3. Reluctant Manager | Scale Architects

The Secret to Becoming a People First Leader with Kyle Gillette – Ep. 45

March 13, 2023 by Scott Ritzheimer

In this down-to-earth episode, Kyle Gillette, Founder and CEO of Blue Shirt Business Coaching, shares the lessons he’s learned coaching clients how to succeed in the real world of business.

You’ll learn the key to leading and inspiring others well, the power of writing things down, and how to ask great questions.

 Kyle Gillette, Founder and CEO of Blue Shirt Business Coaching, has helped small business owners and leaders around the world to take their businesses from good to great. He is an ICF-certified coach, behavioral analyst, and creator of the Blue Shirt Leadership Framework that helps leaders and small business owners become the leaders they’re meant to be.

Change is Here to Stay, So How Do We Manage It with Victoria Pelletier – Ep. 44

March 6, 2023 by Scott Ritzheimer

In this insightful episode, Victoria Pelletier, Managing Director at Accenture, shares how she has leveraged the lessons she has learned from 20 years of executive leadership and 18 mergers and acquisitions.

You’ll learn how to effectively manage change by proactively investing in your personal brand and fostering authentic relationship within your organization or division.

Victoria is a 20+ year Corporate Executive and Board Director – she is currently a Managing Director at Accenture. Nicknamed the “Turn Around Queen” by former colleagues and employers, Victoria inspires and empowers her team and clients to change mindsets and drive growth in business, leadership and culture.

Victoria was recognized as one of the Top 30 Most Influential Business Leaders in Tech by CIOLook, 2021’s Top 50 Business Leader in Technology by Insight Magazine and a Mentor of the Year by Women in Communications & Technology in 2020. HSBC bank awarded her the Diversity & Inclusion in Innovation award in 2019 and she was IBM’s #1 Global Social Seller ranked by LinkedIn in 2019 and 2020.

How to Scale You as a Founder with Rachel Turner – Ep. 43

February 27, 2023 by Scott Ritzheimer

In this truly tremendous episode, Rachel Turner, Co-founder and Principal of VC Talent Lab, shares how she turned her own struggles scaling her businesses into a powerful tool for Founders.

You’ll learn what it means to scale yourself while you scale your business so you don’t get left behind with lack luster results or worse.

Rachel Turner is a founder and ‘Alpha Whisperer’ with more than twenty years’ experience as a transformative coach and leadership, team and culture consultant. Her superpower is coaching entrepreneurs who need to scale themselves to scale their businesses and her new book, The Founder’s Survival Guide is the go-to book to help founders to scale and adapt their leadership style as their company grows.

What Does Leadership Sound Like with Tom Henschel – Ep. 42

February 20, 2023 by Scott Ritzheimer

In this fascinating episode, Tom Henschel’s, Executive Coach and Podcast Host at Essential Communications, shares how he uses his decades long career as a Hollywood actor to help leaders develop their look and sound of leadership.

We dive into the true sign of authenticity in leadership, how COVID has shaped the current leadership challenge, and how to create deep trust in a remote work environment

For more than thirty years, Tom Henschel has helped hundreds of senior leaders achieve The Look & Sound of Leadership.

His expertise as a communications coach has taken him into executive offices at companies such as Amazon, CitiGroup, CoreLogic, Dole, HP, KONE, Netflix, Toyota, and Warner Bros.

In addition to coaching executives, Tom facilitates team events and delivers interactive trainings in the areas of presentation skills, effective communications, and influence skills at companies such as Disney, Nissan, Taco Bell, Transamerica and Symantec.

Putting Profit First with Kristen Ricupero – Ep. 41

February 13, 2023 by Scott Ritzheimer

In this incredibly practical episode, Kristen Riciupero, Personal Financial Coach and CEO of Financial Fitness Coaching, shares how she went from having a decent job and no money to helping business owners make more profit than they could ever have imagined.

Fueled by her passion to help others succeed and become financially free, Kristen is a Personal Financial Coach & Profit First Certified Coach who specializes in helping small business owners, entrepreneurs and driven professionals develop and strengthen their money management skills, eliminate debt, and create cash flow systems to maximize profit and ultimately build wealth. By developing specific action plans that are tailored to each client’s needs, values and goals, it allows them to live and retire in ways they only thought they could dream.

What to do when working hard is not enough with Otis McGregor – Ep. 40

February 6, 2023 by Scott Ritzheimer

In this thought-provoking episode, Otis McGregor, Executive Strategist and CEO of Tribe+Purpose, shares how he has used his experience of 25 years in the US Army to help leaders grow and develop as they grow and develop their teams.

Otis retired from the US Army in 2009 as a Green Beret Lieutenant Colonel following 25 years of service. Where he discovered his passion lies in helping people succeed. And it is that same passion now drives him to create better leaders. Otis believes that better leaders create better organizations, better organizations create better communities, and better communities will create a better world.

Becoming a Better Founder through Physical Fitness with Derick Johnson – Ep. 131

January 30, 2023 by Scott Ritzheimer

In this ardent episode, Derick Johnson, Owner and Life Coach at Fit with Derick, shares how he helps his clients break old patterns to thrive and not just survive in their professional and personal lives.

You will discover:

- How to exercise for success (not just a six-pack)
- The cost of not being present for your own life
- One simple step to get your physical and mental health goals back on track

When to Overcome Duct-Tape Digitization with Stefan Debois – Ep. 39

January 30, 2023 by Scott Ritzheimer

In this tech-forward episode, Stefan Debois, Founder and CEO of Pointerpro, shares how he helps professional service providers overcome the inefficiencies that prevent them from ever truly achieving scalability.

What I love about this episode, however, is that Stefan shares how tech isn’t always the right answer, how duct tape digitization is the right strategy, and most crucially, when you need to change tack to achieve true scalability.

The Often Overlooked Power of Congruent Leadership with Gary de Rodriguez – Ep. 38

January 23, 2023 by Scott Ritzheimer

In this passion-filled episode, Gary de Rodriguez, goes deep to help us step up as a consistent and congruent leader in every aspect of our lives.

Recognized as an internationally acclaimed expert in the science of human excellence and known as the People Mechanic, Gary De Rodriguez has over a 35-year career in designing and integrating the most influential models of psychology-based systems of success in leadership, human behavior, relationships, communication, and team dynamics.

How the Need for Speed is Killing Your Business with Brigitta Hoeferle – Ep. 36

January 9, 2023 by Scott Ritzheimer

In this masterful episode, Brigitta Hoeferle, Owner and Founder of the Center for NLP, shares how she nearly destroyed her business and the lessons she learned and now shares with ambitious leaders all across the world.

As a powerfully engaging and professional international speaker, Brigitta is also known as the fast-tracked female trainer and retired lead coach of one of the largest self-development companies in the world.

As leading mentor, business coach and author she has been invited to speak on stages around the world, to the certify and train executives in the leading methodologies of powerful communication, in form of Neuro Patterns of Communication for their personal and business life.

The Secret to Frontline Leadership with Greg Cagle – Ep. 35

January 9, 2023 by Scott Ritzheimer

In this powerful episode, Greg Cagle, Transformational Executive Coach and Corporate Culture Consultant at The Cagle Group, shares how he helps leaders from the C-Suite to the front line embrace and exemplify the culture of their organization and produce truly remarkable results.

Greg Cagle is a passionate advocate for authenticity, a transformational executive coach, a corporate culture consultant, an author, and a speaker. Leveraging more than twenty-five years of in-the-trenches experience in building and leading his own companies, Greg comes alongside leaders and guides companies to position them for breakthrough success in building a culture that blows away the competition.

Speeding Up by Slowing Down with Brian Smith – Ep. 29

November 24, 2022 by Scott Ritzheimer

In this prescient episode, Brian Smith reveals how to get your business or nonprofit to where you want it faster by moving slower.
 Brian Smith, PhD, is founder and senior managing partner of IA Business Advisors, a management consulting firm that has worked with more than 18,000 CEOs, entrepreneurs, managers, and employees worldwide. Together with his daughter, Mary Griffin, he has authored his latest book, Individual Influence: Find the “I” in Team, which shares how to become our best self with everyone we influence.