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In this episode, Simon welcomes Jane Sagalovich, the founder of Scale Your Genius. She is an expert in business, finance, and strategy. Most great people have achieved their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. Listen to how Jane Sagalovich share failures and mistakes with others to achieve success in her business.

3 Valuable Insights

• Failure often leads to career success
• Talk to others about your failures
• Sometimes, there's no right or wrong answer

Show Notes

(00:02) Simon: Welcome back everybody to the strategist Sprints podcast. I'm Simone Severino, your host. And today my guest is founder of Scale Your Genius and the creator of the thriving online program accelerator. As a business strategist and scaling expert, she guides experts who are ready...

In this episode, Simon welcomes Jason Todd, Founder and Managing Director of Thinker Ventures. He has helped businesses see the bigger picture and use the vision to eliminate the constraints that clutter the path to their success. His experience ranges from business ownership, marketing, and consulting to software application development for small to large and multinational corporations. Today, he is an interventionist, a world changer, a podcast host, an entrepreneur, and an advisor.

3 Valuable Insights

• Don’t escape the situation, figure out how to work with the situation and be in the moment.
• Be patient enough with the process and know how to sit in the struggle.
• Sit with it (struggle) for a little bit and align yourself with people who've been there before.

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My guest today is a Partner at Builders VC with headquarters in both the US and Canada builder. Builders VC believes it takes more than great technology to fix an antiquated industry, to truly make lasting and impactful change business with the next entrepreneurs who combined technical acumen and operational expertise. Our guests strive to modernize the world around him by guiding founders of antiquated industries, through growth challenges and speed to series B funding opportunities.

3 Valuable Insights

• Achieving astounding success as a multidimensional and high-performing personality, venture capitalist and physician
• Healthcare industry evolving in these...

In this episode, we have Drew Tulchin, experienced impact investment and economic development professional, joining us to share his views on the future of social innovation and impact investing. He is a thought leader in the impact space as well as a growth focused investment professional who specializes in helping small businesses and social enterprises achieve their full potential. Drew brings over 15 years of experience in the impact space working with the U.S. State Department, World Bank, USAID, Citi Foundation and DFID. He specifically helps socially-responsible businesses grow, create jobs, and realize their impact investment and social mission. He works with clients to develop impact business plans & strategies, marketplaces, incentive packages and more.

In this episode, Simon welcomes Nir Bashan, a world-renowned creativity expert. He is the author of the new book The Creator Mindset: 92 Tools to Unlock the Secrets to Innovation, Growth, and Sustainability (McGraw-Hill, 2020). Inspiration is everywhere, but sometimes it is just hard to find. Listen to how Nir Bashan shares steps we can take to become more creative in business and in real life.

3 Valuable Insights

• Everybody can learn how to be creative.
• Trust your partners and let them do what they're good at
• Creativity is a Business Tool 

Show Notes

(01:08)  - Simon: What are you currently creating?

(01:26) - Nathan Beckord:  We've been busy on the book, been...

In this episode, Simon welcomes Greg Thomas, managing director of  375 Park Associates. Headquartered in New York with affiliates in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. He specializes in business development, structured finance, and LBOs with a focus on disruptive companies in the food/agribusiness, energy, life sciences, luxury & lifestyle, transportation, and water industries. The strategic growth advisors that help middle-market investors and business owners overcome challenges in their portfolio. The firm also manages a small family office and currently has investments in real estate technology, alternative energy, solar, and wind, as well as cannabis.

3 Valuable Insights

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Nathan Beckord helps startups get the two things they need most; time and money. He is the CEO of Foundersuite.com and VentureArchetypes.com. On the consulting and advisory side, he mainly works with early-stage internet, B2B software, mobile, and consumer product startups. He is also interested in platforms, markets, and networks. He is fanatical about helping startups raise capital and loves sailing and is a motorcycle junkie.

Show Notes

(00:45)  - Simon: What are you currently creating?

(01:10) -Nathan Beckord:  So currently creating a couple of interesting things. So I run founder suite, as you mentioned, we make a software platform that...

Our guest today is Rita Gunther McGrath, a Professor at Columbia Business School, who is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on strategy and innovation with particular emphasis on developing sound strategy in uncertain and volatile environments.  She developed the discovery-driven planning method, which became part of the foundations of the lean startup movement that became a worldwide movement. Now she's enjoying the one year anniversary of seeing around corners and taking her Columbia executive education classes. 

3 Valuable Insights

• Explore the possibilities with seeing around corners!
• Disruption, which happens gradually then suddenly, is both a...

Our guest is the CEO of the GFF, the Global futures and Foresights Institute. He uses views of the future to develop within global futures and foresight by their in-house research team. And by surveying their worldwide network of future thinkers and business leaders. The aim of GFF is to develop views of the future to help clients embrace change with more certainty, thereby releasing the full power of their creativity and innovation. His purpose is to inspire his audience to embrace change and by so doing better, prepare for the future. 

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Show Notes

(1:25)  - Currently creating academic futurist

(05:07) - What does the future look like from...

Steve Glaveski is CEO and co-founder of Collective Campus, a corporate innovation and start-up accelerator based in Melbourne, Australia. Author of Time Rich: Best Work, Live Your Best Life, a guide to achieving twice as much in half the time, and living your best life. He also founded Lemonade Stand, a children’s entrepreneurship program and now, SaaS platform, that has been delivered to kids across Australia and Singapore. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the Australian Financial Review, Tech in Asia and a lot more.

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