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  • Climbing The Mountain - Paige McPheeley

    Climbing The Mountain - Paige McPheeley
    Sep 23 2025
    Base HQ Co-Founder/CEO Paige McPheeley sees leadership as overcoming personal doubts in inspiring teams to see the next major mountain summit to climb, and being with them for every step. Paige has cracked the code of getting venture capital funding by focusing on relationships first in a world where women represent 42% of business owners but receive less than 3% of available funding. She's authentically herself, raising critical funds and growing a thriving business as a mom of three living in a small town with a "behind-the-scenes" personality...yet driving an EA productivity solutions business that has generated more than 500,000 hours of time savings.
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    34 min
  • Leadership That Lasts - Alinnette Casiano

    Leadership That Lasts - Alinnette Casiano
    Sep 17 2025
    Growing Your EQ Founder Alinnette Casiano knows culture is the life source for any successful and thriving organization. "Culture isn't a buzzword. It's oxygen. If the air is toxic, even the most talented people can't breathe." At the end of the day, precision is everything. Ali's rallying cry of "Clarity over Cleverness" is driven by empathy, which she says is the language of business. The choice is yours, to be a leader that manages tasks or an exceptional leader that transforms by using technology like AI to amplify people, not erase them.
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    32 min
  • Impactful Marketing Leadership - Amanda Patterson

    Impactful Marketing Leadership - Amanda Patterson
    Sep 15 2025
    Rocket Fuel Labs CMO/CEO/Founder Amanda Patterson reveals the brutal truths behind impactful marketing leadership in a startup environment. Having led the growth strategy for MindBody that scaled revenue from $20 million to $200 million, she knows it's all about a focus on the details. "There is usually not a silver bullet solution to a problem. It's a hundred little things that you're doing right." Vanity metrics mean little. If you can't trace it to revenue, you're just playing with pretty numbers. Leadership that lasts is much more about enabling than admiring and Amanda lives out the quote from Gandhi that "a sign of a good leader isn't how many followers you have, but how many leaders you create." Customer focus is key, and she has stopped trying to please everyone while instead obsessing over customers.
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    34 min
  • Creating An Innovation Culture - Anthony Bay

    Creating An Innovation Culture - Anthony Bay
    Sep 8 2025
    Techquity CEO and Founder Anthony Bay shares lessons learned driving high innovation team cultures at Apple, Microsoft and Amazon. It begins with an understanding that technology needs to be in service of a problem you're trying to solve for a customer. Start with customers first and work backwards, not the other way around, even with the transformational impact of the shiny object called AI. Understanding the "two door" framework is key, and meaningful innovation is paralyzed by treating "two-way" doors (reversible decisions) like "one-way" doors (irreversible decisions). Building winning, innovative teams is about both culture AND performance, where people are working on things they are genuinely proud of.
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    38 min
  • A Sustainable Future - Marilyn Johnson

    A Sustainable Future - Marilyn Johnson
    Sep 1 2025
    Go Big Strategies Chief Sustainability Officer Marilyn Johnson shares the real truth about corporate sustainability, which is all about behavioral change, the choices that we make and the values that drive our lives. Sustainability isn't a department, it's a lens through which everyone operates that helps unleash the potential of everyone in an organization. AI innovation is real, accelerating sustainability data analysis and problem-solving. But at the end of the day, it can't alone solve the people problem in getting to long-term solutions.
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    32 min
  • A Fresh Marketing Perspective - Jessica Begley

    A Fresh Marketing Perspective - Jessica Begley
    Aug 25 2025
    Very COO Jessica Begley shares her experience taking on Marketing responsibility for the first time and the power of delivering radical honesty to her new team. "You're the experts, not me." She understands her team can see the difference in leadership styles, just as faux plants differ from actual plants. Plant people know seasons can change, and you have to meet people where they are. Walking Central Park in New York City every day, Jessica has solidified a new leadership principle: "Leaders who show up when the cherry blossoms are out and the sun is shining, every leader can do that. Exceptional leaders show up whey it is icy or when it is blazing hot." She's ready to embrace AI, which is fundamentally changing the power dynamic between employers and employees. She isn't about to apologize for evolving. She will apologize for staying stagnant. "Disruption is not disloyalty."
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    41 min
  • The Healthy Organization - Derrick McElroy

    The Healthy Organization - Derrick McElroy
    Aug 18 2025
    MentalFit CEO and Co-Founder Derrick McElroy shares how long term business success happens when your employees are healthy in body and mind. With 68% of millenials and 81% of Gen Z reporting leaving jobs due to mental health concerns, this is more than "quiet quitting", it is a full exodus of talent. Using his very personal experience of pain and tragedy as inspiration, Derrick is helping organizations create "high trust environments" where people feel safe to be human. At the end of the day, it's about leaders choosing to be exceptional in creating cultures where their teams thrive. "Exceptional leaders do the inner work. They create a foundation of self-awareness, emotional intelligence, social intelligence and possess a high degree of integrity. Choose to be proactive.
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    32 min
  • Strategic Marketing Impact - Angelo Ponzi

    Strategic Marketing Impact - Angelo Ponzi
    Aug 11 2025
    Craft President/Founder Angelo Ponzi shows how the sales and marketing relationship is a critical driver of long term success for any business. Stop treating them like warring tribes. They are relay runners, not rivals. Internal data is your gold, but most companies are sitting on powerful insights they never know they have. Fixing your communication breakdowns is a great place to start. If your accounting team can't explain your value proposition, you've failed. "Be curious. Ask questions. Don't make assumptions." How many departments in your company could accurately describe what you actually do and why it matters? If the answer is "just a few," you're not building a business - you're managing expensive chaos.
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    39 min