793: Leadership is Changing Mash Up 2025 (ft. Mark Havenner and Patricia Bradley)

What happens when leaders refuse to settle for outdated systems and instead choose bold reinvention?

Hosted by Denis Gianoutsos, this episode of Leadership Is Changing Mashup 2025 features two leaders whose stories highlight resilience, reinvention, and impact beyond titles: Mark Havenner and Patricia Bradley.

Mark Havenner, a communications strategist and former PR executive, shares how disillusionment with outdated corporate systems propelled him to launch his own practice. He explains why bottlenecks cripple organizations, how leaders can dismantle them, and why aligning around values is the only sustainable path forward.

Patricia Bradley, Global Chief Commercial Officer at MindMaze, reveals her eclectic journey from driving UPS trucks in New York City to pioneering in biotech, pharma, and digital health. Drawing on lessons from Wall Street, logistics, and healthcare, she explores what it takes to lead with adaptability, drive impact across industries, and harness the brain’s untapped potential in both medicine and human performance.

Press play and gain powerful lessons on leading with purpose, navigating career transitions with courage, and shaping a vision fit for the future.

EP 350 – Mark Havenner: Breaking Bottlenecks in Leadership

• Transitioning from corporate PR executive to entrepreneur
• Discovering the inefficiency of “corporate bottlenecks”
• Why purpose and alignment matter more than endless meetings
• Helping leaders position themselves in the marketplace with clarity

EP 353 – Patricia Bradley: Reinvention, Resilience, and Neurotech

• From UPS trucks to Wall Street, pharma, and biotech
• The courage to take bold career detours and start over
• Leading teams in pharma, startups, and digital health
• Unlocking the brain’s power through neurotechnology and therapeutics

Key Quotes:

“The corporate structure is just built with a framework of bottlenecks. Everybody’s getting in the way of everybody else, even when the goals are shared.” - Mark Havenner

“You have to decide at some point, even when you’re young, if they don’t let you follow the path you want, you must be bold enough to create your own.” - Patricia Bradley

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