A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world

About Meredith Meredith Bell is co-founder and President of Performance Support Systems, a global software company providing assessment and development tools for the workplace. Their award-winning tools and books guide leaders and team members to make the shift from KNOWING to DOING. The result is permanent improvements in the way people interact with each other. Meredith is an expert in leader and team communications, the author of two books, and the host of the Strong for Performance podcast. She‘s worked with thousands of business leaders, Human Resources professionals, and Learning & Development executives to successfully implement their  tools. Meredith co-authored her latest book, Connect with Your Team: Mastering the Top 10 Communication Skills, with her business partner, Dr. Dennis Coates. In it, Meredith and Dennis provide an unprecedented, practical step-by-step how-to guide for improving communication. Today We Talked About Meredith's background Communication Style Encouragement Reminding of past success Listening Listening vs. Hearing Appreciation Write a few things you appreciate about someone before you meet with them Encouragement Critical Feedback Building Trust Servant Leadership Ask Questions Vocal Tonality Feedback questions https://growstrongleaders.com/geek/ Connect with Meredith Website Book LinkedIn Twitter YouTube I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again! Private Internet Access I’ve been a customer of Private Internet Access for over 3 years now and I love this service.  I was at a security conference a few years ago and I connected to the hotel wifi.  Immediately my endpoint protection software began to alert me of hacking attempts.  I launched my VPN from Private Internet Access and all of the attempts were stopped. My data and internet connection was secure.  Another great use of the VPN service is connect from different geo locations, which is very helpful when testing DNS and CDN caching. To get a your VPN account starting at $3.33 per month, please visit https://ageekleader.com/vpn

About Paul Paul Katzoff has over 10 years of experience in the data security industry. His key focus is manageable growth, brand loyalty and expansion. He has managed sales teams and been responsible for increased client base, securing new business, and developing & implementing processes for creditable growth. For over a decade he has worked with technology companies seeking manageable growth and brand loyalty/expansion. He's managed DevTeams, Support Teams and Sales Teams focused on increasing the company's client base, secure new business, and develop and implement efficient processes. His career has ranged from being an integral part of a new business start-up team, to becoming a key driver in the business enabling it to become both sustainable and profitable. Today We Talked About His career Environmental impact Personal privacy Data Security Corporate Responsibility CCPA and GDPR Privacy HOMEFREE - Free 2 wipes Connect with Paul Website LinkedIn Twitter I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again! Private Internet Access I’ve been a customer of Private Internet Access for over 3 years now and I love this service.  I was at a security conference a few years ago and I connected to the hotel wifi.  Immediately my endpoint protection software began to alert me of hacking attempts.  I launched my VPN from Private Internet Access and all of the attempts were stopped. My data and internet connection was secure.  Another great use of the VPN service is connect from different geo locations, which is very helpful when testing DNS and CDN caching. To get a your VPN account starting at $3.33 per month, please visit https://ageekleader.com/vpn

About Eric Eric Shepherd is an accomplished leader of international businesses and associations focused on talent, assessments, and success. Eric recently stepped away from a CEO role where he worked to build a SaaS company into a multimillion-dollar international assessment software business. Eric has also led industry and standards initiatives to promote best practices for assessments, learning, and interoperability. He currently serves as Chair of the IEEE working group developing Recommended Practice for Defining Competencies. Eric has previously served on Boards and working groups that have included: - HR Open Standards that defines interoperability standards for HR technology. - Association of Test Publishers and the European Association of Test Publishers that represents providers of tests and assessment tools. Eric is a captivating public speaker and currently serves as the Executive Director of the Talent Transformation Guild. Today We Talked About Digital Transformation Talent Transformation Personality Empathy Perspectives Communication Quantify goals with numbers and metrics 5 Dysfunctions of a team Trust Getting Commitment Accountability Force Field Analysis Talent Transformation Agile to Change Learning Psychological Safety Connect with Eric Book Website Twitter LinkedIn I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again! Private Internet Access I’ve been a customer of Private Internet Access for over 3 years now and I love this service.  I was at a security conference a few years ago and I connected to the hotel wifi.  Immediately my endpoint protection software began to alert me of hacking attempts.  I launched my VPN from Private Internet Access and all of the attempts were stopped. My data and internet connection was secure.  Another great use of the VPN service is connect from different geo locations, which is very helpful when testing DNS and CDN caching. To get a your VPN account starting at $3.33 per month, please visit https://ageekleader.com/vpn

About Jake Jake helps organizations, teams, and individuals make monumental changes. Over the past 35 years he has worked in 61 industries, from high tech to manufacturing to hospitality to entertainment to financial services. He has consulted to 96 organizations, from Fortune 50 to national non-profits and community theaters. He's supported more than 210,000 people directly on important changes to their business. What kinds of changes? Everything from strategy implementation to culture change to mergers and acquisitions and leadership development. He's partnered with CEOs, front-line workers and changemakers in middle management in organizations like Ford, Kraft and Marriott. He has also helped create change in the City of New York, U.K.’s National Health Service and the United States Army and Navy. People struggle with change. Today We Talked About Jake's background Change 8 Levers Slow change Support for Change Build vs. Buy = Both And Design it yourself What's the purpose ("Why")? Outcomes / Deliverables Roadmap 5 Whys Find Change Agents What's in it for me? Connect with Jake Website Twitter LinkedIn Book I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again! Private Internet Access I’ve been a customer of Private Internet Access for over 3 years now and I love this service.  I was at a security conference a few years ago and I connected to the hotel wifi.  Immediately my endpoint protection software began to alert me of hacking attempts.  I launched my VPN from Private Internet Access and all of the attempts were stopped. My data and internet connection was secure.  Another great use of the VPN service is connect from different geo locations, which is very helpful when testing DNS and CDN caching. To get a your VPN account starting at $3.33 per month, please visit https://ageekleader.com/vpn Audio Player

About Tanaka Tanaka is a senior software developer and the VP of Engineering at Names & Faces, a Cape Town-based technology company. He's the founder of a lifestyle brand called NoDaysOff, and a partner at Pahari African Restaurant. Tanaka started Tech Leadership Community in South Africa, a community of long-time, new, and aspiring technology leaders. Their mission is to help each other learn through conversation, collaboration, and ideation. Today We Talked About Tanaka's past Technology in Africa Transition from Contributor to Leader Slower feedback loop The four key areas of focus for successful technology leaders People weekly checkins Product A Seat at the Table by Mark Schwartz Process Retrospectives Technology Stack Understanding what your team is using Side projects Pull Requests Running Connect with Tanaka Names & Faces Pahari African Restaurant No Days Off Lifestyle Brand Website: www.mutakwa.com LinkedIn Twitter I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again! Private Internet Access I’ve been a customer of Private Internet Access for over 3 years now and I love this service.  I was at a security conference a few years ago and I connected to the hotel wifi.  Immediately my endpoint protection software began to alert me of hacking attempts.  I launched my VPN from Private Internet Access and all of the attempts were stopped. My data and internet connection was secure.  Another great use of the VPN service is connect from different geo locations, which is very helpful when testing DNS and CDN caching. To get a your VPN account starting at $3.33 per month, please visit https://ageekleader.com/vpn

About Tim As VP, Risk Management & Partner Relations, Mr. Danks is responsible for understanding and managing business risks in the context of cybersecurity and privacy across Huawei USA businesses and toward external stakeholders. Further, he is responsible for developing and enhancing partner relationships towards key external stakeholders across academia, channels partners, industry, and suppliers utilizing his broad understanding of Huawei's local and global business operations. His background includes a diversified mix of operational experience, from both the vendor and customer perspectives, with a primary focus on risk mitigation and management in delivery environments. In addition, he has achieved repeated success in building organizations through improved methodologies, processes development, and effective tools that enable efficient and cost controlled service delivery toward internal and external stakeholders. His expertise is cyber security, focused on operational risk mitigation against an evolving threat landscape with strategy development, implementation, and execution of programs, tools and risk management teams. Mr. Danks joined Huawei's USA operations in 2009 holding various senior level positions in Huawei's carrier network and consumer products businesses covering operations, cybersecurity and risk management in Huawei's customer facing solutions and services. Most recently Mr. Danks has driven a program to operationalize the NIST Cybersecurity Framework as an organizational assessment model for Huawei's consumer facing cloud services operations and platforms globally. Today We Talked About Tim's background and how he got to where he is today.  Misconceptions about Huawei when it comes to privacy. What, if anything, should tech leaders do or think about when it comes to security and privacy of network devices 5G Wireless charginng Privacy Security CCPA and GDPR Auto Charging R and D 1+8+n Connect with Tim LinkedIn Huawei Website I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again! Private Internet Access I’ve been a customer of Private Internet Access for over 3 years now and I love this service.  I was at a security conference a few years ago and I connected to the hotel wifi.  Immediately my endpoint protection software began to alert me of hacking attempts.  I launched my VPN from Private Internet Access and all of the attempts were stopped. My data and internet connection was secure.  Another great use of the VPN service is connect from different geo locations, which is very helpful when testing DNS and CDN caching. To get a your VPN account starting at $3.33 per month, please visit https://ageekleader.com/vpn

About Andrew Andrew Bartlow has 25 years of Human Resources and Talent Management experience at organizations across a wide spectrum of sizes, maturity stages, and industries. He is the co-author of “Scaling for Success: People Priorities for High Growth Organizations”, has a masters degree from the top program in his field, and has been CECP, SPHR, Six Sigma, and executive coaching certified. dAndrew leads Series B Consulting, which helps businesses to articulate their people strategy and accelerate their growth, while navigating rapid change. He also founded the People Leader Accelerator, which is the preeminent development program for startup HR leaders. He’s worked with clients like Masterclass and many others to help them overcome obstacles in a hyper growth phase. For the first time ever, he wants to share his lessons on podcasts. Today We Talked About Andrew's Past and Present HR's role in leadership Scaling Know, Willing and Able Having a Plan Value the context of the organization over the content of best practice OKRs - Objectives and Key Results One-on-ones Performance Reviews Terminations Documentation Be a coach, not a judge Inspect what you Expect Adult Conversations Connect with Andrew LinkedIn Website Book I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again! Private Internet Access I’ve been a customer of Private Internet Access for over 3 years now and I love this service.  I was at a security conference a few years ago and I connected to the hotel wifi.  Immediately my endpoint protection software began to alert me of hacking attempts.  I launched my VPN from Private Internet Access and all of the attempts were stopped. My data and internet connection was secure.  Another great use of the VPN service is connect from different geo locations, which is very helpful when testing DNS and CDN caching. To get a your VPN account starting at $3.33 per month, please visit https://ageekleader.com/vpn

About Joel Joel Malkoff, a.k.a. the Ethics Giver, demonstrates that ethical business decision-making isn’t just the right thing to do—it’s the profitable thing to do. Over the course of his 45-year career as a business executive and entrepreneur, he has generated more than half a billion dollars in sales. A writer and coach on ethical business practices and principles, he serves as general manager and vice president of a corporation that manufactures and sells medical and scientific research products worldwide. A native of Brooklyn, New York, he lives in Avon, Connecticut, with his wife, Lynn. Selling Ethically: A Business Parable Connecting Integrity with Profits is his debut book. Today we Talked About Joel's background Ethical Sales Relationships Ethical situations leadership integrity Connect with Joel website book I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again! Private Internet Access I’ve been a customer of Private Internet Access for over 3 years now and I love this service.  I was at a security conference a few years ago and I connected to the hotel wifi.  Immediately my endpoint protection software began to alert me of hacking attempts.  I launched my VPN from Private Internet Access and all of the attempts were stopped. My data and internet connection was secure.  Another great use of the VPN service is connect from different geo locations, which is very helpful when testing DNS and CDN caching. To get a your VPN account starting at $3.33 per month, please visit https://ageekleader.com/vpn

About Robin Robin S. Rosenberg is the CEO and Founder of Live in Their World. Robin is a clinical psychologist and textbook author. She has had both psychotherapy and coaching practices in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. She is board certified in clinical psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology, a Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Psychology, and is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. She has taught psychology classes at Lesley University and Harvard University. Robin has been interested in virtual reality (VR) for years, and was the lead author of a study to investigate using “VR for good.” She has combined her interest in immersive technologies with her coaching and clinical experiences to foster in employees a deeper understanding of how and why other people may feel slighted or marginalized, and how to approach such interactions differently. Today We Talked About Robin's past Diversity & Inclusion Trust and Safety Transparent Equity Inclusion is about respect Best Practices for giving and receiving feedback Traveling while Black VR Experience VR for Good Hypnosis Thinking about the outcome of feedback Walking in their shoes Connect with Robin Twitter Website LinkedIn Dear Robin I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again! Private Internet Access I’ve been a customer of Private Internet Access for over 3 years now and I love this service.  I was at a security conference a few years ago and I connected to the hotel wifi.  Immediately my endpoint protection software began to alert me of hacking attempts.  I launched my VPN from Private Internet Access and all of the attempts were stopped. My data and internet connection was secure.  Another great use of the VPN service is connect from different geo locations, which is very helpful when testing DNS and CDN caching. To get a your VPN account starting at $3.33 per month, please visit https://ageekleader.com/vpn

About Richard Richard Medcalf describes himself as "what you get if you were to put a McKinsey consultant, a slightly unorthodox pastor and an entrepreneur into a blender". Richard is an executive coach & leadership consultant to exceptional founders & CEOs and their leadership teams. His clients are elite performers who've already achieved incredible things, and still have the ambition to 10x their impact and influence and achieve something that seems impossible right now. That can involve 1:1 coaching, taking the leadership team to its next level, or scaling high-performance culture throughout the business. After a Masters Degree at Oxford University, where he came top in his year, Richard started his career in a premier strategy consultancy where he rose to become the youngest-ever Partner. He then spent 11 years at tech giant Cisco, firstly elevating Cisco’s relevance in the C-suite of its Fortune 100 customers before being selected for an elite team set up by Cisco’s President and CEO, John Chambers and Chuck Robbins, to catalyse strategic partnerships & new business models. Richard has advised Founders and C-level execs for 20 years,  from Fortune 100 companies (Comcast, Mastercard, Sanofi, Sky, Orange, Bosch…) to high-growth tech firms (in AI, networking, robotics, fintech, …). He has overseen >$2B of deals. Keen to marry the disciplines of strategy and leadership in service of his clients, he qualified as a senior leadership consultant and executive coach before founding Xquadrant in 2017. Richard is bi-national English/French, lives near Paris, and is happily married and the proud father of two. He's also a licensed lay minister in the Anglican Church, and has an insatiable love for spicy food and the electric guitar.   Today We Talked About Richard's past Strategy Stop trying to free up time Examine your beliefs first Test your assumptions As "How" Be curious Think in terms of acceleration not speed what is your system for getting better at getting better retrospectives top 3 Work the Room Re-negotiation your agreements   Connect with Richard Website Podcast LinkedIn Twitter I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again! Private Internet Access I’ve been a customer of Private Internet Access for over 3 years now and I love this service.  I was at a security conference a few years ago and I connected to the hotel wifi.  Immediately my endpoint protection software began to alert me of hacking attempts.  I launched my VPN from Private Internet Access and all of the attempts were stopped. My data and internet connection was secure.  Another great use of the VPN service is connect from different geo locations, which is very helpful when testing DNS and CDN caching. To get a your VPN account starting at $3.33 per month, please visit https://ageekleader.com/vpn