Friday - June 5th, 2026
Apple News
×

What can we help you find?

Open Menu
January 23rd, 2024

Episode 192: Scott Miller, Co-Founder and CEO of YESLY Water

Scott Miller is the guest on this week’s episode of Speaking to Influence. The Co-Founder and CEO of YESLY Water speaks to Laura about how he handled pushback and set boundaries to move forward.

In this episode you will learn:
● How Scott used individual time with his team members to be vulnerable during a personal diagnosis, which resulted in galvanizing his team to become closer as they ended up opening up new levels of conversation.
● How Scott used transparency in order to ensure that his company’s intentions were understood.
● How Scott uses his company’s pillars to lead conversations with his team to ensure that they are living their ‘We’ culture.
● How to frame your contributions during an interview when you want to avoid sounding like you’re bragging…and how showing that you are a contributor’ could be the ‘It’ factor that CEOs might be looking for.

24 Hour Challenge:
Dream something awake! Then think of a process to make that dream awake come true.

Mentioned in the Episode:
“The Summit Mindset: Winning the Battle of You Versus You” – Scott Miller

About Scott:

Scott Miller is an exceptional visionary leader with a remarkable track record in the beverage industry. With over 30 years of experience and nearly two decades as a highly effective CEO, Scott is renowned for his transformative leadership style.

As the driving force behind Essentia and acquisition by Nestle, Scott fearlessly navigated the company through unprecedented challenges during the global pandemic and economic crises. Under his leadership, Essentia adopted a People-first culture with its foundational 4 Strategic Pillars, empowering the entire team to create a daily positive impact. Throughout his tenure as CEO of Tampico Beverages, Inc., Scott orchestrated the company’s successful expansion into a mid-size international organization and skillfully led the sale process of Tampico to
one of the largest ESOP funds in the nation. Scott teamed up with Ken Uptain to create their shared vision of the #1 Enhanced Flavored Still Water in the nation, Yesly. Empowering, but edgy, Yesly is set to reach national distribution by the end of 2023 cementing Scott as a leader in the beverage & CPG industry.

An avid runner and fitness enthusiast, he lives by the motto of "doing the reps," always striving to bring out the best in others. Scott’s leadership is centered around unity and collective success, exemplified by his powerful mantra, "It’s never about ‘one’ of us. It’s always about ‘all’ of us."

You can connect with Scott in the following ways:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-miller-38a5748b/
Web: https://yeslywater.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yeslywater/

You can connect with Dr. Laura Sicola in the following ways:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drlaurasicola
LinkedIn Business Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/laurasicola-inc
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VocalImpactProductions
Facebook: Dr. Laura Sicola
Twitter: @LauraSicola
Instagram: @drlaurasicola
Website: https://laurasicola.com
Laura’s Online Course: virtualinfluence.today

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For more books, online programs and other materials produced by Dr. Laura Sicola and Vocal Impact Productions, go to:

https://vocalimpactproductions.com/vipshop/

For more information go to https://vocalimpactproductions.com or https://speakingtoinfluence.com

#management #podcast #communication #Leadership #executivepresence #publicspeaking #persuasion #influence #confidence

Laura Sicola Leadership Communication & Influence Expert, Speaker, Author, Podcaster

Dr. Laura Sicola is a leadership communication and influence expert, speaker, author of Speaking to Influence: Mastering Your Leadership Voice, and host of the podcast, Speaking to Influence: Communication Secrets of the C-Suite. Her mission is to transform executives into confident, inspiring leaders whether live or virtually in order to get the results they want and turn their vision into their legacy. As the founder of Vocal Impact Productions, she has trained and coached executives at Comcast, IBM, the US Department of Commerce and Women Against Abuse along with politicians, business owners and non-profit leaders from around the world.

Laura’s TEDx talk, “Want to Sound Like a Leader? Start by Saying Your Name Right,” has nearly 7 million views, and she has been featured on programs such as Fox & Friends First, NBC10 @Issue and PHL 17. She has also spoken to thousands at conferences such as the Professional BusinessWomen of California Conference and the PA Conference for Women.

Laura received her PhD in educational linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania, where she also taught from 2001-2013.