Obey Your Strengths with Kathy Kersten

Gretta Brooks is the Founder and CEO of Salesboost, a training platform that provides on-demand, microlearning to increase the effectiveness of hotel sales teams. (www.salesboost.com). Listen to inspirational interviews with entrepreneurs, leaders and evangelists that have leveraged the power of CliftonStrengths (aka StrengthsFinder) to achieve personal and professional success. To discover your own strengths, visit gallupstrengthscenter.com. If you would like information on individual, team or organizational coaching, visit kathykersten.com. Follow Kathy on Facebook @StrengthsCoach4InspiredTeams and Instagram @kathy.kersten. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kathy Kersten (www.kathykersten.com) interviews Lorenzo Gomez III, Geekdom Media CEO, Co-Host of The Brand Brother Podcast and author of "The Cilantro Diaries: Business Lessons from the Most Unlikely Places". He shares wisdom about using strengths philosophy to increase your professional success. Lorenzo's Top 5: Context, Restorative, Activator, Positivity, WOO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CEO of Geekdom Media, Lorenzo Gomez III and Kathy discuss the inspiration behind the Obey Your Strengths podcast. As former colleagues at Rackspace Hosting, they discuss how their strengths had to be "Obeyed" and the follow their strengths on different career journeys. www.geekdommedia.com/obeyyourstrengths www.kathykersten.com

On this episode of Obey Your Strengths with Kathy Kersten, hear from Damon Finaldi, CEO of Telecloud, as he shares his top five strengths and how they have helped him in his career. He explains how his futuristic strength allows him to visualize the future, his activator strength helps him to get ideas off the ground, and his significance strength makes him reflect on the meaning of his actions. He also talks about how he shifted roles from sales and marketing to operations manager, and how he brought in outside help to get the business to a healthier place. He also shares his experience with the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) and the importance of understanding the strengths of employees and how to use them to build a successful business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Obey Your Strengths, Kathy Kersten interviews Wendy Brand, the owner of WMB Coaching and Consulting. Wendy talks about her journey to owning her own business, and how her top five strengths of Activator, Arranger, Individualization, Harmony, and Relator have helped her along the way. She also shares her experience of getting up early due to construction on the highway, and how her harmony strength helped her navigate a difficult relationship with a colleague. Wendy emphasizes the importance of trust and building relationships, and how she uses her strength of relator to build trust with her teams and clients. Don't miss this inspiring episode of Authentic Energy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices