Disruption Interruption podcast host and veteran communications disruptor, Karla Jo Helms, recently sat down with Victoria Wejchert, entrepreneur and anthropologist, to find out how she is disrupting the need for companies to build and nurture their online networks.
TAMPA BAY, Fla., Sept. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Open communication should be a priority for business leaders focused on improving partnerships and collaborations with their key stakeholders and other companies in their ecosystem. In fact, they encourage them to pivot and not view other companies in their industry as competitors— but as referral sources for talent and joint pitching opportunities. These perspectives from Forbes Expert Panel® members reflect a need for a 'people notebook' to track and nurture their business connections. (1)
Enter disruptor Victoria Wejchert, Founder and CEO of Kinship, who explains to Karla Jo Helms, the host of the Disruption/Interruption podcast, how she developed Kinship to quickly and easily keep notes on clients, prospects and other people that their businesses care about building relationships with. This virtual business community prompts business people to reconnect by voice notes and text messages.
Wejchert and Karla Jo discuss the importance of fostering meaningful relationships and the limitations of current business social media tools and CRM systems. "The most important elements in our lives to be healthy, happy, to live longer, and to be successful are our human relationships and the depth of those relationships."
Key takeaways:
- How existing social media and CRMs are missing the mark with relationship building
- Common challenges of maintaining relationships in the business world
- The value of gifting and nurturing in business relationships
- How loneliness and mental health issues are impacting youth
- Unexpected industries that need relationship building tools
Links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-wejchert/
Company website: https://www.heykinship.com/
Disruption Interruption is the podcast where you'll hear from today's biggest Industry Disruptors. Learn what motivated them to bring about innovation and how they overcame opposition to adoption.
Disruption Interruption can be listened to via the Podbean app and is available on Apple's App Store and Google Play.
About Disruption Interruption:
Disruption is happening on an unprecedented scale, impacting all manner of industries — MedTech, Finance, IT, eCommerce, shipping and logistics, and more — and COVID has moved their timelines up a full decade or more. But WHO are these disruptors, and when did they say, "THAT'S IT! I'VE HAD IT!"? Time to Disrupt and Interrupt with host Karla Jo "KJ" Helms, veteran communications disruptor. KJ interviews bad a**es who are disrupting their industries and altering economic networks that have become antiquated with an establishment resistant to progress. She delves into uncovering secrets from industry rebels and quiet revolutionaries that uncover common traits — and not-so-common — that are changing our economic markets … and lives. Visit the world's key pioneers that persist to success, despite arrows in their backs at http://www.disruptioninterruption.com
About Karla Jo Helms:
Karla Jo Helms is the Chief Evangelist and Anti-PR® Strategist for JOTO PR Disruptors™.
Karla Jo learned firsthand how unforgiving business can be when millions of dollars are on the line — and how the control of public opinion often determines whether one company is happily chosen, or another is brutally rejected. Being an alumnus of crisis management, Karla Jo has worked with litigation attorneys, private investigators, and the media to help restore companies of goodwill into the good graces of public opinion — Karla Jo operates on the ethic of getting it right the first time, not relying on second chances and doing what it takes to excel. Helms speaks globally on public relations, how the PR industry itself has lost its way and how, in the right hands, corporations can harness the power of Anti-PR to drive markets and impact market perception.
About Victoria Wejchert:
Victoria Wejchert is an entrepreneur, investor, anthropologist, and founder at Kinship Systems, where she is CEO and operates the company on a daily basis, not to mention all the other hats she wears, as most people do when in a small company. As an entrepreneur she successfully founded, scaled and exited a healthy, fast-food chain and acquired, restructured and exited two significant European healthcare businesses. She remains invested and involved in the agricultural sector. Her passion is working to reinvent industries by creating or investing in businesses that have a positive social impact, improve customer experience, and enable personal growth. Her early career experiences included a stint working at UBS in London in investment banking; being an operations manager in a fast-food chain; and two years as director of sales for a Christmas tree company.
References:
(1) Forbes Business Council. "15 Ways to Improve Business Partnerships and Collaborations", Forbes, 01 May 2023, forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2023/05/01/15-ways-to-improve-business-partnerships-and-collaborations/?sh=27c599ca3393.
Media Contact
Karla Jo Helms, JOTO PR™, 727-777-4619, [email protected], jotopr.com
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