Episodes

with Allison K. Summers

You know what they say, ‘Begin with the end in mind’ and that’s how you need to approach building your business. In this episode of Disruptive CEO Nation, we speak with Patrick Ungashick, author of Dance in the End Zone: The Business Owner’s Exit Planning Playbook, and the award-winning A Tale of Two Owners: Achieving Exit Success Between Business Co-Owners. Patrick works with company founders and business owners to prepare for and achieve happy and successful exits. As a business owner himself...

with Allison K. Summers

Sumaira K. Isaacs is a woman who knows the world and a woman the world should know. When we booked her, our intent to was to explore the close correlation between a country’s open borders and lively tourism to the opportunity for entrepreneurs to achieve business success, but we just happened to schedule this call amid the global COVID-19 pandemic and ended up with a rich conversation about what happens to business when borders close and events cancel. The movement of people is critical to succ...

with Allison K. Summers

We invite you to spend time with Anna-Mieke Anderson, a B Corp founder and CEO of MiaDonna & Company and The Greener Diamond (www.miadonna.com). Named by Entreprenuer Magazine as one of their 100 Powerful Women in 2019, we thoroughly enjoyed discussing how the passions that inspire the birth of a business still require sound strategies to keep that mission alive. Based in Portland, OR, USA, Anna-Mieke is globally recognized as the pioneer of the lab-grown diamond (LGD) industry. After learning ...

with Allison K. Summers

Ron Carucci is a voice of wisdom for founders whether they are seeking Series A Funding or managing a mature business. In this episode of Disruptive CEO Nation, we explore topics such as founderism, strategy, growth and the insights into how 15% of your efforts can be the secrete sauce to success if you lift your head and lead the way you should. Ron also shares how investors are evaluating your business to spot a winning team, a winning leader, and a winning idea and challenges business leaders...

with Allison K. Summers

Julian Fisher is the founder and CEO of jisp, a lifestyle app that digitizes products and experiences to bring the best of online into physical spaces offering digital baskets, gamification, and the ability to tap product labels and have instant information. In this episode Julian shares insight into his entrepreneurial journey, growing companies, and product development in the digital space. What we appreciate about Julian (aside from the smile in his voice) is the rich history (and frankly lo...

with Allison K. Summers

Join us as we head to the UK to discuss socially conscious business with Farah Asemi, founder of ecofleet, a sustainable mindful B to C logistics service using carbon-neutral electric cargo bikes and vehicles. In this episode we transverse topics of product development, white label service, warehousing in a city like London and management of a unique workforce. Currently, ecofleet riders do 12,000 laps of the world every year. But what we love oh so much is the branding – it is worth checking ou...

with Allison K. Summers

Will Bachman is a brilliant mind at work connecting other brilliant minds to business today. As co-founder and Managing Partner of www.Umbrex.com he has brought together a global, collaborative community connecting 800 top tier independent management consultants across fifty countries. He is also the host of How to Thrive as an Independent Professional, which has over 270 published episodes. If you want to know how to set up a successful solopreneur practice in a gig economy, this is the man to ...

with Allison K. Summers

Nikolaus Kimla – Pipeliner CRM and Salespop Nikolaus Kimla is a business Rockstar, innovator and influencer that you should know. Crossing from Austria to California, Nikolaus has created six businesses in the tech space and in this episode of Disruptive CEO Nation, he shares insights into what it took to conceive and launch his latest endeavor, serving as the founder and CEO for Pipeliner CRM. As an expert in process efficiencies, digital workflows and CRM, Nikolaus has designed a solutions pl...

with Dr. Ben Schmidt

How can artificial intelligence help strengthen roads and infrastructure? On this episode of Disruptive CEO Nation, RoadBotics co-founder and President, Dr. Ben Schmidt shares his unlikely journey to revolutionize the way local governments assess and maintain their roads. RoadBotics was spun out of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) Robotics Institute in 2016 and has raised $11.4M in venture capital investment to date. Ben shares insights into how the company developed including hi...

with Dr. Tiffany Jana – Founder of TMI Consulting

In the future of work, culture will drive everything, and Dr Tiffany Jana will be there advising clients on how to optimize their workplace and community environments to benefit customers, stakeholders and staff. A lifelong diversity and inclusion expert, Dr. Jana is a proven business builder, highly sought-after speaker and prolific author whose latest book, Subtle Acts of Exclusion, is now available. We also will say she is one of the biggest bundles of energy we have ever met! In this episod...

with David Broomhead

David Broomhead is the co-founder and CEO of Trade Hounds in Boston, a startup that’s created a mobile app and social network for America’s 13-million construction and trade workers, providing them an online forum to share their work and life experiences. In this episode of Disruptive CEO Nation, learn how the team at Trade Hounds approached developing a platform to serve as a digital ‘Town Hall’ that lets construction workers, contractors, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, etc. connect with ...

with May Al-Karooni

May Al-Karooni is the CEO & founder of Globechain, a reuse marketplace that connects corporates to charities, small businesses and people to redistribute unneeded items, generating social impact data. In this episode, May describes the organization’s journey from inception to scaling across multiple countries and continents while providing insight into holding the vision as the founder, building technology platforms, and knowing when and how to seek investors. May shares how last year 5,100,000...