The Growth
Manifesto Podcast

Redefining career development in a remote-first world

This episode is with Julie Winkle Giulioni - author of the international bestseller - Help Them Grow or Watch them Go, and one of Inc Magazine’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers. In this episode we talk about her latest book - Promotions Are So Yesterday - Redefine Career Development and Help Employees Thrive.

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How to out-pitch your competition

 This episode is with Bob Wiesner – Managing Partner at The Artemis Partnership, author of ‘Winning is Better’ and […] Read more

How to get more meetings, win more pitches & close more deals

This episode is with Oren Klaff - one of the world’s leading experts on sales, raising capital and negotiation. He’s the bestselling author of Pitch Anything and Flip The Script, and he’s the Director of Capital Markets at Intersection Capital, where they advise companies seeking to raise capital, with more than $1B in recent transaction volume. In this episode we talk about how to get more meetings, win more pitches and close more deals.

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How to grow your people to grow your company

This episode is with Whitney Johnson - CEO of Disruption Advisors and one of the 10 leading business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50. She’s an award-winning author, a world-class keynote speaker, and an executive coach and advisor to CEOs. In this episode we talk about the concepts in her latest book - Smart Growth: How to grow your people to grow your company. Find out how the S-Curve applied to the people in your team can help keep them fully engaged, improve employee retention, and ultimately drive company growth.

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How to raise money from VC funds

This episode is with Niki Scevak - co-founder and partner at Blackbird Ventures, one of Australia’s leading VC funds, turning $1.2B invested since 2013 into a portfolio valued at $10B with investments including Canva, SafetyCulture and Eucalyptus. In this episode we talk about how to raise money from a VC fund with discussions around the VC industry in Australia, Blackbird Ventures' investment strategy, what they look for in a startup opportunity, how to pitch a VC, and what founders should focus on after they get funded.

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