What's Next! With Tiffani Bova

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am thrilled to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast with Simon Mainwaring. Simon is the founder and CEO of We First, a strategic consultancy accelerating growth and impact for purpose-driven brands. He’s a member of the Steering Committee of Sustainable Brands, the Forbes Business Council, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was a Featured Expert and Jury Member at the Cannes Lions Festival for the Sustainable Development Goals in 2021, host of the ‘Brands With Purpose’ series with Harvard Business School Association of Boston, and his company, We First, is included in Real Leaders list for the Top 100 Impact Companies in the US for 2021 and 2019, as well as a B Corps ‘Best for The World’ Honoree. He was a Real Leaders Top 100 Visionary Leader in 2018, a finalist for the Conscious Company Leadership Awards in 2017, received the MAKE CHANGE, ‘Conscious Leadership’ Award for 2016, and was a finalist for Global Australian

Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova for this What’s Next! Reload.  This week I am bringing back an episode with my wonderful friend Seth Godin on the human side of business. Seth is the author of over 18 books that have been bestsellers around the world and been translated into more than 35 languages. He writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership, and–most of all–changing everything. You might be familiar with his books Linchpin, Tribes, The Dip, and, my favorite, Purple Cow. In addition to his writing and speaking Seth founded both Yoyodyne and Squidoo. His blog, which you can find him by typing Seth into Google, is one of the most popular in the world and he was recently inducted into the Direct Marketing Hall of Fame–one of three chosen for this honor in 2013.    THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… humans is sales and marketing.    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… Seth loves to talk about making something happen. He is a huge fan of doing

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.     This week I am thrilled to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast with Mike Zani. Mike is the CEO of The Predictive Index, a talent optimization platform that uses over 60 years of proven science and software to help businesses, design high-performing teams and cultures, make objective hiring decisions, and inspire greatness in people. Its 8,000+ clients include Bain Capital, Blue Cross Blue Shield, DoorDash, LVMH, Nissan, Omni Hotels, and VMware. Mike is also the co-founder and partner at Phoenix Strategy Investments, a private investment fund and an avid sailor–he was the coach of the 1996 US Olympic Team. He holds a BS from Brown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. I am so excited to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast with Mike Zani!     THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… for leaders, managers, entrepreneurs, remote teams, and culture builders.    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… We’ve asked more of our workf

Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova for this What’s Next! Reload.  This week I am bringing back an episode with the wonderful Ginger Hardage on Servant Leadership. Ginger recently retired as Senior Vice President of Culture and Communications at Southwest Airlines after an illustrious 25 years. She is recognized by many as a foremost authority on building and sustaining organizational culture, and during her time at Southwest, the airline experienced 22 consecutive years on FORTUNE’s “Top 10 Most Admired Companies in the World” list. Throughout her career, Ginger has received countless awards and honors like the PRWeek Top 50 Power list, PRWeek 50 Most Powerful Women in Public Relations, Texas’ Most Powerful and Influential Women, and “Legendary Communicator” by Southern Methodist University in 2007. Ginger was also inducted into the Public Relations Hall of Fame in 2015 and received the prestigous Legacy Award from the Plank Center for Leadership in 2016. Ginger currently serves as a Tru

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.  This week I am thrilled to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast, an encore of my LinkedIn Live chat with my friend Rita McGrath. Rita is a bestselling author, sought-after speaker, and longtime professor at Columbia Business School. She is also one of the world's top experts on innovation and growth and is regularly published in the Harvard Business Review. She's consistently ranked among the top ten management thinkers in the world and was ranked number one for strategy by Thinkers50. She is the author of the best-selling book, The End of Competitive Advantage, and her most recent book, Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen. I am beyond excited to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast with Rita McGrath!     THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… anyone in business who experienced our most recent, shared inflection point, COVID-19.    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… Building a culture that n

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am thrilled to welcome Stephanie Tilenius to the What’s Next! Podcast. Stephanie is a founder and the CEO of Vida Health, Inc., a mobile continuous care platform for preventing, managing, and overcoming chronic and mental health conditions deployed at Fortune 500 companies, large national payers, and healthcare providers since January 2014. She was an Executive in Residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a venture capital firm, and Vice President of Global Commerce and Payments at Google, Inc., where she oversaw digital commerce, product search and payments. Prior to joining Google, she was at eBay Inc., ultimately as Senior Vice President of eBay.com and global products. I am beyond excited to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast with Stephanie Tilenius!     THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… remote teams, those looking for tech-enabled mental health solutions, and entrepreneurs who want to know what it looks like to id

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.    This week I am thrilled to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast, an encore of my LinkedIn Live chat with my friend Ray Wang. Ray is the Founder, Chairman and Principal Analyst of Silicon Valley based Constellation Research Inc., a research and advisory firm which studies disruptive business and exponential technology trends. His new book about digital giants and the future of business titled, Everybody Wants to Rule The World was released July 2021 and is the next big idea that expands on his 2015 ground-breaking, best-selling book on digital transformation, Disrupting Digital Business. I am so happy to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast! with Ray Wang.     THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… entrepreneurs and business owners who are trying to learn from the digital giants.    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… After analyzing and watching thousands of businesses – Ray realized the fact that digital transformation appeared not to b

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.     This week I am thrilled to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast, an encore of my LinkedIn Live chat with the wonderful Katy Milkman. Katy is the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a secondary appointment at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. Her research explores ways that insights from economics and psychology can be harnessed to change consequential behaviors for good. She has received numerous awards for her research including an early career award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences. Katy was also named one of the world’s top 40 business school professors under 40 by Poets and Quants and she was a finalist for the Thinkers 50 2017 Radar Thinker Award. She also frequently writes about topics related to behavioral science for The Washington Post and Scientific American. In 2018, she began hosting Charles Schwab’s popular podcast “Choiceolog

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.  This week I am so honored and thrilled to bring you this can’t-miss episode of the What’s Next! Podcast! - an encore of my LinkedIn Live chat with the great Peter Diamandis. Peter was recently named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” he is the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation (currently offering a historic prize with Elon Musk for carbon sequestration), which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions. He is also the executive founder of Singularity University, a graduate-level Silicon Valley institution that counsels the world's leaders on exponentially growing technologies.      THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… innovators, big thinkers, entrepreneurs, inventors, problem solvers, futurists, leaders, doers, audacious believers with the drive to make your dreams a reality.    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… Peter talks about all the good out there and the untapped opportunity tech

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.  This week I am thrilled to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast, an encore of my LinkedIn Live chat with Erica Dhawan. Erica is a 21st century collaboration expert and keynote speaker who has studied human innovation and collaboration for over 15 years. She’s written two books on collaboration, communication, and teamwork, Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence and Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance. I am so excited to bring you this episode with Erica Dhawan on the What’s Next! Podcast!     THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… everyone navigating a digital environment, work emails, remote work, and colleagues with differing, digital communication styles.    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… The integration of traditional body language and digital body language matters now more than ever as we move to more hybrid forms of remote work and remote communication, across different digital

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.     This week I am thrilled to welcome Jonathan Brill to the What’s Next! Podcast. Jonathan prepares leaders to profit from radical change. He is the author of Rogue Waves, a speaker and advisor on resilient growth, decision making and innovation under uncertainty. His practical advice is based on decades of experience as an entrepreneur and Fortune 50 tech executive at HP (Hewlett-Packard) and managing partner of innovation. He is the managing director of Resilient Growth Partners and a board member at Frost & Sullivan. He blows off steam as the Futurist-in-Residence at Territory Studio, the creative visionaries behind the sci-fi tech in Stephen Spielberg’s Ready Player One, Ghost in the Shell and Blade Runner 2049, where he creates products and better worlds for both super villains and real-life heroes.      THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… those who want to know how to mitigate risk and identify [predictable] disruptions so they can respond wi

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.     This week I am thrilled to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast, an encore of my LinkedIn Live chat with my good friend, Melissa Di Donato. Melissa is the Chief Executive Officer of SUSE and is responsible for all aspects of the SUSE business and its worldwide growth. She has spent more than 20 years in technology as a leader delivering innovative and transformative cloud solutions and software technologies for customers around the world. Prior to SUSE, Melissa was the Global Chief Operating Officer for the Digital Core at SAP and Area Vice President at Salesforce.com for EMEA and APAC. Melissa was recognized as one of the Top 10 most influential women in the U.K by CEO Today Magazine’s Europe Awards in 2020 and the Technology Woman of Achievement award by Women in the City, amongst many others. She is a Non-Executive Director of publicly listed Burgundy Technology Corporation and Executive in Residence for Notion Capital. Melissa i

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am thrilled to welcome Peter Vanham to the What’s Next! Podcast. Peter writes on the world economy and its most inspiring leaders and helps others do the same. As Head of the International Media Council of the World Economic Forum, he brings together the editors-in-chief of the world's leading Media to share insights. As Head of Communications for Chairman Klaus Schwab, he helps establish the World Economic Forum’s views on “stakeholder capitalism” and other topics of interest. Peter is also the author of “Brave Belgians”, a history of famous and less famous Belgian entrepreneurs throughout the centuries, and “Before I Was CEO", a book on the life and career lessons of CEOs before they reached the top.   THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… anyone interested in learning more about how to lead with purpose, the fourth industrial revolution, and the role of the World Economic Forum.    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… how technology can be a force for g

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am absolutely thrilled to welcome Hubert Joly to the What’s Next! Podcast. Hubert is the former Chairman and Chief Executive of Best Buy and is now a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Johnson and Johnson and the Ralph Lauren  Corporation, a member of the International Advisory Board of HEC Paris, and a trustee of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. He has been recognized as one of the top 100 CEOs in the world by Harvard Business Review, one of the top 30 CEOs in the world by Barron’s, and one of the top 10 CEOs in the US by Glassdoor. I am beyond excited to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast from my Live chat with Hubert Joly.   THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… Leaders seeking to abandon old paradigms and eager to lead with purpose and humanity.   TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… Hubert is on a mission to reinvent capitalism to contribute to a sustainable future. In this episode, he sh

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am absolutely thrilled to bring you a special BONUS episode of the What’s Next! Podcast, an encore of my LinkedIn Live chat with Dragon’s Den Dragon, Michele Romanow! Michele became the youngest Dragon on Dragon’s Den–Canada's version of Shark Tank. She has been named to Fortune's “40 Under 40,” a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum, one of Canada's “Most Powerful Women,” and Canada's “Angel Investor of the Year.” Michele started six companies before her thirty-fifth birthday. She previously co-founded Snap Saves, which was acquired by Groupon. She also co-founded Buytopia, which acquired 10 competitors and is now Emerge Commerce. But the really great news is that she is recently a Unicorn! Clear Co., formally Clear Bank, was recently valued at more than two billion dollars, with more than forty five hundred companies acquired, making them the biggest e-commerce investor in the world. I am so excited to bring you this episode wit

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am absolutely thrilled to welcome Amy Webb to the What’s Next! Podcast. Amy advises CEOs of the world’s most-admired companies, three-star admirals and generals, and the senior leadership of central banks and intergovernmental organizations. Founder of the Future Today Institute, a leading foresight and strategy firm that helps leaders and their organizations prepare for complex futures, Amy pioneered a data-driven, technology-led foresight methodology that is now used within hundreds of organizations. Forbes called Amy “one of the five women changing the world.” She was honored as one of the BBC’s 100 Women of 2020 and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar list. Amy is a professor of strategic foresight at New York University’s Stern School of Business, a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University’s Säid School of Business, a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Center, a Fellow in the United States-Japan Leadership Program, and

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am thrilled to welcome Dre Baldwin to the What’s Next! Podcast. In just 5 years, Dre Baldwin went from his high school team's bench to a 9-year professional basketball career. At the same time, Dre built a content publishing empire. Blogging since 2005 and publishing videos to YouTube starting in 2006, Dre has published over 7,000 videos with his content being viewed over 73 million times. Dre's daily Work On Your Game Podcast has over 3 million listeners and Dre has given 4 TED Talks and authored 27 books. I am beyond excited to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast with  Dre Baldwin! THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… anyone who needs to be more disciplined, build their confidence, shore up their mental toughness, or help taking some personal initiative. TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… From Division Three to Pro-Ball, Dre Baldwin shares his journey and his philosophy on discipline, confidence, mental toughness, and personal initiative. With ove

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.     This week I am thrilled to bring you a special episode of the What’s Next! Podcast, an encore of my LinkedIn Live chat with Gordana Biernat. Gordana is an Author, Motivational Speaker, Thinker and Change Architect, a Super Soul 100 Teacher, and part of Oprah Winfrey's SuperSoul 100 Team. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Art History, as well as studies in Psychology, Communication, and Media at Lund University in Sweden. Her book  “#KnowTheTruth - Why Knowing Who You Are Changes Everything" is an international bestseller and she has written for various publications, among them Oprah.com, Huffington Post, Psychology Today, The Sunday Paper, and Times of India. I am so excited to bring you this episode with Gordana Biernat on the What’s Next! Podcast!     THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… everyone.    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… Gordana Biernat is here to help you shift your perspective and live your dream life. In this conversation, Gordana create

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am thrilled to welcome my friend, David Duncan to the What’s Next! Podcast. David is a managing director at Innosight, where he works with leaders to create customer-centric teams, strategies, and organizations. He is the coauthor of two previous books, including the Wall Street Journal bestseller Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice, written with the legendary Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. A leading authority on the theory and application of jobs to be done, Duncan has extensive experience conducting market investigations around the world. Prior to Innosight, he worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and earned a PhD in physics from Harvard. I am so excited to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast with David Duncan!   THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… if you are struggling to understand who your customer is, and why they behave the way they do, this is the episode for y

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am absolutely thrilled to bring you a special BONUS episode of the What’s Next! Podcast, an encore of my LinkedIn Live chat with good friend of the show, Josh Linkner! Josh is a creative troublemaker who started his career as a jazz guitarist and then went on to become the founder and CEO of five tech companies, which sold for a combined value of over $200 million. He is also a deeply experienced business leader, venture capitalist, top-rated keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling author of four books including the New York Times Bestsellers: Disciplined Dreaming and The Road to Reinvention. He has invested in and/or mentored over 100 startups and is the Founding Partner of Detroit Venture Partners. Today, he serves as Chairman and co-founder of Platypus Labs, an innovation research, training, and consulting firm. He has twice been named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and is the recipient of the United States President