Sophia Matveeva is the founder of Tech For Non-Techies, an online learning community and media company helping non-technical professionals succeed with digital.

Coming into tech with extensive business expertise, she has contributed to leading brands such as The Guardian and Financial Times, and has lectured at renowned institutions such as London Business School.

In this episode, we discuss how important it is for non-technical professionals to learn to speak tech if they want to efficiently collaborate with digital experts and drive digital transformation. 


Links & mentions:

• techfornontechies.co/blog
• techfornontechies.co/blog/how-to-transition-into-product-management-for-non-techies
• techfornontechies.co

Alex Trup is the co-founder of Rolo Secure Chat, a new messaging app focused on privacy and security, with the chats being End-to-End Encrypted (E2EE) by BlackBerry.

In this episode, we discuss the importance of customer-first digital marketing and its different elements and approaches. We talk about dark UX patterns, targeted advertising and its evolution, globalization and multinational marketing, and the growing role of data. Alex also presents how Rolo is changing the game, as well as some more privacy-focused analytics platforms.


Links & mentions:

• plausible.io
• rolo.chat
• [email protected]
• linkedin.com/in/alextrup

Liliana Ashton is a change and transformation management consultant and the founder of BreatheNow Hub, whose mission is to help companies boost employee wellbeing through breathwork.

Having run highly successful digital transformation projects for well-known brands such as Shell and Michelin, Liliana has extensive expertise from a whole range of industries and is now applying the key lessons learned throughout her career to focus on the employee and workplace wellbeing.  She has also just started the Wow @ Work podcast which deals with the recent transformations to the nature of work.

In this episode, we talk about the main digital transformation challenges of large companies and how to tackle them, as well as what led Liliana to focus more on the people aspect of digital transformation by founding BreatheNow Hub.


Links & mentions:

• mckinsey.com/business-functions/transformation/our-insights/why-do-most-transformations-fail
• linkedin.com/in/lilianaashton/detail/overlay-view/urn:li:fsd_profileTreasuryMedia
• breathenowhub.com
• linkedin.com/in/lilianaashton
• pod.link/wow

Howard Tiersky is the founder and CEO of the digital transformation agency FROM, leading digital transformation influencer and Wall Street Journal bestselling author.

Being receptive to change is an essential trait of the highly digitalized 21st century marked by huge societal shifts and a rapid pace of technological innovation. Yet as human beings, we have a natural tendency to resist change and stick to tried and tested methods we're more comfortable with.

In this episode, we talk about how overcoming this resistance to change is key to succeeding with digital transformation, and what executives and companies need to do to start embracing change instead.


Links & mentions:

• winningdigitalcustomers.com/freechapter
• linkedin.com/in/tiersky
• podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/winning-digital-customers

Aleks Tomczyk is the founder and Chief Operations Officer at Exizent, a UK-based fintech / legal tech company focused on digitally transforming the probate process.

In this episode, Aleks tells us more about Exizent, how it was founded and the recent partnerships they've formed with Arken.legal and Experian. We discuss how the integrated Exizent platform will benefit users and help eliminate the common challenges of estate management. Considering the unique period in time in which all this is taking place, we also talk about Covid's current and future impact on Exizent and the field in general.


Links & mentions:

• exizent.com
• linkedin.com/in/alekstomczyk
• linkedin.com/company/exizent

Prateek Dayal is the Chief Strategy and Product Design Officer at Aqilliz, a privacy-focused marketing company specializing in blockchain solutions.

The recent updates to privacy regulations, coupled with the drastic increase in digital usage and data due to Covid, have been making people more and more aware of how their data is being used. Brands are keeping up, emphasizing their commitments to safeguarding privacy, and privacy has thus become a core tenet for digital-first brands. In this episode, we talk more in-depth about why privacy is so crucial to success with digital transformation and what companies can do as new privacy restrictions get implemented.


Links & mentions:

• aqilliz.com
• linkedin.com/in/prateek-dayal-479a709

Evgeny Shadchnev is an executive coach and founder of Makers, Europe's first developer bootcamp. He makes use of the lessons learned from Makers to help leaders thrive in the digital age.

In this episode, we talk about how coaching has evolved in the age of digital transformation, particularly focusing on the impact of Covid and the rise of remote work. We adopt both perspectives, discussing both new methods and challenges for coaches, as well as new leadership trends and new key skills needed for CxOs to succeed.


Links & mentions:

• evgeny.coach
• evgeny.coach/taking-your-seat-as-a-ceo

Paul Oppong is a project management and business transformation consultant who currently works for Sensei Project Solutions as project and portfolio management consultant.

In this episode, we discuss the significant changes of the transformation age and the need for businesses to adapt to these changes. We focus on the field of project management and how it has been particularly effective due to the challenges of remote work. Paul also shares some examples from his work with clients before finishing with some future predictions and tips for project managers to thrive in the digital-first world.


Links & mentions:

• hbr.org/2020/05/digital-transformation-comes-down-to-talent-in-4-key-areas
• gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/maintain-diversity-and-inclusion-during-pandemics
• mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-work/the-future-of-work-after-covid-19
• amazon.com/Future-Proof-Business-Transformation-Playbook-Pivotal
• linkedin.com/in/pauloppong
• twitter.com/oppong_paul
• pauloppong.com
• senseiprojectsolutions.com.au

Scott Bales is Vice President of Enterprise Solution Engineering and Delivery at the time intelligence company Replicon. 

Overseeing the service delivery group at Replicon, Scott has unique experience from both ends of the spectrum and thus really has his finger on the pulse of the key challenges of service providers and the benefits agility can offer them. In this episode, he talks more in-depth about why companies and organizations providing professional services need to embrace agility in order to better position themselves in a digital-first world, and how they can enable that with the right use of technology.


Links & mentions:

• replicon.com/blog/category/time-project-insights/enterprise-digital-transformation
• replicon.com/blog/unified-time-tracking-system-for-digital-transformation
• replicon.com
• linkedin.com/in/scottnbales

Steve Pereira is the founder of the value stream consulting company Visible which helps boost productivity and efficiency of its clients' teams through a framework called flow engineering.

In this episode, we diver deeper into the concept of flow engineering, exploring how it compares to similar approaches such as Agile and DevOps, and taking a closer look at value stream mapping which is a key component of flow engineering. Steve explains how he arrived at this specific approach and why it is so well positioned in the fast-changing digital environment in which we're living today.


Links & mentions:

• valuestream.link
• flow.visible.is
• [email protected]