Office Hours with David Meltzer

Paul Epstein Paul Epstein is an expert in leadership and organizational culture with nearly fifteen years of experience as a professional sports executive for multiple NFL and NBA teams, a global sports agency, and the NFL league office—leading and coaching business teams, most recently with the San Francisco 49ers. Matthew Pollard Global Gurus lists him as a Top 3 Sales Professional, Top Sales Wo...

Fredrik Haren [6:58] In 2008, he decided to become a truly global speaker. Since then, he’s been invited to speak in between 20-35 countries per year, while also enjoying at least 3 months off annually with his family. During these breaks, he typically spends time on his private island in Sweden or at his home in Singapore. His message has reached more than 1,000,000 people from the stage. He’s co...

Regina Gwynn She is one of the two Co-Founders of Black Women Talk Tech, an organization that aims to identify, support and encourage black women to build the next billion-dollar business. They are building community and profitable, scalable businesses for self-identified Black women in tech, together. It is the largest collective of black women tech founders with a unique understanding of the cha...

Christopher Willis [0:23] He has been helping people immigrate and settle since 1995. Prior to joining Latitude, he was a Managing Partner of Henley & Partners, responsible for operations in the Americas and Caribbean region including the Citizenship-by-Investment Programmes in St Kitts & Nevis, Antigua & Barbuda, St Lucia and Grenada. In 2018, Latitude merged with RIF Trust to expand...

Adam Bryant [0:23] Adam is the Senior Managing Director at The ExCo Group, an executive coaching firm. They bring an operator’s lens to executive development. Their Mentors are experienced former CEOs and top executives of complex organizations, and each brings a blend of determination, curiosity and humility to the role. He is also the co-author of The CEO Test: Master the Challenges that Make or...

Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino Through Elizabeth's companies, she has helped individuals and organizations around the world be their best and achieve world-class excellence with gratitude-based behavior and belief systems. She is one of America's foremost personal and corporate development consultants specializing in mindset, strategy, leadership, and taking action. Soon Yu He most recently served as...

Cara Macklin She worked as the director of her family business for 15 years. An award-winning multi-million-pound healthcare & hospitality group, which grew from 3 businesses with 250 staff to 7 businesses & 600 staff. She received a scholarship to study for her MBA at Cass Business School in London, Cara gained experience in Iceland, South Africa, China, and with the International Doyle H...

Shannah Kennedy She is one of Australia’s foremost strategic executive life & health coaches. She works to transform her clients’ careers, well-being, & lives. She specializes in executive strategy, transition, values, vision, overcoming burnout, and life planning for individuals. Her proven expertise enables clients to gain control of their lives in order to achieve their visions and goal...

Josh DeTillio His company Bravera Health is a health network composed of 372 licensed beds at three hospitals and nearly 800 physicians on the combined active medical staff. The word is a combination of “brave” and the Latin root for “true,” “vera.” With focus on preventative and specialized care coupled with convenient access to appointments including telehealth options, Bravera Health makes it e...

Jeff Webb In July, the International Olympic Committee officially recognized cheerleading as an Olympic sport. Jeff’s comments: “The IOC’s actions have created a monumental milestone for cheerleading… This decision will greatly assist us as we strive to create opportunities for healthy participation and competition for millions of cheerleading athletes worldwide.” Dan Sanborn Joining the company i...

Ken Ahn [3:28] He serves as President of Marketplace & Radius at Hagerty, in addition to being a Partner and CEO of Broad Arrow Group. Hagerty Marketplace is a digital classifieds platform where anyone is welcome to buy cars, trucks, and motorcycles. They offer both car classifieds and auctions. Broad Arrow Group, a Hagerty (NYSE: HGTY) company, is an advisor, market maker, and financier for c...

Mike Kaeding [0:00] His parents had a family business. However, just a few years after joining the business, his dad unexpectedly passed away. Suddenly, he had what felt like the weight of the world on his shoulders. He had to lead the business with no preconceived notion of "the way things are done" in the industry. He was struggling to the point where the city briefly shut them down, shattering...

Ari Wallach He developed his provocative ideas (the Longpath perspective) as a result of his unique upbringing. He originally hails from Guadalajara, his father was a Holocaust survivor & a member of the underground; his mother, a respected SF artist, studied under Buckminster Fuller. Propelled by these twin influences--large-scale tragedy and the desire to design a better future--Ari hungered...

Donald Thompson He is CEO of The Diversity Movement, a results-oriented, data-driven strategic firm offering clients a productized DEI (Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion) journey built on digital learning tools and content, conversational AI, and analytics. In addition, Donald serves on the boards for Walk West, Vidant Medical Center, Raleigh Chamber, TowneBank Raleigh, and several other organiza...

David Livermore He is a social scientist & thought leader devoted to the topics of cultural intelligence & global leadership. He’s a founder of the Cultural Intelligence Center in East Lansing, Michigan, & a research fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He spent twenty years in leadership positions with a variety of nonprofit organizations around the world and taugh...

Elan Lee He is the Co-Creator and CEO of Exploding Kittens, the hit tabletop game company. In this role, he oversees the operations of the company, and the development of new games and other corporate initiatives. His pioneering work in entertainment has spanned everything from multiple startups raising millions of dollars to creating the Alternate Reality Game (ARG) genre Tyler Williams He is the...

Michael Barlow [0:00] Michael is the co-founder and CEO of Fernish, a premium furniture and decor rental service on a mission to make it effortless to create your home. It lets clients choose from a curated selection of furniture essentials, knick-knacks, and things that just make you feel good. Clients can pay monthly and decide later what they want to keep, return, or swap out. Michael completed...

Aakash Shah [0:00] He’s a founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Wyndly. He’s helped found & grow a number of startups, helping to navigate two of them through successful acquisitions. In 2020, Aakash joined forces with his cousin, Dr. Manan Shah, to help turn Manan’s in-person practice into a 5-star online telehealth experience, using his business expertise to build Wyndly & expand co...

Precious Williams She is a 13-time national elevator pitch champion who has also successfully appeared on ABC's “Shark Tank," CNN, Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Black Enterprise Magazine. She has even slayed 2 TEDx Talks! Precious, through her pitching skills and talents, has also watched her clients win millions of dollars in pitch competition money, secure lucrative speaking and corporate trai...

Dr. Cindy McGovern Known as the “First Lady of Sales” Dr. Cindy has worked with major organizations for the last 14 years to not only help them grow, but also turn their human capital into confident sales people at every level of their company. Using tools from her Doctorate in Organizational Communication and years of consulting, Dr. Cindy developed sales cultures across various industries to cha...

Piers Ridyard He’s the CEO of Radix, the only decentralized network where developers will be able to build quickly without the constant threat of exploits and hacks, “where every improvement will get rewarded, and where scale will never be a bottleneck”. Rob Lee Andrews They provide job readiness instruction, life skills training, professional clothing, connections to businesses, support services...

Kyle Sullivan He’s a former drug dealer (while being a D1 athlete). After being jumped at a drug deal, he found faith & a relationship with Jesus, leading to be a pastor for 12 years before launching Unleash the Champ during the peak of the pandemic in 2020. Amanda Holmes She’s the CEO of Chet Holmes International (CHI) which has worked with over 250,000 businesses worldwide. At age 24, she in...

Jason Reid After the suicide of his 14-year-old son in 2018, Jason started the foundation ChooseLife.org , a nonprofit organization that encourages parents to own their children’s mental health. He is a partner at CEO International, where he coaches CEOs on how to be successful. He also co-founded National Services Group, which employs 2500 people across three brands nationwide. He is a leader, en...

Adam Jablin [0:00] His book, Lotsaholic: From a sick to Sober Superman is about his journey of facing all of his addictions and dependencies, including alcohol and drugs. He shares the very tools & secrets that helped him overcome his addiction & live the life he only could have dreamt about. John Jennings [17:00] John is president and chief strategist of St. Louis Trust & Family Offic...

Tiffani Bova [0:00] Her newest book is THE EXPERIENCE MINDSET: Changing the Way You Think About Growth. Topics include: who owns the employee experience at your company, how you can lead a people-centered turnaround at a company like Best Buy did, whether you’re prioritizing CX at the expense of EX, how people, process, technology and culture play a role in boosting both EX and CX, & how you c...