Episodes

About Mark Schwartz Mark Schwartz is an iconoclast and CIO and a playful crafter of ideas, an inveterate purveyor of lucubratory prose. He has been an IT leader in organizations small and large, public, private, and nonprofit. As an Enterprise Strategist for Amazon Web Services, he uses his extensive CIO wisdom to advise the world’s largest companies on the obvious: time to moveto the cloud, guys. As the CIO of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, he provoked the federal government into ad...

About Paresh Paresh Shah is a positive force around everyone he meets. He is a rare combination of a personal advisor to CEOs, Business Professor, Harvard MBA, Technology Entrepreneur, Innovation and Leadership trainer and popular mindfulness/yoga instructor. Mr. Shah is truly an international business expert that brings a unique and powerful perspective to business. His abilities to connect with audiences and clients across the globe and bring unique perspectives to client problems have made h...

About Kevin Kruse Our guest today is the founder and CEO of LEADx, the first company to create a virtual executive coach using IBM Watson artificial intelligence. He is also the host of the LEADx Leadership Podcast, and he’s a New York Times bestselling author of nine books. His brand new book is, Great Leaders Have No Rules: Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business. Our guest is Kevin Kruse. Welcome to the show, Kevin. Kevin Kruse is a New York Times bestselling ...

About Purdeep Purdeep helps entrepreneurs master themselves so they can master their life. His personal mission is to help men live more fulfilling lives, have passionate relationships and raise happy families. As an entrepreneur, husband and father, Purdeep knows exactly how tough it can be to balance a successful business with a happy family. Purdeep is a pioneer in the Inner Force Formula (IFF). A system developed using transformation psychology, latest neuroscience and the ancient art of min...

About Captain John Coach Havlik CAPT John “Coach” Havlik, U. S. Navy (Retired), is the CEO of JRH Consulting, offering individual/team consulting on building and leading high-performance teams. He is also the Special Advisor for Giant Leap Consulting. He retired in 2014 after 31+ years of distinguished military service, 29 of those years in the Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) community. John graduated from West Virginia University with a B.S. in Business Administration (Accounting). He was a 4-year...

About Adam Gordon Bell Adam Gordon Bell has spent 14+ years in the trenches as a software developer. His recent interests include functional programming and using type systems to build better software. Currently, Adam works on static analysis of docker containers for security vulnerabilities at Tenable. In his spare time, Adam hosts CoRecursive Podcast and has a personal blog. Adam is also a advocate of distributed software development teams and, though he lives in Canada, he works daily with te...

About Roger American conductor Roger Nierenberg is the creator of The Music Paradigm which has brought him to the podium of The London Philharmonic, The Residentie Orkest, The New Zealand Symphony, The National Symphony, the symphony orchestras of Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and Baltimore. He has collaborated with musicians from more than one hundred orchestras around the world. Mr. Nierenberg enjoyed long tenures as Music Director of both The Jacksonville Symphony (Florida) and the Stamford Symphony...

About Joel Joel Beasley is the author of ModernCTO and host of the #1 Technology Leadership Podcast in the world with 70k active listeners. The podcast Modern CTO hosts a wide range of Chief Technology Officers from Startup to Enterprise. Recent guests include the CTOs of Microsoft, VMware, T-Mobile and NASA. Joel has a clear vision and passion for modern technology leadership and is the Founder of LeaderBits.io – Leadership and Professional Development for technologists. Joel began writing co...

About Dr. Sharon Jones Dr. Sharon Jones, Ed.D is the founder and CEO of thedot.consulting and The Dottie Rose Foundation, where she leads and implements technology focused education and innovation. Dr. Jones has found her passion in education and has served as a Career and Technical Education teacher in Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools and Wake County Schools as well as a Sr. Technical Trainer with Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC). Additionally, she is a well-known industry teacher, traine...

About Sergey Razin CTO, Faculty Member @ USC and Serial Entrepreneur As CTO, Sergey is responsible for driving product strategy and innovation. As noted authority in advanced analytics and machine learning, Sergey pioneered and hold patents in the application of these technologies in the areas of security and media analysis, expert systems and natural language processing. He is an expert in applied behavior analytics and creator of Topological Behavior Analysis (TBA). Sergey has also served as...

About Jeff Jeff Ton is a sought-after Information Technology speaker, author and thought leader, having led powerful teams and built successful IT departments for thepast 30+ years. For over a decade, Jeff has served as Chief Information Officer with Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana and Lauth Property Group, as well as 14 years in various technology roles with Thomson Multimedia (RCA). In his current role as Senior Vice President of Product and Strategic Alliances at InterVision, Jeff thr...

About Jay Jay Karen has been the CEO of National Golf Course Owners Association since 2015, where he leads the golf industry’s trade association and initiatives to support the success of the golf course business, a critical element of an $84B industry in the United States. Prior to his appointment at NGCOA, Jay was CEO of Select Registry, a portfolio of over 300 premier boutique hotels, inns and B&Bs. For seven years before that, Jay was President and CEO of the trade association representing ow...

About Sergey Sergey Sundukovskiy, Ph. D. – Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Product Officer, Raken Before Co-Founding Raken, Dr. Sergey Sundukovskiy served in capacities of Chief Technology Officer, Chief Information Officer, and Chief Product Officer. Sergey is a serial entrepreneur co-founding multiple successful Startups focused on Small Business Marketing and eCommerce. The last Startup co-founded by Sergey was acquired by Capital One in 2014. Sergey specializes in implementa...

About Heather Heather is a passionate coder and entrepreneur. She has experience working with Fortune 500 companies building enterprise-level voice, mobile and C#/.Net applications. She focuses on external thought leadership, encouraging fellow programmers to present on topics outside of the office and in the community. She is an international technical speaker and co-host of the YouTube channel “The Hello World Show” — a weekly video series that interviews software masters and teaches the audie...

About Khalid Khalid Machchate is a Moroccan serial techpreneur, international consultant and speaker. As a Mobile and Embedded Systems engineer, consulting and capacity building for several EMEA multinational corporations and Governments in disruptive technologies integration, especially Smart Cities, AI and IoT solutions. He developed proprietary algorithms and designed hardware for his accident detection and automated medical assistance solution SOS Santé, and AI powered software for his blen...

Today on the show we’ve got one of my favorite authors, A.J. Jacobs. I first learned about A.J. when reading an article he wrote that was reprinted in Tim Ferriss’s 4 Hour Work Week about outsourcing. The humor and information contained in that article made me want to find and read more by A.J. We talked mostly about gratitude in this episode, and I’m grateful to have had A.J. on the show. I hope you guys enjoy the conversation as much as I did, and be sure to tell A.J. thank you! About A.J.: A...

About Bas Rutten Bas Rutten is the Former Heavy Weight Champion of the UFC and the three time King of Pancrase who has also made a name for himself outside the ring as an actor, host, inventor and television personality. Bas has been seen co-starring in the Kevin James feature film Here Comes the Boom (2012) for Columbia Pictures. He also appeared in Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) and Zookeeper (2011). In this interview we go over his early years and how Bas became a fighter and how he had to ove...

About Andy Dr. Andy Young has been a Professor of Psychology and Counseling at Lubbock Christian University since 1996 and a negotiator and Psychological Consultant with the Lubbock Police Department’s SWAT team since 2000. He also heads LPD’s Victim Services Unit and is the director of the department’s Critical Incident Stress Management Team. He has been on the negotiating team at the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office since 2008, is on the team at the Texas Department of Public Safety (Texas Ran...

About Patrick Patrick Barry serves as the Chief Information Officer at Rebyc Security. In this role, he drives Rebyc Security’s strategic IT initiatives as well as help design and deliver offensive security offerings to Rebyc’s clients. Patrick has diverse experience with network security, having also served in risk assurance roles with PricewaterhouseCoppers and Computer Services Inc., and as a network security administrator for a large regional bank. Patrick has a bachelor’s degree in manageme...

Being that it is late January 2019 now, I’m sure most of you have already made and broken at least one new years resolution. There’s nothing wrong with that… we all do it. But let’s focus on why you created that resolution in the first place. Some common resolutions are to eat healthier, get in shape, be nicer, work harder, stop drinking so much, stop eating fast food, etc. If you picked one of those, or something totally different, ask yourself why it is important for you to stop or start those...

About Justin For over 20 years, Justin has been architecting software, leading teams and sharing his knowledge. Justin is the founder of Let Your Nerd Be Heard, creator of the Ultimate Presentation Formula for Nerds, an Award Winning Entrepreneur, an Amazon #1 Best Selling Author, and a Microsoft MVP. He is hired by nerds to take their public speaking skills from zero to hero so they can speak to more than 1s and 0s and are seen as the go to expert. He makes the seemingly scary world of public s...

Tricia has more than twenty years of experience in software development and is passionately focused on facilitating high-performance software development environments. Her leadership at all levels of an organization helped lay the groundwork to shift teams from one-year product cycles to feasible, daily delivery of quality software and services. Tricia openly shares stories from her firsthand experience to inspire people to reach new heights through continuous reflection and growth. As a princip...

2018 has been a great year. I rebooted the podcast with both solo shows and more interviews than ever before. The number of listeners and total downloads have blown my mind. The number of platforms where you can get A Geek Leader has grown remarkably as well. I learned a lot of valuable information that I can apply to my day job and my life outside of work. I met and talked to some of the coolest people on the planet. I suspect 2019 will be even better. All good retrospectives usually answer 4 q...

Today on the show we’ve got Mike Sarraille, EF Overwatch Co-Founder, Managing Partner & CEO. Mike is one tough guy. Being a Marine wasn’t tough enough for this guy, so he became a Navy Seal. We talk about leadership and ownership in this interview. Its a must listen! About Mike Mike Sarraille is a retired U.S. Navy SEAL officer, founder and board of director for the VETTED Foundation, a 501(c)3 Veteran executive education platform, a graduate of the University of Texas McCombs Business School, ...