Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich's guest is Frédérique Campagne Irwin, President and CEO of the National Women's History Museum (https://www.womenshistory.org/) an innovative DC-based museum dedicated to uncovering, interpreting and celebrating women’s diverse contributions to society. 

In our discussion on the aspects of leadership that have shaped and guided her life, Fred talks about the dual value of work ethic and authenticity in leadership, the gift of "reverse mentorship," the power of bringing women entrepreneurs together to be accelerators for one another and the work left to do to inspire the future generations of women leaders. 

About The Hosts:

Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.

Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons. 

This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital.

Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich's guest is Waded Cruzado, President of Montana State University.

Waded shares the "five traits" of leadership that have shaped her own style and journey, one that began as the first member of her Puerto Rican family to attend college and the first to venture to the US mainland. She discusses a foundational concept of education - from the latin root "to draw out" or "bring out" - in leadership, enabling others to be pulled toward their potential. President Cruzado also discusses the fraught climate on college and university campuses and how we can do a better job of leaning into meaningful dialogue. 

About The Hosts:

Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.

Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons. 

This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital.

Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich's guest is Zebulon Scoville, Lead Flight Director of NASA's Mission Control.

Zeb shares the lessons from his remarkable career at NASA, which includes leading the International Space Station from the console at Mission Control, creating "return to flight" safety protocols following the Columbia shuttle disaster and collaborating with commercial partners like SpaceX to accelerate the possibilities of future space exploration. Zeb is now Lead Flight Director for the Artemis mission, NASA's first piloted mission to the moon in more than 50 years. It's a fascinating conversation on leadership from within one of the most innovative organizations in humankind.

About The Hosts:

Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.

Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons. 

This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital.

Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich ask Tony James the "five questions."

Tony discusses the lessons of leadership built over a remarkable career leading at DLJ and as president of the global asset management firm Blackstone. We think this episode is a master class on leadership from someone who has, undoubtedly, led by example.

About The Hosts:

Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.

Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons. 

This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital.

Inspired By Example is a podcast about purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich ask Dan Goldsmith the "five questions."

Dan talks about his meteoric rise to become one of IBM's youngest ever partners in its global consultancy, the lessons he brought with him to Veeva (that transformed the life sciences industry on its way to a $30B market cap with 35% annual growth), Instructure (which he led to a $2B public to private exit) and his current role as CEO of Tendo.

About The Hosts:

Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.

Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons. 

This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital.

Inspired By Example is a podcast about purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich ask David Coulter the "five questions."

David talks about about some of the valuable lessons he's learned along the way from people like Mac McQuown (former innovator at Wells Fargo),  Tom Clausen (former CEO of B of A),  Dan Case (former CEO of Hambrecht & Quist) and Farnam Jahanian (President of Carnegie Mellon University) and through his own remarkable career that includes positions of leadership at some of the world’s most iconic financial institutions, including as the Chairman and CEO of Bank of America, Vice Chairman of JPMorgan Chase and Managing Director of Warburg Pincus.  

About The Hosts:

Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.

Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons. 

This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital.

Inspired By Example is a podcast about purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich ask Mitchell Kertzman the "five questions."

Mitchell recently retired as Managing Director of Hummer Winblad, and before that was CEO of private and public companies for over 30 years, including Powersoft, Sybase and Liberate Technologies. In this episode, Michell discusses what shaped his model of great leadership, continuous learning and the importance of enabling everyone at all levels to see how they're moving an organization forward.

About The Hosts:

Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.

Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons. 

This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital.

Inspired By Example is a podcast about purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich ask Admiral Steve Abbot USN (Ret.) the "five questions."

Steve's remarkable life has included being a Rhodes Scholar, combat fighter pilot, Bronze Medal recipient, test pilot of the F-18, Commanding Officer of the USS Theodore Roosevelt during Operation Desert Storm, four-star admiral and, following his 34-year naval career, Deputy Homeland Security Senior Advisor.

Steve talks about leadership (the influence of his father Admiral "Doc" Abbot and Secretary Tom Ridge), the value of perseverance (two examples of pushing past initial rejections that proved pivotal in his career and life) and how service to his country has taken on a new form and importance in the wake of Jan 6th, 2021.

About The Hosts:

Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.

Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons. 

This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital.

Inspired By Example is a podcast about purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich ask Steve Burke the "five questions."

Steve Burke talks about his career (from running Walt Disney Europe to president of ABC, from CEO of NBC Universal to the "third act" of his life), his mentors and friends (which include legends like Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jamie Dimon and Warren Buffett) and some of the lessons that have shaped his remarkable life.

About The Hosts:

Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.

Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons. 

This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital.

Inspired By Example is a podcast about purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. In this first episode, Rich interviews his cohost (and big brother) Will, to ask the "five questions." 

From an international childhood, to a "traditional" path of Harvard, Morgan Stanley and Bay Area tech, to a life in the mountains of Montana, transforming the landscape of innovation throughout the Rocky Mountains, Will has "inspired by example."

About The Hosts:

Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.

Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons. 

This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital.