Motivated to Lead Podcast - Mark Klingsheim

In this week's episode, we revisit our interview with Karen Long, a Managing Director at KCK (Med Tech) Group. KCK focuses on capital investment in commercial and growth-stage medical device companies. Karen has been with KCK since January 2018, when she joined as Executive-in-Residence. Karen serves as Board Director in many KCK portfolio companies as well as Independently. Karen has been a Presi...

In this episode, we revisit our conversation with Ross Jaffe, MD. Ross is an experienced healthcare venture capitalist, and Ross is one of the founding Managing Directors of Versant Ventures. He now serves as a Venture Advisor to New Enterprise Associates (NEA) while completing his Versant responsibilities. Ross has been recognized on the Forbes Midas List of leading venture capitalists. Ross has...

This week we interview Stacey Porter who 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 high-performing teams. S...

This week we interview 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 sauce teaches how alig...

This week we interview Steven Kwast who is the Chief Global Officer (CGO) and President of Genesis Systems. He is a retired Air Force General who has spent his lifetime 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 mas...

This week we welcome 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+ leaders around the globe. In addition to personal branding, Judy helps clients w...

This week we interview 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 coaching services: Executiv...

This week we interview Renee Ryan, CEO of Cala. Renee has 25 years of building category-creating healthcare companies. Before joining Cala as CEO in August 2019, she led Johnson & Johnson Innovation (JJDC) on the West Coast and the Asia Pacific for eight years. While at J&J, she made over 15 new investments, including the Series A for Cala Health. Previously, she was a healthcare investment banker...

Shayne Hughes is president of Learning as Leadership, a culture change and leadership development firm serving the private and public sectors. His expertise in creating cultures of open communication and collaboration has led to substantial improvements in organizational and personal performance for such clients as Fairchild Semiconductor, NASA, Sandia National Laboratories, Shell Oil, and Capital...

This week we interview Dr. Mark Shrime, who is O'Brien Chair of Global Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 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. Mark is a longtime staff surgeon volunteer with Mercy Ships in sub-Saharan Afric...

In this week's episode, we revisit our interview with Molly Fletcher. Molly is a popular speaker, the author of multiple books, and a successful entrepreneur. Formerly, she was a top sports agent hailed as the "female Jerry Maguire" by CNN as she recruited and represented hundreds of sports' biggest names. During this interview Molly shares the practical advice from her new book,  The Energy Clock...

This week we revisit our conversation with Dr. Carole Robin. She has been in the business of helping leaders grow for over 35 years. Carole shares lessons learned in her career and we talk about her new book Connect. Most recently she served as the Faculty Director of the Interpersonal Dynamics for High-Performance Executives Program and Director of the Arbuckle Leadership Fellows program at the S...

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 interviewed 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. We discuss her upcoming book, New CEOs and Boards . She is also the author of Great Companies Deserve Great Boards and her latest book Becoming a Boardroom Star .

This week we interview John Houston. After facing hardships as a young man that could have permanently derailed his life, John has become a respected and successful business owner who views his companies as a platform to reach people for Christ and support ministries around the world. He is the Founder and CEO of John Houston Custom Homes, a homebuilding company he began in 2004. Since that time,...

This week we interview 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.

This week we interview Michael Bungay Stanier. Michael is the author of six books. He's best known for The Coaching Habit , the best-selling coaching book of the century with over a million copies sold and already recognized as a classic. We discuss Michael's brand-new book, How To Begin . Michael was a Rhodes Scholar and plays the ukulele badly. He's Australian, and lives in Toronto, Canada.

This week we interview Aidan Kehoe. Aidan is the Founder and CEO of SKOUT Cybersecurity(Acquired by Barracuda Networks), where he continues to help the team realize its vision of making cybersecurity accessible to everyone. Aidan has been actively involved in all aspects of the firm's development and expansion since its launch in 2014. Originally from Ireland, he has served as a board member to bo...

This week we interview Sue Ashford, an award-winning scholar and Professor at the University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business. She is the author of "The Power of Flexing: How to Use Small Daily Experiments to Create Big Life-Changing Growth." Sue's passion for helping people to be maximally effective in their work lives has driven her teaching and research work on self-management, p...

This week, we interview Craig Clay , the President of Global Capital Markets at DFIN. Before his current role, he served as senior vice president at R.R. Donnelley, leading the Global Capital Markets and Legal Process Outsourcing business. Before joining the company, Craig was a leading financial analyst at American Eurocopter, a subsidiary of Aerospatiale. Craig received a Bachelor of Business Ad...

This week we welcome Dr. Eric Boyd and Anna Boyd to the podcast. Eric is an award-winning Associate Professor of Marketing who teaches sports marketing and sales in the DeVos Sport Business Management program at the University of Central Florida. Anna Boyd brings her clients over 25 years of experience as a trusted senior leader in the government, corporate and non-profit sectors where she led hou...

This week we revisit the subject of developing resilience with Edward H. Powley, Ph. D. (Ned) is an Associate Professor of Management in the Graduate School of Defense Management (GSDM) at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). He teaches organizational behavior in the MBA and EMBA programs for GSDM. He facilitates workshops, coaches senior leaders, and teaches modules on leadership and emotional in...

This week we interview Kirk Williams, the CHRO of Donnelly Financial Solutions (DFIN), a $1B global financial compliance company based in Chicago.  In this role, Kirk is responsible for setting all Human Resource and Communications strategies for the company and leads a team of 35 professionals who support 2,500 employees in 14 countries worldwide.  Kirk has extensive experience working with execu...

In this episode, we revisit our interview with Joel Trammell, a successful CEO, and entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience. Joel's leadership as a founder and CEO resulted in successful nine-figure acquisitions by two Fortune 500 companies. In addition to The American CEO blog, he writes regular columns for Inc.com. He published a book – The CEO Tightrope – that describes a systematic...