Influential U

Influential U

Influential U is the home of Transactional Intelligence™ — the structured methodology for navigating the exchanges that shape your career, your business, and your professional life. Each episode features a practitioner conversation and a teaching segment drawn from the TQ curriculum. Hosted by John ...

The Audiobook Is Live — and the Opening of HIGH TQ
Influential U
The Audiobook Is Live — and the Opening of HIGH TQ

Recent Episodes

Oct. 2, 2026

The Audiobook Is Live — and the Opening of HIGH TQ

The audiobook is live. HIGH TQ: Why It Matters More Than Expertise is out on Audible — seven hours and seventeen minutes, narrated by John Patterson. This episode opens with the book's Preface: the question behind the entire methodology, and the pause that always follows it. HIGH TQ debuted at #1 in Organizational Change on Amazon and held that spot for seven days. Audiobook: https://www.audible.com/pd/HIGH-TQ-Audiobook/B0HLFSHYYQ Print and Kindle: https://a.co/d/0eCUKywa Free TQ Diagnostic™: tq
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Feb. 17, 2025

Crafting Your Career Narrative with Jillian Formentin

Jillian Formentin's journey to becoming the Australian Professional Engineer of the Year wasn’t just about mastering technical skills—it was about mastering her own narrative. Through intentional career decisions, embracing her strengths, and crafting a compelling story, Jillian has created a career that not only elevates her but inspires others. Jillian’s journey to becoming an influential leader in the engineering community started long before she was awarded the prestigious title of Australi
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Feb. 3, 2025

Classics - How to Coordinate 10K Super Bowl Volunteers with Laura & David Senior Garcia

As the Personality Diversity Experts chosen to coordinate 10,000 volunteers for the 2017 Super Bowl, Equilibria siblings Laura and David Senior Garcia talk about how studying transactional competence has improved their company's focus and helped bring conscious awareness to a diverse world. Their company works worldwide to help people embrace and leverage diversity to elevate personal, professional, and organizational performance. In this episode's talk, Kirkland Tibbels and John Patterson addr
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Jan. 29, 2025

Classics - The "Perfect Job" Fallacy with Helen Kearney

Helen Kearney is a sales recruiter for a global software company. Her life's journey and her career specialization allow us to examine the question that we all - at one time or another - find ourselves asking: what is my perfect job (or purpose or life's mission)? As she explains, many people are exceptionally naive about their professional value. They may not understand their involvement in the larger transaction and the realities of their role in the marketplace. As such, she says, they often
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Jan. 22, 2025

Classics - The Bankruptcy of Magical Thinking with Kristen Moeller

In this episode, Kristen Moeller, a literary agent, published author, three-time TEDx speaker, and passionate advocate for personal growth, joins John Patterson to explore the challenges and revelations of pursuing success and fulfillment. From her mountain home in Colorado, Kristen shares her journey of transitioning from hopeful and magical thinking to embracing the principles of accurate thinking. This episode delves into the lessons Kristen learned through Influential U, including the impor
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Jan. 15, 2025

Classics - A Surplus of Help with Kim Corbett

Having more than doubled her income and moving her company's market position from #57 to #1, Kim Corbett is an account executive who considers herself a turnaround agent, turning around the sales of failing or emerging companies. She's a top performer with a proven track record for growing revenues and increasing an organization’s profitability. Always ambitious, she had previously struggled to get beyond her current income range — until studying with Influence Ecology. In this interview, you'll