Fireside Leadership

Peng shares her amazing story on coming to Canada as a refugee as 1 of 10 siblings; breaking stereotypes to co-found and become CEO of Transformix; why she was considered a "bad Chinese girl"; and how some of her first and best leadership lessons came from a close source: her parents.  Peng-Sang Cau is a dynamic, charismatic, and innovative executive who co-founded Transformix Engineering Inc. and was President and CEO for 21 years. ATS acquired Transformix’s IP in 2018. After spinning off a new company, Nuformex where Peng is Board Chair, she joined ATS as VP of Sales, Emerging Markets and Symphoni™.   Peng also served on a number of boards and committees in Kingston, Ottawa and Toronto. She is an entrepreneur coach with L-Spark, an Accelerator in Ottawa and We-Can with Queen’s University.  Peng is also regular speaker at conferences and has been featured in local and national TV, radio and print media.    Peng’s greatest accomplishment is being a mother to two wonderful teenagers. Her other awards include being named Canada’s Top 19 Tech Titans in 2019 by IBM, OWIT’s Women Exporter of the Year, Kingston Business Hall of Fame inductee, Kingston’s Business Woman of the Year, Queens University’s Jim Bennett Award Recipient, St. Lawrence Honorary Diploma and the Kingston Chamber of Commerce Young Entrepreneur Award.     The highlight of her career was travelling with Prime Minister Harper on two Trade Missions to the Netherlands and China to represent Canada.  Peng and her family came to Canada in 1980 from Cambodia as refugee.  Click below to see the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAkaDFlBPDI&t=7s

Through her diverse experience leading teams in Asia, Europe and in NY,  Darlene shares why effective leadership is about choice and action; the  importance of aspiring leaders to ask for coaching and support; and why she's so excited about ushering in the first female US Vice-president (🙌🙌)  Darlene has spent much of her career internationally, having lived and worked in Western Europe and Asia Pacific as well as New York City, with 20+ years in the research industry.  She managed team of 200+ full time, 50+ part time across multiple offices to triple team retention and engagement to achieve profit and revenue targets. Prior to joining Comscore, she served as Executive Director for Earth Law Center, an environmental non-profit and continues to serve on its board today.   Darlene has had a long-standing commitment to catalyze people’s growth, full self-expression and achieving their dreams. From full time breakthrough consulting to lifelong learning about leadership, this has taken many forms including full time breakthrough consultant, managing large teams, start ups and generating learning and coaching opportunities.  When she’s not training her cat The Dark Knight to be a lap cat (so far unsuccessfully), she volunteers at the New York Common Pantry food pantry and walks a lot so she doesn’t let down the Go Gotham! team in the latest step challenge.  Click below to see the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Ufcu-ZxUY&t=23s

A tech-entrepreneur and start-up mentor, David talks about his journey on how he started Flipp with 4 friends to growing it to 400+ staff; the challenges with building teams and coaching leaders at scale; and reflects on what leadership lessons he's still learning after 20ish years in business.   David Au-Yeung is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in the high-tech industry. David co-founded Flipp Corporation, a retail technology company that exponentially grew to over 450 employees and 60M app downloads.   During his tenure at Flipp, he played a significant role spearheading the culture at Flipp and driving the employer brand to fuel recruiting. David also implemented the company’s first leadership framework to help drive excellence in the company’s coaching model.   As a multi-faceted leader, he also oversaw the Engineering function where his expertise drove innovation in the retail industry to help millions of shoppers to save time and money everyday.   As a current Board member of Flipp, he is actively involved in driving the future vision of the company. David is a passionate mentor to the start-up community and his thought leadership has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Benefits Canada, The Ottawa Citizen and Forbes.  Click below to see the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAB6yptPVVk&t=1085s

Welcome to Fireside Leadership!  A forum hosted by Liza Magcale and Janice Lee  where we chat with leaders about their journey to personal success.  We highlight the leadership lessons that are not found in textbooks.  The soft skills such as communication, critical thinking, decision making and empowerment to name a few.    Meet entrepreneurs, industry leaders and change-makers.  Our guests have interesting stories and come from a variety of backgrounds with a multitude of experience building and leading teams.  They have all achieved a personal level of success within their industry by staying true to course and adjusting to arising challenges.  The goal of this podcast is to enable the listener to challenge existing beliefs.  By that we mean to expose the listener to new ways of thinking and challenge existing beliefs.  We aim to provide an actionable lesson or tool that can be applied immediately.  We hope that you will also be inspired to be your best-self in your leadership journey.  Join us in our fireside chats! Click below to see the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-1CDPm-UjY&t=4s