Ray Reddy is VP of Retail at Shopify, leading the company's retail business and championing local entrepreneurs. With a career focused on leveraging technology for commerce, he previously co-founded Ritual, a mobile commerce platform supporting local restaurants, and PushLife where he later led mobile product management for shopping and commerce. He is passionate about building products that simplify complexity and create new opportunities to help local entrepreneurs win.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. A unified retail system - built from the ground up, not stitched together - is essential to compete in modern commerce.

2. Small UX upgrades, like intuitive navigation and smarter search, drive major efficiency wins for store staff.

3. AI will soon make POS customization as easy as creating a TikTok - massively empowering small retailers.

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Alex Draper, founder of DX Learning, is a leadership expert dedicated to eradicating workplace toxicity. Through his CARE to Win playbook, he’s transformed 60,000 plus leaders, fostering psychological safety, emotional intelligence, and people-centered leadership worldwide.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. You are winning with culture if there is a lot of conversation, healthy conflict and continuous improvement day in and day out.

2. Sometime we forget that our customer satisfaction can’t be higher than our internal customers satisfaction. Employee engagement drives the customers engagement and that can get lost sometimes which is an important factor.

3. Autonomy is about empowering others and giving them your trust. The gift of autonomy is letting others speak.

The 4 Leadership Habits to Build High-Performing Teams. Check out Alex’s book in Amazon - Care to Win

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Dan Irvin is a high-energy, fun-loving leader, consultant, motivator, author, and public speaker whose valuable insights and relatable stories of success and passion consistently set up entrepreneurs and employees across the nation for personal and professional growth.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. Busy does not equal successful. Focus on being intentional, not just filling your calendar.

2. Passion wins in speaking. Choose topics you love to truly connect and move audiences.

3. Consistency beats intensity. A slow, steady system for outreach wins over bursts of chaotic action.

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