Own Your Potential

Pascal Houdayer, CEO of Orveon Global & Board of Directors of Artifact, tells us about his exciting role leading the digital transformation of brands like Laura Mercier & BUXOM, about how his experience in the French Air Force helped him develop the ability to manage under extreme pressure as well as shape his approach to servant leadership, which has accelerated Pascal across his amazing...

Sana Remekie, Co-Founder & CEO of Conscia.ai and MACH Alliance Ambassador, tells us about how her rebellious nature has served as a superpower across her amazing career journey, the keys to a successful partnership that spans professional and personal life, and how her mission to disrupt an industry littered with monoliths drives and motivates her to build something truly special.

Cheryl Stookes, VP of Revenue Growth & Marketing at Softchoice, Author, Speaker and Host. Cheryl takes us on a deep dive of her career in sales and technology and highlights how it has come full circle in an exciting way, and also tells us about how powerful improv skills can be in the world of business.

Danielle Vermeer, Co-Founder & CEO of Teleport, tells us about her career journey across diverse industries spanning philanthropy, aerospace, consumer products, tech and fashion, how not wanting to "wait her turn" was and continues to be core to her growth mindset, and takes us deep into the world of her passion, sustainable fashion.

Nathalie Le Bos, Chief Financial Officer at Publicis Sapient, tells us how powerful recognizing the ceiling her career would have if she didn't expand her role beyond her country market, how having a collaborative approach to being a financial leader translates to impactful partnerships with other areas of the business, and how having the support of your family is critical for successful globa...

Kelly Goetsch, Chief Strategy Officer of commercetools and Co-founder & Chairman of the MACH Alliance, tells us about the compounding effect of early career growth, how critical strong mentorship is to accelerating career growth, and how impactful candid feedback can be on one's development.

Raphael Granito, CEO of Formex Swiss Watches, tells us about his journey reviving a struggling and dormant brand into one of the most innovative watch manufacturers in the industry, about how a unique pricing strategy helped cement the value of their products, and how listening to customer behavior within digital experiences helped inform product design and innovation.

Edwin Krenz, Chief Program Engineer Mustang at Ford Motor Company, tells us about his exciting journey becoming the Chief Program Engineer for one of the most iconic nameplates in automotive history; The Ford Mustang. Ed also tells us how critical it is to intentionally find and maintain strong mentors and champions to unlock accelerated growth and success in one's career.

Laura Wontrop Klauser, Sports Car Racing Program Manager, tells us about how her love of cars from childhood and experience in amateur motorsports during college unlocked her passion for automotive engineering and ultimately opening the door to a career in sports car racing with iconic nameplates like the Corvette and Camaro, and how she has harnessed her super power of collaboration for accelerat...

Kenneth Ahn, President of Hagerty Marketplace, tells us about the powerful cumulative effect of consistently and relentlessly working more and harder than the competition has on one's career, the importance of having a career vision that is flexible, and about how he consciously built his career to lay a foundation for success as an entrepreneur.

Jennifer Borchardt, VP & Head of Experience for Financial Services at Publicis Sapient, tells us about how her upbringing shaped her passion for the financial services industry, how being true to yourself is a critical unlock of happiness in one's career, and how having enough is the same as having plenty.

Paul Seaby, F1 Race Team Factory Support Manager at Alpine Racing Ltd, explains what it takes to advance a career in one of the most competitive sports in the world and tells us about his incredible 3 decade career in Formula 1 where he was a mechanic, pit crew member, race team manager and more, supporting legends like Michael Schumacher, Fernando Alonso, Kimi Räikkönen, and Daniel Ricciardo acro...

Justin Kraudel, President & Partner at MONTA WATCH,  tells us about how he assessed the risk of leaving a 13 year career in finance to pursue his passion and build a luxury watch brand, how radical transparency and trust are critical in a successful business partnership, and how commitment to and belief in product decisions can translate to spectacular outcomes.

Cali Ressler, Head of Total Rewards Experience North America at Accenture and Multi-Time Best Selling Author, tells us about how she navigated accelerated success very early in her career being thrust into the public eye, keynote speaking, book writing, senior leadership and global travel,  as well as how mental health and wellness became an enormous priority for her, and how Cali is now prep...

Jagdish Ghanshani, Managing Partner at Publicis Sapient, tells us about how he harnessed his experience and passion for debating as a consultant, how he grew to understand that being a specialist or generalist is not binary, but instead one should flow in and out of specializing and generalizing over time, and explains the enormous growth unlock that developing comfort with and thriving in ambigui...

Jörg Bader, Head of Product at Christopher Ward London Limited, tells us about his fascinating career journey through the luxury watch industry, the unique soup-to-nuts role that Product plays in the luxury goods space, and how digital commerce and D2C have really shaken up the luxury industry.

Reva Bhatia, Head of Industry Marketing at Publicis Sapient, takes us on a deep dive of the world of supply chain and tells us about her journey of building her skills, going above and beyond her role, and furthering her education towards a major career transition into the world of marketing.

Autumn Schultz, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at The Dibz, tells us about her exciting career journey through product and experience design leading to the founding of an innovative and mission driven start-up, shortly thereafter to have her whole universe flipped upside down by a near fatal accident, shifted her perspectives on work and life.

Nicholas Bowman-Scargill, Managing Director of Fears Watch Company, tells the incredible story of how he re-established and now leads one of Britain's oldest watch companies first established by his great-great-great-grandfather in 1846, after it lay dormant unbeknownst to him for nearly 40 years.

Scot Wingo, Co-Founder & CEO of Get Spiffy and Co-Founder & Former CEO of Channel Advisor, tells us some of the critical success factors in scaling start-ups to IPO or acquisition, the importance in making sure your idea is 1 of 1 and not 1 of 10,  the value of understanding your skill stack, and also shares his perspective Vehicle 2.0 and the future of the automotive industry.

Sefu Bernard, Director of Player Development for the Washington Mystics, takes us through a deep dive of what a career in professional sports looks like and tells about how being raised in a family full of teachers shaped his perspective and helped make one of his key differentiators his ability to learn, about how leading with passion can be effective but eventually needs to be complemented by co...

Maggie Adhami-Boynton, Founder & CEO at ShopThing and one of INC Magazine's Top 100 Female Founders, tells us about how she took her experiences helping scale a successful mobile product start-up and being a senior leader at one of the world's largest advertising agencies, and translated them into starting her own successful company perfectly poised to disrupt and evolve the retail experience...

Simone Nunziato, Co-Founder and Director of UNIMATIC Watches, tells us about how he recycled his product design skillset and education into a career in motion graphic design, and how his lack of fulfillment with his career intersecting with a deep passion for watches led him to focusing his skills and experiences towards bringing to life a brand with a truly unique design language that disrupted t...

Vanessa Vakharia, Founder & CEO of The Math Guru, Math Education Expert, Author and Professional Speaker, tells us about her journey from failing high school math multiple times to founding a disruptive boutique math tutoring organization and becoming one of Canada's foremost math education experts, while never losing site of her dream of being a music artist and even opening for Bon Jovi.

Farooq Kathwari, CEO of Ethan Allen, takes us through his incredible journey from an upbringing in Kashmir to the storied 37 year tenure leading Ethan Allen, and tells us about how leadership skills he developed leading cricket teams unlocked success for him as a corporate leader, and how his willingness to take on any challenge and deliver through resourcefulness accelerated his career growth.