Podcast appearances and mentions of craig pratt

"Golf With Jay Delsing" features a preview of the PGA Championship. Also, the guests include Nathan Charnes, the VP of the PGA of America and Craig Pratt from "Holes Fore Hope."

When selling to Fortune 100 companies, a single deal can make or break your year. Craig Pratt knows this well and shares his playbook in this episode. We hear how Craig recovered from an early blowout loss and went on to lead multiple eight-figure sales. Craig also explains his "validate the value" approach to proving ROI with strategic clients, and shares his biggest influences over a 30+ year sales career.

In this episode, host Craig Pratt talks with Jeff Mader about his life, career, and motivations.  Jeff Mader retired at the beginning of 2023 from the CIO position at Sun Country Airlines. Jeff started working in IT in 1980. Most significant was his nearly twenty- four years at Target where he progressed to a senior level VP reporting to the CIO. Jeff also served as the first CIO of Imagine Companies prior to joining Sun Country Airlines. He has significant background in retail, transportation, and manufacturing. Jeff received his BS degree from Minnesota State University, Mankato majoring in Computer Science, Finance, and Business Management. He received his MBA from University of St Thomas and completed a Mini-Master of Information Technology also at the University of St Thomas. Jeff's signature strengths are developing IT leaders, improving IT performance, IT cost rationalization, and business and IT strategy development. Jeff is widely regarded as a top IT leader that has helped to develop many of the people who are currently in executive level IT positions today. Jeff is a very active volunteer leader in the battle against cancer. He chairs the MN Chapter of the American Cancer Society and is co-founder and chair of CIOs Against Cancer. CIOs Against Cancer mission is to fund early stage cancer researchers who have been vetted by the American Cancer Society. Jeff formerly served on the board of United Through Reading, a non-profit organization that supports deployed military families by helping deployed Moms and Dads read bedtime stories to their children at home. He was the board chair for a term. His 12 year tenure on the board concluded at the end of 2021. Jeff lives in Prior Lake, MN with his wife Judy and enjoys boating, hiking, hunting, and anything outdoors. They have one son, Sam who is a medical device engineer working at Boston Scientific.

This week, we discuss the human toll of the pandemic on day 35 of the shelter in place order. We also discuss what life on the other side will be like. We're learning from organizations like TaskRabbit whose CEO Stacy Brown-Philpot shares her organization's journey with Bob Safian on Reid Hoffman's Masters of Scale. We're re-publishing an episode that originally aired last August with former ServiceNow Vice President and next level leader Craig Pratt. In it, Craig discusses...Lessons for leaders looking to make an impact in or outside careers in technologyWhy empathy and intuition are timeless skills that transcend technology and will never be replaced by AIWhat inspired his career in technology from humble beginnings as a golf caddyFear is subsiding. Hope is returning. We're strong. We're resilient.Enjoy!Links referenced in this week's episode:https://mastersofscale.com/stacy-brown-philpot-keep-humans-in-the-equation-masters-of-scale-podcast/https://podcasts.apple.com/ne/podcast/next-level-leader/id1461652719

Luke Wyckoff, the founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Social Media Energy, shares with Next Level Leader host, Craig Pratt the highs and lows of business ownership and speaks the gospel on the realities of leading an organization though turmoil and success.  This comeback story is not only business related, but personal, with a surprise ending you don't want to miss.    https://lukewyckoff.com/   https://socialmediaenergy.com/

Welcome to episode four of the AI and the Future of Work podcast series with host Dan Turchin, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Astound. The following conversation features ServiceNow's World Wide VP of Sales Initiatives, Craig Pratt. He shares his journey through the high-tech world and the leadership lessons he's learned along the way. Learn more about Astound at https://astound.ai/

Mary Frey, Melissa Johnson, and Lynn Giovannelli - 3 founding members of GIVING WoMN along with the current VP of the Board Susan Dowd sit down with host Craig Pratt to share the humble beginnings of GIVING WoMN.   GIVING WoMN is the largest and most established women’s collective giving organization in the Twin Cities, and helped found the national women’s collective giving organization. Started by a few women discussing the concept in early 2004, the organization was established in early 2005, made its first grants in 2006 and has continued to grow. We currently have over 100 members.   Over the last 14 years, 81 GIVING WoMN grants have been made to 65 organizations who have a collective impact on thousands of individuals in need in the Twin Cities. Our organization was founded as Women of Courage in February of 2005. A small group of women started discussions in early 2004, envisioning the potential power of in philanthropy and pooled giving, and how it could make a difference in the greater metropolitan area of Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Minnesota. That small group of women has grown to over 100 members. In April of 2009, membership voted to change the organization’s name to GIVING WoMN. Collectively, to date, we have donated over $1,369,000 and have touched the lives of countless people in our community served by Twin Cities non-profits providing vital social services.   If you want to learn more, get engaged or donate you can reach the group at http://www.givingwomn.org/ 

Katherine Meerse (Executive Director for Avenues) and Shrey Pothini (Student Volunteer) sit down with host Craig Pratt to discuss the current state of affairs surrounding LGBTQ Youth Homelessness in Minnesota…Katherine shines a light on the the following statistics:   On any given night 6,000 youth in Minnesota are homeless and unaccompanied Overall homeless in Minnesota increased 10% between 2015 2018 African Americans, Native Americans and youth who identify as LGBTQ are over represented in the homeless population Avenues supports over 300 young people experiencing homelessness every year 78% of youth move into stable housing  when they leave Avenues   Katherine also shares her personal and professional journey that led her to Avenues.   Shrey, 15, of Savage, has been collecting towels to donate since he was 4, and has now named his campaign Towels for Teens. On his most recent birthday, he collected over 1,900 bath towels to donate. It has become his annual tradition. Shrey’s generosity and his boundless energy for doing good, as it turns out, are highly contagious. By third grade, he was organizing his very first service club at his elementary school—which is still going strong with 60 to 100 participants every year. Since then, other schools in the district have created clubs of their own.   You can learn more about Avenues at https://avenuesforyouth.org/

Cathy Maes, the Executive Director at Loaves & Fishes, sits down with host Craig Pratt to share her personal and professional story of growing up in Minnesota…Cathy puts a spotlight on the hunger issue here in Minnesota and what organizations like Loaves and Fishes are doing to serve and protect those who need it the most. If you would like to learn more about Loaves & Fishes you can reach her at cmaes@loavesandfishesmn.org or you can donate online athttps://www.loavesandfishesmn.org/donate.html

Matt Bykowski and Nick Schneider sit down with host Craig Pratt and talk about their epic fundraiser called Schneider-Stock…Over the last 5 years they’ve helped raise awareness and significant money to help others with real life problems. What started as a crazy idea over a couple of beers has raised north of 6 figures for worthy causes inside and outside of Minnesota…They define what it means to live on the NEXT LEVEL! If you like this podcast and want to donate please use the Eventbrite attached.   https://www.eventbrite.com/e/schneiderstock-2019-tickets-60735281863?ref=enivtefor001&invite=MTYzNTUwMzIvYnlrb3dtQGdtYWlsLmNvbS8w%0A&utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=inviteformalv2&utm_term=attend

Craig Pratt sits down with Dave Payne a serial high tech entrepreneur based in Minneapolis...Dave describes his life in the arena while sharing the lessons he’s learned personally and professionally. 

Matthew Paul Revere is a storyteller when you get right down to it. And aside from tweaking a lyric here or there to fit his narrative into the constraints of a song, his stories are all true. MPR has lived an interesting life to still be so young, so you can imagine all of the songs (or stories) that are still to be written. We discuss some of his stories and inspirations in this episode. Joining MPR is Craig Pratt on lead guitar. Enjoy!

Craig Pratt is no stranger to Moon Eye. In fact, he's probably been on the show more than anyone else, but I dare you to hear the same thing twice. Craig is constantly evolving, soaking in influences (music, podcasts, books) like a sponge, digesting them, then spitting out his own unique spin of what he's consumed. We discuss current influences, instruments, books, songwriting and much more on this episode. I hope you enjoy.

Listen in on another installment of "Songwriters in the Round" recorded live at Cold Creek Tap House and Eatery. Performers include Greg Parton, Tiffany Beavers, Matt Green, Chuck Albertson, Craig Pratt, Stephen Busie, and Cory Hansird. Lots of great talent in this episode!

My really good friends Ryan Scoggins, Johnny Briggs, Craig Pratt and Richard Hall (better known as Blackbird Revival) drop by to discuss song writing, getting out of gigs alive, kung fu fighting, broken hips and bringing back classic rock karate kicks. They also play a few tunes off of their new self titled album.