Josh Watts is Co-Founder of one of the nation’s fastest growing companies.

Recently ranked as an Inc5000 company, MedTrust Medical Transport is a private EMS company providing emergent & non-emergent medical transport services

Based in gorgeous Charleston, Josh has scaled a 400-person team.

In this 20-minute conversations, he reveals how he’s done it.

Supply Chain is the topic of the day. Covid has turned it upside down & inside out.

Fortunately, a wave of novel companies have come to the rescue & straighten things out.

Including Relay Payments, the fintech company reinventing payments for the logistics category. (Think of it as the “Venmo for Logistics”)

Badly needed in this industry that’s due for an overhaul.

I just met with Amy Zimmerman, Relay’s Chief People Officer.

With over 100 people, they’re onto something big. Investors include Ribbit Capital, Spark Capital, and Addition.

Previously, Amy led talent for Kabbage, one of the nation’s fastest growing companies that quickly provides online loans to small businesses. Amy scaled Kabbage from 50 people to over 500, prior to its successful acquisition by American Express.

In this 20-minute conversation, Amy reveals how she’s scaled the teams at 2 hypergrowth Fintech companies. And how you can do the same.

Andrew Amann wasn’t always CEO & Founder of one of the nation’s fasting-growing companies.

He started as a Nuclear Sub Engineer.

And taught himself business.

...And hiring.

...And how to lead a team.

When he was ready, he set out on his own course… a fascinating one.

Now, Andrew is CEO of NineTwoThree Digital Ventures, an Inc5000-ranked company with 1,344% growth over the past 3 years.

Based in Boston, NineTwoThree is an outsourced innovation studio that helps big companies grow digital ventures. Andrew & his team have birthed 8 startups & 45 apps.

Each of them needs a team. So, Andrew has become awfully good at spotting & landing talent.

In this 20-minute conversation, he reveals how it’s done.

If you lead a SaaS company, you likely know Dan Martell, as the Founder & CEO of SaaS Academy.

But even if you’re in a different industry, Dan has a ton to teach about how to scale your business. Fast.

Because he’s built & exited 5 companies.

Most noteworthy, Dan was Founder & CEO of Clarity.fm which connects business leaders with experts in any field (I’m a customer). It was successfully acquired by Startups.co

Now, Dan is Founder & CEO of SaaS Academy.

He coaches & teaches over 1,000 Founders to become high-performance leaders (…although much of what he teaches is relevant to any business.)

Dan began his career as a software developer. But his passion (and gift) is leadership, strategy, culture, and communications.

Plus as a native of British Columbia, Canada, he’s just nice as heck.

In this 20-minute conversation, Dan reveals how he’s scaled his companies and how he teaches other leaders to do the same.

Joseph Ansanelli makes leadership look deceptively easy.

Perhaps it’s because he’s done it more times than most. Or because he brings the humility to know that it’s a lifelong journey.

Based in SF Bay Area, he’s CEO & Co-Founder of Gladly, the company he incubated during his time at Greylock Partners.

Joseph is fond of saying “People first. Strategy second.” He believes that one of the keys to effective leadership is ensuring that teams have the right tools to succeed.

With his team of 150 employees, Gladly empowers customer service agents with a SaaS platform that turns them into heroes.

And he’s onto something big…

His investors include New Enterprise Associates, GGV Capital, SV Angel, Future Fund, and Glynn Capital Management.

Prior, he was Co-Founder & CEO of Connectify which was acquired by Kana, one of the first digital customer service platforms which he helped take public.

He was also Co-Founder & CEO of Vontu, the leader in data loss prevention, which was acquired by Symantec.

During college, he & a few friends created Trio Development, which was acquired by Apple and their product became Claris Organizer.

Joseph serves on the Boards of Directors of Sumo Logic and Trifacta. He also hosts one of my favorite podcasts Radically Personal

In this 20-minute conversation, Joseph reveals where he developed his passion for hiring & leading teams. And how he does it every day at Gladly.

These days, if you’re not sending swag to your candidates & new hires, you’re missing out.

I’ve been doing it for years… Books. Wine glasses. Electronics. Shirts.

Anything to tip the scales in my favor - when they’re signing a job offer. But it’s been a logistical nightmare.

…Until now.

Meet Michael Martocci, CEO & Founder of SwagUp.

This 26-year-old has built an Inc5000 company, one of the nation’s fastest-growing. I’m a customer & a raving fan.

SwagUp is an API-first platform that streamlines the creation & distribution of quality swag globally. They’re reinventing this $30B market by digitizing the supply chain and making it available through beautiful interfaces and APIs.

Even more impressive, Michael’s bootstrapped the company.

They’re completely customer-funded and now work with over 2,000 companies to help them integrate quality swag into their workflows to make community a top priority and win back time.

I wanted to find out how he’s scaled the team that’s scaled the Swag.

In this 20-minute conversation, he reveals all.

If you’re like most leaders who hire, you’ve experimented with using online assessments to see if your candidates have the right stuff.

You’ve probably also wondered how accurate they are & whether you’re using them the right way.

Let’s find out.

The Predictive Index is considered the industry leader. This talent optimization company uses behavioral, cognitive, and job assessments to make hiring & managing people more effective.

Clients include AstraZeneca, Blue Cross Blue Shield, TD Bank, DocuSign, LVMH, and Omni Hotels.

Mike Zani is PI’s CEO.

He’s also Co-Founder of Phoenix Strategy Investments, a private investment fund. An avid sailor, he was a coach of the 1996 US Olympic Team.

Mike recently published 'The Science of Dream Teams: How Talent Optimization Can Drive Engagement, Productivity, and Happiness'

In this 20-minute conversation, Mike reveals everything you should know about using (or misusing) candidate assessments.