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The only podcast you need to listen to sharpen your business acumen. Learn the ways of massive value creation: Grow beyond measure, make more money and lead a meaningful life.
The only podcast you need to listen to sharpen your business acumen. Learn the ways of massive value creation: Grow beyond measure, make more money and lead a meaningful life.
Moderator: Mrs. Anar Umurzakova, Director and a Trainer at GOPM startup consultancy firm in Greater Washington Area, with over 13 years of professional PM experience in various organizations such as Accenture, the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and GOPM consultancy. Presidential Scholar of the Republic of Kazakhstan, who graduated with MS in PM from The George Washington University, PMP and PRINCE2 Practitioner. Currently, she focuses on helping executives and PMs create winning harmonious teams and increase productivity through improving morale. She is also a host of podcast "Open School of Business", where she interviews prominent figures in business and entrepreneurship. Speakers: 1. Belinda Kendall, the owner and founder of Promise Media Group, LLC, has spent several years working in media. She had her own talk show on WGIV and Hot77 the Mix where she interviewed celebrities, internationally known pastors, community leaders, professional athletes, and ordinary people with extraordinary stories. Belinda has spent over 15 years in sales, management, and marketing for Fortune 500 companies. Additionally, she has an extensive resume of community service meeting the housing, employment, and financial needs of her community. During her years in media, she has moderated political debates and emceed political events for the NAACP. She has accumulated an audience of over 450,000 friends on Facebook and over 46,000 connections on LinkedIn through her positive posts that include advice and general bits of Christian based wisdom. Some of her posts on LinkedIn have garnered over 4,000,000 views within a matter of days. 2. As a program manager, Joy Riley spent the majority of her professional career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and the International Monetary Fund, mentoring employees, clients, and organizations through transformational change. Personal experiences with her family, friends, and close colleagues led her through her own transformation resulting in retirement from corporate life, more time with her family, and a career in life coaching. Joy focuses on coaching professional working women who would like to better define their career path, change paths, or find improved balance in their lives.
1. How to be more effective with your time to juggle work and home responsibilities?
2. How to build your support system, influence your partner/husband, male colleagues to turn them into allies?
3. What can we do as a society to change and improve work and life for working moms?
4. How to find more income sources if the pandemic affected your employment?
Belinda Kendall, the owner and founder of Promise Media Group, LLC, has spent several years working in media. She had her own talk show on WGIV and Hot77 the Mix where she interviewed celebrities, internationally known pastors, community leaders, professional athletes, and ordinary people with extraordinary stories. Belinda has spent over 15 years in sales, management, and marketing for Fortune 500 companies. Additionally, she has an extensive resume of community service meeting the housing, employment, and financial needs of her community. During her years in media, she has moderated political debates and emceed political events for the NAACP. She has accumulated an audience of over 450,000 friends on Facebook and over 46,000 connections on LinkedIn through her positive posts that include advice and general bits of Christian based wisdom. Some of her posts on LinkedIn have garnered over 4,000,000 views within a matter of days.
You can't be distracted by the negativity of others
1. How to nurture and grow your following on social media
2. How to build a resilient mindset that will help you break the glass ceiling and achieve your career and life goals
3. How to navigate challenges of home schooling and working from home
4. How motivated individuals can make a difference in their communities
Rosalie Audoin is an executive coach & marketing strategist, offering coaching & training to help brands attract, convert & retain customers. She is the founder of Flatout Social digital marketing agency and Dielle cosmetics brand.
People buy from people who they know, they like and they trust
As a program manager, Joy Riley spent the majority of her professional career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and the International Monetary Fund, mentoring employees, clients, and organizations through transformational change. Personal experiences with her family, friends, and close colleagues led her through her own transformation resulting in retirement from corporate life, more time with her family, and a career in life coaching. Joy focuses on coaching professional working women who would like to better define their career path, change paths, or find improved balance in their lives. In this interview, Joy shares her journey of building her career at one of the most prestigious consulting firms and at the International Monetary Fund.
I was able to hold multiple positions across multiple departments over the 22 years I was there. From business process redesign to developing and implementing project management standards and best practices, and going on, to establish the IT program management office as you mentioned earlier.
Helen Pritchard is a self-made businesswoman who helps coaches, consultants and business owners get more inbound inquiries on LinkedIn. She uses Group Coaching Mastermind, BootCamp eLearning, free 5 Day Challenge, free Facebook Group ‘LinkedIn Marketing Group’ as tools to help more business owners. She started her first business in 2009 and has become highly sought after LinkedIn expert.
Knowing your ideal client is a critical step in this system
1. How to attract clients on LinkedIn without sending messages or using paid ads
2. Joint ventures as a vehicle to growth
3. Knowing your ideal client is 80% of success
Josh Tapp is an entrepreneur, podcaster and digital marketing professional. Founder of The Lucky Titans, marketing platform and community for content creators.
Everytime we do a giveaway, we end up collecting over thousands of emails
1. How open collaboration can help you pull resources and enhance your impact
2. What marketing techniques you can use to grow effortlessly
3. Giveaways, podcasting, summits as tools to grow
Rohit Talwar is a futurist keynote speaker and a strategist with over 20 years of experience business ownership. He is a CEO and a founder of Fast Future Company in publishing and strategy consulting space. He is an author and an editor of many books including "Aftershocks and opportunities: scenarios for a post-pandemic future." Rohit has an MBA from London Business School and BA with Honors in Engineering and Computer Science.
Stay open and flexible, keep on learning
1. Learn 4 different scenarios for a post-pandemic future
2. Analyze brilliant examples of successful pivots of businesses during the pandemic
3. Get inspired to build a business and a career fit for future
Vlad Makarenko is a culture transformation leader with 14 years in HR, 7 years in the business, based in Vienna, Austria. Since 2005 have lived and worked for international corporations in Emerging and Developed Markets in United Arab Emirates, UK, Kazakhstan, Russia, Czech Republic, Austria and Hungary. Multi-lingual in Russian, Ukrainian, English, and German language.
If we philosophize less and implement more, we would achieve much more
1. How agility can help you stay relevant and resilient in uncertain times
2. What should you do, if you feel undervalued at your current position
3. How to use a personal website as your e-resume and showcase your skills set and experience
4. How to properly implement culture transformation and employee experience projects
Jerry Abiog is a Co-Founder and CMO of Standard Insights - an AI as a Service growth marketing platform that enables businesses to execute data-driven omni-channel campaigns. Prior to co-founding Standard Insights, Jerry had a consultancy that helped SaaS companies with sales and marketing initiatives. Some of his clients had successful exits. Standard Insights was born from lessons learned from past failures. Through serendipitous events, an AI-powered start-up was formed where the co-founders have strong experience in: digital marketing, sales, statistics, and computer science.
It doesn't matter what you did yesterday, what matters is what you do today
Phil Pelucha is a serial entrepreneur with multiple businesses including a recruiting firm, TV show, community of mentors and mentees.
Make decisions with your heart, not with your head
1. Why it's best to decide with your heart, not with your head
2. How to lay a foundation for a business to become global from the start
3. How to organize multiple businesses that are feeding into each other
I'm a curious mind whose favorite thing in the world is to ask questions that help me fully understand. With each episode we will uncover trends that you can use to build an algorithm to your own success.
Anar Umurzakova
