The Business Elevation Show With Chris Cooper - Be More. Achieve More

How do leaders expand their capacity and consciousness to play their role in dealing with complex changes that are impacting our planet’s future? Simon is Co-Managing Partner of Leaders’ Quest based in London. He works with global companies and institutions to make the transformational change required to meet today’s challenges. Simon has been a serial entrepreneur, building companies in Europe, the US and Canada. He joined an Amazonian exploration, spending four years doing scientific research and aid work in the Amazon, across the Himalayas, through Mongolia, and down Ethiopia’s Blue Nile. In 2006, he became the CEO of Right to Sight developing sustainable eye care projects while living in Africa and India. Simon has spent time since 2010 exploring how to combine profit with purpose, people and the planet. Join us to hear lessons from Simon’s incredible personal journey and wisdom on how leaders can play their contribution to solving he biggest issues the planet is facing today.

When we reach the end of our lives and we look back, will we be able to say that we have given it everything? Have we lived a life of real meaning and depth? Craig Goldblatt, an Inspirational Speaker with 15 years experience has spoken at over 600 keynote presentations around the world and is fast becoming a global entity in his own right. He challenges and inspires audiences through his Inspired Seminars to be their very best and to understand that who they are is enough. Craig is also founder of ‘Giving Africa’ a charitable organisation that raised funds to build a school for the children of a small town in West Africa. Craig made a big impact when he was a guest on the show 3 years ago, So time to catch up with him again for more inspiring conversation about how to get the most out of life.

The landscape is littered with the corpses of great products and strong companies that died because of bad marketing. Why do so many fail so miserably at differentiation? Why do high-priced ad agencies and marketing firms keep spitting out stupid campaigns? One of the most in-demand Business Marketing/Branding Keynote Speakers in the world today, David Avrin, CSP is known as The Visibility Coach. With a surprisingly irreverent and entertaining style, David delivers a profoundly insightful and hard-hitting message to business audience across North America and around the world. He is author of the celebrated: It’s Not Who You Know, It’s Who Knows You! (2014 Classified Press) and his latest book: Visibility Marketing! (2016 Career Press). Join us and discover how to uncover your true competitive advantages and a process to craft messages and tactics that achieve tangible results.

What often sets successful people apart is their willingness to do things most of us fear. What’s more, we have the false notion that successful people like to do these things, when the truth is that successful people have simply found their own way to do them. Andy Molinsky is a Professor at Brandeis University’s International Business School helps people develop the insights and courage necessary to act outside their personal and cultural comfort zones when doing important, but challenging, tasks in work and life. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Inc. Magazine, Psychology Today, the Financial Times, the Boston Globe, NPR and Voice of America. During the show we will be talking about Andy’s new book Reach: A New Strategy to Help You Step Outside Your Comfort Zone, Rise to the Challenge, and Build Confidence. Join us to take the thing you are most afraid of doing and make it a proud part of your personal repertoire!

So how do you build a successful company in Africa while contributing to the development of this beautiful and diverse content? While in Kenya last year, I met an inspirational business leader called Laila Macharia. A Stanford and Cornell law graduate, Laila left behind an exciting life in New York city to make a difference in Kenya, the country of her birth. She has since created and supported businesses across the region, from housing development to her current interest, a creative media and technology training college. She has also spent a decade helping reform policies in the land, financial, transport and education sectors. In my opinion, she is also an inspirational, wise and compassionate leader. The perfect person to share with us how to build business while contributing positively to Africa's development.

It is getting harder and harder everyday to rise above the crowd and get your message heard, understood, and acted upon. So how can you create dynamic and visually compelling presentations to exponentially increase the emotional impact and retention of the message you wish to convey? Known as The French Voice of Paramount Pictures in Canada Nabil Doss is a seasoned speaker and an expert in Influential Communication who scripted, voiced, directed, and produced hundreds of Hollywood blockbuster trailers. With three decades of advertising, marketing, and communications experience, a wide range of organisations and professionals have used his consulting and production services to enhance their message and establish a strong brand. Join us this week to discover the secrets of immersive cinematic and narrative techniques to zero-in on the essence of your message and get the attention it deserves!

How can you seek the inspiration you need to create compelling uniqueness in your business? Mark Levy finds that inspiration through intelligent creative techniques and visits to the most unlikely of places. Whether you are looking to tell your business story in a compelling way, seek a new compellling book title or hooks for a new sales campaign, then listening to this interview could make all the difference. Mark Levy is the founder of Levy Innovation LLC a positioning firm that helps consultants & other thought leaders to increase their fees by up to 2,000%. Clients have come from the White House, been CEO's of major organizations, from Harvard Business School, Major League Baseball and TED and TEDx speakers. He has written for the New York Times, written or co-created 5 books, and created magic tricks and shows performed in Carnegie Hall and Las Vegas, and on major TV networks. Mark made such an impact on his last appearance on the show that I had to invite him back! Do join us.

2016 was a year full of huge changes, with Brexit in the UK and the shock presidential outcome in the United States. So how can we navigate our businesses in these uncharted waters in 2017 and beyond? Having studied Economics at Sussex and London Universities, Mark is now Head of Economics for HSBC’s commercial bank-ing business in the UK. He is responsible for advising the Bank in the UK and its business customers on developments in the British and global economies. In order to ensure that HSBC’s commercial customers in the UK are as well informed as possible about the issues arising from ‘Brexit’, he spoke at more than 150 such events during 2016. Do join us for a show full of invaluable insights into the economics affecting us today and those things you need to be aware of. Also, hear Mark’s inspirational story of how, blind from the age of 4, he has built a successful corporate career.

Are you in the business of educating others? Perhaps you are a trainer, coach or subject expert and want to have a great impact. If so, on this show we will discuss how to create online programmes that take skills to the next level, while delivering you a healthy revenue stream. My guest Danny Iny is the founder of Mirasee, host of the Business Reimagined podcast, bestselling author of multiple books including Engagement from Scratch! and The Audience Revolution, and creator of the acclaimed Audience Business Masterclass and Course Builder’s Laboratory training programs, which have together graduated over 5,000 value-driven online entrepreneurs. Join us to hear how to develop programmes that allow you to share your knowledge, create global impact, freedom and wealth.

Ever questioned the authenticity of sales? Would you like to generate more sales the trusted way? My guest Nicci Bonfanti helps put the soul back into selling. She helps female business owners, in particular, find their Inner Sales Superhero so they can find their own way of selling with authenticity, integrity and alignment. Through her own company, Trusted Sales Dynamics, Nicci has helped hundreds of business owners through applying her 5 principles for Trusted Selling. During her 15 year career in Global Sales and Marketing her unique approach to sales ensured she was promoted or hired for a new post every year due to her direct sales results and through the results gained from coaching her sales teams. Join us for inspiration and practical tips to grow your sales results in 2017 in a more trusted and authentic way.

At some point, in both our professional and personal lives, we will be faced with possible changes and challenges. How can we navigate through these? Joy Marsden says we need to Keep Stepping! Joy has over 20 years business experience in technical textile design, Marketing, Customer Service and Area Sales Management working with blue chip companies including Marks and Spencer, Mars, Next PLC and Avon Cosmetics. Today as an influential change advocate, Joy works internationally in both the public and private sectors with leaders, managers and their teams using her uniquely designed Keep Stepping!® programme, which focuses on key principles that must be mastered when going through challenge and change. Join us to discover some essential ways to help lead yourself and others through challenge and change!

Are you really harnessing the power of imagery in your business? Today about 90 percent of everything shared online is visual—selfies, GIFs, smartphone videos, and more. This explosion of communication through pictures isn’t a millennial-driven fad; it’s as natural as those lines first drawn by cavemen, Just turbo-charged by the latest technology. Dan Roam is the author of the international bestseller The Back of the Napkin, the most popular visual-thinking business book of all time. Dan is the founder and president of Digital Roam Inc., a management-consulting firm that uses visual thinking to solve complex problems for such clients as Google, Boeing, eBay, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, Wells Fargo, the U.S. Navy, and the United States Senate. Join us this week to talk about lessons from his latest book ‘Draw To Win’ and get ready to work smarter, communicate more clearly, and get better at whatever you do, just by picking up a pen!

Organising and running your own event can be a daunting and stressful experience. With so much to think about it can be hard to know where to start, let alone ensuring the event is successful! Fiona Duncan has been running events for over 10 years and now runs possibly the most successful business network in my region with a difference, The 'RSViP Network Socials', attracting well over 100 paying guests every month - a feat the big National players would love to emulate! Join us this week as Fiona will share some of the key components you’ll need to consider when putting on your own event, as well as some top tips for when you are attending an event. For those of you with events coming up in the future, whether you’re organizing or attending, this is a show not to be missed!

How do you best deal with highly chaotic and complex situations in your business? Marc Amerigo is a leading expert in this field after 25 years of some quite amazing achievements in business and sport. From his experience he has consolidated his approach into ‘The Brainshift method’. He will share the process he used to break extreme World Records (world speed records for a bicycle and snowboard) and also in the application in leading critical industrial situations from nuclear plants to automative and aviation. During this interview Marc will explain his brainshift method and share the 3 critical steps to help you move forward and get out of those tough situations. Join us to here how to move from “Chaos & Complexity” to “Performance & Harmony”.

Ever considered whether there is a Smartr way to living? In a fast paced world, with new information constantly being presented to us, how can we grow and evolve as entrepreneurs and business-minded people, whilst keeping up the pace? Jason Criddle was the CEO of Legacy Status Investments before starting The Smartr App Company in 2015. His primary project now is the Smartr Foundry; an app-based Global accelerator serving as a guide and on the go platform to help owners and founders evolve their companies, while focusing on the metaphysical & spiritual as-pects of what it takes to drive greatness within oneself. Make sure you join us for a show where Jason will discuss what will become his latest book ‘Smartr Living’ and some of the principles he believes as a millennial are essential for success in the present world!

So how well do you really plan the life you want to live while effectively managing your finances to support it? Are you someone who lives from day to day, month to month or are you someone who really very carefully plans both their vision, life strategy and their finances. My guest Tina Weeks is the founder of Serenity Financial Planning, a unique financial planning company breaking the mould of what a financial planning company should do! Tina came highly recommended by one of my trusted connections as someone who is really breaking the mould. As a fully qualified financial adviser for over 20 years, Tina was frustrated at how the financial services industry was more interested in peoples' money rather than encouraging and helping them to manage their money effectively to support the life they want to live. Join us to discover how you can do just this.

Would you like to one day sell your business? Or set up a new business that when the time is right, you could sell? If so, you will need to think carefully about designing it in such a way that it becomes a valuable concern that someone will want to purchase. During this interview, we will cover the do's and don'ts from the expert I would got to for help in my network. Tim Luscombe has been helping owner managed businesses with strategy, funding, exit planning and acquisitions since 2002. He's a principal in KLO Partners, a corporate finance advisory business, the immediate past president of the Professional Speaking Association in the UK and chairman of Thames Valley Business Advisors. He is a man of integrity and high quality practical advice. I for one will be listening to this interview pen at the ready. Join us for what for some of you could be incredibly high value interview on the Business Elevation Show.

So what are the keys to doubling your sales, profits and time off? My guest Dan Kuschell has started and built 11 companies, his first in 1992 at the age of only 22. As an expert at building and growing companies he has become a regular guest on radio and TV shows, including NBC, Spike TV, History Channel, ESPN and more. During this show, we will discuss Dan’s unique perspectives on business growth and why Dan says ‘traditional sales and marketing are dead’. Also, discuss wisdom acquired from networks including the Genius Network® that is helping clients bring simplicity to their current complexities, chisel away the nonsense, leaving them with a refined sense of what needs to be DONE. There is a reason why for thousands of years the smartest people have tended to congregate together! If you would like to double your sales, profits and time off then join us for ideas to help you do just that!

Business change is moving at the speed of light and to keep pace your organization needs you to be your own career architect. But what is driving this line of thinking? Renowned speaker and author Simon T. Bailey is the leader of the “brilliance” movement – helping more than 1 million people find their brilliance, shift their thinking and produce sustainable results. Author of seven books including Release Your Brilliance -HarperCollins- and Shift Your Brilliance: Harness the Power of You Inc.-SoundWisdom-, Simon has also spoken on six continents to 1,000 plus organizations including ATandT, IBM, MasterCard, Microsoft and Toyota. Join us as Simon shares strategies for staying relevant in every economy.

Do you dread going to networking events? Do you hide at the back of the room when you have the opportunity to present? In 1984 a New York Times Survey on Social Anxiety placed death third in the list of people's biggest fears. The top two responses were walking into a room full of strangers and speaking in public. And death came third! During this show, business networking strategist Andy Lopata, and Business Development Strategist Peter Roper, will talk us through their top tips for net-working and speaking and why their book is still as relevant today as it was when it was first published ten years ago!