From finding innovative environmental solutions to tragedies such as the Gulf Coast oil spill, to growing a service business to $50 million in top-line revenue, Laurie La-Pat Polasko, Vice President at Matrix New World Engineering, is not your average businesswoman.

Taking her scientific background and a life-long passion, Laurie ventured into the business world with a unique perspective that made her the successful leader she is today.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The number #1 most profitable skill a business leader can possess.

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Five years ago, ESG was stable. It was profitable, but it was not growing.

When Michael Harnum first joined the company as CEO, his first order of business was to find out why.

Since that fateful moment, ESG has gone from a struggling startup to a high growth company with $10 million in top line revenue and $3 million in bottom line profits.

In this episode, Michael shares how he turned the company around.

We discuss:

• Finding the right market for your company

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Most business leaders focus on the bottom line—the one that measures a company’s profits.

But there’s another bottom line you should be focusing on and that is the triple bottom line—the one that measures a company’s impact.

In this episode, host Stephen King shares some tips on how you can raise more money and drive more impact in an organization.

Whether you’re involved in a nonprofit or know someone who is, you’ll find value in listening – because for-profit businesses should be run like the best nonprofit organizations, and vice versa.

Steve explains:

• How to beef up an individual giving program

Download our Nonprofit Ebook to help you raise more money and stay on the lookout for our On-Demand Webinar:

• Nonprofit Challenges In A New World (eBook) 

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It’s the question that has been on every CEO’s mind over the last 18 months: How do you maintain your workplace culture in a hybrid world?

This is one of the biggest challenges businesses are facing as a result of the pandemic.

According to Michael Weiss, VP of Creative Circle and my guest on today’s episode, the silver lining is that the pandemic has also given us a degree of empathy that we simply lacked before — and that empathy can and should inform how we approach this challenge moving forward.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Maintaining culture in a hybrid world

Contact Michael at [email protected].  

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In the world of doggie daycare, the COVID shutdown should have been an economic disaster. With everyone now working from home, it seems inevitable that daycare services would decrease in demand.

But that wasn’t the case for Kathy Miller, President of Dogtopia - South Bay. In fact, her company not only weathered the storm but actually doubled its profits during the pandemic.

In this episode, she shares the story of the pivot that made it all possible.

We discuss:

• The giveback business model

Learn more about the service dog program by emailing Kathy at [email protected] or by visiting dogtopia. com/torrance-south-bay. 

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