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The ET project

The ET project

By: Wayne Brown
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The ET project is produced to support executive talent around the world, by bringing you conversations with leading experts covering the latest industry news, and development topics, while offering guidance along the way. It will be a portal for our talent community - TEAM ET, to ask questions and share their own stories.2024 Career Success Economics
Episodes
  • Decision Maker to Chief Meaning Maker: A New Kind of Leadership
    Apr 23 2026

    Today we're starting off in Singapore to chat with Sirish Kumar, the CFO-turned-founder, CEO, and board member. Sirish leverages his two decades of experience at the intersection of finance, technology, and regulation across multiple geographies. He has held senior finance and commercial roles at Cargill, Motorola, Nokia, Siemens Networks, and PayPal, where he served as CFO for Southeast Asia and India before founding and exiting a profitable B2B payments company. Most recently, he has founded Sirrista and SaaCash, a cash flow and forecasting platform. Sirish has seen international finance centers and regulators evolve in their role in the last 15 years and has interacted with supervisors as a member of the board of commissioners in Indonesia and set up entities in Dubai.
    Visit the C4C website to gain full access to the transcript, show notes, and guest links. Coaching 4 Companies


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    51 mins
  • Why Perks Fail and Purpose Works: The ACTS Method Explained
    Apr 20 2026

    Today, we're flying into Farmington Hills, Michigan to chat with the founder of Employee Success Company, Mr. Ian Watts. Ian helps executives enhance employee engagement, boost team performance, and reduce employee turnover in 90 days or less, guaranteed. He does this through transformative keynotes, hands-on workshops, and his proprietary ACTS Method, a breakthrough system developed for scaling an HR department that grew from six to 60 locations and recruited 400 loyal team members nationwide who knew exactly how much he cared about their personal success. An accomplished author, speaker, business consultant, and breakthrough coach, Ian built his first multi-million-dollar business at age 26. He has raised millions in capital, launched multi-ventures, and guided global clients across 30-plus industries and 40-plus U.S. states, as well as internationally in China, Hong Kong, Canada, the UK, Saudi Arabia, and Australia.

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    49 mins
  • The Leadership Trap : Doing vs Leading.
    Apr 6 2026

    Today we're flying into our favorite city and country, Barcelona in the north of Spain, and chatting with acclaimed animal photographer, business leader, and coach, Alicia Rius. Alicia holds an MA in International Marketing and is a creative entrepreneur who has successfully planned and launched global advertising campaigns for well-known international brands such as Yamaha, Philips, Canon, and ING Global. Her experience as a business developer has helped brand growth by establishing new business and partnership opportunities in addition to identifying creative and target marketing strategies. An ICF PCC-certified coach, ex-startup COO, creator of The 4Ps Leadership Framework, and founder of Hive Leadership and Team Coaching, Alicia is about to release a book titled 'Lead With Clarity: How New Managers Turn Confusion into Confident Leadership,' and we discuss many of the subjects from the book at length during our conversation. Team, as always, I love the opportunity to dig in with authors and explore the insights and pearls of wisdom that they've packed between the covers, and this time is no exception. So be assured that there's truly something for everybody in the conversation ahead.

    Visit the C4C website to gain full access to the transcript, show notes, and guest links. Coaching 4 Companies

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    39 mins
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