Dynamic Decisions Podcast

Dr. Bernadette Howlett has spent her career at the intersection most people don't think about: where data science, machine learning, and human-centered education meet.  As Operations Analytics and Experiential Product Director at Western Governors University, she leads a team using predictive modeling and decision intelligence to help students finish the credentials they started faster, with...

Lexington, Massachusetts is the birthplace of American Liberty and home to nearly three million square feet of life sciences space a sector now decentralizing and forcing a hard rethink of the town's economic future. Sandhya Iyer, Tourism and Economic Development Director , joins host Teasha Cable to talk about leading economic development where history is both a competitive asset and a complicati...

Jason Jackson has spent more than two decades walking into companies that have built something real and then gotten stuck. As founder and operating partner at Redwood Ridge Strategies, he specializes in diagnosing the operational constraints that prevent growth-stage SaaS companies from scaling past product-market fit. And more often than not, the constraint has a title: Founder. In this episode,...

Ryan Baird is third-generation Silicon Valley. His grandfather held patents with Lockheed. His parents retired from HP.  And Ryan spent his career managing $50M+ clients at Morgan Stanley, running a hedge fund, raising $35M for his own startup in Southeast Asia, and eventually building Baird Augustine an investment bank working with 38 family offices deploying over $20 billion annually. In th...

What happens when you combine servant leadership with a hard-charging startup mentality?  Serial entrepreneur David Guttman shares his formula for doubling revenue in 90 days by putting people first.  In this podcast, youll learn: How to empower your team through bottoms-up financial ownership Surface game-changing insights through 1:1s Build trust through transparent decision-making Ali...

Most economic development wins are measured in ribbon cuttings. Jeremy Stratton measures them in decades. In this episode of the Dynamic Decisions Podcast, host Teasha Cable sits down with Jeremy Stratton, Director of Economic Development for the City of Griffin, Georgia. With nearly 30 years spanning municipal government, Chamber of Commerce leadership, and private sector logistics, Jeremy has a...

Sean Greenhouse didn't come from manufacturing. He came from debt collections. And that unconventional path is exactly why Lenita Design and Manufacturing is still standing today. Sean is the Chief Operating Officer at Lenita Design and Manufacturing Corporation in Buffalo, New York a company that fabricates complex, engineered-to-order water control equipment for hydroelectric infrastructure. He...

Most rural communities have a comprehensive plan. Very few have one that changes anything.   John Shepard, AICP, has spent 30 years in planning and economic development across the Midwest and Mountain States, and he has seen more plans collect dust than he cares to count.  They make great doorstops. In this episode, he makes the case that the failure isn't in the strategy, it's in how pl...

What if the secret to building a thriving tech economy wasn't tax incentives or recruiting big companies... but growing your own? Brit Fontenot has guided Bozeman, Montana through nearly two decades of explosive growth, a housing crisis, a fiber optic revolution, and a CHIPS Act tech hub designation, all without offering a single incentive package. His philosophy: economic gardening. Grow from wit...

What does it look like when a city stops being a bureaucratic wall and starts being a growth partner? Samantha Mlot, Economic Development Advocate for the City of Bloomington, Illinois, is building exactly that model. Bloomington is growing faster than it ever has, and Samantha is at the center of it, serving as the single point of contact between developers, labor unions, commercial brokers, and...

Most manufacturers aren't short on data. They're short on understanding. In this episode, Teasha Cable sits down with David Craig, industrial engineer, systems architect, AI practitioner, and founder of Eminence Consulting and Prodigy IQ Technologies, to dig into why 70% of industrial AI pilots never reach production and what separates a plant that collects data from one that actually learns from...

Most AI companies are building the same thing for every industry. Hans Sandhu thinks that's the losing strategy, and he has the data to prove it. Hans Sandhu is the Chief Business Officer of The Agentic, a hardcore tech company that helps domain experts, not fresh-faced founders, launch production-ready vertical AI companies in 8 to 24 weeks across biotech, health tech, cybersecurity, and fintech....

What happens when the real problem isn't your data it's your decision-making architecture?   Gregory Bartolomei, Director of Decision Intelligence at IHG Hotels and Resorts, brings a rare combination of enterprise scale, analytical rigor, and hard-won wisdom about where AI actually helps and where it quietly makes things worse. Having spent nearly eight years building decision intelligence at...

What does it take to drive economic strategy for an entire region when you have no enforcement authority, 35 committee members with competing interests, and a political landscape that reshuffles every two years? Luis Nieves-Ruiz has been doing exactly that for over a decade. Luis is the Director of Economic Development for the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council (Council of Governments)...

What happens between the dashboard and the decision? That gap is exactly where Dushan Chathuranga Basnayaka has spent his career.  A data intelligence practitioner based in Sri Lanka, Dushan joins Teasha to unpack the seven gaps that keep organizations from turning data into actionincluding "decision fragmentation," the reason your teams are debating numbers instead of acting on them.  H...

The Leader Humanity Needs What does it really mean to lead? In this episode, Teasha sits down with Dr. Daniel Tataje, a Peruvian-born dentist turned CEO, and author of The Leader Humanity Needs . Dr. Daniel built his Seven Marks of Leadership Framework not in a business school, but in the trenches of scaling a dental group from 4 employees to 140 families across 17 acquisitions. This is not a conv...

You Can't Dance to a Roadmap What happens when design thinking leads product development instead of engineering? Ismael Larrosa, founder and CEO of Capicua, built one of Latin America's fastest-growing product companies on exactly that premise. In this episode, we get into product drift, what it is, why it's quietly killing companies, and how Ismael's proprietary ShipClarity framework turns scatte...

Empathy Sells What does a biochemist-turned-marketing strategist know about selling to people who are trained to poke holes in everything? A lot, it turns out. In this episode, Teasha Cable sits down with Hamid Ghanadan, founder and CEO of The Linus Group, who has spent 30 years cracking the code on marketing and sales to scientists, doctors, and engineers. His counterintuitive insight: dumping mo...

Patrick Sullivan understands that tight-wire walk feeling when navigating uncharted territory. As VP of Innovation and Strategy at A-lign , he's spent 25+ years in IT security without a roadmap, facing the same fears we all do when standing at the edge of something unknown. When organizations worldwide suddenly needed AI governance answers, Patrick discovered something profound: authentic leadersh...

Ever felt like you were drowning at work, wondering if anyone cared whether you showed up? You're not alone. This conversation with Jewel von Kempf might be exactly what you need. Jewel's journey isn't your typical corporate story. She's spent over 15 years building HR departments from scratch at companies like Microsoft, Skytap, and now CoinMe, the first licensed Bitcoin ATM company in the US. Wh...

When Dr. Diane Dye walks into a room, she doesn't sugarcoat what's happening in your organization. She sees what most executives miss - that every operational decision, every transformation initiative, every strategic pivot has a human element that can either propel you forward or blow everything up.  This isn't your typical HR consultant offering feel-good team-building exercises. Dr. Di (as...

If your business deals in global trade, you won't want to miss today's #DynamicDecisionsPodcast.  My guest Ricky Ho brings nearly a decade of supply chain technology experience to his latest venture, @SourceReady. With a proven track record of building and scaling enterprise solutions, Ricky has witnessed firsthand the pain points that plague international commerce. His ambitious goal tacklin...

Tom Langan from Talex Media dropped by to chat with Teasha about his journey from traditional TV (think BBC and MTV!) to helping businesses tell their stories.  He left entertainment in 2018 when things were shaky, realizing there was a huge need for businesses to communicate  better . Today, Tom uses narrative storytelling to humanize brands and build real, lasting relationships with th...

On this episode of the Dynamic Decisions Podcast, Teasha Cable sits down with Fede Fogle, CEO and co-founder of Hakunaa design and innovation company building AI experiences that actually work for humans.  Fede breaks down why "just add AI" is a terrible strategy and how thoughtful design creates real value. He tackles the biggest challenge facing AI consultants today: convincing clients that...

On this episode of the Dynamic Decisions Podcast, Teasha Cable introduces Jeff Davis, CEO of Coalmarch Marketing, a company specializing in digital marketing for home service industries like pest control and landscaping.  Jeff shares his journey from private equity and tech to restarting Coalmarch as a spin-off. He touches on the challenges of bringing traditional businesses into the digital...