The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

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Demand Generation

Growth

The emergence of Chief Growth Officers with Will Hicklen of EasyWorkforce

In this conversation with Will Hicklen, Chief Growth Officer of EasyWorkForce, he talks about growth. Today, you’ll hear about the evolving Chief Growth Officer role, Will’s key principles, things that get Will excited about EasyWorkForce, emerging people marketplaces, and the ways that Will keeps himself sane and energized.

Will is a strategic growth specialist, a performance-driven innovator, HR tech expert, leader, and coach. Will holds a BA in Economics from Miami University.

Episode Outline

[01:00] The Chief Growth Officer role

[04:01] Will’s key principles

[09:05] Digital people marketplaces

[12:06] What has Will excited?

[14:16] How does Will keep himself sane?

[17:32] Matt’s inspirational people

Inspirational People

Matt’s dad

Joe Costello

Gary Trainor

Connect with Will

LinkedIn

Website

Twitter

Connect with Matter Made 

LinkedIn (Elias Rubel, CEO, Matter Made)

LinkedIn (Matter Made)

Website

The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

Audio

Demand Generation

Growth

Episode Outline

[04:39] Carol’s background

[07:16] Why people have to make trade offs with what they have available and also what's available in their neighborhoods

[10:13] How to wrap up with analytics as broad topics that might be the most productive

[11:18] The hardest lesson learned in your career thus far

[12:04] When you're small, usually marketing just kind of does whatever it wants

[14:34] Discount marketing and getting disillusioned

[16:35] Who's building their career and perhaps about to enter a big growth stage with the company

[19:22] It’s little easier to go from, serving smaller companies up to larger, as long as you do it with your eyes wide open about what that means

[20:19] Taking a product that's built for really large companies and trying to retrofit it to smaller companies is not easy.

[21:30] How you can assemble a team that has the right qualities



Carol's Inspirations:

Woody Benson


Connect with Carol:

LinkedIn

Twitter

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