by Cameron Herold | Mar 26, 2020 | 2nd in Command, COO, Good To Great
You might think an executive with an IT background could easily drop into any company to serve its information technology needs. But spend a few moments with Tom Keiser, COO of cloud-based help desk company Zendesk, and you’ll discover it takes more than simply...
by Cameron Herold | Feb 27, 2020 | 2nd in Command, COO
Working for a Major League Baseball team might seem like the pinnacle of big business for some. And Brian Barren certainly has the background to take on that challenge: He led multifunctional business teams across a dozen of Procter & Gamble’s brands for 24...
by Cameron Herold | Feb 20, 2020 | 2nd in Command, COO
Sean Magennis is a lifelong entrepreneur. In the early 1990s, he started a business consulting firm and an executive search business that has served clients across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. But, as I quickly discovered in our conversation for the Second...
by Cameron Herold | Jan 23, 2020 | Business, COO
Brittany Walters has always been obsessed with solving problems. “That’s been a common thread throughout the trajectory of my career history,” she says. Her work in international education eventually took her as far as Fiji. Now, she’s Director...
by Cameron Herold | Jan 2, 2020 | COO
Harley Finkelstein knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur when he was in college, trying to figure out how to make his t-shirt business stand out from the crowd. While there, one of his mentors suggested he go to law school to learn how to be a better entrepreneur. So...
by Cameron Herold | Dec 19, 2019 | Business, Communication, COO, Culture, Team Building
Imagine commuting across the country on a weekly basis and actually missing it when you don’t have to make those trips. That’s how Erik Church feels sometimes. As the President and COO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, he splits his time between the company’s Toronto and...