Hosted by the hiring experts of Dallas-based recruiting firm Unity Search, Unity Talks features lively discussion with successful business leaders regarding their career path to success, obstacles overcome to become successful, and steps they have taken to remain on top of their profession. https://www.facebook.com/UnitySearch https://www.linkedin.com/company/unity-search/ www.unitysearch.com
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Jack Kelly Managing Director, The Compliance Search Group www.ComplianceSearch.com and Publisher of The Compliance Exchange www.ComplianceX.com Jack Kelly is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of The Compliance Search Group (www.ComplianceSearch.com ). The Compliance Search Group is one of the most respected, oldest, and largest recruiting firms specializing in the placement of Compliance, Legal and Regulatory executives. Mr. Kelly has in excess of one dozen years of recruiting experience ...
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The Blind Ambition with Jack Kelly provides a candid look into the top companies in business and tech. Go behind the scenes with industry and workplace leaders and explore work culture, what it takes to land a role at these companies, and how to build, scale and thrive in your career. Hosted by Jack Kelly and Rick Chen and presented by the professional social network Blind.
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Valerie Beaulieu, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at The Adecco Group: Why You Need a 'Career Backpack'
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Valerie Beaulieu, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at The Adecco Group Valerie explains her secret to a remarkable career journey, what she calls her "career backpack," which landed her in the c-suite and on the boards of various public companies and organizations. We look at when Microsoft was a startup and what it was like working in the tech in…
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Annette Stewart, Senior Director, U.S. Business Acceleration and Integration at RBC: How to Influence Executives
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Senior Director, U.S. Business Acceleration and Integration at RBC Annette tells us how to communicate with executives and what it takes to influence them and drive impact. She also shares how to get started, including everything from networking and meeting CEOs and other c-suite executives at your own company to what to say when you want to get th…
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Ben Morss, Product Manager at Zocdoc: How to Land a Job at Google and Become a Product Manager
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Ben Morss, Product Manager at Zocdoc Ben shares his nontraditional career path, from studying computer science and music to working as a software engineer, developer advocate, and now product manager. Ben also reveals that many of his colleagues at Google had nontraditional work experience or had to apply multiple times before landing a role at the…
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Ginnie Carlier, Americas Vice Chair, Talent at EY: Why You Need to Be More Adventurous in Your Career
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Ginnie Carlier, Americas Vice Chair, Talent at EY Ginnie reflects on the best professional advice she's ever received: You need to have an adventurous mindset. We explore how adventure and a willingness to step outside your comfort zone can unlock new career opportunities. Ginnie explains how she put the advice into practice and how it landed her h…
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Congressman Mark Takano: How the U.S. May Be Closer to a Four-Day Workweek Than Ever Before
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The Honorable Mark Takano of the U.S. House of Representatives Congressman Mark Takano recently introduced a bill called the Thirty-Two-Hour Workweek Act, which would amend the definition of the workweek in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. If passed into law, it would require overtime pay for anyone who works more than 32 hours in one …
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Jack and Rick Take on Whether Glassdoor is Still Anonymous
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Jack Kelly and Rick Chen react to news that Glassdoor wants your real name. We explore the company's privacy practices and whether company reviews and other information posted to Glassdoor are really anonymous. Jack explains the real-life repercussions of being outed about posts made on Glassdoor and social media and why anonymity matters. Finally,…
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Chase McTaggart, CEO at Quietman Negotiations
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Today on the Unity Talks Podcast host, David Cathey sits down with Chase McTaggart, CEO at Quietman NegotiationsBy RNCN
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Rick Chen, Senior Director, Head of Public Relations at Blind: How Grit Can Propel Your Career
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Rick Chen, Senior Director, Head of Public Relations at Blind Rick never set out to work in public relations or communications. Instead, he took his teachers' feedback about disrupting class and combined it with a willingness to take on the tasks and jobs few others want to do. We explore how Rick became a PR executive from the very beginning when …
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Disha Patel, Head of Shopping Product at Cash App: The Importance of Finding Your Craft
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Disha Patel, Head of Shopping Product at Cash App Disha explains why finding a craft and refining it over time is essential. It's how she's evolved her career, first as an engineer and then as a management consultant and a product head. We dig into what practicing a craft looks like and how to know if you have the right network and role to thrive. …
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Heather Inocencio, Founder and CEO of The Product Consult: Why Product Managers Fail
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Heather Inocencio, Founder and CEO of The Product Consult Heather is a sought-after product management consultant with more than 30 years of product management experience at large public companies and high-growth consumer startups, including The RealReal and HauteLook. We got her to share the details about how the product management discipline has …
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Jack Kelly, Founder and CEO of Compliance Search Group: How I Became a Wall Street Recruiter
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Jack Kelly, Founder and CEO of Compliance Search Group In this episode, we flip the script and interview our co-host, Jack Kelly! Jack did not always know he wanted to be a recruiter. Instead, he stumbled upon it after visiting a recruiting agency and having a friend recommend he meet someone in the business. We look into the economics of recruitin…
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Jack and Rick Take on Google's AI Mistakes and Nvidia's Million-Dollar Pay Packages
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Jack Kelly and Rick Chen explore what happened with Google's well-publicized blunders with its Gemini AI model. Rick explains what likely happened behind the scenes that resulted in the image generator creating odd illustrations and distorting the reality of historical events. Next, Jack asks if Big Tech and the "Magnificent Seven" group of stocks—…
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Arvind Jain, Founder and CEO of Glean: How to Become One of the Top 1% of Engineers at Google
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Arvind Jain, Founder and CEO of Glean Arvind spent more than 10 years at Google, going from one of the company's first engineers when it was a startup to becoming a distinguished engineer. We find out just how he earned the promotions and what it took to land the title fewer than 1% of all engineers ever earn, including the tips and tricks many sen…
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Justin Zhu and Michelle Lee, Co-Founder and Counsel of Stand with Asian Americans: Making the Transition from Executive to Political Advocacy
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Justin Zhu, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Stand with Asian Americans Michelle Lee, Counsel at Stand with Asian Americans Asian Americans make up a large proportion of the U.S. professional workforce, but often, they are one of the least represented groups at every leadership level. Justin and Michelle describe how Stand with Asian Americans …
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Top 5 Things Great CEOs Do, with Robert J. Hunt - Executive Coach and Leader of CEO Groups at REF
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Bonnie Dilber, Manager, Business Recruiting at Zapier: Counter-Intuitive Tips You Need to Know to Get Hired
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Bonnie Dilber, Manager, Business Recruiting at Zapier Bonnie leads the business recruiting team at Zapier, focusing on roles in the finance, sales, marketing, people, operations, support, legal and leadership teams. We dig into her untraditional background and why teachers might make the best recruiters and business leaders. Bonnie also shares her …
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Mark Dixon, Founder and CEO of IWG: The Future of Remote Work and the Workplace
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Mark Dixon, Founder and CEO of IWG When Mark founded Regus, now known as IWG, he was the first to offer co-working space on a large scale. We explore how workplaces, offices, and even commercial real estate have changed since he started in the company in 1989. Mark explains how companies are increasingly choosing hybrid or flexible work schedules, …
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Neil Dhar, Vice Chairman, Co-Head of Consulting at PwC: How to Assemble a Personal Board of Directors to Advance Your Career
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Neil Dhar, Vice Chairman, Co-Head of Consulting at PwC We explore the secrets and advantages of longevity in the professional services industry, focusing on the advisory and consulting profession. Neil has spent more than 30 years at PwC and has held various leadership roles across the firm's different service lines—everything from M&A deals, risk …
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Katya Laviolette, Chief People Officer at 1Password: How to Stand Out Among 12,000 Resumes
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Katya Laviolette, Chief People Officer at 1Password Katya gives us a sneak peek into how recent mass layoffs in the tech, banking and finance industries have impacted the job market. She reveals that 1Password receives as many as 12,000 resumes every month and job postings for internships can add another 20,000. We ask Katya to break down how to po…
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Michelle Gonzalez, Corporate Vice President and Global Head of M12: The Secret to Networking and Meeting the Most Influential People Out There
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Michelle Gonzalez, Corporate Vice President and Global Head of M12, Microsoft's Venture Capital Fund Michelle explains how to really network and why most people think it's so artificial, transactional, or even cringe-inducing. She tells us about the cold emails she would send to entrepreneurs, investors, professors and other notable figures and wha…
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Gleb Yushin, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Sila Nanotechnologies: The Importance of Working on Big Problems and How to Get Started
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Gleb Yushin, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Sila Nanotechnologies Gleb has long been sought out for his background in materials sciences and physics background. Now, he's taken his expertise to clean energy and industries as diverse as connected devices and electric vehicles. We explore how Sila Nanotechnologies was born and how Gleb tr…
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Elizabeth Reich EVP & CFO For Dallas Area Rapid Transit
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Today on the Unity Talks Podcast host, David Cathey sits down with Elizabeth Reich EVP & CFO For Dallas Area Rapid Transit.By RNCN
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Jack Mardack, Co-Founder of Oyster: How I Created a Human-Centric Unicorn Startup as a B Corp
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Jack Mardack, Co-Founder of Oyster Jack began his career as an "accidental" marketer before working in banking and finance. Then, he had enough and decided to move to the San Francisco Bay Area to join the startup scene. There, he met like-minded, smart people who shared his interests in entrepreneurship and finding a way to create a human-centric …
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Amanda Richardson, CEO of CoderPad: How I Became CEO Just by Asking and Learning to Share What You Want
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Amanda Richardson, CEO of CoderPad Amanda says her career has been a windy journey. She admits that, at times, she didn't have a clear career path and has primarily created opportunities for herself. It's paid off, as she was hired to become the CEO of a high-performing startup she didn't start. We learn how she became CEO and how a frank conversat…
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Episode 44: CFO, Sadot Group Inc Jennifer Black
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Today on the Unity Talks Podcast host, David Cathey sits down with CFO at Sadot Group Inc Jennifer BlackBy RNCN
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Amir Nathoo, Founder and CEO of Outschool: How a Blog Post Led to a $3 Billion Startup
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Amir Nathoo, Founder and CEO of Outschool We explore what it is like to be a startup founder from the perspective of Amir Nathoo, who knew he wanted to be a software entrepreneur at an early age. Interestingly, he explains how a blog post he published in 2015 about a personal experience led to where he is today, as a founder and CEO of a startup la…
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Max Tagher, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Mercury: How to Enter a Field Without Prior Professional Experience
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Max Tagher, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Mercury Max had never worked at a bank, financial services company or even a financial-technology startup before starting Mercury. Instead, he drew from his firsthand experience as a customer of Silicon Valley Bank, the once-popular bank with many startups, and noticed others like him were also…
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Episode 43: Vera Cretcher Director of Tax Compliance and Technology at Texas Instruments
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Lia Garvin, Former Team Operations and Organizational Effectiveness Lead at Google: Lessons From Big Tech You Can Use to Improve Your Performance
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Lia Garvin, Former Team Operations and Organizational Effectiveness Lead at Google Lia gives us an in-depth look into Google's program management and team operations. We explore how she became a program manager and what program managers do at Google and other Big Tech companies, including how they work with software engineers, product managers, des…
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Ingrid De Clercq, Chief People Officer at Deliverect: An Inside Look into How Belgian and European Startups Recruit Talent
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Ingrid De Clercq, Chief People Officer at Deliverect Ingrid shares how four startup founders in Ghent, Belgium, developed the idea for Deliverect and what it was like conceptualizing and implementing a multinational company's vision, hiring process and performance philosophies from scratch. We also get a sneak peek into how a Belgian and European s…
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Episode 42: Keeping It In Perspective with Ronald Arrington, CFO/Controller.
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Jesse Tinsley, Former Recruiter at 23andMe: What Happens When the Recruiter You're Talking to Doesn't Actually Work at the Company?
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Jesse Tinsley, Former Recruiter at 23andMe Jesse Tinsley was a recruiter at 23andMe, Coinbase, Stellar Development Foundation, Protocol Labs and more. Now, he's the founder and CEO of a recruitment process outsourcing company, a largely unknown cog in the job recruitment process. We explore what RPO companies are and how you can work together with …
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Jack and Rick Take on 'Job GPT' and AI Bots That Apply for Jobs for You While You Sleep
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Jack Kelly and Rick Chen break down the advent of AI bots that apply for jobs while you sleep. We discuss Job GPT and other similar services that claim to guarantee job interviews with their indiscriminate job applications. Rick thinks through the potential repercussions professionals could face for using these tools and AI technology. Jack shares …
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Marcelo Lebre, President and Chief Technology Officer at Remote: Finding the Tipping Point for Your Entrepreneurship
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Marcelo Lebre, President and Chief Technology Officer at Remote Marcelo recalls how he transitioned from academia to entrepreneurship. He gives us the rundown of what it was like to build the product that would become Remote.com and when he knew it was time to go all-in on his startup idea. We explore everything from identifying the market potentia…
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Shirley Baumer, Director of Product Management at Monday.com: From Startup to IPO - What It's Like as the First Product Manager
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Shirley Baumer, Director of Product Management at Monday.com Shirley was the first product manager at Monday.com, back when it was a startup with fewer than 30 people. We explore how the company has changed in six and a half years, discussing everything from how the core work management product was conceptualized and built to the opening of new off…
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Episode 41: In the Good, the Bad, or the Ugly, Culture is King! – with Wayne Gono, Owner/Chief Visionary Officer at Regal Plastics
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Episode 41: In the Good, the Bad, or the Ugly, Culture is King! – with Wayne Gono, Owner/Chief Visionary Officer at Regal Plastics.By RNCN
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Melanie Quandt, Former Recruiting Manager at Salesforce: The Inside Scoop to How Salesforce Hires Engineers and Experienced Professionals
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Melanie Quandt, Former Recruiting Manager at Salesforce Melanie has spent more than 10 years as a recruiter placing software engineers, developers, scrum managers, and more at Salesforce. We get the inside scoop into what sets Salesforce apart and how they hire engineers and other experienced professionals. Melanie reveals the performance metrics a…
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Jake Leach, Chief Operating Officer at Dexcom: Unleashing Career Growth, Tips From a Top Medical Executive
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Jake Leach, Chief Operating Officer at Dexcom Today, Jake is the COO at one of the top medical technology companies in the world. But, before he became responsible for all things product, research and development, and the like, Jake got his start in the industry as an intern. We explore Jake's career journey, including how he learned to apply his s…
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Frank Calderoni, CEO of Velocity Global: A CEO's Guide to C-Suite Roles and Leadership Development
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Frank Calderoni, CEO of Velocity Global Frank has been an executive at some of the most high-profile tech companies in the world, including IBM, SanDisk, QLogic, Cisco, Red Hat, Anaplan and Velocity Global. We get the inside track into his career progression, starting from IBM and its legendary internship and leadership development programs. He sha…
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Episode 40: Managing Your Career Journey with Amanda Coussens, CFO at P10 Holdings
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Erika Voss, Vice President, Engineering Platforms at Capital One Software: How to Break Into the Tech Industry With an Untraditional, Non-Technical Background
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Erika Voss, Vice President, Engineering Platforms at Capital One Software Erika doesn't have the typical background of a technical executive at a large enterprise software company. She began her career as a corrections officer at a maximum-security prison. We explore how she transitioned from becoming a public servant, which she admits she would ha…
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Episode 39: Learning, Growing and Serving with Mark Floyd, President at F&P Construction.
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Learning, Growing and Serving with Mark Floyd, President at F&P Construction.By RNCN
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Donna Helphrey, Vice President, Talent at Go1: Everything You Want to Know About Recruiting From Someone Who Hired 1,800 People in One Year
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Donna Helphrey, Vice President, Talent at Go1 Like many recruiters, Donna didn't have her heart set on helping others find their dream job. Instead, she grew into the profession and became a current executive at a multibillion-dollar "unicorn" startup. We look back at her start as a recruiter, from working at a staffing agency to hiring 1,800 peopl…
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Josh Owen, Chief Technology Officer at Flourish: From Wall Street Developer to Serial Startup CTO, Here's How He Did It
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Josh Owen, Chief Technology Officer at Flourish Before he became a two-time CTO in the tech industry, Josh worked at some of the largest banks. He explains what he learned from his time on the business side of software engineering at Citi and Goldman Sachs, including the day-to-day work of developers and technologists on Wall Street. We also explor…
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Andrew Duncan, CEO and Managing Partner at Infosys Consulting: Is It Always Bad News When Your Company Hires a Management Consulting Firm?
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Andrew Duncan, CEO and Managing Partner at Infosys Consulting Andrew hasn't always worked in management consulting, and it's likely one of the reasons he's been so effective as an advisor to companies worldwide and a c-suite executive himself. We dive into his background to learn how engineers, technologists and other experienced subject-matter exp…
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Jason Birmingham, Chief Technology Officer at Broadridge Financial: How to Find a Mentor and Why Executives Need One Too
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Jason Birmingham, Chief Technology Officer at Broadridge Financial Jason openly admits that he doesn't have the traditional resume of a CTO or a financial-technology executive. For one, he's a software engineer with finance degrees and a client-facing management consulting background. We dig into how he broke the mold and earned each promotion unti…
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Trent Henry, Global Vice Chair, Talent at EY: How to Develop the Skills to Succeed at EY and the Big Four and Beyond
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Trent Henry, Global Vice Chair, Talent at EY Before becoming the global vice chair of talent at EY, Trent was the CEO of EY Canada. He's seen how the economy has changed and why so many employers and professionals haven't yet caught up. We get Trent to teach a masterclass about how professionals can invest in themselves and develop the in-demand sk…
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Ariella Steinhorn and Amber Scorah, Co-Founders of Lioness: Everything You Wanted to Know About Whistleblowing and Workplace Misbehavior!
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Ariella Steinhorn, Co-Founder of Lioness and Amber Scorah, Co-Founder and President of Lioness Ariella and Amber explain what it means to be a whistleblower and why someone might decide to take something public. If you ever asked yourself, "What is a whistleblower?" you must listen to this episode. We explore whistleblower rights and protections an…
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CJ Jouhal, Head of Engineering at Anchorage Digital: The Highs and Lows on the Journey to Becoming a CTO
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CJ Jouhal, Head of Engineering at Anchorage Digital CJ has led engineering teams as a CTO or head of engineering for more than 20 years. In this episode, we get vulnerable and dig into the major decisions in his life that made him the technical leader he is today, diving into nearly every high and low point in his career. CJ recalls how he decided …
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Jack and Rick Take on the UPS Drivers That Will Soon Earn $170k
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Jack Kelly and Rick Chen chase down the labor agreement between UPS and the Teamsters Union to figure out if UPS drivers will really start to earn $170,000 in pay. We look into how the total compensation was calculated and if the reporters got their news headlines wrong. Jack and Rick then discuss the evolution of the job market and how some profes…
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