Business & Management

Professionals who specialize in the organization and oversight of business activities, as well as focus on planning, directing, and controlling company operations

Darryl Kanouse

Darryl Kanouse

Darryl Kanouse has led enterprise-scale data science, AI/ML, and analytics product development at global organizations including AWS, Amazon, Canva, and Activision. For over two decades, he has built and scaled data systems and capabilities that enable large, complex organizations to make better decisions, optimize performance, and operate with precision at scale. Throughout his career, Darryl has built cross-functional teams that bridge engineering, product, analytics, and business strategy, focusing on structural alignment over strict process.

In recent years, Darryl has evolved his work in systems thinking to focus on the structural foundations of organizational success. As a Viability Architect, he identifies and addresses the underlying causes of dysfunction: misaligned feedback loops, boundary ambiguity, and resource allocation failures. His systems-level approach helps executive teams move beyond surface-level fixes to implement durable, high-leverage structural change.

Darryl Kanouse has led enterprise-scale data science, AI/ML, and analytics product development at global organizations including AWS, Amazon, Canva, and Activision. For over two decades, he has built and scaled data systems and capabilities that enab... Show more

Randy Silver

Randy Silver

Randy Silver is a product consultant, coach & community builder who has been working in product roles across the US and UK for 20 years. A recovering music journalist and editor, he launched Amazon’s music stores in the US and UK; he’s also worked across sectors including museums and arts groups, online education, media and entertainment, retail, and financial services. Randy held Head of Product roles at HSBC and Sainsbury’s, where he also directed their 100+-person product community. Randy’s book, What Do We Do Now? A Product Manager’s Guide to Strategy in the Time of COVID-19 is out now, with all profits going to COVID-19 relief efforts. He’s the founder & co-host of The Product Experience podcast and founder/host of Product in the {A}ether, a virtual lean coffee meetup. Find out more at outofowls.com

Randy Silver is a product consultant, coach & community builder who has been working in product roles across the US and UK for 20 years. A recovering music journalist and editor, he launched Amazon’s music stores in the US and UK; he’s also worked ac... Show more

Nate Payne

Nate Payne

Nate Payne is the creator of Living Systems Leadership, a pioneering leadership model that blends systems thinking, ecology, economics, and 30+ years of real-world technology and leadership experience. His work equips leaders to navigate uncertainty with clarity, make smarter decisions under pressure, and build organizations that learn, adapt, and thrive in the unknown.

Nate helps leaders move beyond firefighting and build teams that operate with alignment, resilience, and calm confidence. His approach is grounded, practical, and deeply human. Instead of teaching leaders to “do more,” he helps them redesign the system beneath their work so better outcomes emerge naturally. His methods draw from nature’s most adaptive systems: forests, rivers, reefs, to reveal how organizations can grow stronger through complexity, not despite it.

As a speaker, Nate is known for his engaging, story-driven sessions that blend systems thinking, leadership psychology, and operational clarity. His talks challenge conventional assumptions and offer leaders a new mental model for thriving in uncertainty, without relying on rigid control, heroic leadership, or burnout-driven productivity.

Nate Payne is the creator of Living Systems Leadership, a pioneering leadership model that blends systems thinking, ecology, economics, and 30+ years of real-world technology and leadership experience. His work equips leaders to navigate uncertainty ... Show more

Jason Stryker

Jason Stryker

Jason is a engineering leader with extensive experience implementing Kubernetes and Cloud Native technology in highly regulated environments. As the Community of Practice lead for Kubernetes at Capital One, he exudes a deep passion for open source and community governance models exemplified by CNCF hosted projects.

Jason is a engineering leader with extensive experience implementing Kubernetes and Cloud Native technology in highly regulated environments. As the Community of Practice lead for Kubernetes at Capital One, he exudes a deep passion for open source an... Show more

Agustin Benito Bethencourt

Agustin Benito Bethencourt

Agustín has guided projects, and organizations throughout the life cycle of OSS based products and services in different markets. He now works as an independent consultant, focused on helping organizations in two ways: applying advanced data analytics to production environments to increase delivery performance, partnering with Bitergia, and increasing their organizational performance by becoming good open source citizens, like in the case of SCANOSS.

Agustín has guided projects, and organizations throughout the life cycle of OSS based products and services in different markets. He now works as an independent consultant, focused on helping organizations in two ways: applying advanced data analytic... Show more

Baris Kanlica

Baris Kanlica

First of all, he is a husband and father, is a traveler, is a bookworm.

More than 15 years, he has been professionally in business life. His area of ​​expertise is to plan the strategic processes of a company and to make improvements in the process to ensure human and computer compatibility. It covers the planning of the company’s marketing, sales and service activities in the scope of the basic processes and making the computer-based software/hardware infrastructures suitable for the purpose. After meeting Microsoft Dynamics CRM 1.2 version years ago, he has been working as a CRM software consultant in various positions within Microsoft Dynamics CRM projects for years.

He lives in London with the title of CEO at Mawens Business Solution, founded in 2015. He continues to develop CRM / xRM projects by consulting on Marketing and Strategic Management issues.

To date, he has developed more than 200 software projects for more than 150 companies at home and abroad and has received the Dynamics CRM MVP award and title many times since 2009 for his work in this field.

He speaks events/conferences at many universities, institutions. He is among the founders of the 365 Community, which organizes events about Dynamics 365 worldwide. (https://events.powercommunity.com/)

His articles are published in many sites as editor and writer.

Some Links:

Microsoft MVP Profile: https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5001870

Interview: https://msdynamicsworld.com/story/dynamics-crm/dynamics-profile-entrepreneurial-spirit-and-community-achievements-crm-mvp-baris-?modal_forms_redirect=1

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bariskanlica/

The company website is https://mawens.com and Mawens Business Solutions is one of the important Omni-Channel Platform leaders and Microsoft Dynamics Partner of the world.

Flexxii (https://flexxii.com) is a platform that allows you to reach your customers quickly via Whatsapp, SMS, Email, Chatbot, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WebForm and so on. In short, Flexxii is a revolutionary new solution for marketing and customer service.

First of all, he is a husband and father, is a traveler, is a bookworm. More than 15 years, he has been professionally in business life. His area of ​​expertise is to plan the strategic processes of a company and to make improvements in the proces... Show more

Strahinja Rodic

Strahinja Rodic

Strahinja is a Product Manager at Microsoft, specializing in enhancing the backup and restore features of Azure SQL Managed Instance. Before joining the Managed Instance team, he worked on Microsoft Fabric, where he contributed to developing Synapse Data Warehouse and serverless SQL pools in Azure Synapse Analytics. Strahinja is passionate about engaging with end-users, gathering feedback, identifying pain points, and crafting solutions to address their needs. In his life before Microsoft, Strahinja worked as a gameplay programmer, developing AAA video games.

Strahinja is a Product Manager at Microsoft, specializing in enhancing the backup and restore features of Azure SQL Managed Instance. Before joining the Managed Instance team, he worked on Microsoft Fabric, where he contributed to developing Synapse ... Show more

Matthew Meyer

Matthew Meyer

Dr. Matt Meyer is the creator of The MindFlow Cycle, a neuroscience-based system for optimizing human performance under pressure. With more than 25 years of experience in leadership, workforce development, and behavioral science, he helps technical and high-stakes teams restore clarity, energy, and emotional regulation during complex work. His framework integrates cognitive psychology, flow science, and recovery-based leadership to reduce burnout and improve decision-making. Dr. Meyer teaches organizations how to build resilient humans capable of navigating nonlinear systems, high ambiguity, and rapid change — turning internal stability into external reliability.

Dr. Matt Meyer is the creator of The MindFlow Cycle, a neuroscience-based system for optimizing human performance under pressure. With more than 25 years of experience in leadership, workforce development, and behavioral science, he helps technical a... Show more

Tim Huff

Tim Huff

Tim Huff is a decorated combat veteran, certified executive coach, and award-winning CEO recognized for servant leadership and character. A graduate of the U.S. Army’s Ranger School, Tim served 14 years as an Infantry Officer, culminating in a year-long deployment to Afghanistan with the US Army National Guard as Chief of Operations for a brigade responsible for training and sustaining the Afghan National Army. For his leadership in combat, he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.

After active military service, Tim made what he calls his ‘most extreme transition’… from command of over a dozen tanks and leading 100 troops, and a few months later, to a cubicle at The Walt Disney Company, managing spreadsheets. That moment reinforced in him that genuine leadership isn’t tied to uniforms, titles, or settings. It’s about character: the one constant that endures when pressure mounts. He later advanced in technology leadership roles with Macy’s, CRH Americas, and Owens & Minor, but his life took another defining turn in 2017 when he became the client of an executive coach. The experience gave him a profound sense of leadership freedom and clarity and set him on a new mission: to help leaders everywhere discover the same success based in character.

Today, Tim is the President & CEO of Turknett Leadership Group, a 38-year-old Atlanta-based firm trusted by Fortune 500 companies and global organizations. He is a Titan 100 honoree and recipient of the Servant Leader of the Year Award, recognized for his commitment to building leaders who live and lead with integrity, respect, and responsibility. In 2024, he extended that commitment in the most personal way, by donating a kidney to help save the life of a colleague.

Tim’s message is clear: skills can be taught, strategies can shift, but character is the bedrock of leadership. Whether on the battlefield, in the boardroom, or at the side of someone in need, it’s character that inspires trust, courage, and authentic leadership.

He lives in Cumming, Georgia with his wife, Kristin, and enjoys hiking in the North Georgia mountains where he finds both rest and renewal for his life of service!

Tim Huff is a decorated combat veteran, certified executive coach, and award-winning CEO recognized for servant leadership and character. A graduate of the U.S. Army’s Ranger School, Tim served 14 years as an Infantry Officer, culminating in a year-l... Show more

Abigail Merrill

Abigail Merrill

A Certified AI Practitioner and business strategist focused on human-centered AI integration, Abigail helps organizations adopt AI strategically and responsibly. Drawing from her background in operations, revenue strategy, marketing, and tech stack optimization, she specializes in making AI practical, ethical, and empowering for real business results. Through her firm, GrowthUp Partners, and her proven AI for ROI framework, she equips teams to integrate AI in ways that elevate productivity and leadership while thinking critically about how technology can strengthen human potential. She’s passionate about making AI approachable and accessible to all.

A Certified AI Practitioner and business strategist focused on human-centered AI integration, Abigail helps organizations adopt AI strategically and responsibly. Drawing from her background in operations, revenue strategy, marketing, and tech stack o... Show more

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