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John Shumate and the value of a slow barrel
A bourbon barrel takes years to become a bottle. John Shumate saw a financing problem in the wait - and a way to connect his work with entrepreneurs to the business of investing.
Leyla Dailey and the Art of Making Room
At Doe-Anderson, Leyla Touma Dailey has a disarming rule for building a creative team: hire people whose work makes you jealous. Her career shows what can happen when a leader gives talent somewhere to grow.
David Lau and the Expensive Middle of a Simple Promise
For three decades, David Lau has kept returning to one unfashionable question: what becomes possible when the cost of selling a financial product is taken out of the product itself?
Wendy Parrish Has Spent a Career Closing the Distance Between Learning and Work
From mechanical engineering to online college research to virtual job simulations, Wendy Parrish has followed one durable question: how do you help people see a practical next step?
Eric Williams Built a Career Forward - Then Found His Company by Looking Back
The eJOOV co-founder spent two decades learning how goods move. His sharper insight was that the awkward trip home - the return - could become a second sale, a better process and the start of a broader logistics company.
Lori Riggs Built a Marketing Career on One Quiet Rule: Be Useful First
Long before she became Lifepoint Health's chief marketing officer, Lori Riggs found a durable formula for earning attention: solve the audience's problem before promoting the company. Her path from a hospital internship to the C-suite shows what happens when empathy learns to count.
Jeremy Shepherd Has Spent Two Decades Learning Where a Brand Meets the Buyer
Before Jeremy Shepherd became Brown-Forman's chief marketing officer, he spent two decades close to the places where strategy gets tested - markets, distributors, stores and teams. His route from Canada to London to Louisville explains the operator behind the title.