Breakfast Leadership Show

Mark Lachance is a serial entrepreneur, strategic thinker, and investor. He possesses a deep understanding of blitzscaling companies. Having owned and operated several businesses that have experienced hypergrowth through creative business development and lead generation, he is a master of sales and marketing and continues to apply and grow his expertise through current projects. Mark is currently the CEO and lead investor of Maxy Media Inc., one of the largest TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, and Google Display Network performance marketing agencies in the world. Currently, Maxy Media is the number one advertiser in terms of monthly spend on the TikTok platform in Canada and top ten in North America. In 2016, Mark successfully sold EVO Payments International Canada, an end-to-end payment solutions provider and merchant acquirer which he founded in 2009. He guided the company from its inception with one employee to over 200 employees across Canada. Prior to founding EVO, Mark was one of the founding members and president of VersaPay Inc, a payments solutions provider, which was taken public in 2010. Before joining VersaPay, Mark was a founding member of Pivotal Payments, which is now a multi-billion-dollar public company. He helped set the foundation and drive the company's sales and revenues before his successful exit from the company in 2006. Mark has made several other highly successful investments in various industries such as payments, cryptocurrencies, marketing, nutrition, fitness, and sports. Over the past twenty-five years, he has invested in and consulted for dozens of other ventures, which have resulted in highly positive returns. Social Media Links: Instagram: @misterluckyofficial

About the Book In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, Colburn and Aldern shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area. Using accessible statistical analysis, they test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in a given city—including mental illness, drug use, poverty, weather, generosity of public assistance, and low-income mobility—and find that none explain the regional variation observed across the country. Instead, housing market conditions, such as the cost and availability of rental housing, offer a far more convincing account. With rigor and clarity, Homelessness Is a Housing Problem explores U.S. cities' diverse experiences with housing precarity and offers policy solutions for unique regional contexts. About the Author Gregg Colburn is Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, where he studies housing policy, housing affordability, and homelessness. Clayton Page Aldern is a data scientist and policy analyst based in Seattle.   Book:  Homelessness Is A Housing Problem:   https://amzn.to/3OhFIhL   Great interview in San Diego Union Tribune:  https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/homelessness/story/2022-07-11/new-book-links-homelessness-city-prosperity   Social Media Links: @Colburn-Gregg

Ariel is the Founder and CEO of Microverse, an online school that helps anyone become a high-paid, international software developer. The best part? The program costs $0 until you get employed. They are the first ones to scale peer-to-peer model (no other school/university has been able to do it). Microverse has also raised over $17M+ and was part of the Y Combinator 2019 Batch. Thousands of people from over 100 countries apply to join Microverse every month, and hundreds of remotely-employed alumni from Colombia to Nigeria are making 3-10x their previous salary working for companies like Microsoft, VMware, Huawei, and Globant. Before starting Microverse, Ariel was the Co-Founder and CEO of TouristEye, a mobile app for planning trips and discovering new things to do while traveling. He grew the app to 1M users in 180+ countries before selling it to Lonely Planet in 2013. After the sale, Ariel worked as a Senior Product Manager of Lonely Planet's website, with over 150 million unique visitors per year. Topics Ariel would be happy to discuss on your podcast include: The instant solution to the massive shortage of software engineering talent and why ignoring the solution will make the problem even worse. How remote hiring can help tech companies build a more diverse workplace. The future of work and 2022 investment opportunities in the new world of remote work. To get a sense of his style, Ariel was recently a guest on the New World Of Work Podcast, where he talked about how remote work is opening the borders to emerging talent hotbeds. Social Media Links: Microverse website: https://www.microverse.org/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arielcamus/?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2F&originalSubdomain=es Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/microverseinc/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/microverseinc/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/microverseinc Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTT9xjge80Ei_Gss9LSHNZw

A lifelong entrepreneur, Tony Drockton began his career with an MBA from Bowling Green in his home state of Ohio. He then established a pattern of success through his start-ups in the construction and finance industries before moving on to high fashion, where you'll find him today as the driving force and creative genius behind Hammitt, the American luxury accessories brand based in Los Angeles. Tony’s primary goal at Hammitt is to create a successful American brand built on the European model, where versatile design and master craftsmanship come together to create high-value quality you can trust and products that will last a lifetime. Tony is a member of the Accessories Council Board of Directors, as well as a member of the advisory board for BuyingTime. He has judged multiple pageants for the Miss USA organization and has been featured on numerous podcasts and television shows. Tony is respected for his business success and remembered for his endless optimism, inspiring positivity, and ever-present smile. Social Media Links: Website: https://www.hammitt.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hammittla Twitter: @hammittla | https://twitter.com/hammittla Pinterest: https://za.pinterest.com/Hammittla/ Instagram: @hammittla | https://www.instagram.com/hammittla/

Chris Roebuck’s combination of personal leadership experience in the military, business, and public sector, gives him unique insight as a globally recognized expert speaker on delivering success. Through business case studies, psychology, neuroscience, and insights from his career Chris inspires leaders to unleash the power of their own experience and potential to deliver what their organisation needs immediately via a simple 3 step system. In over 200 keynotes he has shown over 21,000 leaders from over 650 organisations globally how they can be more successful to beat their objectives, beat their challenges and build the future, and, more recently, in a way that defuses their Covid Great Resignation “People Time Bomb” and optimises hybrid working to enhance performance, wellbeing & retention. In his role as Global Head of Leadership at UBS Chris worked on building a strategic leadership team of 500 for the newly created global bank which is now a Harvard Case study. He also led Management Development at HSBC Investment Bank and helped KPMG set up a leadership enterprise. Chris worked on the top team at London Underground, the London subway, leading the creation of a partnership culture during a part privatisation working with management, employees & Government. He subsequently helped the UK National Health Service, 1.4m staff, create the first nationwide talent and leadership identification systems and was commissioned to write a report for Government on developing leadership in NHS. Chris also helps even expert leaders get better by delivering a 1 Day Masterclass on “Leadership Integrity” to 300 senior military officers and civil servants at the UK Defence Academy and also to speak on leadership at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. During his military service, he developed the pipe fascine. He was co-author of his first book on strategic leadership development and has published a number of books on leadership one of which was translated into 11 languages, published over 100 articles, has been on the list of HR Most Influential Thinkers 10 times in past 11 years and taught senior executives as Hon Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership at Bayes Business School. Chris was on a Government Expert panel on boosting Employee Engagement across sectors via the Engage for Success report and initiative. Chris writes articles for Newsweek, has been quoted as a business leadership expert globally in the Harvard Business Review China, FT, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Business Week, Washington Post and many other titles. He has done over 350 TV interviews on leadership and business on BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC and other channels and regularly judges business awards.   Social Media Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-roebuck-ccmi-fcipd-70b1283/ https://www.youtube.com/user/chrisroebuck56/featured https://twitter.com/chris__roebuck

Charles is the founder and CEO of Legislate, a legal tech company making contracts searchable at scale using patented knowledge graph company. Prior to starting Legislate, Charles was one of the first employees at Mind Foundry, a spin-out of the University of Oxford specialising in AI for high-stakes applications. https://www.legislate.tech Social Media Links: https://www.legislate.tech https://www.linkedin.com/company/legislate https://www.twitter.com/joinlegislate https://www.facebook.com/joinlegislate

Karl Alomar serves as Managing Partner of M13, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage consumer technology companies and supporting founders who are building the future of work, commerce, health & money.      Karl is a tech investor, serial entrepreneur, and most well known for building DigitalOcean from the ground up, which is one of the fastest-growing cloud infrastructure companies that is becoming a strong challenger to Amazon. DigitalOcean is valued now at over $10 billion. Ticket symbol is DOCN. Karl is also the Co-founder, CEO, for China Export Finance, Co-founder CEO for Clearview Networks.   For more info on Karl, https://www.linkedin.com/in/karl-alomar-0516a219/

Sara Webb is an author, motivational speaker, and certified yoga teacher. She considers herself a spiritual activist, choosing this nomenclature as opposed to the traditional term Coach. She advocates for clients and audiences to find their own power within by getting aligned with themselves spiritually, through introspection that begins with meditation. She inspires people to access the power within themselves by teaching pocket-sized techniques to process stress, improve daily happiness, and bring the best versions of themselves to their own lives. Sara's new book: Look Lush:  https://amzn.to/3RSTaLB IG: https://www.instagram.com/sarawebbsays/ FB: facebook.com/SaraWebbSays LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/SaraWebbSays https://www.sarawebbsays.com  

Medical Humanities Professor, specializing in anxiety about epidemic diseases and public health adoptions Kari Nixon is a professor specializing in social reactions to infectious diseases. She works at Whitworth University, where she teaches about social responses to contagion and quarantine in medical humanities and Victorian literature courses. Her work on public health has been published for lay audiences in HuffPost, YES! Magazine, and CNN. Her academic book, Kept From All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact, was published by SUNY University Press and tracks the social history of humankind’s responses to disease in Victorian literature and popular culture. Social Media: @HalfSickShadows Kari's book:  https://amzn.to/3nx1W4p

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