Paul Vanderbroeck is an international executive educator and coach. In his leadership development, he uses a transdisciplinary approach, combining leadership theory and diagnostic instruments with history, arts, and theatre.

• What are the leadership models that you have chosen for your research and why?
• What can modern leaders learn from Caesar’s career, and how does it apply to leaders today?
• What can modern leaders learn from Caesar’s behavior and development over time?
• What can modern leaders learn from Caesar’s personality?
• What new elements did your research bring to Caesar’s story?

A historian by training and a former HR executive, Paul Vanderbroeck is an international executive educator and coach. In his leadership development, he uses a transdisciplinary approach, combining leadership theory and diagnostic instruments with history, arts, and theatre. He partners with corporations, non-profit organizations, and business schools. As an independent researcher, he publishes on leadership and organizational behavior. He has authored business books on women leadership and on dual career couples, a textbook on international human resource management, and has co-created a theatre play on women leaders. His latest book is Lead Like Julius Caesar. Leadership Lessons From History’s Most Influential Leader.

Paul holds a PhD in History from Radboud University (Nijmegen, NL). Paul is married, a father of two adult children, and currently lives in Switzerland.

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Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of Excellent Executive Coaching, a company that specializes in leadership development.

Mathew Pohl is a former data analytics professional turned small business owner and advocate for organizational growth. He applied the Stages of Growth methodology, achieving a 10x increase in his company's value.

• What was the driving force behind you becoming an entrepreneur?
• Tell us about the two seasons of your first business and why those were so different?
• Why is having a roadmap so important for SMB owners?
• What is the ReWild Group's roadmap based on?
• How does Organizational ReWilding differ from EOS?

Mathew Pohl is a former data analytics professional turned small business owner and advocate for organizational growth. He applied the Stages of Growth methodology, achieving a 10x increase in his company's value. Pohl founded the ReWild Group to share this approach and authored the "Organizational ReWilding Rules for Business Growth" series. He is passionate about helping business leaders and advisers. Pohl enjoys the outdoors in Colorado and spending time with his family. He welcomes collaborations and aims to empower businesses to reach their full potential.

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Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of Excellent Executive Coaching, a company that specializes in leadership development.

Dr. Brian Alman is the world's leading authority on accessing the unconscious mind for healing trauma, resolving stress, and activating inner wisdom.

• How can you heal trauma without going to therapy?
• How can we transform an inner critic into a partner?
• What is the process to meditate with purpose? Awareness, acceptance, and dialogue.
• Where does the executive stress come from?
• What is the root cause of difficult behavior?

Dr. Brian Alman is the world's leading authority on accessing the unconscious mind for healing trauma, resolving stress, and activating inner wisdom. After 25+ years helping tens of thousands of people worldwide transform their mental and physical health, his evidence-based methodology has become the gold standard for those who have "tried everything" without success.

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Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of Excellent Executive Coaching, a company that specializes in leadership development.

For over 27 years, Matt Raad has been helping people escape the 9-to-5 by turning digital assets into real-world freedom. Alongside his wife Liz, he pioneered the strategy of buying, renovating, and selling websites for cash flow—long before the term “digital real estate” became mainstream.

• Can you discuss the importance of digital marketing in today's business landscape?
• How do you stay up-to-date with the latest trends and changes in the digital marketing industry?
• What are the trends in this market?
• Am I too late? Have I missed the market or the best deals?
• Can a non-tech person do this, and how would they get started?

For over 27 years, Matt Raad has been helping people escape the 9-to-5 by turning digital assets into real-world freedom. Alongside his wife Liz, he pioneered the strategy of buying, renovating, and selling websites for cash flow—long before the term “digital real estate” became mainstream.

Starting from scratch, Matt and Liz applied their background in business acquisitions to build a high cash flow portfolio of online businesses. Today, through their nationally recognised eBusiness Institute, they train career professionals, side hustlers, and families how to create time-leveraged income streams online—without needing to be tech experts.

Matt is especially passionate about helping people rethink traditional career paths. Whether speaking to mid-career professionals seeking flexibility or young entrepreneurs hungry for financial independence, he brings a practical, proven approach to creating income that supports your lifestyle—not the other way around.

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Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of Excellent Executive Coaching, a company that specializes in leadership development.

Ken Miller is a recognized speaker, author, and fundraising strategist whose powerful life story—from Ivy League success to incarceration and redemption—inspires audiences to lead with authenticity, resilience, and purpose.

• How did your journey from the Ivy League to prison shape your views on resilience and personal transformation?
• Why were you in prison, and why did you have to learn to have more grace when people came late to a meeting, or didn't get work done?
• Why did you have to learn more tolerance? Because tolerance in the workplace means you are taken advantage of?
• How are we governed by scripts we tell ourselves?
• What do you suggest to overcome reacting to one's scripts?

Ken Miller is a recognized speaker, author, and fundraising strategist whose powerful life story—from Ivy League success to incarceration and redemption—inspires audiences to lead with authenticity, resilience, and purpose. As the author of Becoming Ken: One Black Man’s Journey from Ivy League to Prison and Back Again, Ken shares transformative lessons on leadership, personal growth, and second chances. He is also the founder of Denali FSP, a consulting firm helping nonprofits achieve sustainable funding through strategic fundraising and capacity-building.

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Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of Excellent Executive Coaching, a company that specializes in leadership development.

Mandy Morris is known for helping leaders, entrepreneurs, and individuals break the hidden emotional patterns that sabotage their success , quickly and effectively. She’s an Executive Psychology Coach, Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Certified EMDR Clinician, and Co-Founder of soFree.

• How does unresolved trauma show up in leadership, even when someone appears high-functioning?
• What role does the nervous system play in how we make decisions, regulate emotions, and respond to stress?
• Why do high performers repeat patterns of self-sabotage, and how can neuroscience help break those cycles?
• What inspired you to create soFree, and how does it help users regulate stress in under two minutes?

Mandy Morris is known for helping leaders, entrepreneurs, and individuals break the hidden emotional patterns that sabotage their success , quickly and effectively. She’s an Executive Psychology Coach, Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Certified EMDR Clinician, and Co-Founder of soFree, a breakthrough stress-relief app that helps users reset their nervous system in under two minutes.

With over a decade of experience, Mandy’s mission is to free people from the grip of unresolved wounds and disrupt the cycles of self-sabotage that quietly shape their behavior, relationships, and performance.

Specializing in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), she helps clients rewire their minds and heal at the source, empowering them to lead, live, and connect with greater clarity and resilience.

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Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of Excellent Executive Coaching, a company that specializes in leadership development.

Quang X. Pham is a biotech executive, war veteran, author, speaker, and community leader with a remarkable journey shaped by resilience, service, and entrepreneurship. He made history as the first Vietnamese American to earn naval aviator’s wings in the Marine Corps and lead an initial public offering (IPO) on Nasdaq.

• How can someone starting as an underdog in this country (this area, this company) succeed?
• Why did you join the Marines, and what did you learn from your service?
• How did you overcome the business and personal obstacles in your life?
• What did you do to prepare for the leaps in your life, from the Marines to business, from entrepreneur to author, back to entrepreneur, from startup to IPO, and back to author?
• Why is it hard for Americans to understand/accept the high cost of prescription drugs?

Quang X. Pham is a biotech executive, war veteran, author, speaker, and community leader with a remarkable journey shaped by resilience, service, and entrepreneurship. He made history as the first Vietnamese American to earn naval aviator’s wings in the Marine Corps and lead an initial public offering (IPO) on Nasdaq.

His inspiring American underdog journey, told in first person, is unlike any other.

Born in Saigon, South Vietnam, Quang and his family fled as refugees when he was 10, while his father, a Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilot, remained and was imprisoned for more than a decade. After earning a degree from UCLA, Quang served seven years on active duty, flying CH-46 helicopters in the Persian Gulf War, Somalia, and in the Reserves.

Following his military career, Quang transitioned into business, founding multiple pharmaceutical companies. In 2000, he launched MyDrugRep.com (which became Lathian Systems), an innovative online platform for physician marketing engagements, which was later acquired. In 2015, he founded Espero Pharmaceuticals and Jacksonville Pharmaceuticals. His leadership and entrepreneurial success earned him the Florida EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2018. Today, Quang serves as Chairman and CEO of Cadrenal Therapeutics (Nasdaq: CVKD).

Quang is also the author of the award-winning father-son memoir, A Sense of Duty: Our Journey from Vietnam (Penguin Random House, 2005), as well as his new book, Underdog Nation: Unleash Your Inner Underdog by Starting with Success. Committed to giving back, Quang has served on the boards of private companies, veteran charities, and educational organizations. He lives in Florida with his family, continuing to lead and inspire.

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Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of Excellent Executive Coaching a company that specializes in leadership development.

Will Linssen has been named the #1 Leadership Coach by Global Gurus and the #1 Coach Trainer by Thinkers50, and his clients include leaders from Fortune 500 companies, hypergrowth startups, and global institutions like The World Bank and Coca-Cola.

• What common leadership challenges do you see across cultures and industries?
• What's one leadership moment that changed the way you coach forever?
• How do you define and measure success in leadership?
• How does Triple Win support business performance?
• What habits define the most effective leaders?
• What’s one leadership question every manager should ask?

Will Linssen has been named the #1 Leadership Coach by Global Gurus and the #1 Coach Trainer by Thinkers50, and his clients include leaders from Fortune 500 companies, hypergrowth startups, and global institutions like The World Bank and Coca-Cola.

Also, Will is the author of Triple Win Leadership Coaching: The Coach's Guide to More Impact, More Coaching, and More Clients, which recently became a #1 New Release on Amazon in business mentoring and coaching. The book is a culmination of nearly 30 years of coaching experience, offering a practical, tested, and definitive guide for coaches aiming to scale their success with more impact, more coaching, and more clients.

Will was also named a LinkedIn Top Voice in Executive Coaching and currently serves as an advisor to Harvard Business Review, where he contributes to the evolving conversation on leadership, performance, and organizational growth.

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Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of Excellent Executive Coaching a company that specializes in leadership development.