Yuri Kruman is a Fortune 500 Personal Development Consultant, board member, startup advisor and official member of the Forbes Coaches Council and Forbes contributor. Yuri’s consulting, advising and coaching portfolio includes speaking engagements, workshops and advisory work on personal + professional development focused on Employee Experience (EX), HR Transformation / Change Management, Customer Experience (CX), PR/Media and business strategy, impacting thousands of Fortune 500 and startup executives.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“There have been quite a few to put it mildly…unfortunately when I started my business, about two months in to in doing this full time our little daughter was diagnosed with cancer. It’s the kind of thing that forces you to really get very very clear on who you are, who you are meant to serve, who is you ideal client and how to be as efficient as anything – because you have to run to the hospital and back and essentially provide care for you kid”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Book by Daniel H. PinkFavourite Quote:
“If you don’t ask the answer is always no”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Influencive – Unconventional wisdom about entrepreneurship, business, lifestyle, culture, travel, life hacking and mindful living from influential minds
- Forbes – is a global media company, focusing on business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership, and lifestyle
- Entrepreneur – Advice, insight, profiles and guides for established and aspiring entrepreneurs worldwide Home of Entrepreneur magazine
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“work on what you can control and don’t worry about the rest”…[Listen for More]
More About Yuri Kruman:
- Master The Talk Consulting
- Yuri Kruman
- DGTeca LLC
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“In every situation, there is a sacred answer. You must search and seek.” Lailah Gifty Akita
Other Quotes From the Chat with Yuri Kruman:
- “As people like to say in America folks don’t try this at home”
- “I realised that the only way for me to really work with the people that I choose on the terms that matter to me with alignment to who I am and where I am going was to start my own consulting company”
- “I inadvertently discovered the formula for how to change careers when you have zero experience and zero connections”
- “in a way I had to really make it work because it is my own thing, it is on my own terms”
- “my business grew out of my frustration of not being able find my way in four other careers”
- “it’s much more interesting and valuable to create premium packages around helping through transformative experiences”
- “Alignment is really the key to my business and the work that I do for my clients”
- “By far the most valuable thing that I did for my business was to get coaching. And that is really to invest the resources and the time to learn from masters of the trade”
- “there is a point where I learned that in order for me to be successful in my business I really had to focus on a very small number of tasks that are very high value, a very discrete and narrow type of client – and the same idea with investors and advisors etc. So really focus is the number one thing that you have to achieve in your business even at a time when you don’t know where revenue might come from, you don’t know who is your ideal client. You have to choose. You have to make decisions that lead you to focus and move forward as quickly and meaningfully as you can. It has to be really both, not just quickly and not just meaningfully”
- “there is certain triggers that you can set up within your life, again that is starting with your calendar, starting with the way that you block time that really can make you incredibly productive even if you are not someone who is born that way”
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