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Financial Post Executive Podcast
FP Executive features Robert Gold of Bennett Gold LLP, and Andrew Brown of Write On The Money. Each episode explores business issues with today's thought leaders, authors, business owners and influencers.
Aaron Serruya is the President and CEO of Yogurty's, Yogen Fruz, and Canadian Juice Company, the master franchisor for Jamba Juice in Canada. Aaron faces competition head-on and relishes the opportunity to excel in his ventures. Aaron shares the secrets of mastering the competitive landscape in any business, in any industry.
Ken Segall is the author of 'Insanely Simple - The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success'. Ken worked closely with Steve Jobs for many years and understands the minds of Steve and Apple. Ken readily shares great inside stories, and expounds on Apple's drive for simplicity.
Arlene Dickinson is the CEO of Venture Communications and an award-winning star of CBC's Dragons' Den. Few people have the perspective on business that Arlene has gathered over the years. In this episode she readily shares the tips to successful branding for entrepreneurs and business owners.
Dave MacDonald is the CEO and President of Softchoice, named a 'Best Large Workplace in Canada'. How they've maintained that elite status for the past seven years is a great story, with lessons for every business owner and manager
Asif Khan is the founder of the Location Based Marketing Association, and a popular return guest. Now with international LBMA chapters, Asif talks about the creative approaches to location-based marketing, both outdoors and indoors. The new hot topic? Indoor location-based apps.
Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner, and Claudiu Popa, security and privacy advisor and lead author of "Managing Personal Information - Insights on Corporate Risk and Opportunity for Privacy-Savvy Leaders" host the launch event for this new Carswell resource. With author and guest interviews, this episode contains unique insights for business leaders from the people setting Canada's privacy agenda.
Lisa Kember is the Regional Development Director at Constant Contact, a multinational public company. With roots as an entrepreneur, she faced unique transitional challenges and opportunities joining a large organization. Lisa shares some of her insights that will benefit those changing their business careers, or rebranding themselves.
David Fono is the co-founder of Atmosphere Industries. With significant funding from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Atmosphere created WatchersGame.com, an augmented board game. The game's purpose is to teach online privacy literacy skills to kids. David speaks with us from 'INplay 2012 - The Art & Business Of Kids Interactive'. Bonus: David talks about adapting gamification to serve the enterprise and its audience
Dave Dinesen is the President & CEO of BackCheck, Canada's largest pre-employment screening company. A rogue employee is a disaster - and Dave has the stories. Plus, BackCheck has recently been acquired by an American firm. Dave shares the lessons from the transaction.
Matthew's perspective on the new entrants into the social media toolbox is guidance for any business working with an online community, or wanting to increase its social awareness. From Google+ to Pinterest, Matthew has thoughts on them all, and how to use these tools successfully.
Chris Taylor is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of Actionable Books, the industry leader bringing business lessons from the top business books into the workplace. Chris' team repurposes the information into lively and interactive workshops. The result: retention and development of top people and enhancement of leadership's credibility. Chris's approach to his own business? Ready, Fire, Adjust - by getting customer feedback as quickly as possible.
Dr. Vivien Brown is the VP Medical Affairs, Medisys Health Group Inc. Dr. Brown shares her unique insights into strategically controlling your business' healthcare costs as stress, aging, and cardiovascular issues all come into play in today's enterprise.
Leaders Series: Athena Varmazis is Amex Canada's VP and General Manager, Small Business Services. Having just released the Amex Q1 Monitor exploring cash flow management in 2012, Athena shares the surprising results from the survey's analysis.
Darrell MacMullin is the Managing Director, PayPal Canada, bringing a unique perspective to the world of payment technologies. To Darrell there is no online or offline, there is only commerce. And with the introduction of PayPal Here, mobile payments go mainstream.
Jeff Fox is the author of 'How To Become A Rainmaker'. Jeff's mantra is 'You're not at lunch to eat lunch'. As the founder of Fox and Company, Jeff has authored numerous books on leadership, and 'Rainmaker' is the classic. We all learn from Jeff (and he's a highly engaging interview).
Erik Qualman is the founder of Socialnomics and the author of 'Digital Leader'. Known as the Digital Dale Carnegie, Erik puts his STAMP on digital leadership and influence (listen to the podcast to understand the acronym). Described as being to social media what Drucker is to management, Erik's unique approach to the digital world will work for any leader or aspiring leader.
Phil Hogg is the President, Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (Toronto Chapter). Phil understands the advantages of aligning with your friends and foes. When Rogers and Bell came together and acquired MLSE it was for mutual advantages that might not be readily apparent. Find out why, and how being a strange bedfellow can also work for you.
Mitch Joel is the president of Twist Image and the author of 'Six Pixels of Separation'. In 'Six Pixels' Mitch addressed how new media has changed business forever. His new book 'CTL ALT DLT' answers the question "Now what?". As everyone is sharing and conversing on social networks, Mitch talks with us about adapting your business to this reality and capitalizing on the new paradigm.
John Boynton is the EVP Marketing, Chief Marketing Officer at Rogers Communications Inc. When Rogers launches a new product they do so after deep research and significant internal testing. John shares his unique insights about their methods and innovation style, which can work across all organizations.
Peter Sander is the author of 'What Would Steve Jobs Do?'. By probing into the six steps of Steve's leadership style, Peter lays out the elements that all leaders can easily apply within their own organizations and lead like Steve.
Albert Lai is the co-founder and president of Big Viking Games, his seventh company. Albert addresses the three drivers that guide him as a serial entrepreneur: corporate culture, innovation, and financing.
Marc's Canadian-based division is behind numerous Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects and has faced lightening-fast industry changes. Marc talks about adaptation and challenges, and how to stay well ahead of the global curve.
Leaders Series: Jennifer Beale is the founder of BizNetworkNews.com and she's at the hub of networking in Canada. Her weekly publication connects managers and entrepreneurs to networking events across the country. Jennifer shares the networking tips that benefit every business owner, no matter the stage of their company's growth.
Leaders Series: Rajah Lehal and Chris Kay are the co-founders of Multiplicity Accelerator. Focussed on the growth and sales of fast-paced tech startups they offer a view beyond that of the previous generation of incubators. Acceleration, iteration and speed are what drives them and their Project Companies
Leaders Series: John Holland is the co-founder of CustomerCentricSelling and the co-author of 'Rethinking The Sales Cycle'. John's approach: Selling is dead. Long live buying. John challenges our historical approach to selling and looks at the world of the customer today, with an eye on tomorrow.
Leaders Series: Ellen White is an International Life Coach. The issues between work/life balance and integration can stump even the most ardent executive or entrepreneur. Ellen leads us through the fray with tips that are designed for the start of a new year, and new opportunities
Leaders Series: Hosts Robert Gold and Andrew Brown revisit the lessons learned and guests grilled, with some of the 'best-of' business tips and success stories from the past year's BusinessCast catalogue.
Leaders Series: Warren Coughlin is one of Canada's top business coaches. Resistance to change is rampant among entrepreneurs and business owners. Warren explains why and shares the secrets of getting out of the resistance rut. A 'must hear' episode as we all look back over the year, and ahead to 2012.
Leaders Series: Abhi Rege is the Director Small Business Services, American Express Canada. Amex just released their Small Business Monitor - Wave XI. This quarter's hot topic is 'Employee Attraction and Retention'. We dig into the survey and share great advice on how to take advantage of the lessons learned.
Leaders Series: Bruce Hunter is a former Kraft Foods executive, and the president of Lighthouse 360. Bruce talks about the Ostrich Syndrome and how it's affecting business owners who fail to look at themselves first when planning to exit their ventures.
Randy Thompson is the CEO of Venture Alberta, Canada's most active Venture Group. With 60+ deals done, Randy shares the inside scoop about angel investors and entrepreneurs.
Leaders Series: John Doemer, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Fellow at U of T conducting advanced research into new technologies. John's background is in business and science and he shares his views on innovation, from a global perspective with a Canadian twist.
Leaders Series: Dave Bouskill and Debra Corbeil are Canada's Adventure Couple and the founders of The Planet D. They talk about the missteps and tricks along the way that turned their passion into a successful, fun, and profitable global business.
Leaders Series: Zachary Killam is the President and CEO of Play Taxi Media. Zac and his team are changing how people spend their time in cabs with the launch of 1,500 interactive taxi headrest touch screens in Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver. Zac identifies the unique issues faced and the solutions applied in the building of a multi-faceted startup.
Leaders Series: Cameron Herold is the former COO at 1-800-GOT-JUNK? and he understands hyper business growth. In our discussion about his bestseller 'Double Double' Cameron gives us the lowdown on how to double revenue and profit in 3 years or less.
Leaders Series. Carrie Wilks is the Founder of HR Resolution Inc. As a leader in outsourced HR solutions, Carrie is a guru in the field of human resources. She shares real-life business lessons and addresses the issues faced by firms large and small, each with its own unique HR issues.
Leaders Series: The Pitch is BNN's top-rated entrepreneur vs. investor show. The BusinessCast debriefs three investor/panelists, immediately after they've turned down the entrepreneurs. A unique listening opportunity as we get inside the heads of the investors.
Leaders Series: Lloyd Taylor, Founder of Taylor Label, and Eric Nielsen, VP & GM Small Business Services, Amex, tackle tough questions on leadership and management. These two seasoned executives share valuable insights, honed by a wealth of leadership experience
Leaders Series: Maggie Fox is the Founder & CEO of Social Media Group. Maggie takes our 'Social Case Study Challenge' and puts social media to work in a real-world scenario, with some of SMG's behind-the-scenes techniques.
Leaders Series: David Kaiser is the Senior VP & Partner at Fleishman-Hillard, a leading strategic communications firm. David talks about choosing and working with a PR firm, and reaping real rewards.
Leaders Series: Peter Aprile is the Founder and Counsel at ATX Law, a boutique tax law firm. Peter shares his secret sauce to dealing with the taxman, and outlines his practical approach to tax disputes.
Leaders Series: Katherine Roos is the Small Business Manager, Economic Development and Culture, City of Toronto. Katherine shares Enterprise Toronto's knowledge about the incredible growth of small business, and gives us the lowdown on the people and events at Small Business Forum 2011, happening in Toronto on Oct. 18, 2011.
Leaders Series: Eric Nielsen is the VP & General Manager, Small Business Services, Amex Bank of Canada. Eric talks about the just-released 'Amex Small Business Monitor X', and offers insight and understanding of the trends and mindset of Canada's most important economic engine.
Leaders Series: John Livingston is the CEO of Absolute Software, Vancouver's largest independently owned software company. With data valued at $49,000 per laptop, Absolute's recovery of 20,000 missing laptops has saved companies around the world millions of dollars. A great Canadian success story.
Leaders Series: Simon Brightman is the Director of Product Management at Points.com. Simon has brought many products to market and he shares his secret sauce: PDLC - Product Development Life Cycle, and how to execute it successfully
Leaders Series: Simon Plashkes is the founder of Art Battle, a unique venture bringing community, content, and commerce together via 'live competitive painting'. This is a successful business unlike any other, and it's about to go national.
Leaders Series: Marty Natterer, Regional VP, North Region, CertaPro Painters, talks about taking his company beyond the 'man-in-the-van' and growing internationally.
Leaders Series: Wes Lenci is the VP - Canada at Regus. With Regus's 1,100 workspace centers in 500 cities, Wes understands and talks about the phenomenon of the growing global mobile workforce
Leaders Series: Garrett Oliver is the VP and Brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery. Know as the Renaissance Man of Craft Beer, Garrett and his partners have used niche marketing campaigns to grow their brewery into one of the most renowned brands in the industry.
Leaders Series: Joanna Track is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dealuxe.ca, Canada's newest online retail experience. Joanna talks about leveraging her experience as the founder and publisher of Sweetspot.ca (which she sold to Rogers) into a unique retail offering, competing with the best of the Groupon sites.
Leaders Series: Brian Church, new Country Manager, Canada at LinkedIn shares the story of their first year in Canada and reveals practical tools and advice you can use today to become more effective on LinkedIn.
Leaders Series: Richard Courtney and George Cassidy, co-authors of 'Come Together - The Business Wisdom Of The Beatles' dive into the good, bad, and ugly business lessons learned by the Fab Four as they advanced their careers. Can the Beatles dispense sage business advice to today's entrepreneurs and corporate leaders?
Leaders Series: Devon Cranson, President of Cranson Capital Solutions, delves into financing for companies at the 10th - 15th year of their life cycle. We further identify sources of funding for innovation, no matter what stage of growth.
Leaders Series: Michael De Monte, founder and CEO of ScribbleLive.com, talks about creating a Canadian web-based application that allows big-name news agencies worldwide to compete in real time with the faster social media outlets.
Leaders Series: Kevin Murphy, PEI's serial restauranteur (12 eateries, 2 hotels, and a brewery), returns to tackle our popular 'Top Ten Business Questions In Under Ten Minutes'. Kevin serves up a fascinating take on what makes his ventures successful.
Leaders Series: Sean Graham, partner at Eisen Graham Barristers & Solicitors, is a guru estate litigator. Sean talks about succession train wrecks and how they can be avoided.
Leaders Series: Ben Baldwin, Co-Founder of ClearFit, talks about building a game changing company, and shares with us how ClearFit has become the hiring tool of choice for Tim Hortons and thousands of smaller businesses. Using ClearFit, 50% of all hires don't have to be mistakes, anymore.
Leaders Series: Brian Shepard, CEO of Tenzing, talks about transitioning Canada Web Hosting into Tenzing and becoming a major force in the Canadian Cloud Computing arena.
Leaders Series: Mike McDerment, Founder and CEO of FreshBooks, talks about the inspiration and exponential growth behind Canada's world leader in online invoicing. MIke also talks about giving back to the community that helped propel FreshBooks to it's leadership position.
Leaders Series: Daniel Debow, founder and co-CEO of Rypple.com talks about 'working better, together' using Rypple's unique social software. We also speak about the 'gamification of business' and what that trend means to today's business world.
Leaders Series: We introduce Bill McGill, CEO of Versapay Corporation, Canada's fastest growing company. Bill talks about inspiration and taking on Canada's big banks at their own online payments game.
Leaders Series: David Brown is the co-founder and past president of the Exempt Market Dealers Association of Canada. He talks with us about the surprises and benefits of launching and belonging to an industry advocacy association. David also offers up some great advice for entrepreneurs raising capital in today's world.
Leaders Series: Dave Simpson, Executive Director of the Business Families Centre at the Richard Ivey School of Business shares secrets of family business success. In operations and transition, Dave talks about how family businesses are better at business than most others.
Leaders Series: Jordan Banks, Managing Director Facebook Canada, talks with us about using facebook as a business tool. Jordan is a guru on the subject, and shares some terrific facebook business building tips.
Leaders Series: Guy Kawasaki talks about his new book 'Enchantment - The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions. Guy is a prolific author, investor, creator and tech-luminary. As Apple's second software evangelist he learned the art of 'enchantment' early in his career. We even talk a little hockey.
Leaders Series: Vanessa Rementilla, Creative Director and Strategist, reveals the profitable opportunities within an enterprise when a creative director is engaged to manage and mentor a creative team. And when creative directors are involved in client-facing business development opportunities the return is greater still.
Leaders Series: Erin Green, founder of Pairachute talks about the true value of relationship marketing. Erin grew her venture by leveraging the relationships she developed during her seven years at Lululemon.
Leaders Series: Simon Jennings, president of Olive Media talks about finding opportunities in a crowded space. From DoubleClick to Yahoo to Olive, Simon has worked in very crowded circles. The secret sauce: Service to death.
Leaders Series: Ben Baldwin, co-founder of ClearFit, addresses the fact that 50% of all hires do not work out, and what it takes to hire successfully.
Leaders Series: Kathleen McGinn, Operations Partner at beerbistro in Toronto, talks about the importance corporate culture and smart HR policies play in a successful niche business. Toronto has its own 'Restaurant Wars' and this is a winning story.
Leaders Series: Aaron Patzer talks about the hyper-growth of Mint.com and what corporate life is like after selling his company to Intuit for $170 million.
Leaders Series: Asif Khan, the founder of the soon-to-be-global 'Location Based Marketing Association' explains why 'horizontal integration of location' is a powerful new buzzword.
Leaders Series: We're joined by communications guru Carmine Gallo, author of the new book 'The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs'. Carmine gets inside the creative and business mind of Steve Jobs and shares Steve's innovation secrets - original thinking at its best.
Leaders Series: Jeff Pontes, Director, Digital Strategy at FUSE Marketing Group talks about leveraging customer input to achieve exponential business growth.
Leaders Series: Sarah Prevette, startup guru and founder of Sprouter.com, talks about startup success and why Sprouter is the centre of the entrepreneur's social networking universe.
Leaders Series: Hadley Archer, VP Strategic Partnerships, WWF Canada, talks about forging groundbreaking strategic alliances that are greater than the sum of their parts.
Leaders Series: Steve Schussler, the creative genius behind Rainforest Cafe, talks about inspiration, gumption, and why he wrote the new book, runaway bestseller 'It's A Jungle In There'.
Leaders Series: Our guest is Barb Anderson, Product Marketing Leader at Intuit's Global Business Division. Barb discusses the results of a recent survey that reveals optimism among Canadian entrepreneurs, but these same business owners have serious concerns about finance.
Leaders Series: Dianne Buckner, host of CBC's Dragons' Den, gives us the lowdown on pitching the media, and pitching investors.
Leaders Series: We're joined by Joe Milstone, co-founder of Cognition LLP. Joe warns us about the legal bear traps that face entrepreneurs as they grow their companies.
Leaders Series: Our guest is Ontario's Minister of Labour, and former Olympic athlete, Peter Fonseca. Peter discusses how businesses can leverage his Ministry, and how the government is using social media to better connect.
Leaders Series: We talk with Chris O'Neill, Google Canada's new Country Director, about growing Google in one of their largest markets, and the what he sees as the measures of success.
Leaders Series: An online nightmare scenario for a financial services institution is handled by Dave Fleet, VP Digital, Edelman. Dave guides us through the steps you must take if your business, product, or service is attacked online.
Leaders Series: A true management and leadership guru, Dr. Henry Mintzberg of McGill University joins us to speak about management misconceptions, and his new book: "Management? It's Not What You Think!".
Leaders Series: Serial entrepreneur Kevin Murphy of Murphy Group Of Restaurants in Charlottetown, PEI, talks to us about growing his local empire of 12 restaurants, 2 hotels and a brewery.
Leaders Series: This week we bring back former Apple and Pepsi CEO John Sculley to face our 'Top Ten Questions In Ten Minutes'. Terrific insights from one of America's best known hi-tech entrepreneurs.
Leaders Series: We introduce LinkedIn Canada's new Country Manager, Jonathan Lister. Formerly the Country Manager for Google Canada, Jonathan talks with us about what it takes to succeed in a market that is in constant change.
Leaders Series: We're joined by Barbara Kellerman, lecturer at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and author of "Leadership: Essential Selections on Power, Authority and Influence". Barbara talks with us about the roots of leadership and the lessons to be learned from great historical and modern thinkers.
Leaders Series: John Sculley, former CEO of both Pepsi and Apple talks with us about hyper-competition and succeeding in the most challenging corporate markets in the world.
Leaders Series: Axle Davids is the Founder and CEO of Distility Branding, and the author of 'Brand Scammed'. Axle talks with us about the passion and commitment it takes to succeed in an entrepreneur's world.
Leaders Series: Evan Thompson, Founding Partner of Thompson Wiley + Associates, speaks with us about the wisdom of listening. Grow your business by effective and targeted listening
Rick Spence of Profit Magazine joins us to talk about avoiding the Entrepreneur Bear Traps every company faces.
Leaders Series: Eric Nielsen, VP and General Manager, Amex Canada Small Business Services, talks about their latest Small Business Index. Eric discusses why Canada's small businesses are inexorably confident.
Leaders Series: Jim Sterne, President of Target Marketing of Santa Barbara, discusses the tricky task of measuring social media marketing.
Leaders Series: Lloyd Perlmutter, former Canadian President, The Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic, and former EVP, Indigo Books & Music, shares his insights into the business lessons that retail brings to all enterprises.
Leaders Series: Return guests Carl Yankowski, former CEO of Reebok, Palm and Sony, and Steve Smith, former President and CEO of WesJet, sit in the hot seat to answer our 'Top Ten Questions In Ten Minutes'.
Leaders Series: Return guests Carl Yankowski, former CEO of Reebok, Palm and Sony, and Steve Smith, former President and CEO of WesJet, sit in the hot seat to answer our 'Top Ten Questions In Ten Minutes'.
Leaders Series: Bruce Hunter, President of Lighthouse 360 and former VP and General Manager at Kraft Foods, discusses the challenges of growth, and how to navigate 'Smart Growth'.
Leaders Series: Arvind Rajan, Linkedin's VP, International, shares his insights into Linkedin's successful organic growth plan, and how you can best leverage this leading internet tool.
Leaders Series: Stephen Smith, former President and CEO of WestJet and former Sr. VP Customer Experience at Air Canada, discusses the realities behind customer experience, and why your business is measured by the behaviour of your front line people.