David is one of those amazing people who has built a successful career through his passion for improving the communities that he lives and works in. Currently, David is the Head of Community Engagement (West) for Amazon where he coordinates with non-profits and community leaders to drive impact and social good. David was honored as an American Champion of Change by President Obama.

In his upcoming book, A Place Called Home, David shares his story of poverty and homelessness as a child, which ultimately became a driving force in his career. A true inspiration for us all.

Guest Bio

David Ambroz

Head of Community Engagement (West)

Amazon

David Ambroz is a national poverty and child welfare expert and advocate. He was recognized by President Obama as an American Champion of Change. He currently serves as the Head of Community Engagement (West) for Amazon, coordinating with non-profits and community leaders for social good. Previously he led Corporate Social Responsibility for Walt Disney Television, and served as the President of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, and as a California Child Welfare Councilmember. After growing up homeless and then in foster care, he graduated from Vassar and later from UCLA School of Law (J.D.). He is a foster dad and lives in Los Angeles, CA.

About his soon to be released book, “A Place Called Home”

"It's impossible to read A Place Called Home and not want to redouble your efforts to fight the systems of poverty that have plagued America for far too long. In this book, David shares his deeply personal story and issues a rousing call to make this a more humane and compassionate nation."—Hillary Rodham Clinton

"A story destined to end in tragedy that magically rewards an indomitable determination to succeed. Beautifully written."—Ted Koppel, veteran ABC anchor and New York Times bestselling author of Lights Out

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“Memory is the hallmark of experience.” Just some of the wise words from this week’s guest, Mark Stanley. Mark is one of those people with a really cool job that few know even exists. He is a Customer Experience Designer for Genesys and is the architect of many of the customer service experiences we all have on a daily basis. Prior to his current endevor, Mark spent twenty years in the airline industry where he developed his skills in using technology to better serve customers.

Mark brings a wealth of experience and creativity to the show sharing his lessons learned across many job functions and industries.

Guest Bio

Mark Stanley

Customer Experience Designer & Author

Genesys

Mark Stanley is a Customer Experience Designer, which he performs as a Healthcare Industry Executive for Genesys and is the author of Experience Design for Customer Service: How to go from mediocre to great! He has worked in and for a variety of customer service-related companies. Following a span of twenty years in the airline industry, he transitioned to contact centers to develop skills around the technology used to connect customers to service staff, as well as the supporting systems like workforce management and quality monitoring. He transitioned into business consulting and project management, with a focus on the relationship and interdependence between business goals, customer service operations and technology. His work is primarily in healthcare, insurance, and financial services.

Prior to joining Genesys, Mark held call center operations and sales management positions with Crestview Consulting Group, Wolfe & Associates, ERS (a leading third-party healthcare services provider), Lufthansa German Airlines and Korean Air. 

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Loyola Marymount University, is a Certified Experience Economy Expert, a COPC Implementation Leader, and a Project Management Professional (PMP).

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Jayzen is thrilled to be talking brand with his guest, Erik Huberman. As a serial entrepreneur and marketing expert, Erik broke the mold from the traditional agency model when he founded Hawke Media in 2014 and is now the fastest growing marketing agency in the country. Seeing a need in the market, Erik created an agency as Your Outsourced CMO®, allowing companies of any size to have amazing creative marketing in an ala carte manner.

Starting his career very early in life working in his fathers business to now managing a team of over 300 and 600+ clients, Erik has incredible stories to tell and advice that we all can learn from.

Guest Bio

Erik Huberman

CEO & Founder

Hawke Media

CEO & Founder Erik Huberman launched Hawke Media in 2014. Now valued at over $150 million, Hawke Media is the fastest growing marketing consultancy agency in the United States. Prior to its launch, Erik successfully founded, grew, and sold two e-commerce companies by the age of 26. Erik has since continued to strategically expand his business portfolio inclusive of a handful of company acquisitions, the 2018 launch of Hawke Ventures which reached a closed single fund of $5.6 million, the 2020 launch of his own podcast, HawkeTalk, the 2021 launch of HawkeZ, an agency offering brands the tools needed to tap into GenZ and most recently authored his own book, The Hawke Method, becoming a national bestseller.

As a serial entrepreneur and marketing expert, Erik has been recognized by his industry peers through honors and awards including Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30, CSQ’s 40 Under 40, and Inc. Magazine’s Top 25 Marketing Influencers just to name a few.

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Dominic Monkhouse is a leader with a unique style and process that has enabled incredible growth and success in the companies that he has run. Now, as a Tech Growth Advisor and business coach, Dominic has created a purpose-built management lab where he shares the systems, tools and strategies that help successful companies achieve explosive growth.

His blunt and bold approach to business combined with an ever-growing wealth of knowledge provides a number of lessons that can be applied to anyone’s career.

Guest Bio

Dominic Monkhouse

Tech Growth Advisor

Dominic is the silent weapon tech companies hire to achieve explosive growth. As managing director at Rackspace, the team grew from 4 to 150, the lifetime value of a client went up from £2000 to £200,000, and annual revenue from £250,000 to £30 million.

At Peer 1, he founded the UK business, scaling it from 0 to £30 million in 5 years, and helped grow the global business from $90 million to $200 million before it was acquired for $685m. While at ITlab he took the business from near bankruptcy to an award winning firm that sold for £26 million.

He has now created a purpose-built management lab where he shares the systems, tools and strategies that enabled him to scale from his quiet farm in Wiltshire. He’s also the host of The Melting Pot show and his weekly newsletter is read by over 6000 of the world’s top leaders.

Dominic is the outlandish author of F**K PLAN B. How to scale your technology business faster and achieve plan A, an exciting blueprint for cultural change and business transformation.

Links

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As we roll into summer, Jayzen is thrilled to welcome London Lomax to the show. London is the CEO of Innovation Health, and the Chief Strategic Advisor to the President & CEO of Aetna, a CVS Health Company. London’s leadership style celebrates the best in his people and his ability to cultivate and lead high performing teams has helped to quickly advance his career and those around him. His passion for healthcare combined with his “empathy-forward” style are helping him to grow Innovation Health and expand the reach of the company.

Guest Bio

London Lomax

CEO, Innovation Health

Chief Strategic Advisor to the President & CEO of Aetna, a CVS Health Company

London Lomax is the Chief Executive Officer of Innovation Health. He joined Innovation Health’s Leadership team in January 2022. With his strategic health plan and market leadership expertise, London will guide the continued success and expansion of Innovation Health with a focus on member growth and access to quality health coverage for the Washington, D.C. metro area. London has held a variety of strategic roles across diverse industries, from fully funded startups to Fortune 50 companies. In addition to being CEO of Innovation Health, he serves as the Chief Strategic Advisor to the President & CEO of Aetna, a CVS Health Company. London joined Aetna from SmileHealth where he was Vice President, Growth & Distribution Effectiveness. Prior to SmileHealth, he held leadership positions both domestically and internationally in product innovation, data analytics, strategic planning, sales, marketing and change management at EmblemHealth and AIG.

London holds a B.S. from Central Connecticut State University and M.S. in Strategic Organization Leadership from Quinnipiac University. He has also completed Harvard Business School’s Executive Education program where he focused on value-based health care strategy. He is a 2021 Denver Business Journal 40 under 40 award recipient and voted as one of Modern Healthcare’s 25 Emerging Leaders in healthcare for 2021. He is a Houston, Texas native and currently resides in Denver, Colorado.

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As we bring LGBTQ+ Pride Month to a close, Jayzen is thrilled to have Deena Fidas on the show. Deena has had a fascinating career leading inclusion programs across the globe. She is currently the Managing Director and Chief Program and Partnerships Officer for Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, the premier organization working exclusively on LGBTQ workplace equality. Through their worldwide programs, Fortune 500 partnerships and their annual Workplace Summit conference, they help LGBTQ people thrive and support organizations creating a culture of belonging for all.

In celebration of Pride Month, the Lead With Your Brand!™ Podcast has partnered with Out & Equal. Each week in June, we’ve featured an out leader each with an amazing career story to share. In addition, we’ve assembled an entire collection of shows with LGBTQ+ guests from the past three seasons, including two special roundtable episodes where we explore issues around the trans experience and intersectionality of race and LGBTQ+ in the workplace. The team at Out & Equal has created free downloadable discussion guides, so we encourage you to use the podcast as a virtual “book club” with your ERG or group of friends. Listen to the episodes, download the discussion guides and schedule your group discussion! Check out www.leadwithyourbrand.com/pride for more information.

Happy Pride!

Guest Bio

Deena Fidas

Managing Director & Chief Program and Partnerships Officer

Out & Equal Workplace Advocates

As Managing Director and Chief Program and Partnerships Officer, Deena oversees Out & Equal’s programs, both domestic and global as well as corporate partnerships, working with global companies and organizations to accomplish the next level of LGBTQ inclusion.

Deena is a leading global workplace advocate. She was at the Human Rights Campaign for 12 years prior to Out & Equal where she led their workplace equality programs and Corporate Equality Index. Deena was behind some of the movement’s largest corporate public policy mobilization efforts, including turning the tide for Corporate America’s support for marriage equality and the Equality Act. Under her leadership, the number of Fortune 500 companies with full LGBTQ protections rose from less than half to a full majority, 90 percent. Deena has led inclusion programs on four continents and pioneered the development of corporate benchmarking tools here in the US and across Latin America and Asia to advance real policy change and impact people’s everyday lives. She holds a Master’s in Sociology from American University and prior to her work on LGBTQ inclusion, she worked in progressive fundraising, philanthropy and research.

Links

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Happy LGBTQ+ Pride Month! Jayzen is excited to have Brad Baumoel as his guest on the show. After thirty years in banking at JPMorgan Chase, Brad moved into an amazing role with the firm that aligns his professional leadership talents with his passion for his community. As the Global Head of LGBT+ Affairs, Brad leads the firm’s center of excellence that develops executives who identify as LGBT+, helping to further their careers by bringing their full selves to work everyday.

In celebration of Pride Month, the Lead With Your Brand!™ Podcast has partnered with Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, the premier organization working exclusively on LGBTQ+ workplace equality. Each week in June, we’ll be featuring an out leader each with an amazing career story to share. In addition, we’ve assembled an entire collection of shows with LGBTQ+ guests from the past three seasons, including two special roundtable episodes where we explore issues around the trans experience and intersectionality of race and LGBTQ+ in the workplace. The team at Out & Equal has created free downloadable discussion guides, so we encourage you to use the podcast as a virtual “book club” with your ERG or group of friends. Listen to the episodes, download the discussion guides and schedule your group discussion! Check out www.leadwithyourbrand.com/pride for more information.

Happy Pride!

Guest Bio

Brad Baumoel

Global Head of LGBT+ Affairs

JPMorgan Chase

Brad Baumoel is the Global Head of LGBT+ Affairs for JPMorgan Chase, where his career has spanned the last 30 years,.

At JPMorgan Chase, Brad has held key roles in Corporate Finance, Asset & Wealth Management and Consumer & Community Banking. Brad came out as a Gay Man at work, 10 years into his professional career and has worked hard on leading aspects of the firm’s LGBT+ agenda and their PRIDE Business Resource Group over the last 25 years.

In 2021, Brad established and built-out the Office of LGBT+ Affairs, where he’s merged his day job with his gay job and now leads their unified, global strategy focused on promoting equity and inclusion for LGBT+ Employees, Clients, Business Partners and Communities. Brad, his husband and their son (an 11 year old German Shepherd), live in New York.

Links

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Happy LGBTQ+ Pride Month! Jayzen is thrilled to welcome Daniel Reynolds to the show. As Editor In Chief of Out Magazine, Daniel leads the charge for one of the most iconic national publications covering the LGBTQ+ community. Rising through the ranks of Out’s sister magazine, The Advocate, Daniel has penned some of the most notable stories, including the cover story for their Will & Grace reunion issue and won a 2021 GLAAD Media Award.

In celebration of Pride Month, the Lead With Your Brand!™ Podcast has partnered with Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, the premier organization working exclusively on LGBTQ+ workplace equality. Each week in June, we’ll be featuring an out leader each with an amazing career story to share. In addition, we’ve assembled an entire collection of shows with LGBTQ+ guests from the past three seasons, including two special roundtable episodes where we explore issues around the trans experience and intersectionality of race and LGBTQ+ in the workplace. The team at Out & Equal has created free downloadable discussion guides, so we encourage you to use the podcast as a virtual “book club” with your ERG or group of friends. Listen to the episodes, download the discussion guides and schedule your group discussion! Check out www.leadwithyourbrand.com/pride for more information.

Happy Pride!

Guest Bio

Daniel Reynolds

Editor In Chief

Out Magazine

Daniel Reynolds is an award-winning journalist (2021 GLAAD Media Award, 2020 Planned Parenthood Federation’s Media Excellence Award) who focuses on entertainment, culture, health, and politics. Reynolds joined The Advocate as an intern in 2012. Since then, he rose through the ranks to become the editor in chief of its sister magazine, Out, in 2021.

The West Hollywood resident has written several cover stories for Pride Media publications, among them The Advocate’s 2017 Will & Grace reunion issue and Out’s latest Pride cover featuring the cast of Hacks. Prior to Pride Media, Reynolds worked as a freelance producer for KABC-TV’s On the Red Carpet and as a writer for Guest of a Guest, where he covered the spheres of art, fashion, and society in New York City.

A New Jersey native and avid reader, Reynolds holds an M.A. in English from Fordham University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors from Lafayette College, where he was the proud president of the student LGBTQ+ group, Quest. Additionally, he is a gay Eagle Scout, a marathon runner, and a hopeless Francophile.

Links

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Happy LGBTQ+ Pride Month! As we enter week 2 of Pride Month, Jayzen is excited to welcome his guest, Sharon-Franklin Brown, Chief Impact Officer of the Los Angeles LGBT Center. Sharon also serves as the Board President for LA Pride, one of the oldest and largest LGBTQ+ Pride festivals in the country.

Sharon has remarkable career story to share and works tirelessly to create space for her community and make the world a more equitable place for trans and gender non-conforming people. As Chief Impact Officer for the largest organization in the world serving the LGBTQ+ community, she is responsible for providing strategic leadership, management, guidance to programs and Human Resources for a staff of nearly 800 employees as well as impact efforts through grantmaking, and community engagement.

In celebration of Pride Month, the Lead With Your Brand!™ Podcast has partnered with Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, the premier organization working exclusively on LGBTQ+ workplace equality. Each week in June, we’ll be featuring an out leader each with an amazing career story to share. In addition, we’ve assembled an entire collection of shows with LGBTQ+ guests from the past three seasons, including two special roundtable episodes where we explore issues around the trans experience and intersectionality of race and LGBTQ+ in the workplace. The team at Out & Equal has created free downloadable discussion guides, so we encourage you to use the podcast as a virtual “book club” with your ERG or group of friends. Listen to the episodes, download the discussion guides and schedule your group discussion! Check out www.leadwithyourbrand.com/pride for more information.

Happy Pride!

Guest Bio

Sharon-Franklin Brown

Chief Impact Officer, Los Angeles LGBT Center

& Board President, LA Pride

Sharon-Franklin Brown is a navigator of change and a recipient of the Leadership Award for her extraordinary contributions by supporting and furthering civil rights in advancing workplace diversity in an exceptional manner on behalf of the Employment Round Table of Southern California and the City of Los Angeles. As Chief Impact Officer for the Los Angeles LGBT Center, she is responsible for providing strategic leadership, management, guidance to programs and Human Resources for a staff of nearly 800 employees as well as impact efforts through grantmaking, and community engagement. She is celebrating 15 years with the Center and currently serves as the President of the Board of Directors for Christopher Street West Association/LA Pride.

Sharon became a national speaker on transgender rights after being terminated from Fayetteville State University, a historically black university, for being a trans-woman. Sharon was on the leading edge during her speaking engagements at colleges and universities on the importance of including gender identity and gender expression in their anti-discrimination policies. In 2010, she co-wrote the “ground breaking” recommendations for “Model Protocols – Police Interactions with Transgender Individuals” which was later adopted by the Los Angeles Police Department as policy. Folks who have met Sharon know that her impact is tangible and that her incredible influence has helped to create a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable society.

Links

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Happy LGBTQ+ Pride Month! Jayzen is thrilled to be launching Pride Month with the incredible Wilson Cruz! Wilson currently stars as Dr. Hugh Culber on Star Trek: Discovery. As the first openly gay actor to play an openly gay character on series television, Wilson first came into our homes as Ricky Vasquez on My So Called Life in 1994. His career has spanned television, film and Broadway - and he continues to be an amazing activist for his community.

In celebration of Pride Month, the Lead With Your Brand!™ Podcast has partnered with Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, the premier organization working exclusively on LGBTQ+ workplace equality. Each week in June, we’ll be featuring an out leader each with an amazing career story to share. In addition, we’ve assembled an entire collection of shows with LGBTQ+ guests from the past three seasons, including two special roundtable episodes where we explore issues around the trans experience and intersectionality of race and LGBTQ+ in the workplace. The team at Out & Equal has created free downloadable discussion guides, so we encourage you to use the podcast as a virtual “book club” with your ERG or group of friends. Listen to the episodes, download the discussion guides and schedule your group discussion! Check out www.leadwithyourbrand.com/pride for more information.

Happy Pride!

Guest Bio

Wilson Cruz

Award-winning Actor, Activist and Humanitarian

Award-winning Actor, Activist, “Actorvist,” and Humanitarian Wilson Cruz currently stars as Dr. Hugh Culber on the Award-winning CBS All Access series STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, which premieres its 4th Season on November 18th. He appeared on the Netflix series THIRTEEN REASONS WHY and in Hulu’s 2020 GLAAD Award-Winning original animated kids’ series THE BRAVEST KNIGHT. He is also the Executive Producer of the critically acclaimed docuseries called VISIBLE:OUT ON TELEVISION airing on Apple TV+ that investigates the importance of TV as an intimate medium that has shaped the American conscience, and how the LGBTQ movement has shaped television.

Receiving the Emery S. Hetrick Award from the Hetrick- Martin Institute for Outstanding Contributions to LGBTQ Youth, for his role as Rickie Vasquez on the ABC series MY SO CALLED LIFE, Wilson became the first openly Gay actor playing an openly Gay role on series television. Cruz also starred as Angel in the West Coast premiere of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning musical RENT which earned him both The Ovation and Drama Logue awards before his reprisal of the role on Broadway.

Cruz recently accepted GLAAD’s Vito Russo Award and the Make A Difference Award from the Matthew Shepard Foundation. He has also received the Rand Schrader Distinguished Achievement Award from the Los Angeles LGBTQ Center, the Liberty Award from Lambda Legal, the Visibilidad Award from GLAAD, the Fusion Achievement Award from Outfest, the Latino Spirit Award for Achievement in Entertainment and Advocacy from the California Latino Legislative Caucus, the Harvey Milk Equality Award, the Lincoln Aston Public Service Award, Aston-Brooks Award, and the Advocate Award from AdColor. He served as the Director of Entertainment Industry Partnerships and National Spokesperson for GLAAD, currently serves on the board of GLSEN and devotes considerable time supporting other LBGTQ organizations as well. Wilson is a first generation American of Puerto Rican descent.

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