Ivy Podcast: Recent Episodes
Jahn Karsybaev
Welcome to Ivy Podcast. We interview Top Executives and Entrepreneurs with focus on effective leadership, digital transformation and disruptive technologies
Steven May is the Vice President of Cloud Services at Ultimate Software and he has been with the company for almost 10 years. Ultimate Software is a leading Human Capital Management and Employee Experience Solutions cloud provider, this company has been consistently ranked as one of the top places to work in US. Steve is an alumnus of Florida State University.
On this episode of the Ivy podcast, we welcome the Chair of the Harvard Business School Executive Education and William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration - Stefan Thomke. His new book "Experimentation Works" is now available for pre-order via Amazon.
This episode features Rafael Santos - Chief Technology Officer at e-Builder, a Trimble Company. Rafael and I got a chance to discuss his role as the lead of all technology initiatives at a company that develops a project management software for construction industry.
Prashanth Chandrasekar is Chief Executive Officer of Stack Overflow and is responsible for driving Stack Overflow’s overall strategic direction and results.
Books Prashanth recommended:
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World by Clive Thompson
My guest for this episode is Pavel Mischenko: a top-notch business consultant and coach who has successfully trained over 4,000 mid and C-level professionals in the US, Europe, Middle East, Central & South America. Pavel’s top career highlights include increasing revenue by 35% and profit by 300% within 2 years of service as Executive Director for training & development company in Upstate New York and pioneering highly successful Result-Oriented Leadership Development program for Bankers.
My guest for this episode is Nicki Anders. She is the Vice President of Client Engagement and responsible for post implementation customer experience, creating delight and optimizing execution for all medical specialties served by Modernizing Medicine. Nicki brings extensive knowledge and leadership from her 20+ years of experience driving scale and operational excellence in fast growing companies in Healthcare, Mortgage Finance, Human Capital Management and Hospitality. Nicki has held various leadership roles in product management, product development, professional services and customer experience solution delivery.
Today's guest for this episode is Nargiza Mashuri. Nargiza and her brother Nazym Paltachev have an extensive background working with global companies in the area of business development, new market acquisition, as well as due diligence, and economic barriers assessments. Nargiza has a bachelor in Industrial Technology Management and Master of Science in Global Technology Development from Arizona State University.
As Vice President of Global Sales Engineering at Farelogix, Manish Nagpal helps airlines deliver on their distribution and retailing strategies by aligning customer objectives with next-generation technology from Farelogix. Through his 20-year career, Manish has planned, directed, developed, and delivered technology products and solutions.
My guest for this episode is Lulu Curiel:the Founder and President of Ivy Advisors, a Silicon Valley admissions consulting firm that helps ambitious professionals land in the most competitive MBA programs in the world such as the Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB, MIT Sloan, Wharton, Booth, Kellogg and others.
The two books recommended by Lulu are:
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How Will You Measure Your Life? By Clay Christensen
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck By Mark Manson
My guest for this episode is Jason Lim, the founder & CEO at GiG Consulting Group Limited. With years of experience managing finance operations and coordinating process enhancements, Jason Lim has maximized workforce productivity and mitigated risk across multiple channels. He actively enhances contract negotiation and improves build out of business framework. He directs ERP system implementation and executes due diligence evaluations.
Heather Monahan is a best-selling author, keynote speaker, entrepreneur and founder of Boss In Heels. Having successfully climbed the corporate ladder for nearly 20 years, Heather is one of the few women to break the glass ceiling and claim her spot in the C-suite.
Dr Gerald Maccioli, M.D., MBA, FCCM, FASA, is a Chief Quality Officer at Envision Healthcare. As the leader of Envision’s quality care and reporting initiatives, he is advancing the organization’s mission to provide high-quality care and improve the health of communities across the U.S. Prior to joining the company in 2015, Dr. Maccioli was the director of the North Carolina Society of Anesthesiologists to the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA).
Bob Vosburgh has a rare mix of management and leadership talent having spent half of his professional life in the military and the other half in the corporate world. Bob founded SurveyVitals, Inc. to follow his passion of teaching, speaking, coaching and helping organizations implement scientific method for continuous improvement.
Bob's book recommendations:
1. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
2. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on Itby Chris Voss
3. Never Be Boring Again: Make Your Business Presentations Capture Attention, Inspire Action and Produce Resultsby Doug Stevenson
Ameesh Paleja is the Chief Technology Officer of OfferUp - mobile marketplace in the U.S. for local buyers and sellers. Ameesh, former CTO of Starz and co-founder and CEO of Atom Tickets, is overseeing OfferUp's engineering and data science teams and responsible for all strategic aspects of the technology organization, including infrastructure, security, product engineering, and architecture.
Jahn mentioned the book:
Experimentation Works By Stefan H. Thomke
The books recommended by Ameesh:
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't by Jim Collins
Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
My guest for this episode is Adil Nurgozhin: Chairman Of The Board Of Directors in "QazTech Ventures" JSC, Managing Director for Digitalization and Innovations in Baiterek National Managing Holding and Chairman Of The Board Of Directors in National Agency for Technological Development with the focus in corporate governance, technological development, investment and financial activities.
Dr. Gordon Chen is the Chief Medical Officer of ChenMed, a physician-led primary care practice whose goal is to deliver affordable care and superior experience to seniors across the United States. Dr. Chen, who leads the ChenMed clinical model, is directly responsible for the management of all clinicians and clinical leaders, clinical training, quality, outcomes, physician culture, and medical costs