ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Potential is all around us. But breaking through is rare. It requires vision, courage, tapping insights and expertise, overcoming big obstacles, and even a little luck.
Breakthrough Work lets leaders and companies who shattered the status quo tell their stories about getting to the other side.
We talk with senior leaders from companies you know well and reveal what it took to make them the household names they are today. We also feature companies emerging quickly, the ones breaking through as we speak. They talk about what it’s like to be in the moments defining their future.
The podcast shares personal stories about leadership and performance, unveiling the myriad pathways to reach our full potential. One size definitely does not fit all.
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Sponsored by Connor Group, a professional services firm focused on the most critical opportunities and challenges facing ambitious companies. As a leader in accounting, compliance, M&A, IPOs, and digital solutions, including strategy, system implementation, automation, analytics, and AI, Connor Group is built for breakthroughs. They serve the offices of the CFO, CIO/CTO, and CHRO, and are trusted by over 2,000 of the most exciting brands on earth to deliver results that last.
Breakthrough Work lets leaders and companies who shattered the status quo tell their stories about getting to the other side.
We talk with senior leaders from companies you know well and reveal what it took to make them the household names they are today. We also feature companies emerging quickly, the ones breaking through as we speak. They talk about what it’s like to be in the moments defining their future.
The podcast shares personal stories about leadership and performance, unveiling the myriad pathways to reach our full potential. One size definitely does not fit all.
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Sponsored by Connor Group, a professional services firm focused on the most critical opportunities and challenges facing ambitious companies. As a leader in accounting, compliance, M&A, IPOs, and digital solutions, including strategy, system implementation, automation, analytics, and AI, Connor Group is built for breakthroughs. They serve the offices of the CFO, CIO/CTO, and CHRO, and are trusted by over 2,000 of the most exciting brands on earth to deliver results that last.
Update frequency:
every 40 days
Average audio length:
57 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United States
12 episodes
since June 17, 2025
episodic
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Join us as Ravi Narula, CFO of SymphonyAI, walks through 25-plus years leading finance at tech and SaaS companies, including the IPOs of BigBand Networks, Gigamon, and Ooma. Topics covered:
Whether we should feel reassured or alarmed when frontier AI leaders say the industry needs to slow down (1:…
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Join us as Erik Zhou, SVP of Finance and Accounting at Brex, walks through 7-plus years building the finance function behind one of the most consequential deals in financial services: Capital Ones $5.15 billion acquisition of Brex.
Topics covered:
• The range of emotions inside Brex when the dea…
Join us as Will Billings, CAO and Treasurer at Chewy, walks through a finance career built across six industries, two public company boards, and one of the most-cited pandemic RIFs in tech history. Topics covered:
The three foundational lessons from Big Four audit that still govern how he leads (2…
Join host Ravi Kumar as he sits down with Greg Henry, CFO of 1Password and former CFO of Couchbase, for a masterclass in turning crisis into career-defining moments. Greg shares his journey from the Big Four to leading finance teams through IPOs, FDA shutdowns, and global pandemics, as well as full…
Larry Fitzgerald Jr., recent Pro Football Hall of Fame Inductee, and Kelvin Beachum, 14-year NFL veteran, investor, and philanthropist, join Ravi Kumar for an in-depth conversation on elite performance, leadership, investing, and service beyond the game. What does it take to perform at an elite lev…
From scaling Silicon Valley icons like Yahoo and SurveyMonkey to helping bring more than 1,000 missing people home, Dharti Patel, Chief Accounting Officer at Flock Safety, reveals what it truly means to lead when the stakes are real.In this episode, Dharti takes listeners inside:
Building career f…
Join breakout leader, entrepreneur and investor Lauren Maillian as she takes listeners through a remarkable journey defined by curiosity, reinvention and the courage to push past expectations.In this episode, Lauren opens up about her early ambitions, personal challenges and the pivotal moments tha…
Join us as Shannon Nash, Silicon Valley CFO and public company board member, shares her remarkable journey through:- The courage to leave comfort for California's unknown opportunities (4:35)- A life-changing pivot when her son was diagnosed with autism (11:33)- How working with Debbie Allen revolu…
Join us as Josh Waldron, Chief Accounting Officer at Scale AI, takes listeners on an enlightening journey through:
• The surprising skills from Big 4 accounting that are crucial in tech unicorns (2:20)
• Inside the chaotic world of finance in hypergrowth startups (10:15)
• How he weathered the s…
Join us as Mike Bufano, CFO and Youth Club President of League One Volleyball, takes listeners on an exhilarating journey through:
The thrilling world of sports business (2:48)
A career-defining piece of advice that landed him the CFO role (7:45)
Raw truths about conquering mental health…
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