Listening Before Leading w/April Marquez

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Technology, Tech News, Management, News, Business

5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

ON THIS EPISODE ➤ The critical difference between technical expertise and leadership effectiveness ➤ How to recognize when supportive environments become career traps ➤ Strategic lateral movement for long-term career growth ➤ The listening leadership framework that transforms team dynamics ➤ Managing up through business translation of technical concepts ➤ Professional development strategies for small and mid-market IT leaders What happens when technical expertise isn’t enough for leadership success? April Marquez, ERP Implementation Specialist at FNS Fresh Produce, shares her journey from IT manager to strategic career pivot. With experience leading IT departments as a team of one and navigating...

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome back to today's episode of dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:13.4	I'm your host, Doug Kameen, and today I'm talking with April Marquez,
0:16.9	ERP implementation specialist at F&S Fresh Produce.
0:19.9	Welcome to the show, April.
0:21.6	Thank you for having me, Doug.
0:23.6	So, April, it's great to talk to you.
0:25.6	We were just talking, I was sharing a little bit of,
0:27.6	we both work mostly remotely in our current role.
0:32.6	So you're sharing the F&S fresh produce is based in New Jersey,
0:36.6	but you do that.
0:40.4	You don't live in New Jersey, right?
0:42.4	So you live in Texas.
0:44.7	I live in South Texas, yes.
0:47.2	So do you live in, are you in San Antonio?
0:51.0	Yes.
0:51.9	Okay.
0:52.6	Yeah, so I grew up in Austin. Oh, wow. Not too far away. Just as Stone's Throw, actually.
0:59.1	I just up the road a little bit when I was tit. So I spent, I spent basically the 1980s and the part of the early
1:05.5	1990s. Okay. You could have possibly been in what, Dazed and Confused or one of those other movies?
1:11.8	That's right. That's right. Yeah, they filled it. I think they filmed it. Like, right?
1:15.5	It's the last couple of times I was there. So, you know, I think I jokingly discussed, like, I was at Austin.
1:22.3	I lived in Austin or I grew up in Austin during the period that people venerate as the reason why they
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Philip Howard, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Philip Howard and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.