Timeout With Leaders

S2 Episode 4 Timeout with Amy Gould ”Finding a Uniting Purpose”

Episode 4 of Season 2: Amy Gould, Chief People Officer at Regional Transit Service, joins as our first HR leader to be on Timeout with Leaders. Amy has a passion for people and building relationships to improve the daily lives of employees, creating a uniting purpose to bring over 1,000 employees together to serve the community daily. 

Top 3 Gould Family Christmas Movies

-Christmas Vacation

-A Christmas Story

-Elf 

 

Amy spoke about the competitive labor market and believes companies need to hire for character and train for skills. While increasing communication across all teams to get the full story on what is really going on internally. She has found more communication limits surprises for the business, so they can take a more proactive approach. 

Amy reminds us that the customer experience should match the employee experience as they are interacting daily with one another, a direct representation of the company, so they better be happy! 

"It is so important to know your employees today" - Amy Gould

S2 Episode 3 Timeout with Ken Johnson ”Opportunities to Create Change”

Ken Johnson CEO of Leonard's Express a multi-generational family-owned and operated business, recent winner of Rochester Top 100 places to work joins us for episode 3 "Opportunity to Create Change" 

When we think about leadership today, Ken shared that he has found you must be "fair" and "firm" but you must have built the right relationship establishing trust to hold the team accountable. Ken shares that running a family business is never easy from arm wrestling competitions with his brothers but also how to they have had to learn how to utilize each of their strengths. 

What was most fascinating is their dedication to their people, the industry, and looking to make a change, even if it "ain't broke". Ken's commitment to the community, "we have a responsibility to give back, we need to be a part of the community in which we live and work" 

You "got to listen" in leadership today.

S2 Episode 2 Timeout with Jaime Saunders ”Touch the Heart Before You Teach the Mind”

Season 2 is off to a HOT start with guest Jaime Saunders, President and CEO of the United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes. Her energy sucked us right in for an incredible conversation about what it takes to be a leader today.

She spoke about the "Great Resignation" as the "Great Re-Think" for most leaders and businesses. 

Jaime's positive mindset, thinking about how she can "leave the world a better place" as a leader in our community here in Rochester. She reminds leaders that they are the followers, the champions, and the cheerleaders to effectively build trust across their teams uniting them with a common purpose. She mentioned that this can all be found in the children's books of old teaching the same lessons leaders need today. 

We can be more effective leaders if we "touch the heart before you teach the mind!"

Season 2- Episode 1Timeout with Kenneth Rhee ”Be Self Disruptive”

What a way to kick off Season 2 of “Timeout with Leaders” with Kenneth Rhee, Dean of the School of Business and Leadership at Nazareth College in Rochester.

Well, his favorite movie is “Chariots of Fire”, he knows when it’s the best time to go to the grocery store in Green Bay and he’s a huge Apple fan.

What we also learned about Kenneth is he’s an amazing and progressive leader that puts a primary focus on leading by example. He said today we should change our focus to the inputs and process rather than just the desired output result. 

He shared leaders of today need to be "self disruptive" in order to get comfortable with the changes necessary in today's business environment. Today leaders new to be honest, transparent and most importantly authentic to earn the trust of their people. Our people should feel safe to say what you NEED to hear not just what you want to hear. 

Kenneth pumped us full of wisdom and experiences and educated us on how to start with ourselves if we want to change the universe.

Episode 27: Timeout with Coach Kevin Clifford ”Thrive in Chaos”

Episode 27 -  Business Owners and Coaches, get your pen and pad out because we are taking a "Timeout" with Coach Kevin Clifford, Head Coach for Roberts Wesleyan Women's Basketball Team and he's what we like to call.... "ahead of the game."

 

Coach Clifford's knowledge, wisdom, and experience with processes recruiting, and finding our way are unmatched. Coach Clifford's approach to recruiting in the sports world can absolutely be used as an instrumental tool in today's business world. 

 

Coach is much more than a basketball coach, he increased his team's GPA from a 1.6 GPA to a 3.5GPA in just one year!!! We loved it when he said, "team, we're going to the library for practice today!" 

 

Coach puts a tremendous value on building relationships in this episode that you all will find extremely valuable. His character shines as bright as the sun in our conversation and was a BLAST!!!! 

Episode 26 Timeout with Joe Rulison ”Celebrating Employees Consistently”

What can stop Joe Rulison, the founder and CEO of three + one...... the answer is NOTHING, not even going blind while starting a business!!! We had a ball listening to Joe's journey to success. Joe didn't say the word "I" the entire episode when talking about accomplishments. We wondered how Joe built an unstoppable force at three+one and the quote that stood out to us was, "the hardest part about three+one is getting into three+one." 

We learned everything from Joe's favorite superhero to how his puppy became famous overnight... "Eddie The River Golden Doodle."

Have an awesome Friday y'all and enjoy Joe's ahead of the pack leadership skills we get to talk about! 

 

Episode 25: Timeout with Brother Ernie Paniccioli ”Learn to Laugh”

"If you haven't gotten your picture taken by Brother Ernie then you ain't Hip-Hop"

 

At first, we were blown away by Ernie's portfolio of pictures & relationships he had of Tupac, Biggie, Chuck D, Mike Tyson, P. Diddy, Nas, Snoop Dog, Ice Cube, LL Cool J, Wu-Tang Clan and so many more... the list does not end.  Ernie's energy and wisdom immediately steered our conversation to only about Ernie as we had a LOT to learn... we were no longer curious about the icons he took photos of and we focused on how iconic Ernie was. 

 

His view on the universe and focus on energy was more than insightful, we couldn't stop asking Ernie questions on life!!! Ernie said "Energy cannot be either created or destroyed" and this made us more aware that no matter what we are doing we are putting off positive or negative energy. We must put in more than we take out in the universe, when we can learn to laugh it helps us to put FEAR into perspective. 

 

Stop focusing on the result and focus on the DOING.

Episode 24: Timeout With Anne Wilder ”Be Quick to Ask for Help”

Episode 24: Anne Wilder CEO of Coordinated Care Services Inc. joins Tyler & Kevyn 

Right from the opening whistle Anne spoke from the heart and painted a real mural of what it is like to work for a compassionate and collaborative leader. Anne shares that her first mission was to create a type of environment where people LOVED to work. She shares her keys to creating a sound people infrastructure, that will enable you will be more in tune with the constant evolution of culture.

When we feel safe to share our perspectives, collaboratively we can help each other problem-solve more effectively. Don't be afraid to ask for help in leadership, it shows you are human and together the company will grow stronger.

Timeout with Miisa Mink ”Failure is Gift”

We take a TIMEOUT with our first international guest on "Timeout with Leaders" the one and ONLY Miisa Mink, Founder & Chief Do-er at Driven Women!

 

Miisa is a woman who is changing the world by empowering other women to lead the best lives they can and to build up the courage to overcome their fear standing in the way of the "dream that they would never tell anyone."  Sometimes taking that first step is the hardest, but becomes a little less scary when we know the "ground is always there to catch you."

 

Life is a journey we grow and become more aware of as time goes on, how we are able to view and learn from defeat, failure, and challenges is key to unlocking our true potential. 

 

Don't just be a thinker, be a DO-ER, to stand up for what you believe and value! Corporations are evolving and could be well suited to tap into the "female values" to lead them out of the crisis created when the scales are tipped too heavily in one direction. 

 

 

Timeout With Mike Faulkner: ”Leading a Double Bottom Line Business”

This week's guest on Timeout with Leaders, Mike Faulkner, CEO and President of WECO Manufacturing, lets us in on his secrets to unlocking a business's true potential, by focusing on a "Double Bottom Line." 

After meeting Mike, we knew within 30 seconds we had a very special guest on the show and got down to the nitty-gritty FAST with this talented leader in our community. Mike's a gentleman that simply has the "IT" factor we all hear and talk about. 

 

Mike nails down "staying in an aware state of leadership and not one based on EGO, meeting people where they are, and practices having an open mind and FEARS NOTHING! 

 

The most profound item we heard from Mike was about outcomes, "outcomes are just a gauge to tell us if we are doing the right things.... so focus on the inputs, not the outputs." 

 

If yall give this a listen you will find the key to success is a $19.95 "one-pager" with 4 key points that Mike has lived by and has proven by outshining his competition.