Coffee with a T-bird hosted by Alex Rozenfeld
Grab a cup of coffee and join Alex Rozenfeld, Thunderbird alum and founder of Freshwater Investments, as he sits down with fellow T-bird graduates who are making an impact in business, leadership, and entrepreneurship. Each episode features open and insightful conversations that explore the pivotal moments, personal motivations, and lessons learned on their journeys.
From building companies across continents to leading global teams, these stories highlight the drive and mindset behind success. Whether you're a student, alum, or someone passionate about business and personal growth, you'll walk away with fresh ideas and real-world perspective.
This is more than a podcast—it’s a platform for connection, storytelling, and celebrating the global spirit of Thunderbird.
This podcast is sponsored by www.freshwaterinvestments.com
Coffee with a T-bird hosted by Alex Rozenfeld
How to Sell Your Company to Walmart: Insights from Bill Goodwin
In this conversation, Bill Goodwin shares his extensive experience in leadership and business transformation, discussing his journey from a young worker in various jobs to becoming a CEO and eventually a leadership coach. He emphasizes the importance of operational speed, understanding customer dynamics, and building a strong company culture. Bill also reflects on his experiences with Walmart during an acquisition and offers valuable insights for entrepreneurs looking to scale their businesses effectively.
https://coaches.scalingup.com/coaches/bill-goodwin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/billcgoodwin/
Before becoming an entrepreneurial leadership partner, business coach and leadership team developer, Bill spent 20 years running and transforming four different entrepreneurial organizations, ranging from 25 to 400 employees, $3 million to $180 million in revenue, and across all in different industries. Most recently, Bill took over as CEO of a telehealth company, significantly scaled the business over a couple of years, and completed a successful exit by selling the company to Walmart.
Throughout Bill’s career, he has had a passion for helping founders and their leadership teams create sustainability, efficiency and growth within their organizations. Bill cut his teeth starting in straight-commission sales and leadership before launching his own training and development company. Within a couple of years, he sold the business to a large public company, and subsequently transformed that group into a healthy, performance-driven organization.
Bill leverages his diverse and extensive experience, management and leadership best practices and Scaling Up certification along with straight up common sense principles to help other entrepreneurs, CEOs and executives achieve the results they want.
Bill holds a bachelor of science in marketing from Colorado State University. He completed his master’s in business administration at the prestigious Thunderbird University’s MBA program.
Originally from Colorado, with stops in New Jersey and Kansas City, Bill has lived for the last fifteen years in Arizona with his wife, three kids and two dogs. He loves helping others reach new heights, reading and learning something new every day, and derives a good portion of sanity from being active outside. On any given weekend he may be out on a 75-mile plus ride, long hike, or engaging in an epic event like hiking rim-to-rim in the Grand Canyon or participating in a 100-200 mile, one-day bike race.
This podcast is sponsored by Freshwater Investments