-performing teams. Our guest Mark C. Crowley, Author of Lead from the Heart, discusses how we can unleash the power of this heart-centered leadership style to boost employee engagement and enable our teams to thrive!
Keywords:
Future Of Work, Workforce, Culture, Change, Culture-shift, Success. PeopleFirst, Management, Leadership, Employee Engagement, Well-being, HumanFlourishing, Believership.

Our Guest:
Mark C. Crowley is the author of “Lead From The Heart: Transformational Leadership For The 21st Century,” His mission is to fundamentally change how we lead people in workplaces around the globe.

Mark is a regular contributor to Fast Company Magazine and has been published by USA Today, Reuters, The Huffington Post, Gallup, CEO Magazine, Great Britain, and the Seattle Times. His two recent LinkedIn Pulse articles on employee engagement and managing millennials have been read well over a million times. His book is now being taught in nine American universities, including the educational PhD program at Brandman University in California & the MBA program at the University of Iowa. His “Lead From The Heart” podcast now has an audience in 142 countries.

Mark spent over 20 years as an executive at one of America’s largest financial institutions where he was named leader of the year. Quite untraditionally, Mark proved that deeply caring about and supporting people, and thereby positively affecting employee’s hearts, had a remarkable effect on driving sustained engagement, loyalty and productivity.

Our Host:
Braven Greenelsh is currently the Founder & CEO at Three Good, and Chairman of the Board for La Visual. Over the past twenty years, Braven has founded six technology and agency businesses in several verticals: two of which he has successfully exited. Braven graduated from Biola University with a B.S. in Business Management while subsequently growing his first company La Visual, 700% year-over-year for 3 consecutive years.

Show References:

Lead From The Heart: Transformational Leadership For The 21st Century by Mark C. Crowley
Mark's Podcast: Lead from the Heart
Article: Millennials Don’t Want Fun; They Want You To Lead Better by Mark C. Crowley

Book: The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups, Daniel Coyle

The Future of Onboarding, Eliminating Bias, and the Effective use of AI with Tara Nesser Head of People at HuntClub

People Good hosted by Braven Greenelsh: Lean Conversations with Leading Executives on the Future of Work

06/26/20 • 17 min

In this episode we discuss the future of eliminating bias while amping up inclusion and diversity practices and policies. Braven and Tara also discuss the use of AI in the interviewing process, and the best practices in using AI to grow your workforce. The discussion spans new tools for eliminating bias and safeguarding against algorithmic bias in the use of Artificial Intelligence for onboarding alongside how to adapt new culture building techniques with your existing workforce.
Keywords: Employee Onboarding, Interview Process, Inclusion and Diversity, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Recruiting, Eliminating Bias, Workforce Auditing, HCI
Our Guest: Tara Nesser, Head of People at HuntClub
Tara Nesser is the Head of People for Hunt Club, a new category of talent that leverages technology to transform thousands of subject matter experts and business leaders into the world’s most powerful talent network. She leads all of people operations including recruiting, training and development, employee engagement, and more. Prior to joining Hunt Club, Tara led the Training and Development department for Trunk Club, a retail company owned by Nordstrom. She was on the founding team that launched the women's division of the business and went on run training and development for 500+ employees across seven locations. Prior to leading Training and Development, Tara had a career in sales working primarily in the start-up space. She was an employee of both Groupon and Trunk Club and saw the companies through an IPO (Groupon) and Acquisition (Trunk Club). With years of experience in the start-up space holding a myriad of roles, Tara is uniquely qualified to move the companies through various stages of scale. She succeeds in understanding the specific people needs of growing start-ups and applies that knowledge to create world-class cultures.
Our Host:

Braven Greenelsh is currently the Founder & CEO at Three Good, and Chairman of the Board for La Visual. Over the past twenty years, Braven has founded six technology and agency businesses in several verticals: two of which he has successfully exited. Braven graduated from Biola University with a B.S. in Business Management while subsequently growing his first company La Visual, 700% year-over-year for 3 consecutive years.

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How to recognize employees at risk, and help? With Carin Isabel-Knoop, Executive Director Harvard Business School

People Good hosted by Braven Greenelsh: Lean Conversations with Leading Executives on the Future of Work

11/12/20 • 24 min

During this episode we talk with Carin Isabel-Knoop author of her latest book entitled, Compassionate Management of Mental Health in the Modern Workplace. This episode will expound on some critical areas from her book on how to best manage and lead a workforce by promoting better mental health and emotional wellbeing practices at the workplace. This episode will identify critical “micro-signals” of mental instability within your employee base while outlining best practices on how to follow up with individual employees. How to identify early and often, while putting a practice in place that’s professional, empathetic, and legally viable. Finally, this show will outline best practices in understanding our own deficiencies as leaders, a critical first step in the process of identifying and addressing mental issues at work, and offer ways to grow.
“Here’s something they won’t teach you in Business school: the single biggest decision you make in your job – bigger than all the rest–is who you name manager, When you name the wrong person manager nothing fixes that bad decision. Not compensation, not benefits – nothing.” - Gallup’s CEO Jim Clifton
Keywords:
Mental Health, Mental Stability, Corporate Wellness, Workplace Wellness, Emotional wellbeing, Human Resources, HR, Employee Engagement, Healthy Culture, Building Happy Workforces, Workforce Management, Employee Happiness, Exponential Organizations

Our Guest:
Carin-Isabel Knoop leads the Harvard Business School’s research and case writing group and has co-authored more than 200 case studies on organizations and managers around the world. At night she thinks about how to make their challenging lives better. This led to research and publications in the area of mental health in the workplace and an interest in human sustainability. She is a pragmatic idealist and fanatic postcard writer.
Our Host:
Braven Greenelsh is currently the Founder & CEO at Three Good, and Chairman of the Board for La Visual. Over the past twenty years, Braven has founded six technology and agency businesses in several verticals: two of which he has successfully exited. Braven graduated from Biola University with a B.S. in Business Management while subsequently growing his first company La Visual, 700% year-over-year for 3 consecutive years.

Show References:
Politics, Sex and Garlic Mushrooms by Nigel Knowles
Compassionate Management of Mental Health in the Modern Workplace by Carin-Isabel Knoop and John A. Quelch

Book: Monday Morning Choices: 12 Powerful Ways to Go from Everyday to Extraordinary, David Cottrell

Insomnia: How to reduce the issues and feel better with Dr. John Huang

People Good hosted by Braven Greenelsh: Lean Conversations with Leading Executives on the Future of Work

05/14/21 • 28 min

In this episode we discuss Insomnia, and common ways to get better quality and quantity of sleep. Dr. Huang, is a PhD specializing in Behavioral Cognitive Therapy and Sleep.
Insomnia is a common sleep disorder that occurs in 30 million Americans, according to the Institute of Medicine. A person with insomnia has trouble falling or staying asleep. When sleepless nights persist for longer than a month, the problem is considered chronic. Often, people with chronic insomnia see the problem come and go, experiencing several days of good sleep followed by a stretch of poor sleep.
John’s Professional BIO:
Dr. John Huang received his clinical psychology doctorate from the University of California at Santa Barbara. His areas of specialty include trauma, depression, and insomnia. He has worked at the VA hospital in Long Beach since 2006 and also does private practice. Dr. Huang’s interests include spirituality, meditation, and alternative medicine. He teaches tai chi and also leads a drum circle. Interesting tid bit: He plays didgeridoo for some of his clients to help with grounding and relaxation.
QUOTE of the Day:
A recent study conducted by Fort Healthcare showed that sleep deprivation induces significant reductions in performance and alertness. Reducing your nighttime sleep by as little as 1.5 hours for just one night could result in a reduction of daytime alertness by as much as 32 percent.
Our Host:
Braven Greenelsh is currently the Founder & CEO at Three Good, and Chairman of the Board for La Visual. Over the past twenty years, Braven has founded six technology and agency businesses in several verticals: two of which he has successfully exited. Braven graduated from Biola University with a B.S. in Business Management while subsequently growing his first company La Visual, 700% year-over-year for 3 consecutive years.

Aside from his work as a Serial Entrepreneur, he’s an engaging speaker who has had the privilege of speaking on branding, leadership, and entrepreneurship at: UCLA, Techstars, AIGA, and the Redondo Beach Convention Center. Early in his career as an award-winning branding expert and designer, his design work and business ventures have been featured in: AIGA, BrandNew, PRINT, ID Magazine, New York Times, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, and SoCal Tech. He’s currently a contributing writer for The Startup and a member of the Forbes Business Council. He has worked closely with the C-suite for over 15 years advising fellow C-level executives from fortune 1,000 and 500 companies on how to build brand equity and create culture. Throughout his career, He’s had the privilege to help develop world-class brands like Emirates Airlines, Intuit, WME | IMG, News Corp., MySpace, Discovery Channel, Sony Pictures, Lincoln, Toyota, FOX, Yahoo!, Billabong and Seven Denim.

How to Become a Jedi When It Comes to Diversity and Inclusion with Petrina Gooch

People Good hosted by Braven Greenelsh: Lean Conversations with Leading Executives on the Future of Work

08/31/21 • 29 min

Learning from a woman who has had massive influence in the area of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. We discuss everything from her father’s influence, navigating corporate America as a Black woman, and establishing best practices for better teams through JEDI. The reasons why diversity, equity and inclusion are critical to growing organizations. We go deeper into the definition of and the negative impacts of DE&I done the wrong way.

Petrina Gooch has served as HED’s Corporate Human Resources Leader since 2008. She is a Principal and serves on HED’s Board of Directors. Petrina has had many leadership positions including chair of the Human Resources Executive Committee of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Large Firm Round Table. She has been utilized for her expertise in HR by several national and regional AIA special projects.

Petrina is on a mission to make positive impact, utilizing every experience as an opportunity for development and growth for those around her. She is passionate about helping people advance their effectiveness, influence, and contributions.

Petrina is currently a member of the AIA LFRT JEDI Task Force and serves on the Beyond Boyer Advisory Task Force for AIA national. She was also the recipient of the National Organization of Minority Architect’s 2019 Leadership Certificate of Recognition for her participation and contributions.

Petrina is on a mission to make a positive impact, utilizing every experience as an opportunity for development and growth for those around her. She is passionate about helping people advance their effectiveness, influence, and contributions. “When people know that their uniqueness is valued and considered,” Gooch says of her approach, “it creates a feeling of belonging and supports engagement. That’s good for the individual, good for the firm and our clients, and good for the industry and the communities we serve.” Petrina holds a master’s degree in organizational leadership and a bachelor’s degree in industrial/organizational psychology. She also holds designations of Senior Professional in Human Resources and SHRM Senior Certified Professional.

HED has earned a reputation for excellence in all facets of the designed and built environment, including architecture, consulting, engineering, and planning services. The firm of more than 350 people serves clients in a broad range of markets from eight U.S. offices (Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and Sacramento). HED seeks creative solutions that have a positive impact for its clients, the community, and the world. www.hed.design

How to build a happy and healthy team during times of difficulty and times of growth with Sean Vanderelzen

People Good hosted by Braven Greenelsh: Lean Conversations with Leading Executives on the Future of Work

05/20/21 • 31 min

During this episode we talk with Sean Vanderelzen, CHRO at Lineage Logistics on how he has built a world class team. We also discuss how lineage got its people through the turbulence of COVID along with an impressive outreach partnering with Steph and Ayesha Curry to give out $100 million in meals for the community. We’ll also jump into some of Lineage’s leadership tactics and processes. Finally, we dive into areas like qualifying candidates for management roles with a look at Lineage’s six-fold leadership competency model while looking a best practices in succession management.

Driving Engagement & EXO Growth through Data & Dashboards with Matt Flores

People Good hosted by Braven Greenelsh: Lean Conversations with Leading Executives on the Future of Work

06/23/20 • 15 min

In this episode, we discuss the growing needs of modern business in a globally emerging market. The need to utilize existing data and technology through community partnership, crowdsourcing, and dashboards: all essential to becoming a relevant business in today’s rapidly changing landscape. Looking at a fast-growing modern company in Los Angeles, we discuss some of their secrets to success.
Keywords: HCM, HCI, Employee Engagement, Exponential Organizations, HR.

Our Guest: Matt Flores, SVP Digital Innovation

With more than 15 years of experience in the conventional mortgage space, Matt brings to CIVIC a deep expertise in implementing marketing technologies that acquire new customers and increase overall sales. In spite of the shifting and unpredictable lending landscape, Matt created success in his career by effectively translating a company’s growth objectives into quantifiable marketing strategies.

Prior to joining CIVIC, Matt served as Vice President for conventional mortgage lenders LenderFi and NewLeaf Lending. Beyond automation and technical expertise, Matt brings a leadership style and passion to collaborate to make CIVIC the market leader.

CIVIC Financial Services is a private money lender, specializing in the financing of non-owner-occupied residential investment properties. CIVIC provides Mortgage Brokers and Real Estate Investors with a fast and cost-effective funding source for their real estate investment needs.

Our Host:

Show References:

Quote of the day: Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it), Salim Ismail

“Traditional organizational structures, designed over the last few hundred years to hierarchically manage physical assets and the people to manage those assets, are rapidly becoming obsolete. To compete in our rapidly changing world, we need a new kind of organization, one that is not only able to manage this change, but also thrives in it.”

Software: Microsoft Teams
Article: Why Data Is HR's Most Important Asset
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Where is CSR taking us? What is the future of American Business with Mark Bernstein

People Good hosted by Braven Greenelsh: Lean Conversations with Leading Executives on the Future of Work

06/17/20 • 16 min

Our Guest:
Mark has pioneered energy and sustainability solutions across academic, private, public and non-profit sectors. As the Rob and Melani Walton Chair for Sustainability Solutions at Arizona State University, Mark leads an effort to make measurable impacts on sustainability and influence decision making toward global solutions.

Mark was at the forefront of developing environmental markets including the acid rain emissions trading program and early markets for carbon credits. He also led strategy and marketing with Midwestern BioAg. Recently, Mark has been involved in sustainable agriculture, understanding the impacts of soil health on crop production and the environment. He has held positions of influence with the White House, RAND Corporation, Pegasus Capital Advisors, Proteus Environmental Technologies and the University of Southern California.
Our Host:
Braven is currently founder & CEO of Three Good, and Chairmen of the Board for La Visual. Over the past twenty years, Braven has founded six technology and agency businesses in several verticals: two of which he has successfully exited. Braven graduated from Biola University with a B.S. in Business Management while subsequently growing his first company La Visual, 700% year-over-year for 3 consecutive years.

Refrences:
George Bernard Shaw on Transformative change:

QUOTE: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

Book: Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, Rebecca Henderson
Link: https://www.amazon.com/Reimagining-Capitalism-World-Rebecca-Henderson/dp/1541730151

Article: 5 Economists Redefining... Everything. Oh Yes, And They’re Women
Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2020/05/31/5-economists-redefining-everything--oh-yes-and-theyre-women/#494f7659714a

Book: Pigs, Johanna Stoberock
Link: https://www.amazon.com/Pigs-Johanna-Stoberock/dp/1597090441

Best Practices for Relational Mindfulness and Employee Enrichment with Brigit Ritchie

People Good hosted by Braven Greenelsh: Lean Conversations with Leading Executives on the Future of Work

06/13/20 • 15 min

In this episode, we discuss critical areas of mindfulness, relational empathy, and how to better enrich the employee experience and improve the way your team works together.
Our Guest:
Our guest is Brigit Ritchie, Founder and CEO at We. For the past 10 years, Brigit Ritchie has been facilitating personal and professional development for women, and now co-ed groups globally. As the founder of WE, Brigit’s vision is to develop Relational Mindfulness® to equip teams to thrive at work. Her custom curriculum equips people across the world with powerful and effective emotional intelligence tools. When it comes to mindfulness in the workplace, Brigit leads the way. Her process for creating cultures of inclusion and belonging are currently utilized by giants like Google, Instagram, and Lululemon. Brigit is a mother of two living in LA with an active studio practice where she paints commissions and murals for clients and brands.

Our Host:
Braven is currently founder & CEO of Three Good, and Chairmen of the Board for La Visual. Over the past twenty years, Braven has founded six technology and agency businesses in several verticals: two of which he has successfully exited. Braven graduated from Biola University with a B.S. in Business Management while subsequently growing his first company La Visual, 700% year-over-year for 3 consecutive years.

Keywords:
Leadership, Employee Engagement, Empathy, Mindfulness, Wellness, Wellbeing, Well-being, Management, Business Strategy
Three Good:
A workplace wellness app that connects culture with cause to create insights and analytics for HR managers to improve employee engagement and retention through modern HCM. Our vision is to enable businesses to fight the global water crisis while building company culture & employee happiness.
Show References:
Book: Leadership is an Art, Max Dupree
QUOTE: “Functionally and technologically we are concerned with intimacy. We should be concerned with intimacy when we design the organizational structures which after all, are the road maps that help us to work together...Intimacy with our work directly affects our accountability and results in personal authenticity in the work process.”

Book: The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, Priya Parker

Aristotle Study
Website: Benefits of Mindfulness in the workplace, Glomb
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