Maureen Metcalf is the Founder and CEO, of Metcalf & Associates. She is a highly sought-after expert in anticipating and leveraging future business trends to transform organizations. She has captured her thirty years of experience and success in an award-winning series of books to align company-wide strategy, systems and culture with innovative leadership techniques.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Maureen’s grandmother
- Maureen’s parents
When business started difficulties overcame:
“We had the enron crisis which means the industry I was working in completely collapsed, I wasn’t going to meet my target that year and potentially several years into the future so I had the opportunity to leave and consider what next and so what I knew more was what I didn’t want than what I did want”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Good To Great Why some Companies make the leap and others don’t Book by Jim Collins
- Leadership Agility: Five Levels of Mastery for Anticipating and Initiating Change book by William B. Joiner and Stephen A. Josephs
Favourite Quote:
- “Be the change you want to see in the world”
- “The thinking that created our problems won’t be the thinking that helps us solve them”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Forbes – is a global media company, focusing on business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership, and lifestyle
- Harvard Business Review – Ideas and Advice for Leaders. Find new ideas and classic advice on strategy, innovation and leadership, for global leaders from the world s best business and management experts
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“If this is really what you’re passionate about and you feel like you’re making a difference in the world, find a way to stay with it and continue to make the impact and love the life you’re creating”…[Listen for More]
More About Maureen Metcalf:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.” Charles M. Schulz
Other Quotes From the Chat with Maureen Metcalf:
“Getting up every day and putting one foot in front of the other on the days it feels good which is fabulous, but on the day’s you don’t want to get out of bed, sitting looking out the window right now and it’s snowy and when I was a kid I looked forward to snow days, as an adult I looked forward to snow days but now I get myself up and keep moving forward whether or not I feel like it”
Maureen Metcalf
Thank you for the opportunity to share my experience with other entrepreneurs! I really appreciate your expert hosting abilities!
Neil Ball
You’re welcome Maureen! It was great having you as a guest on the show.