OneSharpSword

OneSharpSword

Hosted by: Dr. Wayne Pernell, CEO and Founder, DynamicLeader, Inc.

Most people live their lives using a dull blade, hoping to make it through to another day. Even a thousand dull blades would be no match for One Sharp Sword! One Sharp Sword is about breaking free and cutting...

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Episodes

Interview with Hesha Abrams

Can you get excited about conflict?  There’s an old movie from 1950 that caught my attention. It predates me, but still enchanted me. The play-turned-movie is Harvey. The main character, Elmer P. Dowd, finds people in...
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Interview with Kevin Gazzara

Having grown up in PA, Dr. Kevin Gazzara had a propensity for taking things apart and putting them back together, it was a natural curiosity that drove him. He found himself organizing events for his friends. And what...
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Interview with Roy Osing

What’s the ONLY thing you need to know about my guest this episode? Roy Osing is the ONLY author, entrepreneur, and executive leader who delivers practical and proven “audacious and unheard-of ways” to produce...
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Interview with Noah St. John

I often have guests with a similar focus to mine as a way to look at differing approaches. Noah St. John has a great message and has managed to distill it into multiple columns, maximizing how that message gets...
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Interview with Eric Stone

From an entry level position at Enterprise Rental Car spanning over two and a half decades when he left the company as the Regional Vice President, Eric Stone learned a thing or two about CULTURE.   Through engagement...
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Interview with Marco Torres

Marco Torres grew up in the Caribbean as his father ran GE Credit Corp from Puerto Rico. He learned about adventure and entrepreneurship. At 12 y/o he was featured in the news for having the largest paper route in the...
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Interview with Ravi Iyer

So an MD with ADHD walks into… actually, what happens is that the gentleman creates so much presence that time flies and people feel connected. How? Breathing into presence, breathing out ego. Dr Iyer is based in...
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Interview with Eric Holsapple

Eric Holsapple is an expert on mindful leadership. He shares his wisdom with us noting the importance of presence, especially as a leader. And that’s why I invited him to One Sharp Sword. It’s important work. When you...
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Interview with Sam Druschak

Ahhhhh Geek Out (he says he’s more of a nerd than a geek, so…) Process Mapping is a thing! It’s the efficient, distilled, visual representation of data, the structured capture of process data. And while that doesn’t...
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Interview with John Rossman

From Amazon Exec in the early, scrappy days to leadership and strategic consultant, John Rossman’s insights are of tremendous value for anyone in a place of looking at, and impacting their organization. He notes that...
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Interview with Amanda Kaufman

How does someone with social anxiety and body image issues do the work to become an entrepreneur with a business doing $2M in revenue? It’s quite a story, but the transformation happened pretty quickly! And yours can...
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Interview with Beate Chelette

Beate Chelette (pronounced Bay-ah-tay shal-Let) immigrated here from Munich, Germany. Having held a senior and highly coveted position at Elle magazine, she realized that she had gone down the path of becoming who she...
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