Arete Coach Podcast 1091 Ben Griffin "Exploring CEOIQ and The Leadership Lens"

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Business, How To, Entrepreneurship, Education, Management

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🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This is episode 1091 of the Arete Coach Podcast with host Severin Sorensen and guest coach Ben Griffin from Baltimore, MD, who now lives in Florida. Ben is an executive coach, board advisor, and Founder and President of CEOIQ. Prior to entering the coaching business, Ben was an entrepreneur and an executive in multiple commercial insurance industry and IT service businesses. He started coaching first as a TEC Chair and later went on to found his current coaching business: CEOIQ. Ben earned his MBA from the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College.

In the interview, we explore Ben's life journey into coaching, his hard lessons learned in business, and the lifelong learnings that have brought him to be one of the great coaches of our day. We explored topics of managing the business during inflationary times, the risk of unbridled corporate growth, KPIs to manage your business, the unintended consequence of words, and many other issues relevant to business owners and coaches. When not coaching, Ben is an avid photographer and has traveled the world seeking that 'perfect' shot, and he describes the work of his new book (in writing) looking through the 'leadership lens.' This and much more awaits the listener inside the episode.

The Arete Coach Podcast seeks to explore the art and science of executive coaching. You can find out more about this podcast at aretecoach.io.

This episode was produced on August 12, 2022.

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0:00.0	This is the Arctic Coach podcast with Severin Swanson and its guest, Ben Griffin.
0:05.0	Ben is an executive coach and advisor to boards, the founder and president and CEO of CEO IQ.
0:13.0	This interview was recorded on August 12, 2022 via Zoom Video.
0:19.0	You are listening to Severin Swanson, executive coach and curator of the Arctic Coach podcast,
0:24.0	where we explore excellence in the art and science of executive coaching.
0:29.0	I'm speaking today with executive coach Ben Griffin.
0:32.0	He is an executive coach, board advisor and founder of CEO IQ.
0:37.0	Prior to entering the executive coaching field, Ben held several executive leadership positions
0:43.0	with insurance companies that you would recognize.
0:45.0	In addition to he ran as some of his own companies, he is the president of Kinox Corporation.
0:51.0	He earned his MBA from the Kremmer Graduate School of Business at Rawls College.
0:56.0	And in 2000, he started working as a group facilitator and executive coach
1:00.0	with a international CEO advisory organization.
1:04.0	Today, Ben is the founder and president of CEO IQ.
1:09.0	Through CEO IQ, Ben has created an ecosystem for CEOs, entrepreneurs and leadership teams.
1:16.0	He serves as clients as an executive coach and an advisor offering services such as peer advisor groups,
1:23.0	strategic thinking workshops, leadership development coaching, executive coaching,
1:28.0	and digital leadership labs with a focus on strategic thinking, human capital development,
1:34.0	team alignment, management by objectives, and financial diagnostics.
1:39.0	Furthermore, he also facilitates CEO round tables with companies as small as 25 people
1:45.0	and as large as 5,000 full-time employees.
1:49.0	What you might not know about Ben as he also has created passions.
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