She is the chief growth evangelist at Salesforce and the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book GROWTH IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business. She has been named to the latest Thinkers50’s list of the world’s top management thinkers and is a welcomed guest on Bloomberg, BNN, Cheddar, MSNBC, and Yahoo Finance, among others. She also contributes her thinking to publications including Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Diginomica, Quora, Thrive, Rotman School of Management, and Duke Dialogue Review. She is a change-maker whose thought-provoking and forward-thinking insights have made her a frequent guest on a variety of industry-leading podcasts and live broadcasts.

Prior to working with Salesforce, she was a sales, marketing, and customer service executive for startups as well as Fortune 500 companies where she was recognized as being one of the first to develop a robust go to market model for cloud-based solutions, and indirect channel strategies to accommodate changes in buying behavior. She left the corporate world and joined Gartner becoming a Distinguished Analyst and Research Fellow where she won the Thought Leadership award and earned accolades from the best leaders in the technology world for her cutting-edge analysis and her skill at architecting bold new strategies for sales and growth.

Join Nour Group CEO, David Nour, and Tiffani Bova on this episode of the Curve Benders Podcast.

He is nationally recognized for resolving our clients’ most sensitive, critical, and confidential leadership and governance challenges. He advises publicly traded companies and private equity concerns, globally. Over the past three decades, he has advised on CEO successions and has led the recruitment of CEOs for a wide range of clients as well as recruiting several hundred new board of directors and senior executive leaders. He has led numerous “sensitive matter” Board of Director examinations, recommending improvement in their governance practices.

Previously, he was a Senior Partner at Egon Zehnder, a leading global executive search and board of directors' consultancy. During his tenure, he served as the Managing Partner of its New York and Atlanta practices as well as led its Service Sector Practice Group for the Americas. Earlier, he held senior strategic management and financial positions at Cox Cable Communications (Atlanta) and Tiger International (Atlanta and Los Angeles) with previous experience in financial roles at Occidental Petroleum and as a senior consultant at EY.

He has served as a board member and as Chairman of the Compensation Committee of Focus Brands, a leading restaurant group. Mr. Koblentz also served on the board of In Q Tel, the C.I.A.’s venture capital fund, as a board member for The National Association of Corporate Directors and as President of the Association of Corporate Growth in Atlanta.

Currently, he is the Chair of Emory University’s Center for Ethics and on the Board of Directors of the Chick-fil-A Bowl Foundation. He has served on the boards of The Carter Center, Junior Achievement, Atlanta's High Museum, Central Atlanta Progress, The Latin American Association, and ZooAtlanta. He is a CPA and holds an MBA from the University of Southern California.

She joined Zoox as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in February 2019. Prior to Zoox, she served as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Intel Corporation, driving the company's transformation from a PC-centric to a data-centric company. Previously, she ran the company’s wireless efforts and oversaw a global team of 7,000 engineers. Evans is a member of the Supervisory Board of SAP and holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from The George Washington University.

Join Nour Group CEO, David Nour, and Aicha Evans, CEO of Zoox, on this episode of the Curve Benders Podcast.

One of the world’s leading business thinkers, his forward-thinking ideas and bestselling books are helping leaders and teams do their best work ever.

He is the best-selling author of four books about business and leadership. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into dozens of languages. His insights on leadership and teamwork have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, USAToday, Fast Company, the Financial Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, CNN, the BBC, NPR, and CBS This Morning. Since 2017, he has been ranked as one of the world’s top business thought leaders by Thinkers50. As a sought-after international speaker, his TED Talk has been viewed over 2 million times. He’s worked with leaders from organizations across all industries including Google, Stryker, Fidelity, Viacom, and even the US Naval Academy.

A former business school professor, he holds a master’s degree in organizational psychology from the University of Oklahoma, and a doctorate in strategic leadership from Regent University.

He is an entrepreneur, facilitator, thinker, writer, and host, with a focus on open business models, ecosystemic organizations, and platforms: he worked on these topics in edge contexts such as emergent, self-managed organizations, and startups but also with large institutions, ranging from Fortune 500s to the UN, to explore and experiment a new theory of organizing for the XXIst century.

He is a Professor of Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation at the London Business School, where he passionately believes that research and engagement in strategy and policy should go hand in hand. He often looks at how firms should navigate the increasingly complex and digitized environment: where and why value migrates, how firms can best capture it, and how they should respond to the dramatic growth of business ecosystems. His main areas of interest are digital platforms and ecosystems, financial services, and turnarounds. He's the co-editor of Industrial and Corporate Change and has published in top strategy and innovation journals such as SMJ, Organization Science, AMJ, AMR, and Research Policy.

He was recently recognized by Thinkers50 as one of the world’s top 50 management thinkers, and a finalist for their Strategy Award. He is a regular speaker at events such as the Global Drucker Forum and meetings organized by the WEF.

Join me on this episode of the Curve Benders to discuss the evolution of ecosystems with Michael Jacobides.

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Join me on this episode of the Curve Benders Podcast as I share a couple of observations from 2020, and the Nour 7 Sequence for your Strategic Relationships in 2021.

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He is a four-time bestselling author, keynote speaker, and futurist who explores leadership, employee experience, and the future of work. He is the founder of FutureofWorkUniversity.com, an online education, and training platform that helps future-proof individuals and organizations by teaching them the skills they need to succeed in the future of work. 

He is regularly featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, CNN, and USA Today. His work has been endorsed by the CEOs of Unilever, Mastercard, Cisco, T-Mobile, Best Buy, SAP, Nestle, and KPMG to name a few.

Join me on this episode of the Curve Benders Podcast with Jacob Morgan.

BTW, we're completely revamping our website this next month, and I've been saving up all the show notes from these podcasts into more in-depth articles and will post them in our blog at NourGroup.com/Blog.

He has a consistent track record of leading and scaling high growth organizations from sub $20M to billions through complex and often ambiguous go-to-market challenges. Success has required creating and executing bold strategies to enter new markets and build predictable revenue growth. The most important foundational element has been a proven track record of servant leadership. Creating an environment where people are growing and developing as they take risks and make the mistakes necessary for ongoing success.

He most recently served as President DT Select Group at Dell Technologies, now a $10 billion business, responsible for strategic planning, business operations, go-to-market, and management of key functions for Dell's most strategic global relationships, including sales, channels, services, and field marketing.

Previously he spent five years at VMware and led business operations for the company’s Americas region, bringing more than 20 years of experience in U.S. and international markets, storage and information software, and global sales and service. Prior to VMware, he spent 19 years at EMC, where he led global channels, OEMs, and go-to-market strategy. While at EMC he also held executive and operational leadership positions for sales and services across Latin America and for the company’s Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) regions.

Join Randy Seidl and David Nour on this episode of The Sales Community #TechSalesInsights podcast with servant leader and board advisor, Jeff Casale.

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He is an expert at digital business models, operations, and organizing programs. He has led engagements on developing innovation processes, Internet of Things strategies, marketplace and API driven platform business models. He is a sought-after speaker on creating a culture of operational excellence and innovation, having worked with clients across various industries, notably, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Microsoft, Nordstrom, and several of the world’s leading retail and insurance organizations.

Prior to finding his own advisory firm, he was a Managing Director at Alvarez and Marsal, a performance improvement consulting firm.  Prior to A&M, he was responsible for launching and scaling the Amazon marketplace business, which is now over 50% of all units sold at Amazon.com.  

Join me on this episode of the Curve Benders Podcast with the Author of Think Like Amazon: 50 1/2 Ideas to Become a Digital Leader, John Rossman.

BTW, we're completely revamping our website and soon, I'm turning the show notes from these podcasts into more in-depth articles and will post them in our blog at NourGroup.com/Blog.