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Evolving Your Workplace
On this workplace podcast, your host Carol Schultz brings on CEO's to discuss problems many business owners face in real time. Guests provide context for the issue and advise leaders on best practices. Whether you are starting a company or leading an established organization, the podcast is geared toward getting you helpful answers.
Episodes
- Evolving Your Workplace
Being the adult in the room, Field Agent’s Rick West
“I think we’ve learned pretty quickly that we can do work remote. (But) It is difficult to lead and it is difficult to be the leader you need to be without…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Recruiting at the dinner table, with Premier Claims’ Melissa Hurrington
“You take care of your people and your people take care of your company every day— on personal levels, professional levels. I know without a doubt that they…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Grant seeking: Cynthia Adams of GrantStation
“What we’ve done is we’ve really tried to take peoples’ skill sets and use them so that they’re not only doing what they’ve been hired to do but they’re doing…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Transferring knowledge using AI, with UptimeAI’s Jagadish Gattu
Jagadish Gattu (Jag) came to the US from India to get his master's and stayed here ever since. After working at many companies, he realized that many customer…
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Work-life integration, with Ovation’s Dan LaBroad
“I’m sorry– there is no balance. Some people can separate the two, you know, but overall it’s integrating and how do you bring it all together and make it work…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Smart people learn from their mistakes, geniuses learn from others: Brent Williams of Benekiva
“We made a big mistake. We configured the platform where—luckily it never saw production because it was caught in testing– but we had where we pointed the…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Passion is infectious: Credible’s Jitesh Shetty
“You get this feeling of happiness when you do this,” Jitesh Shetty tells founders, “If that’s not happening, it’s almost like your system internally telling…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Casting a long shadow, with PADT’s Eric Miller
“You’ve got to cast a long shadow,” Eric Miller tells Carol. “We look a lot bigger than we are to our clients. They are always a little surprised that we are…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Forming companies within a company: VIC Tech’s Calvin Goforth
Calvin Goforth founded VIC Tech in order to help commercialize new technologies invented by university researchers. VIC Tech began as a consulting firm for…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Where does HR come in? With BentoHR’s Matt Burns
“There is a financial responsibility that exists in every organization. Traditionally HR is not a part of those conversations. They’re the conversation that…
- Evolving Your Workplace
The No-Code Revolution, with Base64.ai’s Ozan Bilgen
“Sometimes when people spend too much time in corporate life, they kind of are taught to not think. Don’t think just do. And that is really like the opposite…
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Health over work, even as a CEO, with Shahed Islam of SJ Innovation
“She (Shahed’s wife) would go to a stakeholder meeting and tell me that ‘You haven’t done that properly…”” CEO Shahed Islam tells Carol. “Our team members have…
- Evolving Your Workplace
“Take me out, coach!”: DevStride’s Phil Reynolds
“I learned over time the value of just getting everyone to get on the same page and move in a direction, albeit imperfect– because you can course correct. You…
- Evolving Your Workplace
The key to founding many successful businesses, with Phil Tee, co-founder of Moogsoft
“You manage engineers in a completely different way to how you manage salespeople, in a completely different way to how you manage finance people, and so on…
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If you don’t need to be in the Zoom meeting, why be there? Prioritizing time with Diffco’s Vadim Peskov
“I’ve asked people to stop doing any multitasking— because this is a freaking illusion. It doesn’t work,” Vadim Peskov tells Carol. Vadim co-founded Diffco, an…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Pioneering cannabis law, with Bob Hoban of Clark Hill’s Cannabis Industry Group
“I think most lawyers, they go for comfort. Maybe not comfort in the subject matter of what they’re doing, but comfort in their repeatable patterns. They go to…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Mastering vulnerability and transparency as a CEO, with Get Well’s Michael O’Neil
“I was laying there so uncomfortable, afraid, anxious, confused, just clamoring for information to understand what all of these crazy acronyms were,” Michael…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Entrepreneurship through the lens of a 1st-gen American, person of color, and a woman: GoodFynd’s Sofiat Abdulrazaaq
“People think once you raise money, that it gets easier. No. You only have more to prove.” - Sofiat Abdulrazaaq Years ago, Sofiat wanted to check out a food…
- Evolving Your Workplace
The truths behind SEO marketing, with SEO Optimizers’ Brandon Leibowitz
“If you’re just promoting yourself, you’ve lost people right there. You have to give back. The more you give back, the more people are going to be receptive to…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Disrupting the global health space: Insured Nomads’ Andrew Jernigan
“The future of work is changing, but also the future of travel,” Andrew says, “People are staying gone longer, they’re seeing that things are actually better…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Saying no to business, with thoughtbot’s Chad Pytel
Chad Pytel began freelancing as a developer in high school and continued throughout college to make ends meet. Later he joined a startup that failed quickly…
- Evolving Your Workplace
The rise of the QR code, with Beaconstac’s Ravi Maddimsetty
When Ravi Maddimsetty began his start-up he had a vision of connecting the physical with the digital to help businesses engage with customers – not necessarily…
- Evolving Your Workplace
“Putting it on the table” with Scott Snider, president of the Exit Planning Institute
Scott Snider began his entrepreneurship journey in high school when he started mowing lawns. His side gig quickly turned into a full-blown operation with…
- Evolving Your Workplace
What do people value more: culture or salary? with XOi Technologies' Aaron Salow
In an effort to solve the growing issue of service technicians leaving the field, Aaron Salow co-founded XOi Technologies to help the workforce by providing…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Working in a new space: Yotam Segev, co-founder and CEO of Cyera
Yotam Segev aims to lead the way in the new and expanding cloud data security market. The space is part of the larger cyber security market and is growing…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Innovating the healthcare industry: Shane Foss, founder and CEO of Hooray Health
Years ago, Shane Foss had a back issue and checked into a nearby urgent care facility to get help. After getting services, he was billed $800. Fortunately…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Slow and steady wins the race, with Jaci Russo, founder and CEO of BrandRUSSO
Meet Jaci Russo: a mother of four and the founder and CEO of BrandRUSSO, a strategic branding agency. Beyond that, she also wrote a book on branding and…
- Evolving Your Workplace
“Force of spirit” What is it, and why does it matter? With Guillermo Elizondo, co-founder and CEO of Territorium
One value Guillermo Elizondo looks for in his employees is a “force of spirit” which he refers to as the spirit within someone that pushes them to meet a goal…
- Evolving Your Workplace
How human connection rules business, with Wayne Mullins, CEO of Ugly Mug Marketing
“Business is really simple. We make it so complicated. If you just take care of people, if you just want what’s best for them and you treat them like human…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Starting entrepreneurship at a young age: Aneesh Dhawan, CEO of Knit
Aneesh Dhawan’s journey in business started early. As a teenager, he worked with a team at MIT to install a desalinization device in Haiti. The following year…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Balancing mental health as a CEO, with Ted Lau, CEO of Ballistic Arts
After over a decade of smooth sailing for Ted Lau, everything seemed to go wrong in his business at once: his partnership dissolved, a client filed a lawsuit…
- Evolving Your Workplace
The man behind the “no asshole” policy: Derrick Morton, co-founder of FlowPlay
People are lonely and Derrick Morton co-founded FlowPlay to keep them entertained. FlowPlay is a virtual world technology and game developer. It’s a platform…
- Evolving Your Workplace
How posting free information led to upwards of $10 million in revenue, founder & CEO of TRUIC, Bobby Peddi tells us
After being a doctor for years, Bobby Peddi decided he wanted to start his own company. But he ran into an issue: There was a scarcity of information on how to…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Being a woman in a male-dominated industry: The inspiring story of Jessica Gomez, founder and CEO of Rogue Valley Microdevices
At age 26, Jessica Gomez started a manufacturing company with her husband. She began with no money and no prior knowledge of how to run a business. Almost 20…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Graduating from the University of Failures and Mistakes with Vimal Patel, CEO of QHotels and Innrly
Vimal Patel came from humble beginnings, working at a McDonald's and living with his cousin when he moved to America. A few years later he got a job in the…
- Evolving Your Workplace
From working for a multinational corporation to heading a startup: Joseph Landes, CRO of Nerdio, takes us on his journey
Straight out of college, Joseph Landes landed a job at Microsoft and stayed for 23 years, growing into many roles and living in many countries throughout his…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Companies should consider adding value rather than discounting a product: Marco Torres, co-founder of Marketing Boost
Marco Torres and his co-founders worked in the travel business and needed to find a way to get their clients to leave video reviews. They came up with an…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Finding your niche with Lounge Lizard Worldwide CEO, Ken Braun
In the ever-growing space of digital marketing, Ken Braun, co-founder of Lounge Lizard Worldwide, has carved out a niche that holds strong almost 25 years…
- Evolving Your Workplace
From solo to managing many — Matthew Davis on his journey to founding a law firm
From working out of his home to owning and operating a seven-office law firm – Matthew Davis knows the ins and outs of building a business from the ground up…
- Evolving Your Workplace
CEO Richard Blank has a new approach to company culture: pinball machines
At age 27, Richard Blank made the bold decision to pack up and move to Costa Rica to work at a call center for a few months. Fast forward eight years – he…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Putting People First Puts James Laws in the Driver's Seat at Saturday Drive
James Laws, CEO and founder of Saturday Drive, puts it very succinctly, “Our number one value is people – over profits, process or products.” Starting his…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Legislate's Journey Has Only One Way to Go and Charles Brecque Can Take It There
Two offices. Two countries. Two cultures. Charles Brecque, founder and CEO of Legislate, is leading the movement for small businesses and doing it across…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Nothing Artificial about Sorcero CEO Dipanwita Das’s Intelligence
In this podcast, you’ll hear how a history student ended up founding not one, but two tech companies. Dipanwita Das, CEO and co-founder of Sorcero, comes from…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Mark Towler Keeps Phase 2 on An Authentic and Very Successful Path
This interview, with Mark Towler, chief executive officer of Phase 2, is a refreshing view of common sense leadership and authentic team management. Building a…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Leadership Lessons with Katelyn Sorensen, President of B2B Social at Traject
Katelyn Sorensen, President of B2B Social at Traject, CEO of Loomly and Sendible, found her calling as a leader very early in her career. Recruited to work at…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Small Businesses Rejoice! Madwire & Amanda Hoffman Have Your Back!
Small business owners everywhere are faced with soul-sucking challenges: staffing, supply chain, inflation, and marketing. In this podcast, Amanda Hoffman…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Tom Coburn, CEO & Founder of Jebbit, Has the Best Job He Never Wanted
We could have been calling Tom Coburn, Dr. Coburn because he only wanted to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps as a biology student at Boston College…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Fun & Passionate Tech Guy Daniel Liebeskind Makes Good as Entrepreneur and Industry Leader
Fun and passionate aren’t typical words used to describe a technology company founder. But it’s what Daniel Liebeskind, CEO and founder of Topia, is –…
- Evolving Your Workplace
The Future is Frictionless – Verse.io CEO & Founder David Tal is Making It Happen
Watch out, Silicon Valley! San Diego is making a bid to become the new center of technology through innovation, creation, and disruption. David Tal and…
- Evolving Your Workplace
David Barrett, CEO of Expensify, Turns Off the Noise and Gets It Done
David Barrett is not your typical tech CEO, nor does he want to be. As a talented engineer, David has been part of many failed startups. His own company…
- Evolving Your Workplace
DemandJump Demands CEO Christopher Day’s Attention
Content marketing isn’t a new concept but the struggle to get to that essential number one ranking is an enigma that Christopher Day and his partner Shawn…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Kathryn Schifferle, Founder of Work Truck Solutions, Keeps on Truckin’ Serving the Hurly Burly World of Commercial Transportation
Join me in this fascinating discussion with Kathryn, a confessed serial entrepreneur, as she discusses how she’s built several profitable ventures because she…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Luke Kanies, Founder of Puppet, is Nobody's Puppet Now
It all started because he was unemployed, bored, and didn’t want to be a system administrator anymore. Luke Kanies founded Puppet in 2005, raised $87 million…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Kevin Price, Founder of Accucode, is Doing It Differently
Kevin Price, founder of Accucode, Inc., quit his job at a Denver-based technology company on a Friday afternoon in 1995. By 10 a.m. the following Monday…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Lemons out of lemonade – How Annie Scranton grew Pace Public Relations into a thriving firm from a $500 commission.
When Annie Scranton found herself out of a job, she wasn’t planning to start a public relations company. But that’s what happened when she took a random $500…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Diving Deep in Content with ContentWriters' Emily O'Connor
In this episode, Carol has an in-depth conversation with Emily O’Connor, CEO of ContentWriters, based in the greater New York metropolis. Founded in 2013…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Challenging the Status Quo with Robert "Bobby" Mason & SPOC
In this episode, Carol Schultz speaks with Robert Mason aka “Bobby”, CEO and President of SPOC Automation in Birmingham, Alabama. SPOC is an innovation company…
- Evolving Your Workplace
The Heartbeat of success with BD Erickson & Sactic USA
In this episode, Carol Schultz speaks with BD Erickson II, CEO & Founder of Satic USA in Missoula, Montana. Satic is a US Based Manufacturer of high-quality…
- Evolving Your Workplace
The competitive and challenging business of Executive Assistants with Gina Cotner
Many of us have Executive Assistants, many of us would like an EA, many of us may think of this job as a low-level task person, some of us may want to start…
- Evolving Your Workplace
Navigating complex contracts with Street Diligence's Stephen Hazelton
If you have an interest in innovation and/or your organization needs to work through dense, complicated contracts, this episode is for you. Street Diligence…