Dr. Mario Simon on How Great CEOs Turn Self-Awareness Into Business Mastery
Guest: Dr. Mario Simon, a coach at CEO Coaching International. Mario is a transformational leader who has a global track record of building companies and helping CEOs unlock breakthrough growth and cultural impact. Quick Background:    If you want to 10X your company, start by 10Xing the one indispensable resource that drives everything: the CEO. Your company's culture, its growth trajectory, its resilience, its ability to pivot, its attractiveness to top talent and potential buyers, and ultimately, its legacy, are all a reflection of you. Learning to lead from "the inside out" can help you make the most of that responsibility and Make BIG Happen. On today's show, Dr. Mario Simon explores the three stages of a leader's evolution and how CEOs can transform their mindset and self-awareness into a competitive advantage.
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David Desharnais On Driving Your Company from Stagnation to Breakout Growth
Guest: David Desharnais, a coach at CEO Coaching International. David  is a high-impact technology CEO and enterprise operator with over 25 years of experience leading organizations through scale, transformation, and value creation across more than 20 industries. Quick Background:   Companies don't stall because their industries are stalling, or because of tariffs, or because of AI. They slow down because the CEO doesn't have a plan to maintain growth through the good and the bad. When your dashboards start blinking red, you need to find ways to plug your company into a broader ecosystem of customers, products, and partnerships that can recalibrate your business' trajectory, no matter what's going on in the rest of the world. On today's show, David Desharnais discusses how CEOs can break out of stagnation and accelerate their growth, as well as how to build a Jim Collins-style flywheel that will keep propelling your company towards BIG.
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Greg Solomon's 4-Stage Process for Scaling From Start-Up and His 10X Philosophy
Guest: Greg Solomon, a coach at CEO Coaching International.  Greg is a former CEO who led McDonald's South Africa for 14 years. He quadrupled the size of the business and added 300-plus new restaurants while navigating three ownership transitions, a flat economy, riots, and a global pandemic. Quick Background:   Scaling a business isn't just about growth. It's about evolving your systems, your people, and yourself as a leader so that you can keep pace with the opportunities in front of you and create some new opportunities along the way. On today's show, Greg Solomon explains his  four-stage model for scaling a business 10X. We also discuss how leaders can reinvent themselves and their companies to stay relevant, keep growing, and Make BIG Happen.
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Michael J. Slater on How to "Dream Backwards" and Realize Your Vision of BIG
Guest: Michael J. Slater, a coach at CEO Coaching International.  Michael is a longtime YPO member who co-founded and served as the CEO of Nik Software, an international software startup in digital photography that he co-founded and led to a $200M+ valuation before ultimately selling to Google. Quick Background:  Every great company begins with a dream. But turning that dream into a reality requires more than just vision. It requires a defined process and an inspired team that rallies the whole company around the leader's BIG goals. On today's show, Michael J. Slater explains how his process of "Dreaming Backwards" can establish the principles and strategy CEOs need to Make BIG Happen.
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Sasha Kelberg: You Are Not Your Business — And That's How You Scale Faster
Guest: Sasha Kelberg, a coach at CEO Coaching International. Sasha is a Wharton-trained entrepreneur, CEO, and strategic advisor with over two decades of experience building, scaling, and exiting high-tech manufacturing and export businesses. He has led teams from lab concept to global scale with a leadership style grounded in accountability, continuous improvement, and values-based culture. Quick Background:  It's impossible to lead your business with clarity if your identity is fused with your business. And it's impossible to achieve meaningful scale if your connection to the business is concentrating too much decision-making at the top. The best CEOs evolve beyond a start-up mindset as they learn to let go, pivot towards opportunity, and reinvent themselves as both leaders and as people. On today's show, Sasha Kelberg explains why learning to separate yourself from your business is one of the most overlooked keys to Making BIG Happen.
The CEO Coaching International podcast is designed to help entrepreneurs and CEOs grow their business, develop their people, and elevate their own performance. We'll share what the best of the best are doing as it relates to entrepreneurial success, best practices, leadership, sales, marketing, personal development, and solving the challenges that business leaders face. You'll hear from CEO Coaching International's coaches, leading entrepreneurs, and other experts in a wide range of fields who have value to add to your work. If you're an entrepreneur, CEO, or other business leader, this podcast is for you.
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