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Episode 36

March 2, 2023

How to Optimize Your Business During Uncertain Economic Times w/Charles Gustine

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On this episode of the podcast Brent and Banoo are the ones in the hot seat! This live recording from our LinkedIn Live series, “Navigating the Path Forward”, tackles the key trends shaping 2023 and how people, process and technology optimization can future-proof your professional services business. Brent and Banoo are joined by Charles Gustine, Kantata’s Brand Evangelist, who digs into some of the key analyst predictions and research for 2023 and asks them questions based on those insights.

Some of the topics covered include:

  • The biggest challenges PS firms are grappling with right now
  • Adaptive leadership
  • Optimizing the experience and lifetime value of customers and employees
  • Find friction points, measure relentlessly, improve what you measure
  • Aligning IT spending with business priorities
  • Achieving healthy transparency
Host

Banoo Behboodi

Vice President, Success Engineering

Banoo Behboodi is a 20+ year software and services leader with extensive experience executing change initiatives with oversight of Customer Success, Professional Services and Delivery and Consulting functions. Banoo’s earlier experiences with AT&T Mobility, Coca-Cola Company and Ernst & Young leading key transformational and compliance projects, provided the foundation needed to be an effective leader and a change agent with a customer first mindset. Banoo is passionate about driving continuous improvement through sharing best practices and empowering resources through technology and analytics to optimize performance and job satisfaction while driving business outcomes.

Host

Brent Trimble

Vice President, Value Engineering

Brent brings more than 15+ year’s of leadership experience in Management Consulting, Strategic Delivery, Marketing services and product development firms to his technology role at Kantata. As the VP of Value Engineering and the Managing Director of Marketing Service & Agency Vertical, he specializes in identifying process improvement potential, business optimization and key health metrics for alignment and orientation.

With deep business understanding through an operator lens - Brent works with Kantata partner firms to refine intrinsic and extrinsic value drivers - giving firm principals the focus required for adoption, mobilization, value realization and ultimately - success.

Prior to joining Kantata, Brent was a client of the platform and held positions at Interpublic Group, Accenture, WPP, and independent marketing consulting firms.