Business: Transformed

Logan Mallory is the VP of Marketing at Motivosity, a Utah startup focused on making employee recognition easier and better. Logan's approach as a leader is a perfect fit with what his company is trying to accomplish. Check out this episode to hear about Logan's energetic approach to leadership, about being proactive to manage into hard times before they happen, and for some insightful discussion about leadership principles like flexibility vs. discipline and formality vs. informality. 

David Porter has held senior leadership positions at Cummins, the global engine manufacturer, and Vivint, the smart home equipment company. This episode centers around concepts of how to show consistency when leading change (harder than it sounds), and where you should spend your limited time as a leader in getting into details that will create lasting change. David's practical leadership principles are accessible and highly relevant. You'll want to make sure you catch this episode. 

Paul Sheets is SVP of the CoreXM & BrandXM product lines at Qualtrics. In this episode, Paul shares his thoughts on the core thinking at the foundation of growth and transformation, including some fascinating thoughts on the differences in the work and planning behind incremental change and transformation. He also contrasts the ways two very different organizations he's worked at manage innovation and change. This is a highly valuable conversation that you won't want to miss. Dial it in! 

Tyler Bryson is Corporate Vice President of Global Partner Solutions, US at Microsoft. This means he leads the relationships with the partners in the United States who are involved in the delivery of 95% of Microsoft's B2B business. In this role, Tyler is leading change on two fronts - with Microsoft's partner organizations in an effort to bring them along with Microsoft's changing business, and internally within Microsoft itself. In this episode, Tyler shares insights about empathy and proper alignment, leading change with government leaders in developing nations (he did this in a past role), and the critical task of aligning your own company's targets with the business outcomes desired by your customer. This is an episode you won't want to miss. 

Brian Timmeny is the Chief Technology Officer of Zions Bancorporation, a large regional bank with business concerns stretching from Texas to California. In this discussion, Brian shares his philosophy for driving digital transformation while not breaking the things that have already made the business successful, how working iteratively can help technical and business teams align better, and how to keep a focus on the customer in the efforts business and IT undertake together. Whether you're a leader in a function outside of IT who wants to understand how to partner with technology, or a technology-focused leader who wants to make a bigger business impact, you won't want to miss this episode.  

Nathan Anderson is the Chief Operating Officer at Mountain America Credit Union, one of the fastest-growing credit unions in America. In this episode, Nathan shares his thoughts about leading with integrity, focusing on people (both employees and customers), and some of the tactical ways in which he has helped this credit union achieve the massive success it is seeing while other credit unions are shrinking rather than growing. This is an episode you won't want to miss. 

Jeff Dyer is one of the world's foremost researchers on innovation. He collaborated with Clayton Christensen, whose pioneering work on disruptive innovation changed the way the world thinks about competition between innovative businesses. Jeff's research answers questions like What makes a person innovative?Can I become more innovative? How can I know if my innovative idea is worth pursuing?How do I persuade others to follow me as I innovate as a leader? Jeff has good news in answering each of these questions. Thanks to his work, we know where innovation comes from, how we can each be more innovative, and how to manage the process of innovation with those around us. Don't miss this episode. 

Bryce Winkelman helped grow Qualtrics from a 10-person company headquartered in its founder's basement to an $8B acquisition and, subsequently, a successful IPO. Bryce shares some fantastic wisdom about leading innovation, making sure you're getting a full contribution from empowered team members, and simultaneously planning for high achievement while allowing flexibility to pivot. This is a high-value conversation you won't want to miss. 

Jesse Ronnow is SVP, Director of Digital Marketing for Zions Bancorporation, the company behind a handful of recognizable bank brands in the Western United States. On this episode, Jesse talks about his gigantic mandate to unify digital marketing across these brands, how leading change inside a conservative organization like a bank can be both fulfilling and frustrating, and shares some fantastic insights for making it work. You'll want to make sure you listen to this conversation. 

Dan Lawyer is the SVP of Product at Lucid Software, makers of Lucidchart. In this episode, Dan shares his perspective on change as a leader whose job is to bring about positive change 365 days a year. The insights he shares include how to overcome the fear of driving change, bust through obstacles, and do it all with kindness and sincere regard for everyone else. Dan speaks with his signature humor and sincerity. This is an episode you don't want to miss. 

In this episode, we continue our conversation with Gary Crittenden, who shares experiences from his time as CFO of American Express, Citigroup, Melville Corporation (the then-parent company of CVS), and others. Gary shares his thoughts on whether decision-making and planning should be centralized or decentralized, how important taking care of employees is to enable successful change, where decision-making should happen in an organization, and how to manage innovation in a company where not everybody sees the value in the new thing. This is the second of two episodes covering my conversation with Gary Crittenden.

On this episode, Gary shares insights from his deep and extensive experience leading change as the CFO of organizations such as American Express, Citigroup, and Melville Corporation (the then-parent company of CVS). Through stories from his career, he explores principles of proactive change (such as the split of CVS from Marshall's and other brands that had been housed under Melville Corporation) and reactive change (such as when, as the CFO of Citigroup, he received a phone call from the FED on a Friday afternoon immediately before the financial crisis of 2007/2008). This is the first of two episodes covering my conversation with Gary Crittenden.