Crisis Response with Greg Coticchia

When COVID-19 began to grind life and business as we know it to a halt, my friend Max Polec of Abstract Collective, a former guest on The Dispatch, and I wanted to do something that would provide some context and wisdom for people and their businesses as we navigated the crisis together.

Our idea was pretty simple; reach out to our networks and find folks that had weathered and even grown during previous crises such as the Dot-Com Bubble and, more recently, the Great Recession.

We were overwhelmed by the response and generosity of our network and out of that experience was born Crisis Response, a recurring webinar featuring business leaders whose experiences in previous times of crisis are instructive, insightful, and often times reassuring when dealing with the current crisis of COVID-19.

With the generous permission of panelists and Max, I’ll be sharing the audio from these webinars in The Dispatch feed as we get them recorded and processed. Today is the first of those, our interview with Greg Coticchia.

Greg is the executive director of Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business Master of Science in Product Management. Before he served in this role, however, Greg was a serial entrepreneur, consultant, educator to founders and startups, and author.

Greg’s insights were amazing and gave us and our attendees so much to think about as well as many tips to apply to our work to weather the tough days we find ourselves in.

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CMU's Tepper School of Business Masters in Product Management

Abstract Collective

Newberry Consulting