Wish I Knew . . .

I'm your host Gary Nowak and what a wonderful conversation I had with my guest Maya  Doueihy.  Maya brought so much energy, passion and beautiful perspective to her career and I know you'll enjoy it.  Career Background : Grew up in Beirut, Lebanon Studied at the Lebanese American University studying International Relations and affairs Worked as a project coordinator for: Lebanese center...

I'm your host Gary Nowak and I am honored to have as a guest a young man who has served our country with 5 years in the military.  Adam Mowl is a self proclaimed Renaissance man with a great foundation for life and very strong character. Career Background : Served at a Marine for 5 years and spent 1 year in Afghanistan tracking high value targets Since returning  Finished up his education wit...

I'm your host Gary Nowak and today I've had the great honor of reconnecting with a former colleague and extremely successful consultant @Greg Tucker Career Background : Award winning CXO, CMO, Chief Customer Officer  Chief Journey mapper, heling companies better understand the customer journey Self employed with his highly successful consulting company for over 10 years Held positions wi...

I'm grateful to have a fantastic guest - Rocky Biasi   CEO of Human Connections for over 15 years Creator and presenter of the Accidental Counsellor training Passionate about mental health and wellbeing Realized when he was a teacher the impact that they have on students and wanted to make a difference humanconnections.com.au   Introduction Highlights He got some bad advice early, so don&apos...

Welcome to another episode of "Wish I Knew . . . "  A podcast where I speak with people about their careers focusing on their success, advice, mentoring and listening to interesting stories.  I'm your host Gary Nowak and I've got another international flavor podcast with a creative young lady who loves the sales process and a global role, please enjoy my guest Christina Doueihi...

Welcome to another episode of "Wish I Knew . . . "  A podcast where I speak with people about their careers focusing on their success, advice, mentoring and listening to interesting stories.  I'm your host Gary Nowak and I am so grateful to my guest Mirko Hilsheimer coming to us from Germany and providing some genuine advice, sharing of his experience and giving me great perspective...

I'm your host Gary Nowak and I've got a China / Germany KPMG connection for you with my outstanding guest Angelika Alt-Sherer.  I was blown away by the great perspective and advice provided throughout this conversations Biography Snapshot Borne and grew up in Munich, Bavaria, Germany Married for more than 25 years, met my husband at KPMG Career start at KPMG after graduating 30 years ago...

Career Background : Founder and Executive Chairman of QI Group of companies   HQ's in Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur  Operations in over 30 countries  He is diversified with business interests in:   Real estate  Education  Retail and Hospitality  Also owns a football / soccer club in Malaysia    Highlights Following in his fathers footsteps early with wanting to a lawyer and studying in the UK Im...

I'm your host Gary Nowak and in addition to being a great person and fantastic former co-worker my guest Liz Evans has one of my most favorite accents of all time (Northern England).  Career Background : Big 4 Principal for over 5 years Managing director at EquaTerra Managing consultant with PA Consulting Group Attended University of Hertfordshire just north of London studied Business and Dec...

Career Background : Finance transformation expert most recently with:   BT in London  Prior to that:   SVP Finance Operations with Smith and Nephew  VP Finance Transformation and systems with Pearson Highlights Not knowing how to do his first job and getting promoted Compensating with a Porsche Taking a year off  prior to University Coming from humble stock Degree in English, but switching to acco...

Career Background : Coca Cola in various role  SVP Customer Excellence  VP of the West Zone  National Team leader with sales associate recruiting  National account executive  Florida State University majoring in Advertising Communication Highlights Being a Seminole vs a Gator No idea on the major, sound familiar Sales career began early with convincing her dad of a way out of government work Podca...

Career Background : Author of the book "The Career Toolkit" MIT Graduate and an engineer by background Chief Technology Officer at several companies Faculty at MIT Creator of the "brain Dump" App https://brainbumpapp.com/ Highlights Mom "Why don't you teach the chess class" Book "The Career Toolkit"  10 Topics / 10 chapters Learning the intangible skill...

Career Background : Founder and CEO of Avanti Search Recruitment experience with:  Accolade Wines  Class Ltd  Wolters Kluwer  NSW Dept of Industry  Apprentice Australia Contestant Ambassador for:  Ferrari  Australian Grand Prix Corporation  Miss World Australia 2006 Her Company - https://www.avantisearch.com.au/  Highlights Best first job ever Miss World Australia 2006 Looking for a way to get int...

Career Background : Currently President and CEO of Axion Medical Board member with:   Bottlenose  ESSI  Advisor to Private Equity and Venture capitalists Equaterra for nearly 8 years Founder of Morgan Chambers in the UK Highlights Hard working family and the oldest of 6 kids Community College degree / Great visual Power plant engineering degree Semi autonomous robot work Extremely technical backgr...

Background Currently - Director of Talent X & Educate X  Cracked into consulting in 2011 with Gallop Solutions where she worked with some incredible people who helped shape her career. Marnie eventually Started her own Business consultant organization Highlights: Hungry Jacks (Burger Kind) and the $300 phone bill No drive or desire to go to university Out of High School "I want to go to E...

Welcome to another episode of "Wish I Knew . . . "  A podcast where I speak with people about their career success, advice given or received and listen to their interesting stories about how they got to where they are today.  I am honored to have someone I've always looked up to in my consulting career  Bob Cecil  - Nuclear Engineer to a Big 4 Partner - Involved in 3 start up consul...

I'm your host Gary Nowak and I have a conversation with a young lady Walkyria Whitlock who shares amazing stories about her life and time in Idaho, Fiji, Rio, The Hamptons, Florida, Australia and working on Yachts while traveling.   Career Background : Author of the book "I love what I've forgotten" Self Employed as President of Global MVP Yoga Instructor on Private Yachts and...

I'm your host Gary Nowak and this is by far one of my most organic and fun podcasts where my former boss and guest Dave Brown and I don't get past what he studied in college and managed to enjoy a very insightful conversation.  Career Background : Principal & Global leader for Shared Services and Outsource advisory for KPMG 10 years of experience with Equaterra and TPI Director of Fi...

I've got a inspiring and clairvoyant  one for you with my guest Sana Afzal.   Background Sana hails from Houston, Texas, grew up in Dubai and calls California home.  Creative Business Exec at Google, and was previously a Creative Ops and Production lead at The ZOO, a  Global Policy Strategist and Senior Creative PM at AdMob,  Sana has been a strong advocate for the importance of creativity in...

Today you will hear my conversation with a dear friend, colleague and all around great guy Gareth Chegwidden   Career Overview Educated in Sydney Australia at Macquarie and University of Technology, Sydney Big 4 experience with Deloitte AMP as head of relationship mngt and portfolio services Adjunct lecturer at University of Sydney going on over 5 years Currently at Telstra at their Transformation...

I'm your host Gary Nowak and today I have one of my dearest friends who I've know for over 15 years and has done so much with her career and I'm really humbled to be her friend and have her on my Podcast.  Get ready for my conversation with Angel Hoover coming to us from Amsterdam   Career Background: Currently in her 9th role at Willis Towers Watson as Managing Director of Benelux...

I'm your host Gary Nowak and I've got my first 3 way . . . . Conversation with 2 great friends from Australia Levi Waters and Pete Collins.  This was one of my favorite podcasts to record and I just had the best time with these two "Blokes". Career Background: - Normally I walk you through individually, however with this one these guys are very similar in background: They grew...

Highlights Moving around 10 times prior to age of 20 Saw the world early and often Paris at 7 am is Magic The freedom of being a consultant You can take a 10 euro taxi home, c'mon No clue on what to do with her career, that changed quickly Learning something is a great day Falling in love with Japan and learning yet another language Traveling to China & Russia with her financial reporting...

I'm your host Gary Nowak and you are going to have to "buckle up" for this one as I bring you a colleague and good friend from down under, Mr. Mark Bladon.  As only Mark can do, he brings a unique, authentic perspective throughout our conversation.   Background overview KPMG Partner in IT Advisory since 2010 Partner with IBM for 6 years PWC Partner for 13 years University of Queensl...

Welcome to another episode of "Wish I Knew . . . "  A podcast where I speak with people about their careers focusing on their success, advice, mentoring and listening to interesting stories. You are going to Love my conversation with Lee Ann Moore Some guests "wing it" and some guests "Prepare", well my conversation with Lee Ann Moore will tell you that she came prepa...