People Changing Enterprises

In this episode, Danielle shares what she's learned as a first-time CEO about how to set people up for success, when to step in to fix something - and when to stay out of it, and her top strategy for building a culture of collaboration. Doing all this while building an industry-changing product is no mean feat, even without wearing three high-profile hats; but Danielle has a few tricks up her slee...

Find out how Bob Howland, a seasoned transformation expert, helps enterprise teams to change: his strategies cover dealing with discomfort, side-stepping the "me vs you" mentality, plus a project he calls "the most embarrassing of his career" that helped rally the entire company around the need for change.  Timestamps:  0:11 Intro & Bob's story 2:27 Bob's big decision in the first days on the...

"Too often we build things and then we just let them sit. In all the important aspects of our life, we don't operate that way. So why would we think that a big technology project would be any different?"  In this episode, Bob Howland lays down your keys to success as a Chief Digital Officer. For his most recent success, Dawn Foods, Bob sketched out his ideal eCommerce architecture - which was a "c...

Bob Howland ushered in a massive transformation as CDO at Dawn Foods. And it all started with him asking the board for a lot more money than they expected, and telling the CFO "we're never going to agree". Find out how he went from that, to this - a(another) highly successful, on-time, on-budget transformation under his belt. There is so much to learn from this short conversation - from how to cre...

Welcome to People Changing Enterprises. Meet your host, Jasmin Guthmann, as she shares why we started this show, who it's for (hint: it's you), and a preview of the goodness to come.