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Tulsa’s tech community is connecting health care and data analytics entrepreneurs to capital

Part 4: The focus on tech startups in in-demand industries is attracting new businesses
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What does it take to reinvent a community, revive a local economy, and reinvigorate a workforce? In this five-part Work in Progress podcast series – Destination Tulsa: Tech Hub in the Heartland – we look at how Tulsa, Oklahoma, is embracing in-demand tech industries to do just that. At the heart of the effort is a strong foundation of education, entrepreneurship, health care tech, energy tech, and cybersecurity.

Startups are thriving in Tulsa, thanks to a concerted effort to incubate promising entrepreneurial ideas. In this fourth episode of Destination Tulsa: Tech Hub in the Heartland, we look at two key areas of economic growth in the town health care and data analytics. The Tulsa tech community likes to say big things require a shared vision and collective action. It’s evident in how industry leaders and venture funders are coming together to create initiatives that are supporting groundbreaking technology creating better health outcomes, not just in Tulsa but around the country. That same financial support is building new data analytics firms, one of which is on a mission to change the way that data is used when it comes to privacy issues.

In this episode, you’ll hear from:

  • William Booker, chief technology officer, Babel Analytics on how the Tulsa tech infrastructure helped support their nascent health care tech company, which is now helping detect rare eye diseases in children
  • Shawna Khouri, virtual health manager, Tulsa Innovation Labs on the Canopy consortium that is closing the gap between academic research and business opportunities
  • William Paiva, managing partner, Oklahoma Life Sciences Fund on the surge of venture funding for health care entrepreneurs
  • Chase Curtiss, founder and CEO, Sway Medical on the intersection of health care and data analytics
  • Aaron Bean, managing partner, Asemio on a Tulsa-based social app designed to provide data to government and nonprofits without violating the privacy of the user

You can listen to the full conversation here, or look for the Work in Progress podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

Destination Tulsa: Tech Hub in the Heartland is made possible by the support of Tulsa Innovation Labs.

Episode 222: Destination Tulsa – Health Care and Data Analytics
Host & Executive Producer: Ramona Schindelheim, Editor-in-Chief, WorkingNation
Producer: Larry Buhl
Executive Producers: Joan Lynch and Melissa Panzer
Theme Music: Composed by Lee Rosevere and licensed under CC by 4.0
Music for Destination Tulsa series: From Bensound.com
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Dana Beth Ardi

Executive Committee

Dana Beth Ardi, PhD, Executive Committee, is a thought leader and expert in the fields of executive search, talent management, organizational design, assessment, leadership and coaching. As an innovator in the human capital movement, Ardi creates enhanced value in companies by matching the most sought after talent with the best opportunities. Ardi coaches boards and investors on the art and science of building high caliber management teams. She provides them with the necessary skills to seek out and attract top-level management, to design the ideal organizational architectures and to deploy people against strategy. Ardi unearths the way a business works and the most effective way for people to work in them.

Ardi is an experienced business executive and senior consultant who leverages business organizational transformation through talent strategies. She uses her knowledge and experience to develop talent strategies to enhance revenue and profit contributions. She has a deep expertise in change management and organizational effectiveness and has designed and built high performance cultures. Ardi has significant experience in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, IPO’s and turnarounds.

Ardi is an expert on the multi-generational workforce. She understands the four intersecting generations of workers coming together in contemporary companies, each with their own mindsets, leadership and communications styles, values and motivations. Ardi is sought after to assist companies manage and thrive by bringing the generations together. Her book, Fall of the Alphas: How Beta Leaders Win Through Connection, Collaboration and Influence, will be published by St. Martin’s Press. The book reflects Ardi’s deep expertise in understanding organizations and our changing society. It focuses on building a winning culture, how companies must grow and evolve, and how talent influences and shapes communities of work. This is what she has coined “Corporate Anthropology.” It is a playbook on how modern companies must meet challenges – culturally, globally, digitally, across genders and generations.

Ardi is currently the Managing Director and Founder of Corporate Anthropology Advisors, LLC, a consulting company that provides human capital advisory and innovative solutions to companies building value through people. Corporate Anthropology works with organizations, their cultures, the way they grow and develop, and the people who are responsible for forming their communities of work.

Prior to her position at Corporate Anthropology Advisors, Ardi served as a Partner/Managing Director at the private equity firms CCMP Capital and JPMorgan Partners. She was a partner at Flatiron Partners, a venture capital firm working with early state companies where she pioneered the human capital role within an investment portfolio.

Ardi holds a BS from the State University of New York at Buffalo as well as a Masters degree and PhD from Boston College. She started her career as professor at the Graduate Center at Fordham University in New York.