The Talent Crisis No One is Talking About ft. Suzi Potts

About this episode

Suzi Potts discusses how effective people strategy impacts enterprise value during critical business phases.

In this episode of Max Value, Suzi Potts, an industrial-organizational psychologist turned strategic business adviser, reveals how people strategy directly drives enterprise value—especially during growth, disruption, and exit. Moving from her early career in the wine and spirits industry to building data-backed talent systems, she explains how founders unknowingly create hidden financial drag through misaligned leadership structures, poor measurement systems, and unexamined succession plans....

People in this episode

Host: Ben Towne

Guest: Suzi Potts

Topics covered

• talent strategy
• enterprise value
• leadership structures
• measurement systems
• succession plans

Keywords

• talent crisis
• business adviser
• industrial-organizational psychologist
• financial drag
• growth
• disruption
• exit

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Max Value, wine and spirits industry, data-backed talent systems

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