Episodes

About Heidi Heidi Helfand is author of the book Dynamic Reteaming and SVP of Strategy & Innovation at Artium. She’s passionate about helping companies build great products and high-performing teams, and she’s particularly interested in the people side of engineering. With over 20 years of experience in the tech industry, including roles at AppFolio, Procore and Expertcity/GoToMeeting, Heidi has gained a deep understanding of how to help organizations successfully navigate change and scale their...

About Antonio Antonio Garrido is the author of My Daily Leadership: A Powerful Roadmap for Leadership Success, and Founder & President of My Daily Leadership, a leadership development organization with a mission to inspire one million of the world’s best leaders to reach their full potential. Antonio has over twenty-five years in senior leadership positions with world-class businesses. He is an expert in leadership transformation: shaping high-performance leaders out of highly-stressed and o...

About Adrian Adrian Koehler is a leadership engagement expert and senior partner at the executive coaching firm, Take New Ground. He coaches executives and entrepreneurs in the art and science of leadership for themselves, their teams, and clients to create unprecedented results and experience fulfillment in their work. He is the Founder and Senior Partner at Take New Ground, a leadership coaching, training and consulting firm based in Los Angeles. TNG partners with select executives and organiz...

About Pete Pete joined Elementl as head of engineering in early 2022, and took over the reins as CEO in November of that year. Pete was previously co-founder and CEO of Smyte, an anti-abuse provider that was acquired by Twitter. Prior to this, Pete led Instagram’s web and business analytics teams, and cofounded Facebook’s React.js open-source project. Today We Talked About Pete’s background React.js Twitter OpenSource Data Orchestration Engineering Leader to CEO Be able to say “I don’t...

About Chinazom Chinazom Sunny Nwabueze is the Founder of Dreamcatchers Performance and a high performance leadership coach and behavioural science consultant with BetterUp Inc. Chinazom also created a mental fitness online community, a video chat series, delivers workshops and presentations on mental fitness and has amassed over 2,000 hrs of coaching. Chinazom has recently published his new book Real Talk: A New Approach for Men’s Mental Fitness and Wellbeing. In it he shares critical insights ...

About Karan Karan Talati is the CEO and Co-Founder of First Resonance, which has raised $20 million in capital since its founding in 2018. First Resonance builds a Factory OS for the aerospace, automotive, and robotics industries and now powers over 40 leading manufacturers. These companies are leaders in cutting-edge products like eVTOLs (air taxis), rockets, electric boats, and robotic construction products. Karan built his company in collaboration with the world’s best engineers from companie...

About Jimmy Jimmy Burroughes is a leadership expert on a mission to change the way we achieve results. With over two decades of experience as an Officer in the British Military and a track record of success as a people leader in top global organizations. MBA and extensively qualified as a coach and facilitator, Jimmy has developed a passion for building high-performance cultures by making the complexity of better performance simple, and therefore easier to apply. He and his team have developed ...

About Nick Nick is a software engineer turned engineering leader who has been leading engineering teams at companies large and small for the last decade. He is currently the VP of Engineering at Sym. He cares a lot about generative leadership: helping teams bring more agency and autonomy to their work so they can build better software, build it more efficiently and find more fulfillment in doing it. He is also a student of disasters and other complex engineering stories. He has been deeply fasc...

About Tony Tony Castillo, is an esteemed nutrition expert specializing in optimizing performance for emerging leaders in the technology sector. Tony’s extensive background in sports nutrition and his experience working with elite athletes, coupled with a deep understanding of the challenges faced by those transitioning into leadership roles in technology, make him the perfect guide. His mission is to empower new leaders through customized nutrition strategies that enhance focus, energy, and over...

About Sonya Sonya Shelton founded Executive Leadership Consulting in 2007 from her passion for partnering with leaders and high achievers to create a clear vision and build work environments where employees are fulfilled and completely committed to their organization’s success. She has captured her leadership tips and success stories in her #1 Amazon bestselling book “You’re an Executive, But Are You a Leader?“ Having been an executive as well as an international speaker and consultant, Sonya b...

About Jeffrey Jeffrey is a nationally recognized thought leader and award winning author on the next evolution of leadership: Conscious Leadership. His recently published book: “Developing the Conscious Leadership Mindset for the 21st Century” won a total of four national and international Stevie Awards® and is an Amazon best seller in the Occupational and Organizational Psychology category. He also won the 2021 International Business Awards bronze medal for ‘Innovator of the Year’. His backgrou...

About Milan Milan is the author of “I’m Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World,” (April, 2023 HCI) a straightforward look at the history and art of maintaining courteous communication in an increasingly divided world. In this book, he uses contemporary case studies and personal experience to teach readers how to have constructive conversations by engaging in civil discourse, and provides practical advice and strategies for respect in a divided world...

About Gahn Gahn Lane is a transformative and collaborative executive with 16 years of experience leading sales organizations and building strategic partnerships across diverse lines of business including SaaS, Cloud, Terrestrial, Wireless, Software, Distribution, and Proservices. With a wealth of experience leading sales in the Americas, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM, Gahn possesses the critical knowledge necessary to support rapid and sustained business growth, as evidenced by his successes executing e...

About Kevin Kevin Dominik Korte is a Board Member and IT Innovation & Growth Strategist with a proven track record of harnessing commercial acumen with finance expertise to deliver large-scale digital transformation programs with a strong focus on Identity Management and open-source IT infrastructure solutions. One of his key strengths is assisting with strategy formulation, product innovation, and development to build a solid customer base for the growth of new market segments. He nurture stro...

About LaSean LaSean is a seasoned media and technology executive that has helped build some of the largest consumer technology products in the world. He started coding at ten years old on a TRS-80 MC-10 computer that he begged his parents to buy. The computer was marked down to $59 at a local Radio Shack and provided his on-ramp to the world of software. He held engineering, product management, and strategy roles in the early stages of the web, mobile, and mixed reality (AR/VR). He started his c...

About Beau Beau Button has been actively involved with software development since he was 11 years old. He got his start learning about computers around age 9, digging into the hardware side of things first, and eventually picked up software development at age 11. Having spent the majority of his career as a serial entrepreneur working in the government space Beau has now transitioned into the mobile gaming space through his company Atlas Reality, Inc. Beau has become a technology & automation en...

About Unmesh Over the years, Unmesh and his teams have helped US healthcare with opportunities to drive innovation and disruptive transformation using digital enablement. He has worked with multiple innovative organizations building and deploying the next generation of healthcare. All the digital enablement projects have been geared towards driving a differentiated provider and patient experience while reducing the cost of care and improving quality of care. The technology products delivered b...

About Andrew Since 1997, Andrew has been the CEO and Managing Partner at EVOKE, an award-winning Digital Transformation company that partners with our clients to build modern workplace solutions for nearly every common organizational and technological challenge imaginable. In 2019, Andrew launched the EVOKE Engage division which focuses on automation and streamlining processes. He joined Netsurit at the beginning of 2022 and this now allows Netsurit to provide their clients with guidance and so...

About Rish Rish Gupta made the decision to start his first company during the last 6 kilometers of a marathon on a hot 100 degree day in Bombay. Despite not knowing anything about business, he scaled it to 60+ employees and millions of users. Fascinated with unlocking the potential of Silicon Valley, he sold that company to move to the US in 2015. Captivated by the videofication of everything, Rish and his two co-founders started Spot AI– the groundbreaking video intelligence company committed t...

About John and Deb John Gregory Vincent is a retired Navy Command Master Chief. He served for 20 years in the Navy ,14 of that on submarines. He is a former Gallup workplace consultant with a core expertise in inclusive leadership development learned in the submarine force. He is the co- founder, with Deb Cake Fortin of The Submarine Way, a company specializing in building inclusive cultures in high-tech companies. Deb Fortin’s expertise comes from her roles as a senior executive in Fortune 300...

About Deb Deb Coviello is an advisor, author, podcast host, and Founder of Illumination Partners, a consulting firm for CEO’s navigating change. A trusted partner to C-Suite Leaders, Deb brings 30+ years of experience and strategy in Quality and Operational Excellence roles combined with her 20 years in the Flavors and Fragrance industry to support her clients as they work together to identify, assess, and solve the issues that are preventing their business growth. Certified as Lean and Six Sig...

About Ari Ari was born and raised in Bali. Growing up in an island that’s surrounded by anything/everything tourism, she thought her only choice was to be like everybody else. But then she discovered the design world. Ari dropped a full scholarship to Bali’s prestige tourism school so she can enroll to an art school and learn graphic design. In 2011, Ari moved to Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a female entrepreneur. After Ari got married, with her husband they started their company, C...

About Claudia Claudia Miller is a sought-after Career Coach and she’s helped her clients land fulfilling jobs in less than 90-days all while getting on average a 54% in salary increases ($30k-$140k). She also partners with companies and organizations in identifying rising stars within their organizations and providing strategic insights and support in developing a leadership and talent pipeline with a focus on Women and Women of Color. Due to her efforts, she’s worked with Top Fortune 500 Clien...

About Sangeeta Sangeeta Krishnan is an engaging business intelligence and analytics leader who possesses a winning blend of subject-matter expertise and practical experience from a variety of industries. Most recently, she joined Bayer as North American Analytics Lead for mass sales. She has worked with Fortune 500 organizations, not-for-profits, and everything in between, helping various organizations build their operations and monetizing data products from the ground up. Krishnan is a public s...