- DisrupTV
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:
Jason Averbook
Global Lead on HR Transformation and AI
Mercer
Jason is a Senior Partner and Global Leader of Digital HR Strategy with Mercer | Leapgen. From January 2018 to March of 2023, he was Co-founder and CEO of Leapgen, a digital transformation company helping organizations shape their future workplace. Now as Mercer | Leapgen he’ll continues broadening executive mindsets to rethink how to better design and deliver employee services and drive the shift from doing technology projects to being a digital function. With the new partnership of Mercer | Leapgen, he now expands the resources and reach to a global market.
Prior to founding Leapgen, Jason served as the CEO of The Marcus Buckingham Company (TMBC). In 2005, he co-founded Knowledge Infusion LLC and served as its CEO until 2012, when the company was sold to Appirio. He has also held senior leadership roles at PeopleSoft and Ceridian Corporation. Jason has more than 20 years of experience in the HR and technology industries and has collaborated with industry-leading companies in transforming their HR organizations into strategic partners. Jason has been recognized globally as one of the top 3 thought leaders around HR technology and the future of work.
X: @jasonaverbook
Cynthia Kane
Author of The Pause Principle: How to Keep Your Cool in Tough Situations
Cynthia Kane helps people enhance their lives and relationships by teaching them how to become less reactive in difficult conversations and speak to themselves, others, and their environment in a kind, honest, and helpful way. She has taught over 70,000 people how to change the way they communicate through her books (How to Communicate Like a Buddhist, Talk to Yourself Like a Buddhist, How to Meditate Like a Buddhist), Bestselling DailyOM Course (How to Communicate Like a Buddhist), and the Kane Intentional Communication Training Program. She is a certified meditation and mindfulness instructor, certified breathing coach, and the founder of the Kane Intentional Communication Institute, LLC.
X: @cynkane
Faisal Hoque
Award-winning entrepreneur, globally recognized management thinker and technologist,
a #1 Wall Street Journal best-selling author and author Transcend: Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI
Faisal Hoque is recognized as one of the world’s leading management thinkers and technologists. He is an award-winning entrepreneur and innovator, and a #1 Wall Street Journal best-selling author with thirty years of cross-industry success. Faisal is the founder of SHADOKA, NextChapter, and other companies. He also serves as a transformation and innovation partner for CACI, an $8 billion company focused on U.S. national security.
His next book, "TRANSCEND: Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI" is scheduled to be released in 1st quarter 2025 by Post Hill Press, and distributed by Simon & Schuster.
As a founder and CEO of multiple companies, Faisal is a three-time winner of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ and Fast 500™ awards. He built his first commercial software product at the age of 20 while studying at the University of Minnesota. Since then, he has developed more than twenty commercial platforms and worked with leadership at the US DoD, US DHS, GE, MasterCard, American Express, Home Depot, PepsiCo, IBM, Chase, and others.
Faisal is a three-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author for his books: REINVENT (#1), Everything Connects (#2), and LIFT (#1). Everything Connects and LIFT are also USA Today bestsellers. He has authored ten award-winning books (published by Cambridge University Press, The Financial Times, HarperCollins Leadership, McGraw Hill, Fast Company Press). His more than thirty awards include Axiom Gold, Nautilus, 2023 Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Awards Shortlist, and others in the fields of humanity, business, and technology. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Business Insider, Inc., Fast Company, Forbes, and others.
Faisal’s work and life are profoundly influenced by a distinctive fusion of Eastern philosophy and American entrepreneurial spirit. He volunteers for educational organizations around the world, including MIT’s IDEAS Social Innovation program, and is a contributor at Thinkers50, the Swiss business school IMD, and the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Faisal has been named among the Top 100 Most Influential People in Technology by the editors of Ziff Davis while Trust Across America-Trust Around the World named him one of their Top 100 Thought Leaders. CIO Quarterly magazine designated Faisal as "Mr. Convergence" in 2008 for developing methods to integrate business strategies with technology decisions.
X: @faisal_hoque
