Tired of making the wrong hires in your freight brokerage? What does it take to build a winning team and scale your transportation business from the ground up? Adrian Chapman from Cover 3 Consulting shares the hard truths of freight recruiting, talent development, and what it genuinely takes to be a successful founder in today's competitive market! We break down the stark differences between true sales "hunters" who build a book of business from scratch and "maintainers" who simply manage existing

Originally recorded for Tuesday, October 6, 2026 - Scott and Mikey take 15 minutes to discuss this morning's published Admired Leadership Field Notes... A Note on Leadership Style: Consistency Is Not SamenessRead it here: https://admiredleadership.substack.com/p/a-note-on-leadership-style-consistency

Debbie Lovich is a Managing Director & Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group and Author of Make Work Work: The 5 Daily Practices of the Employee-Centric Leader. In this episode of The Edge of Work, Debbie discusses why she believes work is broken and how organizations can become more employee-centric without sacrificing performance. She explains why employee experience needs to focus on the work itself, not just HR programs, and why the perceived trade-off between employees, customers...

Most AI risk at a university does not start with a hacker. It starts with a student, a faculty member, or a researcher copying something out of the learning management system and pasting it into a personal AI account, where every safeguard written into the institution's enterprise licenses no longer applies. In this episode of the Changing Higher Ed® podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with Dean Scontras, Vice President of SLED (State, Local Government, and Education) at Island. The conversation

Chris Walton is back on GrocerTalk this week, joining Ben Miller for a show all about growth, loyalty and the changing grocery shopping experience. Sponsored by Instacart Enterprise, Portager, Vusion, and Sifter Solutions, they dig into Costco’s growth machine, Morrisons’ latest Click & Collect experiment, and a Kroger double-header on rewards and 24-hour stores.Plus, TCC Global CMO Seb Hill joins for Five Insightful Minutes on loyalty in the age of agentic commerce.This week, they discuss:•

Leadership development almost never covers the seat nobody trains you for — the one where your peer just became your boss.Carnegie Mellon researcher Robert Kelley, author of Harvard Business Review's "In Praise of Followers," attributes roughly 80% of an organization's success to followers. Every leadership book is about the other 20%. This episode is about the 80%: how to follow well when the chair moves out from under you, without resenting the new boss or losing your own

In this episode, industry experts discuss the latest trends in construction technology, AI integration, and the evolving landscape of data centers, highlighting challenges, opportunities, and future innovations.Episode Sponsors: Check Out Trunk Tools: https://trunktools.com/ Check Out Document Crunch: https://www.documentcrunch.com/

How should you think about your HR career when salary, learning, job title, employer brand, and long-term opportunity are all pulling in different directions?In this episode of the People Leader Accelerator Podcast, Andrew Bartlow and Jess Yuen take a practical look at career growth for HR professionals - from choosing your next role to deciding which forms of professional development are actually worth your time and money. Andrew shares a framework that has influenced his career since his first HR

In this episode, Megan chats to Kelly about taking a less traditional path into canine rehabilitation. With a background in Zoology and a Master's degree, Kelly has continued to expand her knowledge through further study in canine fitness, exercise physiology and rehabilitation.   They talk about building credibility in the industry, working alongside vets, knowing when to refer, and the challenges of finding your place in vet rehab without a traditional veterinary or physiotherapy background.

The most expensive finance hire can be the one that looks senior enough to feel safe but solves the wrong problem.Tom Hunter of Story Recruitment joins FP&A Today to explain why the first finance hire at a startup is often not a CFO. Story Recruitment focuses on first-CFO and first-finance-hire searches for Australian tech, fintech and deeptech startups, and Tom also hosts The CFO Track Podcast. His starting point is simple: before choosing a title, define the financial problem the business

Getting promoted over your friends is one of the hardest transitions on church staff. On Friday they were your peers. On Monday they report to you. In the final episode of our Likable Leader series, Jonathan Malm and Jason Young talk through Chapter 11, Forged in the Fire, and what happens to your leadership when things get hard: conflict, disappointment, transitions, and chaos.Anyone can be likable when the church is healthy and everyone agrees with you. The real test comes when a friend doesn't

When Wiz brought in new go-to-market leadership and decided to go big, Lauren Lynch's commercial org went from about 40 people to more than 80 in a couple of months. She explains why hiring at that speed made her process tighter, not looser, and walks through the steps she used at Wiz and took with her to Drata to keep the bar where it was. If you are about to scale a cyber sales team, this is the episode to hear first. In this episode The numbers behind the Wiz commercial build: 35 to 65 AEs...

What if the key to building a tech enterprise that lasts isn't inventing breakthrough technology, but solving the right problem first?In this episode of Big Hitters with Larry Weidel, host Larry Weidel sits down with Dejan Nenov, CTO and CISO at Taichin AI and veteran entrepreneur who has helped build operating companies returning over $3.5 billion in value across chips, cybersecurity, energy, and healthcare. Dejan shares his journey from coming to the U.S. from Eastern Europe as a teenager to

Welcome back to Truth, Lies & Work, the award-winning workplace podcast where behavioural science meets workplace culture. This week, we dive into viral interview etiquette, ultra-fast AI tools for work triage, workplace beekeeping, the science of first impressions, and answer your burning workplace surgery questions.🚀 Special Announcement: Cornerstone Launch Before we jump into the news, Al and Leanne share an exciting update about the launch of Cornerstone! Be sure to register your interest

In this episode of Life in Digital, host Jenny Dunford is joined by Josephine Phipps, CEO of Illuminate Digital, to explore what it really takes to drive ecommerce growth in an increasingly challenging market. Josephine shares her career journey and insights from leading an agency working with brands across creative, media and performance marketing.The conversation dives into the growing pressure for brands to produce more creative in response to AI-driven platforms like Meta's Andromeda, and

What happens when a data platform is legally defensible, operationally embedded and publicly distrusted at the same time? More than 44,000 people have filed Article 21 objections under UK GDPR against NHS England's Palantir-powered Federated Data Platform, live in 142 trusts, weeks before a February 2027 contract break clause comes into reach. The position here: objection handling is a throughput problem, not a policy document.You come away able to pressure-test your own platform. Check the

In this episode of the Think Factory Podcast, Alexis Crowell, General Manager of Americas and Global CMO at Axelera AI, discusses her unconventional career journey across finance, engineering, technology, marketing, and executive leadership. Alexis shares how taking on unfamiliar challenges, including leading a team of software engineers without an engineering background, taught her the value of curiosity, learning, and being comfortable saying, “I don’t know, but I’ll figure it out.” She also

Optimism isn’t about ignoring problems or pretending everything will work out. It’s about acknowledging challenges while believing that your actions can still make a difference. Psychologist and researcher Michelle Gielan says leaders can cultivate that mindset in themselves and their teams and argues that, when they do, it creates a powerful performance advantage. Drawing on an 11-year dataset of more than 25,000 business professionals, she shares research linking optimism to higher productivity,

In this episode of Financial Modeler’s Corner, host Paul Barnhurst sits down with Danielle Stein Fairhurst to discuss how AI is changing financial modeling, why modelers need to keep learning, and how dynamic arrays are shaping the future of Excel. Danielle also shares her thoughts on model design, AFM exam preparation, and why strategic thinking still matters in an AI-driven world.Danielle Stein Fairhurst is the Principal Financial Modeling Specialist at Plum Solutions, a Microsoft Excel MVP,

Sometimes the scoreboard says you’re losing long before the game is actually over.Sunday, our 12U Orioles fell behind the Cardinals 10–4 heading into the fourth inning.The boys looked discouraged.So I asked them:“Who thinks we can win this game?”Nobody raised a hand.Nobody said yes.So I told them:“We need five quick runs, then some quick outs, and it’s possible. I need you to believe.”Then I started calling them out by name.Gyson.Rhys.Miller.One kid got his first hit of the season.Others walked, got