This week, The Entrepreneur Podcast is featuring one of our fellow podcasts from the larger Western ecosystem, Ivey Academy Presents: Leadership in Practice, which discusses critical issues in business, unpacks new research, and talks to industry leaders about the latest trends.

In this episode of Leadership in Practice, I spoke to Ivey HBA ’06 alumni Erik Mikkelsen, who is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Auxo Management LP - one of Canada’s first successful search funds, and the President and Chief Revenue Officer of Stealth Monitoring Inc., a leading North American video monitoring and security company with over 1600 employees.

Mikkelsen shares his journey through entrepreneurship, including the detours within his career where he found new avenues for opportunity.For more information on the Leadership in Practice Podcast, visit: IveyAcademy.com/blog

Melissa Sariffodeen has a number of roles and titles on her profile. One of them is "lifelong student." 

And it’s fitting.

As Co-founder and CEO of Ladies Learning Code and Canada Learning Code, lifelong learning is integral to her founder’s journey. Since 2011, over 700,000 Canadians from all walks of life have had the opportunity to learn critical skills and build up the confidence to become builders - not just consumers - of technology in an increasingly digital world.

In this episode, Sariffodeen joins fellow Ivey alum and Director Internal of Morrissette Entrepreneurship, Deniz Edwards, to share her story and her passion for entrepreneurship, education and technology.

Silicon Valley Legend is a prized descriptor, and few fit the term as well as Guy Kawasaki.

A renowned author, marketing specialist, angel investor, and tech evangelist, Kawasaki has a storied career in the Valley - including a major role at Apple marketing Macintosh computers in the early 1980s.

Today, Kawasaki is the chief evangelist for Canva, the Australian graphic design platform, and the host of his podcast and passion project, Remarkable People, speaking to the likes of Jane Goodall, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Marc Benioff and more.

In this special episode of the Entrepreneur Podcast, Kawasaki joins Eric Janssen to discuss his career, the importance of sales, how to be an effective employee in an early-stage start-up, family and fatherhood.