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FutureProof Advisor PodcastGuiding Your Client's Financial Journey with Dave Connolly and Moira SummersWe’re joined by two guests on today’s episode of Bridging The Gap. Dave Connolly, CEO and Co-Founder of Knudge, and Dr. Moira Summers, Financial Psychologist and Executive Coach, share how they help bridge the gap between financial motivations and systems that help clients reach their financial goals. We explore procrastination, three steps of implementation for your clients, the shared responsibility of implementation, what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to helping your clients reach financial goals, and more. We also dive into a conversation about how simple reminders from you as the a...
2022-08-1043 min
The NerdCastThe Internet of Things: An Interview with Maria ThomasListen to an interview with Maria Thomas discuss the Internet of Things with Catalant (formerly HourlyNerd).
Maria Thomas is an Entrepreneur, CEO and public company board director who leads businesses at the intersection of commerce, media and technology. She currently serves as a board member, angel investor, and advisor to early stage companies, including participating in Catalant's Series B round of financing.
Previously, Maria held various leadership positions at SmartThings (CMO and Chief Consumer Officer), Etsy (CEO), NPR (SVP & GM, Digital Media), and Amazon (Dir. of Product, Consumer Electronics).
2019-07-3030 min
The NerdCast2017 Year-in-Review w/ Brandon Moreno: Looking Back at the Top 3 On-Demand Workforce TrendsReadiness to navigate change has been critical for companies this year. Look around you and what do you see? Increasing competitive pressures, an ongoing war for top talent, expanding customer expectations, regulatory complexity and uncertainty and — perhaps most obvious of all — the ever-accelerating speed of technological change. How can you keep up?
2017-12-2728 min
The NerdCastForrester Webinar: Are You Using the Tools of the Future to Find the Skills of the Future?Companies are increasingly faced with the challenge of finding and retaining the right knowledge talent to meet key business initiatives and project demands. Innovative companies are opting to venture outside of traditional staffing models to the on-demand economy, where experienced business experts are choosing to work independently.
In this webinar, Forrester VP, Principal Analyst and guest speaker Marc Cecere joins Catalant's VP of Strategic Partnerships Rich Gardner to discuss some of the key findings from the June 2017 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Catalant Technologies. In addition, Rich talks through a few case studies of companies that...
2017-09-0801 min2017-08-0837 minThe NerdCastHow The Enterprise Is Approaching The Gig EconomyDiane Mulcahy talks about dis-aggregated traditional full-time hires in the flexible workforce.
2017-07-1201 minThe NerdCastInterview with Author and Gig Economy Influencer, Diane MulcahyCatalant had the opportunity to sit down with Diane Mulcahy, an Adjunct Lecturer, Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation and author of the book, The Gig Economy to discuss the flexible workforce and the future of work.
2017-07-1019 min
The NerdCastEpisode 1 - How To Start a Tech Company Without a Tech BackgroundCatalant (fka HourlyNerd) CEO Rob Biederman discusses exactly what it takes to start a tech company without a tech background. From his experience, he supplies 6 brilliant tips for anyone looking to take the dive.
2016-10-0530 min
The NerdCastThe Lean Industrial Episode 3 - How industrial companies are using big data to stay competitiveWondering what you should do about “big data?"
We sit down with Catalant expert Dave Herman to talk about two rising technologies that can drive deep insights into your business and give you a leg up on the competition.
Dave shares how to get started with one of these technologies (data visualization) and the biggest mistake to avoid when trying to integrate it in your organization.
He goes further into neural networks, sharing the story of how he became convinced of the power of such advanced analytics while working at a metal smelter in the Australian outback.
Dave is advising le...
2016-09-1923 min
The NerdCastThe Lean Industrial Episode 2 - How to get ahead of the curve in mobile and the Internet of ThingsAfraid your company or business unit might get left behind in today’s rapidly-changing tech environment?
We sit down with mobile and IoT expert Dave Whetstone to hear what top industrial companies are doing to keep pace with startups and other tech-enabled threats.
Dave shares what companies can learn from consumer apps like OpenTable, Starbucks, and Sonos and the three stages to turn your business into a mobile-enabled one that is poised for success in the coming years.
Dave has a 20-year history in the mobile space and has the pulse of what’s next when it comes to a worl...
2016-09-1800 min
The NerdCastThe Lean Industrial Episode 1 - Four magic questions that spark organizational changeEver wonder why it’s so hard to change behavior in an organization?
We sit down with Catalant expert Roy Johanson to cover a topic many managers can relate to - how to bring about change in an organization when people have been doing things a certain way for a long time.
Roy uses a fresh example from an operations-heavy industrial company but these lessons transcend markets. We cover a 4-step process for bringing about change in a way that achieves support from all levels of the organization, including how to design a pilot study that can spark change in a...
2016-09-1800 min
Curious Minds at WorkCM 049: Arun Sundararajan on the Sharing EconomyWe all share, but today, millions get paid for it. Is this new trend just a fad or is it radical rethink for how we work?
When we catch a ride with an Uber driver or contract with someone on Upwork, we marvel at the convenience. What we often overlook is the amount of trust it takes to ride with a stranger or to work with someone we may never meet. Yet that level of trust is what is driving the sharing economy, a form of commerce that harkens back to the 11th-century Maghribi traders.
In his book, The Sharing...
2016-08-1532 min
Red Cup AgencyStorytime Friday - HourlyNerd (Catalant)Rob Biederman, co-CEO of HourlyNerd, talks about raising an early round of funding in the company. He and his colleagues applied to be on Shark Tank, were accepted, and then had to decline when they learned that the show taping would conflict with the beginning of their second year of business school. The contacted Marc Cuban directly and got a favorable response that enabled them to secure a seed round.
Storytime Friday is a podcast produced by Red Cup Agency. In each episode, communications director Lee Schneider reads from a chapter in progress of his upcoming book, Inside the Mind...
2016-07-0206 min
The NerdCastTomorrow's Industrial - Episode 1: How to prepare your company for the “Internet of Things”We're excited to announce the launch of a new podcast series, Tomorrow's Industrial. Hosted by the head of HourlyNerd's industrial practice, Pat Mascia, Tomorrow's Industrial focuses on companies that are navigating the rapid change in the industrial sector.
For the inaugural episode, Pat explores a topic that has taken the industry by storm: The Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT is making the connected life a reality by creating a network of objects that have been embedded with software, sensors, and electronics, enabling them to collect and share data.
Pat invited HourlyNerd expert, Fuad Raja to be a guest on...
2016-06-2900 min
The NerdCastExpert Spotlight with Dave H.HourlyNerd's Supply Manager, Hannah Sacchini, speaks with rockstar Nerd, Dave H. about the jump from McKinsey to becoming an independent consultant and the projects he's won on HourlyNerd.
2016-05-3100 min
The NerdCastHow Intuit Leverages Intrapreneurship to Innovate“Intuit is breaking down walls to allow their employees to be flexible, to innovate, to cut failing products, and to deliver profitable solutions that meet current market demands.”
This episode of the NerdCast features an interview with Intuit's Alex Chriss, VP & GM of the Self-Employed Solutions, about the development of QuickBooks Self-Employed (QBSE). The QBSE product, conceived and launched all in 2014, is the story of successfully combining the best of lean startups and deep corporate advantages.
At HourlyNerd, we believe that the characteristics of a startup, e.g. flexibility, innovation, lean processes, etc., can and should scale along with the busi...
2016-05-1100 min
The NerdCastWhy Enterprises Should Stick to Their Startup RootsEvery company was once young, fast, and lean. And if you're the lucky company to make it out of the startup phase and transition into the enterprise phase, a lot of your fast and lean mentality that defined your early day's, diminishes into the massive employee-filled bureaucratic company that tends to be defined as an "enterprise." However, I've heard it all the time from enterprise employees, "I wish I was a startup. I wish I had smaller teams. I wish I could move faster. I wish, I wish, I wish. This company is so large that it takes forever to...
2016-04-0700 min
The NerdCastEpisode 2 - 3 Steps For Successfully Serving On A Nonprofit Board - Ben RobertsonHourlyNerd consultant and Treasurer of Monadnock International Film Festival, Ben Robertson, discusses the three steps required to having a successful experience while serving on a nonprofit board. His experience and skills offer brilliant insight and valuable knowledge for anyone looking to succeed in this space.
2015-09-1400 min
The NerdCastEpisode 1 - How To Start A Tech Company Without A Tech BackgroundHourlyNerd CEO Rob Biederman discusses exactly what it takes to start a tech company without a tech background. From his experience, he supplies 6 brilliant tips for anyone looking to take the dive.
2015-08-1200 min