Season 2
Dec. 3, 2025
Heroics Are Not a Strategy: Early Signals, Better Bets, Less Chaos
Strategic risk, early signals and decision quality sit at the center of this conversation with Maartje van Krieken as she speaks to leaders who feel risk piling up while their systems stand still. Where does your business fee...
Nov. 26, 2025
IP in Motion: Repurpose, Partner, Rebrand; Create Value
Intellectual property becomes a strategic power tool in this conversation as Michele Baillie reveals how companies can repurpose their inventions, spark high-value collaborations and unlock new growth when markets shift. This...
Nov. 19, 2025
The Banker Who Wrote the Book on Business Momentum
Business momentum becomes far easier to build when you understand the physics behind growth and start seeing your company through a banker’s eyes. This episode breaks down why many entrepreneurs feel busy but stuck and how mo...
Nov. 12, 2025
To AI-ify or Not to AI-ify? That Is the Question
Before you bring AI into your business, ask yourself: are you ready for it, or are you about to automate the chaos you already have? In this episode, Maartje van Krieken breaks down AI readiness through the lens of business t...
Nov. 5, 2025
Scaling Through Experience, Not Just Sales; Disney Magic for B2B
What if your business could create the kind of loyalty people feel for Disney? Maartje van Krieken talks with former Disney leader and customer experience strategist Vance Morris about what truly sets unforgettable brands apa...
Oct. 29, 2025
Ears on the Track: Actionable Measurement for Real Growth
Many leaders rely on goals and KPIs to measure success, yet how often do those numbers reveal what’s actually working? In this episode, Maartje van Krieken talks with Radhika Dutt, the author of Radical Product Thinking: The ...
Oct. 22, 2025
The Cost of Silence: Five Tough Talks Your Business Keeps Dodging
Most businesses don’t crumble from bad strategy but from the hard conversations their leaders never have. Maartje van Krieken takes an honest look at why conflict avoidance shows up in leadership communication and how it quie...
Oct. 15, 2025
Beyond the Books: Diagnostics That Save Companies
When a business starts to stumble, the real problem usually isn’t hidden—it’s just misread. Maartje van Krieken talks with Elisabeth Vealey, founder of Sophius LLC, about how business diagnostics reveal what’s really happenin...
Oct. 8, 2025
Hollywood Flow Hacks for Distributed Teams with Steven Puri
Remote leadership works best when people have the space to enter flow states that spark ideas and move projects forward. In this episode, Maartje van Krieken talks with Academy Award winner and entrepreneur Steven Puri about ...
Oct. 1, 2025
The Value Triage Tool: Prioritize What to Fix First
Business valuation is more than a price tag at exit. It’s a running assessment of your company’s health, credibility, and resilience. Maartje van Krieken shows how valuation can serve as a practical management tool for everyd...
Sept. 24, 2025
When the Quietest Voice Saves the Company
Leadership isn’t always loud, and sometimes the quietest voice in the room is the one that steadies the ship. Maartje van Krieken sits down with Greg Weinger, SVP of Product Management at SheerID and host of The Powerful Intr...
Sept. 17, 2025
Partnering Smarter With Your CFO: Financial Vital Signs
Most business emergencies don’t appear out of nowhere. They build slowly through overlooked financial red flags that leaders often miss until it’s too late. How do you know if your books are truly in order, or if the numbers ...
Sept. 10, 2025
Why Business Exits Fail and How to Protect Hidden Value and Legacy
Most business exits fail not because of flawed numbers but because the hidden value of people, culture, and legacy is overlooked. In this episode, Maartje van Krieken explores why exits are among the most personal and emotion...
Sept. 3, 2025
Quit Answering, Lead Humans, and AI Smarter
Most leaders spend far too much of their day answering questions, and Atiba De Souza believes that habit is holding businesses back. How much more progress could you make if your time went into vision and strategy instead of ...
Aug. 27, 2025
The Revenue CPR Your Business Needs
More leads won’t save your business if your revenue systems, lead quality, and sales pipeline health aren’t working the way they should. Maartje van Krieken talks with Mark Osborne, a fractional chief revenue officer for bout...
Aug. 20, 2025
Smarter Due Diligence in a Fast-Paced World
Most business failures can be traced back to weak or rushed due diligence, and that gap often turns into costly business risk. When the stakes are high, whether you are hiring a key leader, buying a company, or entering new p...
Aug. 13, 2025
Addiction & Leadership Recovery
Entrepreneurial coach and author David J. Greer opens up about the side of success most people never see: the quiet reality of high-functioning leaders living with addiction. Maartje van Krieken talks with David about how he ...
Aug. 6, 2025
Founder’s Fog: When Vision Gets Cloudy
Most startup founders don’t realize they’ve become accidental CEOs until their own success turns into the biggest reason they can’t scale. Maartje van Krieken and Pete Steege discuss the “founder’s fog,” that frustrating plac...
July 30, 2025
Too Late to Triage: From Hype to Liquidation in 4 Years
A startup with cutting-edge tech and global momentum collapsed in under four years because no one stopped to build the structure needed to sustain it. In this episode, Maartje van Krieken reflects on the rise and fall of Hyzo...
July 23, 2025
When Growth Bleeds Cash: A Cautionary Tale from Food & Beverage
Scaling looks like success, until your product hits every shelf and you’re still bleeding cash. In this episode, Maartje van Krieken talks with food and beverage strategist Debbie Wildrick about what really happens when growt...
July 16, 2025
The Anniversary Emergency: CrowdStrike, Continuity & a Giveaway
A single line of flawed code grounded planes, shuttered hospitals, and crashed cash registers… What would your business do if the emergency was already underway? One year after launching this podcast in the middle of real-lif...
July 9, 2025
Why Public Sector Change Is a Masterclass in Complexity
Public sector leaders are quietly mastering the kind of complex, human-centered change most businesses struggle to get right. Maartje van Krieken is joined by Vijay K. Luthra, a former civil servant and transformation strateg...
July 2, 2025
AI FOMO: Stop Watching, Start Winning
AI isn’t some future threat on the horizon. It’s already changing how businesses operate, and the question is whether you’re keeping up or falling behind. In this 50th episode of The Business Emergency Room, Maartje van Kriek...
June 25, 2025
Why Leaders Need a Flight Plan with Peter Brandl
Most leadership failures don’t happen because of bad strategy. They happen because we overlook how human we all are when the pressure’s on. Maartje van Krieken is joined by German author, speaker, and former airline pilot Pet...