Rounding The Bases With Joel Goldberg

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

A little peek at what is coming in Season 4 and who I am kicking things off with as guest speakers!

Susana Eshleman grew up in Argentina and has followed a path that took her from a student at the University to Nebraska where she was washing dishes to make money to Harvard Business School, Hallmark and eventually Children International as CEO where she leads 1,500 employees and nine thousand volunteers. She sat down with Joel to talk about leadership, culture and her journey.

Matt Moody has spent his professional career as an entrepreneur. His most recent company, Bellwethr, uses intelligent interventions to create retention and revenue for its clients. Matt discussed his background and Bellwethr's early success with Joel.

Justin Ricklefs worked multiple stints for the Kansas City Chiefs before deciding to start Guild Content. His company creates content and focuses on content strategy through effective storytelling. Joel recently sat down with Justin.

Angela Hurt founded Veracity, which is a technology and management consulting company in 2006. She now has about 150 team members. Angela oversees the strategic direction of the company, which delivers IT solutions to its customers in the commercial and government sectors. She's a long-time athlete in numerous sports and she's been on numerous boards, a mentor and extremely involved in the Kansas City community. Joel sat down with Angela to talk leadership, culture, women in technology and sports.

Joe Knittig discovered the world of orphaned and abandoned children in Haiti in 2005. With a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to apply business and advocacy to a new kind of client, Joe left the law practice he loved in 2008 to make an impact in the United States and around the world. Global Orphan Project sets traditional institutional orphan care models aside and connects a global family united by a shared vision to care for vulnerable children while keeping families together.

Lisa Ginter began working at CommunityAmerica Credit Union in 1995 and is now the CEO. Lisa is one of three Kansas Citians to be recognized in 2019 among the ‘Top 100 Financial Executives’ by the National Business Journal network and has been selected as a ‘Power 100’ honoree by the Kansas City Business Journal every year since becoming CEO. Joel sat down with Lisa to talk credit unions, people and Patrick Mahomes.

As technology changes the world, all industries are needing to innovate and adapt, including insurance. Launch KC’s fourth accelerator is in the works and they have teamed up with Brush Creek Partners. Joel sat down to discuss the upcoming 75-day accelerator that will begin in May 2020 with Nathan Kurtz, Steve Gardner and Alex Springer.For more information: https://bcptech.co/insurtech-accelerator/

2020 has begun and Joel sat down with a longtime friend and fellow entrepreneur Jeff Landsman of Phase 6 Productions to discuss goals for the new year, the ups and downs of business, favorite Chicago Pizza and the improper use of the word literally.Jeff Landsman was also a guest in 2019 discussing his journey into business ownership and lessons learned. That is episode 316 in Season 3 if you want to check it out!

This episode is the second in a two-part review of his guests' Small Ball answer about the little things that make up the big things in a company's culture. As the year comes to a close, Joel Goldberg looks back at the 44 episodes of Rounding the Bases from 2019. Joel asks every guest three “baseball” themed questions.What is the biggest home run you’ve hit?What is the biggest swing and miss you have taken?What is small ball to you?

As the year comes to a close, Joel Goldberg looks back at the 44 episodes of Rounding the Bases from 2019. Joel asks every guest three “baseball” themed questions. “What is the biggest home run you’ve hit? What is the biggest swing and miss you’ve taken and what is small ball to you?”This episode and the next will feature the best of each guest's small ball answer about m the little things that make up the big things in a companies culture.

Matt Condon is the CEO of Bardavon Health Innovations, a company to provide innovative, clinically-based solutions to enable employers to identify and connect with the best medical practices in their marketplace through a proprietary cloud-based clinical intelligence system. Bardavon has a mission to change healthcare with data, transparency, innovation, and integrity. They have grown from about 30 to 170 associates in the last two years.

Harrison Proffitt and his co-founder Ben Jackson created Bungii, a mobile application that puts a driver and pickup truck at a users fingertips to help people move or haul items across town like Uber or Lyft does with passengers.They created the company in college After an initial fundraising round of $3.5M, Harrison moved around the country to start Bungii in numerous states. Website is bungii.com or search bungii on the App Store.

Dr. Diego Gutierrez is an assistant professor of marketing and management at Rockhurst University. He played professional soccer from 1996-2008 and won an MLS title in 1998. He consults, announces MLS soccer and teaches. He specializes in business development and sales and marketing in various industries.

Swell Spark is a company with concepts such as escape rooms and axe throwingThey are known for Blade and Timber and breakout escape rooms, have 11 storefronts nationwide and believe in the importance of having fun to bring people together for shared experiences.Matt was a guidance counselor and owned a soda shop when he started an escape room as a side hustle.They started the axe throwing trend and expanded to six locations around the country.www.swellspark.com