LIFT
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLeadership inspiration for professionals who appreciate life-long learning infused with sarcasm and wit. Silicon Valley consultant Allison J. Taylor curates intelligent conversations that illuminate fresh points of view across business, technology, communications, and management. Time-pressed execs can get informed and inspired in under 60 minutes.
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EP#6: Sending Money Freely -- Sara Drakeley
September 22, 2023 17:46 - 45 minutes - 62.3 MBSending Money Freely with Sara Drakeley, CEO of MobileCoin Episode 6: Show Notes Welcome back to another episode of the Allison Taylor LIFT Podcast. In our sixth episode, Allison discusses leadership in technology, specifically the nascent cryptocurrency market, with Sara Drakeley, CEO of MobileCoin, a cryptocurrency payment application that runs on the blockchain. The discussion centers on Sara’s mission to reimagine payments from the ground up and her vision of sending money...
EP5: Intent Data: The Perfect Answer is Imperfection
April 22, 2022 19:53 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBWelcome to the fifth episode of our LIFT podcast! In today’s new market landscape, intent data is becoming increasingly relevant. In this episode, we are joined by the VP of Growth Marketing at Celigo, Michelle Bastelier, to discuss all things intent data. Celigo is a Series C automation platform company, which enables integration of all different SaaS applications into one platform. Through this discussion, you will discover how to shape your organization in order to use intent data, as wel...
EP4: Leading a STEM Organization -- Andrew Chrostowski
May 25, 2021 15:23 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBIn Part II of our fourth episode, we continue a fascinating executive conversation with Andrew Chrostowski, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of RealWear, a company engineering industrial wearable headsets for connected workers. He shares real-life lessons from his experience managing complex systems and data-led teams. In this second half of our conversation (check out Part I ), we consider how engineering, science and technical teams are like any other in their need for superb people m...
EP4 (Part 1): Leading Amidst Complexity -- Andrew Chrostowski
April 06, 2021 20:20 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBWelcome to the fourth episode of our LIFT podcast! Allison identifies how skilled leaders approach systems complexity and the fundamental role people play solving problems successfully. She is joined by Andrew Chrostowski, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of RealWear, a tech company making hands-free industrial head-mounted wearable headsets for safe connected workers. He discusses how he applies systems thinking from his background in leadership and problem-solving both in the military ...
EP3: Succeeding in a World of Risk -- Bob Zukis
August 25, 2020 18:09 - 41 minutes - 56.6 MBSucceeding in a World of Risk with Bob Zukis Podcast Episode 03: Show Notes Welcome to the third episode of our LIFT podcast! Allison discusses problem-solving our way through this pressing global situation, as systems have failed us and we need to reinvent at scale. She is joined by Bob Zukis, co-author of The Great Reboot and a former PwC Advisory Partner, who shares pragmatic models for this important work ahead of us. We’re all born into a world that already has many systems in place...
EP 2: Digging Deep on Motives to Meet Your Customer’s “Invisible” Needs - Cheri Anderson
February 07, 2020 22:11 - 32 minutes - 45.5 MBWelcome to the second episode of LIFT podcast! On today’s episode, Allison is joined by global researcher Cheri Anderson of the Values and Lifestyles Program (VALS) from Menlo Park, California, to unravel motives and their impact on everything from building a business to positioning a product. Based on her 25-year experience applying research findings to a variety of sectors from Nigeria to Japan, Cheri reveals the connection between self-image and VALs personality types to explain why some...
EP 1: Unpacking a Loaded Term: Communications - with Matt Abrahams
April 24, 2019 21:10 - 30 minutes - 28.6 MBWelcome to the inaugural Lift podcast! Today we chat with Matt Abrahams, a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the founder of BoldEcho. Matt and Allison are both passionate about strategic communications, and today discuss exactly that -- what do we mean when we say someone is a "great communicator” and how can leaders use some simple guidelines to increase their emotive communications success? We outline three fundamental steps towards more action-driven interactions, w...