Manufacturing is Iowa’s most innovative, creative, and productive sector. Delivering the lion’s share of Iowa’s GDP, the Iowa Manufacturing Podcast tells the story of our state’s economic heroes.
Subscribe for a weekly deep dive with leaders in manufacturing, those who support them, and leaders who empower their infrastructure.
Guests include Iowa Economic Development Authority Director, Debbie Durham. Gentry Collins, CEO of American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, and BJ Spyksma, CEO of Aplos, and many others.
Newest Shows
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Late in Life Career Pivot to Manufacturing – Just What She Needed!
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Tapping Into One of Your Most Valuable Resources – Your Commercial Bank
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Local Des Moines Company Flipping Transportation Logistics on its Head
Show Host
Leisa Fox is an experienced leader with a demonstrated history of leading new business development and developing collaborative business relationships and networks.
An insightful marketing innovator and business strategist with a reputation for identifying and leveraging new business development opportunities and expanding market presence and market share her strong community and social services background with expansive networks throughout Iowa and the country, Leisa spent the first half of her career in sales, from office furniture to property casualty insurance. Through that work, she was recruited to lead the Iowa Association of Business and Industry’s revenue efforts.
While at ABI she increased membership by one third and more than doubled revenues. Most recently she ran Youth Emergency Service & Shelter where she guided them through a merger with another agency and worked herself out of a job. Today, she runs Fox Growth Strategies, a boutique fractional business development firm.
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