I'm your host Gary Nowak and today I've had the great honor of reconnecting with a former colleague and extremely successful consultant @Greg Tucker

Career Background:

• Award winning CXO, CMO, Chief Customer Officer
• Chief Journey mapper, heling companies better understand the customer journey
• Self employed with his highly successful consulting company for over 10 years
• Held positions with great companies like Clorox, AAA, Copart, CSC Index and mercer Management Consulting
• Education
  
  • Undergrad at Kansas State in Mechanical Engineering
  • MBA from Stanford University in Strategy & Marketing Operations

Highlights

• Great first job, those were the days and being the #1 Sticker
• Growing up in Middle America
• Studied Engineering but always knew in his heart he would be a businessman
• Making Stanford wait for him
• Doesn't like working outside all that much
• Engineering to business subjects
• Kansas to New York to the Bay
• Wine thread throughout
• Shifting between industry and consulting
• Working for some major clients
• Getting the best thinking in the room
• Consulting is like fixing a gourmet meal
• Asking a consulting questions to consultants
• How coming from a farming family helps you become a practical consultant
• Hiring people smarter than yourself
• "Live in the Question"
• Listening in a conversation for Context / Process / Content
• Turn the data around to the client and ask a question
• Getting a "Big Bang Theory" & "Ozark" references into the podcast
• Best advice is asking a question
• Customer Experience deep dive conversation
• Missing out on working with 2 high profile individuals
• Being surrounded by great leaders
• Chris Botti Stalker list
• Getting out of your wife's way

Want to be a guest? Email me at [email protected]!