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Monday Aug 11, 2025
Monday Aug 11, 2025
Three Shifts to Transform Your Leadership Style
with Jennifer Jensen
Is your leadership pipeline leaking talent, engagement, and cold hard cash? You’re not alone.
In this episode of Marc Haine Live, we tackle one of the most expensive problems in business today: promoting top performers into management roles without actually training them to lead.
The result? Incidental leaders who struggle with team performance, lose top talent, and stall company growth.
- Joining Marc is Jennifer Jensen, leadership expert and author of Developing Authentic Leaders. With nearly three decades of real-world experience, Jenn shares:
The 3 Leadership Shifts that create influence (not just oversight)
Her 7-step Authentic Leadership Framework
The Executive Presence Formula to get noticed and promoted
Team Acceleration Strategies that build trust and accountability—without burnout
About Jennifer
Jennifer Jensen is a pragmatic leadership expert with over 29 years of corporate experience who transforms individuals into authentic leaders. Drawing from her diverse career observing various leadership styles, she provides straightforward, actionable guidance that resonates with both new and seasoned professionals seeking tangible results. Jennifer's common-sense approach helps clients cut through complexity to develop leadership skills that blend professional excellence with personal authenticity.
Connect with Jennifer
www.authenticleader.ca
LinkedIn: / jennifer-jensen-165728a
Instagram: / authenticleader.ca
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Monday Aug 04, 2025
Monday Aug 04, 2025
Lead Without Just Managing
with William Charles Davis
Is leadership really that complicated? Or have we just made it harder than it needs to be?
🛎 In this episode of Marc Haine Live, leadership expert William C. Davis reveals why 78% of Americans believe we’re in a leadership crisis—and what it takes to fix it.
About William
With nearly 40 years of leadership experience in corporate America, William brings deep insights and practical strategies to inspire transformative leadership change. Through engaging storytelling and actionable guidance, he helps audiences uncover the keys to leadership, how to succeed and avoid failures, and empower them to excel in the critical role of leadership, driving individuals and organizations toward their greatest potential.
🎁 Free Book Giveaway: Be the first to contact William and get a copy of How to Lead without just Managing!
Connect with William
https://www.williamcdavis.net/
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Thursday Jul 31, 2025
Thursday Jul 31, 2025
How to Hire for Retention, Not Regret
with Kevandre Thompson
Are you tired of hiring great people, only to watch them walk out the door six months later?
🛎 In this episode of Marc Haine Live, talent acquisition expert Kevandre “Dre” Thompson reveals how to stop the revolving door and build talent pipelines that perform—while creating cultures where your best people want to stay.
About Kevandre (Dre)
Dre Thompson is a talent acquisition strategist and keynote speaker who helps organizations solve complex workforce challenges, enabling them to attract, hire, and retain exceptional talent. With over a decade of experience in HR, DEI, and workforce development, Dre designs actionable strategies that reduce turnover, build talent pipelines, and create thriving workplace cultures.
Connect with Dre
www.drethompson.com
/ dre-thompson
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Monday Jul 28, 2025
Monday Jul 28, 2025
Turn Managers into Leaders: Practical Steps for Real Impact
with Kathy Andrews
How often have you sent your managers to a workshop, only to see them return with a fancy workbook that gathers dust on their shelf? How often have you invested in leadership development, expecting it to build stronger leaders, only to find that… well, nothing really changes?
🛎 In this episode of Marc Haine Live, I sit down with Kathy Andrews, Founder of Cinga Leadership, to expose why traditional leadership development doesn’t work—and more importantly, how to fix it.
About Kathy
Kathy is driven by a deep passion for helping individuals and organizations reach their full potential through effective leadership and positive culture change. As an experienced executive facilitator, coach and expert in developing talent, Kathy has spent the past 25 years helping organizations thrive across private, public, and non-profit sectors.
Her unique ability to bridge business strategy with organizational culture has enabled her to develop and implement people programs that drive alignment and deliver measurable results. Kathy's global HR and leadership development expertise provides her with a distinctive edge in teaching and strategic planning, recognized by her international contributions across the US, Canada, Europe, and South America.
Kathy's work has touched some of the world's top-performing organizations, including Teekay, lululemon, Methanex, Ausenco, and Canfor. Her strong academic foundation, with a Master of Arts in Leadership from Royal Roads University and a Bachelor of Social Science from Rhodes University, is complemented by professional certifications in KornFerry Leadership Architect™, Team Management Systems©, and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®
Connect with Kathy
https://cingaleadership.com/
/ cingaleadership
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Thursday Jul 24, 2025
Thursday Jul 24, 2025
Transform Workplace Culture Through Generational Engagement
with Mary Cooney
Companies are bleeding money—and not because of a bad quarter or an industry shake-up. No, this financial drain is self-inflicted. Every year, businesses lose up to $1 trillion (yes, with a “T” 💰) due to turnover, disengagement, and teams that just can’t seem to get along. And guess what? A major culprit is generational disconnects.
Boomers think Millennials are entitled. Millennials think Boomers refuse to retire. And Gen Z? They’re just trying to figure out why we still use email. 🤷♂️
Connect with Mary
As founder of Generation IQ, Mary brings over 20 years of experience as a university professor, having taught Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z. She’s helped organizations like Wayne State University, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Wayne County Third Circuit Court, and Consumers Energy bridge generational gaps for better communication, retention, and equity.
Connect with Mary
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Monday Jul 21, 2025
Monday Jul 21, 2025
Unlock Creativity: Why Playfulness Matters at Work
with Chris Marshall
Is workplace stress, burnout, and employee disengagement costing your business more than you realize?
🛎 In this episode of Marc Haine Live, we sit down with Chris Marshall, a leading Behavioural Scientist and founder of The Playfulness Institute, to uncover a surprising solution that could transform your workplace: playfulness.
Need to brainstorm aspects of your business? Book your complimentary 30-minute brainstorm with Marc. Schedule a time that works for you at https://meetwith.marchaine.com
About Chris
Chris Marshall is a pioneering Behavioural Scientist, Psychotherapist and Futurist who champions a revolutionary approach to organizational transformation: rehumanisation through playfulness. As the founder of The Playfulness Institute, Chris presents a unique perspective on cultivating thriving, resilient organizations in an era of constant disruption.
His groundbreaking work on 'playfulness as culture' addresses multiple organizational challenges simultaneously - from boosting innovation and creativity to enhancing employee engagement and team cohesion. A engaging speaker, and author of "Decoding Change," and the upcoming book ‘The Playful Advantage’ Chris offers a fresh alternative to conventional corporate strategies.
Connect with Chris
chrismarshallspeaker.com
playfulnessinstitute.org
/ marshall-christopher
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Thursday Jul 17, 2025
Thursday Jul 17, 2025
Mastering Leadership: Building a Profitable and Predictable Business
with Ron Szekely
Why is it that some businesses seem to run like a well-oiled machine while others feel like they’re duct-taping everything together to survive? If you’ve ever looked at your team and thought, ‘Why does it feel like I’m herding cats instead of leading a high-performing group?’—you’re not alone.
🛎 In this episode of Marc Haine Live, Customer and Employee Experience Strategist, Marc Haine sits down with Ron Szekely, the Master of Branding, Business, and Builder of High-Performance Teams, to unpack the hidden challenges that hold businesses back—and reveal the simple, proven frameworks that help leaders get everything they want from their business.
Meet Ron
Ron is a Certified Business Coach and former business executive with over 25 years of experience building high-performing teams to drive revenue growth and profitability for a variety of businesses. From smaller founder-led companies to top tier multinationals and across a variety of industries, what remains constant is Ron’s ability to simplify, unify, and lead a team toward a common vision.
Ron first sharpened his business acumen and managerial discipline, leading marketing, strategy and innovation in world-class companies like L’Oréal, Keurig and Sanofi. It was there that he developed his passion for leadership and hunger for growth.
Ron then went on to create and lead his own successful startups and learned firsthand the joys and challenges of entrepreneurship and running his own companies.
Over the past 5 years, Ron has been dedicated to sharing his expertise. Together with a team of coaches, he works with entrepreneurial, mid-sized companies with the ambition to help them scale with predictability. Ron’s vast experience and passion for building brands and businesses, combined with the BOS360 process of simple and practical tools, are the perfect combination to help entrepreneurs get everything they want from their business.
Connect with Ron
https://bos360.ca/
/ rszekely
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Tuesday Jul 15, 2025
Tuesday Jul 15, 2025
How to Build Healthy Remote Workdays
with Steven Puri
Remote and hybrid teams are here to stay—but are yours thriving or just surviving?
🛎 In this episode of Marc Haine Live, guest Steven Puri—tech entrepreneur and former Hollywood executive—shares powerful, actionable strategies to help leaders and teams regain focus, improve well-being, and unlock true productivity in distributed work environments.
About Steven
Steven is the Founder and CEO of The Sukha Company with the mission to help millions of people find their focus, achieve more and have a healthy work life.
Steven's career started as a newscaster/interviewer for the #1 youth news show in the DC/Baltimore market (on WTTG-TV) and then as a junior software engineer & Thomas J. Watson Scholar at IBM. After attending USC in Los Angeles, he began working in film production and produced computer-generated visual effects for 14 movies including Independence Day which won the Academy Award for Visual Effects.
Steven’s first tech company was Centropolis Effects that produced those CGI effects, and he eventually sold it to the German media conglomerate Das Werk when he was 28.
Steven then produced some indie films and eventually went studio-side to develop and produce live-action features as a VP of Development & Production at 20th Century Fox (running the Die Hard and Wolverine franchises) and an EVP at DreamWorks Pictures for Kurtzman-Orci Productions where he worked on Star Trek, Transformers and more.
After Fox, Steven returned to building tech companies and founded The Sukha Company - ‘sukha’ means ‘happiness from self-fulfillment’ in Sanskrit. The Sukha is a focus app that bundles all the tools necessary to have a focused experience and a healthy, productive workday.
Steven lives in Austin, TX now.
📲 BONUS: Get a free month of The Sukha App at TheSukha.co
Connect with Steven
www.TheSukha.co/media
TheSukha.co
/ steven-puri-b0714436
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Monday Jul 14, 2025
Monday Jul 14, 2025
Workplace Culture Isn’t HR’s Job: It’s Yours
with Tina Cantrill
Too many businesses treat culture like it’s an HR side quest—something to “get around to” between performance reviews and pizza parties. But when culture is left to drift, the real cost adds up: toxic behaviours, disengaged teams, slow execution, and burned-out leaders.
🛎 In this episode of Marc Haine Live, Customer and Employee Experience Strategist, Marc Haine sits down with organizational culture expert Tina Cantrill to tackle one uncomfortable truth: Culture is just the sum of how your people behave. And if those behaviours are misaligned, your results will be too.
About Tina
Tina Cantrill is a sought-after speaker and workshop facilitator who helps organizations fuel momentum and accelerate results by focusing on one thing: Behaviour.
With over 20 years of Fortune 100 executive leadership experience and a decade consulting with leaders and teams, Tina knows what accelerates performance, sharpens collaboration, and builds cultures that consistently deliver strong results.
Her approach is rooted in lived experience. After a near-catastrophic burnout caused by a toxic culture, she uncovered what truly drives - and derails - organizational momentum: The daily assumptions, actions, and interactions of people at every level.
Tina’s keynotes and workshops are high-energy, practical, and immediately actionable: Designed for organizations ready to increase engagement, fuel momentum, and accelerate collective success.
Connect with Tina
tinacantrill.com
/ tinacantrill
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Thursday Jul 10, 2025
Thursday Jul 10, 2025
How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming the Future of Work
with Scott Wright
Is Your Workplace Ready for the AI Revolution?
Artificial intelligence is transforming the way we work—faster than most organizations are prepared for. But here’s the catch: it’s not just about implementing the latest tools. It’s about addressing the human side of AI adoption. Employees are asking tough questions: Will AI take my job? Do I still matter? How do I fit in this new world?
🛎 In this episode of Marc Haine Live, we dive deep into the cultural shifts and workforce challenges that AI is bringing to the workplace. Joining us is Scott Wright, The AI Culture Guy, an expert in helping leaders and teams manage the risks and opportunities of AI. Together, we’ll uncover the critical steps every organization needs to take to stay ahead of the curve while keeping employees engaged, motivated, and productive.
About Scott
With an engineering degree from Waterloo and an MBA from Ottawa, Scott's career spans from Dickie-Dee ice-cream man to cybersecurity consultant. He's worked in both low-trust and high-trust organizations, from McDonald's burger-flipper to software company CEO, bringing a wealth of experience.
Today, Scott is here to share insights on diagnosing trust issues within an organization, to building a foundation of trust for higher productivity, collaboration and employee retention.
FREE Resources Just for You:
🎯 Schedule a FREE 30-minute consultation with Scott to discuss your organization’s AI opportunities and challenges.
🔗 Visit Scott’s website: https://scottwrightspeaks.com
🛠 Coming Soon: Online self-assessment tool for workforce AI readiness.
Connect with Scott
https://scottwrightspeaks.com
/ scottwright