Innovation and the Digital Enterprise
115 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWhat does it take to keep your organization growing? Innovation and the Digital Enterprise is a podcast dedicated to providing insights and resources to executives and entrepreneurs focused on 10x growth for themselves and the organizations they lead. We interview leaders from early-stage start-ups to billion-dollar enterprises who have boots on the ground experience to distill their lessons from their victories and their failures.
Learn how these leaders are organizing their teams, establishing a growth-minded culture, and leveraging new technologies such as DevOps and Cloud. Co-hosts Patrick Emmons of DragonSpears, and Shelli Nelson of Madison Industries, chat with guests such as Gene Kim of the DevOps Enterprise Summit, Mik Kersten of TaskTop, and Thomas South of Northern Trust, to uncover tips, tools, and insights gleaned from spearheading innovation initiatives.
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Best Of: Engineering Your Career Progression with Deborah Spence-Cummings
June 27, 2024 11:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBWe had a fascinating conversation with Deborah Spence-Cummings in late 2022 and are excited to reshare it in our “Best Of” series. Originally published 12/01/22. Only an exceptional innovator would look at a burgeoning career in operations and pause to examine their reputation and evaluate their goals. With the help of an executive coach, Deborah Spence-Cummings did just that and now serves as the Director of AI/ML Operations at Apple. Deborah shares how she used an engineering mindset de...
Don't Pursue a Bad Idea to the End: Leadership and OKRs with Christine Sandman Stone
June 13, 2024 11:00 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBOKRs are easy to set up badly. Christine Sandman Stone, CEO and founder of Deliver at Scale, focuses on this key element for success based on her years leading agile transformations. Beginning with her journey, Christine shares her path to leadership and the critical lessons she’s learned—and shared—along the way. In this episode, Christine provides a glimpse into her world guiding teams to hone in on their goals. First, she offers her perspective on setting the objective and determining th...
Pioneering Change from Code to C-Suite with Gene Kim
May 30, 2024 11:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBShould we look beyond technology organizations to learn essential lessons on how to innovate and run successful, complex technology organizations? Gene Kim believes so and contains unbridled curiosity for transformation across industries, as seen in his most recent book Wiring the Winning Organization. Gene Kim returns to share new lessons in change-making for leaders and companies tackling an array of challenges. Gene Kim is a bestselling author of several books on technology innovation, ...
Best of: Forging a New Path with David Heinemeier Hansson
May 09, 2024 11:00 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBWe had a great conversation with David Heinemeier Hansson in 2023 and are excited to reshare it in our “Best Of” series. Originally published 11/2/23. Profound innovation has occurred across web-based communication technologies in the last decade, and truly accelerated in the years since the start of the pandemic. But David Heinemeier Hansson recognized a massively neglected arena, one we all use, every day: email. Bringing his experience as co-owner and Chief Technology Officer at 37sign...
Metrics That Drive Performance with Leon Chism
April 18, 2024 11:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBToday we're sharing another insightful presentation from our most recent Innovative Executives League Summit, where Leon Chism, the Vice President of Engineering at Evolve, delivered a powerful lesson on collecting critical metrics for organization-wide success. As an experienced technologist and executive, Leon leads teams in unparalleled growth and innovation. In this presentation, Leon dives into how the collection of metrics examining speed and quality paired with human-driven evaluation...
Disrupted: the Tech, the Talent and What’s Next with Tanya Hannah
April 04, 2024 11:00 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBToday we’re sharing another insightful presentation from our most recent Innovative Executives League Summit, where Tanya Hannah discusses the roadmap to navigate the ever-evolving tech landscape. As a seasoned transformational business executive, Tanya offers the pillars needed to survive major shifts and thrive in the opportunities presented by them. In this episode, Tanya shares how critical a shared vision and strategy is in preparation. Teams cannot operate only with yesterday’s logic...
Innovating Through Stakeholder Centric Design with Desiree Vargas Wrigley
March 21, 2024 11:00 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBToday we’re sharing another insightful presentation from our most recent Innovative Executives League Summit, where Desiree Vargas Wrigley, Chief Innovation Officer of P33 Chicago and Executive Director of TechRise by P33, delivered a lesson in stakeholder-centric design. Desiree overviews the challenges Chicago’s underrepresented tech founders face and the process of developing TechRise’s initiatives. Highlighting the impact of TechRise and P33, Desiree presents a galvanizing picture of Chi...
AI Overload: Cutting Through the Hype to Gain Practical Wins with Maya Mikhailov
March 07, 2024 11:00 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBToday we’re sharing another insightful presentation from our most recent Innovative Executives League Summit, where Maya Mikhailov, Chief Executive Officer and founder of SAVVI AI, discusses machine learning as a powerful toolkit of solutions. Comparing efficiency with and without AI, she highlights how the proper tool makes the difference and cuts through assumptions. Is Chat GPT the AI tool that makes Amazon such a success? No. It is Amazon's recommendation engine built on billions of data...
Funding Dynamic, Chicago-Based Innovation with Brad Henderson
February 22, 2024 11:00 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBCoupling a charitable mindset and a drive to solve some of the toughest intellectual and scientific problems has led to success for P33 Chicago and founding Chief Executive Officer Brad Henderson. Serving Chicago and embracing the city’s challenges and strengths, Brad envisions the city as a hub for new technologies built on collaborative and dynamic innovation, all while embracing inclusive growth. In this episode, Brad shares the successes of P33 Chicago and TechRise’s efforts, including ...
Large Language Models 101 with Michelangelo D'Agostino
February 08, 2024 11:00 - 25 minutes - 23 MBToday we’re sharing another insightful presentation from our most recent Innovative Executives League Summit, where Michelangelo D’Agostino, VP of Machine Learning at Tegus, delivered a foundational lesson about large language models. Imagine you are Rip Van Winkle, as Michelangelo puts it, and you have woken up after a long sleep and encountered the current AI landscape. What have you missed? What do you need to know to move forward? Calling upon his data analysis and machine learning exper...
Growth and Continuous Innovation with Chris Brown
January 25, 2024 11:00 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBAn exceptional company culture builds when steadfast employee commitment meets deep trust by customers. Chris Brown encountered this when he joined Relativity as Chief Product Officer in 2018. Chris joined the team in the early stages of their transition to SaaS and embraced the moment of disruption and opportunity—a familiar territory in his career, which included ten years at Orbitz Worldwide. From the perspective of CPO, Chris offers unique insights into the transition period from on-prem...
The Inevitable Economics of Trust with Mark Achler
January 11, 2024 11:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBToday we’re sharing another insightful presentation from our most recent Innovative Executives League Summit, where Mark Achler, Managing Director of MATH Venture Partners, spoke about the central role of trust in a successful company—with customers, employees, and partners. In this presentation, Mark details three experiences involving broken trust. He shares his journey remaining optimistic in the face of negativity and an array of reasons to embrace cynicism. Mark touches on several occ...
Innovation as a Process with Angel Mendez
December 14, 2023 11:00 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBIt is essential for companies to approach transformation from many directions, and leadership that embraces that multiplicity will innovate through process. Experienced technology executive Angel Mendez knows these methods intimately from years of working alongside visionary founders and forward-thinking teams. His business and technology journey includes a decade at Cisco Systems steering the acquisition of nearly 50 companies. In this episode, Angel, who is now Executive Chairman of the B...
Easing Friction in Retail Technology with Subramanian Kunchithapatham
November 16, 2023 11:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBHow do you create a frictionless experience for shoppers while keeping shrink under control? CTO of Sensormatic Solutions Subramanian Kunchithapatham (KS) spearheads innovative technologies to solve major retail questions and utilizes over two decades of experience to meet these challenges at the speed of retail evolution and digitization. His work explores shopper experience, inventory intelligence, loss prevention, and operational efficiency, all of which are underpinned by AI, machine lea...
Forging a New Path with David Heinemeier Hansson
November 02, 2023 11:00 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBProfound innovation has occurred across web-based communication technologies in the last decade, and truly accelerated in the years since the start of the pandemic. But David Heinemeier Hansson recognized a massively neglected arena, one we all use, every day: email. Bringing his experience as co-owner and Chief Technology Officer at 37signals (Basecamp, Ruby on Rails, and more), David launched HEY, an innovative approach to email that provides a modernized, user-first service. In this episo...
Building Innovative Software Technology and Teams with Dom Scandinaro
October 19, 2023 11:00 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBThe first day on the job sets the tone, which is why Dom Scandinaro, SVP of Engineering & Data at fan connection app Cameo, encourages new hires to deploy code to production on their very first day. As an experienced software engineer and technology leader, Dom fosters day-one collaborations when bringing on a new team member. Even during growth periods with competing priorities. In this episode, Dom discusses his journey in software engineering and his own spirit of curiosity, which was in...
Resiliency and Innovation in Challenging Times with Ronald Blahnik
October 05, 2023 11:00 - 31 minutes - 28.3 MBFor retail businesses, being able to provide real-time, precise inventory is key to exceeding customer expectations. Ronald Blahnik, Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Strategy, Innovation, Customer Experience, and Retail Analytics of Hibbett Sports, knows that providing customers with what they want, when they want it, has been essential to Hibbett’s growth over the last six years. In this episode, Ronald Blahnik provides insight into Hibbett’s expansive network of rela...
Growth-Stage Leadership with Arne Saupe
September 21, 2023 11:00 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBSecond City is an iconic Chicago institution training comedic geniuses across generations, but developing the talents of a VP of Technology is one of its more under-the-radar accomplishments. Arne Saupe, Vice President of Technology at Farmer’s Fridge, learned more than acting and improvisation when exploring this new arena. He discovered lessons in management, failure, team building, empathy, and communication that bolstered his years of experience as a technologist and growth-stage leader....
Championing Physical Technology Innovation with Haven Allen
September 07, 2023 11:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBImagine you are a founder developing a physical product with incredible potential, but the space and resources to advance your product are out of reach and cost-prohibitive. Haven Allen witnessed this hurdle to introducing life-changing HardTech into the world and co-founded a solution: mHUB, a hyper-resourced innovation center in Chicago. In this episode, learn from CEO Haven Allen the impact of mHUB on physical technology innovation and the current landscape for manufacturing in the US. S...
Lessons in Technology Leadership with Tony Newcome
August 24, 2023 11:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBWith a growing family, Tony Newcome took a major risk in returning to his software engineering roots after years in leadership—pay cut and all. Ultimately, the risk was rewarded. During his two decades of experience in the industry, Tony has held significant roles during critical growth moments at ExactTarget and Salesforce, and he currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer at ActiveCampaign. In this episode, Tony reflects on his journey to earning his degree and the mentorship he r...
Data, Patterns, and the Value of Information with Kevin Pogany
August 10, 2023 11:00 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBA distaste for the repetitive is a powerful motivation. Something Kevin Pogany discovered as a teenager writing code for his father’s pharmacy to automate their processes. An early experience that catalyzed a nearly thirty-year career across nine industries pushing for data-driven innovation. Most recently, he has found himself as a Chief Technology Officer within the aerial imagery industry encouraging transformation in this critical juncture of machine learning, robotics, and proprietary d...
Enterprise Change Management with Andrei Girenkov
July 27, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MB“You don’t get a chance to be new twice.” Technology and business executive Andrei Girenkov embraces moments of great potential and offers essential advice for achieving success in 2023. Recent Senior Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer at Greystar, Andrei discusses speaking the CEO’s language, enterprise change management, and his journey to law school and beyond. In this episode, Andrei encourages digital transformation with a business-before-technology mindset. He shares how a...
Enhancing the Developer Experience with TransUnion’s Deepika Duggirala
July 13, 2023 11:00 - 22 minutes - 30.3 MBToday we're sharing another insightful presentation from our most recent Innovative Executives League Summit, where Deepika Duggirala, SVP of Global Technology Platforms at TransUnion, spoke about how focusing on your people and the developer experience leads to improved business performance. At TransUnion, Deepika leads the technology strategy and execution of cloud-based platform transformation. With over two decades of leadership experience, she has led teams that build high-performing s...
Accelerating Digital Transformation at Allstate with Christopher Paquette
June 29, 2023 11:00 - 29 minutes - 27.5 MBTasked with accelerating digital transformation at Allstate, Christopher Paquette recognizes the digital potential embedded everywhere. Reflecting on his first year as Chief Digital Transformation Officer at Allstate, Christopher shares essential lessons in collaboration, creating value for the customer, and transformation strategy. In this episode, Christopher discusses focus areas of connectivity, automation, decisioning, and pattern recognition. He gives examples of analysis indicators ...
Creating an Effective Innovation Culture with Jack King
June 15, 2023 11:00 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MBToday we're sharing an insightful presentation from one of our Innovative Executives League Summit speakers, Jack King. At the November summit, Jack spoke to the audience about creating an effective innovation culture and leveraging disruptive technologies through VR and AR. Jack currently serves as the CIO for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, AAOS. He provides vision and leadership to help develop and manage both the application, data, and service portfolios to enable AAOS to ...
Leading the Innovation Lab at United Airlines with Jorie Sax
June 01, 2023 11:00 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBIn an industry deeply focused on the “now”— scheduling down to the minute—and dedicated to safety above all else, how can innovation with an eye to the future and taking risks fit in? In aviation, United Airlines found a solution by tasking Jorie Sax with launching and leading its first innovation lab, Airshop. In this episode, Jorie shares how an innovation lab can foreground collaboration and inspire peers throughout the company while maintaining safety standards and continuing to produc...
Building Platforms and Patterns for Innovation with Fitch Group
May 18, 2023 11:00 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBDeploying the most critical systems to the cloud first was a bold strategy for Fitch Group. It’s an approach Derek Ferguson, Global Head of Enterprise Architecture, and Chris Lalor, Senior Director – Technology Enablement, believe was essential to the successful transformation to the cloud for the Group’s companies and is how they continue to manage complex, new technology to date. In this episode, Derek and Chris dive into avoiding friction in the development process, enabling developers t...
Exploring Hybrid Cloud Solutions with VMware’s Amanda Blevins
May 04, 2023 11:00 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBHow do I use cloud services intentionally? What might I build out on-prem? What might my edge architecture look like? – These are just some of the questions Amanda Blevins is hearing from technology leaders these days. Finding solutions to those challenges is a big part of her current role as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Americas at VMware. In this episode, Amanda shares her thoughts on the future of cloud technology and how to tame the "cloud chaos" by creating an int...
Bringing Civic Engagement and Community Building Online with Rich Alapack
April 20, 2023 11:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBParticipating in school activities and community building has been challenging for remote and hybrid students, let alone the near impossibility of "running into a friend." Rich Alapack, founder of we all live here, witnessed this experience early in the pandemic and envisioned a program in which this was all possible: SchoolTopia. In this episode, Rich shares the mission of we all live here and their commitment to public art projects that promote inclusivity and empower students to challeng...
Managing Product Innovation with Tommy Richardson
April 06, 2023 11:00 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBWhen Tommy Richardson enlisted in the United States Army at 18, he narrowed his options to operating a tank or going into computer operations and programming. In selecting the latter, he launched a lasting career in the field, has led several major companies in C-suite positions, and recently arrived as Chief Product and Technology Officer for Litmos, leading product innovation. In this episode, Tommy discusses balancing technology evolution to remain competitive, feature development to me...
How to Sell Your Startup with Mark Achler
March 23, 2023 11:00 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBBetween confidentiality agreements, polite manners, and ego, it can be difficult to get a real story of what selling a company is like. Breaking that taboo was the inspiration for Exit Right, a book co-authored by today’s guest Mark Achler, Managing Director at MATH Venture Partners. In this episode, Mark shares the hard-earned lessons captured in Exit Right about key actions that lead to successful exits. He makes the case for viewing these transactions not as a moment in time but as an ...
Innovation at Scale with Justin McNally
March 09, 2023 11:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBOne consequence of success for a startup is outgrowing the very strategies that made you successful. As an experienced founder, it’s a challenge Justin McNally was prepared to tackle as Chowly grew from a seedling idea to a market leader in point-of-sale integration. At each stage of growth, Justin’s role, and sometimes title, evolved to meet the changing needs of the organization. Through the lens of his current role as Chief Innovation Officer, Justin discusses traversing the gap from st...
Innovative Executives League Summit Highlights
February 23, 2023 11:00 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBThe Innovative Executives League recently held its second in-person summit with an amazing slate of thought leaders sharing their experiences and perspective on innovation and leadership. In this episode, Patrick and Shelli highlight a variety of insightful presentations from the event. If you're unfamiliar with the Innovative Executives Leagues, it's an invite-only community of innovators, entrepreneurs, and intrapreneurs with a growth mindset and a passion for innovation. It was founded ...
Mentorship in Innovation with Larry Berlin
February 09, 2023 11:00 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBA great teacher can be the key to welcoming challenges, self-confidence, and a curious spirit. In the case of Larry Berlin, Chief Financial Officer at Freedom Fries, great teachers also inspired a lifelong commitment to mentorship, including his critical mentor role for the New Venture Challenge, an accelerator program that has launched Grubhub, Braintree/Venmo, and many more successful companies. In this episode, Larry shares details of the development process and aims of his recent ventur...
Envisioning the Future of Artificial Intelligence with Michael Housman
January 26, 2023 11:00 - 41 minutes - 56.8 MBSpecific, problem-solving artificial intelligence is here, but when will the general, exponentially learning AI arrive in full force? Technologist Michael Housman, CTO of a stealth project at Doma, shares the anticipated arrival of AGI and his career contributing to machine learning and artificial intelligence. In this episode, Michael debunks misconceptions about AI and illuminates how malicious actors have benefitted from developments in data science (and how we can use data to catch the...
Military Defense Innovation with Glenn Banton
January 12, 2023 11:00 - 34 minutes - 32 MBMilitary training can result in a staggering number of injuries, and virtual reality is ready to intervene. HAVIK Chief Operations Officer Glenn Banton is passionate about the role of virtual reality in military training and continued innovations in visual fidelity and acceleration in learning. In this episode, Glenn shares how training and simulation software marries elements of the gaming industry with the best innovations of the Department of Defense at HAVIK, which provides fully porta...
Leadership Amid Growth with James Gray
December 15, 2022 11:00 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBAdaptability is an essential skill for anyone navigating their career in a company experiencing growth. Chief Information Officer James Gray curates his teams with this priority due to REEF’s exponential growth in recent years, especially as the neighborhood-focused company saw the desire for the proximity of goods and services increase during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode, James Gray shares insight into the importance of articulating your needs as an employee, addressing company-e...
Engineering Your Career Progression with Deborah Spence-Cummings
December 01, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBOnly an exceptional innovator would look at a burgeoning career in operations and pause to examine their reputation and evaluate their goals. With the help of an executive coach, Deborah Spence-Cummings did just that and now serves as the Director of AI/ML Operations at Apple. Deborah shares how she used an engineering mindset developed at MIT and Northwestern to drive her career progression through positions in operations, planning, project management, sales, and now, artificial intellige...
Care in Leadership with General James Mukoyama
November 17, 2022 11:00 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBWith a decorated thirty-year career in the U.S. Army behind him, General James Mukoyama’s retirement is one of passionate advocacy and aid for veterans. In the organizations he leads, Military Outreach USA and Enabled Enterprises, as well as other faith-based acts of service, General Mukoyama believes in leading by example and with care while maintaining balance in your life. In this episode, General Mukoyama highlights two critical efforts of Military Outreach USA: reducing veteran suicid...
Automation and Electrification with Marc Saltzman
November 03, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBImagine a career sparked from the desire to play a video game that’s out of your budget. Marc Saltzman began his career as a journalist and technologist with a promise of publishing a review. With twenty-five years in the industry, Marc shares insight into automation and electrification alongside the questions these current innovations prompt in consumers and businesses alike. In this episode, Marc highlights several moments for the industry: the misdirection of Blackberry and Motorola, Que...
Reimagining Clinical Research with Katherine Vandebelt
October 20, 2022 11:00 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBA fresh spotlight is on clinical research on account of the COVID-19 pandemic. Katherine Vandebelt, Global Vice President of Innovation at Oracle, shares how she is innovating clinical research participation through inclusive, accessible, and human-centered practices. In this episode, Katherine highlights the challenges of recruitment and retention of clinical research participants. She reflects on the stress that arrives alongside health conditions, diagnoses, and deciding a treatment path...
Serving our Country through Innovation with Mike Seper
October 06, 2022 11:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBServing the United States does not have to be in uniform. Mike Seper, University Program Director of the National Security Innovation Network at Washington University in St. Louis, discusses how the problem-solving network NSIN embraces university-based innovators and entrepreneurs from all areas of study to bring their expertise into the service of our country. In this episode, Mike reflects on the importance of an inclusive and diverse innovation process while providing a glimpse into pr...
Motivation and Innovative Technology with Jack King
September 22, 2022 11:00 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBExtended reality has Jack King animated about innovation and the future of technology. As Chief Information Officer at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Jack sees the countless ways that augmented and virtual realities can accelerate learning and opportunities for the 39,000 members of AAOS. In this episode, Jack discusses motivation, connection, and encouraging employees to be participants in driving change. He speaks on company culture and his approach to communication, includ...
Highlights from the Innovative Executives League Summit
September 08, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBIn addition to hosting Innovation and the Digital Enterprise, Pat is also the founder of the Innovative Executives League, a group that connects visionary Chicago leaders. Earlier this year, the group held its first in-person Innovative Executives League Summit with an amazing slate of leaders sharing experiences and perspectives on innovation and leadership. Today’s episode pulls together highlights from three of the day’s presentations. First up, Gale Wilkinson, Founder and Managing Part...
Driving Strategic Change with Patrick Dineen
August 25, 2022 11:00 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBSeeking professional advice to advance your career? Patrick Dineen, Chief Information Officer at Nielsen, has the answer: solve bigger problems. As a leader in strategic planning and transformational thinking within several major companies over his career, Patrick is perfectly positioned to witness the incredible value of team members who seek out challenges and take advantage of big opportunities to contribute. In this episode, Patrick reflects on outside-in thinking and a growth mindset i...
Championing Transparency and Collaboration with Sara Rossio
July 28, 2022 11:00 - 32 minutes - 25.9 MBNot many people are willing to call up their competitors and dive into discussions on bettering the industry at large—choosing to see their competitors as partners. Sara Rossio, Chief Product Officer at G2, is curious about the ways transparency can build trust internally and how to embrace transparency and collaboration with customers, vendors, and across an industry. In this episode, Sara talks about how she approaches product management at G2, including utilizing artificial intelligence ...
Vision and Transformational Change with Mike Kennedy
June 23, 2022 11:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBIt is all about the people, the process, and the technology for Mike Kennedy, VP of Technology, Enablement, and Strategy at CDW and U.S. Army veteran. Whether analyzing processes, recruiting and retaining great employees, and implementing new technologies, Mike is invested in holistic transformation. In this episode, Mike Kennedy discusses the importance of “little i” innovation, motivating employees, and inclusion in decision-making. He shares insight into a VSOM approach and agile practic...
Learning to be a Technologist and Executive with Fred Lee
May 26, 2022 11:00 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBFred Lee, Chief Technology Officer at Amount, is skeptical of “culture fit.” In leading technology teams of various sizes and goals, he has welcomed team members who approach things differently, who embrace their unique perspectives, and witnessed their added value across organizations. In his cross-industry career, a fresh perspective has often served him well. In this episode, Fred shares insight into the shifting experience of banking and the industry’s digital innovations. He reflects o...
Vulnerability in Leadership with Edward Wagoner
May 12, 2022 11:00 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBEdward Wagoner, CIO of JLL, acknowledges what many C-suite executives do not: leaders are human. In his 26 years at JLL, Edward has seen tremendous company growth—investment in data and proptech, the purchase of two AI companies, and a serious effort to recruit the highest-level data scientists—and he’s had to grow as well. In this episode, Edward talks about innovating the ways that we work together (in digital and physical space) and building environments that suit meaningful collaborati...
Rethinking Payment Processing and Fostering Community with Dan Muller
April 07, 2022 11:00 - 29 minutes - 27 MBAeroPay founder Dan Muller embraced Chicago’s supportive entrepreneurial ecosystem to build his innovative payment processing business in 2017, and he is looking to return the favor. This week’s episode offers an insightful conversation about finding the resources and community needed to materialize an idea, the often-fraught scaling period of a company, and the importance of advocating for fellow entrepreneurs. Dan Muller is a product-first founder dedicated to rethinking the collection an...