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

About Atholl Atholl Duncan is an Insead qualified executive coach. He blends his wisdom of having “been there and done it” in a range of board roles with his experience from a decade of coaching CEOs, CFOs and high potential leaders. He is currently Chairman of three organisations – Black Isle Group, UK Coaching and Scottish Salmon, which represents a one billion-pound sector of the UK economy. He...

About Kevin A successful entrepreneur, speaker, mentor, husband, and father, Kevin has spent several decades managing customer and employee relations across a wide range of industries and organizations. He has been a guest speaker at the USC Marshall School of Business, the UCLA Anderson School of Business, and Woodbury University, among many others. Since his first paper route at the age of seven...

About Paula Dr.   Paula Caligiuri  is a D’Amore-McKim School of Business Distinguished Professor of International Business at Northeastern University, and lives in Boston, Massachusetts. She has been named as one of the most prolific authors in international business for her work in cross-cultural management, global leadership development, and cultural agility. She is president of TASCA Glob...

About Jeff Jeffrey Hull, Ph. D. is an author, educator and consultant with over twenty years experience partnering with C-suite executives on issues of high performance leadership, change management, organizational strategy, structure and culture. Dr. Hull is a highly sought-after facilitator, keynote speaker and executive coach to both non-profit and for-profit global organizations. Dr. Hull is D...

About Ruben Ruben Ugarte is an expert in data, decision-making and the author of the Data Mirage: Why Companies Fail to Actually Use Their Data. He has helped over 75 medium-sized and large enterprises, including the Fortune 1000, across 5 continents, use data to make higher quality decisions. These decisions helped companies significantly boost performance, increase profitability, dramatically lo...

About Kent C. Dodds Kent C. Dodds is a world renowned speaker, teacher, and trainer and he’s actively involved in the  open source community  as a maintainer and contributor of hundreds of popular npm packages. Kent is the creator of  EpicReact. Dev  and  TestingJavaScript.com . He’s an instructor on  egghead.io  and  Frontend Masters . He’s also a  Google Developer Expert . Kent...

About Vincent Vince currently serves as the Founder and President of Defense Cybersecurity Group, focused on DoD cybersecurity, cyber compliance and assessments. He also currently serves as the Chief Security Officer for STI-TEC, a medium sized government contractor. Vince had a diverse career in military operations, cyber and information warfare, and intelligence operations. He served with nation...

About Christian Christian Espinosa is an entrepreneur, a cybersecurity engineer, a certified high-performance coach, a professor, and a lover of heavy metal music and spicy food. He’s also an Air Force veteran and Ironman triathlete. Christian used to value being the “smartest guy in the room,” only to realize that his greatest contribution to the fight against cybercrime is his ability to bring a...

About Michelle Michelle Natalya Moore is the Founder of MindEQuity , a management consultancy bringing 21st-century tools and practices to the forefront of team performance. Michelle brings 20 years of experience building successful teams, having done so while a Partner at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, at Ernst & Young, and at a tech start-up. Now she helps organizations do better work in half the...

About Meredith Meredith Bell is co-founder and President of Performance Support Systems, a global software company providing assessment and development tools for the workplace. Their award-winning tools and books guide leaders and team members to make the shift from KNOWING to DOING. The result is permanent improvements in the way people interact with each other. Meredith is an expert in leader an...

About Paul Paul Katzoff has over 10 years of experience in the data security industry. His key focus is manageable growth, brand loyalty and expansion. He has managed sales teams and been responsible for increased client base, securing new business, and developing & implementing processes for creditable growth. For over a decade he has worked with technology companies seeking manageable growth...

About Eric Eric Shepherd is an accomplished leader of international businesses and associations focused on talent, assessments, and success. Eric recently stepped away from a CEO role where he worked to build a SaaS company into a multimillion-dollar international assessment software business. Eric has also led industry and standards initiatives to promote best practices for assessments, learning,...

About Jake Jake helps organizations, teams, and individuals make monumental changes. Over the past 35 years he has worked in 61 industries, from high tech to manufacturing to hospitality to entertainment to financial services. He has consulted to 96 organizations, from Fortune 50 to national non-profits and community theaters. He’s supported more than 210,000 people directly on important cha...

About Tanaka Tanaka is a senior software developer and the VP of Engineering at Names & Faces, a Cape Town-based technology company. He’s the founder of a lifestyle brand called NoDaysOff, and a partner at Pahari African Restaurant. Tanaka started Tech Leadership Community in South Africa, a community of long-time, new, and aspiring technology leaders. Their mission is to help each other...

About Tim As VP, Risk Management & Partner Relations, Mr. Danks is responsible for understanding and managing business risks in the context of cybersecurity and privacy across Huawei USA businesses and toward external stakeholders. Further, he is responsible for developing and enhancing partner relationships towards key external stakeholders across academia, channels partners, industry, and su...

About Andrew Andrew Bartlow has 25 years of Human Resources and Talent Management experience at organizations across a wide spectrum of sizes, maturity stages, and industries. He is the co-author of “ Scaling for Success: People Priorities for High Growth Organizations ”, has a masters degree from the top program in his field, and has been CECP, SPHR, Six Sigma, and executive coaching certified. d...

About Joel Joel Malkoff, a.k.a. the Ethics Giver, demonstrates that ethical business decision-making isn’t just the right thing to do—it’s the profitable thing to do. Over the course of his 45-year career as a business executive and entrepreneur, he has generated more than half a billion dollars in sales. A writer and coach on ethical business practices and principles, he serves as general manager...

About Robin Robin S. Rosenberg is the CEO and Founder of Live in Their World. Robin is a clinical psychologist and textbook author. She has had both psychotherapy and coaching practices in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. She is board certified in clinical psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology, a Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Psychology, and is an As...

About Richard Richard Medcalf describes himself as “what you get if you were to put a McKinsey consultant, a slightly unorthodox pastor and an entrepreneur into a blender”. Richard is an executive coach & leadership consultant to exceptional founders & CEOs and their leadership teams. His clients are elite performers who’ve already achieved incredible things, and still ha...

About Jonathan Jonathan Raymond is the CEO of Refound, a leadership training company that helps organizations unlock high-performance through transparent conversations about growth and accountability. Jonathan spent 20 years building careers in business development and personal growth before realizing he could have the best of both worlds by starting his own company. Now, he uses those skills to a...

About Jack Jack Tompkins is a partner and founder of Pineapple Consulting Firm, a company that turns data into visualizations, allowing their clients to make more informed strategic choices. Jack has lived in Charlotte since early 2019 (moving away from Connecticut winters) and spent the majority of his professional career in the insurance world. His roles ranged from analyst to product manager, a...

About Becky Becky Morrison  is a UC Berkeley Certified Executive Coach with a passion for helping people live happy, priority-aligned lives. After a successful career in financial services, as a litigator and then in law firm administration, managing several hundred attorneys and staff at one of the country’s premier litigation firms, she was looking for a new challenge and transitioned to a small...

About Bo Throughout his career, Robert “Bo” Brabo has always focused on the people, helping them tackle their business problems as if they were his own. Since retiring from the U.S. Army as the Chief of Human Resource Operations with the White House Communications Agency and Presidential Communications Officer for both Presidents Bush and Obama, Bo has served in several executive positions includi...

About Ming-Hui Huang, PhD Distinguished Research Fellow at the Center for Excellence in Service at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, and Distinguished Professor, Department of Information Management, College of Management, National Taiwan University. A leading researcher and frequent contributor to both academic and managerial journals in AI and service, she is also E...

About Jonathan Jon Kazarian is the founder and CEO of Accelevents, a one stop shop for event organizers who want to create a unique and engaging virtual experience for their audience. In the current environment, many companies are choosing to transition their live events to a virtual format and Jon is the expert when it comes to helping companies making this process as seamless as possible. Today...