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One Take CEO Interviews
by Dale Kurschner
CEOs share how they’re leading through challenges ranging from Covid-19 to attracting great talent during candid ‘one take,’ unedited discussions with award-winning journalist Dale Kurschner. These interviews are independently produced with no funding from, or other financial affiliation with, the companies that are interviewed. Programming relies upon sponsorships. To inquire about sponsoring, write to [email protected].
Episodes
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CEO Jeff Kiesel on Leading Restaurant Technologies Inc. During and Out of COVID-19
During this unrehearsed, unedited interview, Restaurant Technologies Inc. (RTI) CEO Jeff Kiesel shares how his business overcame significant COVID-19-related challenges and along the way, improved its go-to-market strategy and how it takes care of its 10 largest clients. It also...
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Doug Jaeger on Buying a Canadian Company During a Pandemic, Employing Talent Where it Lives, Using Mixed-Reality Smartglasses for Site Visits & More
Jaeger's company Ulteig recently acquired a Canadian business without visiting it due to Covide-19 travel restrictions. This after Ulteig grew 20 percent a year for five consecutive years and expanded from 300 to 700 employees. One of several fascinating takeaways from this One Take CEO Interview...
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CEO Christine Lantinen on how Maud Borup Grew Sales 50 percent While Fighting a Pandemic
One year after her first One Take interview, Christine Lantinen returns to discuss how Maud Borup weathered the pandemic; how its attracting and retaining talent both in the Twin Cities and Le Center, Minn.; why it's looking to expand capacity yet again after just adding 70,000 square feet last...
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CEO Chuck Runyon on How Self Esteem Brands Made its Largest Acquisition in History While Fighting a Pandemic
Self Esteem Brands (SEB) recently completed its largest acquisition in history despite all the challenges and uncertainty brought on by COVID-19. One year after his first One Take interview, co-founder and CEO Chuck Runyon returns for a “Take Two” to share how and why the acquisition was able to...
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CEO Nick Elders on how his startup facilitated $7 billion in loans within two weeks
Nick is CEO of Ignify Technologies, an early stage fintech company whose SPARK loan origination platform facilitated 50,000 SBA loans worth $7 billion in two weeks last year. Those loans in turn helped save 500,000 jobs. During this One Take CEO Interview presented by Platinum Group, he explains...
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Pinnacle Performance Group CEO Leslie Holman on the Importance of Front Line Employees, and More
In this One Take CEO Interview presented by Platinum Group, Leslie Holman, owner and CEO of Pinnacle Performance Group, discusses how her firm helps fill the gap that can often exist between front line employees and senior leadership, and how COVID-19 has helped narrow this gap. In companies of…
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Bushel Boy President Chuck Tryon on Growing Beyond Tomatoes
Owatonna, Minn.-based Bushel Boy is well known in Minnesota for first perfecting indoor grown, vine-ripened tomatoes available in local grocery stores year-round 41 years ago. Competition has increased rapidly in recent years, leading the company to both expand production and explore other crops…
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How Claire Ferrara Led Through a Covid-19 Triple Whammy
One of the most challenging aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic as it hit last year was how to still service heating and air conditioning systems in peoples’ homes. How could shelter in place, work from home and remote learning all remain safe with an outsider coming into the house? And how could a...
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Betsy Niemeier on Leading a Steel Fabrication Business During Covid-19
During this One Take CEO Interview presented by Platinum Group, Co-Owner and President of M&N Structures Betsy Niemeier shares how she has dealt with all the challenges thrown her way recently, including Covid-19, another surge in steel prices, delays in vendor delivery time and political...
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One Take CEO Interview with Xcel Energy's Ben Fowke
Xcel Energy Chairman and CEO Ben Fowke talks about a wide range of issues during this interview including how the utility is investing so much in carbon-free energy production while keeping rates comparable or lower than its peers. With about half of his workforce working remotely, Fowke shares...
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How HR-Tech Firm When I Work is Growing Despite Covid-19’s Impact
Imagine having about half of your revenues tied to serving the restaurant and hospitality industries last year... How would you have dealt with Covid-19-related temporary closures and ongoing restrictions in those industries, the plunge in their revenues and the potential harm to yours? Chad...
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How NetSPI is Growing Despite Covid-19, PLUS 3 Things to Do Now to Protect Your Data
Cybersecurity business leader Aaron Shilts discusses how he is leading his employees through the stresses and changes brought on by Covid-19, organic growth and a recent acquisition. He also shares three things your business should do if it hasn’t already done so to avoid a devastating…
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How Rihm Family Companies’ Kari Rihm led During 2020
Kari Rihm discusses everything from quickly fixing ‘leaking pipes’ and adjusting to market demands, to soul searching for hidden bias and getting others to care more about people they don’t know during this 20th episode of One Take CEO Interviews. She is owner, president and CEO of South St....
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Kyle Kottke on How His Trucking Business is Navigating the Covid-19 Economy
Kottke Trucking Co. Co-Owner and CEO Kyle Kottke shares how his Buffalo Lake, MN-based trucking business has adapted in many ways since Covid-19 began to affect the economy back in March. This includes helping truckers find places to stop for gas and to stay overnight, when most locations shut…
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Tastefully Simple CEO Jill Blashak Strahan on Lessons Learned from Quick Success, 7 Years of Losses & Returning to Profitability
During this week’s One Take CEO Interview, Tastefully Simple Founder and CEO Jill Blashak Strahan discusses what it was like to grow her 1995 startup into a $143 million-a-year business, and then lead through seven consecutive years of losses running into this year, when Covid-19 hit. Ironically,...
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Northern Ingredients CEO Robert Schafer on Placing Workplace Culture Before Profit
Founder and CEO Bob Schafer created a highly successful bakery supply business from scratch all from operating cash flow; no debt. Mixing and/or distributing 150 million pounds a year of ingredients to food manufacturers, this Minnesota Family Business Award-winning company has weathered three...
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Refinance if Your Rates Are High, Think Outside the Box & Go Ahead and Be Stressed Sometimes
This week’s One Take CEO Interview is with Aleesha Webb, vice chair and president of Blaine, MN-based Village Bank. Her second-generation family owned community bank has 69 employees, about $390 million in assets under management and offices in Blaine, East Bethel, Ramsey and St. Francis, MN.…
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Leading Stressed Employees & How Best (Including Legally) to Bring Some Back to the Office
Key points on how to safely bring employees back to the office (do you have a detailed COVID-19 Preparedness Plan?); what's trending when it comes to renegotiating contracts with landlords, vendors or customers; and fresh perspective on leading through this period of increased stress when…
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What's Working Best in Digital Marketing
Liz Diedrich, founder and CEO of Diedrich RPM (research propelled marketing), provides a variety of helpful perspectives in this week’s One Take CEO Interviews. One pertains to what’s working best in marketing today. “We’re seeing very dramatic shifts in terms of what is working digitally:...
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One Take CEO Interview with Mathnasium Franchisee Bobby Tarnowski
Covid-19 related restrictions are forcing many businesses owners to contemplate raising prices, yet doing so can hurt sales. Better options, says Bobby Tarnowski, are to create new types of product or service offerings, provide financing to those who cannot afford to pay for things outright, and...
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How to Deal with Differing Perceptions of Covid-19?
Covid-19 has created two worlds; those who are extremely concerned about catching Covid-19 and those who don't understand why businesses and other aspects of "normal life" aren't more open. In this segment of One Take CEO Interviews, Chad Nesbit of the business insurance firm Nesbit Agencies…
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Increasing Sales During Covid-19: A One Take CEO Interview with Gary Braun of Pivotal Advisors
Braun is CEO and co-owner with brother Mike of Pivotal Advisors, a Prior Lake, Minn.-based firm that helps organizations improve their sales results. In this interview he shares what the two of them learned the hard way while growing sales from thousands to hundreds of millions at various…
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Time to Start Planning for Post-Covid, says Reviva Corp.'s Dave Goodwin
What needs to be addressed today to ensure American enterprise will still lead the world after Covid-19 subsides? In this One Take CEO Interview, Reviva Corp.'s Dave Goodwin shares his thoughts, including the need to improve what's being taught by our colleges and universities. Goodwin also...
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One Take CEO Interview with Eric Gibson of Indigo Signworks
Gibson runs Indigo Signworks, a substantial sign manufacturing, installation and servicing business with locations in North Dakota and Minnesota. In this interview he shares his take on how best to lead employees in multiple locations during the Covid-19 pandemic and it's unprecedented impact on...
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One Take CEO Interview with Manny Villafana, Legendary Medtech Pioneer & CEO of Medical 21
Villafana started several successful medtech companies including Cardiac Pacemakers Inc., which revolutionized the pacemaker industry by making the device smaller and longer lasting. He's taken seven companies public and he's at it yet again with Medical 21. In this interview he shares his take…
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Allina Health CEO Penny Wheeler on Caring for People During Covid-19, Riots and an Uncertain Economy
During this week’s One Take CEO Interview, President and CEO Penny Wheeler discusses how she’s leading $4 billion health care provider Allina Health during Covid-19, how Allina survived fires and looting last month that damaged or destroyed most neighboring properties, and how she and her…
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Providing Normalcy is Purpose in Today's Economy, says Mainstreet Bakery's Stacy Demskie
"Our vision is so important right now: where we wanted to take this company before [Covid-19] and how we wanted everyone to be successful in it by coming to work every day and working as a team. We still want that success, and I think that is easy to be lost in the fear right now,” Demskie says...
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Summit Brewing Founder Mark Stutrud re. Covid-19's Impact on Craft Brewing & How He's Responding
During this One Take CEO Interview, Mark shares what he's seeing in the industry, how he believes restaurants and bars will operate for the foreseeable future, and how Summit Brewing responded, and is moving forward, in the Covid-19 economy. Mark also shares lessons learned in other extremely...
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One Take CEO Interview with Restaurant Technologies' Jeff Kiesel
In this week’s One Take CEO Interview podcast, Restaurant Technologies chief Jeff Kiesel shares how his business prepared for and then adjusted to a drop in business due to Covid-19 shutdowns. His Mendota Heights, MN-based company is the nation's most efficient fry-oil business, providing...
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One Take CEO Interview with Christine Lantinen, Owner of Maud Borup
Maud Borup owner Christine Lantinen discusses how her business is re-orientating production and marketing while wrapping up a $6 million expansion of its production facility in Le Center, MN. And she talks about the importance of finding a way to constructively deal with the emotional toll…
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Anytime Fitness Chief Chuck Runyon Re. Covid-19's Impact on 5,000 Franchisees, & the Future
During a work-from-home Zoom interview, Self Esteem Brands co-founder and CEO Chuck Runyon discusses what his team has done to help 5,000 franchise owners deal with everything from negotiating rent deferrals and abatements to reopening safely. He talks about the value of culture and decentralized...
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One Take Interview with Paul Grangaard, Chair & CEO, Faribault Woolen Mills
This is the first in a series of recorded-via-Zoom CEO interviews during the weeks in which Minnesotans were required to work from home in order to avoid catching the new, most deadly-yet version of the Coronavirus dubbed Covid-19. It's one CEO's take on how best to move forward, and it's a...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
CEOs share how they’re leading through challenges ranging from Covid-19 to attracting great talent during candid ‘one take,’ unedited discussions with award-winning journalist Dale Kurschner. These interviews are independently produced with no funding from, or other financial affiliation with, the companies that are interviewed. Programming relies upon sponsorships. To inquire about sponsoring, write to [email protected].
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