Best Places to Lead
Welcome to the Best Places to Lead show with your host, Jerry Macnamara,Every company - every organization - has the potential to be great. What Jerry has learned over the last twenty-five years is that leaders hold the key to unlocking a company’s potential - or shackling it to mundane mediocrity. On this show, we will bring together CEOs and business experts to help fill in the gaps of what great leaders do differently to unlock that potential. If you’re a B2B business owner looking to build a compelling company that outperforms...and still make it home for dinner, you’re in the right place. Jerry has led 5 different companies in both B2B and B2C. His companies have made it onto the Franchise 500, Inc 500, Fast 50 and Best Places to Work. He’s also been recognized as a 40 under 40 and an Ultimate CEO.
Episodes
64 episodes
Ep 63 | From Startup to Scale-up: A CEO's Transformation Journey with Tyler Horsley
Entrepreneurs excel at launching new business ventures. As go-getters, they have the drive and follow through it takes to move great ideas from the idea stage to reality. But the entrepreneur’s strengths are also their weaknesses, especially wh...
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Ep 62 | Revamp, Reinvent, Rise: Navigating Business Transitions with Nellie Akalp
Entrepreneurs are well known for their resilience and ability to adapt to ever-changing markets. However, evolving from an initial business model to a more sustainable, scalable one often came with its unique set of challenges. One of the most ...
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Ep 61 | Transformational Over Transactional: Thomas Brainsky on Creating Lasting Value through Relationships
Many business owners have overlooked the importance of creating value for people, often focusing on transactional relationships rather than transformative ones. However, investing time, energy, and resources to provide value to our people not o...
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Ep 60 | Navigating Business Growth: Kara Brown’s Rise to Running an Inc 5000 Company
Often, the road to success is dotted with unexpected twists and turns. Conquering adversity and navigating the choppy waters of the business world are feats that Kara Smith Brown, Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of LeadCoverage, knows all too...
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Ep 59 | Turning Competitors into Customers: Dave Walens' Journey From Trade Shows to the Digital Frontier
The line between competitors and customers is often quite distinct, yet Dave Walens, CEO of Exploring Digital, has managed to blur this boundary, turning his rivals into his clients. With roots in the trade show industry, Dave has taken a visio...
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Ep 58 | From Idea to Entrepreneur: What This Founder Learned Starting Multiple Businesses
Have you ever heard someone describe themself as “an idea person”? If you haven’t, you likely know at least one person who is always pitching their friends a new, million-dollar idea. What sets the ideal person apart from the entrepreneur thoug...
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Ep 57 | Are You Looking Out the Windshield or the Rearview: How Donnie Boivin Overcame a Fixed Mindset and Grew His Business
Entrepreneurs don’t set out to start companies that recreate the conditions they want to escape. Yet too often, leaders forget that starting your own business also means creating the kind of company you want to work for. But if what you left is...
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Ep 56 | Unlocking Exceptional Results: The 5 T's of Execution
Every company needs high-achievers who execute and drive results for the team. But some people make shit happen, and others just can't get to the finish line.That's why I'm excited to share my proven execution framework with you, center...
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Ep 55 | Seeking a Buyout or Seeking Fulfillment: How This Founder Decided with Dave Molenda
Most people don’t set out to start a business with the intention of selling it. Even leaders of small businesses that grow into million-dollar enterprises don’t start every new day looking for a buyer. But sometimes, you have to know when to le...
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Ep 54 | The Power of Simplicity: Tyler Pigott's Journey to CEO Success
Just because you’re a leader, doesn’t mean you need to do everything. It also doesn’t even mean you’re necessarily good at everything. True leadership is possible when you recognize where to use your energy is best spent to help your organizati...
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Ep 53 | Vision, Communication, and Resiliency: The Story of a CEO’s 10 Million Dollar Breakthrough with Matt Kleinrock
Sometimes, business moves so fast that it can feel like the worst thing you could do is pause. And sometimes, circumstances beyond your control force you to halt all business and reassess. While your first instinct may be to either push through...
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Ep 52 | From Chaos to Clarity: Your Guide to Implementing Decision-Making Process- that WORKS
Do you ever find yourself struggling to make decisions in your business? Whether it's choosing which project to pursue or deciding on the best way to allocate your resources, decision-making can be a challenging process. But it doesn't have to ...
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Ep 51 | Build and Scale Your Business Using Frameworks with Jerry Macnamara
There are many hats that a CEO has to wear, including coach, mediator, problem-solver, to name only three. It can be overwhelming to juggle so many competing priorities and needs, especially when first launching your business. As your company g...
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Ep 50 | How to Cultivate Happiness in the Grief Industry with Hamza Khan and Cameron Allahverdi
You’ve heard me say this many times: no one shows up to work thinking, “I want to suck today.” As we know, underperformance is usually a symptom of a larger issue, such as a lack of time or training. It’s also true that sometimes, the type of w...
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Ep 49 | How to Scale an Idea into a Business with William Harris
Most of us are subject matter experts in something. For some of us, it’s sales, for others, it’s a specific formula for a cleaning agent, and for others still, it’s understanding a process so well that the consultation and public speaking reque...
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Ep 48 | How to Train Everyone in Your Organization to See Their Value Impact on the Business with Mark Herschberg
We have many responsibilities as leaders. One of the most important responsibilities is keeping an eye on the financials. From monitoring project budgets to reviewing income statements, we know that everything in business comes with a cost, esp...
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Ep 47 | Special Episode: Hear from Executive Leaders Participating in the Proven Chaos Executive Summit!
Everyone wants to know what their Executive Leadership Team really thinks. And our Executive Leaders rarely have time to spend detailing the process behind every decision they make. But this week, they do! On this week’s episode of Best Places ...
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Ep 46 | CEO Hot Takes: Getting Remote Work Right
Remote work has given employees back a level of autonomy over how to best use their time that was sorely missed in the workplace. And despite the worries of many, companies that adopted hybrid or fully remote models long after the COVID-19 lock...
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Ep 45 | Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking and Communicate Confidently to Anyone with Brenden Kumarasamy
Leaders know that communication is an essential skill. Whether closing a sale or managing a delicate change initiative, being able to clearly and directly express yourself is at the center of leading others. And it’s not just in our work lives ...
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Ep 44 | How to Make the Right Decisions as Fast as Possible with Clint Rusch
Leaders are tasked with making many high-impact decisions on a daily basis. It’s important to feel confident not just in the choices you make, and in the process used to make them. But, with the extreme daily pressures, making effective...
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Ep 43 | How to Cultivate Resilience and Tackle Any Problem Life Throws Your Way with Marques Ogden
As leaders, we all strive for success and understand that achieving it can be difficult. Yet we often overlook the challenge of staying humble on the way to the top. The truth is that without maintaining a measured attitude in life and business...
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Ep 42 | Be a Change Victor, not a Change Victim with Dai Manuel
Leaders need to grow to succeed and must have the right mindset to embrace change in a turbulent economy. Change is inevitable in life. And change can be both positive and negative. It is essential for leaders to embrace a growth mindset to hel...
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Ep 41 | Cultivating a Bulletproof Mindset in 2023 with Timmy Gallagher
As the dust settles from our New Year's resolutions and we go deeper into the work, we realize how much positive change comes from our mindsets. A bulletproof mindset is one that evolves from knowing yourself, your mission, and your goals throu...
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Ep 40 | Let’s Go Win 2023 with JM Ryerson
Leaders want it all! This is especially true at the beginning of every year (hello, gym memberships!). Excelling at work and also your healthy relationships become the driving force of your daily work.So, what gets in the way? Your own ...
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Ep 39 | Best Places To Lead Yearend Review: How is CEO Charlie and What He’s Learned So Far?
I made a goal how can I intentionally help CEO Charlie, an avatar I speak to, he’s in his early 40s, have a successful company but want to get to the next level. I believe it's possible for any company to attain greatness. It's the leader who p...
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