Disruptive CEO Nation

This week we come back to the USA with Hanieh Sigari, a serial entrepreneur with a lifelong passion for the aging industry. Hanieh shares how her interest in longevity started at a young age when she befriended elderly neighbors and worked in a nursing home. This early passion led her to found multiple healthcare businesses focused on aging issues over her career. Hanieh goes into detail about her...

Welcome to Placecube, a company that helps organizations work with modern technology on tight budgets, primarily in the UK public sector. The founder and CEO, Jason Fahy, discusses Placecube’s approach of building technology in a modular way using "cubes" or digital building blocks.   Allison and Jason discuss Placecube’s use of open source technology and how it builds security around these system...

What if you could completely redesign the way tech platforms process, think, and inform you? That is exactly the mission that Massoud Alibakhsh is on while leading the way in object messaging models.   As a four-time company founder and expert in deep integration AI ( or AI fusion), Massoud is ready to place his fingerprint on the future. We caught up with him at a great time, as he is at a really...

Chris Caldwell is on a mission to bring renewal energy to all, even those in remote and isolated regions of the world. As CEO of United Renewables, a leading renewable energy developer and cleantech investor, he has become known as a go-to authority in this space.   In this conversation with Chris, we explored: - His start in developing little turbines with a small team to a globally recognized se...

Patrick Danial was a teenage gamer in the 90s who recognized the power of the world wide web to share ideas. He started a website offering tips to other gamers when one day, he was approached to run ads on his site for his audiences. From there, his curiosity and drive to understand online engagement, optimization, and reach were born.   In this conversation we touch on: -Just out of high school h...

This episode concludes 'The Next You' series where Allison turns the focus on the Disruptive CEO Nations' listeners and their business goals. In part 3, Allison encourages the listener to think about 'high risk/high awesome' and why you need to make space for risk in your life. Allison shares her personal 'yellow post-it note' story insights including: - Why if NFL legend Charles Woodson can take...

This is the second episode in a series of episodes where Allison turns the focus on the Disruptive CEO Nations' listeners and their business goals. In part 2, Allison encourages the listener to think about 'The yes line' and shares insights and thoughts into: - Life accelerates according to the yes line. - Get out of your own way and keep your ego in check. - Make space for new. - Activate the fie...

This episode kicks off a series of episodes where Allison turns the focus on the Disruptive CEO Nations' listeners and their business goals.  In part 1, Allison encourages the listener to think about 'The next you' and shares insights and thoughts into: - Getting the motivation to set future goals. - How to see the field of possibility but not get lured away from the path to your future. - Thinkin...

Mickey Balter is the CEO & Co-Founder of Oriient, an in-store navigation technology provider that offers hyper-accurate indoor positioning using the earth’s magnetic field and built-in smartphone sensors. Mickey is a serial entrepreneur and a veteran of the Israeli semiconductor industry, with over 20 years of experience in combining deep technology to solve business challenges. Prior to founding...

90% of cyberattacks start with human error. In this episode, we speak with the founder of Riot, a platform designed to protect your company by preparing your employees to deal with cyberattacks in a modern and engaging way. The number of cyberattacks exploded last year, and everything suggests it will be even worse going forward. Long before AI steals our jobs, it will enable hackers to craft much...

Dmytro Gryn, CEO at Jooble, Job Aggregator. Dmytro is an expert in the information technology industry with 15 years of experience. He joined the Jooble team in May 2007 as a Software Engineer, becoming the first employee in the company after its two founders. Before becoming CEO of Jooble Job Aggregator, Dmytro worked as an engineer, team leader of the development team, and CTO of Job Aggregator....

Chloe Duckworth is the co-founder and CEO of Valence Vibrations, an AI startup delivering emotional classifications in real-time conversation to improve communication and promote empathy across demographics, including neurotypes. Chloe is personally motivated by democratizing access to wellness in every facet of what it means to be well. In the wake of the pandemic, she co-founded Hope Hearted, a...

201 Mohammed Widdi, CEO of Soul Detox, Brooklyn, NY, USA The main purpose of business, in our guest’s opinion, is to make a difference in people’s lives. In this episode, Mohammed ‘Moe’ Widdi speaks about his latest business venture, Soul Detox, and his feelings about holistic healing and business practices.  Always intrigued by the ways CEOs and high-performing business leaders manage stress, I w...

We are doing a happy dance at the Disruptive CEO Nation podcast because this is our 200th episode, and to celebrate, we made Allison the guest. In this episode, Bruce Corris from Market Domination takes the interviewer's seat and helps listeners get to know Allison better and what is behind the career that has enabled her to work with CEOs and senior leaders in over 90 countries. Through the conve...

Eric carries more than two decades of experience in the healthcare advisory space and leading teams at Southwind and The Advisory Board Company. His background in financial operations, mergers and acquisitions, technology innovation, and traditional consulting services sets the foundation for creative and bold solutions. Here is what we discussed: -      Why 'curiosity meets clarity' is important...

Did you know that in the US alone, almost 55 billion is spent on conducting online surveys, and another 10 billion on conducting product research interviews? And do you know if all that data gathered is trustworthy? Well, Sharekh Shaikh founded CleverX on a mission to not only make it easier for marketers and researchers to reach the right audiences, but to also make sure that the data is reliable...

DevSquad is a bootstrapped, profitable, ~90-person boutique consulting firm that specializes in strategizing, designing, and developing SaaS products. We build SaaS products for bootstrapper founders, VC-funded fast-growing startups, and big enterprises like ADP, Box, and the US ski team. Here is some of what we touched on: -Phil's journey from Brazil to the United States and how he has developed...

CytoReason is supporting some of the largest pharma companies and research institutes with their boldest attempts to improve people lives through improved clinical design and speeding the discovery of new life-saving drugs. Using the knowledge the world has accumulated to intelligently augment clients’ data and to identify patterns within it and generate a system-level understanding of immunity. T...

In almost 200 episodes I have not repeated a guest until now. Dr. Jeffrey Magee is an incredible leadership and business expert who works with business owners and leaders and someone I thoroughly enjoy speaking with. Here are some highlights of our conversation on our second go around: - Why business leaders need to pay more attention to human capital (because every problem and challenge you have...

Simply put, Aric Dromi fascinates us. A self-proclaimed futurologist, innovation strategist, philosopher and professional trouble maker, we caught up with Aric to discuss his new book The Intellectual Rage and his views and work in the area of innovation and disruption. On the day we caught up with Aric he was in Sweden and energized with insights and ideas. In our conversation he touched on: - Th...

Jeffrey is an engaging and brilliant executive coach who has knowledge that you and your teams need to know. Currently, he is motivating business leaders to evaluate the topic of integrity via his book and program The Integrity Game®️. Jeff is also serving as a Professor of Communications at San Diego State University where he is challenging emerging leaders to understand their values and how to c...

Maxwell Nee's journey began with a burning desire for freedom, experiences, and meaningful relationships. As a young professional climbing the corporate ladder, he found himself feeling unfulfilled and unhappy, despite his impressive achievements. Maxwell realized that the path laid before him in the corporate world did not align with his core values, leading him to make a bold decision to quit hi...

B2B Growth Team is not an agency or coaching program. It is a B2B growth company with a unique hybrid model that provides education, advisory and coaching together with our own technology platform. The company is on a huge mission to help 5k B2B Consultants and Professional Services Businesses to stop chasing clients on social media. In this chat we touch on: -The need for CEOs to have an impenetr...

Richard van der Blom is on a mission to help sales and marketing teams leverage the world of LinkedIn for brand awareness, lead generation, thought leadership, and more. Personally, Richard has been a valuable member of my LinkedIn network for years and I thought it was about time that you got to know him as well. Richard founded Just Connecting in 2009 in the Netherlands and today leads operation...

Ivan Anz is an INC 500 Magazine-recognized international serial entrepreneur operating companies in 14 countries. Throughout his journey, Ivan has always viewed himself as the Chief Dream Officer considering hiring a solid CEO as his top priority for his companies. We invited him on as a guest because we admire his approach to leading teams and inspiring those around him. Here are some highlights...