Sep 24, 2026

This week, we welcome back Dave Sparkman to the podcast to discuss his new book, Your Character Is Your Culture.

Dave is the founder and managing director of SPARK Your Culture, a corporate culture advisory firm focused on helping organizations build healthy, high-performance cultures. Previously, Dave served as SVP of...

Sep 17, 2026

This week we revisit our interview with Susan (Sue) Ashford, who is an award-winning scholar and Professor at the University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business. She is the author of "The Power of Flexing: How to Use Small Daily Experiments to Create Big Life-Changing Growth".

Sue’s passion for helping...

Sep 10, 2026

This week, we revisit our interview with Steve C. de Baca, the Executive Vice President and Chief Patient Safety & Quality Officer at Royal Philips, who brings more than 30 years of experience in quality and regulatory affairs across the medical technology industry.

Before joining Philips, he led QRA at Cardinal Health,...

Sep 3, 2026

This week, we revisit our interview with Kara Goldin, the Founder of Hint, Inc., best known for its award-winning Hint® water, the leading unsweetened flavored water, and the author of Undaunted.  

Kara has been named among Fortune's Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs and Forbes' 40 Women to Watch Over 40. 
She is an...

Aug 27, 2026

This week we’re joined by Dr. Tom Mahoney, an experienced educational leader, executive coach, and speaker with more than three decades of leadership experience. Tom spent 33 years in public education, including 14 as Superintendent of Oregon CUSD 220, where he built a culture of continuous improvement,...