Steve Rubel is Chief Content Strategist for Edelman, a leading global communications marketing firm. Rubel is responsible for advancing Edleman's thinking on the entire media ecosystem fand for helping clients develop new programs that blend paid, owned, and earned content strategies. He serves as a senior advisor to the firm's Executive Committee, as well as its roster of clients.
Jan 13, 2015•41 min
Elaine Dennis is an experienced designer and brand advocate and the founder of Ink Studios, an arts advocacy firm representing a variety of artistic works and artisan brands, which connects creatives to creative avenues to more widely share their work and tell their stories. Elaine has directed creative marketing campaigns for such iconic worldwide brands as Apple Computer, Adobe, Levi Strauss, Match.com and Sony, and she has collaborated on tech-related endeavors with Herbie Hancock, Carlos San...
Jan 06, 2015•44 min
Peter Hoddie is a digital media expert and the co-founder and VP of Kinoma, Inc, an innovative company that designs and builds mobile media products. Prior to Kinoma, he founded Generic Media in 2000 with the goal of radically simplifying both the publishing and viewing of digital media by introducing the first on-demand, real-time media transcoding server. During this time and in partnership with Sony, Peter helped to create the gMovie Player, the leading video technology for Palm handhelds. Fo...
Dec 30, 2014•45 min
Eren Niazi has been a serial entrepreneur involved in over 30 technology start-ups. He is a co-founder of Open Source Systems, Inc. and Open Source Storage, Inc. (2001), which pioneered the Open Source movement and has led scale-up systems development teams for notable Bay Area technology start-ups, including Facebook, Friendster and Ebay. Eren holds several US patents in technology, has built government supercomputers, and designed core software systems for the main operations & application...
Dec 23, 2014•28 min
Ann Wilson is a legendary rock and roll musician, singer and songwriter, widely regarded as one of the best female vocalists in rock music history. Ann and her sister Nancy first showed the world that women can rock when their band, Heart, stormed the charts in the ‘70’s with hits like “Crazy on You,” “Magic Man,” “Barracuda,” and “Straight On.” Heart continued topping the charts through the ‘80’s and ‘90’s with huge hits like “These Dreams,” “Alone,” and “What About Love.” Along the way, they s...
Dec 09, 2014•34 min
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Ann Wilson is a legendary rock and roll musician, singer and songwriter, regarded as one of the best female vocalists in rock music history and listed as one of the "Top Heavy Metal Vocalists of All Time" by Hit Parader. Along with her sister Nancy, the Wilson sisters first showed the world that women can rock when their band, Heart, stormed the charts in the ‘70’s with hits like “Crazy on You,” “Magic Man,” “Barracuda,” and “Straight On.” Heart continued topping the ...
Dec 02, 2014•26 min
Jerome Conlon is a renowned brand architect and strategist with over 30 years experience and a proven track record of scaling companies from hundreds of millions in sales to multibillions. Jerome is also the co-author of the coming book, Soulful Branding – Unlocking the Hidden Energy Inside Your Company and Brand. Throughout his career as a brand development executive and consultant he learned how to uncover and harness the power of invisible brand field energies to expand the meaning, relevance...
Nov 25, 2014•55 min
Cynthia Kersey is a leader in the transformational industry and the bestselling author of two books, Unstoppable and Unstoppable Women, a collection of powerful stories and strategies from people who, through perseverance and consistent action, turned obstacles into personal triumph. Cynthia is also a gifted speaker, entrepreneur, national columnist and contributing editor to Success Magazine, and was a featured guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show when Oprah launched the Angel Network. Cynthia is th...
Nov 18, 2014•49 min
Michael van Himbergen is a sought-after visual effects producer based in northern New Mexico. He was born in Hollywood and raised in Los Angeles. After graduating from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts Film & Video 1980), Michael worked on projects including Spaceballs, Die Hard, Michael Jackson’s Black or White, Stargate, What Dreams May Come, Surrogates and others. He is also the author of the long-awaited novel and screenplay, OVERBLOWN
Nov 04, 2014•32 min
Carla Harris is a Vice Chairman, Global Wealth Management, Managing Director and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley. She has extensive industry experience in the technology, media, retail, telecommunications, transportation, industrial, and healthcare sectors. For more than a decade, Carla was a senior member of the equity syndicate desk and executed initial public offerings for UPS, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Ariba, Digitas, and others. She is also the author of two influential books...
Oct 21, 2014•30 min
Stephanie Redd is an author, speaker and life coach whose work revolves around understanding her own self worth as well as helping teenage girls and young women do the same. She is a former editor for the Daytona Times newspaper in Daytona Beach, Florida, freelance writer for eHow.com, and writing tutor at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas. She holds a Master's Degree in Merchandising from Florida State University and is a graduate of The Foundation for Holistic Life Coaching, having stu...
Oct 14, 2014•41 min
Dr. Geoffrey Moore is an author, speaker, and advisor whose work focuses on the market dynamics surrounding disruptive innovations. As the managing director of Geoffrey Moore consulting, he splits his time between start-up companies in the Mohr Davidow portfolio and established high-tech enterprises, most recently including Salesforce, Microsoft, Intel, Box, Aruba, Cognizant, and Rackspace. Dr Moore’s first book, Crossing the Chasm, has sold over a million copies and focuses on the challenges st...
Oct 07, 2014•34 min
Peter Hoddie is a digital media expert and the co-founder and VP of Kinoma, Inc, an innovative company that designs and builds mobile media products. Prior to Kinoma, he founded Generic Media in 2000 with the goal of radically simplifying both the publishing and viewing of digital media by introducing the first on-demand, real-time media transcoding server. During this time and in partnership with Sony, Peter helped to create the gMovie Player, the leading video technology for Palm handhelds. Fo...
Sep 23, 2014•45 min
Elaine Dennis is an experienced designer and brand advocate and the founder of Ink Studios, an arts advocacy firm representing a variety of artistic works and artisan brands, which connects creatives to creative avenues to more widely share their work and tell their stories. Elaine has directed creative marketing campaigns for such iconic worldwide brands as Apple Computer, Adobe, Levi Strauss, Match.com and Sony, and she has collaborated on tech-related endeavors with Herbie Hancock, Carlos San...
Sep 16, 2014•44 min
Cheri Huber has been a student and teacher of Zen for over 30 years. She is the author of 20 books, the newest being What You Practice Is What You Have, the sequel to her widely-read There Is Nothing Wrong with You. Other titles include The Depression Book, The Fear Book, and When You're Falling, Dive. In 1983, Cheri founded the Mountain View Zen Center, and in 1987 she founded the Zen Monastery Peace Center in Calaveras County. She and the monks at the Monastery conduct workshops and retreats a...
Sep 09, 2014•52 min
Robert Fried is a Fortune 500 marketing strategist and best selling author who strikes a refreshing balance between making money and making meaning. Fried is the co-founder of Brandmark Inc., a marketing consulting firm whose client list includes bebe, Revlon, Coach, and Motorola. Fried currently serves as chief marketing officer for engajer.com, an emerging Silicon Valley firm, as well as co-founder of the ThirdWind Company, dedicated to empowering people to realize their professional goals and...
Sep 02, 2014•28 min
Lisa Wellman is a digital storytelling expert with a 30-year career in technology and marketing that includes positions from systems development to business development to executive management. As VP of Worldwide Publishing, Entertainment and New Media Markets at Apple, Lisa and her team built a $3 billion revenue stream that accounted for 60% of Apple’s bottom line. She has held executive level positions in Fortune 100 companies, headed venture-funded entrepreneurial initiatives and provided st...
Aug 26, 2014•45 min
Jamie DeWolf is a nationally recognized slam poet, spoken word comedian, writer, editor, producer, photographer, and filmmaker. As a member of the performance trio The Suicide Kings, Jamie has toured the country with a diverse array of acts including Sage Francis, B. Dolan and The Dwarves. He is a National Poetry Slam Champion, the Oakland and Berkeley Grand Slam Champion, a YouthSpeaks Mentor, a featured performer on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, and the creator of Tourettes Without Regrets, which has ...
Aug 12, 2014•20 min
John C. Cook spent nearly ten years as the Director of Product Marketing and Business Development at Apple, and has since held a variety of roles in distinguished companies such as Palm, Inc, Hewlett-Packard, and Amazon, among many others. A self-described “disruptive products guy,” John has built his career around developing innovative technology solutions – diving under the hood of the products he manages, building great teams and delivering award-winning products that have excited customers w...
Aug 05, 2014•13 min
Albhy Galuten is a Grammy Award-winning American record producer, composer, musician, orchestrator and technology executive. He has produced 18 #1 singles, with songs and albums selling over 100,000,000 copies, among them the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever and the hit theme song from Grease. He’s worked with artists like the Bee Gees, Dolly Parton, Diana Ross, Eric Clapton, Aretha Franklin and the Eagles. In recent years he has worked at Universal Music Group and now Sony as a top technology...
Jul 29, 2014•44 min
Linda Ronstadt is a musical legend who began her career in the mid-1960s with the folk-rock group the Stone Poneys. By the 1970’s she’d become the top-selling female vocalist for that decade, and was widely referred to as “The Queen of Rock”. She has earned 11 Grammys, released numerous gold, platinum and multiplatinum records, and lent her voice to over 120 albums. Over the years she has collaborated with such diverse artists as Billy Eckstine, Frank Zappa, Flaco Jiménez, Philip Glass, Dolly Pa...
Jul 22, 2014•44 min
Steve Hayden is one of the most important figures of the late twentieth century advertising, leading creative teams at both Chiat/Day and BBDO on the Apple Computer account, where he and Lee Clow made advertising history as co-creators of the breakthrough 1984 Orwellian take-off campaign for Apple Inc. He has won hundreds of awards for creative excellence and dozens more for effectiveness (including the Grand Effie for the launch of the Apple Powerbook.) After helping Apple reclaim the industry ...
Jul 15, 2014•55 min
Eren Niazi has been a serial entrepreneur involved in over 30 technology start-ups. He is a co-founder of Open Source Systems, Inc. and Open Source Storage, Inc. (2001), which pioneered the Open Source movement and has led scale-up systems development teams for notable Bay Area technology start-ups, including Facebook, Friendster and Ebay. Eren holds several US patents in technology, has built government supercomputers, and designed core software systems for the main operations & application...
Jul 08, 2014•28 min
Randy Haykin is Chief Innovator at Haykin Capital and a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and venture capitalist with a career that spans thirty years in Consumer, Enterprise and Infrastructure businesses in both technology and consumer service areas. He was the founding VP of Sales and Marketing at Yahoo and in 1995 founded Interactive Minds (later Outlook Ventures), a San Francisco-based software venture capital family of funds that has funded over 30 early-stage technology firms since incep...
Jul 01, 2014•37 min
John Holland is the CEO of Ireland-based startup WholeWorldBand, the award-winning app that allows anyone to make music & video using only an iPad or iPhone. The system has users ranging from major professionals such as Ronnie Wood (The Rolling Stones), Stewart Copeland (The Police), Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music), Dave Stewart (Eurythmics), David Gray, Within Temptation, Passenger, KODO and New Model Army, as well as many thousands of beginners and up-and-coming musicians collaborating togethe...
Jun 24, 2014•31 min
Scott Fox is a serial startup executive, online marketing expert, podcaster, and advisor to entrepreneurs and celebrities such as Bill O’Reilly and Larry King. He is the original "Click Millionaire" and the host of the Internet lifestyle entrepreneur and online marketing forum at ClickMillionaires.com. Scott's work been covered by the New York Times, Boston Globe, LA Business Journal, Wall Street Journal, Toronto's Globe & Mail, Forbes, Smart Money and SUCCESS magazines. He is also the best-...
Jun 17, 2014•35 min
Brent Bourgeois is an American rock musician, songwriter, and producer. He was co-leader of the band Bourgeois Tagg with Larry Tagg, whose second album, YoYo, was recorded together with esteemed producer Todd Rundgren and resulted in their biggest hit with its first single, "I Don't Mind At All". Brent went on to produce several solo albums and to serve as the Vice President of A&R at Word Records in Nashville from 1997–2001. He then become well known in the Contemporary Christian Music worl...
Jun 03, 2014•45 min
Ralph Simon is acknowledged as one of the founders of the modern mobile entertainment industry. Over the last 15 years, he has been a prominent global mobile trailblazer and innovator. Simon serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the London-based Mobilium Global, which provides high-level strategic advice and guidance to mobile handset makers and others. He co-founded the successful Zomba Group. SiRalph Simon is acknowledged as one of the founders of the modern mobile entertainment i...
May 27, 2014•58 min
Nancy Duarte is a communication expert who has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Wired, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, LA Times and on CNN. Her firm, Duarte, Inc., has created more than a quarter of a million presentations for the world’s most influential businesses, institutions, causes, and authors, including notable names like Apple, Cisco, Facebook, Google, TED and the World Bank. As a persuasion specialist Nancy developed a unique methodology, which applies storytelling ...
May 13, 2014•32 min
Cheri Huber has been a student and teacher of Zen for over 30 years. She is the author of 20 books, the newest being What You Practice Is What You Have, the sequel to her widely-read There Is Nothing Wrong with You. Other titles include The Depression Book, The Fear Book, and When You're Falling, Dive. In 1983, Cheri founded the Mountain View Zen Center, and in 1987 she founded the Zen Monastery Peace Center in Calaveras County. She and the monks at the Monastery conduct workshops and retreats a...
May 06, 2014•52 min
