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🎧 Building a Thriving Organization by Helping Clients Implement OKRs, Achieve Better Alignment and Strategy Execution with Workboard CEO Deidre Paknad

In this episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan Tavakoli speaks with Deidre Paknad, co-founder and CEO of WorkBoard and founder of Results Foundry. Deidre Paknad shared her journey leading to her success as the founder of three start-ups. Deidre also talked about her founding of Workboard and how the organization supports its clients to execute their strategy faster by effective implementation of OKRs.

🎧 The PARTNERNOMICS Show – Episode 9 – Bob Moore, Co-Founder & CEO @ Crossbeam

In this week’s episode of The PARTNERNOMICS Show, Mark Brigman is joined by Bob Moore, Co-Founder & CEO at Crossbeam, a collaborative data platform that helps companies build more valuable partnerships by discovering which customers and leads they have in common. Moore previously co-founded Stitch (Acquired by Talend in 2018) and RJMetrics (acquired by Adobe by way of Magento Commerce in 2016).

🎧 “The Power of Relationships” with Rachel Hutchisson

Rachel leads global social responsibility for Blackbaud, a technology company that powers an Ecosystem of Good.  She believes that relationships are everything and that social responsibility is every leader’s business and is central to healthy, successful organizations. She has taken on ensuring Blackbaud shows up as an active participant in the Ecosystem of Good.

🎧 Putting Innovation on the Balance Sheet with Dan Toma

Can you measure and track how successfully your organization is innovating? This week on the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes talk to Dan Toma, co-author of ‘Innovation Accounting‘, who says that the traditional management tools available to leaders wanting to understand investments in innovation are lacking, instead proposing a new set of frameworks and tools that go beyond just financial indicators.

🎧 Earning the Customer Relationship with Vista’s Ricky Engelberg

Ricky Engelberg is the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Vista. Vista is a marketing partner to millions of small businesses around the world. As CMO, he oversees important functions such as customer experience and digital product. In this episode Alan and Ricky discuss his early career in the entertainment industry in Athens, Georgia, and how that has shaped his career and how he sees the world today.

🎧 139 – How Can Technology Partners Organize for Success around Go to Ecosystems?

An Ecosystem Thought Leader Joins Ultimate Guide to Partnering® My mission is to help technology organizations achieve their most extraordinary results working with technology giants and their ecosystems. We are witnessing a rapid evolution of the current channel and the growing importance of Ecosystems.

🎧 278: Multiply Your Business by Partnering With Your Peers with Ellen Finkelstein

Growing your business means investing time, money and energy developing a steady stream of new leads and potential clients. Wouldn’t it be helpful if you had a short-cut to fill your community with qualified leads who are most likely to buy from you? On Amplify Your Success Podcast episode 278, my guest Ellen Finkelstein joins me to talk about our favorite growth accelerator – partnering with your peers to rapidly expand your business.

🎧 Heather Maio-Smith – Award-Winning Interactive Storytelling Pioneer – Brilliance Business

Heather Maio-Smith is an award-winning interactive storytelling pioneer and technology visionary who brings over a decade of immersive storytelling leadership to StoryFile. In 2010, Heather developed the first 3D interactive conversation with Holocaust Survivor Rose Schindler through her creative agency Conscience Display.

🎧 Mavenir and Crexendo Partner to Expand the Business Communications Offerings for Communications Service Providers, Podcast

Jon Brinton of Crexendo and Ian Maclean of Mavenir sit down with TR’s Doug Green to discuss their partnership. “What we found was that we had a great synergy,” says Brinton of Crexendo, describing an RFI process that began with a “baker’s dozen” of partnership candidates, but eventually narrowed down to having all indicators pointing to Mavenir as a partner with a very well aligned set of complimentary strengths.

🎧 Rajeev Chandrasekhar announces Digital India Act; Startups get $10 bln three quarters in a row; Nissan accelerating solid batteries plan

India will soon roll out new rules called the Digital India Act, which will be a “renewed policy for the digital ecosystem and cyberspace” in the country, Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar said over the weekend, Economic Times reports. Meanwhile, startups in the country received more than $10 billion in funding for the third straight quarter, Press Trust reports, citing PwC.

🎧 HubSpot for the Building Product Ecosystem

In this episode of Building Products Ecosystem Unboxed, we talk with Kevin Dean, CEO, and President of ManoByte, about how HubSpot can help you create a connected experience for your customer and your customer’s customer through effective channel management.   Topics Discussed: What does the “Ecosystem” in “Building Products Ecosystem” mean.

🎧 Digitizing Supply Chains with Bernard Hor

Bernard Hor is an entrepreneur, storyteller, strategist, triathlete, and co-founder of Hatio Group, a digital supply chain platform servicing Asian SMEs. Hatio helps SMEs serve the world’s fastest-growing consumer market – Asia – predicted to reach $30 trillion in value by 2030, with better supply chain and logistics solutions.

🎧 #80: Why Your Small Business Partnership Needs A Prenup Agreement with Tanya Bower

Regardless of the type of business you’re forming or whether your business partner is a friend, sibling, family member or colleague, you don’t know how long the relationship will continue and how it will end.  To understand the ins and outs of how business prenuptial agreements work co-hosts Lori Vajda and Nola Boea sat down with legal expert Tanya Bower.

🎧 Andrew Habgood: How to Develop an APAC Partner Ecosystem

Partner ecosystems are the new channel, so much so that channel chiefs are now taking on the name “ecosystem” in their titles. Andrew Habgood is the VP of APAC Partner Ecosystems at Red Hat. In this episode, Andrew shares how he’s building a modern partner ecosystem across the Asia Pacific region. KEY TAKEAWAYS Here are … Andrew Habgood: How to Develop an APAC Partner Ecosystem Read More »

🎧 Dr. Erin Duffy, Ph.D. & Kevin Outterson, ESQ – Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (CARB-X)

The Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X – is a global non-profit partnership accelerating antibacterial products to address drug-resistant bacteria, a leading cause of death around the world. 1.27 million deaths worldwide were attributed to resistant bacterial infections in 2019.

🎧 Burnout Breakthrough! With Scott Anderson

Scott’s entry into business started when he was tasked with turning around a 3rd generation family group of construction equipment and industrial engine companies, which he was able to scale and sell at a premium. Following this, Scott built 3 for-profit businesses, including an agency that he ran for over 25 years and later sold to his employees.

🎧 The “Moneymaker to Moonshot” Ecosystem

As a proven entrepreneur, Lewis Schiff has had a bird’s eye view of how the innovation ecosystem has changed in the past 25 years… specifically, the transition from the “Silicon Valley” ecosystem to the “moneymaker to moonshot” ecosystem – a new phenomenon that explains “where does innovation come from.

🎧 Podcast – Naj Seedat – New to GP Partnership

After a short hiatus for the festive break, the Ockham podcast is back, and kicking off 2022 with a focus on those considering and/ or beginning life as a new GP Partner. Ben, along with senior GP and podcast veteran Dr Naj Seedat, discuss the key factors when considering signing up to GP partnership, what you can expect from partnership (and dealing with the unexpected), the demands and the rewards – and what Naj has learned in his own 21-year journey.

🎧 Leaders S3: E05 – Maryse Gordon (RepRisk)

We welcome Maryse Gordon to the series this week, who recently placed 1st on the EMpower Ethnic Minority Role Model List as 2021 Future Leader. As Partnerships and Business Development Manager at RepRisk, she shares with us how she uses international opportunities as a way to become a better leader, the cultural differences for ESG and D&I between Europe and the US, and using data to drive organisational change.

🎧 Why partner marketing should be a part of your marketing plan – Matt Wool, CEO of Acceleration Partners

“Too many companies rely on the big 3 (Google, Meta, and Amazon) for their advertising” is one of the beliefs Matt Wool has and we discuss in this episode. In this episode, Elias has a chat with Matt, who is the CEO of Acceleration Partners, a partnership and affiliate-focused company. Topics we discuss: What is partner and affiliate marketing.

🎧 Web3 Product Management, BanyanDAO, and our April 29th Training Day Event for leveling up in Web3 :: with Mike Anderson

In this episode of Ventures, my guest Mike Anderson ( and I talk about all-things BanyanDAO ( and its upcoming April 29th Training Day event to teach Web3 product architecture, design, and management (

🎧 Doubts into Destination: The Lighthouse Effect of HR

In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I’m joined by my guest, Steve Pemberton, CHRO of WorkhumanIn this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, Thanks to Workhuman for partnering with us to bring you this content! Join Workhuman Live in Atlanta from May 16 – 19 and get a 15% discount by registering with promo code: HRPOD 0:00 – Intro 00:23 – About Steve 03:37 – Steve’s background 17:09 – The Evolution of HR 33:34 – The Lighthouse effect 36:39 – The power of beliving in someone 46:40 – Steve’s final bit of advice Did you enjoy the episode.

🎧 All Are Welcome: How to Build a Real Workplace Culture of Inclusion That Delivers Results, with Cynthia Owyoung

In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Cynthia Owyoung about her book, All Are Welcome: How to Build a Real Workplace Culture of Inclusion That Delivers Results. See the video here: Cynthia Owyoung ( is Robinhood’s Vice President of Inclusion, Equity and Belonging, partnering with business leaders, employee resource groups and the people experience team to support Robinhood’s mission to democratize finance for all.

🎧 Technology Strategy 2023: Into the Metaverse

#metaverse #digitaltransformation #digitaltwin Enterprise technology is moving rapidly toward the metaverse, a world composed of real and virtual businesses, people, and things operating in a hyperconnected environment. Listen to this conversation with Accenture’s Paul Daugherty for guidance as you evaluate your own technology strategy, The discussion includes these topics: — About the book Radically Human — Accenture Tech Vision research findings — On technology planning and enterprise CTO strategy — Culture change and the “forever beta” mindset — Advice to CIOs on technology tr

🎧 Leaders in EDI: Kick It Out’s CEO Anthony Burnett

In this episode, we bring you a conversation on Inclusive Leadership with the CEO of English Football’s leading equality and inclusion organisation. Leaders in Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) is a monthly series covering news, views, comments and debates happening across the equality, diversity and inclusion space.

🎧 Episode 84 – Mohamed Elmak – Start-up Director Who Wants a Cool World

About Mohamed Elmak  Mohamed Elmak “Madriz” is the PMO and R&D Director at FortyGuard; a startup on a mission to cool cities. We believe what gets measured gets improved, and the best solutions come from understanding data. FortyGuard provides data gathering in light sensing methods to put a dollar figure to the problem of outdoor temperatures for corporations.

🎧 #46: Alan Cui, Boson Ventures – The Potential Of The Australian Tech Ecosystem and Backing Immigrant Founders

Alan Cui is a partner at Boson Ventures. He is an ex-startup founder, ex-management consultant, and ex-programmer (still a hobby). Alan has 12 years of experience in management consulting (Partners in Performance, Accenture Strategy) and corporate strategy (Ausgrid PLUS ES). He was also a strategic partnership executive in AGL New Energy (corporate venture).

🎧 E94 – Transforming Indian FinTech w/smallcase’s Vasanth Kamath

In this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Vasanth Kamath, Co-Founder & CEO of smallcase.  smallcase is one of the most disruptive companies of India, transforming the FinTech landscape of the country, one product at a time. What started as a quest to fill a gap for retail investors who wanted to move from Mutual Funds to Equity, has now become an entire asset class in itself, which is further building multiple products on top of it, including –

🎧 Founder and MIT Grad Leveraging the Power of Machine Learning in Manufacturing with CEO Arjun Chandar | Ep 480

IndustrialML’s Co-Founder and CEO, Arjun Chandar,  joins Coruzant Technologies for the Digital Executive podcast. He shares his positive experience with the valuable ecosystem at MIT, which helped him launch his current company.

🎧 Guilt-free snacking with Suhasini Sampath

At the end of a great workout, one would definitely prefer eating a healthy snack- something that replenishes lost nutrients, is tasty, and made from clean ingredients. Enter, Yoga Bar. A company that makes energy bars without any preservatives or Sugar, which makes for a snack minus any guilt. YogaBar is a nutrition-led food company, offering full transparency & honesty in our ingredients.

🎧 #72: Stefan Sandström – How to do Business in Japan

Do you want to reach out to Japanese companies and universities? Then you should know what makes Japan special and different to have a smooth business experience. Different Cultures – Different Rules and Different ways to success Japan is the second biggest market for pharmaceuticals globally. The area is not only interesting for its sales potential; it is also a major R&D hub in Asia.

🎧 Mint – A platform to monetize & market assets using NFTs / digital tokens

Mint is a platform to monetize & market assets using NFTs / digital tokens. They’re building NFT experiences to be more accessible and inclusive through streamlined commerce solutions that provide a simplified platform to mint, market, monetize, and manage digital assets that connect with an engaged community of fans.

🎧 How to Engage Your Customers with Conversational Commerce with Paul Ruppert

The landscape of interacting with customers is ever-evolving. With new technologies entering the market that make communicating with your clients easier, the process somehow becomes more complicated at the same time. On this episode of Link Up Leaders, Francois and Lisa are chatting with Paul Ruppert to discuss how eCommerce business owners can effectively engage their customers through conversational commerce — 💥About Our Guest.

🎧 Ep102: NVIDIA, Luminar, AMD’s HPC Announcements, Mitel-RingCentral, Windows 11 SE, Qualcomm Intel

Leading global tech analysts Patrick Moorhead (Moor Insights & Strategy) and Daniel Newman (Futurum Research) are front and center on The Six Five analyzing the tech industry’s biggest news each and every week and also conducting interviews with tech industry “insiders” on a regular basis.    The Six Five represents six (6) handpicked topics that will be covered for five (5) minutes each.

🎧 The Keys to a Great Partnership Marketing Strategy That Works with Kelly Ground

Curious about the marketing strategy used by the biggest companies in the world? Ian Garlic talks to Kelly Ground, the Head of Affiliate and Brand Strategy at Acceleration Partners, about the benefits of affiliate marketing. Kelly explains their process for creating an affiliate strategy that gets results and has allowed them to work with brands such as Instacart and Target.

🎧 EP 21: How important are unicorns for a startup ecosystem?

Some startup ecosystems seem to be a magnet for success. Are the unicorn startups a sign of a healthy startup ecosystem? In this episode, Eli David discusses with his team the importance of unicorns uncovering some important insights on where these unicorns are located and which industries have more chances of producing great startups.

🎧 20VC: Biggest Lessons and Challenges Building One of the Most Successful Seed Funds, How To Manage Investor Psychology, Self-Doubt and Insecurity & Th

David Frankel is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Founder Collective, one of the great seed firms of the last decade with a portfolio including Uber, Coupang, Airtable, Whoop and many more incredible companies. Previously, David was Co-Founder and CEO of Internet Solutions (IS), the largest ISP in Africa, ultimately acquired by NTT.

🎧 Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek – Renegade Spin-Out in the Supercritical Stage, Venture is Eating the Investment World 11

Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek are the Co-Founders and Managing Partners of Renegade Partners, a venture capital firm they launched in 2019 after each experienced life inside top-notch venture firms – Renata at Felicis and Lux and Rosanne at Canaan Partners and IVP.  They raised a first fund of $100 million to focus on the “Supercritical Stage” of a company’s development.

🎧 Startup Fridays Season 2 Ep. 7: My hope is, entrepreneurs even crazier than us will rise and build for India — Rohan Verma

Our guest today is Rohan Verma, CEO and executive director at MapmyIndia, a Mumbai-listed company in the areas of digital mapping, geospatial technologies and automotive mobility technologies. In this episode, Rohan talks about why he is optimistic that a serious tech product ecosystem will emerge in India over the next five years.

🎧 Achieve Your Company’s Full Potential with Branding and a Partnership Strategy – The Journey of Shelley Mayer (Growth Marketing Series)

Do you know what it takes to build a successful brand? Perhaps you’re looking for some practical solutions, or maybe you’re in the process of building a brand but have met roadblocks. However, if you’re not actively thinking about building your brand, then it’s time to start. In addition to meeting your sales goals, there’s so much more you can do if you have a clear idea of your brand’s identity.

🎧 Food Market Hub

Food Market Hub is an end-to-end procurement management platform that automates all back-end operations for F&B businesses. It is currently building towards the future of F&B by enabling this massively underserved segment with a complete ecosystem covering sourcing, supply chain and financing. Founder, Anthony See, and Co-Founder, Shayna Teh joins us to discuss more. Image Credit: Food Market Hub Official Facebook Page

🎧 Strategy Sessions Marketing Podcast – JP Castlin

JP Castlin is a former consultancy executive turned independent strategy and complexity management consultant. He is a contributor for Marketing Week and a brilliant podcast guest. In this episode we discuss: 1. How to define strategy 2. The ambiguous language of marketing and strategy 3. Frameworks and structure for strategy 4.

🎧 Creative Capital Podcast 153: The Critical Importance of Partner Appreciation

Showing your partner may it be in business, your spouse, or any other aspect that you appreciate them could go a long way. When one is appreciated, it avoids the feeling of resentment thereby strengthening your partnership for longer. That’s what we will dive in today’s episode. Plus, I’m happy to announce that I am in in the process of becoming a real estate agent/investor.

🎧 Insignia Ventures and the Southeast Asia Entrepreneurial Ecosystem with Tan Yinglan

“… One of our mantra is we don’t build good companies. We build great companies. I think the beauty is that we have seen enough companies to realize what great looks like. For us, we have a high bar. So one of the metrics that we mention a lot is how many founders with the means to do so that we back will invest again in Insignia.

🎧 Desert ‘skins’ drying up, and one of the oldest Maya calendars

On this week’s show: Climate change is killing critical soil organisms in arid regions, and early evidence for the Maya calendar from a site in Guatemala Staff Writer Elizabeth Pennisi joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how climate change is affecting “biocrust,” a thin layer of fungi, lichens, and other microbes that sits on top of desert soil, helping retain water and create nutrients for rest of the ecosystem.

🎧 Tackling Sales-Generated Pipelines More Efficiently with Jamie Shanks

On this episode of the AI for Sales Podcast, Chad is joined by Jamie Shanks, Founder and CEO of Sales for Life. He is also the CEO of Pipeline Signals which helps sales teams redirect their focus to selling instead of spending too much time on research. Jamie highlights how businesses can use AI to obtain sales intelligence and data so that their sales professionals can concentrate on netting new sales, cross-selling, and upselling.

🎧 94. Cell therapy in a war on cancer, Kleanthis Xanthopoulos, Co-Founder & CEO, Shoreline Biosciences

Kleanthis is a serial biotechnology entrepreneur with over two decades of experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical research industries as an executive, company founder, chief executive officer, investor and board member. Dr. Xanthopoulos has founded five companies, introduced three life science companies to NASDAQ and financed and brokered numerous creative strategic alliance and partnership deals with large pharmaceutical partners.