SOMETHING HUGE happened while I was preparing for the #LinkedinLIVE broadcast… and it is just perfect for our Culture Soup Moment as I bring back my friend author, political commentator and podcast host Toure! Are you ready? He’ll talk about how he is getting personal and reformatting @toureshow, his political-cast @democracyish and a new YouTube series he’s embarking on. It’s all Thursday on #theculturesouppodcast
This week’s showwe have Tristan Layfield talking transitions and change. He’s the career and resume guru. You don’t want to miss it! Set a meeting maker.
DIFFERENT SKILLS are required for different opportunities. The more skills you’ve honed, the more repeat invitations you will receive for those skills. Whether you are asked to be an emcee, a moderator, a keynote, a panelist, a facilitator or host a fireside chat, each comes with different demands and require different skills. I am elite communicator, and with that comes not only the ability to pivot, but the…
WOKE-WASHING. Pink Washing. Pride-Painting. You’ve seen it in marketing and advertising, or maybe you don’t know what any of it is. Either way, you need to tune in for the brand new episode on Thursday. I’m talking to the global practice lead for consumer brand marketing at one of the largest communications and integrated marketing agencies in the world, FleishmanHillard. She and her teams are on a…
DALLAS, TX | LOS ANGELES, CA– (Dec 3, 2019) What leadership and business lessons could you learn from a 21-year old? For Jaylen D. Bledsoe, chairman of The Bledsoe Collective, Inc., the lessons are in resilience, innovation, cultural insight, transformational leadership, entrepreneurship, technology and marketing—but he isn’t just any 21-year-old. Jaylen has signed with Dallas-based no silos communications group (NSC Group) to connect him with corporations as…
Today’s #ThrowbackThursday #Thanksgiving Edition is my Mama’s Pick. In lieu of an editor’s pick, it is one of my most important listener’s selections: my mother! We take it back to August when I had marketing legend Dorinda Walker on the show. She is a fellow @LEAD360 faculty member and downright world beater. You have GOT to hear her story. Talk about unprecedented resilience! It was a joy to…
Social media is culture soup. Have you noticed that black church culture is extremely popular on the interwebs? If not, just pay attention during the Thanksgiving holidays. There is one meme that we just can’t shake. I talk to award-winning, national recording artist, worship arts minister and entrepreneur Gaye Arbuckle about why this is. We also talk about her being discovered by gospel legend James Cleveland, her unforgettable…
Are you ready to really utilize your social media real estate to move to the next level of executive influence? You probably know that there is more to social media than event photos, ussies, corporate hashtags, group shots on a step and repeat, “food porn”, vacations and party pics, but how do you unlock the kind of content that attracts the people you are really after: new…
If we can deplete supplies of chicken sandwiches and clear the shelves of sweet potato pies, what would happen if we withheld our influence and dollars? We could kill industries, but we are too busy consuming to know it. Nielsen SVP Cheryl Grace joins me on Thursday’s show to talk black influence and the black dollar. Tune in for our regular edition wherever fine podcasts drop. Oh, and…