The Drop In CEO

In this podcast episode Dan Purvis, CEO and co-founder of Velentium, shares his experience of building 30,000 ventilators in just 28 days during the COVID-19 pandemic. He emphasizes the importance of taking risks and volunteering oneself in times of crisis, and the significance of having a strong company culture that puts people and results before profit. Dan's book, "28 Days to Save the World: Crafting Your Culture to Be Ready for Anything," provides insights on how to build a resilient company culture.

Dan also discusses the importance of practicing culture in a company, rather than just having it as a set of values on a website or conference room wall. He emphasizes the importance of principles-based leadership and creating a "you decide" culture, where employees are empowered to make decisions based on the company's principles and values. Dan encourages listeners to pursue simplicity in their lives, and to ask themselves if they have reached it. If not, then they need to simplify their lives.

Dan Purvis is the CEO and co-founder of Velentium, a professional engineering firm that specializes in the design and manufacturing of therapeutic and diagnostic active medical devices. A serial entrepreneur and the founder of six companies, Dan has fulfilled his dream of building a company that puts culture before function, results before profit. “Improving lives for a better world” is more than a slogan; it means Velentium’s staff doing meaningful work on clients' behalf so they can bring life-changing products to market. By building a company that talented people want to work for and other companies want to work with, Dan has led Velentium to become a world-class engineering firm averaging 50% year-over-year growth.

Dan has more than 25 years of experience in software, electronics, test systems, and medical devices. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University and a Jones Scholar MBA from the Jones School of Business at Rice University. He is the coauthor of 28 Days to Save the World: Crafting Your Culture to be Ready for Anything.

You can connect with Dan via Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/velentium

Whether you are a C-Suite Leader of today or tomorrow, take charge of your career with confidence and leverage the insights of The CEO's Compass: Your Guide to Get Back on Track.  To learn more about The CEO's Compass, you can get your copy here: https://amzn.to/3AKiflR 

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In this podcast episode Deborah shares her personal stories and framework for gaining clarity and focus. The most valuable lesson she emphasizes is the importance of taking breaks and zooming out periodically to assess your progress and identify areas for improvement. Deb encourages listeners to set intentions, make them visible, and celebrate their progress.

Whether you are a C-Suite Leader of today or tomorrow, take charge of your career with confidence and leverage the insights of The CEO's Compass: Your Guide to Get Back on Track.  To learn more about The CEO's Compass, you can get your copy here: https://amzn.to/3AKiflR 

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In this podcast episode Aaron Salow, founder and CEO of XOi Technologies, shares his personal and professional journey as an entrepreneur and how he founded XOi Technologies to help field service companies overcome the challenge of a shortage of skilled workers in the trades. Listen in as Deborah and Aaron discuss the importance of believing in oneself, having a strong support system, and promoting the trades as a viable career option. Aaron explores his insights on the skilled trades gap and how XOi Technologies is helping to solve the problem by providing better information and knowledge to technicians through their application.

Aaron Salow, Founder and CEO of XOi Technologies, launched his business to help field service companies overcome a formidable challenge facing their industry: a glaring shortage of skilled workers. Blue collar work has marked Aaron’s entire personal and professional life, instilling in him a passion for the hard-working people in the field service industry and the importance of them in our everyday lives. It was this passion that led him to build a modern, cloud-based technology solution that transforms the way these companies do business and service their customers.

You can connect with Aaron in the following ways:

Website: xoi.io

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/xoi-technologies/

Whether you are a C-Suite Leader of today or tomorrow, take charge of your career with confidence and leverage the insights of The CEO's Compass: Your Guide to Get Back on Track.  To learn more about The CEO's Compass, you can get your copy here: https://amzn.to/3AKiflR 

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In this podcast episode Deborah discusses why hustling won't get you promoted and shares her personal experience of getting promoted with the help of an advocate and networking. Listen in as Deborah provides a framework for working smarter, not harder, which includes finding advocates and improving messaging skills. She emphasizes the importance of messaging skills and encourages listeners to contact her for more information. She also suggests identifying values, developing stories to demonstrate them, and building an intentional external network to lead to more opportunities.

Whether you are a C-Suite Leader of today or tomorrow, take charge of your career with confidence and leverage the insights of The CEO's Compass: Your Guide to Get Back on Track.  To learn more about The CEO's Compass, you can get your copy here: https://amzn.to/3AKiflR 

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In this podcast episode Nermine Zakhary and Sherif Samaan share their experiences and insights on playing to one's strengths, identifying strengths, mental fitness, effective communication, and leadership. The guests emphasize the importance of discovering one's strengths, reflecting on past experiences, and setting one's vision. They also stress the significance of mental fitness, effective communication, and experiencing pain, uncertainty, and chaos to grow as a leader. This conversation is relevant for c-suite leaders navigating their next move and anyone in transition looking to understand their strengths and bring them forward.

Nermine Zakhary:

Nermine Zakhary is a Certified People Acuity Coach™ & Positive Intelligence (PQ) Coach, specializing in helping others strategically apply their strengths to accelerate their performance, energy, relationships, and results.
As a PQ Coach, Nermine adds the important layer of helping clients grow their mental fitness (the capacity to handle life's challenges with a positive mindset), the next step in ensuring lifelong application of strengths.
Nermine coaches individuals and small groups. She also facilitates workshops to teach strengths strategies to clients so they can define their optimal zones -- and thrive there.
Nermine comes to Strengths & PQ coaching with 15+ years of experience in the training industry at Highland Hospital and Xerox Corporation. She holds a Master's Degree in Education, specializing in Instructional Design for Online Learning.

Sherif Samaan:

Sherif Samaan is an IT executive in the higher education sector with over 25 years of experience in leadership and strategy. Sherif has led projects across the globe, including New York City, Abu Dhabi and Shanghai. Sherif has also served as Associate Vice President and Deputy CTO supporting and leading enterprise application strategy across the local and global NYU campuses.

In recent years, Sherif became an ICF certified independent executive coach; working with and helping to transform IT leadership and their staff at several higher education institutions,
enabling them to think more strategically while improving their communication, leadership, and collaboration skills with their campus communities; as well as helping them create their career roadmaps while creating more effective IT team structures.

Sherif currently works for CampusWorks as the Director of Enterprise Applications at Drew University in New Jersey, where he is building out a leadership program for all IT staff and student workers.

Company websites:

www.Strengths-Edge.com 

www.businesstransformationtech.com

Linkedin:

Nermine:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nerminezakhary/

Sherif:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/silverfox62/

Whether you are a C-Suite Leader of today or tomorrow, take charge of your career with confidence and leverage the insights of The CEO's Compass: Your Guide to Get Back on Track.  To learn more about The CEO's Compass, you can get your copy here: https://amzn.to/3AKiflR 

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In this episode Deborah discusses the importance of setting expectations and planning for the summer season. She emphasizes the need to reflect on the work that needs to be done, engage with colleagues, and celebrate the return of colleagues who have had time off. Deb also offers advice on how to manage risk and avoid crisis situations by properly planning and identifying potential risks.

Whether you are a C-Suite Leader of today or tomorrow, take charge of your career with confidence and leverage the insights of The CEO's Compass: Your Guide to Get Back on Track.  To learn more about The CEO's Compass, you can get your copy here: https://amzn.to/3AKiflR 

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In this episode Jacobo Capuano shares important strategies leaders can use to drive growth within their teams. Listen in as Deborah and Jacobo discuss how marathon training resembles continuous improvement strategy, how Jacobo developed his operational skills over time, and how to handle mistakes within your team.

Jacobo is a proven strategic thinker and creative change agent, with the ability to drive agile continuous improvement across end to end supply chain by using Lean/Six Sigma Techniques, he is passionate about developing long term talent and mentoring individuals to create high performance teams.

Jacobo brings more than 30 years of experience in End-to-End Supply Chain and Sales Operations with Industry leader companies in several business models, including CPG;s (Procter and Gamble, The Clorox Company)Flavors and Fragrances(Givaudan Flavors), Food (The Live Kindly Collective) both Domestic, and International Operations.

Jacobo most recently lead the End-to-End Supply Chan Organization of a startup of a plant-based food company (The LIVEKINDLY Collective). His leadership and strategic mind set helped the company to achieve National distribution with key retailers and distributors and deliver $20MM in sales during the second year of the company in the market.

Today Jacobo is the Chief Operating Officer at TruRoots. A Private Equity backed Food and Beverage company where he is leading a cultural transformation aiming to drive agility and flexibility across the organization so they can react to the fast changing environment and be able to drive expected growth goals.

Jacobo earned his Industrial Engineering Degree from the Universidad Anahuac in Mexico City, and an MBA from the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico in Mexico City. Jacobo moved with his wife and 3 kids from Mexico to the United States in 2008 and currently he lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

You can connect with Jacobo in the following ways:

Website: https://www.trurootscompany.com/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobo-capuano-b354b14/

Whether you are a C-Suite Leader of today or tomorrow, take charge of your career with confidence and leverage the insights of The CEO's Compass: Your Guide to Get Back on Track.  To learn more about The CEO's Compass, you can get your copy here: https://amzn.to/3AKiflR 

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In this episode Deborah shares the key questions you need to ask yourself to create time and space during the summer months to ensure success. Listen in as she explores the importance of setting expectations, what you need to know to delegate and make decisions during the summer, and how you can check in with your team while still leaving room to feel refreshed and ready to head into Q3.

Whether you are a C-Suite Leader of today or tomorrow, take charge of your career with confidence and leverage the insights of The CEO's Compass: Your Guide to Get Back on Track.  To learn more about The CEO's Compass, you can get your copy here: https://amzn.to/3AKiflR 

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Questions to Guarantee You Accomplish Your Goals - http://bit.ly/3QASvym

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In this episode Guillermo Sohnlein shares how his passion for innovation and technology has helped him build businesses and navigate opportunities in the space industry. Listen in as Guillermo and Deborah discuss how to understand the risk of new innovation, what it takes to help others see a future that isn’t clear, and how to utilize your business and leadership skills to create a better tomorrow.

Whether you are a C-Suite Leader of today or tomorrow, take charge of your career with confidence and leverage the insights of The CEO's Compass: Your Guide to Get Back on Track.  To learn more about The CEO's Compass, you can get your copy here: https://amzn.to/3AKiflR 

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Questions to Guarantee You Accomplish Your Goals - http://bit.ly/3QASvym

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In this episode Deborah shares the challenges of launching a new idea and how leaders can overcome self-doubt and lead successful initiatives. Listen in as she explores how to identify “green light” moments, the common mistakes leaders make when assessing risk, and the mindset habits you can create to look for opportunities where things are going right.

Whether you are a C-Suite Leader of today or tomorrow, take charge of your career with confidence and leverage the insights of The CEO's Compass: Your Guide to Get Back on Track.  To learn more about The CEO's Compass, you can get your copy here: https://amzn.to/3AKiflR 

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