Six Figure Jobs with James Nicholas Kinney

How do you determine a healthy work environment? How is a successful company culture created? Dr. Angela Lindberg, a Industrial/Organizational Psychologist and BetterUp consultant joins me to discuss company culture, mindset, productivity, well-being, work-life balance and the importance of belonging. We talk strategies to improve the productivity of individuals. . . and organizations. Angela's career began working for family-owned companies in the heart of the Twin Cities. Through her work improving processes for small businesses and serving as a project manager on a variety of interesting projects and initiatives, she came to realize that her passion was for more than the improvement of individuals — but also the optimization of organizations. From there, she pivoted into a role with a medium-sized medical company where she managed several projects such as implementing a paperless software system in four different functional areas of the pharmacy and accounting and launching the HRIS platform companywide. She quickly realized how much employees appreciated solutions to common problems and the increase in productivity and revenue that these projects created and from there - she was hooked. Angela took her passion for people and processes and received her Masters in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and PhD in Business Psychology in Chicago. Her doctoral dissertation is focused on Psychological Capital and Work Engagement in the hospice care industry. These experiences help her to provide clients with a truly results-oriented mindset and organizational development skill-set that is so desirable (yet often lacking) in the talent development world. Her background spans working with organizations of all sizes and industries from healthcare to police and fire. She has a wide variety of experience designing structured selection systems, performance appraisals, and employee engagement surveys. Angela has a devotion for leading organizational development and fulfilling the mission at BetterUp to help professionals everywhere pursue their lives with greater clarity, purpose, and passion. For more info about James Kinney and Six Figure Jobs, check out our website: https://www.getasixfigurejob.com/

Lori Gentles joins me to discuss how she's keeping a heart-centered approach during the crazy time. How do you balance a people-centered business and also fiduciary responsibilities? How do you approach work when your reputation is your capital? How do you take ownership of your life and your destiny? In this episode, Lori emphasizes the importance of making informed, intelligent, inspired, and intentional decisions in the workplace and in life. Lori Gentles is the Chief People Officer for the City of Santa Monica, one of the nation's most recognizable and diverse communities providing full service municipal services to residents, tourists and businesses. As an entrepreneurial and transformative change-promoter, Lori has dedicated 20 plus years' inspiring and leading strategic organization wide initiatives in various complex and diverse public sector agencies. Over the years, Gentles has established a professional brand as a Cultural Architect specializing in designing, building and cultivating a culture that embraces employee empowerment and leverages individual and collective genius through creativity, diversity, equity and inclusion. The program designer of Employeeship™, The Path to Leadership, Lori's vision is to provide highly self motivated employees across the globe with the tools to become exceptional leaders and societal contributors by moving away from entitlement to empowerment. Gentles, considered by many, an industry influencer, is known for employing a progressive approach to human resources. Her penchant for identifying ways to eliminate the ‘boundaries that bind' and inspiring a new ‘portrait of possibilities' has proven successful and catalytic. In addition to her work in public sector organizations, Gentles has served in various participant and leadership roles on Boards and Commissions such as the Consortium for International Management, Policy and Development; Commission on Access, Diversity and Excellence; College and University Professional Association; National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education; National Black MBA Association. A local and international speaker, Gentles has presented in Asia, Africa and the US on topics such as women empowerment, breaking the cycle of poverty through socially conscious international recruiting, education and employment, and leadership and performance management. For more info about James Kinney and Six Figure Jobs, check out our website: https://www.getasixfigurejob.com/

Jovan Glasgow, the founder of TEOS International Inc., is a high-performance coach, inspirational speaker, and author. For the past 10 years, he has been successfully empowering Fortune 500 companies around the country with the focus on one main goal – creating extraordinary teams that consistently produce remarkable results without compromising integrity or vitality. Through his PX3LIVING program and dynamic presentations, Jovan uniquely aligns personal and professional development to optimize individual performance while also equipping companies with strategies to establish a strong, unified culture. As a master facilitator, Jovan takes the “information overload” epidemic plaguing most high-level organizations and provides practical systems that increase productivity and encourages implementation to generate sustainable growth. Most importantly, he is a man on a mission to bring more clarity, confidence, and fulfillment into the workforce. His message is, “You were made on purpose for a purpose.” When employees, leaders, and teams understand that their desire for fulfillment is found in their life's purpose, the company's culture, performance, energy, and bottom line will transform. If you and your team are seeking greater results both individually and corporately, Jovan's customized approach will deliver the results your company needs to accomplish your goals and continue to make an impact in your industry. For more info about James Kinney and Six Figure Jobs, check out our website: https://www.getasixfigurejob.com/

That Brit who built her business online so that she could work from home in her pants... As a branding and social media expert, Sophie has helped both start-ups and established brands to communicate the right message to their continually evolving target audience. Headhunted for an executive PR role at a leading UK magazine aged 18, Sophie drifted into the creative realm of music PR and event management. Sophie worked on some major events, including album launch parties for Kanye West, Jamie Foxx, Take That, and John Legend, as well as organizing events for influential companies, including FHM Magazine. Sophie's first business, a global entertainment agency, was nominated for three prestigious business awards, including Business Innovation, and was selected as 1 of 6 companies to be showcased by Richard Branson for his Back of an envelope campaign. In 2012 Sophie launched an online social media and branding agency specifically so that she could travel the world and work from home in her pants. The combination of skills ensured quick success for Brand Branding PR LLC, leading Sophie to work with influential clients, including LeVian diamonds and various A-list celebrities. Sophie lived in Morocco for two years before traveling around Australia, before relocating to Miami three years ago. A viral video Sophie create for fun for her local hair salon received over 10K local views and was nominated for two MarCom awards - winners announced 12/2019. For more info about James Kinney and Six Figure Jobs, check out our website: https://www.getasixfigurejob.com/

Hermon Ghermay, Harvard graduate and Director at Grace Blue, joins me to discuss what recruiters look for in a candidate's personal branding. How do you best tell your story to recruiters? How can you stand out in a way that is true to you? What distinguishing factors are apparent in the personal branding of someone with a six figure job? In this episode, Hermon delves into crafting an interesting personal story and the importance of knowing how to tell it. Hermon Ghermay is a seasoned marketing and advertising professional with experience developing and stewarding communications plans for well-known brands to niche players across a variety of industries including retail/restaurants, packaged goods, and travel/resorts. She is dedicated to comprehensively understanding business needs, identifying and recommending key opportunities and incorporating them into 360º plans combining traditional and digital advertising with PR, brand partnerships, design, social media, and other elements. She is a talented team builder and communicator, working seamlessly to coordinate multi-layered collaborative programs with diverse groups including corporate clients, franchisees, external vendors and partners, and internal staff. For more info about James Kinney and Six Figure Jobs, check out our website: https://www.getasixfigurejob.com/

Dr. DelRae Messer, DC is CEO of Free Life Global, a global health and wellness company committed to helping people transform their lives through nutrition solutions. She graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern Health Sciences University in 2007. Her passion for solving the health care crisis started as a young athlete in a rural farming community in North Dakota. After creating a sustainable lifestyle weight loss program in her Chiropractic office, she moved her business online, to coach clients and health care professionals with the ability to deign her work around her two girls, McKenna 16 and Gianna 6. As a single Mom, she is passionate about helping women in social impact entrepreneurship, sustainable agriculture, volunteerism, environmental impact and has created a platform to fundraise for non-profits through experience driven events. Her current projects include school gardens, vertical growing systems, promoting positive mental health through contribution and creating a team of servant leaders, who want to make a difference. She recently funded the printed of a children's coloring book called, When We All Stayed Home to help children process the emotional trauma of the COVID global pandemic. She is now co-creating impact in helping women of color share their stories of resilience and highlighting products and services that create a positive message of equality. For more info about James Kinney and Six Figure Jobs, check out our website: https://www.getasixfigurejob.com/

Heidi Pancake joins me on this episode to discuss the ins-and-outs of recruiting and the importance of staying true to yourself. She shares her journey from homelessness to top level HR executive and imparts valuable pieces of advice about networking, thinking outside the box, and staying resilient. From a housing insecure childhood, to a VP title and the chance to lead a magnificent team, Heidi loves to share how she stays positive in an often emotionally taxing career. Through strategic planning, she manages time for friends, self-care, and learning. For more info about James Kinney and Six Figure Jobs, check out our website: https://www.getasixfigurejob.com/

Today, I sit down with Christmas to discuss how we can approach mental health in the workplace. Christmas Bacos is the Senior Director of Workplace Mental Health at Hope For the Day, a non-profit movement empowering the conversation on proactive suicide prevention and mental health education. Christmas utilized her background in HR and passion for mental health to create the Proactive Workplace Program, partnering with businesses to educate staff and break down stigmas surrounding mental health and providing higher visibility and access to resources. Christmas is a graduate of Berklee College of Music where she majored in Music Business Management and Entrepreneurship. Christmas is a wife, listener, hugger, traveler, reader, laugher, organizer, and a lover of all things mental health. She is a Pittsburgh native and a Chicago resident. For more info about James Kinney and Six Figure Jobs, check out our website: https://www.getasixfigurejob.com/

Today, we catch up with Elicia Banks-Gabriel. For over 12 years, Elicia has been a creator of joy! She started her career creating joy at agencies like Anomaly in account and digital strategy roles for clients like Capital One, Coca-Cola, Campbell's Soup, Converse, Lexus, New York Cosmos, Sephora, Vimeo and more. Then, she shifted to creating joy for employees at global holding companies like Havas and Publicis. Responsible for the full employee experience, she created a partnership with micro-learning platform Grovo to support new managers, led an inter-agency mobility program sending employees to a new city in the world for a month, and shifted a globally distributed agency to an Objectives & Key Results (OKR) framework to quantify their efforts and drive cross-team collaboration. She's thrown some pretty fun parties along the way too. Now, Elicia's on a mission to create joy for One & All as their VP of Talent and Culture. She's a go-giver, obsessive learner, listener and absorber of all things people and culture, based in Highland Park, Los Angeles. For more info about James Kinney and Six Figure Jobs, check out our website: https://www.getasixfigurejob.com/

Today, we talk with Tina Robinson. Tina Robinson is a coach, facilitator, teacher, and speaker who has spent 20 years playing at the intersection of humans + technology + work. After a corporate career in human resources, technology consulting, and sales operations, she launched WorkJoy in 2017 to help emerging organizations unleash the potential of their people. Currently Tina is the head of global leadership development at TechStyle Fashion Group. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two parrots. For more info about James Kinney and Six Figure Jobs, check out our website: https://www.getasixfigurejob.com/