Military to Management Episode 3 — Bruce Bell and Eamon Graziano

From Marine Corps SMEAC to COO: Bruce Bell on Humility, Digital Pathology & AI in Healthcare

In the second episode of Military to Management, CEO Eamon Graziano sits down with former Marine Corps Officer Bruce Bell, who seamlessly transitioned from an enlisted Marine to a Captain, and then climbed the corporate ladder from medical sales rep to Chief Operating Officer in the highly specialized medical diagnostics industry.

Bruce shares an incredible, candid story about the humility required to go from leading hundreds of Marines to being a solo sales rep (often delivering donuts just to get an audience), and how he strategically applied military planning methodology to scale multi-million dollar companies.

In this episode, you will learn:

How to apply the military's SMEAC (5-Paragraph Order) to C-Suite strategic planning.

The humbling experience of trading Captain bars for a sales job, and the mentor who helped him adapt.

Major shifts in the diagnostic lab space: Direct to Consumer (DTC) testing, consolidation, and the evolution of managed care.

The future of Digital Pathology and how AI is acting as an aid (not a replacement) to solve the critical pathologist supply/demand problem.



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🔗 Connect with the Guests & Host:
Bruce Bell — LinkedIn | P4 Diagnostix and P4 Clinical Laboratory Network: p4dx.com/

Eamon Graziano — LinkedIn | bneconsulting.ai