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Here’s What You Need To Know About The Field Service Management Industry with David Nour and Michael Israel (Ep. 3)

Here’s What You Need To Know About The Field Service Management Industry with David Nour and Michael Israel (Ep. 3)

Sales, repair and maintenance, customer support, and regular inspections are just a few branches of the field service management industry. 

But is this a viable career path?

In this episode, David Nour, the CEO of The Nour Group, Inc, interviews Michael Israel. Together, they explore Michael’s journey in the field service management arena and reasons it can be a viable career path for incoming professionals.

David and Michael discuss: 

  • What drew Michael into the field service management path
  • How mentorship, leadership, and sponsorship can shape your career journey
  • The development of the field service management industry
  • Wisdom words for those who want to pivot and promote new technologies 
  • And more!

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About Our Guest: 

A senior leadership/board advisor, educator, executive coach, and bestselling author, David Nour is internationally recognized as the leading expert on applications of strategic relationships in profitable growth, sustained innovation, and lasting change. The author of eleven books, including bestsellers Relationship Economics® (Wiley) – forthcoming in its 3rd edition, Co-Create (St. Martin’s Press), and Curve Benders (Wiley, 2021), Nour serves as a trusted advisor to global clients and coaches corporate leaders. He is an adjunct professor at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and was named to the Global Gurus Top 30 Leadership Professionals and the Thinkers 50 Radar Class of 2021 lists. A Forbes Leadership contributor on the Future of Work and an Inc. contributor on Relationship Economics, Nour’s unique insights have been featured in various prominent publications, including The Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fast Company, Huffington Post Business, Entrepreneur, and Knowledge@Wharton. He’s also the host of the popular Curve Benders podcast.

Born in Iran, Nour immigrated to the U.S. as a teenager with $100, limited family ties, and no fluency in English. He graduated from Georgia State University with a bachelor’s degree in business management and went on to earn an Executive MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. He resides in Atlanta, GA, with his family. 

Zuper, Empowering Field Teams To Collaborate Effortlessly with Anand Subbaraj (Ep. 1)

Zuper, Empowering Field Teams To Collaborate Effortlessly with Anand Subbaraj (Ep. 1)

Every great business starts with a hurdle. And Zuper is no different.

In this inaugural episode of Zuper FM – Field Service, Your Way, Michael Israel welcomes Anand Subbaraj, CEO and founder of Zuper. Anand shares everything you need to know about him while unveiling Zuper’s story, vision, and mission as they work towards building technology solutions to help organizations provide exceptional customer experience. 

Michael and Anand discuss: 

  • The refrigerator experience that led to the founding of Zuper
  • Zuper’s market differentiator
  • The mission that guides Zuper
  • Ways Zuper differentiates from the other industry leaders
  • Wisdom words for others within the field of service-based business
  • And more!

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About our Guest: 

Before joining Zuper as CEO in July 2020, Anand Subbaraj came from a 13-year career at Microsoft, and before that, he spent five years at Tata Consultancy Services. Throughout his time living in Seattle, Anand worked with many large enterprise customers and helped organizations to take control of their digital transformation journey. At Microsoft, he was the head of product in one of the fastest-growing Azure Data services and led the innovation in big data integration in Azure.