ACPs in Action

Ep 112 - Emee Botha: Not all good work is the right work.

Chris talks to Emee Botha, founder of DnA Leaders, a strategy activation firm that works with organizations to improve the quality of their leaders’ impact by focusing on learning and transformation rather than learning and development. 

 

Emee and her team have honed a step-by-step process that really is Actionable’s Insight Action Flywheel realized. You’ll hear about that whole process in this episode, including:

• How she determines the right fit with potential clients.
• Her process for mapping strategic objectives to behavior change. 
• Why she insists that participants include a journal entry with each check-in.
• The reporting cadence that turns platform metrics into coaching opportunities. 

 

Emee is looking to scale DnA Leaders’ approach, so if you’ve got some insight into developing brand awareness or client attraction, please reach out! On the flip side, Emee is the exact right person to reach out to if you need some coaching on doing the right kind of work. You can connect with her on LinkedIn or in The Hive!

 

Chris Taylor is the founder and CEO of Actionable.co. Actionable helps training companies build behavior change measurement into their programs so they can prove and amplify their impact. Connect with Chris here. 

Ep111 - Kevin Holloway: They have to own up to change.

Chris talks to Kevin Holloway, founder of Courageous Leaders, a firm that activates strategy by linking effective habits and behaviors to business outcomes, creating motivation for change.  

 

Kevin is an absolute expert at incorporating Actionable into his work and making it an integrated part of Courageous Leaders’ offering. In this episode, you’ll get a masterclass on how Kevin:

• Leverages specific calls to action in order to generate adoption and engagement. 
• Structures his reporting cadence and delivery for ultimate impact. 
• Utilizes Prep Materials to develop context and to reinforce commitments. 
• Grows his business by leveraging Impact-first Design with his clients. 

 

If you want to unpack anything from helping participants embed new habits to effectively leveraging your reports, Kevin is the person to talk to. You can connect with him on LinkedIn or in The Hive!

 

Chris Taylor is the founder and CEO of Actionable.co. Actionable helps training companies build behavior change measurement into their programs so they can prove and amplify their impact. Connect with Chris here. 

Ep110 - Jodi Bush: What you’re really looking for is change

Chris talks to Jodi Bush, founder of Thrive Executive, a firm that focuses on the alignment between strategy and culture by leveraging actionable behaviors to help organizations achieve their outcomes. 

 

Jodi masterfully integrates Actioanble into her end-to-end process. In this episode, you’ll hear how Jodi:

 

• Positions her value by taking a standard four-hour workshop and transforming it into a six-week process that’s highly integrated and insightful.
• Uses Prep, Session, and Reflection questions to gather key insights that elevate client conversations. 
• Uses Actionable as a flexible system that she can adapt to the priorities and needs of her clients and programs.

If you want to talk to someone about the nexus between strategy and culture and how to have conversations with an executive team that influence their broader organization, Jodi is the person to speak with! You can find her on The Hive or on LinkedIn.  

 

Chris Taylor is the founder and CEO of Actionable.co. Actionable helps training companies build behavior change measurement into their programs so they can prove and amplify their impact. Connect with Chris here. 

Ep 109 - Jack Cohen: Getting out of the trap of my own perspective

Chris talks to Jack Cohen, founder of Brain-Based Workplace. He and his team focus specifically on helping high-growth startups reach their full potential.

 

Jack is in the midst of an evolution in the way that he thinks about and positions the role that he plays with his clients, and as a result the impact he has is expanding. In this episode, you’ll hear how Jack:

• Helps his clients see him as more than “just” a trainer or a coach.
• Layers value into the pre-sales process, thinking about interactions more strategically than transactionally. 
• Leverages a spirit of abundance that inspires in his prospects and clients a sense of confidence and trust. 
• Utilizes Actionable reporting as a system that drives culture change across organizations.

 

If you want a dose of love and mindfulness, connect with Jack. He’d love to talk to you about how to integrate mindfulness into your work to help you expand the systems in which you operate. You can connect with him in The Hive or on LinkedIn.  

 

Chris Taylor is the founder and CEO of Actionable.co. Actionable helps training companies build behavior change measurement into their programs so they can prove and amplify their impact. Connect with Chris here. 

Ep 108 - Kathy Kaye: Take the damn picture

Chris talks to Kathy Kaye, founder of Lucentia Coaching. Kathy empowers leaders to step into values-based leadership to develop a workplace full of resilient employees who love what they do. She uses Actionable to help measure the impact she’s had with her clients. 

 

Kathy is a content creation wizard and regularly posts meaningful, insights-informed LinkedIn content in order to reach an audience aligned with her. In this episode, you’ll hear all about how Kathy: 

• Develops content that resonates with the right people,
• Optimizes her posts to gain traction and a wider reach,
• Adds value for her prospects before there’s even an ask or an offer. 

 

Kathy is also the not-so-secret ghostwriter of the ACP Community. Kathy is the person to talk to about writing Leader-Led Conversations modules and to talk through a cascade approach. Reach out to her in The Hive or on LinkedIn!

Chris Taylor is the founder and CEO of Actionable.co. Actionable helps training companies build behavior change measurement into their programs so they can prove and amplify their impact. Connect with Chris here. 

Ep 107 - Kirk Langford: Create that winning mentality

Chris talks to Kirk Langford, General Manager for Unique Training and Development, which incites behavior change through leadership training for front-line leaders in the manufacturing sector.  

 

Kirk is an expert at systematizing Actionable into the work, both internally at Unique Training and Development, and in the way they roll it out in client organizations. In this episode, you’ll hear how Kirk:

• Operationalizes Actionable: he discusses everything from educating his instructors to in-the-room commitment creation to post-session follow-ups. 
• Strategically integrates Actionable as core part of Unique’s offering, and how he positions this in conversations with prospects and clients. 
• Utilizes data and insights to incite a winning mentality in his participants.

 

Reach out to Kirk if you want a thinking partner on how to onboard instructors/facilitators and customers to the platform, and how to follow-up to make sure that commitments stick. You can find him in The Hive or on LinkedIn.

Chris Taylor is the founder and CEO of Actionable.co. Actionable helps training companies build behavior change measurement into their programs so they can prove and amplify their impact. Connect with Chris here. 

Ep 106 - Jonathan Males: You’re priming people for a month of support

Chris talks to Jonathan Males, Managing Director of Mezzana Partners, world-renowned team development specialists and high performance experts. 

 

Jonathan and the team at Mezzana Partners have embedded Actionable into their core operating system. Listen to hear how Jonathan:  

 

• Positions behavior change and impact certainty as foundational to Mezzana’s methodology. 
• Helps participants develop autonomy around their own behavior change by encouraging a sense of ownership. 
• Reframes how he and his participants think about their time together, shifting the perspective from a two-hour workshop to a whole month of support. 

 

Jonathan is the person to talk to about integrating Habit Builder into your methodology and priming the Habit Building experience in the room with your participants. You can find him in The Hive or on LinkedIn. 

Chris Taylor is the founder and CEO of Actionable.co. Actionable helps training companies build behavior change measurement into their programs so they can prove and amplify their impact. Connect with Chris here. 

Ep 105 - Susan Gregory: We do too much on our own

Chris talks to Susan Gregory, founder of Best Work Yet, a training and facilitation company who empowers people to have fun while doing their best work. 2022 was a breakout year for Susan; she scaled her business and her impact. 

 

Susan focuses on creating an integrated and impact-focused experience for her participants, and on how to make work - her clients’ and her own - easier. Listen to learn how Susan scaled to her highest point yet! Susan reveals:

• How she freed up time to take on bigger projects that impacted full teams and departments,
• The exact language she used to successfully reposition herself and her focus with her existing clients
• How she zeroes in on the exact right clients for her to make the sales cycle easier,
• Her process for striking the balance between helping clients feel like active participants in the creation of a custom program with scalable, repeatable practices that keep her focused on impact, not content creation
• How she’s become a master delegator 

 

If you’re looking for a sign to start buying back your time, this is it. Reach out to Susan for support, especially for her thoughts on delegation to a Virtual Assistant. You can find her in The Hive or on LinkedIn. 

Chris Taylor is the founder and CEO of Actionable.co. Actionable helps training companies build behavior change measurement into their programs so they can prove and amplify their impact. Connect with Chris here.