Business Leaders Podcast

  In this day and age, everyone is at risk of cyber threats. Small businesses are just as vulnerable to cyber attacks as much as the Fortune 500 companies. The question is, what measures should be implemented to prevent such threats? In an interesting discussion, Doug DePeppe, Hilary Wells, Ed Barkel and Bill Nelson explore why small businesses must start paying attention to cybersecurity as well as the importance of protecting their customers, their employees, and their data from cyber breach. They talk about the unseen risks brought about by cyber threats to both start-ups and major corporations and share tips on what organizations can do to enforce reasonable security measures and have a proper “cyber hygiene.” — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Cybersecurity Panel with Doug DePeppe, Hilary Wells, Ed Barkel and Bill Nelson We have a unique podcast. We would call this a panel. There is Doug DePeppe. We have Hilary Wells, Ed Barkel and Bill Nelson. Doug is with https://e

  Butler Snow is one of the best law firms that is committed to help and provide value and client satisfaction with over twenty offices nationwide. Dave Mayhan and Sarah O’ Brien are attorneys in Butler Snow specializing in litigation, particularly in defense of real estate and construction professionals. They share the typical challenges their clients face and how they are engaging with them, as well as walk us through their expertise in real estate and construction legalities. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Butler Snow: Your Guide To Legal Matters with Dave Mayhan, Sarah O’ Brien, and Guest Co-Host Meranda Vieyra We have https://www.butlersnow.com/attorney/david-mayhan/ (Dave Mayhan) and https://www.butlersnow.com/attorney/sarah-obrien/ (Sarah O’Brien). They’re with http://www.butlersnow.com/ (Butler Snow). I have my co-host, Meranda Vieyra. She’s with https://www.denverlegalmarketing.com/ (Denver Legal Marketing). Welcome to the show. Hello, Bob and Meranda. Tel

  Sean Hutchinson and Barry Goodman, co-founders and partners with SVA Value Accelerators, do a deep dive continuation of the SVA episode as they talk about the challenges and perils of transition and the issues facing families in business. Sean is an expert in business value acceleration and transition readiness, while Barry is an expert in multigenerational family businesses with an advanced certificate in counseling family-owned businesses. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: The Challenges and Perils Of Transition And The Issues Facing Families In Business with Barry Goodman, President SVA Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson and Barry Goodman, President/Partner SVA Value Accelerators We’re doing a deep dive continuation with Sean Hutchinson and Barry Goodman, Cofounders and Partners with http://buildvaluetoday.com/ (SVA Value Accelerators). This is a continuation of the SVA episode. We’re going to dig deeper into this complex topic.

  In our value accelerator, leadership is last.  That, to a lot of people, probably wouldn’t make sense, but we put it last for a reason. You will have been at whatever speed you were traveling when we started doing value acceleration. By the time you’re through sprint six, which is financial acceleration, you’re going to be moving at about 100 miles an hour much faster than you were. Your organization and your practices are going to look completely different. You’re a value-creating machine by the time you’ve gotten through those. Let Sean Hutchinson of SVA Value Accelerators and Joe Slatter, the Lead Advisor of Decision Dynamics and the SVA Leadership Accelerator, use leadership acceleration to take you from 100 miles an hour to 200 miles an hour as they talk about the path to higher valuation. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Leadership Described: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson of SVA Value Accelerators and Jo

  Businesses need constant communication between owners and their team to grow. While it is the common perception that decisions are made from the top, there should be an autonomy that happens among the employees that will make them feel part of the conversation. After all, a business is not only about the leaders; it is also about the team. Sean Hutchinson, CEO at SVA Value Accelerators, is joined by Joe Slatter of SVA Leadership Accelerator to talk about decision dynamics. They put together the relationship and how decisions work, laying down the “what,” “so what,” and the “what now.” Ultimately, decision dynamics work to create higher valuation because it fosters a business where people are held accountable, sharing the responsibilities between the leaders and the team. — Listen to the podcast: Decision Dynamics: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson and Joe Slatter Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson and Joe Slatter We’re h

  In today’s world, the impact of social networking is undeniable not only to how people communicate but to businesses as well. It has become the forefront of this new wave of marketing that helps people get their voice and brand out there. Talking about social selling and influencer marketing is CEO of Forward Progress and creator of Social Jack, Dean DeLisle. Dean gives insights about the value accelerators world while sharing his processes when meeting companies. He also distinguishes between client acquisition and branding, ultimately putting forward the importance of humanizing the brand. — Watch the episode here: Listen to the podcast: Dean DeLisle Social Selling And Influencer Marketing SVA: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson Our goal is to humanize the brand. In today’s world of business, it’s crazy how everything became about the brand and the logo. Our mission is to make sure that each and every brand has the human aspect to it, so we

  Continuing the deep dive from an original by Sean Hutchinson from SVA Value Accelerators Methodology, Sean gets right down through the financial accelerator component. He covers three things about the power of the financial accelerator – financial transparency, lowering the cost of capital, and the importance of knowing when to stop funding things that are ripping economic value away from the shareholders. Sean also touches on higher valuation, explaining how to talk with a lending institution, the Feed-Starve principle, and transferability options. Ultimately, creating value can be interpreted as the wealth of the owner, but what it should be is the value it has to shareholders and the whole company. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Financial Accelerator Methodology Detailed: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson We’re doing a continuation deep dive from an origina

  Continuing the deep dive from an original by Sean Hutchinson from SVA Value Accelerators Methodology, Sean gets right down through the financial accelerator component. He covers three things about the power of the financial accelerator – financial transparency, lowering the cost of capital, and the importance of knowing when to stop funding things that are ripping economic value away from the shareholders. Sean also touches on higher valuation, explaining how to talk with a lending institution, the Feed-Starve principle, and transferability options. Ultimately, creating value can be interpreted as the wealth of the owner, but what it should be is the value it has to shareholders and the whole company. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Financial Accelerator Methodology Detailed: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson We’re doing a continuation deep dive from an origina

  Continuing the deep dive from an original by Sean Hutchinson from SVA Value Accelerators Methodology, Sean gets right down through the financial accelerator component. He covers three things about the power of the financial accelerator – financial transparency, lowering the cost of capital, and the importance of knowing when to stop funding things that are ripping economic value away from the shareholders. Sean also touches on higher valuation, explaining how to talk with a lending institution, the Feed-Starve principle, and transferability options. Ultimately, creating value can be interpreted as the wealth of the owner, but what it should be is the value it has to shareholders and the whole company. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Financial Accelerator Methodology Detailed: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson We’re doing a continuation deep dive from an origina

  The key to our failures and successes always lie within us. Aiming for the latter, we have the CEO and Executive Leadership Coach at Velocity Leadership Consulting, Karen Brown, to talk about how the science of words or neuro-linguistic programming gives a window into what is going on in us that hinders our greater success. Karen guides us to find the blind spots in our behavioral patterns and address the limiting beliefs that hold us back from taking action. She also directs us to the fears that we keep locked down in our unconscious mind, urging us to overcome them and eventually lead better with the capacity to transform the world. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Conquering Limiting Beliefs Through Neuro-Linguistic Programming with Karen Brown I am an expert in behavioral blind spots and identifying them. How they’re hindering greater success and by resolving them, you get greater success We are so fortunate that we have Karen Brown on this episode. She’s the CEO

  The reason all owners are in business should be primarily to create value for themselves. The way they create value for themselves is by creating value for customers. One way to do that is by productivity acceleration. Productivity is accelerated by understanding non-value-added activities and stop doing them. That frees up a tremendous quantity of resources, time, cash, and physical space to focus on delivering customer value. This is a deep dive continuation with Sean Hutchinson, CEO/Partner with SVA Value Accelerators and Alistair Stewart, the Manufacturing Practice Leader, also with SVA Value Accelerators. This continuation is where we’re going to dig deeper and talk about productivity acceleration. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast here: Productivity Acceleration Detailed with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson and Alistair Stewart SVA Value Accelerators Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson and Alistair Stewart This is a deep dive continuation

  After his dad bought a Piper Cherokee 140, it became a fun family airplane over a sea-level mild-temperature family course in Corvallis, Oregon. At eight years old, George Bye was inspired watching both his parents learn to fly and became fascinated by the jets and the trip to the moon in the 1960s. He says that shaped his life and brought him to where he is today with electric airplanes. George is the founder and CEO of Bye Aerospace. He gets more intimate with us as he discusses what foreshadowed his interest in aviation, getting into the United States Air Force, flying a variety of platforms, and coming into electric aviation with Bye Aerospace. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: From Conventional To Electric Aviation with George Bye I was inspired at eight years old watching both my parents learn to fly and then fascinated by the jets and the trip to the moon of the 1960s. That shaped my life and brought me to where I am today with electric airplanes. — We’re incredibly

  Everybody understands what productivity is. It’s basically doing more with less. The former chairman of Procter & Gamble once said productivity is everything in every business. Sean Hutchinson, CEO/Partner of SVA Value Accelerators, talks about the productivity accelerator which is the fourth out of seven value accelerators. Sean says the reason that it’s in the middle is that it provides an important inflection point built on what’s happened before and it’s a predictor of what happens in the future. Learn more about productivity as Sean talks about the tools for productivity, the value-added process mapping, quality control, risk reduction, and more. — Watch the podcast: Listen to the podcast: Productivity: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson We’re doing a continuation deep dive from an original podcast. We did it with Sean Hutchinson of http://buildvaluetod

  When we say higher valuation, many business owners focus more on profits than actually looking into the threats to earning those profits. Sean Hutchinson and Alistair Stewart of SVA Value Accelerators talk about the importance of risk reduction. Together, they lay down the five categories of risks out there for business owners to consider: strategic, compliance, operational, financial, and reputational risk. They present situations and solutions that could help you picture out how to overcome them. They also talk about whether owners are aware of these risks while discussing a de-risked company versus a risky company and the value gap between them. —  Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Rapid Risk Reduction Methodology Detailed: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson SVA Value Accelerators and Alistair Stewart Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson Risks are the consequences of an action, an event that is reasonably likel

  Women who are newly diagnosed with breast cancer are shocked at how emotional the experience is. They’re finding that their emotions range from extremes as everything seems to all of a sudden get amplified in their life. Diane Simard, author of The Unlikely Gift of Breast Cancer, goes into her own personal experience of going through and surviving Stage 3 breast cancer. She’s here to talk about her book, the diagnosis, her treatments, and her advocacy for individualized psychosocial support for cancer survivors and their caregivers. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: The Unlikely Gift Of Breast Cancer with Diane Simard I’m http://businessleaderspodcast.com/diane-simard-world-class-businesswoman-angel-investor-stage-3-breast-cancer-survivor-data-capture-my-why-evolution/ (Diane M. Simard) coming to you from https://www.byeaerospace.com/ (Bye Aerospace) in lovely Centennial, Colorado. I’m thrilled to be on the show as part of a follow on. I’m here to talk abou

A lot of people put their career first over everything else for a long period of time, and there are consequences to that. Doug Robinson always wanted to have a more balanced life between work, family and community, and so when an opportunity presented itself, he made the choice to move to Colorado to have a shot at it. Gathering the right people, he formed a successful organization and started his own firm. He is now the managing partner of Dry Fly Capital, a private equity firm casting vision for legacy business operations to expand into growth. Doug talks about the tradeoffs of creating your own firm, closing transactions, bringing companies to market, the culture, vision, and core principles of his firm, and more. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast here: Transitioning Into Running Your Own Firm with Doug Robinson We have Doug Robinson as our guest. He’s the Managing Partner of https://www.dryflycap.com/ (Dry Fly Capital). He’s an adjunct professor of Finance at the Universit

  Business is all about being able to look forward and come through from where you are in the present. Sean Hutchinson, CEO/Partner of SVA Value Accelerators, talks about the Company of the Future in the value accelerator. He shares the intensive work his company has been doing with pivoting owners to advance towards their goals in the future. The Company of the Future is that strategy where you will have to think of the current and future state of your business. Get down into it as you answer the question of “Where are we going and how are we going to get there?” Sean breaks down the two tools that can help you find the answers to these questions: the graphics game plan and strategic doing. — Watch the episode here: Listen to the podcast: Company Of The Future: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson We’re going to go through and do a continuation or a deep dive from an original episode with Sean Hutchinson of http://buildvaluetoday.com/ (SVA). He’s

  As the world continue to shift and improve, the spaces for women in leadership positions have greatly opened up. Cheryl Campbell, former Senior Vice President of Xcel Energy and the Independent Director of Hoffman Southwest, takes us to the boardroom as she engages her experiences as a woman functioning in board roles. Together with Jo Lynne Whiting of Board Bound, we follow Cheryl as she describes her responsibilities from working with Xcel Energy to Hoffman Southwest. She provides great insights and advices to those young men and women who would love a career path that would soon serve on boards, laying down some pointers on how you can make key decisions and add value – from compliance and progress to employee safety and acquisition. Cheryl then sheds a light for women who want to participate in nontraditional areas, encouraging them to have the confidence to pursue what they love to do. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Entering The Boardroom with Cheryl Campbell and Jo

Many business owners flinch when hearing the word “transition.” The reason is how, for so long, it has been associated with the death of the business. CEO and Partner of SVA Value Accelerators Sean Hutchinson says otherwise. In fact, he believes that it is the path to higher valuation, making the business more valuable. With his expertise on value acceleration and transition readiness for business owners around the country, he shares the reasons why equipping yourself with the succession tools are very important. Sean talks about the three buckets or classifications of business owners that represent different points along the journey to transition readiness: explorers, pivoters, and triggerers. Learn which among these you belong to as Sean gives the three ways that you can increase the value of your business. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson 75% to 95% of the business owners’ net worth is tied up in their busine

Many business owners flinch when hearing the word “transition.” The reason is how, for so long, it has been associated with the death of the business. CEO and Partner of SVA Value Accelerators Sean Hutchinson says otherwise. In fact, he believes that it is the path to higher valuation, making the business more valuable. With his expertise on value acceleration and transition readiness for business owners around the country, he shares the reasons why equipping yourself with the succession tools are very important. Sean talks about the three buckets or classifications of business owners that represent different points along the journey to transition readiness: explorers, pivoters, and triggerers. Learn which among these you belong to as Sean gives the three ways that you can increase the value of your business. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson 75% to 95% of the business owners’ net worth is tied up in their busine