Leading Matters with Joel Capperella

#26 Matt K. Lewis Author Too Dumb To Fail

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.

#25 Dr. Gail Dines Founder and President Culture Reframed

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.  

#24 Patti Sanchez Co-Author Illuminate: Ignite Change Through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies, and Symbols

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.

#23 Brent Adamson Co-Author The Challenger Sale

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. 

#22 New York Times Bestselling Author Daniel Pink

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. 

#21 Chris Savage CEO Wistia

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.

#20 Leyla Seka General Manager Desk.com

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.

#19 Kevin Nakao Head of Employee Engagement TINYPulse

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

#18 Art Papas CEO Bullhorn

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.   

#17 Robert Moore & Jake Stein RJMetrics

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.