Welcome to Westgate's Podcast
Get Hired Up! is a podcast for next-level executives and board appointees who are planning to up-level their career or business.
Our guests include thought leaders, CEOs, executive recruiters, industry experts, and other business leaders who generously share their expertise to support your career growth as a next-level leader.
The podcast also serves as a digital media library for our clients and as a public service for individuals seeking career-related insights such as branding, visibility, and strategies for leveraging the hidden job market.
To date our guests include a retired FBI agent and behavioral analyst, a Hollywood stylist, and a ghostwriter writing books for global thought leaders, to name just a few.
When we aren’t accompanied by our gracious guests, we discuss topics related to the hidden job market, succession planning for c-level executives, and the varying components to mastering a career transition.
72. Leadership in M&A: Lessons for Mid-Market PE Leaders
In Episode 72, I'm very pleased to be introducing a series of discussions with Stephen Pitt Walker, founder and CEO of the of Optima Board Services Group. We are launching a series with the topic of merger and acquisitions and the nuances of getting deals done successfully. Stephen is an interdisciplinary business leader and international executive lawyer, certified board director, and former fortune 100 company executive with leadership of global accounts and direct P&L accountability.
71. The path to silence – how the tone of voice can win or lose the deal
In Episode 71, I get to speak with Marshall Davis Jones, a voice expert. Tone can be an elusive ingredient in any communication. Misused or misplaced, it can destroy any sense of connection. Tone is everywhere. It's the snapshot and the snap judgment of a song, a look, or a feel. It's also a snapshot of our voice. In one tenth of a second, our speaking can make an impression.
70. Market positioning for CEOs launching a consulting practice
In episode 70 of the Get Hired Up podcast, I speak with Patrick Allmond, owner of Focus Digital Marketing Agency, a recognized leader in the online marketing industry. Patrick is a Veteran, Professional Keynote Speaker, Pilot, TV Media Personality, Two Decade Entrepreneur. He is also a high content speaker, and a frequent consultant for ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox TV and KSBI TV. His firm builds multimedia content for his clients. If you’re planning to launch an online consultancy, you will find this episode insightful.
69. Lessons learned from a portfolio company CEO
In episode 69 of the Get Hired Up podcast, I have the privilege of interviewing Ryan Smyth, Executive Vice President and CFO with Carbon 60 and Scott Calderwood, President and CEO of Calderwood Search Partners Inc. We discuss lessons learned from CEO portfolio companies, challenges that CEOs face, the resources that they deploy, and the ingenuity and innovation that they use to bring these resources into the organization, especially during the first 90 to 180 days.
68. Women in Private Equity: My Interview with VERTU Capital Founder
In episode 68 of the Get Hired Up Podcast, I get to interview the first woman-founded private equity fund in Canada. Lisa Melchior is the founder and Managing Partner of VERTU Capital, a Toronto-based technology private equity firm targeting high-potential Canadian technology businesses. She has been a private equity investor for more than 25 years and has invested $1.5B in over 25 companies across North America and Europe, with a focus on enterprise software and software-enabled businesses.
67. Amplify your brand with Bob Gentle
In episode 67 of the Get Hired Up podcast, I have the privilege of speaking with Bob Gentle, a coach and consultant who works with leaders at every stage of business to help them step out in front of their marketing with a powerful personal brand. His mission? Helping business leaders around the world discover, set and achieve their goals online and then build a business they love. Bob is the author of the Personal Brand Business Roadmap: Everything you need to start, scale or just fix your expert business.
66. Taking your company public? Why & how with the Toronto Stock Exchange
In episode 66 of the Get Hired Up podcast, I have the privilege of interviewing Delilah Panio and Selma Thaver of the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange. We discussed the benefits of US-based technology companies being listed in Canada, the IPO process and general timelines, common misperceptions of the capital markets and so much more.
Maureen Farmer is featured on The Personal Brand Business Show
Establishing Your Leadership Brand
Release date: July 31st, 2023
Maureen Farmer was featured on the podcast, The Personal Brand Business Show, hosted by Bob Gentle. Maureen introduces the audience to unique assessments that uncover hidden qualities and help leaders articulate their value proposition. She uncovers strategies for becoming more visible as a leader, both within your organization and beyond. So, if you're a CEO, a leader, or an aspiring entrepreneur looking to take your personal brand to the next level, this episode is for you.
65. SEC-ing the future – Regulatory compliance & insider trading
As a global market leader in regulatory compliance solutions, COMPLY combines the power of regulatory technology, services and education to empower chief compliance officers and compliance professionals to easily navigate regulatory landscapes. Amy is the CEO of COMPLY and Bill is a Director of Compliance for the company.
64. Personal branding: Confidence, Joy, and Engagement
Susan Chritton is an executive career coach, certified career counselor, applied positive psychology practitioner, and author of Personal Branding for Dummies. Susan guides professionals looking to engage their authentic self in the world by using her extensive experience and career development, personal branding and positive psychology. She helps people everyday bring various aspects of their lives together, helping them find balance, work towards their goals and have a more satisfying life.
63. Leadership optimization through competitive advantage
Jake Thompson started his company selling T-shirts out of the back of his car behind a gym in 2011. He is passionate about competition and helping people apply a competitive mindset to create the results they want out of life. He knows firsthand how this mindset helps leaders become more resilient, successful and mentally tough to handle everything that life throws at them. Today, he is the Chief Encouragement Officer at Compete Every Day and a performance coach who travels around the country helping people to create a competitive advantage in their careers and lives.
62. Psychological Safety at Work: A psychotherapist’s perspective
Andrea Bonsey is a registered psychotherapist and life and career coach currently living and working in Toronto, Canada. Her deeply held core values include belonging, connection and communication. She looks through a lens that includes curiosity, transparency, kindness and social justice. In her coaching role, she supports career and life exploration for people to prepare and move into new chapters of their life, such as a new work role, self-employment, retirement, parenthood or relocation. And in her individual counseling she supports clients to listen to their voice in order to work toward living a more authentic and fulfilling life.
61. Authentic Brand Building & Executive Presence in a global marketplace
Jacqueline Connolly-Perso is the founder of JMP Branding, LLC. She works with technology professionals to enhance their personal brands so they can advance their professional endeavors. As a master-certified personal branding and digital strategist, image consultant, and speaker, Jackie is one of the very few personal branding experts specializing in communications for professionals in technology sectors. She has designed services to encompass all aspects of professional brand management from planning to messaging to image.
60. Career Decisioning for Leaders
In episode 60 of the Get Hired Up podcast, our host, Maureen Farmer (CEO & Founder of Westgate) joins the podcast as a guest while the producer, Maddie Shears, interviews her on employee turnover versus employee retention. Maureen shares fast tips for individuals looking to leave their current organization as well as companies looking to keep their employees. This episode shares two sides of the coin on career decisioning for leaders. We hope you enjoy the show!
59. Imposter Syndrome: Dispelling the High Performer's Stigma - an interview with SMARTSTART Founder, Linda Lopeke
Linda is a distinguished entrepreneur, author, and recognized leading expert in business development, strategic marketing, and operational management. She helps business owners and experts achieve independence through entrepreneurship by guiding them and creating media-worthy success stories from their business ideas.
58. Trends in Gen Z & Millennial Hires with HR Specialist, Dawn Munroe
April 26th, 2023
Dawn Munroe is an experienced HR professional with in-depth knowledge of professional development, and employee relations. Dawn leads the Human Resources, Research Innovation & Discovery portfolio at NS Health. She supports the operations and collaborates with the leadership team to ensure the Innovation Hub’s vision of health and health care have the resources it requires for ongoing success.
57. Ages & Stages: A Millennial Career Roadmap
April 12th, 2023
Brenna Farmer is an environmental professional in the water resources industry with experience in both operations and compliance. Previously, Brenna served as a business development and sales professional for a water resources organization, where she collaborated with industrial, municipal and corporate clients. Brenna also has a dual role and serves as a business development consultant to Westgate Executive Branding and Career Consulting.
56. VC Investing & The Double Bottom Line: Impact Investing with Chris Haynes
March 29th, 2023
Chris Haynes is a venture capitalist and investor who has backed companies in the medical device, digital health and education sectors based in the United States, India, and Africa. He is currently an investor for TEAMFund, an impact investing organization focused on improving the accessibility, affordability, and quality of care for the world's underserved populations. Before TEAMFund, Chris was on the investment team at Ascension Ventures, a venture capital fund that has invested more than $1 billion on behalf of several of the largest not-for-profit health systems in the United States.
55. The Customer Whisperer & Leading from Behind
March 15th, 2023
John Lingon is a senior commercial leader with nearly three decades of profitable success for $15 million to $30 billion manufacturing, remanufacturing, forward and reverse logistics, distribution, and engineer product companies wanting to grow organically and inorganically.
John has collaborated with customers and partners in industrial, aerospace and defense, medical, water, automotive, oil and gas, white goods, consumer products and e-commerce.
54. The Board Brand: Lawyers on Boards with Jon Olson
March 1st, 2023
Jon Olson joined Blackbaud as Senior Vice President and General Counsel in September 2008. He is responsible for Blackbaud's legal activities, including negotiating transactions, managing corporate governance activities, and legal compliance. Before joining the company, he was an attorney with Alcatel-Lucent.
Jon serves on numerous boards including the Medical University of South Carolina Hollings Cancer Center, and the Charleston Symphony.
53. iPolitics Founder & World Citizen—James Baxter: Father, Coach, Philanthropist
February 15th, 2023
James is an award-winning Canadian Sportswriter, Political Journalist, Bureau Chief and Entrepreneur. He served as a journalist covering international trade, economics, health care, energy and climate change and North American politics.
Recognized among his peers as broadly networked among global governments and news organizations, he is also known as a leader who turns ideas into action.
52. JV’s that serve the customer: a story of leadership, resilience & humanity
February 1st, 2023
Christina Noble serves as Chief Growth Officer for Sonora Quest Laboratories, a life sciences diagnostics company and joint venture between Banner Health and Quest Diagnostics.
An innovative leader, Christina combines financial expertise with a background in direct-to-consumer ambulatory operations, marketing and commercialization, merger and acquisition integration, and a deep understanding of digital technology and information systems (including e-commerce).
51. ESG, the curricular economy (& greenwashing) – my talk with energy economist Dr. Melvin Cross
January 18th, 2023
Dr. Melvin Cross earned a BA (Honors) from the University of Montana, an MA from Simon Fraser University, and a PhD from Texas A&M University.
He holds a US and Canadian citizenship. Mel has teaching and research interest in history of economic thought, natural resource economics and environmental economics.
50. Master Dealmaking: Private Equity Investment Criteria, Due Diligence, & Operations
January 4th, 2023
David Acharya is the managing partner of ACP, where he oversees all aspects of the firm's investing, management, and strategic activities. He brings 25 years of investing and transaction experience to ACP. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and is recognized by his peers for his expertise in private equity, capital markets, and portfolio value creation.
49. Industry changes for CEOs: Insights for success
December 21st, 2022
Industry changes can be one of the most challenging career transitions because they take you out of your networks and away from your centers of influence. In episode 49 of the Get Hired Up podcast, Maddie Shears and I, our podcast producer, discuss strategies for changing industries and some of the reasons CEOs get frustrated with the length of time it takes for such a transition. We also discuss proven tactics for landing a role in a new industry.
48. The Turn-Arounder: Revenue strategies in market slumps
December 7th, 2022
Brendan St. Jacques is an award-winning and entrepreneurial focused sales leader. His bench strength is driving commercial growth while unleashing human capital potential. Brendan is also an expert at turning sales around and consistently exceeding revenue targets by 25% to 50%. He is also known for serving clients with honesty, transparency and commitment. Brendan is a repeated invited guest speaker for industry events with audiences up to 650 people.
47. Frictionless people & product integrations post-merger for PE portfolio companies
November 23rd, 2022
A resilient leader with a proven track record for reducing costs and maximizing revenues, Pallavi leads her teams to drive the flawless and on-time execution of products that delight Fortune 500 customers, thrill employees, and keep investors happy. She serves as a trusted C-Level partner while spearheading tricky post-merger integrations. She has mastered migrating legacy technology applications to modern, cloud-first architectures.
46. Advanced networking for next-level investors & CEOs with Denise Logan
November 9th, 2022
Denise Logan carries two decades of research and thought leadership on the subjects of work, money and meaning, and how executives navigate the waters of transition and reclaim their sense of identity outside of their business. She is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today best selling author of the book The Seller's Journey.
45. The resilience habit: Build your brand & stand out
October 26th, 2022
Beth Benatti Kennedy is principal of Benatti Training and Development and is a leadership and career coach, resiliency training expert, and speaker. Her Benatti resiliency model has helped thousands of people develop the resilience to adapt to changing career circumstances, remain productive and engaged, and find greater life and career satisfaction.
If you're a business leader, CEO or divisional leader of an organization, you'll enjoy listening to our conversation. She provides tools you can use immediately to counteract the growing problem of burnout.
44. Advancing sustainable technologies for customers with rare earths manufacturing
October 12th, 2022
Kevin Morris serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the publicly traded Neo Performance Materials Inc. One of the world's leading rare earths and rare metals companies.
Described as an industry leader and effective negotiator and problem solver, Kevin is accountable for 1800 employees and 10 production facilities across the world.
With a honed product development expertise, Kevin is skilled at assessing and responding to unique challenges that produce strong, profitable, and sustainable relationships with fortune 500 brands.
43. Data Stewardship & the Humanity of AI
September 28th, 2022
Stefan Lorimer is recognized among his professional community as an entrepreneurial business growth and turnaround expert, and senior product leader with more than 10 years of experience in product management and development roles—leveraging data and analytics programs to grow market share and increase revenues.
One of Stefan's hallmark skills is scaling and integrating analytics software teams to support global business processes.
In the episode, we discuss Data Scientists and what they do, the ethics of artificial intelligence, product integration post-merger, and a simplified explanation of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science.
Maureen Farmer is featured on the Forged by Trust podcast
Forging Trust in the Boardroom
Release date: June 27th, 2022
Maureen Farmer was featured on the podcast, Forged by Trust with Host, Robin Dreeke. Maureen Farmer shares how she strategizes success with the “C-Suite” by demonstrating focused curiosity, using highly developed observation skills and helping them discover their brilliance.
Robin Dreeke is the former Head of the FBI Behavioral Analysis Program and has studied interpersonal relations and behavior for over three decades.
He is the founder and CEO of People Formula LLC, a company that offers advanced training in personal skills and rapport building. He is a keynote speaker and conducts workshops and seminars for the government, military, and private sector- organizations.
42. Trends in Corporate Compensation - Career Mastery for Senior Leaders
August 31st, 2022
We reviewed and analyzed more than 280 executive CEO and board-level client profiles from large corporations, private equity firms, as well as family offices as they navigate promotions, board appointments, transitions, and start new businesses. We uncover the most pressing questions CEOs have today. These questions are aggregated to protect the confidentiality of our clients.
In this episode, we will be discussing the different delineations of compensation models, creative trending compensation strategies, negotiating compensation with confidence, myth busters in compensation, and much more.
41. The twins of anarchy (resignation & termination) – Career Mastery Series for Senior Leaders
August 17th, 2022
We reviewed and analyzed more than 280 executive CEO and board-level client profiles from large corporations, private equity firms, as well as family offices as they navigate promotions, board appointments, transitions, and start new businesses. We uncover the most pressing questions CEOs have today. These questions are aggregated to protect the confidentiality of our clients.
In this episode, we will be discussing how to navigate and resolve perceived conflict at the executive level.
40. Career Mastery Series for the Perplexed: Westgate's Job Interview Model
August 3rd, 2022
We reviewed and analyzed more than 280 executive CEO and board-level client profiles from large corporations, private equity firms, as well as family offices as they navigate promotions, board appointments, transitions, and start new businesses. We uncover the most pressing questions CEOs have today. These questions are aggregated to protect the confidentiality of our clients.
In this episode, we will be discussing the Westgate job interview model, whether it's for media, a job opportunity, or a board role. This easy-to-follow model works in almost any scenario and our clients love it.
39. Career Mastery Series for Senior Leaders: Independent Board Director Roles
July 20th, 2022
We reviewed and analyzed more than 280 executive CEO and board-level client profiles from large corporations, private equity firms, as well as family offices as they navigate promotions, board appointments, transitions, and start new businesses. We uncover the most pressing questions CEOs have today. These questions are aggregated to protect the confidentiality of our clients.
In this episode, we will be discussing all things related to landing board opportunities.
38. Career Mastery Series for Senior Leaders: CEO Interview Q&As
July 7th, 2022
We reviewed and analyzed more than 280 executive CEO and board-level client profiles from large corporations, private equity firms, as well as family offices as they navigate promotions, board appointments, transitions, and start new businesses. We uncover the most pressing questions CEOs have today. These questions are aggregated to protect the confidentiality of our clients.
In this episode, we will be discussing all things related to executive interviews.
37. Eyes Wide Open: AI Frameworks, Ethics & Decision-Making with Global Board Advisor, Stephen Pitt-Walker
June 22nd, 2022
Stephen Pitt-Walker is a strategic advisor, lawyer, general counsel, international executive, and board advisor. He is a passionate advocate for social entrepreneurship and constructive, sustainable, and ethical, business practices, as well as stakeholder equity and ‘good’ corporate governance.
36. A unique B Corp investment bank: My chat with Co-Founder William Vogelgesang
June 8th, 2022
William Vogelgesang is co-founder of EPOCH Pi, an investment banking company serving purpose-based impact companies. Businesses that exist to provide financial as well as social returns while endeavoring to create value for all stakeholders.
He has experience in a broad array of businesses including areas of capital formation and realization. He also serves on a number of corporate and non-profit boards.
35. How AI & human analytics are reshaping org. performance
May 25th, 2022
Tim Brennan is the Co-Founder and Chief Visionary Officer at Fit First Technologies, with a 25+ year career in business, management and human resources.
His company helps small and large companies with their Job Fit model and advanced hiring tools that incorporate behavioural research, AI and human analytics.
34. The CEO 90-Day Plan for corporate leaders & aspiring CEOs
May 11th, 2022
In our first episode recorded together, Maddison (our Digital Marketing Manager) and I discuss the CEO 90-day plan, downloaded thousands of times by executives from Disney, Adidas, Tesla, NBC Universal, American Express and others. This simple but powerful tool has paved the way for a safe exit strategy, a CEO job interview pitch and the first 90 days in the new role. I hope you enjoy our conversation!
33. Use AI to improve your pitch & bridge the gap b/t emotional & social intelligence
April 27th, 2022
Maithilee Samant, Founder, and CEO of mirro.ai, is an Entrepreneur with a passion for creating better human connections.
She created mirro.ai—an AI communication coach product to help individuals, job seekers, and entrepreneurs improve their communication skills in a private and judgment-free environment.
32. Flawless post-merger integrations with Pallavi
April 11th, 2022
A resilient leader with a proven track record for reducing costs and maximizing revenues, Pallavi leads her teams to drive the flawless and on-time execution of products that delight Fortune 500 customers, thrill employees, and keep investors happy. She serves as a trusted C-Level partner while spearheading tricky post-merger integrations. She has mastered migrating legacy technology applications to modern, cloud-first architectures.
31. Fortune 500 Companies deny payment for global DEI speaker
March 30th, 2022
Dr. Afua Cooper is a multidisciplinary scholar and artist. Her global contribution to society includes the literary arts, history, humanities, education, and human and civil rights. She helps boards of directors set long-term strategies to become anti-racist organizations.
30. Fortune 500 Boards, M&A, & Succession Planning: A Portfolio Career
March 16th, 2022
Laurie Barkman has over 13 years of Corporate and Not-For-Profit Board Director experience with exposure to governance in controlling shareholder environments. Laurie is the Founder/CEO of SmallDotBig advising privately held companies on pre-M&A value creation and exit planning, and a Partner with Stony Hill Advisors, an M&A firm specializing in the lower middle market.
29. Iconic retail and consumer brands with PE Leader, Mentor, & M&A Expert, Henry Nasella, LNK Partners
March 2nd, 2022
Henry co-founded LNK in 2005 and has over 25 years of operating experience and 21 years of private equity experience in the consumer and retail sector. Henry is currently non-executive Chairman of PVH and serves on the Board of Directors of Schweiger Dermatology and Northeastern University.
28. Get Ready for Boards & B Corps with Jonathan Bennett
February 16th, 2022
Jonathan Bennett, C.Dir., provides sought-after leadership coaching and strategic counsel to CEOs, executive teams, politicians, and boards of directors across Canada. With experience in urban, rural, remote, and First Nations communities, Jonathan’s expertise is in social purpose business strategy, governance, branding, change, and communications.
27. The Globalization of Talent & Your Career: My Chat with Roger Duguay, Boyden’s Global Practice Leader
February 2nd, 2022
Roger T. Duguay is a Managing Partner of Boyden Canada and Founder of Boyden’s Montréal office, where he leads Quebec operations. As the appointed Leader of Boyden’s Global CEO & Board Services Practice, Roger is working to redefine the firm’s approach on a global scale as it continues to connect clients with leaders who can deliver in an era of disruption.
Over the course of his career in executive search, Roger has been involved in over 100 CEO and Board placements.
26. Family Office Governance with Ultra High Net Worth Institute Board Member, Russ Haworth
January 19th, 2022
Russ is a UK based family business adviser and has been working with families in business for 15 years.
As well as providing dedicated consultancy support to families in business, Russ is also the host of the widely acclaimed Family Business Podcast which has a global audience and is supported by the Institute for Family Business.
25. Tackling racism in the workplace—for organizations committed to improving racial and ethnic justice
January 5th, 2022
Dr. Afua Cooper is a multidisciplinary scholar and artist. Her global contribution to society includes the literary arts, history, humanities, education, and human and civil rights. She helps boards of directors set long-term strategies to become anti-racist organizations.
24. AI, social robots, and the global pandemic—closing the digital divide, while reducing social isolation in the elderly population, with entrepreneur and inventor, Lee St. James
December 8th, 2021
Lee St. James is the founder and President of Social Robots, a technology start-up that is exploring how robots can engage, entertain, and educate residents, family members and staff at retirement homes and long-term care facilities.
23. Difficult CEO & Board Conversations: A proven strategy with Liza Provenzano
November 24th, 2021
Liza Provenzano is Founder and Principal Consultant of SparkHR, a human resources and leadership development firm that focuses on helping businesses to become more successful through the performance of aligned, capable and engaged teams.
22. The ineffectiveness of board leadership in managing director performance with Beverly Behan
November 10th, 2021
Beverly Behan has had the privilege of working with boards of directors of the S&P 1500 and listed companies around the globe for the last 25 years. To date, she's worked with nearly 200 boards, ranging from recent IPOs to the fortune 500s from New York and Toronto to Bogota, Kuala Lumpur and Tel Aviv. Her clients are typically boards that want to get to the top of their game and stay there.
21. How CEO, Garry Ridge, Achieved 94%+ Employee Engagement Score at WD-40 Company
October 26th, 2021
Garry Ridge is Chairman of the Board and CEO of the WD-40 Company headquartered in San Diego, California. Garry has been with WD-40 Company since 1987 in various management positions, including executive vice president and chief operating officer and vice president of international. He has worked directly with WD-40 in 50 countries.
20. Handwriting Analyst | Teresa Abram
October 12th, 2021
Teresa Abram is a handwriting analyst and the owner of Handwriting P.I.—a full-service handwriting analysis company that helps business with their hiring process by performing risk assessments, security checks, and personality profiles to streamline their process and make the right hiring decisions.
18. Data Wizard and Chief Churn Crusher | Anita Toth
September 15th, 2021
Anita helps her clients gain valuable access to previously hidden data, reducing the risk of making expensive wrong decisions, while also increasing profits. She specializes in B2B SaaS companies and has taken her 20 years of academic research experience to create The Churn Crusher System.
17. Private equity & alternative investments with David Piho of Gorelick Brothers Capital
September 1st, 2021
David Piho serves as Senior Vice President and is part of the investment team of Gorelick Brothers Capital, a private equity company in Charlotte, North Carolina, whose mandates range from capital preservation to opportunistic growth.
16. Imposter Syndrome: Dispelling the High Performer's Stigma - an interview with SMARTSTART Founder, Linda Lopeke
August 17th, 2021
Linda is a distinguished entrepreneur, author, and recognized leading expert in business development, strategic marketing, and operational management. She helps business owners and experts achieve independence through entrepreneurship by guiding them and creating media-worthy success stories from their business ideas.
15. A Harvard YPO CEO's Response to Changes in the Global Energy Market During COVID-19
August 4th, 2021
Andres is a global citizen having grown an energy company from a lean start-up to a global leader of power generation solutions with power projects in more than 33 countries, including Latin America, Africa, and Asia. His selected customers include shell Caterpillar, Petrobras, Eco Petrol, Pemex, and others. He is also an active member of Harvard’s prestigious YPO Program (Young Presidents Organization).
14. Franchise Ownership | A Scalable Investment with Wayne Mann
July 21st, 2021
Wayne has invested 25 years of his career with Canada's number-one franchise, Canadian Tire Corporation. For seven of those years, he was headquartered in Calgary, visiting and supporting the franchises in Western Canada.
He's also had the good fortune of meeting and working with AJ Billes, one of the two founding fathers of the iconic Canadian brand.
13. Avoiding the wrong hire | CEO of Britton Management Profiles Inc.
July 7th, 2021
Marty is the President and CEO of Britton Management Profiles Inc.
Her company partners with other companies to deliver pre-employment verification services to help diminish the hiring of misrepresented and fraudulent candidates.
12. Introducing our second Mystery Guest
June 23rd, 2021
He is a sales leader and technology executive with global experience.
We discuss the challenges he overcame having had no Canadian experience, relocating and adjusting to the North American market, and then navigating the hidden job market to land his next opportunity.
13. Introducing Denise Logan
June 9th, 2021
Denise Logan carries two decades of research and thought leadership on the subjects of work, money and meaning, and how executives navigate the waters of transition and reclaim their sense of identity outside of their business. She is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today best selling author of the book The Seller's Journey.
10. Introducing Tommy Breedlove
May 26th, 2021
Tommy is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today best selling author of the book Legendary. He is a business relationship and mindset coach, who is a regular feature keynote speaker at global events.
9. Introducing Amy Bradbury
May 12th, 2021
Amy is an employment lawyer and partner with Wickwire Holm.
She has experience in all areas of labour and employment law. That said, she focuses primarily on Workers' Compensation, Labour Relations, Pension and Benefits and Judicial Review.
Amy provides HR advice and assists clients with drafting workplace policies and in collective bargaining.
8. Introducing our Mystery Guest
April 28th, 2021
He is a CPA, CFO for hire, national retail executive, and entrepreneur.
He has had a dynamic career and experienced a massive transition from corporate executive to successful entrepreneur.
7. Introducing Morris Stemp
April 14th, 2021
Morris Stemp is a finance, operations and technology executive who assists growing companies (construction, healthcare, tech and SaaS) as an interim and fractional CFO and COO.
He is a customer-focused leader with experience across finance, operations and technology functions. He is an Excel expert, an ICF certified coach, and delivers sustainable outcomes with no ho-hum solutions.
Introducing Dr. Zlatko Pozeg
March 31st, 2021
Dr. Zlatko Pozeg is a world-renowned cardiovascular surgeon currently practicing in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada.
He has an interest in patients with connective disease whom have a proclivity towards aortic disease, such as Marfan’s Syndrome. He also has a great interest in the endovascular management of all aortic disease from the aortic root to the aortic bifurcation, particularly aortic dissection, and believes in the future of total endovascular aortic reconstruction.
5. Introducing Brendan St. Jacques
March 17th, 2021
Brendan is a global sales leader in the sports and hospitality industry.
He is a networking virtuoso and successful leader who advocates for both teamwork and healthy competition—in sports and the workplace.
4. Introducing Chaz Thorne
March 3rd, 2021
Chaz Thorne is a master business strategist, best-selling author, and award-winning film maker.
Leveraging his successes in the business of entertainment and the arts, Chaz shifted toward aggrotech entrepreneurialism later earning his Executive MBA from Northwestern University (CANADA) and pursuing a full shift to business strategy services.
Chaz now owns 3 successful businesses working with business leaders as a strategic advisor and executive coach specializing in competitive strategy, facilitation, and strategic planning.
3. Introducing Laura Elliott
February 17th, 2021
Laura Elliott has written for LA Times, LA Parent, World Travel Magazine, Yachting Lifestyle 365, and others.
She writes books for global thought leaders all over the world and specializes in memoirs, biographies, business, and self-help books. Some of her clients include Windstar Cruises, Alpha Men Asia, and Marriott Vacation Club.
Along with writing, she presents at conferences, delivers keynotes, and facilitates workshops. Her focus is on leadership through authenticity.
2. Introducing Robin Dreeke
February 3rd, 2021
Robin is the former Head of the FBI Behavioral Analysis Program and has studied interpersonal relations and behavior for over three decades.
He is the founder and CEO of People Formula LLC, a company that offers advanced training in personal skills and rapport building. He is a keynote speaker and conducts workshops and seminars for the government, military, and private sector- organizations.
1. Introducing Mary Beth Ramsey
January 20th, 2021
Mary Beth grew up in a creative family and started sewing when she was only 5 years old.
Hollywood has been hiring Mary Beth to dress their actors for the camera since 1996. She has worked on many TV shows and movies including the hit TV shows Modern Family, Beverly Hills 90210, Heroes, and Bones; and the movies Can’t Hardly Wait, Training Day, and Just Like Heaven...