Leading Matters With Joel Capperella

Episode 26 of Leading Matters Features Matt K. Lewis, the Author of Too Dumb To Fail: How the GOP Betrayed the Reagan Revolution to Win elections.  Transcending politics, the book offers a look at what happens when the past is forgotten and the future is mortgaged for the now.

Episode 25 of leading matters features Dr. Gail Dines.  She is a professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock College in Boston, author of Portland: How Porn has Hijacked Our Sexuality, and President of Culture Reframed.  A health organization that building resilience and resistance in youth from the harms of the porn culture.  

Episode 24 of Leading Matters features Patti Sanchez the SVP of Strategic Services for Duarte and co-author of Illuminate: Ignite Change Through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies, and Symbols. The new release from Sanchez and Nancy Duarte is an innovative yet practical works on actionable leadership.

Leading Matters #23 features Brent Adamson, the co-author of the New York Times bestselling Challenger Sale, and its follow up the Challenger Customer. Brent provocatively suggests that solution selling may make your offering more of a commodity and also make it harder for your customers to buy. 

Leading Matters #22 (the first episode of season 2) features New York Times bestselling author Daniel Pink.  Pulling from his research in his popular books DRIVE and TO SELL IS HUMAN, Dan discusses the essential motivators for today’s workforce, and how those motivators apply to selling in the ‘seller beware’ age. 

Leading Matters #20 features Chris Savage, the CEO of Wistia.  Wistia offers video hosting with fantastic lead generation and analytics, but more importantly Wistia is a case study for how to develop content ahead of your market’s buy decision.  They do it by paying attention to their values and culture.

Leading Matter #20 will introduce you to the General Manager of salesfoce.com’s Desk.  Leyla didn’t buy all the awful click-baiting press about the millennial generation and instinctively new she had something to learn from them.  The result was creating a more empathetic and service oriented culture.

Leading Matters #19 features Kevin Nakao, the Head of Employee Engagement at TINYPulse.  TINYPulse is a solution that helps companies keep their employees happy and engaged.  Kevin shares insight into the importance of diversity to company values, and the impact of a focused and well communicated mission

Leading Matters episode #18 features Bullhorn CEO Art Papas.  We dive into the story behind Art’s radical transformation of the mission, culture, and purpose of his company.  The change he insisted upon challenged the Bullhorn status quo, made some of his leadership team uneasy, and was fraught with uncertainty.   

Episode 17 of Leading Matters features the CEO and COO, and co-founders, of RJMetrics.  Together they have built a data analytics platform used by hundreds of online retailers, and along the way have created a passionate, mission driven team that wants to inspire data driven professionals.

Episode 16 of Leading Matters features New York Times best selling author Kevin Kruse discussing his new book 15 Secrets Successful People Know about Time Management.  Kevin looks at productivity and time management from the perspective of leadership and employee engagement, because leadership requires the time to actually lead.

Episode 15 of Leading Matters features the founder and CEO of Arcweb Technologies.  Arc Arcweb is a Philadelphia based product design and development firm that helps improve the bottom line of the fortune 500.  The secret to Arcweb’s success?  Make product that people love, and establish a workplace that builds community.

Episode 14 features Scott Monty.  Scott was the Global Digital Communications lead at Ford Motor Company for six years, and now runs his own consulting practice.  He produces the very valuable newsletter, This Week in Digital, and was named in the top ten of Forbes’ Most Influential in Social Media.  

Episode 13 of Leading Matters features the founder of Moz, Rand Fishkin.  Rand shares how he built Moz by focusing exclusively on the community of marketers who wanted desperately to make sense out of Google’s search engine algorithms, and how the company was able to maintain focus on the mission of making marketers successful.  The result is a strong and loyal customer base. 

Episode #12 of Leading Matters features Rakia Reynolds, the founder and CEO of multi-media PR and communications firm Skai Blue Media.  Rakia discusses defining mission, how she has stayed true to that mission and what elements of the talent acquisition process are most important to advance the strategy.

Episode #11 of Leading Matters features Jason Heilman, Co-Founder of Herefish, a software solution that helps companies mine their existing candidate database.  Jason discusses the importance and value of connecting with the talent community early in the acquisition process and the necessity of prioritizing employment brand.

Episode #10 of Leading Matters features the Co-Founder and frequent keynote speaker Oli Gardner.  Oil offers terrific insight into how to increase structure and discipline of a growing company without sacrificing the culture and personality, and how Unbounce focuses on doing and measuring the right things.

Episode #9 of Leading Matters features business performance expert and keynote speaker Ryan Estis.  Estis shares insight about how to simply align your workforce against your values and purpose.  A move that will unlock the capability and contribution inside each employee.

In this episode my friend from my University of Delaware days, Greg Plum, joins me to explain the landscape of communication technologies that bring incredible value to businesses of any size.  Greg is the founder of Plum UC, and explains this tech landscape clearly, helps you better understand what tech is worth considering, and how to choose value.  He also sheds some light into the behind the scenes effort of a seasons professional making a decision to step out on his own.  You'll love this episode and I promise you'll learn a thing or two. Runs about 20 minutes.  Bonus: for a more in depth look at Greg's business read this piece that Technical.ly did on him this past April.

Kyle Scott runs one of the most influential sports blogs in the North East region of the United States, Crossingbroad.com  .  In this episode of Leading Matters Kyle discusses the importance of focus, sticking to the plan, and how he has capitalized on the gap in sports media coverage created by the ongoing digital and mobile disruption.