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Making Business Art#037 Community as Strategic Superpower with Andy HagermanHave you ever felt disengaged or burned out at work? Many of us have, and the efforts to fix this in organizations like spending a lot of money on flashy events or retreats does not fix this problem. Returning guest and co-founder of The Design Gym, Andy Hagerman, discovered that designing moments for authentic human connection and building community within organizations is more efficient and effective at increasing engagement, creativity and productivity. In other words, this approach provides a powerful strategic advantage for organizations. In this episode, Andy shares how designing for human connection helps people feel mo...
2025-12-181h 08
Optimized For HumansSE01E13 - Building Teams That Bend, Not Break | with Andy HagermanIn this powerful episode, Usha Gubbala and Andy Hagerman unpack what adaptive leadership really means in today’s complicated, fast-moving world of work. As organizations grapple with AI adoption, workplace culture shifts, and a lingering survivor mindset from the pandemic, leaders are being pushed to rethink everything—from how they engage teams to how they define success.Together, Usha and Andy explore why agility is often misunderstood, how burnout is reshaping organizational behavior, and what leaders can do to build an adaptive operating system that supports clarity, stability, and meaningful engagement.This conversation is packed with...
2025-12-0446 min
Making Business Art#034 Designing a Culture of Innovation with Andy HagermanTwo questions that are top of mind for most leaders are: 1) How can my team perform better? and 2) How can we grow our business? My guest and co-founder of The Design Gym, Andy Hagerman, works with leaders of Fortune 500 companies to bridge the gap between these questions. Andy's work focuses on helping leaders shape more collaborative, creative, and healthy team environments that unlock fresh and sustainable ways to drive business growth. In this conversation Andy and I discuss his transition from a traditional business career at a "big four" consulting firm to learning how to apply a...
2025-09-021h 56
"Adiós y bye" con Mau NietoHOCKEY SOBRE HIELO FT. RICARDO MARGALEFF, ANDY AYALA & MAJO HAGERMANEpisodio 38, y se acerca el fin de temporada así que ya háganme viral.Imagina tener que patinar, imagina tener que patinar en hielo, imagina que tener que jugar hockey sobre hielo.Platicamos con Majo y Andy, pues ellas lo hacen y representan a nuestro país.@ricardomargaleff@andrea_ayalapz@majohagerman¡Denle mucho amor, comenten y compartan!CONTACTO: maunieto@wefam.com.mxINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/maunieto/¿Eres experto en algún tema y te gus...
2025-02-261h 09
Crime of the Truest KindEP 78 | Andy Puglisi & The Failed Children of Massachusetts, with Melanie Perkins McLaughlin (part two)This is about the abuse of children by those who should be trusted figures. Listen with care.Episode 78, part two of my conversation with Melanie Perkins McLaughlin, host of Open Investigation, the 9-part investigative podcast, and documentary filmmaker of "Have You Seen Andy?", we explore classism, child exploitation, and the vital role of advocacy in creating safer communities for all children and adult survivors of CSA, revealing dark realities and how society was largely silent or ignorant to such horrors. Horrors like the institutional failures that allowed predators to thrive, from...
2025-02-031h 27
Work For HumansCulture Change at Scale: How Design Gym Transforms Organizations by Talking to Employees | Andy HagermanAs co-founder of The Design Gym consultancy, Andy Hagerman has spent over a decade tackling the challenge of aligning employee needs with business strategy—an issue that can make or break organizational success. Working with clients like Marriott, Cisco, HP, and Kellogg’s, he has honed his craft by addressing complex organizational needs. In this episode, Andy unpacks a large case study with a major retailer, revealing how understanding the employee experience can create new opportunities for both business growth and workforce engagement.Andy Hagerman is the co-founder and managing partner of The Design Gym, a consultancy dedi...
2025-01-141h 12
Unnatural: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 145: The Original Amber Alert - Amber HagermanIn this fan-suggested episode, we look at the tragic and unsolved murder of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman. For four days in 1996, Amber's family and the entire community of Arlington, Texas searched (in vain) for the innocent third grader. When Amber's body was found, the city itself looked grasped at straws to find the killer.
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2024-12-0440 min
Product Game PlanProduct experience and facilitation leadershipWhat does experience mean for users, employees, leaders, and companies? Some companies are beginning to think about the interconnectedness of business, users, and communities. What does that mean and how can businesses evolve to change their ecosystem and opportunities, to create a shift in how employees think about their role in an organization? VALUABLE RESOURCESDownload my free guideCheck out my programs and workshops EPISODES TO CHECK OUT NEXTAndy Hagerman Pt 1ABOUT THE HOSTHeather has had more than 25 years o...
2024-10-2954 min
Product Game PlanImplementing co-creation & co-design into your operating model to deliver customer value, with Guest Andy HagermanAndy Hagerman and Heather talk about how powerful the business and user outcomes are when co-creation and co-design are implemented into an organization. You can expect to learn how important debriefs are after each customer conversation and how they can inform next-level decisions, and alignment with stakeholders.VALUABLE RESOURCESDownload my free guideCheck out my programs and workshops ABOUT THE HOSTHeather has had more than 25 years of experience working with 1000s of customers and securing hundreds of millions of product funding. Early in her career, sh...
2024-10-2245 min
Product Game PlanWhat no one tells you about stakeholder alignmentLack of stakeholder alignment and commitment are the 1 and 2 reasons why programs delay, break down before reaching the desired achievements, or fail altogether.Your internal stakeholders can assist with your success when you build partnerships with them and include them as part of your extended team. When I look back on the products I was building, I always had a smoother experience getting my product built or orchestrating a pivot when I kept my stakeholders in the loop from the beginning.KEY TAKEAWAYSAre you getting your stakeholders involved from the beginning...
2024-10-1512 min
Call The Damn LeadsEpisode 29 - It's Time to Get Delusional in Your Sales Strategy with Jacob HagermanEpisode 29 - It's Time to Get Delusional in Your Sales Strategy with Jacob Hagerman Welcome back you guys, I'm your boy Drewbie and you guessed it, I'm back with another amazing episode, this time featuring my friend, Jacob Hagerman AKA the "real young closer." He's sharing his journey from a challenging upbringing to becoming a successful sales professional in the automotive industry. Jacob's story begins with financial hardships that forced him to drop out of college and pivot to a career in car sales at the age of 18. He recounts his experience with Andy Elliott and the...
2024-07-0427 min
Andy Elliott's Elite Mindset Motivation and Sales TrainingSales Training // Having a Business and Financial Plan This Year // Andy ElliottThe Young Closer Podcast with Jacob Hagerman and Danny Klein talks about getting financially set in 2024. Two of Andy Elliott's original hires with the Elliott Group discuss some of the smart money decisions they are making, including setting hourly, daily, weekly, and long-term goals with deadlines! Powerful and insightful direction from two young closers on the Young Closer Podcast!
If you’re looking for the BEST sales training videos on YouTube, you’ve found it! If you want to make more money selling cars & learn how to close any customer then Andy Elliott is the sales trainer to study!
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2024-02-261h 07Andy Elliott's Elite Mindset Motivation and Sales TrainingSales Training // How Life Changes in Sales // Andy Elliott | Jacqueline ElliottThe Young Closer, Jacob Hagerman, and Andy Elliott's wife, Jacqueline Elliott, discuss how life changed for them as a result of getting into sales. They share the good, the bad, and the ugly of sales departments. But more importantly, how sales affected their lives for the better when they were able to start giving back and helping people!
If you’re looking for the BEST sales training videos on YouTube you’ve found it! If you want to make more Money selling cars & learn how to close any customer then Andy Elliott is the sales trainer to study!
Grab your...
2024-02-1939 min
Young Closers PodcastYoung Closer Podcast - Ep. 61 Ft. Danny Klein // How To Win In 2024This episode of the Young Closers Podcast we had Elliott Group coach Danny Klein come down and drop some knowledge on what has helped us grow and dominate in the sales training marketplace so quickly with Andy Elliott. Watch this if you are wanting to get insight on how you too can take out the competition faster. Follow us on Instagram and show some love to Danny @Therealyoungcloser @OfficialdannykleinSupport the show
2024-02-021h 08
Inside JobHow Design Thinking Informs the Inside Job with Andy Hagerman Part 2This week, we're continuing our conversation with the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of The Design Gym, Andy Hagerman. In this conclusion to our conversation, we discuss what it really takes to become inspired and get creative when solving a problem in our work or lives, and how all the tools from design thinking can help us take care of our mental health and overall wellbeing. Listen in and join the discussion on LinkedIn (Eric | Nayla). Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson. To learn more about...
2023-09-2630 minInside JobHow Design Thinking Informs the Inside Job with Andy Hagerman Part 1Our guest this week and next is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of The Design Gym, Andy Hagerman. The Design Gym is a boutique, independent innovation and strategy consultancy that has been helping organizations unleash the potential of their staff for more than a decade. Nayla and Andy met years ago through a mutual friend, and he's worked with some of Nayla's students and organizations over the years. In part one of our conversation with Andy, we discuss how design thinking, and that process, can help us identify better problems, how we can use empathy...
2023-09-1933 minAndy Elliott's Elite Mindset Motivation and Sales TrainingYoung Closers // A Warning for All Men in Business ‼️ // Andy ElliottJacob Hagerman and Doug Mitchell discuss the difference between working on the business and working in the business and resurrecting a company that was dead. Doug Mitchell also goes in depth about the importance of core values in his company. These core values are reflected in his personal life, as well. Doug shares stories of loss and reconciliation in his own life and how that too was reflective of his business dealings.
If you’re looking for the BEST sales training videos on YouTube you’ve found it! If you want to make more Money selling cars & learn how to c...
2023-09-0454 minAndy Elliott's Elite Mindset Motivation and Sales TrainingYoung Closers // The Biggest Expense You Never See // Andy ElliottThe Young Closers host Kyle Livingston and expose the biggest expense you never see in your company. Jacob Hagerman and Kyle discuss how many companies are losing money simply based on a poor understanding of their operations and missed sales. Watch how Kyle uses his past experiences and failures to discover his true strength is helping the company find its leaks and gain more revenue!
If you’re looking for the BEST sales training videos on YouTube you’ve found it! If you want to make more money selling cars & learn how to close any customer then Andy Elliott is t...
2023-08-2835 min
Crime of the Truest KindEP 43 | What Happened To Andy Puglisi? Lawrence, Massachusetts & Local History of Crimes Against Children (part one)What happened to Andy Puglisi? Part one. This is a true crime, local history, and storytelling podcast. I write about crimes, yes, I set the scene, connect story themes, I talk about things that happened here, in Massachusetts and New England. This episode is about murdered and missing children, one in particular, about child sexual abuse, the attitudes among the public at large in regard to this topic, and the part that the Catholic Church has played in the serial abuse of children. If this is something that will hurt you, impede your own healing, or offend you, it...
2023-06-0547 min
Pretty ScaryThe Strange Legacy of the Amber AlertAdam and guest co-host Andy Sell discuss the Peacock documentary Amber: The Girl Behind the Alert and the weird ripple effects the murder of Amber Hagerman had on the future of the American justice system.Show notes: https://unpops.co/3IVXIxh
2023-03-0753 minYoung Closers PodcastYoung Closers Podcast Ep. 1 - Jacob HagermanThis is the first Ep. of the Young Closers PodcastWanted you to get a chance to hear some adversity that I went through from being a kid, down to the moment that I decided to work side by side with Andy Elliott. Support the show
2022-11-0318 min
Production Talk Podcast#050 - ANDY HAGERMAN, AVID’s Audio Sensei, explains Digital Audio and DAW WorkflowsANDY HAGERMAN, AVID’s Audio Sensei, explains Digital Audio and DAW Workflows
Andy Hagerman’s career in music and education
Recording myths: Do recordings sound different in different DAWs?
The digital summing engine
Analogue and digital recording levels: saturation and clipping
The importance of clocking for audio interfaces
Recording levels and bit-depth: 16bit or 24bit?
The magic of 32bit floating point. Where it’s beneficial and where it’s pointless
Things you won’t find in the manual: The inner workings of Pro Tools.
Latency - how to overcome the pesky echo in your headphones
How to get an authentic-sounding MIDI perfo...
2022-07-041h 07
The Brick HouseThe Brick House 003Welcome to Brick House Radio! Curated by San Francisco’s very own Michael Bricker, you can expect a full hour of the best in all things House. Featuring handpicked tunes from up and coming artists, heavy hitters, and beyond!
Welcome to the third episode of Brick House Radio! This week features not one, but two tracks from Eli Brown, Chris Lake’s newest single of his new label Black Book Records, more bangers from Sola Records, a track from Nima G off his Trippy Ass Technologies imprint, and a few other heaters from local San Francisco Bay Area arti...
2018-06-2059 min