Episode 123: You lost me at hello: Re-engaging your audiences and nurturing your relationships with David Nour
What do you learn when you sit on 128 webinars in a week? My guest this week shares his experiences and more in this episode!
I invited senior leadership/board advisor, researcher, executive educator and best-selling author, David Nour on the show to talk about a phrase/book he’s releasing called Curve Benders. These are the strategic relationships we have in our lives - that can help our growth (personal, or business) dramatically. But how do you find these people in your life? How can you nurture these relationships?
David answer these questions and also shares a very cool story on how he created a speakers video reel, without ever speaking on stage!
About today’s guest: David Nour
David Nour was born in Iran, immigrated to the U.S. as a teenager with $100, limited family ties and no fluency in English. He graduated from Georgia State University with a bachelor’s degree in business management and went on to earn an Executive MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. He resides in Atlanta, GA, with his family.
He is internationally recognized as the leading expert on applications of strategic relationships in profitable growth, sustained innovation, and lasting change. The author of ten books, including best-sellers Relationship Economics® (Wiley), and Co-Create (St. Martin’s Press), as well as the forthcoming Curve Benders, Nour serves as a trusted advisor to global clients and coaches corporate leaders. He is an adjunct professor at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management, was named to the Global Gurus Top 30 Leadership Professionals list and is honored to be one of Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Global Coaches.
A Forbes Leadership contributor on the Future of Work, and an Inc. contributor on Relationship Economics, Nour’s unique insights have been featured in a variety of prominent publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fast Company, Huffington Post Business, Entrepreneur, and Knowledge@Wharton. He’s also the host of the popular Curve Benders podcast.
Resources mentioned in this episode
David Nour’s website: Nour Group
Check out and contribute to the Nour Forum
Listen to Nour’s podcast, Curve Benders
Social Media handles:
Connect with David Nour on LinkedIn
Instagram: @davidnour
Twitter: @davidnour
Quotes from David Nour
“Your relationships are your biggest assets.”
“Relationships should be intentional, strategic and ideally quantifiable in your journey from now to next.”
“Don’t let obstacles get in the way of what you’re after. Get creative, get scrappy, find a way to get there.”
“Use this pandemic to rethink, reimagine, reinvent, reinvigorate, parts of your life, parts of your job to go after that next level of personal and professional growth.”
“Many relationships come into our life that dramatically bend, shape our growth journey.”
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