Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Leaders Who Excel at Both People and Problem-Solving 5-8-25
Thu, 08 May 2025
In this episode, Scott Becker highlights exceptional leaders who blend sharp analytical minds with outstanding personal skills.
Chapter 1: What is the focus of this episode on leadership?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Today's discussion is a discussion of great leaders with great personal skills and great analytical abilities. So today's discussion is a shout out to several leaders that could combine these two skill sets in an incredible way. And I'll walk through four of them, plus a couple others.
Chapter 2: Who are some leaders with exceptional personal and analytical skills?
Or these are joining us on a webinar next month on business leadership and business building. And a couple others I'm going to talk about as well that combine these great sets of skills of great analytical abilities with great personal skills. So the first four I'll mention are Amber Walsh, executive committee leader at McGuire Woods, incredible mind to go with incredible personal skills.
Chapter 3: Can you provide examples of leaders in the legal sector?
And in that same vein, put in there, Holly Buckley from McGuire Woods, also a department chair at McGuire Woods, lives at the intersection of healthcare and private equity, amazing ability to have great personal skills and a brilliant analytical mind. The third person I'll mention today, Barry Tanner,
Chapter 4: Who are the leaders from the healthcare and private equity sectors?
Long-term CEO of Physicians Anoscopy, then PHI Solutions, then more recently another company, another company. Just an amazing gift with people with tremendous analytical abilities. Just a great, great combination. The next person I'll put in that category is also joining us on this webinar. Nader Sami, long-term chairman of the board and CEO of Nimble Solutions. Just a brilliant mind.
to go with brilliant personal skills, just an incredible leader. I'll also give a special mention to both Lisa Rock, who was long-term at Nimble, and Kelly Blair, the current CEO, is remarkable at Nimble as well. Finally, I mentioned a couple that are close to home.
One, Greg Miller, an asset manager at Alliance Bernstein, who's got this tremendous gift with people and a tremendous ability to cut to the chase and understand issues almost better than anybody else I know. Finally, I'll mention somebody really close to home, Robert Becker, my son, both a philosophy undergraduate major
and a computer science major, plus a graduate degree in computer science and AI, and the incredible gift to be one of the best listeners and best communicators of anybody that I know. Just an amazing gift, an amazing balance of skills that he has. Again, today's shout-out goes to these great leaders with this great mix of analytical skills. to go with brilliant personal skills.
We've gone through six or seven of them here. Some of my favorite people in the world, some of my favorite leaders. If you have suggestions to add to this podcast, people that you think fit this mold, feel free to always text Scott Becker, 773-766-5322. Thank you so much for listening to the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast.
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