The Art of the CEO

Welcome to the wild west of post-plague hiring.  The single-skilled job slot – tight workplace structures – even the old employee/contractor/consultant distinctions have been swept away. Victims of Covid.   In their place, established firms now clawing their way back to profitable operations are looking for performance wizards.  Those multi-skilled businesspeople who can reach across department lines and do what it takes to get the product made, marketed, and sold.  Host Bart Jackson lays out practical methods for shifting your presentation from skill sets to results architect.  He also lays out plans for you to profitably partner your talents with the flood of over 5 million businesses launched in 2022.  Tune in and learn how to re-sculpt yourself into a renaissance businessperson and best seize the opportunities in this wide-open post-covid market.

It doesn't matter who signs the paycheck or who owns the company.  An entrepreneur is that businessperson who employs all her skills, creative sweat, and inventive ideas to launch something new – and improved – and constantly improving.  Entrepreneurial employees are the ones who devote their energies to the whole firm's mission, help all their coworkers, and get promoted – and maybe leave to start their own enterprises.  Host Bart Jackson rolls out true biz tales of such salaried entrepreneurs as mentoring examples.  You'll discover strategies for understanding the entire company's process – turning customers and coworkers into allies – getting your ideas accepted – and make yourself a valued company asset.  Tune in and learn how to rise out of wage slavery up into career fulfillment.

How do you keep the fire lit? You've scrambled over the startup hurdle where you're lying awake wondering if the company can ever find its first clients –  but you sure do not want to rest & rot on this new plateau.  Host Bart Jackson brings on the solution to your ambition's prayer with guest Ibrahima Souare, Executive Director of New York Professional Advisors for Community Entrepreneurs.  Ibrahima and his non-profit NYPACE team guide countless of young firms through avenues to fresh capital, structuring for efficiency, luring top talent, successful sales strategies, and the magical art of leading the company team as Chief Executive Officer.  For businesspeople who have planned a clear, definite destination, Ibrahima and the advisors of NYPACE help pave the roadway.  Tune in and discover what to jettison – what to keep to help you clear your venture's next hurdles with even more grace that you took first one. 

They're Your words, why not have a little fun with them?  Why not promote your language to Personal Creative Director dedicated  to presenting your stellar ideas in ways that everyone will remember, repeat, and best of all, envy?  Host Bart Jackson unleashes his own irrepressible (alas) tongue and fountains forth a cache of verbal tricks, clever phrasing techniques, and word-wise ammunition guaranteed to pack your speech with the power and attention even you believe it truly deserves.   And as a gleeful dabble into word weaponry, Bart also offers a talon-sharp course on creative insults – including ultimate bullying putdowns.  Good vengeful fun.  Tune in and learn how to wreathe your thoughts with the power of lightning, rather than the flickering, forgotten glow of the lightning bug. 

How do you work when the old office disappears?  You reach into your inventive imagination and create new ways to reach out.  Host Bart Jackson brings forth a broad-ranging Remote Work vision designed to help you master this new freedom and seize the opportunities.  With an entrepreneurial approach, Bart guides you through home and mobile office setup; managing the oceans of unstructured time; building bonds and communication flows, and even the art of remotely feeding your personal ambitions.  Executives also are proffered effective methods for efficiently achieving unity from afar.  Tune in and discover how to keep business personal and fun from wherever you are participating.

There can be little argument: your mind is the most powerful, yet least explored personal asset under your care.  It embraces that mysterious bundle of synapses, the storehouse of experiences, the near-limitless panoply of driving emotional responses – and, of course, the Self – that nebulously defined essence that is both with and apart from all it beholds.  Author Chris von Hassett's Entering Your Mind meditatively guides you on a practical journey, helping you recognize the wondrous fullness of your own mind in its natural state.   The road he offers, Dzogchen practice, is an old and proven one, born in Tibet, and modified to suit our current bizarre lifestyles.  Host Bart Jackson brings Chris on air to share his methods of growing the understanding and immense potential of our own minds.  Tune in and learn how to tear away the boxes of society's concepts which hamper the freedom of our minds, and so many parts of our lives.

Does the very word “Virtual” make you wince?  Are you sick of trying to make your face look awake online?  Boy, have we got the solutions for you.  Host Bart Jackson with a little laughter and a lot of insight lays out the entire video conferencing experience and how you may master it – have fun – and ferret out all the opportunities. From selecting a provider, right up to developing your final sign-off line, Bart lays out the strategies, tips and techniques that will show you and your priceless ideas to their best advantage.  This show covers everything from setting a backdrop, to handling blowhards, to the art of active listening – even a brief Zoom Manners Guide (drinking – Yes; eating and dozing off – No.)  Tune in and discover why video conferencing is here to stay – except for choral singing.

Quit your misery-mongering. Yes, my friend, you are living in an era of unprecedented triumph, compassion, and boundless reasons for Hope.  Your depression has no basis in fact – and we overwhelmingly prove it in this show.  Join us as Host Bart Jackson takes an honest assessing look at the plague – the political situation – global business profile – the market - and a number of individual heroes & heroines.  Bart objectively spreads out before you the monumental achievements being made – and the many opportunities awaiting you.  Tune in and learn how to stop focusing on the hand we've been dealt – and start focusing on how deftly humanity is playing it.

Laura Doherty, President/CEO of the Baltimore Curriculum Project is the person you call when you want to take a failing school, with failing students, and turn it around into an enthusiastic temple of learning, filled with eager, achieving students.   Host Bart Jackson invites Laura on board to share her business-like approach to this very human challenge.  From developing a distinctive alphabet print format to make reading easier, to bringing faculty, parents, and community to bear on each school's unique situation, Laura's BCP team proves that public schools can and do work. Now, as schools struggle with the challenge of the Covid Crunch, and preparing for the post-Covid Catchup,  Laura reveals what methods and mindsets will prove most effective.  Tune in and pay attention, class - you are about to learn an educational strategy that not just for kids.

Key Han has done it - no more dams, no polluting smoke – just 30 years of sweat and genius to produce this revolutionary, vital energy solution. By inventing submerged turbines that churn unseen on river and ocean beds, Key Han has created a cheap, continuous, clean energy source that when adopted will save our planet and meet our exploding energy needs.  Host Bart Jackson invites Differential Dynamics CEO Key Han to answer all the questions about his hydrokinetic river turbines:  How much energy? What cost?    

Conflict: everyone wants it resolved first, in here/his own favor – and peacefully, if possible.  Everyone except Dr. Andrea Bartoli, international peace negotiator who with amazing success brings warring factions to the table and hammers out solutions with peace as the primary aim.  As a leader in the Christian lay community, Sant'Egidio and founder of the Center for International Conflict Resolution, Bartoli is the man divided nations such as South Sudan, East Timor, Poland, and others call upon to settle their dangerous differences.  Host Bart Jackson invites Andrea on board to share his sought-after conflict-resolution techniques, and provide some insights how the U.S. needs to handle its destructive divisions. Tune in and discover from the master a more effective way to get what you want at work, home, and all aspects of our lives.

Signmakers do not have a great call for signs reading “& Son” being added to company logos. But Rick and Jack Newcombe stand as the very model of making this generational shift seamlessly and simultaneously pivoting with massive market changes. In 1987 Rick Newcombe launched Creators Syndicate which he rapidly grew into the most prestigious print media syndication firm nationwide. Creators shared the talents of advice columnist Ann Landers to both Clintons and Wizard of Id comics, with thousands of papers and 44 million readers. Enter son Jack in 2009 who saw the downward of spiral print media and hooked Dad's star talents into the digital media platforms – plus book publishing and more. Host Bart Jackson invites Creators.com CEO's Jack and Rick on to share their story and wise example. And as an added feature, learn about the art and benefits of lifelong passion in his new book “The Magic of Lifting Weights.”

Inner-city, socially disadvantaged young people – government says they need computers.  Schools say they need college.  But Trenton NJ-based serial social entrepreneur Bruce Boyd is wiser.  Bruce knows the need is to cultivate character, and to expose them to the shining light of opportunity, which he insists lies within their grasp.  Host Bart Jackson invites Bruce Boyd to explain how his Building Our Youth Development enterprise has gathered such a devoted following and become a transformative force for so many of Trenton's young people.  Then, when the crash of Covid dismantled several structures (both within schools and outside), Bruce details how he pivoted his organization to find new avenues and even advantages.  Tune in and take a lesson on how to transform your own enterprises to survive/thrive in adverse times. 

How would you form an enterprise to combat gun violence in your home city?  John Thompson, witnessing 26 shootings in 27 days in Yonkers, formed the SNUG program (guns in reverse) that reduced shooting crimes by 86 percent in his town.   Host Bart Jackson invites John to tell his astonishing story, and provide insightful strategies for all aspiring social entrepreneurs.  Going straight to the source, John forged relationships with gang leaders and shooters, working with them to set up alternative pathways.  He engaged the entire community.   John's courageous tale is not to be missed.  Honored by the 2020 Prometheus Social Enterprise Awards, John is an inspiring organizational leader, providing an example and advice worth following.  Tune in and discover how practical idealism works effectively.

Do you cross your workplace threshold, shouldering a crushing load of judgment, posturing, competition, politics, and trying to meet other people's goals?  Alas, that puts you in the majority.  But you deserve a lot better and noted coach Jonas Altman lays out a pathway that will lead will lead you toward a more fulfilling and productive approach to work. Author of bestselling Shapers – Reinvent the Way You Work and Change the Future, Altman explodes the old myths of society's work attitudes and helps you design your own.  The whole concept of why we work and what we expect from our job/career has exponentially evolved just within this past decade.  Tune in and discover how much more than your daily bread you can be gaining from your place of work. 

With 20 percent of America's work force now jobless, and one in five businesses wondering if they'll see 2021, donation-based charities have fallen on rocky times.  And further, they are squeezed against the hard fact that the number people desperately seeking charitable aid are exploding exponentially.  To shed a ray of practical hope, host Bart Jackson calls on guest Tosha Anderson, founder of The Charity CFO who expertly guides all-size non-profit enterprises toward organizational and financial health.   Tosha discusses the structural shifts and new mindsets must leaders make to swim, not sink, in the Covid environment.  Who are the new sources of revenue?  What is the most effective approach to partnering with them? What are the new, multi-task requirements for staff and board members?  And what new financial reporting tools can transform the one-time donor into a dedicated funder?  Tune in and discover more effective strategies for growing your non-profit, or your for-profit organization.

Today we blend some revealing truth with a lot of laughter.  On the Ides of last March the lights Broadway went dark.  Swiftly across this Covid-stricken nation, shows did not go on and the entertainment/performing arts industry vanished from our culture. How long can show biz and its performers endure the shut down? What are the creative solutions?  How will the performing arts re-emerge?  Host Bart Jackson brings into the spotlight renowned standup comedian Eddie Brill.  For 17 years, Eddie was the warmup comic for the David Letterman's Late Show, and for more than a decade served as the show's talent coordinator.   And while we have Eddie shackled to our studio, he will pull back the curtain and share what it takes to make it as a professional comedian, how to deal with agents, and what kind of laughter we need in our lives.  Tune in and hear intriguing personal tales of comedy's kings, past and present.  

Have you dined out lately?  When it comes to the slamming blow dealt by the Covid pandemic, the food industry stands in the top three hardest hit.  Restaurants completely shutdown indefinitely; farmers forced to dump unsold crops while charities scrabble to erect food chains to the hungry; meat packing plants turned into infectious hotspots, and on and on.  Host Bart Jackson brings the nation's top food industry expert and former CEO/President of the Food Institute, Mr. Brian Todd to lay out the entire spectrum of the challenge.   Honestly - how bad is it now?  Is America ever going to be able to feed itself again?  Will we get back – or if not back – what will be the new forward?  Brian Todd shares the with us the current paving steps on the road toward food industry recovery, and what adaptations will be required to make this breadbasket nation meet the global food needs.  Tune in and learn how you will be food shopping and dining in the future.

Is the time to invest when blood is running in the streets, as the legendary Nathan Rothschild claimed?  Certainly, the Coronavirus assault has bled white our physical and financial portfolios, and set us all in unprecedented times.  In response, host Bart Jackson brings aboard Life Science and High Tech industries' noted expert Steven Katz with a ray of very pragmatic hope.  For over three decades Steve has guided healthcare and high tech firms, serving within as board member and in leadership positions, and without, as invited turnaround consultant.  Steve notes that these two industries – the ones we are pushing forward as our Covid-19 defense - do hold solid opportunities for helping your personal finances survive and even thrive.  Steve reveals an insider's wise, sensible strategies for finding the potential investments, and determining their value and durability.  Tune in and discover a path toward fiscal health in these bewildering times. 

Do you ever stop to think just what's so funny about Business? Probably not frequently enough. And while business is a vital part of all our lives and society - it is, after all the way we get things done - it involves people, good old Homo sapiens, and therefore naturally holds a deep well of chortles and belly laughs. Host Bart Jackson is back on air this time sharing a rich supply of that good humor. So get set to laugh as Bart wields his half vast supply of business witticisms, many of which may be found in his upcoming book "In the Words of My Wife's Husband... 'Tis a little laughter vaccine which inoculates you taking today too seriously. 

Welcome to the Art of the CEO's 300th Anniversary show. Would you like to hear the wisdom of a seventh-generation oyster fisherman – how the archeologist of the world's most successful pirate's sunken ship is amassing another fortune – how to emulate the entrepreneur who exploded with a thousand sales in one day – before he even had a product – the funniest repartee ever made by an IP attorney?   Host Bart Jackson has culled the most hilarious and helpful moments, along with wisest counsel from the hundreds of guests gracing our studios.  This tri-centennial episode distills the essence of our best, and fondly recalls the fun.  Tune in and learn from the nation's top negotiator how President Donald Trump reveals his fears by inadvertent bits of body language.  

Do your personal investments reflect your personal values?  Can you put your money into socially conscious enterprises without sacrificing profits?  Alfred Berkeley, former NASDAQ CEO and Director of the World Economic Forum USA says resoundingly, “Yes you can” – and proves it.  Host Bart Jackson invites Al Berkeley back on the show to detail how he artfully launched the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Fund (the “do-gooder” fund which backs companies dedicated to the U.N's 17 sustainability goals.) Al explains the power and planning of how socially conscious investing can work for you.  And – don't miss this – Al Berkeley also reveals the selection strategies and approaches you need to take as you enter the market with your own hard-won cash.  Tune in and learn how you can do well by doing good.

First the good news: The Nonviolent Peaceforce for 18 years has successfully protected civilians in conflict zones by sending unarmed peace keepers to square off against heavily armed opponents.  Now the better news: increasingly they are gathering allies in every corner of the globe.  Host Bart Jackson invites Nonviolent Peaceforce founder Mel Duncan to describe the many newly burgeoning organizations that are responding to violent conflict  with unarmed strategies.  Mel examines the reason for these new groups coming into existence, their achievements, and the why their specific tactics are so effective.  Further, Mel talks about his Unarmed Civilian Good Practices Project and the collaborative conventions of global peacekeepers.  Tune in and discover the forces that are positively halting destructive violence.

The art world stands as living proof that pure talent will not always carry you to the higher strata of the financial heap – or even assure your fiscal survival.  Host Bart Jackson invites on board Ms. Trudy Borenstein-Suguira, multi-talented, multi-media, and markedly successful artist who has survived and flourished in a variety of artistic endeavors.  After paying her dues as starving art student, cum freelance artist, Trudy rose to become custom designer/creator of jewelry for the most discerning clients of Cartier and David Yurman.  Her pieces are even showcased in the Smithsonian. Then, from that pinnacle, she opened her own enterprise and in addition to jewelry launched into an astoundingly original and mode of collage portraiture that has her made sought after and brought in a growing stream of commissions.   Tune in and learn how today's flexibly talented artist may sculpt a career that feeds both body and soul – while bringing enrichment to us all.   

Can you imagine the worst possible business environment for a team of top technological talent? Well, veteran CTO and novelist Gene Kim has embraced this vision in his blunder-laden “The Unicorn Project” in which every business SANFU and stumbling block heaps upon our heroine Maxine.  Host Bart Jackson brings Gene aboard to discuss the real life wall that so destructively separates managers from technological professionals, to the detriment of all.  With wit and insight, Gene poses solid solutions for removing the barriers of suspicion, communication gaps and faulty structures.  And the outcome of Gene's allegorical tale?  Fear not.  The unsinkable Maxine, with the aid of a shadowy guru brings the Five Comppany-Saving Ideals into play, that – no surprise – hold true equally in the tech room and the C-suite.  Tune in and learn ‘em.

Under the guidance of PeaceTech Lab's team, young peace builders worldwide are learning how to create cell phone alert systems warning people about incoming bombs, invading terrorist recruiters, and possible hate crimes.  In its brief five years, PeaceTech Lab has trained 1,300 organizations in 16 countries how to use tech tools to reduce violent conflict, and helped 36 startups disrupt the cycle of violence.  Host Bart Jackson invites PeaceTech's founding CEO Sheldon Himelfarb to roll out his multi-faceted campaign for sustainable peacebuilding.  How can AI halt hate speech that leads to hate crimes? How can community-launched media make life-saving impacts?  Tune in and learn what a peace engineering Masters degree might mean to your life – and the lives of others. 

Megan McNealy insists that doing well in your career does not magically produce well-being, but the reverse can indeed be true:  a personal state of well-being can drive your career joyfully forward.  To prove her point, Megan goes straight to the achievement-envy list, from the CEO of Starbucks to the board chair of Tesla, to discover and share the well-being attitudes and disciplines of the successful.  Host Bart Jackson invites Megan to discuss the 18 spokes depicted in her just-released book Reinvent the Wheel – How Top Leaders Leverage Well-Being for Success.  Get set for a few arguments and challenges as Bart hurls doubts at several of Megan's cherished suppositions.  Tune in for a fascinating dialectic guaranteed to help you better craft your own well-being.  

Business is the pillar of our economy.  The family stands strong as the backbone of our society.  Together, they form the institution of family business - the old reliable that keeps us all afloat.  In the U.S., family firms provide nearly two thirds of the jobs, 57 percent of the GDP, and the majority of our community leaders.  Dr. Dale Caldwell, Executive Director of the Rothman Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, joins host Bart Jackson to show how government and investors neglect them, and other corporations see them only as merger fodder.  Dale explains the specific advantages that major family-held companies, (Oracle, Berkshire Hathaway, Volkswagen, Koch Industries) possess over other comparatively sized firms. Further, Dale details both the challenges and profitable perspectives of the small family-held firms.  Tune in and learn the perks and problems of working all in the family.  

Immediately following the September 11th devastation in Manhattan, private citizen Lisa Orloff displayed the desperately needed ability to organize all the volunteers into a life-saving, recovery force.   From this platform, Lisa launched the World Cares Center, training and coordinating volunteers into a Ready Responders Network that effectively reacts in the face of disaster to reduce suffering and restore communities.  Host Bart Jackson invites Lisa to share her tales about resurrection campaigns waged in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, Superstorm Sandy and catastrophes worldwide.  Lisa details the management strategies of empowering volunteers, the art of forging working connections with other non-profits and private businesses, and helping communities save them selves in mid-crisis.  Tune in and learn how a master unites individuals and organizations with coordinated tasks, all feeding a common goal.  

When celebrity fitness trainer Ramona Braganza visited her ancestral city of Mumbai India, she witnessed the horror of human trafficking and was compassionately determined to aid its victims.  She began training young rescued girls as fitness instructors and encouraged them toward independent careers as trainers in India's burgeoning fitness industry.  Recently awarded with the Prometheus Social Enterprise Award, Ramona joins host Bart Jackson to tell the story of how she created her 3-2-1 Empower charitable foundation to continue defeating human trafficking at home and abroad.  Tune in and discover some solid takeaways on founding your own social enterprise.

No clear, inspiring message ever comes out of a disorganized presentation.  All audiences instinctively look for a speaker's train of thought – that logical pathway leading to the ah-ha moment of the comprehensible conclusion.  Yet it is in the organization that so many presenters fall down, leaving listeners lost in a muddle of details.  To help you keep your presentations on track, host Bart Jackson brings on board Stephanie Scotti, CEO of Professionally Speaking, coach to scores of Fortune 100 C-suiters, and author of Talk on Water – Attaining the Mindset for Powerhouse Presentations. Stephanie guides you through the crafting of a talk that captures listeners' attention and crescendos to a message that moves people to action.  She shares techniques that funnel in details as amplifiers, rather than distractions.  Tune in and learn the secret to the simple brilliance that makes so many TedTalks hit home.

Are you giving yourself and staff the best technology for top production?  Is there a better system for communicating within the office – with our customers – from department to department?  Host Bart Jackson joins with information technology master Darek Hahn, CEO of VelocIT for some straight talk about better ways to blend your business processes with the latest online tools. Too often systems development is handled by businesspeople talking to tech wizards, each in an entirely different language.  Hahn a veteran of both worlds bridges this gap between need and capability.  Tune in and learn how to integrate the vital knowledge within your company.  

It's a tsunami of selections.  Books, podcasts, webinars, seminars, speeches, formal courses - business learning offers flood your desktop and mailbox daily.  You know you've got to keep on training to survive, but how do you sift through it all and find those precise nuggets of advice that are worth the investment of your precious time, and cash?  Host Bart Jackson lays out a strategy for finding the exact training you require.  Medium by medium he goes through each way of learning – from experience to the formal MBA – telling you how to evaluate each offering, and how to prepare yourself to glean the very best from each one.  Tune in and learn how to judge the value of a podcast and how to seize optimum value from a business book.

Today's marketing has shifted from massive, one-pitch-fits-all campaigns to customized marketing based on your individual behavior.  In a previous episode “Hidden Persuaders of A.I. Marketing,” top digital marketing authority William Ammerman told how the drivers of psychotechnology and big data were engineering this more personalized approach. Now host Bart Jackson invites William back to reveal how You and your business can do it.  Author of The Invisible Brand, Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning, Ammerman lays out how this persuasive process is being employed by companies of all sizes. Carrying it further, he details how it may be adopted by religions and nations to wrench our minds and allegiance.  Will machine engendered persuasions be more effective?  Do we still need the human touch?  Will there be a Homo sapiensbacklash? Tune in and learn how cyber-seduction may ethically serve your business and your customer. 

Today, we buy-to-own less and rent-to-use more.  Autos, entertainment, meals, transportation, dwellings, and laundry soap are being purchased via subscription.  Host Bart Jackson invites back marketing visionary Robbie Baxter, author of The Membership Economy and The Forever Transaction to discuss how business of all types and sizes can get in on this new action.  As consumers shift from the age of personal acquisition to the age of subscription, businesses face a truly disruptive way to new profits.  Robbie guides you through the labyrinth of subscription pricing, marketing, and the whole new realm of customer relationships.  Tune in and discover this futuristic way to build customer loyalty.

Somewhere out there a connected network of very, albeit artificially, intelligent machines is gathering vast amounts of data about you, your activities, your preferences, even your personal health.  All the better for some company to more effectively customize its marketing pitch to you.  Host Bart Jackson invites top digital marketing-and-A.I. authority William Ammerman to explain how machines are tracking, sensitively interacting, and nudging the decisions of we humans who created them.  Author of The Invisible Brand, Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning, Ammerman explains the psychotechnology revolution that brings billions of marketing messages into play, and how machines literally transform these messages into learning experiences to improve their goals. Tune in and discover how the digital realm of cyber-seduction is changing our society and ourselves. 

Somewhere out there a connected network of very, albeit artificially, intelligent machines is gathering vast amounts of data about you, your activities, your preferences, even your personal health. All the better for some company to more effectively customize its marketing pitch to you.  Host Bart Jackson invites top digital marketing-and-A.I. authority William Ammerman to explain how machines are tracking, sensitively interacting, and nudging the decisions of we humans who created them. Author of The Invisible Brand, Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning, Ammerman explains the psychotechnology revolution that brings billions of marketing messages into play, and how machines literally transform these messages into learning experiences to improve their goals.  Tune in and discover how the digital realm of cyber-seduction is changing our society and ourselves. 

You're a solid speaker, fairly adept presenter, but now you are moving up into the big leagues. You are called before CEOs, Boards of Directors, and Congressional committees – an impatient, sophisticated audience that doesn't tolerate mediocrity even slightly.  Host Bart Jackson invites to the microphone C-suite presentation coach, speech pathologist, and author Eileen Sinett, CEO of Speaking that Connects.  Together Eileen and Bart discuss The more technical points of honing your personal style, intonation, dynamics, pace, the value of theme repetition, and the power of silence, and much more.  Tune in an learn when to employ audio visual aids and when it distracts from your presentation.  

Both the enjoyment and business of wine have exploded across the U.S.  Every state in the Union boasts several wineries and for most, it is their fastest expanding form of agriculture.  America's consumption and its appreciative sophistication continue to hit all time highs.  Host Bart Jackson sits and sips with American Wine Society director Dr. Gary Pavlis as they discuss the reasons and the trends behind this industry's growth.  Taking us out into the vineyard, Gary explains how the finest vintages are crafted in the field, what distinguishes a winery of renown, what high tech implements are boosting yields, bettering blends, and saving arduous labor.  Stepping up to the tasting table, Gary lays out ways to more enjoyably savor and broaden your wine horizons.  And for the would-be winepreneur, here is your opportunity to learn the optimum plan, pitfalls, and potential profits of winery launching.  Tune in and see if a wine tour of Tuscany is the vacation you truly deserve. 

Real estate boasts the highest return with the least understanding that investors ever make.  It is the largest single purchase for families (more costly than divorce.) It's the toughest of trades in hot-spot cities worldwide, and it's tougher still when buying & selling for the wealthiest elite.  Yet New York real estate master Luciane Serifovic handles it all with deceptively easy-seeming grace.  Luciane joins host Bart Jackson to share her tale of how she rose from trainee to founding CEO of Luxian International Realty, supplier of high-end luxury to the highest end clients.  What are the best tech tools employed by top realtors to showcase properties and unearth clients?  What are the future, game-changing trends?  Tune in and take a realtor's view from the penthouse.

How do you think generations Y and Z should be educated and trained for entry into business? Host Bart Jackson invites educational changemaker Mark Perna who offers revolutionary ideas on how we should train our children – the purpose of colleges – and how better to fill business's skills gap.  What makes this episode such fun is that, while both Mark and Bart have a passionate concern for younger generations, they differ immensely on educational principles, strategies, and even goals.  So tune in and watch them debate as the chalkdust flies. Mark, founding CEO of TFS Results (tools for schools) and author of Answering Why: Unleashing Passion, Purpose, and Performance in Younger Generations holds a more skills/career solution, while Bart, author of CEO of Yourselfand The Art of the CEO, concentrates on mind development and personal fulfillment.  Here's you chance to find some fodder to help you forge your own beliefs. 

Your unique personality, just as you have it right now, is all you require to lead, expand your firm, and reach your own career goals. Forget all those success mongers who seek to transform you into some cookie-cutter image of previous high achievers.  Under the banner of Grow – Don't Change, psychologist Dr. George Watt and his fiscal wizard partner Laurie Blazek have founded Top Line Talent Coaching that sets you on the path to discovering your strengths and employing them most profitably. Host Bart Jackson invites both George and Laurie to discuss their process for realizing your innate personality, how to brand yourself as a leader, and develop an action plan based on the powers you've probably been neglecting.  Also, they lay out some tactics for maneuvering those downside-aspects of your person that could set your business off course.  Tune in and learn how to make the most of what you've got, from a husband and wife team that know what it takes.

What does it take to fly with the Blue Angels – flying jets at Mach 1, wingtips inches apart, forming terrifying maneuvers with the world's best aerial acrobatic team?  John Foley, former Blue Angels lead solo pilot joins Host Bart Jackson to tell exactly what is the right stuff to reach this rarefied air.  And, more important to you, John translates the art of cultivating those vital abilities into your own career.  Whether you are leading yourself or an entire corporation, John lays out a pathway for your achieving, as his book titles it, “Fearless Success – Beyond High Performance.”  John's personal example and insightful strategies guide you in connecting to a purpose greater than yourself, battling petrifying fear, earning trust, gaining respect, and the resiliency to gain a Glad to Be Here mindset.  Tune in and discover just how high you can take yourself.  

Brian Todd, President of The Food Institute, reveals who's feeding consumers best today and what food shopping will be like tomorrow. Supermarket checkout is changing. Will mobile checkout work? What will the new supermarkets look like? How will plant based foods fare? Smaller packaging for small families and food for one.  Hungry to learn what the food consuming public is demanding in the future – or how stores will change to accommodate new buying habits?  Host Bart Jackson brings you one of the planet's greatest food experts, Brian Todd, President of The Food Institute to discuss the battle of plant-based vs. meat burgers, why women select differently from men, where the most nutritious food lies, and all the steps involved in that intricate dance between food retailer and food consumer.  Brian's insights and prognostications will truly amaze you. Tune in and learn what will happen to the checkout line.

When your career and/or company are pressed back to the wall, how brightly does your decision-making ability shine?  Host Bart Jackson gives you a chance to find out.  In this episode Bart lays before you a series of all-too-real business decisions, along with several considerations to take into account. Then he reveals the choice each business leader made, and the results that followed – for better or ill. Tune in and test your powers in ethical, financial, personal encounters – and even learn if you have the wisdom and backbone to match that of Mark Twain and a few modern luminaries. Great fun – great lessons.

Which is your better bet? Drawing your inspiration and role models from today's latest, fleeting tweet – or from a mythic heroine/hero whose tales reach across the millennia and still fill millions with wisdom?  Get set for some fun.  Host Bart Jackson joins award-winning author Dr. Ayn Cates Sullivan, who has penned “Legends of the Grail – Stories of Celtic Goddesses” and “Heroines of Avalon,” to discover the truths which we still quest after today.  Together, they examine specific business challenges and journey back to into the enchanting myths of eld to find solutions.  Sharing the deep well of Celtic heroines and divinities, Ayn proffers guidance for businesswomen, while Bart, attempting some gender balance, turns to the lore of the ancient Greeks and their heroes for answers.  What wisdom lies in the souls and stories.

Isn't it about time that technology started serving you better? Wouldn't you like some understanding mentor who sorts through the avalanche of Apps and set to work those tools that boost production and profit?  Host Bart Jackson brings you exactly that kind of IT master in his guest Darek Hahn, President & CEO of VelocIT.  Taking a general contractor's approach to an organization's IT needs, Darek offers for your selection more effective technologies to help sales, operations management, accounting, marketing and communication. He also details a blend of hiring and contracting methods to make sure you have the best possible IT wizards working on your goals, at the ready, when you require them.  Tune in and learn how to make yourself master of your technologies.

It's not just for marijuana any more.  AeroFarms has put the scientific concepts of aeroponic farming on steroids and today is producing tons of its Dream Greens - non-pesticided, wholly organic leafy vegetables that scale easily into urban centers.  Host Bart Jackson invites AeroFarms cofounder Mark Oshima to tour us through his headquarters farm located in a resurrected factory in central Newark New Jersey.  Marc explains the science that allows a 350-times-per-acre yield of his crops, and the benefit of placing the greatest nutrition right amongst the greatest density of consumers. Marc also details how AeroFarms is able to compete with the food giants; how he has turned the aeroponic gospel into a wildly successful community outreach; and why this farming revolution may be a major key to feeding our planet.  Tune in and learn why the most popular gang to join in Newark is the aeroponic farmers group.

Nicholas Donofrio has spent the last two decades as a restlessly inventive board member of the Bank of New York Mellon and the last four decades as IBM' most prized scientists, currently holding that firm's top honor: IBM Fellow Emeritus.   Host Bart Jackson sits down with Nick and discusses the new roles of corporate directors in today's business climate, why and how the American work force needs to retrain, how financial institutions must/will shift in the forward march of technology, and how all of us, in every organization, must guard against the shackles of tradition.  Tune in and gain the lofty perspective of one of businesses' grand masters.  

One of the most global and most aggressively expanding banking institutions worldwide has just launched its 90-day Belt and Road Relay Race involving thousands of runners through 63 nations, 44 separate markets in Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America. And Stephen Ward, Managing Director of Insite Risk Management has undertaken the ludicrously difficult task of providing security for each runner, press person, spectator and official involved.  Host Bart Jackson invites Stephen to share the stories of how this planet-spanning race is being run and how he is handling this logistical Everest of setting up a secure environment for it all.  ‘Tis an amazing tale which will help you comprehend the expansion and intricacy of today's global commerce.

There's a gold rush on, but everybody else is after that mother lode.  You want to launch a stock exchange, but the big competing exchanges already have the major companies under contract.  Publishers find themselves undercut by the great self-published book avalanche.  In each case, one very clever individual stepped into these impossible situations and discovered a unique and wildly profitable solution. Host Bart Jackson sets up a series of real, crushingly challenging business climates and then introduces you to those inventive entrepreneurs who made the most out of what nobody else envisioned.  This is the ultimate takeaway show.  Tune in and learn how to explode the eyes out of a jack-o-lantern, and then transform such tricks into global fame and more companies than your magician father ever dreamed of.