Tips for Building Resilience into Supply Chains

What agreements to enterprising families need to best work together?Whether family members have been working together for a number of years or a number of generations, having a common and formalized understanding of their working relationship is a key component of their success. In this episode of the podcast, Family Business Consultant Joshua Nacht joins us to explain what kind of agreements your family needs, why you need them and how you might go about creating them. This episode is brought to you by Daniels Executive Education and the Bailey Program for Family Enterprise.

How you talk to yourself plays a large role in how you interact and communicate with others. If you’re like most people (80% to be exact!), your inner self-talk is filled with negative, harmful thoughts. In this episode of the podcast, Executive Education faculty and executive coach Karen Collins helps you learn how to let go of this disruptive thought pattern. She explains three common thinking traps and walks through an alternative approach to trade in your harmful inner dialogue for a more helpful one.

The uncertainty of the last two years has exposed significant vulnerabilities in how organizations manage their supply chains. Although we can’t predict the next natural disaster or global pandemic, in this episode of the podcast, Executive Education faculty Jenny Dobmeier shares six steps leaders can take to mitigate risk and build resiliency into our supply chains. Leaders across industries benefit!

Executive Education faculty and data analytics expert Phil Beaver has consulted with more than 600 companies, and he’s seen a common theme: organizations have data, organizations have questions, and organizations want to use the data they collect to solve these questions. But few know where to begin. In this episode of the podcast, Phil serves as your expert data analyst, guiding you through the process of articulating a data-driven business question and how to solve it.

Hollywood has much to share if you’re looking for good and not-so-good sales tactics. In this episode of the podcast, Executive Education Faculty Michele Cunningham and Dan Zuch provide an insightful and entertaining overview of some of the best sales scenes they’ve seen with a goal of helping you improve your own sales skills. Bring your popcorn and enjoy!

Today, we welcome Executive Education faculty Amy Phillips. Amy has been a faculty member at the Daniels College of Business for more than 20 years in the Department of Business Information and Analytics. A dynamic, engaging, and passionate professor, Amy teaches one of our most popular workshops called Data Visualization Using Power BI.Amy joined the Accelerate Webinar in June of 2022 to explain a why you don’t need complicated math or sophisticated algorithms to make an impact using data visualization.

Today, we welcome Executive Education faculty Scott McLagan. Scott has more than 25 years of industry experience and is known for having a framework for every business situation. He has been Professor of the Practice in the Management Department at the Daniels College of Business for many years. Scott is also one the lead faculty of the Denver Leadership Experience, a five-day, transformational program offered by Executive Education for experienced managers.Scott joined the Accelerate Webinar in April of 2022 to explain a new context for leaders as the world emerges from COVID.

Today, we welcome Executive Education faculty Jed Summerton and Michael Myers. Both Jed and Michael are key members of the Daniels faculty and regularly teach in both Executive Education and the Daniels College of Business core degree programs. They co-teach a new course called Digital Marketing Using Data Analytics which is offered every fall through Executive Education. Both have extensive backgrounds relevant to this topic. Jed and Michael joined the Accelerate Webinar in March of 2022 to help demystify digital marketing so that it will drive results for your organization.

Today, we welcome Executive Education faculty David Worley. David is the Executive Director of Executive Education here at Daniels, and he’s been a thought leader in the management and leadership space for several years. He has a PhD from the University of Denver, and a Master’s degree in leadership from Bethel University.As leader of Executive Education, one of the things that David does best is designing programs for adult learners. He really listens to an organization’s goals, pain-points, and desired outcomes, and then he works collaboratively to create a custom learning and development program to match.David joined the Accelerate Webinar in January of 2022 to explain the trends he’s witnessed in the leadership and learning and development space in the last year.

Today, we welcome Executive Education faculty Bo Stro-zuk. As a strategic learning and talent management consultant at Jacobs, Bo focuses on leadership development, team effectiveness, and learning solutions to drive business and talent strategy. He is also a core member of the Executive Education faculty, co-teaching the five-week Accelerated Leadership Experience which transforms new managers into successful and fulfilled leaders.Bo joined the Accelerate Webinar in November of 2021 to explain how to create a meaningful hybrid experience.