Alan Kipust joins Leader Generation to discuss the massive shift happening in marketing organizations right now. As Mod Op’s newest Executive in Residence, Alan brings decades of product leadership experience from Amazon, Chewy, Ford, and Uber to tackle how marketing teams can survive—and thrive—through AI transformation. The conversation cuts through the hype to address what’s actually happening: boards want cost cuts now, roles are being eliminated before automation is ready, and every marketer needs to prove they can identify where AI drives growth. Alan breaks down the practical steps marketing teams should take, from daily AI usage to mapping your own workflow like you would a customer journey. This isn’t about learning to use ChatGPT. It’s about developing the product mindset that separates leaders from those who get left behind. Alan and Tessa discuss why top-down adoption works, how to approach your IT team, and why hackathons might be the best investment your organization makes this year.
Thomas Jensen didn’t leave university research to make more money. He left because he wanted to make a real difference for cancer patients. After 20+ years in oncology and biotech, he’s doing exactly that as CEO and co-founder of Allarity Therapeutics. Deborah Fell welcomes him on Success Beneath the Surface. The company he built centers on a radical idea: every patient’s cancer is unique, so every treatment should be unique too. Using a proprietary platform that analyzes messenger RNA in tumor cells, Allarity can predict which patients will respond to specific cancer drugs rather than just drug classes. The results speak for themselves. In advanced ovarian cancer patients who often have only 3-4 months to live when they enroll in trials, Allarity’s dual-mechanism therapy is showing 25 months of overall survival. That’s nearly a year better than the best approved drugs on the market, with minimal toxicity. Patients take three capsules a day and go about their lives.
We’re drowning in content glut. Empty posts churned out to keep up with everyone else. Listen to this episode of Rooted in Revenue. There’s no joy, no depth, no controversy. You can FEEL the difference between obligated content versus real engagement. What are we losing? The skill of conversation. The skill of listening. Those spontaneous “hey, come look at this” moments. Pulling each other into offices to analyze something together. These aren’t scheduled Q&A sessions. These are the messy, real exchanges where magic happens. Here’s what’s fascinating: I was editing Deborah Fell’s episode when she mentioned a CEO who told her he NEVER takes meetings, that his schedule is impossible, and that she shouldn’t even try. But when she said, “Would you like to be on my podcast?” His response? “Oh, I’m glad to do that.” Professionals at all levels don’t want more meetings, sales pitches, or brain-picking sessions. They want real conversations with pushback. They want to share their stories. The best ones are willing to go eyeball to eyeball on important topics.
In this episode of What’s Your Edge? Host Laura Patterson and her guest, Ed Trevis, President and CEO of Corvalent, focusing on a foundational driver of sustainable growth: innovation. Research from McKinsey suggests that companies that prioritize innovation generate significantly higher growth than their peers. In one study, “innovation leaders” achieved 2.4 times higher total shareholder returns than laggards over a 10-year period, underscoring that innovation is not a “nice to have,” but a core driver of long-term value.
This week, Ron Peck, Chief Legal Officer for The Phia Group joins Leigh on The Granite List.Live. The Phia Group is a health care and benefits cost containment expert, servicing employers and insurance carriers – as well as those that service them. Listen as Ron dissects societal trends resulting in mass confusion, dependence upon networks, and systemic issues that all combine to result in skyrocketing costs – as well as inadequate (and potentially damaging) legislative remedies.
Deacon Brett’s message can give us big concepts to consider beyond football. He somehow segued right into King Herod. This was the summary of his sermon. To live fully and freely is not to circle the wagons against every potential threat to our safe and comfortable little worlds. Some of the freest people ever were the martyrs, who laid down their lives — their actual, physical lives — freely, entrusting their well-being to God. That’s how we want to live, too: in the immense freedom of the Divine Will. God knows our needs, even better than we do. Look for the will of God in the events of your daily life and ask Him to be present there. Let that be your star.
We hope you enjoy this playlist of our favorite episodes of the week.
