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Jun 2026

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The Uncaged Show celebrates thought leadership from today's top business leaders. The program provides a voice to amazing executives from around the globe who are shaping the world of business today and mapping the path to the world of commerce tomorrow.

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June 16, 202617 min

From Ordinary to Extra-ordinary: Unlocking Leadership Potential | UNCAGED With Pattie Dale Tye

Pattie Dale Tye is a C-suite executive, Forbes author, keynote speaker, and executive leadership coach with nearly four decades of experience leading organizations through transformation, regulation, and growth. Tye brings more than 30 years of P&L leadership across public, private, startup, and turnaround environments, with deep expertise in healthcare, insurance, digital wellness, telemedicine, telecommunications, and finance. She is known for building businesses to scale and course-correcting complex organizations operating under regulatory and market pressure. Her executive career includes senior leadership roles at AT&T and Humana. A defining strength of Tye’s leadership is guiding organizations through regulatory change, including the Affordable Care Act, Medicare Modernization, and the Telecommunications Consumer Protection Act. She also worked in tandem with the CDC to advance Medicare and Medicaid regulatory initiatives for Humana members. By leveraging telemedicine, digital wellness platforms, in-home monitoring, and new operating models, Tye has helped organizations successfully adapt to industry disruption. Today, she focuses on keynote speaking, executive coaching, and advisory work, engaging with corporate leaders, boards, universities, and colleges on executive leadership, business transformation, and leading through complexity

June 15, 202614 min

Building Bridges: Civility and Leadership in Today's Polarized World | UNCAGED With Carolyn Zasada

Carolyn Zasada is the Executive Director of the Institute for Civility.Carolyn is an executive leader, experienced in developing initiatives and programs to create more secure futures through effective public policy. She has had diverse roles, including public office, political campaigns, entrepreneurship, real estate, philanthropy, and military service.She is also an influential connector who builds engagement through effective outreach and messaging. Calm navigator through high intensity situations; she forms key messaging points and responds with thoughtful responses to potentially negative situations through positive communication. Carolyn creates engaging team cultures; optimizes performance through functional decision making processes and efficiencies.

June 15, 202621 min

Bridging the Sales Proficiency Gap with AI | UNCAGED With Tim Robertson

Tim is the Sales Performance Strategist for Leadership Teams at Strategic Selling Solutions.He helps CROs, PE-backed firms, and enterprise sales leaders increase win probability on critical enterprise deals. Through the Enterprise Deal Operating System, Tim brings structure, clarity and commercial focus to the deals that matter most, helping teams think more strategically, align more effectively and execute with greater confidence under pressure.Over the last 25+ years, he has worked inside hundreds of deal reviews across telecoms, technology, medical sales, professional services and complex enterprise environments. Tim has trained and supported thousands of salespeople, sales managers and senior leaders, seeing first-hand what separates deals that are won from those that quietly drift, stall or get lost.

June 15, 202621 min

Unlocking Team Potential: The Power of Culture and Connection with Etienne LeGrand

Etienne works with leaders to build organizations where people understand the goal, know their role, and are supported to perform at a high level. When that alignment is there, performance follows.Her work focuses on leadership, culture, and talent, and how those actually show up day to day inside an organization. It’s not about ideas on paper. It’s about how people experience their work and what that produces.Etienne has worked across business, nonprofit, healthcare, education, and financial services. Early in her career, her focus was straightforward: maximizing return and driving performance. That experience shaped how she thinks about organizations today. Results matter, but how people come together to achieve them is what determines whether they last.Across every role, the throughline has been the same: building organizations that work better for the people in them and perform at a higher level because of it.She is also a writer and speaker, with work published in the Washington Post, Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Brookings. A lot of her thinking comes from real-world leadership and often pulls from sports and other high-performing environments.

June 15, 202618 min

How BairesDev Is Transforming Software Outsourcing | UNCAGED With Paul Quintal

Paul Quintal is the Principal of Client Solutions at BairesDev.Working for information technology companies his entire career, Paul has seen hundreds of projects falter or fail because of one problem: too many software development projects and too few resources. CTOs, CFOs and CIOs can't staff up with FTEs for projects only to de employ those teams at project completion. He's working with BairesDev to solve this problem for mid-market and Fortune 500 companies. BairesDev exists to provide tailored software solutions, AI development, and end to end technical outsourcing to clients that include Adobe, Google Johnson & Johnson, BBVA and Rolls-Royce.

June 15, 202618 min

The Future of Polyolefins in Healthcare and Sustainability with Jose Luis Chavez

Jose Luis Chavez is a global commercial leader with over 25 years of experience driving profitable growth, strategic account development, and market expansion across the Americas in the polymers industry, with a strong focus on healthcare and medical applications.Currently, Jose is Business Development Manager & Sales Manager at Borouge International, a global market leader in polyolefins. He specializes in identifying and executing high-value opportunities in regulated markets, bridging technical expertise with commercial strategy to deliver scalable business results.Throughout his career, Jose has driven multimillion-dollar revenue growth by developing and executing strategic opportunities in healthcare and biopharma polymer applications. He has expanded and strengthened key global accounts, increasing share of wallet and building long-term partnerships with leading medical and life sciences companies, and accelerated adoption of high-performance polyolefin solutions by aligning R&D, regulatory, and commercial teams to meet complex customer requirements. Jose’s experience spans business development, sales leadership, and technical support, allowing him to operate effectively across the full value chain—from opportunity identification to execution and long-term account growth.With a global mindset and a strong track record in multicultural environments, Jose brings a pragmatic, results-driven approach to building sustainable and profitable businesses.Jose holds a MBA from Utel Universidad. He is currently undertaking a MIT xPRO leadership program in medical technology & AI at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

June 12, 202622 min

Revolutionizing EV Charging: Community Solutions by RoadToEV with Neeraj Garg

Neeraj is the Founder of RoadToEV, a platform focused on improving access to EV charging.The idea came from his own experience as an EV owner. Charging is still something you have to think about constantly, where to go, whether a charger will be available, how long it will take. In colder climates, those challenges become even more noticeable.RoadToEV is built around a simple observation. Many home chargers sit unused for most of the day, while drivers continue to depend on a limited number of public options. The goal is to make better use of existing infrastructure by connecting private and public charging in a more practical way.Neeraj's background is in software architecture, and he approaches this space from a systems perspective. The focus is on solving real problems, building something that works in everyday conditions, and improving it over time based on how people actually use it.The platform is live across the U.S. and Canada and continues to evolve as the market grows.

June 9, 202617 min

The Future of Investing: Diversification, Inflation, and Tech Trends with Alex Shahidi

Alex Shahidi is a Senior Managing Director and Co-Chief Investment Officer at Evoke, a division of MAI, where he specializes in managing multibillion-dollar portfolios for institutional clients and ultra-high-net-worth families. With over 25 years of experience, Alex has established himself as a leading authority on balanced asset allocation and risk parity strategies designed to perform across all market environments.Throughout his career, Alex has been at the forefront of investment innovation. He co-founded ARIS in 2014 and was one of the architects behind the launch of the RPAR Risk Parity ETF, which has grown into one of the largest alternative ETFs in the United States. Following the merger of ARIS and Evoke Advisors—ranked the #1 RIA in America by Forbes (2022–2025)—Alex continued to drive investment strategy as Co-CIO before Evoke merged with MAI Capital Management in 2025.

June 9, 202615 min

The Human Side of AI: Leadership in the Age of Machines with Ashish Bisaria

Thirty years. Six industries. Seven countries. One operating philosophy.Ashish Bisaria started at KPMG. Eight years in Big Four consulting across five continents gave him something more valuable than technical skill... pattern recognition. The ability to walk into a new industry, a new culture, a new crisis, and see what actually matters.Telecoms. Automotive. BPO. Healthcare. AI. Each industry different on the surface. The same fundamentals underneath.

June 9, 202618 min

The Future of Travel: Trends and Tips from Spear Travel | UNCAGED With Ryan Spear

Ryan Spear founded Spear Travel Group in 2017 in order to bring his exemplary hospitality experiences to best serve his clients. For over 25 years, Spear has provided luxury service to the world’s most discerning guests. Working at 5 Star hotels, he has interacted with royals, celebrities and the most demanding of clientele. Spear brings all of this knowledge and experience to serve his clients to find the best travel accommodations for their needs. With a team of 10 advisors, Spear Travel Group provides personalized service for leisure clients, weddings, group business events, and corporate travel management.Spear graduated from The Pennsylvania State University’s School of Hospitality Management. He currently serves as Chairman of the school’s alumni group - The Penn State Hotel and Restaurant Society. Since graduation, he has worked in New York City at several hotels including two Ritz-Carlton Hotels, where he learned how to provide the industry’s best service. Spear was awarded the company’s highest sales award two years in a row during his tenure. He maintains fantastic industry relations with major hotel companies and travel partners around the world.