Lead With Your Brand!™

Jayzen is thrilled to welcome Karen Horne to the show. With over 20 years of experience in the entertainment industry, she has been recognized as a Diversity and Inclusion pioneer and pipeline builder. Through the programs that she creates and runs, she works to bring voice and opportunity to underserved communities and ensure that what we see as audience members reflects that communities that we...

In the final week of Hispanic Heritage Month, Jayzen is pleased to welcome Dr. Ilan Shapiro to the show. Throughout his career, Dr. Shapiro has been an outspoken health advocate for the Hisapnic community and has worked tirelessly to create health policy that is both accurate and accessible. During and before the COVID-19 pandemic, he’s been a featured commentator on CNN, NBC, Univision, Telemundo...

It’s week three of Hispanic Heritage Month, and Jayzen is thrilled to welcome Flavio Morales to the show. Morales, an experienced programming executive and producer, develops unscripted, scripted and digital content aimed at the U.S. Hispanic/English-speaking marketplace. He has an amazing career story to share, which began when he formed ILLEGAL Interns, a public access show in East LA for bicult...

As we continue to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, Jayzen welcomes Margaret Lazo to the show. Starting her human resources career in retailing, Margaret brings a wealth of knowledge across several industries and has built a passion for helping organizations navigate change. She is a huge advocate for diversity and has worked tirelessly to develop a sense of community and belonging for her workfo...

For the first time ever on the Lead With Your Brand! Podcast, you will hear Jayzen truly surprised with “wait..you were on The Amazing Race??!!” And, now as CEO of a leading multicultural marketing agency, that’s just one of the great stories and useful insights that Oswald Mendez brings to the show. As a kickoff to Hispanic Heritage Month, Jayzen is so thrilled to welcome Oswald to the podcast. A...

Description: Jayzen is so thrilled to welcome his former colleague and all around amazing person, Susan Jin Davis, to the podcast. Susan has an amazing story to tell that is truly at the intersection of career and life. She has an incredible understanding how intertwined work and life are and need to be. As a self-proclaimed “change agent,” Susan leads with her bold brand to support her community...

Description: Every single person has a brand, whether you think you have a brand or not. The real question is, are you consciously competently making strategic choices to show up with the brand that you want? In this premier episode, Jayzen introduces the concept of personal branding and how the Lead With Your Brand™ system can help you develop your own brand using a real brand marketer’s toolkit....

Jayzen is so excited to welcome Nawal Fakhoury to the show! If you have ever wondered if you could do more with your LinkedIn profile and how and why some people just seem to have all of the connections, this is the show for you! As the Director of Employee Experience at LinkedIn, she is the “official” LinkedIn Cheerleader. She’s made it her mission to cheerlead for the employees and the company b...

Jayzen is thrilled to chat with Rita Drucker on the show. Rita has one of those super cool jobs that you hear about and has had an incredible career journey across entertainment, tech and now aviation. In her words, “your career is basically a suitcase,” taking skills and experiences from each position and bringing them with you to the next. Rita has packed an amazing suitcase and has fantastic st...

Jayzen is excited to welcome an old friend, Kelly Edwards, to the show. Kelly is an immensely successful writer, producer and diversity advocate in Hollywood. Her career has taken her to every major studio in Hollywood, and at each stop she has constantly strived to open doors and expand diversity in the entertainment industry. She formerly oversaw diversity for the twenty networks of NBCUniversal...

Jayzen is thrilled to welcome Richard Culatta to the show. Richard has spent his career helping people, organizations and government use technology and innovation to be more successful. Always looking for breakthrough solutions, Richard’s new book Digital for Good: Raising Kids to Thrive in an Online World (HBR Press) uncovers the challenges with our current approaches to preparing young people to...

Jayzen is excited to welcome an old friend to the show, Charles Vogl. Charles is one of those people who seems to have had many careers, all of which have brought him to where he is today. From joining the Peace Corps, to bootstrapping his work as a filmmaker by waiting tables and eventually winning an international award for the film, to now an accomplished author, speaker and adviser. His work r...

Jayzen is thrilled to welcome Marjorie Gilberg, CEO of NCJW LA, to the show. As a “triple bottom line enthusiast,” Marjorie has dedicated her career to advancing causes in the non-profit sector with the belief that profit, people and planet can all thrive together. She brings a wealth of experience creating successful partnerships that bridge the gap between corporations and nonprofits, creating s...

Jayzen is excited to welcome Laura Kriska to the show. She is a successful author, including her first book The Accidental Office Lady where she shares her experience as the first American woman to work in Honda Motor Company’s Tokyo headquarters when she was twenty-two years old. Laura’s latest book, The Business of WE , presents a practical roadmap for building cohesive, high-performing teams, r...

Jayzen is thrilled to welcome Josh Cole to the show. As one of the pioneers in digital marketing, Josh first created the digital footprint for Universal Studios Theme Park. One of his “claim to fame” stories is being the guy who first registered all of their social media accounts and grew the followers from none to over three million. He revolutionized ticketing for the company by creating online...

What an incredible month of LGBTQ+ guest over the past four weeks! As we bring Pride on Brand and LGBTQ+ Pride Month to a close, Jayzen is thrilled to welcome Lorri L. Jean, the CEO of the world's largest LGBTQ+ non-profit, the Los Angeles LGBT Center. As CEO, Lorri has driven a period of unprecedented expansion, increasing the budget from $8 to $150 million, the number of locations from one t...

This June, Out & Equal has partnered with The Lead With Your Brand!™ podcast for special Pride month programming. This is the second of two special roundtable discussions. Pride on Brand : The Trans Experience in the Workplace In this special episode, Jayzen welcomes Kate Fisher from Oracle, Aro Royston from Boeing, Alex Dropp from Bank of America and Ashley Brundage from Empowering Difference...

We’re still celebrating Pride On Brand for LGBTQ+ Pride Month! This week, Jayzen is excited to welcome Yvette Miley to the show. Yvette is the SVP of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the NBCU News Group. Her responsibilities include recruiting and retention, training and development, employee engagement, strategic partnerships, and editorial initiatives across all four networks. She has worked...

This June, Out & Equal has partnered with The Lead With Your Brand!™ podcast for special Pride month programming. This is the first of two special roundtable discussions. Pride on Brand : The Intersection of Race and LGBTQ+ in the Workplace In this special episode, Jayzen welcomes Patty Dingle from BNY Mellon and Dr. Reza Rahaman from MIT to explore the impact of race and sexual orientation on...

Happy LGBTQ+ Pride Month! It’s week three of Pride On Brand, and Jayzen is thrilled to welcome Louis Vega to the show. Louis A. Vega serves as president of Dow North America and vice president, Government Affairs & Advocacy, North America.   Over his 20+ year career at Dow, Vega has gained wide-ranging expertise, honed his strong business acumen, and led significant growth projects and busines...

Happy LGBTQ+ Pride Month! We’re in week two of LGBTQ+ Pride Month and Jayzen couldn’t be more excited to welcome Telly Leung to the show. Telly has performed in seven Broadway shows, including the starring role in Disney’s Aladdin for over two years. He is also a producer, director and professor and always brings the unique “Telly” brand to the job, which as been shaped by his family history and b...

Happy LGBTQ+ Pride Month! Jayzen is thrilled to be kicking off Pride Month with Jen Henderson, who has had a career in tech spanning over thirty-five years and is a fierce advocate for LGBTQ+ causes. She is currently the Senior Vice President of Systems Engineering Delivery for Corporate and Institutional Banking at PNC. Jen knows firsthand the power both in and out of your career that comes with...

Jayzen is thrilled to welcome one of the most successful marketers in the entertainment industry, who has an amazing career story to tell. Puja Vohra is the Executive Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for Showtime Networks, Inc. Knowing virtually no one in New York, Puja left her career in India, as she knew she needed to be in the “center of the universe,” and immigrated to America. After...

Jayzen is excited to welcome a very special guest to the show for AAPI Heritage Month, Congressman Mark Takano, who proudly represents California's 41st district and serves as Chairman on the House Veterans Affairs Committee. Starting his career as a teacher, Mark has always been a huge advocate for education and has worked to improve his community for over twenty years. In 2012, Mark became t...

It’s week 2 of AAPI Heritage Month! Each week in May, tune in to hear the stories of amazing leaders who have and continue to shape culture and transform their businesses, all who happen to be of AAPI descent. In addition, you can check out some incredible shows from Season 1 at www. LeadWithYourBrand.com/AAPI with a number of our favorite APPI voices from the podcast. Let’s amplify AAPI voices an...