Category: Podcast

Beverley Wright: A Successful Business Leader, Community Advocate, and Leadership Coach: Beverley held leadership and leadership coach roles at IBM for over 30 years. She started at IBM thinking she’d stay for 5 years at most. However, Beverley had a paradigm shift and saw an opportunity to pivot from doing a job to driving her career choices. (more…)

Katie Hill, Social Entrepreneur, TED Fellow and  Young Global Leader As a Social Entrepreneur, Katie solves problems that impact billions of people. Katie took a year off between high school and college to live in Nepal. She began college knowing she wanted to work on issues of global poverty and economic development. (more…)

Millennial, Steven Huang says his narrative was shaped by the 2009 recession. Growing up, Steven had a vision for his future. However, he had to put his vision aside and work in a career that he did not find meaningful. Steven graduated with a B.S. in Business from Babson College in 2009. With a skill set that was still in demand during the recession, he started his career as an actuary but left after a few years in the pursuit of meaningful work. (more…)

Simon Kozlowski Shares His Roller-Coaster Ride In Episode 6, Simon Kozlowski from the sunny East Coast of South Africa shares his roller-coaster ride from a corporate role to successful entrepreneur. Between early 2013 and late 2016, Simon built a vibrant business in a competitive industry only to have the business killed in a messy legal battle. (more…)

An Interview with co-host, Charlotte Guilmenot Charlotte has more than 30 years of experience in organizational effectiveness and employee engagement, as well as extensive experience in learning and development, and designing leadership programs for both large and small organizations.   As an educator, Charlotte understands the needs of the adult learner and (more…)

Over the past 20 years, Trisha Parsad held Leadership positions in Coaching and Leadership Development at  Southern California Edison, Bank of America, and Price Waterhouse Coopers. Due to her outstanding performance, in 2015, she was nominated for the Edison International Chairman’s Award. While at the height of her career, Trisha left her corporate role in 2016 to start her own independent practice. (more…)

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Tracy Goodwin is an Internationally known voice expert who has coached TV actors, entrepreneurs and business leaders to find their real voice and transform their lives. To be an authority in your field, a leader, Tracy Goodwin says you must be an impactful storyteller; you must affect us. How you speak is what will make that happen.    (more…)

During the process of becoming you, you took on other people’s beliefs, values, and ways of behaving. You came to some conclusions about yourself, other people, and the world. These conclusions have consequences in how we think, act and form relationships. And, no matter who you are or what you want to accomplish, it seems as though something is preventing you from moving forward toward meeting your goals and living a fulling life.  (more…)

Hi - I'm Cynder Niemela, Director, and Host of the Inspired Wisdom Podcast.  In 2016, after 25 years working for global organizations, I left my corporate leadership role.  I started looking around wondering what was next for me. When I made a list of all the things I love to do, creating beautiful things, travel, being in nature and meeting new people rose to the top. (more…)