Who Is Jennifer Sertl? Jennifer Sertl is an internationally recognized strategist, leadership coach, and marketing executive with more than two decades of experience across transportation, beauty, defense, healthcare, and advanced manufacturing. She is actively consulting through her firm Agility3R, where she helps organizations and executives build strategic capacity through resilience, responsiveness, and reflection. Jennifer is...

Who Is Patrick Van der Pijl? Patrick founded Business Models Inc. the company that drives growth through innovation. BMI helps leaders and teams to systematically grow the core business, unlock new opportunities and build innovation capabilities. They work in collaboration with our clients like IKEA, ING, Mars, Medtronic and Heineken to create lasting results. After...

As I dug into John’s story in preparation for his episode, I stumbled into not only a prolific writer but a deep thinker with a rich and interesting story. The kind of story and person I just love having a conversation with on the Team Powdered Donut™ podcast. John is as eloquent a speaker and...

Who Is Tanya Hall? As CEO at leading hybrid publisher Greenleaf Book Group, Tanya drives growth efforts and fosters a culture built around serving authors. Prior to her current role, Tanya worked directly with Greenleaf’s authors to develop publishing strategies (including multiple New York Times bestsellers); spearheaded growth strategies, including Greenleaf’s ebook program and the...

Who is Dr. Masha Malka? Over the years, Masha has worked with C-suite executives, entrepreneurs, and ambitious women worldwide — guiding them to break through limitations and design lives of purpose, freedom, and fulfillment. From co-founding ShiftHub – a global movement for women 40+ to transform midlife transitions into opportunities for growth, leadership, and authentic...

Although Angela was faced by a breast cancer diagnosis of her own at 34, she, like my Maureen, is not defined by her cancer. For that matter, none of us are. We are instead defined by the spaces we are in. The theme of TEDx UW-Madison where I met Angela. I was captivated by her...

Today’s episode with Rob Wolcott jumps in to his book, Proximity, which describes how every industry will change the rest of our careers, as well as his founding of the Kellogg Innovation Network, TWIN Global and his years as a professor across several leading universities. As we discuss from his book, digital technologies of all...

Episode 14 of Season 2 of the Team Powdered Donut™ podcast is with Meredith Cooper, Co-Founder of Wonders & Worries. It is dropping on what would be my late wife Maureen’s 62nd birthday, her 12th on the other side of heaven, to whom Team Powdered Donut is dedicated. On that fateful morning of her passing...

Today’s podcast episode features Janice Kruger, currently brand ambassador for the Side- Out Foundation. A few years ago, as she was launching the Leave It Better podcast for the Side-Out Foundation, I had the privilege of being her guest in my role as board chair for the foundation. In this episode recorded earlier this month,...