Podcasts about product strategist

I'm an IBM Product Strategist with 13 years of experience in User Experience Design, shaping the day-to-day lives of over 250,000 IBM employees worldwide.

As digital assets continue to evolve and enrich investment portfolios, they simultaneously demand innovative anti-money laundering (AML) and compliance strategies to counteract potential exploitation by bad actors. There is a critical need for financial service firms to adapt to these changes, understanding the money laundering risks tied to crypto.  In this episode of KYC Decoded, we are joined by Liat Shetret, Director of Global Policy and Regulation at Elliptic, and Karmjeet Singh, Product Strategist at Moody's, who together unravel the pivotal role of Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP) in navigating and addressing these emerging challenges in the digital economy. Key topics of their conversation include: The rapid evolution and developments of the VASP and cryptocurrency ecosystem in recent years The sophistication and complexities of criminal activity in the digital world Strategies to effectively manage the challenges posed by VASP How compliance officers balance dual roles of safeguarding against risk while facilitating organizational growth Predictions on future crypto market trends and their implications for risk and compliance professionals For additional resources: Read Elliptic's blogSign up for Elliptic's newsletterListen to KYC Decoded's Crypto Miniseries: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3To learn more about our VASP screening for your organization, please feel free to reach out – we would love to hear from you! 

Our guest today, Nate Steinrueck, Product Strategist at Outer Labs, shares his journey from studying anthropology to working in architecture and eventually transitioning into the tech industry. He emphasizes the importance of being a good listener, learner, and helper in his work, and how these qualities have shaped his career. Nate also discusses the similarities between architecture and product strategy, highlighting the value of problem-solving and effective communication in both fields. He offers advice for those looking to make a career change and emphasizes the importance of finding alignment between one's strengths and passions.Listen to the end to hear our highlight from OOA community member, Rachel Gresham, Senior Director, Professional Practice Programs at The American Institute of Architects. Connect with her on Linkedin, and let her know you found her through the Tangents podcast.Highlights:Nate strives to be a listener, learner, and helper in his work, focusing on understanding the needs of others and finding ways to make their work more efficient.His background in architecture has provided him with valuable insights and skills that he applies to his role as a product strategist.Effective communication and problem-solving are essential in both architecture and product strategy.When making a career change, it's important to evaluate your strengths and passions and find alignment with the roles and companies you're considering. (Find out the interesting way Nate went about doing this!) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In developed nations, corporations often rollup and eat independent mom and pop shops into big box retail or big .coms that centralize supply chains and logistics. Meanwhile, independent sellers are the backbone of emerging markets. But a collision is starting to occur and it's happening fast. Big corporations want to bring the same strategy to these emerging markets, so how can the independent seller maintain their independence? To do that, they need technology partners like RedCloud. In this conversation, we learn how RedCloud sits at the forefront of the 3 key disruptions inside of emerging markets: employment, technology, and sustainability. Learn how Soumaya Hamzaoui, Co-Founder and COO and JD de Jong, SVP of Product combine data, technology and deep knowledge of emerging economies to help independent sellers.Key Moments: A personal mission: Born in Algeria, Africa, Soumaya discusses how her childhood shaped her understanding of emerging markets.Unlike Amazon: Commerce has existed in emerging markets since the beginning of civilization. Yet independent sellers face existential challenges if big corporations are allowed to enter their markets and gobble up all of the opportunities. Learn how RedCloud hopes to not be like Amazon, and would rather focus on keeping independent sellers independent.Data for emerging market independent sellers: discover how the team developed the right products for these markets and how they overcame challenges unique to their customers.Challenges in emerging markets: Gain unique perspectives into how international marketplaces work. Key Quotes: “We are not only here to develop the technology, but we are also here to educate these businesses on the value of digitization, on the value of data. [According to a World Bank Report] 90% of these businesses need training and upskilling to keep up with the pace of the evolution of how the economical world and technological world is evolving. 88% need support in digitization on how to take their business from traditional businesses to fully digital business. And another 80% need mentorship and support on how to transform their business. - Soumaya“It is one thing to give a user access to create their own visualization. It's an entirely different thing to create not just the visualization, but an interpretation of what that visualization means. - JD“When companies look at emerging markets and the lack of digitization, they think there's a reluctance to digitize and there really isn't. It's not about the adoption of technology, but the simplification of and the cost of that technology.” - JDMentions: World Bank ReportsM-Pesa in KenyaLarge Language Models (LLMS) with DialectsMarketplace Counterfeit ChallengesBook: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good LifeBios: Soumaya Hamzaoui describes herself as an Entrepreneur and Product Strategist. She has a strong track record of developing products across Enterprises focused on the fintech and commerce global industries. She has deep sector expertise built over the last 15 years across Africa, Asia, and EMEA in mobile money, digital financial services, and FinTech launches. She attended prestigious universities in France and Algeria.Juandre (JD) de Jong is a seasoned Product professional and Chartered Management Accountant, currently serving as the Senior Vice President of Product at RedCloud. Juandre combines his financial acumen with a deep understanding of customer needs to drive product strategy and innovation. He has a proven track record of successfully launching and scaling innovative products that meet market demands. He was born in South Africa and currently resides in the UK. Hear more from Cindi Howson here. Sponsored by ThoughtSpot.

Host Dr. Jay Anders interviews Robert Taylor, DO, Chief Product Strategist at Altera Digital Health (formerly Allscripts). They discuss some of the challenges facing clinicians and clinical systems since EHRs have become regulated, and go deep on all things generative AI, machine learning, ambient listening and their implications on EHRs and usability for clinicians. Dr. Taylor previews what's coming in Altera's Touchworks roadmap in the next 12 months, making this episode a must-listen for Altera customers, partners and industry stakeholders. Spoiler alert: they are making some very innovative use of AI, clinical data, and clinical intelligence to power their new suite of tools. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Learn all about how a Product Strategist uses data to solve the world's problems, one Marvel data viz at a time. This episode should come with a warning label, super nerdy discussions coming your way!! Ryan talks about the overlap of data science and business intelligence and how all data tools serve a specific purpose which should ultimately help all data professionals get their work done in the most efficient manner. We talk about some data problems to solve that are unique, like the cold chain problem in both health and food. It was super fun to nerd out on solutions and talk about audit trails (one of my favorite topics, hehe). Plus, we had two fun bits topics!!

Our guest today, Nate Steinrueck, Product Strategist at Outer Labs, shares his journey from studying anthropology to working in architecture and eventually transitioning into the tech industry. He emphasizes the importance of being a good listener, learner, and helper in his work, and how these qualities have shaped his career. Nate also discusses the similarities between architecture and product strategy, highlighting the value of problem-solving and effective communication in both fields. He offers advice for those looking to make a career change and emphasizes the importance of finding alignment between one's strengths and passions.Listen to the end to hear our highlight from OOA community member, Rachel Gresham, Senior Director, Professional Practice Programs at The American Institute of Architects. Connect with her on Linkedin, and let her know you found her through the Tangents podcast. Highlights: Nate strives to be a listener, learner, and helper in his work, focusing on understanding the needs of others and finding ways to make their work more efficient. His background in architecture has provided him with valuable insights and skills that he applies to his role as a product strategist. Effective communication and problem-solving are essential in both architecture and product strategy. When making a career change, it's important to evaluate your strengths and passions and find alignment with the roles and companies you're considering. (Find out the interesting way Nate went about doing this!) More from our Sponsors:This episode is sponsored by The Architect's Newspaper.The Architect's Newspaper and AEC+Tech are hosting an incredible event on October 27th called Tech+. Join us there to play with new design tools, hear stories from top firms and schools, pitch your brilliant ideas or just nerd out with like minded designers. The event will be on Oct 27th at the New York Law School in Lower Manhattan - Don't miss it. Our listeners can use code OOA for 30% off tickets at techplus.co.This episode is sponsored by Arcol.We give Revit a pretty hard time through Out of Architecture, mostly because you didn't go to architecture school to spend your days stuck fiddling around with detailing drawing sets or waiting for a file to open. Arcol is bringing the magic back to building design by developing a BIM tool that is as creative and collaborative as you are. If you'd like to help build the future of BIM, head over to Arcol.io and join in their Closed Beta for early access to their new platform. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Dan Cumberland is on a mission to help bootstrapped entrepreneurs avoid burnout.  Having hit the bottom before, he's passionate about helping entrepreneurs get the insights they need to recalibrate their work/life balance so they have the energy and motivation to keep going.  He is a 3x SaaS founder, serial entrepreneur, host of The Meaning Movement Podcast (theMeaningMovement.com), and a Product Strategist with the Venture Studio NineTwoThree.co.   His work has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Fast Company, and more.  His most recent project is software for repurposing speech-based audio and video into viral-ready shorts: videosnap.io Ishu Singh- https://www.ishusingh.com/

This week's episode is a really exciting one, we've got Manon and Viya who are two incredible Solopreneurs. We originally met in San Francisco, doing our Master's of Social Entrepreneurship together and have grown into not only dear friends but we've created a really special "girls huddle" to support each other in our entrepreneurship journey. I know you will love to hear their stories of how they made the jump! Viya is a UX & Product Strategist, currently helping small teams on finding market fit for their product & services. She's also an aspiring entrepreneur aiming to bring more freedom of movement in skirts. Manon is a French chef, “autodidact”and owner of Monalilianna private chef business, based out of Austin, Texas. Prior to her chef life, Manon used to work in operations and management, and she started a street food franchise business in Uganda. Having lived and worked in 7 different countries over the past 10 years, she thrives on creating opportunities for people to connect with one another, their environment, and our shared history. Connect with Viya here: Personal website:www.viyaqu.com Skirts & movement: www.unseem.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/viyaqu/ Connect with Manon here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/monalilianna/ Website: https://www.monalilianna.com/ Link to Paul Millered book the pathless path: Imagining a new story for work & life https://think-boundless.com/the-pathless-path/ Let us know if you enjoy the podcast on IGUnlock Your Vitality Podcast: https://www.instagram.com/unlockyourvitalitypodcast/Magalionajourney: https://www.instagram.com/magalionajourney/

Burnout can be a challenging and draining experience, but there is always hope for recovery with the right tools and support! Today's guest, Dan Cumberland, discusses burnout, its recovery, the hidden million-dollar mistakes entrepreneurs often make that lead to burnout, the four pillars of meaningful work, and how to build a business that you'll love for a long time.   In this episode, we talk about: Burnout, its causes and signs, and symptoms The need for people to regularly check in with themselves to avoid burnout The relationship between work, meaning, and purpose Four pillars of meaningful work: people, process, product, and payoff The challenge in reconciling altruism and profitability in the coaching industry “Hidden million dollar mistakes” that entrepreneurs can make Creating a business plan based on your values Regularly revisiting goals for relevance and progress Questions to ask yourself to determine if you are at risk of burnout Changes Dan made to his social media strategy that resulted in 64,000 impressions in 90 days Tool for creating short-form social-ready videos from long-form audio or video  Memorable Quotes “We can be suffering symptoms of burnout every single day and not even know it.” “The most expensive mistakes we make as entrepreneurs are usually not business mistakes, but the mistakes that we make in building our business.” “It's easy for folks that are in their early career to grind and hustle it out. But the cost, that burn rate will catch up with you if you're not intentional about your recovery… and in these other areas of life outside of just your business.” “We often are so driven by our vision for the destination that we want to get that we forget life is happening right now and we sacrifice our present in order to achieve a future.”   BIO: Dan Cumberland is on a mission to help self-funded entrepreneurs avoid burnout. Having hit the bottom before, he's passionate about helping entrepreneurs get the insights they need to recalibrate their work/life balance so they have the energy and motivation to keep going.   He is a 3x SaaS founder, serial entrepreneur, host of the Meaning Movement Podcast, and Product Strategist with the Venture Studio NineTwoThree.co.   His work has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Fast Company, and more.   His most recent project is a software for repurposing speech-based audio and video into viral-ready shorts: videosnap.io    Outside of business, he's a father, husband, avid reader, runner, health and fitness optimizer, and volunteer with the Carbon Almanac. He lives in Seattle with his wife and three kids. Links: The Burnout Risk Assessment: themeaningmovement.com/start    The Meaning Movement   Links to resources: Health Coach Group Website https://www.thehealthcoachgroup.com/ Use the code HCC50 to save $50 on our website Leave a Review of the Podcast

In this next series of Tech-Driven Business, Michael Kim, Data & Analytics Leader, joins Mustansir Saifuddin to discuss how to approach data and analytics in a complex landscape. They'll dive into how to simplify your implementation approach and what it takes to have a successful implementation.  Michael has 20 years of product management and consulting experience at Accenture, IBM, KPIT, DXC Technology. Michael is responsible for implementing over 15 Data and Analytics Solutions across multiple industries. He's a Product Strategist and Expert of the information delivery platforms: SAP, IBM, Snowflake, Salesforce, Workday.  Connect with Us: LinkedIn: Michael Kim Mustansir Saifuddin, Innovative Solution Partners  Twitter: @Mmsaifuddin YouTube or learn more about our sponsor Innovative Solution Partners to schedule a free consultation.    Episode Transcript [00:00:00.000] - Mustansir Welcome to Tech-Driven Business brought to you by Innovative Solution Partners. In this first episode of a multi-part series, I welcome Michael Kim, a data and analytics expert. Listen in as Michael shares his thoughts on how to address complex IT landscapes for a successful implementation. Hello, everyone. Joining me today is Michael Kim, a good friend and a seasoned leader in the field of data and analytics with a focus on SAP technology. Welcome, Michael.   [00:00:42.530] - Michael Hey, Mustansir. Very nice to be here. It's a pleasure. It's always great to have a conversation and dialog with my good friend. What better topic than talking about data analytics, especially given time right now where things are going. It's an exciting time for the market and the industry, and I'm happy to be here. Thanks for having me.   [00:01:02.760] - Mustansir All right. Now, great to have you, Michael. I think this is one of the hot topic as you go along across the board. Any organization, everybody is talking about challenges of implementing data and analytics in their environment, especially when you have a complex landscape. With that, I'd like to get into our discussion points. Are you ready?   [00:01:26.920] - Michael Yes, absolutely. Let's get it going.   [00:01:29.020] - Mustansir All right. Let's start with a high level. I wanted to get your take on how do you approach data analytics in a complex landscape? What are the things that you're seeing based on your experience? Can you explain, can you share some thoughts on that?   [00:01:44.100] - Michael Absolutely. This is the big elephant in the room for all organization, is what is complex? And especially data analytics alone, topic itself is complex. So how do we tackle it? And it's been a conversation. It's been a question. It's been a challenge for all organizations globally for however long ,I've been doing this for a very long time. And it doesn't change. I think the way I see it and what I experienced for the past 20 years, serving multiple clients and multiple vendors, both from SAP and outside of SAP, and IT and business, I think it comes down to two things is what is a complex landscape and how do we approach it? And really nails down to, two, is process approach or is it a data-driven approach? And there's no right or wrong answer for that matter. It's really what sets the foundation of solving the complexity to provide business clarity on process and what role does data and analytics products and toolset comes into that picture as well. So I've seen an organization who prefer to have a data analytics landscape where they want to have it more centralized, meaning they don't want to have it decentralized from multiple regions.   [00:03:07.130] - Michael They want to consolidate it from multiple regions to one centralized data platform, which will produce data products to the business and to the customers and to the vendors. And then I've seen organizations where they prefer decentralization of the data environment. And of course, I'm not going to say there's no right or wrong approach on this. I think it all comes down to the customer's desire and where they fit in the industry. And at the end of the day, it's understanding the environment of the landscape. And that's how you tackle it is a centralized approach of the data environment and  how do you solve that complex landscape? And then what is that data product and process comes into place as to a data centralized data environment where you want to provide clarity and data insights in that decentralized, but how does that serve the purpose to the customers and the users in the business to provide data products around that area.   [00:04:05.550] - Mustansir Got it. No, that makes sense. I think that's a good lead into my next question. When you talk about implementation approach, what criteria do you employ? And basically, what is the application to simplify the implementation approach is a better question, I guess.   [00:04:23.830] - Michael I always go with this approach is I think it's taking a step back from applications or business, but how we come into this world from when we're infants to when we become an adult and as we age into more mature grownups. There's three stages. There's crawl, walk, and run approach. And of course, I think that's the most important thing for the organization to really realize where they are in the current state is are they in the infant stage? Or they are in the infant stage where they want to make that transition into walking and to running and then ultimately sprinting. And if I have to put that into an analytic perspective is, I think this is the most common term that's thrown out there is, where are you in the organization in your data products and analytics maturity? Is that really driven by descriptive analytics, or is it more predictive, or is it more prescriptive? And then it gets more complex with new embedded things like artificial intelligence and machine learning, which makes analytics going from prescriptive to a lot more advanced to do a lot more wonderful things on how to use the product.   [00:05:41.950] - Mustansir Yeah. I think you hit it right on. That's one of the things that a lot of organizations do have to analyze where they are in this journey. And that can be challenging, depending on the maturity of the data analytics approach that the organization is using. And to your point, when you talk about these three phases of descriptive, prescriptive, and predictive, it is a balance of what you currently have and where you want to end up. That's the key, what I'm hearing from you.   [00:06:23.260] - Michael Absolutely, Mustansir. I mean, you and I work with a lot of colleagues going back to many of us, we serve a lot of customers in the past. And I think it's the same story, even for you. You've been into a lot of big high profile, large cap companies, large different, I guess, corporations, different business global wide and SIs. And when you walk in, first thing I believe you always look for is even for yourself is where are we? What am I walking into? And then where are we as a project, program, also as a client? And minute you, I think, harness that realization, we're in the program, then you also define what you need to do and how you can add value to simplify that implementation approach. It's the same thing for every consultant, every data analytics professional is really understanding your surroundings, your current state, not only for yourself, for the program and the client, and also where does the Si role come into picture? Where does the application or software vendor come into picture? It's really understanding your current state and where you want to get to, which is the future state.   [00:07:28.730] - Mustansir Yeah, for sure. I think that using that as a driver into our next conversation is based on your experience working with system integrators, as you mentioned, customers, SAP itself, what constitutes a successful data analytics project?   [00:07:47.520] - Michael That's really interesting question. I guess it's coming from IT then. I guess it all depends on who you're serving as a data analytics professional or as industry wide consultant or expert. But it really comes down to, in my opinion, is who are we here to serve? Is it IT or is it business or is it organization? What makes the company click? And in my personal philosophy is it's always prioritized business first, mainly because going back to the whole fundamental three pillars is people, process, and technology is when you start a business, even for a small startup, it's selling a small hamburger for mom and pop stores to turning that into a multibillion dollar global hamburger chain. It's all about selling the product and serving the public. Who's going to help you get there? It's the people. It's the people you hire and people who share the same vision. And then after that, after those people are defined to collaborate in that vision, what is the set of process that we need to put in place not only for the company, but also within the division, within the people and the culture? And then once you set that good process and strategy, then that's when the technology comes in and make sure that we execute.   [00:09:15.520] - Michael I think with that said, what I'm looking for as a cost is successful is the business objective is met. And if that business constitutes a C-level executives, or it constitutes a middle management, or also even for the customers and vendor is can they make data analytics about providing insights and providing data and providing intelligence so they can make informed decisions? And to me, that's the prioritization that constitutes successful is that are business able to make better decision for the company than they were able to do it in the past than as to today and also for the future? And also there's no right or wrong answer. It also depends on where you are in the program. And at the end of the day, it's always going back to the core fundamental is making the business and organization successful.   [00:10:09.520] - Mustansir Yeah, I think I like the way you summed it all up. And it seems like first you need to know your end-customer, especially when you're dealing with analytics. And at the end of the day, the business needs to benefit. And if the business is benefiting, then that will allow an organization to grow, which is the whole idea behind Analytics is to help businesses, organizations as a whole, to make sure that they are on the right path, they are making progress. And your approach makes a lot of sense, especially when you talk about success factors, like what are the things that makes an organization click? Thank you for clarifying that. I think this is really important. Then when you're talking on this topic, let's look at it from a different angle. Why is it important to have all these projects? We look at different projects and why is it so important to have a good senior analytics architect who can see things from a holistic perspective on these projects? Why is it that so critical?   [00:11:15.180] - Michael Well, I can share my personal experience working with you when you join the program, one of our clients is they want you join the program. Mustansir here comes in and say, Hey, Michael, Mustansir, very nice to meet you. And we click. And then the first question you asked is, What am I walking into? And who are my customers, and you wanted to get the whole picture all together. And my questions is like, Okay, there's a lot of good questions you're asking. And one of the things you're saying is that everything is connected, Michael. As a senior architect, not only have to see it from technical perspective, but you have to see it from business perspective, and you have to see it from process perspective. That's what the senior analytic architect brings to the successful program is having that right combination of technology and business and also process in place to really see the holistic picture where the whole fundamental principles that you add here that you always preach to me and also we preach to our team is, Analytics and data are all connected within the organization. We just need to help the business and the technology, IT and the customers be able to see the holistic picture of how everything is connected.   [00:12:29.030] - Michael So it's not just the analytic architect who's specializing on tools like SAP or Oracle, or not just the business architect who comes from consulting company like McKinsey, just focusing on such much business process, but being able to connect both process, business, technology all into one, and then package that into one holistic picture and drive that whole success of the program. I think that's what sets the importance of senior architect. And what I'm trying to... I think the lack of a better word is the total package, who sees everything and who are able to connect everything and then able to drive to that success. That was an impressive experience. We always adhere to and we always preach it to our colleagues. So far, it worked out well, right?   [00:13:14.650] - Mustansir Yeah, for sure. That's the key, that holistic view like you explained it. Especially when you're trying to do a robust data environment, how do you define your goals? What is short term versus long term? And like a strategy approach versus more operational approach. So seems like having that person, that view of the whole landscape really allows you to get into the details. And the only way you can do it is having that experience in the past, right? Having been there, experienced it, seen it, and now you're applying all those learnings into this project, right? So I think that's what I'm hearing from you.   [00:14:02.620] - Michael Absolutely. I'm going to quote you on this. There was a moment in the program when we're working together, you said, Hey, I'm here for two things. I'm here to either add value, I'm here to fix the problem, I'm here to do both. I think if that mindset comes in, and that's mindset and the principle that senior architect holds, I think that program is due for good success. I'm sorry to steal your quote on this, but that was the very impressive that the principles that I still go by is I'm always learning from my colleagues like yourself. I think that's the core founding principles as a senior analytic architect is to not only add value but also fix problems, but at the same time do both, not only for short term but long term as well.   [00:14:45.640] - Mustansir For sure. Thank you for the kind words. I think that takes us towards the end of our conversation. I'd like to always ask this question from our guests. Based on what we covered so far, what is the one key take away that you would want to leave with the listeners today?   [00:15:02.200] - Michael Analytics, data, this technology, there's no right or wrong answer. It's changing every day. And one thing that has, I think we're in 2023, year 2023, but the year 2002 pandemic has taught us, if anything, is that we still don't know. Even with the week, we're never well prepared. It's always evolving. And there was one way to counter that is always preparing ourselves to, technology wise, people wise, and process wise. But in order to get there is understanding your organization, either organization as an executive or organization as a middle management, or organization as a customer and vendor we work with. It's understanding your current state and where you are. And then from there, using that self realization to really drive the strategy, the short term strategy and the long term roadmap to really have a good, clear picture of where you want to get from point A to B to X, Y, Z. I think that is the key take away for I want to share with the listeners today is that I think analytics and data technology, what we're doing in this industry is always going to be a journey. We just need to know that where we are in the journey and how we want to get there.   [00:16:18.240] - Michael I think that is the critical component of our success, not only to ourselves, but to our customers and vendors and our partners.   [00:16:25.860] - Mustansir I think you said it very well. My two takeaways from this is change is the only constant in this industry as well as self realization. Self realization is the key for an organization to move forward on where you want to end up as a data analytics landscape. And then, of course, the long term strategy that becomes part of the goals that you want to put together. This was a great conversation, Michael. Looking forward to having more sessions with you where we do some more in depth conversations on this topic. I'd like to get some real life examples from you. Thank you very much for joining the session with us today.   [00:17:07.090] - Michael Thank you Mustansir. It's been a good first session and thanks for having me. To our listeners, definitely it's exciting times for the field of data analytics. This is an incredible journey we're going to embark on. I'm looking forward to more conversation and more dialogs and experiences we're going to discuss going forward.   [00:17:28.700] - Mustansir Thanks for listening to Tech-Driven Business brought to you by Innovative Solution Partners. Michael shared valuable insights on what it takes to handle complex landscapes. His main takeaway, there is no right answer when working with analytics, data, and technology. It is constantly evolving and it's a journey. We would love to hear from you. Continue the conversations by connecting with me on LinkedIn or Twitter. Learn more about Innovative Solution Partners and schedule a free consultation by visiting isolutionpartners.com. Never miss a podcast by subscribing to our YouTube channel. Information is in the show notes.  

Dan Cumberland is on a mission to help bootstrapped entrepreneurs avoid burnout. Having hit the bottom before, he's passionate about helping entrepreneurs get the insights they need to recalibrate their work/life balance, so they have the energy and motivation to keep going. In this candid discussion, Dan and Alex talk about their own burnout experiences and ways to course correct to run their respective companies without burning out moving forward. He is a 3x SaaS founder, serial entrepreneur, host of The Meaning Movement Podcast, and a Product Strategist with the Venture Studio NineTwoThree.co. His work has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc.com, Fast Company, and more. His most recent project is software for repurposing speech-based audio and video into viral-ready shorts: videosnap.io. You'll learn: Burnout and the hidden million-dollar mistakes entrepreneurs make Setting boundaries to prevent burnout The power of partnerships to grow your business How to repurpose content for social with Videosnap.io Outside of business, he's a father, husband, avid reader, runner, health and fitness optimizer, and volunteer with the Carbon Almanac. He lives in Seattle with his wife and three kids. Website: themeaningmovement.com Assessment: themeaningmovement.com/start Software: videosnap.io Agency: ninetwothree.co Get Alex's book, THE PODCAST OPTION--NOW IN PAPERBACK: https://amzn.to/3gOCYLj Listen to our entire library of episodes and more on the show website: PRAfterHours.com. Drop a buck in the tip jar here. Announcer: Mary McKenna. PR After Hours Theme: https://filmmusic.io "Bossa Antigua" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC. Sound effects. This PR After Hours Podcast episode was recorded and mixed at Green Shebeen Studios in beautiful Kansas City, Missouri. Copyright 2023, all rights reserved. No reproduction, excerpting, or other use without written permission. As an Amazon Associate, we earn a small commission on some of our Amazon links. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alex-greenwood1/message

In this podcast of a recent webinar recording, FlowForma CEO, Olivia Bushe, and Product Strategist, Paul Stone, uncover their process automation predictions for 2023 to help reduce costs, innovate, and ensure resilience through the latest automation strategies and tools – ultimately helping to gain a competitive advantage against your peers by doing so.

Idan Mashaal, the Product Strategist and Field CTO at JumpCloud, works with cloud technologies since... seems like forever. He worked at Plus500 for 13 years, solved robust cloud challenges back in 2009, and developed automation and pipelines in times when DevOps practically didn't exist. Now, he works at JumpCloud - an open directory platform that simplifies IT management. They call him General Problem Solver, why? Listen to what Idan has to say about SaaS, zero trust, remote work history, and device and access management challenges. JumpCloud is SaaS that reduces costs with a unified device and identity access management. JumpCloud helps IT teams make (Remote) work happen by centralizing management of user identities and devices, enabling small and medium-sized enterprises to adopt Zero Trust security models. JumpCloud has a global user base of more than 180,000 organizations, with more than 5,000 paying customers including Cars.com, GoFundMe, Grab, ClassPass, Uplight, Beyond Finance, and Foursquare. JumpCloud has raised over $400M from world-class investors including Sapphire Ventures, General Atlantic, Sands Capital, Atlassian, and CrowdStrike.

Do you want to start your own business? Are you afraid to go out on your own? If you already have, would you like to avoid a $1 million dollar mistake?   Read the full episode summary below.   ============================   MOST POPULAR LINKS:   > Full Show Notes, Resources, & More   > Apply for the Lifestyle Engineering Blueprint - Our intensive coaching program exclusively for engineering leaders looking to build your career, balance your life, and BE HAPPY!   ============================   In this episode, we chat with 3x SaaS (Software as a Service) company Founder, Product Strategist with the Venture Studio NineTwoThree, and host of a top 1% podcast, Dan Cumberland.   We cover what every engineering leader who wants to start their own company needs to hear. The cool part is that these ideas will help employees in your leadership just as much as entrepreneurs!   When do you know it's time to start? How do you accelerate success and avoid huge mistakes? Am I really an entrepreneur? How do I balance business with life outside the company?    Dan and I answer these questions and more.   His work has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Fast Company, and many more. You will see why when you meet him. I loved this conversation!   So press play and let's chat… it's time to save yourself $1 million dollars in self management mistakes!   ============================   HAPPY ENGINEER COMMUNITY LINKS:   > HAPPY HOUR! Live with Zach Register now and join host of The Happy Engineer Podcast, Zach White, in a live webinar for deeper training, career Q&A, and FREE stuff!   > Join our Facebook Group! Get access to bonus content and live coaching as growth-minded leaders build careers together.   ============================   WANT MORE AMAZING GUESTS?   “I love Zach and these amazing guests on The Happy Engineer Podcast.” If that sounds like you, please consider following, rating and reviewing the show!    I know it's a huge favor to ask, but when you follow, leave a 5-star rating, and add an honest review of how these episodes are helping you… it's a massive benefit for getting the attention of big name powerhouse guests on this show.    On Apple Podcasts, click our show, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with 5-stars, and select “Write a Review.”   Thank you so much.    ============================   Connect with your host, Zach White:   LinkedIn (primary) Instagram Facebook YouTube

Mara Matosic, Product Strategist and Recovering Co-founder and Legacy Director of Women Who Code Mexico City, shares “Product Management in Web3.” She talks about her insights into how Web3 is changing the face of product management and how it allows for real-time feedback and interactions with users.

We can all agree that navigating the U.S. financial system as an immigrant is not easy. This can be due to two main reasons: because it is a completely different system from our origin countries and the lack of accessible resources in our native language. Fortunately for us and our community, there are people like Carolina Weber and Natalia Duarte who are working together to change this and helping our community navigate the financial system. In this episode, Natalia and Carolina share their money journey and also tell us about "Dyneri", a useful platform for Latinos to become more financially literate in a way they can relate to. Natalia Duarte was born in Colombia and holds a BA from Harvard College and MBA from Wharton. She currently manages strategy and operations for New Verticals at DoorDash and is building Dyneri alongside Carolina.Carolina Weber is a first-generation Mexican American. She graduated from Harvard College and most recently, The Wharton School where she got her MBA. She is working in big tech as a Product Strategist and concurrently is co-building Dyneri with co-founder Natalia. You will also hear the following in today's episode: The two things that need to change when it comes to the student loan debt crisis.  What “Dyneri” is and what inspired the name How we can change what we can control despite the challenges of the financial system. For a quick recap of this episode go to http://www.jenhemphill.com/333NEW! Join our community on Facebook here: https://jenhemphill.com/community Want to get social? Let's connect more on Instagram @jenhemphill Grab your copy of My Daily Dinero Ritual and increase your money confidence here: https://jenhemphill.com/dinero The post, The Key to Navigating the U.S. Financial System Easier | HDM 333 appeared first on the Her Dinero Matters Podcast. This episode has been brought to you by First Republic Bank  

We can all agree that navigating the U.S. financial system as an immigrant is not easy. This can be due to two main reasons: because it is a completely different system from our origin countries and the lack of accessible resources in our native language. Fortunately for us and our community, there are people like Carolina Weber and Natalia Duarte who are working together to change this and helping our community navigate the financial system. In this episode, Natalia and Carolina share their money journey and also tell us about "Dyneri", a useful platform for Latinos to become more financially literate in a way they can relate to.  Natalia Duarte was born in Colombia and holds a BA from Harvard College and MBA from Wharton. She currently manages strategy and operations for New Verticals at DoorDash and is building Dyneri alongside Carolina. Carolina Weber is a first-generation Mexican American. She graduated from Harvard College and most recently, The Wharton School where she got her MBA. She is working in big tech as a Product Strategist and concurrently is co-building Dyneri with co-founder Natalia.   You will also hear the following in today's episode: The two things that need to change when it comes to the student loan debt crisis.  What “Dyneri” is and what inspired the name How we can change what we can control despite the challenges of the financial system. For a quick recap of this episode go to http://www.jenhemphill.com/333   NEW! Join our community on Facebook here: https://jenhemphill.com/community   Want to get social? Let's connect more on Instagram @jenhemphill   Grab your copy of My Daily Dinero Ritual and increase your money confidence here: https://jenhemphill.com/dinero   The post, The Key to Navigating the U.S. Financial System Easier | HDM 333 appeared first on the Her Dinero Matters Podcast.   This episode has been brought to you by First Republic Bank   

During the course of this season of the All About APIs podcast, we have been exploring the different aspects of API-led product growth - why it's important, how to approach it and the key challenges to achieving it. In this episode, we speak with Deepa Goyal, Product Strategist at Postman about metrics that matter in an endeavour to define, analyse and optimise what success looks like for different stakeholders within an API-first business. We look at 3 different types of metrics - business, infrastructure and user metrics, and establish the need for a common language for collaboration to bring together the business, product and engineering teams. Deepa Goyal resides in San Francisco, California and brings a wealth of experience in data science and APIs. She has been part of product development at startups as well as Fortune500s, PayPal and Twilio. She is a champion for applying product thinking to building API products, women in tech and data-driven decision-making. Join us in celebrating the upcoming publishing of her first book, API Analytics for Product Managers, available in February of 2023. If you enjoyed the episode, please rate and subscribe!

In this episode, Juan Sequeda, Principal Scientist, and Tim Gasper, Chief Customer Officer and Product Strategist, from data.world discuss the importance of empowering business and technical users to understand, locate, trust and get value from data from a "Knowledge-first world." Juan and Tim explain how the current "data first-world" practice focuses on data literacy rather than business literacy, leaving a disconnect between data and business teams.To learn more, follow Juan Sequeda and  Tim Gasper on LinkedIn and tune in to their podcast: "Catalog and Cocktails," an honest, no BS, non-salesy conservation about enterprise data and analytics.What's New In Data is a data thought leadership series hosted by John Kutay who leads data and products at Striim. What's New In Data hosts industry practitioners to discuss latest trends, common patterns for real world data patterns, and analytics success stories.

In this episode with Jaekob Chenina, you will learn: Why do many AI initiatives fail?What kind of skill sets do you need on an AI Product team and what each role does?What are some ways to assemble an AI Product team? Intro music by Peter Boros of The Nameless Citizens

In this episode, we have the pleasure of introducing you to Principal Product Strategist, Harshad Parashare. Harshad works out of our Atlanta office and was Jeff Mette's first hire after opening that location. Harshad has lived all over the world and has had a number of roles with other companies before coming to Method. Aside from being a talented teammate, He has a very unique side business where he brings international theater and music performances to cities in the United States and the UK. We think you'll enjoy getting to know him so click that play button.

Today I am speaking with Alejandro Machado, Product Strategist at Bitrefill. When I was introduced to Alejandro, I was told that he is someone who not only has a unique perspective on crypto and its potential impact on the world, but he's working on solutions to make it happen. Alejandro is Co-founder at the Open Money Initiative, an organization dedicated to researching perception, product, and policy related to digital money. And he recently joined the team at Bitrefill, the world's largest crypto-only e-commerce site. During our discussion, you will hear how Alejandro left career opportunities in Web2 to pursue his passions in Web3. We also discuss his passion for making a difference in his home country of Venezuela, his vision for how digital currency can impact the world, and how Bitrefill is making it possible to use crypto for everyday living – from making purchases at Amazon or paying your credit card. Show NotesThe GRTiQ Podcast takes listeners inside The Graph (GRT) by interviewing members of The Graph's community and ecosystem.  Please help support this project and build the community by subscribing and leaving a review.Twitter: GRT_iQwww.GRTiQ.com

David Chapa, Chief Evangelist and Product Strategist discusses the Technical Evangelist role, why we should flip the term backup & recovery, the reason ransomware is here to stay, and his views on Recovery Time and Recovery Point Objectives.

In this episode, we talk with Dmitri Love. Dmitri is a senior product strategist at Method. Dmitri has had a very unique road to his current role. He went to college to become a doctor but eventually changed directions and pursued a career in the tech world. That decision would force him to take on a number of new challenges, find new outlets to exercise creative problem-solving skills, and eventually land him a spot on the TV show Shark Tank.  Dmitri is one of our many amazing fully remote employees. He calls Arkansas home and takes advantage of the outdoor lifestyle it provides. I think you'll enjoy getting to know him as we discuss his journey to Method and his many hobbies outside of work. 

Aurélien Douay est Product Strategist au sein de Riplee. Dans ce nouvel épisode qui prend place au cœur des coulisses de l'agence, il nous explique les spécificités de son métiers, et la façon dont avec ses équipes, il gère les projets des clients et les aide à prendre les meilleures décisions. En tant que product strategist, Aurélien a pour mission de définir les bases d'un produit ou d'un service digital. En fonction des problématiques de ses clients, il travaille main dans la main avec eux pour co-construire une solution adaptée à leurs besoins et aux problèmes utilisateurs. En 2021, plusieurs tendances digitales se sont démarquées : Les NFT, la blockchain et le Metaverse. Ils sont au cœur du métier d'Aurélien, qui se donne pour mission de conseiller au mieux ses clients sur ces sujets d'avenir. Tester ces technologies émergentes et comprendre leur utilité et leur potentielle application à sa marque ou son business est essentiel. Lorsqu'un client fait appel à l'expertise d'Aurélien, ce dernier analyse son écosystème, ses problématiques, ses cibles pour les allier au mieux avec de la technologie. Aurélien et son équipe apportent leur avis et leur œil d'expert afin d'évaluer la faisabilité des projets et leur complexité. Ainsi, ils peuvent définir des priorités et des critères propres à chaque enseigne et à chaque produit, et permettre au client de choisir l'idée qu'il souhaite investiguer. Face aux tests d'une application, une interface vocale, un prototype, ce sont les retours utilisateurs qui indiquent si le projet est prêt à être développé. La finalité est de développer des projets pérennes, qui resteront dans les habitudes et évolueront main dans la main avec l'entreprise. Au sein de Riplee, l'expertise des équipes est incontestable. Experts en produits digitaux, rester humbles et pragmatiques est la clé de leur réussite. « On n'est pas là pour inventer le marché, mais pour faire en sorte que nos clients le suivent, » indique Aurélien. Retrouvez Aurélien Douay sur Twitter pour suivre ses actualités. Bonne écoute !Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Welcome to Afterhours on Contingent Workforce Radio, a new podcast series hosted by Julie Scagell, Utmost's Sr. Content Marketing Manager. In this episode, Chirag Sheth, Global Director of Procurement at Genentech, and Steve Knapp, Product Strategist here at Utmost, discuss the often overlooked but critical importance of invoicing and the impact on the extended workforce. ----- Find us on LinkedIn and read our latest blogs!

In this week's episode of Just Getting Started, we sit down with Tiffany Cordero, an NYC-based ballerina, writer, journalist, and currently a Product Strategist for an asset management firm. We learn about Tiffany's background as a professionally-trained ballerina and how being open to trying new things helped lead her to where she is today. Follow the podcast @justgettingstartedpodcast on Instagram! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/amanda-droll/support

Jaime Levy shares the importance (and danger ⚡) of putting yourself into your work, how UX going mainstream has changed the field, and wonders, “where are all of our design heroes?”. Highlights include: ⭐ How is the mainstreaming of UX changing the field? ⭐ Why is it important to put yourself into your work? ⭐ How far do we have to go to create a meaningful career? ⭐ Why did you stop teaching UX at university? ⭐ How do you reconcile being burned out with being an overachiever? ====== Who is Jaime Levy? Jaime is a world-leading UX and Product Strategist, based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 30 years she has been a pioneer of digital products and services, working for Fortune 500 companies and award-winning agencies, across many sectors. The author of the best selling book, “UX Strategy: Product Strategy Techniques for Devising Innovative Solutions”, which has been translated into 9 languages and is now in its second edition - Jaime knows a thing or two about UX strategy. A passionate and longstanding contributor to the UX community, Jaime regularly delivers workshops, online masterclasses, and speeches at conferences, such as Interaction Latin America, From Business to Buttons, and UX Week, on top of her consulting engagements.  ====== Find Jaime here:   Website: https://jaimelevy.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaimerlevy/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaimeRLevy/    Buy the book:   UX Strategy - Product Strategy Techniques for Devising Innovative Digital Solutions:  https://www.userexperiencestrategy.com/   ====== Liked what you heard and want to hear more? Subscribe and support the show by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you listen). Follow us on our other social channels for more great Brave UX content! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TheSpaceInBetween/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-space-in-between/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespaceinbetw__n/  ====== Hosted by Brendan Jarvis: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanjarvis/ Website: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis/

In this episode, we are sitting down with Product Strategist, Hannah Bettinger. Hannah is an outdoor junkie who is currently taking full advantage of the remote work opportunities we have at Method. She is traveling the world in order to work in new cities and experience places that were previously unknown to her.  We loved getting to know Hannah, and hearing about her adventures. She has an infectious personality that I know you will enjoy. We talk through her path to Method, her passion for her work, and her love for the outdoors. 

https://youtu.be/yS-ULxcZhG4 (Entrevista en video) ▶️ Oscar es Product Strategist, mentor y speaker. Hoy vamos a aprender sobre: Qué está pasando con la revolución digital Cómo podemos adapatrnos a ella Cómo mejorar nuestra situación profesional en este contexto

Jennifer McArdle is an Adjunct Senior Fellow with the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and a Product Strategist at Improbable LLC, an emerging global leader in distributed simulation technology for military planning, training, and decision support. Her research focuses on military innovation, readiness, and synthetic training. She currently serves as an expert member of a NATO technical working group that is developing cyber effects for the military alliance’s mission and campaign simulations. Her work has been featured in Real Clear World, The Cyber Defense Review, National Defense Magazine, and War on the Rocks, among others. Ms. McArdle previously served as an Assistant Professor of Cyber Defense at Salve Regina University, where she lectured on the relationship between national security and disruptive technologies. In our interview with Ms. McArdle, we discuss the future of the Synthetic Training Environment, flexibility and scalability in training systems, and the critical need for a new agile approach to training that can keep pace with the dynamic character of warfare. The following bullet points highlight key insights from our interview: Synthetic training will be instrumental in providing the next generation of Soldiers with the tools they need to succeed in a new era of warfare. The adoption of synthetic training and simulation will empower realistic individual and collective multi-echelon and multi-domain training and mission rehearsal, advanced wargaming, and enhanced decision-making. The New American Way of Training Initiative at CNAS examines how the military will be required to train and fight in the future, using the Cold War as a model. During the Cold War, intense tension and sporadic ‘hot’ proxy conflicts spurred a series of innovations that required radical changes to military training and organization. This new CNAS initiative will help ensure that our future individual and collective training programs meet the needs of our warfighters, today and in the future. The DoD should focus on developing modular synthetic training architectures, enabling it to adapt training and simulations more readily as warfare evolves. This method differs from current synthetic simulators, which are monolithic in nature (i.e., large, complicated, and un-editable platforms). Modular training simulations will give future Soldiers ‘degradation dominance,’ or the ability to maintain high levels of performance under duress. The DoD should require modular components of training platforms in future acquisition contracts. Such contracts will also reduce cost for the DoD, as updating platforms will require less overhaul than monolithic platforms. Synthetic training is particularly important for success in

Research shows that bad audio is the single most important factor in people stopping watching videos. Simply put, bad audio means no viewers. And, of course, as video creators, we want viewers! So how can you improve the quality of your audio recording to get perfect audio for your videos? As a beginner, it can be overwhelming stepping into the world of video. When you add audio into the mix, it becomes even more difficult to know what levers to pull to get the outcome you want. Jake Pechtel is the Product Strategist for Camtasia and Audiate and has over seven years' experience at TechSmith. In this episode, he shares some high-level tips and more advanced insights about how to achieve that perfect audio for your videos and keep your viewers watching for longer. Learning points from the episode include: The three Cs of good audio Why beginners should prioritize simple, clean audio recordings The audio mistakes to avoid How to improve your audio recording skills How Audiate can help you get perfect audio Important links and mentions: TechSmith Audiate: https://www.techsmith.com/audiate.html (https://www.techsmith.com/audiate.html) TechSmith High Five: Jewel Tolentino - Essetino Artists on YouTube https://youtu.be/jWGs0RsIj-k (https://youtu.be/jWGs0RsIj-k) Reach out to us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TechSmith (https://twitter.com/TechSmith) Tag us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/techsmith-corporation (https://www.linkedin.com/company/techsmith-corporation) Email us: thevisuallounge@techsmith.com Matt's Twitter: https://twitter.com/piercemr (https://twitter.com/piercemr) Learn more about the https://academy.techsmith.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=visuallounge&utm_perfectaudio (TechSmith Academy) To read the blog post on the topic or watch the video, go to: https://www.techsmith.com/blog/perfect-video-audio (https://www.techsmith.com/blog/perfect-video-audio)

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt is joined by Samantha Jozwik, Market Product Strategistat Adobe. They discuss a customer-first focus for sales ops, using this approach for forecasting in 2021, and an empathetic approach to helping Sales reps improve their productivity.

Tom Illmensee is a product strategist, UX designer and researcher, startup coach, entrepreneur, music-maker, improviser, truth-seeker, and community organizer based in Richmond, VA. He is a Principal Product Strategist at Philosophie, a digital innovation studio, and Co-Founder and CEO of Orbital Music Park, an inclusive community and creative space for music-makers. Tom joins Ryan Shriver for Bounded Context EP 19 and sheds light on the question, how do we honor our time with others? Connect with Tom: Website, LinkedIn, Twitter Song X Studio Orbital Music Park Philosophie Group Inc. Welcome to the Universe, Neil Degrasse Tyson The Practicing Stoic, Ward Farnsworth Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better, Pema Chödrön Pocket Change, Nate Smith Mandolin U Srinivas Prince

Acá platicamos con Sarahí, ella ayuda a clientes, empresas y personas a encontrar su lugar para poder colaborar juntos. Su pasión es generar relaciones humanas más cercanas y apoyar en el empoderamiento y crecimiento de las personas. Actualmente es reclutadora en Multiplica Talent y se encarga de llevar perfiles digitales; Content strategist, UX Writer, UX Research, UX Designer, UI Designer, UX/UI, Product Designer, Service Designer, Product Strategist, etc. ¿Quieres mejorar tu situación laboral? ¡Escáchalo ahora! Links de interés: Diseñadores del futuro: ¿Como conseguir chambas de diseño? LinkedIn: Sarahí Cárdenas García Instagram: @Kaz.toxik69 Mail (para vacantes o feedback a Cvs y books): sarahi@multiplica.com Visita simbiosispodcast.com y continúa la conversación en Facebook, Instagram y Discord. Comparte y suscríbete/síguenos a través de Spotify o tu reproductor de podcasts preferido. Así, llegaremos a más simbiontes como nosotros.

Acá platicamos con Sarahí, ella ayuda a clientes, empresas y personas a encontrar su lugar para poder colaborar juntos. Su pasión es generar relaciones humanas más cercanas y apoyar en el empoderamiento y crecimiento de las personas. Actualmente es reclutadora en Multiplica Talent y se encarga de llevar perfiles digitales; Content strategist, UX Writer, UX Research, UX Designer, UI Designer, UX/UI, Product Designer, Service Designer, Product Strategist, etc. ¿Quieres mejorar tu situación laboral? ¡Escáchalo ahora! Links de interés: Diseñadores del futuro: ¿Cómo conseguir chambas de diseño? LinkedIn: Sarahí Cárdenas García Instagram: @Kaz.toxik69 Mail (para vacantes o feedback a Cvs y books): sarahi@multiplica.com Visita simbiosispodcast.com y continúa la conversación en Facebook, Instagram y Discord. Comparte y suscríbete/síguenos a través de Spotify o tu reproductor de podcasts preferido. Así, llegaremos a más simbiontes como nosotros.

Get your team unstuck when you're trying to validate new product innovation ideas with an introduction to the learning loop mental model. Ryan and Robert give an introduction to the Learning Loop, one of the mental models used for validating product innovation ideas for businesses. Learn how you can use a learning loop to see the big picture and make better decisions when innovating new products.Join Ryan Hatch, Head of Product Strategy, and Robert Kaminski, Product Strategist as they discuss their approach to validating product innovation ideas for businesses.You'll also hear their perspective on where product and venture teams get stuck in the details of the innovation process and how they zoom back out to get more actionable insights.Show NotesContinue the conversation on Twitter -@ExploringPrdct@rdkhatch@candidrobert

Tom Illmensee is a product strategist, user experience designer and researcher, startup coach, entrepreneur, music-maker, improviser, truth-seeker, and community organizer based in Richmond, Virginia. Tom is a Principal Product Strategist at Philosophie, a digital innovation studio. Tom is also co-founder and CEO of Orbital Music Park, an inclusive community and creative space for music-makers. 

Prior to founding MedStack Balaji Gopalan was perhaps best known as the Product Strategist who brought BlackBerry's iconic BBM service to market. Balaji is a passionate advocate of tech for good, platforms, data security and privacy and digital health. In 2014 Balaji was looking to build a developer platform for a digital identification company called Nimy, and while holding a hackathon he serendipitously met his now co-founder of MedStack, Simon Woodside. Fast-forward a few years and many accelerator-incubator experiences later – MedStack has affiliations with Dreamit Health, Creative Destruction Lab, 500 Startups, and Toronto's DMZ – this partnership has grown to support over 70 (and still growing) digital health, health-tech and medical device companies in both the US Canada. With a growing revenue stream, even through the pandemic, they are also backed by TELUS Ventures, ScaleUP Ventures, Panache Ventures, BCMF Ventures and the Ontario Centres of Excellence, among others, and have received numerous awards and recognitions including the Canadian Innovation Exchange Top 20, Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance Award, being named to PWC's list of top companies changing healthcare in Canada, and TechCrunch Disrupt pick. When not leading his company MedStack or acting as mentor for accelerators, Balaji spends his time as a musician and songwriter, father and making breakfast. It was a pleasure getting to Balaji and his mission and vision of enabling companies to build better healthcare systems around the world. Also check out the full episode on our YT channel, MedTech Trends: https://youtu.be/6Rgl1nsHdWM Find out more about how MedStack can help your healthcare company: https://medstack.co/ For partnerships, email: balaji@medstack.co Twitter: https://twitter.com/MedStack FB: https://www.facebook.com/medstack/ LI: https://www.linkedin.com/company/medstack/ Check out the MedStack Control product demo: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtNyNCYNaHW69Jk89ydFj3g

Sapiens' Data and Analytics Product Strategist, Amir Raskin, joins Coruzant Technologies for the Digital Executive podcast.  He shares how his love for both technology and human resources drove him to obtain both degrees, which in turn made for a very productive marriage in BI and Analytics.

In 30 minutes, Data Guru Linda Harrison and Sales/Product Strategist Jeff Wingfield wrap up a year that’s given marketers challenges and laser focus at levels never seen before. Basic demographics like age took on new levels of importance in serving customers, and it was key for brands to keep a voice in the marketplace despite all the changes. As budgets tightened, it was critical to make sure every dollar was invested in the right way. Hear the advice Jeff and Linda delivered to help clients move forward successfully in a trying year.

In this episode with Steve Johnson, you’ll learn: Why is it important to have a clear understanding of Product Management?What are the main Product activities?What are the steps that a Product person (PM or Product Leader) should take to change the way Product is done in their org? Steve Johnson is an author, speaker, and strategist within the technology product community. At Under10 Consulting, he helps product teams implement the latest methods for today’s business environments. A founding instructor at Pragmatic Marketing and now a process coach with Under10, Steve has been a long-time advocate for product management, serving as an advisor to a number of technical product organizations and industry associations. Get the free cheat sheet with all actionable tips and notes from this episode in a one-page PDF at bit.ly/pmhub22 Intro music by Peter Boros of The Nameless Citizens

Hi everyone, this week I am chatting to Emma Thomson, Product Strategist at British Friendly. Last year Emma was diagnosed with https://www.specialrisksbureau.co.uk/health-conditions/life-insurance-after-breast-cancer/ (breast cancer) and she is joining me on the podcast to talk about her experience of having cancer, her treatment and her tips on reviewing your protection insurances. Emma is chatting about the extra costs of cancer too, the things that people often don't talk about e.g. post-surgery bras. She also tells us how she now has 3 tattoos thanks to her treatment, something that she never expected and I think that she sounds quite relieved that they are only tiny dots. With no family history of cancer and a negative result on the BRCA gene, Emma is an example of how cancer can happen to anybody. Working in protection insurance all of her life, she had the foresight to get private medical insurance, critical illness cover and income protection in place, all of which were able to support her during her diagnosis and recovery. The 3 key takeaways: How you can use https://www.knowyourlemons.com (lemons) to help spot the symptoms of cancer. The importance of reviewing your protection insurance, especially if you are changing jobs and your employee benefits change. A case study about getting life insurance for a client that had breast cancer, whilst stricter underwriting decisions have been in place due to coronavirus. I might be back sooner than usual with another Inbetweenysode. Watch this space!! In two weeks I will be chatting with Richard Lemmon, my Dad, about his experiences living with https://www.specialrisksbureau.co.uk/health-conditions/parkinsons-disease/ (Parkinson's disease).

Ep 41 | Lis Fernandez UX Consultant & Product Strategist charla con nosotros sobre como dar ese salto grande Diseñador Sr. a Líder de equipo, es un tema que a mí particularmente me interesa mucho y estoy casi seguro que a uds también por el feedback que me dieron en el Mini episodio de Diseñador Jr. a Diseñador Sr...en esta oportunidad Lis nos habla desde su experiencia y explica la cosas que tuvo que aprender sola o con cursos y en que la apoyo la empresa, además nos comenta cuáles son los momentos más fuertes y como resolverlos como por ejemplo el primer conflicto en el equipo

Eric Jorgenson is the author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, a book collecting and curating Naval Ravikant’s wisdom from Twitter, Podcasts, and Essays over the past decade.Release Date: September 15th. Eric is Product Strategist at Zaarly and a writer. His business blog, https://medium.com/evergreen-business-weekly, has educated and entertained more than one million readers since 2014. Website: https://www.navalmanack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EricJorgenson ABOUT THE PODCAST Hi, I'm Tobias Carlisle. I've launched a new podcast called The Acquirers Podcast. The podcast is about finding undervalued stocks, deep value investing, hedge funds, activism, buyouts, and special situations. We uncover the tactics and strategies for finding good investments, managing risk, dealing with bad luck, and maximizing success. SEE LATEST EPISODES https://acquirersmultiple.com/podcast/ SEE OUR FREE DEEP VALUE STOCK SCREENER https://acquirersmultiple.com/screener/ FOLLOW TOBIAS Firm: https://acquirersfunds.com/ Website: https://acquirersmultiple.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Greenbackd LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobycarlisle Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tobiascarlisle Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tobias_carlisle ABOUT TOBIAS CARLISLE Tobias Carlisle is the founder of The Acquirer’s Multiple®, and Acquirers Funds®. He is best known as the author of the #1 new release in Amazon’s Business and Finance The Acquirer’s Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market, the Amazon best-sellers Deep Value: Why Activists Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations (2014) (https://amzn.to/2VwvAGF), Quantitative Value: A Practitioner’s Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors (2012) (https://amzn.to/2SDDxrN), and Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World’s Greatest Concentrated Value Investors (2016) (https://amzn.to/2SEEjVn). He has extensive experience in investment management, business valuation, public comp

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways  Be aware of the multiplying by zero effect: One bad variable that can ruin the whole experience Ex: You might own a beautiful restaurant with amazing food, but if the bathrooms are filthy and overflowing, you’ll have no customerEx: You have your dream job and dream company, but if your manager is a jerk and hates you for no reason, you’ll hate working there“Impatience with action, patience with results” – Naval RavikantDo that workout or write that blog post today, but don’t expect huge results right away “Hard work matters but it’s not the most important thing” – Eric JorgensonYou need to work smart and build some sort of leverage. Otherwise, you’re just working hard and going in a circle.Naval is a fan of the iron prescription: Follow the most rigorous piece of advice and if you do it, you’ll be a level above everyone elseEx: Read the foundational books in your field, such as Darwin’s Origin of Species if you’re studying evolutionEx: Read The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham if you’re studying finance“I’m going to make it through this thing and it’s going to be hard but once I do, I’ll be much more capable of kind of whatever comes next” – Eric JorgensonRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgMy guest today is Eric Jorgenson, a Product Strategist at Zaarly and the author of the Almanack of Naval Ravikant: a guide to wealth and happiness. The book collects and curates Naval's wisdom from Twitter, podcasts, and essays over the past decade. Naval is the founder of Angel List, an angel investor who has invested in companies like Twitter and Uber, and the man behind one of the most popular Twitter accounts in the world. He's known for his thoughts on startups, investing, crypto, wealth, and happiness. This is a conversation about that book. We began the conversation talking about Multiply by Zero Effects, which comes from a short e-book Eric wrote called Career Advice for Uniquely Ambitious People. Then, we moved onto the Almanac. We talked about the differences between Charlie Munger and Naval Ravikant, building specific knowledge, and how operating companies influenced Naval's philosophy of life. At the end, we also jammed on what Naval would say to the owners of Joe's Bar-B-Que, Eric's favorite restaurant in Kansas City. ____________________________ Show Notes 2:28 - Why Eric wrote his new book, and what he regrets not putting in it. 6:15 - What Eric thinks Charlie Munger and Naval Ravikant would disagree on most. 9:34 - Why people like Naval and Munger often give advice as the "Iron Prescription" to solve a problem or learn in a field. 12:13 - Why so many Silicon Valley entrepreneurs were on track to be an academic but then split off. 13:20 - What entrepreneurs can learn from how comedians develop their voice and leverage their following. 15:57 - What knowledge Naval has that is unique only to him in his field. 19:36 - How to maximize leverage and value as an entrepreneur and in your career. 23:26 - What defines a startup, and what Eric has learned from Nivi through his writings on VentureHacks. 25:37 - How Naval uses Twitter as a repository for his ideas and findings and as a forge to test them out. 31:22 - Naval's view of hard work and how it has changed over time. 34:40 - Why it took multiple rereadings of his book and years of observation and experience for Eric to start fully understanding Naval's idea of "productize yourself". 36:11 - What about Eric's own book did he start to resent by the end of creating it. 40:01 - How the message of the book changed as Eric was compressing and cutting the source material down. 43:10 - Why Eric could not have done this book without loving Naval's work as much as he does. 46:19 - What advice Naval would give to Eric's favorite restaurant, Joe's Barbecue. 48:45 - Why David has never forgotten Eric's comment on how "owning a home is a never-ending battle against water" and what he means when he says that. 50:20 - How writing this book gave Eric "more clarity, confidence, and peace through all aspects of life."

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways  Be aware of the multiplying by zero effect: One bad variable that can ruin the whole experience Ex: You might own a beautiful restaurant with amazing food, but if the bathrooms are filthy and overflowing, you’ll have no customerEx: You have your dream job and dream company, but if your manager is a jerk and hates you for no reason, you’ll hate working there“Impatience with action, patience with results” – Naval RavikantDo that workout or write that blog post today, but don’t expect huge results right away “Hard work matters but it’s not the most important thing” – Eric JorgensonYou need to work smart and build some sort of leverage. Otherwise, you’re just working hard and going in a circle.Naval is a fan of the iron prescription: Follow the most rigorous piece of advice and if you do it, you’ll be a level above everyone elseEx: Read the foundational books in your field, such as Darwin’s Origin of Species if you’re studying evolutionEx: Read The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham if you’re studying finance“I’m going to make it through this thing and it’s going to be hard but once I do, I’ll be much more capable of kind of whatever comes next” – Eric JorgensonRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgMy guest today is Eric Jorgenson, a Product Strategist at Zaarly and the author of the Almanack of Naval Ravikant: a guide to wealth and happiness. The book collects and curates Naval's wisdom from Twitter, podcasts, and essays over the past decade. Naval is the founder of Angel List, an angel investor who has invested in companies like Twitter and Uber, and the man behind one of the most popular Twitter accounts in the world. He's known for his thoughts on startups, investing, crypto, wealth, and happiness. This is a conversation about that book. We began the conversation talking about Multiply by Zero Effects, which comes from a short e-book Eric wrote called Career Advice for Uniquely Ambitious People. Then, we moved onto the Almanac. We talked about the differences between Charlie Munger and Naval Ravikant, building specific knowledge, and how operating companies influenced Naval's philosophy of life. At the end, we also jammed on what Naval would say to the owners of Joe's Bar-B-Que, Eric's favorite restaurant in Kansas City. ____________________________ Show Notes 2:28 - Why Eric wrote his new book, and what he regrets not putting in it. 6:15 - What Eric thinks Charlie Munger and Naval Ravikant would disagree on most. 9:34 - Why people like Naval and Munger often give advice as the "Iron Prescription" to solve a problem or learn in a field. 12:13 - Why so many Silicon Valley entrepreneurs were on track to be an academic but then split off. 13:20 - What entrepreneurs can learn from how comedians develop their voice and leverage their following. 15:57 - What knowledge Naval has that is unique only to him in his field. 19:36 - How to maximize leverage and value as an entrepreneur and in your career. 23:26 - What defines a startup, and what Eric has learned from Nivi through his writings on VentureHacks. 25:37 - How Naval uses Twitter as a repository for his ideas and findings and as a forge to test them out. 31:22 - Naval's view of hard work and how it has changed over time. 34:40 - Why it took multiple rereadings of his book and years of observation and experience for Eric to start fully understanding Naval's idea of "productize yourself". 36:11 - What about Eric's own book did he start to resent by the end of creating it. 40:01 - How the message of the book changed as Eric was compressing and cutting the source material down. 43:10 - Why Eric could not have done this book without loving Naval's work as much as he does. 46:19 - What advice Naval would give to Eric's favorite restaurant, Joe's Barbecue. 48:45 - Why David has never forgotten Eric's comment on how "owning a home is a never-ending battle against water" and what he means when he says that. 50:20 - How writing this book gave Eric "more clarity, confidence, and peace through all aspects of life."

My guest today is Eric Jorgenson, a Product Strategist at Zaarly and the author of the Almanack of Naval Ravikant: a guide to wealth and happiness. The book collects and curates Naval's wisdom from Twitter, podcasts, and essays over the past decade. Naval is the founder of Angel List, an angel investor who has invested in companies like Twitter and Uber, and the man behind one of the most popular Twitter accounts in the world. He's known for his thoughts on startups, investing, crypto, wealth, and happiness. This is a conversation about that book. We began the conversation talking about Multiply by Zero Effects, which comes from a short e-book Eric wrote called Career Advice for Uniquely Ambitious People. Then, we moved onto the Almanac. We talked about the differences between Charlie Munger and Naval Ravikant, building specific knowledge, and how operating companies influenced Naval's philosophy of life. At the end, we also jammed on what Naval would say to the owners of Joe's Bar-B-Que, Eric's favorite restaurant in Kansas City. ____________________________ Show Notes 2:28 - Why Eric wrote his new book, and what he regrets not putting in it. 6:15 - What Eric thinks Charlie Munger and Naval Ravikant would disagree on most. 9:34 - Why people like Naval and Munger often give advice as the "Iron Prescription" to solve a problem or learn in a field. 12:13 - Why so many Silicon Valley entrepreneurs were on track to be an academic but then split off. 13:20 - What entrepreneurs can learn from how comedians develop their voice and leverage their following. 15:57 - What knowledge Naval has that is unique only to him in his field. 19:36 - How to maximize leverage and value as an entrepreneur and in your career. 23:26 - What defines a startup, and what Eric has learned from Nivi through his writings on VentureHacks. 25:37 - How Naval uses Twitter as a repository for his ideas and findings and as a forge to test them out. 31:22 - Naval's view of hard work and how it has changed over time. 34:40 - Why it took multiple rereadings of his book and years of observation and experience for Eric to start fully understanding Naval's idea of "productize yourself". 36:11 - What about Eric's own book did he start to resent by the end of creating it. 40:01 - How the message of the book changed as Eric was compressing and cutting the source material down. 43:10 - Why Eric could not have done this book without loving Naval's work as much as he does. 46:19 - What advice Naval would give to Eric's favorite restaurant, Joe's Barbecue. 48:45 - Why David has never forgotten Eric's comment on how "owning a home is a never-ending battle against water" and what he means when he says that. 50:20 - How writing this book gave Eric "more clarity, confidence, and peace through all aspects of life."

Natasha asks Dani Laity of Aurora Sustainability to unpack the sustainable tech product strategies and monetization models powering Aurora Sustainability—2020 Noonie Nominee in for Best Use of Tech for Good in hackernoon.com’s annual internet awards! VOTE: noonies.tech    Covered in this interview:  How solve problems so relevant that your products build themselves The global shift from return on investment to return on environment Why betting on millennial interests is good business The fringe benefits of a distributed team, made up entirely of part-time freelancers and side-hustlers Why it’s important to over-emote when your team is remote Product strategy’s most transferable skills, from banking and fintech to sustainability READ MORE ON HACKERNOON.COM:  https://hackernoon.com/tagged/product  https://hackernoon.com/tagged/sustainability/ https://hackernoon.com/tagged/product-management/ https://hackernoon.com/tagged/product-strategy/ https://hackernoon.com/tagged/climate-change/ VOTE FOR YOUR BEST TECH IN THE 2020 NOONIES: https://noonies.tech/award/best-use-of-tech-for-good https://noonies.tech/award/best-green-tech https://noonies.tech/award/hacker-noon-contributor-of-the-year-women-in-tech https://noonies.tech/  TAKE THE AURORA SUSTAINABILITY QUIZ: https://aurorasustainability.com/quiz/ JOIN THE AURORA SUSTAINABILITY COMMUNITY:  https://www.instagram.com/aurorasustainability.sa/ https://www.facebook.com/AuroraSustainabilityCommunity/ 

FlowForma's Product Strategist, Paul Stone discusses the paperless revolution that is hitting construction and how the move away from paper has shifted construction into the fast lane.

In this episode of Infinite Loops we spoke with Eric Jorgenson, Product Strategist at Zaarly, and author of the Almanack of Naval Ravikant. We discuss: Who is Naval Ravikant? The key lessons from Naval’s writing and career What made Eric want to write this book? Wealth, happiness, and leverage And much more… You can follow Eric on Twitter (https://twitter.com/EricJorgenson ) and learn more about his new book here (https://www.navalmanack.com/).

Because of COVID-19 and the constant threat of natural disasters, there is increasing awareness of the importance of remote monitoring and management and mobility to reduce business disruption. In this podcast, ARC Advisory Group’s Ed O’Brien delves more deeply into these topics with Kevin Price and Navin Kulkarni from Infor. Kevin Price: Technical Product Evangelist & Product Strategist at InforNavin Kulkarni: Sr. Director, Product Management at InforEd O’Brien: Director of Research at ARC Advisory GroupParticipants;Kevin Price: Technical Product Evangelist & Product Strategist at InforNavin Kulkarni: Sr. Director, Product Management at InforEd O’Brien: Director of Research at ARC Advisory Group

A Juliana passou anos na agência Click e tem histórias interessantes dessa época de ouro da web na Brasil, nos conta também as primeiras tentativas de converter publicações impressas em digital Lembre que você pode acessar a galeria virtual no endereço www.expatria.co Juliana na rede: Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/julianaconstantino Website pessoal: www.juconstantino.work --- Obrigado a Invision por ser nosso parceiro comercial nessa temporada, aproveite do desconto de 25% que o nosso amigo Jardel está dando para todos os brasileiros que assinarem uma conta enterprise, entre em contato pelo email jardeldeandrade@invisionapp.com --- Vc pode sempre entrar em contato comigo pelos seguintes canais Email: a.lucca@luccaco.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/all_lucca LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/luccaco

Hey there Fangirl Nation! It's time for another awesome episode of Get My Job on BlueWire. This week, I sit down with NFL Media Senior Product Strategist, Lindsay Turk. Lindsay shares her journey to a career in sports, the most rewarding and challenging products she's worked on, the importance of finding your unique strength and much more. Listeners also receive insight into what makes their favorite NFL media products happen. Enjoy!

A podcast about failure? Really? That's the best you can do?In this introductory episode, Ryan Hatch (entrepreneur and product strategy consultant) and I riff on the idea of failure and its relative importance to success. Why failure? Why is it... --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/whatnottodo/support

“I think we're getting to an interesting inflection point, with many different fields of technology, where we’re able to take disparate pieces that are mature enough for us to reasonably combine and make really impactful things.” That’s Abe Carryl, Booz Allen Hamilton’s Product Strategist, who focuses his time on rapid prototyping and product development. Abe stopped by the studio during Austin Startup Week to chat about his endeavors with Booz Allen Hamilton, working with startups, and cutting edge tech that's currently being built.

Andrew is a product strategist who currently spends most of his time focused on mental health solutions. Andrew isn’t shy about his history with anxiety and depression and talks openly about his past experiences to be a vocal advocate for mental health. At the age of 33, Andrew was diagnosed with ADHD. It wasn’t something he had always suspected but rather Andrew stumbled into the realization. Since his diagnosis, Andrew has used his ADHD to further advocate however he can - even if that means in the boardroom.   Andrew is also a father of 3 boys and married to a wonderful woman who has supported him throughout his career. She has been there through the highs and lows. Andrew often leverages his own struggles to help connect with his Son as Andrew’s Son tries to navigate his own battles with anxiety and potentially faster than normal brain. At the end of the day, Andrew believes that if sharing his own story can help just one person then it’s totally worth it. Enjoy!   In this episode Peter & Andrew discuss: 0:45-  Intro & welcome Andrew! 1:36-  You weren’t diagnosed until you were 33 years old. What was school like for you? 2:43-  “Social Outcast” or “Coolest Kid in School”. Why do you think it’s so “all or nothing” for us? 5:17-  It wasn’t only ADHD with you though; tell us a little about some of your other challenges. 10:15-  What have you learned from the times when everything seems to be crumbling around you? 15:25-  On 3 minutes at a time. 16:24-  What’s it like to have a career in Mental Health, but also have the ability to draw from your own personal experiences, perspective and prerogative? 20:28-  How can people find you Andrew? @AndrewKelly on Twitter  INSTA  or via his new company at:  TOGTHR.ca and we found him here too: http://www.andrewkelly.ca 21:20-  Thank you Andrew! And thank YOU for subscribing, reviewing and listening. Your reviews are working! Even if you’ve reviewed us before, would you please write even a short one for this episode? Each review that you post helps to ensure that word will continue to spread, and that we will all be able to reach & help more people! You can always reach me via peter@shankman.com or @petershankman on all of the socials. You can also find us at @FasterThanNormal on all of the socials. 22:07-  Faster Than Normal Podcast info & credits As always, leave us a comment below and please drop us a review on iTunes and of course, subscribe to the podcast if you haven’t already! As you know, the more reviews we get, the more people we can reach. Help us to show the world that ADHD is a gift, not a curse! Do you know of anyone you think should be on the FTN podcast? Shoot us a note, we’d love to hear!

And now for something completely different… Kaely Hall has been working in the capacity of ScrumMaster and Product Owner for the last 16 months. She recently took LeadingAgile’s Certified Scrum Product Owner training and in this episode of SoundNotes, Kaely shares how her work as a Product Strategist for Big Nerd Ranch requires her to play the role of ScrumMaster for some clients, Project Manager for some clients, and Product Owner for others. During the interview, Kaely also offers advice and tips or those just stepping into a client-facing an SM or PO role, and how important it is to raise your EQ and develop a rapport with your client as quickly as possible. Blog Post Kaely’s blog post is here: https://bit.ly/2JKVNOW Contacting Kaely Hall Email: kaelyhall33@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaely-hall/ Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungo Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com  

Andrea Hill is a UX Researcher and Product Strategist. She has lead Innovation efforts at companies like LexisNexis, ReadyTalk, and through her own consultancy, Frameplay. Next up for her is a fellowship with Code for Canada, where she’ll be embedded within a division of the government of Canada for 10 months. If you’ve got a complex problem in need of an elegant solution, Andrea is someone you ought to listen to.

Are you building a brand as an artist and creator? Do people get a consistent look, feel, and emotion from every piece of content and collateral you release? Do you know how to actually build a brand? In this episode, Circa sits down with Branding Expert, Product Strategist, and designer of Indepreneur's logos, Casey Schumacher, to discuss HIS creative journey from Rapper to Graphic Designer and gain valuable insight into how to build a brand visually and emotionally. With every Instagram model, YouTuber, and Lambroghini-driving self-help guru talking about "building a brand", the phrase has almost lost its meaning. If you've been having trouble getting your visual and emotional aesthetic down into a solid brand document - this episode is going to give you the help you need!

In this week's episode, Dan and George interview Landon Young and pick his brain about how he helps create alignment within a team as a product strategist at Crema. Connect with Landon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/landonyoung/ Follow us on Instagram: @Option5Podcast Option 5 is brought to you by Crema. Crema is a digital product agency that works with partners from top innovative brands to funded startups. Our team of creative thinkers and doers simplify the complex to discover the right solutions faster. Find Crema on the web at https://www.crema.us Find us on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/Cremalab Intro and outro music by Joel Schuman http://www.joelschuman.com/

Legendas em Português estão disponíveis no Youtube. In this #UXlab Session, I met Jonathan Courtney, the AJ&Smart CEO and Product Strategist. We talked about Design Sprint 2.0 and among other things, about his point of view on User Research and Design Thinking. A must-see conversation. So Inspiring. Huge thanks to Jon for this AWESOME talk and Brittni Bowering, for helping it happen. I loved this conversation. Nesta sessão UXlab eu converso com Jonathan Courtney, CEO e Product Strategist na AJ&Smart (Berlin). Falamos sobre Design Sprint 2.0 e sobre outras muitas outras coisas, como seu ponto de vista sobre Pesquisas com Usuários e Design Thinking. Imperdível! Muito inspirador, muito obrigado ao Jonathan e Brittni Bowering. Eu adorei essas conversa.

Lani Wyche is a product strategist at Dame Products. She holds a BA from Stanford and she has spent some time in agencies, but now she spends her days trying to understand people's sex lives. We discuss: - Design thinking in agencies - The shift from agency to product - Researching what is intimate to people - Sex positivity, sexual wellness, and other important concepts You can find Lani at https://www.laniwyche.com and Dame Products at http://www.dameproducts.com ---- Internets: New Skillshare strategy class: http://skl.sh/markpollard Articles: http://www.markpollard.net Community: http://www.sweathead.co Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/markpollard Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/markpollard

In today's episode, we are talking to Dara, a product strategist/User Experience Designer for a large consulting firm, and homeschooling mother of 2, who works remotely! "We are a beta school, so if something isn't working for them, then we SHIFT." Programs Dara mentions: Math Antics, Video Textbook, Crash Course Game Design and Computer Science, and Big History Project - African Ancient Civilizations, Lost Kingdoms of Africa (documentaries, etc). Please be sure to check out: Website - workingwhilehomeschooling.com Facebook Group - facebook.com/groups/workingwhilehomeschooling Twitter - twitter.com/WorkWHomeschool --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/workingwhilehomeschooling/support

Yoshimasa Satoh, CFA, is APAC’s Product Strategist and Solutions Specialist. He is also the Vice President at eVestment, which is a NASDAQ company. He has been in charge of portfolio management, multi-asset investment strategy and asset allocation model development throughout his career. Previously, he served as a portfolio manager of quantitative investment strategies at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and other companies. He started his career at Nomura Research Institute, where he led Nomura Securities’ equity trading technology team. Yoshimasa is a member of CFA Society Japan. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree of engineering from the University of Tsukuba. In this episode, Yoshimasa shares his worst investment ever story. He did not use his time horizons to plan his goals in life. He did not contemplate on thinking about his future. Instead, he worked so hard doing jobs he did not like at first. It was a good thing that later on, he took the leap to learn and exposed himself to the financial management industry which is his interest.    “You have to find your own career path. Find the best one for yourself and live your own best life.” - Yoshimasa Satoh     What do you want to hear from the My Worst Investment Ever Podcast? Tell us here!   Resources:  My Worst Investment Ever Book   myworstinvestmentever.com     Topics Covered:  00:57 – Yoshimasa Satoh’s professional and personal background 02:22 – Yoshimasa shares his worst investment ever story not investing his time for himself early on in his life 06:04 – Lessons that Yoshimasa learned from the experience, knowing what you really want to do and creating a long-term career plan for yourself 07:20 – Andrew’s breakthrough story with her sister, doing the things we are good at and doing the things we like and what we enjoy 11:37 – Yoshimasa’s actionable tip to avoid people from going through the same pain   Main Takeaways Lesson 1: To keep always be looking for the things you enjoy. For work and in like and try to pursue those. Not from an extent that you are always going to be happy, but you’d be doing the things you enjoy, rather than just making money from the things you did not enjoy. Investing in yourself is the best return on investment you can have. It may be investing in learning a new skill, personal and professional development or pursuing your passion. You need to give time to yourself so you can align your plan and achieve the life you want to live. Lesson 2: To focus on your future. You should always be writing your plans. It is like driving a car. When you are diving a car, you’ve got to look down and you’ve got to also look up. You just can’t focus on what is right in front of you. Or you’ll eventually crash. Lesson 3: Think of long-term. If companies are short-term focused, that gives a great opportunity for those companies that are long-term focused. So do not be afraid to take a long-term view, in your personal and professional life. It is not always going to be popular. But I can tell you over time you can win.   You can also check out Andrew’s books How to Start Building Your Wealth Investing in the Stock Market My Worst Investment Ever 9 Valuation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them Transform Your Business with Dr.Deming’s 14 Points   Connect with Yoshimasa Satoh Linkedin Twitter   Connect with Andrew Stotz: astotz.com Linkedin Facebook Instagram Twitter Youtube My Worst Investment Ever Podcast

In this episode, Niran Vinod, Product Strategist at Facebook/Instagram, shares his career journey (so far), insights on being a 'token' brown guy, and advice on how you can enter the creative/tech industry too. Niran studied BA Creative Advertising Strategy at London College of Communication, and can be contacted on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/niranvinod Linkedin: Niran Vinod Please subscribe, rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts because it really does help others find us too. And, to give us your thoughts or feedback please use #Gradualpod or email us on gradualpodcast@arts.ac.uk

In this talk, Ryan Cunningham, a Product Strategist at UberEats, discusses how he transitioned from Finance into Product. He walks through the key skills that transfer and those that don't, as well as unexpected areas that will require a steep learning curve, particularly in culture and how to spend your time. Based on his experience and lessons learned, Ryan provides insights on how to make this transition as frictionless as possible.

What would happen if we took a Social Expert, Inc. Columnist and Podcast Guru and finally a Content Expert and we put them on a panel and gave them a topic they had no idea was coming? Magic, that’s what. In our second Flash Topic Episode Myself, Jamie Robinson, Tracy Hazzard and Joe Tarnoski tackle the Flash Topic on what is most important to a retailer; Your Product, Your Packaging or Your Pricing. The discussion was epic, the thoughts were provoking and the information was priceless. Don’t miss a minute of the discussion! Welcome back to FLASH TOPIC! Also: Don’t forget to join our new Facebook group On The Shelf Now – https://www.facebook.com/groups/217730312050769/ Here are the profiles our panelists: Jamie Robinson – Owner of Jamm Rob Consulting, and the “Marketer’s Marketer.” Her common-sense approach to the craft has allowed her to discover solutions and create opportunities for businesses, regardless of type, industry or size. Jamie is client lead, but customer focused. Tracey Hazzard – Tracy Hazzard, Inc. Columnist and Product Strategist for Hazz Design has co-designed and developed 250+ consumer products generating more than $1 Billion for her e-commerce and original brand-building clients. She is the co-host of WTFFF?! 3D Printing podcast and the members-only Product Launch Hazzards podcast. Joe Tarnowski: Joe Tarnowski is VP of content for ECRM, a company that helps retailers discover new products and more effectively review and plan their categories across the food, HBC, general merchandise and pharmacy segments. He heads up ECRM’s content marketing initiatives to engage current customers and drive new business, and has been in this role for just under three years. Prior to this, he had a 24-year career as an editor on various trade media brands such as Progressive Grocer, Convenience Store News, and Retail Tech. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! · Here’s How » Join the On The Shelf community today: · Ontheshelfnow.com · On The Shelf Now Facebook Group · On the Shelf Now Facebook · On The Shelf Now Twitter · On the Shelf Now Instagram

What would happen if we took a former Wal-Mart & Sam’s Club buyer, A current University of Colorado Buyer, A Product Design Expert, Inc. Columnist and Podcast Guru and finally a Content and Social Media Expert and we put them on a panel and gave them a topic they had no idea was coming? Magic, that’s what. In our first Flash Topic Episode Salah Khalaf, Cairon Moore, Tracy Hazzard and Joe Tarnoski tackle the Flash Topic on whether Trade Shows have become obsolete or do they still have relevance. The discussion was epic, the thoughts were provoking and the information was priceless. Don’t miss a minute of the discussion! Welcome to FLASH TOPIC! Also: Don’t forget to sign up on our mailing list at www.tlbconsulting.com/mailinglist.html to receive information on upcoming guests and what’s new with On The Shelf. Don’t forget to join our new Facebook group On The Shelf Now – https://www.facebook.com/groups/217730312050769/ Here are the profiles our panelists: Cairon Moore – After completing her MBA and moving to the US, Cairon owned and operated a successful restaurant in Central Jersey for twenty years. In order to find some work life balance she went to work for Rutgers University increasing their sales in Catering and Special Events by 1,166 %. Currently Cairon is the Associate Director for Campus Dining Services at the University of Colorado Boulder. She continues to do restaurant consulting and design work as well as Health & Life Coaching in her personal time. Tracey Hazzard – Tracy Hazzard, Inc. Columnist and Product Strategist for Hazz Design has co-designed and developed 250+ consumer products generating more than $1 Billion for her e-commerce and original brand-building clients. She is the co-host of WTFFF?! 3D Printing podcast and the members-only Product Launch Hazzards podcast. Salah Khalaf: Corporate and retail growth strategist and business development consultant Salah Khalaf has over 25 years of merchandising and operations experience in the retail and warehouse club industry. He most recently led the Supplier Diversity Department at Sam’s Club, where his business unit created solutions to meet the needs of the millions of small business owners that Sam’s Club serves. Additionally, Salah also served on the boards of several national minority organizations representing Walmart Inc. Joe Tarnowski: Joe Tarnowski is VP of content for ECRM, a company that helps retailers discover new products and more effectively review and plan their categories across the food, HBC, general merchandise and pharmacy segments. He heads up ECRM’s content marketing initiatives to engage current customers and drive new business, and has been in this role for just under three years. Prior to this, he had a 24-year career as an editor on various trade media brands such as Progressive Grocer, Convenience Store News, and Retail Tech. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! · Here’s How » Join the On The Shelf community today: · Ontheshelfnow.com · On The Shelf Now Facebook Group · On the Shelf Now Facebook · On The Shelf Now Twitter · On the Shelf Now Instagram

Jonathan Courtney is a UX designer and Product Strategist. He runs the cheeky design blog, UX Messiah. Originally from Ireland, Jonathan moved to Berlin and co-founded the UX Design agency AJ&Smart in 2011. AJ&Smart has worked with some of the largest brands on the planet, including the UN, eBay, Lufthansa, and Zalando. In this insightful interview, Jonathan talks about how he got into UX, what is broken in most agencies design process, and how AJ&Smart uses design sprints to get a high-fidelity prototype in the client's hands in less than a week. Jonathan Courtney - UX Designer http://jonathancourtneyux.com/   AJ&Smart on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ajsmartdesign/   ==================   Our episode this week is sponsored by LiquidWeb. Liquid Web is offering a 33% discount for your first 6 months of managed WordPress hosting. Head over to https://LiquidWeb.com/wordpress and use the code WPTONIC33 at checkout for your discount.   ==================   Table of Contents for Episode 181   0:00 Podcast intros. 2:40 How user experience has evolved over the last ten years, and how Jonathan defines UX. 4:15 Design thinking and how it has influenced UX. 6:29 How AJ&Smart innovated their design process with design sprints. 10:20 Why personas and user research failed where design sprints succeeded with AJ&Smart. 12:50 "Planning is guessing". 13:41 Taking an idea to a nigh-fidelity prototype quickly. 18:47 The collaborative effort that goes into storyboarding an app or a site. 24:01 Why getting to market quickly is better for iteration. 26:52 Every company HAS to have great UX and UI, where 10 years ago, this wasn't the case. 29:07 It's all about the process. 31:29 Metaphors in UX, and how previous conventions, and platform-specific design patterns influence UX decisions. 34:38 Thoughts on major refreshes on apps that millions that people use. 38:40 Does the physicality of a device influence how people use it, and how the design takes shape? 42:59 Are we  heading to a place where templated design puts us out of a job? What should you be focusing on if you are a UX designer? 45:20 "Solve problems, then decorate". The future is now when it comes to the ever-increasingly connected web. 48:28 Digital products are becoming formless. 49:36 Podcast outros.   ===================   Links mentioned during the show: United Nations: Increasing food donations with design sprints   The Lean Startup   Are We Hitting "Peak Design"?   Instagram’s big redesign goes live with a colorful new icon, black-and-white app and more (2016)   ===================   Find bonus content for this episode on the WP-Tonic website: https://www.wp-tonic.com/podcast/181-jonathan-courtney-ux-design/

This week we’re joined by Chris Lema. Chris is a Product Strategist, a people manager, a speaker, and a blogger. He also works with companies to help them build better software products, run better software development teams, improve their marketing messages, and bring their products to market. Rainmaker.FM is Brought to You By Discover why 201,344 website owners trust StudioPress, the industry standard for premium WordPress themes and plugins. Launch your new site today! In this episode Brian Gardner, Lauren Mancke, and Chris Lema discuss: Aligning your work with your areas of expertise Making a course correction in your career Defining leadership by difficult decisions Leveraging WordPress in your business Leadership that requires a move beyond good Taking the leap to achieving success Being sold on yourself to become the leader you were meant to be Listen to StudioPress FM below ... Download MP3Subscribe by RSSSubscribe in iTunes The Show Notes Follow Chris on Twitter Visit ChrisLema.com Chris’ Online Courses Chris’ Books and Products Beyond Good CaboPress The Transcript How to Be a Great Community Leader, with Chris Lema Voiceover: Rainmaker.FM. StudioPress FM is designed to help creative entrepreneurs build the foundation of a powerful digital business. Tune in weekly as StudioPress founder Brian Gardner and VP of StudioPress Lauren Mancke share their expertise on web design, strategy, and building an online platform. Lauren Mancke: On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Chris Lema to discuss how to be a good and effective community leader. Brian Gardner: Hey, everyone. Welcome to StudioPress FM. I am your host, Brian Gardner, and I’m joined, as always, with the vice president of StudioPress, Lauren Mancke. Lauren Mancke: Hello, everyone. Thanks for joining us this week. We are continuing our series on talking to members of the WordPress community. Brian Gardner: Now, when we refer to them as ‘members,’ we also refer to them as ‘experts’ because, in fact, these people are. I’m very happy today. We are joined by Chris Lema. Chris is a product strategist, people manager, a speaker, and a blogger. He also works with companies to help them build better software products, run better software development teams, improve their marketing messages, and bring their products to market. Chris, it’s a huge pleasure to have you on the show. Welcome. Chris Lema: Thanks for having me. I’m excited to be here. Brian Gardner: You’re one of those guys who I knew for a fact, even back when we were first talking about StudioPress FM, I said, “We have to have Chris on the show.” It was just a matter of trying to figure out what topic in particular. There’s probably about 10 that I could’ve approached you with. I’m glad that you decided to talk to us. We are talking about leadership and how to be a good and effective community leader. We oversee a pretty big community ourselves in our little world here at StudioPress. We are close to 200,000 strong. A lot of them are active in the community as developers, designers, and users. I thought it would be a great fit to have you on the show, so let’s kick this off. I know you’re a humble guy, right? From what I’ve seen on your website and the experiences I’ve personally had with you, you don’t love to talk about yourself. In fact, we had an email exchange just over the weekend, and you made a joke and said, “Oh, gosh. This is all about me.” I know you were sort of kidding. This is our interview and our show, so I’m calling the shots here. Give us the skinny on who you are, what you do, and how you came about. The Skinny on Chris Chris Lema: I am a guy who’s had the privilege of doing, roughly speaking, the same thing for more than 20 years. If you are a travel agent or a photographer and your world got pulled out from under you, through no fault of your own, because technology changed, then that’s a bummer, right? For me, I started working with the web in ’94 and started building applications, websites that were functional verses just kind of brochure-ware, back then. That has taken off, and we’ve changed the name of what those applications are from ASP to SaaS. That has also gone up and to the right. I’m a guy who’s just been in a really lucky place where there’s been just tremendous growth, and I’ve been given the opportunity to build software, lead people, and do that for a whole bunch of years. In the midst of that, about 10 years ago, 11 years ago, I started working with WordPress and about five and a half years ago started trying to get involved in the community. Lauren Mancke: On the front page of your website you have a section that says, “I speak. I coach. I write.” Such a simple, great breakdown. Which of those, though, is your favorite and why? Also, touch on which one of those is maybe your least favorite. Public Speaking vs. Writing Chris Lema: My favorite is public speaking. When I get to stand on a stage, when I get to speak and tell stories, and watch people engage, watch the aha moment when they realize you’re telling a story, but the story has a point — “I’m trying to predict what the point is. Then I’m trying to figure out how it relates to me, and then, aha, now I saw it. I get it, and this means so many things for me” — that’s my all-time favorite. Probably the hardest one for me is writing. When I first started writing, it was hard to figure out how to use my everyday voice and my storytelling voice in writing. I felt like, “Okay, I am not a writer,” and so you’d sit down to write and feel like, “Okay. That’s probably not the right words, or that’s not the right sentence structure.” Writing is harder. Public speaking is a lot easier for me. I love doing it. Thankfully, I get the opportunity to do it. It’s a lot of fun. Brian Gardner: Now, it’s funny and, Lauren, I think you can probably side with me on this one. You know where I’m going with this one. It’s funny, Chris, to hear you say, “I love public speaking. It comes easy to me. I enjoy that, but the writing thing … ” As a person who much prefers to write over public speak, and I’m sure Lauren’s the same way, it’s interesting. It shows two different types of minds, skillsets, and all of that. In my mind, I’m thinking to myself, “Oh, my gosh. You put me on stage. I’m going to freeze,” but I can control the mood, control what I say and how I say it when I write. I can prepare it all ahead of time, and then I can kind of caress it. Yes, I don’t get the aha moment, necessarily, that you might get, and there are people like you who I have envy for, sure, who can go up on stage and speak. Jerod Morris from our company is another one of those guys where I just want to walk out of the room when I see him talk. It’s funny because I’m sure Lauren and I resonate. I’m sure others resonate as well with that. It’s just interesting to hear you say that. Chris Lema: Well, part of it is I’m just very comfortable adjusting and connecting as I’m speaking. I’m doing this constant calculus of where to take it, how far to go — do I veer off course or not — based on the feedback I’m getting from an audience, or at least the first set of rows of an audience. In writing, that feedback is only in your head. There’s no one reading it as you’re writing and giving you the, “Yeah. I’m with you,” or, “I think you lost me,” or, “Go deeper into that.” It’s harder for me to do that. Brian Gardner: Well, different strokes for different folks, right? We’re all wired differently. If we were all writers and no one could speak, we’d live in a pretty bad world. All right. Speaking of speaking — ha-ha, pun intended — I think of you as a guy who’s all over the place all the time. About five years ago, there was this movie that came out. My wife dragged me to it. It was with Sarah Jessica Parker. I think it was called something like I Don’t Know How She Does it. It was about this mom who had a job, kids, and all of these responsibilities. She was everywhere, all over the place. It was fine. We got through the movie and all that, but it makes me think of you. Before we go any further, I have to just ask, Chris. As a person who writes, speaks, blogs, coaches, and travels almost as much as Brian and Jennifer Bourn seem to, although they’re more local, but you fly everywhere, man. How do you do it? How do you do all the things that you do? — and you do them well. You’re always traveling, whether it be at conferences, vacations with your family, or combinations of the two. You’re blogging. You’re teaching. You’re consulting. You’re everywhere. How do you do it? Aligning Your Work with Your Areas of Expertise Chris Lema: I think it goes back to I try and do a few things, and then do them more often than not and try and leverage the benefit of them a lot. Let me explain what I’m talking about. I gave a talk this last week in Fargo, North Dakota, but the talk that I gave to a group, the Association of Advertising, that talk I gave had a lot of material that is going into a new book. I’m re-purposing both bits of that, but it comes out of having spent three years consulting and coaching people on some of the same material. I think part of the issue is because I don’t have to change what I do over and over again. Because my industry, what I do, and the way I work is consistent and constant, I get the benefit of being able to just leverage a lot of what I’m doing in a lot of different ways. If I had to come up with brand-new research for every talk I was giving, brand-new research for every post I was writing, and brand-new research for every bit of coaching or consulting I was doing, it would blow up the amount of work I had to do. I try and keep everything … maybe the word we’re talking about here is ‘alignment.’ By keeping strong alignment around two or three areas that I focus on, I get to benefit from that when I go to do all the different stuff I’m doing. Brian Gardner: That’s interesting. You’re speaking to something that we talk about a lot on the blog at Copyblogger and us as a company at Rainmaker Digital, which is re-purposing content — whether it be taking podcast interviews and re-purposing that into blog posts or, in your case, experience with consulting and then taking that and putting it into blog posts, but maybe extracting some of that and using that in keynote speeches and stuff like that. From a content standpoint, re-purposing would be the way that you move efficiently, right? Is that what you’re saying? Chris Lema: Yup. Brian Gardner: Interesting. Lauren Mancke: Yeah. That sounds really smart. Let’s talk a little bit about WordPress specifically. You touched on it a little bit earlier. Let’s talk about how it pertains to you and what you’re doing. How did you get involved with WordPress, and where do you see your current role in the community? Making a Course Correction in Your Career Chris Lema: I started using the product 11 years ago. It was mostly to save work. In those days, either you were using pure HTML or … I was playing with both websites that were pure HTML and others that were CMSs like PHP-Nuke or other solutions. The whole point was to try and give a website to a client and let them manage their content without calling you back — again, to make your life far more efficient and aligned. I chanced upon WordPress one weekend, and that changed it up for me. I just started doing everything with WordPress. I was coaching a lot of startups in the time. Mostly, I was doing product strategy, but every now and then startups would need a website. I would help them get that site up, so WordPress was really great. About five and a half years ago, we moved from Northern California in Silicon Valley. We moved to San Diego, and I had no coaching clients down here. I had no consulting gigs down here. I had no places that asked me to speak because I was a non-known entity down here. I said, “Oh. Why don’t I blog?” I thought, “What would I blog about?” It took a couple weeks and months to figure out. I said, “You know what? Maybe I can help in the WordPress space, but with something different.” I’m constantly someone who says, “Try and take a corner that isn’t congested and doesn’t have someone taking it because it’s a lot easier to take that corner than if you’re writing the same posts that 40 other people are writing.” For me, the business side of WordPress was an easy corner to take. Other than Bill Erickson giving a talk here or there, which always was fantastic and phenomenal, nobody else was really talking about the business side. I said, “Well, I have a lot of business expertise in the software space. Maybe I can help there.” I started writing about that and started writing about some of the more complex notions of WordPress that people weren’t spending a lot of time on. It blossomed from there. Brian Gardner: It’s funny you say that ¬– there weren’t a lot of people writing about business and WordPress. From my perspective, there’s probably a degree of fear, fear of, “I don’t want to share my secrets,” the trade secrets that brought me from a guy sitting at a desk job to making six figures a month in selling WordPress themes. There’s a lot of business expertise I could have shared, but of course, there’s a part of me that was like, “Why would I want to share that?” As un-open source as that might seem, that’s just the reality of it. It’s nice to see that you come in at it from the perspective of a guy with business knowledge and bringing it to the WordPress community — rather than just someone who’s talking about their success within WordPress. What took you so long, though? You said that you started WordPress 10 or 11 years ago, but you only got into the community five or six years. What happened in that first five or six years, and then what changed? What made you decide now it’s time to jump in and really just become ultimately what you are now, which is a leader? Chris Lema: I don’t ever really predict where it’s going to end up. I want to be clear about that. A lot of people I think try and be the next ______, the next Brian Gardner, the next Brian Clark, the next whoever — whatever name you put in there. You’re like, “I want to be the next Carrie Dils.” You’re like, “Hold on, I can’t be those things. I can be me.” I think part of the transition was figuring out what I knew, what I liked, what I felt like I could give, and what was comfortable and easy in that context. Part of it was moving to a new place, not knowing anyone, and saying, “I’m going to have to resort to a different skill,” which is writing versus public speaking. Part of it was saying, “I have a prediction about this WordPress thing. I have a feeling that, over the course of time, marketing companies will stop wanting to use their IT departments and want to do it themselves. I think I found a tool that they will like, but as they do that big companies will start using WordPress. Currently, the ecosystem that’s here is not mature enough to understand how to work with big companies, but I have that background. Maybe I can help them start thinking through what they’re doing and also in the long run help WordPress grow into something that can be adopted and worked with in the enterprise level. That’s where I bring some value.” I think it’s a lot of those things coming together and saying, “All right. Let’s give this a shot.” You take little risks, you invest in little bits, and then you see, “Am I getting any positive feedback?” The feedback takes a little while. Then, over time, it starts building on. Then you go, “Oh. Hey, look. It’s all working out.” Defining Leadership by Difficult Decisions Brian Gardner: That’s great perspective. I like that, a lot actually. That’s really good food for thought, even for me, just moving forward in what I want to continue to do and thinking about just the legacy I want to leave and so forth. So a few years ago, you were invited by the folks and some of your friends over at Crowd Favorite, a big WordPress company, to serve on their board of directors. Not even two years later — I think it was, what, 19 months I think your bog post said — 19 months later you stepped down. In your words, you said, “I love WordPress. Nothing about that is changing. I love all of my friends at Crowd Favorite. That’s not changing either, but professionally, it’s time to make a course correction.” Interesting phrase that you used there. I think a good leader really shines when he or she has to make a difficult decision. It’s easy to be a leader when things are going great, but when it’s time to say, “We have to shift, to adjust, or what not,” and to then have to communicate that to the people who are in your world at that point, and that was a difficult decision for you. That I know. With so many people looking up to you in the community and the risk of letting some of them down, walk us through the decision and how you made that. It just seems like it would have been easier to just stay on. You disrupted your life and, in a way, probably much more beneficially than I can imagine, by making the decision, but I think it’s just helpful to know, hey, what do people think of when they make these bigger decisions? Chris Lema: I had been on the board for about a year before I joined the company. I joined the company for about 18 months, a year and a half, 19 months, I think. Then it was time to go. It was probably two or three months before that where several different things came to a head. When I first joined Crowd Favorite, one of the things we talked about was, “Let’s clean this up and tighten it up, and get it really running full steam ahead,” which is the stuff that I know how to do professionally. The blogging and those things are all nice. They’ve been on the side. My day job has been managing software engineers. They’re like, “Come in. Let’s clean this up and tighten it up. Then we can look at building a product side.” My background is in products, not in services, not consulting. I’ve worked with and helped lead consulting organizations, but only in the context that they are consultants for our product. I’m a product guy. I went in, and I started doing it. The first six months, we did a lot of stuff. At the 12-month mark, we had a lot more done, and everything was going really well. Somewhere after that, we were more shifting into what I call for my life ‘maintenance mode,’ where you’re just keeping things running. That’s not really my style. I’m not that guy, and it was a service company. I didn’t wake up in the morning going, “Oh, my god. This is going to be amazing because I’m building a product.” It was, “Okay. Let’s lead these people well.” I think there was a part of me that was itching. But I’ll be honest. Maybe there are other folks like me. After 10 months of doing anything, I get an itch. Like, “Oh. I should go do something else.” I’ve had to develop the discipline to not jump when that itch comes because staying power teaches you something else about yourself. It helps you go deeper in certain areas that you wouldn’t if you just keep jumping. I recognize, “Oh, yeah. It’s a little after 12, 13 months. I’m getting a little itch, but you know what? That’s not something we act on, and just focus in, get some stuff done, and lead well.” On top of that, we get to this point where my wife had some emergency surgery. It was very scary. I sat there I’m a kind of person who can think in a lot of different directions and then think through what happens after that and what happens after that. But in this particular case, as she went into surgery, I couldn’t think past the next step. Like, “What happens if this doesn’t work out?” I fell asleep. It was four or five in the morning, and I fell asleep. By seven, they were waking me up and telling me she was okay, which was great news, but I was sitting in the spot where I went, “What am I … ?” I think everyone goes through that. You go through some hard part, and then you go, “What am I doing in life? Am I just sitting in a mode where I’m just doing all the same routine without focus, without drive, without energy, and without alignment to the rest of my life?” We sat down. We talked about it a little. She’s like, “Well, don’t make any rash decisions,” because we were literally right at January one. She’s like, “Don’t make any rash decisions.” I said, “No. I’m going to just work this through.” It took a little bit of time. Then, finally, in April I said, “Okay. It really is time to move on.” Part of the lesson out of that is you should always be willing to sit, even when you get fidgety, for a little bit because you don’t know what is there for you to grow and develop by not jumping every time something doesn’t work out or something is a little boring. When hard times come, I think it’s important to figure out what’s really important. I think ultimately even when you know you’re going to make a decision, timing is critical. If you just bolt and you just walk out I could have left a lot of damage at Crowd Favorite by stepping out at the wrong time. You wait a few months. You try and get some things in place. You try and make sure that when you leave it will be better than when you got there and that you leave in a way that leaves that community whole, leaves that company fine, and allows you to step out. I did all that and have spent the last several months doing some consulting and other things, but hoping to hold off making the next major choice through the rest of this year. Then in 2017, you start looking at, “Okay, what’s the next big thing?” Lauren Mancke: Anyone who’s heard you speak knows you’re a leader. You just have that way about you. You’ve got that power to compel people to follow you. Have you always felt this? Have you always felt that you were a leader? When you were younger, did you know it? Are there any examples of when you were a kid maybe where you led or you had an instance where you took the reins? Maybe not. Maybe it was when you were older. At what point in your life did you realize you had this gift? Chris Lema: I was horrible in junior high — like you’d try out for ASB. You run a campaign, and I lost, badly. I don’t even think I was trying for VP or president. I was I think maybe for treasurer. There was definitely not one of those things where you realize at a young age, “I’m a leader.” You’re like, “I suck.” Part of that was, I think, the way I thought about leadership. I thought about it as an important title that makes you important, and that is not leadership at all. It wasn’t until probably in the middle of high school, as I started learning to serve and take care of others, that I felt like, “Okay. The leadership is happening without me wanting it. It’s happening because I’m developing trust and rapport with people who want my say — but it’s because I’m in their corner.” I leaned into that in college and spent a lot of time figuring out what kind of leader and how I led. By that point in college, it was a really clear juxtaposition when you see someone who’s leading for the title versus someone who’s leading for the impact. Those two people look different. They act different. For me, I think it was somewhere around being 20 and middle of college. I felt like, “Okay. I have a couple tools in my tool belt. I can align both public speaking with some one-on-one coaching, with some professional empathy, with a vision, being able to see for other people where they could go, see what’s best for them, or see things in them that was there, but they weren’t willing to own or accept themselves simply out of insecurity.” So I lean into it, and I’ve leaned into it ever since. I actually have a master’s degree in leadership because I, in the middle of working at Emphasis, I was a little bored. Instead of jumping ship I said, “I think I want to go back and study.” The company said, “Hey, we’ll pay for your masters if you stick around longer.” I said, “Okay.” I went back and studied even more about leadership. Brian Gardner: There you go. Chris Lema definitely has the right to say he’s a leader. He’s got the master’s degree in leadership, so we certainly chose the right person to have on the show. Okay. We’ve talked about you and your experience in the business world. We’ve talked about you and your experience in WordPress a little bit. As we all know, there’s many types of leaders all over the place. Let’s talk about WordPress specifically. Who would you consider to be some of the best leaders in the WordPress community? I’m not talking specifically about financially successful and things like that, but just things that you’ve seen people do either that you resonate with or you do that, “Yes. I’m so glad they did that,” type of thing.” Give us a few names and maybe just a sentence or two on why you think each of those people are demonstrations of a good leader. Good Leadership Exemplified Chris Lema: Sure. Steve Zehngut is a friend of mine down here in Orange County. He runs a company called Zeek. They do a bunch of WordPress and mobile stuff. He started a meetup so that he could build this community of WordPress people. Then he started showing other people how he did it and giving them the opportunity to use his physical space for their own meetups. I think Steve’s meetup has birthed something like 12 other meetups in the whole area. They all start by using his space, and then they eventually branch out into other spaces. That is a leader — someone who says, “I can have an impact here. Let me help out. Let me help other people. Then let me give them the space to grow into themselves.” I think he’s a fantastic example. Jennifer Bourn is a good friend of mine who is up in Sacramento. Her ability to connect and help people around branding in the WordPress ecosystem is fantastic. Where most people get up and they do a talk at a conference, and they rattle off stories, like I do — rattle off stories, have a main point, get off stage. You go, “Hey, that was entertaining.” Jennifer shows up with a whole packet of worksheets, hands it to you, and walks you through how to get yourself better. Anyone who’s committing their time, without necessarily getting paid, to help you be a better you, they’re my idol. I think they’re fantastic. Another guy, Jason Cohen, is the CTO over at WP Engine. He’s a guy that is consistently helping people think better about what they’re doing. He does that at work. He does that in WP Engine, but he does that outside of it. You hang out and talk with him, and every conversation I walk away with something additional. All of these people are leading in a way that helps the other people they interact with get better. Some people do it through writing, obviously. You guys know Brian Clark. These are some of the people that I’ve invited to my own conference that I run for WordPress businesses, products, and service companies, an event called CaboPress. I go to these leaders, and I say, “Come join me in Cabo and have these discussions with other people who want to get better.” They say, “Yes.” Those are the people that I look up to and say, “These are great people. I want to hang out with them.” Being Sold on Yourself to Become the Leader You Were Meant to Be Brian Gardner: I’m going to jump ahead to the question I had for you a little bit further on because it piggy backs on exactly what you were just talking about. When I go to your website, the first thing I see at the top of it is a quote or a testimonial. It says, “Chris Lema doesn’t sell you on himself. He sells you on yourself.” Now, basically everything you’ve said up to this point on our interview — talking about leadership by serving, leadership by example, and leadership in the form of putting the emphasis on teaching people, enabling people, all of that other stuff. Your form of leadership, which I really, really love and appreciate, is not about building yourself up, but building others up, and maybe, as a byproduct of that, that helps with your brand and all that kind of stuff. I actually remember our conversation. We sat down and had breakfast last summer in Denver. I wanted to pick your brain about some things. I came away from that conversation almost feeling selfish and saying, “Man, this was all about me.” Then I realized, to some degree, that was what you wanted that conversation to be about, right? It’s not about Chris. It’s about those that he’s with. Just speak to that just in general. My guess is that you do the same sort of thing when you lead your family. It’s always about your wife, your kids, or stuff like that. Is that just who you are? Chris Lema: I think it’s who I’m trying to be. I think that quote on my website is as much to center and ground me as it is to share that with others. I really appreciate Mika’s statement. I wasn’t even in the room when she shared it in Chicago several years ago, but I got all the Tweets and heard about it. I went, “That is amazing and wonderful. I’m going to cherish that.” At the core of it, I think you need to constantly ground yourself — especially if you’re getting any level of popularity. At least for me, I have consistently tried to take action that says, “Remind yourself that you put your pants on the same way every day.” When Silicon Valley was getting hot, startups were growing, and I was selling companies, I moved out to the East Bay to say, “I’m going to live in a normal town with normal people, drive a normal car, so that I am grounded in the fact that I don’t need the very next thing.” The same thing happens to the WordPress community. I think it’s a tactic, a habit I use to say, “You stay grounded by remembering that you’re here to help other people, not just to aggrandize yourself,” but I think what I’ve discovered over the years is, it works. When you focus on someone else and you help them get better, especially if what’s holding them back is just insecurity. It’s not a certain skillset they’re missing. It’s not something they can’t do anything about. It’s really just the fact that they are insecure — and so many of us walk around with that insecurity that holds people back — and you just go, “Let me just break that open for you a little bit. Let me just show you that, no, you actually have what you need. You can take this next step,” or, “Let me show you a step you didn’t know you could take and take it.” I think it ends up being incredibly helpful. The phrase that runs in my head all the time is “comfort, come alongside.” Leading for me is, how do you come alongside someone in their journey — not the journey you have for them, but the journey they have for themselves? Then how do you comfort them when they have the insecurity to encourage them to take next steps? Most of us, we have a special puzzle piece in our pocket, and we think, “Yeah. I found this puzzle piece. This is mine,” and we stick it in our pocket. You’re like, “No, no, no. The piece has to go on the broad. That’s what makes it awesome is when the whole picture comes together.” That’s what I spend my time doing. Lauren Mancke: Speaking of helping others, let’s talk a little bit more about your website, ChrisLema.com. You’ve got a tagline on there, “Helping businesses leverage WordPress, and helping WordPress businesses find leverage.” How are you writing on your blog to successfully do that? What else would you write about that also helps with this? Leveraging WordPress in Your Business Chris Lema: Part of the thing is I bring companies to WordPress. Companies that are like, “I don’t know if WordPress can do this,” I write posts that say, “WordPress can. You can use WordPress to do these things you want to do.” That’s bringing small businesses and big businesses who are trying to figure out, “Can this really work this way?” Then, I work with WordPress companies, products and service companies to help them with their marketing and to get their message out better. Often, I am writing posts about them and redirecting some sunlight to them, or I am highlighting what they’re doing in a way that causes people to go, “Oh, that’s interesting.” Then, of course, consulting and coaching is to help them with their segmentation, their marketing strategy, their communication, and all that kind of stuff. The blog is a key part of it, so yes, I think it’s successful in doing what I want it to do. I think just so I don’t get bored, I write about a couple other things here and there. There are some posts on public speaking. There’s a couple other posts in there that are personal, but predominantly, that blog is about WordPress and that attempt to help different groups of people connect to it on the site. Lauren Mancke: Speaking of connecting people, what is your favorite part of leading and community building? Leadership That Requires a Move Beyond Good Chris Lema: I think my all-time favorite part is shining a light on someone that you didn’t know or a product that you had never heard of, a company that you weren’t aware of, and what they’re doing and how they’re doing it. When I get to do that and when it works, it’s a wonderful component and incredibly exciting for me to see the result when that happens. It doesn’t always happen, but if I can say, “Hey, check out this company. Look what they’re doing, or look at what they just released in a product.” Then they contact me a couple weeks later and they go, “Oh my god. You don’t even know what just happened over here,” I’m like, “That’s awesome.” That’s my favorite part. Brian Gardner: All right. ChrisLema.com is all about WordPress and business. Just recently you just launched a blog called Beyond Good. It’s on one of our themes, which of course we’re thankful that you’re using. You use that one specifically to teach about leadership and how you can encourage folks and teach them how to take their leadership to a new level. You say, “Leadership is hard. Most of the time we settle for good enough. Leading people requires more, requires that we move beyond good.” That reminds me a lot about the book Jim Collins wrote called Good to Great, where he writes about why some companies make the leap and others don’t. What do you think stands in the way — whether it be individuals as entrepreneurs, small businesses, or even bigger businesses — from taking the leap to achieving that success from good to great? Taking the Leap to Achieving Success Chris Lema: Insecurity. Insecurity I think everything boils down to. When a person doesn’t have the courage to take a step that is different than what they’ve done before, when a company doesn’t have the courage to hire someone that is different than what they’ve hired before — whatever it is that they’re doing — and they don’t have the temerity or the courage to step into it, more often than not, when you dig into, it’s not the numbers. It’s not the prediction. It is insecurity. It is a fear of, “What if I do this wrong? What if this turns out wrong? What will other people think of me?” A lot of what holds people back is that insecurity. I spend a lot of time personally, one-on-one, doing the work of trying to mitigate that. Now, that said, there’s a lot of little reasons why companies just don’t lead well, that it’s just because they don’t know better. The blog tries to solve that problem. I can’t really solve insecurity just on a blog. When I’m coaching, I will work that through, but when I’m writing, I’m mostly trying to give some of the other tips, the other ways to think about things, the other questions to answer on the blog Beyond Good. Lauren Mancke: Let’s get into a little bit of recommendations. Do you have any favorite blogs or books that you can recommend to the StudioPress FM audience? Chris’ Reading Recommendations Chris Lema: I always have book recommendations because I’m always reading. There’s a meaty book that I like called Learn or Die. I find that it’s quite good. There’s another one called Peak, which is focusing on the new science of expertise, which I’m also reading. There’s another book called Strategic Storytelling, which I would recommend only because my storytelling book isn’t done yet. All of those I’d say are really great. Brian Gardner: Does that go along with your ‘cool story, bro’ thing? Chris Lema: Yeah. Exactly. I love stories and the power of stories. Brian Gardner: Okay. What about blogs? You gave us a few books. Just people that digest better reading individual blog posts or what not, whether it be on leadership, WordPress-type stuff, who’s blogs do you frequent that you just get a lot out of and like to share from? Chris Lema: Well, let me caveat that for one quick second to say, if you’re not reading books, you should. The reality is, when you’re writing a blog post, normally that’s a five-minute investment. When you read a book, it may be several hours of investment. Part of the dynamic is, if you’re not making the investment to read depth, I think your leadership thoughts and your leadership understanding are all still pretty shallow. That’s not to say you can’t read good blogs. I’m just saying you should make time and build the habit of reading books because they’re worth doing. Now, that said, Michael Hyatt is a fantastic guy to read if you want to read a blog. John Maxwell is another guy whose blog is awesome. Dan Rockwell, who I’m pretty sure Dan’s writing a WordPress blog. Actually, I think Michael Hyatt’s is well. Dan’s is Something.WordPress.com I think, Leadership Freak. Those are definitely ones that I would point to and say, “Hey, check those out because I think you’ll dig them.” Brian Gardner: As we wrap this up, if we were to give you the opportunity to do a 60-second speech right here on the show, what is the one piece of advice to anyone listening regarding the topic of leadership that you would want to give? Chris’ Epic Advice on Leadership: Lead As Only You Can Lead Chris Lema: Sixty seconds on leadership. Asking me to do anything in 60 seconds is hard. Brian Gardner: Loaded question. Chris Lema: Let’s try it. Here we go. In your pursuit to lead others well, in your pursuit to be someone who is considered a leader, never make the mistake of looking to someone else to determine who you are. Never look at someone else to tell you who you should be. Never look at someone else’s journey and say, “That’s the journey I need to have,” because the reality is, you’re unique. You are completely unique. To that end, your journey will be unique, and the way you lead and help others will be unique. So figure out you. My one piece of advice is, figure out what motivates you. Figure out how you work best. Figure out what is easy for you and, at the same time, aligns with your passion, your interest in helping others. When you figure all that out, when you figure out how to be you, then find the leadership route that works best for that. In that way, you’re leading as only you can lead. Brian Gardner: That was brilliance in 48 seconds. Lauren Mancke: Wow. Brian Gardner: Man, we got to clip that out and use that or put it in a blog. I’m going to re-purpose that. Chris, do I have your permission? Chris Lema: You totally have my permission. Brian Gardner: Of course, we will link to you. I will link to you when I do that. I’m almost speechless. I honestly don’t know what I should say next — other than the call to action, which I have here on my script. This is great. It’s a great segue. If you are convinced that Chris is the right guy for you, whether it be to hire — I know you make available yourself via phone calls, also various ways to be consulted with and so on — or if you just want to read Chris’ stuff. All of it’s good. Do you want to be sold on yourself or become the leader you were meant to be? Chris obviously has a ton of knowledge, shares his wealth with that knowledge in the form of articles, books, courses, videos. Pretty much any media you can imagine, he’s done it. For more of that information, you can check him out at ChrisLema.com and his leadership blog at BeyondGood.com. Lauren Mancke: If you liked what you heard on today’s show, you can find more episodes of StudioPress FM at StudioPress.FM. You can also help Brian and I hit the main stage by subscribing to the show in iTunes. It’s a great way to never ever miss an episode. We want to thank Chris for coming on the show. It’s been great. Chris Lema: Thanks, guys.

Paul talks with Elizabeth Gossell who is a Product Strategist at Tenable with a solid background in network security at both Lockheed Martin and Tenable. All that and more, so stay tuned! Full Show Notes: http://wiki.securityweekly.com/wiki/index.php/Episode472#Interview:_Elizabeth_Gossell

Paul talks with Elizabeth Gossell who is a Product Strategist at Tenable with a solid background in network security at both Lockheed Martin and Tenable. All that and more, so stay tuned! Full Show Notes: http://wiki.securityweekly.com/wiki/index.php/Episode472#Interview:_Elizabeth_Gossell

Tonight on Security Weekly, we chat with Elizabeth Gossell, a Product Strategist at Tenable. Paul shows us how to block ads and malware using Bind DNS. Stay tuned!

Tonight on Security Weekly, we chat with Elizabeth Gossell, a Product Strategist at Tenable. Paul shows us how to block ads and malware using Bind DNS. Stay tuned!

Dwayne DeFreitas interviews Reza Kazemi, Product Strategist at Icontrol Networks, makers of the Piper home awareness and automation device.

Mariya Yao, Product Strategist, Designer And Founder, Discusses How To Make Your Numbers Go Up: Optimizing For Conversion And Retention On Mobile Devices   Mariya says, “Getting traction on mobile is a tough challenge for most startups. I'm excited to share my learnings in order to make this task a bit easier for the rest of the community on the Global Product Management Talk broadcast.” Mariya is also speaking at the Startup Product Summit in San Francisco on February 7, 2013. More information at http://startupproduct.com   Resources: http://bit.ly/11bKMeN

Questions for discussion: http://on.fb.me/pCl98V  In the B2B world, companies frequently invest time on market research to develop the product vision, and then sequester the product owner in the tactical development work during the entire "version 1" construction phase.  In contrast, agile started in the custom software world, where products being built for a specific customer often involved a customer representative in the form of the "product owner" to provide direct input as the product is being developed.     John Peltier has served as Product Owner on three development projects with varying organizational structures, and has amassed an unenviable collection of bumps and bruises along the way. John's experience has led to a unique viewpoint on how Product Managers can harness Scrum to deliver better products. Twitter @johnpeltier http://johnpeltier.com  http://www.prodmgmttalk.com @prodmgmttalk Today's hosts: Cindy F. Solomon @cindyfsolomon and Roger Cauvin, Product Strategist @rcauvin http://blog.cauvin.org  

I met Jonathan Wolf at an Agency meeting with Bazaarvoice in Paris, this week. Jonathan is the product strategist for International for Bazaarvoice, a company based out of Austin Texas. Bazaarvoice essentially enables companies to put in place a customizable ratings & review system (plus comments, Q&A, etc.) layered in on top of their eCommerce sites in order to help capture and listen to the customer conversation. This interview's short, sharp and to the point. I very much like what Bazaarvoice is doing.

Out of MIT, Jonathan spent five years at CoreMetrics and then joined Bazaarvoice where he has been for the last four years. He is currently based in London as Product Strategist International for BV. This interview was recorded in Paris at a Bazaarvoice agency meeting. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to rate/review the show on RateThisPodcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)