CEO Perspective: Driving Growth

July 28, 2015
Hosted by Maureen Metcalf

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Gary and Jodi talk about their experience driving successful company growth and exit across multiple software companies. Gary is very high energy and enthusiastic and shares his personal story. He answers the following questions: 1. Who are you in addition to being a CEO? 2. How did you grew Astute Solutions and orchestrated an exit? 3. What is a growth cube and how does it inform how you work as a CEO? 4. What do you believe are top qualities of successful senior executives 5. How do you prepare a company to be ready to attract investors? 6. What accomplishment are you most proud of personally? Professionally? 7. What fundamentals have you put in place in your organizations - to successfully transform your organizations to higher valuation and growth? 6. How do you create raving customers and associates? How does this drive business value? 7. What sets you apart from other leaders? What can our listeners learn from you that they could emulate?

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Maureen Metcalf

Maureen is the Founder and CEO of the Innovative Leadership Institute, a renowned executive advisor focused on making the world better through leadership! She helps clients strengthen their leadership talent pool so that leadership itself becomes one of your strategic advantages to co-create a thriving future.

Maureen brings 30 years of business experience to provide high-impact, practical solutions that support her clients' leadership development and organizational transformations. She is recognized as an innovative, principled thought leader who combines intellectual rigor and discipline with an ability to translate theory into practice in all her work. Her operational focus is coupled with a strategic ability to analyze, develop and implement successful strategies for profitability, growth and sustainability.

Maureen is the author of an international award-winning book series on Innovative leadership, including the Innovative Leaders Guide to Transforming Organizations, winner of a 2014 International Book Award and a regular contributor to Forbes.

As a board member/chair, Maureen has led multiple organizations through difficult transitions and is open to for-profit board opportunities. Before founding the Innovative Leadership Institute, she led consulting engagements for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Accenture across a broad range of industries, contributing to successful organizational transformation.

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