Working Gratitude Archive

A president’s club successful Realtor, David loves change. A life objective has been to say yes more than no. When new opportunities come, he looks at each one with thanks. He has hosted a TV show, been a cruise director, a flight attendant, restaurant owner…plus he teaches yoga 3 times a week.

Director of University events for DePaul University, Jen Kramer is an award-winning creative event director. In our Working Gratitude we discuss a personal project she undertook in 2018. Year Of Love Project: 365 Days of Love Letters. https://www.facebook.com/groups/theyearofloveproject/

Sylvette is a leader in the talent space and global talent acquisition. Recruiting is her art & passion. She wants to elevate the contribution of the function & recruiters. She has worked with great organizations like Microsoft, Gap Inc., as a consultant and now Opendoor, a real estate tech company.

Brad has over 25 years of experience in HR, performance management, employee engagement, compensation, recruiting, change management & instructional design. He has a B.A. in communications from University of Maryland & M.Ed. from Vanderbilt University. He is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council.

In this podcast Melody Moore, soprano, has performed with opera companies in San Francisco, New York City, Atlanta, England, Los Angeles, & New Orleans. She is graduate of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, a former Adler Fellow of San Francisco Opera and a participant of the Merola program, San Francisco.   

As co-founder and CEO of Thnks, Brendan is responsible for all day-to-day operations of the platform and is the guardian of Thnks’ strategic vision. Brendan is on a mission to improve the way gratitude is expressed within the workplace and between sales teams and their clients. Thnks.com

With a background in accounting Michelle James is co-founder & volunteer executive director of The Downtown Dogs Group. Founded in 2009, Downtown Dogs is dedicated to this premise: all neglected & abused dogs & cats, regardless of age, breed, health or temperament issues, deserve a loving family.

Scott is SVP & CDO at Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation in Memphis, TN. Baptist is one of the largest faith-based, non-profit hospital systems in the nation with 21 hospitals & 18,500 employees in TN, MS & AR. He oversees the $500 million BMHC Foundation, & Corp. Communications at Baptist.

April Kelly was at PayPal before it was PayPal, went on to what was then a start-up, LinkedIn. Her work in those roles gave her great insights about leadership and gratitude that she shares in her book “Gratitude at Work.” She is grateful for technology that connects people and ideas.

Ed & Deb Shapiro, award-winning authors of many books on meditation & personal development, are featured bloggers for HuffPost.com & Oprah.com. They have taught meditation & personal development for over 25 years. Ed and Deb share how gratitude is a consistent mindset and part of their work.  

American soprano, Melody Moore, has performed with San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, Atlanta Opera, English National Opera, Opera Cleveland, Los Angeles Opera, Madison Opera, New Orleans Opera, Orlando Opera, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. In 2013 she makes her debut Houston Grand Opera.

Chip Conley is author, speaker and founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality. He can find gratitude in the two economic downturns for very strategic reasons and because of what he learned during these times. He expresses gratitude financially and with time and energy dedicated toward local nonprofits.

John Kralik, Superior Court Judge in LA, is author of New York Times bestseller "A Simple Act of Gratitude - How Learning to Say Thank You Changed My Life." "When you send out your appreciation to others, it is like a wave in a lake. It just ripples and ripples and ultimately comes back to you." 

Bestselling authors Ed & Deb Shapiro return to Working Gratitude. With more than 20 books on mindfulness, meditation, & the body-mind relationship, and their latest, The Unexpected Power of Mindfulness & Meditation. They have also been featured bloggers for HuffPost & Oprah. EdandDebShapiro.com

Steve Foran is the Grateful CEO and founder of Gratitude at Work. Steve has written the book about it! “Surviving to Thriving: The 10 Laws of Grateful Leadership” He has a big dream! Make 1 billion people happier! He is a lifelong resident of Halifax, Nova Scotia. 

Joan is grateful for a 40 year career in travel and for the opportunity to empower and develop new travel leaders. ITMI was the first travel and tourism school to include education about human trafficking awareness in its curriculum, partners with ECPAT USA and is a signatory of thecode.org. 

Jamie Meyer, “Swedish Fish” in a sea of cowboys, has been living in Nashville, TN for 5 years. He signed his first publishing deal 2018 and performs all over the Nashville area. He travels back and forth from Sweden to remind him of his humble concrete suburban roots of Hising Island, Gothenburg.

 As Chief Operating Officer at Actualize Consulting, a financial services firm, Kerry's  book and program Culture Infusion is the impetus behind Actualize Consulting being named a Top Company Culture by Entrepreneur Magazine, Top Work Place by The Washington Post, and a Great Place to Work.