Edwin J. Frondozo

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In this special episode of The Business Leadership Podcast, Edwin Frondozo sits down with John MacRitchie, Assistant Vice President of Zone Learning and Strategic Initiatives at Toronto Metropolitan University, to reflect on five years of the Brampton Venture Zone and what it has unlocked for founders, researchers, and the broader community.

John was instrumental in bringing the Brampton Venture Zone to life and shares why Brampton was the right place to build a founder-first incubator — one grounded in community, persistence, and long-term investment.

We explore:

Why Brampton emerged as a key innovation hub in Canada
How BVZ differs from traditional incubators by focusing on place-based innovation
The role of community in multiplying entrepreneurial impact
What the Brampton Venture Expo reveals about ecosystem momentum
How BVZ connects researchers, clinicians, and entrepreneurs as the School of Medicine launches
What the City of Brampton’s renewed investment signals for the next five years

This episode offers a behind-the-scenes look at how innovation ecosystems are intentionally designed — and sustained — over time.

This episode is a special collaboration with UpNext Global and the Brampton Venture Zone by Toronto Metropolitan University, produced in celebration of BVZ’s fifth anniversary.

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Guest:
John MacRitchie
Assistant Vice President, Zone Learning & Strategic Initiatives
Toronto Metropolitan University

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In this special episode of The Business Leadership Podcast, Edwin Frondozo sat down with Sakeena Mihyar, Founder and CEO of SAVIN, as part of BVZ: Five Years Bold — a founder story series celebrating five years of the Brampton Venture Zone.

Sakeena is a refugee-led founder building a digital, neuroscience-based mental health platform delivering trauma care in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. Inspired by her lived experience as a survivor of war, SAVIN uses evidence-based EMDR therapy principles to make trauma treatment accessible, culturally appropriate, and scalable across languages and regions.

We explore:

How lived experience became the foundation for a global mental health platform
Why neuroscience-based trauma care can outperform traditional talk therapies
The challenges of building a HealthTech company as a refugee and Muslim woman founder
How empathy and inclusion can be operationalized at scale
How BVZ supported SAVIN in identifying blind spots, refining its pitch, and scaling impact globally

Today, SAVIN operates across Canada and internationally, including in post-conflict regions such as Syria, supporting communities affected by trauma with dignity and care.

This episode is a special collaboration with UpNext Global and the Brampton Venture Zone by Toronto Metropolitan University, produced in celebration of BVZ’s fifth anniversary.

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Guest:
Sakeena Mihyar
Founder & CEO, SAVIN
BVZ Launch Program Alum

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In this special episode of The Business Leadership Podcast, Edwin Frondozo sits down with Latchmi Raghunanan, Founder and CEO of Maman Biomedical, as part of BVZ: Five Years Bold — a founder story series celebrating five years of the Brampton Venture Zone.

Latchmi shares how her personal IVF journey became the catalyst for founding Maman Biomedical, a MedTech startup developing technologies to reduce the physical, emotional, and financial burden of fertility treatments. Drawing from her background as a materials scientist, she reflects on the journey from kitchen-countertop prototyping to building a company focused on real-world patient care.

We explore:

How lived experience can shape meaningful healthcare innovation
The leadership challenges of building a biomedical startup from an academic background
Translating scientific research into something investors and partners can understand
How BVZ provided visibility, credibility, and community at an early stage

This episode is a special collaboration with UpNext Global, the F1 Circuit of the Startup Ecosystem, and the Brampton Venture Zone by Toronto Metropolitan University, produced in celebration of BVZ’s fifth anniversary and the founders' bridging science, entrepreneurship, and patient impact.

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Guest:

Latchmi Raghunanan

Founder & CEO, Maman Biomedical

BVZ Launch Program Alum

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In this special episode of The Business Leadership Podcast, Edwin Frondozo sits down with Saumik Biswas, Co-Founder and CEO of Tenomix, as part of BVZ: Five Years Bold — a founder story series celebrating five years of the Brampton Venture Zone.

Saumik shares how Tenomix is using AI, robotics, and ultrasound imaging to transform one of the most manual and error-prone workflows in cancer care: lymph node detection during pathology and cancer staging. By automating this process, Tenomix aims to improve diagnostic accuracy, reduce lab backlogs, and support better treatment decisions for patients worldwide.

We explore:

The clinical problem Tenomix set out to solve in cancer staging
How AI-powered robotics can standardize and improve pathology workflows
The challenges of building and funding deep MedTech in Canada
How BVZ supported Tenomix through mentorship, strategy, and fundraising fundamentals

This episode is a special collaboration with UpNext Global, spotlighting startups and the Brampton Venture Zone at Toronto Metropolitan University, produced in celebration of BVZ’s fifth anniversary and the founders' push to advance healthcare innovation.

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Guest:

Saumik Biswas

Co-Founder & CEO, Tenomix

BVZ Launch Program Alum

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In this special episode of The Business Leadership Podcast, Edwin Frondozo sits down with Shreyansh Anand, Founder and CEO of Wave Medical, as part of BVZ: Five Years Bold — a founder story series celebrating five years of the Brampton Venture Zone.

Shreyansh shares how Wave Medical was launched during the pandemic to help clinics manage overwhelming volumes of medical data and documentation. Today, Wave’s platform supports hundreds of clinics across Canada, helping healthcare teams act faster on urgent patient information while reducing administrative burden.

We explore:

What it was like to start a HealthTech company during the pandemic
Why trust is the most critical currency in healthcare innovation
How automation can improve patient outcomes without disrupting clinical workflows
How BVZ helped Wave build credibility, secure early customers, and scale responsibly

This episode is a special collaboration with UpNext Global and the Brampton Venture Zone by Toronto Metropolitan University, produced in celebration of BVZ’s fifth anniversary and the founders building practical, high-impact healthcare solutions.

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Guest:

Shreyansh Anand

Founder & CEO, Wave Medical

BVZ Launch Program Alum

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In this special episode of The Business Leadership Podcast, I sit down with Usha Srinivasan, Founder and CEO of BReady.ai and the former Executive Director who helped launch and lead the Brampton Venture Zone.

Recorded as part of BVZ: Five Years Bold, this conversation explores how BVZ was built from the ground up during the early days of the pandemic, and how a community-first approach helped shape what is now a cornerstone of the Brampton Innovation District.

Usha shares:

How BVZ came to life through collaboration between the City of Brampton and Toronto Metropolitan University
Why listening deeply to the community shaped BVZ’s strategy, sectors, and programs
Lessons in leadership, resilience, and confidence gained from building without a playbook
How her journey at BVZ led to the creation of BReady.ai, supporting newcomers and underrepresented talent into meaningful employment

This episode is a special collaboration with UpNext Global and the Brampton Venture Zone by Toronto Metropolitan University, produced in celebration of BVZ’s fifth anniversary and the people who helped shape its legacy.

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Guest:
Usha SrinivasanFounder & CEO, BReady.ai
Former Executive Director, Brampton Venture Zone

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In this special episode of The Business Leadership Podcast, I sit down with Neelam Bance, CEO and Co-Founder of MedGeneius, as part of BVZ: Five Years Bold — a founder story series celebrating five years of the Brampton Venture Zone.

Neelam shares her journey building MedGeneius, a HealthTech startup delivering customizable and evidence-based pharmacogenomics (PGx) solutions that help patients, providers, labs, and hospitals turn complex genetic data into clear, actionable clinical insights.

We explore:

The promise and challenges of precision medicine
Building trust in data-driven healthcare innovation
How BVZ supported her journey through mentorship, community, and founder connection

This episode is a special collaboration with UpNext Global and the Brampton Venture Zone by Toronto Metropolitan University, produced in celebration of BVZ’s fifth anniversary and the founders shaping the Brampton innovation ecosystem.

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Guest:
Neelam Bance

CEO & Co-Founder, MedGeneius
BVZ Launch Program Alum (2025)

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In this special episode of The Business Leadership Podcast, I sit down with Neelam Bance, CEO and Co-Founder of MedGeneius, as part of BVZ: Five Years Bold — a founder story series celebrating five years of the Brampton Venture Zone.

Neelam shares her journey building MedGeneius, a HealthTech startup delivering customizable and evidence-based pharmacogenomics (PGx) solutions that help patients, providers, labs, and hospitals turn complex genetic data into clear, actionable clinical insights.

We explore:

The promise and challenges of precision medicine
Building trust in data-driven healthcare innovation
How BVZ supported her journey through mentorship, community, and founder connection

This episode is a special collaboration with UpNext Global and the Brampton Venture Zone by Toronto Metropolitan University, produced in celebration of BVZ’s fifth anniversary and the founders shaping the Brampton innovation ecosystem.

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Guest:
Neelam Bance
CEO & Co-Founder, MedGeneius
BVZ Launch Program Alum (2025)

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In this special episode of The Business Leadership Podcast, we delve into the world of Indigenous entrepreneurship and showcase the transformative power of the SOAR Accelerator. Join host Edwin Frondozo as he speaks with Sunshine Tenasco, the co-founder of SOAR, and the visionary founders of five exceptional Indigenous-owned businesses from the inaugural cohort:

Sunshine Tenasco - Co-Founder of SOAR, Founder of Her Braids and Pow Wow Pitch, and Author of Nibi’s Water Song. (Link: Sunshine Tenasco)
Cheekbone Beauty - Founded by Jenn Harper, the first Indigenous-owned and founded cosmetics company. (Link: Cheekbone Beauty)
Indi City - Co-founded by Angel and Alex, the first global Indigenous designers to incorporate wearable technology into traditional regalia. (Link: Indi City)
MINI TIPI - Founded by Trisha Pitura and Mélanie Bernard, it offers a unique line of goods inspired by Canadian and Indigenous heritage. (Link: MINI TIPI)
Sequoia - Founded by Michaelee Lazore, a proudly Indigenous brand offering sustainable and Indigenous-inspired products. (Link: Sequoia)
Wabanaki Maple - A 100% Indigenous female-owned company producing signature line barrel-aged maple syrup products. (Link: Wabanaki Maple)

Discover their inspiring stories, the impact of the SOAR Accelerator, and how we, as business leaders, can support and uplift entrepreneurs like them to build a more inclusive and sustainable economy.

Three Things the Listener Will Learn:

The Significance of the SOAR Accelerator: Learn about the first-of-its-kind SOAR Accelerator and its role in empowering high-growth Indigenous-owned businesses in Canada. Understand how this unique initiative fosters financial success, builds confidence, opens doors, and creates opportunities for Indigenous entrepreneurs to thrive.
Inspiring Stories of Indigenous Business Leaders: Hear firsthand accounts from the founders of Cheekbone Beauty, Indi City, MINI TIPI, Sequoia, and Wabanaki Maple. Discover their entrepreneurial journeys, the challenges they've overcome, and their positive impact on their communities through their businesses.
Supporting Indigenous Entrepreneurship: Gain insights into the importance of mentorship, collaboration, and creating an inclusive space for Indigenous entrepreneurs to grow and succeed. Explore how business leaders can play a crucial role in uplifting and supporting Indigenous businesses and contributing to building a more inclusive and sustainable economy.

Additional Links and Resources:

SOAR Accelerator Press Release
SOAR Accelerator Cohort
Toronto Star Feature
SOAR Digital Gathering of Indigenous Entrepreneurs
- Date: September 21st
- Time: 12 PM - 4 PM ET
- Event Description: Join 1,000 Indigenous entrepreneurs and allies in a digital entrepreneurship gathering featuring the five SOAR entrepreneurs, performances, workshops, and ceremony. Free registration for Indigenous attendees and $50 for non-Indigenous attendees.

Discover more about the SOAR Accelerator, read the press release, explore the cohort of extraordinary entrepreneurs, and join the upcoming SOAR Digital Gathering to engage and support the Indigenous business community.

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We’ve teamed up with RBC to bring you a series of podcasts to help business owners and entrepreneurs navigate today’s ever-changing environment and position your business to win for tomorrow – the Growth Unlocked Podcast.

In this episode of the Growth Unlocked Podcast, our host Edwin Frondozo welcomes Don Ludlow, the Vice President of Small Business, Strategy & Partnerships at RBC, and Mark Patterson, the visionary Executive Director of Magnet. Today’s discussion revolves around the innovative strategies SMEs can use to attract and retain the dynamic young talent of today.

Don and Mark share their insights on balancing the promotion of flexibility, agility, and creative perks to enhance employee well-being. They explore the importance of nurturing career growth through varied challenges and opportunities to keep younger employees engaged and fulfilled in their roles.

With his unique expertise in leveraging technological solutions, Mark emphasizes fostering collaboration within the employment and training ecosystem. His perspective illustrates how such an approach can positively impact individual businesses and contribute to the broader Canadian economic landscape.

The conversation also highlights RBC’s efforts, including the launch of RBC Upskill, designed to help young Canadians navigate their early career journey. Furthermore, Mark delves into the benefits of Magnet, a platform that fosters connections between businesses and potential talent.

Be sure to listen for practical advice, ingenious ideas, and fresh perspectives designed to elevate your small business to unprecedented heights.

What You Will Learn From This Episode

Innovative Recruitment Strategies: Learn effective tactics SMEs can use to attract and retain younger employees in today’s competitive market. Dive into the importance of promoting flexibility and agility and offering creative perks catering to the younger workforce's unique demands.
Employee Wellbeing and Growth: Discover how to enhance employee well-being and foster career growth. Understand the crucial role of providing challenges and opportunities that help young employees grow and thrive.
Leveraging Technology for Collaboration: Mark Patterson shares his expertise in harnessing technological solutions to foster collaboration within the employment and training ecosystem. Grasp how this strategy can positively impact your business and contribute to Canada’s economic landscape.

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Don Ludlow on LinkedIn
Mark Patterson on LinkedIn
RBC Small Business Navigator
Magnet Website
RBC Starting Business Portal
Ownr
Moneris Online
Insights Edge

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Danielle is the CMO of Kelly Roach International and the brains behind the implementation of Conviction Marketing. She helps hundreds of entrepreneurs inside the company to bring their genius to the world.

Danielle’s background in psychology, education, and copywriting, give her a unique pulse on the current marketing landscape and culture where she is able to give strategic, creative brand direction to clients and her audience.

Danielle has helped countless 7 and 8 figure well-known brands prior to joining Kelly Roach Coaching, and brings a wealth of knowledge to the overall client experience that leads to brand success. In addition to helping leaders build personal brands, Danielle has played a significant role in the growth of Kelly Roach International.

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insight they need to build one-to-one relationships with their consumers. For
the last decade, Marie, with the help of her team, has grown Sampler from
the ground up to become the global leader in the product sampling space.
Marie started Sampler with a vision to transform the way consumer
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tirelessly to develop a sampling solution that could help brands of all sizes
and categories deliver samples to digitally targeted consumers while
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influential leaders giving back to the world through volunteering,
inspirational leadership and community initiatives. She’s been honoured
within the Canadian tech ecosystem for her global accomplishments and
contributions through Sampler and named Woman of the Year by The DMZ.
Her company has been recognized as one of the Most Innovative
Workplaces in Canada by Elevate for its unwavering commitment to
inclusiveness and diversity in tech. Marie’s advocacy for supporting the next
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Dr. Brent Hogarth is a Clinical and Sport Psychologist, and leader in the field of Positive Psychology. Brent lives in Vancouver, Canada.

Brent is the head Peak Performance Coach at the Flow Research Collective where he has trained thousands of sport & 'corporate athletes' to find greater flow-state, mindfulness, & self-control in their lives.

Brent believes well-being is not only about alleviating suffering, but that human flourishing requires the development of ones unique strengths & character, & the ability to experience transcendent peak experiences.

Brent has significant training & experience providing performance enhancement coaching & mental health counselling. This includes working with Olympic & professional athletes, start up CEOs & entrepreneurs, members of the USA military, Doctors, Coaches, engineers, creatives, hedge fund managers & more. Brent believes that everyone has the ability to be a high-performer & achieve optimal experience. He completed his Doctoral fellowships at the University of Texas, at El Paso, and Lehigh University, in Bethlehem, PA. In both placements he worked with Division 1 student-athletes, their teams, coaches & athletic admin.

As a Psychologist, Brent uses a Humanistic lens integrated with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Humanistic psychology helps individuals move towards growth, freedom and responsibility through dropping defence mechanisms which limits their ability to achieve wholeness. ACT uses acceptance & mindfulness strategies, together with behaviour change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility. Psychological flexibility means contacting the present moment fully, & based on what the situation affords, changing or persisting in behaviour in the service of clients chosen values.

Most importantly, Brent recognizes & values how the relationship itself is the foundation of any change in a coaching relationship.

Before entering graduate school, Brent earned an undergraduate degree in Kinesiology.

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Marie is an inner peace coach, a level 2 certified Wim Hof Method instructor, a Spartan athlete, and a passionate advocate for mental wellness. She has committed her life to deliver anxious, stressed-out people incredible focus, unshakeable inner peace, and deep self-love.

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Patrick is a Human Design and Transformational Coach who is dedicated to helping others discover the beauty and benefits of Human Design while finding their life purpose. He helps guide his clients through their journey of discovering alignment and their natural gifts, talents and purpose, while cutting through the noise of what societal conditioning says true success is. Patrick shows his clients how to get back to the true essence of who they are by dropping the "should do's" and learning to reconnect and trust their inner voice. He explains how to redefine the meaning of success while tuning into our true gifts and talents and realigning with what's truly important in living authentically. He breaks down the steps needed to create a life of ease, flow and abundance while creating and maintaining the boundaries needed to break free from unhappiness and get to a place of personal fulfillment and team success.

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In this episode Managing Your Personal Capacity, Melanie Sodka sits down with host Edwin Frondozo to discuss hustle, burnout and capacity.

Melanie Sodka is a human behaviour enthusiast helping overwhelmed people who are over-committed and distracted.

As a TEDx speaker, Award winning Business Professor, Speaker and podcaster, Melanie continues to reach worldwide audiences with her research in Capacity Management, Hustle Culture and Burnout.

Her research and trademarked tools have helped tens of thousands in managing their personal capacity while staying out of burnout and doing more of what they love. Featured in Forbes, Training Industry Inc., Quantum Magazine, Hamilton Spectator, Momentum Magazine, Dreaming Big Being Bold and many more, this 40 under 40 award winning Entrepreneur has a loyal following and is preparing to release her first book in 2022.

What You Will Learn From This Episode

How multi-tasking is eroding our capacity
Why anchoring yourself to accountability is important
The rule of three

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Youtube
Podcast
Facebook
Twitter

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“Every human being, every employee, every worker has this ability to adapt and grow and deal with adversity and take advantage of opportunities if you give them the right environment and that is really what leadership is about” In this episode The Future of Work, Josh Bersin sits down with host Edwin Frondozo to discuss new ways of leadership, the future of work and his new book Irresistible (available October 25th. Pre Order Irresistible off Amazon HERE).

Josh is the founder and CEO of The Josh Bersin Company, an independent research firm which provides research and advisory services to global corporations covering all areas of HR, learning, and HR technology. Josh also founded Bersin & Associates (now Bersin by Deloitte) and the Josh Bersin Academy, the professional development platform. A frequent speaker at industry events, Josh has been quoted on talent management topics in key media, including The Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Financial Times, BBC Radio, CBS Radio and NPR. He is a columnist for the Sloan Management Review, a leading LinkedIn influencer, and has been a regular op-ed writer for HR Executive magazine. Josh spent 25 years in product development, product management, marketing and sales of e-learning and other enterprise technologies at companies including DigitalThink (now Convergys), Arista Knowledge Systems, Sybase, and IBM. Josh's education includes a B.S. in Engineering from Cornell University, an M.S. in the same discipline from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

What You Will Learn From This Episode

What is an Irresistible Company
What Human-Centred Leadership is
Importance of flexible work environments going forward

Connect with Josh Bersin:

LinkedIn
Website
The Josh Bersin Academy
Facebook
Twitter

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Irresistible: The Seven Secrets of the World's Most Enduring, Employee-Focused Organizations

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Greet the Pull with Irene Pace

“Every behaviour is an attempt to solve a problem, even if it’s not the best solution.” Irene PaceIn this episode, Greet the Pull, Irene Pace sits down with host Edwin Frondozo to discuss counterproductive behaviours you wish you could do away with, how they impact your leadership, and what you can do about them.

Irene is the founder and CEO of Pace Nutrition, where she specializes in helping people discover what drives their challenging eating behaviours and craft a new relationship with food.

Her challenges with food inspired her to develop the Pace Method, which she has used to help hundreds of clients, from doctors to entrepreneurs change the way they relate to food and open doors to change the way they relate to their bodies, other people around them, and reach major inflection points in their personal and business lives.

She started her career as a Registered Dietitian managing complex medical nutrition support in a major trauma hospital before leading the University of Waterloo’s student nutrition program and launching the nutrition arm of the first multidisciplinary primary care practice in Ontario, Canada.

Irene is also the author of “Eat Like You Teach,” an Amazon bestseller that helps healthcare professionals who find themselves struggling with food use the Pace Method to find the path forward.

Irene captains her local field hockey team in her free time and enjoys outdoor adventures, from biking through the Rocky Mountains to walking the Amazon rainforest with native shamans.

What You Will Learn From This Episode

How food and our nervous system are linked
How your early childhood relationship with food can shape your eating habits
What is Greet the Pull

Connect with Irene Pace

LinkedIn
Website
Instagram
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch

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“The way this system is trained is it is trained through experience over time, so your nervous system learns. You can think of it like AI or something, right? It learns through experience.” Irene Pace
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“You can have your purpose as a foundational base which is the purpose of my life is to live, and then put that aside and say “I get that that’s a core principle, a core value or my life that my purpose is to live.”. And then from there start to stack on that and create other ways of being that help you think beyond just you know, what is your life’s purpose.” Marcos MendosaIn this episode Living Life as an Artrepreneur, Marcos Mendosa sits down with host Edwin Frondozo to discuss living life as an Artrepreneur, how communication is a super power and how purpose is not enough – it’s just the foundation.

With a passion for poetry, writing, and teaching sales, Marcos Mendosa has built a reputation as the go-to-source for learning how to use communication as a superpower.

As the co-founder of Coachable, a coaches business development agency, Marcos has built a service model that helps optimize businesses by helping coaches focus on their genius while he and his team take care of their sales, branding, copy, and social media marketing. With his background as the Head Trainer of the Think and Grow Rich Institute, Marcos led the organization through a series of training programs that influenced thousands of people on how to integrate the principles of Napoleon Hill’s books into their lives.

Marcos is originally from Toronto, Canada and lives a nomadic life around the world.

What You Will Learn From This Episode

What is a Artrepreneur.
Purpose is a foundation.
How communication is a super power.
Thought, feeling and action sequence.

“Communication solves all problems. Communication creates all reality. ” Marcos MendosaConnect with Marcos Mendosa

LinkedIn
Instagram
TikTok
Spotify

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Fuel Your Flow with Pauline Dougald

“Flow expresses itself totally different to each individual person. It is a highly unique experience and every individual will have its own personal approach to it.”

Pauline Dougald

In this episode Fuel Your Flow, Pauline Dougald sits down with host Edwin Frondozo to discuss flow, creativity, productivity and how to continue growth and evolving. Pauline is a Creative Focus Coach who combines Artistic approach and Neuroscience – based peak performance tools to guide her clients to become their optimized version of themselves and unlock their creativity. Her specialty is creating a wider perspective and shifting paradigm to access the parts that are dormant, in order to reclaim back that creative resilience that lives within everyone. She has trained with Robbins-Madanes Institute, Flow Research Collective, is a Precision Nutrition L1 certified coach and has a degree from Fine Arts school as well as a graduate of an Interior Design program. She also learned from prominent leaders such as Tony Robbins, Peter Sage, Steven Kotler, David Hawkins, Joe Dispensa, Michael Gervais, Tom Campbell and many more. She combines her knowledge of interior spaces, neuroscience, spirituality, psychology and physiological aspects in order to facilitate holistic approach to reshaping the view of the world and unlocking creative potential, as well as shifting the mindset to overcome any blockages. Pauline also has a passion for motorsports and approaches life as a race where developing creativity and acceptance of failure can mean a difference between life of fulfillment or one of regret. What You Will Learn From This Episode * What is flow state. * The most critical component needed for flow state to occur. * What is Challenge Scale Ratio. * In what state flow happens.

Connect with Pauline Dougald * Website * Facebook * Twitter * Podcast

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“You need to figure out yourself in order to do something for a long period of time. Flow does not happen momentarily. It’s a building up process and it has to stay there for an extended period of time, so you have to find your own way on how to consistently do something.”

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IDP001 – Navdeep Singh Bains – Innovation Drivers Podcast by Edwin J. Frondozo

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IDP000 – Origin Episode – Innovation Drivers Podcast by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Cameron has over 25yrs experience working in global technology companies around the world in supply chain, procurement, innovation and technology. I am a serial "corporate-entrepreneur" where I've either started or led number of businesses in every company I've worked for to new levels of success and also work with a number of startups and SMEs in various board or advisory roles. I've been fortunate enough to have worked and lived in Montreal, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, San Jose and Austin and while we're proudly Canadian, we call Austin Texas home now where we raise our four kids and numerous animals and watch hockey on TSN whenever we can.

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How do you manage a workplace during the pandemic now that everyone is working at home?

In this is two-part conversation Edwin had with Jas Saraw. You will hear them talk about the Covid-19 pandemic for the first half of the interview. The second part will revolve on Jas' journey from a sales executive to leading an entire market segment.

Jas Saraw is Vice President, Canada at Procore where he is responsible for all Canadian revenue and customer-facing teams that reside in the Canadian offices, including Business Development, Customer Success, Sales and Marketing. Jas joined Procore in 2017 and has over 18 years of technology leadership experience specializing in SaaS, ERP, CRM and eCommerce solutions. Jas is passionate about diversity and education in construction and brings a unique understanding and perspective of construction technology as it applies practically from coast to coast.

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Chantal served as a Department of National Defence civilian as a Strategic Planner for the Canadian Armed Forces and Department of National Defence response to domestic emergencies, including business continuity and pandemic planning among other things.

After the H1N1 pandemic in 2009 (the first worldwide pandemic in 40 years by the way), she was tasked to collect all the lessons learned and recommendations for future pandemic response.

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Andrea Lekushoff, a leader in the Canadian public relations industry, Andrea Lekushoff has more than two decades of experience as a communications strategist and trusted advisor for some of the world’s most respected brands. As an agency leader and hands-on advisor to her clients, Andrea has deep experience working across a range of industry sectors and she has counselled clients on all aspects of PR including executive visibility, reputation and thought leadership. A sought-after speaker and presenter for industry and business groups, she is also a regular guest contributor for media. Passionate about entrepreneurship, and the professional advancement of women, Andrea sits on the boards for YPO Toronto, Women of Influence and Boost Child & Youth Advocacy Centre.

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Kim has excelled as an enterprise sales executive in the technology sector throughout her career. After many years of selling into the global account marketplace, Kim decided to go out on her own and help small businesses learn how to generate exponential growth by selling big deals to big clients.

Her experience at TELUS selling into large accounts, in Canada, the USA, and globally taught her much about the rewards of big business returns. Following her experience in emerging technology selling, she worked for 3 large, best-of-breed, USA cybersecurity software manufacturers selling into corporate accounts.

In addition to her work in technology, she has been a Board member of several non-profit organizations for the past 22 years giving time and expertise to the community and special causes.

Her current work not only includes helping small companies with big deal selling but also works with her clients to help them build efficient and effective Boards and protect their companies by understanding cybersecurity governance and regulation.

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Darryl Praill is the Chief Marketing Officer at VanillaSoft, the industry's most established Sales Engagement Platform. As an accomplished award-winning marketer, a Sales World Top 50 Keynote speaker, a 2020 top 10 SaaS Branding Expert, a Top 19 B2B Marketer to Watch in 2019, a social media influencer, a category-leading podcaster, and a serial entrepreneur. Darryl has raised almost $100 million in venture capital, acquired, merged and taken companies public, been hired and fired, and worked for companies of all sizes.

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Keren Moynihan is CEO of Boss Insights, a Big Data & AI platform that empowers lenders to measure businesses on their merit as opposed to their collateral. With a Joint JD/MBA and awarded a Top 25 Executive Leader in Lending, Keren has a diverse background as a commercial banker, wealth manager, and former founder of an impact startup. She’s a regular speaker and mentor on AI, Big Data, lending, investing and entrepreneurship. She’s spoken at Bank Innovation Ignite, NY Fintech Week, Fintech Connect UK, Fintech South Atlanta and Women In Finance. By creating collaborative approaches to democratizing capital Keren envisions bridging the need-gap in the lending industry and powering the economic engine of the future: SMBs and Commercial businesses.

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Senior executive with a strong record of leadership in delivering timely, innovative and effective business and process transformation in the Canadian Federal Government over the past 20 years. Expertise in shaping strategic policy, conceptualizing, guiding and directing key programs, and overseeing operations in both service delivery and regulatory bodies. Highly experienced in process and organizational change, digital transformation, executive team management and strategic partnership building.

Long-standing advocate for human rights, diversity and inclusion; and innovator in addressing workplace mental health and wellness.

Recognized by Women’s Executive Network as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women. Recipient of honours for significant contributions to the public sector, including the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Award. MA, Criminology, University of Pennsylvania, and JD, Osgoode Hall. Called to the Bar of Ontario.

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TBLP150 - Paul Vallee - The Business Leadership Podcast for Business Leaders by Edwin J. Frondozo

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TBLP149 - Suzanne Grant - The Business Leadership Podcast for Business Leaders by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Sophia Ruffolo is the Founder and CEO of femmebought, an online women’s business directory, community, and education hub that’s meaningfully connecting and inspiring women, giving entrepreneurs the tools required to grow their own businesses.

femmebought launched in 2018 and already has a digital presence in over three continents and 10 countries, with community hubs in Toronto, Chicago, and Tel Aviv. Through femmebought, Sophia builds bridges, offering real advice where there are gaps. She prides herself on connecting people with the resources and networks needed to launch and scale businesses.

An experienced executive, Sophia has worked in a variety of senior roles for a global financial institution, including Chief Compliance Officer of US and Canadian based investment firms and trust companies. People love working with Sophia because of her endless energy and drive to help women launch businesses on their own terms.

Her work as an advocate for women scaling businesses has also included participating as an advisor to a tech start up and a mentor for programs helping entrepreneurs succeed including the Toronto edition of the Tech Stars accelerator collaboration with The Big Push.

Sophia is also a sought after speaker, participating at events as a panelist, moderator and speaker on topics including funding, angel investing, social media, risk management, regulation, and building and scaling a business. When Sophia is not scaling her business, she’s probably skiing at Banff.

In today’s episode, Sophia shares some tips on how she lets her team fail or fall down and let them become stronger, she also shares her personal experiences in adjusting to her new world of entrepreneurship, and some of the habits that she has kept over the last week which has helped her during these uncertain times.

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TBLP147 - Evan Goldberg - The Business Leadership Podcast for Business Leaders by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Shrad Rao is the CEO of Wagepoint, a simple payroll software for small businesses that are looking to simplify their payment process. Shrad always knew that he would be an entrepreneur. He has always been very passionate about entrepreneurship because it allows him the ability to influence change, make decisions and most of all, choose the company he keeps.

When he’s not growing and scaling Wagepoint, he’s into exploring anything including yoga and taking some Lindy Hop lessons where he can spend most of his energy and sharpen his skills at the same time. Shrad’s mission is to build the world’s friendliest team. His leadership style involves making Wagepoint’s employees feel like they can be their natural selves at work.

Today, Shrad shares about what he’s trying to accomplish for the next 6-12 months, the things that he learned that worked and didn’t work, and exciting news about customer development. He also discusses the core of his philosophy and how he is scaling it.

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Andrew Graham is an experienced leader who brings people and technology together to solve hard problems. He is co-founder and CEO of Borrowell, a financial technology company that helps Canadians make great decisions about credit. With its free credit score and report monitoring, personal loans, and financial product recommendations, Borrowell empowers Canadians to improve their financial well-being and be the hero of their credit. Borrowell is one of Canada’s largest financial technology companies approaching a million users. The company has received significant recognition, including being named to the Fintech 100, a list of the top 100 fintech companies globally compiled by KPMG, a “Company-to-Watch” by the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 program, and Canadian Fintech company of the year (2018).

This episode has one thing cleared out that being a leader entails an enormous amount of responsibility, especially at dealing with startup ones. Andrew shares his viewpoints on this matter, being the co-founder and CEO of Borrowell who led it from startup all the way to scaling it up to whatever possible growth it may reach. And together with the responsibility involved, he shares the strategies, practices, tips, and practical ways he could employ to stay on top of his game and reinforce the leadership skills he already possesses.

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JP Chauvet is the President at Lightspeed, a hands-on, forward-thinking executive with proven ability to implement change and drive growth. He has this in-depth understanding of technology, product development, finance, and sales management.

He has years of operating internationally across North America, Europe, and Asia. He’s got a proven track record of achieving targets and completing on business initiatives with both large established software vendors as well as fast-growing start-ups. He is a strong leader with excellent interpersonal skills and team player qualities and enjoys the challenge of a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Today we have JP talking about taking rein of a startup company and scaling it up into a fully grown sales organization. This episode is not complete without him talking about strategies and effective processes and systems he put in place to bring the company to its newfound business growth. It may look like an overnight success to the outside world but the amount of work he put into it makes it all worthy of discussion too.

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Mike McDerment is the co-founder and CEO of FreshBooks, cloud-based accounting software that is used by 160 countries around the world and is currently ranked second in America.

Mike spent three and a half years growing FreshBooks from his parents’ basement. Outside of FreshBooks, Mike is a dad, a husband, a son and a brother. He is somebody who loves the outdoors.

In this episode, he talks about the different roles of a CEO and its ambiguity around the role.

Mike shares the leadership challenges that he had to ovecome that became part of his development path in the earlier days.

He also discusses his knolwedge on develping and growing as an effective business leader.

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Alfredo Tan is the chief digital & innovations officer at WestJet Airlines where he is responsible for building a culture of innovation. He is also an industry professor and keynote speaker who is very passionate about science and technology. He describes himself as “someone who got lucky along the way.”

When he’s not doing part-time lectures at McMaster University, he spends most of his time at home with his rescue animals. He also gives keynotes where he talks about cultural innovation and digital transformation. Alfredo loves going on vacation with his rescue animals and loved ones and plans to avail of the “work from Maui” which he himself implemented.

Because of his hunger to learn and constantly improve, he went to Harvard school to do the AMP program earlier this year and is currently pursuing formal education in the legal framework which he doesn’t even need at this stage in his career.

In this episode, Alfredo explains the different perspectives of what innovation could mean and restate the importance of focusing on what matters. He also shares the challenges he’s faced when he started building a culture of innovation. Alfredo discussed the importance of having mentors and things that he could have done differently if he was to ask his 20-year younger self.

Don’t miss this very interesting topic about cultural innovation and the many lessons that you will learn about leadership.

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Carmine Cinerari is the President of Sharp Electronics of Canada Ltd. and guides the vision and strategic direction of the company's operations in Canada.

He has sucessfully steered the company through a number of strategic shifts in business domains, operating models, and corporate strategy. His hands-on, collaborative approach has fostered a culture of teamwork, customer focus and valued business partner relationships.

At an age and tenure in his career, one of his biggest hobbies is just to keep learning and seeking opportunities to learn new things and connect with people that can perhaps teach him new things. He has found renewed interest in reading and staying current on technology and social trends and he travels a lot on business and with his family.

This episode has a lot that you can take away from. Carmine shares his wisdom, especially around his management style. He believes in using tools that help one become a better leader and he shares that one, too, about mindfulness and strengthening one’s business stamina.

And never to be missed are his arsenal of helpful thoughts and insights about leadership in terms of honing it as well as exercising it especially in the most trying times.

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This is a special collaboration mini-series with Info-tech Research Group co-hosted with Brian Jackson.

Alan is responsible for spearheading the product strategy and vision as well as Dealer-FX business architecture, field deployment and product management as Dealer-FX advances our mobile, data and analytics offerings in addition to our dominance in Service Lane Technology. Alan has over 20 years of executive experience in large global companies such as IBM as well as with software start-ups. He has had significant success in driving complex projects involving multiple partner organizations with disparate technologies, from the initial concepts to the final delivery and was a finalist for Canadian CIO of the Year in 2019.

A graduate from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Computer Engineering, Alan believes deeply that technology is the key to solving many of today’s problems and has worked in IT and Technology building innovative solutions that transform the way software is delivered With extensive expertise in cloud-based solutions that are both mobile-friendly and regulatory-compliant, Alan also has deep experience with telematics providers and connected mobility platforms. Alan also serves as a Lead Advisor with the Toronto MaRS Discovery District, the world’s largest urban innovation hub, a launchpad for startups, a platform for researchers and a home to Canadian innovators.

Today he will share his experience on getting the CTO position through a recruiter.

Also he will discuss the importance of meeting the key people of the organization.

Lastly, Alan shares his vision for Dealer-FX.

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This is a special collaboration mini-series with Info-tech Research Group co-hosted with Brian Jackson.

Is it hard to transition industry or roles? This is what Eric Wright, our guest faced during his transfer from InfoTech to LexisNexis.

Eric Wright is Chief Executive Officer of LexisNexis Canada. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Eric leads the organization in its continued development of trusted content, leading-edge technology, and workflow solutions for legal professionals in Canadian law firm, corporate, government and academic markets.

Prior to joining LexisNexis in August 2018, Eric was Senior Vice President at Info-Tech Research Group, where he was responsible for the delivery of advisory services and commercial activities within the Technology Research division. He led the organization's transformation from a product focus on written research to a service focus on advisory and SaaS solutions. Eric was previously Info-Tech's head of operations, where he led the Legal, Marketing, Sales Operations, Information Technology, and Human Resources teams.

On this episode, he shares how he faced the challenge of entering a new industry with a brand new role.

Also find out how his communicative approach led to many quick wins for the organization.

Lastly, listen to how he is shaping a new vision for LexisNexis.

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This is a special collaboration mini-series with Info-tech Research Group co-hosted with Brian Jackson.

Can a husband and wife work on the same company? Find out Erin Bury's answer as she and Brian dive deep about this complicated topic.

Erin Bury graduated from Carleton University’s journalism program and soon after was involved with Sprouter, which formed a huge community of startups in the Toronto area and beyond.

She was able to use that experience and a long list of high-profile speaking opportunities to try her own hand at entrepreneurship. Erin was hired to be the managing director of 88 Creative and then just this year she moved on to become the CEO of Willful. Willful is an online estate planning tool that wants to help change the conversation that millennials have around death.

Discover in this episode the pros and cons of working side by side with your spouse.

Also, find out how you can be a professional support for your spouse during challenging times.

Lastly, learn how Erin managed her first 100 days as a startup executive.

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This is a special collaboration mini-series with Info-tech Research Group co-hosted with Brian Jackson.

Will trading roles help the organization head become better people and leader? Find out in today's episode.

Denis Gaudreault is a French Canadian. He is the country manager for Intel's Canada and Latin America region.

This year he took part in an internal exchange program. He went to France, and a French executive named Erwan Montaux came to Canada. Dennis spent five months in Paris as Intel's enterprise and public sector director.

On his short stay in France, he was able to assess a different type of market, focus, and customer base, which is far more different on what he sees in Canada.

Today, you will hear Denis shares how he faces a new challenge not only by a change of location but of trading roles.

Also, find out what are his wins during his stay in France and how he accomplish it.

Lastly, for all executives, learn the habits he built to become one of the emerging leaders of his generation.

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Previously BlueCat’s Chief Product & Technology Officer, Andrew Wertkin will share how he find the right person to replace him. And for Dave Penny, the new CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, landing a new job at a new company is always a fresh start.

We are so honored to have two gentlemen in the middle of their first 100 days.

As Chief Strategy Officer, Andrew works closely with BlueCat’s CEO and executive team to chart BlueCat’s course as it continues to build market share.

As CTO, David oversees BlueCat’s engineering teams as they build on the company’s vision for a dynamic, open, scalable, secure, and automated DNS environment in every enterprise network.

Listen to this episode as Andrew and Dave unravel the challenges, mistakes, and their plans to achieve success on their first 100 days.

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This is a special collaboration mini-series with Info-tech Research Group co-hosted with Brian Jackson.

With over 20 years’ experience in the technology industry, Susan understands the importance of transformational leadership to stay at the forefront of customer needs and expectations.

Prior to taking on global leadership at Aptum (formerly Cogeco Peer 1), Susan was Vice President and General Manager of Cogeco Peer 1, EMEA, where she spearheaded strategic direction. Susan has also held the role of Chief of Staff UK & Ireland at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) following her tenure of over 16 years at HP UK Ltd.

Susan Bowen is promoted internally as the new CEO at Cogeco Peer 1, after becoming the CEO she learns of the plans to spin it out as a separate business unit. And in January Phillippe Jette, the CEO of Cogeco Communications starts talking about selling off the business unit publicly.

In this episode, you will find out how Susan drives new opportunities for the company during the realignment.

Also, you will discover her method of communicating the company’s mission and vision to team members.

Lastly, listen to her advice to new CIOs on how to prepare, and start to a new position.

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This is a special collaboration mini-series with Info-tech Reasrch Group co-hosted with Brian Jackson.

Wayne Berger is the CEO of IWG Canada and Latin America, the global coworking and workspace leader. The company harnesses the power of flexible working through its companies Regus, Spaces, No. 18, Open Office, HQ, and Signature by Regus.

He is a leader and advocate for the transforming world of work. With over 20 years helping companies improve the way they maximize their office and communities; Wayne is helping lead the acceleration of the workplace revolution— evolving from traditional office space to the new flexible work world.

Hear Wayne’s story on how he was recruited to become the regional CEO of Canada and Latin America for International Workplace Group – IWG. As the name suggests, IWG is all about providing office space – often in a flexible scenario and co-working environments. A couple of the brand it owns include Spaces and Regus.

He didn’t have long in between roles at are. But he made sure to close out his role at Staples before diving into his new job. And he even took time to go for a run. It’s so important to take care of yourself, especially just ahead of taking on a taxing executive job. Go on vacation if you can. If you can’t, at least do something that’s just for you.

Lastly, listen to Wayne as he referenced Jim Collins’ “From Good to Great” when approached his mandate at IWG.

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I recently completed the Berlin marathon. I run because it helps me stay fit, help me train, and eat well.

Berlin marathon is my fourth marathon that I am trying to complete.

Why am I sharing my Berlin Marathon experience

Share defining moments that changed my life Moment of clarity Moment of bliss

For many of you who don't know, a full marathon is 26 miles or 42 kilometers. We are running the Berlin marathon. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling ready and thinking that this is going to be the best race of my life.

It was about 10-12 degrees in Berlin. It was cold. I was on target to hit my goal at four hours. But at the 25K mark, halfway through the race, rain poured. Now my upper body started tensing; my neck started tensing. My hands were getting numb. If I rolled my shoulder, I could feel my nerves pinch, and a shock of electricity goes through my arms.

I was questioning my sanity. I was wondering, "Why do I put myself through this?"

An hour later, something happened. I'm in the pit of despair. I hate life. I looked down, and something changed. I released myself from all expectations, and almost immediately, I felt a release. I started smiling, huge smiles. I looked around. I'm running a marathon in Berlin, Germany, it was terrific. I finished the marathon.

Overall, I was tired but happy and, and I was celebrating.

The lesson that I take from this was I understood the goals that I had. I controlled my environment. I managed everything that I needed to do up until the race, which was the train, eat well, rest, prepare, do everything right. But what happened was I couldn't control my outside world, which was the rain. But I allowed myself, my emotions to get affected by the rain.

And it was a moment of enlightenment.

A good friend of mine once said that when you had a moment of enlightenment, you are blessed. I was blessed with the wisdom, understanding, that release all my expectations.

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Transitioning to a management role can be challenging, especially if you are from a more technical and hands-on role. A whole new set of skills is needed and having a team look to you for leadership can be overwhelming. Today’s guest goes in-depth about those challenges and how he is overcoming them.

In this episode, Edwin chats with business leader Matthew Tyrer, Senior Manager of Solution Marketing at Commvault.

Formed in 1988, Commvault has pioneered several industry-shaping innovations and has established themselves as a leader in data and information management.

When not growing businesses, Matthew spends time with his family. He is a huge board game enthusiast and spends most of his free time playing board games with his two daughters. He also plays golf and loves skiing during winter.

Listen as Matthew talks about Commvault and his roles as one of its business leaders.

Plus, Matthew shares how he overcame the challenges of transitioning to his new role as a technology evangelist for Commvault.

Lastly, Matthew shares an important actionable item that can help new business leaders grow.

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Most of the time, business owners are the best salesperson of the organization. But as leaders, they face the need to let go of their leads and delegating them to their members. And this can be very difficult.

In this episode, Edwin chats with business leader Jeff Wiener, entrepreneur, author, and CEO of The Kickass Entrepreneur.

The Kickass Entrepreneur helps entrepreneurs scale their businesses, improve profitability, and ultimately, create wealth through their business’s profits.

Now semi-retired, Jeff helps entrepreneurs reach their goals. He shares his business experiences on how to create wealth with other business leaders.

Listen as Jeff talks about growing and selling his first business.

Plus, Jeff discusses his book, The Kickass Entrepreneur’s Guide to Investing.

Lastly, Jeff leaves two actionable takeaways for up and coming business leaders.

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There is a change happening in today’s IT industry. More and more organizations are seeing the value of working with small to mid-sized software development companies. Experts who can really jump in and provide value quickly. Today’s guest gives us an insight into what it’s like to lead one of those companies.

In this episode, Edwin chats with business leader Mark Rickmeier, the CEO of Table XI.

Table XI is a software design and development company that builds custom software for its clients. With 18 years of experience building integrated web applications, mobile apps, and custom digital experiences, Table XI helps clients fuel growth, engage users, build audiences, sell products, tell stories and drive results.

Mark currently lives in Chicago with his wife and 2 daughters, and when he is not growing and leading businesses, he does a lot of community work in the childhood education field.

Listen as Mark talks about Table XI and the exciting and unique projects that they are working on.

Plus, Mark talks about travel, hiking, and the importance of giving yourself the gift of time.

Lastly, Mark talks about the industry change happening and why Fortune 50 companies are starting to work with smaller, more nimble experts in the field.

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Providing clients with great user experience is very important for businesses. A positive experience can keep customers loyal to the product or brand. Because of this, most organizations now are investing more in user experience (UX) research to provide the best user experience for their client base.

In today’s episode, Edwin chats with business leader Libby Maurer, the VP of User Experience in Hubspot.

Hubspot is a leading growth platform with thousands of customers around the world. They develop software products for inbound marketing and sales. Hubspot aims to provide tools for social media marketing, content management, web analytics, and search engine optimization.

When not growing and leading businesses, Libby is an active member of the yoga community. Having just finished graduate school, she also spends a lot of time traveling.

Listen as Libby talks about how Hubspot is helping businesses grow by giving their client a complete picture of their customer’s journey

Plus, she discusses her role and responsibilities as a business leader in Hubspot.

Lastly, Libby shares her best advice about career paths for aspiring business leaders.

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Social media has greatly changed the landscape of business and markets in the past years. It has allowed companies to reach new prospects and customers. Customers can now interact with brands through social media. With the right research and data, marketing through social media can have a huge impact on the growth of businesses.

In today’s episode, Edwin chats with business leader Alyson Gausby, the Head of Research at Twitter Canada.

Twitter is a social networking platform that allows users to post and interact with messages known as tweets. It connects users to people, opinions, ideas, and news.

Alyson is a self-proclaimed data nerd. She is a graduate of business and fine arts. When not growing businesses, she enjoys travelling, exploring new cuisines, and music festivals.

Listen as Alyson talks about her roles and responsibilities as the Head of Research at Twitter Canada.

Plus, she discusses her research on thought leadership and the definition of culture.

Lastly, Alyson shares the new tools and initiatives that she and her team are working on.

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The advancement of today’s technology has been transformational for consumers. Unfiltered product reviews have changed the way people buy products online. By leveraging on consumer insights and market research, businesses can become more consumer-focused and make better decisions.

In today’s episode, Edwin chats with business leader Robert Levy, founder, and president of Brandspark International.

BrandSpark International is a leading market research and brand insight consulting company. By uncovering meaningful customer insights and understanding their client goals, Brandspark helps businesses make impactful decisions.

Listen as Robert talks about how he started Brandspark.

Plus, he shares some of the best practices and tips that helped him as a business leader.

Lastly, he discusses how leadership is a journey and shares his advice for emerging business leaders.

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More and more businesses are transitioning to remote workforces for reasons other than cost reduction. The benefits of remote work for both employees and employer is making it the right option for organizations across different industries.

In today’s episode, Edwin chats with business leader Liam Martin, co-founder, and CMO of TimeDoctor.com and Staff.com.

Time Doctor is one of the world’s leading time tracking software for remote teams. It helps remote staff track their time and improve their focus and productivity.

When not growing businesses, Liam helps his partner run her chain of Mermaid Schools, Aqua Mermaid.

Listen as Liam talks about his roles and responsibilities as a business leader for Time Doctor and Staff.com.

Plus, he discusses the advantages of remote work and why businesses should try it.

Lastly, he shares his advice for emerging business leaders.

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TBLP125 - #10Tips10Days - The Business Leadership Podcast for Business Leaders by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Big data analytics is becoming a trend in today’s businesses. Together with artificial intelligence and machine learning, organizations can now uncover patterns, insights, and trends that allow them to make immediate and smarter decisions.

In today’s episode, Edwin chats with business leader Paul Rubenstein, Chief People Officer at Visier Inc.

Visier is a leading people analytics and workforce planning solution that helps its clients find the answers they need to strategically manage a complex workforce.

Outside of work, Paul is a husband and a dog dad. When not growing businesses, he spends time exploring the wilderness of Vancouver with his poodle.

Listen as Paul talks about Visier and his roles and responsibilities as one of its business leaders.

Plus, he discusses the value of analytics and data in workforce management.

Lastly, he shares why business leaders need to embrace the assistance of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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Growing a business requires making smart decisions.

Some of those operating decisions can be very complex and beyond human capability. This is where artificial intelligence steps in. With AI, businesses can make smarter plans and risk management decisions by running billions of simulations based on the organization’s transaction data.

In today’s episode, Edwin chats with business leader Gary Saarenvirta, founder and CEO of Daisy Intelligence.

Daisy Intelligence is an AI platform that helps businesses double their profitability by making smarter decisions. By analyzing transactions and running simulations, Daisy Intelligence’s clients can make optimal plans and better risk management decisions.

Outside of work, Gary is an avid tennis player and has a passion for reading science journals and textbooks.

Listen as Gary shares how he leads the product vision and his other roles and involvement in the company as a business leader.

Plus, he talks about how Daisy Intelligence attracts and retains the best talents.

Lastly, he discusses artificial intelligence and its impact on today’s business

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TBL0122 – Simon Ferragne – The Business Leadership Podcast for Business Leaders by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Servant leadership is a concept that inverts the norm of being a traditional leader and focuses on the leaders empowering the employees. Combined with encouraging innovation within the organization, it ensures the growth of the business.

In today’s episode, Edwin chats with PostBeyond’s CEO, David Lloyd.

David leads PostBeyond, a company that helps their clients gain new opportunities by amplifying their content reach.

When not growing and scaling businesses, David is family-focused, being a father and a husband. He also has a big passion for cycling and does endurance rides.

David talks about his leadership role in PostBeyond and shares how he got onboard the company.

Plus, he discusses how his career transitioned from being a developer to a business leader by realizing what his value as a leader.

Lastly, David shares how they put value in innovation and continuous learning in their company.

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Building and growing a creative and diverse team can give huge positive results to an organization. But the questions of maintainability and scalability of these teams can also be a very big challenge for any business leader.

In this episode, Edwin talks with HubSpot’s SVP of Product, Christopher O’Donnell.

Christopher leads a team of product managers and user experience folks at HubSpot, a SAS technology company. They specialize in all in one marketing, sales and, service CRM solution to small and medium-sized businesses.

A father and a husband before anything else, Christopher is a family-focused person. When he is not leading, Christopher enjoys his passion for storytelling by playing music. In addition to this, he likes to build things, doing woodworking as well as cooking on the side.

In this episode, he talks about his experiences as a business leader in growing a more inclusive and equitable team.

Also, he discusses the significance of giving and getting feedback.

Lastly, drawing on his music background, Chris discusses the parallels between creating a rock and roll album and developing tech products.

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"Empower” is a big buzz word in the industry nowadays. And it is for a reason. Allowing your team to make decisions and take ownership of what is happening can be extremely beneficial for the whole organization.

In today’s episode, Edwin chats with Index Exchange’s Chief of Technology Officer, Marc Stavely.

Marc leads over 185 engineers at Index Exchange, the largest ad exchange in the global advertising marketplace.

When not working, Marc is an outdoors person. He is an avid hiker, canoeist, snowshoer, skier, and camper. He is also an engineer at heart, having designed and built his own house.

Listen as Marc discusses how he has grown as an effective technology leader throughout his career by empowering the team he leads.

Plus, he talks about the rise of agile and how this methodology has fueled his leadership.

Lastly, Marc talks about the characteristics that every emerging business leader needs to succeed.

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As an emerging business leader, can you tell us your goal?

Today with Edwin is Scott Wu, the Chief Technology Officer at Compass Digital Labs. He oversees the technology strategy for the company and leads a team of world-class designers, product managers, engineers and data scientists. His mission is to create amazing experiences for consumers through Digital.

Outside Digital Labs, he is a very active guy. He is a sports fanatic and very happy with the recent win of Toronto Raptors. Scott also loves to play tennis.

With his conversation with Edwin, Scott dives deep on the topic of being able to find your true goal.

He shares advice especially for new leaders that it is always best to find where your strengths are.

Lastly, with a lot of topics about artificial intelligence, listen to what Scott has to say if this is something we should be scared of or embrace.

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According to the numbers, it is clear that the healthcare industry needs to have diversity in leadership, may it be gender or race.

In today’s episode, Edwin chats with the Senior Vice President of Health Solutions at AMA, Laurie McGraw.

She has more than 20 years of executive leadership and a proven track record of leading rapid growth in the healthcare IT industry.

Outside AMA, she is a loving wife to her husband of 30 years and a mother to two young adults. They love to do outdoor activities such as hiking and skiing.

You will hear Laurie shares her best advice for female leaders.

Also, she will share how she can work smart.

Lastly, listen to her as she discusses how you can keep up with the fast changing development with the healthcare industry.

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Do you know what does “productive disruptor" means? You will find out if you will listen in.Today on the show, Edwin sat down with Todd Unger, Chief Experience Officer and Senior Vice President of Physician Engagement at the American Medical Association.Todd and his family recently moved to Chicago for this job and they are getting to know and love Chicago very much. His my whole family is into horseback riding. Todd is also a daily meditator.In this episode, Todd discussed what is his role in AMA and what are their future plans in the next 12 months.He also shared the journey of AMA's of not only being a healthcare brand but also supercharging membership acquisition and retention.Also, he tackled the issue of how to transform an organization through storytelling and social media.Enjoy!

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Robert Armstrong is the CEO of Appstem, the Leading Digital Product Agency based in San Francisco. He is a father to an almost two-year-old and that took most of his time. Robert stays very active until this day.

Robert has always been a marketing guy, but in May of 2014, Robert took over the CEO role.

In this episode, Robert will share how he successfully transitioned into the role of Chief Executive.

He also discusses the difference between being a CEO and a sales and marketing person.

In the conversation with Edwin, he dives deep on how to keep your relationship with people to do your duties as a leader.

In addition to that, Robert has very exciting news for those who are seeking opportunities to be part of Appstem. Be sure to listen until the end.

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TBL0113 – Tribute to the President of Toronto Raptors Masai Ujiri by Edwin J. Frondozo

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What is happiness and why is it important?

Before you leaving wondering whether this is a podcast about business, you’d better think twice.

On today’s show, we have Dr. Gillian Mandich, happiness researcher, Ph.D. Health and Rehabilitation.

Gillian is the oldest of seven children. At a very young age, she was already entrepreneurial by offering babysitting services and gathering all the children into their place but charge per head.

In her spare time, Gillian likes to hike and loves foraging.

Listen to this episode as Gillian, explains the connection of your environment and the DNA with your happiness.

She also shares actionable steps for business leaders to achieve a different level of happiness.

Lastly, she discusses why a mindset shift is important for every business leader and individual to reach their happiness in their day to day life.

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How can the loss of a loved one lead to startup success?

You have to listen until to this episode to find out.

Jeff Ruby, the founder of Newtopia, started the company because he lost his father to cancer at a young age.

He came to the realization that the current health care solutions does a very job at keeping people healthy. It is a reactive system that helps relieve ailments rather than prevent them.

In this episode, he shared the challenge of having the company to start over after a very hard fall.

Also, you will hear Jeff’s thoughts on the rise of artificial intelligence and how it will affect our lives.

Lastly, listen to Jeff as he advocates on making more people healthy and changing the mindset that healthcare system is motivated toward illness.

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Are you a vacation rental property manager looking for a one all solution? This episode is for you.

We have on the show, Marcus Rader, the CEO and Co-Founder of Hostaway an enterprise solution for managing short-term rentals.

When he is not busy with Hostaway, Marcus loves to play a guitar. He loves death metal. Fun fact: Marcus, speaks six languages. When he travels he likes to visit different breweries.

Marcus sat down with Edwin and shared the growth of Hostaway over the last years.

Also, he get into the topic of how to let go of being an entrepreneur and switch your role to being a CEO of your company.

Not only that, you will hear Marcus shared his technique on how they come up with a very solid company culture to eliminate confusions.

Lastly, listen Marcus’ nuggets of wisdom on how to be an effective business leader to a company distributed around the world.

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Is unconscious bias eliminated in this time and age?

Today on the show, we have Beth Wilson, Chief Executive Officer at Denton.

Who is she outside of Denton?

Beth is a mom of two boys age 21 and 18. She likes to spend time with her family. Beth also love the outdoors nature, getting out on her paddle board, and do Kayaking. She run and cycle. Now that her sons are bigger, Beth and her husband spend a lot of time together on long cycling rides and even incorporated cycling trips into their vacation time.

In this episode, Beth, went deep into topics ranging from mindset, strategies, and leadership.

She even go through how she won the trust and credibility of her team members in Denton when she was acquired as CEO.

So, you better listen to this episode, because Beth has something to say in the hot topic of unconscious bias.

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Are you an emerging leader who is having trouble to delegate?

In this episode, Edwin sat down with Taylan Pince, Mobile Team Lead and CEO at Hipo, an organization that help disruptive startups and small businesses create meaningful products and services.

When Taylan is not busy growing Hipo, you can find him spending time with her four-year old daughter.

Apart from family life, he loves to read Sci-Fi books, passionate with his physical activity, and loves to tinker to hardware stuff.

Today, you will hear him delve on topics such as productivity, delegation, and his future plans for Hipo.

Also, you will discover what kind of disease he caught because of too much stress and what did he do about it.

In addition, listen to actionable steps he shared with Edwin regarding hiring remote team members and interns.

Lastly, find out how you can grow as a business leader by mastering the art of delegation.

Listen to this episode, and you will learn why you should delegate until it hurts.

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Do you know what forms the foundation of our freedom?

Listen to this episode to find out.

Today we have Ann Cavoukian, former 3-Term Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, and currently Distinguished Expert-in-Residence, leading the Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.

Ann sat down with Edwin to talk about the importance of ensuring the future generation’s freedom.

Not only that, you will hear Ann talk about AI.

She dived deep on why AI is a hot topic now and is there a basis that this is something to be scared about.

Lastly, hear Ann’s advice to business leaders about privacy.

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Do you find yourself checking your email regularly but still need to catch up on email? On this episode, Edwin share's that he was continually checking emails yet discovered that he was wasting plenty of time. He talks about going from inbox anxiety to inbox zero and the freedom that comes with it. Be sure to check out the short episode or download the free book (no email required) on the link below. Enjoy!

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Did the idea of elegant parties, open bars  and circulate with the rich and famous sound like a PR to you? Think again, as we have on the show, Adrian Salamunovic.

He is the co-founder of DNA11 and CanvasPop, which he bootstrapped to 8-figure sales. Adrian is now a public speaker, startup advisor, investor, and PR expert who’s passionate about helping entrepreneurs reach mainstream success using the power of earned media.

You will hear Adrian share how you can use the power of free PR using the media, podcasts, television, print, publications, digital to get your word out for free.

Not only that, get to discover how you as an emerging business leader can build an internal PR team.

Lastly, discover the actionable steps that you can do to reach a wider audience through FREE PR.

This is one episode you do want to miss!

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Are there ways to help connect corporate Canada to innovators and entrepreneurs?

This question has been on Michael Denham's mind for a long time. In this conversation, you will discover the answer to that mystery.

Michael is the President & CEO of BDC. He is the driver of the organization’s positioning as the number one ally of Canadian entrepreneurs.

Michael is born and bred a Torontonian, moved to Montreal, back in 2001. His work experience started at Mckinsey in Toronto. Michael also worked at Bombardier in the early two thousand. He had a long stretch at Accenture where Michael was the president of Accenture's business in Canada. About four years ago, he started at BDC, the business developer, Bank of Canada.

When Michael is not working, he likes to spend time with his three boys. He still plays hockey couple times a week. He is also the chairman of the kids from school for a number of years; one of the foundation boards from leisure hospitals in Montreal.

In today's episode, Michael discussed how BDC supports Canadian companies that have not succeeded in scaling up and becoming meaningful global export-oriented businesses.

Further, find out the challenges start-ups faced, and how BDC is instrumental on providing anchors to the eco-system.

Even better, you will hear Michael, shared his decision making style when it comes to replacing a leader with another leader.

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Do you want to scale your organization?

If the answer to this is yes, then you have to listen to this episode with David Ossip.

David Ossip, CEO of Ceridian, was exposed to entrepreneurship at a very young age. Now, he is a dad to two wonderful kids and an avid cyclist.

Edwin and David dive into the topic of how he switched Ceridian from a company with a survival culture to an innovation organization.

What's more, is David shared how to find the right leader based on the scale of the organization that you’re at.

Lastly, you will hear how David scale a company by overemphasizing on focus.

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Do you want to understand body language and facial expression?

Today on the show, you are going to hear from Mark Bowden, Keynote Speaker, World Renown Body Language Expert and creator of TRUTHPLANE.

Edwin and Mark delve on the topics of the importance of body language or as everyone knows, the non-verbal communication.

Also, hear from Mark how he helped CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and Prime Ministers of G8 powers master non-verbal communication that will let them grow as a business leader.

Lastly, learn what is SCAN and how it can help you interpret other people's body language.

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Prior to founding Prosper, Krystyn advised Fortune 100 companies at AT Kearney and founded Unison Design Group (acquired by Versett, 2017). She has an HBA and MBA from Ivey Business School.

Outside Prosper, she loves to spend time with her family and travel.

In this episode, you will hear Krystyn share what Prosper is and their plans for the next six to twelve months.

Not only that, she will discuss why you need a mentor or a coach that is accessible.

Plus, find out her advice to young business leaders to get ahead and find worth in what they are doing.

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In today's episode, Edwin interviews Dr. Greg Wells about the top five-step process for establishing a healthy high performing team.

Dr. Greg Wells is a Physiologist, Scientist, Speaker & 3x Best-Selling Author. He helps people get healthy & perform better via research and applied science.

Outside of what he does, his number one priority is his kids, and family. Dr. Wells got a four year old and eight years old, so he had to spend as much time with them.

Dr. Wells invested heavily in sports equipment for his kids so he can drag them off to do the stuff that he likes to do. They went skiing, surfing, and love doing physical activity. He does cycling, running and swimming, and also love lifting weights to make him feel better.

What you will discover in this episode are:

What adverse effects being in a hustle mode do to your brain?

Find out how to work smart and achieve the lifestyle you want for you and your family.

Lastly, how you as an emerging leader can lead a healthy, high-performing team.

And much more! Enjoy!

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A seasoned and passionate senior executive with over a decade of experience building and leading high-performance teams both locally and internationally.

That is how you will see Paul Burns.

But outside Twitter, Paul is a simple guy, married for fifteen years and has two young sons. He loves music, running, and snowboarding.

In today's episode, Edwin and Paul dive deep on what Twitter is and how it helped connect business leaders to their team members.

Not only that, you will hear Paul sharing his most difficult decisions from being a rookie executive to now a business leader.

Lastly, listen as what two qualities you must possess to emerge as a business leader.

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Today on the show, we have Bob Pickard, Principal of Signal Leadership Communication Inc., a social public relations consultancy exclusively serving senior executives dealing with digital disruption.

Outside the PR world, Bob is a busy dad raising two young children in Canada. He lived overseas for 20 years in Asia, in places like Japan, Korea, and Singapore.

Edwin and Bob talked about the role of PR in the digital age.

They dive deep on the topics of why it is important for a CEO to have social media presence especially at times of crisis.

You will also hear them talk in-depth about why PR is not just about making you popular but more importantly it is for you to build your image

Lastly, hear Bob provide you with actionable steps for your PR efforts and be a leader in your emerging industry.

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I'm an entrepreneur, knowledge seeker, student of life, foodie, husband, dog owner and other labels we usually like to use to describe each other. In my life pursuit I'm a seeker of knowledge, spirituality and consciousness. I'm interested in ways people manifest their identities through activities and careers. I'm fascinated by concepts like "meaning of life", "who am I" and "why am I here". I'm determined to live the best possible life and manifest my creative spirit through business ventures and other creative pursuits. My main goal is to not have any regrets at the end of my life.

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"Alexis is the Lead Steward of Dovetail, a global community on a mission to advance female entrepreneurship through generosity, collaboration, education, and unforgettable shared experiences.

Prior to launching Dovetail, Alexis worked around the world an entrepreneur, a facilitator, educator, and adventure travel guide. "

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Mark Evans is the principal with ME Consulting, which helps fast-growing B2B technology companies attract more high-quality leads and sales through customer engagement and brand awareness.

Mark offers a CMO-for-Hire service for companies looking for marketing leadership to operate, build or lead marketing teams.

He also helps companies with messaging, brand positioning, and strategic storytelling, and marketing/communication plans,

Mark recently published Marketing Spark, a book that provides entrepreneurs with guidance on how to embrace the power of story-driven marketing.

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Founder of Cold Star Technologies, helping companies with tactical operations excellence as they scale from 12-500 people. Focus is primarily on process engineering. Past co-founder of The Closing Engine, a third party high ticket sales-as-a-service business. Jason was a factory manager at 25 and at 26 had 150 people reporting to him. Experience also includes many years as a sales trainer, four years as credit manager at a national electrical wholesaler responsible for collecting $2 million a month in receivables, and as a turnaround consultant. He has also been a senior executive at an Inc. Top 1000 franchise business. There is not much he hasn't seen in the business world.

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Experienced leader with a demonstrated history of working in the education management, healthcare, and military industries. Skilled in Leadership Training, Team Building, Executive Coaching, Strategic Planning, Corporate Culture, Personality Assessment, and Crisis Intervention, Dr. Agliata uses assessment, public speaking, teaching strategies, and a focus on organizational relationships to strengthen leaders, build effective teams and improve corporate cultures by improving interpersonal skills and developing meaningful connections that result in peak performances inside and outside the workplace. Strong education professional with a Board Certification focused in Executive Life Coaching from The Institute for Life Coaching, as well as a Certificate in Advanced Educational Leadership from Harvard University.

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"Fluent in Russia, Portuguese and English, Ilya Brotzky is the CEO and founder of VanHack. After graduating from Cornell University with a Degree in Applied Economics and Management, Ilya spent 4 years working in the Brazilian startup scene where he joined the country's most successful early stage accelerator. "

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"Colin Morgan is a former professional golfer who now is The Host of the popular podcast, The Daily Grind, where he interviews successful and interesting people 5 days a week. Colin is also part owner of The Plan2Profit Group, where they help entrepreneurs grow their businesses through creating strategic business plans.

Colin’s main obsession is human growth and development and works tirelessly to continue to seek progression and clarity every day. "

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You have to be a family man with business and never a businessman with a family. It is one guiding principle that Jon Vroman, the Founding Owner of Front Row Foundation imbibes in his personal as well as business life.

In his former life, he used to be living a life of anyone’s dream - earning big and lots of money, trips everywhere, good company, cool boss and fancy dinners. But along the way, it dawned on him that his life has more to it than what he is already enjoying.

Now, Jon is a father and a husband. His primary objective is to serve his wife Tatiana and his two boys Tiger and Ocean. They live in Austin, Texas. Jon also runs a dad's group called Front Row Dads for high performing entrepreneurial type of guys that are family men.

Listen to Von as he shares many life-lessons on his way to founding the Front Row Foundation.

Look forward to hearing how he survived insurmountable odds and overcame it.

Be transported back to that very core of yourself and learn to appreciate what Von says about it.

You will be amazed at how he successfully looked inward to find that meaning in life and eventually went outward to share his blessings to the world.

Don’t miss a bit of what he says because every bit of word is fully packed with wisdom and a deep sense of understanding of his own life and others as well.

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Nicole is the founder and CEO of OMX, a Dragon on CBC's Next Gen Den, and a thought leader in the procurement industry.

Today, she sat down with Edwin and shared her inspiring stories on how she focuses on her goals.

Also, she talked about how she grow and expand her business.

Nicole always finds industry gaps and built innovative platforms and technology to fill them.

Listen now to learn more about how she has turned the challenges to build OMX, the only online platform of its kind that serves users from the world’s top defense, aerospace, shipbuilding sectors, and tens of thousands of local suppliers around the world.

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You need to surround yourself with people who bring up your weaknesses and know your strengths. This is one of the important lesson Barry's Bootcamp Regional Vice President, Laurie Campbell learned as a woman in business.

Being a female entrepreneur, Laurie went through challenges that she was able to overcome with help from family and peers. In today's episode, she offered tips and tricks on how to survive the demand in a male-dominated industry. She also gave advice on taking the plunge and setting up a business, to moving ahead when the odds are against you.

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Should we be afraid of Artificial Intelligence?

Edwin sat down with Eli Fathi, Co-founder & CEO MindBridge Analytics Inc., a company that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to uncover errors in financial data.

Today, they talked about the singularity, AI, and leadership. If you do not have an idea what is the singularity, listen to this episode.

You will hear from Eli, singularity's impact on the livelihood of the people with the use of artificial intelligence.

Also, you will find out what you have to grow as a business leader especially if you are part of a highly skilled work environment.

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What is the hardest thing that you have to do as a business leader?

This is one big question Braulio Lam answered in today's episode.

Braulio Lam is co-founder and CTO of Pungle Inc. Braulio oversees all technology and development of the Pungle Payments Platform. His teams are responsible for delivering the software at the heart of Pungle’s innovative products and services.

Edwin and Braulio sat down and talked about the future plans of Pungle and what problem does it solve. They also discussed the actionable steps that you can do as an emerging leader. Lastly, Braulio shared his thoughts on the fast-growing technology such as AI and how it will affect businesses of today.

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Michael Kobrin is the founder and president of The Kobrin Group, a boutique creative leadership firm. As a facilitator, coach and keynote speaker, he connects the worlds of creativity, leadership and strategy to drive organizational change.

Drawing on his diverse experience across multiple industries and business functions, Michael’s mission is to build more inspiring, creative and human workplaces. As a CPA, Certified Executive Coach, and professional photographer, he enjoys challenging traditional ways of thinking, and offers a unique perspective on creativity and innovation, leadership, and business transformation.

Prior to establishing The Kobrin Group, Michael spent several years working for OMERS and Oxford Properties in a variety of senior risk, finance, and learning and development roles. His global work experience also includes positions at EY and Deloitte.

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Tbll070 Business Development 101 - The 3 C - Connect Collaborate Co - Create with David Rogers by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Tbll069 Coworking Spaces In The Gig Economy with Wayne Berger by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Award winning speaker featured on ABC Nightline for his Real Estate investing and TEDx for his Performance Coaching, Jarrod Haning specializes in a Nobel Nominated process that allows you to access different parts of your brain on demand to level up your business.

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Cherry Rose Tan is a Certified Transformative Coach known as the ""Founder Whisperer."" She helps founders create a healthy and indestructible relationship with their emotions. Once an award-winning educator, she has taught Canada’s billionaire families.

A fifth-generation entrepreneur, Cherry Rose has built companies alongside her brother for 14 years. It led to the creation of Paycase Financial, Canada's first fully-compliant crypto exchange with TMX and BMO. She acts as an early investor.

Cherry Rose is a mental health authority in the tech space, speaking regularly at conferences. She has been featured by CBC, The Globe and Mail, and Inc. She leads For Founders by Founders, a platform where founders and investors pledge their mental health stories.

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Kevin leads OCAD U CO, a new venture by OCAD University. OCAD U CO helps senior leaders and their teams build the skills they need to transform their organizations and drive innovation. For over a decade, Kevin has been helping large organizations develop radical customer-centricity through design-led innovation. He’s gone end-to-end on breakthrough innovation projects: from identifying new and emerging opportunities, to standing up MVP launches with tens of thousands of users.

Kevin has worked with clients like Oxford Properties, Bell Canada, BMO, City of Toronto, RBC, and others.

Prior to leading OCAD U CO, Kevin led large-scale design-led innovation programs for some of Canada’s largest organizations at Doblin, the human-centred innovation consultancy at Deloitte. Kevin is a proud OCAD U alum, with a Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation.

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As an authority on brave leadership, Carol has been educating and entertaining international audiences for a decade. She holds a BFA in Theatre Performance, an MA in Communication, and two postgraduate certificates in coaching and mentoring. As the creator of ‘Women Living BIG,’ she’s worked with thousands of women to get them out of their comfort zone and into their BIG zone; whether that’s skydiving, getting a promotion, or achieving what they never thought possible. (and as someone who’s lived in Ashrams in India and vans in New Zealand, had dreadlocks in Thailand and shaved her head for breast cancer - even bungee jumped in her birthday suit - Carol certainly walks her talk!)

She is a contributing author to 3 best-selling published books, and has been featured in numerous magazines, podcasts, and appeared as a returning guest expert on Rogers TV. Having lived and worked in 16 countries, traveled through an additional 25, and recently back from a ""Remote Year' - where she lived and worked and hosted events in a new country monthly for the course of a year - she brings a global perspective on people and empowerment to all she does.

When Carol is not bringing women to learn to surf In South America or climb Kilimanjaro in Africa, you can find her volunteering as a bereavement facilitator, training for her next triathlon, or practicing her serious carpool karaoke game.

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Rivers Corbett, MBA, is a serial entrepreneur, TedX speaker, entrepreneur in residence, video author of 13 Fears of Entrepreneurs, host of the Startup Canada Podcast and founder of The ScaleUp Garage and The Chef Group.

He has received numerous business awards including: Business Person of the Year and most recently the StartUP Canada Champion Award. Rivers has also landed on Canada's Hottest Start-ups List and Canada's Fastest Growing Companies list through Profit magazine and he is recognized as one of Canada’s 10 RockStar mentors in the country.

These days is also proudly fulfilling his role as Entrepreneur in Residence with Opportunities New Brunswick where he continues to significantly move the needle on the spirit and actions of entrepreneurship throughout the province.

In 2018, Rivers founded HeadSpaceFE, a strong community of Global Entrepreneurs, all sharing lessons from their journey and helping each other succeed

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" Lloyed is the co-founder of Boast.AI which helps businesses automate the complicated process of claiming R&D incentives from the government. At Boast, Lloyed is responsible for growth, go-to-market and new product strategy. Lloyed is also the cofounder of Traction which brings together founders and leaders from the world's fastest growing companies to share best practices on business growth. "

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Catherine Tanaka is a fitness, nutrition and accountability coach, and the host and producer of The Body Project Podcast.

Her passion for fitness and helping come from a deep desire to serve others and sharing how fitness was a means to heal her own life challenges.

Catherine has been a trainer since 1999 and uses fitness as a platform to teach self-care, and how fitness is the access point to optimizing all aspects of your life.

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Sam is the Founder and Host of the Freedom Lifestyle Podcast series and online community of freedom seekers who want to live and work on their own terms. She's also the Co Author of The #LDR Activity Book which is currently available on Kickstarter and in January she'll take her freedom to new heights as a digital nomad working remotely from South America for the first half of 2019!

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New Year Special Episode - Running into 2019

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Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays – The Business Leadership Podcast for Business Leaders

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With the growing popularity of other car brands, how does Volvo remains on top of the game? Automotive is one of the most competitive industry in the world, yet Volvo finds its success secret sauce.

Today on the show, Edwin sat down with Alexander Lvovich, Managing Director of Volvo Canada, to get a peek into the future of Volvo, take a piece of his brain to see what lies ahead of the famous car brand and get nuggets of wisdom that you can practice while growing as a business leader.

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Andrew Witkin is an experienced entrepreneur, marketer and the founder and president of StickerYou, a successful e-commerce startup that was named the fastest-growing promotional products company in Canada in 2017 by SGR magazine.

Over the past decade, Andrew has built StickerYou into an influential e-commerce trendsetter that produces customized die-cut sticky products, including stickers, decals, iron-ons, badges, patches, labels and magnets.

In today's episode, Edwin and Andrew sat down to discuss important topics for business leaders. One is the rise of artificial intelligence, hear it straight from Andrew, what are the two sides of AI. Also, you will hear them discussing the challenges of becoming a business leader. Finally, listen to Andrew as he shared StickerYou's plans for next year. Enjoy!

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Dr. Richard K. Nongard is an entrepreneur who started his educational service business 25 years ago, and has leveraged the power of technology to create a global network. He has a doctorate in transformational leadership, and is the author of "Viral Leadership: Seize the Power of Now to Create Lasting Transformation in Business.

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Rachel Wexler is the Director of Marketing at TribalScale. She leads all TribalScale’s internal and external marketing. Rachel oversees all global communications and events, including TribalScale's TakeOver Innovation Conference. As TribalScale grows on the world's stage, Rachel is directing the company's brand evolution. She is a futurist, passionate about the intersection of strategic marketing and creative design.

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"Javier Santos was born in Mexico where he had a successful sales and marketing career in the corporate world with P&G and PepsiCo. He then moved to the USA to complete an MBA and later joined the Wine business with E&J Gallo. In 2005 Javier moved to Canada and became the Wine Managing Director for the LCBO. In 2008 Javier started his own consulting practice and later found The House of Purpose, where he helps employees become more productive using neuroscience. Javier has received great recognition in Canada for his professional trajectory, he was been named one of the most influential people in Toronto (Toronto Life), and one of the most successful immigrants in Canada (Globe and Mail)."

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Erin is the Managing Director at Eighty-Eight, a Toronto-based creative communications agency that works with high-growth tech startups and consumer brands including PayPal, Sony Pictures Television, and Telus. Prior to Eighty-Eight she was the Managing Editor at startup publication BetaKit, and director of communications at Sprouter, which was acquired by Postmedia in 2011. Erin is a frequent speaker with Speakers’ Spotlight, writes a monthly column for the Financial Post, and is a tech commentator on CTV News. She has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Forbes, CNN, and Canadian Business, and was named one of Marketing Magazine's top 30 Under 30 marketers. Her claim to fame is being retweeted by Oprah - twice.

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"Living in fear is not my way of living.

My name is a Prince Khan, an introvert with a lot to say. However for this introduction I will get right to the point.

Where my story started - Growing up as the youngest in my household, I was always told by my parents to “let your brother or sister do it”. I grew up missing out on key life skills which hindered me in school and lowered my confidence in anything and everything because no one ever had faith in me. I grew up as an average kid, being too shy even raise my hand in class because I lacked confidence. Every parent teacher meeting was the same; “he doesn’t talk”, “he’s shy” or my favourite “please get him talk more”.

Where my life changed – In grade 11 my life changed. It was all thanks to a drama class I took. A shy person taking a drama class? That’s new, but I needed the grades so I took what I could to help me get at least a B average. This class changed my entire life, I went from a shy person to one that loved doing presentations. Life happens in mysterious ways, and this class was a blessing in disguise.

Where I fell – Although I became a great presenter, I failed at qualifying for an international competition that I was hoping to go to through my University. Having gone through the trauma of being told your team can go but you can stay because you’re not good enough really left a negative stigma for a year. However, I came back the following year learning from my failure, qualified and became the team leader.

Where I am now – I’ve gone from being a shy child to being an influential and motivational speaker. I run workshops and do presentations where I always get amazing compliments. For it not have been for my experiences, I would have never gotten where I am today. So living in fear is not my way of living. You should never let fear hold you back either."

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"Kira Day is the founder of The Passion Centre; an organization dedicated to helping her clients become more aware about who they 'really' are, their unique sets of drivers and core authentic values. Her methodology bridges principles in from Psychology, Psychotherapy, Design Thinking and Business among others to undeniably create clarity, direction and focus for her clients. Extrapolating years of research and information gathered through her own adversities in her professional life, she brings forth opportunities to rediscover who we think we are and find certainty and higher levels of psychological well-being through going after the things, activities, projects and even people that align best to who we 'actually' are. "

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Jessyca is a Criminal Lawyer and Mental Health advocate based in Toronto. She is dedicated to working with vulnerable clients and ensuring their rights are protected. Jessyca is focused on mentoring women and young lawyers and runs an all female defence firm. She gives back by volunteering her time to supervise a pro-bono legal clinic, she teaches at Osgoode Hall Law School, and routinely mentors law students. She lives in Toronto and is the proud mom of two young children.

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As a University of Toronto and Humber College graduate, Mohammed Maxwel Hasan enjoys the wonders of effective storytelling.

His journey began at University of Toronto. There was a call for playwrights to raise money for Child Find, an organization dedicated to locating lost children in Ontario. Mohammed wrote ""The Navigator"" and was chosen to be produced, directed and performed by university students.

While studying at Humber, Mohammed achieved the Competent Communicator status within Toastmasters, the world's #1 leadership and public speaking training. He was selected to deliver an honorary speech at the School of Applied Technology for the scholarship recipients.

Mohammed is a published Amazon author with 2 novellas: Can’t Escape and Street Star.

Can’t Escape is a story about a youth’s journey through public speaking and Street Star is about a homeless girl wanting to be an astronaut. It is through the lens of compelling narratives in which he strives to impart life’s greatest lessons.

In July 2018, Mohammed emceed and became the lead organizer for the first-ever TEDxBrampton. With presentations from CEO’s of companies to community leaders, Mohammed and his team of volunteers put together an unforgettable conference at Brampton City Hall.

Born in Montréal and currently residing in the Greater Toronto Area, Mohammed constantly strives to create memorable narratives through the power of written words and public speaking.

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"Joseph is the president of Joseph-Flahiff-Business coaching which provides personal training in business, leadership, marketing, and entrepreneurship. He is a business leader coach. Not a life coach, not an executive coach, but a business leadership coach. Through his experience Joseph has found that there are 3 keys to success business success: Speed, Focus, and Innovation. He has over 25 years of experience in various business leadership roles. Joseph leverages his deep professional experience and knowledge to continuously guide and inspire people to create business that are fast, focused, and flourishing."

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Mo Dezyanian is a seasoned marketer, who has spent the past decade designing and executing successful programs for national and international brands. In 2015 he established Empathy Inc. a management and media consultancy to help brands navigate the media landscape with meaningful business intelligence.

During his career, Mo has provided insights and built campaigns for brands such as Popeyes, BMO, Mattel, Oxfam Canada, Royal Conservatory of Music and many more.

He has appeared in notable publications such as the Globe and Mail and been a guest lecturer and speaker for McMaster.

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Luis Alvarado is taking over the world by automating everything he sees. A globally celebrated hip-hop dancer who creates 5-figure launches in his sleep. Famously finding “the lazy way” for everything and because of it, stumbling upon his own freedom. Born and raised in the South American country of Peru, at the age of seven, Luis’ family won the visa lottery. This life-changing event granted them access to a new adventure in the United States of America. Shortly thereafter, his parents decided to sell all their belongings and sacrifice their comfortable life in order to seek better opportunities for their children. Upon college graduation, instead of entering the “real-world” as a professional engineer, his career in that industry came to a close as he embarked on a mission to live out Kanye’s vision (except for digital entrepreneurs): stronger, better, faster. They say work smart, not hard. Luis’ work frees coaches, consultants and marketers who want a systematized business with more powerful results. When he’s not breaking it down on the dance floor, he eats, sleeps, and breathes sales funnels. Constantly seeking innovative ways to optimize the roads less traveled.

“People like to work, but we like putting work on autopilot.”

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Is it possible to lead with empathy?

For Bob Moore, Axis Country Manager, it is.

In today's episode, Edwin and Bob dive deep on the topic of leading with empathy. Bob shared his early days when he was proud and resisting help from others. He eventually realizes that he cannot do everything on his own.

You must be asking, how he turned everything around? With the help of books about famous leaders' autobiographies. He discovers their hardships before reaching their status. Through this reading, realized that life is a continuous improvement.

There is a lot of nuggets of wisdom from this episode so be sure not to miss this one!

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Ferhan Bulca (PhD, P.Eng) is a seasoned intrapreneur, delivering multimillion-dollar projects that opened up new markets for companies in medical devices, aerospace, software, and manufacturing. When he is not working, he loves a few things. He does too much sports these days. Ferhan consolidated down to squash and scuba diving.

Today Edwin will talk to Ferhan, a rocket scientist that turned into a business person. They dive deep on the future of AI, how can this affect the current workforce and why you should not be afraid of it.

Plus, Ferhan shared nuggets of wisdom for emerging business leader. How you grow as a leader and nurture relationships with your team members.

And don't forget, he will also talk about how he manages to get through tough decisions by following two ways of assessing the situation and himself.

Enjoy!

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Ryan Gill is the CEO of Communo, and past President of Cult Collective, an internationally recognized marketing agency in Calgary. He is a small town kid from a little town in Ontario called Brockville. Ryan moved to Bowmanville. When he is not busy working, he spent most of his time with his wife Aimee and two young daughters.

Today on the show, Ryan shared what is the Communo community that he is building and how it can help solopreneurs to find people who can execute their ideas. He and Edwin also discussed what are the different group of people that can join the community he is building. And not only that, you will hear how Ryan was able to 10x his earnings.

This is one episode you do not want to miss!

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Our next speaker is a world expert on relationships and happiness. He has coached some of the most famous celebrities on the planet like Mike Tyson as well being a guest speaker with Richard Branson on Necker Island. He enjoys helping people overcome obstacles that prevent them living a fulfilled life and has appeared on stages all over the world and recently was keynote speaker in Medellin in front of 10, 000 raving fans. He has appeared at Harvard on a number of occasions and is a guest speaker on Fox news as well as best selling international author of Immediate Happiness. He has written a number of published articles with the most recent one for the Virgin group. He has just returned from receiving an Icon award in LA and is receiving further awards as well as global recognitions.

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Dan is a leader in Accenture's Strategy practice, focusing on digital, technology, and AI strategy in consumer facing industries. He is also a member of Accenture's Innovation Fellowship, a program focused on giving leaders the latitude to explore topics affecting Canada’s future innovation potential. As a fellow, he focuses his research on understanding corporate disruption, and how today’s companies can stay relevant by becoming more resilient in the face of change.

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Consider this episode as Cryptocurrency 101 for beginners. Today, Thomas Jankowski, Chief Digital & Growth Officer at Coinsquare sat down with Edwin to discuss what is the buzz about digital currency.

Thomas who is a reader and enjoys sailing in his spare time discussed Coinsquare and its future goal. He explains the concept of cryptocurrency and how we can use it for payment. This is one episode you do not want to miss. Tune in and be a digital currency starter.

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In this episode, Edwin sat down with Dr. Brynn Winegard is an award-winning professor, speaker, and expert. Brynn completed her formal education in Neuroscience, Psychology, Marketing, and Strategy (HSBc, MBA, Ph.D.), coupled with over a decade in corporate marketing working for big companies.

Can business and brain Science merge? Find out in today's episode as Dr. Winegard talked about her interests in neuroscience, psychology, and marketing. She also shares how she comes up with her tagline “Building Better Business Brains”. Listen and enjoy!

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Cofounder and lead engineer at VSETA. Cofounder of Brampton Mastermind. My core value is to help people and make the world better place than I found it. I love talking about entrepreneurship, failures, big ideas, lessons learned. I was the Top 40 under 40 for City of Brampton

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As a University of Toronto and Humber College graduate, Mohammed Maxwel Hasan enjoys the wonders of effective storytelling.

His journey began at University of Toronto. There was a call for playwrights to raise money for Child Find, an organization dedicated to locating lost children in Ontario. Mohammed wrote ""The Navigator"" and was chosen to be produced, directed and performed by university students.

While studying at Humber, Mohammed achieved the Competent Communicator status within Toastmasters, the world's #1 leadership and public speaking training. He was selected to deliver an honorary speech at the School of Applied Technology for the scholarship recipients.

Mohammed is a published Amazon author with 2 novellas: Can’t Escape and Street Star.

Can’t Escape is a story about a youth’s journey through public speaking and Street Star is about a homeless girl wanting to be an astronaut. It is through the lens of compelling narratives in which he strives to impart life’s greatest lessons.

In July 2018, Mohammed emceed and became the lead organizer for the first-ever TEDxBrampton. With presentations from CEO’s of companies to community leaders, Mohammed and his team of volunteers put together an unforgettable conference at Brampton City Hall.

Born in Montréal and currently residing in the Greater Toronto Area, Mohammed constantly strives to create memorable narratives through the power of written words and public speaking

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Sarah McVanel helps leaders leverage the exponential power of recognition to retain top talent. She jokes it’s the only “lane” that pulls together her BA (Psych), MSc (Family Relations), & certifications in Organizational Development, Coaching, Human Resources & Healthcare Admin! She left her senior leadership role 4 years ago to launch her boutique firm Greatness Magnified, authoring some books, VLOGing, tap dancing, & getting up to no good with her hubby Mark & kids Justin (15) & Simonne (13).

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Aubrey Chapnick is a Lead Associate at the Global Human Capital Consulting firm Willis Towers Watson and the Founder of #WRK; a blog which features interviews of accomplished leaders (focused on career development and finding fulfillment). Aubrey has a diverse professional background which spans experiences across sales, consulting, capital markets and various roles in tech. He is passionate about all thing related to leadership development, people development, finance and businesses strategy. In his free time, Aubrey is an active fitness enthusiast and musical history buff.

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Heidi Allen is the founder and president of the Positive People Army. What began as a blog has rapidly become a global movement with thousands of people from all over the world who are working together to make a difference. With previous careers as a wedding gown store owner, lifestyle editor for a popular wedding magazine, co-host for a morning drive radio show, and host for 6 seasons of the popular wedding show, “Rich Bride, Poor Bride”, Heidi ended up as a producer on the number one daytime Canadian TV show – the Marilyn Denis Show. After producing hundreds of fashion makeovers as well as producing high profile celebrities like Harry Connick Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Kim Cattrall and Molly Ringwald, and becoming a 3-time award winning producer, she decided it was time to make a bigger difference and the Positive People Army Movement began. After her Facebook group scaled to over 10,000 members in 6 months Heidi has never looked back. Her only mission is to spread positivity to take the planet back.

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"My name is Patrick (call me Pat) and I'm passionate about sales. There's something really cool about introducing people to a solution that helps them out.

After 20 years of work experience in sales for various industries, I now coach SaaS Startups on how to go from 0 to $1M ARR by coaching them to close more deals. "

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International adventurer and outdoor travel leader, and trainer for AdventureSmart Canada. He inspires, facilitates and enables people to experience adventure travel. He completed college in Dublin, has a business degree from Dalhousie, and is Certified in Wilderness First Aid and Advanced Open Water Scuba.

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Barbara is the creator ad founder of an exciting new event series called Transformational Viewpoints. A groundbreaking live speaker series featuring interesting Canadians. This nine market tour launches on October 15th with the first event on November 15th in Mississauga.

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Catherine Tanaka is a fitness, nutrition and accountability coach, and the host and producer of The Body Project Podcast.

Her passion for fitness and helping come from a deep desire to serve others and sharing how fitness was a means to heal her own life challenges.

Catherine has been a trainer since 1999 and uses fitness as a platform to teach self-care, and how fitness is the access point to optimizing all aspects of your life.

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In 2015, Chris Strub hopped in a Honda Civic and traveled across the United States to meet and help not-for-profits plus shake up the way they traditionally tell their stories through the use of live streaming video. His use of snapchat across 50 states in 100 days tour was an adventure of a lifetime and has transformed him into a global traveler, social activist plus 2 time author.

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Do you know what you need to maintain your lifestyle when you reach your retirement age? In this episode, Eric Arnold, the Chief Executive Officer at Planswell, an online financial planning software platform will answer it.

Eric headed multiple startups before. His pursuit to become an entrepreneur started when he was a teenager. In the span of 5 years, he was able to start a tea company, online music retailer, and hypnotherapy business.

Today, Edwin and Eric discussed how he started Planswell, what is one characteristic that make it stand out over its competitors and their future plans of expansion. Listen to the episode and enjoy!

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Roger Chabra is the Chief Innovation Office at Tribal Scale. He has decades of experience as a successful technology operator, investor, and entrepreneur. In his free time, he spends it with his young son and family. And not known to others, he is a human Shazam. He admits that he can guess an 80's track within three seconds of playing it.

In this episode, Edwin and Roger discussed how he was able to emerge as a business leader at the start of the internet popularity. Roger shared his thoughts on finding the right opportunity for you and how to grab it even if you are unqualified. Listen in and write down the nuggets of wisdom you can apply to your startup company.

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Melanie Sodka is the founder of Egocake, a framework and coaching platform to transform high achieving individuals from over committing and thriving in their current environments. As a an award winning professor of entrepreneurship and international business, Melanie is also pursuing her dream of writing a book where she shares a suite of tools intended to guide people through the discovery of their personal capacity and how to respect it.

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I am an Entrepreneurial Business Owner and Executive with over 27 years of experience. I have owned and sold businesses, worked with entrepreneurial companies, start-ups as well as billion dollar companies. I can improve your Workplace Strategy, Business & Brand Development, Social Marketing, Content Creation and Work-Life Balance. I enjoy building trusting relationships and have a genuine passion for both people and business.

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I am an Entrepreneurial Business Owner and Executive with over 27 years of experience. I have owned and sold businesses, worked with entrepreneurial companies, start-ups as well as billion dollar companies. I can improve your Workplace Strategy, Business & Brand Development, Social Marketing, Content Creation and Work-Life Balance. I enjoy building trusting relationships and have a genuine passion for both people and business.

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Nathan Hirsch is the CEO of FreeeUp.com. He has sold over $30 million online, has hired hundreds of freelancers to build his companies, and has been featured on over 100 business podcasts. He currently lives in Orlando, Florida.

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Anna and Elisa created Flex it Pink in 2013 to support, encourage, educate and empower other women in their healthy lifestyle and fitness journey. Their top priority is to help support every woman in each step of her journey without judgment. They have been in the shoes from fluff-to-FIT and are here to help others throw out the fluff and commit to FIT.

They are located in Southern California and offer products and virtual events to keep others motivated and empowered in your health and wellness journey.

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Claire Adams is the co-CEO of Canada’s premier network for driven Millennials, Notable Life Media Group, Inc. It covers all aspects of millennial life including social, professional, and charitable engagements.

Claire loves food and travel. She is very easy going but works very hard. After taking over Notable Life, 18 months ago, she now looks forward to travelling next year.

In today's episode, Edwin and Claire touched on the topic of leadership fueled by gratitude. She shared how she starts the day and how it commands the rest of it. Claire also opened up on the challenges of re-branding and transforming an organization with a different culture. This episode is full of nuggets of wisdom you can apply to your organization.

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I’m Bob and I’ve learned a lot of lessons in my time here. One of the biggest ones being how to bounce back strong from a whole array of misfortunes that resulted from my entrepreneurial ambitions.

Now I eat, pray, and love (thank you, Julia Roberts) at the intersection of Government Policy, Entrepreneurial Gumption, and Innovative Excellence. I haven’t been able to shut up about it quite yet, which is why I like doing strange things like teaching others how to fuck up less as an entrepreneur, how to find support systems before you start your business, and how to find your overall purpose.

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Arethea Harris is the National Marketing and Communications Manager for VELUX Canada, an international company that specializes in bringing daylight and fresh air into homes and buildings through their manufactured product line up of skylights, sun tunnels and roof windows. She is responsible for all B2C and B2B marketing activities and the development and delivery of strategies tied to lead generation, branding, digital, marketing partnerships and their Certified Installer program. Arethea’s influence and insight into strategies that connect consumer to brand breaks through the fragmented marketplace, propelling the growth of VELUX Canada among its key audiences. She understands how to drive marketing opportunities from a strategy perspective to ultimately gain ROI conversions. She has transformed VELUX Canada’s marketing and leads their digital network by driving awareness and conversions.

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Mother, athlete, fitness advocate, a person who is passionate in giving back to her community. These are some of the qualities of today's guest, Lori Casselman.

Lori Casselman is an experienced executive with a passion for building great teams while making innovation in the health and insurance sectors.

Today, Edwin and Lori discussed the importance of asking questions to your team members to received their highest level of performance. Lori shared her leadership style when she is new to the position and how you developed the members of your team to be the next leader.

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Mindfulness has been a buzzword for this year. Can business leaders practice being mindful? Will it benefit their organization? All these questions will be answered today by Laura Lee Copeland, Chief Medical Information Officer at Healthtech.

In this episode, join Laura and Edwin as they discussed why it’s vital to invest in yourself if you want to get the most out of your ability. Laura also shared her struggles during a difficult transition in her career. Tune in to this episode, to discover the benefits you will get out of meditation and how you can be a leader with compassion.

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My name is Patrick (call me Pat) and I'm passionate about sales. There is something really cool about introducing people to a solution that helps them out.

After learning how to scale revenue as former Head of Sales for an HR Tech SaaS, I now consult with SaaS Startups to help them do the same.

I currently live in Toronto, Canada and have a thing for visiting Paris with my wife Mimi in Fall.

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"Nevin Buconjic is an award-winning serial entrepreneur, author, strategic advisor, and startup community leader. Nevin holds degrees in marketing, computer science and an MBA, and has over 20 years of experience in business, finance, marketing and business development. Nevin has started eight companies, including numerous tech-related businesses, and counseled hundreds of entrepreneurs and small businesses.

Nevin is the founder of StartUP Sault Ste. Marie - part of the Startup Canada network, and the author of two books - including the Amazon.com best-selling 25 Money-Making Businesses You Can Start in Your Spare Time, and Starting Your Own Business: An Entrepreneur's Guide.

In 2017 Nevin was awarded the 2017 Startup Canada Entrepreneur Promotion Award for advancing the environment and culture of entrepreneurship in Canada.

His most recent venture is BrandMe.Social, a resume development and personal branding consultancy, and Nevin is also the Manager of Trade & Investment with the Sault Ste. Marie Economic Development Corporation. "

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Jack Newton is the founder of Clio, one of the pioneers of cloud-based practice management. He founded Clio 9 years ago to bring law firms to the cloud. When he is not busy managing Clio, you can found him jumping into the ocean when it's this time of year, enjoying the warm weather, getting a relief from the hot streak. He is a husband and a father to three young children.

In today's episode, Edwin and Jack caught up with how Clio educate the legal community on the security-, ethics- and privacy-related issues. He also shared the core values that inspired his team to be in a founder's mindset.

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How does a couple mix business and pleasure? Join Edwin as he sat down with power couple Alexi Panos & Preston Smiles, Founders of The Bridge Experience.

As the Co-Founders and Co-Creators of The Bridge Method, Alexi Panos and Preston Smiles have helped thousands of students changed their lives by participating in their workshops all over the world. They also have individual projects specific for men and women that will help transform their lives.

In today's episode, Preston and Alexi shared how they stood upon their difficult business decisions. Preston dives deep on the crucial role of changing your mindset as an entrepreneur, why modeling a successful business leader rather than mimicking them and the importance of a community that will support men on their journey. Alexi also shares actionable steps for emerging business leaders, start-ups, and entrepreneurs that will help them scale their business.

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Mara Nickerson is Osler’s Chief Knowledge Officer and an acknowledged Canadian industry leader in legal services innovation and services delivery. She leads national teams who are responsible for professional development, knowledge management, records and conflict management and is the driver behind the Firm’s implementation of legal project management and process improvement.

Join Edwin and Mara Nickerson, as they discuss why (and how) it’s vital to accept the changes for the law industry and how they are coping with the technology evolution. Mara also shares tips to help lawyers overcome their fears on innovation.

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Kunal is the CEO of Polar, a technology provider to major media publishers, with offices around the world. He is also passionate about finding calm and focus in a modern era and writes regularly on the topics of leadership, mindfulness and technology culture on his blog, findfocus.today.

When he is not running the business, Kunal spent a lot of time learning more about himself. He does meditation, practices yoga, a lot of reading and a lot of other activities that Kunal found a lot of joy and meaning from.

In today's episode, Kunal and Edwin deep dive on topics that will support up and coming business leaders on how to become a mindful leader. Listen and enjoy this episode and write down many takeaways that are actionable for your day to day life as a business leader.

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Shawn Phelan is the VP of Business Development for VICE Media. He's been with VICE for 16 years and has overseen the launch of over a dozen digital channels. He's also created best-in-class sponsored content and 360 degree campaigns for brands including Kraft, Molson, Nestle, CIBC, General Motors and PepsiCo.

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Ross Andrew Paquette is the founder and CEO of Maropost, North America’s fastest growing marketing automation company, as ranked by the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. After founding Maropost in 2011, Ross has gone on to double annual growth every year since turning a one-person operation into an international business. Acting as the strategic center of the company, Ross is responsible for determining both business and development direction.

After working tirelessly for the last six years, Ross is now busy travelling. His focus now is to let his team move, make decisions, let them make mistakes and take control of the roles in the areas they want. While they're doing that I Ross gets a little bit more free time to travel.

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This was a POWERFUL yet SUPER down-to-earth and honest chat about…

Growing up as a bit of a rebel
Infidelity
Leaving a job only to have a failed business
Feeling trapped inside
Actions to take control of your life again
Actions to take control of your calendar
Building a life… a family life…an entrepreneurship life...that you feel you and your family deserve

Edwin J Frondozo, CEO of SlingShot VOIP aka RunningBuddha And DrgnMemeBuddha...

...is one of the most down-to-earth and easy-going guy I’ve chatted on the Awesome Bizdads Podcast. Here’s a guy who can grow his business even bigger, but instead, chooses to stay focused on his commitments both at work and at home. Instead, he revisits and challenges his own strategies to see if he can optimize areas in his life. Truly remarkable.

Learn these awesome lessons with Edwin on Stitcher, Spotify or iTunes (http://apple.co/2Cz9Qk4)

About Edwin Edwin is also a successful entrepreneur and the Chief Product Officer & cofounder at Slingshot VoIP.

Edwin Frondozo is an award-winning podcaster who strives to find the intersection of where people, business, and innovation meet. His dedication to living a values-driven life is inspiring. This is evident the moment you meet Edwin with his authentic, easy going attitude that is grounded in creating value for everyone he meets. As host of the popular Business Leadership Podcast, Edwin interviews many influential business leaders and change makers in North America about best practices and lessons learned building a brand, creating high-performance teams and innovating an entire industry. The podcast recently received Silver for Best Podcast in the Business Category at the Canadian Online Publishing Awards.

Edwin is actively involved in the startup ecosystem in Canada. He is a key leader at Startup Canada, providing mentorship and advisory services to startups of all stages. He was the host of Startup Canada’s popular Twitter chat, #StartupChats, which has over 2 billion impressions over a 4 year period. Edwin also organizes and facilitates TechStars Startup Weekend events for 100+ participants.

Contact Edwin www.slingshotvoip.com https://thebusinessleadership.com/

Learn these awesome lessons with Edwin on Stitcher, Spotify or iTunes (http://apple.co/2Cz9Qk4)

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Jay Wong is a serial entrepreneur, business advisor, real estate investor and host of The Inner Changemaker; rated #1 Self-Help Podcast on iTunes.

Jay’s mission is to create empowering media that summarizes all of the great lessons covered in on his show by other successful changemakers, in hopes that these combined journeys will help business owners grow their business through online marketing and elevate their leadership.

With interviews from game-changing entrepreneurs such as Bob Proctor (The Secret (movie)) Sean Stephenson (American Therapist and top Motivational Speaker), Lisa Nichols (personal development giant) Grant Cardone (Multi-millionaire and real estate mogul) and many other prominent names around the world, it's no surprise that his podcast sits consistently on top of the podcasting charts and is actively listened to in 123+ countries.

In October 2016, his podcast was even featured at Toronto Downtown’s busiest intersection, Yonge and Dundas square, highlighting the message of what can happen when you begin to tackle the seemingly impossible in life.

He recently got named as one of the top 40 Millennial Influencers to follow in 2018 and regularly inspires audiences of entrepreneurs, change makers, and thought leaders at some of the most prestigious conferences and seminars around the world.

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Kid from Hamilton Ontario that found a love for Blockchain and loves a good party! Spent 10 years in banking and payments, transitioned those skill sets to the Blockchain space.

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Nishaant Sangaavi is the CEO and Co-Founder of EnergyX Solutions Inc, an energy management technology company on a mission to enable homes and businesses to lower their energy costs. Before starting EnergyX, Nishaant was the Director of Sales and Marketing at BAS Holdings, an energy management company in the Netherlands.

Prior to this, Nishaant collected nearly a decade’s worth of experience in executive sales for energy and IT companies. With EnergyX, Nishaant has come full circle; he completed his MBA at York University’s Schulich School of Business, and is now leveraging his experiences to lead a high-growth startup in Toronto.

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With over 15 years of broadcast, events, content, theatre, and Games Laura Denham has added to her long list of achievements, becoming a Chief Creative Officer at Notable Life. She was a Notable.ca Award Recipient for Leadership. After receiving this award, Laura was offered a post in Notable Life.

Laura is an integrated marketer who has a passion for connecting brands with culture. In this episode, you will learn why creating experiences and connecting with others will give you a different feeling of satisfaction.

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"Hal Elrod is on a mission to elevate the consciousness of humanity, one morning at a time. As the creator of one of the fastest growing and most engaged online communities in existence and author of one of the highest rated, best-selling books in the world, The Miracle Morning—which has been translated into 27 languages, has over 2,000 five-star Amazon reviews and is practiced daily by over 500,000 people in 70+ countries—he is doing exactly that.

Hal actually died at age 20. Hit head-on by a drunk driver at 70 miles per hour, he was clinically dead for 6 minutes, broke 11 bones, and eventually woke from a coma to be told by doctors that he would never walk again.

Not only did Hal walk, he went on to run a 52-mile ultra-marathon and become a hall of fame business achiever—before the age of 30.

Then, in November of 2016, Hal nearly died again—his kidneys, lungs, and heart on the verge of failing, which led to his being diagnosed with a very rare, very aggressive form of cancer.

After enduring the most difficult year of his life, Hal is now cancer-free and furthering his mission as the Executive Producer of The Miracle Morning Movie—a documentary that takes you around the world and shows you how some of the world’s most successful people are using the power of The Miracle Morning to transform their lives.

Today, he is here to Wake Up to Your Full Potential."

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Graeme is a driven and passionate leader with over a decade of experience in the events and entertainment industry, including past experience as the President and Board Director of the mobile application company, ShowDom Inc, and his currents positions as the CEO of Brüha, and CRO of The Entrepreneurship Society.

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CEO and Founder, at Linkus and HiredHippo, Adam Gellert has always had the intent to disrupt the recruitment industry with new and innovative techniques. Since 2002, Adam has worked with large-scale and startup organizations with the objective to build champion, long-lasting teams.

He founded Linkus Group in 2009, the full-service HR and recruitment firm based in the heart of Toronto that was created to change the recruitment industry; a few notable brands Adam's team has worked with are Coinsquare, Sonnet Insurance and KOHO. This past year, Adam Founded HiredHippo.ai, which is an AI-Assisted Recruitment platform set to revolutionize the industry he loves, and getting rid of resumes and job applications is first on their checklist.

Adam volunteers with the HRPA as the Lead Board Chair for the Toronto Chapter Dinner Committee, Canada’s HR thought leader and the largest association in the country. Similarly, Adam is involved in the tech startup scene supporting many organizations, and events as often as he can.

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Gorett Reis is a certified Career and Life coach and Speaker. She mainly works with success-driven professionals who want to advance their careers. Typically this is to a position that provides more autonomy, money, and fulfillment. She also helps professionals find clarity and direction if they are feeling stuck or unclear. She is very results-oriented and most of her clients achieve this, along with more balance, in 6 months or less. Her clients range from Chief Operating and Financial Officers to budding entrepreneurs.

She trained and received certification from Martha Beck Inc. Dr. Martha Beck was Oprah's coach and is regarded as a top practitioner in the coaching field. She also has three degrees from the University of Toronto: a Masters of Education, a Bachelors of Education and an Honours Bachelor of Art.

Gorett loves living life to the fullest and being all she can be, something she speaks about. Her signature talk is called Living from the Inside Out: 3 Ways to go from Over to Inner Achiever in your Career and Life. She speaks and sponsors at various events, has traveled to over 30 countries, had group and solo art shows when she used to do art, and continues to develop both personally and professionally.

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Entrepreneur, inbound marketing and business development professional. Kristian is the cofounder of Bruha, and co-host of The Art of The Fail podcast

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At a very young age, Nunzio Presta, was exposed to sports and learned that comfort will lead nowhere. While playing hockey, he developed the attitude of working with a team, communication, drive and discipline to time management. All these skills, played a crucial role on how he leads his team.

Nunzio Presta, is Founder & CEO at BizON, an online marketplace where people can buy, sell and grow businesses or franchises every day. When he is not busy leading his team, you can found him spending time with his family and cooking Italian dishes.

Grab your pen and paper as Edwin and Nunzio deep dive on the importance of soft skills when hiring a new team member, why listening is a great trait as a leader and how being active in your community can help you build your own brand.

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TBLL020 How To Build The Ultimate Next Generation Product Teams With Rohan Nair & Adam Bullied by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Professional speaker, trainer and certified coach, Carol has been engaging and entertaining international audiences for almost a decade. She holds a BFA in Theatre Performance, an MA in Communication, and two postgraduate certificates in coaching and mentoring.

As the creator of ‘Women Living BIG’ and ‘Spark your G.E.N.I.U.S.’ she is committed to helping women step out of their comfort zones, find their authentic voice, and achieve what they never thought possible (and as someone who has lived in Ashrams, shaved her head, and bungee jumped in her birthday suit, she certainly walks her talk!)

She has lived and worked in 16 countries, and brings a global perspective to all she does. Passionate about many things, Carol is also a volunteer bereavement facilitator, marathon runner, and yoga instructor.

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Today, Edwin chat with Hamza Khan, Managing Director of Student Life Network, keynote speaker, and author. He empowers people and businesses to transform ideas into action. Hamza is also a faculty member at Ryerson University and the co-founder of Skills Camp, a school for soft skill.

When he is not busy leading these companies, Hamza loves to watch movies. He is a sucker for horror movies and apart from that he also loves to travel. In this interview, Hamza shared his strategy of continuously growing as a business leader, and how he was able to turn his knowledge of burnout into a book.

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Mo Dezyanian is a seasoned digital strategist, who has spent the past 8 years designing and executing successful digital programs for national and international brands. In 2015 he established Empathy Inc. an independent marketing agency to help brands navigate the media space in a digital world. With his team of freelancers, he is bringing blue chip strategies to national and international companies.

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As self-proclaimed serial entrprepeneur, Chris is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of Obie.ai. A proud 500 Startups alum, this company is changing the way teams access their collective knowledge and documentation.

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TBLL016 How To Build A Fulfilling Career And Finding Success With Aubrey Chapnick by Edwin J. Frondozo

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TBLP067 Finding Balance with Edwin Frondozo by Edwin J. Frondozo

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TBLL015 Why An Effective Wellness Program Will Retain Employees With Jane Wang CEO Of Optimity by Edwin J. Frondozo

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TBLL014 Why Marketing To Global Customers Matters With Kathrin Bussmann by Edwin J. Frondozo

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TBLL013 Social Media Psychology And Entrepreneurship With Beau Pinto by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Tbll004 Why School Is A Prison For Entrepreneurs With Astawa Alam by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Tbll005 Launch A Podcast On A Budget With Sam Laliberte by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Tbll006 TGIFailure Lessons Learned When We Embrace Failure With Marsha Druker by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Tbll007 Making PR Work For Entrepreneurs With Lyndon Johnson by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Tbll008 EQ In HR To Empower The C - Suite With Gail Scott by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Tbll009 Blue Ocean Innovation Stories With Colin Weston by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Tbll010 Demystifying Crypto Currency With The Crypto Chicks by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Tbll011 Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition With Nunzio Presta by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Tbll012 Developing Your Money Mindset With Yvonne Lines by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Tbll001 When The Cool Boss Gets Fired With Dan Fergusson by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Tbll002 The Trials And Tribulations Of A Product Lead With Rohan Nair by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Tbll003 Pros And Cons Of Women Only Networking Groups With Bob Minhas by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Introducing The Business Leadership Live Call-in Radio Show for Business Leaders by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Jacqueline is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Pressed. Not a news junkie by any means, she created Pressed because it's a product that she needs. Prior to launching her first startup, she spent several years working in marketing roles at companies spanning across industries like sports, food, and media. She has a media degree from Western University and a communications certificate from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

When not busy, you can find Jacqueline having run or trying out a new restaurant. Her future plan is to integrate news to everyone, make it accessible and easy for people. They are doing it now through a newsletter, where they send the top five stories around the world that you should know in a conversational way.

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Summer 2018 Episode with Edwin Frondozo of The Business Leadership Podcast by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Jamie Michaels is the Head of Brand Strategy at Twitter Canada. He joins forces with top advertisers to create ideas that impact during moments that matter. Before joining Twitter, Jamie was the Director of Brand Integration for Rogers' Sportsnet and NHL properties. In this part, he was in charge of creating and executing coordinated media answers for Sportsnet's 5 stages and Toronto Blue Jays media associations.

Jamie's life outside of the business world is that he is a family person. The family is a cornerstone for him since he is a kid to being a business leader. He has two young boys and an awesome wife. Jamie is a lifelong tech nerd. He loves music and he plays the guitar. Jamie is a huge Grateful Dead and also a sneakerhead covering both spectrums of the classic rock and the modern sneakerhead culture

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Mike is the founder and CEO of PointClickCare Technologies. The company started as a one-man operation and grown to 1,500 people today. The company's mission is to prepare the world for an aging population and for PointClickCare do that through long-term and post-acute care providers.

For Mike who is a father of a ten and twelve-year-old daughters, family comes first. They keep him busy. A few years ago Mike and his wife started to travel a lot with their kids. They spend a lot of time traveling and skiing. He also plays golf and for general fitness, he does Cross Fit, hiking, and cycling to keep him physically in and mentally in shape.

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Carl is President, CEO and founder of SOTI Inc., a world leader in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) and Mobile Security Technology. SOTI's products and technology have received numerous awards and accolades from around the world. Today SOTI's products are distributed around the world through a network of over 4000 VARs, Resellers, and Distributors. Over 17,000 companies around the world leverage SOTI's EMM solution, MobiControl, to manage, support, secure and track their mobile workforces.

Carl is a geek at heart. He loves technology for many years. When he started SOTI, he was fiddling around and building some kind of technology that he is passionate about. He loves to think of ways that technology can be used to solve business problems or even to help people in general. He is a dad to two teenage kids and a loving husband to his wife. One of the new initiatives they are working on is starting to work a little bit in robotics and vision systems.

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Bianca Lopes is the former CIO at BioConnect. She is also a public and keynote speaker. Born and raised in Brazil, Bianca spent most of her entrepreneurial life in Canada. She moved to Canada and was able to establish two businesses before the age of 27.

Bianca is a curious, proud geek person. She had a dream of being a diplomat but turned entrepreneur. She is obsessed with human beings which is why she is now living a bit of a nomad lifestyle right now.

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Cody Royle is the head coach of AFL team Canada, the national men's Australian Rules football program. He has an endurance sports business called Inner Voice where they tell Tribune style stories on athletes. Cody was born in Canberra the capital city of Australia but raised in Melbourne. When he turned 25 he picked up a couple of suitcases and moved overseas and haven't been back. He now lives in Toronto with his fiance.

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Michael Katchen is the CEO and co-founder of Wealthsimple, a leading online investing service operating in Canada, United States, and the United Kingdom. Before starting Wealthsimple, he worked at a YC-backed startup called 1000memories, and we sold the business to Ancestry.com in 2012.

At a very young age, Michael became very interested in investing when his sister randomly entered him into a stock picking contest. Michael won the contest and took his father to skiing.

He moved to San Francisco and was part of the tech community. Michael was a consultant at McKinsey doing work for banks and financial institutions. Then, a couple of his former colleagues got into YCombinator in 2010. They invited him to move to the Valley and help build a company. That gave him a chance to take a leap and be an entrepreneur.

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Melissa Nightingale is the Co-Founder and Partner of Raw Signal Group. She is editor of The Co-pour and bestselling author of "How F*cked Up Is Your Management? An Uncomfortable Conversation About Modern Leadership."

Melissa has held senior leadership roles in Marketing, and PR, at several fast-paced startups, including Wattpad, Edmodo, and Mozilla. She moved to Toronto after more than a decade of working in senior tech roles in Silicon Valley.

Melissa and her husband left their technology executive roles at the beginning of last year to go found Raw Signal Group. They based on the idea that they had seen technology companies making the same mistakes over and over again when it came to management and leadership. They built Raw Signal Group to build better bosses, put structure around how to lead in a fast-paced organization and lead in a way that's both authentic to you and the organization.

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Ami Shah is a Co-Founder & CEO of Peekapak, an award-winning edtech platform and online game world that teach social-emotional learning skills like self-regulation, empathy and team work in the class and home. Peekapak currently engages and empowers over 13,000 educators in 90 countries to reach over 160,000 students. Peekapak is backed by; Silicon Valley based accelerator, Imagine K12, the Edtech vertical of Y Combinator, NewSchools Venture Fund and; Uncharted (formerly Unreasonable Institute).

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Fuckup Nights is a speaker series where stories of failed businesses and projects are told, questioned and celebrated. It is a global movement and community that takes place in over 250 cities and 80 countries all over the world sharing stories of professional failure.

Last March 15, they celebrated their First Anniversary. Joining on today's show are Marsha Druker, Founder & Director of Fuckup Nights Toronto and the four incredible speakers who will share the reasons why they joined this celebration.

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Senior product and business development professional. Currently a GM for alliances at Pivotal. Responsible for product, engineering, marketing, GTM & sales leverage through partnering with one of the worlds largest software companies.

Some career highlights include: * First 50 Engineer @ AWS (Core team member on S3, Mechanical Turk) * Shipped AI, ML based experiences on one of the most trafficked sites in US. * Built 8-figure business inside an enterprise software company. * Built ecosystem though technical integration & pure hustle with premier cloud ISVs * Founded, had funded, delivered product for, and launched startup projects (including highly visible initiatives inside of larger companies, and new ventures)

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Tony Lourakis is the co-founder and CEO of Fleet Complete, one of the fastest growing Canadian technology companies. As CEO, Tony relentlessly drives the company’s vision and to achieve the ambitious growth goals that have been set, and surpassed, for 15 years in a row.

Very early in his career, Tony knew he had the makings of an entrepreneur. During his college years Tony founded his first company Canlogic Solutions, a first level systems support house and IT solutions provider. Always a Visionary, in 1998, Tony identified the opportunity to create a software solution for the courier industry. He teamed up with Andrew Merisanu and together they created Courier Complete, the genesis to what is today Fleet Complete.

As a direct result of Tony’s leadership, Fleet Complete has not only grown continuously since its inception but it has also ranked year over year in such prestigious lists as Profit500, Deloitte Fast500, Fast50, and Braham300, among others.

Tony holds an honors degree in Computer Science from Seneca College. He has been recognized as one of Canada’s best young entrepreneurs and has been featured in numerous publications. Tony is also an active and passionate philanthropist, he has served on the YMCA’s Development Committee for numerous years and leads an annual volunteer day at the YMCA Cedar Glenn Camp.

Tony is also active in the Greek Community of Toronto and feels passionate about promoting and preserving Hellenic ideals and culture in Canada, Tony serves on the board of the Hellenic Heritage Foundation and serves as the current President of the Cretans’ Association of Toronto.

Furthermore Tony has contributed to many great causes over the years and actively drives “community support” as a core value at Fleet Complete.

Tony loves cycling, soccer and motorsports and obtained his private pilot’s license in 2008.

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Lauren Haw is a passionate and prolific entrepreneur with over 10 years’ experience launching, managing and investing in various business enterprises. Starting at 18, while attending Queen’s School of Business, Lauren ran the most successful College Pro enterprise in Ontario.

After university she launched and successfully ran an Oxford Learning Centre in Toronto, before moving into her first foray in the real estate industry with an early stage investment in True North Mortgage, a national brokerage with offices across Canada. Lauren later became a Founding Investor in the mortgage rate and financial product comparison website RateHub.ca, where she remains an Active Director.

Lauren was inspired by the opportunities to improve the online real estate market, leading her to found Scholarhood.ca, a site that connects families to home listings searchable by school district—the first and still only of its kind in Canada.

In 2015 Lauren purchased Zoocasa.com from Rogers, and is excited to use her expertise in technology and real estate to lead Zoocasa.com into the next frontier of success.

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Randy Frisch is President and CMO at Uberflip, a platform that allows marketers to create, manage, and optimize content experiences at every stage of the buyer’s journey. Randy wears many hats, including overseeing the marketing, strategy, operations, sales, and execution of Uberflip's solution. His focus is to understand customer needs and provide solutions which simplify access to content in today's digital era. Randy is also host of the podcast Content Pros.

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"Rokham is currently the founder & CEO of PsychologyCompass.com - where entrepreneurs learn scientific tactics to reach their peak mental performance.

Previously he founded TheRedPin.com and helped get it to be one of Canada’s 50 fastest growing tech startups, raising 10s of millions in investments and getting the team from zero to 150+ strong in under 10 years."

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Seth Godin is the founder of the altMBA, an effective leadership workshop that has thousands of alumni around the world. He's the author of 18 bestselling books, the founder of successful companies and a maker of ruckuses. His blog is one of the most popular in the world.

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Ben Baldwin is co-founder of ScaleDriver, an innovation-building system for Fortune 500s, and of The Founder City Project, a peer community of 500+ founders and teams, trained to support each other, solve problems, and attract talent. Ben has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Inc. Magazine, and in Toronto Life as one of Toronto’s 20 Most Brilliant Tech Innovators. He holds multiple patents and is a board member of the Drucker Institute and member of the Innovation for Jobs Summit, founded by David Nordfors and Vint Cerf (“father of the Internet”).

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Sachin Aggarwal is the Chief Executive Officer of Think Research. He joined the team in 2010 as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Think Research, Sachin served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for the Office of the Leader of the Opposition, where he managed six departments, including the Leader’s Executive Team. Sachin Aggarwal, was chosen as one of the recipients of the 2017 Canada’s Top 40 under 40 Award, he currently sits on the Board of the Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI) and has served on the Board of Directors for numerous community outreach programs, including Dixon Hall Neighbourhood Services and the Toronto People with AIDS Foundation. He was called to the Bar in Ontario and in New York after earning a law degree from the University of Toronto and holds a MBA from the Rotman School of Management.

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As the CEO of PT Healthcare and InnoCare, Heather oversees a $50+ million national healthcare company and under her leadership, both organizations have solidified their position as Canadian healthcare leaders focused on the development of innovative healthcare technology and patient-centred care. She credits this success to her team and her commitment to creative thinking; a willingness to challenge the status quo; authentically caring for and empowering teams; and an entrepreneurial skill set firmly focused on value creation.

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A passionate technology focused FinTech leader with international experience in the payments, digital commerce, software development and media industries. Born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, educated in Melbourne, Australia and with stints in Africa, South East Asia and Europe, Alexander currently serves as Vice President of Innovation at RBC. Before RBC, he led Market Development and Mobile for PayPal Inc based in Canada and the UK. An active startup advisor and entrepreneur mentor, he sits on Advisory Boards at the MaRS Discovery District and The BC Tech Association.

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Diane Kazarian is the Managing Partner for the Greater Toronto area and National Financial Services Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) which includes Banking and Capital Markets, Asset Management, Insurance, Real Estate and Private Equity sectors in all lines of business (audit, tax and advisory). She is also PwC’s Global Financial Services Brand Leader.

With over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, Diane specializes in the banking sector in the development and monitoring of legal and reputational risk policies, procedures and processes, regulatory compliance and credit risk management processes. She has extensive experience of IFRS, US GAAP and SEC rules and regulations.

In 2013, she was a recipient of the Women's Executive Network’s (WXN) Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Awards.

Diane has a BSc (Business Administration) from Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island (Summa Cum Laude). She is a CA and CPA, and is fluent in Armenian. She speaks at a variety of client events, and teaches courses aimed at the directors' community at the Rotman School of Management and frequently interacts with the press on emerging issues in Financial Services. Diane often speaks and is an active participant and advocate of Women in Leadership and Diversity and Inclusion. She is also on the Board of Bryant University and Kingsway College School.

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Sheetal is a 13 year veteran of the tech industry. In the late 90’s Sheetal worked in mobile right out of high school where he was part of the Palm Pilot launch with USRobotics in Canada. When Sheetal joined Xtreme Labs, as the Director of Business Development for Media, he quickly expanded the Media vertical for the organization and became a well-known figure within the industry. As Xtreme was acquired by Pivotal Software, he expanded his reach as he took Telecommunications and IoT under his belt. In his current role as CEO of TribalScale, Sheetal is applying his business development skills to quickly scale the young IoT and mobile development company. Outside of his day-to-day role, Sheetal is an avid investor in the technology space as well as a volunteer and member on the BoD for the Ontario Association of Food Banks.

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Dalia Asterbadi hails from a family of technology entrepreneurs. Dalia is the CTO of Verve.ai, Chief Data Scientist at JONES and Chair of CriticalStateLabs, focused in machine learning and augmented intelligence since 2012. As a respected marketing technologist and inventor of a patented augmented intelligence platform, she believes in pioneering the democratization of data science. Based in Toronto, she is committed to enabling Canadian startups to make a dent in the technology and business ecosystem through collaboration and value creation.

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Peter Reitano, CEO of Abacus, a performance Facebook ad tech/agency, has worked directly with some of the worlds largest blue-chip / Fortune 500 brands and award-winning agencies in Europe, Australia, Canada and the US.

Peter is also the co-founder of Bellwether, a not for profit which brings together entrepreneurs and leaders in Toronto's startup, tech, media, and advertising space for collaboration and innovation.

He also sits on the Canadian Marketing Association's digital council, the lead instructor at Bitmaker teaching digital marketing, and invests in early-stage startups (focussing on E-com), and on the board of several companies/startups advising on growth.

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Happy New Years from Edwin Frondozo of The Business Leadership Podcast by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Happy Holidays from Edwin Frondozo of The Business Leadership Podcast by Edwin J. Frondozo

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Matthew is a 20 year veteran of the digital media space including video games, digital advertising and software development. He is currently the founder and CEO of Hifyre a growing custom software developer based in Hamilton, ON.

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Alyssa Furtado is a passionate entrepreneur, financial expert, digital marketer and educator and is the CEO of RateHub.ca, the leading Canadian financial comparison site for mortgage rates, credit card deals, deposit rates and insurance. She has been regularly featured as a financial expert on CTV News, BNN, Global News, The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star.

Alyssa graduated from Queen’s University with a degree in business and math. She worked for two years for a US-based consulting firm where she realized a need in Canada for transparent online resources in the personal finance space and a platform to compare products; there were already three companies in the United States fulfilling this market. Alyssa thus co-founded RateHub in 2010, and has spent the last seven years building products that help Canadians make smart financial choices.

She has grown RateHub from 1 to over 50 full time employees and under her leadership RateHub has launched its own in-house mortgage brokerage, CanWise Financial. Alyssa’s expertise in search engine optimization and digital marketing has been a key factor in RateHub’s success, driving hundreds of thousands of users to the site each month.

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Mark Jaine is President and CEO of Intelex Technology Inc., headquartered in Toronto. Intelex is a worldwide leader in employee health & safety, and quality (EHSQ) web-based management systems. Mark joined the company in 1999 and has led the transformation from niche software provider to innovative leading force in global EHSQ.

Under Mark’s leadership, Intelex received business awards, including being named by Deloitte as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies and a Fast 50 high-growth company. Intelex was also honoured by TechConnex as Company of the Year, Canada’s Top Employer and among the Best Small/Medium Sized Employers in Canada.

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Currently co-founder and CTO at Nudge.ai, using artificial intelligence to help sales people find useful trigger events at their target accounts. Letting AI do the heavy burden of research allows sales professionals to focus on selling, while never missing a chance to turn latent demand into active demand.

Prior to that, co-founder and CTO of Eloqua, a company I helped guide to a market leading position in Marketing Automation, while growing it to a $100M revenue run rate, through its IPO on the NASDAQ, and to ultimate acquisition by Oracle.

Passionate about innovation, SaaS, machine learning, and the marketing and sales technology spaces.

Author of the book "Digital Body Language" about deciphering customer intentions online. Frequent speaker at various marketing, sales, and innovation events.

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Melody Adhami started her career working at the billion-dollar company, Unilever, on brands like Dove, Hellmann's and Lipton. Then, she reached a fork in the road. Deep inside the row of cubicles at Unilever, she watched the first signs of a new mobile age appear. Steve Jobs launched the iPhone, unleashing a world where mobile phones can do more than make calls. Melody made up her mind. She quit her steady job to launch a company that would focus on the emerging world of mobile apps, Plastic Mobile.

Today, Plastic is a top player in the world of mobile. Its clients are some of the biggest names in the business. The work was recognized by Forrester Research as being the “poster child” for apps. The Globe and Mail even dubbed Melody as the “Queen of Apps.” And in 2015, Plastic was acquired by the 6th largest global communications company, Havas.

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Matt is co-founder and CEO of Demac Media and co-founder of Pela Case. He’s also the other of best selling book, Anything, Anywhere, a book on the future of retail and eCommerce. He considers himself a student of retail and eCommerce above all else and his companies are where he tests his ideas in an effort to help commerce evolve. He’s helped to build and grow more than 100 eCommerce businesses over the last 10 years that have done billions in online sales in that time.

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With more than 20 years of experience at the technological forefront of innovative software businesses, David has held leading positions at Algorithmics, Electronics Workbench, Ceryx, and IBM Risk Analytics.

Dave Penny joined Ethoca, a Toronto-based Fintech in the credit card fraud space in 2016. At Ethoca he oversees all technology, including software development, DevOps, IT operations, enterprise data systems, security, and corporate IT.

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Client side marketing veteran with 15 years in the industry. Mentors at 500 Startups and Google Startup Next, ran marketing and customer acquisition for Borrowell, culminating in 100k free credit scores given out and Fintech partnership with CIBC.

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Mark Cohon is an experienced sports and entertainment executive, proven turn-around expert, active public speaker, proud builder of Canadian brands and entrepreneur at heart.

In sports, Mark is best known for his leadership as the 12th Commissioner of the Canadian Football League. Mark was the driving force behind the renaissance of the league. His eight-year stewardship of the CFL was a remarkable run that saw the CFL's business model transformed and its brand rejuvenated.

Strong attendance, record television ratings, $2 billion in new stadiums, strengthened corporate partnerships, a return to the nation's capital and the almost tripling of team distributions from the league office were are all part of Mark's legacy.

Mark is routinely listed among the most influential people in Canadian sport. He is a former executive with Major League Baseball International (MLB), where he was Director of Corporate and Game Development, and the National Basketball Association, where he was recruited by then Commissioner David Stern to serve as Director and Group Manager of International Marketing, Managing Director of NBA Europe, and Vice-President of Business Development.

Former Chief Development Officer for Petopia, a multi-channel retailer in the United States, Mark was also the President and CEO of AudienceView, an event ticketing firm that grew under his leadership to claim such prominent international clients as the Toronto Blue Jays, the new Wembley Stadium, Churchill Downs and MGM Inc.

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Bringing more than 30 years of strategic leadership, operational excellence and professional integrity to his role, Michael is responsible for all aspects of Express Scripts Canada’s strategic development and operational activities, which aim to bring value to clients and patients by leveraging deep industry knowledge and worldwide best practices in pharmacy benefit management.

By taking client and patient interests to heart and employing his strategy and leadership skills, Michael has successfully positioned Express Scripts Canada as a leader in pharmacy benefit management. In doing so, he uncovered key issues facing Canadian health insurance plan members and sponsors and played a pivotal role in driving strategies to reduce prescription drug waste and promote better health outcomes to help employers and employees lower drug benefit costs and preserve their overall benefit plans.

Michael also plays an active role on the senior management team of our parent company, Express Scripts, the largest and most advanced pharmacy benefit management company in the world.

Prior to joining Express Scripts, Michael was Vice President of IBM Canada’s Business Consulting Services division for the Financial Services sector, the largest management consulting and integration services business in the Canadian Financial Services sector. In that role he acted as a management consultant with many Canadian financial institutions with a focus on business and IT strategy.

Michael earned an Honours Bachelor of Mathematics degree with a Computer Science major from the University of Waterloo.

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Alan brings over 20 years of experience building and developing innovative and high-growth technology companies, including technology leadership and execution to various verticals - healthcare, telecom, enterprise workload management. With his progressive responsibilities in the software industry, Alan has helped create product value by understanding customer problems and building valued technology solutions that improve business outcomes and realizing hyper growth potentials. Alan is also very involved in the startup ecosystem, a MARs Advisor and as an advisor and mentor to various startups, helping them focus to build for customer value and preparing them to rapidly scale. Alan holds a Computer Engineering degree from the University or Waterloo.

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Paul Struthers is responsible for Sage’s overall business in Canada, working alongside Sage’s cherished network of customers, partners, and accountants. Before working at Sage, Paul spent 15 years at global software solutions company Amdocs, and prior to this managed the ERP consulting practice at RSA companies, where he also led and supported over 20 projects for small and mid-sized businesses in the U.S. and Canada.

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Kirstine Stewart, Chief Strategy Officer, Diply GoViral

Kirstine is the Chief Strategy Officer for Diply, a content platform with over 1 billion monthly Video views and 34 million monthly unique US visitors and is ranked (Alexa) #16 US website by traffic one below Instagram.

Until Fall 2016, Kirstine was the Vice-President of Media at Twitter, overseeing North American partnerships across all verticals, including television, sports, gaming, news and music. She previously served as Managing Director for Twitter Canada, leading Canadian operations as well as advertising business and partnerships.

Prior to joining Twitter in May 2013, Kirstine was the Executive Vice-President of CBC’s English services, CBC/Radio-Canada, where she oversaw the network’s English-language radio, television and digital programming and operations. Earlier, she was Senior Vice-President of programming for Alliance Atlantis, overseeing HGTV, Food Network, National Geographic, BBC Canada and others.

Kirstine earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto, and is a graduate of the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century program at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government as well as the Transition to Leadership Program Young Global Voices at the Oxford Saïd Business School. She is also an alumna of the Forum of Young Global Leaders, an integral part of the World Economic Forum.

Most recently, Kirstine was named to Maclean’s list of the most powerful Canadians (just two places behind Justin Trudeau), to Toronto Life’s list of the most influential Torontonians and to Canadian Business’s 2015 list of the top 50 most powerful business people in Canada. She sits on the board of theScore.com and WOW Entertainment and is a member of the DMZ Advisory Council at Ryerson University.

She is also author of the national bestseller Our Turn (Random House) – a business book that looks at opportunities for leadership today.

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Vicki Saunders is an entrepreneur, award-winning mentor, advisor to the next generation of change makers and leading advocate for entrepreneurship as a way of creating positive transformation in the world.

Vicki is Founder of SheEO and #radical generosity a global initiative to radically transform how we support finance and celebrate female entrepreneurs.

Vicki has co-founded and run ventures in Europe, Toronto and Silicon Valley and taken a company public on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Vicki was recently named one of the 100 most influential leaders of 2015 from “EBW – Empowering A Billion Women”, In 2001, Vicki was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum.

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Born in Salmon Arm, B.C., founder and Co-CEO Cody Green started the online auto financing company in 2010 after working as a car salesman in Saskatoon.

Cody stopped selling cars to pursue the venture in 2010, which he named Canada Drives.

In 2016, Canada Drives, placed first PROFIT 500 list as Canada’s Fastest-Growing Company. Cody was recently named among Canada's 2017 Top 40 Under 40. Millions of Canadians continue flocking to Canada Drives to help them buy cars.

Canada Drives is on track to facilitate nearly $1 billion in loans this year, with $400 million loaned to Canadians so far. Canada Drives’ revenue grew 12,686% from 2011 to 2016.

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Jodi Kovitz is a passionate innovator, relationship builder, revenue generator and connector. She is the is the CEO of AceTech Ontario. She is also Founder of #MoveTheDial, a movement founded in January 2017 to advance women in tech and Just Say Hello, her passion project through which she teaches people how to build transformative business relationships. She regularly speaks and writes on innovative business development strategies, advancing women in tech, networking and women’s business development opportunities in Canada and the United States. Jodi serves on the SickKids Foundation Capital Campaign Cabinet to raise $1.3B to transform children’s health leading an innovative technology sector strategy, serves on the advisory board of Rosenzweig & Company, Maple Corporation and Mediseen and Mayor of Toronto John Tory’s Toronto Innovation Council. Prior to joining AceTech Ontario, Jodi spent 5 years at Osler generating revenue, building an alumni program, creating an associate training program and coaching 450+ lawyers on BD strategy and relationship building.

Jodi previously practiced law, and after she obtained her business degree at Ivey, living in Milan studying international business, worked in marketing at a technology start up that went public, worked in leadership development at a bank and consulted for a top-tier global consulting firm. Just Say Hello is Jodi’s passion-and-joy project.

Jodi's recent press includes: Globe and Mail, BNN, Toronto Star , Digital Journal.

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Farhan Thawar is the CTO and Co-Founder of a Helpful.com. Most recently he was the CTO, Mobile at Pivotal and the VP of Engineering at Pivotal Labs.

Farhan is best known for scaling Xtreme Labs from 10 to 350 people and building the most popular mobile apps in the world. He is an avid writer and speaker and was named one of Toronto's 25 most powerful people.

Prior to Xtreme, Farhan held senior technical positions at Achievers, Microsoft, Celestica and Trilogy.

Farhan completed his MBA in Financial Engineering at Rotman and Computer Science/EE at Waterloo.

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Chris Eben is a Managing Partner at TWG, a software consultancy with holistic expertise in digital strategy, product design and engineering. He is a mentor, speaker and active investor with a portfolio of more than 20 startups throughout the US and Canada.

Chris joined TWG after a lengthy career running product teams in the Enterprise Software Market, focused on Business Intelligence, Analytics and Performance Management. He’s worked for startups and with large organisations and has helped to build teams in Silicon Valley, London, England and his hometown of Toronto.

At TWG, he leads a growing team of over 100 product managers, designers and engineers that work with innovators from funded startups to large enterprises building software used by millions. Chris holds an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management.

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Aaron Parker is the podcast host that has seen true patterning as to what makes entrepreneurs and thought leaders successful.

We talk about being a business owner, starting a podcast, and what the similarities there are from his guests.

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Named one of Marketing Magazine’s “Top 30 Under 30”, Erin Bury is a marketer, former technology journalist, and startup enthusiast. A monthly columnist for the Financial Post and a tech commentator on CTV News, Erin shares the ins-and-outs of entrepreneurship, marketing to millennials, creating a killer personal brand, and how to harness the latest digital trends. Her other claim to fame is she’s been retweeted by Oprah – twice.

Currently the Managing Director at Eighty-Eight, a creative communications agency that works with consumer brands and technology companies to tell their stories, Erin has worked with brands including Sony Pictures Television, Torstar, Yellow Pages, and PayPal, as well as with countless startups. Erin was formerly the managing editor at startup publication BetaKit, and the director of communications at Sprouter, which was acquired by Postmedia in 2011.

A journalism graduate, Erin has also written for publications such as The Globe and Mail, Mashable, Marketing Magazine, Strategy Magazine, and VentureBeat. She comments frequently in the press about marketing and entrepreneurship and has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Forbes, CNN, The Toronto Star, and Canadian Business.

Erin has spoken at events across North America with up to 1,000 attendees, including at Haste & Hustle, CTAConf, Content Marketing Conference, and the Profit W100. She has also hosted events for PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Square Canada, Microsoft Canada, and several entrepreneurship organizations, and is a frequent event host and emcee who has interviewed leading executives and entrepreneurs on-stage, including Shark Tank entrepreneur Mark Cuban.

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Justin Thouin is the Co-Founder and CEO of LowestRates.ca. Justin started the company in 2012 following a successful career as a Senior Executive with two prominent entertainment and technology organizations. LowestRates.ca provides Canadians with a fast and convenient way to save two of their most valuable assets – time and money. It's a one stop shop for Canadians to compare offers on personal financial products quickly and easily from North America's leading companies. To date, it has helped millions of Canadians explore their financial options.

In addition to leading LowestRates.ca, Justin also enjoys investing in early stage ventures and mentoring aspiring entrepreneurs. He provides valuable insight into both what life as a corporate executive and an entrepreneur really looks like. He also created a thriving Executive Consulting practice prior to founding the company. Justin holds an Honours Degree in Commerce from the Smith School of Business at Queen's University.

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Elaine Mah is the Director for Canada at Intel Corporation and a twelve year veteran with the company. Among her many achievements at Intel, Elaine is especially proud of her work fostering innovation and growth with small businesses through her Canadian small business advisory board.

She is a frequent speaker at industry and government conferences on the importance of technology to the Canadian economy, as well as on emerging trends. Elaine currently sits on the National Board of Directors of the Information Technology Association of Canada.

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Fatima Zaidi has had over nine years of experience in Business Development, Marketing, and Strategy. Her expertise in sales effectiveness and partnerships led her to the role as VP of Business Development for Eighty-Eight, a Toronto-based creative communications agency.

Prior to Eighty-Eight she was Head of Business Development at retail company Rent frock Repeat (who were on Dragons Den in Season 7) and was responsible for the overall management of all strategic business development, marketing, and customer relationship activities nationwide.

Fatima is a commentator for Global News, chair for the DYPB conference, a content writer for Huffington Post and Betakit and was named Marketing Magazines top 30 under 30 marketers and brand developers for 2016.

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Jeff Cates is the President and CEO of Intuit Canada, a software development company that produces premier brands such as TurboTax, QuickBooks and Mint. Under Jeff's leadership, Intuit Canada has risen to become one of the top places to work in Canada, as ranked by the Great Place to Work Institute. He is responsible for helping the company become recognized as the nation's undisputed financial solutions leader in every market it serves, by leading a team of over 400 employees dedicated to simplifying the business of life.

Cates joined Intuit in 2011, with a background that includes innovative marketing, partner management and entrepreneurship. Previously, Cates worked at Apple Canada leading their commercial business, and Hewlett Packard as vice president of their consumer division. He earned an MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University and a bachelor of commerce degree from McMaster University.

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Julia Deans is the CEO of Futurpreneur Canada, a national non-profit organization that has helped almost 10,000 Canadians aged 18-39 launch start-ups with business coaching, financing, mentoring and other resources.

Julia started her career as a lawyer with Torys LLP in Toronto and Hong Kong, before creating a successful legal recruitment business in Singapore.

From 2005 to 2012, she was CEO of CivicAction, a cross-sector leadership coalition that has successfully tackled major social, economic and environmental challenges in the Toronto region. In 2012, she chaired Ontario’s Expert Roundtable on Immigration, helping develop the province’s first-ever immigration strategy.

Julia is a director of George Brown College and of Investeco, and a trustee of the Canada Post Community Foundation. She is past Chair of IWF Canada's Toronto Chapter, a former board member of Luminato and the Living City Foundation, and a past advisor to organizations including Artscape, the Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation and the Hague Process on Refugees and Migration. She has been recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women (2014) and as a Woman of Influence Canadian Diversity Champion (2012), and has received the University of Toronto’s Arbor Award.

Julia is a graduate of Queen’s University, Columbia University and Osgoode Hall Law School, and has received executive education at Harvard Business School. She is qualified to practice law in Ontario, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong.

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Stefan is an Emmy® award-winning Creative Director pushing at the boundaries of collaborative storytelling, helping to shape the future of VR, gaming, and entertainment in general.

He works with clients and partners in television, film and advertising to translate existing IP into compelling digital narratives, games and interactive experiences – especially for VR.

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My guest today is Suzaane Grant. Suzanne's experience is characterized by breadth and depth leading in technology, military, non-profit, health and creative fields. She has won awards and commendations at each stage of her career and attributes her success to authentic leadership, strategic thinking and collaboration.

Suzanne served in the Canadian Forces as an engineering officer. She bootstrapped a strategic communications agency and publishing house, The Art of Business, in the Middle Eastern country of Qatar, where she also founded Qatar’s favourite award-winning print and digital publication, Qatar Happening.

Suzanne has hired Steve Wozniak and Tim Sebastian, and partnered with Serena Williams and the Queen of Qatar. She has been interviewed on Al Jazeera TV, CBC Radio, Global Media, Rogers TV and multiple international print titles. She launched a national sports team, and organized powerboat world championship launches. She advised Virgin Health Bank on patient reach and executed Accenture's launch in a new country.

Suzanne's most cherished accomplishments include leading grassroots movements. She founded and spearheaded a Canada-wide charity campaign for Rwandan orphans in 1994. In 2007 she founded Spirit of Empowerment, a historic catalyst event for young professional Arab women. Back home in 2012, Suzanne introduced a global initiative at Startup Canada to encourage a more global outlook amongst Canada’s entrepreneurs. She helped to create and lead a global youth entrepreneurship fellowship, a partnership between Cambridge University and Startup Canada.

Suzanne is a generous community contributor and global citizen. She has a BSc, Physics from Carleton University and studied entrepreneurship at St Lawrence College. She has been awarded the Canadian Decoration for long-term service to Canada, received a commendation from the Military, was named Local Hero by the city of Kingston and has won a Startup Canada Innovation Award and a Microsoft Web Award.

Suzanne's mantra is The Art of the Possible.

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Mitch has always been a tech geek at heart, from his roots building hospital data centres to product management at Xtreme Labs, Mitch has seen every facet of product design and development. Mitch focused much of his working energy at Xtreme Labs in the startup space. Working with companies from seed round, he saw huge growth among his client partners and quickly gained an eye for potential success. When Xtreme Labs was acquired by Pivotal in 2013, Mitch saw the opportunity to fully immerse himself in the client relationship aspect of mobile development. Over this time, Mitch helped launch Pivotal offices in Denver and Washington DC.

Years later, Mitch has moved on to lead a new breed of mobile and emerging technology company. As head of product and design for TribalScale, Mitch has returned to his roots, helping to manage projects for companies big and small to create the ultimate in world class mobile and connected experiences.

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Chris Zacharias is the founder and CEO of imgix. Prior to that, he was one of YouTube’s early web developers. He was responsible for creating YouTube’s HTML5 video player and Feather, an ultra-lightweight version of YouTube that loads quickly in parts of the world with slow Internet connections. These experiences drove Chris to recognize a need for tools that let developers build great visual experiences without adding bulk to their apps. In 2010, he founded imgix, a real-time image processing service that enables businesses of all sizes to deliver rich visual content with high performance and easy setup."

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My guest today is Jim Love. Jim is CIO and Chief Content Officer at IT World Canada. Over the past 4 years, working with his partner Fawn Annan, President of IT World Canada, Jim has worked to make IT World Canada one of the leading digital publishers in the B2B space and a case study in digital transformation.

In addition to his work as a business and technology executive, Jim is also a well-known writer who published in leading publications in Canada and internationally. In his role as Chief Content Officer for IT World Canada having overall responsibility for all editorial and commercial content. He facilitates large and small session with technology and business executives across the country, supervises the research done by IT World Canada and heads the digital content production.

Jim continues to publish both topical items and his research into strategic technology and marketing in Canada and abroad. He is also an award winning playwright and musician and he continues to publish.

Equally, at home in technology and line of business roles, over his 35-year career Jim has held senior level positions in financial services, consulting and publishing. He has worked in software development, operations, sales and marketing.

In consulting, Jim has held senior level positions in management consulting at Ernst and Young and as a Global Vice President for DMR Group (now Fujitsu). In these roles and in his private consulting practice he has worked with everything from large multi-nationals to entrepreneurial start-ups, to governments and government owned companies in Canada and around the world. Jim has led large assignments in Financial Services, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Marketing, Technology, Mining and Natural Resources and Government.

Jim has been part of the faculty at the University of Waterloo and York University. He continues to teach an online course in Management Consulting for the Certified Management Consultant’s Association (CMC Canada) and he is a member of the technology curriculum committee at McGill University.

His work has taken him to Asia, Europe, West Africa as well as all across North America from Canada to the US to the Caribbean.

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My guest today is Mark Organ, the founder, and CEO of Influitive, helping companies mobilize their advocates to produce massive increases in referral leads, reference calls, social media participation and more.

Mark first revolutionized B2B marketing as the founding CEO of Eloqua (ELOQ), the world leader in marketing automation software, which was acquired by Oracle for $871M. In between, he was a go-to-market consultant for SaaS companies in North America and Asia.

Mark has also helped over a dozen software companies successfully go to market in asymmetrical or disruptive ways as a consultant and entrepreneur.

With an M.S. in Neuroscience from Northwestern University and a passion for understanding human psychology, Mark is a dynamic speaker with a unique vision centered not only on business success and technological.

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Malgosia Green serves as the chief product officer at Top Hat and has been with the company since 2013. She leads the product management, user experience, and design teams for Top Hat’s web and native mobile products.

Green is an entrepreneur with over 12 years of experience in edtech. Prior to joining Top Hat, she was CEO and co-founder of LearnHub, which grew to be the #1 education site in India, helping connect Indian students with higher education opportunities in India and abroad.

Green has been named as one of Canada’s 20 Young Women in Power by Canadian Business Magazine and listed as one of the women in tech worth following by Betakit. She is an active speaker within the edtech, startup, and women in tech communities.

Green holds a B.Sc. in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

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It is my pleasure to introduce Wayne Berger. Wayne is Executive Vice-President of Regus Canada, the world's largest shared workspace and co-working provider. Regus is leading a workplace revolution in Canada and around the world helping people and organizations conduct the best work of their lives from where they want and how they want, all the while immersed in a vibrant community.

Over the past 20 years, Wayne has served in executive leadership roles in both Canada and the United States in developing national go-to-market strategies, working alongside best-in-class consulting firms such as McKinsey, and building top-performing businesses, including leading an unprecedented growth plan that has doubled Regus’ footprint in Canada in less than three years. All with an unwavering passion for helping people go to bed on Sunday excited about Monday so they can achieve their ultimate goals.

Based in Toronto, Ontario, Wayne leads an organization of hundreds of dedicated team members supporting over 100 shared workspace locations and co-working facilities from coast to coast under both their Spaces and Regus brands. Regus' locations span across over 40 cities in Canada, from Victoria, BC, to Halifax, NS, and are part of a global network of over 3000 locations in over 120 countries to serve all clients globally.

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My guest on this episode is Eva Wong. Eva is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Borrowell, a Canadian fintech lender that offers personal loans, free credit scores, and personalized product recommendations.

Eva's career has spanned both the private and not-for-profit sectors, including leadership roles at The OTF, Maple Leaf Foods, UNDP and Oliver Wyman. She has studied or worked in the US, Caribbean, Africa, Asia and Europe.

She was named one of "9 Canadian Women Changing The Game" by Elle Canada magazine, one of "30 Women in Canadian Tech Worth Following" by BetaKit and a finalist for "Fintech Woman of the Year" by LendIt, the world’s biggest show in lending & fintech.

Eva holds degrees from Harvard University and Queen’s School of Business. She enjoys food blogs and baking projects with her two kids.

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Greg Friesen is the Vice President of Product Management at DragonWave. Greg is responsible for global product management across DragonWave’s complete portfolio of products.

Greg has 19 years experience in senior product management roles, network design, planning, and engineering, including his current role at DragonWave and previous roles at Nortel Networks, Innovance Networks, and Fundy Telecom.

Greg has authored numerous papers and magazine articles in and has spoken at numerous industry conferences. Greg also holds 2 granted patents and has 3 pending applications in the networking area.

What You Will Learn From This Episode

One of the largest cellular phone equipment (hint: your LTE data streams go through their equipment)
What his biggest challenge leading a team and company from $3M to over $100M plus global business
How he learned how to adjust his leadership style as the company grew and scaled
How working at McDonald's at a young age helped him shape his career
Find out what his "healthy addiction" is
What he learned from his largest customers and suppliers
Find out where the vision of the future comes from

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On this episode, I speak with Humza Teherany. Humza has over 20 years in driving Technology and Business Strategy; while directly contributing to both top and bottom line results.

Compass Digital Labs began as an innovation team within a multi-billion dollar enterprise. Attracting talent from many different industries and disciplines, the dynamics of the team became part of the winning recipe.

With the mandate to drive the best possible experiences, Compass Digital Labs builds innovative solutions across industry verticals; from senior living to students, hospitals, corporate offices, sports & entertainment and beyond.

With user experience designers, mobile and back-end developers, digital and social marketing, data scientists and field service technologists, Compass Digital Labs is a leader in consumer innovation, bringing start up thinking into large enterprises across North America.

Before Compass , Humza worked at Allstream, the biggest enterprise telecommunications company in Canada, where he was Director of Business Transformation and IT Enterprise Architecture. Humza has also held various technical and management roles at Bell Canada.

Humza is an invited keynote speaker at various North American conferences every year focused on technology, innovation, and driving business results. Humza has built strong technology and business partnerships with top organizations across the globe. This network allows him to innovate creatively and quickly, accelerating business objectives.

Humza has an undergraduate degree from York University and holds various professional training accreditations from both the Schulich School of Business and the Niagara Institute. Humza also serves as the President of the CIO Association of Canada.

What You Will Learn From This Episode

Show business results very early on, not just technology "What are you going to do with the technology" -- get involved in sales process
How running a startup in university helped him grow
What he learned from doing everything from software development to hardware infrastructure
Learning the business, how to help businesses grow to differentiate himself
How he developed his personal brand by harnessing the business mindset and technology background
Trial and error, when you can contribute to grow and drive business, the rest of the opportunities come with it
Why you should find ways to make other people be successful
What happened when he knocked on the doors of the Director of Marketing
Find out how to drive business results wherever you are in your career
How family values and structure helps him guide his leadership style
How and why he joined CIO Association and ended up President

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Paul is the CEO and Co-founder of Nudge.ai, a modern sales platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide sales teams with actionable insights on their target customers.

He is a successful technology executive who has run Services, Customer Success, Account Management, Support and Product Management teams.

As part of Eloqua’s executive team, Paul helped lead the company from $0 to over $100 million in revenue, then through IPO and a successful acquisition for $957 million by Oracle.

He’s a firm believer that company culture trumps strategy every time, and that storytelling is an essential part of creating a business. He has a successful track record as a leader with a strong focus on sales and customer engagement.

What You Will Learn From This Episode

Why he is leading Nudge with a product first strategy
Hear his personal experience taking Eloqua to $100M
His thoughts on the difference between great managers and great leaders
Why he believes culture trumps strategy and betting on people
What is the biggest thing he learned from taking a company public
Why it's important to have a Customer Success Manager first
How he is finding work-life balance while running a startup
What he does when he finds awesome talent
How you get your team to ask you the right questions

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My guest on this episode is Bobby Umar. He is one of the most prolific, heart-based leaders in North America. Inc Magazine named him one of the Top 100 Leadership Speakers, alongside such noteworthy giants as Richard Branson, Brene Brown, John Maxwell and Robin Sharma.

Bobby is a 4x TEDx speaker, and one of the top tweeters in the world, with over 400,000 followers. He has been named the 2nd best business coach to follow on Twitter and the 4th best leadership influencer according to Kred.

Bobby is an international author of two books, including a #1 best seller, and is a Huffington Post contributor. He hosts a weekly tweetchat called “The Power of Connection” that has reached over 65 million impressions weekly.

To date, his social media influence has garnered over 1 billion impressions. Bobby was also named a “2015 Speaker to Watch” by the National Speakers Bureau and Global Speakers Agency. Most recently, he was named a Top 7 Networking Guru to follow.

What You Will Learn From This Episode

How he evolved from personal branding to social media, to a leadership coach
Why business leaders should share on social media
What drives him to constantly create new and amazing content
Why being a TEDx speaker/public speaking is important skill as a thought leader
How to practice and become a better public speaking
Why exploring and dabbling is key to find out what you want to do to find focus -Getting into “super daddy mode” to find balance and focus

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So happy to have Victoria Lennox on today’s episode. She is the co-founder and CEO of Startup Canada, the national rallying community supporting and giving a voice to Canada’s 2.3 million entrepreneurs.

Victoria is recognized by the United Nations Development Programme and the European Union as one of the foremost experts in entrepreneurship education; ecosystem and program architecture, governance, development and implementation; and, in fuelling entrepreneurship movements and awareness campaigns.

As the catalyst for Startup Generation and the host of Startup Nations, Victoria supports and mentors the development of youth enterprise organizations in more than 20 countries; provides advisory support to international organizations in the areas of entrepreneurship networks, education and policy development; and supports colleges and universities in enhancing their entrepreneurial activities. Countries around the world are also working to emulate Startup Canada’s methodologies and activities, viewing the organization, under Victoria’s leadership, as the best practice in fuelling entrepreneurship culture.

What You Will Learn From This Episode

How she changed focus from her career in policy and politics policy to leading an innovation nation of entrepreneurship in Canada
How Startup Communities grows and fosters leaders of tomorrow
What she learned when she was undergoing chemotherapy
Her leadership style and how she empowers her teams
How she is launching projects and programs to support women
What she started after traveling with the Governer General of Canada

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My guest on this episode is Saul Colt. Saul is the Founder and Creative Director at SAUL COLT – The Idea Integration Company. In his career he has been named as one of the iMEDIA 25: Internet Marketing Leaders & Innovators as well as been called one of Canada’s best community builders/experiential marketers.

NYT Bestselling author and Internet Pioneer Chris Brogan once referred to Saul as “exactly who you want representing your company” and that message has been echoed by media properties ranging from Inc to Forbes Magazine.

In the episode, we touch upon many of Saul’s interests and expertise including Word of mouth marketing, stunt marketing, Social media, customer experience, and community building.

What You Will Learn From This Episode

How shoes, art, and writing comic books gives him a competitive advantage
A calendar entry to block 15-20 minutes to allow the mind to wander
Challenges and opportunities working with startups and small organizations like ZipCar and FreshBooks
Differences working with large enterprise organizations like Rogers Communications and Xero
Explains why everything starts and ends with marketing
Rules of word of mouth marketing depending on the size of organization (hint: nothing)

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