Episodes

One of our values at Disruptive CEO Nation is doing business while still being able to deliver social good, but in a cluttered market and constant noise, how do change agents get the attention they deserve? Enter Eric Ressler, the founder and creative director of Cosmic, a social impact creative agency based in Santa Cruz, California. Cosmic serves non-profits, B Corps, funders, and organizations dedicated to advancing humanity. Eric discusses the importance of authentic messaging and their team...

217 Eleanor Kaye, Executive Director of Newton Venture Program; London, England As the Executive Director of the Newton Venture Program (affiliated with the London Business School and in partnership with Local Globe VC), Eleanor Kaye focuses on diversifying the venture capital (VC) ecosystem. The discussion highlights the importance of representation in the VC industry and the need to empower individuals from overlooked backgrounds. Eleanor also discusses the challenges and opportunities specifi...

This week’s high-powered episode provides valuable insights for entrepreneurs from founder and CEO Adam Robinson. Adam discusses his journey from a career in finance to founding multiple successful companies, including his most recent business retention.com. Retention.com helps solve a major problem for e-commerce businesses by using innovative technology to capture deliverable emails for a significant portion of anonymous website visitors. Adam opens up about his background and experiences scal...

Today's healthcare system is insanely complicated and on average patients wait 25 days just to get a doctor's appointment. Enter UBERDOC and its mission to reduce barriers and red tape for individuals who need (and deserve) a fast pass to the appropriate medical care. In this episode we speak with Brianna Socci who is an emerging industry leader in digital healthcare. Working with co-founder and surgeon Dr. Paula M. Muto, Brianna has skillfully built up UBERDOC as a nationwide direct-to-doctor p...

Shireen Muhiudeen, Founder and Principal Corston-Smith-Asset Management - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Shireen Muhiudeen is an extraordinary individual. She was the first female chair of the Malaysian Stock Exchange and the former CEO of AIG Investment Corporation (Malaysia). She is an ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) and DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) trailblazer, encouraging organizations to become ESG-sustainable, either as investors or as board members. Shireen’s book, We Are Al...

This week we come back to the USA with Hanieh Sigari, a serial entrepreneur with a lifelong passion for the aging industry. Hanieh shares how her interest in longevity started at a young age when she befriended elderly neighbors and worked in a nursing home. This early passion led her to found multiple healthcare businesses focused on aging issues over her career. Hanieh goes into detail about her current company Qyral, a telehealth platform launched to make treatments for aging more accessible....

Welcome to Placecube, a company that helps organizations work with modern technology on tight budgets, primarily in the UK public sector. The founder and CEO, Jason Fahy, discusses Placecube’s approach of building technology in a modular way using "cubes" or digital building blocks. Allison and Jason discuss Placecube’s use of open source technology and how it builds security around these systems. Jason also shares his background before founding Place Cube and what motivated him to start the com...

What if you could completely redesign the way tech platforms process, think, and inform you? That is exactly the mission that Massoud Alibakhsh is on while leading the way in object messaging models. As a four-time company founder and expert in deep integration AI ( or AI fusion), Massoud is ready to place his fingerprint on the future. We caught up with him at a great time, as he is at a really exciting place with his new company, Xeba Technologies. Here is what we explored: -How the AI we see ...

Chris Caldwell is on a mission to bring renewal energy to all, even those in remote and isolated regions of the world. As CEO of United Renewables, a leading renewable energy developer and cleantech investor, he has become known as a go-to authority in this space. In this conversation with Chris, we explored: - His start in developing little turbines with a small team to a globally recognized sector leader. - The team's passion for making a difference in the world’s energy transition. - Why buil...

Patrick Danial was a teenage gamer in the 90s who recognized the power of the World Wide Web to share ideas so he started a website offering tips to other gamers when one day he was approached to run ads on his site for his audiences. From there his curiosity and drive to understand online engagement, optimization, and reach was born. In this conversation, we touch on: -Just out of high school he and his business partner created a search engine but as it was right around the time Google was buil...

This episode concludes 'The Next You' series where Allison turns the focus on the Disruptive CEO Nations' listeners and their business goals. In part 3, Allison encourages the listener to think about 'high risk/high awesome' and why you need to make space for risk in your life. Allison shares her personal 'yellow post-it note' story insights including: - Why if NFL legend Charles Woodson can take a risk and build a new next you can too. - Understanding opportunity windows. - Why you need a frame...

This is the second episode in a series of episodes where Allison turns the focus on the Disruptive CEO Nations' listeners and their business goals. In part 2, Allison encourages the listener to think about 'The yes line' and shares insights and thoughts into: - Life accelerates according to the yes line. - Get out of your own way and keep your ego in check. - Make space for new. - Activate the field of possibility. - Understand the success triangle. - Write out a question list that will pull you...

This episode kicks off a series of episodes where Allison turns the focus on the Disruptive CEO Nations' listeners and their business goals. In part 1, Allison encourages the listener to think about 'The next you' and shares insights and thoughts into: - Getting the motivation to set future goals. - How to see the field of possibility but not get lured away from the path to your future. - Thinking about the impact of technology on your future. - Finding people and resources that will help you se...

Mickey Balter is the CEO & Co-Founder of Oriient, an in-store navigation technology provider that offers hyper-accurate indoor positioning using the earth’s magnetic field and built-in smartphone sensors. Mickey is a serial entrepreneur and a veteran of the Israeli semiconductor industry, with over 20 years of experience in combining deep technology to solve business challenges. Prior to founding Oriient, Mickey founded and led Scientra which developed the world’s fastest High-Frequency Trading ...

90% of cyberattacks start with human error. In this episode, we speak with the founder of Riot, a platform designed to protect your company by preparing your employees to deal with cyberattacks in a modern and engaging way. The number of cyberattacks exploded last year, and everything suggests it will be even worse going forward. Long before AI steals our jobs, it will enable hackers to craft much more sophisticated attacks at scale. These attacks will be far more personalized, far more difficul...

Dmytro Gryn, CEO at Jooble, Job Aggregator. Dmytro is an expert in the information technology industry with 15 years of experience. He joined the Jooble team in May 2007 as a Software Engineer, becoming the first employee in the company after its two founders. Before becoming CEO of Jooble Job Aggregator, Dmytro worked as an engineer, team leader of the development team, and CTO of Job Aggregator. It was our pleasure to speak with Dmytro about Jooble and what is like leading a global company who...

Chloe Duckworth is the co-founder and CEO of Valence Vibrations, an AI startup delivering emotional classifications in real-time conversation to improve communication and promote empathy across demographics, including neurotypes. Chloe is personally motivated by democratizing access to wellness in every facet of what it means to be well. In the wake of the pandemic, she co-founded Hope Hearted, a Bay Area-based nonprofit that has provided PPE to thousands of unhoused people. Here is what we disc...

201 Mohammed Widdi, CEO of Soul Detox, Brooklyn, NY, USA The main purpose of business, in our guest’s opinion, is to make a difference in people’s lives. In this episode, Mohammed ‘Moe’ Widdi speaks about his latest business venture, Soul Detox, and his feelings about holistic healing and business practices. Always intrigued by the ways CEOs and high-performing business leaders manage stress, I was curious about what Moe would have to share. Here is what we discussed: - What does it mean to...

We are doing a happy dance at the Disruptive CEO Nation podcast because this is our 200th episode, and to celebrate, we made Allison the guest. In this episode, Bruce Corris from Market Domination takes the interviewer's seat and helps listeners get to know Allison better and what is behind the career that has enabled her to work with CEOs and senior leaders in over 90 countries. Through the conversation, we explore: - A glimpse into Allison's childhood and how that formed her life's work. - The...

Eric carries more than two decades of experience in the healthcare advisory space and leading teams at Southwind and The Advisory Board Company. His background in financial operations, mergers and acquisitions, technology innovation, and traditional consulting services sets the foundation for creative and bold solutions. Here is what we discussed: - Why 'curiosity meets clarity' is important to the DNA of the business. - Insights into working with physicians and administrators and othe...

Did you know that in the US alone, almost 55 billion is spent on conducting online surveys, and another 10 billion on conducting product research interviews? And do you know if all that data gathered is trustworthy? Well, Sharekh Shaikh founded CleverX on a mission to not only make it easier for marketers and researchers to reach the right audiences, but to also make sure that the data is reliable to count on for business decisions and strategic planning. CleveX is a platform that powers market ...

DevSquad is a bootstrapped, profitable, ~90-person boutique consulting firm that specializes in strategizing, designing, and developing SaaS products. We build SaaS products for bootstrapper founders, VC-funded fast-growing startups, and big enterprises like ADP, Box, and the US ski team. Here is some of what we touched on: -Phil's journey from Brazil to the United States and how he has developed his team, their core values, and why simplicity is so important to them. -The mindset difference bet...

CytoReason is supporting some of the largest pharma companies and research institutes with their boldest attempts to improve people lives through improved clinical design and speeding the discovery of new life-saving drugs. Using the knowledge the world has accumulated to intelligently augment clients’ data and to identify patterns within it and generate a system-level understanding of immunity. These patterns then become powerful tools for explaining, predicting and optimizing outcomes proving ...

In almost 200 episodes I have not repeated a guest until now. Dr. Jeffrey Magee is an incredible leadership and business expert who works with business owners and leaders and someone I thoroughly enjoy speaking with. Here are some highlights of our conversation on our second go around: - Why business leaders need to pay more attention to human capital (because every problem and challenge you have in your business is because of human capital). - The reality for most of us is that there are disrup...