Leadership and Innovation Unlocked

Steve Arntz, CEO and founder of Campfire , joined Nadia & Rob this week to chat about his beliefs on the value of building more diverse and inclusive workspaces to drive collaboration and innovation. Steve discusses the importance of role modeling as a leader - even if it means forcing himself NOT to work(!). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Description: Nadia & Rob welcome Mohammad Anwar, President and CEO of Softway and Culture+, and Best Selling Author of "Love as a Business Strategy: Resilience, Belonging and Success." He shares lessons from his transformational leadership story and walks us through his reflections on how he had to make behavioral changes to be the leader he was destined to be.  All leaders can benefit from Mo...

This week on IC Pod, Senofer Mendoza of Mendoza Ventures, joins Nadia and Rob to chat about the value of bringing DEI into the venture capital space, mentoring “under estimated” entrepreneurs and how she advocates for her firm to role model inclusive practices. Senofer Mendoza is a founder and General Partner of Mendoza Ventures, a Boston based pre-seed Fintech, AI, and Cybersecurity venture capit...

This week, Rachel Sheppard, Director of Ventures at Mars Petcare, joins Nadia & Rob to share how founders can take full advantage of an accelerator or incubator experience and offers her observations and insights on systemic bias in the entrepreneurial space and suggests ways to mitigate that bias. Hosted by Nadia Butt & Rob Hadley Inclusive Collective is a production of Rifelion Media. Fo...

Molly Levitt, Director of Remarkable US, joins Inclusive this week to talk about how products designed for people with disabilities drive broader innovation, power dynamics between VCs and entrepreneurs, and how her background as a teacher, founder and marketing director provided her the skills needed to advocate for an underrepresented group. Hosted by Nadia Butt & Rob Hadley Inclusive Collec...

This week on Inclusive Collective, startup advisor and advocate, Abid Siddiqui, chats with Nadia & Rob about accelerator and incubator programs designed for founders, how the government strives to be forward thinking in the entrepreneurial space and his observations on inclusion in the startup ecosystem. About Abid: Abid has over 15 years of experience working across finance, commercial strate...

Nadia and Rob welcome...each other, in a Season 1 halftime extravaganza and share their highlights and learnings from discussions with founders on ideas, founder relationships, marketing and product development and raising money. Hosted by Nadia Butt & Rob Hadley Inclusive Collective is a production of Rifelion Media. For more information email us at info@rifelion.com. Learn more about your ad...

This week on Inclusive Collective, Rob and Nadia chat with Melissa Corto, co-founder and CEO of Education Modified (EdMod), a one-stop platform that makes it easy for educators to collaborate around the unique needs of every student. Melissa shares the advice (at times ridiculous!) she received while fundraising, the value she found in accelerator programs and how you don't have to have a business...

This week  ROBE Looks co-founder and CEO Chad Patterson joins Nadia and Rob to talk about his experiences fundraising, the cultural disconnect that can occur with some venture capitalists, and how founders can put themselves in the best position to raise money.  Also, Chad offers some thoughts on how Rob can bring some sauce to his fashion game. Chad Patterson is a serial entrepreneur, fashion ent...

Jessica Arredondo Murphy, co-founder & COO of True Fit , joins Nadia & Rob to discuss the early days of startup life, leveraging customer data from an inclusive lens and the lessons learned on how to mitigate machine learning and AI bias in the fashion world. She shares her lived experiences of being a bi-lingual, Latina and how her identity played a part in her co-creating a multi-million...

This week on Inclusive Collective, Nadia & Rob welcome Hoda Mehr, Founder and CEO of  stockcard.io , to chat about the benefits and drawbacks of an immigrant identity when starting a company, how non-technical founders can find the right people to help build their vision, and how she continuously reassesses consumer needs through research, data, observation and listening. Hosted by Nadia Butt...

In this episode of Inclusive Collective, Nisha Dearborn, CEO and founder of Fresh Chemistry , joins to share her experiences of collecting customer feedback on her skincare line, iterating her products and her commitment to inclusive marketing practices. She'll walk us through her branding decisions and how at pivotal moments she was reminded to use an inclusive or diverse lens.   She had Rob &amp...

Anthony Clay, Founder and CEO of ERG platform Indi  brings the energy and walks Nadia and Rob through how he thinks about founding team values and mission alignment, how investors value both results and culture, and how he works to understand diversity at a deeper level. Indi is the most advanced ERG enablement platform. Single source of truth. Fully automated. Totally replicated in Slack/Teams. H...

This week  humanly.io  founders Prem Kumar and Andrew Gardner share with Nadia and Rob how trust is developed between founders, how they work through issues together productively, and how inclusive communication between the founders impacts the culture of the company. Oh, they also talk about their super cool company,  humanly.io , and how companies can root out bias in their talent acquisition pr...

This week Nadia and Rob talk with Melissa Mitchner, Founder and CEO of the Bark Shoppe about finding inspiration in reality TV, how being an industry outsider can be an advantage, and perseverance in the early days of a startup. Meet Melissa or read her profile in Forbes . Check out The Bark Shoppe and The New York Institute of Grooming . Melissa recommends All About Love by bell hooks. Inclusive...

Nadia and Rob introduce the Inclusive Collective podcast and preview Season 1, where they focus on DEI in the world of startups and venture capital. Inclusive Collective is a production of Rifelion Media . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Inclusive Collective podcast is a conversation with and for those who seek to understand the complexities around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the business world. We’ll celebrate the essence of an industry and share the perspectives of those who advocate for change. Our invited guests, consisting of leaders, teams and experts in various industries, will share their perspectives of...