Dynamic Decisions Podcast

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🎙️ 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

  1. Bad Pattern Recognition is Breaking the Bank

    5D AGO

    Bad Pattern Recognition is Breaking the Bank

    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 that collects data from one that actually learns from it. David has spent nearly 20 years in manufacturing, including time on the floor with tier one and tier two automotive suppliers. He's seen companies burn through a quarter million dollars a day in scrap while consultants delivered beautiful charts that solved nothing. His answer was to build something different: an AI-native quality platform that traces defects back to root cause automatically, learns from every lesson, and pushes decisions to operators before problems compound. In this conversation, Teasha and David explore: Why pattern recognition, not data volume, is the real differentiator for smart manufacturersHow David's "quality gates" approach stopped a failing production line that 70 quality alerts couldn't fixThe difference between pulling information reactively and building a system that pushes decisions to youHow to bring veteran operators along when AI sees something their gut doesn'tThe human cost of defects: what a single bad shift can do to a family, not just a balance sheet David's core argument is that AI doesn't replace judgment. It exposes what money and people have been quietly covering up. And once you see it, you can't unsee it. If you're leading operations, designing automation projects, or trying to move from reactive firefighting to proactive intelligence, this one's for you.

    26 min
  2. The Domain Experts are Winning the AI Race

    MAY 5

    The Domain Experts are Winning the AI Race

    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 companies in 8 to 24 weeks across biotech, health tech, cybersecurity, and fintech. He has spent over a decade building revenue from scratch at venture-backed companies, setting records at SLI Systems and SnapLogic, and advising and investing across the ecosystem. In this episode of Dynamic Decisions, Teasha Cable sits down with Hans to unpack what's actually working in applied AI right now, and what's just noise. Topics covered: Why AI founders almost always price their products too low, and how outcome-based pricing changes the math entirelyThe Prometheus model: how The Agentic lets domain experts keep their equity and IP while handling engineering, sales, billing, and contractsWhy accuracy is non-negotiable in regulated industries, and what it really means when an agent makes an error at machine speedThe hidden reason most AI proof-of-concepts never become paying clients: stakeholder managementHans's contrarian thesis, decoupling reasoning from the frontier models so companies own their intelligence, not OpenAI or Anthropic If you're a business leader trying to figure out where AI actually fits in your organization, this conversation will give you a sharper lens for cutting through the hype.

    35 min
  3. Clarity Is a Choice

    APR 30

    Clarity Is a Choice

    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 where AI actually helps and where it quietly makes things worse. Having spent nearly eight years building decision intelligence at JP Morgan Chase, Gregory now applies those lessons inside one of the world's largest hospitality companies.   In this conversation, Teasha and Gregory dig into:   Why "more horsepower" AI often obscures the right answer instead of surfacing it The McKinsey situation-complication-resolution framework and how it helps leaders cut complexity without losing the truth How IHG builds DI systems that serve thousands of franchise owners globally without steamrolling the context of a single property manager in Bangkok or Birmingham The case for LLMs as thinking partners and Python as the test and why those two tools belong in different hands at different moments Decision Compute: a simulated boardroom tool designed to give any CEO access to the kind of structured, multi-perspective decision support that currently only exists inside billion-dollar consulting engagements Why AI adoption stalls even when the tool is excellent and what the change management piece actually looks like at scale   Gregory closes with a challenge to leaders drowning in dashboards: identify the three most important things you need to deliver, and filter every signal through that lens. That's not a data strategy. That's focus.   #DecisionIntelligence #AI #Leadership

    31 min
  4. Through the Lens of People, Place, and Generational Prosperity

    APR 28

    Through the Lens of People, Place, and Generational Prosperity

    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 regional economic strategy, industry cluster analysis, food systems as an economic driver, and Brownfields revitalization. He also teaches economic development at the University of Central Florida and has chaired Orange County's Citizens Review Panel, evaluating over 350 nonprofit funding applications under real scarcity. In this conversation, Teasha and Luis dig into: How to build momentum on 10-year projects when your political coalition may not survive the next electionWhy Luis refuses to let his work live or die by the political cycle, and the independence that makes it possibleThe "360 approach" to economic decision-making: evaluating every initiative through the lens of people, place, and long-term prosperityHow a small city near the Space Center accidentally revealed a niche cooling technology cluster that nobody had a name for yetThe gap between the 1990s recruitment playbook that still dominates EDO strategy and the community wealth-building approach that actually moves the needleWhy data earns you a seat at the table, but judgment is what you do once you're there This episode is essential listening for economic development professionals, regional planners, and anyone navigating long-horizon work inside short-cycle institutions.

    41 min
  5. What happens between the dashboard and the decision?

    APR 14

    What happens between the dashboard and the decision?

    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.  He also shares his Decision Intelligence Reference Model, why AI accelerates broken patterns just as fast as good ones, and the difference between repeatable decisions (which need a design) and ad hoc ones (which don't). His book, From Dashboards to Decisions, is available on Amazon now.

    28 min
  6. The Leader Humanity Needs

    APR 6

    The Leader Humanity Needs

    The Leader Humanity Needs What does it really mean to lead? In this episode, Teasha sits down with Dr. Daniel Tataje, a Peruvian-born dentist turned CEO, and author of The Leader Humanity Needs. Dr. Daniel built his Seven Marks of Leadership Framework not in a business school, but in the trenches of scaling a dental group from 4 employees to 140 families across 17 acquisitions. This is not a conversation about KPIs or quarterly targets. It's about what happens when your values meet real pressure: letting go of your highest-producing employee because they weren't aligned, and trusting that doing the right thing is the right strategy. Dr. Daniel makes a compelling case that authentic leadership isn't a tool you pick up to get results. It's who you become. And who you become is the result. If you've ever felt the tension between character and convenience, tune in for some valuable wisdom nuggets. cmodel.io Mercy Dental Group

    31 min
  7. You Can't Dance to a Roadmap

    MAR 30

    You Can't Dance to a Roadmap

    You Can't Dance to a Roadmap What happens when design thinking leads product development instead of engineering? Ismael Larrosa, founder and CEO of Capicua, built one of Latin America's fastest-growing product companies on exactly that premise. In this episode, we get into product drift, what it is, why it's quietly killing companies, and how Ismael's proprietary ShipClarity framework turns scattered features and competing pressures back into a coherent product. We also dig into the real tension between investor demands, customer requests, and protecting what makes your product worth building in the first place. Boom. This one's for every founder who's three years in and can't quite articulate what makes them different anymore. CModel.ioCapicua.com

    36 min
  8. How Do You Sell to Skeptics?

    MAR 12

    How Do You Sell to Skeptics?

    Empathy SellsWhat does a biochemist-turned-marketing strategist know about selling to people who are trained to poke holes in everything? A lot, it turns out. In this episode, Teasha Cable sits down with Hamid Ghanadan, founder and CEO of The Linus Group, who has spent 30 years cracking the code on marketing and sales to scientists, doctors, and engineers. His counterintuitive insight: dumping more data on skeptical buyers doesn't persuade them it actually widens the gap. The real key? Empathy. And its close cousin, curiosity. Hamid breaks down why the flip side of skepticism is curiosity, and how skilled marketers can guide technical buyers from guarded to genuinely engaged without ever forcing the conclusion. He also explains why values, not data, sit at the core of every real decision, and why "data-heavy" strategies are often working against you. Whether you're launching a life science product, pitching investors, or simply trying to move a stubborn stakeholder, this episode will reshape how you think about influence. https://www.cmodel.io https://www.thelinusgroup.com

    30 min
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🎙️ 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

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