All posts by: Melanie Parish

Sh*t Happens

  —   Listen to the podcast here Sh*t Happens Hello, and welcome to the experimental leader Podcast. I’m Melanie Parrish, your host. And it’s great to be here with you today. I’ve been thinking about knitting and picket fences and I wanted to talk about that a little bit today, and kind of how they relate to business. When we moved to Hamilton, Ontario 20 years ago, my lovely husband Mel sent me with his, his down payment, that he’d been saving for his whole life to have I owned a house in Colorado, and he said, you know,...... Read More

How a Business Can Accelerate Growth Without Overwork and Overwhelm with Crista Grasso

  The show’s guest in this episode is Crista Grasso. She is a business and scaling strategist and a Lean and Agile strategic planning and systems expert, and I get super excited about people who are into Lean and Agile, and she has two decades of experience working with small businesses and large fortune 50 companies. She’s the creator of The Lean Out Method and Lean Business Scaling System, which she designed specifically for small businesses who want to scale to multiple, seven figures in simple and sustainable ways, and her one on one strategic advisory and transformational programs will...... Read More

Leadership Through Influence with Greg Poirier

  The show’s guest in this episode is Greg Poirier. Over the last 20 years, he has established himself as a capable leader and a visionary in the technology industry. He is a principal Software Architect at Solar Winds. And he works with engineering product and executive leadership to ensure solar wind, engineers are building the right thing at the right time. Not only that, but Greg has been Melanie’s client for many years now. —   Listen to the podcast here Leadership Through Influence with Greg Poirier Hey, everybody, welcome to our live show the experimental leader, I am...... Read More

How to Build and Lead a Remote Team

Remote-team leadership issues share universal patterns and struggles. There will be some failures along the way, but the overall goal is to succeed, and that means finding ways to build a remote team that succeeds.... Read More

Intimacy and feminine energy for high level CEOs with Melisa Keenan

  The show’s guest in this episode is Melisa Keenan. She lives in Nevada, and after investing nearly $200,000 us in certifications and training, navigating her own traumatic relationship experiences and now influencing 1000s of 1000s of women. She understands the female CEO feeling trapped in the masculine and she helps women gain time freedom, intimacy and fulfillment without losing momentum. —     Listen to the podcast here Intimacy and feminine energy for high level CEOs with Melisa Keenan Hey, everybody, I’m so excited to be here live with you today. It’s so fun to be here live. And...... Read More

Designing New Workplace Experiments

Running experiments in the workplace is tricky. The Goal: Create values that advance business goals, strengthen teams, and drive better results.... Read More

Exploring Positive Intelligence with Kimberly Wiefling

  The show’s guest in this episode is Kimberly Wiefling. She is a force of nature and an expert in helping people turn ideas into impact. She’s a physicist by education, she worked at HP for 10 years, and then three years in Silicon Valley startups. Her superpower is turning managers into leaders, who use their strengths to achieve impossible together groups become true teams who can achieve impossible together. —     Listen to the podcast here Exploring Positive Intelligence with Kimberly Wiefling Hello, it’s so nice to be here with you today. I’m Melanie Parish. And I am...... Read More

Experimenting with Retrospective with Paul Reed

  The show’s guest in this episode is Paul Reed. He is an internationally recognized consultant and speaker on operational socio-technical complexity challenges and opportunities, Resilience Engineering, and DevOps/SRE. He’s worked with such organizations as VMware, Mozilla, Symantec, and Netflix. And he holds a Masters of Science in Human Factors & Systems Safety from Lund University. —     Listen to the podcast here Experimenting with Retrospective with Paul Reed Hello, I’m super excited to be here live with you today we have a great show planned for you. And I’m always thinking about my own leadership, my own life....... Read More

How to Turn Your Experiences Into Stories that Teach, Lead, and Inspire with Mark Carpenter

  The show’s guest in this episode is Mark Carpenter. He is a serial storyteller. Telling stories since childhood, Mark leveraged his ability into a career in marketing communications and public relations and later as a college professor and corporate facilitator. His storytelling became even more purposeful and effective after researching and writing the best-selling book “Master Storytelling: How to Turn Your Experiences Into Stories that Teach, Lead, and Inspire.” Now, as a facilitator, consultant, and speaker, he teaches others what he learned in the process. —     Listen to the podcast here How to Turn Your Experiences Into...... Read More

Igniting a Workforce in Today’s Employment Market with George Murray

  The show’s guest in this episode is George Murray. He is an award-winning author and global operations leader. He inspires business owners & professionals to go from where they are today to where they want to be tomorrow! —     Listen to the podcast here Igniting a Workforce in Today’s Employment Market with George Murray Hey, everybody, it’s great to be here live with you today. And I’ve been thinking about problem solving because I had a problem this week, I had a big problem. I went swimming on Wednesday, I swim two or three days a week,...... Read More