Summary: Synopsis January 8th marks the 30th anniversary of the founding of BNI, and today Dr. Misner introduces the new CEO and an upcoming video series, "BNI Then and Now." Graham Weihmiller recently served as the CEO of a 32-year-old nationwide franchisor of homecare services. While there, he was a founding director of a foundation that provides homecare to those who cannot afford it. Mr. Weihmiller received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his BBA from the College of William & Mary. There are five things Graham wants to focus on today: Broadcasting BNI's culture of Givers Gain Codifying members' expectations Using technology Leveraging internal and external content The BNI Foundation Brought to you by Networking Now. Complete Transcript of BNI Podcast Episode 388 - Priscilla: Hello everyone and welcome back to The Official BNI Podcast brought to you by NetworkingNow.com, the leading site on the net for networking downloadables. I am Priscilla Rice, and I am coming to you from Live Oak Recording Studio in Berkeley, CA. I am joined on the phone today by the Founder of BNI, Dr. Ivan Misner. Hello Ivan. I hear that you have somebody very special on our podcast today. Ivan: I do indeed, Priscilla. This is kind of a great week for me and for BNI. Tomorrow, January 8, marks our 30th anniversary as an organization. 3o years ago tomorrow, BNI started in southern California. So I think it is really fitting to have this opportunity to not only celebrate our 30th year anniversary but also mark the coming of, I think, a new era for the organization. I am going to introduce to everyone the new CEO of BNI. Before I do, I want to let everyone know that we are going to be doing a new video series this year called BNI Then and Now, 30 Years of Changing the Way the World Does Business. Look for that. We will put a link up here on one of these podcasts. We will also be putting a link up on social media. We literally have dozens and dozens of videos from me and from many members and directors talking about our 30 years in the organization. Today, on the podcast, I want to introduce the new CEO for BNI. His name is Graham Weihmiller. He recently served as the CEO of a 32-year old nationwide franchise, Aura Homecare Services. While he was there, he was also the founding director of a foundation that provides homecare for those who cannot afford it. He has previously worked with Pioneer Equity Partners, American Franchise Company, Blues Allen, JP Morgan. He has a Six Sigma certification, which for those of you who don’t know, it is a continuous improvement or quality management processes program. Graham received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Graham, I am so honored to have you as part of the BNI organization, and I would like to welcome you. Graham: Thank you very much, Dr. Misner. I appreciate it. It is an honor to be here and especially at a point where the organization is turning 30. It is a very exciting time, so I appreciate it. Ivan: Yeah, it is an exciting time and I think with you at the helm as a CEO, I think it is really going to take an organization that has grown dramatically and grow even at a greater pace and create an even better program for our members worldwide. There were five things that you wanted to talk about today. What I would like to do is just kind of touch upon those five things and then have you hit them one at a time. One is broadcasting BNI’s culture of givers gain. The second was a better understanding of members’ expectations and codifying those expectations. Using technology was the third one. The fourth one was using internal and external content. Last, the BNI Foundation. I think these are great topics and I am really curious to see if we can get through them in 10 minutes, so let’s see what we can do. What would you like to talk about with codifying, emphasizing and broadcasting BNI’s culture of givers gain? Graham: Well,
