Episodes
#21: April Dunford - Find your power in the market through positioning
April Dunford is a legend in the product marketing world. She's an executive consultant, speaker, and author who helps tech companies make complicated products easy for customers to understand and love. April's expertise is built from 25 years as an …
#20: Nilofer Merchant — Unleashing Onlyness to benefit from the ideas…
Nilofer Merchant is one of the world's top business & management thinkers, and is also one of my new favorite humans. As an operator, she was involved with the launch of over 100 products that collectively generated more than $18 …
#19: Dan Gould — Fighting unconscious bias and attacking systemic pro…
Dan Gould is a prolific technologist and serial entrepreneur. In this conversation, we dive into the issues of unconscious bias and systemic inequality that have shaped our society, and we tactically discuss how one can attack systemic problems effectively as …
#18 Josh Seiden: How to create clarity with outcomes thinking
In this conversation, Josh Seiden gives a masterclass on clear thinking and how to create order out of the chaos that surrounds any creative endeavor. His most recent book, Outcomes Over Output, has become one of my favorite resources for …
#17 Dr Matthew Cook: Identity shifts, beating trauma triggers, and co…
Dr. Matthew Cook is one of the most cutting-edge doctors I've come across. He's a board-certified anesthesiologist with 20+ years of experience in medical practice, who — as he shares in this conversation — pivoted his practice toward functional and …
#16 Holly Hester-Reilly: Building a customer-centric team and product…
Holly Hester-Reilly is the founder and CEO of H2R Product Science, where she combines more than a decade of experience in technology companies with years of experience in scientific research to bring her clients a rigorous, research driven approach to …
#15 Sam Fankuchen: Leadership and responding to the needs of the worl…
Sam Fankuchen is the Founder & CEO of Golden, a platform that makes it easy for anyone to volunteer and for organizers to manage their volunteers and staffing programs. This episode was important to release now because of the amazing …
#14 Derik Mills: Cultivating a faculty of wonder in business and life
In this episode of ENLIVEN we talk with Derik Mills the founder and CEO of Glo. We chat about how they went from being a bootstrapped company, raising no outside investments to being featured in Forbes, Oprah and more. We …
#13 Muriel Clauson: The Future of Work — identity, engagement, and be…
"Are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?" In this conversation, Muriel Clauson and I go deep on the future of work: identity, engagement, and being future-ready. We also discuss how to develop self-awareness and communicate your …
#12 Rian Doris & Conor Murphy: Flow — Cultivating the optimal experie…
This is the second half of my conversation with Rian & Conor of the Flow Research Collective. We discuss Flow, which is defined as an optimal state of consciousness and is considered to be the optimal experience of life. This …
#11 Rian Doris & Conor Murphy: Flow — Cultivating the optimal experie…
Flow is defined as an optimal state of consciousness and is considered to be the optimal experience of life. This episode helps you to understand and increase your time in flow, so you can get the most out of every …
#10 Susan Basterfield: decentralized team structures and participator…
Susan Basterfield’s purpose is to end suffering in the workplace. She is a member and foundation director of Enspiral, a global network of people and organizations at the forefront of the self-organizing movement.
#9 Amy Edmondson: Building teams where people feel safe
Amy Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, and is recognized as one of the top 10 thinkers on business and management in the world, specializing in the areas of psychological safety, teams, and …
#8 Paula Daniels: Living on the edge of your own invention
Paula Daniels is an award-winning social entrepreneur and Ashoka Fellow with a deep history in food and water policy. She's the founder of the Center for Good Food Purchasing, a nationwide program that uses the power of procurement at large …
#7 Becky Baybrook: culture, candor, and how Millenials are changing m…
In this conversation, Becky and I dig deep into workplace culture. We explore some vexing questions around belonging and psychological safety, how Millenials are changing management. One area that I think listeners will find especially useful is a discussion we …
#6 Barry Brown: Shaping the shapers
My guest in this conversation is Barry Brown. Barry helps leaders be more of who they are and be more effective in bringing forth the change they seek to make in the world. He's someone I call a "shaper of …
#5 Rich Mironov: Building a thriving product organization
Rich Mironov is a veteran product leader, often called the "product mensch" in Silicon Valley. In this conversation, Rich enlightens us on how to create a thriving product organization and how a product leader can right the ship.
#4 Marshall Mosher: tough product calls & acclimating to fear
Marshall Mosher is the cofounder and CEO of Vestigo, a company that uses outdoor adventure experiences to help people push outside their comfort zones, get comfortable being uncomfortable, and build deep trust with their teammates. Marshall caught the entrepreneurial bug …
#3 Christina Wodtke: Unleashing potential with extraordinary teams
Christina Wodtke is an author, Stanford professor and speaker who helps turn groups into high performing teams all around the world.
#2 Barry O'Reilly: Unlearning and creating culture change
In this episode we meet Barry O'Reilly, a business advisor, entrepreneur, and author who helps people invent their future instead of fearing it. We start by dropping right into a powerful moment in Barry's career as an entrepreneur and go …
#1 May Lindstrom: The power of having a North Star
In this episode, we meet May Lindstrom, the founder of May Lindstrom Skin. She shares her incredible story of creating a beloved company that is transforming the skincare industry and creating a thriving life for herself and her employees. And …