Motivated to Lead Podcast - Mark Klingsheim

In this weeks episode, we interview Ryan Quinn. Ryan is the Chair of, and an Associate Professor in, the Management and Entrepreneurship Department of the University of Louisville's College of Business. He is also the Academic Director of the Center for Positive Leadership. He earned his Bachelors of Science in Statistics at Brigham Young University and earned a Ph. D. in Organizational Behavior a...

  This week Melissa Pickering joins us as a guest on Motivated to Lead. Melissa is a product executive with 18 years of experience in building products and product teams across CPG, EdTech, and MedTech industries.  Melissa is VP of Product at Willow Innovations, a company dedicated to building solutions to moms' most meaningful problems. She began her career as a mechanical engineer for Disney Ima...

In this week's episode, we revisit our interview with Alisa Cohn. Alisa is an Executive Coach who has worked with C-suite executives at prominent startups (such as Venmo, Etsy, Draft Kings, The Wirecutter, Mack Weldon, and Tory Burch) and Fortune 500 companies (including Dell, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Pfizer, Calvin Klein and The New York Times.) She is the author of  From Start-up to Grown-up,   w...

This week we revisit our interview with Stacey Porter. Stacey is the Chief People Officer at Outset Medical. Stacey has expertise in organizational design, innovative talent practices, and employee engagement.   Prior to Outset, she was the Head of Global Talent Development for Intuitive Surgical, Inc., responsible for designing performance and succession practices, while developing leaders and hi...

This week we revisit our interview with Jason Mellad. Jason is the CEO of Start Codon. Jason is a scientist entrepreneur passionate about translating innovative technologies into better patient outcomes. As CEO and co-founder of Start Codon, a Cambridge-based accelerator, he aims to identify and recruit the most disruptive healthcare startups worldwide. Previously he was CEO of Cambridge Epigeneti...

This week we revisit our conversation with Dr. Julia Lee Cunningham. Julia Lee is an Associate Professor of  Management and Organizations  at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and a  National Geographic Fellow and Explorer . She currently serves as a faculty co-director for  Center for Positive Organizations . She is also a faculty affiliate at the  Sanger Leadership...

This week we revisit our interview with Magnus Nicolin. Magnus served as Chief Executive Officer, of Ansell, a global company with over 14,000 employees, until 2021.  He is currently the Chairman of the Board at Munters a $1B provider of indoor climate solutions. He also serves on the boards of BillerudKorsnäs and Fam AB which are multi-billion-dollar companies. Prior to joining Ansell, Magnus, a...

This week we revisit our conversation with Brittany Bradrick. Brittany has over 20 years of experience in finance, strategy, and corporate development for life science companies, with operational and advisory experience. Brittany is a COO & CFO at Neurelis, Inc. Before that; she was the COO and CFO at ViaCyte. Previously she was Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development at Insulet Corpora...

This week we interview Nick Damiano. Nick is a serial entrepreneur focused on solving unmet needs to improve patient care. He is currently CEO & Founder of Andromeda Surgical, which is developing autonomous robots for safer, better, more efficient surgery. Before that, he was CEO & Co-Founder of Zenflow, where he co-invented a novel implant for BPH (enlarged prostate) and led the product from ince...

This week we interview Ralph Boyd. Ralph is the President and CEO of SOME, Inc., a large Washington, D.C.-based housing development, health care, and human services organization. Boyd has extensive experience as a senior executive and board leader in both the public company and nonprofit sectors and served as a federal prosecutor and assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice. Hi...

This week we interview John Milad. John has 25 years of experience as a start-up executive, venture investor, and banker specializing in healthcare innovation across the UK, Europe, and the US. He had 10 years of life sciences venture experience at a family office, Atlas Venture, NBGI Venture and Downing. Notable exits include Symetis, ACT/EPIX, BoneSupport and Medcast/WebMD.   John is a Co-founde...

This week we revisit our interview with Vanessa Bohns. We discuss her new book, You Have More Influence Than You Think . Vanessa is a social psychologist, an award-winning researcher and teacher, and a professor of organizational behavior at Cornell University.   She holds a PhD in psychology from Columbia University and an AB in psychology from Brown University. Professor Bohns has been a Visitin...

This week we interview Fouad Al Noor. Fouad is the Co-Founder and CEO of  ThinkSono . Prior to  ThinkSono , Fouad was an entrepreneur with  Entrepreneur First , where they created a medical software startup. Fouad has also worked as a Research Assistant at Imperial College London , where they worked on the design of data logging and battery optimization circuit for a portable EEG sensor. This devi...

This week we continue our conversation with Gregg Lehman. Gregg was our first guest on the Motivated to Lead podcast. Gregg has significant experience in CEO and board director (Chairman/Vice Chairman) positions. He is a transformational leader moving underperforming businesses to high-performing, profitable companies. His expertise is diverse, with a concentration in healthcare services, medical...

This week we have Gregg Lehman join us as our guest. Gregg was our first guest on the Motivated to Lead podcast. Gregg has significant experience in CEO and board director (Chairman/Vice Chairman) positions. He is a transformational leader moving underperforming businesses to high-performing, profitable companies. His expertise is diverse, with a concentration in healthcare services, medical devic...

This week we interview Dave Kuraguntla, the co-founder and CEO of Alio, a medical technology company reinventing chronic disease management. After serving in the Air Force, Dave was selected for a fellowship that allowed him to attend medical school. He received his medical degree in osteopathic medicine (D.O.). He was preparing for a surgical residency when he experienced firsthand the need for b...

In this episode, we revisit our interview with Bill Facteau, who is Chairman, President, and CEO of Earlens Corporation in Menlo Park, California.  Bill joined Earlens Corporation as Chairman, President & CEO in November of 2013. Bill was at Johnson and Johnson (JNJ)as the Worldwide President of their ENT Division. Facteau joined JNJ via the $800M acquisition of Acclarent, Inc., where he served as...

This week we revisit a conversation with Byron Loflin is the Global Head of Nasdaq Board Advisory & Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence. He is the founder of the Center for Board Excellence (CBE) and is the architect of CBE's unique board assessment and advisory platform that was acquired by Nasdaq. Byron is recognized in the governance community for developing unique products that address board dy...

In this week's episode, we revisit our interview with Lorraine Parker-Clegg. Lorraine is the Chief People Officer at Allison Transmission. Lorraine shares lessons learned in her career and her perspective on hiring great talent. Lorraine is an international business leader with in-country expertise across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.   Lorraine has held Human Resources leadership positions with...

This week we revisit our conversation with Beverly Behan. Bev is one of the foremost global experts on board effectiveness, having worked with nearly 200 Boards of Directors (largely S&P 1500s) 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 devel...

This week we interview Heather Simonsen, 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 device exits in the past decade. P...

This week we revisit our interview with Paul Batz the CEO and Founder of Good Leadership Enterprises. Paul Batz  has ushered in the golden era of executive team coaching, changing the conversation about what modern leadership looks like. He founded Good Leadership to help CEOs, business owners, executives, and community leaders grow and thrive with the idea goodness pays. Paul's not-so-secret sauc...

This week we revisit our conversation with Christine Yan, an experienced public company board member and senior operating executive with a successful track record in managing global P&L, M&A, Sales and Marketing, and R&D Engineering. Christine serves on the board of Modine Manufacturing Company, ON Semiconductor, Ansell Limited, and Cabot Corporation. She is a member of the China Advisory Group fo...

In this week's episode, we revisit our interview with Dr. Karyn Gordon (Leadership & Relationship Expert), author of The Three Chairs: How Great Leaders Drive Communication, Performance & Engagement. Karyn is the CEO and co-founder of DK Leadership, a global leadership coaching company whose purpose is developing great leaders at work and home. She has spoken to more than 500,000 people across 17...

This week we revisit our interview with Steven Kwast, who is the CEO of Skycorp Inc. He is a retired Air Force General who has spent his life understanding the art of peaceful International affairs and national security strategies. He was raised in a remote African tribe and is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy in astronautical engineering. He holds a master's degree in public poli...