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A SEAT at THE TABLE: Helping business leaders grow their influence
Join the discussion as we unpack what’s working, what’s not and how to stand out and win in a competitive market.
Episodes
267 episodes
July Market Briefing: Key Market Trends We're Watching Heading into H2
The apparel industry is entering a new age of discipline. Growth at any cost is giving way to focus, profitability and execution. It’s a trend that could get the industry back onto a steady trajectory of not just growth, but p...
Building a Lean, Mean, Revenue Generating Machine
Is your organization running on a Franken-stack.That unmanaged tech stack that is layers of disconnected software tools piled on top of each other. In the race to add more technology as companies scale, managing tech stacks...
The Reality of Running a Silicon Valley Start Up
Silicon Valley starts ups are wrapped in a kind of mystique that gets better with the telling. Unless of course you’re actually running one of those startups. Then things look a bit different. You’re not living the dre...
Four Steps to Stand Out in a Crowded Market
Everything you believe about building a powerful brand is probably wrong.It might not have been wrong a few years ago. But, a lot has changed.For one thing, the market has gotten hyper competitive - and deafeningly no...
Breaking Through the Noise: Proven Strategies for B2B Brand Visibility
In a hyper competitive market, you need to differentiate in any way that you can.Visibility and ultimately 'authority' are a proven way to drive B2B sales – and justify more premium pricing.The goal is to get out of what Seth Godi...
What If We've Got the AI Story Wrong?
What if we are missing the point about AI’s real role in the future of work?The narrative is that AI will wipe out most jobs as bots and AI agents take over the world.However, in the many conversations I’ve had with people insid...
Support Systems for Solo Marketers (When You're Trying to Do It Alone)
You’re trying to develop a marketing program for your company and you're stuck.You have a general idea of what you want to do. But for some reason you just can’t get started.You find yourself spending way too much...
Why Great Products Fail to Sell
It's a story I hear all the time. We have a great product, but our sales are not where we want them to be.Your customers know you, but let's be honest, your product is not seen as the market leader. It's not seen as th...
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From Overlooked to Influential: The Power of Quiet Presence in Personal Transformation
When your image, presence, and brand aren't aligned, the cost isn't always visible, but it shows up in the rooms you're not invited to, the leadership that gets overlooked, and the opportunities that go to someone less qualified.Meet Je...
June Market Outlook: From Panic to Disciple
This is a short executive briefing built for sourcing leaders at brands and suppliers who need a fast read on where the market stands right now.The core message from Inside Fashion's June coverage is that conditions feel less chaotic tha...
The AI Accountability Crisis No One Is Talking About
Everyone feels that agentic AI is the next big thing and that they need to make haste in order to stay ahead of the curve - or at least not be left behind.However, the tremendous benefits of using agentic AI also come with an inc...
Beyond the Hustle: Transformative Strategies for Calm, Confident Leadership
If you’re like most leaders, you’re facing an increasingly business landscape which is making leadership even more challenging.The popular narrative is to develop a more resilient mindset. The reality is “how exactly do I do that?...
Real World AI Adoption: What Works and What Fails
There’s an abundance of information about how some of the newer tech solutions work. What tasks we need to consider automating and macro views of how AI could reshape work.Yet most business leaders are less certain than ever about ...
Transforming Office Culture: Going from Stress to Success
If you’re like most of us, being able to destress your life - or at least your work life - is something we only dare to dream about .Today most of us are running on all cylinders. Goals are set high. Winning is everything an...
The Quiet Loneliness of High‑Achievers – and How to Heal It
Are you the person who everyone else leans on — steady, capable, high-functioning?To the outside world you appear to be unshakable. Yet, inside there’s a gap between how competent you appear and how uncertain - or even lone...
Why Your AI Strategy Is Stuck – and How to Fix It
Most of us have used ChatGPT, Claude, CoPilot or one of the many AI platforms. Yet few of us really understand how to integrate AI into our organizations so that we get maximum benefits with the fewest possible disruptions.
When Everyone Agrees but Nothing Gets Done
How often have we experienced a meeting that we think went really well. Everyone on the team agreed what needed to be done. But then nothing actually got done. Or work was started but goals were not met.Why? How...
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The 90-second Reset to Reclaim Your Calm
If you’re like most senior executives, you never get enough rest. I know I rarely do.There’s always 10 more things that need to be done – and another 10 ready to add to that list.We think that we can handle an ‘alw...
How to Build a Successful Tech Product
One of the most difficult things to do is build successful tech products. That seems counterintuitive at a time when its seems that everyone - from tech giants to a guy in his bedroom - is rolling out apps, setting up ...
Smart Scaling: Rethinking Who and How We Hire
One of the biggest challenges for growing companies is not having the staff to help the business get to the next level. And not having the bandwidth to fill multiple positions at the same time - even though you really need people i...
How to Turn Storytelling into a Brand Strategy
Marketing these days feels overwhelming. Most companies lurch between scattered marketing efforts with no clear path to take them from where they are to where they want to be.Yet in today’s hyper competitive market, marketing is n...
Why Successful Founders Have Executive Mentors
We all want to grow our businesses, but often get stuck trying to make that happen.This can be especially true for leadership at smaller to medium sized companies that are trying to scale but struggle to find ways to differentiate thems...
UX Band-Aids that Hide Real Problems
Most companies don’t realize that bad UX shows up in support ticket patterns before it shows up in their metrics.As more organizations lean into greater automation, a poorly designed UX results in slowdowns and user frustration, a...
