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The Culture Leadership Podcast. Michael Kerr's Interview with the Inspiring CEO Richard Blank. Michael Kerr has been inspiring workplaces around the world for more than 20 years. Michael Kerr is a very funny Hall of Fame business speaker, trainer, and author who travels the world researching, writing and speaking about inspiring workplace cultures. His Inspiring Workplaces blog has been recognized as one of the top-30 workplace culture blogs in the world. Culture Leadership Interview with the Inspiring CEO Richard Blank. I had a rich, inspiring conversation with Richard Blank, the CEO of Costa Rica Call Centers. Our wide-ranging conversation delved into several aspects of authentic leadership, communication skills, and inspiring workplace culture. Great insights, great gems for any culture leader that wants to be more intentional about their culture and lead with humility, heart and humor. https://youtu.be/8lxTs6K-E?si=08tsS4-wgY0Oz6zd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lxTs6K-E https://youtu.be/FMHPM45NdMY Richard Blank hired bassist Garry Gary Beers of INXS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieGjN5H4xPQ Richard Blank produced a Rap Breakdancing video commercial https://youtu.be/GQvGZYcX71s?si=3I6N3p-LVxwTvnh2 Michael Kerr, The Culture Leadership Podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing, BPO, Nearshore, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business,Podcast,Gamification,Leadership,Marketing, Radio, Guest, Money, education, trainer, Michael Kerr is also the author of 8 books, including "The Jerk-Free Workplace: How You Can Take the Lead to Create a Happier, More Inspiring Workplace," "The Humor Advantage: Why Some Businesses Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank," and "Hire, Inspire, and Fuel Their Fire: How to Recruit, Onboard, and Train New Employees to Live Your Culture Out Loud." This channel is for anyone tired of working in a soul-sucking, fun-sucking workplace. It's a home for ideas on how to build a more collabroative workplace culture and how to lead more inspiring workplace cultures that drive outrageous results! As a survivor of soul-sucking, fun-sucking workplaces, I made it my mission to inspire leaders, teams, and organizations to change how they work. I ve traveled the world for more than 20 years, researching, writing, and speaking about workplaces that rock. I want to help you get the results you and your team deserve! Meet One of North Americas Most Influential and Entertaining Workplace Culture Thought Leaders Life is too short to work in a soul-sucking workplace. That s why Michael s on a mission to turbo charge inspiring, happy, and humane workplace cultures that drive OUTRAGEOUS results. Canadian Speaking Hall of Fame inductee Michael Kerr is an international business speaker, very funny motivational speaker, and workshop trainer. He s also the author of 8 books including: The Jerk-Free Workplace: How You Can Take The Lead to Create a Happier, More Inspiring Workplace; The Humor Advantage: Why Some Businesses Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank; and Hire, Inspire, and Fuel Their Fire: How to Recruit, Onboard, and Train New Employees to Live Your Culture Out Loud. For more than 20 years, Michael has travelled the world researching, writing, and speaking about inspiring workplace cultures, inspiring leaders, and businesses that leverage their humor resources to drive outrageous results for their employees and their customers. He is known as one of North America s leading speakers on creating high-performing, service-first cultures. His high energy, hilarious, inspiring, and thought-provoking programs are often rated as having the greatest impact and relevance of any presentation at a conference, which is why Michael has been listed as one of Canada s most requested business speakers. Michael has delivered his captivating keynote presentations and training workshops to more than 3,000 audiences, from Austria to Australia, from Boston to Bermuda, from Cleveland to Calgary. His presentations offer relevant, practical ideas delivered with his memorable brand of clean humor. Inspiring, hilarious, energizing, fabulous ideas, and incredibly relevant and timely content, are phrases clients repeatedly use to describe the impact of his presentations. His ideas on building better workplace cultures have been featured in hundreds of publications worldwide, while his Inspiring Workplaces blog has been recognized as one of the top-30 workplace blogs in the world. Michael lives in the spectacularly inspiring Canadian Rockies. Looking to create an inspiring, rocking, humane, fun, service-first workplace culture? Let s talk! Richards vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. When he was 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