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A sneak peek into what's to come this season on The BigTime Podcast. We're sharing honest convos and real takeaways for growing professional services firms from pros who’ve been there, done that. The episode will be released 1/12/22!

A sneak peek into what's to come this season on The BigTime Podcast. We're sharing honest convos and real takeaways for growing professional services firms from pros who’ve been there, done that. New episodes will be released biweekly starting1/12/22!


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Radix IoT and crew are the go-to experts when it comes to IoT data management for the digital age. Their Mango platform capitalizes on the trend of data-driven decision-making coupled with the rapidly expanding Internet Of Things. But what is their underlying business strategy and approach to growth?In this edition of BigTime Podcast, we meet with Michael Skurla, Chief Product Officer of <a href="https://radixiot.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Radix IoT</a>, to get into all of it and talk about exciting growth topics in more detail. As part of their journey, they’ve had to learn tons about product education strategies, building trust, and boosting brand awareness.&nbsp;In their industry, that is no easy task. Radix IoT is helping unify real-time data from automation equipment to improve decision making, allowing you to collect, store, visualize, and analyze all of your company’s data immediately, all in one simple-to-use interface.

Michael Skurla

Chief Product Officer

In this edition of BigTime Podcast, we meet with Michael Skurla, Chief Product Officer of Radix IoT, to get into all of it and talk about exciting growth topics in more detail. As part of their journey, they’ve had to learn tons about product education strategies, building trust, and boosting brand awareness. 


How Radix Scaled Up their IoT Data-Driven Decision-Making & Analytics Company

How Radix Scaled Up their IoT Data-Driven Decision-Making & Analytics Company | The BigTime Podcast

In this edition of BigTime Podcast, COO of <a href="https://riospartners.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rios Partners,</a> Chris Wimbush, walks us through a day in the life working at one of the top management consulting firms in the country right now. In a little over a year, they’ve gone from 20 employees to over 80 — an incredible amount of growth in such a short timespan. Yet, their business model has always been “Big Firm Results at Small Firm Rates”. Today, we’re going to learn more about their continued growth and hiring strategy as a late-stage startup.At its most basic level, Rios Partners is helping organizations in the public, private, and non-profit sectors to innovate their product development process, improve supply chain logistics, analyze policies, and so much more. But what does it really take to launch a career in management consulting?Wimbush explains how their company is a big proponent of human-centered design in everything that they do. From the management and governance at the top of an organization structure all the way down to customers and clients that they reach, it’s all about understanding people.

Chris Wimbush

In this edition of BigTime Podcast, COO of Rios Partners, Chris Wimbush, walks us through a day in the life working at one of the top management consulting firms in the country right now.


Growing a Management Consulting Firm from 20 to 80 Employees in a Year

Growing a Management Consulting Firm from 20 to 80 Employees in a Year | The BigTime Podcast

Creating a product to sell is no easy challenge, however, <a href="https://sgwdesignworks.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SGW Designworks</a> was formed in 2008 to help businesses simplify the entire product design and manufacturing process. The three founders branched out from the Fortune 500 they were working at and decided to go it alone. Armed with their mechanical engineering knowledge and a Rolodex of past professional connections, they set out to launch their own company.In this edition of The BigTime Podcast, CEO of SGW Designworks, Ryan Gray, meets with us to discuss some of the challenges he’s faced while growing a custom engineering firm. Internet of things devices (IoT), industrial equipment, specialized electronics, and virtual reality controllers are just a few of the many products they’ve been working on. SGW can take any product idea and instantly give it life!

Ryan Gray

Co-Founder & CEO

In this edition of The BigTime Podcast, CEO of SGW Designworks, Ryan Gray, meets with us to discuss some of the challenges he’s faced while growing a custom engineering firm.


Launching a Successful Product Design & Development Engineering Company

Launching a Successful Product Design & Development Engineering Company | The BigTime Podcast

Launching Evari GIS Consulting was a leap of faith for Eva Friedberg and her husband. With no experience starting a business and small children to care for, setting out into the uncertain world of entrepreneurship held undeniable risks. But with their dissatisfaction in their working life, the risk felt necessary.&nbsp;On this edition of BigTime Podcast, Friedberg joins us to discuss how she built Evari GIS Consulting into a thriving firm that’s helping organizations utilize geographic information systems. Included in this conversation are her insights on cultivating the best client relationships, how to leverage the advantages of being a small business, and developing the right team.

Eva Friedberg

Owner, Director of Finance and Human Resources

On this edition of BigTime Podcast, Friedburg joins us to discuss how she built Evari GIS Consulting into a thriving firm that’s helping organizations utilize geographic information systems


Husband and Wife Team Grow a GIS Consulting Business from Scratch

Husband and Wife Team Grow a GIS Consulting Business from Scratch | The BigTime Podcast

As an HR consulting firm specializing in indigenous peoples, one might expect <a href="https://borealamgmt.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Boreala Management</a> to be the expert in First Nation organizations. But as partner Tanya Neitzert describes it, their success with these groups is not attributable to expertise in their inner workings per se, but rather in the agency’s ability to listen and trust the clients as the true experts.In this edition of BigTime Podcast, Neitzert joins us to tell the story of how she came to acquire <a href="https://blog.bigtime.net/bigtime-podcast-ep-6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Boreala Management</a> with two other partners and the operational philosophy that has led them to help indigenous peoples, nonprofits, and small to midsize businesses thrive. It’s all about listening to both clients and employees.She explains how fostering communication and keeping employees engaged has been a major strategy that has helped the company to grow.

Tanya Neitzert

Partner

Running a Successful Consulting Business is All About Learning to Listen

Running a Successful Consulting Business is All About Learning to Listen | The BigTime Podcast

As former engagement leaders at a Big Four accounting firm, Lori Richards and Michael White knew from experience that too often these large firms would push solutions where none were needed. They saw an opportunity to better serve the needs of clients, so they founded <a href="https://cooper-richards.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cooper-Richards</a>, an IT and financial risk management firm.In this edition of the BigTime Podcast, Lori and Michael discuss the challenges in building a new consulting firm including finding those first clients, recruiting partners, and staying competitive. They discuss how they were able to differentiate themselves from big corporate accounting firms and position themselves as advisors providing practical solutions to manage risk &amp; compliance in the financial industry.

Michael White

Lori Richards

In this edition of the BigTime Podcast, Lori and Michael from Cooper-Richards discuss the challenges in building a new consulting firm including finding those first clients, recruiting partners, and staying competitive.


Leaving The Big Four Behind and Starting a Financial Risk Management Company

Leaving The Big Four Behind and Starting a Financial Risk Management Company | The BigTime Podcast

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Honest convos and real takeaways for growing professional services firms from pros who’ve been there, done that. New episodes will be released biweekly starting 1/12/22.To watch the video version of each episode, <a href="https://blog.bigtime.net/the-bigtime-podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">head over to our blog</a>.

The BigTime Podcast

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