Dean Jetten started his career as a heavy duty mechanic. Now he leads a Volker Stevin highways team that maintains 18,500 km of highway, mows the equivalent 38,376 football fields and uses 700,000 litres of reflective paint, all in an effort to keep drivers safe. Dean, a man whose employees drive 5 million km a year on scheduled road patrols, tells us how he believes that if you want to go far you “need to go together”.
Tyler has a love of marketing and co-founded clearmotive marketing in 2007. With offices in Calgary and Toronto Tyler’s goal was to build a marketing-first agency focused on better connecting clients to their customers. In a wide ranging conversation the boys talk to Tyler about his experiences of pivoting his business during COVID, the changing world of work, his experiences with the RCAF Snowbirds display team and he and Ken’s canoeing escapade.
Ken explains that a SHIFT Disturber is not the same as a sh__ disturber. He describes the SHIFT card deck and how to create a High-Performance Culture in 9 Not-So-Simple-But-Totally-Necessary Steps ... so that you too can become a SHIFT Disturber. Russell demonstrates how to use the deck to distill the core values of you or your team.
The boys talk with Customer Experience Guru, Passionate Leader and Catalyst for Change Shannon Burch and learn her insights into building the power of the customer experience, her leadership ethos as to why it’s important to allow people to fail and then learn from it. Shannon shares her experiences of a career in a range business leader roles.
The boys find out why knowing the answer to this question is f***ing important for your finances and investments. Dean is Calgary's only FLAT FEE for advice financial fiduciary providing truly comprehensive financial services, an author, public speaker and 8X National #1 BMX racing Champion.
Chet enlightens the boys as to what the f*** a Ghostwriter does, the creative process and how this role differs from that of an editor. Despite Ken and Russell’s best f***ing efforts Chet holds firm and doesn’t divulge who his celebrity and business influencer clients are, we tried …. but Chet’s confidentiality agreements stick … so no need for the f***ing lawyers! A fascinating insight into Chet’s career as an author and entrepreneur - being unapologetically creative.
Stephen Schroeder of the Calgary International Film Festival tells you how CIFF became an an Oscar-qualifying festival and is regularly cited as one of the world’s "50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee". He also explains the best leadership lesson you can learn from the beaches of Thailand, how to rescue a soccer team from a flooded cave and how learning to put the customer first can rescue an organization from the brink. It turns out we can learn a lot from Canada’s 4th largest film festival.
In this f***ing festive episode of the “I Need To F***ing Talk To You’ podcast the guys channel their inner Ebenezer Scrooge and look back at another f***ing COVID year, before looking forward to the upcoming Yuletide festivities.
After f***ing up a quote from Shakespeare the boys are in conversation with Kari Fulmek & Carolyn Charles from Equine Connection. They discuss what equine assisted learning is, the similarities between a team of people and herd of horses and how horses make great teachers bringing out the authentic leader in you.
Being the irreverent pair they are Ken and Russell embellish Shane’s own motto "Earn it, don't expect it”, before joining him in conversation and meandering with purpose through the topics of being an entrepreneur at Shane Holmes, leading culture change in the organization, Shane’s advice to the new Mayor of Calgary and learn a couple of Shane’s other favourite sayings from comic books and film.