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•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast 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•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast 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•45 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast 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•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•4 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast 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•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast We live in an age of miracles. In this episode, we continue with the theme in Season 11 focusing on more humanity aspects of human-centered leadership. Your life is the product of millions of decisions made by millions of people. Without interdependence, nothing could exist. And I don't think that has ever been more true than now. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwo...
Aug 04, 2022•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Generation Z is entering the workforce right now and their perspective, needs, talents, and abilities will transform the workplace. In this episode, Gen-Z expert Josh Packard, Ph.D. shares his latest research on how you can attract, retain, and lead Gen Z. Leading Gen Z well will improve your team's performance, relevance, and credibility. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivit...
Jul 29, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast How do you lead through situations when it feels like everything is a no-win scenario? No-win scenarios are tough, sure, but they're also a chance to distinguish yourself, learn people's trust, and for innovation. In today's episode, you get seven steps you can use to approach these circumstances that will help you build your credibility and sleep well at night. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communicat...
Jul 21, 2022•16 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast Tomorrow Together: Essays of Hope, Healing, and Humanity is a collection of essays. The 21st century hasn't started the way that many of us expected it would. We're looking at a potent mix of a global pandemic, global warming, the resurgence of authoritarianism, white nationalism, and war that again threatens to consume the planet. It can feel frustrating and hopeless. And those are just a few of the issues that are pervasive and in people's consciousness regularly. Still, with all of that going...
Jul 14, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Would you ever think that the lessons learned in the corporate world could be applied to summiting mountains? In this episode, Vivian James Rigney’s compelling and often harrowing true account of summiting Everest offers a unique window into lessons on leadership and what it takes to succeed in any circumstance. As an executive coach and globally recognized authority on leadership and teamwork in business, Rigney relied on skills learned in the corporate world in addition to physical training to...
Jul 07, 2022•49 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast Many people associate successful leadership with the arrogance, charisma, or narcissism that comes with a big ego. In this episode, Amer Kaissi shatters these common myths about ego-driven leadership and gives you practical tools to lead with humility and ambition. Humility actually requires ambition, courage, and fierce determination - and the most successful leaders have these characteristics. It’s what Kaissi calls Humbitious. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discu...
Jul 01, 2022•59 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast Have you faced complex problems that require quick decisions in the face of uncertain outcomes? In this episode, CEO, entrepreneur, and strategist Everett Harper delivers a pragmatic take on solving complex problems by making decisions through uncertainty. Harper discusses a set of practices, processes, and infrastructure that addresses complex problems alongside a set of methods to systematize, scale, and share best practices throughout an organization. You’ll learn to discover insights quickly...
Jun 23, 2022•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Compassionate leaders are not weak. They are tough leaders who understand that they can be good to their people and deliver stronger results. In fact, taking care of your people actually leads to better results and creates sustainable commitment to an organization’s mission and values. In this episode, Donato Tramuto, recognized CEO, business leader, innovator, and philanthropist makes the case that compassion is a key leadership principle that powerfully drives trust, success, and innovation wh...
Jun 16, 2022•52 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast 
