🎙️ Ep. 726 KeenAlignment | Strengthening Executive Leadership (feat. Margaret Graziano)

For episode 726 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Margaret Graziano. She is a leadership strategist, keynote speaker, and culture transformation expert with over 25 years of experience working with CEOs, founders, and executive teams. A Wall Street Journal and Amazon bestselling author, she previously ranked in the top 3 percent of recruiters nationwide for 15 consecutive years and placed over 10,000 professionals across 500 companies. 

After seeing that most performance issues stem from culture, not hiring, she founded KeenAlignment and created the ResponseAgility framework. Today, she helps organizations eliminate internal friction, strengthen leadership, and build high-performance cultures, and has been featured in Forbes, SHRM, Vistage, and NBC, and has spoken for organizations including Volkswagen.​​Step into the next level of your leadership.

Visit https://margaretgraziano.com/evolve-the-leader-within/ to join Evolve the Leader Within and start building the clarity, confidence, and discipline required to lead under pressure.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction

(2:44) Who is Margaret Graziano?

(4:13) KeenAlignment?

(7:28) What is the ResponseAgility Framework?

(12:48) Difficulties with being introspective

(19:42) Personal vs Corporate use-cases

(20:45) Colleges should teach leadership

(23:55) Red flags to identify

(26:31) Tactics & Tips

(29:10) Sumsub

(29:54) Public Investing

(30:38) Measuring growth

(33:35) KeenAlignment in 2026

(35:05) Website, socials & book

(36:10) How tech is changing inter-company dynamics

(38:30) Timeline on NEW book

🎙 Margaret Graziano Links:

🔗 Website: https://margaretgraziano.com/about/ 

🔗 X: https://x.com/keenmargo 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaretgraziano/ 

🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Margaretgraziano.11/ 

🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/margaret.graziano 

🔗 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@magigrazi 

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