ML323: Richard Atherton (Co-Founder of FirstHuman)

by | Jan 7, 2025 | CEO, Coach, Leadership | 0 comments

Richard Atherton is the Co-Founder of FirstHuman (firsthuman.com), where he’s on a mission to help CEOs, leaders, and top executives hit leadership breakthroughs with a human-first approach that prioritizes happiness, empowerment, and communication. 

FirstHuman has worked with standout clients like Adidas, Volkswagen, Heineken, PwC, UNICEF, and the Olympics. 

Richard’s leadership journey is rooted in his own story of overcoming personal addictions and healing trauma. For nearly 10 years now, he’s been a transformative figure in leadership coaching, helping people make big shifts in their careers — whether they’re leveling up within their organization or breaking out on their own to start something new. 

One of his standout achievements is an award-winning business transformation at the BBC, wherein he led a 6-person team that built a new global operation for 70+ journalists in just 3 months. He also notably helped leaders at CEVA close a $400M profitability gap. 

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ML322: Melanie Bell (Founder of LeadersWhoFiction & Strategic Piece)

by | Dec 19, 2024 | CEO, Leadership | 0 comments

Melanie Bell is the Founder of Leaders Who Fiction, an online book club and community that offers a unique way for people to acquire and develop leadership qualities through reading and discussing novels.

On this fast-growing platform, leaders meet on the last Wednesday of each month for intellectual, business-oriented conversations centered around a selected novel.

Melanie is also the Co-Founder of Strategic Piece, where she works with C-suite executives at growth-stage companies to deliver exceptional revenue growth by bringing together their marketing, sales, and service teams around an information-driven customer experience built on the HubSpot platform.

She has been an entrepreneur for almost a decade and witnessed a great deal of what works and doesn’t work in leadership and how reading fiction equips leaders with the skills they need to achieve their professional goals.

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ML320: Steve Cadigan (Author & Leadership Expert)

by | Oct 6, 2024 | Author, CEO, Leadership | 0 comments

Steve Cadigan is a top talent strategist and leadership expert with 30+ years of experience. He famously led LinkedIn’s early hyper-growth phase as its first CHRO, building its world-class company culture from scratch, and scaling the organization from 400 to 4,000 employees.    

As one of the most provocative global thought leaders on the future of work, Steve is hired not only by top companies but by entire countries to help them navigate the talent landscape. His clientele spans all the way from Google, X, Slack, BBC, and Intel, to the City of Lisbon, which hired him to develop the startup incubator Unicorn Factory.    

His award-winning book: WORKQUAKE is considered a game changer for leaders and organizations on the future of work in a post-COVID world. He has also written for Forbes and Inc., will soon be writing for Business Insider, and frequently appears on Bloomberg and CNBC to talk about the evolving nature of work, talent management, the Big Resignation, and successful leadership.  

A sought-after keynote speaker, Steve has delivered commencement addresses at Stanford and University of San Francisco. He is regularly asked for advice by legacy institutions like Harvard, as well as top VCs and management firms including Accenture, Deloitte, and McKinsey.   

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ML318: Catherine Allen & Ed Offterdinger (Leaders at AO People Partners)

by | Aug 5, 2024 | Author, CEO, Coach, Leadership | 0 comments

Catherine Allen and Ed Offterdinger are the Co-Founders of AO People Partners, a conscious leadership and people development firm that helps create successful, world-benefiting businesses. They have a combined 50+ years of experience working collaboratively with elite business and nonprofit leaders to successfully scale their business and mission objectives.

Ed helped launch Baker Tilly, now one of the top ten consulting and CPA firms in the US. As AO’s CEO, Catherine writes and speaks regularly on altruistic leadership development.

They co-authored the well-received book Conscious, Capable, and Ready to Contribute: How Employee Development Can Become the Highest Form of Social Contribution.

Ed and Catherine are also active supporters of Conscious Capitalism Inc., a nonprofit organization building a movement of business leaders to improve capitalism into a practice of harmony, prosperity, and compassion. They exemplify their message of giving: Ed has helped raise $12M+ for leukemia and lymphoma research, and Catherine gives her time to organizations like Girl Scouts and Girls, Inc., where she supports activities that guide the next generation of young female leaders.

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ML316: Aslak De Silva (CEO of Selfly Store)

by | Jun 19, 2024 | CEO, Leadership | 0 comments

Aslak De Silva has nearly 20 years of experience as a practitioner and instructor of Han Moo Do martial arts, competing in about 100 full-contact fights and winning the World Championship gold medal in Michigan, USA, in 2000. Martial arts has taught him the importance of leaders being life-long learners and coaching others.

Aslak is the CEO of Selfly Store, where they use the latest developments in loT, machine learning, and AI to offer smart vending machines that make grab-and-go food shopping as easy as using your home fridge.

He was recognized by Chief’s Digest as one of the “10 Best CEOs to Watch in 2023” and has been leading teams and companies for 15+ years.

Before becoming CEO at Selfly Store, he was the CEO of Nordic Business Forum, one of the world’s biggest business and leadership conferences, with 7K+ attendees annually from 50+ countries and featuring world-class speakers like Barack Obama, George Clooney, and Steve Wozniak.

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ML315: Luke Van Der Veer (Founder of WRC)

by | May 21, 2024 | CEO, Entrepreneur, Leadership | 0 comments

Business coach and SEO expert, Luke Van Der Veer is the Founder of Website Rental Coaching (WRC), a digital agency that trains people to earn through the rank-and-rent website business model and find a better work-life balance.

WRC financially empowers clients by teaching them skills in SEO, lead generation, and client sourcing to build high-ranking websites that can be rented to businesses. With WRC’s program, clients have earned passive incomes to match or even replace their 9-5 salaries.

Luke’s journey as a digital landlord started with his own search for financial independence as an unfulfilled corporate 9-5er. In 10 years, he has built 100+ rank-and-rent websites that generate thousands of high-quality organic business leads each month across 73 niches.

Besides his 7-figure website rental portfolio, Luke has also acquired local businesses and scaled them for a big exit later. In 2023, he notably purchased Mr. Ding-A-Ling for $1.7M, raising the ice cream company’s valuation to $2.2M in just a few months.

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