June 13, 2023

Episode 45: Achieving Your Pinnacle in Career Growth with Alexei Dunaway

Today on The Future of Teamwork, host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld speak with Pinnacle’s CEO and founder, Alexei Dunaway. Alexei is an executive coach redefining the career growth conversation with his SaaS platform Pinnacle. Throughout this conversation, Dane and Alexei chat about early-stage startups, setting a foundation for career growth and different coaching frameworks, and how technology is helping teams solve problems by providing the right people with the right development content.

Guest Bio

I’m an experienced start-up executive, strategy consultant, and leadership coach for Seed – Series C founders. I’ve been CEO of an accelerator in Kenya, worked as a VC in one of Mexico’s largest funds, and all told, coached or consulted with over 200 start-ups.

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Recap & Takeaways

[00:11 – 01:48] Meet Alexei Dunaway, executive coach and co-founder and CEO of Pinnacle
[01:51 – 03:11] How Alexei became an executive coach
[03:14 – 04:20] Highlights of coaching early-stage startups
[04:20 – 06:33] Using coaching frameworks and setting the tone for a team
[06:34 – 10:07] Coaching frameworks that have inspired Alexei and that he utilizes
[10:09 – 13:42] Opportunities for interpersonal growth, differences from the past and recent future with COVID
[13:43 – 15:27] Measuring actual behaviors and effectiveness
[15:27 – 18:08] How Pinnacle helps measure progress and aids HR leaders and executives
[18:12 – 19:53] Stretch opportunities and career growth
[19:53 – 25:18] Programmatic ways to pull data on career conversations and incentivize career record-keeping
[25:19 – 29:30] Personifying best practices through technology innovations
[29:30 – 32:47] Learning knowledge attached to problems and serving people the right content
[32:49 – 36:16] Knowledge management and hearing from peers and consultants
[36:17 – 40:25] A peer learning model in an interactive digital environment
[40:30 – 45:56] Predicting the future of Pinnacle in given years and what it looks like for teams to use it