# #538 Denis O'Shea: How Do You Turn Technology Into Advantage?

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Podcast: [21st Century Entrepreneurship](https://stenobird.com/podcast/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325)
Published: 2026-08-08T06:00:00+00:00
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Denis O'Shea is the founder and CEO of a technology services company, and we spoke about how a painful sales failure became the foundation for 22 years of helping organizations extract more value from technology. Early in his career at Nokia, a customer challenged him on why they should buy more technology when employees barely used what they already had. Denis says that conversation “burnt a piece of my brain.” He later built a 250-person mentoring operation that worked one-on-one with a mil...

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