Episode #18
Plan with Conviction First
With Guests, Ben Fearing and Brian Juncker
Managing Partners at
Strategic Talent Solutions
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It’s the beginning of a new year and the topic of goal-setting is fresh on our minds. Ben and Brian are Managing Partners for Strategic Talent Solutions. They advise leaders on how to lead their teams, use processes that get results, and help them fully engage their employees to be passionate about their business goals.
Today we talk about the challenges they have faced in learning how to lead and build a consulting firm together, as well as what practices and philosophies they feel are important in goal-setting and planning for your year. To them – caring is planning and planning is caring.
Today's Guest
Ben Fearing and Brian Juncker
As Managing Partners of the firm, Ben and Brian consult with industry leaders and leadership teams on selecting the right leaders, developing leadership skills, and establishing management strategies for achieving their business goals. They each bring diverse talent management consulting experience along with backgrounds in Industrial/Organizational Psychology (Ben) and Clinical Psychology (Brian). They have led hundreds of leadership assessments and feedback sessions to promote individual and organizational development. As executive coaches to senior executives, emerging leaders, and leadership teams, Ben and Brian serve as trusted advisors in support of improved results on strategic initiatives.
What We Talk About
- How Ben and Brian made their way to managing partners for Strategic Talent Solutions
- The challenges and friction they have had learning how to work together as partners
- How their partnership has been tested over the years
- Learning how to own, lead, and build their firm
- Stewarding the past to make their firm better
- The balance of focusing on culture and strategy
- Common pitfalls to not reaching your goals
- The importance of caring about people
- Learning to embrace the challenges
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About the Show
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Are you trying to make a difference in this world? On the show, Amanda and guests reveal the path from purpose to impact and all the risks, bumps, and bruises that came along the way so you can be ahead of the curve with your purpose-driven business or organization.
Amanda is a wife, mother, entrepreneur, Partner at Evergreen Results and a founding member of the Built for Impact podcast team. She enjoys spending time with her family, serving others, horseback riding, and spending time in the mountains.
