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Dr. David Carmouche Interview: How Bold Leaders Beat the Odds (of Ineffective...
The odds are not in his favor. Dr. David Carmouche has spent his entire career trying to provide world class healthcare for a state with some pretty sick people. In fact, he has a vision for an...
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Deborah Gage Interview: What it Takes to Have a Fearless Approach
A couple of years ago at a national health care conference, I joined a small breakout group discussion and met Deborah Gage, CEO of Medecision, across the table. I don’t remember much about the...
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Pam Moret Interview: Living with the Consequences of Leading
Pam Moret is by training a lawyer and by experience and her own description, a “problem person.” She is someone who loves “diving into aggressive development and challenging problems. I came out of the...
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Charlotte Otto Interview: Lessons Learned from an Enterprise Organization...
Charlotte Otto was the person, P&G leadership turned to for communication counsel in times of positive and negative stress. For 20 of her 33 years at the company, she was at the center of...
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Charlotte Otto Interview: Lessons Learned from an Enterprise Organization...
I recently conducted a bold leader interview with Charlotte Otto and shared what she learned from being at the center of communications at P&G over 33 years. (Click here to read part 1.) During our...
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Mary Jeffries Interview: Don’t Leave Until After a Triggering Event
I’ve known Mary Jeffries since she was the CFO of a startup PR firm in Minneapolis more years ago than either of us will admit. Many from those days would credit Mary with doing “whatever it takes” to...
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What is a Bold Leader?
There are whole sections in business libraries and bookstores dedicated to the topic of leadership. What it is. What it requires. Masters write about it and rewrite about it over and over again....
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Marcee Chmait Interview: Building a Bold Organization
I recently had the opportunity to interview Marcee Chmait, President of Spendwell Health. Spendwell Health provides consumer transparency by allowing consumers (currently participants in high...
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Sara Gavin Interview: Bold Leaders Step Up and Simplify
Chris Malecek, an Aveus Advisory Board member, suggested I interview bold leader Sara Gavin, President of Weber Shandwick North America. I’ve known Chris and relied on his always clear, on point...
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Sam Yagan Interview: Fail Because You Are Trying…
The latter part of the title is the beginning of a quote from my conversation with Sam Yagan, CEO of Match.com. The whole quote is: “Fail because you are trying, not because you are not trying.” It...
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Jodi Prohofsky Interview: Bold Leaders Know When to Improve and When to Disrupt
I’ve found that bold leaders are drawn to organizations under some kind of negative or positive stress. Jodi Prohofsky was drawn to a company grappling with both, simultaneously. Jodi’s team,...
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Do you know your personal brand? An interview with Phil Soran
Phil Soran is a bold leader who knows himself very well. Not in a braggadocios way but in a confident, warm, and engaging way. Before committing to the actual interview, Phil wanted a conversation and...
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Are you leading or ‘just out taking a walk?’ An Interview with LTG (Ret)...
Ben Freakley, Lieutenant General (Ret), is the first military leader I’ve had the opportunity to interview for this bold leader series, and boy did I get lucky. Now Special Advisor to the President of...
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Bold Leaders Have Humility. An Interview with Damien Harmon
I’ve had the privilege to work with a lot of great leaders in my career. As I applied the additional lens of “bold leadership” to that list – Damien Harmon easily rose to the top. Damien is VP of...
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A Bold Leader with a Sense of Urgency: An Interview with Ezra Ernst
While there is no single profile of a Bold Leader, I’m struck by the number of bold leaders we have interviewed that have a resume of short, intense engagements. Perhaps I look for this profile as it...
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Beyond the Usual Limits of Conventional Thought or Action: An Interview with...
One of the things I ask everyone I meet through these bold leader interviews, especially those who have been referred to me so I’m meeting them for the first time, is: “Why do you think (referring...
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4 Ways to Accurately Anticipate Customer Needs
You’ve given your customer a reason to come to your company in the first place and succeeded in solving one of your customer’s needs. Congratulations on a job well done. What’s next? Delivering...
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Connect the Dots Through What and Why: An Interview with Steven Guida
My bold leader interview with Steve Guida picked up after a 15 – 20-year gap. Neither of us could remember exactly the last time we saw each other. As so often happens when you haven’t seen someone...
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Learn Out Loud: An Interview with Nancy Dahl
I remember the day I met Nancy Dahl. It was 1999 and I was in a small fishbowl conference room at Lifetouch where she was at the time Senior VP of Sales and Marketing. It was a small group, discussing...
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Never Satisfied and Always Moving Forward: An Interview with Dr. Nicolas...
I’ve known Dr. Nicolas Guggenheim, the President of Heraeus Medical Components (HMC) and worked with him and his team for a couple of years now. We have (hopefully he agrees!) a strong, positive...
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