Brad Stevens is the Founder & CEO of Outsource Access, an outsourcing and offshoring consulting company that exists to close cultural gaps caused by offshore outsourcing models of the past and to open up opportunities for solopreneurs and small businesses worldwide. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/impact-awards-application...
Apr 29, 2024•47 min•Season 1Ep. 475
Miren Oca and Y. Elaine Rasmussen discuss the complexity of transitioning a business to an employee ownership model. They discuss the benefits and potential pitfalls of this transition as well as the many different ways to pursue this change. Miren Oca is the Founder and CEO of OcaQuatics Swim School. A Employee-owned (PPT),Certified B-Corp business that focuses not only on teaching swimming skills but also on environmentalism and social responsibility. Elaine Rasmussen is the CEO of Social Impa...
Apr 26, 2024•56 min
Jesse Henry is the CEO of Heartland, a material science company that manufactures natural fibers as reinforcements for plastics. Heartland's high-performance carbon-negative plastic additives help manufacturers exceed their sustainability mandates without compromising strength, weight, or price. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/im...
Apr 25, 2024•38 min•Season 1Ep. 474
Tim Tiscornia is the CEO of Chomp, which utilizes anaerobic digester systems to transform food waste into renewable energy and biofertilizer. At a local level, they help communities generate their own energy and be better environmental stewards. At a global level, they're leading the way to a sustainable future. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://re...
Apr 22, 2024•39 min•Season 1Ep. 473
Kelly Ann Winget is the CEO & Founder of Alternative Wealth Partners, a Dallas-based Private Equity firm focused on blended portfolios of alternative assets. Over the last decade, Kelly has been dedicated to connecting creative capital to unique investment opportunities in the private equity space. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders...
Apr 18, 2024•31 min•Season 1Ep. 472
Hélène Hoogeboom is the CEO of Renewaball, which creates new, sustainable tennis and padel balls from old/used tennis and padel balls. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/impact-awards-application/...
Apr 15, 2024•31 min•Season 1Ep. 471
Geoff Silverstein is the Managing Director & Founding Partner of Friendly Design Co, a creative studio that builds impactful websites and brands while collaborating with organizations who repair our world and strengthen our communities. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/impact-awards-application/...
Apr 11, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 470
Kristin Hull is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Nia Impact Capital, a women led impact investing firm, investing with purpose at the intersection of environmental sustainability and social justice. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/impact-awards-application/...
Apr 08, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 469
Avantika Daing is the Founding Partner of Plum Alley Ventures, a venture capital platform deploying over $1 Billion in Economic Transformative Value across multi strategy and capital stages investing at the intersection of frontier innovation and gender diversity. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/impact-awards-application/...
Apr 05, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 468
Grant Canary is the CEO & Founder of Mast Reforestation, a climate tech company with a mission to make reforestation scalable. Mast provides reforestation after wildfire at no upfront cost and supplies seed and seedlings through its subsidiaries Silvaseed and Cal Forest. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/impact-awards-application/...
Apr 03, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 467
Matt Schwartz is the Founder & Executive Director of Constructive, a brand strategy and digital design firm specializing dedicated to nonprofits, education, and social impact. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/impact-awards-application/...
Apr 01, 2024•39 min•Season 1Ep. 466
Eric Lee is the Senior Vice President of Aligned Climate Capital, a firm that invests in the people, companies, and real assets that are decarbonizing the global economy and its infrastructure. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/impact-awards-application/...
Mar 29, 2024•34 min•Season 1Ep. 465
Michael Stausholm is the Founder & CEO of SproutWorld, the company behind the world’s only patented plantable pencils, which can grow into herbs, vegetables, or flowers after use. SproutWorld's plantable products illustrate in a simple and visual way what’s possible when we think with a more sustainable mindset. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com...
Mar 27, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 464
Clay Grubb is the Chief Executive Officer of Grubb Properties, a vertically integrated real estate fund manager that directly addresses a growing crisis for essential housing, while providing residents with exceptional living spaces. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/impact-awards-application/...
Mar 25, 2024•39 min•Season 1Ep. 463
Jeff Brams is the Head of R & D at Garden of Life & Vital Proteins (Nestlé Health Science), a recognized leader in natural specialty vitamin & supplement industry. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/impact-awards-application/...
Mar 22, 2024•43 min•Season 1Ep. 462
Colleen Lorber is the Founder & CEO of Wraparound Experts, a mental health and behavioral support service company that helps children succeed mentally, emotionally, and academically by providing resources to the children themselves as well as training and support to the environments and people that interact with them on a daily basis. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https:/...
Mar 20, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 461
Paul Feith is the President of Paul Gregory Media, a full-service digital marketing agency, focusing on helping nonprofit and mission-based organizations with their marketing campaigns, branding, social media, websites, and fundraisers. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact : https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/impact-awards-application/...
Mar 18, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 460
Asad Mahmood is the Founder & CEO of Social Investment Managers & Advisors (SIMA Funds), a social asset manager and advisory company that is designing new and innovative funds that deliver commercial returns to investors while achieving meaningful social and environmental impact. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact : https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/impact-awards-application/...
Mar 15, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 459
Angelique Albert is the CEO of Native Forward Scholars Fund, the largest direct scholarship provider to Native students in the U.S. They actively collaborate with Tribes, corporations, foundations, government agencies, non-profits, and academic institutions to serve the scholarship needs of students as well as building a network of opportunities for them. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact : https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Award...
Mar 13, 2024•43 min•Season 1Ep. 458
Alex Smith is the Chief Operating Officer of Legacy Vacation Resorts, which provides vacation experiences for families and friends to create their unique moments and lasting memories in a manner that respects our environment, employees and community. Using business as a force for good, their goal is to educate the hospitality industry on how to attain sustainable economic development. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact : https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The ...
Mar 11, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 457
Michael Köhler is the Founder & CEO of Silent Yachts, which creates premier, full production, solar-electric yacht models. Their mission is to create an independent and environmentally friendly yachting experience which combines the silent cruising of a sailing boat with the luxury of a motor yacht. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact : https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/impact-awards-applic...
Mar 08, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 456
Emily Ewell is the Founder & CEO of Pantys, a pioneer in improving the health of women and the planet through sustainability and innovation with the first clinically approved absorbent technology globally for menstruation, maternity and incontinence. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact : https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/impact-awards-application/...
Mar 06, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 455
Johan Rozali-Wathooth is the Founder & CEO of Bintang Capital Partners, the private equity arm of the AHAM Capital Group that works closely with founders, entrepreneurs and management teams to help them fulfill their ambition of turning their businesses into recognized impact-oriented regional and global champions. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact : https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/impa...
Mar 04, 2024•46 min•Season 1Ep. 454
Gabe Rissman is the Co-Founder & President of YourStake, which provides the #1 rated tools financial advisors need to help provide personalization to their client’s investments. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact : https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/impact-awards-application/...
Mar 01, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 453
Severine Valdant is the Chief Commercial Officer of QuesTek Innovations, a pioneer and current market leader in Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME). QuesTek's Materials by Design® technologies have enabled new products and new thresholds of performance across a wide range of industries including aerospace, automotive, medical devices, consumer electronics and luxury goods. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact : https://real-leaders.com Apply for the ...
Feb 28, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 452
Turning waste into energy. Learn how Oshik Efrati is creating a global impact for families around the world with his innovative home product. In this episode he breaks down customer adoption in different markets, impact metrics and how they're used, and leading with confidence. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact : https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/impact-awards-application/...
Feb 26, 2024•19 min•Season 1Ep. 451
Robert Sheen is the CEO & Founder of Trusaic, a regulatory compliance software company that helps businesses reduce their risks, maximize opportunities, and keep up with rapidly changing regulatory requirements. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact : https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/impact-awards-application/...
Feb 23, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 450
Rachel Stern is the Chief Strategy Officer of Streamline, a software development company that develops affordable internet technologies that make local government compliance easy and safe. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact : https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/impact-awards-application/...
Feb 21, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 449
Derek Hansen is the CEO & Co-Founder of Mynt Systems, an energy efficiency design/build company that utilizes new technologies to lower utilities costs, improve inhabitant comfort levels and make businesses more profitable. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact : https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/impact-awards-application/...
Feb 19, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 448
Missy MacKintosh is the Founder & CEO of MisMacK Clean Cosmetics, a company that sets out to revolutionize the clean beauty world bringing professional quality application paired with ethical and sustainable production. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact : https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/impact-awards-application/...
Feb 16, 2024•24 min•Season 1Ep. 447
