Launching March 1st,2022, Season 3 will include speaking to thought leaders from around the globe who solve company challenges and demonstrate effective strategies that balance how teams work. Listen to hear valuable tips, tricks, and ideas from company culture experts. Our podcast takes on a major challenge in this new season: workplace transformation. Get the strategies and tools you need to adapt, manage and improve company culture more effectively than ever.

Join Rich Rininsland on March 1st for the launch of the 3rd season of your favorite podcast Team Building Saves the World!

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What is the real culprit? With poor communication, lack of flexibility, and a toxic culture, employees are walking off the job without giving any notice. Have you noticed a pattern of a co-worker being less interested in engaging at work?  What about them contributing less to the team? Rich speaks to Allison Barr, on the great resignation, who shares her insights on how to recognize and prevent rage quitting.

Allison Barr is a Leadership Solutions Partner for the Center for Creative Leadership, as well as an Executive and Career Coach. With 10+ years of global leadership development experience, Allison has worked with hundreds of leaders at all leadership levels across multiple countries including: Switzerland, Germany, UAE, United Kingdom, France, Ireland, Singapore, Mexico, Canada, and the United States. While she has consulted in just about every industry imaginable, her most notable achievements include designing a Master Solution for Psychological Safety, as well as Human Centered Leadership. Allison also has a deep history in the public speaking arena, both locally and globally. While she has her Master’s degree in Psychology, she will also graduate with her MBA in 2022, her career and education to date reflect her balanced skills in leadership development, business acumen, and cultural agility.

Even though rage quitting is all the “rage”, there is a better approach to retaining your team.  Listen as guest Allison Barr speaks about recognizing the signs that someone may be getting ready to quit and tips on how to increase employee retention in the workplace.

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In this episode, Rich speaks to Karrie Brazaski, from Executive Coaching on how cultivating a supportive environment in your office is one of the key ways to help prevent employee burnout.

She believes leaders are the ones who help companies set the tone and the culture within the workplace.  Empowering and supporting the leaders within your organization with the right resilience tools before burnout begins will keep their team together and produce quality work.

Karrie Brazaski is the founder of Redwood Executive Coaching where she helps organizations build leadership culture to retain and engage the workforce so they can be profitable and productive.
As a nurse and healthcare executive for three decades, Karrie has witnessed the damage to organizations caused by turnover. She has gone from a burned out hospital executive to an advocate for wellbeing and burnout recovery programs as part of promoting sustainable cultures. Karrie works with individuals and organizations to create leadership strategies to retain key talent and ensure stress and burnout are not the cause of lost productivity, profits, performance, or livelihood.

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In this episode, Rich talks with Robert Farrington from The College Investor, about new graduates entering the workforce. During the pandemic, almost everything switched to remote or virtual remote work overnight.  For those new graduates entering the workforce companies had to change some well-established onboarding and training.

Robert Farrington, the founder of The College Investor, has been featured in many media outlets on both a local and national level. He is America’s Millennial Money Expert®, and America’s Student Loan Debt Expert. He is on a mission to help people escape student loan debt and start investing and building wealth for the future.

From onboarding, to companies looking at some benefits to offer, listen as Robert Farrington talks about some of the ways to support recent graduates.

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Host Rich Rininsland speaks with leaders of the corporate event industry Daphne Hoppenot and David Goldstein to uncover what hybrid events are, the benefits and flaws of hybrid work, and whether this solution may stick around for years to come.

Daphne Bio: Daphne Hoppenot is the founder of The Vendry, a digital marketplace and professional community for the events industry.  Daphne launched The Vendry in April 2019 as a resource for corporate event pros to find agencies, venues, and vendors for their events. The platform evolved in response to the COVID-19 crisis to build community and help individual event professionals get credit for events they helped produce, showcase their work experience, network with each other, and market their availability for freelance or full-time work. As live events re-emerge, The Vendry is launching their RFP Tool, allowing buyers to quickly source event venues and vendors from the community in a customized and targeted way. As of August 2021, The Vendry has over 17,000 members, has helped plan thousands of live and virtual events, and is growing quickly. Daphne was an early employee at Yext, whereas partnerships lead she helped scale the company from pre-product through its 2017 IPO. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.

David Bio: David launched TeamBonding in 1988 as a natural extension of the work he had done in the corporate entertainment industry. His early creations included scavenger hunts, customized murder mysteries, game shows, and many other unique group activities that clients started to request as team building.

Now his company boasts a catalog of innovative events using the power of play as a learning tool and tapping into the correlation between work and play.  He says he is guided by Plato’s credo: “You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”

David is quick to move with the times, consistently bringing new and innovative ideas into the team building industry. In 2020 alone, TeamBonding released this Team Building Around the World Podcast, a Webinar Series, and was among the first to originally have virtual events even before the global need for it arose. No matter where your location is, TeamBonding has a proven solution to build your team.

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Terry Jones is a former Vice President at CompassRock Real Estate. He has interviewed, coached, and trained thousands over the course of his 25-year corporate career. He received 8 significant career promotions. Today, he’s a talent development trainer, career coach, mentor, and consultant, helping professionals maximize their interview and work performance and overcome (often hidden) obstacles to believe in the power of possibilities through learning, advance to the next level in their careers, and reach their full potential. Terry is the founder of the 3A Academy, author of How to Get Promoted Faster: How I Went From Manager to Vice President in 14 months, and creator of the Rise & Shine Promotions System Coaching Program and Online Training Series.

For almost 20 years, he has interviewed hundreds and trained & coached thousands as a corporate trainer, director, and executive. All coaching and training programs are designed to be part tactical and motivational to achieve extraordinary results. Terry’s goal is to motivate and inspire high-performance behavior that’s mind-shifting and life-changing.

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Jackie Bio: Jackie Hague is a professional people-person and enthusiastic hype woman, passionate about helping turbo-talent reach new heights. As a Director of Enterprise Leadership Development for CVS Health, she is accountable for the strategy and implementation of High-Potential leadership development programs that accelerate the advancement of top talent. She loves stages and spotlights: super-powers include facilitation, culture building, leadership development, and getting people excited. In another life, she would be a Radio City Rockette.

Any opinions expressed are solely their own and do not express the view of any organization.

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Asia Bio: Asia Bribiesca-Hedin is the founder and CEO of Bridgewell Professional Services, leadership development and strategy execution firm in Southern California. Asia began her career as a management consultant with a global Big 4 consulting firm where she gained unparalleled experience in advising leaders on how to mobilize their teams to deliver on key priorities. Prior to starting her own firm, she spent 8 years with a comprehensive cancer center helping plan and implement their strategic roadmap.

Today she brings her strategic lens to coaching executives and professionals at any level to become influential, sought-after leaders and create the results that matter most to them, their teams, and their organizations without overworking, people-pleasing, or selling their souls.

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Listen as Host Rich Rininsland speaks with Sales Leader and Chief Digital Technology Officer at Tential Anna Frazzetto on how to cultivate business relationships to build an active network, and strategic ways to improve employee relations.

Anna Bio: Anna Frazzetto, a first-generation Italian immigrant, shares the value of looking back to understand how the strength and persistence of our immigrant families shape who we are today. At a time when diversity and inclusion remain elusive, our roots reveal the commonality of what our immigrant families, regardless of country origin, worked for – a better life for their families, neighbors, and co-workers.

As Senior Executive, throughout her career, Frazzetto has experienced IT and business workflows from different regions and cultures. She has led global teams to support organizations throughout North America and the APAC region, from start-ups and growing multinationals to global industry leaders. Anna’s passion is driving sales and revenue growth for an organization.

Frazzetto is a sought-after speaker on digital innovation, outsourcing, and workplace diversity and is an advocate for increasing the numbers and influence of women in technology. She was named to Staffing Industry Analysts’ 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 Global Power 150 Women in Staffing lists and serves as the national chair of ARA, an organization aspiring to attract, retain and advance women in IT. She has also been named to the Global top 50 Diversity Influencers in the world. Her passion is to create a more equitable world for future generations including her nieces, nephew, and grandkids.

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A recent WHO-led study estimates that depression and anxiety disorders cost the global economy US$ 1 trillion each year in lost productivity.  Mental health advocate Mallory Gothelf, and mental health counselor Ramona Wink chat about the stigma of mental health in the workplace and how organizations can work to support their employees the right way.

Ramona Wink: Ramona Wink is a licensed mental health counselor and motivational public speaker with 515 Therapy and Consulting in West Des Moines, Iowa. She graduated with her Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Drake University and with her BA, majoring in Mass Communications, from the University of Iowa. In her role as a therapist, Ramona sees both individuals and couples. She combines her innate ability to connect with people in an authentic manner with her educational training and her own life experience to support her clients as they navigate mental health issues.

Ramona is passionate about her motivational public speaking role because it allows her to make a positive impact on even more people. Mental health impacts everyone and yet in Iowa, we are facing a mental health crisis due to the shortage of mental health professionals. From the stage, Ramona’s superpower is to share the stories that she hears in her therapist’s chair, with details changed to protect her clients’ confidentiality, normalizing the fact that mental health issues are real! She’s quick to connect with audiences of any size and her warm and engaging personality makes people feel right at home. Her messages are also packed with tools and techniques that audience members can learn and demonstrate in their lives to achieve and maintain mental wellness. Ramona was recently appointed by Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds to serve on the Iowa Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Mallory Gothelf:  is a graduate from Northeastern University with a degree in psychology and an unabashed mental health advocate who has spoken and written extensively on mental health and mental illness for companies and organizations including This Is My Brave, Aditum Bio, Zencare.co, The Ruderman Foundation, and Active Minds. Utilizing her story and knowledge around mental health, she launched a mission-driven mental health company, Find Your/self Boxes, which has been featured on GMA3, Channel Kindness, and Outside the Box. The company aims to foster the connection between people and those in their life struggling with mental health challenges by providing opportunities to send curated and customizable self-care boxes filled with research-backed wellness products to promote healing.

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