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Patrick Ungashick – CEO, NAVIX Consultants Jul 22, 2020

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You know what they say, ‘Begin with the end in mind’ and that’s how you need to approach building your business. In this episode of Disruptive CEO Nation, we speak with Patrick Ungashick, author of Dance in the End Zone: The Business Owner’s Exit Planning Playbook, and the award-winning A Tale of Two Owners: Achieving Exit Success Between Business Co-Owners. Patrick works with company founders and business owners to prepare for and achieve happy and successful exits.

As a business owner himself, he founded and leads two separate companies. As a speaker, Patrick typically addresses more than 50 groups per year, sharing exit advice and solutions to owners of privately-held companies from several million to over a billion in revenue. Additionally, he has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Financial Week. During his nearly 30 years’ career, Patrick has helped hundreds of business owners achieve exit success.

Outside of work, even though he cannot juggle nor play a musical instrument, Patrick is a proud member of the Atlanta Distinguished Clown Corps, a group of full-time business leaders and part-time clowns that raise money and lift smiles at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, the largest pediatric hospital in the U.S. Patrick is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He is a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball and the University of Georgia football teams. Patrick has three boys, and lives with his wife Maggie in the Atlanta area.

For more information, visit www.patrickungashick.com. To connect with Patrick, visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickungashick/

#Business #founder #CEO #Entrepreneur #business #owner #company #exitstrategy #NAVIXconsultants

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Sumaira Isaacs - CEO Global Tourism Forum (Brand of World Tourism Forum) & Serial Entrepreneur Jul 08, 2020

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Sumaira K. Isaacs is a woman who knows the world and a woman the world should know. When we booked her, our intent to was to explore the close correlation between a country’s open borders and lively tourism to the opportunity for entrepreneurs to achieve business success, but we just happened to schedule this call amid the global COVID-19 pandemic and ended up with a rich conversation about what happens to business when borders close and events cancel.

The movement of people is critical to success of business and unless business tourism returns, can there be a full economic recovery? Afterall, one in ten people in the world work in a role that is part of the hospitality and tourism industry. And with the potential for 75 million hospitality jobs to be lost worldwide and forecasts of half the global airlines closing down, what does the post-COVID-19 global scenario look like?

Originally from Pakistan, with a long base of business in Dubai, and now residing in Canada, Sumaira is an International tourism industry veteran with over 25 years’ experience establishing companies, growing international brands, strategizing mergers and acquisitions, and serving as an expert consultant and advisor. She has worked with companies, tourist boards, associations (serving on several industry boards) and local governments in Africa, Middle East, India, Europe, and North America. Now through the platform of Global Tourism Forum (WoTF Brand) Sumaira is making a difference alleviating poverty and creating jobs by creating a tourism legacy in the developing countries.

Connect with Sumaira on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumaira-isaacs/ and visit https://www.globaltourismforum.org/. You can also find her on Twitter as @Sumairaki.

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Anna-Mieke Anderson - Founder, CEO of MiaDonna Jun 24, 2020

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We invite you to spend time with Anna-Mieke Anderson, a B Corp founder and CEO of MiaDonna & Company and The Greener Diamond (www.miadonna.com). Named by Entreprenuer Magazine as one of their 100 Powerful Women in 2019, we thoroughly enjoyed discussing how the passions that inspire the birth of a business still require sound strategies to keep that mission alive.

Based in Portland, OR, USA, Anna-Mieke is globally recognized as the pioneer of the lab-grown diamond (LGD) industry. After learning the conflict origin of her own earth-mined diamond in 2005, Anna-Mieke challenged the notion that gemstones, particularly diamonds, could only come from a place of unnecessary hardship. In 2007, she launched MiaDonna and pushed the quality of lab-grown diamonds to the highest levels. Today, ten percent of net profits are given to their non-profit foundation, The Greener Diamond, which helps free women and children oppressed by the active conflict diamond mining industry.

Anna-Meike is a dedicated mother of 2, an avid philanthropist and successful entrepreneur, who is internationally recognized as a humanitarian and activist who works tirelessly to inspire other young women to follow their entrepreneurial spirit. Connect with Anna-Meike via LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/annamieke

You can also find her via Facebook

- https://www.facebook.com/annamiekeanderson/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/annamiekeanderson/ and Twitter @MiaDonna_CEO

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Ron Carucci - Co-Founder of Navalent Jun 10, 2020

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Ron Carucci is a voice of wisdom for founders whether they are seeking Series A Funding or managing a mature business. In this episode of Disruptive CEO Nation, we explore topics such as founderism, strategy, growth and the insights into how 15% of your efforts can be the secrete sauce to success if you lift your head and lead the way you should. Ron also shares how investors are evaluating your business to spot a winning team, a winning leader, and a winning idea and challenges business leaders to understand their differentiators and firmly know why you have a right to win business.

As co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, Ron has been working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. From start-ups to Fortune 10's, turn-arounds to new markets and strategies, overhauling leadership and culture to re-designing for growth, he has worked in more than 25 countries on 4 continents. In addition to being a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and Forbes, and has been featured in Fortune, CEO Magazine, Business Insider, MSNBC, Inc, Business Week, Smart Business, and thought leaders.

You can connect with Ron at www.navalent.com or via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/roncarucci/.

Honestly, he is one of the smartest cookies we have met his year.

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Julian Fisher - Founder & CEO of jisp May 27, 2020

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Julian Fisher is the founder and CEO of jisp, a lifestyle app that digitizes products and experiences to bring the best of online into physical spaces offering digital baskets, gamification, and the ability to tap product labels and have instant information. In this episode Julian shares insight into his entrepreneurial journey, growing companies, and product development in the digital space.

What we appreciate about Julian (aside from the smile in his voice) is the rich history (and frankly love story) he has with technology which is rooted in his launching the UK’s first internet exhibition in 1994. Since then his work has remained inexorably linked to technology, improving sales and payments, and tackling compliance issues for a wide group of blue-chip companies. Today, the jisp solution serves many of the UK’s biggest and well-known stores such as JD Sports, H&M, Topman, Whittard of Chelsea, Crew Clothing and Yankee Candle.

You can connect to Julian through www.jisp.com or on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/julian-fisher-901270. Or follow in social media @jispapp

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Farah Asemi – Founder of ecofleet May 13, 2020

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Join us as we head to the UK to discuss socially conscious business with Farah Asemi, founder of ecofleet, a sustainable mindful B to C logistics service using carbon-neutral electric cargo bikes and vehicles. In this episode we transverse topics of product development, white label service, warehousing in a city like London and management of a unique workforce. Currently, ecofleet riders do 12,000 laps of the world every year. But what we love oh so much is the branding – it is worth checking out.

We also cover the question of why enter the #greenbusiness space and Farah shares if the trigger moment when she knew there needed to be a call for change. When we caught up with Farah she was entering her first round of fundraising after starting the company with personal seed money and a government grant. We also cover the unique process to hire riders that will fulfill the mission in rain or shine – ok, this is London – so in rain or rain.

Prior to ‘cycling into action’, Farah had a successful career within property development and real estate. She trained as an interior architect at the Mount Vernon School of Design in Washington DC. And then specialized in the renovation of London apartments. Farah’s desire to improve living conditions continued with her focus turning to our environment, a cause which Farah has been passionate about all her life.

Connect with Farah on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/farah-asemi-973a50193/ and visit Instagram at theecofleet.

#Startup #entrepreneur #green #London #sustainablebusiness #femalefounder #CEO #Founder #UKbusiness

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Will Bachman – Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Umbrex Apr 29, 2020

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Will Bachman is a brilliant mind at work connecting other brilliant minds to business today. As co-founder and Managing Partner of www.Umbrex.com he has brought together a global, collaborative community connecting 800 top tier independent management consultants across fifty countries. He is also the host of How to Thrive as an Independent Professional, which has over 270 published episodes. If you want to know how to set up a successful solopreneur practice in a gig economy, this is the man to know.

In this episode of Disruptive CEO Nation, we touch on the principles Will has employed to grow this impressive ecosystem of independent professionals that anyone can use to grow business in your market niche as well. We discuss the value of content creation as a door opener to more meaningful client relationships and how providing your client community a platform to engage and connect will extend the value of your brand.

But we also love that Will is simply an interesting CEO. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Business School but from 1992 to 2000, he served in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear-trained submarine officer, making major deployments in support of national security and receiving three Navy Achievement Medals. Post military he moved on to McKinsey and then launched UMBREX.

You are invited to listen to Unleashed – How to Thrive as an Independent Professional https://www.umbrex.com/unleashed-podcast/.

Will is also happy to accept LinkedIn connection requests from listeners of Disruptive CEO Nation: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willbachman/

#business #consultants #CEO #founder #podcast #businesssolutions #McKinsey #consulting #gigeconomy #professionals

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Nikolaus Kimla – Pipeliner CRM and Salespop Apr 15, 2020

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Nikolaus Kimla – Pipeliner CRM and Salespop

Nikolaus Kimla is a business Rockstar, innovator and influencer that you should know. Crossing from Austria to California, Nikolaus has created six businesses in the tech space and in this episode of Disruptive CEO Nation, he shares insights into what it took to conceive and launch his latest endeavor, serving as the founder and CEO for Pipeliner CRM.

As an expert in process efficiencies, digital workflows and CRM, Nikolaus has designed a solutions platform to enable sales teams to navigate complex sales processes in the B to B space and beyond. He shares views on tech design and how better adoption rates are achieved with a deep knowledge of the user perspective. Also the founder of Salespop, Nikolaus shares insight into how to leverage content creation for community building as Salespop articles can have tens of thousands of views and professionals the world over visit the platform’s educational portal: https://salespop.net/sales-management/.

Nikolaus is the kind of entrepreneur we love as he is driven by creating companies that serve people. He has published three books in both German and English on the subjects of salespeople, the IT revolution, and on economic principles and their application and speaks on these topics regularly. His organization also partners with institutions like DePaul University. Find out more at www.pipelinersales.com and connect with Niklaus at https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikolauskimla/ and on Twitter @kimlanikolaus.

#sales #salespeople #salesgoals #CRM #business #tech #founder #CEO #leadership #entrepreneur #DisruptiveCEONation #Startup #Salespop #Pipeliner #Californiabusiness

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Dr. Ben Schmidt – RoadBotics Apr 01, 2020

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How can artificial intelligence help strengthen roads and infrastructure? On this episode of Disruptive CEO Nation, RoadBotics co-founder and President, Dr. Ben Schmidt shares his unlikely journey to revolutionize the way local governments assess and maintain their roads.

RoadBotics was spun out of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) Robotics Institute in 2016 and has raised $11.4M in venture capital investment to date. Ben shares insights into how the company developed including his theory about ‘brain trusts’, raising capital, protecting intellectual property, and working with governments. He also shares how machine learning from companies like Roadbotics can help government make better data driven decisions.

Ben studied bioengineering in college and received his PhD in that same field, but halfway through his PhD program, he realized that academia was not for him. He completed his dissertation, earned his title, but he wanted to do more. Instead, he took that knowledge decided to start a company. To learn more visit www.roadbotics.com or connect with Ben at https://www.linkedin.com/in/schmidtbt/ or on Twitter @RoadBoticsNA.

#roads #AI #machinelearning #roadconstruction #CarnegieMellon #Founder #CEO #Startup #entrepreneur #govtech #publicworks #civictech

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Dr. Tiffany Jana – Founder of TMI Consulting Mar 18, 2020

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In the future of work, culture will drive everything, and Dr Tiffany Jana will be there advising clients on how to optimize their workplace and community environments to benefit customers, stakeholders and staff. A lifelong diversity and inclusion expert, Dr. Jana is a proven business builder, highly sought-after speaker and prolific author whose latest book, Subtle Acts of Exclusion, is now available. We also will say she is one of the biggest bundles of energy we have ever met!

In this episode of Disruptive CEO Nation, Dr. Jana shares how she founded and built www.tmiconsultinginc.com. She is an expert on ‘interpersonal competencies’ and touches on the process to identify engagement gaps, human equity gaps and systems gaps. She discusses problems in the workplace, such as microagressions, that can kill teams. Dr Jana also insights into how she became an author and why being an author is good for your business.

Dr. Jana is the Founder of TMI Consulting and has helped orchestrate the firm’s tremendous growth over the past 17 years. This includes establishing a national network of consultants and spearheading the company’s transition into the world’s first Certified Benefit Corporation with a diversity and engagement focus. Dr. Jana has positioned TMI Consulting as the global leader in social enterprise, values-based engagement. As TMI's leader, Dr. Jana oversees the development of the firm's strategy, client relationships, and team. Dr. Jana also serves as a strategic advisor on client engagements, and has deep expertise in diversity and inclusion, marketing, leadership, and stakeholder engagement.

To connect with Dr, Jana visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanyjana/.

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