🎙️ Welcome to Dynamic Decisions – where the best decisions start with great conversations.
Hosted by Teasha Cable, CEO of CModel, this show dives into the stories, strategies, and decisions behind some of the most innovative leaders in business today. Each episode, we sit down with visionaries who are leveraging data to rethink the status quo, solve complex challenges, and create lasting impact in their fields.
Tune in to discover how top leaders are using data to transform their businesses—and how you can too. Learn more: cmodel.io
A French company had four sites to choose from for a $450 million North American plant. It picked a Manitoba city of 15,000, and the owner explained why. Dr. Jean-Marc Nadeau, former Portage la Prairie city manager and now CEO of SUMA, tells the story, including a rebrand that went badly wrong.
Why the owner of Roquette credited councils that weren't in conflict, and not just the incentives
How a wastewater plant sized for 60,000 people was funded through a P3 and future tax revenue
Questioning every internal process to rebuild reserves with no service cuts
A two-year province-wide consultation that won 82% approval for a new governance model
Communication fails firstNadeau shows how to fix it before the investor walks in.
14 Oct 2026
How Artists and Makers are Driving Rural Economic Development
Jamie Nichols covers North Central Oklahoma for the Oklahoma Department of Commerce, and her job starts with asking who in a town is already selling outside it. One county believed it had maybe half a dozen micro businesses. Then someone pulled the data and found 500 registered.
Even if only 25 of those are real and unseen, thats 25 businesses a community can help grow, and that is economic development. The makers are findable. You start with the mayor and the city clerk, then check the town Facebook page and the vendor fairs at street festivals.
Once you find them, you have to keep them, and keeping them takes more than goodwill. Jamie and Teasha Cable get into what holds a rural economy together:
Retention beats recruitment every time. Each retention attempt teaches a town which resource it is missing, so the next maker is less likely to leave.
When 150 jobs threaten community character, dont choose yes or no. Negotiate community benefits and ask what the town should get in return.
Know what you own. The buildings you have, and the electric, gas, water, and internet each one carries, decide whether a growing business expands in your town or the next county over.
Turn data into a story. A city council that is lost in a spreadsheet stops listening, and a council that hears the story acts on it
Learn more:
CModel Data (https://www.cmodel.io)
okaycommerce.gov (https://www.okaycommerce.gov)
econdevops.com (https://econdevops.com/)
12 Oct 2026
Seats, Skills, and Mission: Building a Board That Fits
Jessica Olives has spent more than fifteen years inside nonprofit and public sector governance, including the Port of Seattle, King County Housing Authority, and the Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority. Now she runs Mission Match, a nationwide platform where nonprofits search for board members by expertise, location, and cause instead of waiting for someone to answer a posting.
What to do when the perfect skills match doesn't care about your mission: dig deeper first
Why her first move on a dysfunctional board is the bylaws, not new recruits
What nonprofits can borrow from public sector boards on record management
How Strategic Doing's "what can we do now" questions work as a middle ground between a long-range plan and no plan
If your board runs on who you already know, start here.
Learn more:
CModel Data, Inc. (Https://www.cmodel.io)
Mission Match (https://www.missionmatchsite.com)
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