A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world

About Aurora Aurora Winter, MBA, is an award-winning, bestselling author. She is a successful serial entrepreneur, media trainer, creator of the Spoken Author™ method, and founder of Same Page Publishing. She left her lucrative career as a TV executive decades ago to become a full-time author, trainer, and entrepreneur. Using storytelling for business, she created a life of freedom, creativity, an...

About Arthur Arthur Woods is a social entrepreneur and LGBTQ+ advocate working at the intersection of equity, inclusion, and technology. He is an Amazon National Bestselling author of the book,  Hiring for Diversity  and the Co-Founder of Mathison , a venture-backed technology platform equipping employers with everything they need to manage their diversity hiring efforts. Arthur was named to Forbe...

About Greg Greg has been a technology entrepreneur since 1998. Before Greg founded CryptoStopper, he started Axis Backup, a backup and disaster recovery company for the insurance industry. He saw firsthand the rapid increase in the damage cyber criminals were doing with debilitating malware resulting in high financial loss to vulnerable companies. Between 2012 and 2015, one in five of Axis Backup’...

About Monique Monique Maley is a CEO, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor. In 2011 she founded Articulate Persuasion, her third entrepreneurial success and a company that cultivates authentic and influential leaders. As a classically-trained actor with more than a decade spent in the theater and film industries, Monique offers her clients unique insight into influential communication. She leve...

About Ron Ron Lichty has been managing software development and product organizations since Apple recruited him from a boutique programming consultancy in 1988. He led development of Apple’s UX/UI, then brought engineering discipline to product delivery at Stanford, Check Point, Razorfish, Fujitsu, Charles Schwab, and a host of startups. A strong believer that product development is a team s...

About Taurea Taurea went from Foreclosure in 2009 to producing millions in sales in the home based business industry. She is the creator of The System Mastery and Show Your Success Workshops, and 6 Time Author of books on personal self-development, education and more. Her major focus is to show entrepreneurs how to build multiple streams of income in their current businesses She has been seen on F...

About Robin Robin is based in the UK in the Greater Manchester area and is Director of Ei4Change.  With over 35 years’ successful commercial and leadership experience, he has worked in a variety of sales and marketing management roles with a wide variety of companies from small start-ups to large multinationals.  These include the NHS, major pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, unive...

About Vicky Vicky Oliver, author of 6 best-selling books on job-hunting and job interview questions, business etiquette, frugalista style, advertising, and office politics. Under her pen name, Diana Forbes, Vicky Oliver also authored the novel, Mistress Suffragette (Penmore Press, 2017). Vicky Oliver owns the copyright to the novel, Mistress Suffragette. Her savvy career advice has been featured i...

About Nora A pioneer of visual strategy, Nora Herting is passionate about expanding peoples’ definition of creativity and believes the best way to meet the demands of business today is to take a visual approach that blends strategic thinking and creative expression. Nora’s skill and impact with businesses, and her own entrepreneurial prowess founding ImageThink has been featured in the Wall Street...

About Jeremie Jeremie Kubicek is a powerful communicator, serial entrepreneur and content builder. He creates content used by some of the largest companies around the globe found in the books he has authored: The 100X Leader, 5 Voices, 5 Gears and the National Bestseller, Making Your Leadership Come Alive. Jeremie is the Executive Chairman of GiANT, a company that certifies coaches and consultants...

About Kevin Kevin Maney is a bestselling author and award-winning columnist. He has been writing about technology for 30 years, has interviewed most of the tech pioneers you can name, and brings broad and deep context to Category Design conversations. He is co-author of the book Play Bigger , and has been an A-list writer and thinker about technology for 25 years. Kevin’s most recent book is UnHea...

About Nicole Nicole grew up in an entrepreneurial household and by her mid-twenties had helped build an 8-figure family business that spanned nearly a dozen countries. Having also launched her own successful venture at sixteen years old, Nicole quickly attracted attention from business leaders eager to know her secret to maximizing productivity and human potential. After experiencing more than her...

About Tina Tina Clements is a high energy, hands-on keynote speaker, author, coach, facilitator,  entrepreneur.com  contributor and successful leader. Before launching the BMW Group Joint Venture, The Retail Performance Company, LLC (rpc) in 2013, she worked for 10+ years within the BMW NA Organization and has been in the Learning & Development industry since 1996. Throughout her career, she h...

About Steve Steve is an expert on lessening loneliness in the workplace. His book “Connectable” is the first book to ever address the impact of loneliness at work. Steve has consulted for many of the top companies in the world (Salesforce, Home Depot, Bridgestone, Bank of America..) using his “powers” to deliver learning experiences that drive professional growth and development. Dubbed “The Leade...

About Erin  From a young age, Erin was raised with the belief that she could do anything. With a degree from Villanova and a wildly optimistic outlook, she found success early in sales leadership positions in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries (Pfizer, Boston Scientific, Medtronic). From a first-year MVP at Pfizer to many accolades later, Erin earned a top role in medical devices. Sh...

About Angie Angie learned how to lead during her time as a United States Marine. When she transitioned to the private sector, what surprised her was how the term “leadership” was being used. Whereas in the Marines, leadership was a verb – everyone aspired to lead. In her new world, “leadership” was a noun and only an expectation for managers. This inspired her to writ...

About LaKiesha LaKiesha is the Founder of Thriving Ambition, Inc, a career and management consulting agency. Helping engineers position themselves to get multiple job offers and working with technology companies to attract and retain diverse technical talent.   She has been mentioned in Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Self Magazine, and more. LaKiesha is regarded as the leadership expert for professi...

About Scott Scott Drake is the Founder and Executive Director at Jump Coach, a social enterprise on a mission to make best-in-class leadership training available to everyone who needs it. Prior to Jump Coach, he was Vice President of Technology for medical education innovator ScholarRx, and his 25-year career in tech includes stops at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, and at start-ups in Silicon V...

About Daniel Daniel Faggella is Founder and Head of Research at  Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research . Daniel is a globally recognized speaker on the use-cases and ROI of artificial intelligence in business. Called upon by organizations like the World Bank, the United Nations, INTERPOL, and global pharmaceutical and banking companies, Daniel helps business and government leaders navigate the co...

About Nick Nick Shevelyov is a specialist in cybersecurity, information technology, data privacy, and risk management with experience in multiple industries—from an engineering to executive and board advisory level. See his LinkedIn profile for career history. He is also the Chief Security Officer at Silicon Valley Bank. A guest speaker at a variety of industry events, Nick has an undergraduate de...

About Chris Chris Hass is an extremely driven and proven information security professional with extensive experience in Malware Reverse Engineering, Threat Intelligence, and Offensive Security Operations. In his current role, Chris serves as Director of Information Security and Research at Automox. In addition to being a former cybersecurity analyst for the NSA, he also served as a principal resea...

About Steve Steve Chaparro is an organizational culture expert and communicator who speaks worldwide about how companies can transform their workplace culture through intentional co-creation and communication. Steve is a self-described frustrated visionary. His passionate message of navigating the transformative journey of leadership resonates with visionaries and innovators who find themselves st...

About David A senior leadership/board advisor, educator, executive coach, and bestselling author, David Nour is internationally recognized as the leading expert on applications of strategic relationships in profitable growth, sustained innovation, and lasting change. The author of eleven books, including bestsellers  Relationship Economics®  (Wiley) and  Co-Create  (St. Martin’s Press), as w...

About Rick Rick Maurer is a speaker, author, consultant, and expert on helping leaders avoid resistance to change period since the publication of his book Beyond the Wall of Resistance in the 1990s, Ricks opinion has been sought by The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, NBC Nightly News, Fortune, and many other media outlets. Some of the largest companies in the world ask for his advice on ways to avoid r...

About Gleb Known as the Disaster Avoidance Expert, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is on a mission to protect technology leaders from dangerous judgment errors known as cognitive biases by developing the most effective decision-making strategies via his consulting, coaching, and training firm Disaster Avoidance Experts. A cognitive neuroscientist and behavioral economist, Dr. Tsipursky writes for Inc. ,  Time...