Real Leaders Podcast

Fredrik Thomassen is the CEO & Founder of Superside, the leading AI-powered creative service that delivers fast, scalable, world-class design and creative solutions to over 450 globally-renowned companies such as Amazon, Meta, Salesforce and Shopify.

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Sean Grundy is the Co-Founder & CEO of Bevi, which is redesigning the beverage supply chain with machines that purify water and make customized drinks in seconds with a system that vastly cuts the cost and carbon footprint of beverages.

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Derek Richardson is the CEO & Founder of Deako, a high-tech hardware startup based in Seattle, WA. Deako has invented the world's first plug-n-play light switch, giving homeowners maximum flexibility to customize their systems, at any time, in minutes.

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Vess Pearson is the CEO of Aptive Environmental, the fastest growing pest control service in North America with a commitment to helping protect the world's health from disease-carrying pests.

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Jonathan Brun is the CEO & Founder of Nimonik, which offers an integrated compliance management software for organizations to better manage their obligations across quality, environmental, safety, privacy, human resources, and other regulated areas.

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Brandon Afari is the Co-Founder & CEO of FUZE Technology, a cutting-edge technology company that specializes in creating innovative IoT solutions to power connections and experiences for businesses, events, and consumers.

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Lauren Salz is the Co-Founder & CEO of Sealed, a climate tech company on a mission to stop home energy waste by enabling contractors to install more home weatherization and electrification projects and grow their businesses.

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Martin Rowinski is the Co-Founder & CEO of Boardsi, a modern recruiting company providing executives with Board of Advisors and Directors positions and companies with top C suite Executive talent. Through their advanced technology, human connection and private network Boardsi helps revolutionize businesses and grow careers.

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Jeff Spahn is the Founder & President of Leading Leaders, an executive education firm that has engineered a distinctive leadership technology for the digital age. For more than 20 years, Jeff has researched, coached and inspired top business executives and their teams through the distinctive collective leadership process of We the Leader®.

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Conrad Oakey is the CEO of NovaTech Automation, which produces the easiest to use and best supported automation products and solutions for electric utilities. NovaTech's mission to accelerate the evolution and decarbonization of the power grid is reflected in their intentional commitment to Net-Zero operations by 2050.

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Scarlett Nolen is the President of Truly Nolen of America, one of the largest family-owned pest control companies in the United States with over 80 branch offices in Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.

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Candice Ammori is the Founder & CEO of Climate Vine, a new membership community that curates group of experts with diverse backgrounds, ranging from policy, investment, corporate, non-profit, entrepreneurship, and tech & science.

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Sachin Chaudhry is the Founder & CEO of TrustCircle, a brain healthcare startup that utilizes AI-driven Social-Emotional Learning programs to improve emotional resilience & well-being for all. Organizations, cities, counties, and states can leverage TrustCircle's data-driven model to identify high-risk population segments/areas and take proactive action to promote health & well-being within their community.

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Seth Forman is the CEO of Socialsuite, a sustainability and impact technology company helping companies and non-profits share their impact with the world offering simple and affordable solutions including end to end materiality software. Over 100 public and private companies leverage Socialsuite tools and services today helping them get started and progress their sustainability journeys.

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Joshua Berry is the author of Dare to Be Naive: How to Find Your True Self in a Noisy World and is also the Co-Founder & CEO of Econic, an innovation, transformation, and strategy consulting group that helps enterprises discover their meaning of growth and cultivate the space to achieve it. Through the process of building innovation labs and programs, workshopping, coaching, management consulting, and creating resilient strategies, Econic helps teams and organizations realize tangible results.

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Daryn Dodson is the Managing Director & Joanna Kuang is the Senior Vice President of Product and Impact at Illumen Capital, an impact fund of funds addressing systemic inequity by reducing racial and gender bias in investing. Working closely with the world’s leading social psychologists at Stanford SPARQ, Illumen Capital combines investment capital with evidence-based tools and training designed to reduce implicit racial and gender bias in order to unlock latent return and multiply impact. 

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As co-founder and CEO of EcoMap Technologies, Sherrod Davis is at the forefront of developing ecosystem intelligence that revolutionizes how information is accessed and utilized, empowering communities and industries like government and economic development, universities, and industry associations.

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Tony Bedard is the CEO of Frontier Co-op, which is dedicated to sourcing the highest quality spices, herbs and botanical products through their Frontier Co-op, Simply Organic® and Aura Cacia® brands. By offering easy access to high-quality, competitively priced choices that are both environmentally friendly and socially responsible, Frontier Co-op seeks to lead the way in bringing nature and peace of mind to customers.

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Rochelle Gorey is the CEO and Co-Founder of SpringFour, the only Certified B, social impact fintech company that helps financial services institutions limit risk by empowering improved payment performance and increased customer engagement.

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Elan Sudberg is the Chief Executive Officer of Alkemist Labs, a contract testing laboratory that specializes in plant authentication, botanical ingredient identification, and quantitative analytical services. Alkemist Labs is the only ISO 17025 accredited plant/fungi lab with a DEA Schedule 1, 2, 3n, and 4 licenses to legally test all types of botanicals, including hemp and psychedelics.

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Catherine Griffin is the Founder & CEO of Impactable Analytics, which helps purpose-built founders and funders bring clarity and intelligence to their impact claims. Impactable generates powerful, forward-looking impact data with processes to analyze, manage, track and share them over time - all to drive capital towards solutions with the greatest impact potential.

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Deborah La Franchi is the CEO & Founder of SDS Capital Group, a national leader in impact investing with over $1 billion in assets under management. Each impact fund on SDS’s platform serves a different geography and employs a unique investment strategy, but they all generate positive impacts for low-income communities and people.

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Caroline Barlerin is the Founder & CEO of Platypus Advisors, a diverse team of social impact practitioners with experience and expertise in accelerating social good through philanthropy, impact investing, collective impact, social innovation, and cross-sector collaboration.

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Colin Moffett is the CEO & Co-Founder of Artemis Ward, a global creative agency that partners with brands, companies, and organizations, combining rigorous strategy and unbridled creativity to craft dynamic experiences and engage audiences.

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Katy Carrigan is the CEO of Goody, a gifting marketplace that powers employee engagement, client appreciation, and sales prospecting gifts at more than 12,000 leading companies. Goody's business gifting platform, Goody for Business, integrates with 30 leading HR platforms, allowing companies to automatically gift employees on birthdays and work anniversaries.

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Michael Bellavia is the CEO of HelpGood, a social impact marketing and communications agency that works with nonprofits, foundations, government agencies, corporate social responsibility teams, educational institutions, and purpose-driven organizations.

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Tim Greiner is the Managing Director & Co-Founder of Pure Strategies, a Certified B Corp consultancy that helps companies initiate and enhance existing sustainability programs that deliver value to the business and society. Listen in as he shares story after story of how companies like Walmart, Burts Bees, and others have nailed how to sustain success.

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John Kinney helped create the PACE (“Property Assessed Clean Energy”) financing industry and is the Founder & Managing Partner of CleanFund, which develops and manages PACE programs for senior lenders. On today's episode, John breaks down what you need to know about this financial revolution.

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Greg Harmeyer is the CEO of TiER1 Impact, an employee-owned, professional services development company. TiER1 aims to help owners of professional services companies create a graceful ownership transition for themselves while developing a scalable, healthy, long-term future that their employees can thrive in and their clients can continue to proudly be associated with.

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Dan Freed is the Co-Founder & CEO of Thesis, the world’s first personalized brain supplement brand. Powered by the world’s largest data set on the efficacy of nootropics and advised by neuroscientists from Yale, Penn, and MIT, Thesis quickly and safely delivers increased focus, creativity, energy, and memory in capsule form.

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Brad Stevens is the Founder & CEO of Outsource Access, an outsourcing and offshoring consulting company that exists to close cultural gaps caused by offshore outsourcing models of the past and to open up opportunities for solopreneurs and small businesses worldwide.

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Jesse Henry is the CEO of Heartland, a material science company that manufactures natural fibers as reinforcements for plastics. Heartland's high-performance carbon-negative plastic additives help manufacturers exceed their sustainability mandates without compromising strength, weight, or price.

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Tim Tiscornia is the CEO of Chomp, which utilizes anaerobic digester systems to transform food waste into renewable energy and biofertilizer. At a local level, they help communities generate their own energy and be better environmental stewards. At a global level, they're leading the way to a sustainable future.

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Kelly Ann Winget is the CEO & Founder of Alternative Wealth Partners, a Dallas-based Private Equity firm focused on blended portfolios of alternative assets. Over the last decade, Kelly has been dedicated to connecting creative capital to unique investment opportunities in the private equity space.

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Hélène Hoogeboom is the CEO of Renewaball, which creates new, sustainable tennis and padel balls from old/used tennis and padel balls.

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Geoff Silverstein is the Managing Director & Founding Partner of Friendly Design Co, a creative studio that builds impactful websites and brands while collaborating with organizations who repair our world and strengthen our communities.

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Kristin Hull is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Nia Impact Capital, a women led impact investing firm, investing with purpose at the intersection of environmental sustainability and social justice.

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Avantika Daing is the Founding Partner of Plum Alley Ventures, a venture capital platform deploying over $1 Billion in Economic Transformative Value across multi strategy and capital stages investing at the intersection of frontier innovation and gender diversity.

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Grant Canary is the CEO & Founder of Mast Reforestation, a climate tech company with a mission to make reforestation scalable. Mast provides reforestation after wildfire at no upfront cost and supplies seed and seedlings through its subsidiaries Silvaseed and Cal Forest.

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Matt Schwartz is the Founder & Executive Director of Constructive, a brand strategy and digital design firm specializing dedicated to nonprofits, education, and social impact.

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Eric Lee is the Senior Vice President of Aligned Climate Capital, a firm that invests in the people, companies, and real assets that are decarbonizing the global economy and its infrastructure.

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Michael Stausholm is the Founder & CEO of SproutWorld, the company behind the world’s only patented plantable pencils, which can grow into herbs, vegetables, or flowers after use. SproutWorld's plantable products illustrate in a simple and visual way what’s possible when we think with a more sustainable mindset.

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Clay Grubb is the Chief Executive Officer of Grubb Properties, a vertically integrated real estate fund manager that directly addresses a growing crisis for essential housing, while providing residents with exceptional living spaces.

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Jeff Brams is the Head of R & D at Garden of Life & Vital Proteins (Nestlé Health Science), a recognized leader in natural specialty vitamin & supplement industry.

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Colleen Lorber is the Founder & CEO of Wraparound Experts, a mental health and behavioral support service company that helps children succeed mentally, emotionally, and academically by providing resources to the children themselves as well as training and support to the environments and people that interact with them on a daily basis.

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Paul Feith is the President of Paul Gregory Media, a full-service digital marketing agency, focusing on helping nonprofit and mission-based organizations with their marketing campaigns, branding, social media, websites, and fundraisers.

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Asad Mahmood is the Founder & CEO of Social Investment Managers & Advisors (SIMA Funds), a social asset manager and advisory company that is designing new and innovative funds that deliver commercial returns to investors while achieving meaningful social and environmental impact.

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Angelique Albert is the CEO of Native Forward Scholars Fund, the largest direct scholarship provider to Native students in the U.S. They actively collaborate with Tribes, corporations, foundations, government agencies, non-profits, and academic institutions to serve the scholarship needs of students as well as building a network of opportunities for them.

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Alex Smith is the Chief Operating Officer of Legacy Vacation Resorts, which provides vacation experiences for families and friends to create their unique moments and lasting memories in a manner that respects our environment, employees and community. Using business as a force for good, their goal is to educate the hospitality industry on how to attain sustainable economic development.

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