Catching up hith Todd Hagopian — “the Stagnation Assassin,” founder of the Stagnation Intelligence Agency, and a transformation leader who’s driven billions in product sales and shareholder value across global manufacturers (Berkshire Hathaway, Illinois Tool Works, Whirlpool, JBT, and more). Todd unpacks how a bipolar diagnosis nearly derailed his career—and how he “weaponized” it by codifying innovation, continuous improvement, and goal-setting into repeatable systems that work even on the meds. From doubling the value of his own manufacturing acquisition in three years to writing 1,000+ pages of playbooks, Todd explains how to turn stuck companies into growth machines.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
• Stagnation Syndrome: how it starts—and how to kill it
• “Sanity vs. success”: bottling hypomanic strengths into systems
• Transformation levers: innovation, CI, goal architecture, effort math
• Doubling a manufacturing exit in 36 months—what actually moved the needle
• Playbooks for boards, CEOs, and operators to restart momentum fast
