CEO Adventures in Leadership

Mark Landgren, CEO of The Nexxus Group, advises how maintaining a positive attitude, celebrating life, trusting team members, and learning from mistakes fuel business success.

Dan Kenary, CEO of Mass Bay Brewing Company, explains how employee ownership creates engagement, promotes resilience, and inspires innovation. The truly successful company must care about its employees and the society in which it operates.

Craig Hinkley, CEO of WhiteHat Security, explores how to set a company's vision based upon collective customer needs, consulting the management team, and thinking deeply about the "unknown unknowns." Vision mixed with humility and listening are a sure road to CEO success.

Drawing upon how the American military’s elite special forces' warriors are chosen, Mike Sarraille and George Randle, the authors of The Talent War, explain how to bring top talent into your organization to create a lasting competitive advantage.

Dusty Rhodes, CEO of Conventures, reveals her unique method of building a winning team, including how to select top team performers, how to nurture and support them, and how to inspire consistent excellence in execution.

"Always deliver what you promise to customers -- and more," says Anthony Samuels, CEO of DRB Facility Services, a leading Massachusetts building services company. "Along with hiring and paying for capable people and taking care of staff at all levels, that's the way to build a successful company."

Paul Clayson, CEO of AgilePQ, reveals how he has run successful technology companies by establishing a compelling strategy; being honest and transparent; deeply caring about employees, customers, vendors, and the community; and instituting vital processes.

Charlotte Caseborne, CEO of Theolytics, gives a vivid picture of a startup biotechnology company designing viruses to fight cancer. The company's culture is based on collaboration, candor, and curiosity.

Jim Coughlin, CEO of The Northbridge Companies, discusses the many leadership benefits of a partnership and how building a corporate culture based on caring about and developing team members can really pay off.

Charlie Saponaro, CEO of MRA, explains how to manage remote employees through people-centric leadership and robust two-way communication. By building strong manager-team member relationships, his company experiences high productivity and low turnover.

Rachel Haley, CEO of Clarus Designs, explains how to hire successfully in a rapidly-growing organization; why clear, focused communication leads to outstanding team performance; and how her company enables more women to have meaningful careers.

Harald Stock, life sciences and biotechnology serial CEO and entrepreneur, shares his passion for building strong, diverse management teams. He discusses how to lead companies in both Europe and the USA, the importance of listening more and talking less, and the challenge of integrating personal and professional lives.

Junior Jabbie, CEO of Banneker, covers how a company has a duty to make its employees' lives better, become a vital customer solutions partner, and improve the communities where it is located.

Manasi Gangan, CEO of Nested Bean, describes how she has taken her innovative company from startup to success. She covers the importance of curiosity, how to build a fired-up team, and why a an inspirational, commonsense mission should drive the company.

John Regan, President and CEO of Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM), cites the importance of communication and inclusion to leadership success -- especially for crisis management. Actively reaching out to all stakeholders is key.

Rick Williams, Managing Director of Williams Advisory Partners, discusses important challenges a CEO must meet to transform a mid-size company into a much larger one. He also describes the CEO's crucial role in times of crisis, like the COVID-19 pandemic.

David Rubinstein, CEO of Opti, explains how a generalist successfully manages a cutting edge engineering company. It's all about taking care of and encouraging team members so that everyone becomes intensely focused on meeting customer needs.

Henrik Werdelin, co-founder of BARK and founding partner of Prehype, discusses The Acorn Method, a powerful new way to energize new business growth. The Acorn Method works in both Fortune 500 companies and much smaller enterprises.

Russel Pergament, Managing Partner, Affiliated News Services and Travelers Marketing, discusses how a balanced, empowered management team provides the foundation for an entrepreneurial company and how sales drives its success.

Jud Reis, former CEO of Gorton's, explains how in challenging times and as customer preferences evolve to lead innovative organizational change and maintain product leadership.

Mike Cataldo, CEO of Convergent Dental, discusses how caring enhances core company values like communication, honesty, respect, and innovation and how to hire employees who will embrace them.

Family business consultant, David Karofsky, discusses best leadership practices to meet key family business challenges like succession, communication, and governance.

Phil Holman, CEO of Fourstar Connections explains how to build profitable customer partnerships, retain long-term employees, and access daily key company performance measures.

Michael Tamasi, CEO of AccuRounds, talks about continually energizing and developing the team to drive initiative and improve efficiency.

Geoff Hynes, CEO of REXA, discusses how to build partnerships with Fortune 500 companies, how to continually reinforce and improve the value of your products, and how to hire team members who are proven team players.

Pascal Mittermaier, former CEO of Roche Canada and Italy, discusses how an inspiring mission can be a key employee motivator in both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. He cites examples of how sustainability can both engage employees and unlock new market opportunities.

Alex Faigel, CEO Dr. Dental, talks about the entrepreneur's journey -- how to build a successful company, including start-up,structuring for expansion, hiring, developing people, capitalization, innovation, and organization building.

Terry Moore, CEO of BEPeterson, discusses how to energize corporate growth, how to creatively find new markets and new customers, and how to align the entire organization around key strategic objectives.

Gordon Craig, CEO Sterngold, discusses revitalizing corporate culture, building a strong leadership team, leading change, and environmental responsibility.