Fractional Leadership: A Revolution in Modern Workplaces

Traditional leadership business models can encounter daily hurdles that require adaptability, agility, and expertise across diverse domains. Welcome to the era of fractional leadership, a concept gaining momentum in the corporate world and highlighted on Shelli Ryan’s episode of Unexpected Journey Podcast. Fractional leaders and seasoned professionals offer their leadership skills and experience to organizations […]

Cultivate Customer Success, Startups & Beyond

Maranda D 0:00 Because the things you do day to day, impact the success of your team members, or the success of a product or whatever it may be, and that ultimately helps us all serve the customer. Anne B 0:13 Welcome to Unexpected Journey, the show where each week top professionals share work wisdom […]

The Rise of Online Marketplace Platforms

On the last Unexpected Journey Podcast, we heard the intriguing story of Ray Preston, VP of Sales at Flippa. Ray leads an extraordinary team of M&A professionals with a singular goal in mind: to match high-quality digital business owners with acquisition-fit buyers. But what exactly is this newer way of buying and selling businesses?   […]

We’re Obsessed with Customer Obsession

In today’s competitive business landscape, achieving and maintaining customer loyalty is a top priority for companies of all sizes and industries.   To excel in this pursuit, an emerging trend is taking the business world by storm – the customer obsession. This philosophy goes beyond traditional customer service and places the customer at the center […]

From Gamble to Greatness: How Entrepreneurs Exit Successfully

Ray Preston 0:00 What we do is we help entrepreneurs exit every single day. And so that experience and that gamble led me to this really amazing opportunity and company that is totally different. And here I am two and a half years later leading a fantastic team of advisors, M&A-certified advisors, which is who […]

The 5 A’s of Successful Customer Engagement

Brett Frazer 0:00 If you can bring information, create bridges that can help those relationships between the organization that’s going to make you valuable. It’s also going to expand your awareness of what the impact is of what you’re doing in customer service into those other parts of the business. Anne B 0:13 Welcome to […]

CSMs: The Key to Understanding Customers

Diane Gordon 0:00 The people who understand customers the most and can get all the right people are the CSMs because the customer doesn’t feel like they’re looking for money.   Anne B 0:09 Welcome to Unexpected Journey, the show where each week top professionals share work wisdom and life lessons about their careers and […]

Women in Business: Follow Your Dreams

Heidi Solomon-Orlick 0:00 Businesses grow and thrive and, and make money. I might as well do it for my own business and and my husband’s business, you know? So yeah, after 33 years, I’m following my dreams. Anne Bibb 0:14 Welcome to Unexpected Journey, the show where each week top professionals share work wisdom and […]

One of the Top 25 Women Cybersecurity Leaders Breaks Down the Risks

Erin Murtha 0:00 Just because the way that we have evolved in software and how those integrates into our networks is completely changed the attack surface for cybersecurity. Anne Bibb 0:13 Welcome back to Unexpected Journey. And today we are joined by Erin Murtha. Welcome, Erin. Erin Murtha 0:19 Hi. Thank you for having me. […]

The Transformative Power of Nature in Leadership Coaching

Chris Coladonato 0:01 Can’t we think about how we’re working. And that’s a part of well being, you know, well being isn’t just how I take care of myself. That’s a big part of it. But it’s also how we work. Anne Bibb 0:13 Welcome to unexpected journey, the show where each week top professionals […]