Strategic Momentum

Challenges in a business vary, but it always falls within one of three buckets: people, process or technology.

In the last episode, we talked to Kareen Walsh, Founder of Revampologist, about the People component to this triad. Today, we’re diving into Process and Technology – specifically, how organizations need to understand and work through the ever-changing dynamics that impact these two components in order to ensure forward mome...

Today’s guest has a fascinating entrepreneurial journey that has led from tech to… well, tape.

Just a couple years ago, Andy Musliner was a Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at an award-winning mobility company. Now Andy is the Founder and CEO of InRoad Toys, an award-winning toy company. Their premiere product, PlayTape, has revolutionized how the world pla...

Greg Johnston is the SVP and Creative Director of AgencyQ, an award-winning digital agency that transforms the way organizations reach, engage, and inspire their key audiences.

From the mail room to the C-Suite, Greg Johnston has achieved success throughout his career by recognizing the need to constantly innovate, iterate, and evolve over time. And this mindset has been relevant and applicable to the agencies that he has worked wit...

Will Choi is the President and CEO of VerticalApps, an IT consulting company focused on facilitating the agile transformation of the federal government… which is quite a daunting task. 

We discuss strategies and advice for creating momentum in product development. This forward movement requires breaking down the norms, not just in the way they work but down to their fundamental culture

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Today we explore how fear affects us in business through the eyes of the incredible industry experts who have shared their wisdom on the show, as well as a subject matter expert who offers a lot of insight into the psychology of fear and motivation:

• Kareen Walsh, Founder and Solutions Strategist at Revampologist

Jim Gregoire is the Chief Product Officer at Openbay, an award-winning online marketplace for auto repair and provider of SaaS-based offerings for the auto care industry. Unlike most product leaders, Jim started in marketing and shifted to his current role.

We discuss what an effective product strategy entails (it needs to be truly customer-centric vs. taking ...

The Digital Revolution has brought about fundamental changes in the way businesses operate inside and out much like the Industrial Revolution. As a result, organizations have to undertake a ‘digital transformation,’ which often requires rethinking the business itself.

Mike Renner has over 20 years of executive management experience leading technology services and consulting companies that focus on aligning everything within a busine...

Dr. Mary Lamia is a psychologist who has spent her career studying and encouraging emotional awareness. She is the author of numerous books for kids, teenagers, and adults, including What Motivates Getting Things Done and the upcoming The Upside of Shame.

We discuss how both positive and negative emotions motivate us, and the importance of our emotions, which can help us in business.

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Mark DeVito has been in the business of creating compelling content for much of his career, starting with television and music videos. Now, as President of Bates Creative, he delivers digital strategy, branding, campaign, and collateral solutions that start with their clients’ mission and build into customized experiences.

We discuss what’s needed to create compelling content in today’s digital environment: doing your audience resea...

Many companies develop what they believe will be an effective marketing strategy, and then the execution falls short of expectations – but, with proper planning in addition to an awareness of how one’s own emotions and pretense can impact the outcome, this can be avoided.

Greg Johnston, SVP and Creative Director of AgencyQ, returns to the Strategic Momentum podcast to share his perspective on what organizations need to consider in a...

Returning guest Dr. Mary Lamia is a psychologist who has spent her career studying and encouraging emotional awareness. She is the author of numerous books for kids, teenagers, and adults, including What Motivates Getting Things Done and the upcoming The Upside of Shame (releasing 2/6/18).

We explore the different motivational styles of successful people – task-driven and deadline-driven – and why understanding your own natural st...

Jason Hunter is the Data Science business lead for CapTech consulting and, for 15 years, he has been using data to help businesses drive impact. Now, with the advent of machine learning, he sees the world of businesses analysis changing forever as organizations gain the ability to truly look at their data.

We discuss what exactly machine learning is, and what it will take to effectively apply machine learning to break through the in...

Lee Sommers is the owner of Purpose Personal Fitness, a leading athletic training and consulting services company. He’s been involved in the fitness industry for almost 20 years and has worked with athletes of all levels, including Olympic champion Katie Ledecky. He has seen the industry evolve over that time with a primary focus on profit over people, which Lee believes is a mistake, in the long term.

In the fitness industry, Lee b...

Scott DiGiammarino is the CEO of MovieComm, a technology company that helps leaders lead through the power of movie clips.

Prior to MovieComm, Scott was a senior executive at American Express. During his tenure, he turned around one of the worst performing offices and achieved the top ranked spot in a year, then held that spot for 20 years.

In this episode, we discuss the challenges Scott faced at American Express, how he grew the bu...

In today’s world of shrinking attention spans and decentralized work forces, Scott DiGiammarino, CEO of MovieComm, believes that how you communicate your message makes all the difference in the world.

In the last episode, Scott shared his story of how he transformed one of the worst-performing offices at American Express into the best-performing office by applying a creative solution to motivate and engage a geographically distribut...

Joanie Rufo, Founder of Initiate Consulting, is a Certified Leadership Coach with nearly 25 years of experience helping leaders be more purposeful and effective. In that time, she’s found that the key to effectively leading others is, first, learning to effectively lead yourself – a concept she calls Leading Self.

Leaders are always under a spotlight – every action, every word, and every behavior is constantly being evaluated. As a ...

In this interview, Dr. Zimbardo, a renowned social psychologist, gives us a look into the foundation and purpose of his latest initiative, The Heroic Imagination Project. The project explores everyday heroism and how to train “ordinary”people to be heroes, with the rallying cry: “Stand Up, Speak Out, Take Action Against Injustice.”

He takes the concept into the workforce and explains how anyone can be a “hero” at anytime if they hav...

Beth Freedman is the managing director of gyro:UK, a leading global B2B creative agency, and has spent her career working for some of the biggest agencies in the world, including Saatchi & Saatchi and Fallon.

Beth believes real business momentum happens when service-based businesses invest in the growth and development of their people. It’s the human part that agencies often forget.  She attributes her own upward ...

What does it take to implement artificial intelligence to create business momentum? Steve Brown, Director of Einstein Analytics Specialists at Salesforce, says being agile is the key.

With experience in startups as well as F100 companies, Steve has been on the forefront of operationalizing new technologies to help build and grow businesses for much of his career. Now at Salesforce, he’s at the tip of spear of not only bringing their...