Dan Hesse

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1,215 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 11 Apr

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And so I think it clearly,

clearly benefited you in the long term, obviously difficult to go through.

But you did well in high school.

You were student union president, I think you got.

You you got scholarships to study engineering at Northwestern, one from a company that also provided a summer internship.

So tell us about your summer internship, where it was and who you met there.

You worked for GM after graduation for a couple of years, but then you moved to IBM.

Why did you make the move?

That is a very important lesson.

We'll be back in a few minutes with former IBM chairman and CEO, Ginni Rometty.

Go to our website, TheMentorsRadio.com, and click on List of Shows to listen to past guests.

This is Dan Hesse, and you're listening to The Mentors Radio.

Welcome back.

This is Dan Hesse, and we're learning how mentors helped Ginni Rometty become IBM CEO.

So at IBM, you described your first mentor.

I think it was John Kennedy.

He was a branch manager as someone with Gravitas.

Tell us what Gravitas is.

I agree with you.

My very first mentor that, and I had a number of them during my career, I guess Blanchard, and that's what

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