Justin Brown is the founder of Ideapod, a personal development platform for bringing ideas to life. Ideapod has an 80,000-strong community and has a focus on bringing the “self” out of “self-development”. Justin created Ideapod while undertaking doctoral research in international political economy. He quit the PhD to run Ideapod…
Do not hire for need, hire talented people and you will find them a role. Ville Houttu is the Founder and CEO of Vincit California, Inc. Previously, he helped the Finnish company to reach 350 employees and make it public on Nasdaq First North marketplace. After the IPO, Ville…
Integrate your intuition with your intellect and you will be a force in all you do Erin Papworth spent thirteen years working in women’s development and behavioral science internationally. She led multi-million dollar programs across 15 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and successfully advocated for country-level health policy change to…
Wherever you go, experience will be your best teacher. Mistakes will help you learn better and make you grow towards near perfection. Be willing to fail quickly and work your way up. Patrick J. Coleman is the President of GiveCentral and Coleman Group Consulting. As a CEO to two…
Taking risks where others would not. Be able to look towards the future and try to imagine where the industry is going. Robert Landino is the current CEO of Center Earth LLC, a full-service consultancy and concrete construction company serving the Connecticut market. He also serves as President of…
Don’t let fear prevent success. Timothy Pickett graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a major in Architectural Acoustics in 2000. He started Sound & Lighting Designs a year before graduation in 1999. In 2013 as the business grew SLD became Encompass Audio Visual, in order to incorporate all the…
Be authentic, each person has their own story to share. Celebrate your uniqueness and create a safe space for others to do the same. Nahamani Yisrael is a Cincinnati, Ohio native. She graduated from Cincinnati’s School for Creative and Performing Arts where she majored in Technical Theater. She studied…
Marc Lawrence graduated from the University of Miami in 1996, with a JD from Nova in 1999 and an LLM in real estate law. He first worked with Jorge Perez at The Related Group until 2005. From finding new projects, to financing and having the right product for property,…
Evaluate and re-evaluate your habits and processes. It’s all too easy to get stuck in routines that aren’t actually best practices anymore. Sascha Eder is the COO and Co-Founder of NewtonX, an AI-powered knowledge access platform. He was formerly a consultant with Boston Consulting Group; a consultant with McKinsey &…
Always prioritize, it shows how disciplined you are as a person in general. It’ll make your life easier. Sean Lourdes is the founder and president of The Lourdes Foundation, an organization dedicated to raising funds and awareness for the disadvantaged youth of the world. From a young age, this…
Attorney Joel Nagel is the managing partner and founder of Nagel & Associates, LLC, as well as the chairman of Caye International Bank, LTD., and the co-founder of ECI Development, LTD., in addition to a number of other enterprises. Nagel & Associates is a law firm specializing in international…