Cansulta Podcast
Turnaround Tuesdays
LIVE CONVERSATIONS WITH REAL BUSINESS EXPERTS
A bi-weekly live business podcast where we unpack the real stories, messy middle, and practical playbooks behind meaningful business turnarounds. Every other Tuesday.
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🎙️Turnaround Tuesdays
Insight-packed conversations for business leaders who are ready to stop treading water and start making bold, smart moves.
Live, practical, no fluff.
From the Cansulta network
What Is Turnaround Tuesdays?
Turnaround Tuesdays is a bi-weekly live business podcast from Cansulta for founders, entrepreneurs, and business leaders who are determined to move beyond “good enough” and make real change.
In each episode, host Alexandra Kapelos-Peters sits down with CANsultants, partners, and special guests who’ve been in the trenches—navigating stalled growth, messy operations, leadership challenges, technology shifts, and everything in between.
You’ll hear honest stories, hard-won lessons, and practical frameworks you can use in your own business this week—not someday, not “after the next planning cycle,” but now.
Why we created this show
- To give leaders a candid look at what real turnarounds actually take.
- To make expert consulting insights accessible, practical, and yes—a little bit fun.
- To help “underdog” businesses compete with big players without big-firm price tags.
- To share clear, repeatable playbooks you can adapt to your own context.
- To build a community of people who care about doing good work, better.
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What You’ll Get Every Other Tuesday
Turnaround Tuesdays is designed to be a dependable checkpoint in your calendar: a space to step out of the day-to-day and sharpen how you think, lead, and operate.
Real stories, not theory
Guests share what actually happened: the missteps, the pivots, the uncomfortable truths, and the moves that changed everything.
Actionable playbooks
Every episode comes with a practical Guide—a downloadable PDF with key ideas, frameworks, exercises, and checklists so you can put insights into action.
Short, sharp conversations
Focused episodes you can fit into a commute, lunch break, or between meetings—and use immediately with your team.
Who it’s for
- Founders and CEOs feeling stuck or stretched thin.
- Operators and leaders tasked with “fixing it” yesterday.
- Consultants and advisors who want fresh perspectives and practical tools.
- Anyone responsible for turning strategy into real-world results.
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The Turnaround Tuesdays Guide Library
Every episode comes with a companion Guide—a 20–30 page resource that turns big ideas into concrete steps. Use them as internal workshop tools, leadership offsite material, or your personal business playbook.
A practical 90-day leadership confidence playbook that helps emerging leaders eliminate self-doubt, communicate with clarity, and influence with authority. Instead of relying on personality, this guide builds confidence through systems...
A bold 90-day blueprint to reposition IT from a reactive cost center to a strategic growth powerhouse. This guide unlocks hidden strengths, rebuilds cross-functional trust, and establishes IT as a...
Most AI initiatives never deliver results. This whitepaper reveals why—and shows how forward-thinking businesses can join the 5% that achieve measurable ROI. [Whitepaper; 13 pages; November 2025]
A 90-day playbook to eliminate brand confusion, align your messaging, and ensure every touchpoint reflects your true value. This guide helps leaders create consistency across teams, materials, and culture.
Moments That Stay With You
Turnaround Tuesdays is full of ideas you’ll want to replay, share, and bring into your own leadership conversations. A few standout lines:
Craig Major
- Automation amplifies the underlying process, it does not fix it. If you automate a bad process, you screw things up faster and at a much larger scale than a human ever could.
- Stop treating your operations like a chore. Start treating your business operations like a product.
- Start by auditing your frustration and your pain. Begin with an 'I hate' list to identify robotic, repetitive tasks that drain your team's energy.
- You want humans to do what humans do best—strategy, creativity, and relationships—rather than repetitive tasks that can be automated.
- The biggest missed opportunity with automation is leverage. When you look past the simple metric of hours saved, you can transform your business operations into a scalable asset.
Chris Rotolo
- Start with people, not plans. Don't go into it with the plan at the very beginning. Gather your information first.
- Resetting isn't about grand gestures; start small, listen, sequence, and build momentum. Big changes will start with those little things that you do in the first 30 days.
- Strategy can give you a tenfold performance. Getting every one of your decisions in alignment around a North Star will mean that one thing isn't holding you back.
- Continuous learning about your strategy is crucial. As much as we learn about strategy, we often speak about it as if it's static, but it's fluid. You must keep adjusting direction to ensure you're still moving towards your North Star.
- Communication is key. Be the one to control the story even when it’s not a positive one; if you don’t, someone else will fill that vacuum.
Graeme Boyce
- Branding isn't just about logos and campaigns. It's about clarity, consistency and alignment across your vision, mission, values and every single customer and employee interaction.
- Your brand promise is critical. When people think of your brand, they expect you to deliver something they need and value, and they trust you will do it on time and to specifications.
- Positioning is absolutely critical when it comes to branding. It's how people perceive your company and is essential for delivering what they expect.
- Brand guidelines are there to ensure the consistency of messaging from speeches delivered by executives to content within press releases and media communications.
- When companies do get launched, branding tends to not be the first focus for their leaders, who are often more concerned with immediate revenue.
Amit Agrawal
- Risk isn't just something to mitigate, it's something to leverage. Uncover hidden risks and align them with your strategic goals.
- Start figuring out your heat map and the priority for the firm immediately. Don’t wait for compliance audits to come in before you assess your risks.
- It's crucial to watch critical and high-priority items regularly because it takes little time for them to escalate into critical failures.
- Measure and leverage your risks; instead of just tracking them, understand their overall impact. Sometimes, you may want to leverage a specific risk for potential upside.
- The majority of firms have similar risks, but the prioritization of those risks varies significantly by industry. Take a strategic approach to see risk not as a compliance issue, but as an opportunity for growth.
Debby Kruszewski
- The simplest thing in the world is show up and smile. Every time something gets you agitated, just smile through it.
- Always do something good when no one's looking, because there's always something big that comes out of it.
- The answers are always in the building. You should never have to hire outside consultants to figure out what your IT team does—they are the masterminds.
Nikhil Vimal
- It's about amplifying human creativity using the right systems, tools, and mindset.
- I think if you do not know how to leverage your own data, AI just spits things out... it's just vomit of data and information that some people are supposed to see.
- I think we're about to see... some of the most educated business owners we've had ever in history.
- It's working smart, not hard at scale.
- The biggest misconception that leaders have right now about AI in their companies... is that your data is ready to be processed by AI.
Season 1 Episodes
Catch up on Turnaround Tuesdays and download the matching Guides to take the ideas further with your team. New episodes drop every other Tuesday.
From Stuck to Scaling: Reset Your Business in 30 Days
with Chris Rotolo, Growth & Innovation Consultant
🎧 Listen/🎥 Watch episode
🖺 Download “From Stuck to Strategy” GuideTurn Everyday Risks into Growth Opportunities: A 90-Day Blueprint
with Amit Agrawal, Regulatory Risk Expert
🎧 Listen/🎥 Watch episode
🖺 Download “From Risk to Opportunity” GuideFrom Surviving to Scaling: Unlocking the Power of Agentic AI Teams
with Nikhil Vimal, AI & Innovation Expert
🎧Listen/🎥 Watch episode
🖺 Download “From Manual Chaos to Scalable Intelligence” GuideFrom Startup Scrappy to Enterprise Ready: Branding That Scales With You
with Graeme Boyce, Business Planning & Brand Management expert
🎧 Listen/🎥 Watch episode
🖺 Download “From Mixed Messages to Brand Consistency” GuideFrom Cost Center to Competitive Advantage: Unlocking the Power of IT
with Debby Kruszewski, Fractional CEO / CXO / COO | Solutions Architect
🎧 Listen/🎥 Watch episode
🖺 Download “From Cost Center to Competitive Advantage” GuideBeyond Efficiency: How Automation Becomes a Growth Strategy
with Craig Major, AI & Automation Consultant and Workflow Architect
🎧 Listen/🎥 Watch episode
🖺 Download “Bridging the AI Success Gap” WhitepaperFrom Self-Critic to Change-Maker: Leading with Authenticity and Trust
with Roxana Radulescu, Leadership & Team Development Consultant
🎧 Listen/🎥 Watch episode
🖺 Download “From Imposter to Influential” Guide
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