Office Hours with David Meltzer

Gary Harpst As CEO of LeadFirst, he’s known for his fusion of faith & work, fostering agile organizations. With four decades of experience, he’s founded three successful businesses, one of which merged and was sold to Microsoft. He has authored three impactful books, and educated on business-faith intersections. As a veteran Christian CEO, his journey encompasses business trials and growth. Lu...

Ben Narasin An entrepreneur since 12, he spent much of the early 2000s acquiring companies in the consumer Internet and e-commerce industries and providing liquidity to shareholders. Prior to his acquisition investment and consulting roles, he founded Fashionmall.com in 1993 which became one of the first e-commerce companies in the world and the first cost-per-click portal. He took Fashionmall.com...

Hemant Taneja He is the managing partner of the venture capital firm General Catalyst, a venture capital firm that partners with founders from seed to growth stage and beyond to build companies that withstand the test of time. He is the founder of the firm’s Silicon Valley operations. Jed Corenthal He is currently the CMO of Phenix, the technology platform that can stream video in real-time at bro...

Ken Blanchard Ken Blanchard is one of the world’s most influential leadership experts. He is the co-author of more than sixty-five books, including the iconic The One Minute Manager , with combined sales of over 23 million copies in forty-seven languages. He is co-founder of The Ken Blanchard Companies, a leading international training and consulting firm. He’s in Amazon’s Hall of Fame as one of t...

Olumide Gbenro He is an NFT advisor who has worked with some of the top projects in the world. He's social media advisor to a client list that includes Olympians, Public Figures, and Global Brands. He’s also a notable TikToker w/ 139K Followers and 3.3M Likes Ed Beltran He’s CEO of Fierce Conversations —a global leadership development company that’s pioneering new e-training and communication para...

Kindra Hall She is President and Chief Storytelling Officer at Steller Collective, a consulting firm focused on the strategic application of storytelling to today’s communication challenges. Kindra’s message spans all industries and her clients include Facebook, Hilton Hotels, Tyson Foods, Target, Berkshire Hathaway and the Harvard Medical School. Kasim Aslam He is the founder and CEO of Solutions...

Lance Essihos [0:00] He’s a bestselling author & Top 50 podcast host, hosting the successful podcast University of Adversity (Dave has been on). In this podcast that has featured professional athletes, NY Times bestselling authors, and spiritual leaders, each episode is produced to provide inspiration, motivation, and practical tools to help listeners tackle difficult times. Lance covers a ran...

Jerry Colonna [0:00] He’s a co-founder & CEO of Reboot, the executive coaching & leadership development company, host of the Reboot Podcast (Dave hasn’t been on), and author of Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up (2019). He draws on his wide variety of experiences to help clients design a more conscious life & make needed changes to their career to improve their performance &a...

John List John A. List is the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. List joined the UChicago faculty in 2005, and served as Chairman of the Department of Economics from 2012-2018. In addition to his university career, List served as the chief economist for taxi company Uber, and now does it for Lyft. Giri Devanur He is the founder and CEO of...

Jane McLelland From ‘94 until ‘04, Jane battled two aggressive cancers with metastatic spread, both classed as ‘terminal’. Using her medical knowledge and researching heavily, she put together a cancer-starving formula, using natural therapies, exercise and diet. To her relief, joy & surprise, her cancer just ‘melted away’. Her cocktail was more powerful than she had ever hoped. Monica Eaton-C...

Jacek Prus He first became involved in animal activism while pursuing a philosophy degree at the University of Texas. A committed sustainability advocate, Prus was an architect of the ProVeg Incubator, a European accelerator dedicated to launching plant-based & cultured food startups. Kuleana was inspired by Jacek’s experience promoting ecologically minded businesses. Roman Gabriel III He is a...

Ed Stevens Ed is also a successful investor and sits on the Board of several U.S.-based companies across several industries, including blockchain and online retail. He also has a BA from Stanford University in Russian Literature. Ali Nasser He’s CEO of AltruVista, the “Fastest Growing Wealth Advisory Firm in Houston”, which went from being a $20M firm to $200M+ in 4 years. He started Wealth Integr...

Craig Goldberg Craig’s journey started when doctors and specialists couldn’t find a way to treat his wife’s illness due to gluten. This led to him researching how the body operates and learning more about the positive impacts of spiritual connectedness and meditation. In November of 2016, he had his first Sound Lounge experience and it forever changed his life. His work is backed by 40+ years of r...

Liz Elting [0:00] She’s an entrepreneur, business leader, linguaphile, philanthropist, feminist, & mother. After living, studying, & working in five countries across the globe, she founded TransPerfect out of an NYU dorm room in 1992 & served as Co-CEO until 2018. TransPerfect is the world's largest language solutions company, with over $1.1 billion in revenue & offices in more tha...

Erin Lopez & Lisa Cox [0:00] Erin Lopez is the wife, a mother & entrepreneur behind A Lopez Lifestyle. A sought-after speaker, author and leader in the direct sales industry, she brought her 25 years in the fashion industry to build an entrepreneurial business to help others find success. She quickly built a multi million dollar business while raising their beautiful children, inspiring he...

Rob Meyerson He’s a namer, brand consultant, and principal and founder of Heirloom, an independent brand strategy and identity firm founded in 2015. He’s also author of the book How Brands Are Built and Host of the “How Brands Are Built Podcast”. Matt Kaulig He’s the owner of the NASCAR team Kaulig Racing, which won the Xfinity Series Regular Season Championship last year. His family office, Kauli...

Ben Jeffries Ben founded the company at 17 before dropping out of university and a placement at, Royal Dutch Shell to pursue it. He raised Influencer's first funding round (£100,000) in under 24 hours. He’s been named Forbes 30 Under 30, as well as BMW Entrepreneur of the Year. They work with global brands like Mars, Alibaba, and P&G. Mike Corradini He is also the host of the ProductMentor pod...

Liz Wiseman She is the CEO of the Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. She’s a former executive at Oracle Corporation, she worked over the course of 17 years as the Vice President of Oracle University and as the global leader for Human Resource Development. Patricia Love She is a Women's Motivational and Confidence Coach. She flips...

JV Crum III JV is the Founder of Conscious Millionaire.com . He is a mindset and strategy coach, speaker, futurist, investor, attorney and 34x #1 International Best-Selling Author. JV is creator of the Mindset to Millions Event and hosts the Conscious Millionaire Show for entrepreneurs who want to get rich changing the world! In its eighth season, the podcast and syndicated radio show is heard by...

Grant Gibson He has more than a decade of experience in the cybersecurity industry and is the Chief Information Security Officer at CIBR, a cybersecurity think tank. CIBR stands for the Cyber Institute for Battle Readiness and their mission is to inspire and activate businesses to achieve cyber readiness through innovative strategies, education, staff augmentation, and technology. Joshua Hicks He...

Pamela Shainhouse [0:00] She’s the President of Allistyle Inc., a fashion line named in memory of her daughter Alli Shapiro. Allistyle highlighted the need for a size-diverse, beautiful, comfortable clothing for women sizes XS-3X. Her claim to fame is the October 2012 runway show at Toronto Fashion Week, the first size-diverse brand to ever walk a runway in Canada. She’s writing a memoir about her...

Glenn Poulos [0:00] He’s a sales coach, author, & public speaker. He’s the co-founder, vice president, and general manager of NWS Canada, formerly Gap Wireless Inc. With over three decades of experience in sales, he has developed a successful strategy system by spending thousands of hours in the field or on the phone with customers and working with salespeople in several successful companies w...

Colin Jacobs After graduating from Brown with a degree in Computer Graphics, Colin started as Tech Director for Star Wars 1 & 2 at LucasArts in San Francisco. Later, Colin partnered with SportStar Relocation, a niche real estate company in LA that is a one-stop relocation service for professional athletes. After speaking and training agents with Tom Ferry, he transitioned to work as a global t...

Paul Adrian He is an entrepreneur and Emmy award-winning journalist) who is the co-founder and CEO of latakoo, an Austin, Texas-based cloud-native technology company that has provided a secure, end-to-end video workflow solution for some of the world’s largest broadcasters and media companies for the past decade. Joe Marinucci He’s been the co-founder and CEO of Digital Media Solutions, Inc. (NYSE...

Rebecca Kacaba She is CEO and Co-Founder of the capital raising platform DealMaker, a company that has facilitated over a billion dollars in capital raises for their clients in just a couple of years. Their proprietary technology provides the tools to manage all aspects of a great raise in one centralized platform. Colonel Chris Starling Colonel Chris Starling saw many enlisted members transition...