Podcast appearances and mentions of Tom Nixon

In this episode, we welcome Tom Nixon, author of Work with Source, to explore the powerful yet often overlooked idea of “source” - as the person who first conceives and commits to a creative initiative - and the impact such a role has on organizations. Drawing from his extensive experience advising founders and mission-driven projects, Tom helps us unpack what it truly means to hold the role of source - beyond conventional leadership, and as he puts it, “being the author of the story that unfolds.” Together, we explore how organizations can enable a deep human dimension behind all authentic ventures, and work towards a truly regenerative and evolutionary way of organizing.While many conversations around leadership focus on structure, roles, or decision-making, this episode looks at a deeper assessment of where creative initiatives truly begin - and how they should maintain coherence as they evolve. Tom Nixon introduces us to the subtle but powerful idea of “source” as the unique origin point from which meaning, direction, and integrity flow.We explore how the source perspective can help us navigate complexity, and why the source is simply not a “genius hero” figure, as we presume.He also helps us unpack more regenerative, emergent, and resilient ways of working together. So, for listeners looking to understand the creative dynamics that often hide behind hierarchical organizational structures - and why honouring the human in a project is highly strategic - this conversation is a source of guidance. Key Highlights

Send us a textThe saloon doors swing open on a sweltering evening in Dodge City as Cimarron George seeks refuge from the oppressive prairie heat. What begins as a simple quest for companionship quickly draws him into the electric atmosphere of the Long Branch Saloon – a microcosm of frontier tension where personal vendettas, political ambition, and business rivalries converge under the watchful glass eyes of a massive mounted moose head.George finds himself privy to whispered conversations about the dangerous feud brewing between Jim Masterson and AJ Peacock, co-owners of the Lady Gay Saloon. The conflict centers around Peacock's brother-in-law Al Updegraff, accused of theft and drunkenness, with rumors swirling that legendary lawman Bat Masterson might soon return from Tombstone to defend his brother's honor. These tensions crystallize when Mayor Webster makes his unforgettable entrance – breaking his cane over a man's head merely for offering congratulations after supposedly spreading rumors during the election.The evening introduces us to a cast of frontier characters that embody the West's contradictions: Tom Nixon, the legendary buffalo hunter who reportedly killed 120 buffalo in 40 minutes, now serving as assistant marshal; Pat Sughrue, the jovial Irishman newly elected to city council; and Marshal Singer, whose casual approach to peacekeeping belies the violence simmering beneath Dodge City's surface. As Webster warns of trouble on tomorrow's horizon and orders deputies to watch the train station, the Beeson Band strikes up a patriotic tune that momentarily unites the diverse saloon patrons – a fleeting harmony in a town poised on the edge of conflict.Saddle up with us for more frontier adventures by checking out the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's five-minute podcast "This Week in the West," premiering every Monday. What forgotten stories of the American West are you most curious to explore?Support the show

Send us a textWhat happens when the isolation of the prairie meets the vibrant atmosphere of Dodge City? Venture into the heart of the Wild West with us as we recount our journey from the open plains to the lively Long Branch Saloon. Here, the warmth of camaraderie mingles with the thrill of adventure, and we encounter intriguing characters like Pat Chigrou, the newly elected city council member, and Tom Nixon, the legendary buffalo hunter turned assistant marshal. The saloon becomes a melting pot of old friendships and new alliances, offering a glimpse into the spirited hospitality that defines this rugged locale.But tension brews beneath the convivial surface, as rumors of theft and escalating feuds simmer between key figures like Jim Masterson and AJ Peacock. The stakes reach a fever pitch with a dramatic gunfight in Dodge City Plaza, where Bat Masterson finds himself in a high-stakes showdown. As bullets fly and chaos ensues, the once peaceful streets transform into a battlefield. Join us as we unravel the complex tapestry of law enforcement, personal vendettas, and unexpected alliances in the Wild West, where every encounter could lead to danger or discovery. Check out our new book “Man in a Black Derby Hat” Support the show

Did you know that calcium supplements increased the risk of cardiovascular disease by ~15% in healthy postmenopausal women?! I didn't either (!!).Dr. Tom Nixon shares invaluable insights on bone density, with a focus on osteoporosis and osteopenia. We delve into the importance of bone health, exposing the big risks of calcium supplementation and discussing the impact of hormones, especially during menopause, on bone density.We also talk about what we SHOULD be taking, eating, doing to maintain healthy bone density well into old age. Start now!!Show notes: www.onairella.com/post/348-bone-density-calcium-----------------------------------------On Air With Ella is for women who want to feel better, look better, live better - and have more fun doing it. This is where we share simple strategies and tips for living a bit better every day. Not in a generic “live, laugh, love” way, but in a kick more a$ every day at every age kind of way! If you're interested in mindset and wellness, healthy habits and relationships, or hormone health, aging well and eating well, then you're in the right place. Connect with Me: InstagramLinkedInYouTubePrivate Facebook GroupMy Amazon StorefrontWebsite☎️ Leave a voice message: +1 (202) 681-0388 -----------------------------------------------

Jay Harrington and Tom Nixon produce the Thought Leadership Project Podcast: https://www.hcommunications.biz/thethoughtleadershipproject ---------------------------------------- This show is sponsored by Leopard Solutions Legal Intelligence Suite of products, Firmscape, and Leopard BI. Push ahead of the pack with the power of Leopard. For a free demo, visit this link: https://www.leopardsolutions.com/index.php/request-a-demo/ Links: Tom Nixon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tnixon16/ Jay Harrington: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayharrington/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Nixon with Life and Whim talks about two things that are stopping you from your next "first" Episode 2917: Two Things Stopping You from Your Next First (And Why You'll Never Forgive Yourself) by Tom Nixon with Life and Whim Jay and Heather Harrington are the husband and wife team behind Life and Whim. They started Life and Whim after moving their family to Traverse City, a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan, to break the script of their life and reimagine what's possible. They live in pursuit of a purposeful, meaningful, active, and simple life. The original post is located here: https://www.lifeandwhim.com/first-moments-blog/2018/inspiring-moments-tom-nixon  Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com  Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Nixon with Life and Whim talks about two things that are stopping you from your next "first" Episode 2917: Two Things Stopping You from Your Next First (And Why You'll Never Forgive Yourself) by Tom Nixon with Life and Whim Jay and Heather Harrington are the husband and wife team behind Life and Whim. They started Life and Whim after moving their family to Traverse City, a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan, to break the script of their life and reimagine what's possible. They live in pursuit of a purposeful, meaningful, active, and simple life. The original post is located here: https://www.lifeandwhim.com/first-moments-blog/2018/inspiring-moments-tom-nixon  Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com  Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Nixon with Life and Whim talks about two things that are stopping you from your next "first" Episode 2917: Two Things Stopping You from Your Next First (And Why You'll Never Forgive Yourself) by Tom Nixon with Life and Whim Jay and Heather Harrington are the husband and wife team behind Life and Whim. They started Life and Whim after moving their family to Traverse City, a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan, to break the script of their life and reimagine what's possible. They live in pursuit of a purposeful, meaningful, active, and simple life. The original post is located here: https://www.lifeandwhim.com/first-moments-blog/2018/inspiring-moments-tom-nixon  Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com  Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you remember a particular book from childhood? What memories come to the surface when you think about books and reading when you were young? In this episode, Tom Nixon and I explore these and other questions about reading and how books played a part in our early lives. Tom Nixon is the former Library Services Manager for Fresno Unified School District where he oversaw 110 library staff and 90 libraries. He now works as a freelance library and book access consultant. Email Tom at Tom.Nixon@BookFloodMedia.com @BookFloodMedia on Twitter https://www.goodreads.com/tom_nixon Join the Dubious Scrapbooks community: Send me a voice message using the Spotify messaging tool on the show's homepage at ⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dubscrap/message⁠. Follow me on Instagram and Threads Visit the Dubious Scrapbooks Website⁠ Check out the Dubious Scrapbooks Facebook Page Send an email to host@dubiouspod.show Incidental and outro music by Lesfm from Pixabay Please support your local bookstores and libraries. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dubscrap/message

Tom Nixon, 20 years experience of the rollercoaster ride of being a founder. He has been involved in start-ups, growth, pivoting, turnarounds and even closing. He is now focus on research and support for other founders as well as my his start-up, Maptio. His approach is a mix of coaching, personal transformation, and practical support. His book - Work with Source: Realise big ideas, organise for emergence and work artfully with money was published in March 2021: https://workwithsource.com His startup, Maptio is an online software product for organisations operating without traditional management structures. Maptio helps you track and visualise who's responsible for what and how the big vision breaks down into the smaller ideas that support it. Fanny Norlin, is passionate about making the world become more alive. The past ten years she have lived and breathed decentralized initiatives, networks and communities. Her professional experiences range from founding two NGO's, consulting within agile strategy and governance, facilitating leadership trainings, organising several large participatory events, building Sweden's feminine leadership movement and leading the marketing and tech team at Footway. Some years ago she was introduced to the work of Lovisa Alsen and had a deep awakening into my body and the feminine. Her experience of the potential that lies within fully unleashing the feminine and masculine in a creative dance underlies my approach to business and leadership. She coaches and consults leaders within masculine and feminine leadership, agile organizing and how to attract people and resources in the attention economy of the network age . Her specialties include: Feminine leadership, strategy, grasping complexity, scaling ideas and systems thinking, Peer-2-Peer marketing, online communication, navigating the attention economy, transformational events, self-organization, agile leadership, crowdsourcing, emotional intelligence, project management and creating trust in teams. We have seen the catalytic power of conversations in the work that we do, as well as the impact that it brings to our world. Our Living Room is a space for us to connect, to explore thoughts and learnings, in a relaxed and very human way. Through this channel, we look forward to an engaging dialogue and resonance with our guests, and bring a breath of fresh air to the space we occupy in this virtual world. To our listeners and followers, we hope to create an opportunity to candidly eavesdrop and chime in to one of the many interesting conversations around the space of teal, agile and the future of work. Stay tuned for our next Living Room Conversations.

The guys are joined by fellow podcasters John Nixon and Tom Nixon from the Out of the Main Podcast (a Yacht Rock themed podcast) to do a non-Yacht album...namely the debut from Boston.  Some Steely Dan talk, boxing ourselves into a corner, “that wasn't a single,” Caddyshack, what is and what is not Yacht, Steve Lukather, organs, the Rock Band video game, and we almost feel bad about our scores for the Brad Delp song.  Almost.Listen to Out of the Main Podcast at:https://yachtrockpodcast.com/Check out Boston at:https://bandboston.com/Check out other episodes at RecordsRevisitedPodcast.com, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Castbox, iHeartMedia, Google Podcasts and Spotify. Additional content is found at: Facebook.com/recordsrevisitedpodcast or twitter @podcastrecords or IG at instagram.com/recordsrevisitedpodcast/ or join our Patreon at patreon.com/RecordsRevisitedPodcast 

Our guests today were Tom Nixon with Towards Zero Deaths, and Captain Adam Fulton, Brainerd Office, Minnesota State Patrol.

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Our guests today were Tom Nixon with Towards Zero Deaths, and Capt. Adam Fulton, Brainerd District Captain, Minnesota State Patrol.

My guests for Comm Focus today included Tom Nixon with Toward Zero Deaths (TZD) and Capt. Adam Fulton and Lt. Karla Bearce with the MN State Patrol.

Episode 111: Jay Harrington and Tom Nixon riff on the benefits of becoming the type of person who “gets lucky” in business instead of being beholden to a strict strategy. They review 2022 trends and developments on LinkedIn, including the flood of Twitter creators flocking to LinkedIn and the selfie craze. And they address the importance of becoming known well to a particular audience versus being well known to the masses.

Erik is an executive advisor on transformation and the future of work, leadership, and collaboration, and the author of ‘Teal Dots in an Orange World.' We talk about how this 'new ways of working' movement is evolving, and in particular a positive trend that Erik calls 'fragmented organisations' that's happening because it's hard to scale self-managed or 'teal' practices and principles in a uniform way. Erik shares what he has observed, particularly in larger organisations, including challenges like interfacing with the outside world when you are a progressive organisation. Finally, we explore leadership and 'futures literacy' as an important skill. I love Erik's articulate and thoughtful style and I think this was a great sense-making conversation. Resources: Erik's book, ‘Teal Dots in an Orange World' The HBR article ‘Managing the whitespace' Bill Anderson talking about transformation at scale at Roche, on the Brave New Work podcast Related Leadermorphosis episodes: The episode with Peter Koenig about Source The episode with Tom Nixon about Source The books Erik mentioned: ‘Imaginable' by Jane McGonical ‘Transforming the Future: Anticipation in the 21st Century' by Riel Miller et al.

Our guests today were Tom Nixon, with Towards Zero Deaths, and Cpt. Adam Fulton, Brainerd Area State Patrol Captain.

Our guest today was Tom Nixon, with Towards Zero Deaths.

Our guests today were Tom Nixon with Towards Zero Deaths, and Brainerd Area State Patrol Captain Adam Fulton.

Our guest today was Tom Nixon with Lakes Area Toward Zero Deaths.

Our guest today was Tom Nixon with Towards Zero Deaths.

Our guests today were Tom Nixon with Towards Zero Deaths, and Captain Adam Fulton, Brainerd Area State Patrol Captain.

Fanny Norlin supports leaders, teams and business to unleash the creative potential in the dance between the masculine and the feminine. We explore her framework for thinking about these energies. This is an unconventional but useful and very practical conversation on the topic. We touch upon the basic definitions, how to understand them, what we're leaving on the table when we are not engaging with these energies. The potential is there regardless of if it is within business or in systems transformation. To work with Fanny either in your business, as a coach or a speaker take a look at her webpage (Take a look at EP120 with Tom Nixon - to get more inspiration for a start up context)

Tom Nixon with Toward Zero Deaths

This week I got to speak with Tom Nixon. An entrepreneur and the author of the book Work with Source (workwithsource.com). The conversation adressed his work on Source especially in the context of regenerative and decentralised ventures. The work is based on Peter Koeneig's work and it has proven to be of great importance again and again in start-ups. The Source principles is a break away from the not uncommon idea that as we co-create there is no single leader and rather it claims that the actual initiator of the question, gathering or the organisation has a special position. This conversation is exciting and highly useful to get a 10.000 m view of Toms work. If you're curious to know more check out the links in this description. Tom is also the founder and source of maptio.com (a tool for drawing decentralised organisations). If you want to get in touch with him you can either go through tomnixon.co.uk or via twitter: @tomnixon

Huge rain has hit a redclaw crayfish farm south east of Gympie where Andrew Gosbell says he is counting his blessings that they escaped damage to a second home and flood fencing repairs at Mount Wolvi after receiving 425 millimetres of rain, 140 millimetres of that falling in just one hour and Western Downs stud cattle producer Tom Nixon says after 106 millimetres of rain in the last 48 hours it's put his rolling rainfall tally at the best yearly accumulation in over a hundred years on Devoncourt near Drillham.

Our guest today was Tom Nixon, with Toward Zero Deaths.

Our guest today was Tom Nixon, Zero Deaths Program

Our guest today was Tom Nixon, with the Minnesota Towards Zero Deaths Program.

1 hour, like almost exactly. The Sponsors Thank you to Underground Printing for making this all possible. UGP makes custom apparel such as t-shirts and sweatshirts and was founded by 2 Michigan alums over 20 years ago. They have 3 retail locations in Ann Arbor and offer thousands of University of Michigan athletic products for sale, ranging from clothing to accessories and memorabilia. Check them out at ugpmichiganapparel.com. And let's not forget our associate sponsors: Peak Wealth Management, HomeSure Lending, Ann Arbor Elder Law, Michigan Law Grad, Human Element, The Phil Klein Insurance Group, Prentice4M, and made possible by SignalWire. THE VIDEO: 1. Michigan State Offense w Alex Drain Live and die by the big play. Offensive line uses nine guys but Kenneth Walker III is going to make guys miss and carry more on his back. Two speedsters and a QB who can hit them is our concern. 2. Michigan State Defense w Alex Drain starts at 18:57 Bend don't break versus bends but won't break you matchup. Still go back to MSU quarters because they have MSU safeties. 3. Northwestern After UFR starts at 34:12 Offense was unimaginative, got safeties in faces at the line of scrimmage (bad) but RBs dealt with them (good). Defense dominated; I was upset about the officiating, especially the chop block and the sideline judge. 4. Seth's Hockey Podcast w David Nasternak starts at 46:54 What happened versus WMU? They're actually a good team. Wisconsin is not, but Moe stood on his head to keep the Badgers in it. Minnesota looks shaky, we find out about Penn State tonight. MUSIC: Tonight's featured musician is August Red, which is user Tom Nixon (class of ‘92)'s new band that pays homage to that late 70s and early 80s LA sound. Sunshine Melody Never-Ending Story This Night Won't Last Forever And because Sony bought Across 110th Street and slapped a claim on us, the opener and outro: “The Employee is Not Afraid”—Bear vs. Shark “Ruska Vodka”—Motorboat If you or a friend made some good tunes and don't have a label out scrubbing for them we'd be happy to feature you.

Awesome book to keep us out of the rabbit hole & on the success track: Essentialism by Greg McKeown. Shoutout coach Tom Nixon linkedin.com/in/tnixon16 SmilingForSuccess22@gmail.com Instagram DebbieParkerNet

Our guest today was Tom Nixon, Regional Coordinator, Towards Zero Deaths.

Our guest today was Tom Nixon, Regional Coordinator, Towards Zero Deaths.

Once upon a time, giving a name to your company starting with the letter “A” was the ticket to the top of the search engine commonly known as the Yellow Pages. That was so 1990's! Co-hosts Tom Nixon, Armando Ojeda and Marc Trail are joined by Eric Seropyan, Founder and Owner of “This is My South Bay”, a digital marketing agency specializing in SEO and SEM. Listen to learn how this valuable technology can position your company for maximized exposure and protect your virtual real estate in this competitive online world. Discussion points: From Jewelry to SEO / SEM Difference between SEO / SEM One, the other, or both? Is SEO / SEM a “Go It Alone” proposition? First steps Cautionary tales and potential pitfalls Question of the Day: Best SEO tools and plugins References and Resources: Visit This Is My South Bay Email Eric Connect with Eric on LinkedIn Interested in becoming a mentor? Start here! Visit our Facebook page, and follow us on LinkedIn Connect with Armando, Tom and Marc on LinkedIn Theme music: Let Us Run For It by The Denotes | https://thedenotes.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Our guest today was Tom Nixon, Regional Coordinator, Towards Zero Deaths.

How do we realise worthwhile ideas in the world? Define a goal, create a plan, build a great team? That's how we're told to do it. How about instead, we listen to what we're really called to do? Tom Nixon is an entrepreneur, founder of org-chart startup https://www.maptio.com/ (Maptio), and the author of the book https://tomnixon.gumroad.com/l/Piwhd (Work with Source), which introduces a new perspective on being a founder, based on research conducted by https://peterkoenig.typepad.com/ (Peter Koenig). Chatting with Laurence and Carlos, he discusses how finding and cultivating sources of creativity leads to greater autonomy and happiness, and the balance that needs to be struck between giving people creative freedom, and not sufficiently defining roles. Go furhterhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Bradbrook (Gail Bradbrook, founder of Extinction Rebellion) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvon_Chouinard (Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia) https://www.ft.com/content/aee67fe0-ac63-11e9-b3e2-4fdf846f48f5 (WL Gore: the company others try and fail to imitate) https://www.linkedin.com/in/fannynorlin/?originalSubdomain=se (Fanny Norlin) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rocket-Fuel-Essential-Combination-Business/dp/1942952317/ref=asc_df_1942952317/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310762413837&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13168497648528775572&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046761&hvtargid=pla-436431091103&psc=1&th=1&psc=1 (Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business), by Gino Wickman

Is the juice worth the squeeze? Co-hosts Tom Nixon and Marc Trail are joined by Beatrice Wolnerman of Bea's Squeeze and Bea's Detroit to discuss a unique marketing “gimmick” that turned into a growing beverage brand, shared workspace and merchandising company. Listen to learn her lessons, hear about the importance of mentorship, and incorporate some of Bea's innovative thinking into your strategic planning and vision. Discussion points: Why it took until adulthood to open a lemonade stand What makes Bea's lemonade stand so special Serendipity of one business opportunity leading to another Implementing new business concepts in a rapidly changing environment Why entrepreneurs need to make lemonade out of lemons, regardless of industry Question of the Day: How, why and when to incorporate e-commerce into your business strategy References and Resources: Visit Bea's Squeeze Website Bea's Squeeze on Facebook Bea's Squeeze on LinkedIn Bea's Squeeze on Instagram Visit Bea's Detroit Website Bea's Detroit on Facebook Bea's Detroit on LinkedIn Bea's Detroit on Instagram Take at look at ORRI Corp Interested in becoming a mentor? Start here! Visit our Facebook page, and follow us on LinkedIn Connect with Armando, Tom and Marc on LinkedIn Theme music: Let Us Run For It by The Denotes | https://thedenotes.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Our guest today was Tom Nixon, Regional Coordinator, Towards Zero Deaths.

How to Avoid a Similar Fate In this podcast, I review with co-host Tom Nixon an article I read in Bloomberg entitled, “How to Shamelessly Knockoff Supreme Worldwide and Get Away with It, For a While.” The article really wasn’t a “how-to” so much as, “how it happened,” and how other companies can take measures [...]

“All in the Family Business!” Co-hosts Tom Nixon and Marc Trail are joined by Master SCORE Mentor David Broder and Angela Doa - COO of ORRI Corporation to discuss the issues surrounding the generational transition of a thriving family business and how SCORE mentorship can support this process. Discussion points: From reluctance to a passionate career opportunity A successful company needs a mentor? Advice from a mentor that has been there, done that The value of a mentoring relationship thru the eyes of the “mentee” Question of the day References and Resources: Take at look at ORRI Corp Connect with Angela Doa on LinkedIn Connect with David Broner on LinkedIn Interested in becoming a mentor? Start here! Visit our Facebook page, and follow us on LinkedIn Connect with Armando, Tom and Marc on LinkedIn Theme music: Let Us Run For It by The Denotes | https://thedenotes.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Is the “New Normal” really new? Co-hosts Tom Nixon and Marc Trail are joined by Jeffrey Hollender and Certified Volunteer Mentor Richard Gibbs to discuss business sustainability concepts that are impacting businesses globally—both small and large, private and public. Discussion points: Jeffrey's career path and areas of focus Business realities as to sustainability Business sustainability has been around for a while Impact on the small business owner Benefits of sustainability on the small business owner Question of the day: Why do mentors mentor? References and Resources: American Sustainable Business Council Get In Touch with Jeffrey Hollender Connect with Richard Gibbs on LinkedIn Interested in becoming a mentor? Start here! Visit our Facebook page, and follow us on LinkedIn Connect with Armando, Tom and Marc on LinkedIn Theme music: Let Us Run For It by The Denotes | https://thedenotes.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

My Guest today was Tom Nixon from Minnesota Toward Zero Deaths (TZD)

Tom Nixon is co-founder of the Thought Leader Collaborative, a community of professional service providers learning and collaborating to convert their subject matter expertise into thought leadership...and thought leadership into new business. The Thought Leader Collaborative guides professionals along a proven path to grow their practices on LinkedIn, based on demonstrated best practices employed by other successful thought leaders. He and his partner Jay Harrington host The Thought Leadership Project podcast weekly, providing tips, insights and guidance on all matters related to thought-leadership content marketing. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tnixon16/ https://www.thoughtleadercollaborative.com/ Podcast: http://thethoughtleadershipproject.com The Fix Newsletter: thefixnewsletter.com

When to file, when to keep secrets… In this podcast, I discuss with my co-host Tom Nixon the differences between patents and trade secrets.  Most people have an idea of the differences but if you're curious about some of the finer points, then download and listen. I am a registered US patent attorney with over [...]

Our guest today was Tom Nixon, Regional Coordinator, Towards Zero Deaths.

The Wild West podcast presents the Gunfight at the Plaza the retelling of the gunfight between Bat Masterson, A.J.Peacock, and Al Updegraff. The story begins on April 15, 1881, after Bat Masterson living in Arizona is telegraphed by an unknown informer, notifying Bat that his brother Jim was about to be assassinated by the co-owner of the Lady Gay, Jim Masterson's partner. Purchase the book A Man in a Black Derby Hat at Amazon. Bat takes a train to Dodge City and arrives on the April 16 noon train but decides to get off early suspecting he might encounter resistance at the train depot. The Battle of the Plaza written and produced by Mike King takes the listener deep into the conflict surrounding the feud between Jim Masterson and A.J. Peacock over the Lady Gay Saloon. The story narrated by Brad Smalley gives a first-person account as the gunfight begins to unfold the night before at the Long Branch Saloon when George a local cowboy inquires about the ongoing conflict between Jim Masterson and A.J. Peacock. During the twenty-minute podcast, many legends of the old west are revealed to include the characterization of Bat Masterson, A.B. Webster, Tom Nixon, Pat Sughrue, Fred Singer, A. B. Webster, and Jim Masterson

You took the plunge. You started your business, worked hard and then...success, your business is growing! Did you pivot, diversify your product or service, or are you serving a new market? Chances are, it was one of the above...and if you haven't yet, it's time to learn how! Co-hosts Armando Ojeda and Tom Nixon are joined by Jennifer Kluge, President and CEO of MichBusiness, Best and Brightest Programs and Corp! magazine to discuss elements of successful growth from the start-up to the C Suite! Discussion points: Jennifer's journey from the launch of Michigan Food and Beverage Association to her current business projects Differing perspectives from the position of the start-up entrepreneur and then the leader of a large and growing organization Best practices of growing and successful companies Business pivots generally and the pandemic pivot specifically Recruiting talent as our economy re-opens References and Resources: Connect with Jennifer on LinkedIn Best and Brightest Companies to Work For CORP! Magazine MichBusiness Interested in becoming a mentor to help a small business pivot or diversify? Start here! Visit our Facebook page, and follow us on LinkedIn Connect with Armando, Tom and Marc on LinkedIn Theme music: Let Us Run For It by The Denotes | https://thedenotes.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Our guests today included Captain Brad Bordwell, Minnesota State Patrol, and Tom Nixon, Regional Coordinator, Toward Zero Deaths.

Sean Gray, Economic Development Specialist with the U.S. Small Business Administration meets up with co-hosts Tom Nixon and Marc Trail to discuss the Payment Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL). Discussion also explores positive developments within the SBA business community. Discussion points: PPP and EIDL current program review Program changes and impact on small businesses Small business resilience during the pandemic How SBA Emerging Leaders and Goldman Sachs 10 Thousand Small Businesses is benefitting entrepreneurs Question of the day: Tax time! References and Resources: Small Business Administration (SBA) - Michigan District Call the Michigan District of the SBA: (313) 226-6075 Connect with Sean Gray on LinkedIn Find a local southeast Michigan mentor today! Interested in becoming a mentor? Start here! Visit our Facebook page, and follow us on LinkedIn Connect with Armando, Tom and Marc on LinkedIn Theme music: Let Us Run For It by The Denotes | https://thedenotes.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Yuji Yamada is the founder of EnFlow and is interested in exploring the differences between approaching organisational transformation from a ‘Western lens’ and a Japanese lens. We talk about teal organisations from Frederic Laloux’s book ‘Reinventing Organisations’ (which has sold 100,000 copies in Japan) and Yuji’s homegrown concept of ‘Jinen management’. Could East Asian organisations be at an advantage in developing new ways of working by drawing on their ancient wisdom and inherent cultural paradigms of interconnectedness?  How to follow Yuji: Twitter: @yujiyamada0522 Resources: Yuji’s Medium post, ‘The trends of Teal organization in Japan’ The book ‘The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently’ by Richard E. Nisbett Related Leadermorphosis episodes: Ep. 55 with Frederic Laloux, author of Reinventing Organisations Ep. 5 with Tom Nixon, founder of Maptio Ep. 49 with Peter Koenig about sourcework

The SCORE Podcast team of Armando Ojeda and Marc Trail place fellow podcast member Tom Nixon—Chief Strategy Officer at Harrington Communications—in the guest chair to discuss the branding and marketing components of successful businesses. Discussion points: Identifying the components and differences between marketing and branding Branding is more than logos, colors and graphics The emotional connection of effective branding The power of storytelling Positioning your company appropriately in the marketplace Question of the day: Is it about branding? No! References and Resources: Thought Leadership at Harrington Communications Find a local southeast Michigan mentor today! Interested in becoming a mentor? Start here! Visit our Facebook page, and follow us on LinkedIn Connect with Armando, Tom and Marc on LinkedIn Theme music: Let Us Run For It by The Denotes | https://thedenotes.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Our guest today was Tom Nixon, Regional Coordinator, Towards Zero Deaths Program.

Community stability requires a strong business presence to be viable. Don Jones, Associate Director of the New Economy Initiative, joins Tom Nixon and Marc Trail to discuss the 12-year journey of building business in Detroit and where we are headed, including NEI's "Neighborhood Business Initiative" and how small businesses can benefit. Discussion points: Neighborhood organizations creating jobs and building a sense of place in local neighborhoods What is improving in Detroit and what opportunities exist for continued improvement Will the pandemic have a long term impact on Detroit's future Challenges to growth for small neighborhood businesses Social impact of revitalization and urban flight Bringing communities together via purposeful connectivity Question of the day References and Resources: Visit the New Economy Initiative website Check out the Neighborhood Business Initiative Visit and bookmark Detroit Means Business Connect with Don Jones on LinkedIn Find a local southeast Michigan mentor today! Interested in becoming a mentor? Start here! Visit our Facebook page, and follow us on LinkedIn Connect with Armando, Tom and Marc on LinkedIn Theme music: Let Us Run For It by The Denotes | https://thedenotes.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

In recognition of National Mentoring Month, Tricia Beck joins co-hosts Armando Ojeda and Tom Nixon to explore the importance of mentorship within the many critical moments of the entrepreneurial journey. Tricia hails from our Southern Arizona SCORE Chapter as both a mentor and accomplished author. Discussion points: Defining the mentor profile and what it takes for success What motivated Tricia to become a mentor and author What to look for in finding a good mentor fit Responsibilities of the “mentee” in a successful relationship Can your mentor be younger than you? “Question of the Day” — listen to find out! References and Resources: Connect with Tricia on LinkedIn , or visit her website here. Buy the book, Mentoring Lifts and Inspires: Women Empowering Women, on Amazon today! Interested in learning more about Tricia or her upcoming event? Email her at Tricia@Beckleadership.com. Find a local southeast Michigan mentor today! Interested in becoming a mentor? Start here! Visit our Facebook page, and follow us on LinkedIn Connect with Armando and Tom on LinkedIn Theme music: Let Us Run For It by The Denotes | https://thedenotes.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Don’t get caught in a pickle! Baseballers use data to win, so your law firm should use it to edge out your competitors. Jared Correia opens the show with boring baseball talk—sports, numbers, blah, blah, blah—but, don’t worry, there’s a great tie-in for your practice. Key takeaway: Use data analytics, no matter what! (1:53) Next up to bat, Jay Harrington joins Jared to talk through the concept of thought leadership and how you can use it to generate new business for your firm. (9:20) And, finally, Jared welcomes yacht-rock connoisseur Tom Nixon for the Rump Roast to answer the eternal question: Is it yacht, or is it nyacht? (26:48) Jay Harrington is president of Harrington Communications. Tom Nixon is a principal and chief strategy officer at Harrington Communications. Our theme song is Two Cigarettes by Major Label Interest. This week’s closing song is Sunrise on the Water by Page 99. Special thanks to our sponsors Scorpion, TimeSolv, Abby Connect and Alert Communications.

Don't get caught in a pickle! Baseballers use data to win, so your law firm should use it to edge out your competitors. Jared Correia opens the show with boring baseball talk—sports, numbers, blah, blah, blah—but, don't worry, there's a great tie-in for your practice. Key takeaway: Use data analytics, no matter what! (1:53) Next up to bat, Jay Harrington joins Jared to talk through the concept of thought leadership and how you can use it to generate new business for your firm. (9:20) And, finally, Jared welcomes yacht-rock connoisseur Tom Nixon for the Rump Roast to answer the eternal question: Is it yacht, or is it nyacht? (26:48) Jay Harrington is president of Harrington Communications. Tom Nixon is a principal and chief strategy officer at Harrington Communications. Our theme song is Two Cigarettes by Major Label Interest. This week's closing song is Sunrise on the Water by Page 99. Special thanks to our sponsors Scorpion, TimeSolv, Abby Connect and Alert Communications.

Our guest today was Tom Nixon, Regional Coordinator, Towards Zero Deaths.

In this episode of The SCORE Podcast, co-hosts Tom Nixon and Marc Trail meet up with SCORE Certified Volunteer Mentor Richard Gibbs and his client Rebecca Aughton of Bra-Vo Intimates, as we discuss the importance of their professional relationship from the perspective of a well-established business and the current pandemic. Discussion points: The reasons for a well-established business to reach out for mentoring services How Bra-Vo Intimates, a local apparel retailer, executed the "pandemic pivot" The inter-relationship between networking and mentoring organizations The mentoring relationship from the mentor/client perspectives Never let a crisis got to waste—the opportunity pivot and re-position Advice on mentoring from the seasoned entrepreneur to the start-up "Question of the Day" from listener Rubin Martinez References and Resources: Visit Bra-Vo at www.bravointimates.com Follow Bra-Vo on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn Connect with our guest, Rebecca Aughton, on LinkedIn SCORE of Southeast Michigan offers workshops and mentors for entrepreneurs in retail. Click here to view our upcoming calendar of events. Looking for a mentor to help you along your entrepreneurial path? Find a local southeast Michigan mentor today! Connect with Tom and Marc on LinkedIn Theme music: Let Us Run For It by The Denotes | https://thedenotes.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

For episode 4 I am joined by Tom Nixon a hockey player, coach and umpire. Tom has been on a long road to recovery following a patella fracture in 2019 and we will review this from a physical and psychological perspective as well as comparing injuries as a player vs a coach.

Donna Hover, past chair of SCORE of Southeast Michigan and current principal of Leaders Laboratory joins co-hosts Tom Nixon and Marc Trail to discuss the attributes of effective leadership. Whether you are the CEO of a well established business, or are in the ideation stage, Donna discusses the important leadership elements necessary for your success. Discussion points: How can you tell if an organization has strong leadership? Motivating teams and maintaining alignment with company values Donna's impact on SCORE of Southeast Michigan and how leadership applies Is leadership inherent or can it be developed? Types of leadership scenarios and attributes required References and Resources: Connect with Donna on LinkedIn, or email her at donnahover@leaderslaboratory.com SCORE of Southeast Michigan frequently conducts free workshops on leadership skills. Click here to view the upcoming calendar of events. Looking for a mentor to help you along your entrepreneurial path? Find a local southeast Michigan mentor today! Connect with Tom and Marc on LinkedIn Theme music: Let Us Run For It by The Denotes | https://thedenotes.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Ep 52- Dr. Tom Nixon sits down to talk about all things health. Chiropractic care isn't just about cracking your back! So much more knowledge from a team that's doing it differently. Hear about his story, what motivates him and how even a surf bum can turn into a doctor. Find out more at: www.twincityhealth.com @twincityhealth Sounds: "Sweetness" by Sweet Whirl And always drink better coffee! Check out our beans at www.knowncoffee.com.

Paul Riser, Director of Detroit Urban Solutions for TechTown Detroit, joins co-hosts Tom Nixon and Marc Trail to discuss business incubators and accelerators, not only from the standpoint of the tech-based company, but also for traditional product and service companies that need to embrace this brave new world of digital platforms. Discussion points: The growth of business incubators and accelerators as entrepreneurialism expands throughout our economy Similarities between the tech-based business and traditional businesses How traditional business needs to incorporate tech into the business model to be successful Obstacles that tech-based entrepreneurs face as they grow, and how TechTown helps them succeed References and Resources: Visit techtowndetroit.org to get started! SCORE of Southeast Michigan offers workshops and mentors for entrepreneurs looking to “techify” their businesses. Click here to view our upcoming calendar of events. Looking for a mentor to help you along your digital path? Find a local southeast Michigan mentor today! Connect with Paul on LinkedIn or follow him on Twitter. Connect with Tom and Marc on LinkedIn Theme music: Let Us Run For It by The Denotes | https://thedenotes.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Gino Wickman, best-selling author, serial entrepreneur and founder of Entrepreneurial Leap, joins co-hosts Tom Nixon and Marc Trail to discuss and examine the six essential traits of successful entrepreneurs, and how to determine if you have what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur! If you are thinking of starting a business, are in business and want to validate that you have these traits, or are struggling to determine why your business hasn't reached its full potential, the tools discussed in Gino's latest book “Entrepreneurial Leap” will give you the clarity you seek. Discussion Points: Why did Gino decide to write this book for entrepreneurs in the making, and what can readers get out of it? What are the six essential traits of successful entrepreneurs? What are the free tools and resources provided at e-leap.com that align with the three phases discussed in the book: Confirm Glimpse Path Why should entrepreneurs seek out a mentor, and what is the process? Announcing our collaboration with Gino Wickman: SCORE's presentation of the “Introduction to E-Leap Workshop,” followed by our three-part workshop to guide entrepreneurs through the path to successful business ownership. References and Resources: Visit e-leap.com to read the book, access the free tools, and learn more. SCORE of Southeast Michigan is launching a recurring “Intro to E-Leap” workshop at no cost to attendees. Click here to find the next installment in our upcoming calendar of events. Looking for a mentor to help you along your entrepreneurial path? Find a local southeast Michigan mentor today! Connect with Tom and Marc on LinkedIn Theme music: Let Us Run For It by The Denotes | https://thedenotes.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Our guest today was Tom Nixon, Regional Coordinator, Toward Zero Deaths.

Co-hosts Armando Ojeda and Tom Nixon are joined by Jeff Sloan, founder and CEO of StartupNation, a multi-media company that provides educational and inspirational resources to aspiring entrepreneurs and existing small business owners. Listen in as Jeff describes the free and premium services his platform provides to startup entrepreneurs, and to learn why SCORE's partnership with StartupNation is a match made in heaven! Discussion points: What is StartupNation, and why did Jeff's storied career in entrepreneurship land him here? How does the platform work, and what do business owners get out of it? What is StartupNation Ventures (formerly Aria Ventures), and how do companies qualify for backing and incubation? Why is there such synergy between SCORE's one-to-one model, StartupNation's one-to-many model, and the one-to-few model we both espouse? How has Jeff's impression of SCORE changed, now that he's gotten to know more about us? Plus, an important announcement about an exciting partnership! References and Resources: Learn more about StartupNation and start learning today! Listen to Jeff's interview with Armando on WJR, the chat that started it all! SCORE of Southeast Michigan frequently does workshops for startups. Check back here from time to time to review the upcoming schedule. Looking for a mentor to help you along your entrepreneurial path? Find a local southeast Michigan mentor today! Connect with Jeff on LinkedIn Connect with Armando and Tom on LinkedIn Theme music: Let Us Run For It by The Denotes | https://thedenotes.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

The pandemic and its economic fallout has, overnight, created tremendous challenges for entrepreneurs and small business owners, forcing (or inspiring!) many to pivot to new markets, new service models or new product offerings. Co-Owner of Detroit Cycling Studio, Nicole Nesbitt, joins hosts Armando Ojeda and Tom Nixon, along with her SCORE Certified Volunteer Mentor Angela Mitchell, to discuss how she and her husband were able to successfully pivot their dream business during a time of crisis. Discussion points: How SCORE helped Detroit Cycling Studio prepare financials to secure a grant to fund their pivot and expansion. How Nicole and her co-entrepreneur husband quickly innovated to service an emerging demand in the market. Nicole's advice for other business owners beset by sudden challenges and obstacles. Angela's perspective as a volunteer mentor: What do we get out of it, and what is our reward? References and Resources: Find Detroit Cycling Studio on Facebook, or visit their website. SCORE Detroit frequently does workshops on pivoting and business planning. Check back here from time to time to review the upcoming schedule. Looking for a mentor to help you along your path toward entrepreneurial success? Find a local southeast Michigan mentor today! Connect with Armando and Tom on LinkedIn Theme music: Let Us Run For It by The Denotes | https://thedenotes.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Co-hosts and SCORE volunteers Armando Ojeda and Tom Nixon are joined by Nancy Grose, Economic Development Specialist with the Michigan District Office of the SBA and our SCORE chapter liaison. Nancy provides her first-hand perspective and expertise on how small businesses in Southeast Michigan have survived—and even thrived—during the economic downturn, as well as the available resources small business owners should be tapping into in order to forge ahead. Discussion points: How have business owners relied on the SBA to help guide them through the financial challenges caused by COVID-19? How has that shifted in recent months? Are we coming out of the proverbial woods? What are the new debt relief programs coming online available to small businesses in Michigan? What are the best places to start for entrepreneurs who are just now beginning their endeavors as a startup business owner? What about business owners looking to scale or pivot? For business owners 3-10 years into their businesses? A run-through of the myriad resources available to local small business owners, from funding and capital to marketing and networking—many at no cost! References and Resources: Visit the Michigan District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration A comprehensive list of resources and reference tools for small business owners in Southeast Michigan SCORE Detroit frequently does workshops on pivoting and business planning. Check back here from time to time to review the upcoming schedule. Looking for a mentor to help you along your path toward entrepreneurial success? Find a local southeast Michigan mentor today! Connect with Armando and Tom on LinkedIn Connect with Nancy on LinkedIn Theme music: Let Us Run For It by The Denotes | https://thedenotes.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Co-hosts and SCORE volunteers Armando Ojeda and Tom Nixon welcome Master Mentor David Broner from the Southeast Michigan chapter of SCORE to the show. A mentor with more than 10 years experience guiding entrepreneurs along successful paths to small business ownership, David is a wealth of experience and knowledge, of which he shares some nuggets of wisdom in Episode 2. Discussion points: What are the key challenges entrepreneurs need to be aware of before starting a business? What should “side-hustle” entrepreneurs consider before taking the risk into running their business full-time? What does a business plan consist of and why is it important to have a business plan? Why do so many entrepreneurs avoid writing a business plan, and how can they overcome their apprehensions? What are the various templates available to writers of business plans, from the Lean Business Canvas Model to the Startup Roadmap? How will a business plan help business owners in the wake of a global pandemic, from startups to established businesses pivoting? References and Resources: SCORE's Startup Roadmap for people at the beginning of the entrepreneurial journey. The Business Model Canvas template and the Business Model Canvas webinar The One-Page Business Plan The EOS Vision-Traction Organizer (VTO) SCORE Detroit frequently does workshops on business planning. Check back here from time to time to review the upcoming schedule. Looking for free guidance and specific subject matter expertise? Check out our schedule of local, live and virtual workshops happening weekly! Looking for a mentor to help you along your path toward entrepreneurial success? Find a local southeast Michigan mentor today! Connect with Armando and Tom on LinkedIn Connect with David on LinkedIN Theme music: Let Us Run For It by The Denotes | https://thedenotes.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Our guests today were Sgt. Neil Dickenson, Public Information Trooper, Minnesota State Patrol, and Tom Nixon, Regional Coordinator with Toward Zero Deaths.

Co-hosts and SCORE volunteers Armando Ojeda and Tom Nixon kick off the debut episode of the SCORE podcast serving southeast Michigan small business owners and entrepreneurs by exploring the very beginning of the entrepreneurial journey — actually, before the journey even begins! They welcome guest Amy Powell, Digital Marketing Manager at Entrepreneurial Leap, who works with E-Leap founder and author of The Entrepreneurial Leap, Gino Wickman, to develop and distribute content from Entrepreneurial Leap to help entrepreneurs-in-the-making eliminate common roadblocks and increase their odds of success when starting a business. Discussion points: What is “The Entrepreneurial Leap,” and why is it important for aspiring entrepreneurs? Why is it important that entrepreneurs-in-the-making find out if they have what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur before they get too far down a road? What are the six essential traits Gino Wickman has identified for successful entrepreneurs, and how did he arrive at those? How can someone who is thinking of taking the entrepreneurial leap find out if they possess the six essential traits? What happens if you fall below the baseline score in the assessment? Does that mean you should give up on your dream? How to get started: the website, the book, the assessment and YouTube Live event on August 26th References and Resources: Visit E-Leap.com to buy the book, download a free chapter, take the assessment, and check out tons of free tools and resources. Join the free YouTube Live event hosted by Gino Wickman on Wednesday, August 26th at 1:00 p.m. to get a firsthand overview of The Entrepreneurial Leap and to see if you qualify for Gino's forthcoming three-part Virtual E-Leap Workshop. SCORE's Startup Roadmap for people at the beginning of the entrepreneurial journey. Looking for free guidance and specific subject matter expertise? Check out our schedule of local, live and virtual workshops happening weekly! Looking for a mentor to help you along your path toward entrepreneurial success? Find a local southeast Michigan mentor today! Connect with Armando and Tom on LinkedIn Music: Let Us Run For It by The Denotes | https://thedenotes.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

When Laurence and I closed our digital agency it seemed like the natural thing to do. At the time we had a beautiful studio, a talented team and clients with ongoing projects but we'd lost the creative energy to keep it going. We weren't clear about its future and we were being drawn to grow the Happy Startup School. While it wasn't plain sailing closing Spook Studio was a lot less traumatic experience than what many other founders have had to go through. In this episode of the podcast, we're joined for our Friday Fireside by Tom Nixon, author, coach and founder of Maptio (a tool to help develop self-managing organisations). He's on a mission to support founders and research what it takes to create (and close) impactful companies. Tom shares his story of entrepreneurship, how he closed his company and why some businesses have a natural shelf-life, and that's fine. We talk about the taboo connected with closing a company and how we've lost sight of the creativity and humanity at the core of business. Businesses may be legal entities in themselves but in reality they're just a collection of people brought together by the creative energy of the founder. When we forget this we can easily become imprisoned by the structures we've created. If you're a founder thinking about closing your company or at the beginning of a startup journey we hope that this conversation will give you a new and more energising perspective on what it means to be an entrepreneur.

When Laurence and I closed our digital agency it seemed like the natural thing to do. At the time we had beautiful studio, a talented team and clients with ongoing projects but we'd lost the creative energy to keep it going. We weren't clear about its future and we were being drawn to grow the Happy Startup School. While it wasn't plain sailing closing Spook Studio was a lot less traumatic experience than what many other founders have had to go through. In this episode of the podcast we're joined for our Friday Fireside by Tom Nixon, author, coach and founder of Maptio (a tool to help develop self managing organisations). He's on a mission to support founders and research what it takes to create (and close) impactful companies. Tom shares his story of entrepreneurship, how he closed his company and why some businesses have a natural shelf-life, and that's fine. We talk about the taboo connected with closing a company and how we've lost sight of the creativity and the humanity at the core of business. Businesses may be legal entities in themselves but in reality they're just a collection of people brought together by the creative energy of the founder. When we forget this we can easily become imprisoned by the structures we've created. If you're a founder thinking about closing your company or at the beginning of a startup journey we hope that this conversation will give you a new and more energising perspective on what it means to be an entrepreneur.

Peter Koenig has spent the last decade researching principles for how founders organise and materialise their enterprises, projects and initiatives – what he calls sourcework. We talk about the role of source and source principles and the idea of seeing organisations as energetic fields. We talk about why his work has sparked debate in “new ways of working” circles, as well as how we can use the lens of source to diagnose decentralised organisations when we seem to get stuck. Peter also shares some insights from 30 years of running money seminars, and why money is such a great place to hide our deepest shadows. Resources: Upcoming money workshop (based on Peter's work) by Tim Malnick The Role of Source introduction workshop by Tom Nixon A website about source principles curated by Tom Nixon Peter’s website Tom Nixon’s blog about Reinventing Organisations and source (with a comment from Frederic Laloux at the end) Frederic Laloux’s video on new roles for top leaders, including the role of source Peter’s book 30 Lies About Money

Our guests today were Sgt. Neil Dickenson, Public Information Trooper, Minnesota State Patrol, and Tom Nixon, Regional Coordinator, Towards Zero Deaths.

BONUS EPISODE! A special podcast that is the audio of a Livecast from Facebook, YouTube & Twitter. Dan is joined by Tom Nixon of Ready2Speak.com. Tom helps speakers develop clear, powerful presentations that inspire their audiences and motivates them to action. Tom began his successful businesses over 3 decades ago out of a desire to help others step outside their comfort zone and become the superstar presenters they were meant to be. Tom has worked with presenters at all levels — from CEOs and senior managers to TEDx presenters and even a pig farmer in South Georgia. Go to http://www.thesalesenergizer.com (The Sales Energizer) for your "Sales Maker" Cold Call Toolkit for FREE! PLUS: Lifetime Access! It's time for you to dominate in the Sales game! APPEAR ON THE SALES ENERGIZER! If you'd like to be on the podcast and ask questions of the top business leaders in any industry - leave your question https://www.speakpipe.com/thesalesenergizer (here) and we'll feature it on a future podcast! If you are involved in a startup, sales organization, direct marketer, network marketer, on a job search, an inventor, in the tech world, a sports manager, an entertainment agent, a celebrity, in public relations, a promoter, in real estate, on Wall Street, or anywhere in between, you will need to get customers and a lot of them! When you come to the realization that everything is secondary to your acquisition of customers you have entered into the Deej Zone. Get Dan's Book: https://amzn.to/2PquFqN (Sales Proverbs: Sales Wisdom of the Ages)https://ratethispodcast.com/deej (Please rate and review this podcast!) Connect with Dan Jourdan: http://www.danjourdan.com/ (Official Site) https://www.youtube.com/user/DanJourdanSlsTrainer (YouTube) https://www.linkedin.com/in/danjourdan/ (LinkedIn) https://www.facebook.com/DanJourdanSalesCoach/ (Facebook) https://twitter.com/DJjourdan (Twitter) https://www.instagram.com/dan.jourdan (Instagram) Call The Deej!: 678-910-9912 This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Our guests today were Sgt. Neil Dickenson, Public Information Trooper, Minnesota State Patrol, and Tom Nixon, Regional Coordinator with Toward Zero Deaths.

Tom points to social changes as most fundamental to the rapid growth of the Chinese market, particularly with how quick consumers are in adopting new technologies. There are three keys to this change: 1) Immersion, or maximizing the buyer experience (i.e. standardizing vertical video); 2) Innovation, and framing these novel platforms as a positive lifestyle change; 3) Entertainment, which was never a huge factor to the Chinese consumer in the past.According to Tom, there are two types of content: 1) Marketing content, which is produced by brands; and 2) User-generated content (UGC), which is created by the consumers themselves. When it comes to content that resonates with Chinese consumers, the focus should be put on who buyers are listening to at that point in time. This is always changing: From Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), today's “authority figures” are micro-influencers.The common thread here is the democratization of business. While before we were constantly faced with big, flashy, high-budget advertising, now we tend to listen more to raw, down-to-earth, and entertaining individual creators who are (seemingly) “just like us”.Tom advises Western brands to understand their customers' touchpoints and ecosystems. The biggest mistake companies make is not being aware of cultural nuances. At worst, they risk offending potential buyers with their marketing. At best, they know where consumers go, but not how to actually engage with them or how to tailor their brand to their target customers.Tom's real-life example is when a company once reached out for help regarding what content to produce on WeChat—without first considering whether WeChat is really the best place for them to be in. Understanding the platforms is important indeed, but it is just as important to understand the culture of the people using these platforms.

Football has climbed its way up to second place in China’s favourite sports. With over 300 million Chinese football fans and counting, China has become a hot market for international club managers. This episode is not just about Football and Sports Marketing in China but also has a special focus on Chinese fans: how to resonate with them, entertain and, ultimately, win their respect. Host Arnold Ma chats to Tom Nixon, Qumin’s Co-Founder and Client Services Director, who originally learnt Chinese to become a football coach in China, and New Business Executive Sean Ekon, a registered football agent for the FA. Tune in for: 01:36 When football was still new in China 05:00 Tom’s China story and why he didn’t end up opening a Chinese takeaway 08:50 Sean’s China story 11:15 The development of fan culture in China and why ‘translating’ no longer equates to ‘localising’ 15:10 The fine line between being respectful and offensive 16:35 Chinese fans’ lack of patience 18:02 Gaining reach, resonance and reaction from Chinese fans 20:14 How to avoid being orientalist by tapping into everyday culture 25:27 Sponsorships or programmatic advertising? – Short- vs long term strategies 28:20 Why great creative work requires good clients – Watford FC’s brief for Qumin 29:20 Fake engagement in China’s football industry and the West’s transition from metrics to meaningful connections 30:40 The best platforms to generate real engagement and commercial return: WeChat vs Douyin (TikTok) 34:00 Qumin’s Manchester United campaign (culture, social CRM, gaming, and Manga) 41:03 Understanding people and cultures – the only way to stand out as a Western brand in China 42:33 Why the target audience for football clubs is the same as for any other industry 44:10 ‘Playing it safe’ in China vs wacky cross-industry collaborations 45:10 Street culture in China and its knock-on effect for the popularity of sports 46:22 The difference between football and fashion influencers 47:00 Building a football brand and creating true brand ambassadors to secure sponsorship deals and merchandising 50:40 The French federation’s terrible Mid-Autumn Festival greeting 52:00 Why football entertainment is understood differently in China If you like this episode, follow us/subscribe for more. You can also watch the full video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2eOUEM4jUVg Feel free to contact us on China.WTF@qumin.co.uk with comments, thoughts and suggestions.

Our guests today were Sgt. Neil Dickenson, Public Information Trooper, Minnesota State Patrol, and Tom Nixon, Regional Coordinator, Towards Zero Death.

Our guests today included Colonel Matt Langer, Minnesota State Patrol Chief; Sgt. Neil Dickenson, Minnesota State Patrol Public Information Officer; and Tom Nixon, Towards Zero Deaths Regional Coordinator.

Our guests today were Neil Dickenson, Minnesota State Patrol Public Information Officer, and Tom Nixon, Minnesota Towards Zero Deaths Regional Coordinator.

Our guests today were Sgt. Neil Dickenson, Public Information Trooper, Minnesota State Patrol, and Tom Nixon, Towards Zero Deaths Regional Coordinator.

Captain Joe Dwyer, Brainerd Commander, Minnesota State Patrol, and Tom Nixon, Regional Coordinator, Toward Zero Deaths

The guests for today's community focus on WJJY are Sgt. Neil Dickenson, Public Information Trooper with the MN State Patrol and Tom Nixon, Regional Coordinator with Toward Zero Deaths.

“Coincidence ” is episode two of a six-part series entitled “Hide Business.” Episode two written and produced by Mike King describes how a man’s desire for fortunes on the frontier is sometimes circumstantial. The story narrated by Brad Smalley describes how by coincidence a team of buffalo hunters is formed to strike up a new enterprise of buffalo hide hunting. “Coincidence” introduces the four soon to be legends of the buffalo hide trade from the first person perspective of Josiah Wright Mooar. Mooar tells how he meets Jim White and forms a partnership with soon to be citizens of Dodge City A.C. Myers, and Tom Nixon.

Join me for the Transformative Leadership Summit Vision Mission Strategic Goals Strategic goals line up with the district’s strategic goals. Our vision for Tanana is “give people what they need, when they need it.” This vision applies to staff, students, parents, and other community members as needed.   Our vision for the future of Tanana is clear and has been reviewed throughout the year. Here is the updated 4 year plan. At two times this year, I have met with each teacher individually to discuss the vision for the school and ensure that we are able to make collaborative decisions about the future. Additionally, the Leadership Team Running Agenda reviews and gives information about the trajectory of our school, as well as our Faculty Meeting Running Agenda and our PLC Session Board.   Data for Informed Decision Making While academic success is surely one of our goals at Tanana, in this building year, there has not been a lot of focus on traditional school data. While we have certainly analyzed and reviewed MAP data, PEAKS data was essentially not useful, and we have focused more on other issues.   One of the major areas of concern related to attendance and tardies. We have systematically documented tardy issues and found that typically less than 5% of our students are tardy, which indicates it is a small problem, and not a widespread issue. We have identified 19 students who are consistently tardy and in the halls and have created a student contract for them. To enable us to identify the students who were the ones causing issues, we created hall passes for teachers to use to monitor student hallway use.   Additionally, we used informal qualitative data to determine next steps for our school this year, asking teachers the areas in which we needed to focus. A review of our progress will be completed at the conclusion of this school year.   Furthermore, at the beginning of the year, Dr. Orr and I met with each teacher to review MAP data and how it would impact their classrooms. We used the documents in this folder for our review with the teachers. Empowering Work Environment At Tanana Middle School, our success cannot be dependent on the principal’s ability to manage many different initiatives. That is a recipe for disaster. Teachers and other staff take a prominent role in ensuring that plans are successful.   One such area is our advisory options. Each teacher (and staff member that wants to) may submit a new advisory option every two weeks. This list shows all the different options that have been created this year. Each teacher takes responsibility for creating something of value for students. Many items on that list are also student-generated ideas that came from students wanting to have a bigger say in what we do.   Our school librarian was given the directive at the beginning of the year to make the library a “place where we learn and create” and has been given decision-making authority to accomplish that. Mrs. Martin redesigned the library, removed a wall, facilitated technology distribution, and created makerspaces in the library, that change nearly every single day.   Mr. Balash has adjusted his way of delivering instruction in the classroom to ensure all students are engaged in the process of learning and acting. The beginning of the year, end of the year, and many other activities throughout the year have been organized by teachers working in committee to make meaningful change to our school. Continuous Improvement One of my favorite ideas is that we are never done improving. It doesn’t matter how much we do or don’t do, we can always get better. There is always room for growth, no matter what we are doing. One small example is that our hall passes were not as effective as we wanted, and so we created a second hall pass that met the teachers’ needs. One group of teachers needed additional support, so they created their own processes for dealing with hall passes in their section of the hallway.   A good example of our belief in continuous improvement relates to the Leadership Team Running Agenda. On the April 25 agenda, we had this posted on our agenda: Reevaluate schedule B, please…comment from teacher ”Does Schedule B really help us grow into the schedule we want for the future?  Does it help train students to be ready to handle the freedom of an open schedule?”   Even when we make a decision, we know that we have a long way to go to be where we want to be. Nothing in our school is too sacred to talk about. Celebrating Success and Acknowledging Failures Each faculty meeting, we start with celebrations. There are many areas when I have failed at something this year. I usually refer to those on my podcast. One of the failures that we had this year was an attempt to roll out a school-wide service learning program. A couple teachers came to the leadership team with an idea, and we tried to roll it out to the staff. It was too soon, and I let the leadership team know that I had jumped the gun too much on that.   Another area where I failed this year related to collaborating with principals relating to personalized learning. I attempted to have weekly meetings with other principals around personalized learning. Nobody showed up, and so I waited “by the phone” each week. I’ve recently started doing a Fairbanks mastermind with four other principals in the district on Friday mornings. This has been a much better solution and much more powerful because there are just a few of us. Even so, we have only had a couple meetings, so we will see where it goes.   Personalized Learning Student Reflections - One of our teachers   Ideal Week Schedule Each week, I schedule out my week and plan to spend the morning with teachers. I used to think that I needed to be in classrooms observing teachers, but I’ve realized it’s much more powerful when I think of that time as coaching teachers. I might be in their room while they are teaching, or I might be talking with them during their prep, talking about how we can meet their goals. Other items that I time block include writing newsletters to parents, collaborating with my assistant principal, and making time for district-focused work each Tuesday afternoon.   Having time blocks has really helped me to be present in the moment so that I can devote attention to the things that are really important.       Systems Leadership One of my goals this year after reading “The One Thing” has been about being more proactive, and less reactive. We’ve established Key Responsibility Areas for our special education staff, office staff and a couple other positions. It is easy to float through life, reacting to every situation, but it is so much more valuable to be proactive and lead with vision for the future. A shining example of the focus on systems has been to create strategies for recruiting top talent to our school. A recent full time certified hire told me, “I wasn’t going to work here, but then I came and heard your vision for what the school could be, and I knew I had to stay.” Having a vision and sharing it with people is what makes them join the work. This one teacher who joined our staff will have a tremendous impact on our ability to reach our goals.   At the beginning of the year, we established new school rules. These rules are “Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be Responsible.” These school rules are clear, and easy to remember. They also allow teachers, students, staff, and anyone else in our building to support the rules by asking three questions about any student behavior:   Is it safe? Is it respectful? Is it responsible?   If the answer to any of these questions is, “No,” then we know the behavior needs to change. We have high expectations for students to always be safe, respectful, and responsible, but we also understand that it takes different students different amounts of time to be successful at the expectations.   Communication One area of communication for which I am especially grateful is managing conflict at our school among adults. Despite our best efforts, we adults can sometimes be the most challenging to communicate with. In my own experience, I come across and stern and strict many times, when that is really quite opposite from who I really am inside. Teachers and staff in the past have complained that it is difficult to talk with me. I’ve made great strides in being more approachable, but still have a ways to go. One of the strategies that I have used is called “Communication cards.” These cards hang on my door so that anyone who needs to have a difficult conversation with me can have a difficult conversation knowing that I am going to respond a certain way when the communication cards are used. This has really been beneficial to me to diffuse difficult situations. Thankfully, these cards have sat largely unused for most of the year. That means that I am getting better in my interpersonal communication skills because people don’t feel the need to use the cards to communicate.   Constant communication is important. I’d like to share some stats from our newly-created-this-year social media accounts. It is important for us to be everywhere for our families and support them in making sure they know what is going on at our school. We have a long way to go to be there for everyone, but we are heading in the right direction. Instagram This account has 95 posts as of 04/25/2018 and 88 followers. Most posts generate about 10-15 likes. Dr. Orr and I are the only ones who post to this account.   Facebook This account has 207 likes, and is climbing the charts in relation to the comparison schools. In three years in Kodiak, I got that page up to 700 likes, so we are making a good progression towards that. Our highest usage of our facebook page is between 4 and 8 pm and at noon. If we do any facebook live events, noon would probably be a pretty good time to do it. Our most popular posts average 10 reactions.   Twitter Our Tweets earned 5.3K impressions over the last 28 day period. We have 57 followers and 800 tweets so far. Our most popular tweet over the last month was related to a student mastering his math facts up to 14x14! That’s pretty positive. This account is mostly automatic tweets from facebook and instagram.   Mailchimp The fourth way we communicate with families is through our newsletter account in Mailchimp. Our emails usually get about 35-40% open rates. That’s pretty good.   Parent Feedback Around the middle of the year, I asked parents how much they were satisfied with their Tanana experience:   With a 10% response rate, we have about 73% of parents who are satisfied or strongly satisfied with the work done by Tanana staff with their student. That’s very positive. Those in the middle left some comments about improving communication, and one notable comment said, “Your personalized learning plan was a pretty sh*tty idea.” The Blog We started a blog for our school relating Volunteerism Perhaps the best outcome from all this parent and community communication has been the increase in parent involvement and community engagement. Nearly every week, we have had parents or community members in our classrooms working with our students. Our school is welcoming to many from outside who don’t typically have interactions with middle school students. A favorite story is from Nelda and Tom Nixon who are local watercolor artists who live close by. They came to our school and taught watercolor during advisory. This opportunity gave this retired couple an opportunity to see what is going on in schools today and be more engaged in the school process.   Our goal for volunteers was 500 in our school this year. At the semester break, we were at 250. As of today, we are at 384. Leadership For Learning If we aren’t moving forward in our efforts for helping kids learn, then all our efforts are pretty much wasted.   Our focus this year is on personalized learning and my expectations for staff have been very clear, and quite minimal. Each staff member needed to do one activity, lesson, or unit that incorporated personalized learning each quarter. This is not a high bar, but with a vision like we have, it makes it so much easier for them to be successful in implementing that. In fact, I’d say that nearly every teacher has done way more than just a 4 Personalized Learning activities this year. It has really been amazing to see how far so many have gone.   I believe that the reason we have been so successful is two fold. First, we have really great teachers who strive to go above and beyond. Second, we have a clear vision of where we want to go, and we know it is ok to not be there right this minute. As we converse about different ways to improve instruction, teachers take a little idea, and implement something amazing that they can do themselves.   For example, after our MAP meetings with teachers, Mrs. Garcia and Mrs. Chorley, and some other teachers found the MAP goal setting worksheets, and worked with students to make individual goals for where they could improve their learning.   Teachers who have been effective in implementing personalized learning have also been “visiting” the distinguished range of the Danielson framework much more often. It is really powerful to see them be so successful.   One area where we have a lot of work to do revolves around grading. Plain and simple: our grades don’t mean anything. In one class, grades mean something entirely different from another class. It is imperative that we work on getting on the same page with grading. The need to move to a competency-based system is enormous. This is a major area of growth for our school. When grades mean so many different things, it is very challenging to hold students to high standards. For example, an A in one class means that a student is compliant and does what the teacher asks. An A in another class means that a student did a bunch of work, but maybe didn’t learn anything. An A in another class could mean that a student has actually learned the content. An A in another class could mean that a student has just shown up every day, or even most days.   In the last few months, I have consistently been saying that an F means that the teacher has failed, while a D means the student has failed. We are having conversations about taking away 0 grades so as to not penalize students. This is a great podcast episode with Rick Wormeli about that very idea.   Professionalism Over the course of this school year, we have focused heavily on professional development for our staff. Each week, Dr. Orr and I curate articles, podcasts, TED talks, and other resources to help our staff have meaningful professional development on their own time. We have focused our Faculty Meetings and PLCs on providing value to our teachers. We have eliminated sit and get PD sessions and have made them personalized and interactive for all adult learners. We must model this for our teachers first, if we expect them to do it in their classrooms.   One of the major challenges we have faced this year relates to our suspensions of students of color. This is challenging because if we follow the district policies, we have to suspend students of color at a higher rate because their natural behavior is in conflict with our school district policies. Students of color are louder than their white counterparts as a whole, and that makes them easy targets for teachers or staff members when assigning blame for incidents they didn’t see themselves. Students of color are often accused or targeted because they are loud or animated. This is an area where we need to continually work to improve.   Outside of work, I have sought to improve my own professional growth by applying to present at the Alaska Principals conference, the National Principals Conference, ASTE, and the Personalized Learning Summit in San Francisco. For my podcast, since being in Fairbanks, I have interviewed  over 50 people for my podcast to learn how to be a transformative principal.  

The Wild West podcast presents the Battle of the Plaza the retelling of the gunfight between Bat Masterson, A.J.Peacock, and Al Updegraff. The story begins on April 15, 1881, after Bat Masterson living in Arizona is telegraphed by an unknown informer, notifying Bat that his brother Jim was about to be assassinated by the co-owner of the Lady Gay, Jim Masterson's partner. Purchase the book A Man in a Black Derby Hat at Amazon. Bat takes a train to Dodge City and arrives on the April 16 noon train but decides to get off early suspecting he might encounter resistance at the train depot. The Battle of the Plaza written and produced by Mike King takes the listener deep into the conflict surrounding the feud between Jim Masterson and A.J. Peacock over the Lady Gay Saloon. The story narrated by Brad Smalley gives a first-person account as the gunfight begins to unfold the night before at the Long Branch Saloon when George a local cowboy inquires about the ongoing conflict between Jim Masterson and A.J. Peacock. During the twenty-minute podcast, many legends of the old west are revealed to include the characterization of Bat Masterson, A.B. Webster, Tom Nixon, Pat Sughrue, Fred Singer, A. B. Webster, and Jim Masterson.

The Wild West podcast presents the Man in a Black Derby Hat the retelling of the gunfight between Bat Masterson, A.J.Peacock, and Al Updegraff. Purchase the book A Man in a Black Derby Hat at Amazon. The story begins on April 15, 1881, after Bat Masterson living in Arizona is telegraphed by an unknown informer notifying Bat that his brother Jim was about to be assassinated by the co-owner of the Lady Gay, Jim Masterson's partner. Bat takes a train to Dodge City and arrives on the April 16 noon train but decides to get off early suspecting he might encounter resistance at the train depot. The story of the Man in the Black Derby Hat written and produced by Mike King takes the listener deep into the conflict surrounding the Battle of the Plaza. The story narrated by Brad Smalley gives a first-person account as the gunfight begins to unfold the night before in the Long Branch Saloon when George a local cowboy inquires about the ongoing conflict between Jim Masterson and A.J. Peacock. During the thirty-minute podcast, many legends of the old west are revealed to include the characterization of Bat Masterson, A.B. Webster, Tom Nixon, Pat Sughrue, Fred Singer, and Jim Masterson.

Permission to Speak Podcast. Hosted by Leadership Communications Expert Kelly Vandever. Episode #40 - Tom Nixon Interviews Kelly Vandever. Permission to Speak is the video blog and podcast that loiters at the intersections of leaders who want their people to speak up, technology that facilitates connections, and results that serve an organization’s higher purpose. Topics covered in this episode include: - Kelly tells her stories and why the Permission to Speak podcast focuses on leaders who want their employees to speak up, technology that facilitates connections, and results that serve our higher purpose - Employee voice - Employees speaking up at work - Self-confidence of leaders - When Kelly was told not to speak up in the Navy - And when Kelly was required to speak up in the Navy - One characteristic of the best leaders that always comes up in Kelly’s management classes is that great leaders are great listeners - Discussing the need to understand the higher purpose of your organization - How the higher purpose of the organization ties into employees being engaged - You can’t provide excel customer service if you treat your people like crap - Technology and the power it has to give people a voice - Kelly’s example of the difference a knowledge sharing tool she used in Corporate America - Kelly was past president of the Georgia Chapter of the National Speakers Association - Storytelling and its power to create connections with leaders and their staffs - Questions answered - What happens when employees speak up at work? - What is the one characteristics all employees say their best manager had? - Why is it important to understand your organization’s mission? - Why is it important for a company to have a higher purpose? - Why is customer service bad when we tell our people to give good customer service? - How can technology help companies improve communications? - How can technology give introverts a voice? - Why is storytelling important to leaders?

Tom Nixon was one of the founders of NixonMcInnes, Europe's first dedicated social business consultancy, working with a number of big name global brands. He's now an adviser to Founders helping them to grow businesses with purpose that they can be proud of. I interviewed Tom before I had started doing a podcast. I recorded it so I would have it for reference and I thought at the time that I would provide the whole interview as added collateral for anyone who read the book (which I still haven't written!). But I thought it was time to dig it back out and share it with you because it's so good! You don't have to be a founder to get a lot of ideas from listening to Tom. And, if you work in big business, you probably don't get to meet people like Tom very often. He's exactly the breed of next stage leadership thinker that we need to be listening to if big business is going to have any relevance in future. Check him out at www.tomnixon.co.uk and have a look for his latest project, Maptio.com, a mapping tool for self-managing organisations. The site isn't live yet but you can sign up to get updates as the project progresses. To stay in touch with me, or find out how you can work with me and bring more of these ideas and ways of thinking in to your business check out the website at www.thatpeoplething.com or just email me at blaire@thatpeoplething.com. I'd love to hear from you. We also really value your comments and reviews so do go to iTunes and let us know what you think (especially if you liked it!!)

Tom Nixon is an entrepreneur and coach who works with founders to help them realise their ideas, and supports organisations to reconnect them to their purpose. We talk about his latest venture Maptio which is a mapping tool for self-managing organisations. How do you avoid creative entropy as your company grows? How do you get people to step into their responsibility? What is the role of the founder or CEO? How to follow Tom: Twitter: @tomnixon Website: https://tomnixon.co.uk/ Book of the week: Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux (again!)  Relevant links: Register to get access to the Maptio beta Tom’s blog about resolving the awkward paradox in Frederic Laloux’s Reinventing Organisations

Dr. Tom Nixon is back. If you missed his first episode, you can check it out here. This time, I asked him to come on the show to share some new insights on how we can slow the aging process, maintain bone density and stand tall! :-) Get the show notes and links to all resources mentioned right here: onairwithella.com/072-tom-nixon/ Are we connected on Facebook yet? Join me there for our off-air conversations :-)

All resources mentioned can be found at: www.onairwithella.com Dr. Tom Nixon of Twin City Health & Maximized Living answers a LOT of our questions about how to find a great practitioner for problems that extend well beyond a sore back, and how to avoid the quacks. What We Talk About: + What does our nervous system have to do with our health? + The very long list of ailments that relate to our nervous system, including migraines, hypothyroid, Type II diabetes, high blood pressure, digestive ailments and many more, and... + How they can be treated through Corrective Chiropractic Care (I had no idea!) + How to know if your practitioner is going to be able to actually help HEAL you + What to avoid when seeking a non-traditional practitioner + Ella's new inversion table - helpful or hurtful?   Find all resources mentioned at: www.onairiwthella.com/046-are-chiropractors-quacks