In this episode of Nflections, host Linda Coughlin speaks with Kevin Lederer, Operating Partner at Nadia Partners. Kevin shares insights from a career spanning early tech startups, Bain & Company management consulting, light manufacturing, and private equity. Discover how to evaluate opportunity costs during major career transitions, separate personal identity from business failure, set firm executive boundaries between work and family, and unleash high-performing teams by enabling "thoroughbreds."

In this episode of Nflections, host Linda Coughlin sits down with Katie Calhoun, co-founder and managing partner of Resonate Lab Consulting. Katie reflects on her 17-year tenure at Getty Images, leading a team of over 110 people across the Americas, and her decision to "bet on herself" by stepping into entrepreneurship. Discover how to navigate executive identity shifts, build an unvarnished "kitchen cabinet," leverage peer networks like C200, and embrace ambiguity while launching a strategy consultancy in a digital AI world.

In this episode of Nflections, host Linda Coughlin speaks with Tiffany Guarnaccia, founder and CEO of Kite Hill. Tiffany shares her journey from heading communications at the Huffington Post under Arianna Huffington to launching an award-winning integrated communications agency. Discover how she navigated the shift from comms practitioner to CEO, why AI requires human strategic context to avoid "commoditized slop," how to reduce founder dependency, and how to build a supportive workplace culture while maintaining personal family boundaries.