Navigating Forward

At 22, Mary started with a Fortune 1000 Payroll/HR company at just $13/hour in an admin role, but quickly acquired the skills and training required to advance into mid-market sales. She rapidly found success by listening to clients and always solving their needs; putting their agenda before her own. Even when Mary's sales approach was the direct inverse of corporate, she knew in her heart what was right, and did the job with integrity and grit - driving results for both herself and her clients.

In 2011, she left to become a business strategist for entrepreneurs and founded Butterfly Creative, LLC. Her vision expanded into youth entrepreneurship education and she eventually went back to the Payroll/HR company serving larger, more complex companies in 2014. Mary left in 2017 after two Top 25 and one Top 10 finish and millions more sold. She returned as CEO to her firm, Butterfly Creative LLC, rebranded as Sales BQ® from 2017-2020.

In 2020, the company split into two brands to better serve their distinct audiences. The revenue-scaling work they did for CEOs moved to a new brand named House of Revenue™, found at https://www.houseofrevenue.com/. At House of Revenue™, they build unshakeable revenue foundations set for scale by focusing on all aspects of the revenue engine — marketing, sales, customer success, and RevOps. They solve your revenue problems holistically by using targeted automation to build inbound marketing funnels full of qualified leads and training sales reps to close. From there, they enhance your overall client experience with a strong focus on customer success, revenue expansion, referrals, and renewals.


ABOUT THE PODCAST
At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

Sponsored by Launch Consulting
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Courtney Gregoire serves as Chief Digital Safety Officer and Assistant General Counsel for Microsoft Corporation. In this role, Courtney is responsible for Microsoft’s company-wide digital safety strategy to reduce harm from illegal and harmful content online through technology, policy, and partnerships. From 2015-2019, Courtney led Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit work to combat cybercrime against vulnerable populations including children and the elderly. She also served as Director of the National Export Initiative for President Obama and Deputy Chief of Staff for the U.S. Department of Commerce. She previously served as Legislative Director and Chief Counsel for U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell.

Deeply committed to public service, Courtney has served as elected Commissioner for Port of Seattle for over 6 years where she has delivered strong aviation and maritime growth consistent with broadly shared economic opportunity, reducing greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change, and protecting immigrant rights. Courtney has previously served on the Seattle Colleges Board of Trustees and the International Center for Missing & Exploited Children Board of Directors. Courtney is a graduate of Willamette University and Harvard Law School.

ABOUT THE PODCAST
At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

Sponsored by Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation | launchconsulting.com

Katie is Chief of Staff at Spectrum Labs. Spectrum Labs is a technology company, platform, and community whose mission is to make the Internet a safer and more valuable place for all. She works closely with the engineering team to build products that enable customers to reach their trust & safety goals.

ABOUT THE PODCAST
At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

Sponsored by Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation
launchconsulting.com

Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation

Mick is a successful, battle-tested political operative turned entrepreneur and business coach. Shortly after receiving his master’s degree from George Washington University, Mr. McKeown worked for a local 501(c)3 before joining the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). At DHS, Mr. McKeown’s assertive approaches and his passion for social advocacy earned him the role of Executive Director of the Homeland Security Advisory Council and Campaign Office. In this role he became a leading international voice supporting the efforts of the private and public sectors to end human trafficking. Working extensively with both Congress and the executive branch to help end trafficking, Mr. McKeown created the BeCyberSmart campaign and oversaw the rebranding of the “If you See Something, Say Something” campaign.


ABOUT THE PODCAST
At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

Sponsored by Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation
launchconsulting.com

Teresa is an Emmy Nominated, Age's Creative 50 recipient, and Campaign US Digital 40 over 40 marketing expert. She is also a Woman of Impact and Chief Creative Director of the Woman's March identity & PSA's. 

Her years of creative leadership experience bring innovation, curiosity and strategic thinking to bear on every project, every day. She has worked on both the agency and corporate sides of the business. This has helped her partner easily with both internal and external resources. Understanding customer needs and delivering work that sells is her primary goal.

Teresa never settles for just okay. She pushes herself and her team to be more creative, more funny, more interesting, more everything. Ability to understand the business, assists in creating and selling integrated campaigns that span broadcast, in-store, print, direct mail, packaging, and e-commerce. She's at her best when working with and developing a talented and driven team. Humor is a way she makes coworkers and clients feel comfortable. Ultimately, she use experience and strong intuition to get things done.
Teresa's values are to work with nice people on stuff that is good for the world. Simple as that.


ABOUT THE PODCAST
At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

Sponsored by Launch Consulting  launchconsulting.com

Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation

Aila Malik is a values-driven leader, inspiring mission-driven organizations to fulfill promises on their impact. She lives with intention as a compassionate advocate of community kindness, planet protection, and family togetherness. She is deeply committed to contributing to a world in which disparity does not limit people’s access to opportunity.

Her beautifully illustrated children's book, Mommy, Am I American? reminds us of our founding “American ideals” of freedom, inclusion, and justice for all people, and is especially relevant right now as attacks on Asian Americans are on the rise.


ABOUT THE PODCAST
At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

Sponsored by Launch Consulting  launchconsulting.com

Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation

Kim Box is an Independent Director on the Board of American River Bank (NASDAQ:AMRB) and is Chair of the Finance & Capital Committee and a member of the Audit Committee. She's also an Independent Director on the McGrath Rentcorp (NASDAQ:MGRC) Board of Directors and a member of the Compensation Committee and Governance Committee. Former CEO and President at Gatekeeper Innovation, Inc. a healthcare company that creates products to keep medications safe.
 
A former HP Vice President where she led a $1B global organization across over 100 locations around the world, Kim drove large scale transformation of global operations resulting in reduction in operating cost along with increases in client satisfaction. She is known for her strong skills in strategic decision making, IT services, partner/relationship building, results driven leadership, high integrity and leading transformation with proven successful execution.

She is an international speaker and author on leadership, diversity and transformation. She is on the Board of National Association of Corporate Directors - NorCal chapter where she is Chair of the Board. She is a Past Board Chair on the American Red Cross Board Sierra Delta Chapter and Chaired the Board Development committee.


ABOUT THE PODCAST
At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

Sponsored by Launch Consulting  launchconsulting.com

Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation

Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation

Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation

Kate Bradley Chernis is the Founder & CEO of Lately, the only social media management platform that creates content FOR you with the power of A.I. View a 60 second sneak peek here: https://youtu.be/RlbRiAwwBiQ.

As a former marketing agency owner, Kate initially created the idea for Lately out of spreadsheets for then-client, Walmart, who saw a 130% ROI, year-over-year for three years.

Prior to founding Lately, Kate served 20 million listeners as Music Director and on-air host at Sirius/XM. She’s also an award-winning radio producer, engineer and voice talent with 25 years of national broadcast communications, brand-building, sales and marketing expertise.


ABOUT THE PODCAST
At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

Sponsored by Launch Consulting  launchconsulting.com

Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation

President and cofounder of Marinus Analytics, Emily is passionate about creating AI and technology for good, to make a tangible impact on our most pressing social problems, like human trafficking. Ms. Kennedy greatly enjoys telling the stories of impact that Marinus has made in the global community, showcasing the team’s innovative spirit, and bringing life to the company’s core goals and long-term strategy. She routinely advises stakeholders—such as attorneys general, prosecutors, law enforcement agents, and NGOs—on use of technology to enable data-driven, proactive impact.


ABOUT THE PODCAST
At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

Sponsored by Launch Consulting  launchconsulting.com

Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation

Tiana S. Clark is Chief of Staff, Partner Channel Sales at Microsoft She's a women's empowerment coach and an award winning filmmaker for the tween web series, Soci Circle. She is a USAF veteran and was awarded Airman of the Year during her service.


ABOUT THE PODCAST
At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

Sponsored by Launch Consulting  launchconsulting.com

Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation