Blazing Trails

What should you look for when you want to build your next generation marketing team? What are the skills that are needed? Who are the key players? In this episode you'll get some expert advice on how to answer all of those questions from Sabrina Heise, Vice President, Consumer Engagement at NBC Sports Group and Jessica Cobarras, Senior Vice President, Cloud Marketing at Salesforce. This is the first episode in our three part series on marketing which we recorded at our annual Connections conference that took place in Chicago in July. Tune in to find out more!

It’s summertime and there is no BETTER time to do a bit of reflection, turn off the zoom meetings and dig into some good books. In this episode, Nick Lichtenberg, executive editor of news at Fortune Magazine talks about his favorite titles on topics ranging from reinventing work to the history of venture capitalists. Stories that both teach you something useful and keep you occupied on the beach. Tune in! Titles include The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby, The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy by Christopher Leonard, The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future by Julia Hobsbawm, Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Brian Hutchison and The Candy House by Jennifer Egan.

The latest business maxim tells us that trust is the new currency. But currency itself—from cold hard cash to cutting-edge crypto—requires trust in those who trade in it and the systems that oversee it. I

In today's episode we bring together two executives who have tried to foster that trust in divergent arenas: the physical world of gold-based lending and the digital investing world of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs.

Marc Mathieu, EVP, Digital Transformation & Innovation here at Salesforce, sat down with Sumit Maniyar, founder and CEO of Rupeek and Matthew Liu, co-founder of Origin Protocol, to discuss how to get buy-in from the customer and trust in the financial process. Tune in!

“Have at least three mentors in your career. One you work with, one who loves you and a third one who scares the living daylights out of you.”

That’s career advice Sarah Friar lives by and credits for her incredible journey from Wall Street to executive roles at Salesforce, Square and most recently Nextdoor.

Sarah delves into the role of mentorship in a successful career, including how she became a mentee of Marc Benioff, and discusses why she believes slower growth is benefitting her company. Plus, she and host Michael Rivo touch on the ways that Nextdoor continues to serve communities and address shifting needs to enhance connection, respect, and trust. All this up next on Blazing Trails.

An intimate conversation with Michelle Zauner, the inspiring New York Times Bestselling author of 'Crying in H Mart' and GRAMMY-nominated singer of pop band Japanese Breakfast. She has created space for more representation across mediums by showing up as her authentic self and championing other artists who are doing the same. On this episode she shares her career journey and how she’s not only taking up space, she’s also changing the space.

Only 25% of the tech industry’s salespeople are women and only 12% of these women are sales leaders. In this conversation, a group of trailblazing women in sales discuss that gap and what needs to be done to close it. They also share how they’ve perfected the art of closing the deal and what other women in sales can do to develop their own careers. This was recorded at Salesforce's annual Gender Equality Summit that seeks to elevate and inspire the next generation of women leaders (and male allies).

Crowley is on a mission to become the most sustainable and innovative maritime and logistics company in the Americas. As part of our ongoing ‘Net Zero Trailblazers’ series , we'll be hearing from Meagan Atkinson, Director of Sustainability & Regulatory Affairs at Crowley. She'll share with us what her team is doing to help the company in reaching Net Zero emissions across scopes 1, 2, and 3 by 2050 in an effort to fight climate change. Tune In!

Sustainability is no longer a buzz word for businesses--

Putting Sustainability at the heart of your organization pays off in many ways---from how you support your customers to how you drive innovation and ultimately to how you protect the planet for future generations. On today’s show we’re speaking with Jim Gowen, Verizon’s Chief Sustainability Officer & SVP Global Supply Chain about how his company plans to achieve net zero operations by 2035 and what companies need to do to start their own sustainability journey.

Today we’ve got a delicious episode with one of the top chef’s in the world—Eric Ripert! He’s the owner and creative force behind the award-winning New York City restaurant Le Bernardin. Eric shares how he got his start, what inspires him and how he went from being a very angry chef—to a beloved one. This interview originally aired on The Inflection Point with Monica Langley on Salesforce Plus. 

An empowering conversation this week on Blazing Trails with feminist icon Gloria Steinem about leading a movement, breaking down barriers for women’s rights, and continuing the fight for equality. This episode was published first by B-Well Together, our sister podcast.