On today’s show we welcome Dr. Jeff Van Meter, Founder of The Human Leader.

Topics Include:

• Learn more about the doctor’s background as an entrepreneur, engineer and psychologist.
• The sociological origins of silos and why they exist in business.
• How we can train our minds to take an un-siloed approach to the way we think.
• Why it’s important for leaders to be adept at eliminating the silo mentality in their organization.
• What the future holds for Dr. Jeff Van Meter and his company, The Human Leader.

Bio:

Dr. Jeff Van Meter has been a business owner for over 25 years and has built several businesses, including a four year foray into the franchised hair care industry.

He is a recovering Engineer, having graduated from Purdue University in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering.

Then, evidently because he missed school so much, he went back for seven more years to get both a Masters in Theology and a Doctorate in Psychology.

He has served as a business and leadership consultant with Accenture, Cypress Leadership Development and the Lead Life Institute.

He is the Founder and Executive Director of Legacy Clinical Consultants, a leading provider of psychological services in the Chicago area.

His most recent startup is The Human Leader, where he teaches business owners and executives the power of being psychologically aware while leading their company, their family and themselves.

As a trusted advisor to numerous business owners, he’s been called the CEO’s Consigliere (con-sill-ee-yair-ray) due to his candid and insightful feedback on the challenges facing leaders in their organization.

Learn more about Dr. Jeff Van Meter at The Human Leader, LinkedIn and Twitter.

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On today’s show we welcome Scott Messer, Principal, Coach and Founder of Sales Evolution.

Topics Include:

• Learn more about Scott’s background in business turnarounds and successful startups.
• How Scott helps firms launch new products and services, establish sales territories and raise capital.
• The story of Scott’s latest venture, Sales Evolution.
• Why it’s beneficial to take an un-siloed approach to the sales process.
• How Scott applies collaboration and the breaking down of silos as both a leader and sales person.

Bio:

Scott Messer’s career as a business development professional and serial entrepreneur spans over 25 years.

Before starting Sales Evolution, LLC, Scott held various sales, sales management, and executive positions at Union Carbide, American Chemsol Corporation, Griff Machine Products Company, Ultimate Software Group, Data Flow Information Systems, Compuware Corporation and Growth Dynamics. This roster included two turn-arounds and two start-ups ? Scott helped these firms launch new products and services, establish sales territories and raise capital.

Scott brings to Sales Evolution a blend of leadership, management and communications skills, along with a diverse background of experience in firms ranging from large, established companies to early stage ventures. He has built strategic alliances, co-founded start-ups, overseen two mergers and acquisitions, and built new business units.

He is the past President of the Sales and Marketing Executives International (SMEI), Philadelphia Chapter, an organization dedicated to professionalizing the sales vocation through education.

Known as a true “grinder,” Scott has an uncanny ability to cut through the static and get to the real issues in any buying situation. His skill and knowledge of phone prospecting are easily transferred to clients who need to learn better skills to elevate their marketing efforts. This is why so many clients turn to him for coaching when confronted with those really tough deals that need to go forward.

Originally from Pittsburgh, and a Penn State graduate, Scott moved to Philadelphia in 1994. When not working, he spends his time with his wife Evelyn, a Mathematics Professor at Rowan University. Golf, reading and working out at the gym occupy his remaining downtime.

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On today’s show we welcome Michael Roderick, CEO of Small Pond Enterprises.

Topics Include:

• Learn more about Michael’s background in education and Broadway Theater.
• The inside scoop on Michael’s silo-breaking change in career paths.
• What drove Michael to found his company, Small Pond Enterprises.
• How Small Pond Enterprises helps business owners overcome the silos that stand in the way of developing new relationships that would help accelerate their companies.

Bio:

Michael Roderick is the CEO of Small Pond Enterprises. He is a social catalyst who believes in the power of making meaningful connections for others. Michael has been a high school English Teacher, a Broadway Producer, and a Director of Business Development. Small Pond Enterprises seeks to support connectors, innovators, and entrepreneurs with a range of personalized educational services provided by expert consultants who develop an individualized process for creating quality work that is supported by a customized, viable business model. Additionally, by connecting entrepreneurs with resources, people, and advisers, we bring disparate communities together and help them to establish mutually beneficial relationships

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On today’s show we welcome Erik Grimmelmann, President of NY Tech Alliance.

Topics Include:

• Learn more about Erik’s background in computational chemistry.
• Eric’s view on the rapid changes happening in the technology industry.
• Thoughts on the future: Where will we be 35 years for now?
• Find out more about the work Erik does at NY Tech Alliance.
• Explore the silos and barriers Erik faces in his industry.
• Discover how NY Tech Alliance brings their members together and encourages collaboration.
• The role of the government in internet system standards.
• Is the technology eco-system stuck in the 1940s?
• And much more!

Bio:

represent, inspire, support, and help lead the New York technology community and ecosystem to create a better future for all.  The NY Tech Alliance was formed through the merger of NY Tech Meetup and the New York Technology Council. Prior to this position, he was President & CEO of the New York Technology Council.

He has over 35 years of experience in Information Technology including twelve years at Bell Labs.  He has held executive positions at AT&T, where he served as Internet Strategist starting in 1991, and Dun & Bradstreet, where he was SVP, Technology Infrastructure.  Beginning in 2000 he held positions as CIO and CTO at a number of startups including Cometa Networks that was founded by IBM, Intel, and AT&T and SendWordNow that successfully exited in 2017.  He currently teaches machine learning in the Computer Science Department at the City College of New York (CCNY).

He has served as a White House technology advisor and on panels of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council and the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.  In addition he has severed on the boards of numerous industry organizations including the National Information Infrastructure Testbed, the Information Industry Association, and the New York Software Industry Association.  

Dr. Grimmelmann holds a B.A. from Haverford College and an M.S. and Ph.D. from The University of Michigan.  He completed his post-doctoral study at Bell Labs and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In addition he has completed executive education programs at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University.

Learn more about Erik at NY Tech Alliance, LinkedIn and Twitter.

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On today’s show we welcome Coss Marte, the Founder and CEO of ConBody and Coss Athletics.

Topics Include:

• A brief look at Coss’ background and how ConBody was founded.
• Transitioning from a life of crime to a life of entrepreneurship.
• The similarities and differences between the cocaine business and the startup world.
• How Coss is breaking down silos with his socially impactful fitness company.
• The difficulty of re-integrating into society as an ex-con.
• Some of the success stories that Coss has cultivated through working with former inmates.
• And much more!

Bio:

Coss Marte was sent to jail as the ringleader of a multi-million dollar cocaine operation. He was also grossly overweight and warned by his physician that his current lifestyle, if left unchecked, would likely kill him.

Faced with this grim prognosis, Coss started to get in shape using the tools he had?his prison cell and his own body weight. Within six months he lost 70 pounds and replicated his successful formula of body weight exercises with 20 other inmates. Then he launched ConBody a prison style bootcamp that has gained over 20,000+ clients and hires formerly incarcerated individuals to teach fitness classes.

Since the launch of his company he’s been featured in over 200 major media outlets such as NBC, CNN, The New York Times, TED Talks, and Men’s Fitness. He’s also won major pitch competitions such as Defy Ventures, Pitch for Good by TOM’s shoes and the YPO shark tank competition, which combined raised $200,000.

Learn more about Coss Marte at ConBody, LinkedIn and Twitter.

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On today’s show we welcome Michael Borys and Alex Lieu, Vice President of Interaction and Game Design and Creative Director and Lead Experience Design Director at 42 Entertainment, as well as the brains behind the 49 Boxes Project.

Topics Include:

• Find out how Michael and Alex met at Disney in the ’90’s.
• Michael’s background:From fine art to the gaming world.
• Learn more about Alex’s background in graphic design.
• Michael explains story-driven social immersion experience.
• The new genre of entertainment pioneered by Alex and Michael.
• Learn more about alternate reality games and how they work.
• The fascinating history of puzzles and the 49 Boxes project.
• The role of alternate reality games in the media landscape today.
• The power of alternate reality games in team-building and problem-solving.
• Building what you love: Why Michael and Alex don’t care much for silos.
• How Alex and Michael envision the future of 49 Boxes and 42 Entertainment.
• What is the future of immersion storytelling and where is the entertainment world headed?
• And much more!

Bio:

Michael Borys: Michael Borys leads the interactive design team at 42 Entertainment ? responsible for all online, mobile and real-world puzzles, games and social activities. From scores of casual games found throughout 42E’s projects such as TRON’s ‘Space Paranoids’ and the Dark Knight’s ‘Sitting Ducks’, to amazing real life collaborative scavenger hunts like the one held in the dead of night on Alcatraz Island, Michael always strives to give the audiences new experiences in fun. From 1996 to 2000, he led various teams within the Disney Company and helped in the creation of the original Disney’s Daily Blast online. In 2000, Michael teamed up with Alex Lieu at 3pinmedia to work on major projects for Disney Imagineering and the Disney Themeparks, as well as create animations and games for television and the web.

In 2003-2005 Michael worked as Warner Brothers’ Senior Game Designer for its Web and Mobile divisions. His passion and appreciation for authenticity, magic, history, games, and everything in between gives a unique point of view to what he creates. It’s his attention to detail and love of storytelling that elevates the work he does into something memorable and meaningful. For over 15 years Michael has been doing what he loves most, creating hundreds of gaming experiences over many platforms.

Alex Lieu: Pushing the boundaries of traditional entertainment and social gaming while re-defining the rules of digital and real-world play, Alex serves as both Creative Director and Lead Experience Design Director for 42 Entertainment’s award-winning projects. From sending scores of Batman fans to mysterious locations where mobile phones were buried inside Joker-themed cakes, to leading players through a scary dilapidated warehouse leading to an ultra-secret Nine Inch Nails performance, Alex is constantly searching for new ways to immerse audiences and weave them into fiction. He pioneered immersive storytelling techniques that blend the digital and real to create “events” in fictional worlds that attract massive participation.

Alex believes transmedia entertainment is a true art form and loves innovative storytelling. Prior to 42, Alex was the founder and Chief Creative at 3Pin Media-a new media entertainment agency serving clients like Microsoft, Warner Brothers, Boeing, ESPN, Nickelodeon, ABC, Disney, and more-the Vice President of Creative at Lightspan Inc. working on innovative learning solutions-Creative Director at Mutation Labs, and one of the founding members of Disney Online where his team pioneered the very first use of Flash for web design, animation and game development.

Learn more about Michael at 42entertainment.com, 49boxes.com, and LinkedIn.

Learn more about Alex at 42entertainment.com, 49boxes.com, and LinkedIn.

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On today’s show we welcome Tony Dottino, author, podcast host and founding president of Dottino Consulting Group.

Topics Include:

• Discover more about Tony’s background and what led him to found Dottino Consulting Group.
• The importance of breaking down silos from department to department in hospitals.
• The frames of thinking that leaders need to have at the forefront.
• Why everything healthcare providers do are centered around the patient.
• Is the healthcare world more silo-ed than the corporate world?
• How to break down the inherent “what’s best for me” mentality.
• Learn what caregivers can do to maximize patient experience.
• Hear Tony’s thoughts on breaking silos in American politics today.
• Have our silos been exaggerated with technology and social media?
• Tony shares what we can do to help fix a fragmented society.
• Learn more about the thought patterns of judgment.

Bio:

Throughout his distinguished career, Tony Dottino has been recognized for his energy and passion for helping people succeed. At IBM, he created a process management workshop recognized as an IBM best-in-class practice, for which he received the President’s Award for Innovation and Teaching Excellence. The fundamentals of this methodology were integrated as key elements in what became Six Sigma. Tony was part of the team that wrote the initial criteria of a national quality award for President Reagan. That work is now recognized as the Malcolm Baldrige Award.

In 1995, Tony founded DCG. His work here and elsewhere has been documented in two books ? co-authoring The BrainSmart Leader and the critically acclaimed Grass Roots Leaders: The BrainSmart Revolution in Business. Clients that have sought out Tony for help in applying his methodologies include: Johnson & Johnson, British Airways IBM, UTi Global, JP Morgan CHASE, Con Edison, the Department of Homeland Security, and multiple locations of the Florida Hospital system.

Learn more about Tony Dottino at Dottinoconsulting.com, and LinkedIn.

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On today’s show we welcome Derek Yach, the founder and president-designate of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World.

Topics Include:

• Derek’s school and university years in South Africa.
• Developing an interest in social change and long distance swimming.
• Derek’s return to South Africa from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
• Comparing the US health system to more successful models such as in Sweden.
• Reasons for the shortcomings in such a wealthy country as the United States.
• Pushing towards marketing healthier foods in the agricultural sector and food industry.
• Derek’s goal of reducing smoking through a new approach.
• The conceptual framework behind inclusive Derek’s approach to the problem.
• How these tactics are applicable to other industries and issues.
• Integrated well-being and the holistic view of individual health.
• A new initiative from Derek for the shortfall of tobacco farmers.

Bio:

Derek Yach has focused his career on advancing global health. He is the Chief Health Officer (CHO) of Vitality, and leads the Vitality Institute. Previously, Dr. Yach was SVP Global Health and Agriculture Policy at PepsiCo, headed global health at the Rockefeller Foundation, was a Professor of Global Health at Yale University, and is a former Executive Director for Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health of the World Health Organization (WHO). At WHO, he served as cabinet director under Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland where he led the development of WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and the Global Strategy on Diet and Physical Activity.

Dr. Yach also established the Centre for Epidemiological Research at the South African Medical Research Council. He has authored or co-authored over 200 articles covering the breadth of global health. Dr. Yach serves on several advisory boards including those of the Clinton Global Initiative, the World Economic Forum and the NIH’s Fogarty International Centre, and was nominated in September 2014 as the Chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Ageing. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Cornerstone Capital and regularly participates in cross-sector commissions such as the 2015 Lancet Commission for Planetary Health.

Learn more about Derek Yach at The Vitality Institute , LinkedIn and Twitter.

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On today’s show we welcome David Siegel, the CEO of Investopedia and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and Pace University.

Topics Include:

• How David made the choices to move through so many different careers.
• The story of David’s father and the importance lessons he learned from his success.
• David’s time studying in Israel and the intense learning environment he experienced.
• Taking action as a company to facilitate debate and disagreement.
• The impact that DoubleClick had on the online industry and its unique culture.
• Why David believes that the combination of “nice aggressive” is the key to success.
• Books and tools for getting a better understanding for improving your finances.
• How to find the right financial advisor to fit your financial personality.
• Using the right tools to encourage diversity of thought and breaking down silos.

Bio:

David Siegel is a digital media executive with over 18 years of experience leading organizations through innovative product development, rapid revenue growth and traffic acceleration. David holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics & Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. David is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and Pace University where he teaches courses in Strategic Planning and Entrepreneurship.

David is the CEO of Investopedia, the largest finance and investing education site, which currently reaches over 23 Million monthly unique visitors. Investopedia offers timely, trusted and actionable financial information for every investor, from early investors to financial advisors to high net worth individuals. Previously, David served as President for Seeking Alpha, and prior to that, he was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Everyday Health‘s Local Division. David has worked as a strategy consultant for Deloitte Consulting and William M. Mercer and as the Director, Organizational Development for DoubleClick.

Learn more about David Siegel at Investopedia.com, LinkedIn and Twitter.

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On today’s show we welcome Chris Schembra, Founder and Curator of the 7:47 Club, a company that awakens empathy in people and organizations.

Topics Include:

• How Chris architected his life based on how he grew up.
• Why Chris finds David Burkus’s book, The Myths of Creativity so profound.
• The empathy coach: Chris’s greatest insecurity.
• Being a connector and giving joy to others through human connections.
• 4 Ways of getting people to open up.
• Tapping into your WHY.
• How empathy breaks down the silos that keep us from connecting.
• Embracing the art of human connections through asking the right questions.
• Maintaining focus and keeping connections strong through fluctuations.
• Acknowledging your fear, compartmentalizing it and getting through it = resilience.

Guest Bio:

Chris Schembra, known as “The Empathy Coach,” is a keynote speaker, sought-after social influencer, executive coach, and entrepreneurial advisor whose passion lies in facilitating profound human connection in a deeply disconnected world. Chris is called on regularly by elite creatives, corporate executives, and multi-billion- dollar entrepreneurs.  In theater, as Producing Partner at OHenry Productions and formerly as Associate Producer at MNA Productions, the shows he’s been involved with have earned 14 Tony Awards, 7 Emmy’s and a Grammy. As a marketer, he’s been on the team of Emmy Award winning social campaigns with 950,000+ participants, garnering 20.6 million views and enlisting more “shares” than “likes”. As an executive advisor and mentor, he provides groundbreaking, innovative insights to leading global companies.

As a philanthropist, he serves on the Philanthropic Board of Trustees of the Easterseals Foundation. Easterseals is the largest disability services provider in the nation, serving more than 2,000,000 (million) people annually.  By choreographing shared responsibilities and conversation, Chris dismantles barriers, builds teams, and changes lives. Today, Chris and his 7:47 Club are called on to help build community for executive leaders, virtual team members, and potential business partners?creating breakthrough connections.

Learn more about Chris Schembra at Chrisschembra.com, LinkedIn and Twitter.

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