Subject Matter

Tanya Ramos-Puig is President of the Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation. As the top executive in the organization, she is responsible for advancing its mission to further international awareness and appreciation of Latin music and its contribution to global culture. Over the past two decades, Ramos-Puig has devoted her career to improving educational opportunities and life outcomes for youth in the most under-resourced communities, including most recently as CEO of Pencils of Promise. In this episode she shares her experiences of taking a listening tour before starting her CEO role, why being a listening leader is essential to building effective teams and how to really see the big picture.

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Eddy Badrina is the CEO of Eden Green Technology, a company using vertical farming technology to change the way we farm our produce, and feed our communities. He is a board member at Seed Effect, a micro-lending non-profit focused on fostering economic stability in the South Sudan and Uganda. Before shifting his primary focus to human service and food security, Eddy was an entrepreneur. He co-founded BuzzShift and served as their president for over 11 years. In this episode Eddy shares his experience on creating a redemptive company and what that means, why economic sustainability is as important as environmental concerns and why communication is essential for integrating the outside of your company with the inside. Listen to more Subject Matter podcasts at https://bit.ly/3I6GbBf

Helaine is the Founder and CEO of CITYROW. After months of spin and boot camp classes left her with a lower back injury, Helaine began searching for a workout that was low impact, but highly effective, and came across the rowing machine. And so CITYROW was born, delivering at home and in-studio rowing workouts. Under Knapp’s leadership, CITYROW has grown from one studio in New York City to 12 studios across the United States, along with an on-demand global program which launched in 2018. She has been featured as a business leader and a wellness expert on TODAY, Women’s Health, ABC, Harper’s Bazaar, Well + Good, Vogue, Yahoo! Finance and PEOPLE, among many others. In this episode she talks about managing energy levels, working on your own strengths within the team and managing communication during COVID and beyond. She also touches on the right speed for scaling up your company. Listen to more Subject Matter podcasts at https://bit.ly/3I6GbBf

Delphine Carter is the Founder and CEO of Boulo Solutions, a career matching service that helps women stay in and return to the workforce. Boulo has now helped over 1,000 women and has generated over $1M in revenue. Delphine was able to fund Boulo’s $500,000 seed stage while working and raising children during the pandemic. In this episode she shares her vision for building a culture that promotes wellbeing, why you should be intentional but never prescriptive and how to use Slack to build culture remotely. Listen to more episodes at https://bit.ly/3I6GbBf

Lara Vandenberg is the CEO & Founder of Publicist, the company redefining the way brands hire Communications and Marketing talent. Lara is on a mission to transform inefficiencies in marketing, solving major pain points for the industry. In this episode she shares why CEOs need to create a personal board of directors and why marketers have a responsibility to set company culture. You'll hear why Publicist is set up to have maximum exposure to its clients and why Lara still makes time to answer customer support as a busy CEO. Listen to more Subject Matter podcasts at https://bit.ly/3I6GbBf

David Jay is the founder and CEO behind Warm Welcome, which helps businesses upgrade from boring text to personal video so they can build meaningful relationships that drive real revenue. David has bootstrapped several startups into multi-million concerns. Revenues from Warm Welcome, along with his other four companies, will exceed $6 million in 2020. He was also recently named a Top 100 Tech Innovator and Influencer. In this episode David shares his insights on how videoing messaging captures the subtleties missed by text, why the point of building good company culture is to build a good company and why the new economy will rely on great relationships. Listen to more Subject Matter podcasts at https://bit.ly/3I6GbBf

Saverio Bianchi is the Founder and CEO at Atelier and Avenue, a leading eCommerce and digital transformation consultancy. He has spent the last 16 years delivering projects for more than 40 of the world's leading brands in luxury, beauty and fashion. In this episode Saverio unpacks how reframing problems helps clients change the narrative on what's holding them back, why industries can be complex but not complicated (with the help of Lego bricks) and why voracious curiosity is the engine that drives a learning organisation.

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Brandy Whalen is the Co-Founder of Kitcaster, a podcast booking agency facilitating meaningful conversations at scale. She is a self-proclaimed shiny object chaser, excited by new challenges and new opportunities. On this interview, we learn how to assess for creativity when hiring candidates, why communication between CEOs and their team is often an assumption and how to close that gap of misunderstanding, and how to create a remote company culture where all team members openly share problems and wins.

Ed Vincent is the Founder and CEO of Festival Pass, the world's first live events subscription service across music, film, food & wine, theater, tech & innovation. Ed has over twenty years of business, technology, and management experience. In this episode, we uncovered how a company's core values can be a filter for making decisions, why Ed spent the last 52 weeks ending with their weekly all-hands with the same one word, and what we can learn from the world of parenting on building consistent, predictable culture.

Shaul Olmert the Israel-based CEO and Founder of Piggy, an app that allows Gen Z to reinvent the way they share media. In this episode, we unpack how CEOs and HR professionals need to evolve their approach to recruiting future talent, why not knowing all the answers as a Founder is liberating and improves performance, and how the future of work will increasingly rely on multi-media expression.