Rounding The Bases With Joel Goldberg

JD Gershbein is the CEO and Founder of Owlish Communications. JD has been at the forefront of advancing the ideals of the digital world since 2006, inspiring opportunity-oriented individuals and companies to harness the power of the online media to elevate their profiles. One of the world’s first independent LinkedIn consultants, JD is widely regarded as a thought leader in the areas of personal branding, social networking, video storytelling, and social entrepreneurship.

Dr. Janis Dickey is the author of Financial Prep 101: Simple Tips for the Next Generation. Her mission is to provide specific financial education curriculum to empower individuals with the tools and skills to make solid/smart financial decisions. She received her Doctorate in Education, Public Affairs and Administration from the UMKC. She worked 15 year3 in sales and marketing management for two Fortune 500 companies and 18+ years as a Financial Advisor. She also was an adjunct professor at UMKC.

Hailee Bland Walsh is the CEO and owner of City Gym KC. She is a community activist, former professional athlete, fitness entrepreneur, and speaker. Like so many business owners, Hailee has had to pivot to meet the needs of her clients in a safe way. A firm believer in equality and inclusion, this former pro soccer player is a champion and advocate for others, and she’s all about empowerment and belonging.

Mark Goldston is the chairman and CEO of the Goldston Group, a Venture Capital and Strategic Advisory firm located in Los Angeles. In his career, Mark has taken two different companies public as CEO and run 4 different public companies. He was the original Chairman & CEO of United Online (NetZero, Juno, FTD Flowers, Interflora, Classmates, MyPoints, Stayfriends, etc) and held top roles at Revlon, Faberge/Elizabeth Arden, Reebok, LA Gear, Einstein Noah Bagel Corp.

Dr. Delene Musielak is dual-boarded in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and practices in St. Louis. She is the mother of triplets and has her own show and podcast, The Dr. Mom Show, where she is known as Dr. Dee - Mom of Three. Her show not only serves as a medical informational resource but helps with parenting tips, in addition to reminding busy women to reach for their own goals by living, loving and leaving a legacy.

Emmet Pierson Jr is the CEO and President of Community Builders of Kansas City, KC's largest urban core developer strengthening families and transforming communities. CB-KC works with the neighborhoods to build meaningful relationships. Since 1991, They have invested $225 million in urban renewal, earning recognition and respect on the national community development stage. Pierson grew up on the East side of Kansas City in the same neighborhoods he's now impacting.

Lori Worthington is the CEO and founder of StressOS, a company geared towards helping companies add new pathways to reach their health and productivity goals. StressOS assists individuals and organizations measure and reduce toxic stress so they experience better health and productivity. Lori worked in the healthcare and insurance industries beginning in 1985.

Adrienne Haynes is the managing partner of SEED Law, a boutique business law firm based in Kansas City that specializes in serving entrepreneurs and business owners. She is also the owner of SEED Collective, a consultancy designed to inspire and support the sustainability of entrepreneurs and businesses. Adrienne is also the founder of the Multicultural Business Coalition Inc and president of the Black Female Attorneys Network, Inc. She was an Innovator in Residence at the Kauffman Foundation.

Adam Miller is the new Director of Diversity and Inclusion for Barkley. He spent the last four years as Director, Green Fellowship with Teach For America. He’s also an entrepreneur and the head of brand development for the AV Collection, a virtual winery that produces wines in Sonoma County and the Napa Valley of California. Adam is a former U.S. Fulbright Scholar, is bilingual and studied abroad during college.

Mark Clayton is a former star wide receiver from the University of Oklahoma who played professionally for the Baltimore Ravens and St. Louis Rams. He began his entrepreneurial journey by designing waterproof headphones he could use while rehabbing from as a player from an injury. He’s involved in numerous business ventures and spoke about lessons learned from the football field.

Alana Muller is the founder of Coffee Lunch Coffee. She's a Networking speaker, workshop facilitator, business relationship coach in Kansas City and author of the book, Coffee Lunch Coffee: A Practical Field Guide for Master Networking and a companion blog, CoffeeLunchCoffee.com. She travels the world to share her expertise in the areas of Networking, Coaching, Strategic Planning and Business Consulting.

Randy Powell is a longtime executive and former president of SPX Cooling Technologies who bought Heartland Print and Design this year. He also hosts a weekly Lessons In Leadership Zoom session with guest speakers like the author of the Go Giver, Bob Burg, military leaders and more.

Ryan Kilgore has been playing the saxophone since age 10. After playing in the band for four years in high school, Ryan attended Clark Atlanta University and was the first freshman to become drum major. He made a cameo appearance in the movie Drumline. He has toured with Stevie Wonder for a decade and is the founder of the Kilgore Music Foundation, whose mission is to mentor students to be lifelong musicians and to learn about different paths in the music industry.

Tony Hofmann is an endurance athlete, West Point graduate, qualified Army Ranger, retired Colonel and founder of Team Leadville. After retiring from the Army, Col. Hofmann ran the Leadville 100 ultramarathon three times, experiences he wrote about in the book Embracing Grit: How a Flatland Veteran Conquered the Leadville 100 Ultramarathon. Hofmann is the Director of Public Works for the City of Overland Park, KS. He's run the Boston Marathon 13 times.

AY Young is a musician, entrepreneur and activist who's trying to save the planet through his music. He’s worked nonstop for years combining his passion for music, live street performances and renewable energy around the world and he was recently named a United Nations Young World leader. On a biennial basis, the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth recognizes 17 young change makers who are leading efforts to combat the world's most pressing issues. AY is the lone representative from the US.

Bill Zahner is the CEO of Zahner, a fourth generation company in Kansas City that was created in the late 1800s by Bill’s great-grandfather in Joplin, MO. Zahner provides unrivaled expertise and experience in architectural metals and engineering, combined with a signature stakeholder engagement process that ensures the highest value and quality of work. They help owners, architects and contractors create iconic spaces and places that inspire and help them achieve their most profound design aspirations

Rex Hudler played 20 plus seasons of professional baseball and is now a longtime broadcaster. Topics discussed:-Community and a love of helping people-Upcoming work with the organization The Battle Within to help first responders and veterans suffering from PTSD-Team Up For DownS/yndrome-The importance of positive energy and making people happy

In 1916, a women’s Bible study group in Independence MO, which included future First Lady Bess Truman, formed the Community Welfare League to promote self-sufficiency in the area.Today CSL's (now called Community Services League) mission is to assist communities in reaching their potential by providing immediate relief to people in need. Mark O'Renick is Chief Innovation Officer and he spoke with Joel about the non profit's many endeavors in the Kansas City area. Their website is www.cslcares.org.

Rachel Ngom is a business mentor helping entrepreneurs, bloggers, and creatives make a great living online while making a greater impact on the world. She’s the creator of She’s Making an Impact, Pin with Purpose, and The Impact Blogging Academy.Rachel has lived all over the world. At one point she couldn’t find a job, ended up pregnant, on food stamps, with no money in her checking account. She decided to learn how to start her own business and grew a blog from to 34,000 visitors per month

Harry Campbell is a long time executive who has been a president for two Fortune 500 companies, co-owner of an award-winning small business, CEO/board member of an Internet start-up and founding member of the industry-changing Wal-Mart/P&G Customer Team He is also a dynamic speaker and author of 3 books, most recently Get Real-Mindset. All of Harry's speaking and book fees go to Head For The Cure. His wife was diagnosed with an inoperable malignant brain tumor in 2004, is doing well today.

Adam Hawley is a partner at BMG Advisors with a unique perspective that enables him to help others. Growing up without much money and moving from school to school in different states, he understands the importance of empathy. Adam's favorite expression is "Do Good By Doing Good." He co-founded an organization called LIFTKC.ORG. Adam talked with Joel about purpose, community, the wealth gap in our country and racial tension and the role he has as a white ally.

Kevin Youkilis is the owner of Loma Brewing Company in Los Gatos, CA and Loma Coffee Company in Portland, OR. The former Major League Baseball player won two World Championships, made three all-star teams and won a Gold Glove during a ten year career.He always loved trying local craft beers after a game during his playing days and fell in love with the profession. Youkilis took many of the elements of teamwork, roles, leadership and winning culture to the business world.

Chris Yeh is an investor, writer, mentor and entrepreneur. He co-authored the book “Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path To Building Massively Valuable Companies” with Reid Hoffman, one of the founders of LinkedIn. Chris is the founder of Blitzscaling Ventures, an organization that helps rapidly-growing companies in winner-take-most markets become global leaders by providing in-depth scaling advice and capital. He is also involved in numerous startupsventures and is an instructor at Stanford.

Rich Smith is the president and CEO of Henderson Engineers, a 50-year old company with more than 800 employees across the United States. Henderson focuses on an employee-centric culture and a client-first mentality. Smith has spent more than a quarter century at Henderson and is responsible for setting the company’s overall strategic vision and purpose, building corporate culture, improving internal and external communication, and fostering leadership engagement.

Tiffany Bova is is the Global Growth Evangelist for Salesforce where she has worked since 2016. Her focus is to help drive customer success within Salesforce’s customer and partner ecosystem. She is the Wall Street Journal Bestselling author of the book “Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business.” Tiffany also hosts the “What’s Next Podcast” and has featured major name guests like Daniel Pink, Arianna Huffington and Seth Godin.

Dr. Kimberly Beatty is the Chancellor at Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City. She was named the school’s eighth chancellor in 2017 and is the first African-American leader in the one hundred plus year history. Dr. Beatty came to MCC from Houston Community College where she served as vice chancellor. She is a champion of access and equity and is committed to workforce and transfer (academic) education. She was inducted into the Black Achievers Society of Greater Kansas City in 2019.

Chris Schembra returned home in 2015 after producing a Broadway play in Italy. Feeling disconnected from his work, he started experimenting with some dishes in his kitchen and accidentally created a pasta sauce recipe. Chris invited 15 of his friends over for dinner and served them his new pasta sauce. Chris fell in love with the joy of connecting people and began.His company, 747, is an advisory firm which helps companies give the GIFT of community and belonging to their VIP clients and partners.

Tabitha Scott is the CEO of Powering Potential, a company that helps individuals and companies discover and ignite their untapped potential. She led efforts to create the world’s largest solar-powered community and was recognized for her numerous innovative uses of advanced technology at the White House. Tabitha left the corporate world to go find herself in the jungle. She wrote about living in Costa Rica in a new book called Trust Your Animal Instincts: Recharge Your Life & Ignite Your Power

John L. Gronski, Major General, USA (Ret.) is CEO & Founder of Leader Grove LLC (www.LeaderGrove.com). He is the author of "The Ride of Our Lives: Lessons on Life, Leadership, and Love". John is a much sought-after speaker & leadership seminar facilitator.John served for over 40 years in the Army on active duty & in the PA National Guard. He also served in Lithuania from 2000 to 2001. He spoke with Joel about leadership in and out of the military and the ride of his life.

Peter Clune took over in May 2020 as the chief executive officer of Lockton, the world’s largest independent insurance brokerage. He is one of the few non-family members to run the company in Lockton’s 53-year history. He most recently served as Lockton’s US President and COO. Lockton nhas 7,500 associates in more than 125 countries. Peter spoke with Joel Goldberg about the challenge of leading during a pandemic and small ball focusing on the importance of every interaction.

Devin Hedgepeth was recently accepted into the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He spent the last five years working for ExxonMobil. Devin was a star football player at Oklahoma State with NFL possibilities as a cornerback but three achilles injuries led to a pivot to another arena he excelled in, the classroom and industrial engineering. Deviin talks about his career path and about racial injustice and growing up in the predominantly white community of Derby, Kansas, a town he still loves.

Jon Stein is the CEO and founder of Betterment. Passionate about making life better, and with his experience from his career of advising banks and brokers on risk and products, he founded Betterment in 2008. Betterment manages over $21B in assets. Jon is a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Business School. His interests lie at the intersection of behavior, psychology, and economics. Betterment saves people time and money and empowers them to reach their important goals faster.

Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. He is the author of two bestselling books, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.Indistractable has received numerous accolades. In addition to blogging at NirAndFar.com, Nir's writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Harvard Business Review, Time Magazine, and Psychology Today.

Shep Hyken is the Chief Amazement Officer at Shepard Presentations, a company he started in 1983. He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best selling author. Shep travels the world as an expert speaking to organizations about customer experience and customer service. Shep is in the National Speakers Association's Speaker Hall of Fame for lifetime achievement. Shep is still speaking globally but doing it virtually from his home in St. Louis.

Kyle Bamberger is a scout for the Cleveland Indians and also the director of operations for an organization called Baseball Miracles. Baseball Miracles brings the game of baseball to deserving children in under-served communities around the world. They aim to teach the children valuable life lessons, provide the communities with resources to help the children play safely and confidently, and, most importantly, bring some light into their lives. ​​​​​

Daniel Egli is the Chief Financial Officer at Russell Stover Chocolates, based in Kansas City. His journey began in Switzerland where be grew up and worked out of college. Egli worked for Proctor and Gamble for 14 years mostly in his native Switzerland before moving to Boston to serve as head of financial planning and analysis for P&G. He was hired by Russell Stover in December of 2017 as CFO, responsible for finance and accounting, procurement, supply chain planning and IT.

Dr. Jeff Duke is a former college football coach who is now a professor at the University of Central Florida. He is an expert regarding the cultural influence of the coaching profession. Jeff coached under legendary Bobby Bowden at Florida State, worked for Disney and now is a lecturer at UCF. He is also an author and the founder of the 3D Institute, an organization established in 2014 aimed at providing the framework for coaching that addresses all three dimensions of an athlete.

Lauren Schieffer, CSP is a keynote speaker and the author of the new book “Colonels of Wisdom Vol 2: A Daughter’s Reflection on Significance.” The daughter of a career Air Force officer shares lessons learned from her father that can help anyone in the corporate environment, association leadership and direct sales. Lauren has been a keynote speaker and storyteller providing inspirational, insightful and relevant content to all types of audiences for years. Her new book is now available.

Kevin Puckett is a business owner and practicing trial attorney at the age of 25. He founded On The Top Search in 2015 while earning his Juris Doctor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. On The Top Search is a a full-service digital marketing agency that uses data-driven, engaging, and innovative strategies to help its clients generate more leads, brand awareness, and traffic that results in conversions.

Sandy Kemper is Chairman of the Board and CEO of C2FO, the largest working capital market in the world. C2FO is the first working capital market in the world. Their ability to create a seamless match between A/R and A/P has enabled efficiency in the riskless provisioning of working capital between suppliers and buyers, allowing suppliers to take control of their cash flow.Kemper and his family are active in academic, civic and philanthropic endeavors.

Brock Stechman and Brody Dorland founded Divvy HQ in 2011. The award winning content marketing platform makes it easy for global marketing and content teams to get organized, plan, produce and publish high-quality content more efficiently. The Content Marketing Institute has named Divvy the number one marketing tool for four straight years while also ranking Divvy number one in team collaboration tool, project management tool a and social media analytics tool.

Rob Hughey co-founded a startup called Team Cura with his mom Karen. As a former golfer at the University of Central Missouri, Rob understands the needs of prospective college athletes.Team Cura aims to dramatically improve high school athletes recruiting readiness by improving their character advantage with interpersonal skills training, confidence building and performance improvement. www.teamcura.com

Benjamin Anderson is VP, Rural Health & Hospitals at Colorado Hospital Association. Prior to working at his current position, he helped turn Kearney County Hospital in Kansas from an institution that was losing $100,000 a year into the county's largest employer by developing a model that recruited young doctors to work in a rural setting and to make an impact by practicing family medicine. He's been featured nationally on CBS Sunday Morning and in Politico.

John Jantsch is a marketing consultant, speaker and best selling author of numerous books, including Duct Tape Marketing, Duct Tape Selling, The Commitment Engine The Referral Engine, and SEO for Growth. He is the creator of the Duct Tape Marketing System and Duct Tape Marketing Consulting Network that trains and licenses small business marketing consultants around the world.​ He also hosts The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast.

Barbara Teicher brings 25-plus years of experience developing leaders in Fortune 50-500 companies. She specializes in strategic leadership development and effective business communication. Barbara has worked with officers of the most recognized brands in the world. She’s the creator of the PropelHer® System, which has a focus on women in business and brings them through a critical and systematic three step approach, “Accelerating Women to be Influential Leaders with Greater Impact.”

Toriano Porter is an author, journalist, speaker, and the youngest member of the Kansas City Star editorial board. He grew up in a tough St. Louis neighborhood, relying on a third to learn and athletics to escape a culture of violence. He's experienced personal tragedy, losing his son and more than a dozen acquaintances, many to gun violence. Website: www.torianoporter.com

Chris Giuliani is the CEO of Spring Venture Group , a company that was started in 2009. Chris joined SVG in 2011 as one of 15 employees. Nearly ten years later, he runs the company and employs nearly 1000 people.SVG's focus is senior citizens and medicare and they use a comparison shopping model focused on the consumer. To learn more about SVG or to apply for a job, go towww.springventuregroup.comOr consumers can visitwww.unitedmedicareasvisors.com or www.smartmatchinsurancesolutions.com

Josh Levin is one of the more upbeat and energetic entrepreneurs in Kansas City. He grew founded Empowered Electric, a local company that focuses on relationships and people. Josh also hosts a podcast called "Empowered People," shining a light on people contributing to Kansas City. His company also maintains a heavy social media presence, with more than 14,000 Instagram followers. The description on their Instagram page tells the story of Josh and his company. People > Profit

Lindsey began working at Hallmark in 2000 and continues to work for the legendary Kansas City company, refusing to let a life-changing moment deter her career. Lindsey shares her personal story of overcoming adversity with Joel in an episode everyone can take inspiration from.Links:www.lindseyroy.com

Ray Kowalik began working for Burns and McDonnell in 1987 and became the company’s third CEO in 2017. Joel sat down with Ray to talk about the culture of an organization that was founded in 1898