The Digital Leaders Club Podcast
Each week, a senior leader joins the conversation to talk through what's actually on their plate: the recurring quality issues, the unplanned downtime, the audit nobody's ready for, the talent gaps, the daily fire drills, and the long-running problems that never quite get solved. Real challenges, real numbers, no vendor pitches. Hosted by Guillaume Beaulieu-Duchesneau, CEO of Ingeno.
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Every guest brings the actual cost of the problem they're solving. The dollars lost to downtime, the headcount tied up in manual work, the percentage points of margin sitting on the table. You leave each episode with benchmarks you can use in your own boardroom on Monday.
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The hardest operational problems are the ones nobody wants to put in a status report, and those are the ones we go after. Failed audits, stalled initiatives, vendor relationships that didn't deliver. The things senior leaders only talk about candidly with peers who've been through the same thing.
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No futurism, no vague predictions about where the industry is going in ten years. The episodes are about what's on a senior leader's plate this quarter: the audit, the recall, the supplier escalation, the talent gap, the modernization initiative the board wants moved forward.
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The guests are the people actually running the operations: VPs, CTOs, COOs, plant leaders, transformation directors. Not analysts. Not consultants. Not vendors talking about other people's work. The conversation is between people who've sat in the same chair.
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A quality challenge in one operation is often the same challenge a leader in a completely different sector solved two years ago. The show surfaces those patterns deliberately, so a problem that feels unique inside your four walls turns out to be a problem someone else has already cracked.
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Guests come on to talk about what they're actually wrestling with, not to sell their company's product. Listeners get the unvarnished version: what worked, what didn't, what they'd do differently. The kind of conversation that's increasingly rare in industry media.
Guillaume Beaulieu-Duchesneau, CEO, Ingeno
Guillaume Beaulieu-Duchesneau is the CEO of Ingeno, a Quebec-based firm that builds AI, IoT, and cloud-native solutions for companies running mission-critical operations. He started writing software in 1997 and never really stopped. Even now, as CEO of a 50-person team with clients like Bestseller, General Dynamics Mission Systems, and FirePower Capital, he holds the same AWS certifications he asks every client-facing teammate to hold, including the AWS Generative AI Developer certification.
That dual perspective shapes the show. Guillaume has spent two decades watching senior leaders try to modernize operations that can't go down, and his interest is in what actually works, what fails quietly, and what nobody puts in the press release. The conversation he wants to have is the one his guests would have with a peer over dinner, not the one they'd give to a journalist.
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No prep questions sent in advance, no awkward sales angle to navigate, no editorial agenda to serve. The format is one senior operator talking honestly with another about a real problem they've been working on. Most guests tell us afterward it was the most useful 45 minutes they'd had that week.
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The audience is other senior leaders running operations of similar scale and complexity. The conversation gets to be at the level you'd actually have with someone in your role at another company, not dialed down for a general audience that wouldn't understand the stakes.
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The guest experience is closer to a working session than an interview. Most leaders walk in with a challenge they're in the middle of solving and walk out having sharpened their own thinking on it, because saying something out loud to a peer forces clarity that internal meetings rarely do.
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One conversation, one calendar block, no pre-interview, no questionnaire, no follow-up requests. We do the prep work on our side so you don't spend hours preparing for a 45-minute conversation.
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Past and future guests are CTOs, VPs of Operations, VPs of Quality, COOs, and digital transformation leaders from companies you'd recognize and others you wouldn't but probably should. Being part of that group is the durable benefit. The episode is a byproduct.
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After the episode airs, most guests get reached out to by peers who'd been wrestling with the same problem and didn't know who to ask. The conversation often opens up the next one, with someone the guest didn't expect to hear from.
If you're a senior leader running a real-world operation, we'd like to hear what's on your plate. No prep, no script, 45 minutes.
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