The Inside Leadership Podcast Series introduces this generation's "self made leaders" to the next. The podcast series features successful business leaders who have used education, innovation, and collaboration to succeed in life. Leaders are interviewed by Larry Stybel, Executive in Residence at the Sawyer Business School before a student audience. For more information about the series, please contact: Larry Stybel, by telephone to 617.619.4958 or by email to: lstybel@suffolk.edu.

2012-2013 Leaders:

Susan McCuaig: Susan immigrated to the US and became vice president of information technology and then vice president of human resources for some of the world's leading companies while raising two children.

David Hartstein: David was a former a tank commander in Israel. In 1982, he moved to the US and worked as an Israeli consulate in Boston when he was just 26 years old. Today, he is the founder and CEO of Kabloom.

2011-2012 Leaders:

Juan Lopera: Juan’s family fled drug-related violence in Columbia, and he later became a national figure in healthcare.

Inez Stewart: A single mother from Puerto Rico, Inez became a vice president for one of the world’s leading healthcare systems.

Sushil Bhatia: Inventor of Glue Stick and CEO of a manufacturing company, Sushil arrived in the US with just $40.

Poonam Ahluwalia: Poonam started working in the US as a housecleaner. Today she's the CEO of a nonprofit that teaches young people how to become entrepreneurs.

Ellen Zane: Ellen intitially aspired to become a speech therapist, but she ended up becoming CEO of Tufts Medical Center, where she revitalized the healthcare system. She is also on the Board of Directors of Parexel.

Chris Litterio: Chris grew up in a blue-collar family, and went on to become a managing partner at a major law firm.

2010-2011 Leaders:

Wildolfo Arvelo: Puerto Rican teenager trapped in Spanish Harlem and surrounded by illicit drugs: how did he escape to become a college president?

Terry Connor: Vice President or IT for a national insurance company was raised by a coal mining family.

Cleve L. Killingsworth: Black child living in a large family and a small apartment in South Side, Chicago. He grew up in a world of “low expectations for black men” and ended up as a CEO of a major health insurance company and on the Board of Directors of MITRE.

John McCoy: Appalachia to Hollywood: Children’s television producer was raised in the Coal Mining Region of America.

Maryanne Peabody: Mother dies at age 14; she has to take care of her father; no resources for college. She ends up as CEO of a global firm that does retained search for Boards of Directors.

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