Donna Lichaw is an executive coach for unconventional leaders, and the author of the newly-released book The Leader’s Journey. Full show notes (links & resources) here: https://blog.makethingsthatmatter.com/p/donna-lichaw-the-leaders-journey

Adam Thomas is a coach that helps product teams operationalize strategy so they spend more time focused on building the right products and less time fighting fires. We discuss Adam's decision making framework, Survival Metrics, which helps product teams make better decisions and avoid both sunk costs and loss aversion.…

Mike Saloio is the CEO and cofounder of Huddle, a startup that brings together fractional swat teams of expert builders to help startups generate real momentum on their most important projects within a week. Full show notes (links & resources) here: https://blog.makethingsthatmatter.com/p/mike-saloio-leadership-ubuntu

The SaaS Playbook will shave years off your learning curve if you want to build a SaaS. Rob Walling is a 6x serial entrepreneur and the internet godfather of indie SaaS. For links and show notes, go to: https://blog.makethingsthatmatter.com/rob-walling-saas-playbook-founder-gut-intuition

What do you do when one of your top three KPIs is stagnant, and the product isn't growing? A micro case study in debugging retention and unlocking growth. Read the original article here: https://blog.makethingsthatmatter.com/p/double-click-on-the-love

Petra Wille is a product leadership coach and the author of Strong Product People, which is my go-to book for the people development side of being a product leader. In this conversation, we dive deep into: • why and how a community of practice can level up your team and…

Bob Moesta is one of the pioneers of Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) theory, which has fundamentally changed the way we think about building products and discovering what progress people actually need and want from the products they hire. Show notes here: https://blog.makethingsthatmatter.com/p/bob-moesta-prototyping-to-learn-applying-jtbd

Flow dramatically increases every measure of performance you can imagine, as well as your subjective quality of life experience. It’s defined as an optimal state of consciousness. This will help you understand and increase your time in flow so you can get the most out of every aspect of your…

Flow dramatically increases every measure of performance you can imagine, as well as your subjective quality of life experience. It’s defined as an optimal state of consciousness. This will help you understand and increase your time in flow so you can get the most out of every aspect of your…

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 how she's delivered love with unwavering integrity. See all links…

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 at the tail end of his masters program, and hasn't…

Barry O'Reilly is 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 on to cover everything from deliberate practice, to culture change within an organization, to…

Christina Wodtke is an author, professor and speaker who helps groups turn into high performing teams. She is a lecturer at Stanford, advisor to many startups, and is the author of 5 books, including Radical Focus, a bestseller about the Objectives and Key Results , or OKRs, approach to goal…

My guest in this conversation is Rich Mironov, who is known as the "product mensch" in Silicon Valley, and for good reason. Rich is a 30-year veteran of product management at multiple enterprises and startups that have gone public who now consults as an interim VP of Product helping companies…

Barry Brown 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 shapers," and by the end of this conversation, you'll understand why. See all links & show notes…

Becky Baybrook's work starts from the belief that organizations reveal who they are in the ways they respond to setbacks and tests of integrity, and that the same is true for individuals—especially leaders—in companies of any size. Becky has spent decades now going deep on and helping companies and their…

Paula Daniels is the co-founder and chair of the board of the Center for Good Food Purchasing, a nationwide program that uses the power of procurement at large public institutions to create a transparent and equitable food system that prioritizes the health and well-being of people, animals, and the environment.…

Natalie Nagele is the cofounder and CEO of Wildbit, a bootstrapped, independent, people-first software company that is celebrating a special milestone: 20 years in business! Now entering their "third act," Wildbit is starting to expand its focus to new arenas, starting off with the new job board called People-First Jobs.…

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 organizational learning. A globally sought after thinker and speaker, Amy…

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. See all links & show notes here: https://blog.makethingsthatmatter.com/p/susan-basterfield-decentralized-team-structures

Muriel is an entrepreneur, researcher, speaker, and advisor to governments and companies globally on creating a better future of work. 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 needs…

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 discuss how to create a conscious company culture and he…

Sam Fankuchen is the founder and CEO of Golden, which he founded in 2015 to make it easy for anyone to volunteer, and for organizers to manage their volunteer staffing and programs. This episode was important to release now because of the amazing free platform Golden just launched, “Mutual Aid,”…

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 developing their growth strategy and coaching their product teams. See…