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

About Tina Tina Clements is a high energy, hands-on keynote speaker, author, coach, facilitator,  entrepreneur.com  contributor and successful leader. Before launching the BMW Group Joint Venture, The Retail Performance Company, LLC (rpc) in 2013, she worked for 10+ years within the BMW NA Organization and has been in the Learning & Development industry since 1996. Throughout her career, she h...

About Steve Steve is an expert on lessening loneliness in the workplace. His book “Connectable” is the first book to ever address the impact of loneliness at work. Steve has consulted for many of the top companies in the world (Salesforce, Home Depot, Bridgestone, Bank of America..) using his “powers” to deliver learning experiences that drive professional growth and development. Dubbed “The Leade...

About Erin  From a young age, Erin was raised with the belief that she could do anything. With a degree from Villanova and a wildly optimistic outlook, she found success early in sales leadership positions in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries (Pfizer, Boston Scientific, Medtronic). From a first-year MVP at Pfizer to many accolades later, Erin earned a top role in medical devices. Sh...

About Angie Angie learned how to lead during her time as a United States Marine. When she transitioned to the private sector, what surprised her was how the term “leadership” was being used. Whereas in the Marines, leadership was a verb – everyone aspired to lead. In her new world, “leadership” was a noun and only an expectation for managers. This inspired her to writ...

About LaKiesha LaKiesha is the Founder of Thriving Ambition, Inc, a career and management consulting agency. Helping engineers position themselves to get multiple job offers and working with technology companies to attract and retain diverse technical talent.   She has been mentioned in Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Self Magazine, and more. LaKiesha is regarded as the leadership expert for professi...

About Scott Scott Drake is the Founder and Executive Director at Jump Coach, a social enterprise on a mission to make best-in-class leadership training available to everyone who needs it. Prior to Jump Coach, he was Vice President of Technology for medical education innovator ScholarRx, and his 25-year career in tech includes stops at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, and at start-ups in Silicon V...

About Daniel Daniel Faggella is Founder and Head of Research at  Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research . Daniel is a globally recognized speaker on the use-cases and ROI of artificial intelligence in business. Called upon by organizations like the World Bank, the United Nations, INTERPOL, and global pharmaceutical and banking companies, Daniel helps business and government leaders navigate the co...

About Nick Nick Shevelyov is a specialist in cybersecurity, information technology, data privacy, and risk management with experience in multiple industries—from an engineering to executive and board advisory level. See his LinkedIn profile for career history. He is also the Chief Security Officer at Silicon Valley Bank. A guest speaker at a variety of industry events, Nick has an undergraduate de...

About Chris Chris Hass is an extremely driven and proven information security professional with extensive experience in Malware Reverse Engineering, Threat Intelligence, and Offensive Security Operations. In his current role, Chris serves as Director of Information Security and Research at Automox. In addition to being a former cybersecurity analyst for the NSA, he also served as a principal resea...

About Steve Steve Chaparro is an organizational culture expert and communicator who speaks worldwide about how companies can transform their workplace culture through intentional co-creation and communication. Steve is a self-described frustrated visionary. His passionate message of navigating the transformative journey of leadership resonates with visionaries and innovators who find themselves st...

About David A senior leadership/board advisor, educator, executive coach, and bestselling author, David Nour is internationally recognized as the leading expert on applications of strategic relationships in profitable growth, sustained innovation, and lasting change. The author of eleven books, including bestsellers  Relationship Economics®  (Wiley) and  Co-Create  (St. Martin’s Press), as w...

About Rick Rick Maurer is a speaker, author, consultant, and expert on helping leaders avoid resistance to change period since the publication of his book Beyond the Wall of Resistance in the 1990s, Ricks opinion has been sought by The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, NBC Nightly News, Fortune, and many other media outlets. Some of the largest companies in the world ask for his advice on ways to avoid r...

About Gleb Known as the Disaster Avoidance Expert, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is on a mission to protect technology leaders from dangerous judgment errors known as cognitive biases by developing the most effective decision-making strategies via his consulting, coaching, and training firm Disaster Avoidance Experts. A cognitive neuroscientist and behavioral economist, Dr. Tsipursky writes for Inc. ,  Time...

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,...