Disruptive CEO Nation

Nora Herting, CEO and Co-founder of ImageThink, is a pioneer in using visual imagery as a method to create personal and organizational change. Nora and her entrepreneurial team work primarily with Fortune 100 companies, using a design thinking method as a catalyst to help unlock human potential.  In our conversation, Nora gives examples of how the process works and how it leads to easier facilitat...

Dan McGaw, CEO of McGaw.io, is an award-winning entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in marketing technology and marketing analytics. Dan was formerly the head of marketing at Kissmetrics and was head of growth at CodeSchool.com which was acquired by Pluralsight. He’s also a 500 Startups Mentor. Dan has been called one of the original growth hackers and godfathers of marketing technology....

Benjamin Talin is truly a technology disruptor and digital futurist. Based in Switzerland, Benjamin is the founder and CEO of More Than Digital.info, which helps companies survive the tech future by providing access to knowledge about technology trends.  Benjamin and his team have over 1.7 million people in 100 countries sharing expertise about the digital world. His team is also working on highly...

Achal Patel, Co-founder and CEO of Cabinet Health Brand, has a vision to provide high-quality medicine with environmentally sustainable packaging that makes people feel cared for. Along with his co-founder, they started with two over-the-counter products on Amazon, and within a year became an eight-figure healthcare digital brand. Achal attributes part of the company’s early success to listening a...

Everything about the Boxabl story is disruptive and unconventional. It answers the problem of the major housing shortage in America. It is being funded by investors sourced from social media. It has multiple patents because of how it’s constructed and shipped, developed and launched with team members found on freelance Internet sites, and that’s just part of the story!  Galiano Tiramani is the co-...

The advancements of healthcare technology are changing the way people have accessibility and affordability to healthcare. Tess Cosad has tremendous insights into the disruptive health tech space. She is a FemTech founder based in the UK, the CEO and co-founder of Bea Fertility, a venture-backed startup which brings fertility treatment that’s affordable, safe and administered at home. Tess previous...

Marina Tran-Vu is an environmental super hero based in Viet Nam. She is the founder of EQUO, a company that creates better solutions for plastic and paper products. Marina has an incredible story of being a female founder, a Viet Nam TechStars and Shark Tank contestant, and a marketing expert who understands what it takes to innovate and bring eco-friendly products to market. For over 10 years, Ma...

American Blake Sherwood was 17 years old and living in Shanghai as part of the National Security Language program sponsored by the US State Department. After graduating and back in the States, Blake checked in with his Chinese host family and heard about COVID-19 months before it was on the radar of North Americans. When he saw nurses stapling masks together, he knew there was a better way to do t...

I’ve interviewed entrepreneurs and leaders from all over the world, and the successful ones are those who keep to their core values, find that inner wisdom to keep focused, and remain calm under pressure. My guest, Nevsah Fidan Karamehmet, helps everyone from leaders, business owners, corporate employees, and celebrities tap into self-mastery through her courses and breathing techniques.  Based in...

There is a global resonance, a societal energy behind the topic of diversity and inclusion. Yet it remains a challenge for people to get the diversity inclusion equation correct in the workplace. Frans Johnasson, Founder and CEO-The Medici Group is creating a great disruption to changing organizations, especially large-scale global companies meet the diversity challenge with his successful program...

French native Nicolas Mendiharat is on a mission to democratize and demystify the world of fine wine. In 2017 he founded Palate Club and developed an unheard-of approach of using data science to help match individual tastes and preferences with sustainable wines. In our conversation, Nicolas shares a real behind-the-scenes look at how the North American wine industry works, and how he is disruptin...

Thejo Kote was a co-founder of Automatic, which was sold to Sirius XM for $110 million. Although Thejo was a success, he experienced a lot of painful lessons about running a company and knew he wanted to do it better next time. The most inefficient area he saw was non-payroll spend and that no one had designed a fully articulated, consolidated software solution to fix this broken process. That gav...

Christian Giordano, Co-Owner of Mancini Duffy, is one of the most innovative and influential people in the architecture and design space today. Christian is revolutionizing the industry with Toolbelt, a patent-pending software that allows users to explore and manipulate 3D models collaboratively. It enables clients to put on VR goggles and stand in 3D models of their architectural projects and cha...

Ken Wentworth, aka Mr. Biz, worked his way up to the top three percent at a Fortune 15 company when he took the leap to become an entrepreneur. Ken credits his confidence to make that bold transition because of his competitive athletic career and holding six world records in the sport of bench press! Ken is the award-winning host of Mr. Biz Radio, which airs 55 hours each week across six different...

Brett Harris Wigdortz, OBE is the co-founder and CEO of Tiney, a UK digital B-Corp focused on reimagining at-home childcare and unlocking the potential of all children. Previously, Brett founded and is the Honorary President of Teach First, an educational charity working to break the link between low family income and poor educational attainment in England and Wales. He was CEO of Teach First from...

Dr. Jeffrey Magee CBE, CSP, CMC, PDM is often referred to as one of today’s leading Leadership Strategists. Dr. Magee believes that in both the start-up to mature-growth market business sector, the number one resource companies have is human capital and successful leaders bring out the best in people to help organizations thrive. Dr. Magee is the author of over 30 books, three college graduate man...

Kizzy Parks, PhD, owns and operates multiple businesses and has secured over $50 million in government contract awards. Dr. Kizzy started K. Parks Consulting, KPC, ten years ago because of an unexpected government consulting contract. Today, through her GovCon Winners program, she helps service-based small business owners learn how to bid and then win profitable federal government contracts. Dr. K...

Victor Fredung is a Sweden-based FinTech innovator who co-founded Zensed and is currently serving as the CEO of Shufti Pro, an AI-driven identity verification service provider. Because there is so much fraudulent activity in finance, banking, and other businesses, there is a need for real-time, dependable identity verification. This is an amazing story of how within two years, Victor and his team...

At the start of the pandemic, everyone started thinking of the best ways to clean and disinfect our environments. Those harsh chemicals and cleaning products aren’t healthy for the professional cleaners that use them, don’t reach all the places that need to be cleaned, or consider the effects on the environment. Using his background in mechanical engineering, Grant Morgan developed a portable and...

We are living in a fast-changing world where everyone needs access to information, knowledge and expertise in a way that is fast and accurate. As an example, think about how everyone needed information from around the globe regarding the pandemic. Cenk Sidar, Co-founder and CEO of GlobalWonks, has a technology platform that removes barriers to accessing information, while creating equity in the gl...

What if a financial app could help a user take the stress out of finances, by helping a user look at saving and spending habits from a holistic, health and wellness approach? Maia Monell is the Co-founder and CMO of Nav.it Money App. It helps users track and improve financial habits, just as a fitness routine can help keep one healthy. Maia and her co-founder, Erin Papworth, are taking a fresh app...

Elnaz Sarraf, CEO and founder of the award-winner Roybi Robot, has an incredible story, not only for her drive as an entrepreneur, but as an immigrant from Iran to the U.S. who had the tenacity to achieve success. Roybi Robot is the world’s first AI powered smart toys to teach children language and STEM skills. It’s listed as one of TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions in Education, on the 2019 CNBC Up...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words and visuals are a key deciding factor in consumer purchase decisions. For every company where visual imagery is important, it would be incredible for those companies to harness AI to place facts behind the images that are chosen to improve customer sales conversion rates.  Jehan Hamedi, Founder and CEO of Vizit, is the world’s first visual i...

Mark Cann is the CEO/CTO of CryomatiKs Inc., a product development firm that uses the air we breathe to power a Zero Emissions Range Extender for electric vehicles (EVs). The Liquid Air “fuel” that powers their Range Extender is unlimited, because the air we breathe is unlimited. The Range Extender allows for five-minute quick refueling that is safe and convenient. Mark wrote and submitted the pat...

Kevin Condon is an experienced chief executive officer with a history of working in fintech, transportation policy, B-2-B media and public policy. Kevin is the inventor of PayByCar and Efficient Vehicle Assessor (EVA) platforms that change how consumers do business from their cars. PayByCar is an in-vehicle transaction company that makes in-vehicle payments easy, safe and fast. All it takes is a t...