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Tiffany Jana Tiffany Jana (They/Them/Their) is the founder of TMI Consulting Inc., a diversity and inclusion management consulting firm founded in 2003 and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. They have helped orchestrate the venture’s tremendous growth over the years, establishing a national network of consultants and spearheading the company’s transition into the world’s first Certified Benefit Corporation with a diversity and inclusion focus. With Jana at its helm, TMI Consulting has become a global leader in social enterprise and values-based engagement that nurtures and supports talent while making a positive impact in the world. Mike Figliuolo Mike Figliuolo is founder and managing director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC, a professional services training firm. Mike is the author of One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership. The book is designed to help leaders define who they are and what their personal leadership philosophy is. He’s also the co-author of Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results. His latest book, The Elegant Pitch: Create a Compelling Recommendation, Build Broad Support, and Get it Approved covers a method for crafting stories that get your audience to say “yes” to your idea. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1993 where he was an honor graduate (top 5% of his class) and a distinguished cadet. He was an officer in the U.S. Army. He spent five years as an Armor officer in roles including Platoon Leader, Executive Officer, Personnel Officer and ROTC Instructor at Duke University.

Our guest today is Mike Figliuolo, a McKinsey alum and West Point graduate. Mike is the founder and Managing Director of ThoughtLeadersLLC, which provides training to corporations that is inspired by the types of internal training that consultants receive at McKinsey and other top firms. He is also the author of three books One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership  The Elegant Pitch: Create a Compelling Recommendation, Build Broad Support, and Get it Approved Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results, which Mike co-authored with Victor Prince. I heard about Mike’s firm from several Umbrex members, who have helped deliver some training sessions for Mike, and I recognized his name because Mike was the very first person to interview me when I applied to McKinsey, seventeen years ago.  So it was nice to reconnect. In this episode, Mike gives an overview of his most popular courses and talks through lessons learned he has had in building a training firm. Lesson 1 – somewhat counterintuitive - don’t customize your training! I like the metaphor he uses to explain why: you need to be at the baseline or at the net. Mike shares the business model of how the fees get split four ways each time a session is delivered: one share for the person who wrote the course; one share for the person who sold that particular session; one person who delivered the session; and one share for the house. Do take a look at his firm’s website: thought leaders llc.com Mike is happy to write a check to consultants who help him develop new business, so if know some clients that could benefit from his firm’s services, he’d love to hear from you.

What is it, that differentiates the great leaders from everyone else? What sets apart the managers who create meaningful moments from the ones who are... forgettable? During this conversation, I talk with Mike Figliuolo about what it means to be authentic. We also discuss how managers can learn to let go and how to build trust through showing emotion.   Show Notes: YourBestManager.com/Episode101 Mike Figliuolo is an honor graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated in the top 5 percent of his class. He served in the U.S. Army as an armor officer. Mike also spent time in corporate America as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and as an executive at Capital One and Scotts Miracle-Gro. As the founder and managing director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC, he and his team train senior executives at leading companies on leadership, strategy, communications, innovation, and other critical business skills. He is the author of three books – One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership, Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results, and The Elegant Pitch: Create a Compelling Recommendation, Build Broad Support, and Get it Approved. Support for this episode is provided by... you. To learn more, visit YourBestManager.com/Support

We’re giving this episode out to the world at large today as an example of future Mastermind episodes.  In the future, only those who subscribe to our email list will get access to the mastermind episodes… so please take the time to sign up on our website at – www.theleadershippodcast.com. Our guest, Mike Figliuolo – Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS LLC and Founder at Executive Insight 16 discusses the elusive ROI of leadership training.   Key Takeaways [2:20] What’s one of the biggest shortcomings you see in leadership development?  People have to invest in themselves. [3:00] Is this an OD issue?  It’s about setting expectations. [6:20] Do most leaders try to grow their organization by growing their people?  [7:55] The ROI of leadership training.  Effective organizations establish a “standard,” and apply it to real-world problems and opportunities. [9:30] Four levels of evaluating training: Reaction, Learning, Behavior and Results.  Look for tangible indicators/behaviors.  [11:00] Look for specific quantitative measurements – versus “false measurement dynamic.” [13:50] What don’t people invest?  Is there a performance gap?  If you were driving home and you had a flat tire, would you get it fixed?  Of course!  Why would you run with things that are broken?  What’s the opportunity cost? [15:45] Good options for stretching your people?  Are mistakes OK? [21:00] Game theory – guessing if I do this you will do that… and if I do that, you will do this… [22:20] Key question when developing your team: What this a good use of your day? [25:00] Executive Insight 16 – Where Leaders Learn from Leaders [27:30] What to expect from the event in NYC?  [32:00] What will be learned from this forum?   Quotable Quotes "There is no leadership dilemma. Just reality.”  “The less power you have the more strategic you need to be.” “Create space for yourself mentally to think strategically.”   Books & Events Mentioned or Referenced on the Show Leadership Development – A Profound Disconnect? The Elegant Pitch: Create a Compelling Recommendation, Build Broad Support, and Get it Approved One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results The Leadership Podcast - Episode 3 - Mike Figliuolo – A Thought Leader on Thought Leaders   Bio Mike Figliuolo is the founder and managing director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC, a professional services firm specializing in leadership development. He is the author of One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership and is a nationally recognized speaker and blogger. Before founding his own company, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Co., and an executive at Capital One and Scotts Miracle-Gro.

Victor Prince is author of "Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results" and is the Managing Director of DiscoveredLOGIC. He has 20+ years of experience in corporate and government leadership positions using and teaching advanced problem-solving techniques. Victor was a consultant and case team leader for Bain & Company, a leading management consulting firm. He worked on and led strategy engagements with clients in the US, UK, France and Spain in a variety of industries. While at Bain, he was also a trainer in the Associate Consulting Training program, a two-week intensive session held annually to train new college hires from across all of Bain's global offices in all aspects of Bain's consulting methodology. Most recently, Victor was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Key Takeaways: [5:01] How to try and hire only the best and how to evaluate your current team to maximize results [9:38] How you can tailor your job posting and interviewing to figure out what kind of worker you're dealing with. [14:01] Whether a team can survive if you have nothing but exemplars and how to deal with it if you don't Websites Mentioned: www.victorprince.com www.leadinsidethebox.com

Victor Prince is author of "Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results" and is the Managing Director of DiscoveredLOGIC. He has 20+ years of experience in corporate and government leadership positions using and teaching advanced problem-solving techniques. Victor was a consultant and case team leader for Bain & Company, a leading management consulting firm. He worked on and led strategy engagements with clients in the US, UK, France and Spain in a variety of industries. While at Bain, he was also a trainer in the Associate Consulting Training program, a two-week intensive session held annually to train new college hires from across all of Bain's global offices in all aspects of Bain's consulting methodology.Most recently, Victor was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).Key Takeaways:[5:01] How to try and hire only the best and how to evaluate your current team to maximize results[9:38] How you can tailor your job posting and interviewing to figure out what kind of worker you're dealing with.[14:01] Whether a team can survive if you have nothing but exemplars and how to deal with it if you don'tWebsites Mentioned:www.victorprince.comwww.leadinsidethebox.com

Victor Prince is author of "Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results" and is the Managing Director of DiscoveredLOGIC. He has 20+ years of experience in corporate and government leadership positions using and teaching advanced problem-solving techniques. Victor was a consultant and case team leader for Bain & Company, a leading management consulting firm. He worked on and led strategy engagements with clients in the US, UK, France and Spain in a variety of industries. While at Bain, he was also a trainer in the Associate Consulting Training program, a two-week intensive session held annually to train new college hires from across all of Bain's global offices in all aspects of Bain's consulting methodology.Most recently, Victor was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).Key Takeaways:[5:01] How to try and hire only the best and how to evaluate your current team to maximize results[9:38] How you can tailor your job posting and interviewing to figure out what kind of worker you're dealing with.[14:01] Whether a team can survive if you have nothing but exemplars and how to deal with it if you don'tWebsites Mentioned:www.victorprince.comwww.leadinsidethebox.com

Lead Inside the Box How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results Paperback by Victor Prince and Mike Figliuolo Victor is a returning author to our show with this new book. Every employee is different, but unfortunately many leaders use a one-size-fits-all approach to leading. In doing so, these otherwise well-intentioned leaders are working…