{"id":1551,"date":"2013-08-07T14:13:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T14:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2013-08-08T14:41:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T14:41:26","slug":"shawn-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/shawn-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 73: Author of \u201cOut Think\u201d and Executive Producer & Vice President of Skillsoft Shawn Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong> 73
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0August 3
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Shawn Hunter
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Business leadership author and entrepreneur Shawn Hunter<\/a> grew up in grew up in\u00a0northern Virginia.\u00a0 While in high school,\u00a0Hunter made his first trip to Maine to work at a hotel on Lake Sebago,\u00a0where he fell in love with Maine and his future wife. \u00a0Hunter attended St Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, North Carolina and earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in Political Science and Government.<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left) is joined by author of “Out Think” and Executive Producer and Vice President of Skillsoft Shawn Hunter (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

While in the studio Hunter told Stevoe about how in 1993, he was in Korea teaching English when his dad first pitched the idea of broadcasting live, interactive learning\u00a0to businesses using satellites.\u00a0 In 1995, Hunter and his father, Hal Hunter, founded Targeting Learning Corporation (TLC), which provided organizations with solutions to develop managers and for managers to develop their teams, through both live and video mediums.\u00a0 TLC was acquired by Skillsoft in 2007, where Hunter has been the Executive Producer & Vice President for Leadership Development Channel.\u00a0 Skillsoft delivers cloud-based tailor-made training programs on a wide variety of essential business skills for organizations.<\/p>\n

During Hunter\u2019s time with Skillsoft, he has interviewed, collaborated with, and filmed, hundreds of leading business authors, executives, and many business school faculty in an effort to assemble the most relevant video learning solutions. The Leadership Development Channel offers Leadership Quick Talks, which are five minute video learning programs, designed for immediate and contextual application to drive success in the workplace.\u00a0 The Channel also offers CEO Quick Talks, which offer information from Michael Dell, Jack Welch, Anne Mulcahy and more of today’s top business leaders and practitioners.<\/p>\n

\u201cOut Think:\u00a0 How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes\u201d is about next generation leadership, and it’s about building a growth mindset, and cultivating innovation, and creating remarkable workplaces.\u00a0 For this book, Hunter collaborated with and interviewed many executives, academic leaders and thought-leaders from the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia.\u00a0 The book is outlined as so each chapter offers a key idea with techniques to show how the idea can be implemented with real-world examples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shawn Hunter, author of \u201cOut Think\u201d and Executive Producer & Vice President of Skillsoft, joined TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods to discuss his new book, and the importance of creativity, empathy and innovation in the 21st century workplace. Hunter described that the genesis for his new book was that for over a decade he interviewed hundreds of business people from all over the world, and he felt there was a common thread that had to be shared. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}