Season 3 | 2024: Episode #4 with Richard Blank

What The Why part of WTW Rewind Series with Barbara Anne. Season 3 Episode #4 with Richard Blank. This episode of “What The Why?!? originally aired on the RVN Television Network which is now KnetStream. While these shows are currently available on KnetStream, we are happy to share these edited versions of meaningful conversations for additional reflection and impact. "What The Why?!?" hosted by Barbara Anne Gardenhire-Mills. It's a show where she interviews various leaders about their "why" – their purpose and what drives them. In our fourth season, our show features conversations with a wide variety of leaders from all walks of life about why they do what they do and how they figured things out. The first three seasons of the show, known as "What The Why?!? with Barbara Anne," are also available on select platforms and KnetStream.com." Barbara Anne: I help people feel seen, heard, valued, and validated. As a Solutions Navigator and servant leader, I use coaching, training, and customized consulting services to help people navigate challenges and opportunities to BEcome their vision of extraordinary for themselves, their teams, and their companies. I have directly assisted over 2,140 leaders, businesses, and companies of all sizes in all stages of growth and provided training and technical assistance to thousands more companies, teams, entrepreneurs, and individuals in government, nonprofit, and corporate roles. Leaders I work with identify opportunities, challenge mindsets, implement action plans, achieve goals, attract, hire, and retain talented employees, and ultimately thrive and scale. I am an executive, leadership, POSITIVE INTELLIGENCE® (PQ®) mental fitness, and International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach (ICF PCC), business consultant, and community and economic development expert. I have three decades of leadership experience in government, nonprofit, and corporate roles in business development, community relations and communications, capital access, coaching and training, change management, organizational development, team optimization, and creating company cultures that lead with civility and treating everyone as the unique human BEings they are. I use my unique skills, empathy, flexibility, enthusiasm, creativity, and a sense of humor to achieve visions on my own or with a team. I've overcome challenges no person should ever encounter and use those "gifts" and lessons learned to help others. Ways I can add value to you include: Executive, Leadership, PQ Mental Fitness Coach. ICF PCC and Forbes Coaches Council member Relationship & Business Development Leadership, Office Culture & CIED Training & Coaching Organizational Development, Team Optimization & Performance Management Media, Government & Community Relations Leadership, Performance, Product & Technical Training, including Instructional Design (ATD) Grant Management, Grant Writing, Fundraising, Resource Development & Non-Dilutive Funding Full-Cycle Lending (including CRA, HMDA, and other compliance) Program Development, Implementation, Marketing & Analysis Project Management Property & Casualty Insurance Corporate Social Responsibility/TBL/Sustainability https://youtu.be/sCt_28qjrTg?si=gERP_m8RCZvhjndj Richard Blank hired bassist Garry Gary Beers of INXS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieGjN5H4xPQ What The Why, Barbara Anne, Richard Blank,Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing, BPO, Nearshore, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business,Podcast,Gamification,Leadership,Marketing, Radio, Guest, Money, education, trainer, Richards vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades. Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica s Call Center since 2008. Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain. A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level. https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #WhatTheWhy #BarbaraAnne #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow