234: How to Help Your Millennial and Gen Z Colleagues Succeed and Shape the Future of Procurement w/ Charlotte de Brabandt and Yannick Blättler
How can procurement leaders create the environment necessary to attract the next generation of talent into the profession - and help them fulfill their potential? I'm joined today by returning guest C...
7 Jan 201934min
233: Three Questions to Ask to Kick-Start Your 2019 Change Journey
Are you ready for 2019? In today's podcast - the last of 2018 - I reflect on what has changed for procurement this year, and what hasn't! I then share a couple of predictions for 2019, including my ...
17 Dec 201819min
232: When Should You Add a Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) to Your Procurement Toolkit? w/ Jay Black
Out of the 232 podcasts to date, today is the first time that we dig into GPO's - or Group Purchasing Organizations. And as I planned out this topic, I invited today's guest, Jay Black, to join me. Ja...
10 Dec 201841min
231: Building Procurement Capabilities After a Corporate Spin-Off
Today on the show I am joined by Mike Morsch. Mike is the Vice President of Global Procurement and Supply Chain at CDK Global. Mike shares more about CDK in our interview, but to give you some context...
3 Dec 201850min
230: Automating the Negotiation Process w/ Edmund Zagorin
My guest is Edmund Zagorin. Edmund in the founder and CEO of BidOps, and I hope he won't mind me saying, but a technology geek when it comes to procurement. Our conversation today focuses on the appl...
26 Nov 201852min
229: Help Me Plan for 2019!
This week is Thanksgiving here in the US… a time when most people are thinking about spending time with their families rather than listening to a procurement podcast! So with that in mind, I thought I...
19 Nov 20183min
228: Managing in Global and Virtual Office Environments w/ Antonio Humphreys
Today's episode was recorded last month at the SIG Fall Summit, with my good friend Antonio Humphreys. Antonio is Senior Manager of Global Procure to Pay at Adobe in San Jose, California. Antonio is a...
12 Nov 201826min
227: Can't See the Wood for the Trees w/ Alison Smith
Normal service is resumed on the podcast today, as we return to our weekly interview format! Today, I'm joined by one of my good friends, Alison Smith. Alison has a broad range of procurement experien...
5 Nov 201850min
