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Yasir Ali is the Co-Founder and CEO of Polymer, a no-code platform that prevents sensitive data leaks across SaaS apps such as Google Drive, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom without slowing down an organization's operations.With Polymer, organizations can redact HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, CCPA, PHI, and other sensitive data in near real-time. This enables their employees to communicate and collaborate on SaaS apps at full speed without the need to police documents ahead of time or the worry of inadvertent transfer of sensitive information.Polymer has received a total funding of $6M+, and they have revenues over $2M+. Their clients include Signify Health, Edward Jones, Medly Pharmacy, and Routefusion.Yasir is a former Wall Street and hedge fund trader who worked for several companies, including Barclays Capital. He is also the founder of Dvega, an enterprise data and technology strategy consulting firm as well as a developer for credit-sensitive analytics for Bear Stearns Mortgage trading desk.Sponsors: Master Your P

Adeyemi Adeyosoye spent over 11 years learning about spirituality, quantum physics, and energy. He studied Mechanical engineering and has an extensive background in Business Development and Sales. He’s helped companies accelerate their growth and build successful teams. Throughout his life, he has always had an insatiable appetite to gain a deeper knowledge about spirituality and the evolution of the human spirit.  He’s read hundreds of books, attended numerous retreats, and invested thousands of dollars into personal development courses, all with the single intention of accelerating the development of his soul. Now we don’t talk about this much in leadership, but we should…and we’re about to do just that. Adeyemi created The Soul School because, after his personal journey, he realized that the path to spiritual activation is unnecessarily complex for most people. It is filled with dense information and an endless amount of YouTube videos that repeat the same surface-level stuff while wast

Sheila Kloefkorn is the Founder and President of KEO Marketing, a top B2B marketing agency that helps Fortune 1000 companies and mid-market businesses in 100+ countries scale faster by executing well-rounded, goal-oriented marketing plans.Their team of experienced specialists includes email marketers, digital advertisers, social media managers, and copywriters, and they've won multiple accolades, including several Stevie American Business Awards for Marketing Campaign of the Year, for their outstanding work.For 25+ years, Sheila has helped companies in many industries prosper through her work in marketing.She began her career in the 1990s at a small marketing firm in New York City, where she assisted in its expansion into the biggest youth marketing firm globally. She takes pride in having been among the first online advertisers and witnessing the expansion of the digital marketing and advertising sector as a whole.Sheila has also received countless honors, most recently being recognized as one of In Business

David Latten is the Head of Global Indirect Procurement and Supplier Diversity & Equality at Logitech. Lean in as he discusses what he's passionate about, his niche: As of today, despite all our best supplier diversity efforts, only 6.1% of the total US corporate spending goes to Black, women and other under-represented suppliers. The other 94% of corporate spend represents a vast untapped opportunity to positively impact equality. Most of this 94% of non-diverse spend is with very large suppliers. These large, non-diverse organizations employ millions of people across many countries and accrue trillions of revenue each year. These influential companies have the power to shape a gender fair future and in turn we have the power to influence them. We will not achieve gender equality without these large organizations taking a stand. Logitech along with Gender Fair co-founded The Coalition For Gender Fair Procurement with the simple aim of leveraging the multi-trillion dollar spending power of corpora

Naomi Bareket, MBA, is a speaker, NLP trainer, and specialist in “ice breaking” networking and communication. She is also an author of the “The Deep See” and the upcoming books: “NeuroSUCCESSology™ – Life Transformation”, & “The Jewish NLP”.Naomi has broad experience in linguistics, Time Line Therapy®, hypnosis, neuro-science, and the field of NLP. She has been certified by the American Board of NLP to train NLP and to certify others for practitioner and master levels. Naomi is also the CEO of Bareket Design, an international jewelry design company. Naomi and her Bareket Design sales team have closed business with accounts such as TJ Maxx, Sundance Catalog, Shop NBC, QVC, Beloro and others.Naomi’s passion, charisma and experience in training groups and conducting workshops make her effective both in the private and business sectors.More Info: Naomi BareketSponsors: Master Your Podcast Course: MasterYourSwagFree Coaching Session: Master Leadership 360 CoachingSupport Our Show: Click HereLi

Simon Severino is the Father of 3 and Scaler of Businesses. In 19 years of entrepreneurship, Simon has executed hundreds of go-to-market strategies with B2B teams around the globe. He’s scaled his own consultancy and has retired from operations.  He reached financial freedom and became an investor.  Since then, he has helped thousands of entrepreneurs reach financial freedom and run their business without having to dependent on them…they now get to enjoy the fruits of their labor.Today, Simon shares his blueprints with B2B leaders like you.  He’s excited to help you scale faster than ever.More Info: Strategy SprintsSponsors: Master Your Podcast Course: MasterYourSwagFree Coaching Session: Master Leadership 360 CoachingSupport Our Show: Click HereLily's Story: My Trust ManifestoSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/masterleadership. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brendon Baker is the author of the best-seller Valuable Change and has consulted on $10B+ transformational change projects across a wide range of industries and organizational sizes. He is the Founder and Managing Director of Valuable Change Co, a management agency that helps leaders keep transformation simple and ensure it pays off. Their clients include high-growth tech firms, well-known Australian household names like AGL and South32, and all three levels of the Australian Government.For many organizations, change often involves long meetings, lots of reports, confusion about the goals, and worry about how long it will take and cost.These complexities make 85% of change initiatives in companies worthless.Brendon has 12+ years experience in change management and believes the profession has over-complicated change management approaches. He has taken it upon himself to simplify it and in doing so help change leaders drive real value. He is also the author of the #1 new book release acro

Meet Nancy D. O’Reilly, PsyD, a passionate advocate for women’s advancement. By founding Women Connect4Good, Inc., a 501(c)3 foundation, she has dedicated herself to supporting organizations that are working toward the advancement of women and girls. She also holds board positions in several social-profit groups, including the National Women’s History Museum. Dr. Nancy writes impactful books that empower and equip women for success. Her recent titles, In This Together: How Successful Women Support Each Other in Work and Life (Adams Media/Simon & Schuster, January 2019), and Leading Women: 20 Influential Women Share Their Secrets to Leadership, Business, and Life (Adams Media/Simon & Schuster, December 2014), have gained recognition and were both released as audiobooks in 2022. Driven by her commitment to advancing gender equity, Dr. Nancy and her team continue to gain momentum with the Lift Women Up campaign. Originally created to complement a PBS

Sean Fahey is the Founder and CEO of VidCruiter, one of the fastest-growing remote recruitment platforms in the world, helping companies attract and hire better talent.75,000+ recruiters use VidCruiter to modernize their hiring.  Their clients include organizations like Samsung, United Nations, Lionsgate, Chicago Bears, and US Foods.Sean has been in the HR industry for 10+ years, and he started VidCruiter after realizing how slow and inefficient traditional hiring processes were when he was tasked with hiring 200 people in 30 days in 2009.Since then, he has spent a lot of time talking to recruiters worldwide to better understand their unique challenges and find appropriate solutions to make them more efficient when hiring. More Info: VidCruiterSponsors: Master Your Podcast Course: MasterYourSwagFree Coaching Session: Master Leadership 360 CoachingSupport Our Show: Click HereLily's Story: My Trust ManifestoSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/masterleadership. Hosted on Acast.

Antonio Garrido is the author of My Daily Leadership: A Powerful Roadmap for Leadership Success. He is also the founder & President of My Daily Leadership, a leadership development organization with a mission to inspire one million of the world’s best leaders to reach their full potential. He is an expert in leadership transformation: shaping high-performance leaders out of highly-stressed and overworked leaders. Antonio blends his own vast commercial experience with proven techniques to embed a unique brand of leadership development. He is a serial entrepreneur, successful business coach, charismatic speaker, and leader.More Info: My Daily LeadershipSponsors: Master Your Podcast Course: MasterYourSwagFree Coaching Session: Master Leadership 360 CoachingSupport Our Show: Click HereLily's Story: My Trust ManifestoSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/masterleadership. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For nearly 30 years Rick Tirrell, Ph.D., has helped leaders and mentors build their skills in publicly traded companies, nonprofits, and government organizations. His mastery of the art and science of leadership gives the aspiring leader an actionable toolbox for developing effective leadership skills. His seminars convert leadership theory onto useful and achievable steps every leader and mentor can take. His experience comes from frontline supervisors as well as the corner office. In addition, he has founded and led two companies himself. His Ph.D. is in psychology and has published his award-winning business book, Leadership Rite of Passage. Rick's most substantial previous work was the 2009 groundbreaking book, The Wisdom of Resilience Builders: How Our Best Leaders Create the World's Most Enduring Enterprises. It shows how great leaders use four variables to build firms that are impact-resistant growth generators.More Info: Navigator Group, Inc.Sponsors: Master Your Podcast Course: MasterYourSwagFr

Morgan Taylor is the Co-Founder of Jolly SEO, a HARO (Help a Reporter Out) link-building service that helps businesses increase brand awareness, find their audience, and build their executives' authority online. They specialize in getting high DR backlinks (60+) from publications like Business Insider, Ask Men, Forbes, and HuffPost, and have placed 3000+ backlinks for their clients, who include $100M annual recurring revenue companies and founders with $1B+ exits. The big difference between them and other link-building services is that they only charge you when they place a DR50+ link for your business. Nobody else comes close to this!  Morgan has worked in marketing with a focus on SEO for 6+ years and, together with his Co-Founder at Jolly SEO, was among the first to truly productize journalist outreach for link-building purposes on platforms like HARO.He is also the Co-Founder of Pitch Response the first SaaS tool designed to help DIY HAROers achieve greater success in their link-buildi

Leaders today have more resources, training, and support than they have ever had in history, yet leadership failures, dismissals and resignations are at an all-time high. Likewise, employees are receiving more benefits, resources, and flexibility than they’ve ever had before yet we are seeing alarming rates of depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues among employees, and many are quitting their jobs with an attitude that it’s just not worth it.For years Caren Kenney, CEO of Evolve Leadership, C-suite executive coach, and former Executive Director at the Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute, has recognized the link between mental and physical wellbeing and leadership and human performance. Her work in this area began in 2001 as the co-founder of a company that developed the world’s first direct-to-consumer digital behavioral health coaching programs – which were ultimately acquired by Johnson & Johnson.Six years ago, Caren led the creation of the world’s first whole-person, whole-li

Stephen Goldberg is the Co-founder and CEO of Harper DB, a fast distributed database platform for developers looking to quickly build apps and save companies millions. They have 27000+ users and have raised $7.2M. Founded in 2017, they've also been able to scale rapidly with a small team of fewer than 20 people and are currently doing $6M+ in sales. The platform reduces the complexity and cost of database management while saving developers time with app development, data stores, ETL processes, and IoT projects. Before HarperDB, Stephen worked as a CTO and CEO of several other startups, held roles at larger organizations like IBM subsidiary software company Red Hat, and led digital transformation projects at several Fortune 500 companies across many verticals.  He has been published on sites such as Tech Target and quoted in many articles and publications, including Forbes and ZDNet.  Stephen has also been a speaker at IoT World, SAP's Sapphire, and Salesforce.com's Dreamforc

Sara Sabin calls herself a Career Chameleon. After nearly 10 years in the corporate world, she left for good in 2016. After leaving, she became the founder of two start-ups (one successful, one not), where she learned about the importance of great leadership the hard way through mistakes, successes, and trials. Since leaving the start-up world, she has built a multi six figure coaching practice, working with successful leaders and entrepreneurs of high-growth 6 and 7 figure businesses. She believes that a new type of leader is necessary for businesses to achieve long term sustainability, in an exponentially changing business world. Being technically brilliant is only the start. Balanced leadership is a delicate dance. For a leader to be truly successful, they have to understand how to motivate, inspire and push people to achieve more than they ever thought possible and approach business growth and challenges in a strategic, focused way, so that they become more influential, and effective, ultimately inc

Lisa Druxman is the founder of FIT4MOM, the nation’s leading company for pre and postnatal health, wellness, and fitness programs for every stage of motherhood. FIT4MOM has created business opportunities for moms nationwide, with more than 300 franchisees and 1,000 locations across the U.S. In addition to leading her team at FIT4MOM, Lisa is a noted speaker, author, podcaster and powerhouse of energy. A self-proclaimed mom boss, Lisa is passionate about paying it forward and empowering other women in life and business. Druxman is also the author of a new book with life strategies for moms—The Empowered Mama: How to Reclaim Your Time and Yourself While Raising a Happy, Healthy Family.Druxman earned her Master's degree in psychology with an emphasis in exercise adherence and weight control from San Diego State University. She created the weight management program, L.E.A.N. Mommy® (Learn Eating Awareness and Nutrition), which is also the name of her first book.Druxman has written on business for Entre

Amelia Wilcox is the Founder and CEO of Nivati, a platform designed to make access to mental health solutions easier for employees. They have been recognized as one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US twice and have raised $5.7M to date. Nivati also provides flexible work to 1200 practitioners, including counselors and coaches, across North America and is used by 11,000+ employees in 60+ companies. Before Covid, Amelia ran Incorporate Massage, one of the fastest-growing companies in the US multiple years in a row, providing onsite massage services to 4,000+ corporate clients. Within ten days of the pandemic and their clients shutting down, Incorporate Massage revenues went from $6M to $0, and she had to think fast and find a new need to serve.  After talking to Incorporate massage clients, she realized there was an enormous need around mental health, which her company was uniquely positioned to solve better and faster than anyone else, and that's how Nivati wa

Emmanuel Kulu, Jr. is an African American author and writer of Cameroonian descent. His father, Emmanuel Kulu, Sr., was a Career Engineer and his mother, Betty Kulu, was a Career MD History Educator. As a Career Social Worked, Kulu also had a deep passion for history and creative arts.Kulu tapped into film writing and acting with films like “The Rize and Fall of Tephlom Ent”, “Bug Love”, and “The 1st Purge.” In more recent years, Kulu turned his focus to embracing African linage. Upon deep study and research of Great African Kingdoms, he set his heart on Ancient Egypt as his first project as an author.Kulu questioned the validity of prior novel and film depictions of the imagery of the Ancient Egyptians who were in fact, African people. Based on his study and research, Kulu created a mythological story based off true events: I Black Pharaoh: Rise To Power.Contact Phone: 716-507-2694 / Contact Email: ibpmediagroup@gmail.comMore Info: AAARIASponsors: Master Your Podcast Course: MasterYourSwagFree Coaching Ses

Karl Hughes is the Founder of Draft.dev – where they create technical marketing content for companies. Within 2 years, they’ve hit: $250k MRR 15 full-time, 200 contract writers 90+ clients. They run their company in a rather unique way. They don’t use Slack or other real-time communication tools. They are all remote and 90% asynchronous (meaning work can be done on employees’ schedule/preferred time).More Info: Draft.devSponsors: Master Your Podcast Course: MasterYourSwagFree Coaching Session: Masterleadership.orgSupport Our Show: Click HereLily's Story: My Trust ManifestoSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/masterleadership. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From as early as he can remember, Michael Trezza's world revolved around art, engineering and learning. He studied fine art and painting in college, still plays guitar every day and turned an early passion for programming and technology into his first business while still in college.  Michael spent the next two decades as a technology entrepreneur, creating powerful software solutions and working with businesses from midsize to Fortune 500 companies to position them for exponential growth.Everything changed in 2017 when he found out he and his wife were having a baby girl. Michael immediately began to think differently, and to think about the world he was bringing her into. He began to wonder if today’s educational system was really going to prepare her for what he imagined the future to look like. He wondered what the world was going to look like when she was his age... Being a technology innovator for his entire career, Michael has seen firsthand how rapidly the world has changed and specifically where