Special Encore Show: The Grandest Adventure – Adapting To The New Business World with Libby Wagner

Are you holding on to pre-existing beliefs that may be holding back your business, clients or work progress following the current post covid lockdown?

My guest, Libby Wagner decided a sabbatical was needed to get her own thoughts in order. With an unsettling world of political division, unsettling media reporting and economic turmoil , Libby wanted to challenge her own thinking and get closer to the truth.  This took the form of a solo grand adventure across the United States by Campervan to reflect, write and connect with normal people and discover what was really going on and where beliefs need to shift.

Libby is the author of Amazon Best-Seller, The Influencing Option: The Art of Building a Profit Culture in Business and What Will You Do With Your 90,000 Hours? The Boardroom Poet’s Thoughts on Work and three collections of poems. She works with executives to create dramatic, memorable impacts, so they confidently lead their organizations on adventures towards innovative horizons.

Her revised thinking is now positively impacting her clients as they build business cultures that excel today.

Join us for this special encore show and consider your own grand adventure and how you adapt your thinking for today’s business world to provide great solutions to business and life challenges. 

This special encore episode will be airing on 23rd December 2022 at 8am(PT)/11am(EST)/4pm(BST). To listen live or later from the archive please visit http://www.voiceamerica.com/show/1959


More about Libby Wagner:

Libby is the author of Amazon Best-Seller, The Influencing Option: The Art of Building a Profit Culture in Business (2010), What Will You Do With Your 90,000 Hours? The Boardroom Poet’s Thoughts on Work (2016) and three collections of poems, including Like This, Like That (2002), Somehow (2012), and Dancing on the Summer Lawn (NP). Using her unique approach, Libby helps executives create dramatic, memorable impacts, so they confidently lead their organizations toward innovative horizons.

She is the president of influencingOptions®, a business consulting and training firm that creates high trust-high performance teams and coaches leaders to hone their skills in courageous conversations to impact the quality of their working relationships.

She is a founding faculty member of the Institute of Conversational Leadership and Invitas with poet David Whyte, and works with inspired leaders across the globe to bring the soulful work of Conversational Leadership into practice.

Libby co-founded The Studio, a change consultancy that utilizes the principles of artistry to foster innovation and build highly-engaged organizations with artist-entrepreneurs Steven Morris and Owen Ó Súilleabháin. The antidote to “business as usual,” The Studio is a place of practice where leaders can experiment with and deepen their own unique version of leadership through artistry.

This special encore episode will be airing on 23rd December 2022 at 8am(PT)/11am(EST)/4pm(BST). To listen live or later from the archive please visit http://www.voiceamerica.com/show/1959


More about Chris Cooper:

Chris Cooper is a business elevation strategist, executive coach, mentor and facilitator who transforms the performance of leaders, teams and builds highly engaged workforces. He is renowned for his deep presence, experience around people and culture. facilitation of transformational conversations and extensive global network.

Chris has hosted the weekly ‘Business Elevation Show’ for 10 years and is frequently interviewed across a variety of media. A fellow of the Professional Speaking Association (UK) he speaks on topics such as ‘Elevating Leadership’, ‘Engagement’, and his co-authored book  ‘The Power to Get Things Done (Whether You Feel Like It or Not) published by Perigee (Penguin Random House (New York)). Chris previously held a variety of senior leadership roles at Punch, United Biscuits and Mars Inc and sold his share of a successful consultancy practice.

His latest venture ‘The Elevation Collective’ is an exclusive network for international change makers. Chris lives with his wife and two teenage boys in Leicestershire, England.

This special encore episode will be airing on 23rd December 2022 at 8am(PT)/11am(EST)/4pm(BST). To listen live or later from the archive please visit http://www.voiceamerica.com/show/1959




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