EP31 - What the next generation expects from organisational development, future leaders and new work. Interview with Stephanie Lindner

Irina is a SAAS founder and a business consultant who specializes in Performance Enhancement and Operations and Processes Optimization. She helps design systems out of the right people, processes, and tools. Through the course of the last few years, she has helped over many small and large companies deliver outstanding results. 
As an Ecommerce Project manager and scrum coach, she helped ecommerce brands sort their hiring, onboarding, fulfillment, customer support and daily operations workflows. This helped them increase their business velocity and they had more time to only take care of the products Marketing and productivity. 
Irina has a very large experience in ecommerce over 8 years with its different challenges and obstacles, from running a fulfillment center in China where she was living for over 2 years to launching her own SAAS software for package tracking that increases sales by 5-10% on autopilot. 
She has been successful executing Lean 6 sigma optimizations for eCommerce companies: customer support, logistics and overall supply chain management optimization. 
After her experience in China, she understood the need for ecommerce companies to have a trustful and a software that can fill the gap with Product tracking. 
She decided then to create TrackMage.com platform. It allows Ecommerce stores that to have a 5-10% extra sales by simplifying the customer experience. It allows them to track their products on the platform and do the upsell then automatic follow ups for reviews. 
This also helps brands to reduce the number of claims received by the customer services. 
TrackMage has signed a deal with Metal Family, the notorious group of content creators who create famous animations on YouTube with Millions of views worldwide. With their rising popularity, they decided to expand and start selling physical comic books and other merchandises. TrackMage was the solution chosen to help them manage all the supply chain from confirming orders till getting thousands of reviews at the end of the sales funnel.

Brandon is a Town Manager in North Carolina by trade, but also the host of the Lead Well Podcast, a college instructor and highly sought after speaker that talks about leadership and motivation. He earned a Master's Degree in Public Administration from Appalachian State University, is an ICMA Credentialed City Manager and member of the John Maxwell Team, and has a burning passion for helping others succeed.

Before becoming a real estate entrepreneur, KeePon Cashflow’s founder Billy Keels worked in the corporate world. In fact, he was one of the best “corporate soldiers” you’d ever want to meet.

During his corporate career Billy put his leadership and relationship-building skills to good use to help clients get to the root of issues that were holding them back from full success. Billy earned his stripes as a true problem-solver, a skill he carried into his new entrepreneurial life. 

What made him popular with employers who sent him across the globe to meet with Fortune 500-level clients is the same thing that makes him popular with investors, buyers and sellers in real estate today… his skills in coming up with real solutions that work in the real world for real people!

Billy says that he was happy enough in his J.O.B., but something was missing. An emptiness and longing for a different life chewed on him, pulling him to what he knew he wanted to do more than anything else. Billy wanted to be an entrepreneur who brought two worlds together. He wanted to give individuals where he lives the chance to invest in properties on U.S. soil. 

So he took steps and kept on the path to his goals. KeePon Cashflow is the result of his efforts. 

Today Billy is an international real estate entrepreneur, problem-solver, author, coach and mentor. He sees opportunities where others often don’t in real estate.

No “overnight success,” Billy continues to work toward his vision and goals. Topmost on his list? Building a bridge between investors and buyers in Europe with sellers in the U.S.

Dr. Steven MacGregor is Honorary Professor of Health and Wellbeing at the Glasgow School of Art and External Advisor for McKinsey & Company. He has helped improve the workplace health and sustainable leadership of tens of thousands of professionals worldwide at organisations including Salesforce, Santander, and Telefónica. 

He is the author of Sustaining Executive Performance and Chief Wellbeing Officer, which is also a podcast and a former national Duathlon Champion (triathlon for bad swimmers) who has trained with Olympic track athletes, Tour de France cyclists, and Ironman champions. His new book, The Daily Reset (www.dailyreset.me) celebrates a 20-year career in wellbeing.

Patrick B. Parker is an accomplished Tech Executive turned Founder with domestic and international experience in operations, custom software development, multi channel product distribution, and marketing involving both start-up and growth operations. He has bootstrapped companies he founded to millions ($MM) in ARR and has raised venture capital to build out teams, to refine product features and user experiences, and to execute go-to-market (GTM) strategies. Patrick has built award-winning products and led major growth initiatives in both the public and private sectors. He is a proven operations strategist with a track record of building successful businesses. If you want guidance that you can count on, then you have come to the right place. Today, his company works with amazing entrepreneurs that are looking to make a major impact within their industry. Thoroughbred Solutions helps clients with everything from business ideation to product/service development to building scalable marketing strategies and everything in between.

Gianpaolo Fava is an International Affairs and Business graduate experienced in leadership, corporate strategy, innovation and customer relations. Committed to nature conservation, sustainability and community service.

Currently, he help SAP design and drive it’s transformation strategy in the midmarket segment for innovation and automation.

Gian has also a podcast called "Conocimiento Tribal" (Tribal Knowledge) focused on helping Spanish speakers become better leaders by improving their self-management skills and emotional intelligence.

Learning from other people/cultures is the cornerstone of his innovation and simplification style. It also allows me to always grow as a person and a professional. I’m always open to these kinds of opportunities.

Markus Feller has strong leadership skills and in-depth experience in innovation, business transformation and change management. This enables him to easily identify both business and organizational opportunities as well as challenges. He excel at getting buy-in and alignment for these initiatives at all levels and pragmatically transforming them into value-added solutions for customers and the company in due time. Using his extensive network and strong communication skills, he effectively use these success stories to position teams and the company internally and externally.

Daniel F. Pinnow is a Pioneer of Systemic Leadership in the German speaking countries and a wellknown Leadership Expert and bestselling Author. He is the Founder & Managing Partner of the Academy of systemic Leadership an was, therefore, more than 15 years the Managing Partner & CEO of the "Akademie für Führungskräfte der Wirtschaft GmbH" in Überlingen and Bad Harzburg, Germany  - one of the most famous experts in leadership and management science in German speaking countries.

The experienced management trainer and leadership coach has been on the board of directors of the Cognos AG, one of Germany’s biggest private providers for further education and gained deep leadership experience as top manager within international companies such as Airbus Group and E.ON Ruhrgas AG.

Pinnow earned a master’s degree in economic sciences from the University of Cologne and a master’s degree in social sciences from the University of Wuppertal. Throughout his studies he focused on psychology and organizational sciences. He was lecturer of Leadership at Technical University Munich (TUM) one of the "Excellence Univeritys" in Germany and lecturer of Leadership & Organisation at Hochschule Fresenius in Munich. Since 2007 he became a Associate Professor of Leadership at Capital University of Economics and Business in Beijing, China.

In addition to his bestseller ‚Leadership – What really matters‘ (Führen – Worauf es wirklich ankommt, 6th edition in 2012), which was also published in China as one of the first german management books, Daniel Pinnow has published numerous papers and books on human resource management, systemic leadership and ethics.

Pieter Haas is Board member, Investor and Senior Advisor. Focus on consumer, digital commerce, retail, D2C.

His life Philosophy: “Reach for the stars but keep your feet on the ground.”!

Pieter Haas is a CEO/Board Member with a proven track record of running, and transforming a large, international retailer into a customer-focused, full online/ multichannel retailer empowering life in the digital world.

He is a leader with a visionary, strategic, and "big picture" perspective in combination with a passion for detail and determination to execute. He leads by example based on a broad, operational, and international retail/wholesale experience (Europe, USA, China).

Pieter has outstanding communication skills, motivates and inspires people.

Michael K Sahota, CEC, is a Thought Leader, Author and Speaker in the Agile Industry. Michael is the co-founder and CEO of SHIFT314 Inc. He has developed a unique IP to unlock success with Agile, Digital, Lean, and other new ways of working.

Michael is professionally trained as an Engineer, has published papers on Artificial Intelligence, and M.Sc. in Computer Science. He has always been curious about how to make things work and has shifted this focus over his career from computers and software systems to people and organizational systems. Michael’s relentless quest took him to India to study consciousness from enlightened masters and his work reflects the deep integration of Eastern wisdom traditions into practical business guidance.

Michael’s life’s work is a system to enable evolutionary capabilities in people and organizations to create high performance through Business Agility. As a thought leader in the Agile Industry he published the ground-breaking book An Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide: Working with Organizational Culture. In 2018, he published Emotional Science: The Key to High Performance. Michael is working on his upcoming book on Evolutionary Change. His vision is to support the development of evolutionary capabilities in people and organizations to create change and impact on a global scale.