Most of us will either ask to or be called upon to roll out a new initiative sometime in our careers.

Might even be a big one.

My guest Christina Call Martins and her team successfully launched a massive initiative at a Fortune 500 company.

Today you'll learn how they did it.

This is Coaching for Leaders, episode number 96.

Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.

Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm

your host Dave Stahoviac. This is a weekly show to help people be better leaders through improved communications, human relations, and personal productivity.

And we need all three of those when launching a major initiative.

And I'm so excited today to share this episode with you.

And to welcome my guest Christina Call Martins from the Northrop Grumman Corporation.

I met Christina, I think about five or six years ago when she first came to work at Northrop Grumman.

And for those of you who don't know if you've been listening to the show just for a short period of time,

I do a bunch of work with the Dale Carnegie Training Organization and Dale Carnegie has been partnered with Northrop Grumman through our partnership with West

Los Angeles College for about 10 years now and we've served Northrop Grumman's aerospace systems

and I've done a whole bunch of training over the years

for folks who are involved in the F-18 and F-35

fighter jet programs and lots of other programs there.

And one of the biggest projects I've overseen is Dale Carnegie's relationship with Northrop over the years and

we've been involved with training several thousand people in their organization.

And so I've spent a lot of time on their sites and particularly here in Southern California over the years.

And as I've gotten to know people there and build relationships, one of the things that I kept hearing about over the years is this program called

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