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Innovation in Compliance

Making Impactful Leadership with Linda Fisk

 

Linda Fisk is an award-winning author, speaker, and university professor. Her mission is to amplify and extend the success of other high-caliber business leaders. She is the CEO and Founder of LeadHERship Global, a community of unstoppable women enhancing their leadership blueprint and embracing their power to be the best version of themselves. In this week’s episode, she and Tom Fox discuss the challenges that come with leadership and how to overcome them. 

 

 

Leadership Is a Passion 

Tom asks Linda why she is so passionate about leadership and teaching others how to be effective leaders. She explains that throughout her career she has had the privilege to serve as the CEO or the CMO. From this position, she has witnessed first-hand “the transformational power of leaders coming together to solve problems, to advance solutions, to be able to tackle some of the most daunting issues our planet is facing today”. She explains that good leadership will always be the driving force behind a successful organization. She began studying leadership because she realized it was about making meaningful contributions to people’s lives. She believes that while there are natural-born leaders – anyone can be an excellent leader.

 

Origins of LeadHERship

Tom asks what led to Linda founding LeadHERship Global. While working in the C-suite, she responds, she witnessed the magnitude of what stellar leadership does for the success of the organization. Linda wanted to create “a haven for women in leadership” – a community where all women could be successful, despite their race, background, religion, or socioeconomic position. She says, “All women around the world are worthy of being considered valuable, and they should be honored, and they should be allowed to advance their success.” Her company provides all the resources, tools, learning, and connections for these women to level the playing field with their male counterparts and achieve success.

 

The Intervention of a Leadership Coach

Tom asks, “When should I hire a leadership coach?” Linda believes that you should hire a leadership coach when you:

  • need help navigating through real and potential conflict; 
  • are trying to cultivate your executive presence;
  • are polishing your leadership skills;
  • are fostering a greater sense of work-life integration; or 
  • want to create sustainable leadership practices. 

 

Becoming a better leader means learning and practicing leadership skills. Hiring a coach means that you can get honest and objective feedback on the way your employees experience you as a leader. 

 

Resources 

Linda Fisk | LinkedIn | Twitter

LeadHERship Global

 

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Popcorn and Compliance

Leadership Lessons from Count Dracula

In this episode of Popcorn and Compliance, Tom Fox explores one movie each week from the classic Universal monster movies 1930s to mine it for leadership and compliance lessons this month. For this second entry in this short series, Tom and Richard Lummis join forces to explore the 1931 movie Dracula. Count Dracula is one of the four classic Universal Pictures movie monsters from the 1930s, including the Wolfman, the Mummy, and Frankenstein’s Monster. What sets him apart from these other three? In particular, what is the Dracula brand? Is it fanged teeth and a black cape? Is it the signature Bela Lugosi voice? Is it a bat? In this episode, Richard Lummis and I explore branding for business leaders and discuss the lessons a 21st-century business leader can learn from a 1930s movie character.

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Presidential Leadership Lessons for the Business Executive

Presidential Leadership Lessons from James Garfield

Richard Lummis and Tom Fox are back to continue our series of exploring leadership through the study of US Presidents. This episode continues our series on Gilded Age Presidents, now largely forgotten. In this episode, we take up James Garfield. Some of the highlights include:

  1. Educational and Professional Background.
  2. History as Radical Republican.
  3. Crédit Mobilier scandal of 1872.
  4. Nomination and Election of 1880.
  5. Presidency including the Tariff, Purging of the Post Office, Supreme Court Nominations, Proposals for universal education, and Assassination.
  6. Leadership Issues, including the importance of strong ethics, a strong believer in education, and Goldbug-a man for his times?
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Popcorn and Compliance

Leadership Lessons from Dr. Frankenstein

I have always loved the classic Universal monster movies from the 1930s. I am exploring one movie each week to mine it for leadership and compliance lessons this month. For this first entry in this short series on Popcorn and Compliance, I look at the original 1931 version of Mary Shelley’s seminal work, Frankenstein, which starred Boris Karloff as the Monster. Karloff embued the Monster with great pathos, but in this podcast, I want to consider the leadership lessons of Dr. Victor Frankenstein or the lack of leadership by the good doctor, which led to the deaths of a small child, his brother, and the rape of his wife-to-be on her wedding day. Of course, it also led to the unleashing of his Monster, technically called Frankenstein’s Monster, upon the movie-going world for years to come.

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Presidential Leadership Lessons for the Business Executive

Presidential Leadership Lessons from James Garfield

Richard Lummis and Tom Fox are back to continue our series of exploring leadership through the study of US Presidents. This episode begins a short series on Gilded Age Presidents, now largely forgotten. In this episode we take up James Garfield.Some of the highlights include:

  1. Educational and Professional Background.
  2. History as Radical Republican.
  3. Crédit Mobilier scandal of 1872.
  4. Nomination and Election of 1880.
  5. Presidency including the Tariff, Purging the Post Office, Supreme Court Nominations, Proposal for universal education and Assassination.
  6. Leadership Issues including the importance of strong ethics, a strong believer in education and Goldbug-a man for his times?
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Presidential Leadership Lessons for the Business Executive

Presidential Leadership Lessons from Chester A. Arthur

Richard Lummis and Tom Fox continue exploring leadership through the study of US Presidents. This episode begins a short series on Gilded Age Presidents, now largely forgotten. In this episode, we take up Chester A. Arthur. Some of the highlights include:
  1. Educational and Professional Background of Chester A. Arthur.
  2. His time as a New York politician, including work in the Conkling Political Machine and as Head of Customs House and conflict with President Hays.
  3. His Stalwart Candidacy as Vice President.
  4. His election and short tenure as VP.
  5. Leadership issues from his Presidency, including the confusion on how to take office, his enactment of Civil Service reform, his work on the surplus budget and the tariff, immigration issues, and Civil Rights in the South.Leadership Issues, including (a) What are your expectations? (b) How much does a leader’s health matter? (c) Arthur adopted a code for his political behavior but was subjected to three restraints: he remained to everyone a man of his word; he kept scrupulously free from corrupt graft; he maintained a personal dignity, affable and genial though he might be.
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Daily Compliance News

September 22, 2022 the Kraken Released Edition

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Kraken CEO, who attacked his employees, steps down. (NYT)
  • Citigroup offers a work-life balance at half pay. (FT)
  • Canadian company faces corruption charges under CFPOA. (RCMP Press Release)
  • Disgraced Suns owner to sell the team. (Bloomberg)
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Presidential Leadership Lessons for the Business Executive

Presidential Leadership Lessons from Chester A. Arthur

Richard Lummis and Tom Fox continue our series of exploring leadership through the study of US Presidents. This episode begins a short series on Gilded Age Presidents, now largely forgotten. In this episode, we take up Chester A. Arthur. Some of the highlights include:
  1. Educational and Professional Background of Chester A. Arthur.
  2. His time as a New York politician, including work in the Conkling Political Machine and as Head of Customs House and conflict with President Hays.
  3. His Stalwart Candidacy as Vice President.
  4. His election and short tenure as VP.
  5. Leadership issues from his Presidency, including the confusion on how to take office, his enactment of Civil Service reform, his work on the surplus budget and the tariff, immigration issues, and Civil Rights in the South.Leadership Issues, including (a) What are your expectations? (b) How much does a leader’s health matter? (c) Arthur adopted a code for his political behavior but was subjected to three restraints: he remained to everyone a man of his word; he kept scrupulously free from corrupt graft; he maintained a personal dignity, affable and genial though he might be.
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Daily Compliance News

September 15, 2022 the Toxic Customers Edition

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Welfare funds for volleyball arena-only in Mississippi. (ESPN)
  • Serial-the power of podcasting. (WSJ)
  • Sun’s owner was suspended, but not sorry. (com)
  • What can you do? (WSJ)
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Popcorn and Compliance

Leadership Lessons from Chariots of Fire

Richard Lummis and Tom Fox are back with another review of an Oscar-winning Best Picture movie with an eye towards the leadership lessons that might be drawn from them. It is a great way to honor the Oscars, rewatch some great old movies and garner some interesting perspectives on leadership. We continue that tradition as we are back with more leadership lessons from Oscar-winning Best Picture movies and today’s offering is the 1981 film Chariots of Fire.