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The trend toward Storytelling is an unmistakable force that is sweeping across organizational gatherings, meetings and presentations globally. With leaders becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the low engagement at their events, they are ditching the scripts and podiums in favour of more compelling and captivating content and style. This week on Inspiring Leaders, we chat with one of the most successful Storytellers in North America. Ed Bilat, aka “The Closer” is the President of StorytellingSales.com, a firm dedicated to helping organizational leaders and sales professionals sharpen the craft of storytelling. With over 24 years in Sales and Business Development, Ed is highly experienced in complex solution sales and has his own real stories to tell. A natural teacher and storyteller, Ed is passionate about empowering business leaders, entrepreneurs and sales teams to define and leverage their unique brand stories. Hear how Ed’s career went from Telemarketing Agent to Vice President, working in industries like Telecom, Wireless, Software, Optics and High-tech. Learn how he closed multi-million dollar deals using storytelling as the backbone of his positioning. Take notes as Ed describes his simple, but effective STAR Model for Storytelling: S = Situation T = Trouble A = Action R = Results As a martial arts practitioner of 30 plus years, Ed is the creator of Aikido Selling and Negotiation method which gained him international recognition for its simplicity and effectiveness. Ed, his wife and 2 kids reside in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Links: Ed Bilat on LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/edbilat Ed’s Email [email protected] Storytelling Sales www.storytellingsales.com Storytelling for Professionals storytellingsales.com/storytelling-for-professionals/
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This week we talk Innovation & People with Microsoft Canada's National Technology Officer, John Weigelt. “Embrace the audacity of inexperience” John Weigelt leads Microsoft Canada’s strategic policy and technology efforts. Mr. Weigelt helps individual and organizations across Canada innovate with technology while avoiding the unintended consequences that might arise. He leads Canadian outreach for a variety of technology policies including: Economic Development, Privacy, Security, Government 3.0, Accessibility, Environmental Sustainability and Interoperability. “You can live in a place that you love and you can project your know-how around the world” LINKS John Weigelt on LinkedIn John Weigelt on Twitter John Weigelt on Email Microsoft Canada Microsoft Beyond VR NEXT WEEK’S SHOW Storytelling For Leaders with Trainer Ed Bilat 
“Transformation is a natural, unrelenting force. It’s time we embraced radical change.” Mark Twain said “The two most important dates in a person’s life are the day you are born and the day you find out why”. Today we explore the time between these two events and discover why it is important to “Remain Grounded”. Stephen is an accomplished author and sought after consultant focusing on leadership and organizational performance. He is engaged with organizations throughout the world, achieving breakthrough performance in today’s environment of accelerated change. Among books Stephen has authored are: Work Miracles, The Trust Imperative, Transformational Leadership, Transformation Fieldbook, Leading Peak Performance, How to Coach Individuals, Teams and Organizations to Master Transformational Change, The Trust Memory Jogger, and soon to be released, Lead Self before Leading Others. He is passionate about delivering successful transformational initiatives and coaching leaders, as he has done with many companies, diverse organizations and governments across the globe….in more than 50 countries. “Complexity that is now becoming chaos is causing many leaders to misstep” After completing his corporate career as a senior leader with Procter & Gamble, he served as the Executive Director of The Performance Center, a multi-university organization conducting action-research. He is currently CEO and a founding partner of Transformation Systems International, LLC. Stephen has been formally recognized time and again for his dynamic speaking, training, writing and leadership coaching skills. He is an American Society for Quality (ASQ) Past Chair and Fellow, and holder of the R.A. Maass Award for his body of work Customer-Supplier Relationships. Stephen lives in Bend, Oregon with his wife, Marla. Join us for this 20 minute journey down one of leadership’s most important paths. LINKS LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/stephen-hacker-42b87610 Personal Website www.stephenhacker.com Transformational Systems Website www.tsi4results.com  On e056 we explore “Leading with Ai” with Mindbridge Ai CEO Eli Fathi. Why? Because PwC estimates that by 2030, Artificial Intelligence will contribute $15.7 Trillion to the World’s economy. That’s why. “A.I. will have the same impact on this planet that electricity had.” Eli Fathi is a serial entrepreneur who has launched several successful and innovative technology companies in North America that served a global customer base. Eli is passionate about personal growth as well, helping people see that challenging themselves and others to be held to a higher standard will serve everyone better, scaling up businesses around world class products that solve real world problems. “The rising tide raises old boats” By defining ambitious goals and empowering teams to take on the challenges and accomplish them, Eli Fathi has founded or co-founded numerous companies. In fact, he has been the CEO of SIX technology companies, including Ottawa-based Mindbridge Ai. He has co-authored a book on software project management & had 12 publications. Being a true leader, Eli has always made time to help other emerging leaders and entrepreneurs, including sharing his experiences in business on his blog. “It’s very important that you give back to the community” MindBridge Ai provides advanced anomaly detection solutions based on easy to use human-centric Ai, machine learning and big data to provide the fastest, most flexible and affordable way for organizations of all sizes to effectively find new insights. This company is at the absolute forefront of the Artificial Intelligence curve, pushing boundaries that are changing the way businesses operate in Canada and around the globe. “Our intention is to put Ottawa on the map - plant the flag here that we are open to business in Ai, we have great companies and we can become a centre of excellence in this area.” In June of last year, Eli’s company MindBridge secured $4.3M in seed funding and global VC’s have been buzzing around Mindbridge ever since. Join us by listening in on this excellent conversation with the Inspiring Eli Fathi. Press Play Now. LINKS Eli Fathi on LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/eli-fathi Eli Fathi on Twitter https://twitter.com/oiqeli Eli Fathi’s Blog www.mytakeonbusiness.com Mindbridge AI Website https://www.mindbridge.ai |
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