My EO Education Podcast

Jamin Arvig is a thought leader in the world of Amazon, and he has keynoted Amazon presentations at Harvard Business School, London Imperial College, Global Digital Summit, Global Networking Summit, CEO Retail Summit.

In this podcast, recorded in Cape Town during GLC, we discuss the superpower of JPO - Junior Presidents Organization:  a global whole-child leadership learning and development member community for students ages 8 – 18.

1 - About Jamin (00:01:02)2 - The superpower (00:03:49)3 - Education (00:05:44)4 - JPO and origins (00:11:29)5 - Only JPO'ers children? (00:16:51)6 - The formula of JPO (00:19:29)7 - The JPO training (00:21:46)8 - The goal for JPO (00:28:02)9 - The message for EOers (00:29:58)

Christopher Tarantino is an award-winning entrepreneur, investor, and international speaker on resilient innovation. He has worked with thousands of high-performing leaders from startups, enterprise, and government organizations like Google, FEMA, Cisco, and other recognizable brands across the globe.

 

With past roles at every level of government in the United States as well as growing businesses beyond 7-figures, he is sought after by leaders from both the public and private sectors to transform how they leverage team resilience to drive innovation. He is a GSA Certified Speaker, Forum Moderator, and Board Member in the Entrepeneurs' Organization and his insights have been featured in Forbes, Inc Magazine, CBS, NBC, as well as a variety of industry publications. 

 

As the CEO & Founder of Epicenter Innovation (awarded #762 in the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies), he leads a team of "Resilience Innovators" focused on human-centered, resilience-focused innovation before, during, and after disaster incidents.

 

1 - The journey (00:00:56)2 - Epicenter training (00:02:30)3 - Scenarios for the catastrophes (00:05:43)4 - High Water (00:10:12)5 - Cybersecurity (00:12:45)6 - Keeping people engaged (00:19:14)7 - Permanent learning (00:22:26)8 - Better founder is... (00:25:44)9 - The best Education system is (00:29:28)10 - The Book (00:35:12)11 - The advantages of the book club in any company (00:38:03)12 - Business inspiration (00:43:19)13 - The future (00:45:43)

Rowena Scherer is the Founder and CEO of eat2explore, an award-winning experiential cooking kit designed to bring cultural education alive through the exploration of world cuisines.

Founded in 2018, eat2explore has been featured in Forbes, NY Times, CNN, WSJ, BuzzFeed, and the Today Show, among other popular media.  Rowena was previously a financial executive with JPMorgan in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Sydney. 

Rowena is a board member of Entrepreneurs' Organization, New York Chapter and a mentor volunteer at NYU’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship.  She holds an Executive MBA from the New York University Stern School of Business, Bachelor of Finance and Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) from Victoria University of New Zealand and is a graduate of The French Culinary Institute of New York. 

Rowena was born in Malaysia, moved to New York with JPMorgan and currently lives in New York with her husband Joshua and their two children (Justin and Ashley).

 

1 - About Rowena and her eat2explore (00:01:35)2 - JP Morgan and what was next (00:06:26)3 - The business model (00:10:10)4 - What is in the box (00:15:43)5 - Helping Ukraine (00:20:28)6 - International education (00:21:11)7 - The book (00:29:34)8 - The future (00:33:09)

Karen Hough, Founder & CEO of ImprovEdge, and has been using improvisation as a catalyst for business training and consulting for more than 20 years. She won the Silver Stevie Award for Most Innovative Company, and the WNBA Inspiring Woman Award and her company is in the top 1% of U.S. woman-owned businesses.

 

Karen is a #1 Amazon Bestselling author and 800CEORead Top 25 Business Book recipient for “The Improvisation Edge: Secrets to Building Trust and Radical Collaboration at Work” and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post.

Karen's second, award-winning book “Be the Best Bad Presenter Ever: Break the Rules, Make Mistakes & Win Them Over" is available in four languages and won the Benjamin Franklin Gold Award for video content in an ebook. Her third book, "Go With It: Embrace the Unexpected to Drive Change" was published by Association for Talent Development in 2017.Karen is a national conference keynote speaker on topics such as negotiation, executive presence, presentation skills, leadership and business development. She is a graduate of Yale and La Sorbonne, Paris IV, and is deeply committed to philanthropic work. She lives with her husband and three children in Ohio.As a strategic business partner for her clients, Karen helps companies to develop talent. Her goal is to change and improve behavior by incorporating improv skills, research, psychology and neuroscience to help companies, teams, and individuals improve performance and increase engagement, Karen leads programs that may include:Specialties: Inspirational and learning-based speaking, executive coaching, facilitation of workshops in leadership, inclusion & diversity, women in leadership, sales, management, negotiation, teambuilding, innovation and creativity, communication, coaching, improvisational performance

Recommended books

Mindset Psychology by Carol Dweck

Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown

 

1 - Intro (00:00:29)2 - The journey (00:02:26)3 - The Improv method (00:05:30)4 - Achieving (00:10:50)5 - Impress people (00:14:17)6 - Core values (00:19:46)7 - The education system (00:21:25)8 - Education challenges (00:24:09)9 - Favourite Book (00:27:50)10 - Business inspiration (00:29:40)11 - AI (00:34:17)12 - The vision (00:35:08)13 - The future (00:38:20)14 - Eo & growth (00:39:39)

Natalie Kaminski

With more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry, Natalie Kaminski is adynamic and resourceful web and mobile technology entrepreneur. She is the CEO and

founder of JetRockets, which builds unique software solutions to help clients achieve theirbusiness goals. She is also the co-founder of OneTribe, an HR management platform forhybrid and remote teams. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.

1 - About Natalie (00:01:24)2 - No imposter syndrome (00:07:13)3 - EO helps (00:11:38)4 - Teal organisation (00:14:49)5 - Estimations (00:23:51)6 - The war that Russia started (00:28:59)7 - Business decision, but people first (00:33:37)8 - The US education system (00:41:29)9 - Favourite book (00:49:21)10 - Business inspiration (00:51:59)11 - The future (00:53:59)

Jacobus Groot is the internationally oriented and grown entrepreneur in Project and HR management.Founder and CEO of QRP (2003), a leading PAN-European Best Practice Training Institute with local subsidiaries in Italy, France, Belgium and Switzerland.Founder and Managing Director of QRPeople (2013), the exclusive distributor in Italy and Switzerland for Thomas International, worldwide leader in psychometric assessment solutions.

Coos on LinkedIn --> Here

Recommedned books:

Scaling Up by Verne Harnish

Mastering Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harinsh

Good to great by Jim Collins

 

1 - Intro (00:00:23)2 - About Coos (00:00:55)3 - Business grew with the company (00:04:25)4 - Why this company is unique (00:08:00)5 - The discussion around the values (00:11:02)6 - Pivot to online learning (00:14:25)7 - The clue of online classes (00:18:28)8 - How to keep innovating 20 years (00:20:44)9 - Education system in the Netherlands, USA and Italy (00:25:31)10 - The book (00:31:33)11 - Business inspiration (00:36:49)12 - The Future (00:38:44)13 - EO inspirations and help (00:42:01)

Rachid Zahidi is President of Sentinel Data Retrieval, LLC. He is the author of the book: The Business Immunity System-The Pitfalls & Side Effects of Data Handling, Privacy Issues, & Background Checks. He also previously served as Learning Chair, Finance Chair, and Integration Chair for EO Tampa. Rachid also founded Bandloc.com and is the host of the Resilience Across Borders Podcast.

Expert appearances and contributions include being featured on CLTV Chicago, Fox Baltimore, Inc.com, Florida Trend, The Background Buzz, Octane Magazine, ESPN Radio and numerous other programs and publications discussing, entrepreneurship and life lessons, hiring, due diligence and information security among other topics.  

 

Recommended books:Man's Search for Meaning (Victor Frankl)

https://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl-ebook/dp/B009U9S6FI

The Compound Effect (Darren Hardy)

https://www.amazon.com/Compound-Effect-Jumpstart-Income-Success-ebook/dp/B089GM2W99/

 

 

1 - About Rachid (00:01:07)2 - Entrepreneurship is a rollercoaster (00:04:00)3 - Sentinel data retrieval (00:07:22)4 - The most interesting stories (00:12:19)5 - Power of the resilience (00:18:27)6 - Identify your emotions  (00:24:11)7 - A few recommendations (00:26:17)8 - Morocco and the US education (00:30:08)9 - Changes in the education system (00:34:31)10 - Favourite book (00:36:02)11 - Business inspiration (00:39:30)12 - The future (00:42:50)

Tyler Olson, Founder of SHYLD Cybersecurity Academy, is an award-winning serial entrepreneur in several technology fields.

He not only brings well-rounded exposure from all sectors of technology including Cybersecurity, Social Media, and Data Analytics, but his deep passion for helping people learn and interactive speaking style ensures audiences of any level leave his presentations with new insights.

After competing in the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards competition in 2007, Tyler was an EO Accelerator Member for six years before joining EO in 2014. He has served in several chapter, regional, and global EO roles in the years since. Most recently, he helped lead within the EO GSEA Global Subcommittee.

If you're looking for a dynamic, engaging, and takeaway-oriented presentation on topics related to technology or entrepreneurship, Tyler's the speaker you've been looking for.

 

The book Tyler recommends:

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

https://www.amazon.com/Traction-Get-Grip-Your-Business/dp/1936661837

 

1 -  Intro2 - About Tyler (00:01:15)3 - About the SHYLD company (00:04:52)4 - 5 steps to cyber security: password (00:08:00)5 - 2nd: MFA (00:10:30)6 - 3rd: Encryption (00:12:22)7 - 4th: Privacy settings on your phone (00:15:36)8 - 5th: VPN (00:18:25)9 - Public speaking (00:20:40)10 - Next years in meetups (00:27:38)11 - Education in the USA (00:28:50)12 - The book (00:33:57)13 - Business inspiration (00:35:26)14 - Planning the future (00:39:02)

Avi Staiman is the founder and CEO of Academic Language Experts, a company dedicated to assisting academic scholars to prepare their research for publication and bring it to the world.

He also is the co-host of the New Books Network 'Scholarly Communication' Podcast.

Avi has been a guest lecturer at NYU's Master's Program in Translation & Interpreting, The University of Tokyo, and Bar Ilan University. His essays have appeared in the Cambridge University Press Blog, Scholarly Kitchen, Multilingual, and Times Higher Education.

https://www.aclang.com/

Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You by John Warrillow: https://www.amazon.com/Built-Sell-Warrillow-28-Feb-2013-Paperback/dp/B011T6SNA2/

1 - About Avi (00:01:11)2 - The journey (00:06:15)3 - A need and the niche (00:09:27)4 - Mission of the company (00:12:34)5 - Do scientists want to share their knowledge (00:18:24)6 - The business model (00:23:32)7 - The education system in Israel (00:28:24)8 - US and Israel education system (00:32:22)9 - The book (00:37:50)10 - The takaway from this conversation (00:44:24)11 - Business inspiration (00:47:50)12 - The vision and the future (00:50:17)

Sina Farzaneh is the CEO of Pullpath, a software platform that helps companies to identify their internal & external champions and to keep them engaged in order to drive word-of-mouth and authentic advocacy. 

 

Before moving back home to Palo Alto with his family at the beginning of the pandemic, Sina lived for 15 years in Shanghai where he co-founded Advocacy, an award-winning marketing agency that partnered with global companies like Unilever, P&G, L’Oreal, and Philips. 

 

Sina has been a member of EO since 2015 and served as President of EO Shanghai in 2018 then on EO North Asia’s Regional Council. He credits EO with instilling in him the values of coaching, servant leadership, and bottom-up communication.

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sinafarzaneh/

 

1 - About Sina (00:01:47)2 - Business in China (00:10:45)3 - About Pullpath (00:16:12)4 - Far from CEO but still have voice (00:20:07)5 - EO and Sina's company (00:24:11)6 - Human Intelligence (00:30:32)7 - People hate surveys (00:36:42)8 - Education in the USA and China (00:39:29)9 - A perfect education system (00:43:56)10 - Favourite books (00:51:26)11 - Inspiring person (00:53:45)12 - Future plans (00:55:44)