Rebel intrapreneurs can make a huge impact in any function or any role. There are no constraints, other than one’s creativity and passion for making a difference.

One rebel intrapreneur path is to CEO.

Johnny Page, CEO of SaaS Academy is a self-described intrapreneur who pursued and became CEO two different times in his career.

“I am the definition of an intrapreneur.”

We talked to Johnny about how he became CEO.

And how he did it twice.

Johnny has been thinking a lot about his journey and designed a set of stages to describe how he did it. I’d like to think that by listening to this conversation, you can learn from what Johnny did to pursue his intrapreneur journey, and design your own path.

A short summary of Johnny Page’s Intrapreneurial Journey:

Stage 1 - Mastering Customer Empathy

* Deep Understanding of the Customer

* Grasping the Problem Landscape

* Client Success Expert

* In the Trenches

Stage 2 - Operationalizing Success through a Team

* Team Building

* Process Design

* Team Leadership

* Scaling Excellence

Stage 3 - Amplifying Your Authority & Influence in the Market

* Leverage Customer Knowledge

* Develop an Inbound Marketing Strategy

* Build Personal Authority

* Generate Leads

* Foster Market Affinity

Stage 4 - Operationalizing Sales & Marketing

* Choose Your First Focus

* Demonstrate Your Value

* Hire the Right Team

* Build Processes and Playbooks

* Continual Growth

Stage 5 - Securing Ownership Stake

* Assess Your Value

* Prepare Your Case

* Negotiate for Ownership

* Be Prepared to Walk

More about Johnny Page:

How to become CEO

We have covered the topic of how a rebel intrepreneur can become a CEO in several episodes. So if you’d like to listen to a companion episodes to this conversation with Johnny, you can dive deeper here:

Episode 39: From intern to CEO

Episode 40: How to become CEO

Episode 41: How I learned to be a baby CEO

Episode 53: I took the CEO Genome assessment and it’s not good

More about Bill:

Bill Cushard on Linkedin

Bill Cushard on Twitter

Rebel Intrapreneur podcast website

Bill’s book: The Art of Agile Marketing: A Practical Roadmap for Implementing Kanban and Scrum in Jira and Confluence

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