Josh Geballe on Learning from the Relationships You Build for the Future

About this episode

Josh Geballe discusses the importance of relationships in career development and shares insights from his diverse leadership experiences.

This week, Kavitha brings in Yale Ventures Managing Director Josh Geballe shortly after a nother successful annual gathering of Yale Innovation Summit leaders and entrepreneurs . Josh describes a career which has successfully navigated leadership in the publ ic, private, and nonprofit sectors . As former COO to Governor Ned Lamont of Connecticut, CEO to Core Informatics while overseeing a successful acquisition by Thermo Fis her Scientific , and sitting board member on nonprofits grounded in tech and climate solutions, Josh brings a wealth of change management skills and experience in championing innovative solutions to some of today's biggest challenges. Join us to hear Josh and Kavitha discuss how he leveraged his early career in management consulting into his first finance leadership role managing multinational partnerships for IBM, and how his initiative and drive while working in the Governor's office helped dramatically improve Connecticut residents' experience at the DMV! As a longtime YGELP panelist and instructor, Josh emphasizes the imperative for aspiring leaders to act on networking opportunities, citing the fact that invitations to pursue some of his most…

People in this episode

Host: Kavitha

Guest: Josh Geballe

Topics covered

• leadership
• networking
• innovation
• change management
• tech
• biotech

Keywords

• leadership
• networking
• innovation
• Connecticut
• Yale
• biotech
• change management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Yale Ventures, Thermo Fisher Scientific, IBM, Yale, Core Informatics, Yale Innovation Summit, YGELP

Places: Connecticut

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