Kim Feil CEO, bizHive, CMO & CSO Aspire Healthy Energy Drinks and Board Member For 30 years, Kim Feil has been a corporate executive at manufacturing, retail and consulting companies. Today, as the CEO and founding partner of bizHive, she leads a company that is connecting small businesses seeking the essential support to grow with large enterprises that have great solutions to offer. At bizHive, these small businesses can get answers on how, why and what they should do as we

In Part I of our Leading With Courage℠ conversation with foodjunky.com Co-Founder and CEO Travis Johnson shared how his concierge service makes ordering food from local restaurants easy for individuals, groups, and catering. He also opened up about the de-railers to effective leadership that he tripped over in his first few years in business. From those experiences, he’s become someone who is never afraid to ask the customer, “What do you think?” We continue the conversation

"The Family is there to serve the business. The business is not there to serve the Family." Craig Duchossois The Duchossois name has become synonymous with horse racing and its painstaking rebuild of Arlington Park to become one of the crown jewels of the sport. But it’s a family that’s also been associated with businesses related to access control and a broad array of investments. Since 1994, Craig Duchossois has led The Duchossois Group, Inc. We had the opportunity to sit

Are you a new or emerging leader? Here are 11 habits those who Lead With Courage avoid. Our free self-assessment will help you identify which of them you need to be on the alert for. Click here to take it. #leadership #leadingwithcourage #emergingleaders

Here are 10 questions change leaders need to answer if they want to ensure their initiatives are successful. These 10 questions are a good example of the sort of practical tools we share in our workshops and programs. Tools that can be applied immediately upon returning to the office. The Leading With Courage℠ Academy helps new and emerging leaders make a bigger impact, sooner, which includes reducing their anxiety about dealing with change management, preparing them for wha

As we begin a new year, which of these "speed bumps" on the path to progress and adopting new ideas and processes are you going to be on the alert for? #leadership #leadingwithcourage #leadingwithcourageacademy

After his role as CIO for the City of Chicago, Hardik Bhatt thought he had left life in the public sector behind. Little would he know that a phone call was coming from Springfield, asking him to join Governor Bruce Rauner’s staff as Secretary Designate, Department of Innovation & Technology and Illinois State CIO. In this continuation of our Leading With Courage conversation with Bhatt, we discuss how state government brought its own set of challenges in the transition perio

For years, doing business while traveling in the air was severely limited. However, Chicago-based Gogo is changing that experience, paving the way for in-flight Internet and entertainment services. Gogo customers can have their laptops, tablets and mobile devices Wi-Fi enabled, allowing them to surf the web, check email, access corporate VPNs and more. At the helm of this rapidly growing company is Michael Small, who has been the President & CEO of Gogo for the last six years

In the first part of our Leader With Courage conversation with Rosemary Swierk of Direct Steel and Construction, we learned how success can be formed from a non-traditional career. Of course, even the best leaders can fall into certain traps along the way – one of the biggest being the concept that they have to do everything themselves. Here’s how Rosemary faced that challenge and responded. Value Drivers: Let’s talk about self-sufficiency, which can sound really good on its

The Cubs and Indians have had decades-long championship droughts and both teams have rebuilt themselves all the way back to instill a culture of united vision and sustained victories. In this 7-part series to match the 7 games of the World Series, Trent Clark, who worked in 3 baseball organizations – the Cleveland Indians, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and Detroit Tigers, including three trips to the World Series with the Indians and Angels – shares his insight on the ingred