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The traditional corporate golf outing is a staple of American business, but it comes with a glaring flaw: it isn’t actually designed for efficient networking. Spending five hours battling the elements, chasing lost balls across a sprawling course, and being restricted to talking with only the three other people in your specific golf cart limits the true potential of corporate entertainment.  Today...

What if the next major leap in your business didn’t require adding headcount, overhauling systems, or working longer hours?  What if you could double your revenue in the next 12 months—with the exact team you already have?  It sounds like clickbait. But after interviewing hundreds of founders, operators, and executive teams for BCN.news, I can tell you with certainty: it's not only possible—i...

If you’re still relying on manual tasks, repeated decisions, and human memory to run your business, you’re not scaling—you’re surviving.  In today’s fast-moving, tech-powered economy, growth doesn’t happen because you hustle harder.  It happens because your systems are smarter.  The most successful CEOs and founders aren’t the ones doing more—they’re the ones doing less manually.  And that’s the c...

Happy New Year! We are excited with the year ahead.  We have some amazing conversations coming up, with authors, CEO's, Entrepreneurs and great business leaders.  Our focus this year is to help our future workforce with interesting subjects that can help organizations grow and thrive. 

How Kerryn Kathleen Kohl Is Rewriting the Rules of Leadership in the Age of AI** By Karl Woolfenden — BCN.News Time is moving faster than ever—or at least it feels that way. Information floods our feeds, workplaces are shifting beneath our feet, and technology evolves before our eyes. For leaders navigating this new reality, the question isn’t if they’ll need to change, but how quickly they can ad...

When a cyberattack strikes, chaos often follows. Systems shut down, communications collapse, and leadership scrambles to understand what’s happening. Yet, amid the turmoil, one fact is clear: prevention alone is no longer enough. That’s the insight that led Arvind Parthasarathi, veteran entrepreneur and founder of CYGNVS, to create a platform designed not just to prevent cyber incidents, but to he...

Why adaptive identity, dynamic trust, and cultural alignment are shaping the next era of enterprise cybersecurity.   By Karl Woolfenden  A New Era of Identity   Cybersecurity has always been an arms race—attackers innovate, defenders scramble to catch up. But for Jim Alkove , co-founder and CEO of Oleria , the most critical battlefield is no longer the perimeter or even the cloud. It’s identity. ...

By Karl Woolfenden | BCN.news   Cloud adoption has transformed modern enterprises, but it has also introduced unprecedented complexity. As organizations scale across multiple providers and hundreds of services, the promise of agility often collides with the realities of misconfigurations, compliance demands, and overstretched DevOps teams.  For Ian Amit , Founder and CEO of Gomboc , the gap betwee...

As organizations prepare for the challenges of the coming year, cybersecurity continues to dominate boardroom agendas. At the forefront of this discussion is identity hygiene —a discipline that ensures enterprises understand, monitor, and protect every human and non-human access point across their systems.  Rita Gurevich – CEO/Founder – SPHERE In the latest edition of Race to the Start Line , I sp...

The new season of Business Class News ’s Race to the Start Line podcast launched with a conversation that was both deeply personal and profoundly forward-looking. Host Karl Woolfenden sat down with two leaders from Caris Life Sciences — Dr. David Spetzler , President and Chief Scientific Officer, and Dr. James Hamrick , Chairman of the Caris Precision Oncology Alliance —for a discussion on how Car...

Be Different: Escape the Competition, Create Value, and Change the Game by Marty Strong is a business and leadership guide that challenges conventional thinking and encourages individuals and organizations to embrace innovation and creativity. The book draws on the author’s extensive experience as a retired Navy SEAL, business leader, and entrepreneur. Key Themes and Insights: Differentiation as a...

Karl spoke to Thomas Noh, the Founder of Sociable AI and they have an indepth conversation about his journey to founding the company and his vision of how his technology is enhancing social media engagements for brands and companies. Sociable. AI: Revolutionizing Digital Communication and Engagement In an age where digital interactions dominate, the quest for more meaningful and impactful connecti...

Last year (2023) a conversation about creativity and innovation around art started about a great artist. The Picasso Celebration 1973-2023: 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso.  This celebration triggered the desire to bring the amazing art of Picasso over to the United States to stimulate interaction with businesses and education and encourage creativity. Karl talks to Andy Martinez, t...

Karl spoke to Matt Frankenbery, CEO of Pitsco Education and Eric Simmons, Director of Sales of Pitsco Education in our continuing series of segments with STEM in Schools and Eduardo Galindo. Learn More: https://www.bcn.news/stem-in-schools / Pitsco Education: Inspiring Innovation in Education Pitsco Education is a leading provider of innovative educational resources and solutions that aim to engag...

We are proud to be a partner with STEM in Schools and Summa Caussa to help educate you on the ULTIMATE Ecosystem that is available to organizations and corporations to participate in. We have spoken to hundreds of corporate executives and they told us of the challenges they face trying to understand what STEM and educational programs are best for them, and that meet their objectives. STEM in Schoo...

BCN News has partnered with STEM in Schools and in our first in our series of conversations Karl speaks with STEM in Schools president Eduardo Galindo, Dee Memon, from Kids Robotics Academy and Max Ringleheim of Infento, North America.  They talk about their partnership together and how they are developing programs that are going to help shape the students of the future.

Karl is always talking to subject matter experts about how they can help companies grow.  Karl had a great conversation with Jim Buffington, a leading expert in future-ready tax software and innovative accounting technology with Intuit, and gave some amazing insights on how ProConnect Tax ,   is the ONLY professional tax software with built in-tax advisory and insights, that empowers the industry...

With inflation coming in hot in the last PCE report, the outlook for Fed cuts in the second half of 2024 is getting more bleak by the minute. Rather than selling, homeowners are rethinking their money-making strategies and are entering the Short Term Rental market heading into the Summer. Homeowners need to know how to maximize profits and exactly what they need to do to comply with local regulati...

Whimstay is dedicated to offering the best deals on last-minute vacation rentals. We offer the biggest discounts on bookings made within 30 days of check-in, but we also ensure great deals year-round compared to other major booking sites. We do this by partnering with professional property managers to offer exclusive discounts on properties that might otherwise remain unrented. On average,  guests...

Whimstay recently emerged as the industry leading travel site for booking last-minute vacation rentals at fantastic rates. If of interest I can look into getting a media rate discount if you (or someone else from your team) if you want to try Whimstay to book a getaway yourself. US based start-up Whimstay announced last month that bookings are up 400% last year compared with 2022 and that it attra...

Creating fun and accessible chemistry stories has been a labor of love for Colleen as a retired University of Arizona chemistry professor and author of a series of kid’s chemistry comic books. In 2023, the PBS short documentary, “Comic Book Chemistry” was awarded an Emmy. This documentary centered around Colleen’s vision, chemistry comic book series and her success with teaching college-level chem...

Karl talks to Michael Steiner, Marty Strong and Dr. Jens Hartmann in our NEW series Masters of Disruption, which was the brain child of Marty Strong who is a Board Member of BEST Robotics. Our spotlight shines on Dr. Jens Hartmann who is an award winning executive focusing on change management and culture change. Dr. Jens Hartmann talks about the science of culture, and how the brain has a huge pa...

In this new series from BEST Robotics, Masters of Disruption, we bring some of the greatest minds from Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) to hear their take on how students, and the future workforce are working together to drive innovation and learning environments.  Karl spoke to Michael Steiner, Marty Strong and Vinay Kunwar and they had an insightful conversation about this...