Podcast appearances and mentions of heidi messer

Heidi Messer is in her third season as the Women's Basketball Head Coach at NAIA Oklahoma Wesleyan University.From 2017 until joining the Oklahoma Wesleyan staff, Messer was an assistant coach and the women's basketball strength and conditioning coach at Northeastern State in Oklahoma. She spent two seasons at the University of Montevallo from 2015 – 2017 and was an assistant coach and the Senior Woman Administrator at Manchester University from 2012 -2014. Heidi also served as a graduate assistant coach at Georgetown College (Ky.) for two seasons.Messer played four years of college basketball. She attended Sinclair Community College for two years before attending Grace College, where she played two years and served as team captain during her senior season. She recorded the eighth-most assists in program history while at Grace.On this episode Mike and Heidi discuss Heidi's journey from a young basketball player in Ohio to a college coach, exploring her early influences, the transition from player to coach, and the importance of building relationships with players. Heidi shares insights on leadership, the challenges of coaching, and her preparation for head coaching opportunities, emphasizing the significance of finding her voice in the coaching world. In this conversation, Heidi shares her journey in coaching, emphasizing the importance of being challenged, transformative leadership, and building strong relationships with players. She discusses the surprises of stepping into a head coaching role, her approach to practice planning, and the balance of maintaining high standards while fostering a supportive environment. Ultimately, she highlights the joy she finds in her team and the impact of coaching young athletes.Follow us on social media @hoopheadspod on Twitter and Instagram and be sure to check out the Hoop Heads Podcast Network for more great basketball content.Have pen and paper handy before you listen to this episode with Heidi Messer, Women's Basketball Head Coach at Oklahoma Wesleyan University.Website – https://okwueagles.com/sports/womens-basketballEmail – hmesser@okwu.eduTwitter/X - @hmesser1323Visit our Sponsors!Dr. Dish BasketballOur friends at Dr. Dish Basketball are doing things a little differently this month with $3,000 Off the Dr. Dish Rebel+, $3,000 Off the Dr. Dish All-Stat+, AND $3,000 Off the Dr. Dish CT+ during their first ever Semi-Annual Sales Event. Shop now and have your team more ready for the upcoming season than ever before.Fast Model SportsFastModel Sports has the most compelling and intuitive basketball software out there! In addition to a great product, they also provide basketball coaching content and resources through their blog and playbank, which features over 8,000 free plays and drills from their online coaching community. For access to these plays and more information, visit fastmodelsports.com or follow them on Twitter @FastModel. Use Promo code HHP15 to save 15%GameChangerIntroducing GameChanger, a free app that provides you with data to make strategic coaching decisions and to deliver memorable moments to your team and its fans....

Great episode with coach Heidi Messer of OKWU (Oklahoma Wesleyan University) talking about the rise and growth of Women's basketball!

In the latest episode of the CRO Spotlight Podcast, we talk with Hiedi Messer, Founder and CEO of Collective[i] an AI-enabled revenue forecasting platform.This episode is brought to you by Growth ForumGrowth Forum is a place to Connect, Learn and Grow. Join NowThe program is usually valued at $2500, but if you sign up to Growth Forum now, you will receive access to this program for free! https://www.growthforum.io/

Heidi Messer, Chairperson, co-Founder, and Collective[i] Forecast Host, shared the story behind her title with us on April 5, 2023.Heidi is an entrepreneur and investor who has founded several global businesses, most notably LinkShare and Collective[I]. Heidi also served as a board member, President, and Chief Operating Officer of LinkShare, helping to create the sector of online marketing commonly referred to as affiliate marketing.Collective[i] is on a mission to help companies, sales professionals, and connectors be more prosperous with shared [human and artificial] intelligence. Whether it be in the form of automated CRM activity and contact capture, one click daily forecasting, access to a community who can provide warm introductions and referrals, or the ability to collaborate more effectively, we provide a platform for revenue growth in the post-Covid era. Our name stands for Collective Intelligence-- a concept that when knowledge is shared, everyone wins.SUE SAYS"Heidi grew up in Westchester, NY among a family of entrepreneurs. Initially, her first aspiration as a young girl was "to be President of the United States!" After the passing of her father when she was just 11, it was all hands on deck to carry on and help Mom with the family business. That first introduction to what it takes to run a company offered so many lessons that allowed Heidi to go on and build her own companies."Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/women-to-watch-r/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

IN THIS EPISODE: In this episode our host, Denise Silber, is joined by Harvard Law School alumna Heidi Messer, a serial entrepreneur who successively co-founded Linkshare and Collective [i]™, and made successes of them despite the critics who said it could not be done. Together they discuss the benefit of using AI-powered software to significantly reduce the time that sales people devote to data entry and forecasting and not actually selling. By re-allocating this valuable 70% of work-time previously spent on data entry and forecasting, Heidi's technology allows businesses and sales people to focus on revenue generation and automate tedious tasks. Tune in to hear why AI isn't going to take people's jobs… but companies who work with AI will replace those who don't. GUEST BIO: Heidi Messer is the co-Founder and Chairperson of Collective[i]™.  Prior to Collective[i], Ms. Messer co-founded and served as President of LinkShare, host to one of the world's largest online affiliate networks until its sale to Rakuten for USD $425m. She received her B.A. from Brown University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.  Collective[i] uses AI to help businesses forecast, manage, and grow revenue. By leveraging data, human talent, and social connections, Collective[i] empowers sales and other revenue-generating functions, to optimize their activities and processes, driving global prosperity for companies and sales professionals alike.  

Heidi Messer started Collective[i] with one goal: to bring more certainty and less volatility to sales and improve the livelihoods of every single employee.According to Heidi, sellers operate at 30% productivity rates. There is no other function in a company that is as unproductive as sales. Higher productivity equals more certainty, so why not improve it. If sales improves every other department has more opportunity. In order to bring more certainty and less volatility , Collective[i] focuses on two main innovations:Automate everything possible in the sales process in order to reduce seller admin work and improve CRM accuracy;Train teams on the agile sales process in order to scale revenue.This is one of the most comprehensive interviews on the modern sales process I've ever recorded.  Highlights:01:19 All of the time that is spent trying to fix the problems in CRM, we fix so that sellers can sell, managers can coach, and everybody else has absolute transparency into what's happening. 02:23 Nobody trusts the pipeline reviews. So let's just start with a clean capture of data into the CRM and have it done automatically. Nobody has to worry about trusting it.02:36 You know that sellers operate at 30% productivity rates. There is no other function in a company that is as unproductive as sales.03:16 Instead of trying to figure out what happened, we want people to focus on adapting to what's likely to happen.04:25 What was interesting about the mid 2000s is we actually saw marketing transform from being a gut based endeavor to one that was highly scientific, very adaptive and focused on optimization.06:54 We're going to own siloed data, not just within companies, but between companies. Everybody told us it wouldn't work. I'm convinced that if you haven't heard that, you don't have a good idea.07:33 Sales is the lifeblood of companies. Our entire economy depends on sales. If you can bring more certainty to sales and less volatility, you impact the livelihoods of every single person employed by a company.08:17 There's no entrepreneur I've met who isn't a great salesperson.10:21 When you start out with a new product you have to find out what's important to their (you customer's) business? How am I going to persuade them to try this new thing? And then somehow I think what happens when you grow is you get out of that habit of thinking that way,11:12 There's a significant portion of companies that still believe sales itself is a process, meaning sales is an assembly line. It's not, it's more like a sport that needs a playbook and lots of practice.13:51 So imagine now you have to hire salespeople who sell to people who sell.15:53 You have to hire salespeople who are able to be trusted advisers. Do they have fundamental sales skills? Do they have enough knowledge that they can provide people with advice on how to move forward and not just explain something?16:58 I think there's a massive defining line that happened after COVID, and I don't think we're going back.17:49 There's a particular kind of sales leader who can sell innovation and there's a kind of sales leader who wants to sell the status quo.22:33 If you're a good founder, you pick advisors who are smarter than you. I want to hire an expert in something that I may not be an expert in.25:39 We have to do a better job of training our sales teams.27:13 We drink our own champagne.27:57 We switched to Agile.29:11 Agile sales describes an organization that's working perfectly in sync to adapt to changes that are happening real time in marketplaces.31:46 We automated everything that they were doing that was low value. So there's not a seller that spends more than 10 minutes a week in CRM. 32:37 We don't do annual sales conferences, we do quarterly, we call them ARCOS revenue kick offs. More importantly every week our sales team has at least 1 to 2 training sessions.33:57 I think it should be sellers are selling to buyers in a transparent environment. Why should anything be hidden today? There should be no opacity in business.36:49 Sports team would be crazy if they said, I'm going to give you a playbook. Go on the field without practice. 41:21 I think the average number of buyers on a buying team has gone from 8 to 12.42:38 We invested a lot in upskilling our salespeople. We invest a lot in digital. So my belief is if a website could do it, a human should not. 46:20 We hire for a growth mindset. I think a growth mindset and trainability come hand in hand. About Our Guest:Heidi Messer has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the digital economy since the commercialization of the Internet. Ms. Messer currently serves as co-Founder and Chairperson of Collective[i]™.Prior to Collective[i], Ms. Messer and her brother, Stephen Messer, co-founded LinkShare Corporation, host to one of the world's largest online affiliate networks representing the world's premier publishers and merchants on the web. The company is widely considered to be a pioneer in the world of SaaS, digital advertising and the sharing economy.Under Ms. Messer's leadership, LinkShare was recognized by Deloitte and Touche for two consecutive years as the fastest growing technology company in the New York Region. Ms. Messer served as a board member, President and Chief Operating Officer of LinkShare until its sale to Rakuten (4755:JASDAQ) for $425 million.Ms. Messer is a frequent speaker at conferences and universities around the world on artificial intelligence, enterprise technology, entrepreneurship, modern sales, marketing and the future of work. She has been cited in various publications including, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, Vogue, the NY Post, The Nikkei, Women's Wear Daily, and Chief Executive Magazine. Ms. Messer has also appeared on national television and radio programs including the Today Show, Rock Center with Brian Williams, Business Talk Radio, CNBC, Fox News, CBS Morning News and the Fox Morning Show.Ms. Messer has received several honors including being selected as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs (2012) and is a recipient of the Technology Pioneer Award during Women's Entrepreneurship Day hosted at the United Nations (2015). Ms. Messer serves on the board of Aperture Investors, the Partnership for NYC, the Partnership Fund for NYC and the Board of Trustees for New York-Presbyterian Hospital as well as the advisory board for the Johns Hopkins University Department of Physics and Astronomy. Ms. Messer is an advisor to the AXA Venture Fund and serves on the investment committee for The Equity Alliance.Ms. Messer received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. She received her juris doctorate from Harvard Law School graduating cum laude.About Guest Company:Collective[i] (short for Collective Intelligence) helps companies around the world forecast, manage and grow revenue leveraging data, human talent and social connections. Collective[i]'s global network and application uses artificial intelligence to enable sales and other supporting functions to leverage their professional networks and intelligence that optimizes all of their sales activities and processes. Collective[i]'s mission is to enable global prosperity by helping companies and sales professionals worldwide leverage both human connections and machine generated intelligence to grow revenue.Resource Links:https://collectivei.com/Twitter: @heidimesser, @collectivei LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidimesser/ You can learn more about and connect with Alice Heiman in the links below.Website: https://AliceHeiman.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aliceheiman/

Let's talk about the drop in outbound call connections - buyers have changed. How do we adjust and prepare and work to hit our sales numbers? Meet Heidi. Heidi Messer is an entrepreneur, board director, builder of networks and investor who founded several global businesesses including Linkshare and collective[i]. She serves on a number of boards, was granted two patents connected to collective[i]'s data analytics network and is listed in Wikipedia. The name collective[i] stands for Collective Intelligence-- a concept that when knowledge is shared, everyone wins. Heidi says the greatest sales leaders she's seen are resilient. She wants people to question logic from the past instead of being open to the future. Technology is not the change itself, but it helps enables change. Her latest venture works to remove time forecasting as well as inputing data. It connects buyers and sellers in modern ways - deep collaboration. People need the ability to collaborate and that is the next experience in selling. Check out the collective[i] forecast at https://www.ciforecast.com/

The Revenue Engine podcast shares the stories of many incredible, powerful, female leaders. These are women who have climbed the proverbial corporate ladder and are continuing to grow in their careers while leading the charge. This week, Rosalyn celebrates International Women's Day 2022 in a special episode reflecting on the past year. You'll hear some of their best advice and insights from the empowered women who empower others.

The term “AI” is used everywhere and sometimes seems like a buzzword more than anything else. What is truly defined as “Artificial Intelligence” and how do organizations leverage AI to accelerate growth and retain revenue? In this episode of The Revenue Engine Podcast, Heidi Messer, a serial entrepreneur, board director, advisor, and investor, shares her insights into how organizations that have not embraced AI will be left behind. We also dive into how organizations can embark on true end-to-end digital transformation through automation, augmentation, and acceleration. Grab your headphones and your notebooks and learn all about AI, data, transformation - and maybe even underground poker - from this powerhouse leader.

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to transform how the enterprise does business. My guest is Heidi Messer, Chairman and Co-founder of Collective[i] Heidi has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the digital economy since the commercialization of the Internet. She is the Co-founder and CEO of World Evolved, a platform for global investment and expansion. She is one of the founding members of the Zokei Network, a global network devoted to encourage innovation across art, science, business and technology. In addition, she is an active angel investor in and advises numerous startups.Prior to Collective, Heidi and her brother, Stephen Messer, co-founded LinkShare Corporation, which is host to one of the world’s largest online affiliate networks representing some of the largest and fast-growing publishers and merchants on the web. The company is widely considered to be a pioneer in the world of digital advertising.Heidi is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world and universities on entrepreneurship, digital marketing and advertising, business intelligence and the Future of Internet services. She has been cited in various publications including, The New York Times, Inc. Magazine, and The Nikkei.She has received several honors including being selected as one of 2012’s 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs. The mission behind Collective[i] is to remove uncertainty and inefficiency around how B2B companies generate revenue through their sales organizations. They do so by using AI to remove tasks, identify important social connections and guide sales professionals to the activities that will yield the highest ROI. This approach often gets them referred to as the “Waze for sales” – And this triggered me to invite Heidi to my podcastWe explore why today’s salesforce is wasting 70% of their time on non-revenue generating activities, and why, in order to solve that challenge, you need to go beyond automation. As such we explore how the combination of network-based technology, community-sourced and proprietary data in combination with AI/ML enables to predict buying patterns and provide levels of visibility and actionability previously unattainable for sales teamsHere are some of her quotes:“My co-founder and I got together and said: “What is the next big opportunity?” after watching the marketing world transform, and we saw on the enterprise side and the revenue management side, specifically sales, as being the next big thing. That’s what led us to found a Collective[i], which is short for collective intelligence.”“The entire enterprise will be transformed using a combination of data networks and artificial intelligence. And when I say transformation, what I mean is not automation. I think that's a common misconception. Instead, what we looked at is; Where areas where humans are underutilized? Where are areas where their jobs have become something other than what they were originally intended? And for us, we looked at revenue and in particular sales organizations as a ripe place for this, where this technology could completely reorganize and allow human beings to shine and show their true talents.”By listening to this interview, you will learn three things:Why taking a network approach to creating insights has the power to solve some of our most valuable challengesHow, by using AI as a guide, we can raise the potential to increase both the value humans produce as well as the way they value their work.Why being a fast-follower doesn’t work with AI, because the advantages are so far superior. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What comes first: great success or a great network? On the Protégé Podcast series “How to Build a World Class Network,” we feature leaders who’ve built incredible networks over the course of their careers. On this week’s episode, I talk with Heidi Messer, the chair and founder of Collective[i], a tech company which leverages artificial intelligence and predictive technologies to help sales professionals succeed. Heidi talks about her New York poker party for women leaders, an innovative networking event where you might find Shaquille O’Neal dealing the cards. On the Rant/Rave/Review segment, I review exciting executive positions we are recruiting for at Protégé Search. 

Does unconscious bias affect the language we use when talking about startups and founders? This week on BroadMic Bonus Cuts, listen to Heidi Messer & Susan Lyne about… Their fascinating (and different!) takes on Reid Hoffman's quote about what he looks for in an entrepreneur: “I look to see if someone has a marine strategy, for taking the beach; an army strategy, for taking the country; and a police strategy, for governing the country afterward.” Their practical tips and inside info on what they look for in an entrepreneur’s pitch deck Susan Lyne's view on the critical difference between thought leaders and influencers. Notes Tomorrow's Advance Man by Tad Friend, The New Yorker LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs, Reidhoffman.org Quantifying Silicon Valley’s Diversity Issue by Jessi Hempel, Wired These 10 Male Executives Are Committing to Reach Gender Parity in 5 Years by Valentina Zarya, Fortune Additional Reading Startups Serving The 99 Percent Will Be the Next Billion-Dollar Companies by Hans Tung, TechCrunch Lessons From The Early Pitch Decks Of Airbnb, BuzzFeed, And YouTube by Linda Dishman, Fast Company Marc Andreessen: How to address diversity in tech, Fortune video The Network Man: Reid Hoffman’s big idea by Nicholas Leman, The New Yorker Lessons From A Study of Perfect Pitch Decks: VCs Spend An Average of 3 Minutes, 44 Seconds On Them by Kim-Mai Cutler, TechCrunch 8 things you should never, ever include in a pitch deck by Scott Gerber, TNW Positioning Your Startup is Vital — Here’s How to Nail It by Arielle Jackson, First Round Review How to Write a Great Business Plan: Competitive Analysis by Jeff Haden, Inc. The Official Definitions of Seed, Series A, and Series B Rounds by Jason Calacanis Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Want to build a big, disruptive business that improves lives and make a lot of money in the process? Meet Heidi Messer, an extraordinary NYC entrepreneur who sold LinkShare, a decade ago for $425 million, but when she was pitching the buisness to investors in the mid-90s, she had to have a slide in her investor pitch deck, “what is the internet and why should you care.” Fast forward to today: Heidi is on her way to disrupting a whole new industry in enterprise sales. LinkShare was just a preview to "the main show", Collective[i], her new company in big data, a $1 Tn market opportunity. You will hear why she thinks B2B is such an exciting place to be, where she describes the dichotomy that people experience going from home to work, where they spend the majority of their time, "it's like you go from indoor plumbing at home to an outhouse at work." You will also hear why she started what’s been described in the press as “New York’s most exclusive women-only poker game” (spoiler alert: to help women become better networkers). Heidi’s powerful insights into how networks are changing the world, will change the way you think about your business and social networks. Notes Open letter to the VC Who Can’t Find Any Women to Work at His Firm by Davida E. Arnold, She Knows Inside a Poker Night for Female Power Brokers by Jaclyn Trop, Forbes The Cost of Slow by Collective[i], Medium If You're Trying to Be "Data-Driven," You're Doing it Wrong, by Collective[i] Medium Why Sales Leaders Are the New Tech Moguls by Collective[i], Medium Additional Reading Are Big Data Career Paths Attracting More Women to Tech? by Rachel Wolfs, HuffPo Madeleine Albright on Barriers Broken and Barriers that Remain Wall Street Journal 56% Of Enterprises Will Increase Their Investment In Big Data Over The Next Three Years by Louis Columbus, Forbes Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Big Data Baseball by Travis Sawchik Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Heidi Messer, co-founder with her brother and husband of Collective[i] (among other enterprises), talks with Doug Muzzio about the role of technology on education, immigration, poverty, politics, and the re-creation of the middle class.