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In Action with Wendy

by Wendy Closson

Host Wendy Closson interviews technologists, founders and coaches on the novel ways they've found success.

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  1. Negotiation 101: Finding the Win-Win and Getting Your Worth with Erick Herring and David Subar

    Erick and David are West Coast CTOs and Advisors with an extensive background in negotiating. From Options to Lawyers, they have a well rounded strategy to ensure everyone wins in the deal. Episode Breakdown: 0 — introductions 5:00 — leadership and teams 8:15 — importance of negotiation beyond...

  2. Digging into Ethics with Bob Martin

    What started as a discussion between some folks about the VW scandal, became inspiration for this episode about ethics. Related Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath http://www.agilemanifesto.org/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov...

  3. Uncle Bob on Quality, Ethics and Chickens

    Uncle Bob is a software developer, speaker and author. He has been writing code for 50 years and has written several books about software craftsmanship. This is a great episode if: You want to be a better developer You want to better support your development team You need a push to write better...

  4. Randy Rayess on Getting the Most of Offsite Teams

    Randy Rayess is the co-founder of VenturePact, a service that helps companies build remote software teams and execute on software projects. He is passionate about remote work, outsourcing and software development. He previously worked in private equity at SilverLake Partners, in machine learning...

  5. Chad Pytel on the History, Culture and Workflow at Thoughtbot

    Chad is a developer, founder, and the CEO of thoughtbot. He has coauthored the books Rails AntiPatterns and Pro Active Record, and presented at conferences around the world. Thoughtbot works with companies of all sizes to build successful products that people love to use. This is a great episode...

  6. Jean Barmash on Off-Shore Teams, Aligning with Business Priorities and Setting Boundaries

    Jean Barmash is currently VP of Engineering at Merchantry, an eCommerce Technology startup. He has over 15 years of experience in software industry, and has been part of 4 startups over the last seven years, 3 as CTO / VPE and one of which he co-founded. Prior to his entrepreneurial adventures,...

  7. Esther Derby on Gaining Influence, Working with Teams and the Value of Experience

    Esther Derby is an expert in organizational dynamics and a leading thinker in bringing agility to organizations, management, and teams. She has spent the last twenty-five years helping companies design their environment, culture, and human dynamics for optimum success. In addition to this work,...

  8. Joseph Benson on the Powerful Storytelling Behind Brands

    Joseph Benson is a brand strategist with over thirty years of experience. He defines and expresses the brand strategies for financial services, educational institutions, non-profits, healthcare, high technology, entertainment, and retail clients. Joseph also trained as a filmmaker. His films have...

  9. Robert Richman on Culture, Open Space and Improv

    Robert Richman is a culture architect and was the co-creator of Zappos Insights, an innovative program focused on educating companies on the secrets behind Zappos’ amazing employee culture. Robert built Zappos Insights from a small website to a thriving multi-million dollar business teaching over...

  10. Debbie Madden on Honesty, Risk and Staying Aligned with Values

    Debbie Madden has built five companies from the ground up, is a lead generation istructor at General Assembly, and a sought after public speaker and writer, appearing in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fox Business TV, the HuffingtonPost, Inc. Magazine, and more. Prior to Stride, Debbie was the...

  11. Jessica Barnett on Sticking to Your Principles to Overcome Overwhelm

    Jessica Barnett is a Product Manager at a startup called Medivo. At Medivo, they’ve adopted Trello to organize just about everything, including their retrospectives. After seeing the positive impact of retros, there was company-wide adoption, starting with the c-suite. Not only has the company...

  12. John Shiple (Part 2) — Red Flags and Knowing What You're Getting Into

    John Shiple — Freelance CTO, technology advisor — triages businesses, help business scale, launches new businesses. John's been in technology over 20 years and loves building websites. In Part 2 of this interview, John and I continue our discussion about founders and startups needing (or not...

  13. John Shiple on Startups (Part 1): Founders meet Technology

    John Shiple — Freelance CTO, technology advisor — triages businesses, help businesses scale, and launches new businesses. He's been in technology over 20 years and loves building internet sites. In Part 1 of this interview, John and I discuss important topics for non-technical Founders to…

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  14. Joanna Clay on Getting More Women in Technology

    Joanna Clay is a reporter for The Orange County Register. Previously she was working with the Los Angeles Register and covered the West Side with a focus on tech and the Silicon Beach phenomena. In this episode we discuss her takeaways and observations in creating the article on Why there aren’t...

  15. Ryan Janssen on Startups: The Lonely Entrepreneur, Collectively and the Borg

    Ryan Janssen has been creating and leading companies for the last 20 years. His latest venture, Collectively, aims to improve the way people work. Ryan and Wendy discuss the lonely entrepreneuer, the challenges around working by yourself as well as how his company, Collectively, is evolving. It…

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  16. Ken Judy on High Performing Teams: Collaboration, Creativity and Delivering Value

    Ken Judy has twenty years experience in development and over a decade of experience leading and creating agile teams. Currently he is VP of Technology at Simon & Schuster, and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter. This is a great episode for technical leaders and team members to…

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  17. Luke Melia on Community: The Secret Weapon of Recruiting

    Luke Melia is a software developer, co-founder/CTO of Yapp who loves building great teams and communities. Luke helped create the first GORUCO and the Ember.js community in NYC. In this podcast, Luke discusses Yapp’s early adoption of Ember.js, and its impact on revenue, community and recruiting....

  18. Dan Mezick on Open Space Adoption Part II

    Dan Mezick is a management consultant, author & keynote speaker. His work includes The Culture Game, a book based on five years of experience coaching 119 Agile teams across 25 different organizations. He is also the cultivator of Open Space Agile Adoption. This interview is a continuation of…

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  19. Doc List on Facilitation

    Steven ‘Doc’ List 35 years in software development, business owner, facilitator, agile coach Team and People technical practices take you so far Teams that work well together more productive Learn how a team collaborates by observing choice of words indicate culture and mindset Red Flags…

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  20. Josh Bigelow on Strategy

    Josh Bigelow is the founder, CSO and janitor at Synchromatics. Engineer by training, entrepreneur by heart. Started Synchromatics in his garage and its now has 15 employees, 34 clients across the country and healthy revenue. Josh shares how he brought Synchromatics clarity, unity and purpose by...

  21. Dan Mezick on Open Space Agile Adoption Part 1

    Dan Mezick is a management consultant, author & keynote speaker. His work includes The Culture Game, a book based on five years of experience coaching 119 Agile teams across 25 different organizations. He is also the cultivator of Open Space Agile Adoption. Notes From Show Coaching — help...

  22. Ilio Krumins-Beens on Agile Adoption Across Kaplan

    Ilio is the Executive Director of Agile at Kaplan Test Prep. with about 10 years agile experience. Five years ago, Kaplan was almost entirely waterfall. Over the course of two years, he introduced agile in some pilot projects with good outcomes. These proved the case for an organization wide roll...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Host Wendy Closson interviews technologists, founders and coaches on the novel ways they've found success.

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Wendy Closson

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Host Wendy Closson interviews technologists, founders and coaches on the novel ways they've found success.

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In Action with Wendy is created and hosted by Wendy Closson.
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