Author: Kris Safarova
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Why Western Benchmarks Are Failing: Global Leadership Shifts Executives Must Understand
Are You Leading For The World We Have …Or The World We Had? As you know, within StrategyTraining.com, we’ve been tracking global trends for a long time. And you and I have always known the West wouldn’t hold a lead forever. But when you spend time on the ground in different parts of the world the shift…
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Improve Your Cognitive Performance with Herbs (with Rachelle Robinett)
Rachelle Robinett, founder of Pharmakon Supernatural and educator in holistic health, offers a clear, science-aware framework for supporting energy, focus, and stress regulation, without defaulting to pharmaceuticals or overstimulation. In this episode, she explores how plant-based medicine, nutrition, and daily practices can be woven into practical, long-term routines that support resilience and cognitive clarity. Robinett…
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Rebuilding Your Career After Immigration: 5 Hard Resets Across 3 Continents
What It Means to Rebuild from Ground Zero, Again My first consulting engagement. Traveling internationally with the head of practice and another consultant, presenting to CEOs. Summer of 2007. This is my fifth restart. Not metaphorical. Not optional. Real-life ground zero. Again. I started over 4 times before. Across 3 continents. Across what it feels…
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Multi-Award-Winning Researcher Vanessa Druskat on Team Emotional Intelligence
Vanessa Druskat, organizational psychologist and professor at the University of New Hampshire, discusses team emotional intelligence (EI) as a predictor of sustained performance. Building on her foundational work with Daniel Goleman, Druskat focuses not on individual EQ, but on the group-level norms and practices that distinguish effective teams, particularly in complex, high-stakes environments. Druskat identifies…
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Former Biotech CEO and Harvard Medical School Faculty Member Margaret Moore on the Science of Good Leadership
Margaret Moore, faculty member at Harvard Medical School and former biotech CEO, brings decades of experience at the intersection of science, strategy, and human development to this conversation. In this episode, she unpacks The Science of Leadership, the forthcoming book she co-authored after reviewing hundreds of meta-analyses and large-scale studies, ultimately synthesizing leadership science into…
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How to Stop Oversharing at Work and Rebuild Your Executive Presence
Executive Presence Coaching to Prevent Oversharing Say the Wrong Thing Once, and People May… …Look at You Differently Forever. There’s a pattern I’ve seen over and over again, across industries, nationalities, and geographies. I’ve lived and worked in four countries this year alone, and we advise clients worldwide. Someone does well. They’re smart. Driven. They…
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Bree Groff, Advisor to Microsoft, Google, and Hilton Executives, Reveals How Leaders Create High-Performance Cultures Without Sacrificing Employee Joy
In this conversation with Bree Groff, author of “Today Was Fun” and has advised executives at Microsoft, Google, Target, and Hilton through periods of organizational change, shares specific observations about leadership blind spots in large corporations and offers practical frameworks for creating workplace cultures that drive both performance and employee satisfaction. Key Strategic Insights: The…
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You look in the mirror… and see a $1B gremlin
Some Days, You Look in the Mirror… …and See a Billion-Dollar Gremlin Staring Back. This is going to be a mega blog post because I have a lot to share with you today. It wouldn’t make sense to break it up. If you’re short on time, I recommend reading it in parts, because what’s inside…
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From Refugee to U.S. Marine pilot to NASDAQ-listed biotech CEO | Leadership & Fundraising Lessons with Quang Pham
Quang Pham went from being a 10-year-old refugee airlifted out of Vietnam to becoming a Marine pilot, and the CEO of a NASDAQ-listed biotech company. In this conversation, he shares the exact lessons that guided each transition. Key insights, with verified quotes: On decision-making: “As a young officer, we were taught to make decisions… there’s…