105. Remaining Human while Machines Take Over

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

Technology

5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Chris Savage Business growth specialist, reputation and issues management, positioning, Marketing and Brand Communications, digital growth leader, Public Relations, Asia growth track record, specialist at new business pipeline and pitching, leadership development, inspiring speaker, and Professional Services industry leader. First 24 years of career in public relations, specialising in corporate PR and reputation management. In 10 years moved from intern to ANZ CEO of the then largest PR group in the region. Then lead more broadly as Asia Pacific Vice Chairman. Co-founded a financial PR firm and sold it to Ogilvy PR/WPP/STW. Founding CEO/employee and built Australia’s largest PR group, Ogilvy PR. Then Chief Operating Officer for 7 years of STW Group (now WPP aunz), southern hemisphere’s largest publicly listed marketing content and communications company. Board director/chairman of more than 40 of group’s 75 businesses specialising in digital communications, advertising, design and branding, public relations, government relations and lobbying, sports sponsorship, training, activation, and research. Resigned February 2015 to focus on helping leaders accelerate growth- of businesses, differentiation, momentum, careers.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Dissecting Popular IT Nerds Today, and this is your host, Phil Howard.
0:16.4	I think most people know that.
0:17.3	But today we're talking with Chris Savage.
0:22.7	More of the... We were talking old school. We started out. And, well, first of all, Chris, I'll let you introduce yourself.
0:28.9	What's your, what are you doing nowadays? What are you doing now? Yeah, Chris Savage. I'm currently
0:33.4	vice president of cloud services for a company called Motivworks based out of Maryland.
0:39.4	I'm actually in Texas that gives you kind of the scope of how the cloud is allowing people
0:47.0	to pretty much work anywhere.
0:48.4	Yeah, no one really ever knows where I'm at.
0:50.4	I tell people I'm in Maine.
0:51.6	Sometimes I'm in Washington, D.C.
0:53.9	Other times I'm locked up in jail in Egypt.
0:56.4	That was the only time that I didn't have access to the internet, which was really kind of shocking.
1:02.0	I just assumed I would have access to the internet all the time. And then I got my entire life confiscated from me.
1:07.8	And I don't know. Yeah, people thought I was like had a fake American passport and that I was posing as an
1:12.0	American, really a hidden Turkish guy.
1:14.6	That was interesting.
1:15.2	That story is coming up.
1:16.7	That's going to be a fun episode.
1:18.3	But other than that, we're almost always connected to the grid, so to speak.
1:23.4	And we'll keep going.
1:24.7	Keep going.
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