Evolving Your Workplace

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, working out of his basement, he had landed his first client. Since then, Accucode, Inc. has been on Inc. Magazine's fastest growing company list a whopping ten times and his family of companies now posts $100 million dollar revenues generated by...

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 commission to put a specific client on a specific show. Though she always wanted to be Katie Couric in front of the camera, Annie has now found a sweet niche in the volatile and highly competitive national public relations arena by staying fo...

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, ContentWriters is a full-service content writing agency that puts quality written content at the heart of a company's growth strategy. Their mission is to connect businesses with diverse audiences through powerful content crafted by a supreme ne...

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 and the largest independent artificial lift controls manufacturer in North America, producing world-class variable frequency drive solutions for the oil and gas industry. As experts in the industry, with over two decades of automation exper...

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 clean power electricity filters that protect your home and work environment. SATIC is an acronym for sinusoidal-wave-form-technology-incorporated, which means; engineered clean power. Satic is a company driven by a passionate belief that "...

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 with someone part time and see how it goes, and many of us may not know the value of a great EA. Gina Cotner, Founder & CEO of Athena Executive Services, knows all too well the ins and outs of this business. Gina stumbled into the business...

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 Founder & CEO, Stephen Hazelton, talks to Carol about how the idea came about. Founded in 2012, the Street Diligence platform is able to extract numeric and textual information around the terms and conditions and obligations of the contrac...

One of the common denominators among the most successful startups is that they are solving a problem that needs solving. Allstacks is on a mission to disrupt the value stream management category. This category of business looks at how people in an organization work and then map this by using machine learning to understand what may happen in the future. The value stream intelligence market, where t...

F2000 brands are investing hundreds of millions (or billions) of dollars a year on experiences in order to build brand love, and Jonathan Yaffe, Co-founder & CEO of AnyRoad, is on a mission to solve this problem. Having gotten his first job out of college 22 years ago with Red Bull's marketing department, he was awed by the fact that Red Bull was investing over a billion dollars a year on expe...

A former fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, Gal Oron is no stranger to a challenge. He has extensive experience as an entrepreneur and began his career as a QA engineer with Orsus where he moved up the ranks and became President until its acquisition by Nice Systems in 2009. After his successful experience with M&A, he went to Verint as an M&A specialist and then became a partner at T...

Real estate investment can be very complicated if you don't clearly know what you're doing. I'm sure you get spammed via email and LinkedIn from companies that want you to invest. But how do you know who's the real deal? There are many challenges that make it hard for even the most successful hotel companies. They have to staff, retain staff, market, provide great customer service, and more. Carol...

When it comes to flood risk, Brad Hubbard, Founder & President of National Flood Experts is the go-to guy. National Flood Experts looks at properties from an engineering standpoint as well as how national flood models rate the flood risk and can tell whether or not a building really is a flood risk and, if so, what the risk truly is. They have frequently been successful at moving buildings fro...

In this episode, host Carol Schultz speaks with Tim Kachuriak, Founder and Chief Innovation and Optimization Officer for NextAfter, a fundraising research lab consultancy and training institute that works with charities, nonprofits, and NGOs to help them grow their resource capacity.  Tim had dedicated his life to non-profit work and is a fundraising thought leader and has realized that the t...

In this episode, host Carol Schultz speaks with Camille Grade, CMO at Bushel. Hear about their pivot from mobile custom software development, a services company, to building a technology company focused on agribusiness. When looking at the physical infrastructure built in the US hundreds of years ago, this gave the US a huge competitive advantage in selling commodities overseas. Bushel believes th...

In this episode, your host Carol Schultz talks to Brian Adams, Founder & President of Excelsior Capital, a real estate private equity firm primarily focusing on stabilized income and capital preservation. Brian began his career as an attorney in criminal law before moving into the real estate market and founding Excelsior in 2019. Hear about his journey, as a young entrepreneur, the mistakes h...

In this episode, your host Carol Schultz talks to Co-founder & CEO of HazardHub, Bob Frady, about being acquired by Guidewire Software. We spoke to Bob in the spring of 2021 and wanted to talk about the acquisition, why it made sense, and what HazardHub will look like moving forward. The common denominator with HazardHub, as with so many successful startups, is the customer-centric nature of t...

In this episode, Carol speaks with Daniel Freedman, Co-founder & Co-CEO of Burnalong, an online video and social motivation platform that helps people achieve their health goals and overcome health and wellness challenges. Daniel and his Co-founder Mike Kott are building something that is actually working in an industry where most people who start a fitness program rarely or never stay co...

In this episode, Carol speaks with David Insdursky, President of ENCON. Founded in 1968, ENCON is a commercial HVAC full-service self-performing contractor. David began interning with the company while in high school and learned how to best run the company by working his way up and learning the different parts of the organization and how to do many of them. He took the business over from his fathe...

In this episode, Carol speaks with Steven Hoffman, Founder & CEO of Founders Space, a global startup accelerator. Founded in San Francisco in 2010, Founders Space now has 50 partners worldwide who came to Steve to learn how to build incubators. Steve is a long-time entrepreneur who has founded four startups and found himself being a "go-to" guy for entrepreneurs who wanted to know how to build...

Carol Schultz speaks with Dave Milliken, Founder & CEO of Greetly, about the critical need and benefit of visitor management systems. Dave saw a need for this when he was a customer going into buildings for meetings and experienced the poor "reception" experience. As it happens with so many founders, it was how he came up with the idea for Greetly and figured out a much-needed solution to a pr...

In this episode, your host Carol Schultz talks with Brandon Weber, Co-founder & CEO of Nava, a benefits brokerage on a mission to disrupt and transform how healthcare is found and purchased by businesses. A great number of Americans receive healthcare insurance through their employers (about 168M people) and Nava is navigating how to bring the benefits that a F500 employer can provide its empl...

In this episode, your host Carol Schultz speaks with Gaurav Bhattacharya, Co-founder & CEO of involve.ai. involve.ai is solving the problem of customer churn while accelerating customer growth for their clients. It is 25 times cheaper to keep a customer than it is to acquire a new customer, so this platform is a big money saver to companies that are at scale. Gaurav founded the company in 2020...

In this episode, your host Carol Schultz speaks with Kevin Stein, co-founder & CEO of Delos Insurance. Delos is an Insurtech startup focused on providing insurance for low-risk homes in wildfire areas. This is a critical and complex segment of the insurance market. As wildfires become more destructive and are damaging homes in geographies insurance companies were not expecting -referred to as...

“At 11, I got hooked on an Apple 2 and just thought it was the most amazing device I’d ever seen. And from there really I like to think that’s all I’ve done.” - Joe Kinsella Joe founded CloudHealth Technologies, a provider of multi-cloud services, which was eventually acquired by VMware. He walks us through his reasoning for making a rare decision among founders: to find a CEO rather than assuming...

“We don’t have to do it just the way it’s been done for the last 50 and 60 years. That we can tweak some stuff and try some new stuff and we might fail, but let’s fail forward. Let’s fail fast, let’s fail often, and then let’s learn from that and pivot.” -Jennifer Kenning Jennifer founded Align Impact, an impact investment advisory firm. It is women-owned and women also make up the majority of the...