Motivated to Lead Podcast - Mark Klingsheim

In this episode, we revisit our interview with Lucienne (Lucie) Ide, M.D., Ph. D., a healthcare innovator, the Founder and Chairman of Rimidi. Her diverse experiences in medicine, science, venture capital, and technology to transform the delivery of chronic care management.   Before starting Rimidi in 2012, Dr. Ide was a physicist at the National Security Agency, Raytheon Systems Corporation, and...

This week we interview Kristi Piehl. Kristi started Media Minefield in 2010 following a 12-year career as an Emmy Award-winning television news reporter. Media Minefield is a national award-winning, one-of-a-kind public relations agency with a Storycentric Marketing approach specializing in earned media, social media, digital advertising and crisis communications. She is dedicated to creating a un...

This week, we revisit our interview with Heather Simonsen. Heather is the CEO and Board Member of Boomerang Medical, Inc., a bioelectronic medicine company focused on autoimmune diseases.   Throughout her career, Ms. Simonsen has served in numerous executive leadership roles, most recently as the President of PQ Bypass, Inc., a medtech company acquired in 2021 in one of the highest-valued vascular...

In this week's episode, we revisit our interview with Alden Mills. Alden became a nationally ranked rower, a gold medalist in the Olympic Festival, and captain of the freshman and varsity teams at the U.S. Naval Academy. As a Navy SEAL, he led his platoon through multiple missions. After discharge from the military, he founded Perfect Fitness. He led it to growth of over 12,000% annual sales of $9...

In this episode, we revisit our interview with Kristie Paskvan. Kristie is an experienced board member and CFO/COO/President with over 25 years of experience assisting diversified financial services, asset management, real estate, insurance, and professional services companies to grow their businesses worldwide. Kristie is a board director at First Women's Bank (FWB) - a de novo bank launched in 2...

This week, we revisit our conversation with Peter Greer. Peter is the president and CEO of  HOPE International , a global Christ-centered economic development organization serving throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. Prior to joining HOPE, Peter worked internationally as a microfinance adviser in Cambodia and Zimbabwe and as managing director for  Urwego Bank  in Rwanda. He...

This week, we revisited our interview with Darrell Johnson. Darrell has built expertise in the healthcare industry, identifying how data systems may be applied to improve patient outcomes, decrease healthcare utilization costs, and increase provider care delivery efficiencies. His passion centers on not simply bringing technologies to market but the successful implementation and utilization of the...

  This week, we revisited our interview with Beverly Behan. Bev is one of the foremost global experts on board effectiveness, having worked with nearly 200 Boards of Directors (largely S&P1500s) over the past 25 years. She's worked with boards across the United States and around the world on a range of issues, including the design of genuinely worthwhile board and director evaluations and the deve...

This week, we revisit our interview with Ryan Hawk. Ryan is the founder and host of The Learning Leader Show, a leadership podcast with millions of listeners in more than 150 countries. He inspires excellence in leaders looking to take their game to the next level. Forbes called his first book, Welcome to Management – How to Grow From Top Performer to Excellent Leader, "the best leadership book of...

This week, we interviewed Rick Boven. Rick leads the Stakeholder Stategies. He was a strategic management consultant for over 25 years and was the founding partner of the Boston Consulting Group in New Zealand. He also served as the Director of the New Zealand Institute. An Accredited Fellow of the Institute of Directors, Rick's directorships have included ASB Bank, Sovereign Insurance, Wellington...

This week welcome Andrea Schilling as our guest for our podcast. Andrea serves as a Strategic Advisor focusing on Talent and Culture. Her role at MPowered Capital spans the areas of organizational design, talent, and strategic communications. In addition, she is responsible for oversight of the firm's Multiplier Program, which brings experience and resources to diverse emerging investment managers...

This week we revisit our conversation with Michael Critelli. Mike is the former Chairman and CEO of Pitney Bowes. He has been a Fortune 500 company leader, a mailing industry leader, a serial entrepreneur, and a member of multiple non-profit and for-profit fiduciary and advisory Boards, including a 22 ½ year tenure as an Eaton Corporation Board member.     He delivered a total return for Pitney Bo...

This week, we revisit our interview with Judy Zimmer, who is an executive coach, national speaker, and team leader. Judy has dedicated her career to showing already successful leaders how to leverage their brand, create more happiness, and be more productive.  As president of Coachology.us, Judy has had the privilege of working with 4400+ global leaders. In addition to personal branding, Judy help...

This week, we revisited our interview with Jeff DeGraff. Jeff is an advisor to Fortune 500 companies, a top innovation speaker, a business professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, and a bestselling author. He founded the Innovatrium, an innovation consulting firm focusing on creating innovation culture, capability, and community where he offers three kinds of coachin...

This week, we revisit our interview with David Burkus, one of the world's leading business thinkers. David's forward-thinking ideas and bestselling books are changing how companies approach innovation, collaboration, and productivity. As a skilled researcher and inspiring communicator, Burkus' award-winning books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and his TED Talk has been view...

This week we revisit our conversation with Marilyn Gist; she is the author of The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility . Marilyn helps others become the leader everyone admires by creating thriving organizations and great results.   She asks us to Imagine a world in which all leaders feel and display a deep regard for others' dignity.  This is what humility means, and it helps leaders resolve co...

This week, we revisit our interview with Dr. Mark Shrime. Mark is an internationally renowned speaker, surgeon, and author. He serves as the International Chief Medical Officer at Mercy Ships and a Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. Mark has written a new book Solving for Why: A Surgeon's Journey to Discover the Transformative Power of Purpose. He received...

This week, we revisit our interview with Molly Fletcher.   Molly made a name for herself as one of the first female sports agents. During her almost two-decade career as President of CSE, Fletcher negotiated over $500 million in contracts and represented over 300 of sports' biggest names, including Hall of Fame pitcher John Smoltz, PGA Tour golfer Matt Kuchar, broadcaster Erin Andrews and basketba...

This week we interviewed Craig Sider. Craig is passionate about unleashing potential in others. He partners with leaders and organizations to help them identify - and move courageously toward - a preferred future. For over three decades, Craig has walked with and served leaders from business, non-profit, and education. He combines insights gleaned from his degrees in business, theology, and leader...

This week, we interviewed Doug Hoekstra. Doug worked at Medtronic for 30 years and retired in August 2021.   At Medtronic Doug held the position of Vice President and Global Controller for 12 years.   In this role, he led global finance operations and reporting, financial planning, business development support, finance enterprise excellence, and the finance training and development programs.   He...

  This week, we revisit our interview with Marie-Pierre Dhers. She founded an advisory firm in 2013 in New York City. Her network of partners advises investors and entrepreneurs in aviation and aerospace, transportation, energy, and new technology in the US and Europe. She is actively serving on several boards. Before that, Marie-Pierre held senior executive positions for more than 20 years at Air...

This week, we interview Steve Nash, the Founder of Traditional Human Performance. Steve's background experience includes almost 25 years as a military officer/commander, serving at home and abroad in The Royal Canadian Regiment, the Canadian Airborne Regiment, the UK Parachute Regiment (on exchange), and the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command. Further, he has 10+ years working with at-risk...

This week we interviewed Dr. Kevin Fickenscher who is a senior physician executive with extensive domestic and international experience in large, complex healthcare organizations.   Throughout his career, he experienced strategic and operational management roles related to the development and expansion of programs as well as turnaround initiatives by serving in various C-suite positions.   He hold...

  This week, we interviewed Paula Cruickshank. Since June 2020, she has held the role of Senior Vice President in Ontario, overseeing BDC's financing and consulting services across the province's 33 Business Centres. Paula has more than 25 years of banking industry experience.   Prior to her current role in Ontario, she held the role of Senior Vice President, British Columbia and North, from 2017...

This week, we revisit our interview with Gayle Packer, Board Chair, CEO, and President of Terracon. She joined Terracon (ENR#24)* in 2004. During her 17 years with the company, Gayle has served in multiple leadership roles, including attorney, co-general counsel, director of corporate services, and chief administrative officer. She has been instrumental in Terracon's growth, coordinating the acqui...