Allen Fee serves as President of Fee Insurance Group. Mr. Fee also serves as Director at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center, Inc. He has served as chairman for several organizations including the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, United Way, Rotary …
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Patty McCord: Former Chief Talent Officer at Netflix
Patty McCord brings the Silicon Valley concepts of fresh ideas and innovation and applies them to rethink the way we work. She challenges norms and invites us to reconsider the idea of “best practices.” From her many years working with companies that r…
Equity Bank Series – Dr. Sheree Utash: President of WSU Tech
Dr. Sheree Utash has served as president of Wichita Area Technical College (WATC) since 2015 and has overseen the transition of the college to the WSU Campus of Applied Sciences and Technology (WSU Tech). Prior to that she served eight years at the col…
Equity Bank Series – Jeff Lange: Entrepreneur & Founder of Lange Real Estate & RedGuard
Jeff Lange embodies the spirit of the Kansas Entrepreneur. A native Kansan, Jeff first learned the excitement and perils of owning a business by growing up with a family farm business. Jeff’s next experience came when he pursued a career in real estate…
Equity Bank Series: Steve Werner – CEO & Founder of Lawn Buddy, LLC
Download Episode Here Steve Werner is the CEO & Founder of Lawn Buddy, an on-demand lawn care service, that connects lawn care providers, “lawntrepreneurs”, to homeowners, via a user-friendly app and website Werner says the technology h…
Solo Episode: Putting the Pin Back in the Grenade
Download Episode Here Business is chaotic. Even in organizations that fully embrace decentralized decision making, the figurative “grenade” is thrown by good intentioned leaders. How we respond to these perceived “grenades” bei…
Equity Bank Series: Scott Redler – COO of Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers
A restaurant operator to the core, Scott loves the sights, sounds and smells of a well-run restaurant. Growing up in St. Louis, he got his start in the restaurant business at age 15 catering events for groups of two to 6000. Paying his way through coll…
Equity Bank Series: Clint Whitney – CEO & President of Superior Tool Services
Clint Whitney is CEO and President of Superior Tool Service (STS) headquartered in Wichita, Kansas. STS began operations in 1987 and, today, serves more than 400 machine shops worldwide utilizing state-of-the-art CNC tool grinding machines to manufactu…
Equity Bank Series: Scott Schwindaman – President & CEO of Lubrication Engineers
Scott Schwindaman has been president and CEO at Lubrication Engineers since 2007, having started as a laboratory technician in 1981 while he was still in college and working his way up through the ranks. Today, he oversees a company that has more than …
Equity Bank Series: Julie Huber – Executive VP of Strategic Initiatives at Equity Bank
Julie Huber joined Equity Bank in January 2003 and currently oversees mergers and acquisition integration and major projects for the $4.0-billion bank in her role as Executive Vice President of Strategic Initiatives. Julie began her banking career with…
Equity Bank Series: Rodney Horton – Entrepreneur & VP of Sales at ConvergeOne
An IT Executive and Entrepreneur, Rodney has spent the last 20 years working on his IT management career and real estate business. Rodney hails from a working-class family in southeast Kansas and moved to Wichita in 1993. Knowing no one, living in a o…
Margie Warrell on Gender (Facts, Myths, & Biases) in Leadership
Margie Warrell is back on the show for the fourth time! Margie is one of my favorite guests and we always have impactful and significant conversations. In this visit, Margie and I tackle the topic of gender and how it affects leadership. We tackle so…
Equity Bank Series: B.J. Hunt – Co-Owner/Founder of Walnut River Brewing Company
An experienced business owner and manager with an Executive MBA, B.J. has spent the last 18 years as the Director and ultimately President of a family-owned company. Entrepreneurship runs in his blood. B.J. enjoys the challenges and has the skills to c…
Equity Bank Series: Eric Maddox – Interrogator, Author, Speaker, Consultant
In 2003, Eric Maddox collected the intelligence which led to the exact location of Saddam Hussein—the Ace of Spades in the infamous Deck of Cards. His technique shaped the future intelligence collection for the military and civilians around the world. …
Equity Bank Series: Guy Gsell – President & Founder of Field Station Dinosaurs
Heading up the team at Field Station: Dinosaurs is Guy Gsell. An adventurer, teacher and life- long dinosaur lover, Guy has produced educationally themed theater, live events and exhibits in a career that spans thirty years and three continents. As the…
Equity Banks Series: Alan Banta – Trans Pacific Oil Corporation
Alan D. Banta is the President of the Trans-Pacific Oil Corporation where he has served many roles since it’s inception over 35 years ago. A geologist by trade, he graduated with a BS in Geology and a minor in Mathematics from Wichita State University …
Equity Bank Series: Dallas Scrip – President of Benefit Managment LLC
Since 2009, Dallas has been the President of Benefit Management LLC (BML), specializing in providing customized cost containment solutions to enhance employer’s self‐funded health plans. Dallas has also been integral in the development and marketing of…
Equity Bank Series: David Barnes – Co-Owner of Tallgrass Freight
David Barnes is the Chief Operating Officer & Co-Owner for Tallgrass Freight in Olathe, KS. David saw tremendous success as an owner of a digital marketing agency (Sweet Spot Marketing) between 2007-2015. This meteoric rise of this company gave hi…
Equity Bank Series: Kevin Kunz – CEO of Sleeptopia, Inc
Kevin Kunz is the President and CEO of SleepTopia Inc, one of the leaders in home sleep testing. He founded the Kansas based home sleep testing in 2013 after realizing the need for a better, affordable solution for sleep testing. He has spent most of h…
Exploring the 11 Shields of Leadership with Earl Breon
Earl is a former active duty United States Marine with 25 years of experience as a leader and manager. In that time, he has coached and mentored hundreds from the military, civilian federal service, and private sectors. Earl blends personal experiences…
