Ep. 40 - YPO President & COO, Sean Magennis

Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Management, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.9 • 224 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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When entering a new initiative, everyone wonders whether itâ€™s going to be a good initiative or not. Sean Magennis has been playing this kind of role where heâ€™s primarily involved in running nonprofits or businesses other than his own for a long time. Sean Magennis is the President and COO of YPO, a global community […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to Second in Command, brought to you by COO Alliance, where top-level
0:07.3	COOs share their insights, tactics, and strategies that made them the chief behind the chief. And now, here and now here's your host, Cameron Herald.
0:15.0	Sean Majest is the chief.
0:17.0	Sean Majenis is the president and chief operating officer of YPO, the Young Presidents
0:26.4	Organization. YPO is a global community of chief executives dedicated to becoming better
0:31.3	leaders through lifelong learning and idea exchange.
0:34.3	He began his business career in management in South Africa with Farm Ag Limited and Dow
0:39.6	limited, now one of the country's largest producers of agricultural chemicals.
0:44.4	After moving to Canada in 1990 he founded an organizational development consulting
0:48.9	and human resources business, as well as an executive search business with grew to encompass operations in Canada, the USA and Mexico serving thousands of clients.
0:59.0	Seen as the past international, or sorry Sean is the past international chairman of the entrepreneurs
1:04.5	organization EEO and he played a key role in EEO's North American and global
1:09.3	expansion for over 16 years he's also been a goodwill ambassador in discussions with various
1:14.4	government agencies including the State Department. It's also an active member and
1:18.3	past chair of the YPO Dallas chapter and Sean and I were on a global committee, gosh a long time ago, probably 20 years ago now for EO on a forum.
1:29.6	So Sean, welcome to the Second and Command Podcast.
1:32.4	Thanks very much Cameron.
1:33.0	Great to be here with you.
1:35.0	Yeah, it's interesting.
1:36.0	You were chairing this forum committee for EEO
1:40.0	and we were sitting down and debating.
1:42.0	I remember at the time, I think we were sitting down and debating.
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