Everything Thought Leadership

Evan I. Schwartz is an accomplished thought leader who marries storytelling with innovation to profound effect. He has written articles for the likes of Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, WIRED, American History and more. His books, which include "JUICE: The Creative Fuel that Drives World-Class Inventors" and "The Last Lone Inventor," have received rave reviews for their insightful brea...

Anthony Marshall and Cindy Anderson are two leading lights within the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV), IBM’s acclaimed thought leadership think tank. Anthony serves as Senior Research Director of Thought Leadership for the IBV. In this role, he heads a global team of industry experts, statisticians, economists, and analysts who deliver actionable, data-vetted articles and reports on trends...

Malcolm Frank is the CEO of TalentGenius, a team of tech professionals dedicated to helping knowledge workers find the innovative AI tools their business needs, find AI powered jobs, and more. This Yale University graduate is considered one of the foremost authorities and visionaries in technology services, teaching companies how to master the growing game-changer that is AI and find community amo...

Jonathan Dahl is the vice president and chief content officer of Korn Ferry, a $2.8 billion global organizational consulting firm. He is an instrumental part of the thought leadership machine at Korn Ferry, having helped develop several new content programs. These include “This Week in Leadership,” a column in which Korn Ferry experts weigh in on recent business developments, and the Briefings Pod...

Kimberly Eddleston is an inspiring thought leader on entrepreneurship and family businesses, and specifically how family dynamics can affect the those companies for better or worse. With a Ph. D. from the University of Connecticut, Kim became an award-winning researcher focused on family business. She has won best paper awards from the Family Firm Institute, Diana International Conference on Women...

Martin Reeves is a senior vice president of the global management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group, and chairman of its research think-tank, the BCG Henderson Institute. This dedicated vehicle for thought leadership dissects new developments in business, technology, economics, science, and other fields. It has been instrumental in bringing to market a number of big management concepts and h...

Maria Boulden, Gartner vice president and executive partner for sales, puts the sale back in sales. She has led cream-of-the crop sales teams for over 30 years. Her experience includes a collective 30 years at DuPont, the $13 billion revenue global chemical company, and running many global sales groups. In 2019, Maria decided to take her sales and coaching expertise to Gartner. On her LinkedIn pro...

Mara Stefan is Vice President of Global Insights at ManpowerGroup, a $20 billion talent services firm – one of the largest in the world. Over her 25-year career, Mara’s has done nearly everything in thought leadership, from working with executives and their organizations to create thought leadership content to developing and executing thought leadership marketing strategies. Previous to Manpower,...

Francis Hintermann directs Accenture’s thought leadership research machine. As Global Managing Director for Accenture Research, he runs a 350-person unit that has been helping the $63 billion (revenue) global consulting, IT services and outsourcing company stay on the forefront of digital expertise. He created the company’s Strategy Research team, which today is located in North America, Europe, L...

11:11 – Microstresses Plaguing Thought Leaders & Thought Leadership Professionals 28:14 – The Biggest Challenges Developing Content for "The Microstress Effect" (Karen's book) 30:48 – How Karen has Managed her Thought Leadership Career Turns 34:32 Recognizing the Microstresses We Can Create for Other People Thought leadership has always been a highly stressful profession, and that stress continues...

Disruptive innovation expert and former academic Geoffrey Moore has made a career of rethinking how companies adapt technology; the subject of his magnum opus, “Crossing the Chasm,” which has printed over one million copies worldwide. An advisor for the likes of Google, Splunk, Microsoft, and Salesforce, he has garnered ample respect and renown for his breakthrough thought leadership. As described...

Doug Farren is the quintessential thought leader on the middle market, having founded the National Center for the Middle Market: a research institute helmed by Visa, Chubb, and the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University. Following a lengthy stint as senior supply chain manager of Limited Brands, Farren helped found the Center in 2011 to provide data analysis and insights concerning mi...

How can thought leaders improve their writing? There are few people more qualified to answer this question than Glenn Leibowitz, Group Head of Communications for McKinsey & Company’s Greater China region (based in Taipei, Taiwan), and a talented writer in his own right. In fact, he was recognized four years in a row as a LinkedIn Top Voice: twice in the Marketing & Social Media category and twice...

Tom Davenport is an acclaimed author, writer, speaker, and professor helping businesses embrace major 21st century opportunities in artificial intelligence, analytics, big data, and more. A thought leader whom LinkedIn dubbed as a "Top Ten Voice in Tech" in 2018, Tom has changed the game on how people view the technology space. He coined the idea of "competing on analytics," in which in-depth data...

Jim Wetherbe has been a professor on management information systems for more than 40 years. A highly sought-after speaker who has delivered more than 1,000 speeches worldwide, he has written hundred of academic articles and authored or co-authored 40 books. Jim has also been teaching at Texas Tech University since 2000 and has served as a board director at a number of companies, including consumer...

Sections: 00:00 – Opening 3:00 – From Analyst to Thought Leader 6:44 – Tech’s Thought Leadership Tribulations 14:30 – Thought Leadership’s Influence on Vendor Selection 23:35 – The Art of Great Storytelling 30:24 – Collaborating with SAP 35:17 – Thought Leadership‘s Future Vinnie Mirchandani, founder of technology negotiation and strategy firm Deal Architect, is an effective thought leader in the...

As the leader of McKinsey’s global publishing for three years and counting, Raju Narisetti has a knack for helping businesses, media companies and journalists remain relevant in the digital age. His goal at McKinsey, a leader in the management consulting industry, is to triple the size of its audience over five years. Raju’s 32-year career includes 14 years as a writer and editor for The Wall Stre...

Paul Roehrig has done it all as a thought leadership strategist, marketing officer, and more. Before he became Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at Ascendion, the Syracuse University PhD graduate spent over 11 years at Cognizant in three VP roles, cultivating big ideas within the IT services giant’s Digital Business, Process Operations, and Center for the Future of Work business units. Previously...

*This episode was recorded in October.* William S. Harvey is a professor of leadership and newly appointed Business School Education Director at the University of Bristol in the UK. He led a study on thought leadership at professional services firms in the late 2010s. Specializing in corporate reputation, talent management, and leadership, the Durham University graduate has published in the Harvar...

Prof. Hermann Simon is a bestselling author of more than 40 books and expert in pricing and marketing strategy. His accolades, to name but a few, include becoming the only German in the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame and having a Chinese business school built in his namesake (the Hermann Simon Business School in Shouguang). While Simon was as a business administration professor for over 14 years at the U...

Sabrina Horn knows what it means to succeed in the harsh world of business leadership. She would tell you herself she has made no shortage of mistakes and failures. The best-selling author and current CEO of HORN Strategy arrived in Silicon Valley in the early 90s, founding the PR firm Horn Group, which Finn Partners acquired in 2015. Under Sabrina’s leadership, Horn Group grew to national renown:...

Thomas A. Stewart is a thought leader on intellectual capital and customer experience who has become renowned worldwide for his expertise. Over the last 50 years, he has led the Harvard Business Review, served as CMO of Booz & Company, and published several best-selling business books. He recently was chief knowledge officer for AchieveNEXT, leading research and benchmarking for emerging and mid-m...

(*This podcast was recorded June 1st, 2022.) Mary McBride joins her long-time colleague Alan Alper to discuss the lessons she has learned in her decades of experience enhancing thought leadership through brilliant visual storytelling. A freelance graphic designer and brand consultant based out of New York, she has crafted detailed white papers, infographics, e-Books, research reports, animations,...

For the sixth episode of Everything Thought Leadership, COO of Buday Thought Leadership Partners Alan Alper speaks with Julio Gomez. Julio is the founder of Gomez Advisors, which later became part of the multimillion-dollar global software firm​ Dynatrace. Among his accolades, he was voted one of Time Magazine’s “Fifty Most Influential People Shaping Technology” and one of Wall Street’s “50 Most I...

Jonathan Copulsky sits down with Bob Buday for the fifth episode of Everything Thought Leadership. Jonathan is the former CMO of Deloitte, author of the book “Brand Resilience,” and a marketing lecturer for Northwestern University’s Medill and Kellogg Schools. He is a B2B marketing and strategy expert and thought leader of over 35 years. Visit this link to donate to the research fellowship Jonatha...