ML274: John Lefebvre (Author & Leader)

by | Sep 23, 2022 | Author, Leadership | 0 comments

In the early 2000s, John Lefebvre co-founded Neteller, an online payment company that was listed on the London Stock Exchange, with a market capitalization of over $2 billion.

Neteller ran into legal troubles in 2007 and John lost close to $500 million earned from the company, went to jail, and had to restart his life again in his mid-50s.

John is currently a writer and climate change activist. He has written two books, All’s Well: Where Thou Art Earth and Why and Good with Money: A Rich Guy’s Guide to Gaining Everything by Losing it All.

He is also the co-founder of the DeSmogBlog.com group of blogs, which focus on exposing misinformation about global warming.

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ML273: Anthony Hughes (CEO of Tech Elevator)

by | Sep 7, 2022 | CEO, Leadership | 0 comments

Anthony Hughes is the co-founder and CEO of Tech Elevator, a 14 to 30-weeks coding bootcamp that teaches students in-demand tech skills that can lead to meaningful careers in the tech industry.

Over 2,300 students have graduated from Tech Elevator, with 90% of whom secured tech positions at companies within 6 months. Furthermore, the average Tech Elevator graduate gets a salary lift of $24,000 as a direct result of the bootcamp. 

Anthony has been nominated twice for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2020 and 2021). Before starting Tech Elevator, he was the President of the Software Craftsmanship Guild, another fast-paced program that teaches the skills required for a tech career which was acquired by Learning House in April 2015.

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ML272: Neil Bedwell (Leader/Marketing)

by | Aug 26, 2022 | Leadership, Marketing | 0 comments

70% of people are unhappy at work and misery at work is expensive. Actively disengaged employees cost U.S. businesses $605B each year in lost productivity, retention and recruitment.

Neil Bedwell is the co-founder of LOCAL, where they help companies achieve lasting change by treating their employees as an audience worth winning. 

For the past 15-years, their clients include Google, McDonald’s, P&G, Delta Airlines, Airbnb. Neil previously worked at Coca-Cola as the head of global digital strategy and was in charge of the digital program for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the creation of Coke’s first internal creative group. Neil also has worked as a race car engineer for Benetton F1.

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ML270: Michael Roub (Leader)

by | Aug 14, 2022 | Leadership | 0 comments

Michael Roub is a healthcare veteran and the founder of Inflection 360, where they specialize in helping their clients successfully outcompete in their markets, grow, and exit at significant valuations.

Before starting Inflection 360, Michael had senior business development roles at Western Dental Services and US HealthWorks, as well as had more than two decades of business expertise as a strategic advisor and consultant, corporate executive, and investment banker!

Michael has also earned a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of Business and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

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ML269: Edward Tyson (Leader & Author)

by | Aug 12, 2022 | Author, Leadership | 0 comments

“Every step on the journey from expert to executive leads away from your craft. This sentiment is easier to grasp than embrace; and neither grasping nor embracing it is a requirement for reaching the rank, responsibilities, or rewards of an executive.” – wow, a powerful start to an impactful book. 

Today’s guest, Edward. E. Tyson is a former strategy executive and Marine turned executive coach and organizational consultant. He is also the CEO of PerSynergy Consulting and the best-selling author of From Expert to Executive: Mastering the ABCs SOPs of Leading – the book I just read from moments ago. From Expert to Executive is a business fable about the transition from subject matter expert to enterprise leader. More than just a story about some struggling scientists at a biotech firm, it introduces Ed’s LeadershipSOPs framework and methodology which encourages leaders to develop and deploy personal standard operating procedures for structuring, operating, and perfecting their communities of effort.

Before founding PerSynergy nearly 10 years ago, Ed accumulated 20 years of leadership experience in a range of military, non-profit, private, and publicly traded organizations. He received his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Pennsylvania State University, and earned his master’s degree in adult organizational development from Temple University.

Ed was born in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania but now resides by the sea in San Clemente, California with his wife and the youngest of his two sons.

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ML268: William A. Adams (Leader)

by | Aug 2, 2022 | Leadership | 0 comments

William A. Adams is an award-winning D&I innovator, engineering trailblazer, and philanthropist. After rolling out critical XML code globally in many of Microsoft’s core products, he was named the first Technical Advisor to the CTO of Azure, Kevin Scott.  

William has founded and overseen global initiatives that revolutionize how underserved communities access jobs and build careers at the company. As co-founder of the LEAP apprenticeship program – named Microsoft’s D&I Program of the Year in 2020 – he helped launch the training of more than 26 cohorts around the world. Today, 98% of LEAP participants have jobs in Microsoft or other high-tech companies. His most recent collaboration is with the U.S. Virgin Islands to establish and train a technical talent pool and build critical technical infrastructure.  

Early in his 30-year career in software engineering, William was one of the first Black entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Through his company, Adamation, he developed mission-critical custom enterprise apps for Steve Jobs’ NeXT computers and pioneered a network instant messaging service purchased by the CIA. He holds two patents.  

Today, in addition to his role at Microsoft, William is the philanthropic founder of The EV3NT, a collaborative, community-based hackathon designed to solve real-world problems. When he’s not tinkering with bits and bytes, the husband and father of three builds kitchen cabinets, knits, and tries to recapture the exhilaration of riding a motorcycle in India. 

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