One huge change that Social Media has brought about is the willingness to collaborate. Recently I've been involved in several situations where people or teams that are perfect strangers and in some situations considered competitors are brainstorming, sharing resources, and supporting each other. Amazing things are coming of this as 1+1 equals 3 when broad experience comes together.
With that in mind Paul Hebert of I2I brought together a group of thought leaders in different areas of business and influence and started the Influence Insiders. What better way to get the ideas flowing, exchange information, and generally innovate then on a radio show? The Influence Insiders BlogTalkRadio show will be the first Wednesday of every month, 12:00-1:00 pm eastern time and we want to hear from YOU! The show can be found here:
We've set up our station at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/i2i
The call in number will be the same for every episode: (646) 381-4430
You can read more on Paul's blog or see information below about the team. We hope to see you, I mean hear you, next week!
Influence Insiders is a core group of experts, bloggers, thought leaders and smart folks who will be getting together monthly to talk about the things that challenge them and their clients associated with engaging audiences. The line up is impressive and should provide all of us with some interesting points of view. I know I'll be learning and you can to if you tune in and listen & contribute.
The Team
In no particular order:
- Ann Bares (Minneapolis): Managing Partner – Altura Consulting Group, author of the blog Compensation Force (a Workforce.com featured blog) and editor/contributor for multi-author blog Compensation Café and one of the Top 25 Talent Blogs as ranked by Fistful of Talent (FOT) – a popular talent management and HR focused blog. Ann has been a compensation consultant with RSM McGladrey, Inc., Riley, Dettmann & Kelsey LLC, and Watson Wyatt Worldwide.
- Frank Roche (Philadelphia): Partner iFractal – sponsor and contributor to very popular KnowHR blog. Frank and his team focus on helping their clients talk to their employees. In the past Frank led Mercer’s Human Capital Practice in the Netherlands and worked at Hewitt Associates.
- Heather Margolis (Boston): President Channel Maven Consulting – Prior to her current role Heather led channel programs for companies like EMC, EqualLogic, and Dell.
- Julien Dionne (Ottawa, CN): Julien authors the very informative blog leap.com and works with OpenSymmetry a consultancy that specializes in Sales Performance Management strategic planning, business process optimization, technology assessment and system integration engagements across diverse industries and software providers. He has worked with Accenture and nGenera prior to OpenSymmetry.
- Lance Haun (Portland, Or): Lance has a long history in the HR field and authors the highly rated and read blog YourHRGuy – now called Rehaul. He currently is VP Outreach for a company called Meritbuilder – an online employee reward/recognition portal with a unique feature of being portable – moving with the employee as they move.
- Todd Hanson (Appleton, WI): CEO of Catalyst Performance Group. Todd’s group is heavily into measuring the ROI of marketing and incentive/reward programs. They are currently measuring the ROI on the recent Motivation Show, works in partnership with the ROI Institute and he authors the blog called the ROI of Engagement.
- Paul Hebert (Greenville, SC): Managing Director I2I – author of Incentive Intelligence, contributor at Fistful Of Talent and general good guy. 20 years helping companies design and operate incentive, recognition and loyalty programs – degree in Statistics, worked on the Space Shuttle and B1 Bomber while employed at Rockwell and did a stint at a branding and corporate identity firm.