7 Questions with leaders of small and medium enterprises
Read insights and thoughts from leaders of small and medium enterprises around the world.
Thank you to the amazing leaders of SMEs who have answered our 7 questions so far, we hope you find their answers helpful for you in your leadership journey!
7 Questions with Caleb Barcus
Name: Caleb Barcus
Current title: Director of Business Development
Current organisation: Seed & Smith Cannabis
Accomplished Sales & Operations Director and Cannabis Consultant with over 10 years experience bringing strategic approach and executing on vision. An industry leader, well-versed in industry operations, purchasing trends, market and regulatory environment, technology vendors, industry education and range of product diversity for medicinal and recreational cannabis.
7 Questions with Susanna Rantanen
Name: Susanna Rantanen
Current title: Co-founder & CEO
Current organisation: Employee Experience Agency Emine Ltd
Top 10 Employer Branding Agencies in Europe -owner.
Vanguard of modern employer branding and talent marketing.
Podcaster, keynote & employer brand consultant & coach for modern growth companies.
7 Questions with Beverly Cosslett
Name: Beverly Cosslett
Current title: Director
Current organisation: Sonic Digital Media
Owner of two businesses, one in the beauty industry and my passion, marketing, digital media and consumer behaviour.
For fun, I teach people to skydive as the Chief Instructor of the Johannesburg Skydiving Club, where I am accountable for the safety and training of all my club members, Jumpmaster, coach and instructor training.
Other than that, you can find me watching cat videos with my partner John.
7 Questions with Richard Rabins
Name: Richard Rabins
Current title: CEO
Current organisation: Alpha Software Corporation
Richard Rabins focuses on strategy, accelerating global growth, and scaling the organization. Richard also served as CEO of SoftQuad International from 1997 to 2001, when it owned Alpha. In addition to his 30 years with the company, Richard played a key role as co-founder and served as president and chairman of the Massachusetts Software Council (now the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council), the largest technology trade organization in Massachusetts. Prior to founding Alpha, Richard was a project leader and consultant with Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), and a management consultant with Management Decision Systems, Inc. Richard holds a master's degree in system dynamics from the Sloan School at MIT, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, and a master's degree in control engineering from University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has served on the boards of Silent Systems, Legacy Technology, and O3B Networks.
7 Questions with Susan Mazza
Name: Susan Mazza
Current title: CEO/Founder
Current organisation: Random Acts of Leadership
Susan Mazza is the founder and CEO of Random Acts of Leadership which helps leaders elevate their leadership and amplify their impact and influence in their workplace.
For over 25 years she has worked with companies around the world to transform their performance, relationships and work environment. Her client’s results have ranged from executive coaching clients getting their dream job or hard-won promotion to coaching a team that added $1 billion to the bottom line of their company.
She is known for her ability to make the complex simple and theory actionable, especially when it comes to leadership. Susan is the Author/Founder of the highly acclaimed blog RandomActsofLeadership.com that has earned her recognition as a top Thought Leader and Leadership Expert in places like Inc. Magazine and Trust Across America/Trust Around the world.
7 Questions with Thomas Mathew Molakkal
Name: Thomas Mathew Molakkal
Current title: CEO
Current organisation: Gabriel Power and Energy Pvt Ltd
Oxford PE VC, Investment banker by profession, invested in the renewable energy segment, leading the company to an IPO in three years and thereafter to NASDAQ in few years
7 Questions with Godswill Iwenofu
Name: Godswill Iwenofu
Current title: Director of Business Development
Current organisation: Hyratica Insights
Currently, I am the Director of Business Development at Hyratica Insights, a full-fledged data consultancy and analytics firm based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Prior to that, I was the Chief Marketing Officer at Lykan Tradings, a securities trading and education organization. While in high school I co-founded Pestle Group and GIMT foundation with my current partner, Tiisestso Motokolo. Pestle Group was a waste management business that targeted and serviced SMEs in Johannesburg CBD who could not afford traditional waste management services during the 2018 Pikitup strike. GIMT foundation is an NPO, with the vision to help create a healthy and well-educated economic workforce for the future of South Africa through workshops and mentorship, targeting grade 10 - 12 students in rural South Africa. I am currently studying Political Economy (PPE) at the University of South Africa.
7 Questions with Stephy T L
Name: Stephy T L
Current title: Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Current organisation: Beetle Branding Studio
Not only an emerging Entrepreneur but also a Qualified Digital Marketer with solid experience with years of experience in making online businesses profitable through experimenting and strategizing the various aspects in SEO, SEM, Social Media & Video Marketing. Also available in YouTube as Go Digital with Stephy to share the tips and updates in the digital marketing niche.
7 Questions with Rohit Varma
Name: Rohit Varma
Current title: Founder & CEO
Current organisation: Interskale Digital Marketing and Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
Internet industry and consumer marketing professional with over 3 decades experience. Engineer MBA from IIT/IIM (India).
Founded Interskale (www.interskale.in) in 2010 to fill a gap seen in high quality digital marketing work. We help organizations with digital strategy, performance marketing and website consulting. Connect with me at linkedin.com/in/rohitvarma
7 Questions with Kabel Vafiopulous
Name: Kabel Vafiopulous
Current title: Founder and Director
Current organisation: Love Is The Answer and Kabel Consulting
Kabel helps Corporates, SME's, Social Enterprises and Charities of all shapes and sizes make money, save money and avoid risk.
Kabel is an energetic, passionate, caring leader that believes in equality for all living beings.
Specialising in business design and strategy with a very accomplished career in Sales Management, Strategic Business Development and Account Management. Kabel is driven to help others through his two businesses. Kabel operates under the KISS principles of Keep It Simple Stupid and helps Corporates, Businesses, Social Enterprises and Charities learn the skills they are missing so they can grow and do more with the consulting he provides.
Love Is The Answer - although new and growing will be Kabel's life's work. Love Is The Answer is a Social Enterprise that allows me and my network to utilise our business and sales skills to help other Social Enterprises, Charities and businesses helping others improve their business, strategy, operations, sales skills and anything else we can do for them. Love is the answer to every question. Hatred never achieved anything good.
Most people who establish a social enterprise or charity do it from the goodness of their heart and a desire to almost blindly help others at any cost. A lot of charities are driven by a passion to help others. I have found that many social enterprises and charities need help to learn the skills that they don't have because they have never had the opportunity to learn these skills, they just want to help others and that is their mission.
Kabel Consulting - Kabel employs an insight driven style and enjoys leading by example. Honest feedback is guaranteed. Kabel has a specific focus on customer and staff satisfaction. He works closely with his clients to help create innovative partnerships that deliver significant mutually beneficial outcomes for his valued clients.
Kabel loves his job because he loves helping people and making new personal connections - He gets to talk to new people all the time and find out amazing things about them and the companies they own or work for. Then he gets to help them achieve what can seem impossible.
Kabel is also a strong advocate for Mental Health and Social Change. He believes that at the moment we are leaving a toxic world behind for our kids which is not acceptable. He believes every person can make a difference so that is what he chooses to do.
Kabel has chosen to work a 3 day week with a maximum of 4 days for peak times as a lifestyle choice. Remember we should all be working to live; not the other way round.