OKRs Q&A

In this episode of the OKRs Q&A Podcast, Tim Meinhardt interviews Mike Darretta, the Director of SLED Solutions Architecture for Red Hat. They discuss how OKRs are much more than just another process or goal setting system and how they can transform your organization's success almost immediately. This is the perfect podcast to listen to if you are struggling with gaining buy-in!

Mike Darretta has been working at Red Hat for over 15+ years and has over 30+ years of management and technical experience. Currently he leads a national team that supports technical pre-sales for enterprise state and local governments, plus select educational systems. He has expertise in people and program management, public speaking and strategic initiatives. He has a passion for working alongside others and his approach to business is relationship first.

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On this episode of the OKRs Q&A Podcast, Tim Meinhardt interviews Chick Hernandez, an Emmy Award winning Sports Anchor and beloved Washington D.C. sports figure. Tim and Chick discuss sports, goal setting and life lessons in today’s challenging times. Chick provides stories about some of the world’s most famous athletes and provides insight into how they perfected their craft to become sports legends.

Chick has a demonstrated history of working in the media production industry with over 17 years at NBC Sports Washington as a Sports Anchor, Reporter and Host for Comcast SportsNet/NBC Sports and 7 years at WTTG FOX5 as a Sports Anchor and Reporter. Chick is now currently CEO of CH Media and is a Play by Play Rover for SiriusXM Radio.

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In this episode of the OKRs Q&A Podcast, Tim Meinhardt interviews Evan Campbell about operational transformation using OKRs and the OKR marketplace as a whole. Evan Campbell is a senior technology/business executive and management consultant. As an executive and entrepreneur, he has demonstrated success with two IPOs and two exits to public companies. He is currently Chief Transformation Architect at Gtmhub, a venture funded software firm leading in the OKR management platform space.

Evan has held CTO, VP of Product Development, and VP of Professional Services roles in public, private, and venture funded companies in several industries, had P+L responsibility, and has built and led organizations of hundreds of highly engaged knowledge workers.

Evan has extensive management consulting expertise in innovation, product development, and Digital, Agile, and DevOps transformation to help clients realize peak performance and competitive advantage.

He has an MBA, an MA, is a Certified Enterprise Scrum Coach (CSC/CEC), SAFe Program Consultant (SPC4), Certified Enterprise Business Agility Strategist, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and he served in the U.S. Army as an Airborne Ranger and a Green Beret.

For more information on Gtmhub, visit www.gtmhub.com

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In this episode of the OKRs Q&A Podcast, Tim Meinhardt interviews Tony Hughes on how to build relationships with Senior Level Executives and how to speak the language of leaders so you can successfully sell in today’s marketplace. Tony emphasizes the need to know your customer, specifically their most important Objectives and the measurable Key Results they need to get there. This is OKRs taken to the next level.

Tony Hughes has 35 years of corporate and sales leadership experience having generated record-breaking results as a salesperson, head of sales, and as a CEO. As a renowned speaker and independent consultant, Tony’s credentials include:

• Ranked #1 sales blogger globally by both Top Sales Magazine and also by Best Sales Blogger Awards (2018) and #1 webinar globally by Top Sales Magazine in 2019.
• Rated as the most influential person in professional selling within Asia-Pacific by Top Sales World Magazine (2017 – 2019)
• Ranked #3 sales expert and thought leader globally by LinkedIn (2018)

Tony is a bestselling author and has been the most read person in LinkedIn on the topic of B2B sales leadership. He has more than 500,000 followers of his blogs and his most recent book, COMBO Prospecting, is published by HarperCollins and the American Management Association. His upcoming book is Tech-Powered Sales.

Tony is Co-founder and Sales Innovation Director at Sales IQ Global. He serves on a number of advisory boards and has taught sales for Sydney University, University of New South Wales, and within the MBA program at the University of Technology, Sydney. He speaks at conferences internationally and his consulting clients include some of the best-known brands in the world including Salesforce, Flight Centre Travel Group, Grant Thornton, SAP, IBM, Red Hat and other market leaders.

Additional Information on Tony:
• Speaker and author website: www.TonyHughes.com.au
• Corporate and sales methodology website: www.RSVPselling.com
• YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/RSVPselling/videos
• Sales enablement platform (co-founder): www.salesIQglobal.com
• LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hughestony/
• LinkedIn blog articles: www.linkedin.com/today/posts/hughestony
• Twitter: TonyHughesAU https://twitter.com/TonyHughesAU

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This week on the OKRs Q&A Podcast, Tim Meinhardt interviews Paul Maunder. Paul discusses his numerous years of experience using OKRs and similar goal management systems, what he has learned from OKRs and how he overcame his initial first impression of OKRs. Paul is the Sales Director of Central/West Regions for State/Local Govt, Educ. & Healthcare for Red Hat. Paul graduated from California State and has spent most of his career in technology. He is a sales leader, boundary spanner and transformational agent in identifying and solving complex cross-functional business challenges.

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This week on the OKRs Q&A Podcast, Tim Meinhardt interviews Nancy Bohannan. Nancy elaborates on her favorite aspects of OKRs, how she connects her OKRs to numerous teams and how her team overcomes challenges to achieve their Objectives. Nancy is the Vice President of SLED for Red Hat. Her previous roles include Vice President of Cloud and Software at IBM and Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Microsoft. Nancy’s passion is making clients successful and helping her customers to meet their objectives!

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In this episode of the OKRs Q&A Podcast, Tim Meinhardt interviews Mike Byrd, the Vice President of US Public Sector Channel Sales for Red Hat. You are going to want a cup of coffee and some free time to listen to this whole episode! Mike goes into a variety of topics and provides enormous insight into not only his teams, but his personal journey in adopting and buying into the OKR Methodology.

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In this episode of the OKRS Q&A Podcast, Tim Meinhardt interviews Dustin Clinard, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships for Betterworks. This is definitely a must listen episode! Dustin provides fantastic insight into OKRs and the OKR Adoption journey. His unique perspective is incredibly useful, not only for large enterprise organizations, but for the SMB Marketplace as well.

Betterworks is the only OKR and CFR platform endorsed by John Doerr. With its unique combined OKR, Conversations, Feedback, and Recognition (CFRs), and Engagement solution, Betterworks empowers companies to execute on their business objectives with agility and resilience through alignment, commitment, and transparency. Betterworks’ Formula For Better™ empowers leaders and employees to perform at the highest level and sustain competitive advantage, from anywhere.

Betterworks’ solution and Professional Services Team has helped a variety of global organizations including; Intuit, Kroger, Lending Tree, and Vertiv, achieve agile execution. Betterworks is used daily by employees and managers from 119 countries in 20 languages. For more information about the latest business and people management strategies and best practices, please visit http://www.betterworks.com.

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In this episode of the OKRs Q&A Podcast, Tim Meinhardt interviews Amy LaScola about her experience using OKRs in the IT Staffing industry. Amy is currently the Vice President of Enterprise Delivery for Diversant - an IT Staffing company located in New Jersey. She is a Talent Acquisition professional with over 25 years of experience in recruiting, operations, account management, training, talent resourcing, and operational roles - in RPO, Contract, and MSP environments.

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In this episode of the OKRs Q&A Podcast, Tim Meinhardt interviews Paul Smith about his experience implementing OKRs within his organization. Paul Smith is the Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Public Sector at Red Hat - the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions. Paul leads a team of over 600 employees and is one of the most influential technology leaders today. He has been the face of Red Hat in the Public Sector for over a decade and a half and has won numerous awards and accolades as a technology leader in his industry.

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