The Biz Dojo, Inc - Best Use of Thought Leadership in Business Development
Company: The Biz Dojo Inc, Calgary, Alberta
Company Description: The Biz Dojo Inc. is a multi-award winning podcast turned coaching, leadership and wellness business. We provide coaching and consulting services to businesses and directly to individuals as well, including life, business, entrepreneur and mindset coaching and classroom training, as well as media and podcast consulting to a multitude of clients worldwide.
Nomination Category: Thought Leadership Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Best Use of Thought Leadership in Business Development
Nomination Title: The Biz Dojo Inc. - Thought leaders empowering
The Biz Dojo is a podcast-turned-corporation success story like few others. Starting in late 2020 as a podcast about entrepreneurship,co-founders Seth Anderson and JP Gaston set out to share their expertise and thought leadership with audiences around the world. Joined by guests from their extensive network, the duo would explore leading-edge developments in mental and physical wellness, personal growth, mindset, leadership and business. Guests would includeUN Humanitarian award winners, Top Chef champions, Olympians and hall of fame athletes, CEOs, entrepreneurs, international touring musicians, and many, many more.
The show grew rapidly in popularity, and by early 2021 the podcast had won multiple awards for thought-leadership and creativity. That success allowed the duo to take The Biz Dojo to the next step – a fully incorporated business offering development and consultancy services.
Today, The Biz Dojo thrives at the forefront of research and thought leadership in the coaching and wellness space. They have been featured in Forbes for their unique approach to understanding human psychology, and the podcast continues to grow (and win awards!) as a backdrop to this incredible success story. It's telling that when industry thought-leaders look for their own coaching, they seek out The Biz Dojo.
Over the course of the 14 months since inception, The Biz Dojo has become thought leaders across two different industries.
With The Biz Dojo Podcast, we’ve been lucky enough to be recognized in several ways. First, through our Gold AVA Digital award for thought leadership and content creation in podcast, as well as a Gold Hermes digital award for our unique approach to leadership and development podcasts. We were also recognized for our ability to bring thought leaders from a variety of industries together to share their story with listeners through our Gold Hermes Creative award. These awards recognized The Biz Dojo for standing out from the crowd – and we are 1 of just 6 podcasts worldwide to receive these two pieces of recognition and the only Canadian company to do so. We’ve also been recognized by our listeners through our 5star podcast rating, and our top-30 podcast rating across 9 countries.
We’ve also been recognized as thought leaders within the coaching and development space, and have expanded our business after features in Forbes, Newsly, Fast Capital 360 and Awarenow. These various articles highlighted our perspective on coaching and development, and have enabled our team to grow our business to business contracts and client growth by a combined 1100% this year
We’ve brought together UN Humanitarian award winners, Olympians, international recording artists, Top Chef champions, CEOs and more – and that work is being recognized both in the Media space as well as within the learning and development industry.
It is extremely rare for a podcast to see the reach and success The Biz Dojo has found in such a short period. In fact, research shows that anywhere from80-90% of podcasts failin the first 10 episodes. Even before incorporating, The Biz Dojo was bucking the trend by falling into that top 10%.
The Biz Dojo is just 1 of 10 podcasts recognized for the AVA Gold Digital award, and 1 of 2 recognized for both the AVA award and a Hermes gold award for thought leadership and creativity in the podcasting space.
As thought leaders in coaching and development, The Biz Dojo's growth has been exponential. The 820% growth in coaching clients and 310% growth in B2B contracts is rarified air for even the most experienced coaching businesses. Consider that the bulk of our clients are themselves successful - even world-renowned -coaches and leadership training businesses, and it's easy to see that The Biz Dojo is at the forefront of thought leadership in this space.In fact, our most recent client holds offices worldwide, offering coach and leadership training. They are considered thought-leaders in the space of culture coaching and culture actualization. They've turned to us to help support and develop their business, and to help them develop methodologies that will support further growth.
All this from a podcast thatsimply hoped to inspire even just a single listener. This unique path has put The Biz Dojo Inc. among the worlds foremost in thought leadership
The following attachments and links are meant to help support our submission. Our business to date has connected 60 thought leaders to listeners and businesses around the world through both our podcast and B2B service offerings. These have spanned industry and geography, and shared stories from leaders that include 9 Olympians and professional athletes, 4 international recording artists, 12 coaches and wellness experts, 4 best-selling authors, a Top Chef Champion, a UN Humanitarian award winner, a renowned TED presenter, and more than 20 entrepreneurs from all around the world.
Attachments:
Podcast Charts – The Biz Dojo top chart ranking position around the world, highlighting 13 countries in which the show is currently tracked and charting – including a top 20 ranking across 7/13.
AVA Digital Award Notification – the letter of award from the AVA Digital Awards team identifying The Biz Dojo as the winner of a Gold AVA Digital Award.
Hermes Award Letter – letter received from the Hermes Creative Awards team identifying The Biz Dojo as the winner of a Gold Hermes Digital Award
Links:
https://thebizdojo.com – our website, with links to various awards, our highlight in Forbes, links to the podcasts we are actively producing
https://www.newsly.me/post/the-best-business-podcasts-of-2021 - Newsly identification of “The Biz Dojo” as the number 2 business podcast of 2021
https://link.chtbl.com/thebizdojo - dashboard to our podcast (select your preferred platform to listen or review our guest thought-leaders on the program)