Executives After Hours: Real Conversations With Leaders!

Click here to listen to the full interview Click here to follow recent blog posts Click here to subscribe to whatever nonsense I am doing.  Click here to order Adam's book: Under Think It: A Marketing Strategy Guidebook for Everyone Click here to learn more about Santy Click here because you like monkeys.  ---------------------------- Adam Pierno is Chief Strategy Officer at Santy. For 20 years, he's helped startups behave like global brands and vice-versa by helping them understand what people expect from them. A student of brand strategy and of human nature, he finds ways for companies to stand apart. He runs and doesn't know why because everything doesn't have to make sense. He is also the author of 'Under Think It: A Marketing Strategy Guidebook for Everyone.'

Important Website for you: www.fusionhealth.com www.drjameskelley.com , For the full-length interview go to: www.drjameskelley.com/executives-after-hours --------------------- Dr. Jeffrey Durmer is a systems neuroscientist, neurologist and sleep medicine physician with particular expertise in technology-enabled sleep-health delivery systems. He began his career at the University of Pennsylvania studying the neurophysiology of central nervous systems that generate sleep and circadian rhythms in animals. Currently, he is an adjunct professor at Georgia State University Department of Health Professions, and co-founder & Chief Medical Officer of FusionHealth, an Atlanta-based sleep health technology firm. At FusionHealth he oversees the development of innovative medical systems that provide scalable solutions using platform-based technology to diagnose, treat and manage sleep conditions in large populations. Prior to FusionHealth, he co-founded FusionSleep, an Atlanta-based AASM accredited multi-discipli

All new episode and back for 2018!!!!!!!! Check out my website by clicking www.drjameskelley.com Learn more about Fueled By Culture by clicking www.fueledbyculture.com Crucible's Gift coming April 2018 ____________________ Marcus Damas is an American Entrepreneur, retired professional basketball player, and devoted husband and father based in New York City. Before playing in Sweden's professional basketball league for the Solna Vikings, Marcus played Small Forward for the Towson Tigers, Towson University's NCAA Division 1 team in the state of Maryland, where he is on the top 20 all-time scoring list. Following his basketball career, Marcus returned to New York City to pursue a career in creative leadership as the Founder and CEO of Fueled by Culture. Fueled by Culture is a burgeoning creative marketing agency that specializes in connecting and empowering brands with influencers through innovative content and experiential event programming. FBC clients and partners include Avion, Lyft, Hooch, and Postmates to

Michael Sheldrick is Global Advocacy and Policy Director at Global Citizen, where he oversees international advocacy campaigns in support of universal sanitation, access to education, gender equality and polio eradication.  Michael oversees the policy direction of the renowned Global Citizen Festival and has worked on several campaigns with artists, heads of government and philanthropists including Rihanna, Beyoncé, Usher, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. He has been instrumental in mobilizing political and public support for the Sustainable Development Goals. Michael's writing on these topics has been published by the Guardian, Huffington Post, The Diplomatic Courier, The Diplomat Magazine, The South China Morning Post, The West Australian, Fairfax Media and he has been interviewed by Sky News, Forbes Magazine, The New Yorker, ABC, and the BBC, among others. He holds degrees in law and political science from the University of Western Australi

Natasha was born in Bosnia and have lived in Australia for more than half of her life. She has been working for the Commonwealth Government for the past five years and is currently a Multicultural Community Liaison Officer at the Department of Social Services. While professionally Natasha has worked in service delivery and policy fields, she remains passionate about academia and continues to pursue research in collaboration with current and former UWA professors on topics such as maritime piracy and boundary delimitation.  www.drjameskelley.com

Claire Stokes is a passionate social impact leader, innovator, educator and researcher working to create systems-level change to enable all people to reach their potential. Claire currently holds several positions at the Centre for Social Impact UWA. She works on research projects, particularly in the area of impact measurement, and manages the Centre's engagement activities. This includes being Co-Director of the major annual event the Social Impact Festival held in Perth, Western Australia. She also lectures in the unit Changing the World: Social Innovation, Finance, and Enterprise. Claire also volunteers as Chair of the Board for community arts organization Globe Town Project and as Board Director for Arts Initiative Australia.   www.drjameskelley.com  

Peter is an international human rights lawyer who has been working in the field of humanitarian law and advocacy for 18 years in Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe, Commonwealth countries, and most recently in Hong Kong China. Since November 2012, Peter has been working as Legal Counsel at the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) in Hong Kong where he has been leading a number of advocacy and policy projects relating to improving the anti-discrimination legislation and related policies. Previously for 11 years Peter worked in London in a number of human rights roles including at Amnesty International UK; the Commission for Racial Equality as Principal Litigation Officer and Head of European and International Legal Policy from 2005 to 2008; the Equality and Human Rights Commission as a Senior Lawyer and Director of Legal Policy from 2008 to 2012; and at the Commonwealth Secretariat in 2012 as a human rights consultant on Commonwealth projects.

Aleesha Kumar graduated from Penrhos College in 2013. She studied a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Western Australia, majoring in Political Science & International Relations and French. During this time she completed a six-month exchange at Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid. She is Founder and CEO of non-profit LOVE Foundation Australia, which works to fight poverty through the arts. She is currently completing the CASE Asia Pacific Fundraising Graduate Program and is an Advancement Officer at the Development and Alumni Relations Office at the University of Western Australia.

Dave is the co-founder of London based VC funded company Bibliotech - the Spotify for Textbooks. As the 2013 Western Australian Rhodes Scholar, Dave studied PPE (Philosophy, Politics & Economics) at Oxford University after his BSc (Chemistry & Physics) at the University of Western Australia. Dave's rural schooling experience at Bunbury Senior High School inspired him to co-found TLG to enable rural and Indigenous students to reach their full potential.

Andrea Coomber has been Andrea Coomber has been Director of JUSTICE since February 2013. As Director she has reoriented the organization's strategy and been instrumental in the development of JUSTICE's work on system reform, including on changing the model of decision making in the civil courts and tribunals, reconfiguration of court buildings to respond to the use of ordinary court users and increasing judicial diversity. Between 2002 and 2013 Andrea was Equality Lawyer and then Legal Director at INTERIGHTS where she litigated key cases before the European Court of Human Rights and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. Before joining INTERIGHTS, she worked at the International Service for Human Rights in Geneva and at the South Asia Documentation Centre in New Delhi. She is qualified as a barrister and solicitor in Western Australia. Andrea has a BA/LLB (Hons) from the University of Western Australia and an LLM in Public International Law (Dist.) from the London School of Economics, where sh

Paul is the CEO of Australian Inclusion Group. The group is currently comprised of 2 businesses, Inclusion WA and Inclusion Solutions. Paul has been in the role for the past 8 years. During this time he has overseen significant growth and the expansion of the inclusion focused work into the Government and Corporate environment, as well as public design. Prior to joining Australian Inclusion Group Paul was the State Manager of the Taxation Institute of Australia and before that spent 8 years as the Director of Outreach Programs at Scitech. Paul holds a Bachelor of Science from UWA, a Graduate Diploma of Education from Edith Cowan University and is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration at UWA

Vanessa Vershaw is an Australian organizational psychologist, coach, entrepreneur, journalist and former executive with over eighteen years of extensive international organizational development and leadership consulting experience. As an executive level practitioner, Vanessa is a highly regarded trusted advisor to high-level executives and Fortune 500 organizations. She has successfully managed both leadership and large-scale organizational development initiatives with executive teams and companies around the globe. An engaging business leader and innovative entrepreneur, Vanessa is passionate about developing leadership capability, unlocking human potential and building mindful, conscious and inclusive organizations. She is known for her ability to assist her clients through deep and sustainable transformation with life-changing and social impact. She has also held sessional roles in academia. Vanessa is a published author and in addition to her many industry articles released her first book Bitch Fight: Put

Shantha Bloemen has spent the last two decades working in international humanitarian and development assistance. She first started her work in development in Zambia, where she worked in a rural community. She subsequently spent a decade based in New York, where she worked as a communications consultant for UNICEF, as well as a producer in advertising, news, and independent film. Her award-winning film T-shirt Travels, the story of second-hand clothes and third world debt, which highlighted the impact of debt in poor countries, aired on PBS in the US in 2001 and was used widely in schools and universities as a teaching tool. For UNICEF, Shantha worked on a variety of communication initiatives and has been actively involved in getting media attention to child rights, global health and poverty in Africa and Asia. During her stint as head of UNICEF's Africa media hub, based in Johannesburg, she traveled extensively across the continent to provide communication support in Sub Saharan Africa. Most recently, based i

Fadzi Whande is an award-winning social justice advocate and a Global Diversity and Inclusion, Strategist. She currently serves as the National Human Rights Program Convenor for the United Nations Association of Australia and sits on the Board of the Museum of Freedom and Tolerance, Diversity committee for the Australian Computer Society and is an Ambassador for 100 Women, Water for Africa and the Humanitarian Group. In 2016, Fadzi was awarded the International Racial Equity Leadership Award in the USA and named a finalist for the Australian Human Rights, 'Racism it Stops With Me' Award.

This is part of a diversity and inclusion series that I did for The University of Western Australia.  Noongar woman Krista McMeeken grew up in Esperance and relocated to Perth in 2008, having completed her Bachelor of Laws at University of Western Australia, she has since practiced as a commercial litigator for 5 years. Krista is currently taking 12 months out from her legal career to work as a Principal Policy Officer for the Commissioner for Children and Young People. Krista devotes her spare time to mentoring youth, as well as generating and supporting new ideas for the success and sustainability of our communities through a number of committees and initiatives. In recognition of her hard work, Krista was inducted into the Western Australian Women's Hall of Fame in 2011 and awarded the Human Rights Awards Young People's Medal in 2012. She was also listed in the Australian Financial Review and Westpac's 100 Women of Influence Young Leader category in 2013 and was a finalist in the Telstra Busines

unedited interview here:  Upload your crucible here ______________________________ Information on Kara:  www.drinkhint.com www.thekaranetwork.com ----------------------- Kara Goldin is the founder and CEO of San Francisco–based hint®, which is a healthy lifestyle brand that produces the leading unsweetened flavored water. Hint also recently launched a sunscreen spray that is oxybenzone and paraben-free and scented with hint fruit essence. Kara has received numerous accolades, including being named Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business, one of Fortune's Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, Forbes' 40 Women to Watch Over 40 and EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2017 Northern California. The Huffington Post listed her as one of six disruptors in business, alongside Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. Previously, Kara was Vice President of Shopping and E-commerce Partnerships at AOL, where she helped lead the growth of its startup shopping business to a $1 billion enterprise. Kara is an active busine

Unedited Version here Submit your crucible moment here ____________ Learn more here about Richard:  richardrossi@davincied.com www.davincied.com futuredocs.com scitechleaders.com Mr. Rossi is a co-founder of two of the world's largest and most prestigious enrichment programs for high-achieving students. In the 26 years of Mr. Rossi's guidance, more than 640,000 primary, middle school, secondary school and college students from more than 118 countries attended these academic programs focusing on leadership and career development. One of these programs was designed to honor, inspire and motivate the nation's most promising future physicians. More than 100,000 students graduated from this medical program and many serve in leading medical positions around the world. In 2009, Mr. Rossi co-created one of the largest gatherings of high achieving youth in Washington history: 15,300 high-achieving young men and women who came together to experience the historic nature of President Obama's first inauguration. Mr.

Click here to listen to the unedited version of the interview Click here to upload your crucible moment __________________________________ Glen Tullman is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Livongo Health. He is also a successful entrepreneur and co-founder and Managing Partner of 7wire Ventures, a Chicago-based investment firm focused on healthcare and education. Tullman most recently served as Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX), the leading global provider of Electronic Health Records, Practice Management, and Electronic Prescribing systems. He led Allscripts' IPO and secondary offerings. Under his leadership, revenues grew from $30 million in 1997 to more than $1.4 billion in 2012. Prior to joining Allscripts, Tullman was CEO of Enterprise Systems, a leading healthcare information services company providing resource-management solutions to large, integrated healthcare networks. Tullman led its IPO and secondary offerings. Enterprise was sold to McKesson HBOC (NYSE: MCK). Tullma

Click here to listen to the unedited version Click here to upload your adversity moment ____________________________________ Evan Hackel, the creator of the concept of Ingaging Leadership and author of Ingaging Leadership, is a successful businessman who has started more than 10 companies. During his tenure at CCA Global Partners, he ran a $5 billion division. One of his signature achievements was turning around a bankrupt business in four years, more than doubling system-wide sales to exceed $2 billion. As CEO of Tortal Training, a Charlotte North Carolina- based firm that specializes in developing and implementing interactive training solutions for companies in all sectors, Evan is a leader in the training field. He is also Founder and Principal of Ingage Consulting, a consulting firm headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts. He is recognized as a thought leader, speaker, and author on leadership. Follow at @ehackel and @IngageConsultin.

Get the unedited episode here Leave your crucible moment here ________________________ Naphtali Hoff, PsyD, is President of Impactful Coaching & Consulting. He is an accomplished executive coach, organizational consultant, and sought after trainer and lecturer. He holds two master's degrees in education and educational leadership, respectively, and completed his doctorate in human and organizational psychology, which analyzes successful individual or organizational change and development. Naphtali's practical, action-oriented approach has endeared him to his many clients. His personal experience in the leadership field allows him to understand leaders' needs and craft solutions to help them optimize their performance and success. Naphtali is the proud author of Becoming the New Boss, a leadership book that seeks to help new leaders hit the ground running and enjoy sustained success.