Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
A Special Shout Out to High-Motor Leaders 5-8-25
Thu, 08 May 2025
In this episode, Scott Becker highlights six remarkable high-motor leaders.
Chapter 1: Who are the leaders highlighted in this episode?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Today's discussion is a special shout out to high motor leaders. So here's the deal. There are certain people that could appear as not what you think of as what used to be the typical patrician leader. These could be people that if you didn't know what they did, You wouldn't know how powerful their motor runs inside.
Chapter 2: Why is Judy Faulkner considered a high-motor leader?
And I'll just go through about five of these people very quickly. So the first one is Judy Faulkner of Epic. If you met Judy, if you know Judy, you wouldn't know what a high motor she has until you knew the motor she has and the leadership that she brought to the table. Simply remarkable. Doesn't present anything.
Chapter 3: What makes Dr. John Langell a remarkable leader?
This perfect public persona doesn't try to, but is an incredible internal motor that has made her one of the great leaders of our generation. Second, Dr. John Langell. Dr. Langell is the CEO of the Northeast Ohio Medical University. Northeast Ohio Medical University, over the last several years, has been built into one of the great medical schools in the country.
Actually, they had 6,000 applicants for 200 spots. They've done this incredible job of filling a need. If you first meet John, you're struck by his graciousness. You're not necessarily struck by, you know, he's not one of these six foot four guys.
But when you get to know John, he's an incredible high motor, thoughtful, driven person who achieves remarkable results through partnership, through alliances, and through all kinds of efforts. So John Langell gets a second shout out today as a high motor leader. The third person I'll mention is Dr. Shiv Rao.
Chapter 4: How has Dr. Shiv Rao contributed to healthcare technology?
Dr. Rao is the CEO and co-founder of ABRIDGE, one of the great ambient listening technologies out there in healthcare. Shiv is a physician by background like Dr. Rangel. And for some reason, I relate well to these professionals that are also high motor people that present in a certain way.
Dr. Rao, in some ways, this is a spitting image of Dr. Langell, in that each one of them has got this incredibly depth to them and thoughtfulness to them that you wouldn't know until you get to know them. And then the depth in how they handle themselves and what they've done in accomplishing and have accomplished is literally remarkable. The fourth person I'll mention is Dr. Amamo Tomlinson.
the CEO of Vituity, which is a $2.6 billion company today, Dr. Tomlinson might be the most gracious person you'll ever meet. It's similar to Judy, to Dr. Langell, to Dr. Rao. When you first meet Dr. Tomlinson, you're not overtaken by the physical presence, and this is not a knock on anybody's physical presence,
But what you warn is the depth of connectivity and the depth of intelligence and the depth of drive, sort of an incredible motor that you might not see on its face. The fifth and sixth person I'll mention today, they both get a special shout out. One is Coley Becker, a daughter who –
may present as an introvert, but he has this incredible internal drive and motor that has taken her to different parts of the world to learn about different things. And now after several years at Pricewaterhouse, coming back to do a master's in international relations.
But this incredible internal drive, internal motor that reminds me of some of these other people, just tremendous grace and a tremendous motor that goes with sort of this incredible persona. Again, like the other leaders here, doesn't overwhelm you, but it's this deep thoughtfulness and deep motor that's incredibly impressive.
Those are my five shout outs today on high motor leaders that we're incredibly impressed by. Thank you for listening to the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Thank you very, very much for listening.
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