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A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world

John Rouda: technical leader, author, speaker, educatorwww.ageekleader.com
The ultimate podcast for aspiring leaders in the creative or technology fields. John Rouda discusses leadership topics, interviews some of the greatest minds today and teaches you practical leadership tips, techniques, tricks and hacks to improve motivation, negotiation, and other much needed skills for leaders today.
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AGL 424: AI Secrets with Katharine Loucaidou

About Katharine With over three decades of entrepreneurial success and the remarkable ability to overcome life-threatening health challenge, Katharine Loucaidou is a powerhouse of resilience and innovation. From founding successful businesses to revolutionizing the coaching industry with her groundbreaking AI platform, Katharine AI, she empowers entrepreneurs and leaders to reach unprecedented heights. Her book, AI Secrets for Unstoppable Business Success & Life Hacks, offers transformative ...

Jul 04, 202537 min

AGL 423: Nate Dinet, The Step Manager

About Nate Nate Dinet is the founder and CEO of The Step Manager. With over 15 years dedicated to advocating for employees, Nate developed The Step Manager to provide accessible and affordable promotion and management coaching. His goal is to empower professionals to advance their careers and achieve work-life balance. This initiative reflects his commitment to fostering professional growth and operational excellence across various industries, including technology, sports/entertainment, and fina...

Jun 27, 202538 min

AGL 422: Kathy Oneto on Sustainable Ambition

About Kathy Kathy Oneto is an executive and life-work coach, speaker, and facilitator who helps ambitious individuals and organizations explore how to live and work differently for greater success, satisfaction, and sustainability. With a portfolio career, she is also a strategy executive who bridges her two worlds applying strategic approaches to life and work decisions and practices. Kathy is the founder of Sustainable Ambition® and host of the Sustainable Ambition podcast. As a strategist, Ka...

Jun 20, 202537 min

AGL 421: Melissa Dinwinddie

About Melissa Melissa Dinwiddie is on a mission to help leaders and teams turn the "impossible" into reality by uncovering their creative potential. A Juilliard-trained dancer, professional artist for 15 years, jazz singer-songwriter, and performing improviser, Melissa brings a wealth of creative experiences to her work with companies like Google, Meta, and Salesforce. As the author of The Creative Sandbox Way™, she's passionate about showing people how to embrace play, imperfection, and experim...

Jun 13, 202537 min

AGL 420: WorkQuake with Steve Cadigan

About Steve Steve has been at the forefront of global talent strategy and company culture for the past 30 years. Most famous for scaling Linkedin from 400 to 4000 in 3.5 years, Steve also led the development of LI’s legendary company culture and was at the helm of the Talent function for its period of the highest growth and through their IPO. Having worked in 5 different industries and 3 different countries while also leading dozens of acquisition integrations all over the world, Steve has built...

Jun 06, 202543 min

AGL 419: James Turk

About James James Turk is an author, executive coach, keynote speaker, and CEO of The Turk Group, a boutique learning and development consulting firm. With over 25 years of experience, he has designed and delivered leadership solutions to clients globally, coaching and training upwards of 10,000 people. His extensive experience provides a unique perspective on effective leadership. Clients include Walmart, NYSE, BuzzFeed, Spotify, Seattle Genetics and others.. Influenced by his background as a t...

May 30, 202537 min

AGL 418: Trevor Francis and 46 Labs

About Trevor Trevor Francis, Founder & CEO of 46 Labs, is an innovator in telecom with a relentless drive to improve global connectivity. With decades of experience building voice and business connectivity across several continents, Trevor has tackled some of the most complex challenges in telecom—whether modernizing infrastructure in developing nations, integrating networks after mergers, or streamlining enterprise communication. From his early days solving telecom issues in Central America...

May 23, 202525 min

AGL 417: Branding with Jamie Schwartzman

About Jamie Jamie Schwartzman is the Chief Creative Strategist and founder of Flux Branding, a premier branding agency with over 25 years of experience transforming businesses. An expert in corporate rebranding, Jamie developed the IDEA Method—a proprietary four-step branding process that reduces risk, reveals a brand’s true identity, and guides it to success. Under his leadership, Flux Branding has revitalized public and private companies, including helping Motor Car Parts of America [NADSQ:MPA...

May 16, 202532 min

AGL 416: Piers Fallowfield-Cooper

About Piers Piers Fallowfield-Cooper is a seasoned executive mentor and leadership coach with over 30 years of experience as a senior executive, having held roles such as Managing Director, President, CEO, and Chairman in global finance, technology, and e-publishing industries. Despite a late start due to undiagnosed dyslexia, Piers has built a remarkable career, leveraging his deep business acumen and passion for personal development to guide over 60 C-suite executives worldwide in the past dec...

May 09, 202538 min

AGL 415: Matt Van Itallie

About Matt As a technical systems-builder, Matt Van Itallie is passionate about problems that are hard and problems that matter. He co-founded Sema Technologies Inc., which he currently leads as CEO, to help organizations drive better outcomes through their software. Sema’s flagship solution, Comprehensive Codebase Scans, has earned a reputation as the leading codebase scanning tool for the technical due diligence process. Having evaluated more than $1T in value for leading private equity firms ...

May 02, 202524 min

AGL 414: AI or Not with Anatoly Kvitnitsky

About Anatoly Anatoly Kvitnitsky is the visionary CEO and Founder of AIorNot.com, a cutting-edge platform dedicated to combatting misinformation and advancing compliance solutions. Leveraging his extensive expertise in corporate development, strategy, and business growth, Anatoly has propelled AIorNot.com to the forefront of the battle against misinformation. With a proven track record in leadership roles at American Express and Trulioo, coupled with his mentorship at Plug and Play Tech Center, ...

Apr 25, 202534 min

AGL 413: Andy Hilliard

About Andy As CEO of Accelerance, Andy helps companies find the talent they need to scale high- performing, globally distributed software engineering and product development teams. Andy and Accelerance travel the world, assessing and certifying development partners with a proprietary matching system, so clients can connect with confidence to the top 1% of outsourcing partners worldwide. The Accelerance team also helps clients optimize their outsourcing partner relationships through mutual unders...

Apr 18, 202532 min

AGL 412: Rand Selig on Thriving – part 2

About Rand Rand Selig has an MBA from Stanford and earned undergraduate degrees in mathematics and psychology. He has managed hundreds of complex projects in his career and has run his own financial services firm for over 35 years. He has lived and worked in Europe, Asia, Mexico, and the Caribbean. He was a Little League coach and Scoutmaster and has served on numerous boards for decades. He is a roll-up-your-sleeves conservationist committed to helping others and Mother Earth by making annual p...

Apr 11, 202543 min

AGL 411: Heather Inocencio

About Heather Heather is an accomplished product management executive with over 30 years of experience helping companies innovate and scale to successful outcomes. As an active leader in the evolution of Product Management, she has led product teams at every stage, from startups to IPOs and acquisitions, specializing in building strong product cultures, developing leadership talent, and delivering exceptional results. Her expertise spans consumer and B2B products, with a track record of driving ...

Apr 04, 202554 min

AGL 410: Toby Mills

About Toby Toby Mills is the founder and CEO of Entopy, a leading innovator in supply chain visibility based near Cambridge, UK. Under his leadership, Entopy transitioned from a hardware-focused business to a pure-play software company in 2020, driving an impressive 300% year-on-year growth. Before launching Entopy, Toby held several management roles in the retail sector, gaining valuable experience that now informs his approach to transforming supply chain technology. Today We Talked About Back...

Mar 28, 202550 min

AGL 409: Ali Hafizji

About Ali Ali is an engineer-turned-entrepreneur who thrives at the intersection of technology and business. Early in his career, he built software for startups, scaleups, and enterprises, working on systems capable of handling over a billion customer requests an hour. These weren't just technical feats—they were lessons in solving real-world problems through engineering. It didn't take Ali long to realize his true passion was entrepreneurship. He had an instinct for breaking down businesses, un...

Mar 21, 202528 min

AGL 408: Alzheimer’s with Lisa Skinner

About Lisa Lisa Skinner is a behavioral specialist in the field of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. She is a Certified Dementia Care Trainer through the Alzheimer’s Association. In her 25-year career as a community counselor, private adviser and Regional Director of senior care facilities, she helped thousands of families and caregivers understand the daunting challenges of brain disease. Her #1 Best-seller book “Not All Who Wander Need Be Lost,” was written at their urging. Her latest...

Mar 14, 202537 min

AGL 407: Michael Reddington on The Disciplined Listening Method

About Michael Michael Reddington is an expert at moving people from resistance to commitment. He is an executive resource, Certified Forensic Interviewer, President of InQuasive, Inc., and author of The Disciplined Listening Method. Michael’s public speaking career began in his teenage years as he travelled around New England educating audiences on the benefits of including students with, and without, disabilities in the same classrooms. His speaking endeavors simmered for several years as he fa...

Mar 07, 202537 min

AGL 406: Conscious Conversations with Chuck Wisner

About Chuck Chuck Wisner is a thinker, a coach, and a teacher in organizational strategy, human dynamics, and leadership excellence. For the past twenty-five years, he has served as a business and personal consultant and an advisor to leaders in high-profile companies in several industries. His methods are anchored in years of leading-edge research, theoretical development, and the practical application of the foundations of conversations. Chuck earned an architectural degree from the Boston Arc...

Feb 28, 202533 min

AGL 405: AI Training with John Munsell

About John John Munsell is the co-founder of Bizzuka, an AI consulting firm focused on artificial intelligence strategy and implementation. With a career spanning over 25 years in marketing, software development, financial services, and sales, John brings a wealth of experience to the AI industry. He is also an Adjunct Instructor of Artificial Intelligence at Louisiana State University, contributing to the academic field while leading Bizzuka. His work centers on helping enterprise leadership te...

Feb 21, 202530 min

AGL 404: Kevin Surace

About Kevin Kevin is the father of the Virtual Assistant and a Silicon Valley innovator, serial entrepreneur, CEO, and futurist. He was INC Magazines’ Entrepreneur of the Year, a CNBC top Innovator of the Decade, World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer, Chair of Silicon Valley Forum, Planet Forward Innovator of the Year nominee, featured for 5 years on TechTV’s Silicon Spin, and inducted into RIT’s Innovation Hall of Fame. He has 94 worldwide patents and led pioneering work on the first cellular data ...

Feb 14, 202527 min

AGL 403: Rand Selig on Thriving!

About Rand Rand Selig has an MBA from Stanford and earned undergraduate degrees in mathematics and psychology. He has managed hundreds of complex projects in his career and has run his own financial services firm for over 35 years. He has lived and worked in Europe, Asia, Mexico, and the Caribbean. He was a Little League coach and Scoutmaster and has served on numerous boards for decades. He is a roll-up-your-sleeves conservationist committed to helping others and Mother Earth by making annual p...

Feb 07, 202547 min

AGL 402: Asking Good Questions with Topaz Adizes

About Topaz Topaz is an Emmy award-winning writer, director, and experience design architect. He is an Edmund Hillary fellow and Sundance/Skoll stories of change fellow. His works have been selected to Cannes, Sundance, IDFA, and SXSW; featured in New Yorker magazine, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times; and have garnered an Emmy for new approaches to documentary and Two World Press photo awards for immersive storytelling and interactive documentary. He is currently the founder and executive dir...

Jan 31, 202538 min

AGL 401: Jim Matuga of InnerAction Media

About Jim As a professional in the marketing and advertising industry since 1988, Jim has a deep understanding of the local, state and regional marketplace and he provides the communication tools and strategies necessary to reach key target audiences with powerful messages carefully designed to get results. He loves to help people simplify, clarify and amplify their marketing messages so their best customer prospects listen, read, watch and RESPOND in meaningful ways. Originally from Hopewell, P...

Jan 24, 202537 min

AGL 400: Becoming Fearless with Dr. Benjamin Ritter

About Benjamin Dr. Benjamin Ritter has made it his mission to guide and empower others to become confident leaders of their lives and careers and overcome fear. Driven by the belief that every person deserves to “live for themselves,” Ben founded Live For Yourself Consulting and has grown it into a global brand where he gets to do what he loves most: help highly-driven professionals figure out what’s holding them back, enabling them to become fearless and take accountability and feel empowered t...

Jan 17, 202538 min

AGL 399: Dr. Angelique Adams

About Angelique Angelique is an engineer and former corporate executive with 25 years of experience in the metals and mining sector. After managing multimillion-dollar innovation portfolios and leading teams of scientists and engineers worldwide, she discovered that her true passion lies in developing people rather than products. In 2021, Angelique authored an Amazon best-selling career guide for women in STEM, which served as a springboard to transition into academia and entrepreneurship. Today...

Jan 10, 202536 min

AGL 398: Productive Failure Manu Kapur

About Manu MANU KAPUR developed the theory of Productive Failure and applies it in classrooms and workplaces around the world to transform learning and growth. He is a Professor of Learning Sciences and Higher Education at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and has spent the past two decades understanding the science of how people learn. His research has attracted substantial funding and media interest around the world, making him a sought-after keynote speaker, including two TEDx Talks. Manu has held pre...

Jan 02, 202528 min

AGL 397: The Art of Influence with Jennifer Gardner

About Jennifer Jennifer B. Gardner is a Los Angeles-based trial lawyer, a persuasive communications educator, and a part-time administrative law judge for the County of Los Angeles. Jennifer has operated her own litigation law firm for 32 years in Los Angeles where she has litigated complex business, real estate and criminal matters through trial. She began her litigation career in the entertainment industry, has represented individuals in serious criminal cases, has advised and managed document...

Dec 27, 202438 min

AGL 396: Ryan Crittenden

About Ryan Ryan has held leadership and coaching roles across both profit and non-profit organizations. With 8 years of experience in leadership coaching, team building, and personal excellence, he has developed a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities that today’s executives and emerging leaders encounter. Ryan’s coaching philosophy is rooted in strengths-based and authentic leadership. He leverages his expertise by adhering to ICF standards and utilizes strengths assessments an...

Dec 20, 202435 min

AGL 395: Adrian Kelly

About Adrian Adrian Kelly is a qualified solicitor, lecturer and lifelong learner. He researches and writes on performance, sustainable success and well-being. His aim is to shine a light on key elements of success stories which sometimes go under the radar and bring key learnings to a wider audience. In his Book the Success Complex, he explores core skills vital to overcoming challenge, using examples which range from historical figures such as Napoleon, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr...

Dec 13, 202440 min
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