Guest: The Brothers Koren, World Class Musicians | Masterful Coaches

The Brothers Koren 
World Class Musicians  |  Masterful Coaches

Isaac and Thorald Koren aren’t your typical leadership consultants. Better known as The Brothers Koren, these 2024 People’s Choice Award winners achieved the success they dreamed of, performing alongside global music icons like Coldplay, Pink, Bon Jovi and Rod Stewart. But at the height of their success, they pivoted in response to a greater calling. Now, they’ve shifted their focus to heartfelt work empowering individuals and teams to discover and express their authentic voices. Hear them discuss the “small voices” that inhibit us all and the powerful impact when a leader creates a safe environment for saying “Yes” to the mess of creating and innovating. 

Helping individuals break free from limiting beliefs.

Isaac and Thorald now lead transformative voice and music coaching programs designed to liberate creativity, and foster growth for artists and leaders alike. Their Songwriter’s Journey courses and foundation, Your Big Voice, help individuals break free from limiting beliefs, find their inner voice, and connect deeply with others. Their keynotes and collaborative workshops with corporations build cohesion and lead to inspired breakthroughs.

RESOURCES

From World Class Entertainment to Transformation

Isaac and Thorald share how they transitioned from performing on massive stages with Pink, ColdPlay, Bon Jovi and Rod Stewart to intimate coaching, explaining the powerful journey of helping people connect to their authentic voice

Uncovering the "Small Voices" that Keep us from Claiming our Voice

Isaac & Thorald discuss the 5 Small Voices that get in our way and keep us from bringing our full, brilliant self to our work:- I’m not enough- I’m not Worthy, etc.Imposter syndrome, which research shows almost all leaders experience, lives here.

The Courage to "Dare to Suck"

They emphasize the importance of risk-taking and vulnerability, showing how embracing imperfection can lead to extraordinary creativity, innovation and inspiration.

Hear The Brothers Koren perform their new release IN this episode!
   
In addition to their coaching work with individuals and teams, Isaac and Thorald continue to inspire through new album releases. Search Spotify or your favorite music player to hear their newest releases: No Tomorrow, and The Long Way Home, describing the journey back to our own authentic voice. Don’t miss hearing this song IN this interview!

Connect with The Brothers Koren

Join the Brothers' Portal Community
     Your: Voice. Wellbeing. Creative Power.
Newsletter & our Gift to You
      5-minute Audio Journey
Workshops | Live Events
More:    brotherskoren.com

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  • a few days ago

Guest: Shirzad Chamine, author of Positive Intelligence

Part I - Live Event
Part II - Bonus Interview

Shirzad Chamine is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential and How You Can Achieve Yours. 

 Shirzad is the former CEO of the largest coach training organization in the world, CTI. He has trained faculty at Stanford University and Yale business schools. A preeminent C-suite advisor, Shirzad has coached hundreds of CEOs and their executive teams. His background includes a BA in psychology, an MS in electrical engineering, and an MBA from Stanford. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and his son and daughter are among his greatest joys in life (in fact he once stepped down as CEO to spend more time with them). He is currently CEO of Positive Intelligence, ranked #567 in the 2023 Inc 5000 List…a passionate “Culture First” company that believes in creating a better world of work.

"Transformational change is... 20% Insight, 80% Muscle"

We often know what we need to do to be effective, but we sabotage ourselves. We must build mental fitness – Positive Intelligence, or PQ – by weakening our mental “Saboteurs” and strengthening our mental “Sage”. Leaders with high PQ develop new brain "muscles" and access 5 untapped “Sage” powers: Explore, Empathize, Innovate, Navigate, and Activate. These mental Sage powers enable leaders to be grounded and agile in any situation and to create a thriving team environment.

RESOURCES

Discover Your Saboteurs: Take the Assessment

Is your mind serving you or sabotaging you?

With Positive Intelligence (PQ), you discover how to identify and conquer your top mental Saboteurs, including the Judge, Controller, Avoider, Stickler, Pleaser, etc.

These Saboteurs can override our good intentions, subconsciously triggering a defensive reaction and undermining our effectiveness – in meetings, in relationships, and our daily decisions and actions. The first step to conquering your Saboteurs is to identify them and expose their lies and limitations.

Positive Intelligence for your Team or Organization

Eight out of 10 teams never reach their full potential. The PQ® Program for mental fitness enables your team to achieve optimal performance and wellbeing at work and beyond. The PQ Program will help your team build the mental muscles needed to ignite lasting positive change across your organization.

Learn more and Watch a 3-Minute Overview of the PQ Program

Multi-million Dollar Grant for Coaches

Discover why Positive Intelligence has committed to a multi-million dollar grant exclusively for coaches. See whether you are eligible and learn how you can apply for this grant for a seat in the seven-week PQ program. The next Grant Program cohort starts Sat, January 20th, 2024. Space is limited, apply now.

How to 100x Your Impact as a Coach

This Episode Brought to You by Culture First LIVE Event

Christy interviewed Shirzad for a LIVE event with Culture First, a movement of people who believe a better world of work is possible and are willing to take action to make it real. Culture First is a global community with 100+ chapters worldwide, so listening in were people around the globe, from Denver to Dubai & Michigan to Melbourne.

As an active member of the Culture First Community and Leader of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, Christy saw what kindred spirits the Culture First and Positive Intelligence communities are and was delighted to bring them together. Thank you Culture First & Jessie Jacob for hosting such a rich conversation!

  • last year

Guest: Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor

Audio - Full Episode
Video - 1 min Preview
Video - Full Episode

Kim Scott is a two-time New York Times bestselling author. In this chat, we talk about her first iconic book, Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

Kim is a former tech executive, leading critical teams with founders at Google, Apple, and YouTube – and, she’s been a Coach to CEOs at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and more.

Daniel Pink, Author of the bestseller Drive & A Whole New Mind says “Kim Scott has a well-earned reputation as a kickass boss and
a voice that CEOs take seriously.

"Reading Radical Candor will help you build, lead and inspire teams to do the best work of their lives."
 -- Sheryl Sandberg, former Facebook COO & author of LeanIn

 Gain insight on being a leader who cares personally but also challenges directly…and how to create a culture of candor.


SHOW NOTES

Take the Radical Candor Quiz 

How Radically Candid is your communication? Answer five questions selecting the option that best represents how you would typically respond in the given situations to test how you show up on the Radically Candid scale.

Laugh and Learn Your Way to a Feedback Culture

Featured in The Economist, The Feedback Loop — a laugh-and-learn training program that includes a workplace comedy starring David Alan Grier — helps you develop a candid culture of effective feedback. This is a binge-worthy, not cringe-worthy, Netflix-style feedback training course for your entire team.

Learn more and preview here. Get 10% off here.

Radical Candor (Updated Edition): 
Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

The idea is simple: You don't have to choose between being a pushover and a jerk. Using Radical Candor -- avoiding the perils of Obnoxious Aggression, Manipulative Insincerity, and Ruinous Empathy -- you can be kind and clear at the same time. Radical Candor is packed with guidance to help you improve your relationships at work and beyond and is available in hardback, softcover, Kindle, and Audible.

Just Work: How to Root Out Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying to Build
a Kick-Ass Culture of Inclusivity

Just Work is Kim Scott's newest book, revealing a practical framework for both respecting everyone’s individuality and collaborating effectively. This is the essential guide leaders and their employees need to create more just workplaces and establish new norms of collaboration and respect.

Are Radical Candor and Psychological Safety at Odds?

In our chat, Kim mentions the FastCompany article she wrote with psychological safety pioneer Amy Edmondson.
GREAT NUGGETS from these 2 leading minds discussing the interplay of psych safety and candor. A must-read if you want to grow a culture of innovation, inclusion, or high performance.

Having a “safe” environment can seem at odds with the notion of radical candor…Psychological safety isn’t about being COMFORTABLE all the time. Without an environment where candor is welcome, a team can’t perform at their best. It’s about embracing the discomfort. "When leaders are confident enough to solicit and reward feedback, this encourages employees to say what they really think."

FastCompany: 4 steps to create psychological safety in your teams 

Connecting with Kim - radicalcandor.com

radicalcandor.com is packed with resources...a blog, videos, virtual workshops, digital courses and more. Find articles from Fast Company, Forbes and more at: radicalcandor.com/in-the-news and resources galore at radicalcandor.com/resources.

  • last year

Leadership Lessons with Ted Lasso

  • Guest: Gary Ware

  • Guest: Jessie Jacob

Leadership Lessons with Ted Lasso - Taking the High Road
w/ Guest: Gary Ware

Gary Ware is the Author of the acclaimed Playful Rebellion: Maximize Workplace Success Through the Power of Play. Gary is a keynote speaker, a certified coach, and an improv guy with a decade of experience performing improv theater. He's a leadership and team facilitator.

Following years of burnout climbing the corporate ladder, in pursuit of an outdated, impersonal, and cookie-cutter "dream," Gary Ware now works with young-and young at heart-professionals to help them incorporate play into their lives and experience how it can improve every part of living, from confidence and energy to attitude and creativity.

Playful Rebellion will help you discover how to find joy and wonder in the mundane again, and how to use the superpowers hidden within yourself. You'll learn the steps to become a Play Rebel, and the advantages of being one, from satisfying our deepest emotional needs to getting through that boring Zoom meeting.

Connect with and learn more about Gary at BreakThroughPlay.com. Amazon: Playful Rebellion

SHOW NOTES

  • last year

Guest: Maurice Brewster, CEO of Mosaic Global Transportation

Maurice Brewster is the CEO and Founder of Mosaic Global Transportation. Leading in adversity is a topic Maurice knows all about.

As a premier provider to corporate clients in 400 cities, including Johnson & Johnson, Verizon, Google, Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants, Mosaic watched business go from 2000 trips a day to zero in an instant when Covid-19’s Shelter in Place ended all employee shuttles and event transportation overnight. Mosaic was recently featured in a Wall Street Journal article on how businesses are being impacted by the Corona virus. Listen in for an authentic conversation on the topic of leading through uncertainty.

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SHOW NOTES

Mosaic Featured in the Wall Street Journal 

“We’re nervous,” said CEO Maurice Brewster, thinking about how to get 100+ employees back to work. “I’m hoping and preparing for two months. But my gut is telling me this is going to take a lot more than that.”  Full article here.

Connect with Mosaic and Maurice

Mosaic Global Transportation is the new benchmark in executive transportation for meeting planners around the world.

Web:  mosaicglobaltransportation.com
Phone:  800-398-7881

  • 5 years ago

Guest: Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Advice Trap

Michael Bungay Stanier is the author of The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever, the best-selling coaching book of this century. Written for time-crunched managers, parents or friends who want to be a little more coach-like, it’s about discovering a ”different way of being with people.”

In 2019, Michael was named the #1 thought leader in coaching, and was shortlisted for the coaching prize by Thinkers50, the “Oscars of management”.  

Michael’s new book is The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious, and Change the Way You Lead Forever. In our interview we chat about how to tame your Advice Monster and what it takes to stay curious just a little bit longer with the people around us, every day. 

What Brene Brown has done for vulnerability...Michael Bungay Stanier has done for curiosity."
 -- Tom Kolditz, PhD, Brigadier General, Director, Doerr Institute

SHOW NOTES

Take the Questionnaire: What's Your Advice Monster? 

Are you inclined to Tell-It? Do you have a penchant for Save-It? Or is Control-It your BFF? Take the questionnaire to discover which of the three Advice Monster personas is strongest in you. Less than 10 minutes to complete, and you’ll get a detailed report including a list of tactics to help you tame your particular flavor of Advice Monster.

Cheat Sheets

Take advantage of these download resources at: GetTheGoodstuff    >> How to Ask a Question Well
                                            >> How to Interrupt Someone
                                            >> How to Be Appreciative
Put these sheets somewhere you’ll see them regularly, practice, and change the way you lead forever.

The 7 Essential Coaching Questions

By saying less and asking more—you can change your way of being with people...and get better outcomes.
 >> Get straight to the point in any conversation with
        The Kickstart Question
 >> Uncover new answers with The Awe Question
 >> Save hours of time for yourself with The Lazy Question,
        and hours of time for others with The Strategic Question
 >> Get to the heart of any interpersonal or external challenge
        with The Focus Question and The Foundation Question
 >> Spark insightful "Ahas" with The Learning Question

Don't Fall Into the Advice Trap

Michael & Marshall Goldsmith (America's #1 Coach by INC and Fast Company) discuss the Essential Coaching Questions featured in both his books.

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52 opportunities to build your own brilliant year.

More Transformational Questions

In the Interview, Michael shares a great article by Tim Ferris, author of The Four-Hour Work Week and Tribe of Mentors.
See what he says are the “17 Questions that Changed My Life.”  What might they do for you?

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