Unicorn Leaders
The Unicorn Leaders podcast takes a deep dive into the world of building a billion-dollar company (a unicorn) in every episode. Join us while we explore the leadership and environments that create unicorn startups straight from those with first-hand experience (startup founders, VPs of talent, and more). The podcast is hosted by Fahd Alhattab, the CEO of Unicorn Labs and a millennial workplace expert who specializes in providing transformative leadership and team dynamics training for high-growth startups. Fahd has been researching what creates high-performing teams over the last five years. Join him as he asks his guests the hard questions to uncover what it means to be a leader in our fast-paced, information-based world.
Episodes
21 episodes
Ep. 20 EmpowerED - A Bottom Up Approach to Employee Development with Eva Manole
In episode 20, Eva shares her use of a product led mindset for developing new strategies of learning and development at Fullscript with about 800 employees. She dives into how the traditional models of learning and development are not always ag...
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Ep. 19 - Leading with Purpose: Unveiling the Secrets of Impactful Leadership with Andre Fernandez
In episode 19, Andre dives into how he found his way into creating a socially impactful business while sharing valuable lessons and principles that he embraced on his journey to success as a leader. From letting go of micro details...
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Ep. 18 - What got you here won’t get you there with Jonah Midanik
In episode 18, Jonah Midanik shares his journey and experience in a growth mindset of recognizing that ‘what got you here won’t get you there. He has been lucky enough to have seen the startup journey from a variety of perspectives: as a ...
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Ep. 17 Breaking the Glass Ceiling/Inspiring Women Leaders in Tech Startups with Jeanette Dorazio
Jeanette Dorazio, CEO of Leadpages, a no-code website and landing page builder. She has had various executive-level positions at leading organizations, including Oracle, 8thBridge, Verifone, and Solera. Jeanette’s passion comes from breaking do...
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Ep. 16 - Creating Talent Strategies with Krista Skalde
On this episode we look at organizational systems and how to think when designing the organizational structure. Realizing that it should not be designed from a people centric place but rather around the needs and direction of your business. It’...
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Ep. 15 - The Work of a Startup CEO with Kyle Racki
Kyle Racki, the co-founder and CEO of Proposify, Kyle helps thousands of businesses remove the bottleneck of proposals and get more visibility into the close. In true serial entrepreneur form, Kyle also co-host his own podcast, The...
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Ep. 14 - Leading Effective Teams in a Remote Environment with Natalie Furness
Natalie Furness, CEO of RevOps Automated and Revenue Operations Consultant shares her journey and learnings along the way onto remote work and falling into the world of operations.She speaks of finding your people through value alignmen...
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Ep. 13 - The Value of Vision for Employee Engagement and Success with Chris Williams
Chris Williams, former VP of HR at Microsoft has over 40 years of experience building and leading teams.Through his journey, starting from installing car stereos and while being pulled into firing employees because of his people skills,...
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Ep. 12 - Finding Purpose In Your Work That Drives You with Florent Schmahl
Florent Schmahl, Chief of Staff of highly purposeful agtech company, Growcer, shares his journey and learnings along the way as he shifted his work from being focused on developing hard skills to now pursuing purposeful work.Over the ye...
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Ep. 11 - The importance of creating a people-first company with Shawna Stewart
Today we have Shawna Stewart on the podcast, VP of People and Operations at Railz Financial. Shawna is truly a people-focused leader, she has extensive background in psychology and organizational behaviour and experience involving performance m...
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Ep. 10 - How Leaders Build Company Culture with Laura Mindorff
Laura Mindorff is the brilliant COO at Wicket. Laura has developed years of experience under her belt and shares her very tactical advice on how to create effective culture through things like rituals, culture champions, and what metrics to wat...
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Ep. 9 Why Candidate Experience Matters When Building Your Team with Julia Fulton
In episode 9, Julia gives us insight into how she uses her humane recruiting approach to create a reputable employment brand that plays big dividends both inside and outside the company.She offers actionable tips on how to initiat...
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Ep. 8 - Productive Conflict with Shawn MacDonell
Shawn MacDonell shares his unconventional story of saying yes to experiences from sports coaching, to facilitating tools for teaching in Columbia, to branding strategy, to professional coaching, to founding a creative agency.He speaks t...
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1:14:58
Ep. 7 - How to Foster a Culture of Development to Improve Your Team’s Performance with Brittany Forsyth
What does leadership mean to you?Ex-Shopify Chief Talent Officer Brittany Forsyth, used to think it was the same thing as management. Over the years and various leadership roles she realized it means creating a following an...
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Ep. 6 - Team Composition: How to Attract and Hire Stars Employees with Amanda Gordon
“If you are building a talent strategy that’s based on a sample you saw online or a great book you read, you will not match what your business needs and so I think whenever I’m doing any kind of talent strategy or when I was consulting I was al...
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Ep. 5 - Create a Compelling All-Encompassing Vision with Sam Witherspoon (CEO of IMRSV Data Labs)
Have you ever been in a position where you didn’t feel proud of what you were doing in your career? Has your chosen field ever caused you emotional distress?Sam Witherspoon is the founder and CEO of IMRSV Data Labs, a company d...
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Ep. 4 - What Motivates People? Understanding Motivation in the Workplace with Cassy Aite (Co-Founder and CEO of Hoppier)
We often have the preconceived notion that leaders have to treat everyone the same in order to be fair. However in truth, managers need to respect everyone’s individual needs and motivators.On episode #4, Cassy Aite, the co-founder and C...
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Ep. 3 - How You Can Build a Culture of Leadership at Work with Aydin Mirzaee (Co-Founder and CEO of Fellow.APP and Creator of the SuperManagers Podcast)
Did you know that 70% of employee retention is based on their manager and no other factor? People don’t leave jobs, they leave managers.Aydin Mirzaee is the co-founder and CEO of Fellow.app, a meet...
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Ep. 2 - Why Your Leadership Won't be Effective Without Psychological Safety with Craig Handy (Team Lead at Shopify, Founder of Jameson Strategies Consulting)
When you’re busy fighting for survival is there any room for growth?When any failure means disaster, the stakes are too high for you to take risks — this means you’ll always choose the safe route.Craig Handy leads a Global Reven...
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Ep. 1 - The Future of Leadership and Management with Michael Johnson (President & CEO, Multiview Financials)
“We ultimately believe that it’s our role as leaders, as coaches, to find out what about that individual is going to make them fulfilled and be able to achieve their best outcomes in both work and in life and in order to do that you have to...
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