Leadership, Disrupted

Koreen Pagano has decades of experience helping organizations transform. She has worked with executive teams on building business strategies, analyzing market opportunities, and pitching new ventures to Boards. And today her primary focus is helping leaders navigate the question of what skills means to them and how to start the journey to becoming a skills-based organization.

Koreen’s LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/koreenpagano

Building the Skills-Based Organization: https://a.co/d/i1rXsOj

Noah Charnow is a Creative Director based in San Diego, best known for being a good idea thinker, a dog dad, a human dad, a skateboarder, a tearable speller, an obsessive doodler. Also the founder of Rock Hard Reviews, a globally successful movie review company. And the founding member of a decent one-man band, Dr. Alien.

Website: https://noahcharnow.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-charnow/

Rock Hard Reviews: https://www.instagram.com/rock_hard_reviews/Dr. Alien: https://doctoraliensucks.bandcamp.com/

Ben Rosenfield is the Swiss Army Knife of communications. He's an influential marketing and communications leader, strategist, and hands-on creator with extensive, demonstrated experience in combining content and customer experience to drive brand visibility and growth. Sought after for thought leadership and proven expertise in audience research and engagement, transforming consumer and business insights into actionable strategies, enhancing brand perception, writing and editing, and making complex information clear and compelling. Servant and adaptive leader, coach, and mentor. Nice guy, too.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-rosenfield/

Anna Fain is an inspiring, strategic leader with extensive talent and culture building experience in global, large, mid-size, and start-up operations spanning multiple industries. In this episode she details her passion for developing leaders and building an organizational culture of of empathy, inclusion and belonging. She has a proven track record with global industry experiences spanning Biopharmaceuticals, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Engineering, Precision Manufacturing, Precision Medicine, Robotics and Automation, Medical Devices, and Hospitality.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annamfain/

Jim Caruso has trained, coached and mentored over 10,000 individuals in 15 countries on 5 continents from over 100 organizations including 50 Fortune 500 and Global Fortune 500 companies, across all industries, functions, and talent levels. In this episode Jim shares a lifetime of experience and practical wisdom focused on helping people become better leaders.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescaruso/

Tony Barr is a strategist, operator, and leadership thinker. He is the creator of the Signal Leader Paradigm™ and founder of Vidergo Group, an alliance of thought and practice disciplines that help organizations achieve breakthroughs in clarity, trust, and performance. His work bridges strategy, culture, and human development, grounded in decades of executive leadership and transformation experience. Currently an executive with BEUMER Group in North America, he writes at the intersection of leadership, systems, and culture while developing his first book.

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonybarr/

Cecilia Anderson is a corporate learning strategist with nearly 20 years of helping organisations build learning that works: for people and for the business. She focuses on creating experiences that strengthen culture, shift behaviour over time, and connect lifelong learning with authentic leadership and performance. Cecilia partners with clients to shape learning that feels personal, practical, and purposeful — whether it’s onboarding, leadership development, navigating change, or tackling the conversations we often avoid. She cares just as much about the experience as the outcome: how it lands, how it scales, and how it moves people.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilia-anderso

Josandra Schmidt is an emerging leader for a major agriculture equipment manufacturer. She's also in the third year of her own farm startup, with her husband. Plus she’s raising two young girls. She’s one of the hardest working Millennials I know and in today's episode she shares her perspective on leadership, life, work, etc.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasondra-schmidt-92971b95/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jdockter

David Hutchens is an author and CEO at Mythos Global / The Storytelling Leader. He helps innovation leaders around the world exercise the storytelling "voice of engagement" skill.
With nearly 30 years of experience in organizational learning, David is an expert in using narrative to facilitate engagement, alignment, learning, and change in the world's most influential organizations.
David has authored nine books, including his latest, "Story Dash", which equips leaders with tools and processes to find, develop, and activate their most valuable business stories.
He has worked with influential organizations such as Accenture, IBM, Google, PayPal, Cisco, FedEx, L'Oreal Paris, NASA, and many others, across France, Germany, Singapore, The Netherlands, South Africa, and beyond.
He is also a creator and facilitator of innovative leadership experiences, such as The Team USA Leadership Experience at the Olympic Training Center and The Apollo Leadership Experience at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
David's work has been recognized with multiple awards and distinctions, such as Training & Development's "Training Product of the Year", ATD's "Excellence in Practice", and Brandon Hall Gold Award.

Charlotte Kemp is a futurist based in Capetown, South Africa. She helps leaders wrestling with the future to learn how to manage change; gather futures intelligence; define, describe and design the future and create a roadmap towards innovation and growing relevance in the marketplace. She is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists (APF).

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlottekemp/

Exponential Thinking for Exponential Times: https://www.amazon.com/Exponential-Thinking-Times-Boardroom-Briefs-ebook/dp/B0FBKCRP5Z/