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310 – Charlie Nooney: Chairman & CEO of MobiTV, Inc.
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315 – Vinny Gerace: Founder & President of “Wired Within”
Vinny Gerace has spent the past few decades helping businesses improve internal communications and understand their people. He began as a business consultant but saw most of the issues companies were having related to the people they employed. Whether …
316 – Top 10 Dysfunctions in Business
During my experience consulting & coaching business leaders, I’ve found that the 10 most critical dysfunctions that hold an organization back are: 1. Senior Leadership Fails to Set the Example: They don’t emulate the behavior they expec…
317 – Melinda Wittstock: Social Marketing & Technology Expert; Founder of Verifeed
Melinda Wittstock is an “EntrePioneer” visionary dedicated to catalyzing value for her clients, architecting highly profitable and data-driven solutions and putting the authentic marketing and engagement strategies in place to put a multipl…
322 – Nancy Koehn: Harvard Historian, Author of “Forged in Crisis”
Nancy Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn’s research focuses on how leaders, past and present, craft lives of purpose, worth, and impact. Her new book, F…
329 – D.L. Brouwer: Author, Speaker, & Business Visionary
D.L. Brouwer is the author of The Return on Leadership. He brings a unique perspective to his role as a leadership author, keynote speaker, and business visionary. His views on business and life were shaped by the years he spent as a navigator, flying …
334 – Roger Scholfield: President & Owner of Scholfield Honda
Roger Scholfield, is president/owner of Scholfield Honda. He is a second generation automobile dealer with 31 years’ experience in the business. Roger is a 3 time past president of the Wichita Auto Dealer’s Association and has served 12 years on Americ…
Chris & Brandon Voss: Owner / Operators of Black Swan Group
Chris Voss is the CEO & Founder of the Black Swan Group Ltd and author of Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It. He has used his many years of experience in international crisis and high-stakes negotiations to devel…
Equity Bank Series – Victor Lukic: President of Great Plains Industries
Victor Lukic joined GPI as president in November of 2012 following the unexpected death of Grant Nutter. Vic has extensive experience in companies which manufacture proprietary products. He has work in companies of varied sizes and in diverse industrie…
Equity Bank Series – Jon Rolph: President of Sasnak Management, Co-Chair Greater Wichita Partnership
Jon Rolph was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas. After graduating from Baylor University, he worked for the National Student Leadership Forum in Washington D.C. In 2002, he moved back to Wichita to work in his family’s business, Sasnak Management, whe…
Equity Bank Series – Michelle Becker: Founder & CEO of Profit Builders Inc.
Michelle Becker is the Founder & CEO of Profit Builders Inc. Founded in 1994, Profit Builders is an industry leader in Outsource Accounting specializing in a full platform of accounting services. Profit Builders is proud to support leading Small t…
Equity Bank Series – Allen Fee: President, Fee Insurance Group
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 …
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…
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: 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: 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…
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…
Evolve or Die: Lessons from Tom Triumph on Innovation & Creativity (Equity Bank Series)
Tom Triumph helps companies grow by collaboratively helping them reinvent their business, product development, and marketing. Along the way, he’s helped large organizations act nimbly and small companies scale. He’s been a participant in two technology…
Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time with Jim McKelvey
Jim McKelvey is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, philanthropist, artist, and author of The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time. He is the co-founder of Square and served as the chairman of its board until 2010, an…