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Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. In this episode, Will and Rich's guest is Lawrence K. Fish, former Chairman and CEO of Citizens Financial Group, someone with a remarkable record of leadership in business, philanthropy, arts, education and more.
During his 17 year tenure in charge of Citizens, CFG grew 30 fold and became one of the 10 largest commercial bank holding companies in the US.Outsideof banking, Larry recently retired as Chairman of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the largest educational publishing company in the US, and sits on the board of trustees of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also an honorary trustee of the Brookings Institute, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is a retired board director of the iconic luxury brand Tiffany and Co. and of Textron, a leading global multi-industry company with brands including Cessna, Beechcraft and Bell Helicopter.
Larry also chairs Bridge Over Troubled Waters, a Boston-area nonprofit providing services to runaway, homeless and high-risk youth, and the Fish Family Foundation, which administers the Japan Women’s Leadership initiative founded by Larry’s wife, Atsuko
About the hosts:
Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive SaaS platform that simplifies how teams turn strategy into action. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.
Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons.
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Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. In this episode, Will and Rich's guest is Mike Erwin, founder and Executive Director of Team Red, White & Blue (Team RWB) an organization that guides veterans through a journey of transition from a life of selfless service to building a post-service lifestyle with a strong focus on mental and physical health.
Mike is a 2002 graduate of The U.S. Military Academy at West Point where he was commissioned as an officer and went on to serve three combat tours with the First Cavalry Division and 3rd Special Forces Group. Mike continues to serve the nation as a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves, assigned to the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he is an Assistant Professor. He is the co-author of LEAD YOURSELF FIRST by Bloomsbury Press (2017).
Mike and his wife Genevieve live on a 32-acre farm in North Carolina, where they raise their five young children.About the hosts:
Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.
Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons.
This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital. -
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Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich's guest is Gary Rieschel, a legend in the venture capital world and Founding Managing Partner of Qiming Venture Partners, one of China's premier VC firms. Qiming invests in Technology and Consumer (T&C) and Healthcare and has $9.5 billion USD in capital raised. Many of its portfolio companies are today’s most influential firms in their respective sectors. He formerly held executive positions at Intel, Cisco, and Softbank.
Gary is well regarded as a mentor to entrepreneurs and other venture capitalists, and, in today's episode, he shares lessons on leadership learned over a remarkable career in three distinct economies/cultures, the US, Japan and China.About the hosts:
Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.
Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons.
This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital. -
Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich's guest is Marc Pierce, Co-Founder and “head dreamer” of Warm Springs Productions, a Montana-based production company with over 30 years of award-winning work across a wide variety of networks including History Channel, Travel Channel, Discovery, ESPN2, Outdoor Channel and Sportsman Channel.
About the hosts:
Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.
Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons.
This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital. -
Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich's guest is Mark Gainey, co-founder and chairman of Strava, the social fitness company used by more than 100 million athletes in over 195 countries.
In 1996, Mark co-founded Kana Communications, eventually reaching an over $10B valuation in 2000 on the NASDAQ.
Mark co-founded Strava in 2008 with a focus on cycling. Initially, Strava was a website where cyclists could map and monitor their rides and compete with riders across the country. Strava now records over 30 types of activities, connecting more than 100 million athletes globally.
About The Hosts:
Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.
Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons.
This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital. -
Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich's guest is Anthony Soohoo, the rare business leader who has led startups and driven industry-changing digital transformation at Fortune 500 companies.
As EVP at Walmart, he led one of the largest digital transformations in history, generating billions in incremental revenue and record profits. At CBS, Anthony launched the company's first over-the-top streaming service, catapulting CBS.com into the largest television network site in the industry in the late 2000's.
Anthony is currently a board member at Spryker Systems, Venture Advisor with AI Fund, and an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Harvard Business School.
About The Hosts:
Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.
Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons.
This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital. -
Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich's guest is the Reverend Dr Malcolm Young, Dean of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. As Dean, Malcolm has led the Episcopal cathedral (the third largest in the US) in its mission to reimagine church in the 21st century. Malcolm is the author of The Spiritual Journal of Henry David Thoreau and The Invisibile Hand in Wilderness: Economics, Ecology and God, and is a regular columnist for The San Francisco Examiner and a contributor to the Huffington Post.
About The Hosts:
Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.
Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons.
This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital. -
Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich's guest is Frédérique Campagne Irwin, President and CEO of the National Women's History Museum (https://www.womenshistory.org/) an innovative DC-based museum dedicated to uncovering, interpreting and celebrating women’s diverse contributions to society.
In our discussion on the aspects of leadership that have shaped and guided her life, Fred talks about the dual value of work ethic and authenticity in leadership, the gift of "reverse mentorship," the power of bringing women entrepreneurs together to be accelerators for one another and the work left to do to inspire the future generations of women leaders.
About The Hosts:
Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.
Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons.
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Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich's guest is Waded Cruzado, President of Montana State University.
Waded shares the "five traits" of leadership that have shaped her own style and journey, one that began as the first member of her Puerto Rican family to attend college and the first to venture to the US mainland. She discusses a foundational concept of education - from the latin root "to draw out" or "bring out" - in leadership, enabling others to be pulled toward their potential. President Cruzado also discusses the fraught climate on college and university campuses and how we can do a better job of leaning into meaningful dialogue.
About The Hosts:
Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.
Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons.
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Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich's guest is Zebulon Scoville, Lead Flight Director of NASA's Mission Control.
Zeb shares the lessons from his remarkable career at NASA, which includes leading the International Space Station from the console at Mission Control, creating "return to flight" safety protocols following the Columbia shuttle disaster and collaborating with commercial partners like SpaceX to accelerate the possibilities of future space exploration. Zeb is now Lead Flight Director for the Artemis mission, NASA's first piloted mission to the moon in more than 50 years. It's a fascinating conversation on leadership from within one of the most innovative organizations in humankind.
About The Hosts:
Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.
Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons.
This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital. -
Inspired By Example is a podcast about leadership — purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich ask Tony James the "five questions."
Tony discusses the lessons of leadership built over a remarkable career leading at DLJ and as president of the global asset management firm Blackstone. We think this episode is a master class on leadership from someone who has, undoubtedly, led by example.
About The Hosts:
Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.
Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons.
This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital. -
Inspired By Example is a podcast about purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich ask Dan Goldsmith the "five questions."
Dan talks about his meteoric rise to become one of IBM's youngest ever partners in its global consultancy, the lessons he brought with him to Veeva (that transformed the life sciences industry on its way to a $30B market cap with 35% annual growth), Instructure (which he led to a $2B public to private exit) and his current role as CEO of Tendo.
About The Hosts:
Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.
Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons.
This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital. -
Inspired By Example is a podcast about purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich ask David Coulter the "five questions."
David talks about about some of the valuable lessons he's learned along the way from people like Mac McQuown (former innovator at Wells Fargo), Tom Clausen (former CEO of B of A), Dan Case (former CEO of Hambrecht & Quist) and Farnam Jahanian (President of Carnegie Mellon University) and through his own remarkable career that includes positions of leadership at some of the world’s most iconic financial institutions, including as the Chairman and CEO of Bank of America, Vice Chairman of JPMorgan Chase and Managing Director of Warburg Pincus.
About The Hosts:
Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.
Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons.
This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital. -
Inspired By Example is a podcast about purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich ask Mitchell Kertzman the "five questions."
Mitchell recently retired as Managing Director of Hummer Winblad, and before that was CEO of private and public companies for over 30 years, including Powersoft, Sybase and Liberate Technologies. In this episode, Michell discusses what shaped his model of great leadership, continuous learning and the importance of enabling everyone at all levels to see how they're moving an organization forward.
About The Hosts:
Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.
Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons.
This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital. -
Inspired By Example is a podcast about purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich ask Admiral Steve Abbot USN (Ret.) the "five questions."
Steve's remarkable life has included being a Rhodes Scholar, combat fighter pilot, Bronze Medal recipient, test pilot of the F-18, Commanding Officer of the USS Theodore Roosevelt during Operation Desert Storm, four-star admiral and, following his 34-year naval career, Deputy Homeland Security Senior Advisor.
Steve talks about leadership (the influence of his father Admiral "Doc" Abbot and Secretary Tom Ridge), the value of perseverance (two examples of pushing past initial rejections that proved pivotal in his career and life) and how service to his country has taken on a new form and importance in the wake of Jan 6th, 2021.
About The Hosts:
Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.
Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons.
This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital. -
Inspired By Example is a podcast about purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. This week, Will and Rich ask Steve Burke the "five questions."
Steve Burke talks about his career (from running Walt Disney Europe to president of ABC, from CEO of NBC Universal to the "third act" of his life), his mentors and friends (which include legends like Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jamie Dimon and Warren Buffett) and some of the lessons that have shaped his remarkable life.
About The Hosts:
Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.
Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons.
This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital. -
Inspired By Example is a podcast about purpose, passion and pivotal moments that change a life of meaning. In this first episode, Rich interviews his cohost (and big brother) Will, to ask the "five questions."
From an international childhood, to a "traditional" path of Harvard, Morgan Stanley and Bay Area tech, to a life in the mountains of Montana, transforming the landscape of innovation throughout the Rocky Mountains, Will has "inspired by example."
About The Hosts:
Rich is co-founder of Alignd, an intuitive progress platform built to accelerate teams in moving the world forward. He's also a podcaster (The Age Old Question), a musician (The Sweet Remains) and a husband and father of five boys.
Will is founder of Next Frontier Capital, a VC-firm headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. He’s passionate about supporting entrepreneurs to create companies of impact, utility and value. He's an outdoorsman, a soccer fan, husband and father of two sons.
This podcast is presented by Alignd and Next Frontier Capital.
