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In this episode, I interviewed Cheryl Capps, Board Member at Integer Holdings (NYSE: ITGR), World 50 Group, Elementum, ketteQ, and o9 Solutions, Inc. We looked back at her career in the corporate world- how she successfully transitioned from one stage of her career to another and how speaking the language of different functions greatly helped her.

Cheryl shared with me an inspiring story about her time with a pharmaceutical company, where they succeeded in procuring and bringing medicine to the Dominican Republic to save a three-year-old girl’s life. She also shared the case study of Corning developing a Digitalized Global Risk Detection and Mitigation System.

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Bart is the Chief Supply Chain Officer of Haleon, which he helped through the spin off journey from GSK. 

He also spent 14 years at Reckitt, where he was Head of Quality, Safety Sustainability and Compliance as well as Head of Global Operations for RB Health and held various other roles in the global health supply chain.

Bart previously worked at Unilever for over a decade in a number of roles across manufacturing, procurement, planning and strategic projects in the UK and the Netherlands.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Career progression, leadership, and purpose in supply chain management
• Spinning off a consumer health business from a pharma company
• End-to-End Autonomy in Business 
• Industry trends and supply chain challenges in consumer health
• Attributes of a great Supply Chain Leader and advice for Aspiring Board Member 

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Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. Nir previously taught as a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford.

Nir co-founded and sold two tech companies since 2003 and was dubbed by The M.I.T. Technology Review as, “The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology.” 

He is the author of two bestselling books, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. His books have resonated with readers worldwide, selling over 1 million copies in over 30 languages.

Indistractable received critical acclaim, winning the Outstanding Works of Literature Award as well as being named one of the Best Business and Leadership Books of the Year by Amazon and one of the Best Personal Development Books of the Year by Audible. The Globe and Mail called Indistractable, “the best business book of 2019.”

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• The psychology of distraction and how to overcome it
• 4 Steps to manage distractions and internal triggers
• Creating a distraction-free workplace culture
• AI and distraction. And will it take over the world?

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Nadine Kiratli-Schneider is the Vice President of Supply Chain Risk and Sustainability at Schaeffler. She previously headed the corporate inbound supply chain, bridging logistics and sourcing for supplier criteria. Prior to Schaeffler, she was an Assistant Professor Of Purchasing and SCM at the university.

With a strong background in academia and a passion for effective solutions, Nadine combines science and business to tackle complex transport challenges. She’s a strong believer in the power of diverse teams to make the supply chain resilient and sustainable.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Journey from academia to supply chain 
• A holistic view of supply chain management
• Three biggest risks and challenges for global supply chain
• Supply chain as a key contributor to sustainability
• What can supply chain learn from academia

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Houssam is the Group VP supply chain of FORVIA, a $30 billion automotive company. He manages a supply chain of 12,000 people located in 250 plants globally.

Houssam has an international background and a deep passion for the automotive industry. He takes great pride in supply chain and operations.

Prior to joining FORVIA, he worked in various Supply Chain roles at large companies across industrial and telco, such as Stellantis, Bombardier, Michelin, and ALCATEL. He has led huge transformations and implementations around the globe. He began his career as a software engineer at CAPGEMINI.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Career Journey: a software engineer's shift to supply chain leadership.
• Success Formula: vision, listening, and team care for a thriving career.
• Team Culture: Forvia’'s culture emphasizes action over talk.
• Automotive supply chain: facing challenges and opportunities

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Deepak Garg was the Founder of Rivigo, where he built the most recent logistics unicorn in India.

Rivigo transformed how transport was done in India by creating a relay truck model, where no driver would drive for more than four to five hours at a stretch and would return home the same day.

Deepak has now started AnywhereJobs, with the intent of skilling 10 million Indian Talents for global job opportunities.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• The recipe of building a unicorn
• Entrepreneurship, mistakes, and lessons learned
• How Anywhere Jobs expands a lot of opportunities
• India’s Talent Export Opportunities
• Solving driver shortage in Europe with Indian drivers

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Frederic Brut is the head of the supply chain EEMEA and the Asia Pacific, China & Japan Region for MSD. He describes himself as an inclusive leader, adapting with speed and agility to a continuously changing world.

Prior to MSD, he held a number of Head of SC and Operations positions in various sectors, including Retail, Building Material products, and Pharmaceutical wholesaling in Europe and Latin America. Fred is passionate about rugby, CrossFit, traveling & cooking. He values loyalty, trust, and commitment.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Diverse Career Journey: Fred's versatile supply chain career
• Diversity and Inclusion Advocate: commitment to DEI and its significance
• Purpose-Driven Culture: fostering passion within and beyond the company
• Future Talent Qualities: essential qualities for future supply chain 

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Christoph Häusler joined Refresco in 2021 as Chief Manufacturing Officer. Christoph is an experienced Supply Chain & Manufacturing executive with an international track record. He has held several senior executive supply chain roles at Reckitt Benckiser since 2007, most recently as Member of the Executive Committee for the Hygiene Business leading the End-to-End Supply. He started his career at Procter & Gamble, of which 7 years in the beverages business, and is a graduate from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Career inflection points that got Christoph into supply chain
• How to integrate M&As from the supply chain lens
• A magic wand for supply chain improvement
• Culture Assessment in Refresco
• Hiring traits - soft skills and hard skills
• Advice for success in the supply chain

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Melanie Haas is the EVP of Supply Management at Rosenberger Group. Prior to Rosenberger, she brought an impressive 16-year experience at Continental AG, working in different countries and roles within supply chain and operations. Melanie is passionate about technologies serving supply chain, by integrating technology she not only enhances customer satisfaction but also massively drives up productivity. 

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Melanie’s unconventional Supply Chain journey
• Juggling career and family in a man’s industrial world
• Leading from the front: Melanie’s role in company growth
• The ERP Adventure: Melanie’s Roller Coaster ride in tech transformation
• Tomorrow’s Tools: Tech trends shaping the future of Supply Chain
• Beyond the Resume: What are the sought-after qualities in Supply Chain Talent

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Alexandre "Ale" Eboli is the Executive Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer for Conagra Brands. He has end-to-end supply chain responsibilities for the company, overseeing the manufacturing, procurement, environment, health and safety, plant quality, logistics, and transportation and warehousing teams.

Ale earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Science degree in Naval Engineering from São Paulo University. Ale serves on the board for Ardent Mills.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Passion in execution that led Ale to go back to supply chain
• Five core principles for a successful supply chain
• Key KPIs in Conagra 
• Stabilization of CPGs- identifying challenges and solving them
• Finding the right balance between sustainability initiatives and P&L
• Inspiring insights and thoughts to develop a career

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