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Glenn Kaufman has sat on eight boards over the past 25 years. He's Chairman & CEO of KEH Camera, North America's largest buyer and reseller of pre-owned photo and video equipment, Chairman of KPS Global, and Managing Director and Founder of D Cubed Group. He previously served as Board Director and Chair of the Finance Committee at Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, and on the b...

Dr. Justin Anderson is CEO of Premier Sports Psychology, working with professional athletes across the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL as well as executive teams. On the Strategy and Leadership Podcast, he walked through the framework his firm has spent twenty years developing for performing consistently under pressure.

Tracy Nolan has led people through two of the largest telecom mergers in US history, first Bell Atlantic Mobile into Verizon, then Sprint into T-Mobile, the latter during COVID, with no in-person meetings possible. She joined the Strategy and Leadership Podcast to talk about what actually gets 12,000 to 24,000 people through change that big.

Ron Johnson built the Apple Store from nothing, and later became CEO of JCPenney and led Target's design-for-all era. On the Strategy and Leadership Podcast, he walked through the decisions behind one of the most studied retail concepts of the last twenty-five years, and why almost every one of them looked wrong at the time.

Mike Rotondo has run growth and operations at four national franchise brands: Tropical Smoothie Cafe, Edible Arrangements, Altitude Trampoline Parks, and now the pet care concept Skiptown. Across all four, his focus has stayed the same: sustainable growth, not growth for its own sake.