This episode of the career success podcast we are joined by Ralf Neuser to discuss the on-boarding process for new hires. The onboarding process is a key factor to the success of every new hire and according to the SHRM Foundation which is a nonprofit affiliate of the Society for Human Resource Management, half of all senior-level outside hires fail within the first 18 months. Ralf will give some tips on how to make sure all new hires into your team are successful.

There’s no doubt that supply chain and logistics are going through a major transformation, and the demographics isn’t an exception. In a space that used to be a dominated by males, women have gained territory in the last decades. Globalization has also contributed to diversifying the supply chain community.

To speak about this topic, we’ve invited Flavia Sebastiani, currently a VP at DHL Brazil to speak about this topic and understand her personal experience and advice.

In this podcast, we discuss:

The changing role of women executives in Supply Chain

How to lead diverse teams

Diversity as a key business driver

Advice on managing and leading through diversity

On this episode of the Career Success Podcast we invited Minerva Acevedo to speak with us about the art of negotiation. Minerva has worked in consumer packaged goods in both marketing and sales roles, in the health and wellness industry with Johnson & Johnson and in the food industry with McCormick & Company. Through both experiences, she have been exposed to negotiations with large corporations such as Costco, Wal-Mart and some of the top Canadian retailers and media companies.

In this episode we discuss:

Negotiation vs. Selling – what are the key differences

Why many people feel uncomfortable with negotiation and how to overcome this

How to walk away from a negotiation feeling successful

Beauty is one of the most dynamic industries out there today. To learn more about it, we’ve invited Gianni Pieraccioni. He’s a C-Level executive that’s worked with global companies like Revlon, Alitalia, J&J and Pepsico and we’ve invited him to understand more about the beauty consumer, its distribution and how it will evolve in the coming years.

In this Podcast, we review:

The beauty consumer and the evolution of its behaviors

Retailers adaptation to this new environment

Technology’s influence on the beauty market

How the big beauty companies are reacting to these changes

What Makes Latin America Different? With Jeferson Fernandes

May 18, 2018

By Daniel Torres Dwyer

Latin America is a market that is still a big mystery for many. While it’s biggest country, Brazil, has been recently on the headlines because of political instability, it is back on the growth track after some years of deep recession… this depicts the region a bit, unstable, unreliable in the short term, but a fantastic opportunity for long term growth. But what are the challenges in LATAM? What’s this market even like? To answer these questions and more, we’ve invited Jef Fernandes, Supply Chain Leader in Brazil and has experience across the region and as well in the United States.

In this Podcast you’ll learn:

Advice on how to approach the Latin America Market

Supply Chain challenges in the region

How to transition from Europe or North America to Brazil as an executive

Future of the market

On this episode of the career success podcast we are following up with Craig Binkley, CEO of BINKTHINK Strategy Group on his white paper Digital Transformation and Impact on Value Chains and Routes to Market.

During this podcast, Craig takes questions from our network on:

The healthcare industry: how does Craig see the impact of digital fitting into the industry and what that means exactly.

The human project in New York which is embarking on like the largest study ever, and could revolutionize healthcare because of digital technology.

How to get your organization ready to embrace and drive towards digitization.

How to motivate and enable people to think and act digital.

Motivating a team can be a challenge. As business leaders, we will have to get people of different origins, ages, nationalities, genders, functions and even industries to work together.

As this is a topic that comes up in many of our conversations, we have the pleasure to have Peter Hall on this edition to discuss it. Peter is currently the President for consumer brands at Dean & Deluca. Born in Australia, he’s held executive positions at the likes of Diageo and Heineken before his current assignment, having been based in the US, the UK, Mexico and Venezuela.

Challenging yourself to take risks in your career isn’t always easy and there could be a lot to lose. We have invited Arnd Pickhardt former CMO of Lidl Germany to discuss with us his experience with taking risks.

The transition of Fast Moving Packaged Goods into the Online Retailing space has been a rocky one. Swinging from Direct to Consumer to Partnership approaches, the scenario does look clearer now than 4 years ago. But, is this going to settle like this?

To look back into what’s happened and what is to come, we invited Sri Rajagopalan, Vice President and leader of eCommerce for J&J’s consumer business.

Our guest on this episode of the career success podcast is Davide Lunghi. Davide has been working within the luxury industry since 2002 for brands like Fendi, TAG Heuer, Hublot and Zenith.