Rising - Conversations with Leaders On Their Way Up

Jim Spare is the President & COO of Eko. He has spent his career leading the growth of disruptive technology businesses in immersive media and entertainment, bringing fundamentally new products and services to the market. Jim has an MBA from The Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth and a BS in Electrical Engineering from NC State.  Take a listen to Jim's interesting career trajectory and how he...

Actor. Trainer. Headhunter. Consultant. Tony Fross is a Partner at global consultancy Prophet, where he co-leads the firm's Organization & Culture practice. Tony shares his career journey working at firms including Scient, Pfizer and CapGemini, and his proven philosophy on "adjacency."  Hosted by Josh Boaz and Mat Zucker, Rising is produced by Direct Agents and Prophet, with original musi...

Betty Liu is Executive Vice Chairman at NYSE and Chief Customer Experience Officer at Intercontinental Exchange. She shares her career journey from journalism to business owner to executive management. Her advice includes processing information and understanding your personal brand — your three words. Hear about hers and she even gets Mat and Josh to share theirs. Hosted by Josh Boaz and Mat Zucke...

Stacey Brickman is Vice President of Marketing at Sony, which includes marketing the brand across channels as well as Sony’s loyalty program. Earlier in her career, after a stint on Wall Street, Stacy was at American Express for 10 years getting a breadth of experience across marketing. Stacey shares her journey, her choices, about getting an MBA, managing people, the corporate ladder, life and wo...

Bob O'Leary is Global Head of Brand Activation at BNY Mellon. Bob has a diverse background across strategy, brand, creative, account management and production, including brand leadership roles at Pimco and Citi where he was managing director of global marketing. He’s also spent years in account management at leading agencies like Hill Holiday, Saatchi & Saatchi, and SS+K. He shares his journey...

Joe Lazauskas was recently promoted to Head of Marketing at leading content platform Contently. With a background in journalism, Joe was a pioneer in content and social marketing, starting one of the earliest content studios. Joe tells us about what it takes to do successful content, the false choice between creativity and business and what he's had to learn to evolve from content strategist to he...

Rachel Moore is SVP Innovator in Residence at Citi. With 15+ years at two of the most prestigious financial services firms in the world, Rachel shares with Josh and Mat how she got her breaks, how she never had an internship, why you should pursue what interests you, her path, her take on networking, her special thank you note to Kelley King Bussey and what she tackles in innovation. Hosted by Jos...

Amy Weisenbach started her marketing career at Unilever to launch little-known Axe body spray. 15 years and four categories later, she's SVP of Marketing at The New York Times. Amy joins Josh and Mat on Rising to tell us about her career across diverse industries, building a marketing practice, the challenges of geography even from a top business school, and what still scares her. You'll hear her...

Joe Conyers is Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Songtrust, a service that helps music makers and rights holders collect their royalties. He is also an executive at its parent company Downtown Music Holdings. Named a Digital Power Player by Billboard Magazine three years in a row, Joe’s had a diverse career in technology, music and even real estate. We got to hear how he’s risen, his opin...

Welcome to Rising, conversations about careers with leaders in marketing, media, and innovation. Hosted by Josh Boaz and Mat Zucker, each episode you'll hear stories about careers, trends we should all watch, plus roundtable top picks. Subscribe today, and listen to them all. Visit rising-podcast.com for more info.