Raising The Bar on Leadership
Aaron Levy
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Stories from powerful leaders on what it takes to unlock your team’s potential ... and all their screw ups along the way
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Sep 12, 2023
How Shared Ideas Shape Exceptional Project Outcomes | Keturah McCottry, Director, Learning and Development, Radancy
In today’s episode, Keturah McCottry, Director, Learning and Development at Radancy, the leading cloud-based talent acquisition software provider intelligently solving the most critical challenges for enterprises globally and delivering cost-efficient outcomes that strengthen their organizations, shares the importance of being open to change, her key tool to GSD, creating and then letting go so projects can spread their wings + more.
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Aug 22, 2023
Fostering Trust Through Candor In Leadership | Rod Lacey, Chief People Officer, simPRO
In today’s episode, Rod Lacey, the Chief People Officer at simPro, a private SaaS company that provides cloud-based job and project management software to those in field service and trade contracting industries, introduces the concept of fostering trust through candor as a people leader. We dive deep into the 90-second rule, how to identify a great manager, tips for leading + serving teams across a multicultural organization, 3 questions to ask yourself before making an investment as a people leader, and more.
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Jul 20, 2023
Feed The Hungry Team Members | Kelly Buchanan, Chief People Officer, Revinate
Welcome to the Raising The Bar on Leadership Podcast!
We're excited to have you joining us today as we welcome the very insightful Kelly Buchanan, CPO at Revinate, to the show.
In this episode you will learn:
* How hungry team members can become Ambassadors for cultural growth
* Why we should shift our focus from getting more people to cultural initiatives to the people that are showing up
* Wise words from leaders and past experiences + more
Kelly brings 20+ years of experience to her role as Chief People Officer at Revinate, where - as a proud boomerang hire - she oversees the team’s global people and culture strategy. She is also a founding member of Chief’s San Francisco chapter - a network focused on developing female executive leaders.
Kelly’s had a wide range of experience as a people leader and in this conversation we dive deep into the importance of experimentation, what it looks like on a people team and how to get initiatives off the ground faster so your business doesn’t have to wait to reap the benefits.
Enjoyed this convo? Don't forget to share it with your team.
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Jun 8, 2023
Responsible transparency | Anitra St. Hilaire, VP of People, ThreeFlow
In today’s episode, Anitra St. Hilaire, the Vice President of People at ThreeFlow, a Benefits Placement Software that brokers and carriers use to maintain relationships and help employers make the best benefit decisions, introduces the concept of Responsible Transparency. We dive deep into the importance of communication and its impact on business performance and what it means to provide clarity and context in your communication.
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May 2, 2023
A one size fits one employee experience: Mariah Nagy | Head of People, Monte Carlo
In today’s episode, Mariah Nagy, the Head of People at Monte Carlo, a company that helps data engineers improve their data reliability and downtime, talks about how they maintain culture and connection across a global and remote team. Mariah was a college athlete turned public accountant turned seasoned people leader with 15 plus years of experience scaling high growth global companies. In this conversation, we talk about the vulnerability cycle, a one size fits one approach to employee experience, and all the other things that it takes to grow a fully remote global team.
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Mar 9, 2023
The unsexy journey to success: Laura Luckman Kelber | CMO, Double Good
In today’s episode, Laura Luckman Kelber, Chief Marketing Officer of Double Good, a virtual fundraising organization, selling premium popcorn to fund teams and non-profits, talks about the non-sexy stuff that builds successful teams, from stamina to deliberate practice and saying no as the core tenets of what builds successful leadership and successful companies. Laura is a strategic catalyst, a marketing wiz, a revenue accelerator, and productivity orchestrator.
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Feb 13, 2023
The changing face of HR: Anthony Onesto | Chief People Officer, Suzy
In today’s episode, Anthony Onesto, a leading expert and published author on culture, human resources, and talent, joins us to talk about the changing role of HR and Gen Z’s impact on the workforce. Anthony has this fantastic high level view of the people space, the HR space and function, and its role within the business, and how that role is changing and will continue to change in the next couple of years.
Anthony is currently the Chief People Officer at Suzy, the author of The New Employee Contract: How to Find, Keep, and Elevate Gen Z Talent, and the creator of Ella The Engineer and the Ella Project.
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Dec 8, 2022
The secrets of leading a successful team: Doug Kofoid | CEO, EDITED
Doug Kofoid, the CEO of EDITED, a global leader in retail intelligence, has had a myriad of experiences leading and scaling successful teams. Before Edited, Doug ran DialogTech and led them through a successful exit. In today’s conversation, Doug dives deep into his varied experience to pull out some common traits that you can use to help your team succeed.
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Nov 8, 2022
Examining the stages of psychological safety: Dr. Timothy R. Clark | Founder & CEO; Author, LeaderFactor
In this episode, Dr. Timothy R. Clark, Founder and CEO of LeaderFactor, and international authority in the fields of psychological safety and innovation, large-scale change & transformation, and senior leadership development, explores the stages of psychological safety in an organization and its relationship to vulnerability. Dr. Clark is the author of five books, including his new best-seller, The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation.
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Oct 26, 2022
Creating career portfolios not paths: Caroline Werner | Chief People Officer, LogicGate
In this episode, Caroline Werner, the Chief People Officer at LogicGate, a fast scaling organization that provides a modern risk management platform for enterprise businesses, discusses the concept of career journeys or portfolios and how they create a common language for top talent in your organization. We dive a mile deep into the benefits, the challenges, and the way a good career journey supports the future growth of your business.
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Sep 26, 2022
Removing the barriers to change: Loran Nordgren | Author; Professor at Kellogg School of Management
In this episode, Loran Nordgren, Professor at the Kellogg School of Management and author of the bestselling book The Human Element: Overcoming the Resistance that Awaits New Ideas, explores why change often fails and how we can make change more aerodynamic by focusing on the barriers to change. Loran’s mission is to use behavioral science to make leaders and organizations better.
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Aug 30, 2022
Why People Operations matter: Celia Balson | Founder & CEO, Work Friendly
In this episode, Celia Balson, the Founder & CEO of WorkFriendly, a people-first consulting agency that provides HR, recruiting and training support for companies as small as two people all the way up to Fortune 100 organizations, shares valuable insights she’s garnered from both her experience as a People Leader and helping organizations think and create their own people experience.
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Jul 24, 2022
Building great teams: Ann Wauters | Keynote Speaker, Pro Athlete, Assistant Coach, WNBA Chicago Sky
In this episode, basketball champion Ann Wauters shares her lessons and experiences on what makes a great team - and she should know, as she’s played on many successful teams in her 20 year playing career. Now the assistant coach of the WNBA Chicago Sky, Ann mentors and coaches younger players. Ann shares her stories and lessons on what it takes to lead and be a part of high performing successful teams, both on the court and in the office.
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Apr 6, 2022
Recognizing Women in Sustainability {a Panel Discussion}
Women have made great strides in driving corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability; in fact, more female corporate leaders are found in sustainability governance than other corporate leadership roles. As sustainability and Environmental Social Governance (ESG) become more important for organizations, many women are leading the way to a more sustainable future. In honor of the intersection of Women’s HIstory Month and Earth Month, RTB Leadership Coach Kimberly Flood talks to two women sustainability leaders to discuss and celebrate the contributions women have made in this space and provide actionable tips for anyone who wants to become more sustainable in their work and life.
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Mar 3, 2022
Why setting context matters: Peter Geiregat | Chief People Officer, TVH
In this episode, Peter Geiregat, the Chief People Officer at TVH, a global leader in parts and accessories with over 5,000 employees worldwide, shares his lessons with us and goes a layer deeper in sharing how he actually puts those lessons into practice with his team. Peter's journey has ranged from law school to nonprofit work in Eastern Europe, to the tech sector. As the former Chief People Officer of Showpad, all of this has played a role in teaching him lessons about life and what it takes to create safety on his teams and enable teams to perform at a high level.
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Feb 14, 2022
Why being an authentic leader matters: Winnie Park | CEO, Forever 21
In this episode Winnie Park, the new CEO of Forever 21, shares both her vulnerability and her humanity in the journey to become the leader she is today. Winnie, who has had an impressive career as a brand builder for two decades, goes deeper as she talks about how to build trust in teams, why relationship building is so important, and how a leader needs to show curiosity and humility.
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Jan 13, 2022
Banishing burnout by creating a culture of well-being: Kaitlyn Lyons | Executive Well-Being & Burnout Coach
When you are burnt out, the simplest task can seem like a mountain to scale. Executive Well-Being and Burnout Coach Kaitlyn Lyons experienced it firsthand; always a top performer in her career in the corporate world, one day, she just couldn’t muster the interest or enthusiasm she once had in her work. After making the appropriate changes in her life, she now enables others to recognize and heal from their own burnout.
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Dec 21, 2021
A playbook for People Operations: Jim Conti | Talent Partner, Hyde Park Venture Partners
Jim Conti, Talent Partner at Hyde Park Venture Partners, shares his knowledge and experience in building and growing people operations at two fast growing software startups at dScout and Sprout Social. In his role, Jim provides strategic talent support and consulting to the firm and their portfolio companies. Jim talks about why it’s important to make clarity an integral part of your company’s culture and why taking a human-based approach to People Operations is a game changer.
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Dec 6, 2021
Measure what matters in your organization: Mike Tassone | Co-Founder & COO, Own Up
In this episode, Mike Tassone, the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Own Up, talks about how a desire for more transparency in the home lending process led to a company built on the idea that technology can simplify the home financing process for consumers. Mike talks about the importance of measuring what matters and being intentional about what you say yes to and what you say no to in your work.
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Nov 22, 2021
Building support for Black wellness: Ryan Mundy | Founder and CEO, Alkeme Health
In this episode, Ryan Mundy, former Super Bowl winning NFL player and tech investor, discusses his many past lives that have led him to where he is today as the the founder and CEO of Alkeme Health, a digital health startup rooted in black wellness, Before starting Alkeme, Ryan co-founded SWZLE, which was acquired back in October of 2020 and was also the managing director of Techlete. Ryan talks about his career as an athlete, his exploration of finding his identity when sports ends and his trials and tribulations with mental health and how that's helped to form his new business and the impact that he's having on the world.
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Nov 4, 2021
RTB Coaches‘ Corner: Shiri Bade
In this episode, Raise The Bar Coach Shiri Bade talks about how to best give and receive negative feedback and prepare for difficult conversations. Feedback is a gift, even the negative type, and it’s important to set your mind properly to receive it.
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Oct 19, 2021
On creating a better workplace: Aaron Levy | Founder & CEO, Raise The Bar
As Raise The Bar celebrates its 5th anniversary, the tables are turned. Founder and CEO Aaron Levy is interviewed by RTB's Head of Marketing and talks about his WHY, the evolution of their science-backed training methodology, and his role in helping create the future of a better workplace.
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Oct 4, 2021
RTB Coaches‘ Corner | Kimberly Flood
Raise The Bar Coach Kimberly Flood, a transformational coach and organizational development consultant with nearly two decades of Fortune 500 work experience, talks about how to build resilience in yourself and in your team.
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Aug 25, 2021
RTB Coaches' Corner | Natalie Guillen
Welcome to the Raise The Bar Coaches’ Corner, a new feature where our Head of Marketing interviews our coaches to gain tips, insights and strategies. In this episode, Natalie Guillen talks about the messiness of learning new skills and why leaders need a support system. Natalie is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach thru The Co-Active Training Institute, with over 15 years of experience working with some of the biggest brands including Google, PayPal, and Wells Fargo, helping companies define their strategic goals and aligning teams to achieve them.
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Jul 22, 2021
On disrupting and being disrupted: Dr. Ari Levy | Founder & CEO, SHIFT (Life)
Dr. Ari Levy, Founder & CEO of an organization that is disrupting the traditional healthcare system, is a Doctor and MBA, a Crain’s 40 under 40 honoree, a personal mentor, friend and my brother. Ari has been laser focused on working to fix a broken healthcare system and now in his second business, SHIFT (Life), he has made strides in developing a model for just that. In today’s episode, Ari talks to us about the SHIFT model and how he’s been able to grow his business and team despite the pandemic.
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Jun 3, 2021
Re-imagining our institutions: Dorie Blesoff | Former Chief People Officer & Talent Advisor, Relativity
Dorie Blesoff, the former Chief People Officer and Talent Advisor at Relativity, joined Relativity when they had 200 people and helped the company grow and evolve to where they are today at around 1,200 employees around the world. Dorie is also Adjunct Faculty at Northwestern University's School of Education and Social Policy, a role she’s been in for over 20 years. Dorie is deeply passionate and incredibly knowledgeable about the future of work, social and racial justice, and its role in our development as people and a society.
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May 10, 2021
Building a diverse and inclusive workplace: Shaniqua Davis | Founder & CEO, Noirefy
In this episode, Shaniqua Davis, the Founder & CEO of Noirefy, a diversity advancement platform that connects diverse professionals with high growth companies, discusses how Noirefy was born out of her own encounters with bias during a job search. Shaniqua talks about how they consult with companies to build out structures to help tear down the barriers to a more diverse and inclusive workplace.
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Apr 2, 2021
Designing the employee experience: Elles Skony | Head of People, XSELL Technologies
Elles Skony was recently brought on as the Head of People at XSELL Technologies, a fast growing company that uses Artificial Intelligence to transform the way businesses interact with their customers. In this episode, Elles discusses her process for building her people department and walks us through her three pronged action plan.
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Feb 27, 2021
Hiring for will: Monica Royer | Founder & CEO, Monica + Andy
In this episode, Monica Royer, the founder and CEO of Monica + Andy – a company that provides organic essentials for kids and babies, along with kids’ classes and events for new and expecting parents in their Guideshops around the country and virtually, talks about how she and her team pivoted their business successfully during the COVID pandemic. Monica believes it’s key to hire the right people and embrace a humans-first culture in order to meet the challenges. Monica also talks about her personal mission to empower other female entrepreneurs and young girls to reach their potential through The Monica + Andy Girls Foundation.
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Jan 11, 2021
Why psychological safety matters: Dr. Amy Edmondson | Novartis Professor of Leadership, Harvard Business School
In our very first live podcast, Dr. Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School and foremost expert on Psychological Safety, talks about why trust, candor and psychological safety are integral for a high performance team and culture, and why this concept is gaining such momentum as a key component in the future of work.
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Nov 30, 2020
Build trust with your team: Peter Lynch | Head of People & Culture, Cardinal Group Companies
Peter Lynch, a noted Fortune 500 executive, TEDx Speaker, and performance coach, joined Cardinal Group Companies as the Head of People & Culture to help them build a culture that embodies the future of work. Peter talks about the first two steps to take when leading a new team and highlights the importance of owning your own weaknesses as a way to be a more powerful leader.
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Nov 19, 2020
Growing and gifting with intention: Jonathan Legge | Co-Founder and CEO of &Open
Cultivating a gifting strategy that builds bridges between organizations and their customers is hard, and is what inspired Jonathan Legge to start &Open. In today’s episode, Co-Founder and CEO Jonathan Legge talks about how they bootstrapped their company and grew it purposely and organically by hiring slowly, hyperfocusing on their numbers, and staying true to their values and mission.
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Oct 14, 2020
Change is the only constant: PJ Bouten | Co-Founder & CEO, Showpad
In this episode, PJ Bouten, Co-Founder and CEO of Showpad, recognized a need to empower sales and marketing teams to deliver a better buyer experience. Since 2011, PJ has helped build a global company with more than 1,000 customers in 50 countries and grew the organization to 350 team members. But when the pandemic hit, he was faced with difficult decisions in order to save the company as a whole. PJ talks about the importance of finding a great co-founder, investing in your managers, and treating your people with compassion and empathy.
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Sep 16, 2020
A plan for crisis: Tim Schumm | Founder & President, Lucas James Talent Partners
Tim Schumm, the founder and president of Lucas James Talent Partners, started and grew the organization to a team of 32 people in just 20 months– then COVID hit. Tim shares the step by step process he took to lead his team through this crisis, what it takes to build a culture of feedback, and the daily practices he follows to make sure he shows up at his best for his team and his family.
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Sep 1, 2020
Building a roster of mentors: Matt Kunkel | Co-Founder & CEO, LogicGate
In this episode, Matt Kunkel, the co-founder, and CEO of LogicGate, discusses the importance of mentors and relationships. Matt co-founded LogicGate, a Chicago based SaaS platform which operationalizes regulatory, risk, and compliance programs for organizations, just over 4 years ago and has quickly grown it to 120+ employees and raised $35 million.
Matt discusses the critical role mentors played in his growth, his focus as a leader in this time of crisis and what he’s doing to help his team feel more in control and more informed in this time of uncertainty.
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Aug 14, 2020
A new model for a new world: Jack Altman | CEO & Co-Founder, Lattice
In this episode, Jack Altman, CEO and Co-Founder of Lattice, a performance management and employee engagement platform, talks about why the employee experience is a company’s biggest asset and how management’s role evolves as an organization grows. Lattice, in just four years, has grown from startup to a growth stage business with over 150 employees and 15,000 plus customers. Jack shares how he’s evolved as a leader, how the role of HR has changed to a revenue and strategy center, and why the CEO and Chief People Officers’ roles are a lot alike.
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Jun 29, 2020
The power of the two person team: Bracken Darrell | President & CEO, Logitech
In the 8 years under President & CEO Bracken Darrell’s leadership, he has transformed Logitech and their stock price has octupled - that’s 8x growth! But in our conversation, Bracken doesn’t talk about stock price, profits, or revenue – instead, he shares the importance of the two-person team, of giving power and autonomy to make data-driven decisions to the people on the ground level, closest to that decision, and about what’s possible when we all align our brains to one singular problem.
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Jun 17, 2020
Keep an open mind: Tom De Weerdt | EVP & CFO, Mauser Packaging Solutions
Tom De Weerdt, EVP and CFO of Mauser Packaging Solutions, blends a bit of right and left brain into his leadership style. Using a philosophical and growth mindset along with plenty of spreadsheets, Tom has led several global teams at a variety of large corporations. It’s integral for leaders to keep an open mind for as long as they can, says Tom, and seek out a variety of trusted perspectives from a diversity of people before making key decisions; otherwise you just end up confirming your own hypotheses and biases.
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May 19, 2020
From salesman to CEO: Devin Gross | CEO, SonarMD; Former CEO, Emmi Solutions
In 2003, Devin Gross started as the first salesperson at a pre-revenue healthcare engagement company called Emmi Solutions. In 2010 Devin was named by the board as the CEO, where he went on to grow them from 35 team members to nearly 200 at the time of the company’s acquisition in 2017.
In this episode, Devin talks about the challenges and fear he faced going from salesman to CEO overnight and the strategies he implemented to retain and engage his staff as more layers grew between him and his staff.
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Apr 29, 2020
Football was my avenue, not my end game: Desmond Clark | Author, Speaker, Co-Owner, The Insurance People
In today’s episode, Desmond Clark, the former Tight End for the Chicago Bears, two-time author, motivational speaker, philanthropist and Co-Owner of The Insurance People talks about the similarities between leadership on the field and in the boardroom, on his transition from Dez Clark the football player to Dez Clark, the business leader, and what drives him to wake up each morning.
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Apr 16, 2020
Enabling my team to succeed: Kris Rudeegraap | Co-Founder & CEO, Sendoso
In today’s episode, Kris Rudeegraap, the Co-Founder, and CEO of Sendoso, a leading sending platform for innovative ways to engage with customers, shares why his number one priority as the CEO is hiring and retaining top talent and then enabling that talent to reach its full potential. Kris shares some unique strategies for finding the right fit when hiring and two steps to take when building a team from the ground up.
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Mar 10, 2020
Accountability + Collaboration = Success: Ryan Leavitt, Co-Founder of Pillar Booth, LearnCore and Catapult Chicago
Some things never go out of style: collaboration, the importance of sales, and phone booths. Serial entrepreneur Ryan Leavitt, the Co-Founder of Pillar Booth, LearnCore and Catapult Chicago, says there’s one equation that is necessary for a business to succeed. Success = Collaboration + Accountability.
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Feb 12, 2020
Always be learning: Corbett Drummey | Co-founder & CEO, Popular Pays
In this episode, Corbett Drummey, the Co-Founder and CEO of Popular Pays, shares his journey in starting a content sharing platform that helps brands generate high-quality content to tell their unique stories through influencer marketing. Drummey started and scaled his business by constantly consuming information and believes that one should always be learning and evolving.
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Jan 23, 2020
The otherside of authenticity: Laura Coe | Author, Coach, Entrepreneur
When the business Laura Coe created sold to a Fortune 500 company, Laura took the path less often taken, leaving corporate America to pursue her lifelong passions of philosophy, coaching and spirituality. She wrote her first book, Emotional Obesity and started the popular podcast, The Art of Authenticity. In today's episode, Laura takes us through her journey, sharing how she knew it was time to leave and what life was like for her on the other side.
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Dec 17, 2019
Building a “Best Place to Work”: Frank Riordan | Founder & CEO, DMC, Inc.
Frank Riordan, Founder and CEO of DMC, Inc., has built a company that has consistently been a staple on the “Best Places to Work” lists, with over 170 employees in 8 cities across the US. This happened by building a process to hire the very best people, which takes time. In this episode, Frank takes a dive into their process and criteria for hiring top talent and shares how it has helped fuel DMC’s success and growth over the years.
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Nov 26, 2019
Culture is caught NOT taught: Jeff Ellman | Co-founder, Homescout, Hireology, and UrbanBound
With 4 successful companies under his belt and over 2,000 employees hired, Jeff Ellman, visionary and co-founder of Humatal, Homescout, Hireology, and UrbanBound, knows something about starting and building a successful business. It’s all about the first ten people you bring into your organization, advises Jeff. They are the foundation of your business. If they align with your company’s values, they’ll also bring in employees that have the same vision and values. But hire the wrong person? It causes the Bozo effect, says Jeff.
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Nov 19, 2019
From startup hustler to team leader: Dan Novaes | Co-founder & CEO, Current Media
Doesn’t it seem that some people are just born with an entrepreneurial gene? Dan Novaes, the co-founder and CEO of Current Media, is one of those born entrepreneurs. He started his first company at the age of 15 with only $1000, bootstrapped it up to over $2M/year and now is on his 10th company, a blockchain enabled multimedia platform that empowers a new generation of media streamers where users are rewarded by streaming music. Novaes talks about his evolution as an entrepreneur and a leader. He describes how focus, empathy and emotional intelligence have helped him take his business to the next level.
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Nov 4, 2019
Friends first, business partners second: Yvonne Lyngaas Zeman & Anna Nguyen, Monarch & Company
Can best buddies also be effective business partners? In the case of Monarch & Company - a creative merchandising agency based in Chicago and Denver - Founder and CEO Yvonne Lyngaas Zeman and her business partner, best friend, and COO Anna Nguyen have made it work. In today’s episode we talk about the realities of working with your best friend, the trials that come along with negotiating equity, a partnership agreement, and leading a company where half of your team works on the other side of the country.
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Oct 1, 2019
The Marine Playbook for work: Alex O'Brien | COO, The Cardinal Group
Alex O’Brien, COO of The Cardinal Group, talks about how his 5 years as a Marine were instrumental in helping him grow his company from one single family home development to over 1,000 employees today and how the Marine playbook turned into their company’s core values which guide his team on a daily basis.
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Sep 5, 2019
Radical Candor is STILL hard for me: Kim Scott | Author, Co-Founder, Radical Candor, LLC
Kim Scott, author, entrepreneur, and badass. Prior to writing her best-selling book, Radical Candor, Kim was a senior leader at Google, a faculty member at Apple University and served as a coach to the CEOs of several well-known tech firms. Scott discusses why radical candor with kindness is integral in the workplace, why it’s still hard for her to do, and how fear of retribution can stifle it.
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Aug 25, 2019
The fallacy of having it all: Dana Gordon | Founder, Dana Rebecca Designs
At the age of 16, Dana Gordon sold out her first jewelry collection within 48 hours. Now, nearly 15 years later, her jewelry is worn by countless celebrities and women of all ages and lifestyles. Gordon discusses the difficulty of finding balance as a female founder, mother, wife, and human being!
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Aug 7, 2019
Finding our authentic voice: John Havel | Co-founder and former president, The Hustle
John Havel is the co-founder and former president of The Hustle, which curates business and tech news in a fun-to-read daily email. Havel shares the secret that helped them grow to over 1.3 million daily subscribers in just a few short years: radical authenticity.
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Jul 26, 2019
How we grew into one of the largest U.S. cannabis companies (in just 3 years!): Dr. Teddy Scott | PharmaCann
Dr. Teddy Scott co-founded PharmaCann in 2015, acting on an opportunity that presented itself at the right time. With his background in law, pharmaceutical research and entrepreneurship, he grew the company quickly to over 275 full-time employees and recently sold the business for $682 million, making it one of the largest medical cannabis sales in US history. Dr. Scott discovered that culture, people, and the way they work together are the most important assets a company can have.
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Jul 12, 2019
How to maintain culture amidst explosive growth: Jason VandeBoom | Founder & CEO, ActiveCampaign
Jason VandeBoom, Founder & CEO of ActiveCampaign, discusses how he’s been able to keep the team performing, as they’ve added over 400 employees and expanded to offices around the world in the last 3 years. Jason emphasizes the importance of listening to his people and in turn asking them to listen to their thousands of clients. In doing this, ActiveCampaign is not only able to create a better customer experience, but more importantly, create a better employee experience.
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