Send us a text Steven Puri brings a truly unique perspective to the conversation around hybrid and remote work. Drawing from his extraordinary career spanning visual effects for blockbusters like Independence Day (which won an Academy Award) to executive roles at 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks, Puri reveals how Hollywood has mastered distributed work models long before "remote work" became a buzzword. The film industry, Puri explains, naturally transitions between individual creation, collabora...
Jun 01, 2025•50 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Send us a text Lupe Munoz and Steve McKeon tackle common misconceptions about servant leadership and provide practical insights for avoiding leadership pitfalls while genuinely serving your team. • Servant leadership is often confused with people-pleasing, but true servant leaders maintain accountability • Holding team members accountable can actually be an act of servant leadership when framed as a development opportunity • Over-functioning for your team by solving all problems yourself prevent...
May 06, 2025•35 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Send us a text Organizational transformation requires seeing companies as living organisms rather than machines, with leaders who prioritize empowering teams rather than having all the answers themselves. • Psychological safety creates an environment where innovative ideas can flourish • Organizations must connect with employees' aspirations beyond just earning a paycheck • Companies should evaluate how far they need to extend beyond their core competencies • Great leaders acknowledge they are p...
Mar 30, 2025•24 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Send us a text Ernesto Gomez, author of "Regrowth: How Organizations Can Overcome Stalling by Unlocking their People's Potential," shares how viewing organizations as living organisms rather than machines creates the conditions for people and teams to achieve peak performance. • Organizations are living organisms that require nurturing, not machines that need optimization • When companies focus solely on optimizing individual parts, they often suboptimize the whole system • Creating an environme...
Mar 30, 2025•29 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Send us a text Join us as we revisit our season-two episodes and guests. Plus, we explain and demonstrate how to use reflection, as a leader, to professionally improve. Do you have the right mindset to improve how you lead? Listen in and find out! Follow us on Instagram or on Threads @LEADERSHIPEXCHANGEPODCAST. We'd love to hear from you! What topics you'd like us to explore with you? What questions on our topics do you have? Say hello and start the dialogue!...
Mar 22, 2025•25 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Send us a text Join us with Twanda "Tia" Young, BG (Ret.), US Army. We have an excellent discussion with Tia regarding some valuable leadership lessons she has to share with our listeners. Twanda Young now serves as the CEO of LT3 Leadership Solutions, where she focuses on shaping better leaders for society. Known as the Leadership and Conflict Management Coach, she is a solutions-oriented executive coach, motivational keynote speaker, an Amazon Best Selling Author of Dare to Lead Different...Ch...
Feb 18, 2025•42 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Send us a text Ready to transform how you approach transformation itself? This episode is your essential guide. The world of leadership and organizational change is complex, but Ron Crabtree has distilled decades of experience into a remarkably simple yet powerful formula that predicts the success of any transformation initiative. In this thought-provoking conversation with Steve McKeon and Lupe Munoz, Ron reveals why 80-90% of digital transformations fail to deliver their promised results - and...
Jan 16, 2025•29 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Send us a text Ready to evolve your leadership approach for today's complex challenges? Listen now and discover how to create an environment where your team can thrive amid constant change. Leadership is evolving at breakneck speed, and Ron Crabtree brings decades of operational excellence expertise to help us navigate these changes. As founder of MetaOps and MetaExperts, Ron shares how the fundamentals of effective leadership have transformed over his 22-year journey helping organizations imple...
Dec 22, 2024•36 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Send us a text Leadership isn't one-size-fits-all—it's a dynamic skill that must adapt to each unique situation. Ben Blaney brings decades of international experience to our conversation about what truly makes leadership effective across different contexts. "You can never jump in the same river twice. The river is not the same, and you are not the same person." This ancient wisdom perfectly captures why leadership requires constant adaptation. Ben illustrates this through practical examples, fro...
Nov 25, 2024•47 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Send us a text Lydia Peterson, Executive Director for Environmental Health and Safety at V2X, shares her extraordinary leadership journey from Power Rangers auditions to managing 300-person teams in Kuwait, revealing how relational capacity transforms leadership effectiveness. • Learning that relational capacity is good currency for collaboration and team building • Pivoting through multiple career transitions from martial arts to military to corporate leadership • Finding your voice and courage...
Nov 04, 2024•38 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Send us a text In this episode we continue our discussion from our previous episode where we started the discussion on the excellent book, by Patrick Lencioni, titled, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable. We review the Five Dysfunctions and what to do to avoid the hazards in how your direct team's behaviors can be destructive to the team culture and result in poor, or reduced performance. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable: Patrick M. Lencioni,Patrick Lencioni: 9...
Aug 18, 2024•22 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Send us a text In this episode we review the key points from Patrick Lencioni's book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team . We discuss some of the traps new leaders can fall into when trying to be Servant Leaders . We review Lencioni's pyramid/triangle with the five behaviors critical for a well-functioning team. We share some of our stories about young leaders that made the mistake of thinking Servant Leadership means not rocking the boat and not holding teams accountable when necessary. The Five Dy...
Jul 15, 2024•17 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Send us a text Join us in an engaging discussion, with Mike Sweeney, on Leading High Performance Work Teams. Mike is an executive coach, a team development expert, and a learning & development nerd. He is an organizational psychologist by degree and has spent years studying and practicing the keys to great leadership. His diverse background helps him discover and optimize patterns of organizational behavior to help leaders and teams improve performance – giving him the ability to tease out t...
Apr 28, 2024•45 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Send us a text Join us and our guest Alex Aranda, an HR and Operational Excellence Professional, in our discussion on what leader routines/habits are needed to create and sustain a positive work culture. Our dialogue includes actionable steps by leaders that can get implemented today. We review what important routines will take your leadership and your team to the next level! Reference Information we touch on: Change Management: Amazon.com: The Wheel of Sustainability: Engaging and Empowering Te...
Mar 16, 2024•32 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Send us a text Why is Leadership Standard Work critical to sustaining improvement and a positive culture? What is Leadership Standard Work? We kick off season 2 of our podcast with a focus on three important systems that leaders need to have strong Leadership Standard Work for. Join us in the conversation as we explore leadership through these two lenses! Follow us on Instagram or on Threads @LEADERSHIPEXCHANGEPODCAST. We'd love to hear from you! What topics you'd like us to explore with you? Wh...
Mar 03, 2024•28 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Send us a text We share thoughts on the importance of quality training within a High-Performance Work Team . Why is it important and what are the aspects of "Quality Training". We pull back the curtains on key elements of instructing and some of the traps we see teams fall into when selecting the trainers for the team. We touch on the topic of Training Within Industry and how powerful the method can be when used to train people. Additionally, we connect the importance of training with what inspi...
Jan 27, 2024•35 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Send us a text Our guest for this Episode is Kyle Goodbred, one of our podcast listeners. Kyle provides an excellent perspective on the challenges that young leaders encounter in the world and gives some excellent advice to other developing leaders. Kyle is a Submarine Warfare Officer and Submarine Tactics instructor for the U.S. Navy. He is also earning his Master’s, in Engineering Management, from Duke University. Join us and Kyle as we share stories and perspectives on Leadership! The followi...
Dec 12, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Send us a text We discuss how important it is to have a team that understands that conflict is healthy and necessary with great teams. We define what type of conflict is good conflict and which is not good conflict. We also touch base on some examples and how you can help guide your team and set the right environment for team members to get comfortable with positive conflict . In this episode we also chat about a great book that speaks about Conflict within a team and the importance of it. Amazo...
Dec 06, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Send us a text Join us on our continued discussion on High Performance Work Teams . For this episode, we bring a great guest to join us, Gary Beaudette . We talk about some of the mistakes leaders make when working towards building HPWTs . We also take a look at what advice leaders can benefit from and continue building on what the leader's role is for HPWTs. Gary, is the CEO of Beaudette Consulting Inc. He is a lean manufacturing business consultant, curriculum design expert, and executive coac...
Oct 15, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Send us a text Listen in on our introduction to High Performance Work Teams ! What are they? why would you want one and how does the leader play a role for this type of team? This episode is where we begin to move our focus from you, the leader, to the team you lead. What can you do to help build a High Performance Work Team ? What's the benefit that these types of teams can provide the business? Join us and hear our stories and thoughts as we explore this powerful topic. Follow us on Instagram ...
Oct 10, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Send us a text Our first guest, Alan Leibowitz , adds to our conversation on Ethics and Leadership . Join us as we discuss the ethical challenges new leaders can face in leading teams and what you can do to help guide you to Doing the Right Thing . Follow us on Instagram or on Threads @LEADERSHIPEXCHANGEPODCAST. We'd love to hear from you! What topics you'd like us to explore with you? What questions on our topics do you have? Say hello and start the dialogue!...
Sep 17, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Send us a text We discuss how Leading with Intent in mind can gain your team's commitment and empower them to be autonomous and provide the environment for them to become a Self-Directed Work Team . How Intend-Based Leadership helps you be a transformational leader and enable your team to have ownership of their work. (1886) Leaders Intent - Mark Smith - YouTube (1886) What Is Leadership? Intent-Based Leadership with L. David Marquet - YouTube Amazon.com: Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute eBo...
Sep 05, 2023•25 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Send us a text In this episode Steve and Lupe discuss the importance of coaching as a leader . What is coaching? How is it different than providing feedback? What is needed to be an effective coach? Follow us on Instagram or on Threads @LEADERSHIPEXCHANGEPODCAST. We'd love to hear from you! What topics you'd like us to explore with you? What questions on our topics do you have? Say hello and start the dialogue!...
Aug 15, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Send us a text Join us in our discussion on Situational Leadership and the four styles that are part of Ken Blanchard's Situational Leadership Model. We also provide the four keys to being great at Delegating . We share our experiences with both of these concepts with the hope that it can help leaders improve their teams and their organization. Follow us on Instagram or on Threads @LEADERSHIPEXCHANGEPODCAST. We'd love to hear from you! What topics you'd like us to explore with you? What question...
Aug 02, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Send us a text We continue to expand on the topic of Building Trust as a Leader. In this episode we really break apart the four key elements and provide actionable examples that you can do to begin building trust within your team. Follow us on Instagram or on Threads @LEADERSHIPEXCHANGEPODCAST. We'd love to hear from you! What topics you'd like us to explore with you? What questions on our topics do you have? Say hello and start the dialogue!...
Jul 18, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Send us a text In this first of two episodes, we set our four most important aspects of building trust as a leader. We talk about Accountability, Transparency, Integrity and Generosity/Kindness Towards Others . We share our perspectives on these behaviors and set the stage for the second part of this topic where we give actionable tactics to do as a leader to build, strengthen and recover Trust. Referenced Material: The Speed of Trust by Stephen Covey : The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Cha...
Jun 24, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Send us a text Is there a difference between managing and leading? If so, what is the difference? Talking about Transformative Leadership versus Transactional Leadership and how important it is to develop your team's capabilities and a method to help do that. Follow us on Instagram or on Threads @LEADERSHIPEXCHANGEPODCAST. We'd love to hear from you! What topics you'd like us to explore with you? What questions on our topics do you have? Say hello and start the dialogue!...
Jun 07, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Send us a text We explore the topic of servant leadership and how you can utilize this method to build trust and connect with a team. Referenced links to videos and books during this podcast: Its Your Ship by D. Michael Abrashoff: Amazon.com: It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy (Audible Audio Edition): D. Michael Abrashoff, D. Michael Abrashoff, Hachette Audio: Audible Books & Originals The First 90 Days by Michael D. Watkins : Amazon.com: The First 90 D...
May 27, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Send us a text We review the four types of leaders out in the world and share our experiences with each type and which type is the one we all need to be for our teams. Follow us on Instagram or on Threads @LEADERSHIPEXCHANGEPODCAST. We'd love to hear from you! What topics you'd like us to explore with you? What questions on our topics do you have? Say hello and start the dialogue!
May 24, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Send us a text Listen in on our introduction of our podcast and ourselves. We explain what inspired us to begin this podcast and why leadership is so important to us. Be inspired and learn what it is to lead and what the things are that can take you to the Next Level! Follow us on Instagram or on Threads @LEADERSHIPEXCHANGEPODCAST. We'd love to hear from you! What topics you'd like us to explore with you? What questions on our topics do you have? Say hello and start the dialogue!...
May 24, 2023•20 min•Season 1Ep. 1
