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BCN News
by Business Class News
BCN News prides itself in educating its listeners about new and exciting products and solutions. We work with our clients to provide the best information which is helpful to our listeners
Episodes
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Empowering the Grassroots of Education with Dr. Matthew Flippen
With classrooms facing unprecedented shortages, the future of our workforce depends heavily on how we educate the next generation. In this episode of BCN.News, host Karl Woolfenden sits down with Dr. Matthew Flippen, the founder and president of Gracelyn University—an innovative, AI-native...
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Beyond The Tee
The traditional corporate golf outing is a staple of American business, but it comes with a glaring flaw: it isn’t actually designed for efficient networking. Spending five hours battling the elements, chasing lost balls across a sprawling course, and being restricted to talking with only the…
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Double Your Revenue in 12 Months—Without Hiring More Staff
What if the next major leap in your business didn’t require adding headcount, overhauling systems, or working longer hours? What if you could double your revenue in the next 12 months—with the exact team you already have? It sounds like clickbait. But after interviewing hundreds of founders,...
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If It’s Not Automated, It’s Not Scalable
If you’re still relying on manual tasks, repeated decisions, and human memory to run your business, you’re not scaling—you’re surviving. In today’s fast-moving, tech-powered economy, growth doesn’t happen because you hustle harder. It happens because your systems are smarter. The most successful...
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Happy New Year - 2026
Happy New Year! We are excited with the year ahead. We have some amazing conversations coming up, with authors, CEO's, Entrepreneurs and great business leaders. Our focus this year is to help our future workforce with interesting subjects that can help organizations grow and thrive.
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**OH SHI(F)T! NOW WHAT?
How Kerryn Kathleen Kohl Is Rewriting the Rules of Leadership in the Age of AI** By Karl Woolfenden — BCN.News Time is moving faster than ever—or at least it feels that way. Information floods our feeds, workplaces are shifting beneath our feet, and technology evolves before our eyes. For leaders...
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CYGNVS (pronounced Sig-nus) and the Future of Cyber Resilience: A Conversation with CEO Arvind Parthasarathi
When a cyberattack strikes, chaos often follows. Systems shut down, communications collapse, and leadership scrambles to understand what’s happening. Yet, amid the turmoil, one fact is clear: prevention alone is no longer enough. That’s the insight that led Arvind Parthasarathi, veteran...
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Redefining Trust: Oleria CEO Jim Alkove on the Future of Identity Security
Why adaptive identity, dynamic trust, and cultural alignment are shaping the next era of enterprise cybersecurity. By Karl Woolfenden A New Era of Identity Cybersecurity has always been an arms race—attackers innovate, defenders scramble to catch up. But for Jim Alkove, co-founder and CEO of...
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Gomboc’s Ian Amit: Fixing the Cloud Security Gap with Deterministic AI
By Karl Woolfenden | BCN.news Cloud adoption has transformed modern enterprises, but it has also introduced unprecedented complexity. As organizations scale across multiple providers and hundreds of services, the promise of agility often collides with the realities of misconfigurations…
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Identity Hygiene in the Age of AI: A Conversation with SPHERE CEO Rita Gurevich (Please Excuse Background Noise)
As organizations prepare for the challenges of the coming year, cybersecurity continues to dominate boardroom agendas. At the forefront of this discussion is identity hygiene—a discipline that ensures enterprises understand, monitor, and protect every human and non-human access point across their...
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Caris Life Sciences: Redefining Cancer Care Through Precision Medicine
The new season of Business Class News’s Race to the Start Line podcast launched with a conversation that was both deeply personal and profoundly forward-looking. Host Karl Woolfenden sat down with two leaders from Caris Life Sciences—Dr. David Spetzler, President and Chief Scientific Officer, and...
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Be Different: Escape the Competition, Create Value, and Change the Game
Be Different: Escape the Competition, Create Value, and Change the Game by Marty Strong is a business and leadership guide that challenges conventional thinking and encourages individuals and organizations to embrace innovation and creativity. The book draws on the author’s extensive experience…
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Sociable.AI: Revolutionizing Digital Communication and Engagement
Karl spoke to Thomas Noh, the Founder of Sociable AI and they have an indepth conversation about his journey to founding the company and his vision of how his technology is enhancing social media engagements for brands and companies. Sociable.AI: Revolutionizing Digital Communication and…
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The Business of Art - The Power behind Innovation and Creativity
Last year (2023) a conversation about creativity and innovation around art started about a great artist. The Picasso Celebration 1973-2023: 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso. This celebration triggered the desire to bring the amazing art of Picasso over to the United States to...
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Early Learning Engagement with Students Creates Skills For Life
Karl spoke to Matt Frankenbery, CEO of Pitsco Education and Eric Simmons, Director of Sales of Pitsco Education in our continuing series of segments with STEM in Schools and Eduardo Galindo. Learn More: https://www.bcn.news/stem-in-schools/ Pitsco Education: Inspiring Innovation in Education…
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The Ultimate STEM Ecosystem
We are proud to be a partner with STEM in Schools and Summa Caussa to help educate you on the ULTIMATE Ecosystem that is available to organizations and corporations to participate in. We have spoken to hundreds of corporate executives and they told us of the challenges they face trying to...
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The Foundation of Success for Students
BCN News has partnered with STEM in Schools and in our first in our series of conversations Karl speaks with STEM in Schools president Eduardo Galindo, Dee Memon, from Kids Robotics Academy and Max Ringleheim of Infento, North America. They talk about their partnership together and how they are...
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Prepare for Tomorrow: How Intuit ProConnect Tax Eases the Burden of 2025 Tax Changes and Staffing Challenges
Karl is always talking to subject matter experts about how they can help companies grow. Karl had a great conversation with Jim Buffington, a leading expert in future-ready tax software and innovative accounting technology with Intuit, and gave some amazing insights on how ProConnect Tax, is the...
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Short Term Rental Business Long Term Benefits - Be Compliant
With inflation coming in hot in the last PCE report, the outlook for Fed cuts in the second half of 2024 is getting more bleak by the minute. Rather than selling, homeowners are rethinking their money-making strategies and are entering the Short Term Rental market heading into the Summer....
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The Importance of BLiesure. Work-Life Balance Traveling
Whimstay is dedicated to offering the best deals on last-minute vacation rentals. We offer the biggest discounts on bookings made within 30 days of check-in, but we also ensure great deals year-round compared to other major booking sites. We do this by partnering with professional property…
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Travel last minute and discover amazing destinations
Whimstay recently emerged as the industry leading travel site for booking last-minute vacation rentals at fantastic rates. If of interest I can look into getting a media rate discount if you (or someone else from your team) if you want to try Whimstay to book a getaway yourself. US based start-up...
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Chemistry Can Be Fun
Creating fun and accessible chemistry stories has been a labor of love for Colleen as a retired University of Arizona chemistry professor and author of a series of kid’s chemistry comic books. In 2023, the PBS short documentary, “Comic Book Chemistry” was awarded an Emmy. This documentary…
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The Science of Culture - Its all in the Brain
Karl talks to Michael Steiner, Marty Strong and Dr. Jens Hartmann in our NEW series Masters of Disruption, which was the brain child of Marty Strong who is a Board Member of BEST Robotics. Our spotlight shines on Dr. Jens Hartmann who is an award winning executive focusing on change management…
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Masters of Disruption Series: Be Different, Embrace Creativity and Innovate
In this new series from BEST Robotics, Masters of Disruption, we bring some of the greatest minds from Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) to hear their take on how students, and the future workforce are working together to drive innovation and learning environments. Karl…
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The Many Ways to Integrate an Acquisition
Acquisition integrations are when the parent company takes over the target (acquired business), right? Well… not exactly. There are different approaches used to merge, or integrate an acquisition. Here’s an overview of them, looking at it from our specialty of working with lower-mid and mid-size...
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Communication Planning for SMB Integrations
You’ve completed an acquisition, have an integration plan ready to go, and Day One has arrived: you’re ready to tell the world about the deal and the bright new future. Let’s tell everyone, right? Not so fast… not everyone wants to hear the same message. Different groups of people have different...
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I’ve Just Bought a Company – Now What?
When you acquired a business, you had an intention, a strategy, of what you wanted to do with it. For example, you wanted take advantage of a very specialized team and the product that they develop, so that you can increase sales revenue. Acquiring a business is a set of intensive stressful...
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Start Your Sales Engines
Karl talks about the importance of pre-qualifying your sales prospects, and creating intelligent lead campaigns to maximize your closing efficiencies
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Business Resources in Rural America - Where Are They?
In this weeks segment, Karl talks to Terry Toomey on the status of business resources that are designed to help businesses grow and thrive, especially in rural America.
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Growing and Scaling A Business
Business Class News has partnered with The Industry Hub to help new and existing businesses grow and scale. Each month in 2023, BCN will showcase businesses that are either growing or just launching. The Industry Hub will share tips and advice on how to succeed in business. We will be giving you…
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New Horizons - Giving Children The Help They Need
Karl spoke to Janie Bordner, Executive Director of New Horizons and talked about the amazing vision and mission of the organization. Janie talks about their goals, and objectives and also about the amazing Celebrity Chef Smackdown event they are holding to raise funds so that they can achieve…
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Where ideas for Tech sustainability connect and grow
Entrepreneurs designing solutions utilizing technology can get feedback, recognition and $20K from Tech Titans and enterprise companies on the cutting edge. In a new Grand Challenge, entrepreneurs submit an application which will be judged by representatives of technology companies, and finalists...
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What is the purpose of a board? [Segment Extract]
In this segment extract Don Springer talks about the purpose of a board. You have got a board and you are doing a good job, but how do you raise our professionalism as board directors? How do we improve board composition? How do we focus on strategic vs. operational issues? How do we refine our...
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The Importance of Corporate Governance - More Than Ever!
We’ve got a board and we’re doing a good job, but how do we raise our professionalism as board directors? How do we improve board composition? How do we focus on strategic vs. operational issues? How do we refine our board succession plans? How should we use technology for our boards and our...
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Vision and Commitment - Part One
In this segment of Link'd AM we focus on philanthropy and how non-profits can really benefit from having a team working with them to realize the potential.
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Balancing Student Life and Entrepreneur Passion - Seun Suberu
The SMU Cox Graduate Entrepreneurship Club, founded in 2000, is a student-led organization dedicated to promoting innovation within the SMU community. The Cox Graduate Entrepreneurship club fosters opportunities for student club members to achieve their goals of starting and launching a viable...
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The Threat is Real. Protect Your Data. Today.
Karl speaks with David Vincent, VP Product Strategy and Customer Engagement at Appsian, a Global ERP Security platform that monitors various levels of threat detection, controls and ensures that its customers are audit ready to be compliant in this very important part of a business - data...
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Book Review: Be Visionary - Author Marty Strong
Be Visionary: Strategic Leadership in the Age of Optimization is a self-help, business leadership book that demonstrates to existing and aspiring leaders the positive impact of applying flexibility, creativity and decisiveness to achieve results - even in uncertain times. More importantly, this...
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Is Your Cloud Infrastructure Secure? A Cybersecurity Conversation.
The White House recently urged private companies to bolster their cyber defenses, citing evolving intelligence suggesting the Russian government is exploring “options for potential cyberattacks” targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. Karl talks to Puranda Das, the CEO and Co-founder of Sotero...
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Launching Businesses with the Support of a Community
Karl talks with Valecia Harris, the current President of the Cox Graduate Entrepreneurship Club, and they talk about the SMU Business Accelerator Program. Both Business Class News and kNEXTis are proud to be media sponsors of the program. The previous SMU Business Plan Competition will now be...
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Humans Working In Harmony with Technology - The New Supply Chain Solution
Karl spoke with Finch Fulton, the VP of Policy and Strategy at Locomation, and they had a fascinating conversation around their business model, and how it fits with the topics Business Class News has been showcasing - The Future of Our Workforce. Finch Fulton joined Locomation in February 2021.…
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