Aug 16, 2024
11:00am - 12:00pm
PDT

DisrupTV is a weekly podcast with hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. The audience can expect A-list guests, the latest enterprise news, hot startups, insight from influencers, and much more. Tweet questions to #DisrupTV or @DisrupTVShow. We broadcast live on StreamYard. 

Show Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/ConstellationR

Featured Guests:

Chris Morgan
AVP, Product Innovation
Jenzabar

Chris Morgan is the AVP of Product Innovation at Jenzabar, a leading provider of technology and student information systems for higher education.  He has over twenty years of experience in EdTech, working for Fortune 100 companies, mid-size firms and venture-backed startups across higher education, K-12 and professional learning.  He has deep expertise in assessment, publishing, learning management systems (LMS), API development, AI/machine learning, analytics, courseware, professional development and video production.

Prior to joining Jenzabar, Chris was founder and managing partner of Paperscorer, a provider SaaS-based solutions that melded digital and paper-based assessments (acquired by Classify Learning).  Before that, he served as vice president, EdTech Division at Qualitest, which focuses on custom EdTech product development and QA using a dual-shore approach.  Previously, he held senior executive roles at Solution Tree and Pearson Education.
 

Mo Bunnell
Author of Give to Grow: Invest in Relationships to Build Your Business and Your Career

Bunnell helps complex organizations grow by scaling business development skills and creating a growth-oriented culture. He’s the founder of Bunnell Idea Group (BIG) and the author of The Snowball System. BIG has trained tens of thousands of professionals at hundreds of organizations. Mo lives in Atlanta, Georgia. 

X: @MoBunnell

 

Laura Ashley-Timms
Co-author of The Answer Is A Question

Laura Ashley-Timms is recognised as one of the UK’s top Executive Coaches and is the co-creator of the STAR® model (2010) and the multi-award-winning STAR® Manager program (STARmanager.global).

She is an expert and thought leader on how to leverage Operational Coaching™ behaviors across organizations to drive commercial results and improve productivity and engagement levels.

As the co-founder and COO of Notion, a performance improvement consultancy established in 2000, Laura has led the team to win a string of awards for innovation, learning design and academic partnerships and for its work with FTSE and Fortune 500 clients, including Personnel Today magazine's prestigious Learning & Development Supplier of the Year award in 2021. 

Laura is regularly invited to speak and delivers inspirational keynotes within client organisations and at business conferences, on various subjects including management performance and Operational Coaching®.

Laura learned about the power of coaching from her early childhood career in international sports and began coaching others by the time she entered Oriel College, Oxford (as one of the first females to that college). She gained not only an MA (Oxon) but also an ‘extraordinary full blue’. With over 30 years of international business experience, living and working in the USA, Europe and Asia (and a decade of that spent in the retail sector), Laura has a strong focus on pragmatism and results. She is the architect of many of Notion’s client programs and is responsible for the outstanding quality of engagements.

Laura is the co-author of The Answer is a Question - The Missing Superpower that Changes Everything and Will Transform Your Impact as a Manager and Leader. She is also an avid blog writer and co-writer and producer of ‘Maintaining Coaching Excellence’ and ‘Business Success Strategies' and has created unique academic management qualifications to support all leaders and managers to become better people managers.

She's a mother of 3 teenagers and proud to also be a real ‘Cockney’ having been born in London within the sound of the Bow Bells.

 

Dominic Ashley-Timms
Co-author of The Answer Is A Question

Dominic Ashley-Timms is the founder and CEO of Notion, a performance improvement specialist that works directly with Leaders and Managers to bring about permanent changes in leadership and management style.

As a graduate Ergonomist with an EMBA from IMD, and after years spent in Change Management consulting, Dominic now applies his passion for human-centred design to learning and behavior change.

Dominic’s career has given him deep insights into the levers of change that make the most difference, and his practical approach offers a pathway to rapid performance improvements.

Dominic is regularly invited to speak and delivers inspirational keynotes within client organisations and at business conferences, on various subjects including management performance and Operational Coaching®.

Having built Notion into a performance improvement powerhouse, the company has delivered large-scale change programs with FTSE and Fortune 500 clients in sectors ranging from banking to chemical manufacturing, in the public and private sector and on 5 continents.

He has helped clients improve commercial performance with programs that regularly generate many hundreds x ROI while delivering sustainable changes in culture.

He’s the co-creator of the STAR® model and the multi-award-winning STAR® Manager program and a contributing author to the best-seller ‘Creating Business Growth’. His new book ’The Answer is a Question’ is on sale now.

X: @TimmsDominic