Episodes

About Neil Neil Sahota (萨冠军) is an IBM Master Inventor, United Nations (UN) Artificial Intelligence (AI) subject matter expert, Faculty at UC Irvine, and author of Own the A.I. Revolution. With 20+ years of business experience, he works with organizations to create next generation products/solutions powered by emerging technology. His work experience spans multiple industries including legal services, healthcare, life sciences, retail, travel and transportation, energy and utilities, automotive,...

About Nader Nader Mherabi, senior vice president and vice dean, chief information officer, is responsible for all information technology (IT) activities for NYU Langone Health and for information technology’s development as a strategic organizational asset. He previously was vice president for IT product solutions and chief technology officer for NYU Langone, responsible for technology strategy, infrastructure engineering, networks, data centers, application architecture, systems deployment, and...

About Angelic Angelic Gibson joined AvidXchange in October 2018 as the Chief Information Officer. Angelic has spent over 20 years in Information Technology serving the following industries: Higher Education, Wholesale Distribution and Logistics, Retail and Manufacturing in public, private equity and IPO models; including Technekes, LLC, American Tire Distributors (ATD), Estee Lauder, Inc, Sleepy’s, and the State University of NY. Angelic has held various leadership positions, including most re...

About Liz For 30 years as a management consultant, executive coach, and facilitator, Liz Kislik has helped clients such as American Express, Orvis, The Girl Scouts, Comcast, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, and Highlights for Children solve their thorniest problems while strengthening their top and bottom lines. Her specialty is developing high performing leaders and workforces. She is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Entrepreneur, and a TEDx speaker on “Why There’s So Muc...

Being a leader demands bravery. In this episode I talk about overcoming FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real) and leading with confidence. I list and explain these 4 steps for dealing with fear: Play it out. What’s the worse that can happen? What’s the likelihood of that thing happening? How can you reduce the likelihood of that happening? If the worse happens, how can you recover? We need to understand that everyone deals with fear. The most successful people just “do it anyway.” In order t...

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” — Jim Rohn In this solo show I talk about the people you spend the most time with. I’ll dig into the importance of networking with leaders at your level and above at other organizations. I’ll talk about how to meet those leaders then tell you about a special project I’m working on, https://techleaders.group. Tech Leaders is a small group of like-minded technology pros that I will organize and provide ongoing leadership discu...

About Liz Dr. Liz Bywater is a one-of-a-kind leadership expert who works at the intersection of business and psychology. She integrates deep expertise in human behavior and organizational dynamics with her pragmatic mindset and engaging personal style to help her clients thrive in an increasingly complex world. C-suite leaders and boards consistently enlist Liz’s help to: drive profitable growth build remarkable customer relationships supercharge innovation increase strategic agility elimin...

About John John D. Wood, Esq. is a graduate of NYU School of Law and TCU where he earned his bachelors degrees summa cum laude in English and Philosophy. He is a member of the New York and Texas State Bar Associations and has provided Continuing Professional Education programs on insurance, copyleft, and artificial intelligence and the law. He represents real and intellectual property owners in insurance matters through his law firm, and consults on technology policy through The Humachine LLC. ...

Today I’m back with a solo show about rewards and recognition. I started the draft of this episode more than a year ago but I haven’t found the right time to air it… until now. REWARD & RECOGNITION Rewards often involve something of monetary value being given to an employee or team in response to achieving something pretty great. A recognition, however, is something that doesn’t need to be associated with an accomplishment, but it can be. A recognition is usually praise or something with psycho...

Building Better Teams Today I’m doing a solo show talking about building better teams. In this episode I talk about the following: Foundation Interior Refinements Exterior FIRE is the acronym I use when describing building in this talk. Under each heading I discuss things I feel are important. Foundation Leadership. Pulling vs. Pushing Cultural Norms (IT Code) We Act Like an Owner We Have Each Other’s Back We Choose People over Process We Question our Assumptions We Think Big and St...

About Vennard Vennard Wright (PMP, ITIL v3 Practitioner) is currently the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Vice President (VP) of Operations for Iron Bow Technologies. As CIO/VP of Operations, he provides leadership and oversight for the information technology (IT), order operations and manufacturing functions. In this capacity, it is his responsibility to transform the management of business technology capabilities and client services to support Iron Bow’s operations by ensuring that service...

About Christopher Christopher O’Donnell is a technologist, musician and public speaker who has built dozens of web and mobile products. His product portfolio ranges from language learning products for the U.S. military to the most popular free CRM product in the world. Today, Christopher serves as Senior Vice President of Hubspot Product, which he led from startup ($50M in revenue) to successful publicly-traded company ($600M in revenue). Christopher has become a staple in the product management...

About Dr. Saunders Martha Dunagin Saunders is the sixth President of the University of West Florida. In her 30-plus years in higher education, she has served as in academic and leadership roles at universities in Florida, Georgia, Wisconsin and Mississippi. Her area of academic expertise is in public relations and crisis communication for which she has won numerous awards, including two Public Relations Society of America’s coveted Silver Anvils. Saunders led the University of West Florida to ...

About Sean Sean Walls is currently Vice President of the Cyber Security division for a multi-billion-dollar international standards, QA, digital testing and cybersecurity corporation. He has 19 years of experience in cybersecurity and information technology and is a frequent keynote speaker and advocate for cyber security. Today We Talked About: The importance of influence and relationship building as a CISO Qualities to develop if you want to be a CISO Aligning security with business priori...

About Mike Burrows Agendashift founder Mike Burrows is known to the Agile and Lean-Agile communities as the author of Kanban from the Inside (2014) and Agendashift (2018), the creator of the Featureban and Changeban simulation games, a keynote speaker at conferences around the world, and as a consultant, coach, and trainer. His new book Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile is published August 15th, 2019. Today We Talked About Our Last Episode The new book! How it relates...

About Corey Corey Blake began his storytelling career as an actor, starring in one of the 50 greatest Superbowl commercials of all time (Mountain Dew, Bohemian Rhapsody) and in campaigns for American Express, Miller Beer, Mitsubishi, Wrigley’s Gum, Hasbro, and other name brands. Today, Corey is the founder and CEO of Round Table Companies (RTC), the publisher of Conscious Capitalism Press, and a speaker, film director, artist, and storyteller. He has been featured on the cover of the Wall Street...

About William William Ammerman is the author of The Invisible Brand (McGraw-Hill, June 2019), about marketing in the age of artificial intelligence. He is currently the Executive Vice President of Digital Media for Engaged Media where he manages digital publishing for a dozen consumer magazines. Formerly, as Global Head of Advertising for Frankly Inc., he managed digital advertising for hundreds of television stations, including their websites, mobile apps, and connected television (OTT) platfor...

About Jeff Jeff Dalton is Chief Evangelist at AgileCxO, a research and development organization that studies organizational agile performance. He is an author, conference speaker, blogger, coach, and technology leader with more than thirty years in the software development industry as a CIO, CTO, and Director of Product Development. Jeff is author of Great Big Agile: an OS for Agile Leaders (Apress (c) 2018) and A Guide to Scrum and CMMI: Improving Agile Performance with CMMI (CI Press (c) 2016)...

About Tony Saldanha Tony Saldanha is president of Transformant, a consulting firm specializing in assisting organizations through digital transformations. During his twenty-seven-year career at Procter & Gamble, he ran both operations and digital transformation for P&G’s famed global business services and IT organization in every region of the world, ending up as Vice President of Global Business services, next Generation services. He is an advisor to boards and CEOs on digital transformation, a...

Expectations and Frustrations In this episode I talk about how having unrealistic expectations can lead to frustrations and disappointments. Many of us are frustrated and disappointed in our careers, work, and in the things that we achieve. There are many reasons we are disappointed, but I think our expectations are probably one of the biggest culprits. In this episode I talk about setting realistic expectations and trying to align our expectations in a way to reduce disappoint without being su...

About Jason As a Co-Founder, Jason Shropshire provides technical leadership in cyber security as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at InfusionPoints. Mr. Shropshire leads security initiatives for InfusionPoints’ clients, specifically focusing on the development, deployment and operations of security programs and infrastructure in complex commercial organizations, government agencies and non-governmental organizations. His experience includes serving as Information Systems Securi...

About Brian: Brian Dixon is a podcaster, conference speaker, and business coach. He believes that each of us were made for a purpose. You will discover that purpose by clarifying your calling, discovering your audience, and creating your products, which will help you navigate a clear path to impact and income. Brian is passionate about helping authors, speakers, and aspiring messengers create a sustainable business through growing their platform, and creating compelling online courses. He is the...

About Michael If anyone is passionate about digital technologies and their impact on our future, it’s Michael Gale. In 2001, Michael founded and sold two companies, Strategic Oxygen, a leading data toolset for marketers in the technology industry and Pulsepoint group. He has been a group partner at Monitor Group and was the chief web officer/GM at Micron Technology. Michael is a Forbes contributor, a global top 10 A.I. Influencer, and the lead-author of The Wall Street Journal and Amazon best-se...

About Tom Schwab Tom Schwab knows how to build an online business. He’s done it successfully several times, and now helps others find online success with podcast interview marketing. Marketing at its heart is starting a conversation with someone who could be an ideal customer. Tom helps thought leaders (coaches, authors, speakers, consultants, emerging brands) get featured on leading podcasts their ideal prospects are already listening to. The Interview Valet system then helps them to turn liste...