Career Nation Show

Pamela Slim is an author, community builder, consultant and former corporate director of training and development at Barclays Global Investors. She focused her first decade in business on creating and delivering training programs for large companies such as HP, Charles Schwab, 3Com, Chevron and Cisco Systems.

Since 2005, Pam has advised thousands of entrepreneurs as well as companies serving the small business market such as Infusionsoft, Progressive Insurance and Prezi.

Pam partnered with author Susan Cain to build and launch the Quiet Revolution and the Quiet Leadership Institute.

Pam is best known for her book Escape from Cubicle Nation (named Best Small Business and Entrepreneur book of 2009 from 800 CEO Read) along with her follow up book Body of Work. Both were published by Penguin/Portfolio.

Her next book, The Widest Net, will be published by McGraw Hill in November, 2021.

In 2016, Pam launched the K’é Main Street Learning Lab in Mesa, Arizona, a grassroots, community-based think tank for small business economic acceleration. http://pamelaslim.com/ke

Guillermo Diaz, Jr., is a transformative global business leader and champion of inclusion and diversity. He is the CEO of Kloudspot Inc., an innovative AI and IoT analytics platform.

G started his career with the US Navy, where he received a military scholarship. He completed his undergrad at Regis University in Colorado.

He has been in senior IT leadership positions at Silicon Graphics, Ingram micro, Johnson, and Johnson. After that, he moved to Cisco, where he was the chief information officer.

Guillermo is a highly accomplished senior executive and champion of diversity and inclusion, having held multiple roles within Cisco over an impressive 20-year tenure prior to Kloudspot.

These roles included Cisco’s Global Chief Information Officer and most recently as its Head of Customer Digital Transformation.

He also serves on the Board of Directors of Blue Shield of California and as Chairman of HITEC, the Hispanic Information Technology Executive Council.

"We didn't commit as much as we could have because we were afraid of what might happen if we win. What are our notions of success that keeps us from doing meaningful work and making the change? We've talked enough about the fear of failure. Let's talk...