First Name Basis - a TribalScale Podcast

Host Sheetal Jaitly, CEO, TribalScale is joined by Rory Capern. An industry titan in the Canadian Tech Space throughout the past two decades, Rory has advised and overseen the rapid growth of the early days of Google and Twitter in Canada, as well as been a part of teams at Microsoft, The Weather Network, Torstar, and Bell. So what makes the most dangerous sales person? Also, Rory tell us about hi...

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Director of Communications at OMERS Ventures, Jennifer Janson! How is a company built, and what are the key takeaways on how not  to build it? What's the strategy to communicating with journalists, to spreading your company's message across a specific medium? This episode grants us an insightful convo on how to inject purpose into your business, how to b...

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Human Rights Activist, enterprise advisor, Exec Team Building Strategist, and change-maker Jay Rosenzweig. Humanitarian efforts, anti-racism initiatives that use tweeting, and how to get back on the horse when a COVID-19 economy knocks you off. Jay's journey to advocate, act, and encourage societal change comes from a place of passion to help others, and...

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by fellow martini lover Helen Kontozopoulos, Co-Founder& CGO of ODAIA.ai. Artificial Intelligence is on everyone's minds lately - how can it help society as a whole? How can it help my company sell better, understand our clientele better? Helen breaks it down for us. ODAIA.ai helps companies understand their customers through the power and seemingly "magic"...

Senior Product Designer Eman Faiz is joined by Bevinash Mohabeer,  Product Design Manager at TribalScale Dubai for this episode of First Name Basis ! These two worked with one of the biggest shipping/cargo enterprises in the UAE for four months, and they share their learnings, challenges, and overall takeaways from a Design Transformation journey in Dubai. From marrying scrum with design work, int...

TribalScale Design Manager Ailsa Blair is joined by Executive Creative Director of Grassriots Inc., and author of brand new book The Conscious Creative , Kelly Small ! Beginning from their job in advertising and marketing for big box stores, Small noticed that ethically, there was a massive divide between what they knew was morally correct and what said companies they worked alongside were partici...

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Senior Advisor to FinTech firms and Financial Institutions and personal friend, Peggy Van de Plassche! She climbed that difficult ladder to the top and has pages of indispensable advice  for anyone hoping to push change in their business, hire the right candidates, and be more diverse and inclusive in their hiring process. Her expansive portfolio advisin...

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Scotiabank's VP of Digital Product Management, Katie Sokalsky and CEO of Dream Payments, Brent HoYoung.  With two FI industry experts, Sheetal gets to the bottom of a big Canadian bank's response to COVID-19, and how they dealt with distributing government relief funds in one week. Additionally, we learn the challenges of digital banking and connecting p...

On this episode of First Name Basis we get absolutely schooled by teenagers. In his first podcast with the "kids" of The Knowledge Society (TKS) and Founder Navid Nathoo,  TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly learns what students Faith Inello & Jack Bodell are working on, and how they are undoubtably two minds to change the world. At 16 and 17 years old, Faith and Jack have mastered the "Boss Mentality"...

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by fellow TribalScale Co-Founder Mitch Seguin. Now the Co-Founder and CPO/CTO of his startup company ChefsList in Berlin, Mitch has an incredible wealth of knowledge when it comes to launching and running a successful startup. He shares key pointers to the mindset one needs to have, how to communicate with clients, and why design sprints are a must-know in...

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Radar's CEO & Co-Founder, Nick Patrick for an in-depth conversation about location services and technology, ethical implications, how Radar's location gathering products have aided companies so far, and how they will improve business and safety in the future. Post COVID-19 contact tracing, data selling and protection, and how Radar is helping pave the wa...

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Matt McGowan, Director and General Manager at Snap Inc. They chat all things SnapChat, busting myths about Gen Z, how we use Snapchat to communicate and why it's one of the most successful communicator apps right now. From earlier days at Google and Adestra to meeting Sheetal in Barcelona (are you noticing a trend of where Sheetal meets a lot of our podc...

TribalScale's CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Dr. Daniel Pepe, Family Physician, London Lambeth Medical Clinic & Dr. Puneet Seth, President of InputHealth, for this influential and momentous episode. We're given the full lowdown on InputHealth's technology and mission to connect patient's to their healthcare system. From the idea's conception from a single tweet to this system being implemented ac...

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Founding Partner of ENIAC Ventures, Nihal Mehta. From music startups to Barcelona's Ocean's 11 dinner,  from filing for bankruptcy to being known as "the human Rolodex" Nihal has decades of stories from the highest glory days of a startup, to the lowest lows, and as he says, these are often occurring within the same 24 hours. 

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Raj Singh, Co-Founder & CEO of Loop Team. Because of COVID-19, many companies have transformed their teams into being fully distributed. Time zones, equipment, communication, it all needs to be considered. Raj has been an expert on effective and competitive remote work before it was the popular choice.  From his adventures in mobile in the early 2000s to...

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by EVP of Technology & CTO at Bloomberg Industry Group Eric Schvimmer in this latest episode of First Name Basis . From his earlier days at the Washington Post and the Internet of Things to being an earlier adopter of Agile teams, Eric shares with us his advice on how to transform an Engineering team to have the ability to deploy in a revolutionary way. Wha...

On this latest episode, we join a roundtable of our entire Design Team to talk Design Strategy, Problem Solving, Design Thinking, and everything that leads down the path to an unbeatable product. UX/UI, art history and graphic novels, even dishing about what it's really  like to work alongside Engineers, it's all here. What role does Design play in creating the best products? How do we consider us...

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Alfredo Tan, CDO of WestJet Airlines. Besides talking about The Last Dance and where they're going to have dinner once restaurants open back up, we get the inside scoop on what Alfredo is working on with his remote digital team on advancing and enhancing WestJet's digital presence to better handle what comes next for air travel. And what does come next f...

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by personal friend Swan Sit, a well-known digital strategy expert with extensive experience in global and digital marketing. From her early days in the Dotcom boom to taking a team into a SARS hot zone to set up shop, the stories are countless. Estee Lauder, Revlon, Elizabeth Arden, Nike, it's all on her resume. We learn about the massive global strides of...

TribalScale's CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by RBC's Senior VP, Office of the CEO, John Stackhouse. What's Canada's financial outlook post COVID-19? What about real estate? How will we overcome deficits? We hear a message of mental health, of what businesses we need to protect, and why our bank reps have become our therapists. Oh, and of course, what restaurant we're racing too as soon as it's safe...

TribalScale Co-Founder & CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Rakesh Tiku, President of inField Solutions Inc., and Paula Kwan, Former Founding Director Civic Innovation Officer at City of Toronto. Side Walk Labs? Smart Cities? Connected lamp posts? Yes, they cover it all. Get a front row seat to the innovation happening in our city and across oceans, the future we're moving to, the barriers, and the p...

TribalScale's Director of Engineering Alfie Tham is joined by Pearlyn Ng, Research and Knowledge Lead at the Canadian Mental Health Association.  They unpack Anticipatory Grief, that is, the grief that people experience when there is uncertainty in what the future holds, and the difficulty to define and communicate this. During this COVID-19 era, it's critical to keep tabs on our own mental health...

Where is Canada in terms of re-opening? How will we survive the coming recession? How do we prepare and protect the businesses that will rebuild our economy? All these questions answered in our latest podcast. TribalScale CEO & Co-Founder Sheetal Jaitly is joined by John Ruffolo, Founder of OMERS Ventures and Co-Founder of the Canadian Innovation Council and Dr. Chitra Anand, author of The Green H...

TribalScale CEO & Co-Founder is joined by Karthik Ramakrishnan, VP & Head of AI Strategy and Enablement at Element AI. With gin and juice in hand, the two talk about which countries are leading the AI game, what AI is actually capable of relevant to things like global pandemics, what Element AI is currently working on, and where we're headed in terms of Machine Intelligence and where its enhanceme...

TribalScale's Design Manager Ailsa Blair and Content Writer Rachel Hammermueller are joined by Avery Swartz, CEO and Founder of Camp Tech, and Author of new bestselling book See You On The Internet . Want to know how to digitally market your small business? How about your personal brand? How about how to keep your network booming during a world-wide economic crisis? We learned so much about publis...