The Chief Growth Officer Podcast with Dr. Antonio Oftelie

The Chief Growth Officer Podcast hosted by Dr. Antonio Oftelie of Harvard University, illuminates ideas on achieving transformational growth in outcomes and value. The podcast features iconic executives and change agents as they share stories and ideas on growing the organizational and personal capacity to achieve breakthrough innovation and change and most importantly – generate outcomes that make a sustainably prosperous, equitable, and just world. The Chief Growth Officer podcast will help you lead organizations, institutions, communities – and yourself – into transformational levels of growth in outcomes and value.

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Episodes

Lauren Hirshon and Antonio Oftelie on How We're Bending Steel (with a new Podcast!)

The Chief Growth Officer Podcast has moved! You can now find the work continuing at The Bending Steel Podcast: Conversations with Leaders Shaping the Future with Dr. Antonio Oftelie, available now on your favorite podcast source. In this special kickoff episode of Bending Steel , host Dr. Antonio Oftelie flips the script and becomes the guest. Interviewed by longtime collaborator Lauren Hirshon — Director of Learning and Development at Leadership for a Networked World at Harvard — the two explor...

Jun 17, 2025•34 min

Forging a Brighter Future with Dr. Cynthia Croom and Metro Action Commission

Leading a ground-up transformation is hard. Coming into an organization and doing it as an outsider is even harder. The challenge of forging relationships, understanding the community, and fostering a change in culture and mission is difficult enough when the stakeholders know you. That challenge when you’re a newcomer? Monumental. Yet that’s exactly where this episode’s guest found herself. In this episode, we’re talking with Dr. Cynthia Croom, Executive Director of the Metro Action Commission ...

Aug 12, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 4

Live Well San Diego and Leaning in on a Pandemic

Breakthrough outcomes often need a catalyst – a way to see not only challenges on the horizon, but also solutions that will make the world better. A case in point is the “Live Well San Diego” initiative in San Diego County California, which helped officials respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in novel ways and created a platform to improve equity and health in the future. In this episode, we’ll learn from Nick Macchione, Director of Health and Human Services for San Diego County, about his leadersh...

Mar 24, 2022•40 min•Season 2Ep. 3

The Future-Ready Organization: A Discussion with Anaplan CEO Frank Calderoni and Adobe CFO John Murphy

Evolving an organization is easier said than done. The noise and distraction of a highly changeable and uncertain environment can make it a challenge to get much done at all, let alone stay focused on what matters or create new ways of doing things. As a leader, how can you harness this moment to drive positive change? How do you bring everyone—employees, customers, partners—along on that growth journey? In this episode of the Chief Growth Officer Podcast Anaplan CEO Frank Calderoni, and Adobe C...

Jan 17, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 2

Adobe CFO John Murphy & Adobe's Winning Play

Growth is one thing. Purposeful growth another. Can the two be linked? And what does it take to move not only an established firm but also its people to embrace the required change? One thing is certain – it’s not easy. Can we learn how to approach purposeful growth by applying lessons learned from a top innovator? In this episode of the Chief Growth Officer Podcast, Adobe CFO John Murphy discusses how he and his colleagues stay innovative by systematically working with customers to learn and se...

May 12, 2021•49 min•Season 2Ep. 1

Don Allan and the Pursuit of Innovation at Stanley Black & Decker

The world is constantly changing and at a rapidly accelerating rate. And a breakthrough technological transformation can quickly propel an organization into the future expanding its growth and financial capital exponentially. How does a company continuously balance the need to drive innovation while at the same time managing the risk? How does a leader of an organization create the culture necessary to embrace rapid change? In this episode of the Chief Growth Officer Podcast, Don Allan, Executiv...

Sep 14, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Joe Jones and the Center for Urban Families

Leaders often need to shape their mission while balancing the demands of stakeholders, building a team that embodies this mission and ensuring the outcomes they seek remain in focus. For over 20 years, the mission of Joe Jones, Founder and CEO of the Center for Urban Families (CFUF), has been to invest in the whole family. His overarching goal has been to lift up and empower fathers and to ensure that they are receiving the guidance and resources they need to become and remain an integral part o...

Jul 23, 2020•56 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Gretchen Beesing and the Tipping Point at Catalyst Miami

To effectively build capacity for future challenges and opportunities, leaders must often seek out new ways to co-create solutions through partnerships with other organizations, coalitions, and network-building. This form of collaboration is a keystone of Catalyst Miami, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to build social and economic mobility for individuals and families in Miami-Dade County. In this podcast, Catalyst Miami CEO, Gretchen Beesing, opens up about the strides she’s made lead...

Jul 23, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Kirsten Lodal and the Story of LIFT

A major pivot in any organization takes time and unwavering commitment. And it takes adaptive leadership to create an environment that can start and sustain transformation. In this podcast episode, Kirsten Lodal, founder and former CEO of LIFT shares leadership insights on the organization’s transformational journey. Kirsten started LIFT, a national nonprofit organization that works to break the cycle of poverty for young families, in 1996. As the organization evolved and grew over a decade, the...

Jul 23, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Chief Scott Thomson and the Transformation of the Camden Police Department

Organizational transformation is a tall order in today’s turbulent world. In policing, it’s even more challenging. Yet, there are powerful examples of progress that show how leaders can create an environment for innovation and guide people and stakeholders through to successful transformation. In this episode of the Chief Growth Officer Podcast, Scott Thomson, former police chief of Camden, New Jersey shares his unique perspective on what it takes to move a policing organization through phases o...

Jul 07, 2020•57 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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