CEO Archives - The Action Catalyst

Tax Strategy, with Carlotta Thompson

  • Posted by Action Catalyst
  • On April 7, 2026
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  • accounting, AI, Business, CEO, family, finance, IRS, money, real estate, strategy, success, tax
Tax strategist Carlotta Thompson explores her unique early start in tax law, her years as an IRS enrolled agent, and what it taught her about helping business owners legally reduce their tax burden through smarter planning and compliance. Thompson explains how the IRS TRULY operates, and highlights the most common audit triggers, and how tools […]
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Genius at Scale, with Jason Wild – Episode 501 of The Action Catalyst Podcast

  • Posted by Action Catalyst
  • On March 17, 2026
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  • AI, author, Business, CEO, company culture, innovation, leadership, strategy, success, tech, technology
Jason Wild, an author, strategist, and former leader at Salesforce, IBM, and Microsoft, addresses misconceptions around what innovation is and isn’t and the way leadership can help or hinder it, creating culture, the as-of-yet unmet promise of AI, the ABC’s inside of organizations, how a creative intern at the Waldorf Astoria saved a ton of […]
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Delivering the WOW, with Richard Fain – Episode 496 of The Action Catalyst Podcast

  • Posted by Action Catalyst
  • On December 2, 2025
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  • author, Business, CEO, COVID-19, cruise, innovation, leadership, pandemic, Stephanie Maas, success, travel
Richard Fain, the chairman and former long-term CEO of Royal Caribbean Group, recounts the dark days of the Covid pandemic for the cruise business, and explains cheap expensive decisions, the antidote to fear, elevating and innovating the industry, and why he literally, LITERALLY, had to cut a cruise ship in half. Episode sponsored by: About […]
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AI & You: Harnessing Technology Without Losing the Human Touch – The Action Catalyst Live!

  • Posted by Action Catalyst
  • On November 18, 2025
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  • AI, Business, CEO, coaching, entrepreneur, fashion, humanity, leadership, Lifebridge Strategies, live, opportunity, southwestern consulting, speaker, success, tech, technology
The Action Catalyst unites several of its esteemed alumni; Anya Cheng, founder and CEO of Taelor, Dave Brown, Founding Partner at Southwestern Consulting, Dr. Amy D’Aprix, President and Founder of Lifebridge Strategies, and newcomer Gayathri Krishnamurthy, Head of Product Marketing at Level AI, for it’s first ever “live” episode, from City Winery in Nashville, and […]
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The Formula for Better Health, with Dr. Tom Frieden – Episode 495 of The Action Catalyst Podcast

  • Posted by Action Catalyst
  • On November 4, 2025
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  • author, CEO, exercise, health, healthcare, impact, leadership, medicine, mindset, nutrition, success
Dr. Tom Frieden, former CDC Director, NYC Health Commissioner, and current President and CEO of the global health organization Resolve to Save Lives, shares the influence of his father, the single question that changed his life, the 3 step formula for impactful healthcare, how to assess levels of certainty, the 6 keys to a longer, […]
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The Win-Win Workplace, with Dr. Angela Jackson

  • Posted by Action Catalyst
  • On August 19, 2025
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  • author, Business, CEO, culture, engagement, founder, leadership, management, speaker, success, workplace
Dr. Angela Jackson, the founder/CEO of Future Forward Strategies and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, reveals the lessons learned from studying Fortune 500 companies, the REAL cost of turnover, why top-down decision making is dead, and the two main takeaways for small business owners. About Dr. Jackson: Dr. Angela Jackson is […]
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Find & Follow, with Greg DeVore – Episode 492 of The Action Catalyst Podcast

  • Posted by Action Catalyst
  • On August 5, 2025
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  • Adam Outland, author, Business, CEO, entrepreneur, knowledge, leadership, music, onboarding, performance, success, teams, training
Greg DeVore, CEO and co-founder of ScreenSteps, lays out his “Find & Follow” philosophy to reduce supervisor burnout and improve employee performance, breaking down concepts like actual vs. foundational knowledge and knowledge spenders vs. knowledge investors, the knowledge operations maturity model, the dead simple exercise that’ll change how your team gets work done, how just […]
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Unleash the Story Within, with Liana Zavo – Episode 491 of The Action Catalyst Podcast

  • Posted by Action Catalyst
  • On July 22, 2025
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  • author, branding, Business, CEO, crisis, crisis management, PR, public relations, reputation, Russia, speaker, Stephanie Maas, storytelling, success
Founder & CEO of ZavoMedia PR Group, Liana Zavo, recounts how a college dropout and single mom made the jump from Russia to the US and from the style world to PR, gives a bit of advice for Blake Lively, reveals THE biggest PR mistake people make, how to come down from the ledge of […]
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Leading to Thrive, with Klaus Kleinfeld – Episode 490 of The Action Catalyst Podcast

  • Posted by Action Catalyst
  • On July 1, 2025
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  • Adam Outland, author, Business, CEO, data, entrepreneur, feedback, high performance, leadership, purpose, questions, success
Klaus Kleinfeld, the former CEO of Siemens and Alcoa and the only leader to have successfully served as CEO of two Fortune 500 companies on different continents, recalls going to work at age 12, and covers the perils of sign language in the business world, getting close to the source of an issue, why we should be talking about […]
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Daytime to Dysko, with Daniel Goddard – Episode 489 of The Action Catalyst Podcast

  • Posted by Action Catalyst
  • On June 10, 2025
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  • actor, AI, Business, CEO, entertainment, entrepreneur, media, networking, Stephanie Maas, success, tech, technology, TV
Daniel Goddard, CEO of the AI networking app, Dysko and an actor with over 30 years of experience examines the parallels between entertainment and entrepreneurship, recounts the crazy reaction when daytime TV messed with his fan base, pinpoints the business that oversees ALL business, recalls disappointing a date in bed (for a really noble reason), […]
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