Fail Faster

Adnan Khaleel, Senior Director & Global Sales Strategist at Dell Technologies, shares that the everyday excitement at work is the constantly changing environment that keeps him learning new things. From listening to his customers and translating their voice into solutions. Empowering a team of 50,0000 plus sales teams globally, everyday they are meeting their customers where they are in their digital maturity. There is still a lot to solve which keeps tomorrow as exciting as today for Adnan :)

Travis May is a Director of Workforce Innovation at a major financial services & technology company. He shares his fascinating journey into technology and compliance through the US Military and into private practice in war-torn regions such as Afghanistan and Iraq. He shares lessons in leadership from the literal battlefield and how his time building teams in Kabul have re-framed his thoughts on a globalized workforce. Travis is passionate about the future of work and today he not only is innovating on platforms at his firm, but also more broadly with staff training and team building in this increasingly digitized world.

Mark Palmer is the SVP & General Manager of Analytics, Data Science & Data Virtualization at Tibco Software where he plays a key role in unlocking the potential of real-time data for their clients empowering them to make faster, smarter decisions. In this episode he shines the light on the importance of Democratization of Data and how by making digital information accessible to the average non-technical user organizations are becoming empowered to accelerate their transformation. Listen till the end for some great brand stories.

Kalyana Bedhu is an AI/Machine learning thought leader specializing in integrating digital transformation, data science and processes in the AI space at Ericsson. Kalyana talks about how he is empowering the leaders and executives across the 160 locations of Ericsson with actionable data that makes critical decision making easier and scalable. His work in the area of worker safety using AI is commendable.

Howard Tiersky, the CEO at a digital transformation agency called FROM, helping companies win with today's customers who reserve their loyalty for brands that deliver elegant and convenient digitally-powered experiences. He brings a lot of knowledge from the early digital era when making a website was considered digital transformation to now when we are executing complex transformations with integrated systems to create bespoke digital experiences. This episode shares about why more than 80% transformations fail and what large brands do about de-risking their big or small initiatives. This one is filled with a lot of popular brand success stories that you don't want to miss:)

Adam Bleibtreu is the Chief Marketing Officer at two organizations ASGN & Creative Circle where he helps leading corporate enterprises and government organizations develop, implement, and operate critical IT and business solutions through creative staffing and IT solutions.

Adam's commitment to his team has earned him the honorary title of Chief Emotional Officer, as he focuses on recreating moments of greatness for individuals by matching their skills to the right job. He believes that something happens when a team CLICKS, that's when GREATNESS occurs.

Rafael Matuk joins us from Chicago, where he is the Sr. Director of Health Solutions at AON, a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions. He shares the importance of exercising good software design principles especially in large enterprises with a lot of baggage of being stuck in old processes. How he is shaking off redundancy and bringing the concepts of agile and lean practices to an old enterprise is very intriguing.

Michel Tricot is the Co-Founder of Airbyte, which is the new open-source data integration platform that syncs data from applications, APIs & databases to data warehouses, lakes and other destinations. Michel is highly thrilled about how his startup is picking up popularity amongst the data science community and freeing up their time by providing ready to use data-connectors and making data more accessible for the right use. With this growth, he is looking to hire talented driven individuals, let's dive in to see what Airbyte is upto.

Benjamin Gold is the Senior Director of Product Management at Change Healthcare. Ben shares his journey into product management and ultimately into product leadership. In this episode, you'll hear how he approaches product strategy - telling the right story to executives for funding and then translating that down to the individual contributors who will ultimately be completing the work. Ben shares how even in a regulated space like Healthtech you can still leverage the lean startup methodologies - moving quick, changing directions and iterating.

Brad Jaehn is the Vice President of Product Strategy at Arrivia who are specialists in making brands better through the power of travel, on a mission to help people around the world travel better and experience more. Brad shares why talented product managers fail?

He looks at software Products as ecosystems that support a customer's journey through an experience. Brad answers, what we miss if we don't see the role of empathy in design and how factors such as mental health and balance play a role in Innovation.