What's Next! With Tiffani Bova

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

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am thrilled to welcome David Wood to the What’s Next! Podcast. A former Consulting Actuary to Fortune 100 companies (including Sony Music, Chanel, and Exxon) David Wood  left his cushy Park Avenue job 20 years ago to build the world’s largest coaching business. He became #1 on Google for “life coaching”, serving an audience of 150,000 coaches, and coaching thousands of hours in 12 countries around the globe. Alongside his clients’ successes, David is no stranger to overcoming challenges himself, having survived a full collapse of his paraglider and a fractured spine, witnessing the death of his sister at age seven, severe anxiety and depression, and a national Gong Show! He is the author of “Get Paid For Who You Are,” with a foreword by Jack Canfield and he was nominated to the Transformational Leadership Council alongside thought leaders like Don Miguel Ruiz, John Gray, and Marianne Williamson. David coaches rock star entrepreneurs to double

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.  This week I am thrilled to welcome Amy Edmondson to the What’s Next! Podcast. Amy is an American scholar of leadership, teaming, and organizational learning who is currently the Novartis Professor of Leadership at the Harvard Business School. She has been recognized by the bi-annual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011, and most recently was ranked #3 in 2019; she also received the organization’s Breakthrough Idea Award in 2019 and Talent Award in 2017.  She studies teaming, psychological safety, and organizational learning, and her articles have been published in numerous academic and management outlets, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, and California Management Review. Her most recent book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth, offers a practical guide for organizations serious about succe

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 Ryan Serhant! Ryan is a real estate broker, CEO, and the founder of SERHANT., a vertically integrated mega brokerage comprising an in-house film studio, education arm, marketing division, and technology platform. He's also a bestselling author, producer, and star of Bravo's Million Dollar Listing New York and Sell It Like Serhant. I am excited to bring you this episode with Ryan Serhant on the What’s Next! Podcast!     THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… salespeople–which, according to Ryan, is everyone if you think about it!    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… Ryan shares his journey from starting out as a struggling actor in New York, to building a mega brokerage and multimedia brand. He walks us through the real estate scene in New York amidst the sudden onslaught of the pandemic in March of 2020 and how he wrote his book, Big Money Ene

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 former Amazon VP Colin Bryar! Colin joined Amazon in 1998–four years after its founding–and spent the next 12 years as part of Amazon's senior leadership team as Amazon grew from a domestic (US-only) seller of books to a global, multi-dimensional powerhouse and innovator. Colin served as a Vice President at Amazon, and for two of his years, he was "Chief of Staff" to Jeff Bezos, AKA "Jeff's shadow", during which he spent each day attending meetings, traveling with, and discussing business and life with Jeff. After Amazon, he and his family relocated to Singapore for two years where Colin served as Chief Operating Officer of e-commerce company RedMart, which was subsequently sold to Alibaba. Colin is co-founder of Working Backwards LLC where he coaches executives at both large and early-stage companies on how to im

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 on March 9th, 2021 with, friend of the show, Kim Scott and Trier Bryant! Kim is the author of the new book Just Work: Get Sh*t Done Fast & Fair as well as a What’s Next! favorite, Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity. She is also the co-founder of the company, Radical Candor. Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, and Twitter–among others–and a member of the faculty at Apple University. Trier Bryant is the CPO of Astra, as well as the former Principal CEO at Pathfinder. Trier earned a B.S. in Systems Engineering with a minor in Spanish from the United States Air Force Academy and is a decorated combat veteran, having served seven-years active-duty in the United States Air Force as a Cyber Network Engineer. Kim and Trier have just launched Just Work, the company, and I am thrilled to bring you th

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.  This week I am thrilled to welcome my friend, Martin Lindstrom, back to the What’s Next! Podcast. Martin is the founder and chairman of Lindstrom Company, a global branding & culture transformation firm operating across five continents and in more than 30 countries. TIME Magazine has named Martin one of the “World’s 100 Most Influential People,” and for three years running, Thinkers50 has selected him to be among the world’s top 50 business thinkers. He is the author of seven books including several New York Times bestsellers that have been translated into 60 languages! The Wall-Street Journal praised his book Brand Sense as “one of the five best marketing books ever published,” and his book Small Data as “revolutionary.” TIME called his book Buyology “a breakthrough in branding.” Martin has appeared across media including The New York Times, NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Marketplace, and on NBC’s TODAY Show more than twenty times. He can also be

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.   This week I am thrilled to be bringing you our seventh What’s Next! BONUS Episode with Raja Rajamannar! For this special episode, I'm sharing my February, 12th LinkedIn Live chat with the Chief Marketing & Communications Officer for Mastercard, and President of the company’s healthcare business.     Raja joined Mastercard in 2013, bringing with him more than 25 years of experience as a global executive, managing large P&Ls and driving business transformation across multiple industries and geographies. Raja served as Chief Transformation Officer of the health insurance firm Anthem (formerly WellPoint). He helped craft the company’s new business direction and strategy, managed its $11 billion Medicare Advantage business, and led large M&A initiatives for the company. Prior to that, he also served as Chief Innovation & Marketing Officer and Chief Executive of International Operations at Humana. Raja is consistently recognized globall

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.  This week I am excited to welcome Mark A. Herschberg to the What’s Next! Podcast. Mark is the author of The Career Toolkit, Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You. From tracking criminals and terrorists on the dark web to creating marketplaces and new authentication systems, Mark has spent his career launching and developing new ventures at startups and Fortune 500s and in academia. He helped to start the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, dubbed MIT’s “career success accelerator,” where he teaches annually. At MIT, he received a B.S. in physics, a B.S. in electrical engineering & computer science, and a M.Eng. in electrical engineering & computer science, focusing on cryptography. At Harvard Business School, Mark helped create a platform used to teach finance at prominent business schools. He also works with many non-profits, including Techie Youth and Plant A Million Corals. He was one of the top-ranked ballroom dance

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.  This week I am excited to welcome Jeff Wald to the What’s Next! Podcast. Jeff is the Founder of Work Market, an enterprise software platform that enables companies to manage freelancers (acquired by ADP). Jeff has founded several other technology companies, including Spinback, a social sharing platform (eventually purchased by salesforce.com). Jeff began his career in finance, serving as Managing Director at activist hedge fund Barington Capital Group, a Vice President at venture capital firm GlenRock and various roles in the M&A Group at JP Morgan. He is an active angel investor and startup advisor, as well as serving on numerous public and private Boards of Directors. He also formerly served as an officer in the Auxiliary Unit of the New York Police Department and is the author of The Birthday Rules and The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations. Jeff frequently speaks at conferences and in media on startups and labor

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.      This week I am beyond thrilled to be bringing you our sixth What’s Next! BONUS Episode with the Tom Peters (a second-time What’s Next! Guest)! For this special episode, I'm sharing my January, 14th LinkedIn Live chat with the “Red Bull of Management Thinkers” as we discuss excellence.   Tom Peters is the co-author of In Search of Excellence—the book that changed the way the world does business and often tagged as the best business book ever. Seventeen books and thirty-five years later, Tom is still at the forefront of the “management guru industry” he single-handedly invented. As CNN said, “While most business gurus milk the same mantra for all it’s worth, the one-man brand called Tom Peters is still reinventing himself.” His most recent effort is The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last (Vintage, 2018). Tom’s bedrock belief: “Execution is strategy—it’s all about the people and the doing, not the talk

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am excited to welcome Matthew Pollard to the What’s Next! Podcast. Matthew is responsible for five multi-million-dollar business success stories (all before the age of 30). Forbes calls him “the real deal,” Global Gurus lists him as a Top 30 Sales Professional, Top Sales World Magazine named him a Top 50 Speaker, and BigSpeak lists him as an international Top 10 Sales Trainer. He’s also the bestselling author of The Introvert’s Edge, which hit the Amazon charts as the 8th Most-Sold Book of the Week, appears on HubSpot’s list of the “Most Highly-Rated Sales Books of All Time,” and was selected by BookAuthority as the #2 “Best Introvert Book of All Time.” His soon-to-be-released second book, The Introvert’s Edge to Networking, has already received endorsements from Harvard, Princeton, Neil Patel, Michael Gerber, Dr. Ivan Misner, and Marshall Goldsmith. I am absolutely thrilled to be speaking with Matthew Pollard on the What’s Next! Podcast! 

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.     This week I am thrilled to welcome Michael Zipursky to the What’s Next! Podcast. Michael is the CEO of Consulting Success and Coach to Consultants. He has advised organizations like Financial Times, Dow Jones, RBC, and helped Panasonic launch new products into global markets. He’s also helped over 450 consultants from around the world in over 75 industries add 6 and 7 figures to their annual revenues. Michael is also the author of the Amazon Best Sellers: ACT NOW: How successful consultants thrive during chaos and uncertainty, The Elite Consulting Mind and Consulting Success.      THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… consultants seeking a more successful outcome, those making the transition to consulting, and even those just considering making the transition to consulting.    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… This is a great time to introduce Michael’s experience in building confidence around something you are passionate about, finding clients, and identifyi

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.     This week I am excited to welcome Doug Dennerline to the show. Doug began his technology career as an HP sales representative in the San Francisco Bay Area. He moved from there to 3Com where he held numerous leadership positions across 10 years. After transitioning to Cisco, Doug became the General Manager of Cisco WebEx and SVP/GM of the collaboration software group post the acquisition of WebEx. He spent 11 years at Cisco Systems and was responsible for running the 6000+ person enterprise sales organization, and growing their revenue to $9.5B. Since then, Doug served as the CEO of Alfresco for over 5 years, and is now the CEO of Betterworks where they seek to create organizational unity that also delivers results. I am absolutely thrilled to be speaking with Doug Dennerline on the What’s Next! Podcast!     THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… leaders struggling to lead their teams during this unprecedented time and team members feeling burned out a

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.   This week I am thrilled to bring you an encore of a What’s Next! Linked Live episode I recorded earlier this year with the absolutely delightful Bonin Bough! This conversation was high-energy, high-impact, and extremely insightful, so I’m bringing it back as this week’s episode of the What’s Next! Podcast. Bonin is one of the foremost-awarded marketing executives in the world, the host of CNBC’s Cleveland Hustles, and the author of Txt Me (646) 759-1837.  As one of the youngest-C-suite executives at a Fortune 50 Company, he has worked for billion-dollar CPG brands including Mondelez and PepsiCo before starting Bonin Ventures - a growth accelerator that helps businesses of all shapes and sizes achieve revenue growth faster than they ever believed possible. He has been responsible for some of the most successful organization transformations, and the rapid growth of some of the world's most-loved billion-dollar brands including Oreo, Cadbury's, Pepsi, G

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.   This week I am excited to welcome Michael Canic to the What’s Next Podcast! Michael is the President of Making Strategy Happen, a consulting firm that helps committed leaders turn ambition into strategy, and strategy into reality. For the past 20+ years, he has instituted the structure and discipline of his strategic management system in organizations across North America. Previously, he managed the consulting division at The Atlanta Consulting Group, and prior to that held a leadership role at FedEx. He earned a Ph.D. in the Psychology of Human Performance from the University of British Columbia and is a former national championship-winning college football coach–he is also a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches global initiative. His new book,  RUTHLESS CONSISTENCY: How Committed Leaders Execute Strategy, Implement Change and Build Organizations That Win published in September of 2020.     THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… leaders and organiza

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.       This week I am beyond thrilled to be speaking with Dave Smith and Brad Johnson on the What’s Next Podcast! David G. Smith, Ph.D., is a professor of sociology in the National Security Affairs Department at the U.S. Naval War College. As a sociologist trained in military sociology and social psychology, he focuses his research on gender, work, and family issues. He is the co-author of Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women along with Brad Johnson. W. Brad Johnson, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology in the Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law at the United States Naval Academy and a faculty associate in the Graduate School of Education at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of thirteen books, including Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women and his newest book, also co-authored with Dave Smith, Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace.    THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… men in positio

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.   This week I am beyond thrilled to welcome the absolutely lovely Mitzi Perdue to the What’s Next Podcast! Mitzi is an author, speaker, and businesswoman. She is the founder of CERES Farms, the second-generation, family-owned, commercial and agricultural real estate investment company that has owned rice fields, commercial and residential real estate, and today the family vineyards sell wine grapes to wineries such as Mondavi, Bogle, Folie a Deux, and Toasted Head.  Her talk, Timeless Secrets of Success, comes from observing how her father, co-founder of the Sheraton Hotel Chain, and her late husband, Frank Perdue, each built their companies from no employees to more than 20,000 employees strong! Mitzi is also the Founder and Chair of Win This Fight, a novel approach to combatting human trafficking.  PBS has recently filmed a half-hour documentary on the organization.    THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… everyone!    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… We all cra

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.      This week I am thrilled to bring you our fifth What’s Next! Bonus Episode with the unstoppable Kara Goldin! For this special episode, I'm sharing my recent LinkedIn Live chat with the CEO of Hint Inc.   Kara Goldin is the Founder and CEO of Hint Inc., best known for its award-winning Hint water, the leading unsweetened flavored water. She has received numerous accolades, including being named EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 Northern California, one of InStyle’s 2019 Badass 50, FastCompany’s Most Creative People in Business, WWDBeauty Inc.’s Feel Good Force, and Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs. The Huffington Post listed her as one of six disruptors in business, alongside Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. Previously, Kara was VP of Shopping and Ecommerce at America Online where she helped lead the growth of its shopping and ecommerce business to over $1 billion in revenue. She is an active speaker and writer and, in 2017, she launched