Our President & CEO had the great pleasure of being interviewed by Faye Davis for the Consultant Connect podcast series. They discussed some of Steve’s mentors and thoughts around what being an effective leader means.
In this podcast Steven gets personal about how 2020, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has impacted his life in Montreal. They also highlight effective strategies on how to keep moral and productivity up in a workplace when everyone is working remotely.

Meet the Speakers

Steven Jast
President & Founder
Gazelle.ai & ROI Research on Investment
Steven Jast has over 20 years’ experience in all aspects of economic development. He began his career at the boutique advisory firm CAI Corporate Affairs International, where he specialized in site selection analysis, jurisdictional marketing, and industrial clustering. A serial entrepreneur, Steve founded the economic development consulting firm ROI Research on Investment in 2003. Since then, ROI has grown from a staff of two to an international company of 60 professionals with offices in four countries. In 2015, he founded Gazelle.ai to push the boundaries of methods used to identify early-stage signals of corporate expansion.