"C-CHANGE SHOW - Changing  Business Culture for GOOD."

Jeremy Frank and Nelson Mitchell are senior leaders making Swing Tech a huge success in the digital health world. With all the competing priorities of getting funded and scaling, when do you bring in culture? When you're a year in a your whole leadership team looks and thinks like you do, what do you do?

Jeremy and Nelson put their egos on the shelf to get into the growing pains of breaking out of homogenized leadership and into creating diversity in their start-up. The elephants will be discussed!

A bit more about these rockstars...

Jeremy Frank:

 Runs Operations at Swing and has a long tenure in developing and launching digital-health products. His responsibilities range from launching Swing’s virtual-care service to designing and orchestrating Swing’s multiple clinical trials that deliver our growing body of clinical evidence. Prior to Swing, Jeremy held executive positions at Proteus Digital Health where he helped develop the technology platform and launched the company’s digital-medicines products in the areas of oncology, infectious disease, and cardiometabolic disease. Jeremy holds Masters and Doctorate degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and an undergraduate degree from Stanford University, all in mechanical engineering.

 Nelson Mitchell: 

Nelson is a co-founder and leads the Product and Design teams at Swing Therapeutics, a digital therapeutics company based in San Francisco, CA. Previously, Nelson founded and led Slalom -a San Francisco's based design consulting practice. Over the years, he developed digital products and strategies for leading Bay Area and global companies, across industries from energy to architecture, and from biotech to financial services.

Nelson's expertise spans product strategy and management, interaction design, organizational development, and systems thinking. He has a passion for addressing healthcare, environmental and sustainability issues with entrepreneurship, teamwork, and cutting edge technology .

Nelson graduated with honors from San Francisco State University’s product design masters program, and holds undergraduate degrees in finance and economics from Michigan State University, with additional coursework in politics, philosophy and economics at the University of Oxford.

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How Diversity in Leadership led to a 4x jump in revenue.

Lance is an ally for women and underrepresented people. He found an incredible talent and offered her the role of President of Closed Loop. She took the company to the next level. Lance and I will be discussing how to find the right people for the right roles who are different than the status quo hires and how he handled a sales rep that harassed his staff.  You can read his LinkedIn article HERE. He is a champion of fairness and equity who is showing a successful way into the future of work and deserves to be celebrated!

A bit more about Lance:

He is the CEO of Closed Loop. We are a boutique agency of 40+ digital advertising growth hackers, and we specialize in helping innovative brands gain an unfair advantage through next-level online advertising strategies. We have managed over $1B in digital ad spend for clients like AWS, Intercom, Tableau Software, Service Now, New Relic and others. Channels we manage include Google Ads, Facebook, Bing, Yahoo, programmatic display, YouTube, native, mobile and many others. We believe in tailoring a holistic, full-funnel approach to each client in order to unlock massive growth. 
 
Accomplishments
● 20 years as a successful digital growth agent
● 18 years leading a respected marketing services agency
● Recognized as an Ad Age Best Place To Work multiple times
● Spoken at over 50 industry events
● Mentor for 500startups
● Won a bike race once <-- most impressive!

                       "C-CHANGE SHOW - Changing  Business Culture for GOOD."

Daniel Epstein, CEO the UNREASONABLE GROUP can claim serious bragging rights about many enviable things, being a DEI ninja is chief among them. He is at the helm of a Colorado-based, international company that supports a Fellowship for growth-stage entrepreneurs, channels exclusive deal-flow to investors, and partners with institutions to discover profit in solving global problems. 

The 307 ventures in the Unreasonable Fellowship operate across more than 180 countries, have collectively generated $8 bn in revenue, raised $9 bn in financing, and are positively impacting the lives of more than 1.4 bn people. On top of that, he's a genuinely nice guy who knows how to get the best out of diverse leadership teams. 

We talk about how the sausage gets made, the messy and awkward reality of hiring and managing diverse talent, the fails, the wins and practical advice for other "white guys" who are ready to diversify their homogenized teams but aren't sure where to begin. 

                       "C-CHANGE SHOW - Changing  Business Culture for GOOD."

Welcome to the C-Change Show!

Since the Great Resignation, culture has become paramount in recruiting and retaining top talent. Fairness and equity have become deal breakers for many job seekers.

As a culture consultant, Change Management Specialist and Talent Optimization Partner with Predictive Index, I decided to do this show because I started to meet CEO’s and Founders that were… well, “white guys” that recognized that their homogenized leadership teams were leaving them blind Two risks that could only be seen from different points of view and different life experiences. They figured out how to diversify their top leadership teams. These guys are getting it right, even 4xing their annual revenue.

 I know there are a lot of other white guys out there who see the limitations of homogenized leadership teams, but they're just not sure how to step into a new way of thinking or help their executive teams see the financial benefits of inclusion.

I wanted to celebrate and amplify these self-described “rich white guys” who have figured it out and want to help other men do the same. Although you will be hearing predominantly from white male senior leaders, there will also be plenty of perspective from female and black CEO’s, executives and business leaders who offer their unique strategies and solutions.

Join me every week where we will get into how the sausage is made, because when DEI is done right, it ain’t no Kumbaya situation – it’s messy and awkward and yet these emotional intelligence ninjas are getting it done.

I have a no judgement, no blame, no shame policy here. The interviews are candid and entertaining and sometimes they can get a little raw so be fair warned, the language can get salty. If a shitshow is offensive to you, this is not your podcast : )

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