Free Yourself!

In today’s fast-changing world, business leaders everywhere are looking for strategies to adapt to the “new normal.” Adam Charlson, managing partner with Focus Search Partners, a Vaco Company, recently sat down with three recession-savvy sales executives to get their insight on updating the sales playbook. In this episode, Adam and Scott Lovett, senior vice president of global web and security sales with Akamai, discuss what it means to lead and serve “in the moment,” which includes keeping your sales cadence, being comfortable with variables, and valuing the people on your team.

In today’s fast-changing world, business leaders everywhere are looking for strategies to adapt to the “new normal.” Adam Charlson, managing partner with Focus Search Partners, a Vaco Company, recently sat down with three recession-savvy sales executives to get their insight on updating the sales playbook. In this episode, Adam sits down with John Turner, chief revenue officer for the Security vertical at Google Cloud, formerly known as Chronicle. John shares his advice for dealing with downturns, which includes, among many great ideas, to keep calm and carry forward.

As corporations work through the challenges of getting the most value from technology, Vaco and NEC have forged a partnership that can help enterprises across many industries through a combination of innovative hardware and software platforms. In this first episode of a four part series designed to showcase how Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML) can be leveraged to help resolve the most complex technological challenges of the day, host Elliot Lowen is joined by Vaco Partner Sudhir Sahu, Robbert Emery, Director of Technology at NEC, Robert Riddle, Head of Program Management at Vaco, and Rohith Polishetty, Practice Manager at Vaco.

Welcome to the Free Yourself! Podcast from Vaco. Here is a Sneak Peek!

Helping businesses find creative solutions to any challenge has long been one of Vaco’s specialties. One of the most interesting scenarios is when companies need help finding experienced financial executive leaders at a moment’s notice to cover capacity or capability gaps within an organization. Known as an interim executive, these veteran leaders have a significant amount of experience leading through times of change. On this episode we’d like to share more about hiring executives on an interim basis – the ideal scenario, the best strategy, the ideal candidate – and how they can deliver day-one value. Joining for today’s discussion is Monica Foster, veteran C-suite recruiting expert and managing director for Focus Search Partners’ interim executive services practice.