Shifting from a Doer to a Leader Mindset, with Kelli Thompson
In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Kelli Thompson about shifting from a doer to a leader mindset.
Kelli Thompson is an award-winning executive coach and speaker who is on a mission to advance women to the rooms where decisions are made. She has coached and trained thousands of women to trust themselves, lead with more confidence, and create a career they love. She is the founder of the Clarity & Confidence Women's Leadership Program, and a Stevie Award winner for Women in Business—Coach of the Year. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Closing The Confidence Gap: Boost Your Peace, Your Potential & Your Paycheck.
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Building Team Cohesion, with Kendall Wallace
In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Kendall Wallace about building team cohesion.
Kendall Wallace is a master at creating meaningful experiences that make you feel more alive, connected with yourself, with nature, and with one another. She creates movie-like magical moments not on a screen but in real life. After reading Eat, Pray, Love, she traveled the world by herself for 2 years. For the past decade, she has thrown herself into personal growth. She went from waitressing to creating a thriving career in tech at Meta before it abruptly came to an end. Now, she designs bucket list corporate offsites that not only create magical experiences, but also create safety and honesty in the workplace. Having helped over 1,000 people across 75 groups in improving communication, uncovering blind spots, minimizing recovery time between breakdowns, defining work-life balance and making decisions more in alignment with what moves them in order to become highly effective communicators & happier people. In addition, she is an EFT practitioner and uses this in her coaching, helping people psychologically reprogram their subconscious. She now lives in the North Shore of Oahu, having been inspired to improve her surf skills and live her Blue Crush dreams.
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Making Change Simple, with Cyriel Kortleven
In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Cyriel Kortleven about making change simple.
For more than 20 years, Cyriel Kortleven has been inspiring organizations like IKEA, NASA and Unilever to approach Change with courage, confidence and enthusiasm. His pragmatic advice has earned him the nickname The Simplifier. In an increasingly complex world, we need new simple perspectives to enable us to navigate uncertainty and to turn problems into opportunities.
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Turn Your Fear Into Fuel, with John Addison
In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with John Addison about his book, Turn Your Fear Into Fuel.
In 2015, John Addison retired as co-CEO of Primerica, one of the world's largest financial services companies. Today, he shares his servant-leader ethos as a sought-after keynote speaker and leadership consultant. Through his consulting business, Addison Leadership Group, John utilizes over four decades of stories from his own life to encourage people to embrace leadership as a service to others rather than simply a title. He sits on numerous boards of directors, and in 2025, he was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from Direct Selling News, the direct selling industry's premier source for news and education. John is the best-selling author of Real Leadership: 9 Simple Practices for Leading and Living With Purpose, Addisonisms: Quotes to Live By, and Turn Your Fear Into Fuel.
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Empowering Resilience: Nurturing Motivation and Self-Care Amid DEI Challenges, with Raphael Williams and Kavita Singh Gilchrist
In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Shawnasia Black, Raphael Williams, and Kavita Singh Gilchrist about empowering resilience and nurturing motivation and self-care amid DEI challenges.
Raphael Williams, WELL AP, serves as Senior A&D Manager for Allsteel, a leading innovator in workplace furnishings and architectural product solutions. He also serves as Equity Council Co-Chair for the International Interior Design Association’s New York Chapter (IIDA NY). He aspires to educate and inform the architecture and design community on various Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) initiatives, such as Equity Council’s JEDI Action Lab Series.
Kavita Singh Gilchrist (she/her) is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Racial Equity Partners (REP), a national consulting practice that has helped 30+ organizations build skills and pathways to advance racial equity, diversity and inclusion. Before REP, she spent 20 years designing programs with education and community-based nonprofits, working to help people navigate inequitable systems by shaping inclusive services that benefit all people and positively impact their life outcomes. Kavita is also Founder and Director of Made for Me Books and lives in Harlem, NY with her family.
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