If you aspire to embody authentic leadership across all spectrums of your life, this episode is for you. Sean Georges and John Buford, are two former marine officers with a combined 80 years of leadership experience in the military, business, nonprofit, and education. Sean and John share a simple but powerful servant leadership model with a focus on mission, and practical, fundamental, and timeless leadership concepts designed to help you understand what it means to lead in an authentic way. Get...
Mar 16, 2023•53 min•Season 12Ep. 14
What's the risk involved in creating stronger human connections? Great leaders know that deeper human connection fosters more engagement and better performance and that investing in people boosts results and increases retention. Leaders accomplish more by asking powerful questions than by commanding and controlling. In this episode, Chad Littlefield gives you practical tools and questions to use to help you connect with your team more effectively, build better relationships and results, have mor...
Mar 09, 2023•50 min•Season 12Ep. 13
Leading with gratitude and mastering connection have been keys to driving the success of event MC & Speaker, Dan Ram. Dan has hosted changemakers like President Barack Obama, billionaire founders Sir Richard Branson and Reid Hoffman, Grammy-winning artists, and celebrities. In this episode, you get practical ways to posture your mentality for gratitude, create connections, and find ways to invest in others to help build a future we all want to live in. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast ...
Mar 02, 2023•45 min•Season 12Ep. 12
Hey, it's David, and you're listening to Leadership Without Losing your Soul, your source for practical leadership, inspirational tools, and strategies you can use to achieve transformational results without sacrificing your humanity or your mind in the process. Well, here we are. I have been looking forward to this episode for months, seeing it on the editorial calendar. Why? Because it is the 200th episode of Leadership Without Losing Your Soul! In this episode, we highlight several guests who...
Feb 24, 2023•40 min•Season 12Ep. 11
When we’re looking for answers, why is changing your questions so important? Intentionally using questions helps us make wiser choices, find solutions, and transform our personal and professional lives. In this episode, Dr. Marilee Adams gives you powerful tools of Question Thinking, and how to apply the same information and practical skills in our own lives. Tune in to change your questions and mindsets for the most rewarding outcomes. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightfu...
Feb 16, 2023•48 min•Season 12Ep. 10
What does the DEI journey look like to achieve your idea of a workplace utopia? When Dr. Ella F. Washington asks company leaders what a workplace utopia looks like to them she often hears about an ideal vision of an organization that values diversity and inclusion and wants employees to bring their whole selves to work. A truly inclusive workplace requires invention and reinvention, mistakes and humility, adaptation to a changing world, constant reflection, and sometimes significant sacrifice. I...
Feb 10, 2023•53 min•Season 12Ep. 9
What does it take to fuel human centered performance? In this episode, Jeannie Diefenderfer gives you what she found after conducting the Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance 2022 Study on How Human-Centered CEOs Fuel Performance. As a business leader who turns the challenges of modern corporations into profitable opportunities and with extensive experience as a senior executive in a Fortune 20 environment, Jeannie understands how to transform operations to focus on fueling human centered perform...
Feb 02, 2023•52 min•Season 12Ep. 8
Leading with an ethical compass may seem to be challenging in this time of deepening divisions and “alternative facts”, trust and authenticity grow more precious by the hour. More and more people find themselves driven to overcome the personal, professional, and social pressures of ignoring what is right in favor of what passes for ‘success.’ But what people want is truth in their decisions, authenticity in their relationships, and solid ground for making tough, ethical choices in business and l...
Jan 27, 2023•41 min•Season 12Ep. 7
Obsessed for good surfaced naturally as a truth for how this organization operates and it has remained their mantra since. In this episode, David talks with Amy Pyles, President of Saxum, about what obsessed for good means for their company and the five pillars they use to guide clients as well as themselves. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and fe...
Jan 19, 2023•39 min•Season 12Ep. 6
Have you ever heard that you're negative, or have you worked with someone who you thought was too negative? When your team thinks of you as a negative person, you're less likely to be invited to conversations where you would have valuable contributions to make. You're less likely to receive recognition for your work and your odds of promotion go down if you often hear that you're too negative. Learning how to be a less negative leader is a critical skill to master and fast. Leadership Without Us...
Jan 12, 2023•11 min•Season 12Ep. 5
If you don't pay enough attention to strategy, you and your team will end up lost in a wilderness of meaningless, unproductive busyness. But if you don't pay enough attention to tactics and effective management, you'll create needless conflicts, frustration, and hurt feelings. When you can embrace effective leadership strategies and tactics, they will work together to help you, your team, and your organization thrive. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on le...
Jan 06, 2023•21 min•Season 12Ep. 4
Have you ever wondered how the most admired leaders live? In this episode, Marisa Cleveland and Simon Cleveland draw on their combined forty years of experience in corporate, government, and higher education leadership to answer this question. Through anecdotes and interviews paired with actionable takeaways, they investigated where leaders start, how they become boxed in upon entering the workforce, and finally how they can break through those boundaries to become a culturally agile leader and ...
Dec 23, 2022•44 min•Season 12Ep. 3
I fell asleep at 1:00 AM sandwiched between strangers on my right and my daughter to my left. Whatever challenge you may face, leading step by step, little by little, or poco a poco will help. You don't have to know all the answers or how everything's going to turn out. And you don't have to know how to do everything you'll be called upon to do. Just find the tracks of the people who've gone before and take the next few steps, poco a poco. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insigh...
Dec 15, 2022•8 min•Season 12Ep. 2
A small habit repeated daily will transform your life, your team, and your outcomes. This principle holds true and it holds true for your leadership and your work. Where can you get small and be the leader you'd want your boss to be? Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedback to help leaders navigate various leadership styles, management styles,...
Dec 08, 2022•9 min•Season 12Ep. 1
What does it take to break through ceiling after ceiling and innovate during growth? All growing companies encounter ceilings of complexity, usually when they hit certain employee or revenue milestones. How can you achieve breakthrough execution? In this episode, Patrick Thean, author of Rhythm: How to Achieve Breakthrough Execution and Accelerate Growth, equips you with the tools to identify the signs of setbacks before they occur, track those signs, and make adjustments to keep your plan on tr...
Dec 01, 2022•57 min•Season 11Ep. 20
How do great leaders use failure to thrive? Too many efforts with potential game-changing outcomes are short circuited by the fear of failing; people with huge ideas become paralyzed by “what ifs,” unable to see past the challenges of today. Get several ways to shift your perspective and use failure to thrive. Olakunle Soriyan, known by most as PK, author of A Love Affair With Failure: When Hitting Bottom Becomes A Launchpad To Success, paints "failure" and "failing" as two different realities a...
Nov 17, 2022•52 min•Season 11Ep. 19
People are a lot like trees. You can't make a tree do something, and the same holds true for people. No person brings the entire package to their work, just like no tree brings everything for every environment. Part of leadership is being able to embrace, and recognize the strengths that people bring and invest in that. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegat...
Nov 10, 2022•7 min•Season 11Ep. 18
What does it feel like to move at 58,000 miles per hour? Well, it turns out we all know the answer and that even when we're standing still, so much more is happening than what meets the eye. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedback to help leaders navigate various leadership styles, management styles, conflict resolution, time management, and ...
Nov 03, 2022•5 min•Season 11Ep. 17
What does it mean, practically, to be an inclusive leader? And what happens to your business, team, and leadership when you embark on the journey? In this thoughtful episode, Jennifer Brown takes a deeper dive into what it takes to be an inclusive leader and examines the challenges and mindsets that continue to hold many leaders back. Combining nearly two decades of professional DEI expertise with personal experience and reflection, she tackles complex topics such as identity, privilege, and sys...
Oct 28, 2022•52 min•Season 11Ep. 16
Do you ever feel, out of control, off balance, or reactive when you're trying to get the results you want, but it's just not happening for you? Often the difference between confusion and clarity is simply to change focus from what you don't want to what you do want. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedback to help leaders navigate various lead...
Oct 21, 2022•3 min•Season 11Ep. 15
What is the secret to ongoing success in every role whether you're in leadership, accounting, consulting, investment banking, law, or any other type of professional service? It’s not just knowledge, experience, and unique services that set people apart. Success is achieved by adopting the mindset, mastering the strategies, and employing the tactics at the heart of rainmaking - selling your expertise. In this episode veteran communications, sales, and leadership consultant Robert Chen provides a ...
Oct 14, 2022•53 min•Season 11Ep. 14
Your organization is a Complex Adaptive System—and so are the people you lead. Many leaders expect an organization to operate like a machine, but that leads to failure. Complexity and uncertainty mean unpredictable business outcomes, yet decisions are made based on assumptions of certainty that don’t include the interdependence and emergence of your employees, customers, supply chain, and eventually, success. In this episode, Anu Rathninde, president of Aptiv Electrical Distribution Systems-Asia...
Oct 07, 2022•51 min•Season 11Ep. 13
Does it feel like you're jumping through hoops to get things done? From local government to the White House, Harvard to the world of venture capital, Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai have taken on some of the world’s most challenging bureaucracies—and won. In this episode, they bring their years of experience to you, teaching you strategies anyone can use to improve your organization through their own stories and those of fellow bureaucracy hackers. Change doesn’t happen just because the person in ch...
Sep 30, 2022•55 min•Season 11Ep. 13
Have ever felt like the culture of work is broken? For too long leadership has been defined by the bottom line, at the expense of the humans leading and being led. Obviously, results matter but now more than ever, leaders need to be more than a boss wielding the authority of a title to produce results. The lovable leader knows that all people are capable of extraordinary things, that obstacles can empower you instead of limit you, and that your abilities combined with your choices give everyone ...
Sep 22, 2022•58 min•Season 11Ep. 11
Do you want to take advantage of artificial intelligence but are not sure where to start? The process can feel overwhelming—from analyzing existing processes and software systems and choosing where to apply AI automation, to preparing every tier of the organization for the transition. In this episode, Kavita Ganesan, author of The Business Case For AI, takes the mystery out of implementing AI, sharing how to launch AI initiatives that get results. With real-world AI examples to spark your own id...
Sep 15, 2022•44 min•Season 11Ep. 10
What's the difference between confidence and arrogance? When I was young, a mountain trail gave me an early lesson about the differences between these two. Here is another story from Tomorrow Together: Essays of Hope, Healing, and Humanity. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedback to help leaders navigate various leadership styles, management ...
Sep 08, 2022•5 min•Season 11Ep. 9
When you think about changing perception when was the last time that you changed your mind about something? Have you seen the images that have been coming from the new James Webb telescope? Changing our perceptions of outer space and what's millions and billions of light years away from us. As my known world expands, there's always another perspective, and as strange, unsettling, and foreign, as it may seem, how important it is to remember that this is the only normal another person has ever kno...
Sep 01, 2022•3 min•Season 11Ep. 8
Navigating the current environmental, economic, and political realities is challenging (yet essential). This is where The Leadership Pause can help. In this episode, Chris Johnson, author of The Leadership Pause gives you tools to sharpen a skill that leads to clarity of mind and heart, reduces stress, and increases resilience. It starts by accurately discerning your position, strategizing a plan, and only then moving forward steering through life's challenges. Find out how a leadership pause ca...
Aug 26, 2022•50 min•Season 11Ep. 7
We've all worked in organizations where employees don't connect to a purpose. Where everyone understands what to do and how to do it, but not why they do it. In this episode, Steve Curtin, Author of The Revelation Conversation, gives you a road map to create an environment for employees to connect with the work they do, instead of going through the motions or checking boxes. Reap the benefits of higher levels of employee engagement, productivity, and customer satisfaction through revelation conv...
Aug 18, 2022•49 min•Season 11Ep. 6
Do you remember the last time you felt infectious energy? If you struggle to maintain higher energy and infectious leadership, this week's guest can help. In this episode, Keith Smith, CEO of Vonoco Products, shares his insights on how to tap into the infectious energy we have deep down, and take steps to identify drains, imbalances, and be the energizing leader you want to be. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on esse...
Aug 11, 2022•43 min•Season 11Ep. 5
