How That Happened

Cindy Moehring is the Founder and Executive Chair of the Business Integrity Leadership Initiative at Walton College. Before joining Walton College, she had 27 years of leadership experience, most recently at Walmart, Inc. where she spent the last 20 years collaborating with the Walmart Board of Directors, four of the five Walmart CEOs, C-suite executives, and other senior leaders to drive global, technology, culture, risk management and governance change across the enterprise.

Moehring spearheaded the transformation of Walmart’s global culture of integrity in the wake of Walmart’s foreign corrupt practices act investigation. She developed and implemented a global ethics program in 27 countries for over 2 million employees.

In this episode, Cindy takes us through a history lesson on how business ethics and integrity became part of the core principles of an organization. She also shares how her career in this unique field started and the  impacts it had on  her.

Additionally, Moehring discusses how the Walton Business Integrity Leadership Initiative came to be and takes us through how they have incorporated business integrity into Walton’s curriculum.

Schell is a marketing consultant for personal brands and businesses and a certified brand guide. Her goal is to help you turn that passion into compelling messages, giving you a voice and a plan to reach others with passion. Schell’s passion is fueled by seeing companies thrive and their business grow when their message is clear. 

Before becoming an entrepreneur, Schell was in pharmaceutical sales. Her experience in sales, marketing and being a brand story guide makes her the best person to enlighten us on how to create strategic marketing plans, mistakes to avoid in our marketing and how we can create better brand stories. 

Rising from ashes to wealth is not just a narrative. David Stanley and his partners moved from zero to currently $1.6 billion. That sounds like a fairy tale, right? Today we hear it from David himself, who shares how, together with his partners, they grew Full Sail Capital. 

David earned business and finance degrees from the University of North Texas and is also a graduate of the Trust School at Northwestern University. He is a certified trust and financial advisor with a series 65 securities license. David is also a devoted husband and a proud dad and grandfather, and an accomplished fisherman and hunter.

David shares how they have managed their partnership over the years, the secret sauce to their business, and dealing with the loss of a client, among other things.

Brandon Sebald is the CEO of Brew Crew LLC, the first franchisee for 7 Brew Coffee, which is an exciting and relatively new coffee brand and experience.

7 Brew has a license to open nearly 100 stores in Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana, and Texas. Prior to his relationship with Seven Brew, Brandon was part of a Planet Fitness franchise group that had 92 locations across six states. He is also co-owner of a high-end custom home building company in Fayetteville, Arkansas. And then finally, Brandon is also a Buff City Soap franchisee with six New York stores and a territory to build up to 40 locations. Buff City Soap creates scented plant-based soaps made by hand daily in each location.

Brandon attended and played football at the University of Miami where he studied business finance and marketing, all skills that he's put to good use. He also attended Hofstra University in New York where he earned a degree in finance.

In this episode, Brandon discusses how his upbringing inspired him to become a entrepreneur. Also, he talks about extreme ownership and how that has helped him to be a successful business leader.

Trent Shores is a former United States Attorney and a shareholder at Gable Gotwals. He advises clients on complex litigation, Native American law and policy, cybersecurity, and high-stakes government and corporate investigations.

He represents clients in state, federal, and tribal courts at all stages in the litigation process, including at trial and on appeal. Recently, Trent was named a Tribal Supreme Court Justice for the Kaw Nation and a U.S. Global Leadership Coalition’s Oklahoma Advisory Committee member.

In this episode, Trent shares a backstory of how he got into the world of law, his presidential nomination, and the senate’s confirmation process. Also, he will tell us of his best moments in the world of law and his engagement with cybersecurity.

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Ashleigh Sutter CPA, the Director of US Accountant Sales at Intuit. With nearly 15  years of experience in the accounting industry, Sutter creates strong relationships with large accounting firms and industry partners. In this episode, learn the transformational changes happening to accounting and sales technology, particularly at Intuit, and how Ashleigh’s leadership has evolved throughout her career.

In addition, Ashleigh shines light on what it’s like to transition from a large accounting firm to a sales leadership role at Intuit, as well as her most pivotal career moment. She speaks on how Intuit is innovating their accounting technology, highlighting the role of automation, and how young accountants and leaders can begin to prepare for these transformational changes in technology.

As 2022 comes to a close, the How That Happened podcast team is on a short hiatus as we prepare for new content in 2023.  We thought it would be a great time to highlight a previous episode, and that is our 2019 interview with entrepreneur and communicator, Ron Siegenthaler.

How That Happened will return with a new episode in the new year.

Ron Siegenthaler is chairman of Xeta Communications and Give.mobi LLC. He is also serves as President of Myriad Technologies and a Consultant for Rolled Alloys. Prior to these positions, Ron founded Metals Inc., a steel service center that distributes specialty metals throughout the Southern United States.

Throughout his entrepreneurial career, Ron has had a hand in many industries in the Tulsa business community, including oil and gas, steel distribution, nonprofit, and communications. In 2011, Oklahoma State University’s Riata Entrepreneurship Center named Ron its Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year.

In this episode, Ron shares advice gleaned from a long and successful career, including lessons learned from starting and selling his first business, the attributes of effective business partnerships, and how a focus on service sustains business relationships.

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Dick Greenly is the Co-Founder of Water4, an organization on a mission to eradicate the world’s water crisis by bringing clean water access to every home, school, and clinic. Water4 is not your typical risk-adverse nonprofit… they want the risk because they believe in the power of pushing boundaries.

In this episode, Dick covers the formation of Water4, the inspiration behind the nonprofit, and the impact it’s making on the world’s water infrastructure. Having been to 45 different countries, Water4 created momentum by training local communities in Africa to drill wells. As a result from the training, the nonprofit is able to help more people.

Though, solving a global crisis doesn’t come without its obstacles. As the wells began breaking and more pain points began to arise, they became liabilities. Dick shares the challenges, costs, and solutions they developed to increase the efficiency and scalability of their nonprofit water infrastructure. He also sheds light on the harmful economic implications of charity and how organizations can approach charity work without compromising the communities they’re serving.

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Sharina Perry is the Founder of Utopia Plastix, a company that has created the plant-based alternative to plastic. Utopia Plastix is on a mission is to provide the best plant-based products while maintaining their goal to not create problems as they solve them.

In this episode, Sharina shares how she developed her intense determination to change the world.   She also covers how her plant studies accidentally led her to discover the use of crops as alternatives to petroleum, cotton, and wood. As someone who’s not a scientist, Sharina highlights her creative process for inventing the plastic-free straw, and the challenges she overcame while developing her products.

Perry details her entire go-to-market journey. From making the prototype in her kitchen, to pitching it to investors, she details finding manufacturers, and getting her product third-party tested. Additionally, she speaks on what it really takes to think outside the box and turn your ideas into something greater.

Connect with Sharina:

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Jim Sliker is the CEO of Central States Manufacturing, a 100% employee-owned (ESOP) company that produces metal building components for a variety of structures and applications. Jim earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kettering University and an MBA from the University of Michigan. He serves on the Make-A-Wish Mid-South board, and the Northwest Arkansas Children’s Shelter board of directors.

In this episode, Jim talks about Central States Manufacturing’s geographical saturation strategy for growing and scaling an American manufacturing company. He discusses the challenges the company has faced in their growth journey, and how they built and nurtured trusting relationships within their supply chain.

Sliker later shares how he educates his distributor base (the most challenging part of the business), the valuable KPIs they measure, and how his team executes their strategy of being “Right, On Time, Every Time.”  Additionally, Jim shares his best advice for business leaders, highlighting the power of transparency.

Connect with Jim:

Visit Central States Manufacturing’s website

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