This episode concludes 'The Next You' series where Allison turns the focus on the Disruptive CEO Nations' listeners and their business goals. In part 3, Allison encourages the listener to think about 'high risk/high awesome' and why you need to make space for risk in your life. Allison shares her personal 'yellow post-it note' story insights including: - Why if NFL legend Charles Woodson can take a risk and build a new next you can too.  - Understanding opportunity windows. - Why you need a framework for decision-making that serves you well. - If you have intentionality around time, money, and relationships so you can mitigate the chance of failure. - No success comes without pain and concern so recognize this and move forward anyway. - Have what you don't want in life push you as much as chasing what you do want will propel you forward. - Set your intentions on having the next 12 months develop a new you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the second episode in a series of episodes where Allison turns the focus on the Disruptive CEO Nations' listeners and their business goals. In part 2, Allison encourages the listener to think about 'The yes line' and shares insights and thoughts into: - Life accelerates according to the yes line. - Get out of your own way and keep your ego in check. - Make space for new. - Activate the field of possibility. - Understand the success triangle. - Write out a question list that will pull you to your future. Connect with Allison: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonsummerschicago/ Website: DisruptiveCEONation.com Twitter: @DisruptiveCEO #futurist #CEO #startup #startupstory #founder #founderstory #business #businesspodcast #podcast New boost Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode kicks off a series of episodes where Allison turns the focus on the Disruptive CEO Nations' listeners and their business goals.  In part 1, Allison encourages the listener to think about 'The next you' and shares insights and thoughts into: - Getting the motivation to set future goals. - How to see the field of possibility but not get lured away from the path to your future. - Thinking about the impact of technology on your future. - Finding people and resources that will help you see the future and meet it with success Connect with Allison: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonsummerschicago/  Website: DisruptiveCEONation.com Twitter: @DisruptiveCEO   #futurist #CEO #startup #startupstory #founder #founderstory #business #businesspodcast #podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mickey Balter is the CEO & Co-Founder of Oriient, an in-store navigation technology provider that offers hyper-accurate indoor positioning using the earth’s magnetic field and built-in smartphone sensors. Mickey is a serial entrepreneur and a veteran of the Israeli semiconductor industry, with over 20 years of experience in combining deep technology to solve business challenges. Prior to founding Oriient, Mickey founded and led Scientra which developed the world’s fastest High-Frequency Trading platform. Before that Mickey held senior leadership positions at Siverge Networks and Broadlight (acquired by Broadcom).   In this conversation we touch on: - The beginning of indoor GPS. - Practical applications of the technology, inside and outside large retailers. - The principles that guide the staff at Oriient. - The need for speed and the willingness to share. - The future vision for Oriient and its GPS tech.   Mickey started his career in the IDF’s elite cyber-security unit. Mickey holds an MBA from Tel-Aviv University and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Connect with Mickey: Website: https://www.oriient.me/ Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oriient/   Mickey's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/balterm/   Connect with Allison: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonsummerschicago/ Website: DisruptiveCEONation.com Twitter: @DisruptiveCEO    #futurist #CEO #startup #startupstory #founder #founderstory #business #businesspodcast #podcast         Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

90% of cyberattacks start with human error. In this episode, we speak with the founder of Riot, a platform designed to protect your company by preparing your employees to deal with cyberattacks in a modern and engaging way. The number of cyberattacks exploded last year, and everything suggests it will be even worse going forward. Long before AI steals our jobs, it will enable hackers to craft much more sophisticated attacks at scale. These attacks will be far more personalized, far more difficult to discern, and far more devastating. Riot started at Y Combinator in 2020 and is now protecting more than 200,000 employees worldwide.   In this conversation we touch on: -Benjamin's personal experience with the attack on his first company. -The mission of making cyber security accessible to everyone and affordable for small business and non-profits. -How an intelligent tool, 'Albert', makes the experience personable for employees by offering training in small bites based on the user's role and digital habits. -Why offering a first attack excerise for free can really sell a company on just why they need the service. -His experiences at Y Combinator and why having mentors who have already been where you want to go is important. -Insights into raising $15 million in Series A funding.   Benjamin Netter is a cybersecurity expert and the founder and CEO of Riot, a cybersecurity training tool created for employee protection. Benjamin’s platform teaches employees about cybersecurity through mock phishing drills and cyber awareness content custom to each user. Last year, Riot protected cyber attacks across 500 companies.   Connect with Benjamin:   Website: https://www.tryriot.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/tryriotdotcom LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tryriot/ Benjamin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/benjaminnetter Benjamin's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/b-netter/   Connect with Allison: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonsummerschicago/ Website: DisruptiveCEONation.com Twitter: @DisruptiveCEO    #futurist #CEO #startup #startupstory #founder #founderstory #business #businesspodcast #podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dmytro Gryn, CEO at Jooble, Job Aggregator. Dmytro is an expert in the information technology industry with 15 years of experience. He joined the Jooble team in May 2007 as a Software Engineer, becoming the first employee in the company after its two founders. Before becoming CEO of Jooble Job Aggregator, Dmytro worked as an engineer, team leader of the development team, and CTO of Job Aggregator. It was our pleasure to speak with Dmytro about Jooble and what is like leading a global company whose international headquarters is in Ukraine. Here is what we covered: - Dmytro's personal commitment to the mission of Jooble and how he rose from his start as a software engineer, to be the CEO. - Why he believes part of their success story is their culture story. He explains that people are attached to the culture and that brings commitment. - Lessons learned from expanding into nearly 70 countries. - What it is like to be a wartime CEO to manage global operations and remind people to take care of themselves. - How the book The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz offered valuable insight for him as a tech CEO facing challenges. - How Jooble has its sights set on fulfilling the role of a job search product and expanding to meet all job search needs. As CEO, Dmytro led the international scaling of Jooble to foreign online recruitment markets, created and controlled all the necessary processes, and assembled and trained a team. Today, he continues improving the company's capability to create more value for Jooble clients. Jooble’s mission is to help people find work. The company is constantly working to ensure that the employment process is as comfortable and fast as possible for both the applicant and the employer. Every day, Jooble aggregates vacancies with more than 140,000 resources from around the world. Sources include corporate websites, social networks, classifieds, and other resources. Thus, all job offers are available in one place. Connect with Dmytro: Website: https://jooble.org/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmytro-gryn-7282802a/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DmytroGryn   Connect with Allison: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonsummerschicago/ Website: DisruptiveCEONation.com Twitter: @DisruptiveCEO    #futurist #CEO #startup #startupstory #founder #founderstory #business #businesspodcast #podcast   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chloe Duckworth is the co-founder and CEO of Valence Vibrations, an AI startup delivering emotional classifications in real-time conversation to improve communication and promote empathy across demographics, including neurotypes. Chloe is personally motivated by democratizing access to wellness in every facet of what it means to be well. In the wake of the pandemic, she co-founded Hope Hearted, a Bay Area-based nonprofit that has provided PPE to thousands of unhoused people. Here is what we discussed: - Her path to becoming a computational neuroscience expert and how she was inspired by exposure to haptic feedback and sensory augmentation work. - What neurodiversity is. - Partnership on Vibes for Apple Watch. - How one function of their platform provides emotional subtitles in digital spaces to enable people to connect, and the details of how that works. - Her approach to pricing and having a fee-based app versus a free one that may sell data for money. - How a digital accessibility tool like theirs can break through discrimination in employment settings and also extend to elevating customer support. - Her take on the rapid development of AI and the opportunities to integrate with voice assistant tools. Connect with Chloe: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chloe-duckworth/ Website: https://www.valencevibrations.com TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@valencevibrations   Connect with Allison: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonsummerschicago/ Website: DisruptiveCEONation.com Twitter: @DisruptiveCEO    #futurist #CEO #startup #startupstory #founder #founderstory #business #businesspodcast #podcast           Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

201 Mohammed Widdi, CEO of Soul Detox, Brooklyn, NY, USA The main purpose of business, in our guest’s opinion, is to make a difference in people’s lives. In this episode, Mohammed ‘Moe’ Widdi speaks about his latest business venture, Soul Detox, and his feelings about holistic healing and business practices.  Always intrigued by the ways CEOs and high-performing business leaders manage stress, I was curious about what Moe would have to share. Here is what we discussed: -      What does it mean to cleanse your soul? -      Why we need to explore alternative ways to relieve stress. -      How to choose the right kind of healing for you. -      The interconnections of life- spiritual, physical, financial, etc. -      Thinking of business as interacting with fellow humans instead of money moves. -      Taking care of yourself and your business. Mohammed Widdi is a Brooklyn-based social entrepreneur with a background in fitness science. He has founded several startups. Mohammed is passionate about health, wellness, and spirituality, leading to him starting his latest venture, Soul Detox, which raised $400K in pre-seed funding. Soul Detox just celebrated the grand opening of its Brooklyn location in January 2023 and has plans to expand in the US and abroad. Connect with Moe: Website: https://getsouldetox.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moe-widdi/   Connect with Allison: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonsummerschicago/ Website: DisruptiveCEONation.com Twitter: @DisruptiveCEO    #futurist #CEO #startup #startupstory #founder #founderstory #business #businesspodcast #podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are doing a happy dance at the Disruptive CEO Nation podcast because this is our 200th episode, and to celebrate, we made Allison the guest. In this episode, Bruce Corris from Market Domination takes the interviewer's seat and helps listeners get to know Allison better and what is behind the career that has enabled her to work with CEOs and senior leaders in over 90 countries. Through the conversation, we explore: - A glimpse into Allison's childhood and how that formed her life's work. - The unique position of being a first-generation college student and what that meant to her. - Her early years in business when she figured out her drive to want to achieve more. - Why she embraces the philosophy 'The start of amazing begins with a question'. - Lessons learned being a podcast host (and why she wishes there was a podcast hall of shame for bad guests). Allison K. Summers, CAE, is a global business expert and recognized association management professional with 30-plus years of experience on the international stage working with ground-breaking industry leaders across six continents. As the host of the Disruptive CEO Nation Podcast, she has interviewed 200+ company founders, CEOs, and cutting-edge thinkers on topics ranging from advancements in tech to leading in the #futureofwork. Allison is an international best-selling author of books such as Building Your Brand: Make Business Happen in a Global Economy and Connect to Influence. Allison is passionate about support systems for youth experiencing illness and their quality of care based on her own experiences with her son and his multiple auto-immune disorders. Connect with Bruce: Email: [email protected] Connect with Allison: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonsummerschicago/ Website: DisruptiveCEONation.com Twitter: @DisruptiveCEO    #futurist #CEO #startup #startupstory #founder #founderstory #business #businesspodcast #podcast               Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eric carries more than two decades of experience in the healthcare advisory space and leading teams at Southwind and The Advisory Board Company. His background in financial operations, mergers and acquisitions, technology innovation, and traditional consulting services sets the foundation for creative and bold solutions. Here is what we discussed: -      Why 'curiosity meets clarity' is important to the DNA of the business. -      Insights into working with physicians and administrators and other key individuals to design better outcomes. -      Why understanding data compared to the perception of data is so important when working with people and systems to find opportunities for an optimal future. -      Why looking at data analytics alone without having the right subject matter expertise will cause failure and why you must have all the key stakeholders and players in the room. -      How boldly walking away from a corporate job with a young family to start his own business ended up being the right equation for success, even with its challenges, but how the support of family made all the difference. -      The growth journey for the company, from working his own network to becoming a recognized brand and why it is key that you do not try to make your business all things to all people. Eric’s passion for answering the “up-at-night” questions led him to build our company from the ground up. As a creative and strategic thinker, Eric leads his team to live outside the box to build innovative and sustainable solutions for our clients. When not sporting a colorful shirt or crazy socks around the office, Eric enjoys spending time with his wife, two kids, and their dog, CC. He loves biking the Natchez Trace with old and new friends, as well as “working” from the Cape in the summer. Connect with Eric: Website: https://www.ancorehealth.com/ Connect with Allison: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonsummerschicago/ Website: DisruptiveCEONation.com Twitter: @DisruptiveCEO    #futurist #CEO #startup #startupstory #founder #founderstory #business #businesspodcast #podcast               Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices