272- From Zero Defects to Global Teams: Nick Bialaszewski’s Journey in IT Leadership

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

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🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Nick Bialaszewski Nick Bialaszewski is an experienced IT leader with a passion for building high-performing teams. Currently, he serves as an operating partner at Orchid Black, a consultancy firm, and VP of Engineering at Restore for Retail, a retail tech software company. Nick’s background as a software engineer and his expertise in lean methodologies inform his leadership approach, which emphasizes collaboration, quality, and team well-being. From Zero Defects to Global Teams: Nick Bialaszewski’s Journey in IT Leadership In this episode of Dissecting Popular IT Nerds, Doug Camin sits down with Nick Bialaszewski, an Operating Partner at Orchid Black and VP of Engineering at Restore for Retail, to explore the nuances of leadership in the IT space. Nick shares his personal journey, highlighting early mistakes and pivotal moments that shaped his leadership philosophy. He emphasizes the importance of leading with empathy, fostering collaboration, and prioritizing team well-being over technical prowess alone. This episode offers valuable insights for IT executives and decision-makers seeking to build high-performing teams and navigate the ever-changing landscape of technology.

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0:00.0	Welcome back, everyone to dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:09.5	I'm your host, Doug Kameen, and today I'm talking with Nick Bialyshevsky, who is an operating partner at Orchid Black.
0:16.0	Welcome to the show, Nick.
0:18.0	Thanks, Doug.
0:19.0	Great to have you here.
0:20.0	So, like, leading into this, of course, right before we get on, Nick. Thanks, Doug. Great to have you here. You know, so like leading into this,
0:22.5	of course, right before we get on, you've got, you've got, I mean, it's a great Polish name,
0:26.7	but it is a bear to pronounce, right? So like, I had to sit, I just sit and practice to make
0:33.8	sure that I got it right. How did I do this time? You did great. And I coached you through it.
0:38.9	It's the same role I've been doing since kindergarten.
0:41.3	That's right.
0:41.6	You know, my name is my last name.
0:44.5	I'm Kameen, but everybody wants to pronounce my name is Kamen as well.
0:47.9	So, you know, like, you and I are in the same, a similar although yours is yours is uh taking the cake for for a complexity
0:55.5	um for awesome complexity so so nick you're doing you've been in a lot of different roles over
1:05.1	the years um and just for the listeners out here on the podcast i'm gonna i'm gonna give a little bit
1:10.3	inside baseball nick and i know each other so, we've worked together in, in a couple of
1:15.1	different roles, you know, doing some projects. So, so I'm, I have a little bit inside baseball
1:21.8	to know a little bit more about Nick's background than maybe the average guest we have on
1:25.5	this podcast. But you really specialize
1:30.1	and you love doing work in like lean work really. And so can you tell us a little bit about
1:38.1	like the work you're doing and where you're kind of doing leadership in that space right now?
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