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Emmanuel Kulu, Jr. is an African American author and writer of Cameroonian descent. His father, Emmanuel Kulu, Sr., was a Career Engineer and his mother, Betty Kulu, was a Career MD History Educator. As a Career Social Worked, Kulu also had a deep passion for history and creative arts. Kulu tapped into film writing and acting with films like “The Rize and Fall of Tephlom Ent”, “Bug Love”, and “The...

Karl Hughes is the Founder of Draft.dev – where they create technical marketing content for companies.  Within 2 years, they’ve hit: $250k MRR 15 full-time, 200 contract writers 90+ clients. They run their company in a rather unique way. They don’t use Slack or other real-time communication tools. They are all remote and 90% asynchronous (meaning work can be done on employees’ schedule/prefer...

From as early as he can remember, Michael Trezza's world revolved around art, engineering and learning. He studied fine art and painting in college, still plays guitar every day and turned an early passion for programming and technology into his first business while still in college.  Michael spent the next two decades as a technology entrepreneur, creating powerful software solutions and wor...

Andrew Heaton is a comedian, author, and political satirist. He’s the host of “The Political Orphanage” comedy and news podcast, and scifi deep dive podcast “Alienating the Audience.” He’s a frequent Reason TV contributor and hosted the popular webseries “Mostly Weekly.” He’s performed standup comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as a finalist in the China International Standup Competition, an...

Mike Bosworth is well known throughout the business sales world as a thought leader, speaker, sales philosopher, entrepreneur, and the author of best-selling sales books Solution Selling (McGraw-Hill, 1993), co-author of CustomerCentric Selling (McGraw-Hill, 2003). Mike began studying the power of story as a framework for building emotional connection in 2008 and published a new book, What Great S...

Fred Joyal made the leap from being an advertising copywriter to starting 1-800-DENTIST with a good friend of his. Together they built a company that grew to $50 million annually. The endless challenges they faced in expanding the business led to the simple philosophy, "Let's just make survivable mistakes." There were times when the whole business seemed at risk, and what saved it time and time ag...

Can you go from crafting at your kitchen table to a multi-million-dollar business? As CEO, Holly Daniels Christensen has proved – yes! Using grit and the actual sand beneath her toes, that’s exactly what this entrepreneur has done. The founder of Dune Jewelry left home at 15 years old, and never looked back. She held a variety of jobs with stints as a zookeeper, pharmacy technician, prom...

Dr. Jenny Christner has been a medical education leader and innovator for 20+ years. She has published widely, won several awards and serves on many national medical education committees. Most recently, Dr. Christner founded a consulting company, Christner Strategies, which focuses on her 3 loves. The first is public speaking. As a closet actress, she loves engaging an audience and does so nimbly...

LeiLani Quiray is the Founder and CEO of be the change HR , a social enterprise that helps companies hire the right talent and create and support happy, healthy workforces.    LeiLani lives by Mahatma Gandhi’s words “Be the change you wish to see in the world”. That’s what led her to start be the change HR as a social enterprise, which not only does great HR work but also contributes to...

Until early 2022, Kvon Tucker was the Global Head of Manager and Leadership Development at Google. Part of his job at Google involved coaching top executives to be better leaders as they help grow the company. Before Google, Kvon worked at Amazon and Netflix, where he also coached leaders on how to adapt to hyper-growth and tremendous scale. Kvon has also had the opportunity to coach Apple, Tesla,...

Dr. Christopher Avery is the Founder and CEO of The Responsibility Company, one of the go-to organizations for executive leadership development and change management training. They have been in business for over 30 years. What makes them different is they teach their clients The Responsibility Process, a unique and thoroughly researched approach to teamwork and leadership, which they can use to le...

Dr. Raj Anand is a retired cardiology specialist with over 60+ years’ experience in the medical field. Yes, you heard that right, he is 87 years old.   Raj is also a healthcare author, focused on equipping readers to make the right decisions regarding their health. His latest book ‘ Healthy Diet and Mindfulness to Prevent Coronary Heart Disease ’ educates readers on how to make healthy choice...

Glen T. Campbell is the Founder and CEO of Brandheart, a leading leadership coaching firm that helps C-suite executives get clarity, focus, and certainty about their best self so they can lead fulfilling and prosperous lives.  Brandheart has worked with over 500 business leaders, entrepreneurs, and athletes from around the world to develop their personal and organizational brands. For over 20...

Jason Greer is the author of Bias, Racism, & the Brain and the founder of Greer Consulting , the #1 firm that does diversity training for startups, Fortune 500 companies as well as government agencies.   The truth is that most diversity-training programs fail.    On the other hand, if they are done right, they can reduce turnover rate by as much as 40% and increase your employee...

In the early 2000s, John Lefebvre co-founded Neteller, an online payment company that was listed on the London Stock Exchange, with a market capitalization of over $2 billion.   Neteller ran into legal troubles in 2007 and John lost close to $500 million earned from the company, went to jail, and had to restart his life again in his mid-50s.   John is currently a writer and climate chang...

Anthony Hughes is the co-founder and CEO of Tech Elevator, a 14 to 30-weeks coding bootcamp that teaches students in-demand tech skills that can lead to meaningful careers in the tech industry.   Over 2,300 students have graduated from Tech Elevator, with 90% of whom secured tech positions at companies within 6 months. Furthermore, the average Tech Elevator graduate gets a salary lift of $24,...

70% of people are unhappy at work and misery at work is expensive. Actively disengaged employees cost U.S. businesses $605B each year in lost productivity, retention and recruitment.   Neil Bedwell is the co-founder of LOCAL , where they help companies achieve lasting change by treating their employees as an audience worth winning.  For the past 15-years, their clients include Google, Mc...

Jodi Krangle's voiceover journey began with singing —since around the time she started talking. Music has always been a way her family connects. When she was little, her dad would pull out his trusty guitar and her mom would sing to her sister and her at bedtime. Fast forward to 1993. Through gaming (Dungeons and Dragons, to be exact), she was introduced to “Filk” music—the music that’s played at...

Michael Roub is a healthcare veteran and the founder of Inflection 360, where they specialize in helping their clients successfully outcompete in their markets, grow, and exit at significant valuations. Before starting Inflection 360, Michael had senior business development roles at Western Dental Services and US HealthWorks, as well as had more than two decades of business expertise as a strategi...

“Every step on the journey from expert to executive leads away from your craft. This sentiment is easier to grasp than embrace; and neither grasping nor embracing it is a requirement for reaching the rank, responsibilities, or rewards of an executive.” – wow, a powerful start to an impactful book.    Today’s guest, Edward. E. Tyson is a former strategy executive and Marine turned executi...

William A. Adams is an award-winning D&I innovator, engineering trailblazer, and philanthropist. After rolling out critical XML code globally in many of Microsoft's core products, he was named the first Technical Advisor to the CTO of Azure, Kevin Scott.     William has founded and overseen global initiatives that revolutionize how underserved communities access jobs and build c...

With a decade of experience working in team operations in the corporate world, working in some of the most influential companies across tech and finance including Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Bank of America – Lia Garvin has seen what it takes to create high performing teams, and what gets in the way. ​ As the workplace continues to change at a rapid pace, a new generation enters the workforce, w...

Cesar Quintero’s purpose is to empower leaders to build a business by design so that they live a life by design. His core values are to Share Vulnerably, Spark Action, Spot individuality, and Spread Passion.  At age 24, in 2004, Quintero moved to Miami given the economic turmoil in Venezuela to pursue his dream of starting a business and helping others achieve a healthier lifestyle by foundin...

Tim Cosby is the President/CEO of Real Retention, a training and consulting firm that works with leaders to help them retain their best talent and improve organizational culture. Tim’s proven system, the Conversational Management™ framework, helps transform management practices and organizational culture, to achieve an engaged, productive workforce, boost profitability, and enjoy real retention. M...

Anthony Milewski is an investing veteran and Chairman of Nickel 28 – a battery metals focused investment company with a focus on metal streaming and royalty agreements.. They trade under ‘TSXv: $NKL’ and market cap is around $100M. Anthony has been active in the battery metals industry including investing in cobalt and actively trading physical cobalt. Previously, he was a member of the investment...