Evan Nierman is a crisis management expert who serves as the Founder and CEO of Red Banyan, a globally renowned public relations firm that guides clients through complex high stakes situations. He is also the bestselling author of CRISIS AVERTED: PR Strategies to Protect Your Reputation and the Bottom Line.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Elon Musk
- Sir Richard Branson
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Joe Kundera
- Tim Vogel founder of Scenthound
- Eloise Gonzalez
When business started difficulties overcame:
“The biggest problem that I faced was I was starting a business; it was a public relations and communications business. I knew how to be really good at PR, I had done that my whole career. What I didn’t know the first thing about was business itself. I knew how to be a publicist; I knew how to be a crisis manager. I had no clue how to be a businessman or business owner. And so, for me starting the business it led to a crash course in trying to become educated and smart in terms of how do I take this skill set of being good at communications and how do I translate that into morphing myself into a communications entrepreneur ”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t Book by Jim Collins
- The E Myth: Why Most Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It Book by Michael Gerber
- The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level Book by Gay Hendricks
- All the King’s Men Book by Robert Penn Warren
Favourite Quote:
” Do…or do not. There is no try.” Yoda
Recommended Online Resources:
- The Entrepreneur Way – Learn from successful Entrepreneurs with Free Daily podcast interviews that reveal their business success secrets
- Jim Collins Tools is the author of Good to Great, Built to Last and How the Mighty Fall. You will find in one place the timeless concepts that emerged from more than 25 years of rigorous research into the question of what makes great companies tick. These concepts are used widely by leaders throughout the business and social sectors.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“If you will it it is not a dream. If you believe in yourself and you believe in your team and you every day, take incremental steps to make yourself a little bit better each day. It’s like this Japanese concept of kaizen which is incremental improvement. If you get a little bit better as a person or as a business every single day in short order the gains are massive”…[Listen for More]
More About Evan Nierman:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.” Lady Gaga
Other Quotes From the Chat with Evan Nierman:
- “I was able to shortcut the learning curve because I got involved with an organisation, EO that put me in a position to learn from other entrepreneurs who had been there and done that and I was paired up with a coach”
- “I believe mental health and mental fitness… It is the secret ingredient and it is the core of everything. Because if mentally you are sharp and you are focused and you have self-belief you can make things happen, you can manifest them, you can make it materialise. And the converse is also true. If you are filled with doubt and you are self-deprecating or you are too hard on yourself and you are just not mentally in a good space it’s debilitating and it hinders you”
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