Dynamic Decisions Podcast

Dynamic Decisions Podcast

🎙️ Welcome to Dynamic Decisions – where the best decisions start with great conversations. Hosted by Teasha Cable, CEO of CModel, this show dives into the stories, strategies, and decisions behind some of the most innovative leaders in business today. Each episode, we sit down with visionaries who are leveraging data to rethink the status quo, solve complex challenges, and create lasting impact in their fields. Tune in to discover how top leaders are using data to transform their businesses—and how you can too. Learn more: cmodel.io

Episodes

July 22, 2026 • 41 mins

Dorothy "Dot" George, Small Business Relationship Coordinator for the City of Birmingham, brings a rare mix of urban planning, tech project management, and twelve years running her own marketing firm to the job of connecting entrepreneurs with resources. She breaks down what cities can and can't do for small businesses, and why regional cooperatio...

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Sarina Pilaroscia didn't set out to build a skincare company. She set out to fix something for her father. He had lived with severe psoriasis for decades. While looking through her dad's medicines, she noticed a flammable warning label on a steroid foam. Whatever he was putti...

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July 17, 2026 • 42 mins

Abraham Salinas, Economic Development Manager for the City of Pleasanton, California, built his career in the unglamorous work of turning zoning and code into real investment. From reviving an abandoned commercial corridor in Brentwood, CA., to positioning one of the Bay Area's strongest office marketsfor what comes after the AI...

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Dallas Snow has sat on every side of the commercial real estate table: sixteen years running operations at Jones Commercial Interiors, then advising Fortune 500 companies on their office footprints at PDR, and now recruiti...

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Dr. Lorien Pratt didn't just watch the AI revolution happen, she helped build it. In the early 1990s, as a computer science professor, she invented transfer learning, the technique now running underneath every large language model and computer vision system in use today. Then she walked away from pure machine learning to found an entirely new disc...

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Dr. Bernadette Howlett has spent her career at the intersection most people don't think about: where data science, machine learning, and human-centered education meet. 


As Operations Analytics and Experiential Product Director at Western Governors University, she leads a team using predictive modeling and decision...

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June 22, 2026 • 33 mins

Lexington, Massachusetts is the birthplace of American Liberty and home to nearly three million square feet of life sciences space a sector now decentralizing and forcing a hard rethink of the town's economic future.


Sandhya Iyer, Tourism and Economic Development Director, joins host Teasha Cable to talk about le...

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Jason Jackson has spent more than two decades walking into companies that have built something real and then gotten stuck. As founder and operating partner at Redwood Ridge Strategies, he specializes in diagnosing the operational constraints that prevent growth-stage SaaS companies from scaling past product-market fit. And more often than not, the...

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Ryan Baird is third-generation Silicon Valley. His grandfather held patents with Lockheed. His parents retired from HP.  And Ryan spent his career managing $50M+ clients at Morgan Stanley, running a hedge fund, raising $35M for his own startup in Southeast Asia, and eventually building Baird Augustine an investment bank working with 38 famil...

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What happens when you combine servant leadership with a hard-charging startup mentality? 


Serial entrepreneur David Guttman shares his formula for doubling revenue in 90 days by putting people first. 


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Most economic development wins are measured in ribbon cuttings. Jeremy Stratton measures them in decades.


In this episode of the Dynamic Decisions Podcast, host Teasha Cable sits down with Jeremy Stratton, Director of Economic Development for the City of Griffin, Georgia. With nearly 30 years spanning municipal governm...

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Sean Greenhouse didn't come from manufacturing. He came from debt collections. And that unconventional path is exactly why Lenita Design and Manufacturing is still standing today.


Sean is the Chief Operating Officer at Lenita Design and Manufacturing Corporation in Buffalo, New York a company that fabricates complex, ...

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Most rural communities have a comprehensive plan. Very few have one that changes anything.

John Shepard, AICP, has spent 30 years in planning and economic development across the Midwest and Mountain States, and he has seen more plans collect dust than he cares to count. 

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What if the secret to building a thriving tech economy wasn't tax incentives or recruiting big companies... but growing your own?


Brit Fontenot has guided Bozeman, Montana through nearly two decades of explosive growth, a housing crisis, a fiber optic revolutio...

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May 18, 2026 • 36 mins

What does it look like when a city stops being a bureaucratic wall and starts being a growth partner? Samantha Mlot, Economic Development Advocate for the City of Bloomington, Illinois, is building exactly that model.


Bloomington is growing faster than it ever has, and Samantha is at the center of it, serving as the si...

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Most manufacturers aren't short on data. They're short on understanding. In this episode, Teasha Cable sits down with David Craig, industrial engineer, systems architect, AI practitioner, and founder of Eminence Consulting and Prodigy IQ Technologies, to dig into why 70% of industrial AI pilots never reach production and what separates a plant tha...

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Most AI companies are building the same thing for every industry. Hans Sandhu thinks that's the losing strategy, and he has the data to prove it.


Hans Sandhu is the Chief Business Officer of The Agentic, a hardcore tech company that helps domain experts, not fresh-faced founders, launch production-ready vertical AI com...

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April 30, 2026 • 31 mins

What happens when the real problem isn't your data it's your decision-making architecture?

Gregory Bartolomei, Director of Decision Intelligence at IHG Hotels and Resorts, brings a rare combination of enterprise scale, analytical rigor, and hard-won wisdom about w...

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What does it take to drive economic strategy for an entire region when you have no enforcement authority, 35 committee members with competing interests, and a political landscape that reshuffles every two years? Luis Nieves-Ruiz has been doing exactly that for over a decade.

Luis is the Director of Economic Development for the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council (Council of Governments) in Orlando. His work spans r...
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    What happens between the dashboard and the decision? That gap is exactly where Dushan Chathuranga Basnayaka has spent his career. 
    A data intelligence practitioner based in Sri Lanka, Dushan joins Teasha to unpack the seven gaps that keep organizations from turning data into actionincluding "decision fragmentation," the reason your teams are debating numbers instead of acting on them. 
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