Motivated to Lead Podcast - Mark Klingsheim

This week, we revisit our interview with Anjan Thakor, Senior Associate Dean, and John E. Simon, Professor of Finance at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis. Anjan was previously The Edward J. Frey Professor of Banking and Finance at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, where he also served as chairman of the Finance area. He has served on the faculties of Indiana University, Northwestern University, and UCLA.  He has worked with many companies, including Whirlpool Corporation, Allision Engine Co., Citigroup, RR Donnelley, Dana Corporation, Anheuser-Busch, Zenith Corporation, Lincoln National Corporation, J.P. Morgan, Landscape Structures, Inc., CIGNA, Borg-Warner Automative, Waxman Industries, Reuters, The Limited, Ryder Integrated Logistics, AT&T, CH2M Hill, Takata Corporation, Tyson Foods, Spartech.  He has published over 75 research papers and seven books. He is past managing Editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation and past president of the Financial Intermediation Research Society. He has a Ph.D. (Finance) from Northwestern University.  

This week, we revisit our interview with Dr. Mark Shrime. Mark is an internationally renowned speaker, surgeon, and author. He serves as the International Chief Medical Officer at Mercy Ships and a Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. Mark has written a new book Solving for Why: A Surgeon's Journey to Discover the Transformative Power of Purpose.  He received his MD from the University of Texas and received his Ph.D. in health policy from Harvard University, with a concentration in decision science. When not working, he is an avid photographer and rock climber and has competed on Seasons 8, 9, and 11 of American Ninja Warrior.  

This week, we revisit our interview with Pamela York. Pam is an investor and serial entrepreneur with extensive success from launch to exit in technology-based companies. She's the co-founder and Managing Partner of Capita3 Ventures, an early-stage venture capital group investing in women-led startups with game-changing health innovations. Over her career, she's been involved in more than 50 new company launches, with a dozen acquisitions or IPOs to date, and serves on numerous boards.   Previously, Pam pioneered three technology platforms that were successfully commercialized and co-founded two VC-backed startups, each with an exit, including one with a highly successful IPO. She also led the University of Iowa's technology commercialization foundation, where she oversaw a portfolio of 1000 technologies concentrated in life sciences and built a startup pipeline from scratch, attracting hundreds of millions in venture capital financing and numerous exits to date.    Pam has 20 years of training in transformative leader growth. She applies awareness-based leader training to develop founders into top CEO's, featured at TEDx in 2018, and also delivered to healthcare leaders and innovators at Mayo Clinic. Pam is a mentor or advisor for Techstars, Revolution, NSF I-CORPSTM, Medical Alley, and others. She has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois and completed private equity financing at Wharton.      

This week, we welcome back Dave Sparkman to the podcast to discuss his new book, Your Character Is Your Culture. Dave is the founder and managing director of SPARK Your Culture, a corporate culture advisory firm focused on helping organizations build healthy, high-performance cultures. Previously, Dave served as SVP of Culture at UnitedHealth Group, where he spent more than nine years leading culture and values initiatives across an organization of more than 300,000 employees. Before UnitedHealth Group, Dave was a partner at Arthur Andersen, leading the West Region Human Resources function. He also serves as Executive Director and Board Chair of Crossroads Career, a ministry dedicated to helping people navigate career transitions. In this conversation, Dave shares insights from his new book and explores the powerful connection between character, leadership, and organizational culture—and how the character of leaders can shape the culture and performance of an organization.  

This week we revisit our interview with Susan (Sue) Ashford, who is an award-winning scholar and Professor at the University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business. She is the author of "The Power of Flexing: How to Use Small Daily Experiments to Create Big Life-Changing Growth". Sue's passion for helping people to be maximally effective in their work lives has driven her teaching and research work on self-management, proactivity, change from below, and leadership and its development. Her research has been summarized as advice for managers in the Harvard Business Review, the Harvard Business Review blog, New York Magazine, and The Conversation. Sue is a Fellow of the Academy of Management. She was awarded the prestigious Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management by that Association in 2017 and the OB Division Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020.  Sue is a native Californian and the daughter of two native Californians. Sue lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with her husband, also a University of Michigan faculty member, with whom she raised three daughters.