Master Leadership

Stephen Goldberg is the Co-founder and CEO of Harper DB , a fast distributed database platform for developers looking to quickly build apps and save companies millions.   They have 100K+ users and have raised $7.2M . Founded in 2017, they've also been able to scale rapidly with a small team of fewer than 20 people and are currently doing $6M+ in sales.   The platform reduces the complexi...

Sara Sabin calls herself a Career Chameleon. After nearly 10 years in the corporate world, she left for good in 2016. After leaving, she became the founder of two start-ups (one successful, one not), where she learned about the importance of great leadership the hard way through mistakes, successes, and trials. Since leaving the start-up world, she has built a multi six figure coaching practi...

Lisa Druxman is the founder of FIT4MOM, the nation’s leading company for pre and postnatal health, wellness, and fitness programs for every stage of motherhood. FIT4MOM has created business opportunities for moms nationwide, with more than 300 franchisees and 1,000 locations across the U.S. In addition to leading her team at FIT4MOM, Lisa is a noted speaker, author, podcaster and powerhouse o...

Amelia Wilcox is the Founder and CEO of Nivati , a platform designed to make access to mental health solutions easier for employees.   They have been recognized as one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US twice and have raised $5.7M to date. Nivati also provides flexible work to 1200 practitioners, including counselors and coaches, across North America and is used by 1...

Emmanuel Kulu, Jr. is an African American author and writer of Cameroonian descent. His father, Emmanuel Kulu, Sr., was a Career Engineer and his mother, Betty Kulu, was a Career MD History Educator. As a Career Social Worked, Kulu also had a deep passion for history and creative arts. Kulu tapped into film writing and acting with films like “The Rize and Fall of Tephlom Ent”, “Bug Love”, and “The...

Karl Hughes is the Founder of Draft.dev – where they create technical marketing content for companies.  Within 2 years, they’ve hit: $250k MRR 15 full-time, 200 contract writers 90+ clients. They run their company in a rather unique way. They don’t use Slack or other real-time communication tools. They are all remote and 90% asynchronous (meaning work can be done on employees’ schedule/prefer...

From as early as he can remember, Michael Trezza's world revolved around art, engineering and learning. He studied fine art and painting in college, still plays guitar every day and turned an early passion for programming and technology into his first business while still in college.  Michael spent the next two decades as a technology entrepreneur, creating powerful software solutions and wor...

Andrew Heaton is a comedian, author, and political satirist. He’s the host of “The Political Orphanage” comedy and news podcast, and scifi deep dive podcast “Alienating the Audience.” He’s a frequent Reason TV contributor and hosted the popular webseries “Mostly Weekly.” He’s performed standup comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as a finalist in the China International Standup Competition, an...

Mike Bosworth is well known throughout the business sales world as a thought leader, speaker, sales philosopher, entrepreneur, and the author of best-selling sales books Solution Selling (McGraw-Hill, 1993), co-author of CustomerCentric Selling (McGraw-Hill, 2003). Mike began studying the power of story as a framework for building emotional connection in 2008 and published a new book, What Great S...

Fred Joyal made the leap from being an advertising copywriter to starting 1-800-DENTIST with a good friend of his. Together they built a company that grew to $50 million annually. The endless challenges they faced in expanding the business led to the simple philosophy, "Let's just make survivable mistakes." There were times when the whole business seemed at risk, and what saved it time and time ag...

Can you go from crafting at your kitchen table to a multi-million-dollar business? As CEO, Holly Daniels Christensen has proved – yes! Using grit and the actual sand beneath her toes, that’s exactly what this entrepreneur has done. The founder of Dune Jewelry left home at 15 years old, and never looked back. She held a variety of jobs with stints as a zookeeper, pharmacy technician, prom...

Dr. Jenny Christner has been a medical education leader and innovator for 20+ years. She has published widely, won several awards and serves on many national medical education committees. Most recently, Dr. Christner founded a consulting company, Christner Strategies, which focuses on her 3 loves. The first is public speaking. As a closet actress, she loves engaging an audience and does so nimbly...

LeiLani Quiray is the Founder and CEO of be the change HR , a social enterprise that helps companies hire the right talent and create and support happy, healthy workforces.    LeiLani lives by Mahatma Gandhi’s words “Be the change you wish to see in the world”. That’s what led her to start be the change HR as a social enterprise, which not only does great HR work but also contributes to...

Until early 2022, Kvon Tucker was the Global Head of Manager and Leadership Development at Google. Part of his job at Google involved coaching top executives to be better leaders as they help grow the company. Before Google, Kvon worked at Amazon and Netflix, where he also coached leaders on how to adapt to hyper-growth and tremendous scale. Kvon has also had the opportunity to coach Apple, Tesla,...

Dr. Christopher Avery is the Founder and CEO of The Responsibility Company, one of the go-to organizations for executive leadership development and change management training. They have been in business for over 30 years. What makes them different is they teach their clients The Responsibility Process, a unique and thoroughly researched approach to teamwork and leadership, which they can use to le...

Dr. Raj Anand is a retired cardiology specialist with over 60+ years’ experience in the medical field. Yes, you heard that right, he is 87 years old.   Raj is also a healthcare author, focused on equipping readers to make the right decisions regarding their health. His latest book ‘ Healthy Diet and Mindfulness to Prevent Coronary Heart Disease ’ educates readers on how to make healthy choice...

Glen T. Campbell is the Founder and CEO of Brandheart, a leading leadership coaching firm that helps C-suite executives get clarity, focus, and certainty about their best self so they can lead fulfilling and prosperous lives.  Brandheart has worked with over 500 business leaders, entrepreneurs, and athletes from around the world to develop their personal and organizational brands. For over 20...

Jason Greer is the author of Bias, Racism, & the Brain and the founder of Greer Consulting , the #1 firm that does diversity training for startups, Fortune 500 companies as well as government agencies.   The truth is that most diversity-training programs fail.    On the other hand, if they are done right, they can reduce turnover rate by as much as 40% and increase your employee...

In the early 2000s, John Lefebvre co-founded Neteller, an online payment company that was listed on the London Stock Exchange, with a market capitalization of over $2 billion.   Neteller ran into legal troubles in 2007 and John lost close to $500 million earned from the company, went to jail, and had to restart his life again in his mid-50s.   John is currently a writer and climate chang...

Anthony Hughes is the co-founder and CEO of Tech Elevator, a 14 to 30-weeks coding bootcamp that teaches students in-demand tech skills that can lead to meaningful careers in the tech industry.   Over 2,300 students have graduated from Tech Elevator, with 90% of whom secured tech positions at companies within 6 months. Furthermore, the average Tech Elevator graduate gets a salary lift of $24,...

70% of people are unhappy at work and misery at work is expensive. Actively disengaged employees cost U.S. businesses $605B each year in lost productivity, retention and recruitment.   Neil Bedwell is the co-founder of LOCAL , where they help companies achieve lasting change by treating their employees as an audience worth winning.  For the past 15-years, their clients include Google, Mc...

Jodi Krangle's voiceover journey began with singing —since around the time she started talking. Music has always been a way her family connects. When she was little, her dad would pull out his trusty guitar and her mom would sing to her sister and her at bedtime. Fast forward to 1993. Through gaming (Dungeons and Dragons, to be exact), she was introduced to “Filk” music—the music that’s played at...

Michael Roub is a healthcare veteran and the founder of Inflection 360, where they specialize in helping their clients successfully outcompete in their markets, grow, and exit at significant valuations. Before starting Inflection 360, Michael had senior business development roles at Western Dental Services and US HealthWorks, as well as had more than two decades of business expertise as a strategi...

“Every step on the journey from expert to executive leads away from your craft. This sentiment is easier to grasp than embrace; and neither grasping nor embracing it is a requirement for reaching the rank, responsibilities, or rewards of an executive.” – wow, a powerful start to an impactful book.    Today’s guest, Edward. E. Tyson is a former strategy executive and Marine turned executi...

William A. Adams is an award-winning D&I innovator, engineering trailblazer, and philanthropist. After rolling out critical XML code globally in many of Microsoft's core products, he was named the first Technical Advisor to the CTO of Azure, Kevin Scott.     William has founded and overseen global initiatives that revolutionize how underserved communities access jobs and build c...