CEO Tradecraft

Mike Linton has been CMO of eBay, Best Buy, and Farmers Insurance. He's run billion-dollar marketing budgets and minted more CMOs than an academy company. In this episode, we dig into why CMO hires go wrong, and why the root cause is usually that boards don't understand their customer well enough to articulate customer strategy, and then hire to it. When you can't define customer strategy, you can...

Ken Holmen leads a $2B health system with 12,000 employees across rural Minnesota. After 30 years as an anesthesiologist, he's now managing 70% government revenue growing at 2-3% while costs climb 5-7% annually. That 4-5% gap compounds every year. This conversation covers the shift from clinician to CEO, why technology hasn't bent the cost curve despite massive investment, what AI is actually doin...

A private-equity inside-look at running multi-billion-dollar casinos, saving $100 M p.a. with data, and turning Vegas hospitality into a revenue lab. What you’ll learn The playbook that added $100M to slot profits in one year Inside a $31 B LBO: weekly flashes, board pressure, and a $260M room renovation debate How hotel yield algorithms became the backbone of modern ML systems Why Caesars pivoted...

Mary Brainerd led 26,000 employees as CEO of HealthPartners , the largest consumer-governed healthcare system in the U.S. She also served as Board Chair of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve . In this episode, she and Jason talk through: – “Alignment, not sameness”: how to drive bottom-up change – What cancer taught her about fear, empathy, and patient care – How a co-op hospital model built real acc...

Rich Williams (former CEO of Groupon) joins Jason Radisson to talk about the realities of hypergrowth, what it takes to become a product-driven CEO, and why curiosity, conflict, and decision speed are non-negotiables in leadership. This episode of CEO Tradecraft breaks down what most leadership conversations gloss over—operational scars, inflection points, and the actual skill set behind the title...

This show isn’t coaching. It’s not hype. It’s not media-trained narratives. CEO Tradecraft is about what it actually takes to lead a company when the answers aren’t obvious. Hosted by Jason Radisson—founder-CEO of Movo and operator behind five unicorns across three continents—this show digs into the hidden playbooks, sharp decisions, and hard-earned lessons from founders and senior operators who’v...