After a brief hiatus to focus on a few other endeavors, we're back with the latest installment of our Lieutenants Series. Hiral spent more than 14 years at one of the largest IT services firms on the planet where he led a $3B portfolio but wasn’t afraid to write himself into an active role on a customer contract or take career inspiration from a gym poster.

In our newest Lieutenant’s Q&A we interview John Cowan, who is currently the VP of finance at the technology company Tile. We discuss his professional curiosity, why it’s important to make mistakes and learn from them, and how his "healthy sense of paranoia" and growth mindset has served him over the years.

Cat is the SVP of global education at ServiceNow and has had an incredible career in learning, leadership development and organizational change. She's redefined what training and learning programs look like in the enterprise.

Zoë Harte is the Chief People Officer at Upwork. In this Q&A she talks about how Upwork manages its own hybrid and remote workforce, her role guiding talent innovation at the company, how HR can be a guidepost for culture, and why speaking the truth is so important.

Paula-Jo (PJ) Oleksak, the chief business officer at Slice, talks about her transition from finance to operations, how she builds successful teams by keeping things simple, and the need to empower people while allowing them to be full humans, especially in today’s world.

Mike Epner is one of those quiet warriors. A guy whose humble confidence and ability to listen and guide have impacted me personally as well as hundreds of other leaders.

I had the privilege to work with Yamini Rangan, Chief Customer Officer at HubSpot, during our early days of Appirio, where she held multiple roles including a year stint as my head of development and Chief of Staff.