Ken Eslick is the Co-Founder and CEO of The Leaders Lab (an Executive Leadership Recruiting Firm) and hosts "The Leaders Lab Podcast," which delves into the world of leadership and personal development.

During his career, he’s led and trained hundreds of sales executives, sales leaders, and operational leaders from all over the country and learned from the best in the process. 

Ken is also one of a small group of trainers worldwide with the Anthony Robbins companies travelling the globe helping people maximise their potential both personally and professionally.

In this episode of the LIFT Podcast, Richard talks to Ken about how you define effective leadership, balancing the need to drive results with cultivating a positive culture and environment and what leaders can do to motivate and engage their teams through times of stress and uncertainty.

As a child, Jeff Griffin dreamed of playing college football. However, a construction accident left him paralysed from the waist down. His life and dreams were shattered but not defeated. During those dark days, he had a decision to make: either stay down and quit or get back up and succeed. He chose the latter. 

As an ordinary man living life in a wheelchair, Jeff has accomplished some extraordinary things. He played in the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece, and is a silver medalist for the USA men’s wheelchair basketball team. Jeff is a national champion who played for the Utah Wheelin’ Jazz and is a four-time All-Star MVP. He was the number one men’s wheelchair tennis player in Utah, won the St. George Marathon, has two Guinness Book of World Records, and is the author of the award-winning book I’Mpossible: Desire. Dream. Do. He believes everyone has the power and potential to accomplish the impossible if they take the proper steps.

During his 16-year career, Griffin’s teaching style, humour, and personality have made him one of the most liked and sought-after teachers. He earned his master’s degree in education and curriculum and created a worldwide peer-to-peer leadership program for Third-World countries recognised at the United Nations in New York City.  Griff considers publishing his book one of his greatest accomplishments since he got a D- in English and was told he would never be able to write a coherent sentence.

His mother named him Jeffrey, but his friends call him Griff. 

In this episode of the LIFT podcast, Richard talks to Griff about the question that changed his life, why some people fall and stay there while others rise and how we get past limitations in our mind or imposed on us by others.

In a constantly changing world, the ability to make good decisions is often the dividing line between progress and stagnation, not least because stepping into the unknown can be unsettling and nerve-wracking. 

Cheryl Strauss Einhorn is an expert in decision-making. She founded Decisive, a decision sciences company that uses the AREA Method to train people and teams in complex problem-solving and decision-making skills. AREA is an evidence-based decision-making system that uniquely controls for and counters cognitive bias to expand knowledge while improving judgment. 

Cheryl developed AREA during her two decades as an award-winning investigative journalist writing for publications ranging from The New York Times and Foreign Policy Magazine to Barron’s and The Stanford Social Innovation Review. 

Cheryl teaches at Cornell University and has authored three books, Problem Solved, A Powerful System for Making Complex Decisions with Confidence and Conviction, about personal and professional decision-making, and Investing In Financial Research, A Decision-Making System for Better Results about financial and investment decisions. Her new book about Problem Solver Profiles, Problem Solver, Maximizing Your Strengths To Make Better Decisions, was published in March 2023 by Cornell University. 

In this episode of the LIFT podcast, we talk about Cheryl’s background in decision-making and how we can problem-solve and make complex decisions more easily.