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Leadership
Why Trust Matters More Than Talent in High-Performing Teams
Your team is keeping score. Not on productivity metrics or quarterly goals, though they notice those too. They’re tracking something more fundamental: whether you do what you say you’ll do. Whether your words match your actions. Whether it’s safe to tell you the truth. You can see it in the small behaviors that shift when...Read More
From Conga Line to Cohesion: What a Dance Party Taught Me About Leadership and Human Behavior
When I step on stage as a keynote speaker, my goal isn’t just to motivate people; it’s to move them. Literally and figuratively. Sure, most keynote speakers aim to inspire reflection, and that’s important. But I want my audiences to experience something — to feel it in their bodies. Because what we feel, we remember....Read More
Coaching, Not Correction: The Real Fix for Underperformance at Work
Underperformance Is a Symptom. Coaching Is the Cure. When performance dips, most leaders rush to look at the numbers. Revenue, KPIs, close rates – you name it. But here’s the twist: numbers don’t coach people. People coach people. And underperformance? It’s rarely about effort. It’s almost always a gap in clarity, consistency, or confidence. Research...Read More
Design Your Leadership Path | Leadership Career Growth Tips
What’s your next move? It’s a question that stumps more mid-level leaders than you might expect, not for lack of ambition, but for lack of clarity. A McKinsey report found that only 40% of women and 52% of men in middle management feel confident navigating their leadership trajectory. At the same time, 86% of employees...Read More
Stop Saying ‘Grind’, Start Saying ‘Build’
It’s no secret that we as a society have glamorized overwork. A thriving culture that asks ‘if you aren’t putting in 80 hour weeks at the office under a framed “rise & grind” poster, what exactly are you doing with your life?” Which is exactly why I’m still ruminating over a conversation that I had...Read More
Episode 085: The Power Of Podcasting with Donnie Boivin
“I tell everybody, you want to figure out what you are made of? Launch your own business. I don’t know any other tool, in the world, that will make you grow up, level up, figure yourself out faster than launching your own business.” – Donnie Boivin On this episode of The Pivotal Leader, Gina Trimarco...Read More
Episode 084: Tom Ziglar – Choosing To Win By Being Your Best Self
“Create the atmosphere that allows you to become all that you are meant to be.” – Tom Ziglar On this episode of The Pivotal Leader, Gina Trimarco and Rachel Pitts (co-host of Women Your Mother Warned You About) interviewed Tom Ziglar, son of Zig Ziglar and CEO of Ziglar, Inc. This is a two-part series...Read More
Episode 083: Good Ideas with Bjorn Oste, CEO, Good Idea Drinks
“If you start managing innovation teams in some sort of a regular traditional business model … forget it. It’s not going to work. It’s not going to happen. You need chaos. You need structured chaos and you need freedom.” – Bjorn Oste On this episode of The Pivotal Leader, Gina Trimarco interviewed Bjorn Oste, Co-Founder...Read More
Episode 082: Lessons From Former Calvin Klein CEO Tom Murry
“To be successful, you have to be able to convince people, you have to be able to listen, and you have to do all of those kinds of things that a good salesperson does.” – Tom Murry On this episode of The Pivotal Leader, Gina Trimarco interviewed Tom Murry, former CEO of Calvin Klein, where...Read More
Episode 081: Eliminating Sales Mis-Information with Jeffrey Gitomer & Jennifer Gluckow
“There’s no prize for 2nd place in sales – it’s win or lose, sell or die.” – Jeffrey Gitomer On this episode of The Pivotal Leader, Gina Trimarco interviewed the King of Sales Jeffrey Gitomer and Jennifer Gluckow, speaker, trainer and writer on all things sales. Buckle up for this ride with Jeffrey and Jennifer...Read More