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**Disruptive CEO Nation**

EXECUTIVE COACH + GLOBAL BUSINESS LEADER ADVISOR. SPEAKER. AUTHOR. GUIDING SMART PEOPLE TO GROW INFLUENCE & CREATE OPPORTUNITIES

Over 30 years, I have had the opportunity to work with fantastic organizations, impressive individuals and key industry leaders across six continents. Sitting in the corner office in both corporate and non-profit environments, I’ve attained, delivered and coached success in both the C-Suite and international board rooms. My diverse experience has provided cross-cultural insights into the talents, skills and measures required by individuals not only to get to the top, but to THRIVE at the pinnacle of business… And now I am happy to share that knowledge and support you in your quest for influence, empowerment, and ultimately success.

Latest Episodes:

Episode 134 Carolyn Barbarite, Creator & President, JavaMelts, New York Mar 02, 2022

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Episode 134 Carolyn Barbarite, Creator & President, JavaMelts, New York

Carolyn Barbarite, Creator and President of JavaMelts, is an extraordinary example of entrepreneur perseverance. Starting her product concept in 2016, her hand produced flavored sugar product was reaching fast success and winning awards in the B2B and B2C market.

She was gaining momentum and Covid hit, creating one obstacle after another, especially since she was near the epicenter of Covid, outside of NY City.

Carolyn’s founder’s story is a roller coaster journey of rising, falling, and rising again, even stronger. It’s a lesson of committing to your vision, even when everything seems stacked against you.

Carolyn is in the food industry, but her story about pivoting and changing applies to any entrepreneur. Highlights of our conversation include:

The agony of losing production partners and how the negative turned into a positive product reformulation.

Amazon is a critical player in the business, even though they once shut her storefront down.

Her belief in the product, persistence and determination had her story featured in Entrepreneur magazine.

How the business is growing with new products and additional industry awards.

Enjoy the show!

Connect with Carolyn:

Website: www.javamelts.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolyn-barbarite-4bb3a3147/detail/photo

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carolyn.barbarite

Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/JAVAMELTSFlavoredSugar/JAVAMELTSFlavoredSugar/page/891AE2E5-2316-4C54-9EAC-B4DD1FDA1C00

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

#CEO #business #businessstrategy #growthstrategy #entreprenuer #entrepreneurship #entreprenuerlife #tech #technology #startups #startupstory #AI #machinelearning #founder #femalefounder

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EP 133: Nuno Fonseca, Creator & CEO Sound Particles, Leiria, Portugal Feb 23, 2022

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Episode 133 Nuno Fonseca, Creator & CEO Sound Particles, Leiria, Portugal

This episode is a conversation with a university professor in a small town in Portugal who contributed and changed the game of audio production in major Hollywood, film, and game studios because of his revolutionary 3D sound technology. Nuno Fonseca, a professor with a PhD in computer audio, is the creator, founder, and CEO of Sound Particles, based in Leiria, Portugal.

Sound Particles software is an immersive audio software capable of generating thousands or even millions of sounds in a virtual 3D audio world that allows for major sound sequences to be created quickly and easily. This ground-breaking technology uses computer graphics techniques applied to audio. The software combines particle systems with a 3D Computer Graphics-like engine.

The software is used by major Hollywood studios, in productions such as Game of Thrones, Star Wars, Frozen II and Dune. It’s also used by video game companies including Blizzard, Epic Games, and PlayStation.

Nuno shares his journey and long-term vision, including:

Using the top-down approach in reaching professionals in the target market.

The urgency to start a company when others started to create similar technology.

The risk for a professor to start a company.

Engaging with professionals, growing relationships, and building community cost effectively.

Enjoying the privilege of working with top professionals and Hollywood studios.

The importance of focusing on technology while simultaneously working on the short and long-term goals of the business.

How Sound Particles differentiates its 3D sound product and how the strategy integrates with the company’s long-term goals.

Enjoy the show!

Connect with Nuno:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nuno-fonseca-04250a30/

Twitter: @soundparticles

Website: https://www.soundparticles.com/community/customers

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

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EP 132: Ninh Tran, CEO and Co-Founder Snapbrillia, USA Feb 16, 2022

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Episode 132 Ninh Tran, CEO and Co-Founder Snapbrillia, USA

Ninh Tran, CEO of Snapbillia, was born in Viet Nam, raised in the Czech Republic, traveled all over Europe, studied at Berkeley and now lives in King City, California. Ninh and his co-founders are on a mission to change the way people hire in tech, using their SaaS platform and taking advantage of its AI capabilities to mitigate systemic bias.

The platform is an AI interviewing and assessment tool that speeds up hiring and embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workspace. The tool is called a hiring manager’s best friend and is aimed at helping engineering hiring managers, engineers, and interviewers, plus recruiters and recruiting leaders. The big goal is to make it easy to help a million people get a job in tech.

In our conversation, we discuss:

An overview of the platform and how it differs from other similar platforms.

The objective to bring humanity to business in all the ways Snapbrillia shows up and interacts with customers.

The concept of building something that gives a user an easy winning moment to build emotional attachment to their product’s solution.

Ninh’s experience as a three-time founder and the humility gained when a business doesn’t succeed.

The benefit of all founders engaging and being aligned in the mission full-time.

Enjoy the show!

Connect with Ninh:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ninhtran08/

LinkedIn Company Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/company/snapbrillia/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/snapbrillia/

Website: https://www.snapbrillia.com/

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

#CEO #business #businessstrategy #growthstrategy #entreprenuer #entrepreneurship #entreprenuerlife #tech #technology #startups #startupstory #AI #machinelearning #founder #femalefounder

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EP 131: Charlotte Journo-Baur, CEO/Founder Wishibam, Paris, France Feb 09, 2022

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Episode 131 Charlotte Journo-Baur, CEO/Founder Wishibam, Paris, France

After traveling around the world, Charlotte Journo-Baur came back home to become the CEO and founder of her tech company, Wishibam, when she was only 25 years old.

Charlotte graduated from one of the top French business schools, EM Lyon. She started her career as a strategy consultant in the retail practice of AT Kearney in Paris.

Wishibam works with real estate companies, local authorities and retailers who want to increase profitably by using technology. Her platform helps retailers rethink the customer experience with a solution that brings the convenience of e-commerce and the complexity of their physical stores together. The French government has labeled the solution as necessary for retailers to recover post-Covid.

Charlotte is part of the French Forbes 30 under 30 and a member of the executive board in charge of communication and public relations at the French Prop Tech. She operates in five European countries and is expanding to other continents.

Charlotte’s experiences apply to many entrepreneurial leaders. In our conversation, we discuss:

How she drew on the strength of her family’s business background in retail and real estate to reconcile online and physical retail challenges.

Her mission to help independent and large retailers re-think their business model and extend the physical point of sale into greater opportunities.

How the easy-to-use tech platform helps clients reduce the expense of being visible online and offers seamless transactions and stock reconciliation.

Raising investor dollars to scale and working on another seed round.

Acknowledging that as a founder, everything can be more difficult than you imagined, and you can feel alone. Her advice - put together a great team and support system.

Enjoy the show!

Connect with Charlotte:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlotte-de-wishibam/

LinkedIn Company Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wishibam/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wishibam/?hl=fr /

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Wishibam /

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

#CEO #business #businessstrategy #growthstrategy #entreprenuer #entrepreneurship #entreprenuerlife #tech #technology #startups #startupstory #AI #machinelearning #founder #femalefounder

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EP 130: Ashley Crowder, CEO and Co-founder Vntana, USA and Europe Feb 02, 2022

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Episode 130 Ashley Crowder, CEO and Co-founder Vntana, USA and Europe

Ashley Crowder is the Co-Founder and CEO of VNTANA, the world’s first 3D content management system with patented optimization that makes 3D fast and easy to scale for eCommerce. She has worked in the mixed-reality space for over 10 years helping Fortune 1000 brands, including Adidas, Lexus, and AT&T, to launch XR applications to increase sales.

Ashley has 14 patents on mixed reality technology and leverages her engineering background to guide VNTANA’s overall direction and technology development to shape the future of e-commerce.

Allison had an incredible conversation with Ashley, learning how her company’s groundbreaking services are helping businesses move products and make profits online by making it easy to create a 3D version of every product imaginable.

Highlights include:

An explanation of the Metaverse in simple terms.

Why CEOs need to invest in the development of 3D assets as part of their value proposition.

How VNTANA solutions support 3D creation and distribution, including their Smart 3D compression.

Serving as a thought leader in your market space can attract and grow new business.

How the team holds meetings in VR to keep things lively. (Visit www.rec.net or www.vrchat.com)

Finding and sharing support with other female entrepreneurs.

Enjoy the show!

Connect with Ashley:

Website: https://www.vntana.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-crowder-55a9875/

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

#CEO #business #businessstrategy #growthstrategy #entreprenuer #entrepreneurship #entreprenuerlife #tech #technology #startups #startupstory #AI #machinelearning #founder #femalefounder

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EP 129: Grant Blaisdell, CEO Copernic Space and Coinfirm, Poland Jan 26, 2022

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Episode 129 Grant Blaisdell, CEO Copernic Space and Coinfirm, Poland

The space economy is going to touch everyone and there are entrepreneurs other than Bezos and Musk who are making a difference. One of those entrepreneurial pioneers is Grant Blaisdell, CEO of Copernic Space and Coinfirm, based in Poland. Grant knows that we need the democratization of space, and the concept of space democratization developed by his grandfather, one of the first aerospace professors in Poland, inspires him.

Grant is an early innovator in applying blockchain technology to various industries. By applying innovative models and technologies such as blockchain, Copernic Space makes digital space assets such as satellite imagery and or even fractional ownership of a satellite accessible and easy to acquire for millions around the world.

We bring the conversation down to earth with exciting concepts that Grant is bringing to all of us. Highlights of our conversation include:

How his platform can allow the average person and the mass market to become economically involved in space through tokenized payload space.

Space tech is green tech. Applications can provide actionable results for people on earth.

Viewing himself as a creator makes him a better founder and business builder.

The mistakes and failures of prior startups have helped him achieve a profit in his recent ventures.

Enjoy the show!

Connect with Grant:

Website: www.copernicspace.com

Website: www.coinfirm.com

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

#CEO #business #businessstrategy #growthstrategy #entreprenuer #entrepreneurship #entreprenuerlife #tech #technology #startups #startupstory #AI #machinelearning #founder #femalefounder

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EP 128: Eliane Luggasy, CEO & Co-founder Witco, Paris, France Jan 19, 2022

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Episode 128 Eliane Luggasy, CEO & Co-founder Witco, Paris, France

Eliane Lugassy is CEO and co-founder of Witco. The company, based in Paris, offers a customizable web and mobile app enabling interactions between tenants and building managers, real-time data, and analytics to improve building maintenance and management, and user metrics to improve tenant satisfaction. The app is proving to be essential, especially with hybrid work expansion.

Wito clients and partners include multi-tenants, coworking spaces and managed residential buildings such as Amundi, Swiss Life, IPSEN, Guerlain, AXA IM, Covivio, BNP Paribas Real Estate, Union Investments and Unibail URW.

Witco is finalist of the PropTech Europe Awards 2020, winner of the Bouygues Viva Tech Award and has featured on the Wavestone Smart Building Startups since 2019.

In our conversation, Eliane shares her journey from studying business law and working in mergers and acquisitions to entering the entrepreneurial tech space.

Highlights include:

Lessons shared from self-financing to raising $14 million in Series A.

Starting in France, now in Spain, Germany, UK and moving to the U.S.

Company expansion starts with five team members in each country responsible for sales and marketing.

A key to success-hire people with skill sets that are better than yourself.

Continuing with self-improvements-networking, having a coach, and listening to podcasts.

The importance of having a team and running it properly to be successful.

Enjoy the show!

Connect with Eliane:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elianelugassy

Website: www.witco.io

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

#CEO #business #businessstrategy #growthstrategy #entreprenuer #entrepreneurship #entreprenuerlife #tech #technology #startups #startupstory #AI #machinelearning #founder #femalefounder

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EP 127: Dominic von Trotha Taylor, Chairman & CEO, IOV42, United Kingdom & Austria Jan 12, 2022

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Episode 127 Dominic von Trotha Taylor, Chairman & CEO, IOV42, United Kingdom & Austria

Dominic von Trotha Taylor, Chairman and CEO of IVO42, leads a team which is building blockchain-inspired tools to revolutionize public services, including everything from finance to healthcare.

In 2018, the European Commission brought IVO42 in to support the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI).

Dominic’s company is based in the UK with a subsidiary in Austria. During this conversation, Dominic was working in Malta. We discussed applications and trend of blockchain today and business insights including:

The importance of business trust and reducing fraud through use of blockchain.

The value exchange of the Internet and how blockchain supports IP (intellectual property) protection, digital product passports, industrial identity, and verification of workers.

A timber industry case study on how blockchain can support credibility and product traceability.

His four pillars of advice on leading companies for founding CEOs.

His path from years on a navy submarine to leading major tech companies.

The work of IOV42 today and the platform’s ability to provide scalability, sustainability, and flexibility.

Enjoy the show!

Connect with Dominic:

Website: https://iov42.com/

Email: dominic@iov42.com

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

#CEO #business #businessstrategy #growthstrategy #entreprenuer #entrepreneurship #entreprenuerlife #tech #technology #startups #startupstory #AI #machinelearning #founder #femalefounder

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EP 126: Jillian Michaels, International Entrepreneur and World’s Leading Fitness Expert Jan 05, 2022

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Episode 126 Jillian Michaels, International Entrepreneur and World’s Leading Fitness Expert

Welcome to 2022! To kick off the new year, we have a conversation with the remarkable and brilliant entrepreneur Jillian Michaels, as well as provide some tips to set yourself up for success in the new year.

As the world’s leading fitness expert, Jillian Michaels is committed to helping people to be the best versions of themselves and live their happiest and healthiest lives. Jillian has dominated the health and wellness space in every realm of media–apps, podcasting, streaming, television, print, publishing, and social media with a collective community of over 100 million strong. The Fitness App created by Jillian is the top-rated diet and exercise app for women, having won best-of awards from both Google and Apple.

In 2008, Jillian launched her company, Empowered Media, LLC, with her business partner Giancarlo Chersich. Over the past decade, Empowered Media has become a monumental wellness empire dedicated to total-life solutions comprising all aspects of living well, including nutrition, fitness, self-help and overall lifestyle. The company has invested in like-minded companies, including Thrive Market, Lucky Jack Coffee, AQUAHydrate, Flywheel, and Alaya Naturals.

In this episode we discuss:

Jillian’s first big, bold move when she started her company and how she financed it.

The relationship of ‘pivot, adapt and shift’ to long-term relevancy for your business.

The philosophy that how you deliver on your brand promise is EVERYTHING in the success of your business.

That you are the brand, so you need to pay attention to all that you do.

Jillian is an Emmy nominated television talent. Her extensively successful fitness DVDs are the highest grossing, best-selling home workouts in history. She is the author of 8 New York Times best-selling books, and host of the Apple award-winning podcast, Keeping It Real: Conversations with Jillian Michaels.

Enjoy the show!

Connect with Jillian:

Websites: www.jillianmichaels.com, www.fitfusion.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillian-michaels-6795b3165/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jillianmichaels/

Instagram: Instagram: @jillianmichaels @thefitnessapp

Twitter: @JillianMichaels

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/JillianMichaels

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/keeping-it-real-conversations-with-jillian-michaels/id418368811

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

#CEO #business #businessstrategy #growthstrategy #entreprenuer #entrepreneurship #entreprenuerlife #tech #technology #startups #startupstory #AI #machinelearning #founder #femalefounder

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EP 125: Sagi Eliyahu, CEO & Co-founder, Tonkean, Israel Dec 29, 2021

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Episode 125 Sagi Eliyahu, CEO & Co-founder, Tonkean, Israel

Sagi Eliyahu, CEO and co-founder of Tonkean, has created a software that is known as the operating system for business operations. Tonkean AI autonomously coordinates, executes and manages business workflows across data and people, so nothing falls through the cracks.

Tonkean is a platform that allows companies in different industries and sizes to take ownership of how they solve problems in their organization and improve their business processes.

Instead of buying software products that don’t integrate with each other, Tonkean offers a solution that enables teams to build and compose their own customized solutions that is easy to execute and does not require coding.

In our conversation, we discuss:

The importance of recognizing that business processes are about people, not data.

The concept of how the software works as a composable building block.

Sagi’s journey in the software industry from serving in the Israel Defense Force to startups.

Growing with his co-founder, Offir Talmor.

Building a network of mentors and learning from their experiences.

The vision of helping to close digital divides.

Enjoy the show!

Connect with Sagi:

Website: https://tonkean.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tonkean/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliyahusagi/

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

#CEO #business #businessstrategy #growthstrategy #entreprenuer #entrepreneurship #entreprenuerlife #tech #technology #startups #startupstory #AI #machinelearning #founder #femalefounder

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