Lessons from the Leap

Eric Silverberg is the Co-founder and Speaker at Speaker Labs, a public-speaking and communications consultancy. He began his career as a Faculty Member at the Ivey Business School, where he taught lectures. Before Speaker Labs, Eric worked for tech startups and realized the pervasiveness of communication in business.  In this episode… Public speaking can shape careers, unlock opportunities, and t...

Don Williams is the CEO of Don Williams Global, a consulting firm focused on helping businesses grow sales, improve the customer experience, and build high-performance cultures. For over 30 years, he has worked with entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 companies, offering sales training, customer-experience strategy, and leadership consulting. Don is the author of multiple best-selling books, including D...

Stavros Michailidis is the Founder of Routine Rebel LLC, a company that helps entrepreneurs reclaim their time, energy, and purpose. He is also the President of the Board of Directors at Samvinas Corporation, where he leads governance, compliance, and strategic oversight. Before Routine Rebel, Stavros co-founded for-profit and nonprofit ventures and trained Fortune 500 leaders on innovation.  In t...

Pam Meissner is the C-Suite Leader of Cathedral Capital (CathCap), a firm that provides fractional CFO and strategic finance services to growing businesses and law firms. In her role, she helps business owners manage their finances to maximize profitability. As a former CPA, CFO, and COO, Pam has worked with large accounting firms, multinational corporations, and small business owners.  In this ep...

Steve Dwire is the Founder and Technology Leadership Coach at Northway Insights, a boutique coaching practice that partners with IT and software engineering leaders to grow their impact and influence. With over two decades of experience leading multiple technology and engineering teams from Fortune 500 to startups, he helps technology leaders develop personal growth. Steve is also an Engineering L...

Patrick Faga is the Founder of FirstWork, a digital lesson delivery platform. As a former behavioral therapist and research assistant, he created FirstWork to digitize discrete trial training (DTT) for ABA professionals. Under Patrick's leadership, FirstWork has become the most popular DTT app, with over 25,000 BCBAs, RBTs, educators, and parents using the platform to support thousands of learners...

Philippe (Phil) Neil is the CEO of Founders Compass™, a leadership and human-performance firm helping startup founders grow. Having scaled a healthcare startup to over $70 million in revenue annually and $30 million EBITDA, he created the Founder Readiness™ framework that integrates neuroscience, emotional mastery, decision clarity, and intuition. Phil is also the Founder and General Partner of Ph...

Bethany Ranes, PhD, is the Founder and Chief Research Scientist at Interocept Labs, where she translates neuroscience insights into practical, real-world solutions. With prior leadership roles at UnitedHealth Group, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, and the US Army, she has decades of experience in cognitive neuroscience, behavior change, and health systems integration. Bethany also writes the Firin...

Dustin Ward is the Founder and President of Tee Time LLC, an app-based platform that uses golf to foster community connection and promote inclusion. He is also the Founder and President of It Is Time…LLC, a consulting firm that works with organizations across Maine and New England to address systemic bias. With experience promoting racial equity, community organizing, and social entrepreneurship,...

Joe Hubert is a technical manager, systems analyst, and solution architect. He provides strategic guidance to professionals and organizations on leveraging LLMs and generative AI technologies to enhance business operations and customer experiences. Joe wrote and self-published an e-book titled Concept-Based Machine Intelligence . In this episode… Software projects often fail not because of technic...

Ghazenfer Mansoor is the Founder and CEO of Technology Rivers, a software company developing HIPAA-compliant web, mobile, and cloud-based healthcare software applications. As a seasoned advisor and investor in technology and healthcare, he has fulfilled roles as an architect, programmer, software engineer, user experience specialist, product developer, growth hacker, and chief technology officer....