Episodes

Our guest is Dan Carusi, Co-Founder & CEO of Red Paint Consulting. RPC specializes in performance improvement, change management, sales & business transformation, talent & leadership development, and experiential learning. Making people uncomfortable and leveraging experiential learning is the foundation to the RPC methodology. Their consultants are outdoor enthusiast's - rock climbers, hikers, surfers, mountaineers, horseback riders, and paddlers, all who are also successful business profession...

Harris Jensen, MD joins the "Leadership Disrupted" podcast to discuss how leaders can be drained by negative overthinking that causes problems to look more significant and more overwhelming than they need to be – leading to self-doubt, anxiety and self-sabotage. Harris also discusses his new book "Prescription for Positivity" which offers clinically proven techniques he's seen work for 30 years. And perhaps most importantly, when leaders model a positive mindset for their employees, it turns out...

Sonia McDonald is the CEO and founder of LeadershipHQ and McDonald Inc. Sonia is a leading keynote speaker, leadership advisor and award winning author. Her books Leadership Attitude, Just Rock It! and First Comes Courage are taking the world by storm and she is an in demand coach, facilitator, keynote speaker and advisor. Leadership stress is a topic of particular interest to Sonia and in this episode she shares her insights on the topic. Leaders today carry the burden of increasing stress leve...

Scott Margason has more than 30 years of experience as a consulting partner working with Fortune 500 senior leaders across the globe, and that cumulative experience has given Scott a unique and broadly informed perspective on leadership. In this episode Scott shares the values and core beliefs that drive him professionally and personally. His approach to leadership is human-centered, highly empathetic and focused on truly connecting with each of his colleagues. This approach drives his success a...

Peter Hess has decades of experience helping senior leaders for some of the largest companies in the world develop change management strategies and build their change leadership skills. He is adept at designing and facilitating collaborative processes to achieve consensus among diverse stakeholders. During this podcast Peter share insights related to people management, workforce development, facilitating employee engagement, and enhancing skill-sets for overall performance improvement.

Dan Rust interviews Joyce Andrasz, a dynamic facilitation consultant and faculty member at top-tier learning solutions organizations supporting Fortune 500 companies. Joyce delivers a broad range of professional and leadership development programs globally with a demonstrated capacity for quickly building rapport and credibility. In this episode Joyce focuses on the development of emerging leaders, sharing her insights related to coaching and career development for early leaders.

In this episode Colin Lovering shares his experience and insights related to leadership development and the optimal approaches of the most effective leaders in today's complex and ever-evolving business environment. In particular Colin focuses on the power of leadership empathy. Colin Lovering is a British national who has lived in Romania for 14 years, building a successful international career in manufacturing, operations, sales, and business performance consultancy. After working in the UK, F...

The CEO of Infopro Learning shares his experiences and insights gained from leading a global organization of creatives and innovators. Sriraj Mallick discusses the impact of AI on leadership, the challenges of leading a global/remote/hybrid work team, and the importance of transparency in driving a high-growth business culture. Sriraj also shares his own journey of evolving as a leader, learning to draw excellence, engagement and commitment out of others rather than simply driving these through ...

Larry Julian, bestselling author of "God is My CEO," joins us to discuss the challenges many leaders face when trying to integrate their faith and business. When the demands of business seem to be at odds with the guidance of one's faith, how does a business leader make decisions? Larry has been coaching leaders for more than 20 years and shares insights from a lifetime of experience helping these leaders navigate the sometimes conflicting demands of business and faith.

Today's episode is focused on leading a team, a department or an entire organization AFTER a large layoff. I studied more than 8,000 employees who survived a corporate layoff and discovered that, on average, their productivity, work quality and engagement all declined significantly. Retention rates of these employees also declined sharply, so employers were losing more of those they had planned to keep. Even the layoff of only a few, or even just one employee, can have a significant negative imp...

The phrase “First Wave DEI” refers the time period before May of 2022, with many decades of slow (and unsteady) progress toward greater awareness (and in some cases, appreciation) of the societal importance of diversity, equity and inclusion. Race, gender and sexuality were the primary focus of DEI initiatives during this period. In the workplace, Human Resources departments were primarily responsible for establishing and enforcing equitable policies. The “Second Wave DEI” period began in the wa...

Once again I was NOT invited to the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland this January. So while government leaders were rubbing shoulders with big business, big philanthropy, big media, and other cultural leaders to, as they say, SHAPE global, regional and industry agendas, for the rest of us, I was having conversations with what I like to call WORKING leaders. People like the CEO of a $50 million manufacturing company in Ohio, the VP of marketing for a global food distributor, ...

We look back at the year 2022. There were plenty of interesting and unexpected things that happened this past year to provide us with leadership lessons and observations IF you are paying attention and asking the right questions.

In this episode we will help leaders understand the approach of an optimal leader coach, and align coaching style with the employee’s competency/skill level. Performance coaching starts with a strong coaching relationship of trust, going in both directions. Followed by clearly defined performance objectives and standards. Good coaches measure individual and group contributions against clearly defined standards for performance. When gaps are identified, these are clearly and positively communicat...

As a leader, if you are wondering what to do about quiet quitting, I suggest you start by focusing on yourself. Because the most recent research and survey data shows that LOUD Leaders have 30-40% fewer quiet quitters. "Quiet Quitters" are disengaged empl

As a leader, if you are wondering what to do about quiet quitting, I suggest you start by focusing on yourself. Because the most recent research and survey data shows that LOUD Leaders have 30-40% fewer quiet quitters. "Quiet Quitters" are disengaged employees who choose to stay in their jobs, but are doing only what is specifically required of them at work and nothing more. Many of these employees will tell you that they are "working to live" as opposed to "living to work." Whatever the root ca...

Quiet quitting is just the latest popular term referencing employees who put no more effort into their jobs than absolutely necessary. The bad news is that employee engagement has been in decline for more than 20 years, and yet there is GOOD NEWS because employees have told us EXACTLY what it takes to drive their full engagement. In this episode we start with the role of leaders in boosting (or destroying) engagement, and the primary focus of those exceptional leaders who have the proven ability...

We are living and working in disruptive times: technology-driven upheavals, economic recession and inflation and supply chain issues, global pandemics, terrorist attacks, trade wars, culture wars. Employee expectations for their relationship with employers and leaders are evolving. And as employees needs and priorities change, it makes sense that leadership would need to evolve as well. In this disrupted landscape we need to do more to develop evolved leaders who can best serve their companies a...

This is a brief introduction to the "Leadership, Disrupted" podcast which explores the art and science of high-impact leadership in a disrupted world where the future of business, of capitalism, of our society, and yes, of leadership is changing

This is a brief introduction to the "Leadership, Disrupted" podcast which explores the art and science of high-impact leadership in a disrupted world where the future – of business, of capitalism, of our society, and yes, of leadership – is changing and evolving and where none of us can be certain what the future holds, but we are sure that it will be fundamentally different. All of this will be discussed from the perspective of real leaders in the real world who are changing the way business wo...