Best Javier Saade Podcasts (2025)

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080 Tod Leiweke| going all in 17:25

28d ago17:25

17:25

TOD LEIWEKE Tod is a remarkable human being, full stop. His journey’s genesis is rooted in very humble beginnings in one of the poorest counties in Missouri, punctuated by two tragedies, to becoming one of the most prolific sports executives in the United States over the last four decades. He is currently part-owner, President and Chief Executive O…

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079 Lyndee Fletcher| priceless reputational intelligence 15:58

1M ago15:58

15:58

LYNDEE FLETCHER Lyndee Fletcher is CEO of VCheck GLobal and she is one of the foremost experts in the public record and reputational due diligence industry. Since joining VCheck Global in 2016 as the company's sixth hire, she has been an integral part of Vcheck's operations and technology evolution enabling Vcheck to grow 2500%. Lyndee is by far th…

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078 Elisa Orlanski Ours| design architecture function 17:17

1M ago17:17

17:17

ELISA ORLANSKI OURS Elisa Orlanski Ours is at the top of the architecture and design world game. She is a highly regarded designer, educator, and industry leader who currently serves as Chief Planning & Design Officer at Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group. A founder of the firm's Planning & Design department, Elisa has been instrumental in transform…

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077 Tom Llamas| curiosity informing truth 17:20

2M ago17:20

17:20

TOM'S BIO On March 5, 2025, Tom Llamas was named as Lester Holt’s successor as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News beginning in summer 2025. This episode is a re-released show originally released on October 26, 2023. Tom's life and career are remarkable and he is a master of truth telling and the news media. He is an American journalist …

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076 Ethan Stowell| foundational simplicity excellence 17:57

3M ago17:57

17:57

ETHAN STOWELL We're diving into the story of Ethan Stowell—a name that’s become synonymous with the culinary world in Seattle. He comes from a family of artists, specifically ballet dancers. He’s not just a chef; he’s an innovator who’s left an indelible mark on his community. Ethan started with a vision back in 2003 when he opened Union, his first…

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075 Diego Rodriguez| creativity educating leadership 17:40

4M ago17:40

17:40

DIEGO RODRIGUEZ Diego’s remarkable experiences and brilliance has driven him to work at the nexus of business, design, and technology. He is also a terrific human being, catalyst and educator. He has served as Intuit’s Chief Product & Design Officer, as a Senior Partner at IDEO, on the Harvard Board of Overseers, and on the founding team of Stanfor…

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074 Nina Tandon| the biology business 23:43

4M ago23:43

23:43

NINA TANDON Nina Tandon is a remarkable person, who is currently Co-Founder and CEO of EpiBone, a biotech company that grows bone and cartilage for skeletal reconstruction which just recently completed human trials reconstructing mandibles; the lower jaw is the largest and strongest bone in the face. Her life and accomplishments are inspiring and i…

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Xmas bonus| Pope John Paul II in Boston Common 1979 1:21:22

4M ago1:21:22

1:21:22

POPE JOHN PAUL II Pope John Paul II visited the United States in 1979 and gave this speech in the Boston Common on October 1st of that year. He was born in Poland as Karol Józef Wojtyła on May 18, 1920 and was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 1978 until his death in 2005. Pope John Paul II was the first non-Italian…

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073 Nathalie Rayes| call to service 19:34

5M ago19:34

19:34

NATHALIE RAYES Nathalie Rayes serves as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia. Ambassador Rayes has led a distinguished career in public service and served previously as the president and CEO of Latino Victory. Prior to joining Latino Victory, Rayes was vice president of public affairs for Grupo Salinas in the United States and executive direc…

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072 A.I. Experiment| what's to come (5/5) 18:33

5M ago18:33

18:33

TOTG EXPERIMENTAL SERIES BY A.I. // JAVIER MILEI 🇦🇷 This is the fifth of five from our “Experimental Series by A.I.”. The machine talks about three articles analyzing the presidency of Argentina's libertarian president, Javier Milei. The first article focuses on Milei's approval ratings amidst his austerity measures. Article two offers a detailed b…

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071 Florian Faber| creative culture communities (Art Basel edition) 14:29

5M ago14:29

14:29

FLORIAN’S BIO Florian Faber has one of the coolest jobs in the world, he is CEO and on the Board of Directors of MCH Group, which among many endeavors owns, hosts, curates and puts together the incredible spectacles the four Art Basel shows deliver to millions. In June 2024, they concluded Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, as he calls it “the mother…

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070 Jonathan Kanter| power and competition 18:56

5M ago18:56

18:56

JONATHAN KANTER This episode was recorded on November 18, 2024, the day when it was reported that Senior antitrust officials at the Justice Department plan to ask a judge to order Google to divest its Chrome web browser, Bloomberg reported citing anonymous sources. The department also intends to ask federal judge Amit Mehta, who declared Google's s…

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069 Liz Huebner| going for it 18:45

6M ago18:45

18:45

LIZ HUEBNER Liz currently serves on the boards of REI and Curology where she chairs the audit committee(s). She is a past board member and audit committee chair for three companies that are disrupting their respective industries: Blue Apron, Jumia Technologies and Boom Supersonic. She brings many years of executive finance experience and expertise …

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068 Marcelo De Santis| leadership's figure eight ∞ 19:09

6M ago19:09

19:09

MARCELO DE SANTIS Marcelo is as thoughtful, accomplished and smart as he is a terrific human being. Born and raised in Argentina, he is a seasoned C-suite executive with over 25 years of global experience. He also happens to be a world-class mountain climber that has summited some of the highest peaks on earth. He is former Chief Digital Officer at…

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067 Anilu Vazquez-Ubarri| human capital imperatives 15:49

6M ago15:49

15:49

ANILU VAZQUEZ-UBARRI Anilu Vazquez-Ubarri is a Partner and Chief Operating Officer at TPG, based in San Francisco. She is a member of the firm’s board of directors and executive committee. As COO, Anilu leads TPG’s operational functions globally and is responsible for aligning these functions and strategy with the firm’s strategic business and inve…

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066 A.I. Experiment| what's to come (4/5) 14:35

6M ago14:35

14:35

TOTG EXPERIMENTAL SERIES BY A.I. // POLICY, POLITICS, POLLS This is the fourth of five (4/5) from our “Experimental Series by A.I.”. The machine talks about policy, politics and the upcoming election.. We gave NotebookLM a few disparate inputs and the machine created this great conversation. GENERAL INFO| TOP OF THE GAME: Official website: https://…

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065 Seth Levine| capitalist evolving capitalism 19:31

7M ago19:31

19:31

SETH LEVINE Seth is co-founder and general partner at Boulder-based Foundry. He and his firm have invested in hundreds of companies and funds around the world. A driving force for Seth has always been the power at the intersection of community and business. He co-founded Pledge 1%, a global network of companies who have pledged equity, time, and pr…

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064 Bismarck Lepe| throttling growth engines 10:07

7M ago10:07

10:07

BISMARCK LEPE Bismarck is Founder and Executive Chairman at Wizeline. He is a seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor. He founded Wizeline in 2014 with the mission to help companies build better products faster by making innovation accessible to all organizations. Bismarck is Mexican-American and the son of two immigrants from a small tow…

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063 A.I. Experiment| what's to come (3/5) 13:56

7M ago13:56

13:56

TOTG EXPERIMENTAL SERIES BY A.I. // FOOD & WORLD CUISINES This is the third of five from our “Experimental Series by A.I.” The machine talks about different cuisines and dishes from around the world and why it’s so hard to pick a favorite, but it tries its best to digest all the articles and perspectives. We gave NotebookLM the inputs below and A.I…

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062 A.I. Experiment| what's to come (2/5) 16:51

7M ago16:51

16:51

TOTG EXPERIMENTAL SERIES BY A.I. // ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE This is the second of five from our “Experimental Series by A.I.” It is particularly interesting because it’s an A.I. generated conversation about A.I., the promise and peril of our relentless march towards AI → AGI (general) → eventually ASI (super). Top Of The Game fed Google’s NotebookL…

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061 A.I. Experiment| what’s to come (1/5) 20:41

7M ago20:41

20:41

TOTG EXPERIMENTAL SERIES BY A.I. // CAPITALISM Top Of The Game (TOTG) fed Google’s NotebookLM a few documents, one of them: Milton Friedman's September 1970 essay, "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.". We also fed it a few published recently looking at the viability of the profit maximization a.k.a. shareholder primac…

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060 Tom Soto| shoulders of giants 16:50

7M ago16:50

16:50

TOM SOTO BIO Tom has been in the impact investing game for a long time. He was born and raised in East LA to two of the state’s most well-respected Latino Civil Rights leaders. His dad was Assemblyman Phil Soto, the first Latino elected to the state legislature in 1962. His mom was Nell Soto, she too served the last ten years of her life as a membe…

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059 Ileana Musa| wealth with purpose 17:15

8M ago17:15

17:15

ILEANA MUSA BIO Ileana is Morgan Stanley’s Co-Head of International Wealth Management and the Head of International Banking & Lending. In these roles she leads the segment and strategy that focuses on Morgan Stanley’s International Client Advisors and international clients to ensure they have access to strategic solutions, services and thought lead…

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058 Gary Acosta| destination new mainstream 17:57

8M ago17:57

17:57

GARY ACOSTA BIO Gary Acosta is an entrepreneur, public policy advocate, and investor. He is the Co-Founder & CEO of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP ), one of the largest Hispanic business organizations in the nation. He also created the Hispanic Wealth Project, co-founded L’ATTITUDE, and is a general partner o…

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057 Eduardo Peñalver| the knowledge pursuit 18:52

8M ago18:52

18:52

EDUARDO PEÑALVER BIO Eduardo M. Peñalver is President of Seattle University and previously served as the Dean of Cornell Law School. A coming home of sorts given his formative years were spent in Puyallup and Tacoma. Professor Peñalver’s legal scholarship focuses on property and land use, as well as law and religion. His work explores the way in wh…

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bonus| Cesar Chavez (¡si se puede!) 1:34

8M ago1:34

1:34

Cesar was a civil rights, Latino, farm worker, and labor leader; a religious and spiritual figure; a community servant and social entrepreneur; a crusader for nonviolent social change; and an environmentalist and consumer advocate. In 1968, Chavez gained attention as leader of a nationwide boycott of California table grapes in a drive to achieve la…

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056 Evan Epstein| boardroom governance leadership 1:00:17

8M ago1:00:17

1:00:17

NOTE This episode is the first dual release show for Top Of The Game. It was produced by and originally released on Evan Epstein's podcast, Boardroom Governance, on August 26, 2024. Our host enjoyed the tables being turned on him and being a guest, The conversation covers a broad range of topics: leadership, capitalism, boards, technology (AI), mac…

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bonus| kennedy's state of the union 🇺🇸 43:30

9M ago43:30

43:30

This bonus episode is President John F. Kennedy's first state of the union address to Congress on January 30, 1961, 10 days after his inauguration. It is also 13 days after President Eisenhower gave his farewell address and which this podcast released two weeks ago on August 7, 2024. It will be interesting for listeners to hear the two speeches bac…

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055 Luis Miranda Jr| relentless forward movement 19:56

9M ago19:56

19:56

LUIS MIRANDA BIO Luis Antonio Miranda Concepción is a political strategist, philanthropist, advocacy consultant and author, his latest book: "Relentless: My Story of the Latino Spirit That Is Transforming America” with a foreword by his son, Lin-Manuel Miranda. Luis was born and raised in Puerto Rico and moved to NYC at 19 when he received a schola…

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bonus| eisenhower's farewell address 🇺🇸 15:31

9M ago15:31

15:31

This bonus episode is President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address to the nation on January 17, 1961 - three days before JFK's inauguration. When the United States entered WWII, Dwight D. Eisenhower was the Chief of Staff for the Third Army. Less than four years later, he was a 5-star general who commanded millions of soldiers, sailors, and ai…

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054 Stacie Olivares| reimagining finance ecosystems 13:56

9M ago13:56

13:56

STACIE OLIVARES BIO Stacie Olivares structures and optimizes funds and innovations for scaled impact. She is a board director and chief investment officer for best-in-class funds and innovative companies with oversight of $1.4 trillion in retirement funds, $29 billion of insurance industry sustainable investment, and more than $3 trillion bond issu…

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053 Michael Montelongo| angels touching lives 20:14

10M ago20:14

20:14

MICHAEL'S BIO The Honorable Michael Montelongo, a former presidential appointee and Senate-confirmed official, is a board governance and audit committee financial expert serving on the boards of Civeo Corporation (NYSE: CVEO), Conduent Inc (NASDAQ: CNDT), Palmex Ltd., and the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). He has a broad indust…

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052 Jake Bjorseth & Amanda Johansen| gen z trndsttrs 18:44

10M ago18:44

18:44

JAKE + AMANDA = TRNDSTTRS This episode is a remarkable master class on all things Gen Z from the Founder & CEO (Jake Bjorseth) and Chief TikTok Officer (Amanda Johansen) of the largest independent marketing agency in the world focused on Gen Z → Trndsttrs. The agency was founded in 2018 and its team has some of the best GenZ content creators, socia…

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051 Gustavo Alberelli| smart money world 18:59

10M ago18:59

18:59

|Show Notes| This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at The Alumni Society’s Leadership Summit in Brooklyn, NYC on June 13, 2024. It marks our show’s first ever live recording and the audio level is lower than studio quality. Also, today (July 9, 2024) happens to be our guest's birthday - happy birthday Gus! GUSTAVO’S BIO Gustavo Albe…

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bonus| Daughters of the American Revolution //July 4th💥 13:19

10M ago13:19

13:19

Yvonne Liser is a 4th generation DC native that has been researching genealogy since the mid-1990s. Over the years of research she has met new cousins, travelled, and found how her families lived in history. Yvonne is the historian for 5 families and leads 3 genealogy DNA groups. She has discussed her remarkable family history on the PBS series Afr…

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050 Rodrigo Garcia| beacons and crossroads 21:56

10M ago21:56

21:56

RODRIGO’S BIO Four facts: This is our 50th episode, there are 50 states in our country, 50 stars in our flag, and tomorrow is July 4th! The United States of America is celebrating its 248th birthday, which is why we decided to release this conversation today. Rodrigo Garcia is a decorated veteran of the United States Marine Corps who fought in thre…

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049 Grace Colon| science anchored trailblazing 15:17

11M ago15:17

15:17

GRACE’S BIO Dr. Grace Colon is multicultural in many ways, but having New Orleans and San Juan lineage in equal parts makes for an interesting array of cuisine options growing up. She has 25+ years of experience in biopharma, genomics, diagnostics, synthetic biology, healthcare and industrial biotechnology. Most recently, she served as CEO and Pres…

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048 Florian Faber| creative culture communities 14:25

11M ago14:25

14:25

FLORIAN’S BIO Florian Faber has one of the coolest jobs in the world, he is CEO and on the Board of Directors of MCH Group, which among many endeavors owns, hosts, curates and puts together the incredible spectacles the four Art Basel shows deliver to millions. Last week, they concluded Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, as he calls it “the mothershi…

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047 Beatriz Acevedo| she's the boss 15:59

11M ago15:59

15:59

BEATRIZ’S BIO Beatriz sometimes wears a black t-shirt with two simple words - “La Jefa”, en ingles, The Boss. And that, she has been, and continues to be as a serial founder, CEO, trailblazing, Emmy-winning remarkable woman. In her words: “In my life journey, I've always strived not just for personal achievements but to reshape narratives and champ…

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046 Nick Graham| simple and complex 18:20

11M ago18:20

18:20

NICK’S BIO Between growing up in a northern England rural town to leading global insights and analytics for one of the most successful consumer products companies in the world – a lot happens. This is the case for Nick Graham, a remarkable student of human behavior, societal trends and consumer taste. Nick studied History & French at Oxford Univers…

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bonus| Memorial Day 2024 4:29

12M ago4:29

4:29

On Memorial Day we thank the men and women who perished defending our freedom and liberty with a beautiful rendition of God Bless America and short speeches from President Reagan and President Clinton. They touch on the values we share, things we hold dear, and our duty to remember their ultimate sacrifice. Since the American Revolutionary War (our…

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045 Michelle Caruso-Cabrera| seize the moment 17:32

12M ago17:32

17:32

MICHELLE’S BIO Michelle Caruso-Cabrera’s three decades of experience has been anchored at the nexus of finance, economic development, and communications. Michelle was the first Latina anchor at CNBC where she is now a Contributor and also served as the network’s Chief International Correspondent for over a decade. These trailblazing roles were prec…

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044 Matt Hay| soundtrack of silence 27:18

12M ago27:18

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MATT’S BIO Matt’s story is remarkable for many reasons including his perseverance, resilience, grit, determination and disposition in the face of devastating circumstances. After learning he was going deaf in college, Matt decided to make a mental log of the songs that over the years connected him to the memories and moments that he most cherished.…

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bonus| MOMS 6:25

12M ago6:25

6:25

Today is Sunday May 12, 2024 and every year in the US the second Sunday of May is Mothers Day. On this bonus episode I asked people two questions 1) what makes their moms amazing and remarkable and 2) what are some of the biggest lessons you learned from her? These are their answers.By Javier Saade

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043 Dr. Elizabeth Wako| pillar of health 21:11

12M ago21:11

21:11

ELIZABETH’S BIO NOTE| This episode is longer than usual→ ‘Top Of The Game (in) Overtime’ shows are released occasionally In between immigrating from Ethiopia to America as a three-month old to running one of the largest healthcare systems in the country, a lot happens. In Dr. Wako’s case: she was a nurse who became a doctor who ended up being chief…

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042 Navneet Govil| long horizon capital 19:04

1y ago19:04

19:04

NAVNEET’S BIO Navneet Govil has come a very long way. He was born and raised in Zambia with a remarkable trajectory culminating in his current role: Executive Managing Partner and Chief Financial Officer of Softbank Investment Advisers and its Softbank Vision Funds collectively managing the largest venture capital fund(s) in the world, well over $1…

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041 Christy Haubegger| intense media disruption 19:47

1y ago19:47

19:47

CHRISTY’S BIO This talk is a master class on the media & entertainment world and the disruptive forces changing it from someone who has been a media executive, trailblazing entrepreneur and Hollywood super-agent. Christy Haubegger most recently served as EVP of Communications and Chief Inclusion Officer for WarnerMedia leading an organization of 45…

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040 Fred Rivera| baseball connecting community 15:15

1y ago15:15

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FRED’S BIO Fred Rivera is as accomplished as he is a terrific human being and has had a remarkable career. He is one of the highest ranking (and few) Latinos in the business of American professional sports. He currently serves as Executive Vice President and General Counsel for the Seattle Mariners, loves the game, started pitching as a young kid (…

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039 Ted Ligety| shred winning edge 21:23

1y ago21:23

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TED’S BIO If you start doing something at the age of 2, you may get pretty good at it and such is the case with Ted and skiing. A true pioneer with a distinctive, unparalleled, lightning-fast and highly aggressive carving style he perfected playing around with his childhood friends in Park City, where he grew up. Still in his 30’s, Ted retired from…

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038 Phyllis Campbell| culture is everything 19:06

1y ago19:06

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PHILLIS’ BIO Phyllis Campbell is one of the most prolific leaders in the Pacific Northwest and has had a remarkable five-decade career. She currently serves on the boards of Remitly, SanMar, Air Transport Services Group, Allen Institute and is the Edward Fritzky Chair in Leadership at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business. Until …

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