Russ is a UK based family business adviser and has been working with families in business for 15 years. He holds the Advanced Certificate in Family Business Advising, awarded by the Family Firm Institute and recognized globally as one of the primary certifications for those providing advice to family business owners. As well as providing dedicated consultancy support to families in business, Russ is also the host of the widely acclaimed Family Business Podcast which has a global audience and is supported by the Institute for Family Business. Russ is the Co-Director of “The Quest for Legitimacy”, a global academic research project giving a voice to the Rising Generation. Russ is also a member of the Advisory Board and Faculty for The Ultra High Net Worth Institute, a US based not-for-profit think tank.

Join us on the Get Hired Up podcast to discuss technology and family businesses, family dynamics, legacy documents, shadowing pre-established wealth, and more.

Join the Get Hired Up Podcast to hear, scholar, author, artist, and speaker, Afua Cooper and me, discuss:

• The importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion—with emphasis on inclusion
• Afua’s story and vision for eliminating racism in the world
• How teachers and the education system can improve racial and ethnic justice
• How boards of directors can set-long strategies to become anti-racist organizations

Dr. Afua Cooper is a multi-award-winning and celebrated speaker, scholar, historian, author, poet, performer, and social and cultural commentator for organizations worldwide committed to building diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies.

Recognizing the tremendous multi-disciplinary contributions Dr. Cooper has made globally, Essence Magazine, a premiere lifestyle, fashion, and beauty publication, named her as one of the 25 women who are shaping the world.

Amongst her published novels, her ground-breaking book on Canadian slavery, The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Slavery in Canada and the Burning of Old Montreal, was nominated for the Governor General’s Award (CANADA).

As a result of her scholarship and praxis, Dr. Cooper was awarded a one-million-dollar grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage to direct the A Black People’s History of Canada project.

What if technology could directly support your mother or father during their vulnerable years in between our visits?

Join the Get Hired Up Podcast to hear tech-savvy consultant, entrepreneur, and founder of Social Robots, Lee St. James and me, discuss her invention of the social robot, Mindy. Lee St. James is a tech-savvy consultant and entrepreneur with over 25 years of business experience across a range of industries including consumer packaged goods and software.

She is the founder and President of Social Robots, a technology start-up that is exploring how robots can engage, entertain, and educate residents, family members and staff at retirement homes and long-term care facilities. She is passionate about the opportunity for companion robots to relieve social isolation and loneliness and to help people be more connected with each other. As an experienced project manager, collaborative team leader, and serial entrepreneur, Lee has expertise in digital transformation, strategic marketing and robots.

Liza Provenzano is Founder and Principal Consultant of SparkHR, a human resources and leadership development firm that focuses on helping businesses to become more successful through the performance of aligned, capable and engaged teams. 

Liza has diverse experiences across multiple industries, working both as a coach and as a consultant, with leaders and their teams, to diagnose what is getting in the way of fulfilling work experiences and desired results. 

Join us to discuss the best ways to approach difficult conversations at the executive level and how you can gain clarity (and by extension, value) around job performance, inevitably impacting your employee engagement and healthy work culture. 

Beverly Behan has had the privilege of working with boards of directors of the S&P 1500 and listed companies around the globe for the last 25 years. To date, she's worked with nearly 200 boards, ranging from recent IPOs to the fortune 500s from New York and Toronto to Bogota, Kuala Lumpur and Tel Aviv. Her clients are typically boards that want to get to the top of their game and stay there.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The sophisticated and elegant way to eliminate a toxic director
• How new CEOs can be effective in working with the board
• The evolution of the board dynamic: Defensive management versus collaborative oversight
• And much more!

Garry Ridge is Chairman of the Board and chief executive officer of the WD-40 Company headquartered in San Diego, California. Garry has been with WD-40 Company since 1987 in various management positions, including executive vice president and chief operating officer and vice president of international. He has worked directly with WD-40 in 50 countries. In this episode we discuss how Garry achieved 94%+ Employee Engagement Score at WD-40 Company, where his inspiring motives began, how they're employee engagement increased further during COVID 19, and the importance of company values.

Join Teresa Abram and me to discuss:

• How handwriting analysis can help mitigate risk within organizations 

• How it can be used to create a win-win scenario for both interviewer and interviewee 

• Why it’s an important tool in assessing your teams and determining your leaders 
 
Teresa Abram is a handwriting analyst and the owner of “Handwriting P.I.” a full-service handwriting analysis company that helps business with their hiring process by performing risk assessments, security checks, and personality profiles to streamline their process and make the right hiring decisions. 
 
Using her skills, she helps both corporate and personal clients determine what choices best fit their needs for success and happiness. 

Janice is the CEO of the Assembly of First Nations in Ottawa, Canada, the advocacy body for the more than 640 Indigenous communities across Canada. Described by peers and employees alike as an innovative and visionary guide and lead-by-example CEO, Dennis liaises, collaborates, and negotiates with governments, including Deputy Ministers, The Crown, the public sector, the private sector, and the general public. Janice also directs the daily activities of the AFN to achieve the goals, objectives, and the mandate of the AFN that drive its advocacy efforts while supporting First Nations issues. She's also been recently nominated for the prestigious Canada's Top 40 Under 40 Award—a dynamic awards program that identifies outstanding young achievers in Canadian business, visionaries, and innovators changing the way things are done. They are inspiring others and already giving back to their communities and to Canada.

We discuss her work as the CEO in the AFN, the significance of Orange Shirt Day, and the different ways businesses, individuals, and Canada can effectively take part in our Truth and Reconciliation day on September 30th (a new statutory holiday in Canada).

Is your SaaS business losing customers and MRR/ARR?

 What if there was a way to both gain valuable access to previously hidden data, reducing the risk of making expensive wrong decisions, while also increasing profits?

 It's what we talk about with our guest, Anita Toth, a data wizard, and Chief Churn Crusher. Listen in as we explore how Anita helps her clients gain valuable insights directly from their customers.

 Anita Toth has a passion for helping businesses see that knowing their customer will increase the customer experience and by extension create loyal relationships, eliminating churn. She specializes in B2B SaaS companies and has taken her 20 years of academic research experience to create The Churn Crusher System. 

In this episode, David Piho of Gorelick Brothers Capital in Charlotte, North Carolina, and I discuss his successful career in private equity.

Learn how David grew four businesses over 17 years with a focus on the currently hot single-family rental marketplace as an institutional investor and how his baseball career at MIT influenced his success.