Business Success: Building Brand, Sales and Growth
August 20, 2014
Hosted by Chris Ruisi
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Episode Description
Join Chris and his special guest, Mike Sprouse - Founder, President and CEO of Chicago based Sprouse Marketing Group, an enterprise that provides businesses with deep expertise in all facets of marketing, and helps clients boost sales, build their brands, and grow sustainably. Mike and Chris will spend the hour discussing Mike’s experience and journey from college, to corporate America and how that prepared him for the challenges of becoming a successful author; entrepreneur and respected business leader. They will discuss Mike’s successful athletic career as a professional tennis player and how sports played a key role in his business career. They will also discuss in detail what it is like to start a new business; when you know it's time, how to do it, what to think about, pitfalls, and much more. Mike and Chris will also discuss Mike’s book - The Greatness Gap - Personal Strategies for Professional Success. Be sure to listen in if you are interested in success.
Step Up and Play Big
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The Step Up and Play Big Radio Show with Chris Ruisi will focus on sharing practical concepts and tools addressing leadership, business and entrepreneurship that you can use to become exceptional, raise your personal success bar, and Step Up and Play Big.
Far too many people accept “average” as their personal standard either out of fear, lack of effort, or as a result of a misconception that it is too hard to go beyond average. Our goal is to have you see the possibilities and recognize that exceeding average is not as hard as you may think. People give up far too early and allow themselves to become victims of their circumstances when they can actually be the master of them. We’ll show you how to create your own plan by answering your questions, showcasing expert guests and presenting some great tips.
Chris Ruisi
Chris Ruisi is a nationally recognized executive coach, leadership expert, professional speaker, and author who challenges business leaders to Step Up and Play Big. Drawing on his 35 plus years as a senior level executive on the corporate front lines, Chris helps his clients to discover how to find and use the full measure of their capabilities. Chris combines his detailed insights and real life experiences and creates humorous, inspiring, informative and entertaining speaking programs.
His method incorporates his own proven expertise on how organizations and decision making work in order to help others build solutions. Through enlightening, positive and interactive sessions, Chris works with his clients to cultivate their vision, set goals, prioritize their strategies and then execute a targeted solutions-based plan.
Throughout his corporate career, Chris has received acclaim as a decisive, respected and effective leader, among both superiors and colleagues alike. He has been recognized for his abilities as a rational problem-solver who is able to keep cool, and promote a calm sense of solution-finding among others, through the challenges faced by a major public company in the financial sector. He has also been acknowledged as the kind of leader who has the unique ability to drive individuals to top performance levels.
