The Career Couch with Dr. Carole & Friends had a diverse and amazing  group of subject matters experts this season from various locations around the world.  The listeners were privileged to hear from many who were authors and  had completed a lot of research to support their discussion. The topics were rich and engaging. The listeners commented and sent feedback to me from every continent.  I want thank my listeners for being interested and finding value in these topics and guests. I...

Are you thinking about quitting your job and pursuing that great idea that has been on your mind for years? Numbers released by the U.S. Census Bureau found that a whopping 5.4 million new business applications were filed in 2021, surpassing the record set in 2020 of 4.4 million. Your podcast host, Dr. Carole Isom-Barnes, also took the leap and left her traditional job over a decade ago to pursue her entrepreneurial dream. As the now business owner of Xperience Leadership, LLC , for twelve...

Brand expert, Sonya Barnes of Sonya Barnes International, places great emphasis on the need to develop your personal brand and not be satisfied with your default brand.  In this episode, she stresses the need to be consistent with your personal brand standards and the importance of never falling beneath  those standards regardless of the environment.  Sonya also walks us through the model of personal branding:  A = AppearanceB = BehaviorC = Communication (verbal and non-verbal)D = Digital...

Author and business consultant, Michael (Chang) Wenderoth, discusses a topic that we have all experienced – office politics.  If you haven’t experienced it, you are likely to at some point in your career. He posits that we should not ignore office politics, but rather engage in it for the benefit of our careers. He refers to the management of office politics as a “legitimate skill” that must be learned in the same manner as any other soft skill.  His book, Get Promoted: What You’re REALLY...

Comcast President and Special Counsel to the CEO, Steve White, continues with part two of  "Navigating a Promotion and Organizational Success." In episode 2, Steve, discusses employee growth from an organizational and employee perspective.  Organizationally, he shares how leaders can and should ensure their teams are experiencing growth, fair promotions,  and healthy cultures.  He candidly discusses the need for termination of those leaders who disrespect employees or are not living the...

Steve White, President of Comcast’s West Division for eleven years, and now serving as President and special counsel to the Comcast CEO, allows us to experience his personal journey of professional successes and failures, as he climbed the corporate ladder.  In part 1 of the podcast, he provides the listeners with tried and proven wisdom on getting promoted and understanding your "whys." He states, "If you are doing something that is not consistent with your "why" and purpose, it's a...

Most leaders believe they are accountable because they are successful. Not so, says this week's guest, Michael Timms, author of "How Leaders Can Inspire Accountability: Three Habits That Make or Break Leaders and Elevate Organizational Performance." In this episode, Michael addresses three behaviors or habits of personal accountability: not blaming,looking in the mirror, andengineering the solutionHe also discusses the organizational impact of a culture of blame and what he means when he...

Jamie Flinchbaugh is  an author and advisor who has worked with over 300 companies around the world, including Harley-Davidson, Intel, Mars, Amazon, Crayola, Fidelity, and Whirlpool.  For three decades, he has coached at every level - from entry-level employees to experienced CEOs of multi-billion-dollar corporations. He joins the Career Couch with a perspective on successful project management, with less emphasis on tools, such as Lean and Kaizen methodologies, and more focus on shaping...

Joining us all the way from Italy this week, is Dr. Barbara Dallay Pezze. She is an international leadership coach and speaker with 18 years of global experience inspiring  leaders and entrepreneurs to discover and reach their purpose via self-evolution.  In this episode, Dr. Dallay Pezze explains the power we each possess and the importance of being aware of our options to have choices - especially when our circumstances may appear as if we do not have power.  She addressees what it really...

Season 4 kicks off with Mark Bobbitt and Chris Edmonds, co-authors of "Good Comes First: How Today's Leaders Create an Uncompromising  Company Culture that Doesn't Suck." In this episode, they address how putting "good first" can impact every organizational metric and create sustainable organizational change.  They begin with a great discussion on the value of respecting employees and transition to making respect a quantifiable goal, that is tactical and not vague, and results in guaranteed...

Welcome to Season 4 of the Career Couch with Dr. Carole & Friends.  Be prepared to enjoy subject matter expert advice and opinions from authors, consultants, leaders and researchers from all around the world this season on workplace and organizational issues. As always, we have new topics and new guests - please enjoy! I look forward to you joining us every other Monday for a new episode! Dr. Carole Isom-Barnes can be reached at [email protected] or visit...

This third season was all about you and your well-being as we had amazing episodes with dynamic guests and topics. I want to thank you, listeners, for tuning in each week. I also want to thank my guests and friends who took the time to serve as co-leads and share their diverse expertise and knowledge:  Dr. Joe Grasso, clinical psychologistMs. Chris Bush, Homeland Security expert and private investigatorDr. Rob Fazio, clinical psychologist, author, and business ownerDr. Edward Brodkin,...

Tracy Litt is a proven powerhouse of transformation. As a certified leadership expert, mindset coach, and spiritual advisor (and licensed hypnotherapist) , she helps people across the globe to break the patterns that bind them so they can become the highest versions of themselves. As founder of The Litt Factor, a personal growth and coaching company, she reaches people through private coaching, group programs, immersive workshops & seminars, speaking and online courses. Tracy is also the...

"Own it. Love it. Make it Work."  This is the title of the new book from productivity expert/consultant and best-selling author, Carson Tate. Carson takes  the listeners on a transformational journey in owning  one's career and making any job work. She walks us through four doors: door #1- escaping, door #2 - remaining in misery, door #3 - leaving the 9-5 and becoming an entrepreneur,  or door #4 - owning it, loving it and making it work. She offers actionable tools and approaches, such as...

Dr.  Randy Cook, a well-respected clinician with four decades as a surgeon, educator and organizational leader, gifts the listeners with his wisdom and insight in many areas. Dr. Cook also serves as a professional coach with MD Coaches, a company dedicated to coaching and empowering physicians to achieve their best version of themselves.  In this episode, he addresses:  his late-in-career professional failure as a practitionerhis career recovery/transformation via self-reflection and...

Dr. Karen Geiger of Karen Geiger & Associates, consults with organizations and individuals to create awareness on the issue of white privilege, implement change and alter the race narrative.  In this episode she addresses:  her personal journey  with race and how she became comfortable with her own white privilegesocial identity and racethe need to reframe white identitythe significance of changing white people's level of awareness for the benefit of all societyhow to fight the system...

Transitioning to Your Dream Job continues with part 2 and an inspiring and realistic conversation with Ms. Wanda Pierce. Wanda leveraged her successful corporate America experiences with Mobil, Johnson & Johnson and Merck, to transition to her dream roles in the area of philanthropy. She is the business owner of Pierce Consulting Works, LLC, which provides interim CEO services for non-profits in the midst of change and the producer and host of "Philanthropy Matters" on WERA 96.7 in...

Chief inspiration officer and coach, Tony Martignetti joins the Career Couch in Part 1 of a series on "Transitioning to Your Dream Job." He discusses how he transitioned from a career in finance and strategy and a passion for art,  to one where he guides leaders who are ready to transition to their fullest potential.  He also provides advice and  strategies to maneuver  you closer to you dream job. Tony leaves us with some thought-provoking questions, such as, "What's your why?" and “What...

Dr. Edward Brodkin and therapist Ashley Pallathra are the leading experts on human connection. In this episode, they discuss their co-authored new book, Missing Each Other: How to Cultivate Meaningful Connections, which is based upon years of research and identifies "attunement" as a practice to create deeper levels of connection.  They address:  the importance of "attunement" and how this practice can improve personal well-being and work teams. four components of human connection: relaxed...

Dr. Rob Fazio, a licensed psychologist, crisis consultant and executive advisor, speaks on the topic of Coping and Growing During a Crisis. He shares his personal  story (of coping through the pandemic and losing his father in the 9/11 tragedy) to support listeners in understanding that crisis is a part of life that requires preparation and growth. He also addresses: how to prepare for a crisis and mental toughnesshow to take control of your experience and transition to a place of...

Host of the Career Couch with Dr. Carole  and Friends, Carole Isom-Barnes, takes the mic solo (no guests or friends) in this episode to address quitting your job due to workplace stress.  Focus is on three major areas of consideration  - financial, professional, and emotional - to support employees as they contemplate abruptly leaving their employer. 

Trained in homeland security and forensics, and now serving as a workplace violence consultant via her company, Blue Line Security Services, Chris Bush returns for part two of the discussion on workplace violence. In this episode she addresses actions you should take if you are a victim of workplace violence and how every organization:  needs a workplace violence plan, policies, training and communication that cascades down from senior leaders to all employees should create a workplace...

Chris Bush, trained in homeland security, forensics  (and more)  has an extensive background as a security expert in various capacities: private investigator, law enforcement officer and most important to this podcast episode, as a workplace violence consultant.  She discusses workplace violence, in part 1,  in a straight-forward, hold no punches manner. Chris  identifies workplace violence in ways you may not have previously considered and addresses warning signs that every employee and...

Clinical psychologist and senior workforce director of mental health, Dr. Joe Grasso, continues the mental health discussion in Part 2  of this episode. He discusses: the role everyone has in de-stigmatizing mental health and challenging misconceptionsthe significance of businesses placing mental health on the radar and going beyond webinarshow to support employeeshow to create a more mentally healthy workforce to build resiliency and  enable employees to become more adaptive to changewhen...