Julie Garlikov, Chief Commercial Officer of Sherlock Biosciences
Julie Garlikov, Chief Commercial Officer of Sherlock Biosciences that is responsible for driving commercial strategy, product innovation and go to market plans to bring novel diagnostic products to the consumer market.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and what you do. (00:40)
- What did your transition look like that led you to this company? (02:54)
- You have an atypical background for what you do. What is your background and how do you think it serves in your current role? (05:37)
- How do you approach leadership? (07:15)
- How do you lead now in terms of the VUCA nature of the world today? (15:33)
- How do you support your people be successful and to be more resilient? (16:56)
- How would you describe your true north as a leader? (19:36)
- What are your style and tips to help others to do their best work? (33:30)
- What are some of your biggest challenges in your leadership journey? (35:05)
- How do you navigate disappointment? (36:42)
- How do you do your best as far as keeping yourself ready for a potential disruption in the market place? (40:29)
- What do you do to help yourself recharge and rejuvenate to stay on top of your game? (44:06)
- What one key piece of advice you can leave to our listeners? (46:16)
Kendall Holbrook, Chief Executive Officer of Dev Technology Group, Inc.
Kendall Holbrook, Chief Executive Officer of Dev Technology Group, Inc. Dev Technology is an information technology services company delivering mission-critical applications and systems that protect and serve American citizens.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and what you do. (00:39)
- Where did you start your career and how did you get to where you at today? (03:50)
- How did you know if you were ready to make the transistion from Business Development to CEO? (10:05)
- How did you make the transition and get the right person in place to cover your role? (15:21)
- What are the challenges you face now today after 5 years as CEO? (18:24)
- What do you and Dev Technology do to help attract and retain and get the most out of the people that you have? (20:16)
- How do you describe your true north as a leader?(21:52)
- How do you make sure that your organization and yourself follow the organization’s stated values? (24:01)
- What do you do to do to make sure you have the highest functioning team? (35:35)
- What are you trying to be as the role model to people? (46:11)
- What do you do to help yourself recharge and rejuvenate and be at your best day-in and day-out? (49:00)
- What is one key piece of advice you can leave to our listeners? (50:13)
Jeffrey Harris, Co-Founder & CEO of SpringBig, Inc.
Jeffrey Harris, Co-Founder & CEO of SpringBig, Inc. Springbig is the leading provider of CRM and loyalty marketing solutions for cannabis dispensaries and brands.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and what you do. (00:43)
- Can you tell us how you handle the growth, attract the right people, fill the right roles while maintaining the organization’s culture? (09:49)
- How do you describe your culture and how has it changed over time? (12:11)
- What are some of the challenges you have faced along the way? (15:25)
- How would you describe your true north as a leader? (17:20)
- What do you do to make sure your employees are happy and satisfied consistently? (19:36)
- What are your thoughts about the impact of VUCA on leadership, teamwork, and culture and what steps are you taking to lead in today’s world? (25:09)
- What’s been your experience as you’ve change from private company to public company? (42:58)
- What do you do to help yourself recharge and rejuvenate to stay on top of your game? (45:42)
- What one key piece of advice you can leave to our listeners? (50:33)
John Holly, Chairman, CEO and President of Davidson Technologies Inc.
John Holly, Chairman, CEO and President of Davidson Technologies Inc. For 25 years, Davidson has distinguished itself in the aerospace and missile defense industries with an outstanding reputation for excellence.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and what you do. (00:41)
- What was your experience of leadership development within the army? (05:30)
- What is your true north as a leader? (15:10)
- What are some specific examples you might share about how you help the organization as far as the culture and leadership goes? (16:50)
- What did you learn in the military and how did you apply that to the VUCA World today? (21:40)
- How do you do your best to navigate disagreements within your team? (27:55)
- What are some of your biggest challenges along your leadership journey? (31:13)
- How did you know that it make sense to fire and find a team that was going to look for the right solution and accept the deadline? (39:03)
- What do you do to stay on the top of your game? (47:33)
- What’s one key piece of advice you can share with our listeners? (49:08)
Clint Rusch, President & CEO of NorthPoint Logistics
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Clint Rusch is passionate about helping his teams achieve breakthrough success, often in areas they didn’t realize were possible. NorthPoint Logistics is a values-focused full-service international freight forwarder, customs broker, and domestic freight broker. It offers logistics management services and systems which centralize provider networks, automate shipment planning and tracking, and provide world-class service and expertise to help their clients navigate the uncertain waters of supply chains around the world.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and what you do. (00:41)
- What has the growth curve of the company looked like? (02:18)
- How do you create a company and culture that was well prepared to succeed in the chaos of COVID? (05:37)
- Why did you choose Northpoint and why at this point of the time? (09:10)
- How do you do your best to assess, ahead of time, that the culture was everything you thought it was before accepting the CEO role? (11:43)
- How would you describe your true north as a leader? (13:40)
- How do you translate consistent day to day operations? (17:48)
- What does psychological safety means to you? (20:53)
- What inspired you to join the army and how was it a formative experience for you? (27:03)
- What did you learn about leadership in the Army that you use in your day-to-day now? (30:37)
- How do you make sure that amongst your team and organization you have clarity around communication and shared understanding? (42:37)
- What do you do that to keep yourself at the top of your game? (54:01)
- What one key piece of advice you can leave to our listeners? (01:00:13)
Tommy Mello, CEO and Founder of A1 Garage Door Service Inc.
Tommy Mello, CEO and Founder of A1 Garage Door Service Inc. As every entrepreneur, Tommy started out by doing everything himself from sales and marketing to accounting and hiring. But along the way, he learned that he didn’t need to work 14-hour shifts and sacrifice his family and friends to get his business to where he wanted it to be.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and what you do. (00:44)
- What inspired you to put extra effort and extra time to get you where you at today? (03:44)
- What sets you apart from other players in your industry? (05:33)
- What inspired you to invest in your people so much? (07:54)
- When and why did you start the path of continuous learning? (10:04)
- How would you describe your true north as a leader? (15:30)
- What do you do to recharge and rejuvenate? (23:42)
- What led you to consider private equity investment and partnership? (34:03)
- With your private equity investment considerations, how did you know that it was a good fit to partner with this private equity firm? (39:47)
- What one key piece of advice do you have for our listeners? (41:58)
Krish Chopra, CEO/Co-Founder of NPHub
Krish Chopra, CEO/Co-Founder of NPHub. NPHub’s primary focus is to automate and streamline the clinical rotation process required for Nurse Practitioner students to graduate.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and what you do. (00:49)
- What was your motivation to start a company? (07:56)
- How would you describe your true north as a leader? (12:08)
- How do you keep your organization heading the right direction as far as living and speaking the company values? (16:12)
- How do you make sure people feel comfortable bringing their full selves to work? (20:22)
- What have been the major inflection points along your company’sgrowth curve? (35:09)
- What do you see in the next 3 to 5 years as far as the company and the growth curve? (40:09)
- What have been some of your learning points and challenges along the way? (42:02)
- What do you do to stay in top of the game? (52:07)
- What one key piece of advice you can leave to our listeners? (54:51)
Christopher Marentis, Chief Executive Officer of Surefire Local
Christopher Marentis, Chief Executive Officer of Surefire Local. Chris is a technology entrepreneur and business leader on a mission to help small businesses leverage the power of digital transformation. As the founder and CEO of Surefire Local, he has focused the company’s efforts to build powerful marketing solutions that give small businesses cost-effective, easy-to-use tools only available to the big guys. The motivation for Surefire Local was born out of Chris’s background in a multigenerational small business home.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and what you do. (00:41)
- What led you to be more of an innovative person? (06:14)
- What inspire you to start your company? (12:20)
- What inspired you for writing your book? (17:40)
- What is it that you’re doing that is different and unique versus some of your competitors? (22:09)
- What are the five core values of your company and how do you do your best as a leader to keep the culture on track? (25:05)
- What steps do you take as a leader to make sure that these values are consistently lived into each day? (34:08)
- What is your true north as a leader? (42:52)
- What do you do to keep yourself rejuvenated and at your best? (45:15)
- What one key piece of advice you can leave to our listeners? (46:19)
Daniel Kenary, Co-Founder & CEO of Mass. Bay Brewing Company, Inc.
Daniel Kenary, Co-Founder & CEO of Mass. Bay Brewing Company, Inc. Daniel is passionate about their company and beer, and they work each day to create great beer drinking experiences.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and what you do. (00:41)
- What inspired you to start a beer business? (02:50)
- For the first few years imagining probably with a lot of challenges, what was it like for the first three to five years? (08:17)
- What do you think has changed overtime in your industry? (10:01)
- As your company is now in a massive industry, what is your perspective on that? (13:23)
- As a leader when you’re leading the company, what did you consider to support the business as it continues to grow? (15:03)
- What are your visions for the company? (22:23)
- How do you do your best to make sure the culture is consistent and people are doing the right thing all the time? (28:11)
- What do you do to help the company do their best in hiring? (30:45)
- How would you describe your true north and key values as a leader? (38:50)
- What key piece of advice you can share for listener’s takeaway? (42:26)
Michelle Johnson, Author, Racial Equity Educator, Yoga Teacher and Practitioner
Michelle Johnson is an Author, Racial Equity Educator, Yoga Teacher and Practitioner. She has years of experience facilitating various workshops, immersions, and retreats focused on dismantling racism, processing individual and collective grief, healing the collective, and working with people and groups who have experienced trauma. Michelle is the author of three books, with a fourth upcoming in 2023.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and what you do. (00:57)
- How you got started on this path and what are some of the inflection points along your journey? (02:55)
- What is the common thread that runs through everything that you do? (07:17)
- How did you cultivate your style of leading people? (21:15)
- Do you agree that there is a certain level of dance and sometimes when facilitating you are not going to have the impact you are aiming for? (29:15)
- What does it look like for you in cultivating and being in touch with your inner guidance? (31:14)
- What advice might you have for people who still figuring out how to get in touch with themselves? (35:37)
- What would you say to people who might want to improve their capacity to be with their own emotions more effectively? (52:27)
- What are you focusing on as far as your next level of growth and impact to the world? (54:50)
- What is one key piece of advice for the listeners on consistently becoming and being the best version of themselves? (1:00:06)
Tim Schumm, Founder and President of Lucas James Talent Partners
Lucas James Talent Partners is an On-Demand Talent Acquisition Services firm focused on providing clients a high quality, cost-effective, variable, and transparent talent acquisition experience. The most efficient, cost-effective way to perform talent acquisition activities is in-house – and they give their client partners a solution to help expand their internal offerings on an as-needed, cost friendly basis.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and your company. (00:43)
- How did you come up with your unique ways of addressing clients recruiting challenges? (03:49)
- What do you think is the reason why companies don’t invest more on talent acquisition? (11:10)
- What has your company’s growth curve been like, and the success factors and challenges you have seen along the way? (13:03)
- How would you describe your north star as a leader? (19:30)
- How would you characterize the culture of the organization now? (21:11)
- What do you do to recharge and rejuvenate? (43:10)
- What key piece of advice for people listening can you share? (44:59)
Patrick Dennis, Chief Executive Officer of ExtraHop
Patrick Dennis is the Chief Executive Officer of ExtraHop. Working alongside a world-class executive team and a seasoned board of directors, Patrick is responsible for driving company-wide strategy and priorities with a focus on customer success, innovation, and rapid, scalable growth.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and your company. (00:41)
- What drew you to this role? (02:27)
- Did you think maybe someday you will be a CEO? (06:38)
- How was your journey and transition into your first CEO role? (09:52)
- How do you go about making the best hiring decisions? (15:01)
- What do you do to get the best out of the organization’s people? (19:27)
- How do you describe your true north as a leader? (25:51)
- What is your practice about how you as a leader encourage and enforce accountability within your organization? (30:00)
- What are some of your biggest challenges as a leader and how you overcome them? (33:10)
- How did you know that you have enough confidence for your first CEO role? (38:57)
- What do you do to make sure you are getting quality feedback including feedback that might be difficult to hear? (43:33)
- What do you do to recharge? (47:32)
- One key piece of advice you want to leave to the listeners? (50:15)
Dan Fantasia, CEO & Co Founder of Treeline
Dan Fantasia, CEO & Co Founder of Treeline. It was founded in 2001 and is known for helping companies hire elite sales professionals in 30 days or less. Thousands of clients and tens of thousands of sales athletes have turned to Treeline to reach new altitudes.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and your company. (00:41)
- What is different and unique about how Treeline solves problems for clients? (02:00)
- What are the core values of Treeline’s culture? (08:20)
- Leaders are free to make mistakes. (11:37)
- Why was company culture a motivating factor to start your company?(13:15)
- Through the growth your company has experienced over the years, how do you keep the culture going to the direction you wanted it to go? (16:36)
- What have you done over the years to help the company and individuals improve one step at a time? (20:56)
- What do you do to be the better version of yourself? (25:20)
- One key piece of advice you want to leave to the listeners. (30:35)
David Berman, Co-Founder & CEO of Berman McAleer, LLC
David Berman, Co-Founder & CEO of Berman McAleer. David established Berman Financial Group in 1999 and realized his professional dream of partnering with his best friend in 2002 to form Berman McAleer. As CEO, he set the company’s strategic direction and chairs the executive committee.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and your company. (00:41)
- How does your unusual incentive structure provide better service to clients? (04:33)
- Value system that creates more fulfillment for employees and clients. (11:58)
- Three core values of the organization (13:07)
- How do you work with clients to help them get clear about what money really means to them? (18:43)
- How would you describe your true north as a leader? (24:53)
- How long have you been working with a coach and what benefits have you experienced? (33:24)
- What is it that will make you happy if it’s not just achievements or accomplishments? (38:59)
- What do you do to recharge and rejuvenate? (40:46)
- One key piece of advice you want to leave to the listeners. (41:49)
Aliyah Nance, VP of People of Paystand
Aliyah Nance, VP of People at Paystand. Aliyah is an experienced Finance and HR Professional with a demonstrated history of working with high growth startups. She is a strong accounting professional skilled in Negotiation, Budgeting, Business Planning, Strategy, Team Building and Customer Service.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and your company. (00:39)
- How did you make the transition to VP of People when you didn’t come from that background? (03:22)
- What led you to be more people focused? (06:59)
- People drive the company more than anything else (08:05)
- What was the transition like as you accepted the role of full time VP of People? (09:26)
- How did Paystand successfully open their offices just two months after the pandemic started? And why? (12:35)
- What are your key values as a leader? (15:54)
- How do you do your best to hire the right people? (17:43)
- How do you lead by example and embody the leadership values? (18:54)
- How do you keep your company culture growing in the direction you want it to grow? (20:38)
- What were your key challenges along the way and what did you learn from them? (22:18)
- How do you recharge and rejuvenate? (27:04)
- One key piece of advice you want to leave to the listeners. (29:15)
Mike Zani, CEO of The Predictive Index
Mike Zani, CEO of The Predictive Index. They develop systems and methodologies for talent optimization, and bring that discipline through a platform and the world’s largest network of talent optimization consultants. Mike helps leaders intentionally and strategically designs great teams and a successful culture.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and your company. (00:44)
- How has your company changed and grown over time and how do you manage that change and growth? (08:38)
- For you, what is a great teacher or coach? (12:50)
- What is your true north as a leader and how does it translate to your day to day behavior and how you lead? (16:16)
- What is your experience as far as the importance of consistency in your leadership conversations? (23:23)
- What predictive index does? (25:52)
- How can people engage with your tool and services? (28:21)
- What are some of your biggest challenges along the way and what have you learned from them? (29:54)
- Overlaps in leadership journey and personal growth. (34:20)
- Share something about your book. (36:59)
- What do you do to keep yourself at the top of your game? (39:09)
- One key piece of advice you want to share base from your experience? (40:35)
Alec Ford, Chief Executive Officer of Karius
Alec Ford, Chief Executive Officer of Karius that envisions a world where infectious disease is no longer a major threat to human health. To achieve this, the Karius Test uses genomics and AI to map a patient’s microbial landscape from a single blood sample to enable clinicians to make rapid treatment decisions.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and your company. (00:40)
- What’s the typical process to identify infections? (04:23)
- How Karius improves outcome as the test is more holistic and timeliness of results is much more immediate (07:43)
- What drew you to this industry and what keeps you going? (08:52)
- Whatever you are trying to do, you should overestimate what is required and go above and beyond expectations. (17:58)
- Your career progression over the years. (20:30)
- How’s the current transition in your career going for you? (28:10)
- How did your vision change over time? (30:50)
- The more investment you’re willing to make, the more confident you become. (38:43)
- How do you recharge and rejuvenate? (47:58)
- One key piece of advice you want to leave to the listeners? (51:50)
- How do you maximize the chances of people to feel comfortable? (55:13)
- Any final or closing thoughts for the audience. (1:01:47)
Alex Frommeyer, CEO and Co-Founder of Beam Benefits
Alex Frommeyer, CEO and Co-Founder of Beam Benefits. Beam Benefits simplifies and modernizes employee benefits through their intuitive digital platform, self-service tools, AI-powered underwriting, and unique Beam Perks™ program. Beam Benefits delivers a simple, smart, and wellness-focused experience for brokers, employers, and members that include dental, vision, life, disability, and supplemental health.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and your company. (00:43)
- What inspired you and your partners to start a business? (04:25)
- Why were you so clear at a relatively young age, the three of you wanted to partner and form a business together? (06:17)
- What are you doing to digitize and help your clients more effectively? (11:45)
- For 10 years now since you started, what’s the growth curve been like? (17:42)
- We deliberately took smoother and more linear path to make sure we didn’t grow too quickly. (19:56)
- What were the stepping stones along the way? (20:55)
- How do you describe your True North – key values as a leader? (23:16)
- How do you manage the company’s rapid growth curve? (29:03)
- Leadership growth is willingness to take feedback. (30:05)
- Why are you so clear about being laser focusd on your company culture? (34:35)
- How you keep your self going and high energy? (43:55)
- One key piece of advice you want to share to our listeners? (47:15)
Lalith Subramanian, Vice President, Product Development of DocuSign
Lalith Subramanian, Vice President, Product Development of DocuSign. Lalith has deep expertise in information security(endpoint, forensics, eDiscovery), data governance, AI/ML, BPM/data integration, content management, ERP, regulated vertical solutions (Healthcare, Pharma/Lifesciences, Fin.Svcs) and with proven success in building and leading distributed product management and engineering teams and managing global customer relationships.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and your company. (00:44)
- With your first leadership role, what was the transition like for you and how did you grow through that? (03:39)
- To deliver success, it’s about the combine output rather than individual output. (10:01)
- How do you navigate of letting go of the details of technology and then embracing more of your leadership ability? (10:50)
- How did you describe your true north as a leader and your key values as a leader? (13:26)
- What were the significant inflection points along your career progression and what did you learn from them? (18:55)
- Adaptation of your leadership style to accommodate cultural sensitivity was an important thing. (24:30)
- What key mentor have you experience in your career and how did that person impact you? (28:53)
- What do you do to recharge and rejuvenate? (31:41)
- One key piece of advice in leadership for people. (34:14)
DeLinda Forsythe, CEO & Founder of Innovative Commercial Environments
DeLinda Forsythe, CEO & Founder of Innovative Commercial Environments (ICE). ICE focuses on developing the most creative office and hospitality spaces in San Diego – Creating Spaces to Transcend the Ordinary.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and your company. (00:40)
- What was the inspiration for you to launch a different way of approaching commercial furniture and office spaces? (04:50)
- In your experience, how do leadership, soft skills and mentorship translate to financial results? (07:42)
- Employees and clients value us as much as we value them. (10:50)
- Changing the conversation to being about the best value/ROI vs. just the best price. (24:04)
- What are some of the leadership challenges you have faced along the way and how did you overcome them? (25:41)
- What’s next for you and what does it look like? (32:27)
- One key piece of advice in leadership for people listening. (38:40)
Krista Snelling, President and CEO of Santa Cruz County Bank
Krista Snelling, President and CEO of Santa Cruz County Bank that focus on developing long-term relationships, providing responsive customer service, problem-solving, and direct access to decision makers. Since opening in February of 2004, Santa Cruz County Bank has made a commitment to be an environmentally aware and conscientious business.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and your company. (00:45)
- Where you started in your career and where you landed now? (04:45)
- What did you love about your job and how did you know you love it when you’re in it? (09:50)
- How to deal with people? (10:52)
- How would you describe your leadership and style? (15:24)
- Bond and make a connection with people. (20:11)
- How would you describe your true north as a leader? (21:00)
- Transition that you made both in new company and as a first time CEO. (27:54)
- What was your strategy coming in to make that transition? (32:45)
- How did you prioritize where to start? (36:54)
- Some of the challenges you faced along the way? (41:18)
- One of the biggest challenges senior leaders face. (47:57)
- What helps you rejuvenate? (53:43)
- One key piece of advice to the listeners. (54:43)
Joseph Perekupka, Chief Executive Officer of Freespira
Joseph Perekupka, Chief Executive Officer of Freespira, Inc. Joseph is a Commercial Leader and Executive with broad experience in all aspects of launching start-up companies and med-tech products. He demonstrated success in Digital Health and Medical Devices across the spectrum of critical facets of the business, including: sales, marketing, operations, contracting and P&L management.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and your company. (00:41)
- Approach to the challenges in healthcare system. (09:04)
- Your journey as a leader, where did you start and how did you end up here? (16:00)
- Opportunities to increase the impact of the product. (23:40)
- How do we get to these patients and remove the obstacles that they see in terms their ability to get care? (24:2)
- With change comes opportunity. (27:15)
- The rest of your journey in leaving and getting back again in Freespira. (27:45)
- What else did you do in being intentional about making this transition? (32:10)
- How do you describe your true north as a leader? (34:32)
- What have been some of your challenges in your career and how did you overcome it? (41:35)
- What do you do to recharge and rejuvenate? (50:26)
- Parenthood and leadership. (55:00)
- One key thing about leadership? (58:36)
Laura Franco, Partner of Winston & Strawn LLP
Laura Franco, a Partner of Winston & Strawn LLP. Laura is a member of Winston & Strawn’s Videogame, Gaming and Esports Group dedicated to providing comprehensive legal solutions to companies in these industries. She has extensive experience representing global companies in trademark, copyright, patent, unfair competition, false advertising and domain name litigation, in federal and state courts, and the TTAB.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and your company. (00:43)
- Advice to your clients as brand protection goes. (02:48)
- What makes Winston & Strawn such a good culture? (06:23)
- How would you describe your true north as a leader? (15:53)
- The importance of personal connection with our team members. (17:29)
- Support for all levels of staff in the company. (19:20)
- Be transparent and forthcoming about my mistakes as a leader. (20:18)
- What are your biggest challenges in your career and how do you overcome them and learn from them? (24:13)
- What is your advice to your younger self? (27:08)
- What do you do to recharge and rejuvenate? (35:00)
- What key piece of advice you have for people listening to focus on as leaders? (36:11)
- How did it impact you not having female role models? (40:19)
- Any final or closing thoughts for the audience? (45:20)
Ankit Mahadevia, Co-Founder and CEO of Spero Therapeutics
Ankit Mahadevia, Co-Founder and CEO for Spero Therapeutics. Ankit focused on novel treatments for Gram Negative infections. He built team responsible for 11 approved antibacterial drugs and raised $97M in private capital across Seed through Series C crossover round to enable construction of multi program late stage infectious disease pipeline and he leads program that achieved positive Phase III outcome in single pivotal trial required for US approval.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and your company. (00:43)
- What inspired you to write a book? (01:38)
- Introverts can be great leaders. (05:48)
- Being transparent and believing in something bigger than you are. (08:43)
- What’s your take on introvert leadership? (09:09)
- How do you help yourself to get the space you need to recharge after being drained through the interactions with others? (17:06)
- How do you define your true north as a leader and how did that feed into the book that you’ve written? (19:02)
- Finding, attracting and retaining the right people. (30:22)
- Any advice you have for people who are might introverted? (32:30)
- Challenges you faced along the way and some challenges as an introvert leader? (38:25)
- My transparency is a strength. (41:11)
- What’s the one most important thing you’d want to leave the audience with? (42:36)
- Final and closing thoughts for the audience. (43:27)
Arvinder Dhalla, VP of Clinical Development for Rani Therapeutics
Arvinder Dhalla, VP of Clinical Development for Rani Therapeutics. Arvinder is a problem-solver, results-oriented, innovative scientist and leader with more than 20 years of Biotech and Med-tech experience in cardiovascular, endocrinology and PAH therapeutic areas. She led multiple drug development programs from early discovery to clinical development and participated in investigational new drug (IND) and new drug (NDA) applications which resulted in two drug approvals.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Brief introduction of yourself and your company. (00:41)
- Focus of the company and what makes it different from others. (4:46)
- Impact internally and outside impact in the industry (9:48)
- What are your key values and your true north as a leader? (11:43)
- You have to lead by example and show people what you want to see in them (13:47)
- What do you think led to your success today? (14:45)
- Be the best you can be, no matter what. (17:40)
- Biases exist. (22:00)
- What would be the key piece of advice you want to give people? (23:04)
- Do your best work. (24:54)
- Any challenges you face along the way? (26:01)
- Is it part of your approach to break problems down to smaller bite sizes as more manageable? (28:15)
- What helps you to recharge to stay at your best? (31:03)
- If you could distill everything you know about leadership down to one key piece of advice, what would that one key thing be? (33:57)
- For the women and the minorities listening, what advice you want to leave them with? (34:52)
- Final and closing thoughts for the audience (36:55)
Kevin Miller, Co-Founder and CEO of GR0
Kevin Miller, Co-Founder and CEO of GR0. Kevin simultaneously, launched a grammar website, thewordcounter.com, to prove his strategies of work. Then worked with several startups as a growth marketer before launching GR0, his own SEO agency.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- The power of your network (4:40)
- Your network must have believed in you and your company and putting their reputation on the line. How did you achieve that? (5:06)
- What do you think it is about you that contributed to your decision to start a company and then be so successful at it? (6:55)
- The power of taking risks (8:30)
- How did you achieve such rapid growth from an operational perspective and a people perspective – adding a couple layers of management in such short period of time? (10:00)
- Learning how to trust your team (10:57)
- How you do your best to select the right people for your company’s environment who will be that kind of person who you do trust? (12:18)
- What do you do to inspire people to want to stay with your company longer term? (14:13)
- Having strong culture (15:28)
- Matching the culture to personal values (17:50)
- How would you describe your true north as a leader? (20:36)
- What were your challenges along the way and how you overcome and learn from them? (22:19)
- How do you help yourself stay at the top of your game? (24:50)
- If you had to distill everything you know about leadership down to one key piece of advice, what would it be? (27:41)
- For entrepreneurs or inspiring entrepreneurs listening, what advice do you have for them? (28:45)
Adam Taylor, Chief Executive Officer of Vericall
Adam Taylor, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Vericall. Adam has a passion for creating solutions that marry the two key functions of delivering great user experiences and maximizing revenue for clients. Since launching VeriCall, he is able to use his expertise in designing bespoke solutions for high volume service operations across multi platforms and acquisition routes for his clients.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Bringing opportunity to local areas (3:07)
- Creating a fulfilling career rather than “just work” (4:32)
- How would you describe your true north as a leader? (4:55)
- Setting your mission statement and then living it day-by-day (6:58)
- What are the key moments and challenges along the way to get to where you at today? (18:44)
- How did you ramp up in terms of leadership and management structure? (22:33)
- How do you go about influencing the decision makers who purchase your services? (37:33)
- What are the ways in which you recharge and help yourself stay on track? (42:24)
- The biggest challenge for people starting on a business? (44:29)
- What is one key piece of advice you’d like to leave entrepreneurs with? (46:35)
Derek Hansen, CEO, and Co-founder of Mynt Systems
Derek Hansen, CEO, and Co-founder of Mynt Systems – a company that was born from a desire to create a paradigm shift in the energy and sustainability world by combining multiple functions that would result in a turn-key model with massive results for people, the planet, and profit. Derek had a passion for all things Building Performance since childhood and began working part-time, as a teenager, in his father’s company TGC, Inc. Following his passion for architecture, he worked as an intern at the prestigious Thatcher and Thompson Architects before moving into construction.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- What the company does and when did you start it? (2:45)
- How did you execute that complex business concept? (5:43)
- How does your business model, and purpose of life meld with your overall worldview, values, and meaning? (12:20)
- Talk about how does your mantra as a leader translate to your day-to-day decisions? (19:30)
- Talk about more on personal & business transformation, how do you see that in terms of helping your people, business, and client’s transformation? (23:00)
- In the selection of your people, how do you make sure that you get the right fit? (26:55)
- What do you do to recharge and stay on track? (40:55)
- If you could take everything you know about leadership/Entrepreneurship and distill it down to one key piece of advice, what would that one thing be? (45:43)
- Any final or closing thoughts? (47:45)
Basel Vasili Nassar- Founder and CEO of Boss Nation Brands
Basel “Vasili” Nassar is the founder and Chief Executive Officer at Boss Nation Brands, Inc. A skilled executive with over 25 years of experience building industry-leading innovations, focused on both consumable and non-consumable goods. He co-founded 3 Greek Gods, a leading brand within the Greek Yogurt retail space, and grew the brand portfolio to over $100 million. A true entrepreneur who is still actively working closely with his team to innovate and acquire market share, in both broad and narrow segment markets.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- What inspired you to start Boss Nation Brands? (1:57)
- What’s different or unique about Boss Nation Brands compared to other brands? (2:48)
- How does your true north as a leader inform your day-to-day decisions? (4:50)
- Talk about how you have gone about attracting, retaining, and developing people over time. (6:46)
- What do see as a perfect storm condition and how did you address them? (10:30)
- What have been some of your biggest challenges in your career and how did you overcome them? (13:15)
- What do you do to recharge and rejuvenate? (15:45)
- If you could take everything you know about leadership and distill it down to one key piece of advice, what would that one thing be? (19:30)
- Any final or closing thoughts? (20:45)
Ben Landers- Founder & Advisor of Blue Corona
Ben Landers, Founder, and Advisor of Blue Corona- a 9-time Inc. 5000 digital marketing & technology company that focuses on home services helping them increase sales, reduce cost, and differentiate their brands online. Ben is currently the brand ambassador and the host of the Growth Stories Podcast. He believes that the company exists to help clients’ businesses grow, and its success is solely dependent on the growth and success of others.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- How did you achieve the 9-time Inc. 5000 notoriety?
- How would you describe your true north as a leader? (4:15)
- For your company’s transformation, how did you align behind that set of beliefs and operationalize them? (5:30)
- Talking about recruitment, how are you selecting people who are most likely to be engaged and thrive at work in your environment? (8:35)
- In transitioning your position from CEO/Founder to more of an advisory role now, how is the journey been for you, and how is your true north as a leader kind of informed your decisions along the way (12:48)
- What’s transpired in your awareness to make that decision to shift into another role back in 2018 (18:08)
- When you started Blue Corona, what did that leap of faith looks like and how did that come about? (24:15)
- What do you see next for you and Blue Corona? (31:38)
- How do you overcome or mitigate challenges? (35:55)
- How do you stay on top of your game and recharge? (40:54)
- If you could take everything you know about leadership and entrepreneurship and distill it down to one key piece of advice for our listeners, what is the nugget you want to leave people with? (42:07)
