What happens when a former Wall Street banker trades skyscrapers for a garage — and builds a mission-driven investment bank from scratch? In this episode of Leadership Levers, Matt Plooster, Founder & CEO of Bridgepoint Investment Banking, shares the remarkable journey that took him from billion-dollar transactions at Deutsche Bank to launching a boutique firm with a simple belief: people and culture aren’t just part of the business — they ARE the business. Matt’s story is anything but ty...
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What happens when a former Wall Street banker trades skyscrapers for a garage — and builds a mission-driven investment bank from scratch? In this episode of Leadership Levers, Matt Plooster, Founder & CEO of Bridgepoint Investment Banking, shares the remarkable journey that took him from billion-dollar transactions at Deutsche Bank to launching a boutique firm with a simple belief: people and culture aren’t just part of the business — they ARE the business. Matt’s story is anything but ty...
Your Culture Called - It Wants Its Standards Back: Mike Walrod on Accountability & Leadership Drift
Leadership Levers
12 minutes
4 weeks ago
Your Culture Called - It Wants Its Standards Back: Mike Walrod on Accountability & Leadership Drift
What happens when a leader avoids the hard people decisions—and everyone else quietly lowers their standards to match? In this episode of Leadership Levers, Mike Walrod, founder of Incite Business Strategies and longtime fractional integrator of EOS shares why accountability is one of the most powerful cultural signals a leader sends. With over 30 years in operations and executive roles, Mike has seen the same pattern across organizations - people issues ignored at the top become performance ...
Leadership Levers
What happens when a former Wall Street banker trades skyscrapers for a garage — and builds a mission-driven investment bank from scratch? In this episode of Leadership Levers, Matt Plooster, Founder & CEO of Bridgepoint Investment Banking, shares the remarkable journey that took him from billion-dollar transactions at Deutsche Bank to launching a boutique firm with a simple belief: people and culture aren’t just part of the business — they ARE the business. Matt’s story is anything but ty...
