7 Questions with leaders of small and medium enterprises

Name: Charles McLachlan

Current title: Founder

Current organisation: FuturePerfect

Growing people and growing businesses are my passions. I work with leaders to transform their organisations and break through their personal barriers to success.
I am convinced that a leader who fails to invest in personal growth will hold back his team and his business, so I now bring my passions to FuturePerfect and the Growth Academies that we run. But most importantly, I will help you find joy, freedom and reward in your working life.
Since 2002, I have been living a portfolio executive workstyle, directly supporting a number of other businesses as a part-time member of the management team and now offer this opportunity to others through the Portfolio Executive Growth Academy.
I bring 30+ years of experience of developing and growing business: start-ups to global organisations. For example, I worked to grow an international IT services consultancy for Andersen (partner in 2001), built 2 companies from scratch and supported 2 others into the Tech FastTrack 100 and now offer this insight to others through the CEO Growth Academies we run.
A project I helped found during the COVID-19 pandemic is InspiredCEOs - an online community for CEOs, business owners, and other senior executives who recognise it's time to see, think and do differently.
Specialties: Building & growing successful commercial organisations. Bringing insight, innovation & challenge. Creating business advantage using technology. Developing leaders to achieve their maximum potential. Peer to peer learning, experiential learning, business best practice, personal & professional development, world class speakers, peer group sharing, executive mentoring.

Name: Geoffrey Klein

Current title: President & CEO

Current organisation: nine dots

Geoffrey Klein, the Story Guy, is a 🗣️ Tedx Speaker 🎨🎞️ Visual Content Producer. 🎙️Podcaster 📚Adjunct Professor who helps people and organizations communicate more effectively through the power of story.

Name: Kaj Pedersen

Current title: Chief Technology Officer

Current organisation: AstrumU

A senior entrepreneurial technology and business executive recognized for strategic leadership, tapped to develop and execute plans to launch start-ups, realign businesses around corporate goals, and integrate business after acquisitions. Recently led global operations for Xinova with offices spanning Asia, Europe and the US, after it acquired Atlas Informatics in a deal driven by Kaj. Prior experiences include leading technology functions as CTO of Pharmacy OneSource (acquired by Wolters Kluwer), Kaj built cloud-based software to alert clinicians of adverse drug reactions in over 30% of all US hospitals in less than three seconds. Previously Kaj was CTO for Bill Gates Investments where he rebuilt the investment management systems and technology organization. Earlier, Kaj was VP Engineering at Quote.com, overseeing the 75-person team that grew the business 20X in 3 years before being acquired by Lycos, where Kaj became GM of Finance. As GM, Kaj led the Finance unit to become the second most profitable vertical in Lycos after search.

Name: Chuck Allen

Current title: CEO

Current organisation: knnct Markets Corp.

Chuck has over 20+ years of experience in working with and creating dramatic growth for early-stage technology companies in the CEO/COO/President role. He has also lived and worked extensively internationally as well as domestically. Chuck has been the founder or key team member of a number of transformative technology companies that have developed technologies or platforms that dramatically transform an environment that functions only off-line to a digital environment that operates digitally and are faster, easier and more conveniently for everyone involved including knnct, Ommatee, Gedex, Solium, ShipbyChoice, Max Systems and Paradigm. Chuck has been instrumental in successful exits

Name: Heather Myers

Current title: Chief Psychology Officer

Current organisation: Traitify

An experimental psychologist and statistician with more than two decades of focus on personality psychology and psychometrics, Dr. Myers leads a cross-disciplinary team that creates Traitify’s validated assessments and its diverse slate of content to enhance employee engagement. Dr. Myers received a bachelor of science degree in psychology from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as a master of science in statistics and a doctorate in psychology from Stanford University.

Name: David Szigetvari

Current title: CEO / Digital Marketing Manager

Current organisation: Renown Marketing LLC

An aspiring entrepreneur and very much a people person, I love hosting events, encouraging people, and helping businesses grow.

Name: Erin Balsa

Current title: Marketing Director

Current organisation: The Predictive Index

Erin helped create the talent optimization discipline to support The Predictive Index's talent optimization platform. Companies can use talent optimization—and people data—to build dream teams, hire the right talent, inspire employees, and create award-winning company cultures.

Name: Logan Mallory

Current title: Vice President of Marketing

Current organisation: Motivosity

Logan Mallory is the Vice President of Marketing at Motivosity, a company that helps make people happier at work. He earned an MBA and BA in Communications from BYU and has held marketing positions at LogMein, Jive, and Workfront. He speaks and writes on Leadership, Culture, HR and Marketing themes and is an adjunct professor at the BYU Marriott School of Business. Though he currently lives in Utah, Logan also has deep ties in Michigan and Texas.

Name: Eric Erickson

Current title: CEO/Managing Director

Current organisation: www.businessattitudes.com

For over 25 years I have been helping individuals monetize their business ideas. I provide small businesses with CEO/COO support to help them grow. I am a business consultant, business growth expert, a process pro, and a learning and development specialist.

Name: David Muanda

Current title: Chief Executive Officer

Current organisation: Friendina College

Business Executive and Coach in Finance, Technology, and Training among militaries and civilians in Africa. While working, I always give great care to teamwork and personal privacy. Multilingual author of articles, my passion for transmitting knowledge and caring for others are the driving engine behind my success.

Name: Fredrik Asche Kaada

Current title: Founder

Current organisation: Net Expert Hub

Fredrik is the founder of Net Expert Hub and currently are doing an MSc Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Society at NTNU, Trondheim (NOR). Throughout the years, he's gained a broad and in-depth agency and industry experience and a focus in advertising, marketing management and dedication for the outdoors. He has also spoken at stages at UN Geneva during UNCTAD Youth Forum 2018 and co-led a youth session at UNHQ in April 2019. Furthermore, his mantra builds around a dedication to bringing value to the table upfront, e.g. 7 years of voluntarily hiking guide experience for The Norwegian Trekking Association.

Name: Robert Sadowski

Current title: CEO

Current organisation: www.sawalogistics.pl