Dynamic Decisions Podcast
🎙️ Welcome to Dynamic Decisions – where the best decisions start with great conversations. Hosted by Teasha Cable, CEO of CModel, this show dives into the stories, strategies, and decisions behind some of the most innovative leaders in business today. Each episode, we sit down with visionaries who are leveraging data to rethink the status quo, solve complex challenges, and create lasting impact in their fields. Tune in to discover how top leaders are using data to transform their businesses—and how you can too. Learn more: cmodel.io
Episodes
Dr. Alice Holloway spent 20 years managing supplier relationships at Alabama Power, started six companies, and now leads Birmingham's Entrepreneurship Center for Growth and Excellence. She knows what corporate buyers say in the room and what they never say out loud.
The unglamorous reasons small businesses never get th...
- Why institutional knowledge, from discount limits to call cadences, quietly sinks new hires
- The buddy system and "hierarchy of questions" that let two managers support 100 SD...
A French company had four sites to choose from for a $450 million North American plant. It picked a Manitoba city of 15,000, and the owner explained why. Dr. Jean-Marc Nadeau, former Portage la Prairie city manager and now CEO of SUMA, tells the story, including a rebrand that went badly wrong.
- Why the owner of Roquette credite...
Jamie Nichols covers North Central Oklahoma for the Oklahoma Department of Commerce, and her job starts with asking who in a town is already selling outside it. One county believed it had maybe half a dozen micro businesses. Then someone pulled the data and found 500 registered.&nb...
Jessica Olives has spent more than fifteen years inside nonprofit and public sector governance, including the Port of Seattle, King County Housing Authority, and the Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority. Now she runs Mission Match, a nationwide platform where nonprofits search for board members by expertise, location, and cause instead of waiting for some...
- Why treating Dutch Bros as a unicorn guarantees you never see another one, and ...
Gloria Salinas runs growth strategy for one of the fastest growing cities in America, and she still says no to projects that don't fit the plan. As Chief Growth Officer for the Frisco Economic Development Corporation, she's helped turn a former farm town into a magnet for Fortune 500 headquarters, 16 corporate R&D centers, and a talent pool wi...
Kathleen Rose has spent 30+ years on both sides of the table: advising municipalities on real estate and economic development, and writing the checks as managing partner on South Main Square in downtown Davidson, North Carolina. She knows which plans lead to action and which ones collect dust. And she'll tell you, even when you'd rather not hear i...
Cornell Wesley left banking for an 88,000-person town in Arkansas, turned a $2 million fund into $30 million of economic activity in 11 months, and got a call from Washington asking how he did it. You'll love his response.
Today he runs Prosper Portland, with a $200 million budget and 11...
Peter Bishop spent years in commercial real estate before crossing over to run economic development for High Point, North Carolina, and it shows. In this conversation he explains how a vacant hosiery mill becomes market-rate apartments, why three rival cities agreed to stop competing against each other on incentives, and how one blend...
Todd Tucker has worked in economic development at three different altitudes: state commerce, utility site selection at Progress Energy, and now leading growth for a county whose tax base just jumped 30% in a single year. That range shows in how he thinks about the job.
David Blaha spent 25 years building relationships at American Express before becoming Chief Revenue Officer at Extend, a virtual card platform banks and fintechs use nationwide. His take: the smartest fintechs don't compete with banks, they arm them.
- How COVID turned virtual cards from a niche fix for interviewees and non-carded employees into an everyday bill pay tool for small and mid-size business...
Damien Denmark became Yukon, Oklahoma's first-ever economic development director in January 2026, He arrived from Olathe, Kansas with one rule: build the relationship before you need the deal.
At only 30 years old, he's already moved a $100 million development through approval in 60 days and built his own incentive tool f...
Your City Is Sick...and More Jobs Isn't the Cure...
Jeff has spent more than two decades helping downtowns recover, first as a Main Street manager running Ohio's statewide program, then as founder of Revitalize or Die and author of Your City is Sick. He joins Teasha to argue that economic development has solved for the wro...
Mandy White, Chief Economic Development Officer for the Greater Jackson, TN Chamber, has spent nearly three decades helping turn Jackson, Tennessee into a manufacturing hub home to 60 to 70 companies, including several Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 brands. In this episode, she breaks down what actually won the region's largest single investment ever...
Not All Growth Is Good Growth: The Case Against Chasing Every Deal
Maurice Harris has sat on both sides of the site selection table: first as a researcher at Greater MSP and Transwestern Real Estate, now as an economic development specialist at JLL working with BNSF on rail expansion across Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Mont...
Kelsi Jackson, executive director of the Jackson County Tourist Development Council in Northwest Florida, built her county's entire visitor strategy around a decades-old customer service story about an extra pickle.
She explains how that mindset turned skeptical gas station clerks and restaurant workers into genuine ...
Coreat Houser directs the City of Birmingham's Department of Innovation and Economic Opportunity, overseeing economic development, workforce development, real estate, and small business support across all 99 city neighborhoods.
In this conversation, he explains why civic education, not just funding, is often the ...
Joi, known as The Joiful Recruiter, is the lead talent acquisition advisor for sales at Dynatrace, president of the Black Employee Network Business Resource Group, and founder of Joiful Talent Solutions.
After a decade in high-volume RPO recruiting and years in enterprise SaaS, she has built a track record that includes a...
Kristen Fish-Peterson has spent over 16 years running Redevelopment Resources, advising cities and developers across the Midwest on tax increment financing, grants, and the deals that bring struggling downtowns back to life.
She has worked both sides of the negotiating table, from City Hall to the developer's pro...
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