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The Reboot Chronicles with Dean DeBiase
by Dean DeBiase
The Reboot Chronicles Show with Dean DeBiase, highlights the world’s top leaders & CEO’s through engaging peer-to-peer conversations that audiences love, available wherever you get podcasts, with thousands of listeners, watchers, readers, and fans. - - About Host: Named “Growth Guru” by Inc., Dean DeBiase is a WSJ best-selling author, Forbes Contributor, speaker, Kellogg/Northwestern faculty member—and award-winning serial CEO who has led dozens of companies across diverse sectors, creating hundreds of products, thousands of jobs, and billions of dollars in revenue, capital, and value.
Episodes
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From Experimentation to Impact: Nitesh Bansal, CEO of R Systems
Enterprise AI has reached an uncomfortable middle stage. According to R Systems' own research and client conversations, roughly 65 percent of companies are experimenting with AI in some form, but only about 18 percent have actually put it into production with use cases tied to clear ROI. The…
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Autonomous Warfare: Dr. Rob Smith, COO of AV
The next frontier of warfare is not being fought by soldiers on a battlefield. It is being fought by autonomous systems that detect, decide, and deliver precision strikes across air, land, sea, space, and cyber, faster than any human can process. AV is one of the companies building that future. A...
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Latin America's Fintech Unicorn: Rene Saul, CEO of Kapital
Rene Saul knows what it feels like to be the customer he is now serving. Before founding Kapital, he was an SMB himself, doing agricultural loans for producers exporting to the United States and factoring with large American enterprises, experiencing firsthand the friction, the opacity, and the...
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Navigating the New Global Order: Rebeccah Heinrichs, Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute
For the first time in American history, the United States is simultaneously deterring two major nuclear powers. Russia and China are no longer parallel threats operating in separate theaters. They are actively collaborating, with China bankrolling Russia's war in Ukraine, North Korean soldiers...
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Rebooting the World's Largest Marine Company: Ryan Gwillim, CFO & CSO of Brunswick
Brunswick Corporation has been rebooting itself since 1845. The company that started in woodworking went on to build pool tables, bowling equipment, fitness machines, coolers, and bicycles before making one of the most disciplined strategic pivots in modern manufacturing history: selling off...
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Breaking the Iteration Trap: Dave Wright, Chief Innovation Officer at ServiceNow
Most companies deploying AI are making the same mistake. They are using it to do what they already do, faster and cheaper, and then wondering why the return on investment does not materialize. Dave Wright calls this the iteration trap, and breaking out of it is the central argument of his new…
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Lighting Up the AI Era: Michael Hurlston, CEO of Lumentum
Inside every AI data center, behind every GPU cluster, underneath every rack of compute and storage, there is a connection problem. For decades that problem was solved with copper. Copper cables connected computer storage to switching, and the system worked well enough. Then AI arrived and the...
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Automating the Future: Darragh de Stonndún, CEO of AIR
Every medical device implanted in a patient, every cell phone produced at launch scale, every vaccine vial filled at twelve hundred units per minute exists because of industrial automation. It is the invisible infrastructure behind modern manufacturing, and it is one of the fastest growing…
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Rebooting Silicon: Raja Tabet, SVP at Synopsys
Every drone, autonomous vehicle, AI agent, and smart device running in the world today depends on silicon. And the software that enables that silicon to be designed, verified, and manufactured at scale is the domain of Synopsys. With nearly 28,000 employees and a clear path toward becoming a 10...
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The Age Rebellion: Lyndsey Simpson, CEO of 55 Redefined
The systems built around work, retirement, and aging were designed for a world where people lived to their seventies. That world no longer exists. A 70 year old today has the same mental and physical acuity as a 53 year old in the year 2000. The fastest growing group of new entrepreneurs in the...
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Securing the Agentic Era: Eric Kelleher, President & COO of Okta
Identity has become the most critical perimeter in enterprise security, and no company is more focused on that reality than Okta. As President and Chief Operating Officer, Eric Kelleher has helped steer Okta through multiple reboots, from solving the functional problem of employee access…
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Building the Backbone of Global Finance: Peter Hughes, CEO of Apex
Twenty-three years ago, Peter Hughes found himself frustrated by the inconsistency in asset management and fund administration reporting across providers. Large clients received great service, smaller and newer asset managers, the ones who needed fast, reliable reporting most urgently, were left...
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From the NBA to the Nation Building: Charles D. Smith, Chairman & CEO of Urban Icon Global
Charles D. Smith spent his career as one of the NBA's premier shot blockers and an Olympian, but the transformation that defined his second act required something far more difficult than anything he faced on the court. After retiring from professional basketball, Smith spent seven years in…
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From Pilots to Production: Brian Bryson, Principal Analyst at MIT Technology Review
The conversation around artificial intelligence has shifted. It is no longer a question of what AI can do, it is a question of where it belongs inside an organization and how to integrate it into the fundamental operating system of a business. Brian Bryson, principal technology analyst at MIT...
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Paratrooper to Portfolio Pro: Eric Schimpf, President of Merrill Wealth Management
Eric Schimpf left the Army on a Friday and walked into Merrill Lynch as a trainee on the following Monday morning. With no transition period, no legacy track, no shortcuts, just two suits, three ties, and a rusted-out Jeep he was encouraged to park several blocks away from the office. Thirty-two...
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Building Command Centers And Motes To Harness AI’s Space Time Continuum, Daniel Newman - CEO Futurum
The technology research and advisory industry is being rebuilt from the ground up, and Daniel Newman is leading that charge from the inside. As CEO of Futurum, Newman has spent the last several years transforming what was once a traditional media and analysis firm into a real-time AI-powered...
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Behind The Vault: America's Most Powerful Financial Dynasty Secrets Revealed, Justin Baer - The WSJ
Few journalists have spent more time inside the power centers of American finance than Justin Baer. As a senior editor at the Wall Street Journal, Baer has covered the biggest banks, brokers, and asset managers in the world, from the post-2008 regulatory battles to the pandemic economic shocks…
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How Enterprise Tech Companies Are Fighting For Survival In The AI SaaSpocalypse, Mari Cross - Infor
Few executives bring the range of perspective that Mari Cross carries into the C-suite. As Chief Customer Officer at Infor, a roughly $3.5 billion enterprise software company with 17,000 employees, 2,000 partners, and 60,000 clients across 175 countries, Cross leads customer success, value...
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Trump’s Ten Commandments And What Really Drives High Impact CEOs, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld - Yale
Few people have spent more time inside the minds of the world's most powerful leaders than Jeffrey Sonnenfeld. As Senior Associate Dean and Lester Crown Professor at Yale School of Management and Founder of the Chief Executive Leadership Institute, Sonnenfeld has advised five US presidents and...
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CNBC’s Morgan Brennan On Re-Industrializing America, SpaceX IPO, And Next Generation Of Investing
The future of journalism is being reimagined real time, with rising stars like Morgan Brennan leading the way. As anchor of CNBC's Morning Call and host of Manifest Space podcast, Brennan brings a rare combination of editorial instinct, policy fluency, and operator-level curiosity to one of the...
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How To Reboot Old School Banking - Heath Tarbert, FMR Asst. Treasury Secretary & Circle President
The global financial system is being rebuilt from the ground up, and Heath Tarbert is helping lead that effort As President of Circle, the company behind USDC, the world's second largest regulated stablecoin, Tarbert brings a rare combination of regulatory authority, legal prowess, and market...
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From The Set Of ABC’s Hit Show The Rookie To Republic Rum Founder, Eric Winter - Actor/Entrepreneur
Eric Winter didn't take one path. He took all of them. At once. The actor, best known as the no-nonsense Sergeant Tim Bradford on ABC's smash hit The Rookie, was once a pre-med student at UCLA on track to become a doctor. Then nearly a paramedic with the LA Fire Department, then a model, a soap...
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Going Bankrupt Over a Doorbell: How Jamie Siminoff Inventor & Founder of Ring Changed the Game
Jamie Siminoff had bet everything; his savings, his family's security, and his reputation, on reinventing a device from the 1800s. At the time, he had no salary, almost no cash, and a company on the edge of bankruptcy. He had been rejected on Shark Tank with only days of runway left, not to…
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A Legacy on the Brink & the Leader Who Hit Reset
The warning signs were there, but the fall was still dramatic. A telecom powerhouse that once traded at $50 had slipped to nearly a dollar, burdened by debt, declining revenue, and a legacy architecture that couldn’t keep pace with the data-driven world emerging around it. Internally, the mission...
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Balazs Fejes: Leading with Discipline in an Age of Disruption
Most global technology companies start as tight-knit engineering teams, but only a few manage to scale into organizations of tens of thousands without facing moments that fundamentally reshape how they operate. Growth at that level is about navigating inflection points that test a company’s...
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Andrew McLaughlin on Quantum-Ready AI for Real-World Enterprise
As AI adoption accelerates, the industry is gaining speed—but so is the challenge of separating substantive innovation from the surrounding noise. While today’s language models excel at generating text, many still fall short when the work requires scientific accuracy, computational rigor, or...
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The Race To Reclaim Critical Minerals, Gary C. Evans - CEO of Antimony
When one of the world’s largest antimony mines went offline, the world didn’t just lose a mineral source—it exposed a geopolitical fault line. China, which controlled the mine and most of the global supply, began restricting exports as reserves tightened. Suddenly, the materials behind…
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Shut Down or Start Over: Brad Charron, CEO of ALOHA on Rebuilding a Brand
The best reboots don’t start with a flashy roadmap. They require honesty and reflection with courage to make consequential decisions swiftly. When a company is bleeding cash, stuck in the past, and getting further from what customers want, you eventually hit a fork in the road. Do you strip it…
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Purpose Meets Profit: Deputy CEO Silvija Martincevic on Empowering Global Shift Workers
The global economy doesn’t run on boardrooms. It runs on the people who keep the real world moving. They’re the ones staffing hospitals and elder care centers, keeping restaurants humming through the dinner rush, unloading trucks before sunrise, and holding retail together during the most chaotic...
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The CEO’s Job In The Age Of AI And Economic Warfare, Ram Charan - Author And Advisor
AI and digital transformation are no longer operating in a vacuum. They are unfolding inside a world shaped by geopolitical pressure, economic coercion, and state-driven competition. CEOs are being forced to make technology, supply chain, and capital allocation decisions that carry consequences…
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Embracing AI as a Strategic Partner: Allie K. Miller on Unlocking Connected Intelligence
In a world where the pace of change is compressed into weeks vs years, we can’t help but consider how to stay relevant and on top of innovation so as to not be outpaced. The AI conversation in the broader marketplace is centered around models, tools and code however in the boardroom and…
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Reshaping Industrial Distribution: Brian Walker Reimagining Grainger’s Digital Future
Industrial distribution rarely makes headlines, yet it quietly powers nearly every corner of the modern economy. When factories run, hospitals operate, and infrastructure stands strong, it’s because an intricate and largely invisible supply network is performing as intended. . Today, that network...
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From Wall Street to the Gridiron: Joe Moglia’s Playbook for Leadership
If life had a reset button, would you hit it? Would you have the courage to create parallel paths of greatness giving up the known to pursue your life’s passion? Buckle up for a motivational locker room like discussion with Joe Moglia this weeks guest on the Reboot Chronicles. A leader who’s...
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Where Capitalism Meets Purpose: Seth Levine on the New Entrepreneurial Era
American capitalism is almost always under scrutiny—whether it’s debates over how to define it or questions about whether it truly serves the average worker. That scrutiny has only intensified in an era where a handful of tech giants dominate entire markets and artificial intelligence sparks both...
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Miracles Among Us: How God's Grace Plays Role in Healing, DR Marc Siegel FOX News SR Medical Analyst
For years, modern medicine has promised certainty—more data, sharper diagnostics, faster answers. Yet some spiritual moments defy logic and explanation. Instances where coma patients awaken after weeks of silence, or individuals once immobilized by Lewy Body disease rise and walk with strength....
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How To Reboot Supermarket Shopping Into 21st Century AI Era, Gadi Graus - CEO A2Z Cust2mate
Supermarkets and grocery stores are a staple of our daily lives. They are a business that most visit weekly and are so used to that they can navigate the aisles blindfolded. This familiarity is due in part to the fact that grocery stores can go decades without modifying their layout. It is the...
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Rebooting America’s Energy Future, Dan Brouillette - FRM United States Secretary of Energy
Building on our recent global markets episodes, we now turn to one of the most urgent and fascinating conversations of our time: energy. From powering nations to fueling the explosive growth of AI, the energy sector is at the center of innovation, geopolitics, and technological transformation. As...
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Rebooting Global Trade Protection With AI And Humans, Artur Wisniewski - Allianz
Behind the scenes of the world’s biggest companies lies a powerful, often invisible engine: high-stakes B2B transactions that move billions across borders. These deals are the lifeblood of global commerce—and when they go wrong, the ripple effects can be seismic. That’s why insuring and…
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Adapting A Global Economy To AI, Peter Morici – FMR Chief Economist U.S. Intl. Trade Commission
The global economy is constantly evolving with forces like Automation, Robotics and artificial intelligence redefining the global workforce and how businesses drive growth and innovation at scale. As the Magnificent Seven Tech giants lay off tens of thousands of people leveraging AI to drive out...
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Mapping The Synthetic Age, Henry Ajder - Founder Latent Space
Artificial Intelligence and the potential productivity benefits continue to be an area of focus across industries, yet AI’s influence now extends into our culture. From deepfakes and cloned voices to AI-generated art and virtual influencers, a new wave of synthetic content is transforming media…
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Rebooting The Founders' Journey, Brad Feld - Partner at Foundry
Launching a startup is daunting—especially when you're navigating the journey without guidance or mentorship. Even well-funded ventures struggle, and those that beat the odds are so rare they're dubbed "Unicorns." Our next guest on the Reboot Chronicles Show has helped countless start-ups become...
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AI Threatening Professional Services: This CEO Says Not On My Watch, Jim Peko - Grant Thornton CEO
Most businesses are rapidly deploying AI to be more competitive, but some are struggling to adapt, or worse, think Microsoft Co-Pilot is enough adaptation. Sectors like consulting, accounting, and law firms, are in big trouble and many are facing an Opportunity Crisis. Our next guest is reaching...
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From Olympic Heights To AI Healthcare Breakthroughs, Simon Arkel – CEO Ryght
From Olympic runways to boardroom breakthroughs, Simon Arkel knows how to raise the bar—and clear it. On this episode of The Reboot Chronicles, we’re joined by this two-time Olympian and five-time NCAA All-American whose journey is a masterclass in reinvention. Simon’s pole vaulting career was...
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From “MMMBop” to Purpose-Driven Business Builder, Taylor Hanson – Teen Pop Idol & Entrepreneur
You know the song MMMBop. You probably danced to it. But do you know the man behind it? Taylor Hanson went from topping charts in 27 countries to brewing up a business empire. In an industry that often trades authenticity for applause, Taylor and his two brothers chose ownership over...
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Sports And Leadership: From The Fairways To New Frontiers, Golf Legend - Jan Stephenson
Long before brand-building became a buzzword and athletes were expected to be media-savvy moguls, our guest on this episode of the Reboot Chronicles Show, Jan Stephenson, was already rewriting the rules. Born under the sun-drenched skies of Sydney, Australia, she stepped onto the LPGA Tour in…
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Recognizing Life’s Serendipitous Moments To Pivot With Purpose, David Butler - Co-CEO Dimensional
David Butler’s life is a classic reboot story, from the courts of NBA Basketball to Wall Street Titan and co-CEO of Dimensional Fund Advisors. A powerhouse in the boardroom and on the court, David’s career has been anything but conventional. A Rhodes Scholar candidate and Pac-12 Basketball Hall…
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How To Reshuffle And Reboot YouOrganization Like A Pro, Sangeet Choudary – CEO Platformation
When a CEO steps into a company with the mindset of initiating a full-scale reboot, it’s not just a refresh—it’s a renaissance. My best reboots have been built on three foundational pillars: People - Platform - Passion. Platform (my favorite) often becomes the keystone of growth, especially when...
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How To Cut Through All The AI Hype By Avoiding Easy Money Traps, Raj Mamodia - CEO Brillio
Rewind to 2014, when the tech world was sort of dancing around the promise of the “digital future.” The term “digital transformation” was just beginning to gain traction, and “cloud computing” had become the darling of boardroom conversations, though many enterprises were still hesitant to fully...
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What Really Matters In Our Short Time On Earth, Harry Kraemer – ex-CEO of Baxter & Kellogg Professor
Leadership isn’t just about C-suite executives running big businesses. It’s about leading with values at every stage of your life, using tools to improve yourself, your work, your relationships—and rebooting yourself with balance to lead a better life.On this dynamic episode of The Reboot...
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Unleashing 400M Digital Workers with AI-Powered Automation, Mihir Shukla - CEO Automation Anywhere
Most every C-suite leader wants AI to help their people perform tedious tasks better. We still live in a world where we are stuck doing too many time-consuming, lower impact tasks - like organizing spreadsheets, manually processing forms and data entry, or swiveling information from app to app...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Reboot Chronicles Show with Dean DeBiase, highlights the world’s top leaders & CEO’s through engaging peer-to-peer conversations that audiences love, available wherever you get podcasts, with thousands of listeners, watchers, readers, and fans. - - About Host: Named “Growth Guru” by Inc., Dean DeBiase is a WSJ best-selling author, Forbes Contributor, speaker, Kellogg/Northwestern faculty member—and award-winning serial CEO who has led dozens of companies across diverse sectors, creating hundreds of products, thousands of jobs, and billions of dollars in revenue, capital, and value.
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