Meet Todd Cherches. CEO and cofounder of BigBlueGumball, a NYC-based consulting firm specializing in leadership development, public speaking, and executive coaching, as well as a Founding Partner of the Global Institute For Thought Leadership. He is also a three-time award-winning Adjunct Professor of leadership at NYU, and a Lecturer on leadership at Columbia University. Todd is also a TEDx speaker, and the author of "VisuaLeadership: Leveraging the Power of Visual Thinking in Leadership and in Life" (Post Hill Press/Simon & Schuster, 2020).

Post Interview Reflection

1:35​ Passion Skills Matrix helps each of us find our work/life 'sweet spot'

2:40​ Viewpoint of corporate path and non-traditional path

3:25​ Value of coaching for confidence and comfort to knock down barriers Highlights

5:50​ Welcome Todd Cherches and Who's There? ! set up

6:40​ 'VisuaLeadership' thinking - Top 50 business books for 2021 by Thinkers360

7:45​ Backstory on bad managers, must be a better way! Learned from reading 1,000 business books

10:00​ Don't light a fire under people, light a fire within them!

11:15​ Passions Skills Matrix helps people define what's important to pursue and make changes for

11:30​ Leadership qualities, values, and vision necessary to effect changes

12:00​ Hierarchy of followership, begins with trust, core values, listening, vision. Create alignment by 1) Having a vision and 2) communicating it in a clear, compelling and inspiring way

13:40​ What keeps you up at night, and what gets you going in the a.m. Accentuate worries and inspirations

14:10​ Human Resources versus a resource for humans

15:40​ How organizations set up workforce for success, it's essential to create compelling reasons for work

17:15​ Modern careers are not a linear path, rather, a roller coaster ride with exhilarating highs and terrifying plummets

20:00​ Work aligned with values can be freeing to know to navigate a more transient model of working

21:20​ Exponential change alters how leaders lead when the times are so Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA)

24:00​ Lead to the opposite of VUCA, with Calm, Certainty, Simplify, Clarity (CCSC) then decide, act, move on

26:15​ Building teams for winning the quarterly stockholder report OR the 2-5 year vision

27:45​ Helping workforce members express their passions/ambitions begins with trust

31:00​ Carve a sculpture of an elephant by carving out everything that doesn't look like an elephant!

32:10​ Adapting to the post-pandemic when virtual and hybrid (virtual/in-office) changes the rules The Three Vs: Are you seen? Visibility. Are you heard? Voice. Are you making contributions? Value.

35:00​ Managers duty to provide resources and remove roadblocks (R&R), while Leaders duty to create strategy to set up people for success

39:00​ Who's There? ! Important for leaders to embrace workforce as mobile independent agents to arrange motivateds for productivity