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
Gloria Salinas runs growth strategy for one of the fastest growing cities in America, and she still says no to projects that don't fit the plan. As Chief Growth Officer for the Frisco Economic Development Corporation, she's helped turn a former farm town into a magnet for Fortune 500 headquarters, 16 corporate R&D centers, and a talent pool wi...
Kathleen Rose has spent 30+ years on both sides of the table: advising municipalities on real estate and economic development, and writing the checks as managing partner on South Main Square in downtown Davidson, North Carolina. She knows which plans lead to action and which ones collect dust. And she'll tell you, even when you'd rather not hear i...
Cornell Wesley left banking for an 88,000-person town in Arkansas, turned a $2 million fund into $30 million of economic activity in 11 months, and got a call from Washington asking how he did it. You'll love his response.
Today he runs Prosper Portland, with a $200 million budget and 11...
Peter Bishop spent years in commercial real estate before crossing over to run economic development for High Point, North Carolina, and it shows. In this conversation he explains how a vacant hosiery mill becomes market-rate apartments, why three rival cities agreed to stop competing against each other on incentives, and how one blend...
Todd Tucker has worked in economic development at three different altitudes: state commerce, utility site selection at Progress Energy, and now leading growth for a county whose tax base just jumped 30% in a single year. That range shows in how he thinks about the job.
David Blaha spent 25 years building relationships at American Express before becoming Chief Revenue Officer at Extend, a virtual card platform banks and fintechs use nationwide. His take: the smartest fintechs don't compete with banks, they arm them.
- How COVID turned virtual cards from a niche fix for interviewees and non-carded employees into an everyday bill pay tool for small and mid-size business...
Damien Denmark became Yukon, Oklahoma's first-ever economic development director in January 2026, He arrived from Olathe, Kansas with one rule: build the relationship before you need the deal.
At only 30 years old, he's already moved a $100 million development through approval in 60 days and built his own incentive tool f...
Your City Is Sick...and More Jobs Isn't the Cure...
Jeff has spent more than two decades helping downtowns recover, first as a Main Street manager running Ohio's statewide program, then as founder of Revitalize or Die and author of Your City is Sick. He joins Teasha to argue that economic development has solved for the wro...
Mandy White, Chief Economic Development Officer for the Greater Jackson, TN Chamber, has spent nearly three decades helping turn Jackson, Tennessee into a manufacturing hub home to 60 to 70 companies, including several Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 brands. In this episode, she breaks down what actually won the region's largest single investment ever...
Not All Growth Is Good Growth: The Case Against Chasing Every Deal
Maurice Harris has sat on both sides of the site selection table: first as a researcher at Greater MSP and Transwestern Real Estate, now as an economic development specialist at JLL working with BNSF on rail expansion across Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Mont...
Kelsi Jackson, executive director of the Jackson County Tourist Development Council in Northwest Florida, built her county's entire visitor strategy around a decades-old customer service story about an extra pickle.
She explains how that mindset turned skeptical gas station clerks and restaurant workers into genuine ...
Coreat Houser directs the City of Birmingham's Department of Innovation and Economic Opportunity, overseeing economic development, workforce development, real estate, and small business support across all 99 city neighborhoods.
In this conversation, he explains why civic education, not just funding, is often the ...
Joi, known as The Joiful Recruiter, is the lead talent acquisition advisor for sales at Dynatrace, president of the Black Employee Network Business Resource Group, and founder of Joiful Talent Solutions.
After a decade in high-volume RPO recruiting and years in enterprise SaaS, she has built a track record that includes a...
Kristen Fish-Peterson has spent over 16 years running Redevelopment Resources, advising cities and developers across the Midwest on tax increment financing, grants, and the deals that bring struggling downtowns back to life.
She has worked both sides of the negotiating table, from City Hall to the developer's pro...
Derrek Lennox is SVP of Corporate Development and CFO at Dougall Media, a managing partner at his own consulting firm, and an adjunct professor of corporate restructuring at York University's Schulich School of Business.
In this episode of the Dynamic Decisions Podcast, he doesn't just talk turnarounds, he hands over the ...
Michael Clark has spent nearly 25 years shaping how fast-growing towns handle growth, and he's built his approach around four clear priorities. As Director of Community and Economic Development for Collierville, Tennessee, he oversees planning, engineering, GIS, and building codes under o...
Cheryl Parks, the self-professed "shyest girl in the room" has closed over $25 million in B2B corporate sales with clients like Wells Fargo and Discover Financial, trained more than 1,000 professionals, and teaches at Sales Gravy University alongside Jeb Blunt.
She joins host Teasha Cable to unpack why the sellers winning...
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...
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...
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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