Looking for daily inspiration?  Get a quote from the top leaders in the industry in your inbox every morning.What’s the one premier event that brings the global attractions industry together? IAAPA Expo 2026, happening in Orlando, Florida, November 16th - 20th. It’s where more than forty-thousand professionals come to share the wonder, explore over a thousand innovative exhibitors, and discover future-focused solutions. From education to networking to ideas that drive real business impact, IAAPA

This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Kathy Coffey Solberg. Together we explore:Incremental action and rebuilding trust Channeling the energy of leaders who love change Preparing for difficult conversations Why it’s always personal to the person The role of preparation in creating and implementing systems “What do we agree on?” as a path toward fruitful progress Finding neutral ground instead of common ground Keeping conversations going instead of shutting people down The challenges and

A growing firm can create an unexpected problem: the managing partner has more people, but every important decision, client issue, and operational question still comes back to them.Shann M. Chaudhry, Principal Attorney & Managing Member at The Law Offices of Shann M. Chaudhry, ESQ., shares how he has solved that problem at his firm.  Key takeaways:The hires that moved key responsibilities off the managing partnerHis calendar-management system for protecting time for firm growthHow

The Lykken on Lending Weekly Mortgage Update delivers expert commentary and timely insights from across the mortgage industry. Each episode features a curated lineup of respected thought leaders and analysts:Adam DeSanctis with the MBA Mortgage Minute, providing key updates from the Mortgage Bankers Association.Les Parker’s TMSpotlight offers a macroeconomic perspective with his signature musical parodies.Matt Graham of MBS Live, breaking down market activity and interest rate movements.David

AI can help us write faster, prepare for meetings, summarize information, and organize ideas. But can it also help us become better managers and teammates? In this episode of Enneagram at Work, we're looking at how AI and the Enneagram can work together as a thinking tool - not to predict, diagnose, or stereotype people, but to help us become more intentional about the way we communicate, lead, give feedback, navigate conflict, and prepare for important conversations. The goal isn't to ask AI...

Eighty percent of your people using Copilot does not make you an AI company. In a lot of mid-market organizations it means AI is everywhere and strategy is nowhere.John Rudd built SolutionsIQ into North America's largest Agile consultancy, sold it to Accenture, and went on to run Accenture's global Agile practice and its North America technology M&A program. A former turnaround CFO and current private equity board member, he is co-founder of LightSight and author of The Age of the Speedboat: How

OpenAI faces a major crisis as top safety researchers abandon ship over what they call a broken corporate culture, while CEO Sam Altman argues that some AI-caused damage is simply the price of progress. Plus: Google dramatically throttles free access to Gemini, and we dig into the timeline of OpenAI's Hugging Face incident—from internal discovery to public disclosure and the uncomfortable gap between the two.

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the very first episode of Confident Inclusion We’re starting at the beginning… how did we actually end up working in diversity and inclusion? In this episode, Toby and Brooklyn share their (slightly unlikely) routes into EDI, the experiences that shaped the work they do today, and what they’ve learnt along the way. PLUS, why we’ve started Confident Inclusion, what we want to do differently, and what you can expect from us. Expect honest conversations, practical...

In this Leading With Strengths conversation, John Hope Bryant, CEO of Operation HOPE, talks about how his Strategic, Learner and Activator helped transform trauma into a movement — one that has directed more than $5 billion into underserved communities and restored a sense of hope for millions of Americans.Guided by his top CliftonStrengths — Strategic®, Learner®, Activator®, Achiever® and Context® — Bryant leads the nation’s largest nonprofit dedicated to financial literacy and economic

Welcome back to Truth, Lies & Work, the award-winning workplace podcast where behavioural science meets workplace culture. In this episode, we are joined by employment solicitor advocate Roy Magara, founder of Magara Law, to uncover what every founder, manager, and HR leader needs to know about avoiding costly employment tribunals, building proper HR architecture, and handling workplace grievances before they blow up. 🔥 Topics covered in this episode Prevention over cure: Why an employee

Send us Fan Mail Getting on shelf is hard. Staying there is harder, and it is the bit nobody talks about. Stu McDonald started ManiLife after meeting the Argentinian family who have grown his peanuts since day one. A decade on it is one of the most respected brands in its category, made in its own facility because it genuinely cannot be made in a normal peanut butter factory. Stu is also unusually straight about the fact that ManiLife was stuck for the first eight years. In this conversatio...

AI is a challenge that business leaders are going to have to deal with, and finding a balance between pushing innovation and managing cybersecurity risk is essential. Today on Leadership Blueprints, we are joined by former DHS Deputy Director, veteran, author, keynote speaker, and federal cybersecurity operations expert, Dr. Derek Smith, to discuss how AI makes us more efficient! Tuning in, you’ll hear all about the biggest concerns when it comes to AI and cybersecurity risk, how leaders

What if being professional is sometimes the very thing that gets in the way of good facilitation? In this conversation, Myriam and Rob Evans explore what happens when we take off the professional armour and bring more of ourselves into the room. Rob shares how humour, warmth and genuine curiosity helped him win over a room of Lufthansa engineers — not because he had performed professionalism perfectly, but because he was the only consultant who seemed to be having any fun. From there, the con...

Payments used to be the big unlock for vertical SaaS. Now it is the baseline, and the real question is what you build on top of it. I sit down with Sunil Sachdev, SVP and Head of Embedded Finance and Digital Assets at Fiserv, to get specific about how software platforms can expand from embedded payments into embedded banking, lending, and cash flow tools without losing focus or taking on unnecessary operational risk. We talk through how to define embedded finance in a way that makes sense to ...

Recent research highlights how a household member's active job search creates spillover effects that negatively impact an employed professional's focus and productivity. When family career transitions occur independently without coordination, they trigger family-work conflict and drain valuable personal resources. Conversely, high levels of planning and communication can transform these household career pursuits into shared, supportive projects. To mitigate these hidden workplace stresses,

Recent research highlights how a household member's active job search creates spillover effects that negatively impact an employed professional's focus and productivity. When family career transitions occur independently without coordination, they trigger family-work conflict and drain valuable personal resources. Conversely, high levels of planning and communication can transform these household career pursuits into shared, supportive projects. To mitigate these hidden workplace stresses,

David Fubini spent 35 years as a senior partner at McKinsey & Company, where he co-founded the firm's global merger integration practice. He has advised on dozens of major transactions, including the deal that brought IBM's PC business to Lenovo. He started his career at Johnson & Johnson, where he was part of the team that launched Tylenol as a consumer brand. He now teaches at Harvard Business School and is the author of four books, including his latest, Post-Merger Integration, released

You've nailed the demo and the POV, and then procurement asks why they'd bet on you instead of CrowdStrike, Palo Alto or Zscaler. Robbie Tyrie has been the buyer on the other side of that question at some very large organisations, and he said yes to the startup more than once. He walks through the math he ran, what he wanted back from the vendor in return, and the trial structure he says a buyer can't argue with. Now a fractional CISO for 50 to 200 person companies, he also explains why buyer...

In part 1 of 2 about Dan's new book, "From CEO to Exit: The Ultimate Payday for Pest and Lawn Care Operators," he and Donnie discuss key exit planning concepts, including three gaps to consider: the wealth gap (difference between needed income and current assets), the value gap (improving multiples), and the price gap (potential versus current sale value). They also talk about misconceptions around multiples and understanding adjusted EBITDA. Hosts: Dan Gordon, PCO Bookkeepers & M&A

Your product roadmap can look perfect on paper while your engineering team quietly grinds to a halt. When that happens, the issue is rarely “lazy developers” or “bad attitudes” it’s usually overload, unclear priorities, and a business engineering communication gap that makes every request feel like an emergency. We sit down with Thanos Diacakis, a software leader with nearly 30 years of experience across startups and tech giants, to unpack what actually helps teams ship high-quality software...