Salima Lin – Managing Partner, Strategy, M&A, Transformation, and Thought Leadership at IBM Consulting Salima Lin has more than 25 years of management consulting and leadership experience in developing and executing business and operating strategies, driving transformation, developing new business models and operationalizing process improvement. During her career, she has advised numerous Fortune 500 companies, primarily in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, diagnostics, medical devices, manage...
Aug 29, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Yaroslav Kologryvov – Co-founder of Platma Extreme No Code Platform Yaroslav Kologryvov is CBDO & Co-Founder of PLATMA and Former CEO of the Science Park of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. He is Former General Partner of USP Capital, with investments into 12 startups. His PhD is in Economics. Yaroslav is a keen supporter of the academic approach in building start-ups. Having managed the largest science park in Ukraine, he believes these institutions have great potential to help tech, both bi...
Aug 28, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Julie Huls – Founder and CEO of Waymaker Group Julie Huls is the founder and CEO of Waymaker Group, a full-service technology-based economic development (TBED) firm focused on jumpstarting innovation ecosystems in emerging cities. Julie has a nuanced understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities facing the recently designated Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs (Tech Hubs) as they aim to transform into globally competitive centers within a decade. Before starting Waymaker Group, J...
Aug 26, 2024•54 min•Ep 2451•Transcript available on Metacast Willie Pietersen – MultiBillion Dollar Brand CEO, Columbia B-School Professor and Author of Leadership—The Inside Story: Time-Tested Prescriptions for Those Who Seek To Lead Everything we do as leaders has got symbolic fallout. We need to be very intentional about our behaviors so that others can respond accordingly. Willie Pietersen was raised in South Africa and received a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. After practicing law, he embarked on an international business career. Over a per...
Aug 23, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristi Kolski – Program Director for IBM Sports & Entertainment Kristi Kolski is the Program Director for IBM Sports & Entertainment, where she leads marketing strategy and campaign development for US Open Tennis, Pebble Beach Golf, GRAMMY Awards, Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta United and Mercedes-Benz Stadium partnerships. With more than 15 years B2B marketing experience, Kristi is passionate about the intersection of sports, entertainment and technology to enhance the fan experience, drive c...
Aug 22, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast David Junk – First CEO of Universal Music and Author of Rockin’ the Kremlin: My Incredible True Story of Gangsters, Oligarchs, and Pop Stars in Putin’s Russia The biggest challenge for us at Universal was that the Russian mafia controlled 90% of the music business in Russia. They produced millions of counterfeit compact discs and DVD’s and the money they would make from selling counterfeits would fund terrorism. David Junk was one of the first idealistic young Americans to move to Russia after t...
Aug 21, 2024•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast uzanne Sarsfield Scarano – Founder and CEO of Forethought Marketing Question 5: Best way to get your first real customer is? Do it for the passion, not the profit! Suzanne Sarsfield Scarano’s journey is a testament to visionary entrepreneurship and innovative business practices. She founded Forethought Marketing in 2009 with a bold mission to redefine traditional marketing. Her approach has not only set new industry standards but also demonstrated how authenticity and strategic alignment can dri...
Aug 20, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Vlad Batkhin – Founder and CEO of Voltcore – Green Efficient Heating At Voltcore, we fight climate change by economizing energy and CO2 emissions in heating applications. Heating is responsible for about 40 percent of CO2 emissions, so it is essential to reduce it. Households are responsible for about half of CO2 emissions related to heating. Vlad Batkhin is the Founder and CEO of Voltcore , an innovative climate-tech start-up based in Luxembourg. Vlad Batkhin has over 15 years of expertise in b...
Aug 19, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Cynthia Hetherington – Founder of The Hetherington Group and Author of Osint: The Authoritative Guide to Due Diligence You have control of the digital footprint you put out there. We provide digital vulnerability assessments with us finding everything about you. We build a dossier that tells everything about you. You should know everything that we find. But we also start connecting you with your behavior and profile and what you are reading out there. We know you go to Pilates on Tuesday and you...
Aug 16, 2024•54 min•Ep 2445•Transcript available on Metacast James Pinkerton – Former White House Advisor for 2 Presidents and Author of The Secret of Directional Investing: Making Money Amidst the Red-Blue Rumble The trend is your friend. The direction is your friend. So, if you can figure out the direction of a market, you will do better. Within that, you can divide direction into two categories, those directions that can be spotted and those that can be shaped. An example of a direction that can be spotted is the red blue rumble. The other category is ...
Aug 15, 2024•54 min•Ep 2444•Transcript available on Metacast Shira Yevin – Punk Musician and Founder of Gritty in Pink and INPINK Marketplace Women make 50% less on digital platforms like Fiverr and it is because they are underpricing their services. There is a confidence gap when it comes to women pricing their services, maybe not having that network. We are developing an AI powered pay scale that we are excited about. We are trying to use technology to close some of these gaps. Shira Yevin’s innovative startup, Gritty In Pink, and its INPINK Marketplace...
Aug 14, 2024•54 min•Ep 2443•Transcript available on Metacast Patricia Chadwick – Former Global Partner at Invesco and Author of Breaking Glass: Tales from the Witch of Wall Street Once I had that first job on Wall Street as a receptionist, all my mentors were men. They had a huge, beneficial impact on my career. For me, mentoring is such an important role to play. Not everyone will be a good mentor, but there is no such thing as a bad mentor. They are not a mentor at all. The chemistry has to be right and when that happens you can benefit hugely. Patricia...
Aug 12, 2024•54 min•Ep 2442•Transcript available on Metacast Willem Gous – Human Entrepreneur in South Africa We do not provide any funding for these beginning African entrepreneurs. In fact, we do not allow the language of funding in our classroom because it is a limiting belief. Our company has reduced the cost of job creation from over $20,000 per job to just at $1000 per job. We can create jobs quickly and cost effectively. Willem Gous has reduced the time to create a job to 5 weeks and the cost to just over $1,000, and they can do it at scale. They c...
Aug 09, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Adam Callinan – Founder at Pentane 60% of the deals on Shark Tank that you see don’t get done in real life. The 40% that do get done in real life, the deal is dramatically different from what you see on the show. Adam Callinan is the Founder of Pentane, the profitability system and efficiency software he wanted while operating BottleKeeper, but couldn’t find or build. Previously, Adam was Co-founder/CEO at BottleKeeper, a consumer brand that grew in its first three years from $0 to $8 million in...
Aug 07, 2024•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Wayne Elliott – Ship Recycling and Strauss Naturals Advocate Wayne Elliott has been in the ship recycling business for 40 years. His company can take a 1000-foot-long ship and reduce it to a pile to reusable materials. He has grown into other areas such as battery recycling. He recounts his life-changing experience with SHD, a health supplement he stumbled upon after battling angina and its debilitating symptoms. Struggling with leg cramps, shortness of breath, night sweats, and chest pains, Way...
Aug 06, 2024•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Shawn Hodges – CEO of Revelation Pharma I did not know I wasn’t entrepreneur until I took the leap of faith period. There are over 320 drugs on the FDA drug shortage list. That is the highest it’s ever been except for one period during COVID. Dr. Shawn Hodges was the founder of Innovation Compounding Pharmacy in Kennesaw, GA. His business was bought by an industry rollup player and was then brought on as the Chief Executive Officer of Revelation Pharma. They focus on the operational growth o...
Aug 05, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Noah St. John, PhD – Founder of St. John Executive Coaching and the Author of the Book The 7-Figure Life: How to Leverage The 4 Focus Factors for More Wealth and Happiness People ask me all the time what is the most important asset as a business owner. Other than your mind, the most important physical asset that you can have is a list of people who know, like and trust you. Noah St John is a communication expert, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of ten books. He is famous for inventing Af...
Aug 02, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Luv Tulsidas – Founder of Techolution and Author of Failing Fast?: The Ten Secrets to Succeed Faster Market timing is the number one predictor of whether a company is going to succeed or not. Luv Tulsidas is an award-winning innovation consulting entrepreneur. He is pioneering AI for enterprises to help them succeed faster at transitioning to the new AI powered economy. Luv is an engineer, business leader, founder and now author, with the publication of his 3 year long passion project: The “Inno...
Jul 31, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Wayne Elliott – Ship Recycling and Strauss Naturals Advocate I am an environmentalist! I believe in keeping the earth clean. I hope we are not going to be the last generation here. We have to think about future generations and we haven’t done a very good job in the last 100 years. Wayne Elliott has been in the ship recycling business for 40 years. His company can take a 1000-foot-long ship and reduce it to a pile to reusable materials. He has grown into other areas such as battery recycling. He ...
Jul 31, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep 2435•Transcript available on Metacast Father Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D. – President of the Magis Center of Reason and Faith and Author of The Four Levels of Happiness: Your Path to Personal Flourishing 70% of our culture, especially our young people, are stuck at a ‘comparative’ level of happiness. They worry about who is achieving more, who is achieving less, who is more intelligent, who is less intelligent, more beautiful, etc. There is always a comparison. Father Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D. is President of the Magis Center of Re...
Jul 29, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Elizabeth MacBride – Award-Winning Journalist and Author of The Little Book of Robo Investing: How to Make Money While You Sleep (Little Books. Big Profits) Elizabeth MacBride is an award-winning journalist, author and expert in finance, investing and technology. She is the author most recently of *Little Book of Robo Investing: How To Make Money While You Sleep*, the latest in the acclaimed Wiley series (publication: March 2024). One of the founding team members of Wealthfront, the first online...
Jul 26, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Wayne Elliott – Ship Recycling and Strauss Naturals Advocate Wayne Elliott has been in the ship recycling business for 40 years. His company can take a 1000-foot-long ship and reduce it to a pile to reusable materials. He has grown into other areas such as battery recycling. He recounts his life-changing experience with SHD, a health supplement he stumbled upon after battling angina and its debilitating symptoms. Struggling with leg cramps, shortness of breath, night sweats, and chest pains, Way...
Jul 25, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep 2432•Transcript available on Metacast Rusty Komori – TV Series Host of Beyond the Lines and Author of Superior: Creating a Superior Culture of Excellence Rusty Komori is an inspirational keynote speaker, executive coach, and tennis professional based in Honolulu, Hawaii. From 1994 through 2015, he was the head tennis coach at Punahou School, where his boys’ varsity teams won an unprecedented 22 consecutive state championships, a national record in all sports that stands to this day. In 2014, he was named NHSCA’s Coach of the Year an...
Jul 24, 2024•54 min•Ep 2431•Transcript available on Metacast Wayne Elliott – Ship Recycling and Strauss Naturals Advocate Wayne Elliott has been in the ship recycling business for 40 years. His company can take a 1000-foot-long ship and reduce it to a pile to reusable materials. He has grown into other areas such as battery recycling. He recounts his life-changing experience with SHD, a health supplement he stumbled upon after battling angina and its debilitating symptoms. Struggling with leg cramps, shortness of breath, night sweats, and chest pains, Way...
Jul 23, 2024•55 min•Ep 2430•Transcript available on Metacast Murray Newlands – Founder at Open Future Forum Murray Newlands is a renowned entrepreneur and seasoned Venture Capitalist with 30 years of Marketing and C-level leadership driving revenue growth in SaaS/B2C organizations. He founded Open Future Technology, one of the most well known entrepreneur community in the Silicon Valley. He was recognized by The Huffington Post as one of their Top 10 People to Know. His professional journey includes a key strategic role at advising dozens of unicorn compa...
Jul 22, 2024•54 min•Ep 2429•Transcript available on Metacast Rob Bier – Smooth Scaling Managing Partner of Trellis Partners and Author of Smooth Scaling: Twenty Rituals to Build a Friction-Free Organization Rob Bier is a seasoned expert in building high-performance organizations, with more than 25 years’ experience in the field. He has worked with over 40 scale-ups, including six that became unicorns and one that reached decacorn status during the time he supported them. Some of his clients include Crypto.com, Traveloka, Trax Retail, NinjaVan, Ajaib, Kred...
Jul 19, 2024•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Melanie Deziel – Content Fuel Super Creator and Author of Prove It: Exactly How Modern Marketers Earn Trust Melanie Deziel is passionate about helping individuals, teams, and organizations unlock their creative potential and organize their creative efforts. As a keynote speaker, author, and award-winning branded content creator, Melanie has spent her career developing the skills to think differently and discover new ways to engage audiences through content. She is the author of “The Content Fuel...
Jul 17, 2024•55 min•Ep 2427•Transcript available on Metacast Dakin Campbell – Chief Finance Correspondent of Business Insider’s and Author of Going Public: How Silicon Valley Rebels Loosened Wall Street’s Grip on the IPO and Sparked a Revolution Dakin Campbell is Business Insider’s chief finance correspondent, writing features and conducting investigations into Wall Street’s largest and most powerful firms. He has written extensively about Goldman Sachs and the challenges its CEO has faced in his first few years on the job. Campbell joined Insider in Apri...
Jul 15, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ashley Stark – Co-owner of We Grow Hair Indy and Peri Hair Ashley Stark is co-owner of We Grow Hair Indy and Transitions of Indiana , an Indianapolis-based hair restoration and replacement clinic. She knows and thinks a lot about hair, so it’s no surprise that her new company is hair-related. She’s launched Peri Hair, an affordable, premium hair care product that focuses on both scalp and hair care. By creating a natural product focused on a more holistic approach (other products focus on either...
Jul 12, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jim Schleckser – Founder & CEO of The CEO Project Jim Schleckser is an accomplished leader, entrepreneur, and CEO coach with extensive experience across diverse industries. He is the Founder & CEO of The CEO Project, a renowned executive coaching company specializing in high-revenue entrepreneurs. Jim offers a distinctive CEO coaching program that combines peer group discussions with personalized one-on-one coaching sessions led by former CEOs. He advocates for the concept of the “Lazy C...
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