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Send us a textLive from SLAS2025, Emily Yamasaki, Ph.D., speaks with David Jennions, Ph.D., Senior Director of Platforms and Systems Development at Grail and SLAS board member. Jennions discusses his role at Grail, which involves overseeing the development and deployment of large-scale automation systems for clinical diagnostics, ensuring they are fit for purpose and operationally efficient. Later, the two discuss themes of integration, communication and collaboration in lab automation, particularly in the context of the Nexus Xp Pavilion at the conference. He also shares insights into the challenges of automating complex diagnostic assays, the role of AI and machine learning in data analysis, and his excitement about the innovations showcased at SLAS.Key Learning PointsIntegration and Communication in Automation: The effectiveness of integration and communication between instruments, robots and data systems for improving operational efficiency.Sample Integrity and System Reliability: How clinical diagnostics and drug discovery compare in handling errors.AI and Machine Learning in Diagnostics: Why being cautionary when implementing AI and machine learning helps avoid bias and ensure verifiable outputs.Thank you to our SponsorUnited Robotics Group is a leader in delivering innovative robotic solutions that empower industries to achieve more. Combining cutting-edge technology with human-centric design, we specialize in creating advanced automation tools that streamline processes, enhance precision, and drive efficiency across sectors such as life sciences, manufacturing, healthcare, and more.Guided by a commitment to innovation and quality, we design solutions that not only address today's challenges but also pave the way for tomorrow's possibilities. At United Robotics Group, we're not just building robots—we're building partnerships that transform industries and improve lives.Learn more at https://unitedrobotics.group/en-us.Stay connected with SLAS:www.slas.orgFacebookXLinkedInInstagramYouTubeAbout SLASSLAS (Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening) is an international professional society of academic, industry and government life sciences researchers and the developers and providers of laboratory automation technology. The SLAS mission is to bring together researchers in academia, industry and government to advance life sciences discovery and technology via education, knowledge exchange and global community building. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar
In this essential episode of Awkward Conversations, we revisit one of our most impactful discussions: No Time to Waste: Getting Help for Your Child's Drug Use. Co-host Amy McCarthy is joined by Terrence Spain and Robert Vincent to explore the critical steps for addressing adolescent drug misuse, from recognizing the early signs to finding the right resources. Terrence Spain introduces the 988 helpline, a nationwide lifeline for those facing drug misuse or mental health struggles. Robert Vincent shares online resources to support families in navigating recovery. Together, they tackle the importance of early intervention, dispelling stigma, and creating open, nonjudgmental communication with your child. Key Takeaways: Early intervention is crucial to preventing long-term drug misuse. The 988 helpline offers immediate support for drug misuse and mental health. Overcoming stigma helps ensure your child gets the support they need. 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In this episode of the Brawn Body Health and Fitness Podcast, Dan is joined by Logan Frandsen to discuss energy systems development and endurance training for baseball athletes. Logan Frandsen is in his seventh season with the Texas Rangers organization and his first as Director of Strength & Conditioning. He spent 2022-23 as Assistant Director of Performance and retained responsibilities as minor league strength and conditioning coordinator for four straight years from 2020-23. He previously served as the rehab strength and conditioning coach in Arizona (2019) and strength coach for High-A Down East (2018). For more on Logan, be sure to find him on Instagram @frandsenstrength *SEASON 5 of the Brawn Body Podcast is brought to you by Isophit. For more on Isophit, please check out isophit.com and @isophit - BE SURE to use coupon code brawnbody10 at checkout to save 10% on your Isophit order! Episode Sponsors: MoboBoard: BRAWNBODY10 saves 10% at checkout! AliRx: DBraunRx = 20% off at checkout! https://alirx.health/ MedBridge: https://www.medbridgeeducation.com/brawn-body-training or Coupon Code "BRAWN" for 40% off your annual subscription! CTM Band: https://ctm.band/collections/ctm-band coupon code "BRAWN10" = 10% off! PurMotion: "brawn" = 10% off!! GOT ROM: https://www.gotrom.com/a/3083/5X9xTi8k Red Light Therapy through Hooga Health: hoogahealth.com coupon code "brawn" = 12% off Ice shaker affiliate link: https://www.iceshaker.com?sca_ref=1520881.zOJLysQzKe Training Mask: "BRAWN" = 20% off at checkout https://www.trainingmask.com?sca_ref=2486863.iestbx9x1n Make sure you SHARE this episode with a friend who could benefit from the information we shared! Check out everything Dan is up to, including blog posts, fitness programs, and more by clicking here: https://linktr.ee/brawnbodytraining Liked this episode? Leave a 5-star review on your favorite podcast platform! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daniel-braun/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daniel-braun/support
In a dynamic discussion, Tim Sweet and seasoned software engineer Dan Löfquist explore the intersection of technology and leadership in today's dynamic landscape. They discuss the need to adapt and stay flexible to meet innovation head-on. They highlight the importance of leaders who embrace change and foster collaboration across generations. This episode is for any leader having doubts about how to navigate the complexities of leadership in the digital era.Tim and Dan also discuss the imperative for leaders to adapt and embrace uncertainty amidst a rapidly changing world. They touch upon topics such as generational differences in the workplace, the evolving role of technology, and the value of transparent communication. Drawing from Dan's experience as a consultant, they share the significance of modular thinking and delegation to navigate complex challenges. Together, they reflect on the shifting paradigms of work and advocate for prioritizing empathy and collaboration in driving organizational success.About Dan LöfquistDan Löfquist is a seasoned consultant and principal at Input Consulting in Stockholm, boasting nearly 40 years of combined experience in software development, banking, finance, and the travel industry. With a strong foundation in systems design and a relentless drive for innovation, Dan brings unparalleled expertise to the forefront of modern technology and leadership. His extensive background equips him with the skills needed to guide organizations through complex technological transitions, optimize systems for efficiency, and foster a culture of innovation and growth.--Contact Tim Sweet | Team Work Excellence: WebsiteLinkedIn: Tim SweetInstagramLinkedin: Team Work ExcellenceContact Dan Löfquist | Input Consulting: Linkedin: Dan Löfquist--Transcript:Dan 00:02It's very important how you design your system, you basically have very small parts of your system that can connect together to make a feature, for example. So, if you have an order system, you have one little part that deals with a client or the customer, you have one little part that deals with the history of the orders and one little part that deals with what happens when the customer do an order. So, you have to break it down in very small bits, which makes changes much easier. Tim 00:35Do you rely on others to set a vision and then get them what they need so that they can achieve something they never would be able to do on their own? Whether or not you formally lead a team. If this sounds like you, then you, my friend, are the definition of a leader. And this show is all about bringing you new insights from real people that you've never been exposed to. So, you can grow and increase your impact on the world and feel more fulfilled while you're doing it. I'm Tim Sweet. Welcome to the Sweet on Leadership Podcast, episode 32. Tim 01:09Welcome back, everybody. Thank you very much for joining us for another edition of Sweet on Leadership. If you haven't joined us yet and this is your first time, we are all about bringing exciting insights from leaders around the world. And they come from very different backgrounds. Today, I have Dan Löfquist in front of me, Dan, thanks very much for joining me. I really appreciate it. Dan 01:31Oh, you're welcome. I'm glad to be here. Tim 01:34Dan, you are a principal with Input Consulting in Stockholm. That Correct? Dan 01:39That is correct. Yes. Tim 01:41What else would you like people to know about you and where you find yourself professionally? Dan 01:45I am a software engineer the base of it. And I've been working with software development, almost 40 years. And I still look this young. Tim 02:00We'll make sure that we have a portrait in the show notes. So, go check it out if you're listening over audio. Dan, also comes to us because your partner is our very good friend, Debbie Potts. Dan 02:15That's correct. Tim 02:17So, if you're wondering what the connection is, there, we are all one big happy family. What really excites me about talking to anybody that deals with complex systems is that that knowledge transfers over into their perceptions of business and organizations and leadership. And it's if you have people like this in your life, I would really encourage you to bring people like Dan into conversations that don't involve just software or IT or anything like that, because they can handle complex relationships and networks. And so Dan, I'm super excited to have you bring your insight into this forum. Dan 03:01I'm glad. I hope I can bring some knowledge to you. Tim 03:04Well, we've had several conversations now and I am not worried. I have a lot of fun. Before we get going here though, we've got a little tradition that's been evolving here on the podcast. Dan a previous guest will always offer up an out-of-the-blue question to break the ice. And today's question comes from Anna Morgan. Her question for you would be what is one thing that you know, will pay back in the next year, will have immediate benefit within the next year if you were to pull the trigger on it? But you may have been avoiding. Does that sound like anything familiar to you? Dan 03:47That's a very good question. Thanks, Anna. We have just moved to the countryside in Sweden, we are living very close to the sea. And obviously, you need a boat. We've been talking about this for a very long time. But something comes up blah, blah, blah, and we procrastinated a lot. So, we finally decided to get the boat. We both know it will benefit us tremendously over the years. Especially, when we have so lovely summers here in Sweden warm and nice. So yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be great. So, that's the thing. Tim 04:26You mentioned something seemed to always get in the way. Why do we think that things? Why do we think that life finds a way to interfere with these obviously, you know, important and beneficial decisions? Dan 04:42Oh, that's a good one. Prior to station I guess it is you prioritize sometimes, right and sometimes you do it wrong. Sometimes because it's convenient to go that way or the other way. You don't always do the right thing even though you know it's the right thing to do. Tim 05:00Right on, there'll always be another fire to fight. Or there might be a place of safety. That might be suspect. All right, right on, I think this is gonna bode well as we go forward on some of the questions that I've got for you. Of late, Dan, I've noticed that the community on both sides of the pond, we have seen this type of switch, we're at this sort of intersection, when it comes to technology where, in my estimation, years ago, when I would be deployed to help process and change teams, tackle, say, large ERP deployments or big systems deployments, it was always about solidifying these great big systems so that nobody could object to them, and that they were ubiquitous across organizations. And the challenge then, when you tried to make change to them was that they were very difficult to change. But now it's like we're in this almost schizophrenic relationship with technology where things are much more fractured and modular and paces is quickening. So, that's what I'm seeing from the outside and what I see my clients dealing with, do you share that experience? How would you categorize sort of the situation we're in today and what it means for businesses and large institutions and society at large? Dan 06:27Ooh, that's an interesting question. That's pretty much my life, what I'm doing daily. So, if we're going to take some perspective on it, if we look, historically, in the beginning, when I started to work with computers, people had actually white robes in the computer central's, so a lot of things have changed. Computers back then were very complex, big, noisy, and you couldn't do much compared to what you could do today with a computer. To build a system was a complex thing, it took time, it took effort, when you have built it there was there, basically and you couldn't do much about it. Tim 07:04It was like a big refrigerator or hundreds of refrigerators sitting in the middle of the floor. Dan 07:09Oh, yeah, or a big heater. But today, we are facing a different problem, not necessarily problems, but challenges. And that's because the technology has changed so quick and fast. It is a very aggressive to the I don't know really where it's gonna end. But we are all in a transition state, it is never going to end, it's just going to continue to evolve, which means we can make the systems that are more agile and follow the changes in the companies. And so it's going fast now. Tim 07:58I've used both PC and Mac. And I think back to in the day, we used to say that we would have risk or sisk-based designs. And my layman's understanding was that Apple followed a, what is it, a complex design a sisk with a C, but it was really more around software, rather than the hardware. The hardware would be robust, and flexible, but software was what was going to make the performance differences versus the, you know, Windows and UNIX environments where they were really much more around technologically dependent, you know, processing speed and these kinds of things. Maybe that's a layman's understanding. I don't know if that's even relevant anymore. But. Dan 08:44No, it is still relevant. I mean, if you look at Apple today, they both the hardware and the software, managed to merge them together in a very nice way. It has benefits, go with hardware and software from Apple. Obviously, their hardware is modular and changeable, because the hardware also evolves and things get smaller and easier to change and pgrade. And so yeah, absolutely. Tim 09:20I bring this up, because when we had these big server rooms and mainframes and we were installing, as you say, heaters, that people would heat their buildings off their server rooms, the hardware still there, obviously. And it's still complex. And yes, it's getting smaller. And yes, it's getting faster. For many people, it's almost faded into the background. And for my kids, everything is app-based. And this transcends not just to their devices, but even how they approach their lives. They have long-term gratification versus immediate gratification. And, you know, when we're on our phone and we want something to do something, we install an app and now all of a sudden the phone can do this thing. But when it's ourselves, we have to do the work and develop the skill. And there's a much longer runway in order to make something happen. But the general feeling within society now, and not just in technology, but feels like things are immediate, we want them now, we want them to be flipped on. It's a zero to a one, immediately a real digital relationship, and that we lose sight of the gray, the servers in the backroom, you know, everything that goes between our need and satisfaction of that need. And I see that in our kids. But is that something that enters your head, your mind? And do you see that in the client relationship as well? Dan 10:46Absolutely, I mean, we all live in a society where you need instant gratification. If you look at the Instagram, all kinds of social media, it's a fix, an instant fix. But there is always backends in all apps, they all big machines in the backroom, doing all the processing for you. But it is challenging because people are getting used to having information at their fingertips, they can pretty much do everything with the phone today. It's no difference. I'm old school that way. I mean, I use phones, to pretty much everything. But some certain tasks, I want the computer, I just need to get into that headspace and just sit and do my thing on the computer. And then I can continue on my phone. I mean, the younger generation, they don't have that problem or that hinder. It's a natural part of their life, they have no luggage when it comes to well, we couldn't do that. Because there was no internet or anything. They don't have that limitation. Yes, it's there. They expect everything to just work instantly. To get answers instantly, or whatever they need or tasks that need to do. It's fascinating to see young people today using their phones or devices because they're using it in such a different way than you and me are doing because it's just fascinating to see how humans evolve. If you say, get used to technology in a very easy way, it's very easy to get used to technology because it solves so many problems for us. But we don't have to move that much. Because we just need to lift our hand and the problem is solved. Instead of back in the day, you had to come up and do make a phone call. Tim 12:47Go to the library, check the encyclopedia. Dan 12:53Yeah, exactly. And that transpires into how companies around today. I mean, there is a difference between old companies and new companies. Old companies, so usually, they have that baggage, so they live throughout generations, while new companies, startups, they start from a fresh start. They start how people are using their devices today and how people are interacting the day. That's different. Tim 13:19For sure. When I'm working with startups, and they're young leadership teams, they definitely have more of the millennial bend to them. I remember doing generational work 20 years ago, where we thought the Gen Y were right in behind Gen X was going to eventually wake up and figure out that, you know, there's the real world and then there's the digital world, there's the online world that they would eventually get mortgages and kids and they would become like us. And it was a massive miscalculation. Because they don't think that way. They still don't think that way. In fact, if anything, Gen X Nexus, they've moved towards the Gen Y and even the millennial ways of thinking. And when we see younger workers and the younger generations and their relationship with technology, you and I were raised where technology was separate from us, we had to sit down and engage with it. Although, I don't think this is always true, because my phone is pretty sewn to my hand at this point. It's slowly meshing but for young people, their phone is an integrated part of their personality. It's an integrated part of the body almost, it's a sensory organ in many ways. It's a logic center and a decision center of the brain in many ways, to the point where they're lost without it and it sounds Orwellian. But at the same time, they're finding a healthy relationship with it where we see threat. My son just produced an album. And he did it after he had had a knee injury, and it kept him from dance. And he's relentlessly creative. So, he sat down, and within an hour, he said, Dad, I can't take this sitting around, I'm nervous. I said, Well, what's at the root of it, it was creativity. So, work on your music, he sat down and wrote an album, he just, it just went up on Apple this week and Spotify. And it's going viral, which is really interesting. He did the whole thing from an iPad. You know, I played in lots of bands, we rented studio space, we worked hard and practiced our songs. He's produced an album, and it's good. It's not garbage. It's like it's a first shot. But there's a couple of songs on there that are real bangers, and they're worth it. So when I wanted to support him, I said, Well, what do we need? You know, do we need to get you an interface? And do we need to get you a computer setup? And do we need to get you all of these things, and he's like, Oh, I wouldn't mind a larger surface. But other than that, I'm good. I want it to stay tactile, I want it to stay in this environment that I understand. And he doesn't want the technology to interfere with his creative process at all. He just wants to be able to transmit his vision into something quickly. He's got a quick and dirty style anyway. But get it in there and create and paint on this thing without having to worry about the learning or worry about, you know what I mean? So, he's just working in this intuition, intuitive space. And it's really interesting. And I don't know if I would have been the same way. I don't know. Dan 16:46I don't know. It's like cutting out the middle hand, which is technology. And they go directly to being creative and stuff because they have the right tool for it. The hardware and the software is there today to be able to do these things, which releases people from dealing with the technology because that's always been taught. And it's complex. And it takes time to learn. And, as you said, interface, and cables, and blah, blah, blah, keyboards and all that is all there. And as he rightfully stated, It needs more screen mistakes, to do more things. Tim 17:23Well, at one point, he's got this creative vision and this intense sense of control on the outcome. But the flip side, it's like he doesn't need physical or tactile control, he doesn't need, in fact he's very flexible. If something's not working, he just turns on a dime. And so my next question for you is around, in your work, and when you see organizations or leaders with their relationship with technology, what is the sense of control that you see various people crave or try to exert? And does that vary depending on their relationship with their technology? Or perhaps their generation? What's the need for control? And how does that show up? Dan 18:09Oh, that can show up in so many different ways. But mostly is based on age, it tells this like that older generations are bound to a certain technology. And they know that technology very well. And they don't want to move away from it, or they feel comfortable in doing what they do in their bubble, if you like. That's the control need, because they need to be able to control what they're doing. That's how they are brought up. They, that's what the school taught them. And that's how early work life taught them how to be. And so it's hard to break out and think outside the box that you are in that compartment. But there are obviously, people that managed to balance between both worlds. Those are the gems, those are the ones you need to take care of, in an organization. The younger generation that has no problem whatsoever to try, new things or not scared of failing, or because it's part of the process. Because if you find something that doesn't work, then you throw it out and try something else that does work. Tim 19:24Right, whether it's their attention span or just the speed at which these things happen. They don't live in failure very long. They don't know. They don't let it attach to them. They don't– Dan 19:35I don't think they see failure as a failure. They see failure as a way of learning and move forward. Tim 19:46Problem solve. Well, I'm going to start squeezing your brain for some precise thoughts here as you're saying that the younger generation doesn't have an issue with change or with control as much. Immediately the words that jumped to my part yeah, except for they've got an issue with the older generation sometimes and vice versa. So, when you see these gems, the ones that are able to either older or younger, bridge this gap, what is the skill or mindset that an older leader needs to have present in order to, that you have witnessed, what were what would be some of those attributes that allow them to function well, in this new, more flexible world? Dan 20:27I think you need to be open-minded in that sense that you need to allow people to do their work at their best ability, as they know themselves can do it the best. It's very hard for someone to tell someone, you need to do it in this certain way. We need it to be done in those certain terms of jobs. That doesn't work anymore. While it does work but it's starting to change. Yeah, I would open mind. It's probably the biggest skill you need. Tim 21:06So, to clarify a little bit. Would you say that that would be like being open-minded about how it gets done? You know, years ago, when we were doing process focus versus task focus, we would encourage the leaders to say be outcome-focused, like, what is the outcome you're looking for, the quality you're looking for? That should come first before we talk about how we're going to get there. Strategy and outcome before structure and process, right? So, for the older generation to be open-minded and a little less offended by new ideas of how to do things, maybe. Dan 21:44Yeah, that's the trick. Tim 21:47It is. Well, it's even with parents, right? What bothers us with children, and new ideas, new ways of doing things is it offends our sense of order in the world. And we take it as an offence because that's not the way things work. Who says you've got a monopoly on the way things work? Right? Dan 22:09Yeah, exactly. When you build systems, just going back to systems, when you build systems back in the day, you started to build a system. And you said, Okay, this system is going to do X, Y, Zed. And then even if the requirements were changing over the process of, I don't know, five years it took to build the system. That was kind of the standard back then. And even if the requirements changes, they were so complex that they couldn't change it. So, when they eventually was released, it still was not exactly what they wanted anyway, so it was a way of time. But now you can change during the project. And it's very common that you do, you start up, okay, we're going to reach this goal. But halfway through, no we're going to change and we're going to pivot to that. You can do that now, with people and technology, which is great, very rewarding to work in projects like that. Tim 23:08Do you think that modularization in a sense, is part of that where it's, if the outcome changes mid-project, it's much more granular like we can talk about not having to change this big end to end, interdependent system that we can't remove part Q without, you know, screwing up part P, and things can just be swapped out a lot easier? One solution for another? It almost feels like without even realizing it. Everything now is almost an app approach. And as you're talking here, I'm thinking about now. And the next question I was gonna ask you is, what mindset does the younger leader, the more modern thinker need to keep in mind in order to play nice and get the best out of the older leader? Or the older colleague, or worker? Dan 24:03Yeah, that's a good one as well. That's very person-dependent. Because as we talked about earlier, it's can be a little bit friction between the generations. I mean, in the same way, the younger leaders is that a little bit of understanding. Also, the older people have a lot of experience, a lot of experience and they know what to do and what not to do. Take advantage of that. They're also trying to wean them into a new way of thinking. Don't surprise them with it, but just ease them into it. From my experience, it works quite well. Tim 24:51Yeah, I think if we can, when you say know what to do and what not to do, older workers and more experienced workers, thought leaders, managers, whatnot, they have a deeper understanding of the potential risks and threats that are out there, you know, threats that we need to mitigate opportunities that we need to exploit. If we can decouple the how, from all of this, that seems to be, again, where people are getting stuck is in that control space, that how are you going to go do that, within reason, I mean, there still has to be order. So, to bring us up to speed here, we've got, we're in this period of great robust change, we've got rules that have been altered, we have a new way of working, we have a new way of thinking, we have a new relationship with technology. And as such, we've got new risks that come up, when we try to exert too much control, or we're too resistant to change, we talked about the younger generation being not as scared of failing, not having the same relationship with failure, and seeing it as much more of a stepping stone or something that was temporary versus defining. Although, in my experience, I see sometimes that is a source of conflict. To what degree is your shame sticking, some leaders are very unnerved when a person doesn't feel deep and lasting shame or guilt. And it's not a real positive thing. So, and we talked about the mindset that needs to go into this. How harmful and how costly can a lack of this confidence and ability to connect in an organization ve when you're trying to guide somebody through rapid change or needed change? Dan 26:58It's sometimes it's problematic because a big organization is just not one person is many departments and usually when you are running a project, you need to speak to a lot of departments, some departments are more pro-change, there's some not and it can be quite harmful for the company as a whole when very simple thing can't be solved because of people are not playing ball basically. That is a tricky situation to end up being. I've been in that kind of situation many times. And it takes a lot of communication, a lot of meetings and explanations, but eventually, you kind of reach a compromise. It's all about compromises, really. Tim 28:00When we see that behaviour of having to have meetings in order for people to get comfortable. And I do a lot of work in higher Ed and they refer to the collegial mindset and these kinds of things. It's working out the risks and making sure that everybody's heard and that degree of comfort. And I remember, you had said something in a previous conversation to me that really stuck. In my world, a phrase that I use is all change means loss, right? Change means losing something, saying goodbye to something, something dying. And you had said that, that loss at times can be the the feeling of expertise. And so if I'm thinking about departments or silos in an organization where one doesn't want to change and the other is ready, there's usually something in that silo that they're losing control of, or they're losing expertise over. Can you talk a little bit about that, about the idea of our relationship with our own expertise and how we can be flexible with that? Dan 29:14Yeah. You have to have an open mindset because things are gonna change whether you like it or not like it, you can't control it, you can't do anything about it. So, the best thing you can do is to embrace change. It is daunting, and it's scary to do that because you let go of something and you let go of some control. But on the other hand, you can gain control from something else instead. That's how I see closes. That's how I tried to be myself. I mean, I can't stick to old things that doesn't work. It doesn't make me happy and I can't do my job properly. So, I need to adjust and to learn new things, new processes, new techniques or whatnot. In order to move forward, I think you have to have that mindset. And also, it's good for you. Because if you are in your comfort zone, nothing fun or exciting is going to happen, every day is going to look the same. In order to have some kind of excitement in your life, or in your workplace, or anywhere, you need to step out of that comfort zone, because the amazing things happen outside. But it's a scary place, but it's very rewarding if you're there. Tim 30:42Yeah, there's, I remember years ago, that whole idea of letting go. And at the same time, I remember when I decided to really get real about what I can control and what I can control. That was it's a liberating thing. But I would ask you to take us back into the archives here, Dan, as you were developing, 40 years of experience, there would have been, I would imagine, there would have been a time where at least you realized this happened. Or maybe it was a specific event, where this idea of gaining control by giving up control so that you could find that authenticity, so that you could struggle less with trying to move things that you couldn't, can you take us back into your history and give us a bit of an anecdote of when that happened to a younger Dan. Dan 31:36A younger Dan. Well, it happens all the time, daily with me. I think I was working at a big bank in Sweden. I was stuck in between mainframes, the old water-cooled mainframes and the new pieces that just came out from IBM. So, I remember transitioning into doing more work with PC because I thought that's more, it seems to solve problems easier than to have to deal with the mainframe. So, that was, I think that was the big work-related shift of losing control that I can remember. Yeah, I was right. Tim 32:18And just being really comfortable with what you didn't learn in school, in a way, right? Dan 32:22Yeah, exactly. That's the same thing because you learn one thing in school and when you graduate, it's old ready? Tim 32:31Yeah. So, fixing one's expertise to a certain how of doing things might be, and I'm reflecting on my own space. Now, I mean, my success is because I bring a deep toolbox and lots of experience, but I never get married to the how we're going to do something. This is a little different in the consulting space. But you know, like, just in the last two years, I would meet with clients, I can put together a pretty good agenda. You know, I know how to structure an agenda. I used to teach, you know, meeting skills. And well, there's a reason why we have a very structured rigid agenda. So, I'm very good at this. And then I realized that when I'm working with these executive teams in these complex issues, or I'm working with a team that's under crisis, or are a leader that I need to be listening to, if I start with my agenda, I'm in a way impeded, and I'm done. Because until I get in the room, and I do a lot of prework, but until I get into the room, I don't know exactly what's going to happen. So, I have to be able to spin on a dime. And so, man, I didn't think I was gonna go here. But I literally had conversations with clients where I was like, they would be like, where's the agenda, and I'm like, I don't use an agenda anymore. I have a series of outcomes that we are going to strive for, and that I'm going to promise. But if I told you, I knew what minute of the two days, we're going to be working on a certain thing, and that we're definitely going to use that tool. And that's the thing we're going to be using. I would be lying to you. And I mean, because I have too often started down the road and within the first 10 minutes, the agenda is out the window, then what do you do? And so I abandoned that sense of control early on. That relationship with how we define our expertise then around being enough and trusting ourselves that we're going to be able to, you know, forward into the unknown. It's something that the older generation has to redefine in many ways and the younger generation seems to be doing literally out of hand, right? Just– Dan 34:50Yeah, no real different ways to approach things in life. I mean, for me as a consultant, I have the experience. I've been working for a long time in both banks, finances and being in the travel industry, all that knowledge that I have accumulated throughout the years with travel, for example, that's the business learning, that I know their business inside and out. And I can apply that to whatever technology there is. That is we're going to use to solve a problem today. So, that never goes away. I still have that knowledge with me. But I can adapt that into whatever technology is being used. That's keeping the best of both worlds. That's why it's so important for the younger people to tap into that knowledge in the older people. Tim 35:46Well, that's why we as Gen X can say, with a great deal of or great lack of humility, we're the best generation there's ever going to be. Yeah, because we're on. I don't think that's going to hold true. But anyway, I think it's interesting, though, and especially when we turn this towards the needs of many of my listeners, which are going to be struggles around hiring and retention, struggles around that we have a different level of willing capacity or discretionary performance that showing up in the workplace right now. And also, we've always talked about for years now, we've talked about entitlement and things like this with younger workers. But this is all fitting together for me in the sense that the older workers right now, the older generation in the professional areas, was the importance of the resume and all of the experience that they're bringing into it. And of course, that is practically important. I'm not disputing that. But we have younger workers that come in, and they don't think they're being in many cases, they don't put the same weight into their experience. They feel you're hiring them, they feel you're hiring their potential, they feel you're hiring, they're whether you think of it as confidence, or whatever it is, but you're hiring them or hiring the person, not the resume. And so there's a great deal of confusion when you sort of say, well, you need to cut your teeth or a statement like that, what you need to do, you know, you need to pay your dues and spend your time. And I wouldn't say that it's outside their thinking, they know what it means and it's not a problem with them. It's that the answer is somewhere in between. Because what we want them to learn today, depending on the role, could potentially be obsolete tomorrow. And so we need that speed of learning. We need that ability to be nimble, and to be responsive. And actually, here's maybe not the most politically correct way to think about younger employees. But what would happen, and this is me musing now, what would happen if we treated the employee more like the app we need to put on our phone and say, or even we use that language with them? Your role is like an app that we need to install, and we need it to do certain things. Perhaps we could get a different level of independent work slash relationship with the work. I never thought I'd go down that path, but it's definitely, do they think of themselves in the app, right? Dan 38:37Yeah, no, I mean, as a consultant, you are the hired short-term.Tim 38:44Oh, yeah, Ronald Gun. Dan 38:38So, you're an app, unless you're doing a very good job and stay wherever the company happens, yeah, you are an app, basically, because the employee needs help with a certain task, bringing that expertise and do the thing and teach the other employees and then leave. Tim 39:07Okay, so this now we're at a really interesting point, because you and I have the bias in this room right now that we're both in a sense, you know, keep what you kill, run and gun consultants in the sense that, we go in and we help people with no long term expectations to be holding them hostage, or around for a long time, we're there to fix problems. And hopefully, they call us back when they've got the next problem. Right? But we make our name based on our results and on the relationships we keep. This is a small portion of the population that is able to function in this way. I would say we have sort of a Buddhist philosophy in employment, Buddhists is the wrong way to go. But it's temporary. It's a Mandela, right? We know it's going to change. It's meant to be swept away. My experience with the working layer in professionals, the bulk of the population does not feel really comfortable with that level of open risk. Right? Yeah, absolutely. How does that stability translate for the older and the younger generations? And I think it's really, it's a question that's worth asking. And I think I'm inspired by you to go and ask it. Dan 40:25Yeah, no, as I said before, we're older, well for us. The good CV meant everything that was the most important that was the paper that you meant something, I've done this, I can use this paper to get a job or that I mattered that I accomplished things. For the younger generation doesn't matter. Because they just want to work with fun things and get paid. And also we were bound to stay with the same employee for years. Because you did that, you didn't job hope in any shape or form, because that was looked down on. Someone changed job within two years that, oo what's wrong with that person? And now it's the opposite. Why have you worked with that employee for 10 years, you're weird. Tim 41:27That's true, it went through a period of the late '90s-2000s, into the 2010s. Well into now, where, you know, people were highly, highly transient when it went into work. And that was the way to get a promotion, you went out and you hunted a promotion through changing your jobs, if you're a professional. You're going to climb through jobs switch. What's interesting, and I think this is really cutting edge now is that for businesses that find that feeling of comfort, and able to keep the employees working on fun things and keep them challenged, and let them suddenly develop that backlog of skills and familiarity, and have a real social experience, there is a greater desire now than I've seen in my 25 years of working in this space. I believe the needle is starting to switch back over to I want to find a long-term, perhaps role for life. I want it to be part of me. And I don't want it to be something that I need to, I know it's going to develop, but I want it to always be there and I want it to be, it's kind of like your contract with your phone company, as long as it's working. And you get a new phone, a new office every once in a while, you get new apps, new roles and challenges every once in a while. I'm good. Yeah, I can focus on other stuff, bigger questions, things that matter. There's different questions. I mean, younger generation workers that I see, that I'm coaching, they care as much about what social initiatives and social values, the CEO demonstrates, or the company is willing to challenge as they do what their mission is, in the world. This isn't true for everybody. But it's true for a lot of people they are looking deeper at, they don't want to associate with a business that treats them as disposable. There's a real attraction to that, that place of being and that they can say it with pride, and that they don't have to worry that the reputation of the business is going to rub off on them if it's stink, right? They don't want to be associated with that. I see much healthier relationships with this and Europe and Canada, and parts of Southeast Asia and Australasia than I do in the States. In the States, I see we're going through a dehumanization in some ways, right? Dan 44:08It's brutal. Tim 44:10It is, it's absolutely brutal. Dan 44:15It is brutal. Just a short run, but I've seen also is that the older generation tends to stick around longer obviously. Because it's a sense of security for the younger generations to hop around a little bit more. But there's a risk to that because all the companies who lose intellectual value because their brains are disappearing, so they need to find a way to keep the knowledge in the company, but at the same time provide all the flexibility, all the good stuff. Tim 45:00Yeah, intellectual capital has to be put on the balance sheet. Reputational capital needs to be put on the ballot. Dan 45:10Yeah, yeah. When we, I mean, older generation, we are more important than your free time. And now that change sort of your free time is more important than your work. So, it's all those aspects as well. Tim 45:26In training one group of executives I was working with a couple of months ago, I was talking to them about learned helplessness. And that your employees when you hire them all in many ways, you're never more optimistic about what they can provide, because guess what you've only known them for practically three hours through the interview process, and you've seen their resume, and you've got all sorts of imaginings about what they're going to be capable of. And then the real world hits, and they've got good things, and they've got bad things. And sometimes you're more impressed than disappointed, sometimes you're disappointed than impressed. You begin to judge and classify what this person is capable of, in the course of real work. And if it's not managed properly, you can begin to really instill a great deal of, again, shame, guilt, whatever you want to call it, you can start to let the new employee know when you're disappointed when they've failed. And if you do this improperly, and they get confused about what they're actually still in control of, they can stop trying, because they don't know what's going to make you happy, or they don't know what's going to have what's considered winning anymore. And so they get paralyzed because there's no winning, they don't know what the rules of the game are. It was never explained properly, or we didn't connect on it. What is really interesting when we think about the older generation is how much we actually relied on for lack of a better term. And I'm sure I'm going to be raked for saying this. But how much we relied on learned helplessness. We were helpless to affect whether or not we needed to be in the office working. We were helpless to alter sort of the the level of negotiation and how we would go about applying for a job. We were helpless to initiate a human rights complaint or something like that if something happened. I mean, I wasn't prone to it. But man, I worked in some industries, specifically in kitchens, where they still wouldn't pass muster when it comes to how people are supposed to be treated. I mean, it's just way too aggressive. Right? So, helping these new dynamic multigenerational workplaces, dealing with this pace of change and all the new opportunities it brings, as well as the expertise and all the lessons we've learned and all the organizational knowledge that we've captured. Man, I love the work I do. It is so complex, which again is why I love talking to a guy like you because complexity is your is your stock and trade. Right? Dan 48:07Yeah, no, I love it. Just the fact that it's changing so much all the time, and you have to adapt to people and you have to adapt to technology and systems. Talk to people to bring everything together. That's what's kept me going, daily basically. Tim 48:26Let me ask you a question. Now I'm gonna want to break this down to some practical advice for leaders. I'm gonna take a risk here, we may have to cut it out. If you think about a large system that you're installing, or augmenting for a client, and they can be end-to-end? Am I? Dan 48:45Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, it can be. Tim 48:50In order for that system to be designed for improvement, what are three-four attributes that you need to keep in mind when you're designing that IT landscape? What are some design characteristics that allows it to be nimble and change? Dan 49:09Well, first of all, you need to build a modularization, modularize. Oh, that's a hard word to say. Tim 49:15Modularization. Yeah, modular, it's got to be modular. Dan 49:20And also the, it's very important how you design your system. You basically have very small parts of your system that can connect together to make a feature, for example. So, if you have an order system, you have one little part that deals with the client or the customer, you have one little part in that that deals with the history of the orders and one little part that deals with what happens when the customer do an order so you have to break it down in very small bits. Which makes changes much easier. It is not gonna be super simple anyway, but it's going to be much easier to deal with, you don't have to change your whole system, you have to change parts. Tim 50:10So, the idea that you can change part of it, and that is modular from design, and that you understand what the different bits are for and what they do. And that they are specialized in a sense. Leep those three things is as paramount, everything will be a little bit easier, much easier. In fact, we do the wrong thing, it becomes static, that becomes the brick of a mainframe that we have to, you know, tear right down to its nuts, if we're going to change anything. Dan 50:41Well, there are huge breaks in maps as well. So, it's hard to do. Tim 50:47All right. Now, here's where my instinct is leading to me, leading me to, if we translate that thinking into how a person approaches their leadership style, then maybe the running of their team, let's just start with the knowledge of self, the fluency of self. If I take a modular approach, to my sense of self, if I think of myself as not one big thing, but a bunch of little things, how would that affect my ability to change and adapt? Dan 51:25I think you need to be flexible as a person, and you need to learn how to accept new things, and you need to be able to process new things and see if this is a good thing, or if it's gonna hinder me, or if it's gonna reward me, or if it's gonna make my life easier. So, you need to change that. Also, when you're working with people, you have to delegate, that's the most important thing, when you work as a leader. Because you don't know everything, there is always people that know things much better than you and use them. Because then you can change, basically, because you have people working for you that know things very well. Tim 52:19I think I get where you're going here. And when I think of that modular aspect, it parallels to changing a part of what you're doing, or one of your thoughts or one of the ways you conceptualize things, or even that what you were an expert now is now obsolete, and you have to lean on other things, that modular approach means that we can protect, well not protect but it doesn't alter our sense of self. It doesn't threaten the whole, it's just a part. It's just a thing, right? And then when you said about delegating, and I think about that, the bits that all do different things. One of the first moves that I make with teams or with leaders or executives working on their career, is that they understand all the different roles in which they show up in, and that there's a certain function they have in this group that they don't have in this group. So, how are you entering the meeting? Do you know what your your role is? When this employee comes to you, do you know what they're asking you to be? Are they asking you to be the critic of their work? Or do they need somebody that helps you sort out a confidence issue? What role are you filling? What bit are you accessing right now? So, Dan, I'd like to ask you, if you were to focus on some of the most actionable advice that you would offer to leaders, what would be the things that you would say that have to be at the forefront of their mind? Dan 53:58I think the most important thing is to be transparent. Be able to communicate and to listen, because you're dealing with people, and there is not one person that it's the same as the other one. Everybody has different needs. Everybody wants different things. Everyone has different personal lives, which affects their work life. So, you need to be able to communicate. I think a big thing is to be transparent and to listen. Tim 54:28And if we fail to do that, we're treating that person like they are just a mindless cog. And they'll be disappointed. Dan 54:38Yeah, because they're human beings. A human being is happy then they will produce. Tim 54:47Should we have hope for how technology is changing and what it's going to allow us to become as a species, as a planet? Dan 55:00Hmm, philosophical. The software, I think people–Tim 55:01Guilty, guilty. Dan 55:03I think people will evolve together with technology, we are kind of staring our own destiny in that sense, because we are making technology do things for us as a human species. We are lazy by nature, we have these machines that do things for us. So yeah, of course, we're going to move towards that. We are always in a transition state, there is no finite state, this is nothing more it's going to happen, it's always going to happen. We always going to have these generational clashes like we have with the younger, they will have kids and they will suffer the same thing. When they get older, their kids will evolve in things where in ways that we can't even imagine. So, I think there's a constant evolution. Tim 56:00Well, Dan, you've really opened my eyes to a number of things here. And I love that we're at the place we're at. We talked, some of the big things that I'm going to take away from this is that idea of being able to stay in that state of creativity, and that letting go and knowing that things are shifting constantly. And that they're not just shifting for us, but they're shifting for everyone. And that when we approach others to understand, you know, be transparent, perhaps vulnerable, listen, and be empathetic. And really communicate clearly to try to cut out as much of the error as possible. Because everybody's in this change with us. And they're all changing in their own ways. And we need to focus on giving up that sense of control over the how necessarily, unless we've got things to add, so that we can embrace who we are and focus on our own happiness, and then the realization that everybody else deserves the same thing. They deserve to find themselves and be happy in that. Dan 57:25Absolutely. Yeah. Tim 57:25So, in that sense, I mean, technology can really open up, perhaps a greater level of humanity. Because it'll take us farther away from this industrialized kind of mindset. Dan 57:25Yeah, I hope so. We'll see. Tim 57:30All right. Well, here, let's go through some of the final thoughts here. If a person wants to engage with you, and consider their own technological journey, or just reach out, where's the best place for them to link up with you? Dan 57:47That would be email or LinkedIn. Tim 57:51Okay. So, we'll put both of your contact spots there. If I was to ask you, maybe it's the boat, maybe it's something else. But what do you have going on perhaps professionally, or in your life that you're really excited about? And that you would want people to be aware of that you're, you know, the circles that you're moving in professionally, or the efforts that you're expending? What are some things that you're excited about? Dan 58:19Oh, what am I excited about? I'm working on a big system right now. We are not gonna transition a very old system. That is all we're talking ourself into new technology new. I can't say what the client is, because it's, but that's gonna be really exciting to be part of and work with. That's a huge job. Tim 58:46And helping people know that it's possible. Dan 58:50Yeah and also, it's a great realization of the client that they need to do it. They can't just bound virtues their old system. Tim 59:01You know, it's funny, because when we think about organizational change, especially cultural change, people have to come to terms with that systems and processes and policies that were designed under certain mindsets, actually solidify and calcify that behavior in the organization. And sometimes if you're going to go through this real meaningful change, you got to admit that stuff. Dan 59:31Yeah, yeah you have to. Could be a time when people are at ready, when the companies are ready to do it then we can do it. You can't force a change like this. That's just how it is. Tim 59:42We don't want to force it. But oh, wow, I imagine that it's when they're ready, it's a heck of a lot easier than if you're pushing rope. What is one wish that you want every listener to leave this conversation with? What do you hope for everybody that's listening? Dan 59:59I wish people, all people in general to be a little bit more transparent and listen more to people around you. Because people are amazing. And you can learn a lot from them. Tim 1:00:14Yeah, that's great. Last order of business. Dan 1:00:15Last order of business.Dan 1:00:17Yeah, last order of business for the next guest on Sweet on Leadership. Put them on the hot seat. What's a question you would want them to answer to get us going to break the ice that you are really curious about? Dan 1:00:35What you know, now, would you change anything when you graduated school? If you could turn back time? Tim 1:00:43If you could turn back time, what would you say to your younger self? Change when you graduated school? Okay. All right. Dan Löfquist, thank you so much for joining me today. I really appreciate it. I'm so glad I got to spend this time with you and learn a little bit more about you and connect on this level. And I'm really happy. I'm really happy that I can bring this expertise all the way from the sticks in Sweden, to everybody that's going to be listening around the world. So thank you so much. Dan 1:01:18My pleasure. My pleasure, Tim. Tim 1:01:20Take good care and enjoy that boat. Dan 1:01:23I will, I will. Tim 1:01:30Thank you so much for listening to Sweet on Leadership. If you found today's podcast valuable, consider visiting our website and signing up for the companion newsletter. You can find the link in the show notes. If like us, you think it's important to bring new ideas and skills into the practice of leadership. Please give us a positive rating and review on Apple Podcasts. This helps us spread the word to other committed leaders. And you can spread the word too by sharing this with your friends, teams and colleagues. Thanks again for listening. And be sure to tune in in two weeks time for another episode of Sweet on Leadership. In the meantime, I'm your host, Tim Sweet, encouraging you to keep on leading.
Dr. Lona and Dr. Bobby explore the 3 pillars of a successful practice: attraction, conversion, and retention, highlighting the necessity of systems for predictable patient care and practice growth. They stress the value of knowing practice statistics for informed decision-making and the responsibilities of ethical care. Dive deep as they share personal struggles and growth experiences, underscoring the significance of having repeatable systems in place to ensure practice productivity, team building, and ultimately, the growth of a chiropractic practice.Key Highlights04:34 - The struggle with unpredictable growth before learning about systems.06:54 - The importance of systems not just for practice growth but also for practices that function without your immediate presence. 11:57 - Predictable practice growth through systems for attraction, conversion and retention.13:53 - The significance of certainty in chiropractic principles.16:04 - The results of lack of clarity on the benefits of care for the patient.19:29 - Creating an emotional connection with patients on day one.24:19 - Identifying current practices to determine areas for improvement.26:23 - Setting new patient goals based on practice volume and the "rule of 10".28:59 - The importance of tracking practice metrics to improve growth and conversion rates.34:34 - Developing scripts for day one and day two of the conversion process to convert new patients. Resources MentionedDownload your copy of the Day 1 and Day 2 Conversion Flow Charts: https://theremarkablepractice.com/podcast-ep007-conversionsciptsTo schedule a Strategy Session with Dr Lona: https://go.oncehub.com/DrLonaBuildPodcastTo schedule a Strategy Session with Dr Bobby: https://go.oncehub.com/DrBobbyBuildPodcastLearn more about the Build Your Remarkable Practice: https://theremarkablepractice.com/build-your-remarkable-practice-podcast/Learn what it takes to be Remarkable!: https://theremarkablepractice.com/
Dr. Bobby and Dr. Lona continue the conversation on the 6 things all chiros need to get right to grow their practices and build their practice dream. Listen to see if you are solving your own practice Rubik's Cube of vision, leadership, systems, people, training, and energy! Key Highlights01:33 - Building a successful practice through teamwork and delegation.04:24 - The value of finding the right people who are aligned with the vision and core values of a business.06:12 - The need for leaders to inspire and align employees around a shared vision, rather than simply focusing on profits or productivity.11:36 - The role of training in practice growth and success.15:39 - Creating the clarity of vision and investing in team members for growth.19:03 - How energy problems can lead to interpersonal issues and a lack of growth in a practice.24:41 - The importance of systems in chiropractic practices to maintain energy and success. Resources MentionedTo schedule a Strategy Session with Dr Lona: https://go.oncehub.com/DrLonaBuildPodcastTo schedule a Strategy Session with Dr Bobby: https://go.oncehub.com/DrBobbyBuildPodcastLearn more about the Build Your Remarkable Practice: https://theremarkablepractice.com/build-your-remarkable-practice-podcast/Learn what it takes to be Remarkable!: https://theremarkablepractice.com/
As the Director of Care Coordination and Systems Development at the University of Illinois-Chicago's Division of Specialized Care for Children, Dr. Molly Hofmann wears many hats. She's worked in emergency rooms, at clinics for abused children and with caregivers who serve children with tracheotomies and ventilators. Her mission is simple: Partner. Help. Connect.
This episode is witih Dr Karen Kirkham, who is Chief Medical Officer of Deloitte. Karen has been a practising GP for over 30 years, and previously was Clinical Lead for the Dorset Integrated Care System, as well as a National Clinical Advisor for Systems Development with NHSE/I. She's an insightful, well-respected, inspiring leader who's not afraid to speak up, and is a huge advocate for clinical leadership.This is an honest conversation from someone with decades of experience across the NHS and private sector, who really cares about nurturing young leaders.*Highlights:Early influences (2 mins)First steps in leadership (6 mins)Self development (9 mins)Getting a coach (14 mins)Taking opportunities (18 mins)Having a plan - or not (20 mins)Juggling clinical work and leadership (22 mins)Family, and tips for work life balance (29 mins)Finding confidence (36 mins)Quick fire (43 mins) *Resources:Her book recommendation: Beyond The Summit, by Todd SkinnerMore on Karen and her role with Deloitte *Social media@Karen_kirkham2@NextGGP/ @nishmanek Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In working with software and systems teams developing tech products, Judy Hwang, a senior software engineer in the SEI CERT Division, observed that teams weren't putting in enough time and effort into thoroughly assessing the product by talking to users, looking at the market, understanding the competition, and trying to figure out how to create value. In this podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, Hwang talks with principal researcher Suzanne Miller about the importance of understanding the origins and intentions behind product management in software and systems development, and offers resources for audience members who are interesting in learning more about product manager in software and systems development.
Formed in 1992, the SAE S-18 Aircraft & Systems Development and Safety Assessment Committee is tasked by the FAA to capture consensus industry safety procedures into a recommended practice. For over 25 years, the S-18 documents have been the cornerstone of product development and safety in aviation. . As new aircraft technologies like eVTOL and autonomous flights emerge, the S-18 committee is keeping pace with updated guidance for more complex aviation systems. In fact, the committee is currently working on the release of revised versions of two longstanding critical modern aviation safety standards in an effort to adapt to a rapidly transforming industry. . To learn more, we sat down with Andy Wallington, System Safety Engineer and SAE S-18 Vice Chairperson, The Boeing Company, and Steve Beland, Retired Technical Fellow - System Safety and recent SAE S-18A Co-Chairperson, to discuss their commitment to updated guidance and aviation safety. . For updates on the release of SAE's revised aircraft standards, visit www.sae.org/foundations-of-aircraft-and-systems-safety. And don't forget to register for AeroTech, SAE International's premier professional conference on aerospace technology. . If you'd like to get involved in developing SAE mobility standards, visit www.sae.org/standards/development. . We'd love to hear from you. Share your comments, questions and ideas for future topics and guests to podcast@sae.org. Don't forget to take a moment to follow SAE Tomorrow Today—a podcast where we discuss emerging technology and trends in mobility with the leaders, innovators and strategists making it all happen—and give us a review on your preferred podcasting platform. . Follow SAE on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Follow host Grayson Brulte on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.
Joshua Benadiva sits down with Arad Levertov, founder and CEO of Sunbit, a pay-over-time, point-of-sale financing solution for everyday expenses such as auto-repair, dental care, vet care, and more. Sunbit offers a no-fee credit card, as well as a point-of-sale lending option available at over 20,000 service locations. In-line with Arad's founding vision, Sunbit approves over 90% of borrowers, and the company was most recently valued at $1.1 billion. In this episode, Arad shares how and why he started Sunbit, his vision for the future of the company and the buy-now-pay-later model more generally. He also shares some of his secrets to building a mission-driven company, as well as how Sunbit integrates powerful machine-learning models to maximize value for customers. About Arad Levertov: Arad Levertov co-founded Sunbit, where he currently serves as Chief Executive Officer. A FinTech veteran, Arad's strong leadership skills come from his background as a Major in the Israeli Navy Seals. Arad holds an MBA degree from Duke University Fuqua School of Business. Previous to Sunbit, Arad was COO of Enova International, where he successfully managed an $800M business and led teams across product, marketing, strategy, HR, and operations. Prior to Enova, he ran Operations and Systems Development at Intel.
In a world where early intervention can make all the difference, Episode 6 of our series, "No Time to Waste: Getting Help for Your Child's Drug Use," delves into the vital realm of preventing and addressing adolescent drug misuse. From recognizing the signs of drug misuse to navigating the myriad of resources available, this episode embarks on a journey of knowledge and compassion, equipping you with essential insights for both early detection and intervention. Terrence Spain introduces the groundbreaking 988 helpline, a nationwide lifeline for those grappling with drug misuse or mental health concerns. Robert Vincent adds to the discourse, guiding listeners to a wealth of online support platforms that complement the 988 helpline. Strategies for overcoming stigma take center stage as Terrence lends his voice to the importance of dispelling myths and ensuring every child receives appropriate assistance. The journey of recovery is illuminated through poignant narratives, reinforcing the belief that recovery is not only possible but within reach for most. Key Takeaways: • Early intervention plays a crucial role in preventing adolescent drug misuse and its potential long-term effects. • The 988 helpline provides a nationwide resource for parents and guardians seeking assistance for drug misuse or mental health concerns. • Overcoming stigma is essential for ensuring every child receives the appropriate support and guidance they need. • Creating a safe and nonjudgmental space is vital when approaching conversations about drug use with your child. • Exploring diverse therapeutic approaches and finding the right fit for your child can be instrumental in their journey toward recovery. Jodie Sweetin is an actress, author, and advocate, best known for her role as Stephanie Tanner on the iconic sitcom "Full House" and its sequel "Fuller House". In 2009 she penned her memoir, "unSweetined", which chronicles her journey through addiction and into recovery. With her frank and open approach, Jodie has emerged as a compelling speaker and advocate who now seeks to use her platform and experiences to educate others and reduce the stigma associated with addiction and recovery. Amy McCarthy, LICSW, is a Director of Clinical Social Work at Boston Children's Hospital's Division of Addiction Medicine. She has been working in the Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program since 2019 Terrence Spain, MPH is the Senior Manager for Adolescent Substance Use and Co-Occurring Disorders for the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Charleston Southern University and his master's in public administration, with an emphasis in Public Policy, from the University of Oklahoma. Prior to working for ODMHSAS he worked for over 11 years in the field of juvenile justice focusing on the area of disproportionate minority contact. Terrence began working for the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services in 2013 as the Alcohol Program Manager for the Prevention division. Mr. Spain spent over 7 years working in the prevention division overseeing planning, implementing, and evaluating environmental prevention services statewide for all major substance use issues. Currently, Mr. Spain works to improve access and treatment for all Oklahoma youth and families by working to integrate prevention, treatment, and recovery in every aspect of service delivery. He lives in Chickasha, Oklahoma with his wife of 15 years and two children. Rob Vincent serves as the Associate Administrator for Alcohol Prevention and Treatment Policy for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Division of Systems Development. Prior to coming to SAMHSA Rob served as the Administrator for True North-Student Assistance & Treatment Services at the Educational Service District 113's Department of Educational Support in Olympia, Washington. He was responsible for the development, implementation, and management of a (45) forty-five school district consortium addressing School Safety and Substance Abuse Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment programs within the five-county region. Elks: As a 150-year-old organization, they are 100% inclusive with a membership of close to 1 million diverse men and women in over 2,000 Lodges nationally, and while they consider themselves faith based, they are nondenominational and open to all creeds. The Elks have always prided themselves on civic duty, and the Elks Drug and Alcohol Prevention (DAP) program is the nation's largest all volunteer Kids Drug & Alcohol Use Prevention program. The Elks are also strong supporters of our brave men and women in the military, having built and donated the nation's first VA Hospital to the U.S. government. The Elks have donated more than $3.6 billion in cash, goods, and services to enrich the lives of millions of people! DEA: The United States Drug Enforcement Administration was created in 1973 by President Nixon after the government noticed an alarming rise in recreational drug use and drug-related crime. A division of the Department of Justice, DEA enforces controlled substances laws by apprehending offenders to be prosecuted for criminal and civil crimes. DEA is the largest and most effective antidrug organization in the world, with 241 domestic locations in 23 field divisions and 93 international field divisions in 69 countries. Resources/Links SAMHSA | Help and Treatment Get Smart About Drugs Growing Up Drug Free: A Parent's Guide to Substance Use Prevention One Pill Could Kill DEA Website DEA on Instagram DEA on Twitter DEA on Facebook DEA YouTube Channel Elks Kid Zone Website Elks Drug Awareness Program Website Elks DAP on Twitter Elks DAP on Facebook Elks DAP on YouTube Jodie Sweetin's Links Jodie's Instagram Jodie's TikTok Amy McCarthy's Links Amy's Instagram Boston Children's Hospital Instagram Boston Children's Hospital Addiction Medicine Terrence's Links ODMHSAS Instagram Robert Vincent's Links SAMHSA: "Talk. They Hear You" Campaign
Host Jodie Sweetin is joined by Amy McCarthy, Dr. Aida Balsano, Director for Prevention Communications and Public Engagement at the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, and Robert Vincent, Associate Administrator for Alcohol Prevention and Treatment Policy at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Ultimately our goal is to help parents have“The Talk.” If it hasn't happened yet, then let's be prepared…if it has, how did it go? If you screwed it up, no worries. Let's figure out how to get it right. But, on the other hand, if you feel it went well, take this as a reminder that the talk is not a one-off, let's figure out what's next in this constant battle to keep those we love more than life itself safe! Today our panel discusses the consequences of substance abuse. Learn why explaining the “why” is essential when talking to your child. IN THIS EPISODE: [00:00] Overview of The Talk - Part 2 [01:46] The knowledge your child has regarding drugs may be faulty [05:49] How does a parent cope with feelings of betrayal and dishonesty? Should there be consequences for bad behavior [10:18] The importance of telling a child why this behavior is bad for them [12:54] How the drugs have changed over the years [19:36] Upcoming episode of Awkward Conversations KEY TAKEAWAYS: Kids don't look at the consequences of drug use. They don't frame it as health, wellness, or well-being. Instead, they only think about the future and need to hear why drugs harm them. Parents need to be listening and present. A “behavior contract,” or reward and consequences, should be clear to everyone. Likewise, there should be inevitable consequences for certain behaviors. The potency of drugs has changed. They are more potent than they have ever been. And the sad thing about that fact is that the wrong pill can kill. ***DISCLAIMER***The views, information, or opinions expressed during the Awkward Conversation series are solely those of the individuals, speakers, commentators, experts, and or hosts involved and do not necessarily reflect nor represent those of the production, associates or broadcaster, or any of its employees. Production is not responsible and does not verify for accuracy any of the information contained in the series available for viewing. The primary purpose of this series is to educate and inform. This series does not constitute medical or other professional advice or services. This series is available for private, non-commercial use only. The production, broadcaster, or its channel cannot be held accountable for all or any views expressed during this program. Resources: SAMHSA Find Treatment Emoji Decoder DEA Takeback Website Growing Up Drug-Free: A Parent's Guide to Substance Use Prevention One Pill Could Kill Never Thought I'd Say This Podcast with Jodie Sweetin Team Upstandards with Trevor Donovan Get Smart About Drugs Website Elks Kid Zone Website Elks Drug Awareness Program Website Elks DAP on Twitter Elks DAP on Facebook Elks DAP on YouTube DEA Website DEA on Instagram DEA on Twitter DEA on Facebook DEA YouTube Channel Watch Awkward Conversations Season 1 the series: Awkward Breakfast Conversations - Ep. 1 Awkward Lunch Conversations - Ep. 2 Awkward Dinner Conversations - Ep. 3 Bios: Jodie Sweetin is an American actress and television personality known for her role as Stephanie Tanner in the ABC comedy series Full House and its Netflix sequel series Fuller House. Jodie is joined by Content Expert Amy McCarthy, a Senior Clinical Social Worker at Boston Children's Hospital. Amy McCarthy, LICSW, is the Director of Social Work for the Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program (ASAP) at Boston Children's Hospital, where she provides direct clinical and programmatic support. Additionally, Amy has extensive experience working in community-based settings providing care to young people with complex mental health needs and their families. As the former director of the Boston-Suffolk County Family Resource Center, she worked with an abundance of community partners to ensure residents had access to vital resources to meet basic needs and beyond. Amy received her Bachelor's Degree in Social Work (BSW) from Siena College and earned a Master's Degree in Social Work (MSW) from Wheelock College. Rob Vincent serves as the Associate Administrator for Alcohol Prevention and Treatment Policy for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Division of Systems Development. Before coming to SAMHSA Rob served as the Administrator for True North-Student Assistance & Treatment Services at the Educational Service District 113's Department of Educational Support in Olympia, Washington. He was responsible for the development, implementation, and management of a (45) forty-five school district consortium addressing School Safety and Substance Abuse Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment programs within the five-county region. Rob has worked in the area of substance abuse prevention, intervention, and Treatment for more than 34 years, as a nationally certified clinician, and has served as the Director for Counseling and Assistance Programs for the U.S. Navy during Desert Storm. Rob served as the principal investigator of the Olympia Effective Adolescent Grant, and as a consultant specializing in the implementation of schools-based prevention and treatment programs for several states. He received his Master of Science in Education Degree from Southern Illinois University. Dr. Aida Balsano serves as Director for Prevention Communications and Public Engagement at the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS). Prior to joining SAMHSA in 2020, Aida was with the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA, at the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture), where she served for ten years as the National Program Leader in Research and Evaluation in Family & Consumer Sciences. While at NIFA, she administered competitive grant programs and worked with administrators, faculty, and Cooperative Extension educators across the Land-Grant University system, as well as served as NIFA's liaison to Federal agencies and other national partners addressing existing and emerging programmatic, research, and evaluation needs, opportunities, and resources in the areas of individual, family and community quality of life in general and rural well-being specifically. Before her post with USDA, Aida worked as a Vice President for Evaluation and Policy at the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation in Washington, DC, and as a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development at Tufts University, MA. Aida holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Child Development from Tufts University and a B.A. in Psychology from Grinnell College, IA.
SHOW NOTES: Host Jodie Sweetin is joined by Amy McCarthy, Dr. Aida Balsano, Special Assistant to the Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and Robert Vincent, Associate Administrator for Alcohol Prevention and Treatment Policy at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Ultimately our goal is to help parents have “The Talk.” In this episode, we will discuss keeping the child's dignity intact while assisting them through difficult situations. Separating what the child's behavior is and your love for the child can be hard when tempers are raging. We will share tips on overcoming these situations and how to make “The Talk” beneficial to the child and not detrimental to your relationship. IN THIS EPISODE: [00:00] Show excerpt [02:25] Admitting as the parent that we are not perfect. We make mistakes and may have made an error even in the position taken in the current conversation [06:36]Dos and Don'ts of having the conversation about substance abuse [11:53]LGBTQ children and the approach a parent takes [16:11] Anger and crisis mode versus compassion and empathy [18:24] Coming up on the next episode of Awkward Conversations KEY TAKEAWAYS: Give your child a chance to participate in the “Talk.” Don't direct the conversation at them but give both parent and child opportunities to voice their opinion. There are cultural differences when there are age differences. Ensure that the child understands what you are communicating. Don't assume you are on the same page. Don't lecture. The goal is to keep the conversation going. Kids will turn off a lecture. Instead, encouraging further discussion leaves them confident they can discuss anything with the parent. ***DISCLAIMER***The views, information, or opinions expressed during the Awkward Conversation series are solely those of the individuals, speakers, commentators, experts, and or hosts involved and do not necessarily reflect nor represent those of the production, associates or broadcaster, or any of its employees. Production is not responsible and does not verify for accuracy any of the information contained in the series available for viewing. The primary purpose of this series is to educate and inform. This series does not constitute medical or other professional advice or services. This series is available for private, non-commercial use only. The production, broadcaster, or its channel cannot be held accountable for all or any views expressed during this program. Resources: SAMHSA Find Treatment Emoji Decoder DEA Takeback Website Growing Up Drug-Free: A Parent's Guide to Substance Use Prevention One Pill Could Kill Never Thought I'd Say This Podcast with Jodie Sweetin Team Upstandards with Trevor Donovan Get Smart About Drugs Website Elks Kid Zone Website Elks Drug Awareness Program Website Elks DAP on Twitter Elks DAP on Facebook Elks DAP on YouTube DEA Website DEA on Instagram DEA on Twitter DEA on Facebook DEA YouTube Channel Watch Awkward Conversations Season 1 the series: Awkward Breakfast Conversations - Ep. 1 Awkward Lunch Conversations - Ep. 2 Awkward Dinner Conversations - Ep. 3 Bios: Jodie Sweetin is an American actress and television personality known for her role as Stephanie Tanner in the ABC comedy series Full House and its Netflix sequel series Fuller House. Jodie is joined by Content Expert Amy McCarthy, a Senior Clinical Social Worker at Boston Children's Hospital. Amy McCarthy, LICSW, is the Director of Social Work for the Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program (ASAP) at Boston Children's Hospital, where she provides direct clinical and programmatic support. Additionally, Amy has extensive experience working in community-based settings providing care to young people with complex mental health needs and their families. As the former director of the Boston-Suffolk County Family Resource Center, she worked with an abundance of community partners to ensure residents had access to vital resources to meet basic needs and beyond. Amy received her Bachelor's Degree in Social Work (BSW) from Siena College and a Master's Degree in Social Work (MSW) from Wheelock College. Rob Vincent serves as the Associate Administrator for Alcohol Prevention and Treatment Policy for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Division of Systems Development. Before coming to SAMHSA, Rob served as the Administrator for True North-Student Assistance & Treatment Services at the Educational Service District 113's Department of Educational Support in Olympia, Washington. He was responsible for the development, implementation, and management of a (45) forty-five school district consortium addressing School Safety and Substance Abuse Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment programs within the five-county region. Rob has worked in substance abuse prevention, intervention, and Treatment for more than 34 years as a nationally certified clinician. He served as the Director of Counseling and Assistance Programs for the U.S. Navy during Desert Storm. Rob served as the principal investigator of the Olympia Effective Adolescent Grant, and as a consultant specializing in the implementation of schools-based prevention and treatment programs for several states. He received his Master of Science in Education Degree from Southern Illinois University. Dr. Aida Balsano serves as Director for Prevention Communications and Public Engagement at the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS). Prior to joining SAMHSA in 2020, Aida was with the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA, at the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture), where she served for ten years as the National Program Leader in Research and Evaluation in Family & Consumer Sciences. While at NIFA, she administered competitive grant programs and worked with administrators, faculty, and Cooperative Extension educators across the Land-Grant University system, as well as served as NIFA's liaison to Federal agencies and other national partners addressing existing and emerging programmatic, research, and evaluation needs, opportunities, and resources in the areas of individual, family and community quality of life in general and rural well-being specifically. Before her post with USDA, Aida worked as a Vice President for Evaluation and Policy at the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation in Washington, DC, and as a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development at Tufts University, MA. Aida holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Child Development from Tufts University and a B.A. in Psychology from Grinnell College, IA.
Host Jodie Sweetin is joined by Amy McCarthy, Dr. Aida Balsano, Special Assistant to the Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and Robert Vincent, Associate Administrator for Alcohol Prevention and Treatment Policy at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Ultimately our goal is to help parents have “The Talk” if it hasn't happened yet, then let's be prepared…if it has, how did it go? If you screwed it up, no worries. Let's figure out how to get it right. But, on the other hand, if you feel it went well, take this as a reminder that the talk is not a one-off, let's figure out what's next in this constant battle to keep those we love more than life itself safe! In this episode, we will discuss the When and How's of talking with our kids about drugs and making smart choices. IN THIS EPISODE: [00:00] Role play of child questioning the use of alcohol with parents [02:45] At what age should we have the “talk” regarding drugs and alcohol [04:18] Making the “talk” an opportunity rather than a conversation I “have” to have with my child [08:41] The research has shown kids want to have these conversations [11:50] Encouragement goes a long way [20:09] How to overcome the fear of having hard talks with your child KEY TAKEAWAYS: The ideal conversation you can have with your child is non-threatening and non-confrontational. A parent's approach when discussing complex subjects with a child makes an enormous difference. It is ok to have quiet moments during talks with your kids. Often both parties need time to reflect on what was said. It is also ok as a parent not to have all the answers. Focus on the positive things in your child's life. Then, when it comes to young teens, ask lots of questions and be supportive as they try to find out who they are. ***DISCLAIMER***The views, information, or opinions expressed during the Awkward Conversation series are solely those of the individuals, speakers, commentators, experts, and or hosts involved and do not necessarily reflect nor represent those of the production, associates or broadcaster, or any of its employees. Production is not responsible and does not verify for accuracy any of the information contained in the series available for viewing. The primary purpose of this series is to educate and inform. This series does not constitute medical or other professional advice or services. This series is available for private, non-commercial use only. The production, broadcaster, or its channel cannot be held accountable for all or any views expressed during this program. Resources: SAMHSA Find Treatment Emoji Decoder DEA Takeback Website Growing Up Drug-Free: A Parent's Guide to Substance Use Prevention One Pill Could Kill Never Thought I'd Say This Podcast with Jodie Sweetin Team Upstandards with Trevor Donovan Get Smart About Drugs Website Elks Kid Zone Website Elks Drug Awareness Program Website Elks DAP on Twitter Elks DAP on Facebook Elks DAP on YouTube DEA Website DEA on Instagram DEA on Twitter DEA on Facebook DEA YouTube Channel Watch Awkward Conversations Season 1 the series: Awkward Breakfast Conversations - Ep. 1 Awkward Lunch Conversations - Ep. 2 Awkward Dinner Conversations - Ep. 3 Bios: Jodie Sweetin is an American actress and television personality known for her role as Stephanie Tanner in the ABC comedy series Full House and its Netflix sequel series Fuller House. Jodie is joined by Content Expert Amy McCarthy, a Senior Clinical Social Worker at Boston Children's Hospital. Amy McCarthy, LICSW, is the Director of Social Work for the Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program (ASAP) at Boston Children's Hospital, where she provides direct clinical and programmatic support. Additionally, Amy has extensive experience working in community-based settings providing care to young people with complex mental health needs and their families. As the former director of the Boston-Suffolk County Family Resource Center, she worked with an abundance of community partners to ensure residents had access to vital resources to meet basic needs and beyond. Amy received her Bachelor's Degree in Social Work (BSW) from Siena College and earned a Master's Degree in Social Work (MSW) from Wheelock College. Rob Vincent serves as the Associate Administrator for Alcohol Prevention and Treatment Policy for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Division of Systems Development. Before coming to SAMHSA Rob served as the Administrator for True North-Student Assistance & Treatment Services at the Educational Service District 113's Department of Educational Support in Olympia, Washington. He was responsible for the development, implementation, and management of a (45) forty-five school district consortium addressing School Safety and Substance Abuse Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment programs within the five-county region. Rob has worked in the area of substance abuse prevention, intervention, and Treatment for more than 34 years, as a nationally certified clinician, and has served as the Director for Counseling and Assistance Programs for the U.S. Navy during Desert Storm. Rob served as the principal investigator of the Olympia Effective Adolescent Grant, and as a consultant specializing in the implementation of schools-based prevention and treatment programs for several states. He received his Master of Science in Education Degree from Southern Illinois University. Dr. Aida Balsano serves as Director for Prevention Communications and Public Engagement at the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS). Prior to joining SAMHSA in 2020, Aida was with the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA, at the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture), where she served for ten years as the National Program Leader in Research and Evaluation in Family & Consumer Sciences. While at NIFA, she administered competitive grant programs and worked with administrators, faculty, and Cooperative Extension educators across the Land-Grant University system, as well as served as NIFA's liaison to Federal agencies and other national partners addressing existing and emerging programmatic, research, and evaluation needs, opportunities, and resources in the areas of individual, family and community quality of life in general and rural well-being specifically. Before her post with USDA, Aida worked as a Vice President for Evaluation and Policy at the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation in Washington, DC, and as a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development at Tufts University, MA. Aida holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Child Development from Tufts University and a B.A. in Psychology from Grinnell College, IA.
The DoD's CIO and its Office of Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment will remove weapons systems from the network if they are not cyber secure.
Live from the Illinois State Fair, Bishop On Air talks with Raghela Scavuzzo, Illinois Farm Bureau's Food Systems Development Manager and Executive Director of Illinois Specialty Growers Association.
This is episode 1084 of the Arete Coach Podcast with host Severin Sorensen and guest coach Sami Bugay, MCC. Sami is a Master Certified Coach, a Certified Ontological Coach, Leadership Coach, Team Coach, bestselling, author of "Better Leaders, Better Teams", and CEO and owner of KA Consulting. Better Leaders Better Teams, giving readers a ready-to-use combination of grounded theory and experiential practices to build fully functional teams. In 2021, Sami was awarded the lifetime achievement award and Outstanding OSD Graduate award from the Gestalt Center of Organization and Systems Development. In 2008, he was awarded the Local Spirit Global Presence Award from the ICF. In his coaching journey to achieve his MCC, Sami participated in over six different foundational coaching programs. In this episode, we explore Sami's journey into coaching from being a corporate leader and having to make hard choices dealing with a massive layoff, to his choice to become an executive coach and his journey to becoming an excellent coach. He shares some of his journey of learning with the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and the Integral Institute and other coaching schools. We explore Sami's background in IT, physics, and implications for ethical AI. Sami shares one of the great challenges for coaches is to tame their own monsters, and not their ones one challenges or past experience bias or influence with a client. Discover more on these topics at AreteCoach.io. The Arete Coach Podcast seeks to explore the art and science of executive coaching. You can find out more about this podcast at aretecoach.io. This episode was produced on May 13, 2022. Copyright © 2022 by Arete Coach™ LLC. All rights reserved.
Curiosity, Focus, and Forging a Path.In this episode of The Outspoken Podcast, host Shana Cosgrove talks to Gerard Spivey, Senior Systems Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services. Gerard speaks in detail about Amazon's interview process, giving us insight into their procedures and how he prepared himself. We also hear about Gerard's time at Amazon and the types of work he's taking on. Side hustles are a way of life for Gerard, and he speaks about his latest experiences managing his YouTube channel, Gerard's Curious Tech. Lastly, Gerard talks about his time at NYLA and how he was able to bring his full self to work thanks to NYLA's culture. QUOTES “I can do slow and steady, I can find my target audience, and then once I have that I can figure out what I want to parlay that into later.” - Gerard Spivey [25:59] “‘I'm a Senior Director [at Intel], and I can do what I want' is basically what he told me. He's like ‘the company has a 3.0 thing, but for someone like you who actually knows what they're talking about it's not a problem.' So I said, ‘Ooh this is my time, they're letting me in'” - Gerard Spivey [42:07] “You're in a good spot in your career when you're valued for the thing you're going to do next versus the thing you did previously. What you're going to do next is your competitive value - that is what you bring to the table.” - Gerard Spivey [48:27] TIMESTAMPS [00:04] Intro [01:31] Gerard's Wedding Ceremony [02:32] Working at Amazon Web Services (AWS) [05:33] Amazon's Interview Process [12:06] Gerard's Experience with the Job Market [15:54] Working at Amazon [19:11] Starting a New Job During COVID [19:43] Side Hustles [23:21] Gerard's YouTube Channel [31:08] Gerard's Childhood [31:52] How Gerard Decided to Study Electrical Engineering [34:19] Choosing a College [45:13] Gerard's Advice to his Younger Self [47:42] Favorite Books [50:57] Gerard's Time at NYLA [55:36] Outro RESOURCES https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ (Amazon EC2) https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ (Amazon EC2 Instance Types) https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/ (Amazon DynamoDB) https://sre.google/ (Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)) https://www.c2stechs.com/ (Commercial Cloud Services (C2S)) https://www.thebalancecareers.com/what-is-the-star-interview-response-technique-2061629 (STAR Interview Response Method) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/exchange/email (Microsoft Exchange) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/ (Microsoft Azure) https://www.synopsys.com/glossary/what-is-cicd.html (CI/CD) https://mlt.org/ (Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT)) https://www.hbs.edu/ (Harvard Business School) https://a16z.com/ (Andreessen Horowitz) https://www.youtube.com/ (YouTube) https://www.nsbe.org/K-12/Programs/PCI-Programs (NSBE Pre-College Initiative Program) https://www.jhu.edu/ (Johns Hopkins University) https://www.abet.org/ (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)) https://www.ncat.edu/ (North Carolina A&T State University) https://www.morgan.edu/ (Morgan State University) https://howard.edu/ (Howard University) https://www.rit.edu/ (Rochester Institute of Technology) https://www.psu.edu/ (Penn State University) https://www.digitaltechnologieshub.edu.au/teach-and-assess/classroom-resources/topics/digital-systems/ (Digital Systems) https://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/fpga/what-is-an-fpga.html (Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)) https://www.gwu.edu/ (The George Washington University) https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/homepage.html (Intel) https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/pci-express (PCI Express) https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/io/serial-ata/serial-ata-developer.html (Serial ATA (SATA)) https://consortium.org/ (Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area) https://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296 (Zero to One) by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters https://www.richdad.com/...
The energy industry has historically been dominated by men. This has not only created a struggle for diverse voices seeking to become leaders within the energy sector, but it has been a detriment to the energy industry as a whole. Without diverse perspectives, the industry has been limited in its ability to come up with creative solutions to longstanding problems.Linette Casey, Director of Power Systems Development at Siemens Energy, joined this episode of the Siemens Energy Podcast to talk about her experience as a woman working to transform the energy sector, and how a greater focus on diversity in recent years has opened up a world of possibilities in the quest to transition to more renewable energy sources.Customers have come to demand greater social and environmental responsibility from energy producers, and Linette has been a leading voice in encouraging future energy leaders to rise to the occasion. The steadily growing range of perspectives within the next generation of energy leaders has the potential to create not only a more inclusive industry, but a more resilient and reliable energy supply chain. This diversity is not mere window dressing, but a vital asset in the renewable transition. If you enjoyed today's show, please leave a 5-star review. For more information and links to all the resources mentioned in today's episode, visit Siemens-Energy.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
Today we're joined by Murali Akula, a Sr. director of Software Engineering at Qualcomm. In our conversation with Murali, we explore his role at Qualcomm, where he leads the corporate research team focused on the development and deployment of AI onto Snapdragon chips, their unique definition of “full stack”, and how that philosophy permeates into every step of the software development process. We explore the complexities that are unique to doing machine learning on resource constrained devices, some of the techniques that are being applied to get complex models working on mobile devices, and the process for taking these models from research into real-world applications. We also discuss a few more tools and recent developments, including DONNA for neural architecture search, X-Distill, a method of improving the self-supervised training of monocular depth, and the AI Model Effeciency Toolkit, a library that provides advanced quantization and compression techniques for trained neural network models. The complete show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/go/563
In this episode of The Nick Lugo Show, you will learn everything you need to know about personal branding. I sit down with the best of the best, as he shares his tools, tips, and tricks to market yourself and your ideas. You can find his resource list at: https://mauricebretzfield.com/digital-marketing-resources/ Maurice Bretzfield is a Digital Strategist with 40+ years of Business Management, Business Systems, Information Architecture, Digital Marketing Strategy and Systems Development, and Outsourcing. “I am curious. I love nothing better than to focus on a new challenge. I am fortunate to live an enormously interesting life.” Mentor status: Elite He served The Center For Early Education in West Hollywood California as a Trustee, Board Treasurer, Vice President, and Capital Campaign Co-chair. He has also served Cedars Sinai Medical Center as a member of The Board Governors and The Los Angeles Children's Museum as a member of its Board of Trustees. And now he is a https://www.score.org/ (SCORE.org) Certified Business Mentor. He consult, develop, mentor, teach, and evangelize. His favorite part about Digital Marketing? “I've been a Digital Marketer for over 25 years, but it's only the last six months that really count now”. Digital Marketing has so many moving parts and the field expands and changes exponentially. New tools and platforms emerge all the time. He is the father of two wonderfully successful young women and is blessed with five grandchildren. Listen to his interview with “https://anchor.fm/kennysoto/episodes/Interview-with-Maurice-Bretzfield---The-Man-Who-Introduced-Me-to-Digital-Marketing---Episode-50-e15blm5 (The People of Digital Marketing with Kenny Soto)” to dig deeper into his content. You can find his resource list at: https://mauricebretzfield.com/digital-marketing-resources/ SPONSORS SneakerCreatures: https://www.sneakercreatures.com/ USE PROMO CODE: NICKLUGO for 10% discount on all sneakers PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://nick-lugo.com/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lugos-journey/id1527159307?uo=4 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1OrMPWEyIGIdQpBkNEZqe0 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/3ffb95d4/podcast/rss YouTube Full Episodes: www.youtube.com/NickLugoShow YouTube Clips: www.youtube.com/channel/UC_IEc5zSq7grb4lgGGEcqUw SUPPORT and CONNECT: – Twitter: https://twitter.com/NickLugooo – Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nick.lugo/ – LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-lugo-2a7124208/ – Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nicholas.lugo.311 – Email: nicholasanthonylugo@gmail.com
Benoit Derat, Senior Director for Systems & Projects, Antenna-Based Solutions at Rohde & Schwarz, talks with Pat Hindle, Editorial Director at Microwave Journal, about the status of 5G antenna systems development and OTA testing as the 5G Antenna Systems Conference approaches Oct 13. Go to antennasonline.com to register.
In memory of my friend, Grant Soosalu.In this special episode of OUT OF THE BOX 4.0 PODCAST, Grant and I have discussed about creating and designing your life worth living. He also shared some scientific discoveries and proofs of how massive our brain work is. He also shared about the wisdom that our brain, heart, body, and gut can give us. There is A LOT to discover about the things he mentioned on this podcast, so go ahead and listen to this GREAT EPISODE!LISTEN, SHARE AND REVIEW!About Grant Soosalu:Grant Soosalu is an international leadership consultant, trainer and writer with backgrounds and expertise in Leadership, Coaching, Psychology, NLP, Behavioral Modeling and Applied Physics. He has advanced degrees and certifications in Psychology, Positive Psychology, Applied Physics and Systems Development. Grant is a qualified TQM Trainer and has achieved Master Practitioner Certification in the behavioral sciences of NLP & Advanced Behavioral Modeling. Grant has also been awarded a Graduate Coaching Diploma in the newly emerging field of Authentic Happiness Coaching.CONNECT WITH ME ON MY NEW INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/henarehobrien/ I'm also on Facebook over at https://www.facebook.com/henarehona Or you can check out my website: https://www.henareobrien.com/
In partnership with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency and other implementing partners, Helvetas is leading a regional inclusive and green economic development program in Eastern Europe, South Caucuses, and Western Balkans. While designing the program, we asked ourselves ‘what a regional program would look like'. We've been much more interested in the value addition of such a regional program than doing more of the same initiatives that Helvetas has in different countries. So, for this episode we've interviewed 3 experts who have experience in working for such regional programs or initiatives: - Gina Belle, who's CEO of Chôra Foundation, a non-profit based in the Netherlands providing access to a strategic framework for System Transformation. Chôra has worked extensively across sectors with leaders and organisations to take systemic perspectives on their challenges and design and manage portfolios that enable decision making and commitment to transformative action in a world of rapidly increasing complexity. Gina brings deep experience leading teams and developing capability for System Transformation. She started life in Australia and has since moved to Europe to expand the work of Chôra beyond the Asia Pacific and has worked globally in the fields of Financial Services, Non-Profit and Human & Social Development. - Arnaldo Pellini, who's a co-founder of Capability, which is a Finnish consultancy that focuses on research and advice on the use of problem-driven and adaptive programming approaches to support complex democratic governance initiatives. Over the last 20 years his research and advisory work has been in the areas of education and governance reforms, the ways different types of knowledge can help inform policy decisions, political economy analysis and adaptive development, and the design of monitoring, evaluation and learning systems that can help programmes and projects to adapt continuously to local contexts and circumstances. Arnaldo has lived and worked for about 15 years in various countries in Southeast Asia. - Harald Bekkers, who's Founder and Director of Opportunities Unlimited B.V. Harald is a specialist in Market Systems Development and monitoring and results measurement. In 2011, he started the Market Development Facility and led its expansion into a unique multi-country Facility, active in five countries in Asia and the Pacific. Here he championed a realistic interpretation of the MSD approach in thin markets. He also developed a new way of integrating Women's Economic Empowerment into strategy and partnership design. Harald has lived and worked in more than seven countries.
You can find Jeff at https://jeffgable.com.You can find Luca at https://luca.engineer.
Ali Sareea is the Chief Information Officer for Glennis Solutions. Mr. Sareera brings more than 23 years of IT expertise with focus on Systems Development, e-commerce and business intelligence applications. Prior to his current role, he was CIO of Atria Senior Living, Inc., a leading senior housing management company, and of HD Supply Facilities Maintenance a division of the $8 billion industrial distributor HD Supply Inc. and former division of Home Depot. He held various roles during his nine-year tenure and helped build company-wide technology solutions that enabled the company to go public in 2013.Chris Nall is the Chief Information Officer for Atria Senior Living. In this role, he leads efforts to deploy new technology to continuously improve efficiency and management of Atria’s communities. His responsibilities further accelerate tech innovation to improve the quality of life for Atria’s residents.
Ali Sareea is the Chief Information Officer for Glennis Solutions. Mr. Sareera brings more than 23 years of IT expertise with focus on Systems Development, e-commerce and business intelligence applications. Prior to his current role, he was CIO of Atria Senior Living, Inc., a leading senior housing management company, and of HD Supply Facilities Maintenance a division of the $8 billion industrial distributor HD Supply Inc. and former division of Home Depot. He held various roles during his nine-year tenure and helped build company-wide technology solutions that enabled the company to go public in 2013. Chris Nall is the Chief Information Officer for Atria Senior Living. In this role, he leads efforts to deploy new technology to continuously improve efficiency and management of Atria’s communities. His responsibilities further accelerate tech innovation to improve the quality of life for Atria’s residents.
Whether the Market Systems Development (MSD) approach works in practice is a hot topic in development. For this episode (Part II), we have interviewed: - Nabanita Sen Bekkers, who's Results Measurement Specialist at the DCED (Donor Committee for Enterprise Development), where she leads the development of results measurement initiative including the development and dissemination of the DCED Standard for results measurement. Nabanita has 15 years of experience working in different aspects of private sector development, including implementation of projects, results measurement, communication and project development. - Mike Albu, who's a program director at BEAM Exchange, which is a specialist platform for knowledge exchange and learning about using market systems approaches to reduce poverty. Mike has over 25 years of experience working with international NGOs and programs using a market systems approach, across South Asia and East Africa. For this episode, we've asked people on LinkedIn to post their questions they'd like to ask our guests whether the MSD approach works in practice, and what it takes to shift to a systemic approach. Thank you to all of you who have sent their questions and for contributing to Inclusive Plug! Your participation helps keep the podcast alive!
Whether the Market Systems Development (MSD) approach works in practice is a hot topic in development. For this episode, we have interviewed: - Maja Rüegg, who's leading the working area Skills, Jobs and Income at Helvetas. She provides thematic support on market systems development for projects working on agricultural value chains and labour markets. Her advisory expertise also covers monitoring and evaluation (M&E). Previously, Maja worked in rural development projects in Tanzania and Madagascar. She has also done research in Kyrgyzstan and Bolivia on topics related to rural economy. She has worked in development cooperation since 2008. - Marcus Jenal, who's a partner at the German consultancy Mesopartner, which is a knowledge firm that specializes in economic development, territorial development, competitiveness, and innovation. His work and interest are all about how systems work and how we can influence their evolution. His approach is to stimulate the co-creation of learning strategies and change activities. Previously, Marcus worked for different development organizations focusing on Southeast Asia and East Africa, including the Western Balkans. For this episode, we've asked people on LinkedIn to post their questions they'd like to ask our guests whether the MSD approach works in practice, and what it takes to shift to a systemic approach. Thank you to all of you who have sent their questions and for contributing to Inclusive Plug! Your participation helps keep the podcast alive!
Building and implementing robust processes and systems for your business is a must when trying to create more efficiency and scalability within your business. In this episode of the Working Without Pants podcast, I sit down with Corey Northcutt, Founder and CEO at Northcutt, to discuss the processes he has built for his SEO enterprise agency, and why using a credit-based pricing model was the right fit for his business. Corey notes that when offering technical services with many steps such as with SEO auditing, a credit-based pricing model allows you to stay more agile and helps with upfront planning of deliverables. Another benefit of using a credit-based pricing model, according to Corey, is that it eliminates the need for time tracking. When everyone knows what needs to be done and can deliver on schedule, day-to-day tracking isn’t all that important. He says it can initially be a challenge for clients to understand a credit-based system, but as long as you’re delivering high quality work and have your value specs properly documented, it doesn’t cause much fuss. Corey closes the show by sharing his insight around system development lifecycles and some of the tools his team uses to streamline their workflow. Want to work with me as an advisor? Visit jake-jorgovan.com/coaching Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreynorthcutt/ https://northcutt.com/ https://twitter.com/corey_northcutt
Suzi Pomerantz with Dorothy Siminovitch of the Gestalt International Coaching Program at the Gestalt Center for Organizational and Systems Development. Mindsets that get in our way as we look at business development. This conversation is the introduction call for a program Suzi taught at the Gestalt Center for Organizational and Systems Development.
Europe has built up one of the best gas distribution infrastructures in the world. There’s one problem though. It distributes natural gas, a fuel that we will hardly be able to use if we’re to reach our net zero targets. Can we use the infrastructure instead for clean hydrogen – either blended with natural gas as a stepping stone, or with pure hydrogen in the future? In this episode we put aside discussion on the extent to which we should do this – and focus on whether or not we can do this, and what’s involved in doing so. Jon Slowe is joined by Eva Henning, Head of Department for EU Energy Policy at Thüga, an alliance of German municipal energy companies (as well as chair of Eurogas’s distribution committee); Keith Owen Head of Systems Development and Energy Strategy at Northern Gas Networks in the UK; and Delta-EE expert, Rob Castek. Visit www.delta-ee.com/hydrogen to learn more about our hydrogen research.
Kristina Francis has nearly 20 years of experience driving strategic direction for a variety of clients with a concentration on implementing transformational business and information solutions. She is known for her ability to quickly dissect problems, assemble strong teams, effectively communicate progress, and deliver quality solutions. As President/CEO of EsteemLogic, Kristina partners with clients to address and solve their most complex challenges.As a former Director for Systems Development and Cyber Solutions for a management consulting firm, Kristina managed a $40M+ portfolio and was responsible for capturing, staffing and executing business opportunities. Kristina is a Certified Knowledge Manager, AIIM Enterprise Content Management Specialist, and a 2007 recipient of the Black Engineer of the Year/Modern Day Technology Leader award.She obtained a BA in Psychology from Georgetown University and a MS in Information Systems Technology from George Washington University.Kristina, Alyia and Katie discuss being a black woman in business, access to capital and funding, and wealth as it relates to finances, health, and overall well-being.For more Checkbox Outreach, follow us on Twitter @disruptoutreach and subscribe to our newsletter on our website, www.checkboxoutreach.com.Guest: Kristina FrancisHosted By: Alyia Gaskins and Katie Leonard
This BONUS segment was Dr. V sharing on the kryptonite to systems development, what trips many leaders up in the beginning.. Video was recorded via live stream on YouTube at 10 AM PST Saturday, July 18, 2020. Join us on the journey to inspire, ignite and impact others. Subscribe and get the inspiration invitation in your inbox. http://eepurl.com/cX96V9 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bruce-jackson3/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bruce-jackson3/support
In this episode we speak with Dr. David A. Bishop about the role of Agile methods in the development of complex systems comprising hardware, firmware and software. Often these systems are developed using a hybrid methodology with some teams using Agile and others using waterfall techniques. David can be contacted via https://agile-worx.com/. You can read about his book, “Metagility: Managing Agile Development for Competitive Advantage” at https://agile-worx.com/product/.
We talk often on the show about software development methodologies such as Agile or Waterfall. However, we haven't gotten into the project management process or stages of software development underlying them. Read more › The post Software (Systems) Development Life Cycle appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
PART TWO!!! Does the mere mention of another app or tool for you business make your head spin? Are you constantly overwhelmed by all the work you have to do and just can't find a way to get that stuff done? Jared and Jason are here to help. They have built a business with systems that can sustain over 120 weddings are year, 9 employees, and commercial work to boot. If these two idiots can build this thing you can too!
Does the mere mention of another app or tool for you business make your head spin? Are you constantly overwhelmed by all the work you have to do and just can't find a way to get that stuff done? Jared and Jason are here to help. They have built a business with systems that can sustain over 120 weddings are year, 9 employees, and commercial work to boot. If these two idiots can build this thing you can too!
165. Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Intended Audience: EveryoneOn today's episode, we tackle the topic of systems development life cycle, something essential to know when working on projects. Follow us on social media! Twitter: @pharmacyitme Instagram: @pharmacyinformatics LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pharmacyitme/ Website: Pharmacy IT & Me Email: tony@pharmacyitme.com Follow Tony's personal Twitter account at @tonydaopharmd Network with other pharmacists at Pharmacists Connect!http://pharmacistsconnect.com For more information on pharmacy informatics, check out some of the following useful links: ASHP's Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology: https://www.ashp.org/Pharmacy-Informaticist/Section-of-Pharmacy-Informatics-and-Technology/ HIMSS Pharmacy Informatics Community: https://www.himss.org/library/pharmacy-informatics Disclaimer: Views expressed are my own and do not reflect thoughts and opinions of any entity with which I have been, am now, or will be affiliated.This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
In this podcast, learn helpful tips to maximize the ROI of your matter management system by utilizing common features in new ways. Interviewer: @Will Pett, Senior Business Analyst, Fidelity Investments Speakers: @George Chiu, Director, Systems Development, Prudential Financial, Inc. @Donald Knight, Director of Legal and Tax Operations, Crown Castle Recorded on 1-29-2020
In this episode Brook and Charlie discuss the development of core belief systems and how they drive our thinking, stories, and decision making. These belief systems are responsible for the cognitive distortions that are at the core of high conflict. Enjoy!!!
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Bryan Cantrill is the CTO of Joyent and well known for the development of DTrace at Sun Microsystems. Today on the podcast, Bryan discusses with Wes Reisz a bit about the origins of DTrace and then spends the rest of the time discussing why he feels Rust is the “biggest development in systems development in his career.” The podcast wraps with a bit about why Bryan feels we should be rewriting parts of the operating system in Rust. Why listen to the podcast: • DTrace came down to a desire to use Dynamic Program Text Modification to instrument running systems (much like debuggers do) and has its origins to when Bryan was an undergraduate. • When a programming language delivers something to you, it takes it from you in the runtime. The classic example of this is garbage collection. The programming language gives you the ability to use memory dynamically without thinking of how the memory is stored in the system, but then it’s going to exact a runtime cost. • One of the issues with C is that it just doesn’t compose well. You can’t just necessarily pull a library off the Internet and use it well. Everyone’s C is laden with some many idiosyncrasies on how it’s used and the contract on how memory is used. • Ownership is statically tracking who owns the structure. It’s ownership and the absence of GC that allows you to address the composability issues found in C. • It’s really easy in C to have integer overflow which leads to memory safety issues that can be exploited by an attacker. Rust makes this pretty much impossible because it’s very good at how it determines how you use signed vs unsigned types. • You don’t want people solving the same problems over and over again. You want composability. You want abstractions. What you don’t want is where you’ve removed so much developer friction that you develop code that is riddled with problems. For example, it slows a developer down to force them to run a linter, but it results in better artifacts. Rust effective builds a lot of that linter checking into the memory management/type checking system. • While there’s some learning curve to Rust. It’s not that bad if you realize there are several core concepts you need to understand to understand Rust. Rust is one of those languages that you really need to learn in a structured way. Sit down with a book and learn it. • Rust struggles when you have objects that are multiply owned (such as a Doubly Linked List). It’s because it doesn’t know who owns what. While Rust supports unsafe operations, you should resist the temptation to develop with a lot of unsafe operations if you want the benefits of what Rust offers developers. • Firmware is a great spot for growing Rust development in a process of replacing bits of what we think of as the operating system. More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2uZ5QHZ You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2uZ5QHZ
This two-part podcast focuses on the principal and the role courage plays in leading change and creating a learning culture that leads to improved outcomes for all learners. Session 1 addresses the four types of courage that are evident in effective leaders, the relationship between courage and educational leadership, and steps the leader can take to practice courage. In session 2, trust, risk-taking and accountability as a part of courageous leadership are examined. The importance of having a student-centered agenda is also addressed. Participants should listen to the podcasts in order. Participants: Both podcasts feature Cathy Lassiter, Consultant and Author with Corwin Learning as the speaker. The moderator is Deborah Telfer, Director of the University of Cincinnati’s Systems Development and Improvement Center.
This two-part podcast focuses on the principal and the role courage plays in leading change and creating a learning culture that leads to improved outcomes for all learners. Session 1 addresses the four types of courage that are evident in effective leaders, the relationship between courage and educational leadership, and steps the leader can take to practice courage. In session 2, trust, risk-taking and accountability as a part of courageous leadership are examined. The importance of having a student-centered agenda is also addressed. Participants should listen to the podcasts in order. Participants: Both podcasts feature Cathy Lassiter, Consultant and Author with Corwin Learning as the speaker. The moderator is Deborah Telfer, Director of the University of Cincinnati’s Systems Development and Improvement Center.
Adaptation to English from the Webinar with the same name in Spanish at Feb 26th, 2019. Watch the full video at: http://bit.ly/PMlikeCondOrchestra Abstract: #Project #Management is Like Conducting an #Orchestra? In meetings and conversations it's always common to hear this phrase, either for good or bad intention. We try to analyze to what extent there are similarities between these two professions, and how it can benefit us to emulate those coincidences with this profession to our professional life as Project Managers. Can Project Management be seen as an art, such as musical direction is? Agenda / Index: 1. Reasons to compare both professions 2. Similarities of the Orchestra Direction from the perspective of Project Management. 3. How can these coincidences benefit us from our professional work? 4. Discussion: Is the Project Management an art, as the Orchestra Direction is? Taught by: MSIG Engineer Roger Salinas Robalino, PMP (Guayaquil, Ecuador) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roger-t800/ Master's Degree in Management Information Systems from the Escuela Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL). Project Management Professional (PMP®) since 2012. Active member of the Project Management Institute (PMI®), Ecuador Chapter, since the same year. He has more than 10 years of experience in the Financial and Banking Sector, in the area of Information Technology and Communications and Applications and Systems Development, and more than 6 years in Strategic Management of Institutional Projects. https://www.linkedin.com/company/t800it http://ProjectManagementEcuador.com Project Management is like directing an Orchestra. To what extent is it true? The Andalusian Chapter of the PMI kindly invited me to make a presentation for the webinar on February 26, 2019 with this very refreshing topic. The Project Manager plays a key role in coordinating and matching all the resources involved in a project. Watch the full video at: http://bit.ly/PMlikeCondOrchestra
In this episode, we chatted with Marco Peereboom, Decred Systems Development Lead & CTO of Company Zero. I was joined by Vishal as my co-host for this interview. We discussed about core technical features of Decred & things planned for the future. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Topics Discussed: 1) Initial Days of Decred & How Marco Got Into Crypto [0:00] 2) Politeia - Technical Architecture & Layer 2 Voting [8:45] 3) Bitcoin & Decred [18:20] 4) Decred Grant Structure [19:40] 5) Politeia Use-Cases & Real World Election On It [21:30] 6) DCR-Time & Storing Docs On Decred Blockchain [28:10] 7) Decred & Lightning Network [34:40] 8) Getting Decred Used By Normal People [36:40] 9) Getting Developers To Develop For Decred [41:30] 10) Future Roadmap - Decentralised Exchange, Schnorr signatures, Privacy release, Decentralized Autonomous Entities [49:00] ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Subscribe to "Inchained" : http://youtube.com/arnavvohra7 for future videos on Blockchain & Cryptos. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬●
Will Lassalle is Chief Information Officer at Lynx Technology Partners & Co-Founder of JLS Technology USA. He is an accomplished, results-driven Technology, Security, & Risk Executive with an MBA and 20+ years’ experience & success leading Information Technology teams. Will is Co-Founder of JLS Technology USA. Will has a proven track record of successful portfolio management, organization building and leadership abilities in the areas of: Information and Cyber Security, Systems Development, E-Commerce, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery, Risk Management, Digital Transformation, Strategic Planning, and Entrepreneurship. Will holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, an MBA in Project Management and Masters Certificate in Executive Leadership from Columbia University. Will holds numerous Certifications including: PMP~ ITIL V3 ~ Six Sigma Green Belt ~ Project+ ~ MCSE: Security ~ MCSA: Security ~ CCNA~ Security+ and others. Will has been recognized as a thought leader in Information Technology/Information Security, as a top 20 Most Social CIO in the Huffington Post, a top 20 most influential Chief Information Technology Officer, Top 100 Data Security Influencer and sought-after speaker at events. Will sits on the board of SIM South Florida, and a couple of Startups currently in Stealth-mode. Contact Will: Web: http://jlstech.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wlassalle/ Twitter: @wlassalle Contact Avrohom: web: http://asktheceo.biz email: avrohomg@asktheceo.biz Twitter: @avrohomg Instagram: @avrohomg Phone: +1 (845) 418-5340 Phone: +972-72-224-4449 INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS: [01:25] AT&T recently published a Cybersecurity report stating that "The C-suite still has a significant lack of understanding of cybersecurity basics—the hygiene and the threats, the bad actors. And it's after the fact, after they've been breached, that the board actually does something about it—and that's true in even some of the largest companies." Furthermore, they go on to state that 25% of companies plan to spend their cybersecurity budgets on Insurance! Where is this disconnect coming from? [04:15] Equifax Breach [07:15] Elon Musk says he's going off of Facebook because we can't trust them. [14:35] Tell us a little bit about JLS Technology USA & what kinds of solutions do you provide to the marketplace? [14:35] Digital Transformation, Cybersecurity, Governance, Compliance. [18:40] Telecos & Contact Centers are extremely vulnerable to cyber attacks, due to the wealth of personal information in their databases. How can they protect themseves from the daily barrage of cyberattacks, such as phishing, ransomware, and other social engineering based attacks? [22:30] How is Blockchain being leveraged for data security? [22:30] IAM Platform & Background check verification in Blockchain. [22:30] Combat Healthcare Fraud by Verifying the person in the Blockchain. [25:49] What kind of AI tools are being introduced for Cybersecurity? [25:49] AI is needed because there aren't enough people to fill Cybersecurity jobs! [31:29] What's going to be the next disruptor in data security? [32:30] When calling into a contact center, you can't tell anymore if you're speaking to a human or a chatbot!
Credit title: Subject Matter Expert : 1. Marisa Karsen, S.Kom., M.M. 2. Nuril Kusumawardhani Soeprapto Putri, S.T., M.K.M. Dokumenter: Binus University Uploaded by: Knowledge Management and Innovation Binus University
Analysis and Design of Information Systems offers some methodologies and modeling techniques for the development of information systems. Learning uses an object-oriented approach. This material provides basic knowledge for students about the process of analyzing and designing the system using object oriented approach. Credit title: Subject Matter Expert : Dina Fitria Murad, S.Kom., M.Kom Dokumenter: Binus University Uploaded by: Knowledge Management and Innovation Binus University
Virtually all industries are being transformed by digital technology and changing consumer expectations. On this show, we learn about changes in the flooring industry with Roddy McKaig, CIO of Shaw Industries, a $4.5 billion flooring manufacturer owned by Berkshire-Hathaway.Roddy McKaig has over 30 years of experience in Information Technology leadership. In 2008 he was appointed Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Shaw Industries, located in Dalton, Georgia. In this position he has complete responsibility for the corporation’s world-wide technology services and support, as well as the Corporate Administrative Services groups. These areas are comprised of a staff of 400 professionals, supporting the company’s 23,000 associates in over 200 locations. Roddy took this position after serving 12 years as Director of Systems Development for Shaw. Shaw Industries is one of the world’s largest flooring manufacturers, with complete product offerings of both hard and soft surface products. Shaw has been a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family since 2001.
Virtually all industries are being transformed by digital technology and changing consumer expectations. On this show, we learn about changes in the flooring industry with Roddy McKaig, CIO of Shaw Industries, a $4.5 billion flooring manufacturer owned by Berkshire-Hathaway.Roddy McKaig has over 30 years of experience in Information Technology leadership. In 2008 he was appointed Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Shaw Industries, located in Dalton, Georgia. In this position he has complete responsibility for the corporation’s world-wide technology services and support, as well as the Corporate Administrative Services groups. These areas are comprised of a staff of 400 professionals, supporting the company’s 23,000 associates in over 200 locations. Roddy took this position after serving 12 years as Director of Systems Development for Shaw. Shaw Industries is one of the world’s largest flooring manufacturers, with complete product offerings of both hard and soft surface products. Shaw has been a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family since 2001.
Systems development part 2 on acquiring or developing a new IS.
Systems development part 1, on who participates in the process and how the development cycle works.
Intelligent Storage: Oracle’s Jason Schaffer — Senior Director, Systems Development, Mikael Vidstedt — JVM Architect, Java Platform, and Ashok Joshi — Senior Director, Development: Oracle No SQL Database, give their perspectives on Intel and Oracle engineered systems for Big Data and Cloud with Intel Xeon processor platforms, JVM, Java, and Oracle NoSQL database. Hear about […]
Hear from Bret Greenstein, Vice President, Rational Complex and Embedded Systems on the exciting content we've got lined up for our Systems Engineers and Embedded Software Developers during Innovate 2013. Bret will discuss his vision and strategic direction for product and systems development, focusing on industry capabilities, our commitment to openness, the importance of the partner ecosystem and continued investment in our products. Bret will also highlight our expanded systems content, special events and not to be missed educational and technical opportunities offered at this year's event.
Agile methods can bring benefits of discipline and efficiency to software development, and agile can be—and is—applied to the development of safety critical systems. In this podcast, Bruce Douglass answers a selection of questions from practitioners and managers engaged in safety-critical development on the topic of agile adoption.
Agile and iterative development has emerged as a leading way to increase flexibility and speed delivery in software development. Although such approaches have seen the most widespread adoption within the enterprise/IT domain, the desire to realize their benefits is not limited to this sector and can be successfully extended to areas as specialized as the embedded market. Hear from Chris Rommel of VDC Research and Bruce Powel Douglass of IBM Rational how and why agile can work in embedded development.
Josh and Patrick talk about the Facebook Timeline, Facebook IPO, hard drive shortage, and an OS X update that breaks Rosetta. They also talk to Jack Locher about the Network Systems Development option at Mountwest. Twitter feedback @TalkOnTechMCTC
This podcast will discuss a new approach to systems and software development that transforms the way organizations manage change across the life cycle to make it more transparent, flexible and efficient. We will explore how the adoption of an open, uniform approach to commercial systems and software development, as well as the dynamic integration of project management capabilities with change management, can dramatically raise the bar on collaboration and productivity. Steve Speicher, speaker.
Detailed discussion of the phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle, CASE tools, Agile methodologies, and Object-Oriented Analysis & Design.
Smarter products are the building blocks of a smarter planet, but how do you make smarter products better and faster than your competition? Companies require product and systems development capabilities that can balance the trade-offs between product features, quality, time- to-market and profitability. IBM calls its set of capabilities for building smarter products integrated product management (IPM). Steve Shoaf and Nicole Katrana, speakers.
Smarter products are the building blocks of a smarter planet, but how do you make smarter products better and faster than your competition? Companies require product and systems development capabilities that can balance the trade-offs between product features, quality, time- to-market and profitability. IBM calls its set of capabilities for building smarter products integrated product management (IPM). Steve Shoaf and Nicole Katrana, speakers.
Our world is becoming smarter. Systems are being combined to deliver ever increasing value in ways that challenge our abilities to reason about, design and build. Discover the unique challenges posed on managing quality when systems are integrated to form a larger system of systems. Speaker: Dr. Bruce Douglass.
Show 36 is part two of my interview with Phil Armour. The interview focused on estimation and just a bit of philosophy, powerful stuff that may change how you view estimation and the goal of software development. Phillip G. Armour is VP for Systems Development and a Senior Consultant at Corvus International Inc. Phil has been developing software for over thirty-five years. He has been a programmer, analyst, project manager, DBA, systems architect, process engineer, metrics engineer, consultant, and executive coach and has worked for organizations as diverse as United Airlines, Motorola, Argonne National Laboratory, General Dynamics, the IRS, the premier software consulting company in India, and the largest cellular service provider in Central West Africa. In the last fifteen years, Phil has personally taught software development techniques and management principles to over 20,000 developers, engineers, managers, and executives. Phil’s primary professional focus is currently in two related areas: software project estimation and software technical team development. Since 2000, Phil has been a contributing editor on ACM’s flagship magazine “Communications of the ACM” and writes a regular column entitled “The Business of Software” where he explores issues to do with the nature and challenges of modern software. He has been on the extended faculty at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and the Mendoza School of Business at the University of Notre Dame. Phil is also the author of “The Laws of Software Process” published by Auerbach in 2003. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, and the Project Management Institute. Telephone: (847)-438-1609Fax: (847)-438-1638Email: armour@corvusintl.comWebsite: www.corvusintl.comwww.corvusintl.com The essay for this cast is titled “Why Should You Care What Is Driving Change”. The essay is a reminder to process improvement personnel that to be effective you need to understand why you are making a change. I suggest that if you don’t understand the rationale for change, stop until you do. The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and suggestions are welcome. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts: Email SPaMCAST at spamcastinfo@gmail.com Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement Future Events and the next . . . Conference season is beginning! I will be speaking at IFPUG’s 3rd Annual ISMA Conference and Fall Workshops Sunday, September 14 – Friday, September 19, 2008 at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel information at www.ifpug.org. The presentation is call “Counting Facebook” and will be on Friday September 19, 2008 at 10:25 AM - 11:25 AM, I am speaking at Quest Toronto 2008 Conference, September 22- 26, 2008, at the Hilton Hotel in Toronto, Canada. I will be presenting “Good Numbers Go Bad” on Wed Sept 24th from 1:30 - 2:30 pm and also joining in as a subject matter expert in the end of day solutions workshop. Information can be found at http://www.qaiquest.org/toronto/ Finally I will be speaking at the Northeast Quality Council 57th Conference. The conference is scheduled for October 14 – 15 , 2008 in Marlborough, Massachusetts at Best Western Royal Plaza. The presentation is titled “One Size Fits . . .Someone Other Than Me”. Information can be found at http://www.neqc.org/conference. Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: On the next SPaMCAST we will feature an interview with Kenji Hiranabe on using Kanban in the software development. Many of you will remember my interview covering mind mapping with Kenji back on SPaCAST 7 (April 2007). That episode continues to be one of the most downloaded. If you missed it I would suggest checking it out.
Show 34 is the beginning of my interview with Phil Armour. I am calling this interview, “Estimation Ain’t Planning”. I must admit that I have been quoting this interview since I taped it. Amazingly powerful concepts, so powerful I decided to revisit estimation. Phillip G. Armour is VP for Systems Development and a Senior Consultant at Corvus International Inc. Phil has been developing software for over thirty-five years. He has been a programmer, analyst, project manager, DBA, systems architect, process engineer, metrics engineer, consultant, and executive coach and has worked for organizations as diverse as United Airlines, Motorola, Argonne National Laboratory, General Dynamics, the IRS, the premier software consulting company in India, and the largest cellular service provider in Central West Africa. In the last fifteen years, Phil has personally taught software development techniques and management principles to over 20,000 developers, engineers, managers, and executives. Phil’s primary professional focus is currently in two related areas: software project estimation and software technical team development. Since 2000, Phil has been a contributing editor on ACM’s flagship magazine “Communications of the ACM” and writes a regular column entitled “The Business of Software” where he explores issues to do with the nature and challenges of modern software. He has been on the extended faculty at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and the Mendoza School of Business at the University of Notre Dame. Phil is also the author of “The Laws of Software Process” published by Auerbach in 2003. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, and the Project Management Institute. Telephone: (847)-438-1609Fax: (847)-438-1638Email: armour@corvusintl.comWebsite: www.corvusintl.com The essay is titled “Estimation, Planning and Goals: All Different I Say!”. The essay explores the confusion of words used in project planning and control. The essay may be due to my long-term issue with a how words are used and misused, false levels of precision or just the fact that the process relating to the software engineering disciplines like estimation continue to prove to be difficult to implement regardless of the development method used. The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and corrections are welcome. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . Email SPaMCAST at spamcastinfo@gmail.com Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com Future Events and the next . . . Conference season is beginning! I will be speaking at IFPUG’s 3rd Annual ISMA Conference and Fall Workshops Sunday, September 14 – Friday, September 19, 2008 at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel information at www.ifpug.org. The presentation is call “Counting Facebook” and will be on Friday September 19, 2008 at 10:25 AM - 11:25 AM, I am speaking at Quest Toronto 2008 Conference, September 22- 26, 2008, at the Hilton Hotel in Toronto, Canada. I will be presenting “Good Numbers Go Bad” on Wed Sept 24th from 1:30 - 2:30 pm and also joining in as a subject matter expert in the end of day solutions workshop. Information can be found at http://www.qaiquest.org/toronto/ Finally I will be speaking at the Northeast Quality Council 57th Conference. The conference is scheduled for October 14 – 15 , 2008 in Marlborough, Massachusetts at Best Western Royal Plaza. The presentation is titled “One Size Fits . . .Someone Other Than Me”. Information can be found at http://www.neqc.org/conference. Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: On the next SPaMCAST I will interview Charlene Li of Forrester Research, co-author of “Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies”. We talked about opinion how are social networks and strategies rewriting the organization and its relations to its customers.
Anyone who uses a computer knows about Google and what a great tool it is. But very few know about the people behind the scenes – the engineers who build it, grow it, keep it running like a swiss watch and of course make it possible for Google to be one of the world’s most profitable businesses – on or off the internet. On today’s show Roger has conversations with two of the most senior engineering managers working at Google, who will tell us about their views of the Google phenomenon. First Roger talks with Jeff Huber. Jeff joined Google in 2003 and is the company's VP of Engineering. In this role, Jeff leads the technology development and innovation efforts for Google's advertising and monetization systems, including Google's AdWords and AdSense programs. Jeff brings more than 15 years of experience in large scale systems design and operation, online consumer product development, high volume transaction processing and engineering management. Prior to joining Google, Jeff was VP of Architecture & Systems Development at eBay where he championed the development of their product search infrastructure and expansion of the platform API program. Before eBay, Jeff was SVP of Engineering at Excite@Home, where he led consumer product and infrastructure development for the largest broadband service provider. Earlier in his career, he was a technology consultant with McKinsey & Company, and founded a software development startup. Jeff holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois and a Master's Degree from Harvard University. Next Roger talks with Bill Coughran. Bill is Google's VP of Engineering for Systems Infrastructure where he is responsible for large-scale distributed computing programs underlying Google's products. Bill joined Google engineering in early 2003 where he began working with the web crawling, storage, and other systems teams. In addition, Bill is an author of more than 50 publications and has served on several editorial and conference boards, and technical advisory committees. He has also held adjunct and visiting positions at Stanford, the ETH, and Duke. Bill holds an MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University as well as a BS and a MS in mathematics from Caltech. We know you’ll enjoy this ‘behind-the scenes’ look at one of the most interesting and important technology companies in the world today. As always, at Cullinane & Green we’re on the bleeding edge so you don’t have to be!