AGL 366: Burnout Immunity with Kandi Wiens
A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world
Release Date: 05/15/2024
AGL 380: Dominic Dithurbide
A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world
About Dominic Dominic is a creative, goal-driven marketing leader that’s dedicated his career to the translation industry. Dominic brings proficiency in global marketing, demand generation, and go-to-market strategies as the Director of Marketing at MotionPoint. MotionPoint is a managed translation platform that delivers concierge-level, end-to-end translation to meet the needs of brands across desired languages and local markets. MotionPoint’s concierge-level managed translation service has led the industry for 22 years. Today We Talked About Dominic's background Journey at MotionPoint...
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AGL 379: Greg Davis
A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world
About Greg Greg has served on the Bigleaf Networks' board of directors since 2020. He has a consistent track record scaling businesses and creating enterprise value through revenue growth, operational performance, and strategic acquisitions. Greg’s technology leadership career spans more than 25 years, where he has led multiple companies from start up to over $100 million in annual revenue. Prior to Bigleaf, Greg served as COO at HungerRush, a national leader in hospitality software. Prior to HungerRush, Greg spent eight years as EVP of Sales at Alert Logic, where he led sales, marketing,...
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AGL 378: Dr. Marshall Goldsmith
A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world
About Marshall Dr. Marshall Goldsmith has been recognized as one of the Top Ten Business Thinkers in the World and the top-rated executive coach at the Thinkers50 ceremony in London since 2011. Published in 2015, his book Triggers is a Wall Street Journal and New York Times #1 Bestseller! He’s also the author of New York Times best seller and #1 Wall Street Journal Business Book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, winner of the Harold Longman Award as Best Business Book of the Year. Today We Talked About Leadership Luck IBM Coaching Knowledge Philanthropy MarshallBot Connect with...
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AGL 377: Dean Guida
A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world
About Dean Dean Guida has led his organization through decades of technological change, cultivating Infragistics from a small startup in 1989 into a global enterprise software leader. Dean oversees all aspects of Infragistics' business operations and corporate direction, maintaining a steady focus on delighting the customer, delivering value to the market, and inspiring STEM students. With a developer and UX professional community of more than two million, Infragistics has achieved the highest awards in software development, and Infragistics enterprise apps help users collaborate and obtain...
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AGL 376: The Dystopian Utopia with Carl M.A. Arden
A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world
About Carl Carl is a Swedish-born author with a background in business and international relations. He studied economics at the University of Oxford and completed an MBA at the London Business School. He worked as a diplomat in Moscow and completed one tour of peacekeeping in Kosovo before moving into different roles in investment banking and corporate finance. His main interests are in future trends, disruptive technologies, socio-political and economic systems, risks and uncertainty, sustainable development, and all creative arts. Carl is interested in alternative history novels and...
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AGL 375: Chad Brown
A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world
About Chad Chad Brown is a leadership engagement expert. He coaches founders and executives in the art and science of leadership for themselves, their teams, and clients to create new, unprecedented results and experience fulfillment in their work. Chad founded a media production studio called Shade Tree Films in 2008 that has serviced global companies such as Volkswagen, Target, and Pixar Animation Studios. This is where his love and passion for leadership and causing results through others was ignited. He sold that company in 2021. He thrives in extreme environments and difficult...
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AGL 374: Richmond Alake
A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world
About Richmond Richmond Alake is an AI/ML Practitioner with an academic background in computer vision, robotics, and machine learning. He has worked in software development and machine learning roles since 2016. Richmond has also taught online AI/ML/Data courses and written over 200 technical articles with over 1 million views. He is passionate about using technology to solve real-world problems. Today We Talked About AI/ML MongoDB Compute Data Models Opensource Language Models LLM applications Prompt Engineering RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) architecture Credible Sources are...
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AGL 373: Madeline Miller
A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world
About Madeline Madeline Miller is making executive coaching more accessible and inclusive for rising leaders, specifically, Gen Z and Millennial women; so they can take control of their careers, reduce burnout and develop interpersonal skills and healthy resilience to become the leaders they wish they had. As a lawyer, DEI consultant, and Career and Leadership coach, Madeline founded Coaching With Madeline after 15+ years spent walking the line between milestone successes and frequent uncertainty. With degrees from The University of Melbourne and UCLA, she’s worked in high-profile...
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AGL 372: Sol Rashidi
A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world
About Sol Sol Rashidi, a former C-Suite executive, is now a consultant and influencer within the AI, data, and technology space, having helped IBM launch Watson back in 2011 and involved in “hands on” AI deployments since. She’s been named 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech, Top 100 Innovators in Data & Analytics, CAO of the Year, CDO of the Year, Global Data Power Women, and holds eight patents. Her new book, (Wiley, April 30, 2024), was named among Best Books in AI by CEOWorld and made it to the bestseller list in less than one month. Learn more at Today We...
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AGL 371: Rhea Wessel
A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world
About Rhea Rhea Wessel, an American writer, specializes in empowering companies to expand their reach by enhancing their storytelling capabilities. She provides guidance on ideation, messaging, and the art of articulating one's best ideas to drive innovation. With a prolific career in journalism, Rhea has penned thousands of articles for esteemed publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and BBC. As a corporate writer, she has crafted and refined countless narratives spanning across 30 diverse industries. Rhea proudly leads The Institute for...
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Kandi Wiens, EdD, MSEd, MBA, is a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, the director of the Penn Master's in Medical Education Program and the Penn Health Professions Education Certificate Program, and the academic director of the PennCLO Master's Program. She is the author of Burnout Immunity: How Emotional Intelligence Can Help You Build Resilience and Heal Your Relationship with Work.
She frequently teaches in various graduate-level and executive-format programs across the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Thinkers50 Radar 2024 cohort, a researcher, a national speaker, and an executive coach whose work focuses on helping leaders hone and use their emotional and social intelligence to amplify their positive impact and protect themselves from burnout.
Today We Talked About
- Kandi's background
- Burnout
- Stress
- Health scare
- Burnout
- What causes it?
- Culture
- Leaders' goal
- The Sweet Spot of Stress
- Open conversations about stress and deadlines
- Clear Expectations
- Boundaries
- 3 Rx Prescription
- Recovery - Prioritize it
- Reconnect
- Reimagine
- Walk n Talks
- Emotional Intelligence
- Social Intelligence
- "How did that land with you?"
- The Burnout Quiz!