THE LEARNING LEADER SHOW
Welcome to The Learning Leader Show. My mission is to have deep conversations with the world’s most thoughtful leaders and share their useful life stories and leadership wisdom. I speak with CEOs, Special Forces Operators, Entrepreneurs, Best-Selling Authors, Professional Athletes, and more. Our conversations are open dialogs where my guests share their most valuable experiences and learnings for the benefit of The Learning Leader Show audience. You will find links to each episode and the corresponding show notes at the bottom of this page.
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Episode List & Show Notes
All episodes are listed below, newest first. Each episode link has show notes with major topics discussed and links to books & other resources mentioned in the episode.
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Episode #631: Bert Bean & Sam Kaufman – Obsession, Grit, Growth-Mindset, Winning in a Tough Market, Hiring for Potential, Running Ultra-Marathons, and Caring For Your People
Bert Bean is the CEO of Insight Global. Insight Global is a 4.3-billion-dollar, industry-leading talent and technical services firm based in Atlanta, GA. Bert started with Insight Global in 2005 as a Recruiter and has since worked his way up within the company, exemplifying Insight Global’s “promote from within” culture. Sam Kaufman [...]
Episode #630: Marcus Sheridan – How To Build Trust, Drive Sales, and Earn Endless Customers
As an owner of IMPACT, Marcus Sheridan has established one of the country’s most successful digital sales and marketing agencies. He is the author of the international best-seller They Ask, You Answer… His new book is called Endless Customers: A Proven System to Build Trust, Drive Sales, and Become the Market Leader. [...]
Episode #629: Anne-Laure Le Cunff – How To Live Freely In a Goal Obsessed World (Tiny Experiments)
Dr. Anne-Laure Le Cunff, is a neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and writer. As the founder of Ness Labs, Anne-Laure writes to over 100,000 subscribers about evidence-based ways to achieve more without sacrificing their mental health. Her book, Tiny Experiments, is a transformative guide for living a more experimental life, turning uncertainty into curiosity, and [...]
Episode #628: Anthony Consigli – Digging Graves, Playing Football at Harvard, Learning From Failure, Taking Big Chances, & Growing a Business From $3 Million to $4 Billion
Anthony Consigli is the CEO of Consigli Construction. Consigli is a 4th generation family-led construction company founded in 1905. When Anthony became the CEO in 1997, the company had 25 employees and did about $3 million in revenue. As of today, they have 2,400 employees and will do $3.5 BILLION in revenue. [...]
Episode #627: Jenny Wood – How To Go After What You Want and Get It (Wild Courage)
In Jenny Wood’s 18 years at Google, she grew from entry-level to executive, and she most recently led a large operations team that helped drive tens of billions of revenue per year. In 2021, she started a passion project within Google called Own Your Career, which grew into one of the largest [...]
Episode #626: Rob Kimbel – Living By Your Values, Caring For Your People, Taking The Back Seat, & Creating Opportunities That Improve Lives
Rob Kimbel is an owner of Kimbel Mechanical Systems, located in Fayetteville, AR. He joined KMS in 1993, and in 2001, at the age of 26, he became the CEO and grew what was then 3 local plumbers making a couple hundred thousand dollars a year into a national company with more [...]
Episode #625: Melody Wilding – Effectively Managing Up, Designing Your 1:1s, Getting Paid What You’re Worth, Creating The 1 Pagers, & Earning The Triple Win
Melody Wilding is a professor of human behavior at Hunter College. Her background as a therapist and emotions researcher informs her unique approach, weaving evidence-based neuroscience and psychology with professional development. She is the author of Trust Yourself and Managing Up: How to Get What You Need from the People in Charge. Watch our conversation [...]
Episode #624: Chris Beresford-Hill – Writing Excellent Cold-Emails, Taking Responsibility of Your Career, Pushing Your Edges, Becoming Dave Matthews’ Pen Pal, Building Culture, & Leading a Creative Agency
Chris Beresford-Hill is the Worldwide Chief Creative Officer at BBDO. Previously he spent 2 years as North America President and CCO of Ogilvy, where he helped bring the agency and its clients a new level of relevance. He brought Workday to the Super Bowl, led the team that brought in the Verizon [...]
Episode #623: Stu McLaren – Building Communities, Stories About Transformation, A World-Class Onboarding Process, & The Business Model of The Future
Stu McLaren is the go-to person for turning passion into profit through membership businesses. As the founder of The Membership Experience and co-founder of Membership.io, Stu has helped thousands of entrepreneurs create recurring revenue and thriving communities by leveraging his proven membership strategies. Watch our conversation on YouTube. And SUBSCRIBE! This is [...]
Episode #622: Alex Hutchinson – Why We Seek Big Challenges, Adding Texture To Time, The Explorers Gene, Working Through Uncertainty, Tom Hanks, and Pushing The Limits of Human Performance
Alex Hutchinson is the New York Times bestselling author of Endure and a National Magazine Award-winning journalist who has contributed to the New York Times, The New Yorker, and other publications. A former long-distance runner for the Canadian national team, he holds a master’s in journalism from Columbia and a Ph.D. in [...]
Episode #621: Rachel Botsman – Being Comfortable with Uncertainty, Giving Trust Before It’s Earned, Being on Time, Giving Great Keynotes, & How To Trust and Be Trusted
Rachel Botsman has become an expert on trust in the modern world. She’s written three books: What’s Mine is Yours, Who Can You Trust, and How to Trust and Be Trusted. Her TED talks have amassed over 5 million views. And she teaches at Oxford University’s Business School where she created pioneering [...]
Episode #620: Steve Magness – Defining Success on Your Terms, Setting Process Goals, Speaking Up in the Face of Fear, Winning The Inside Game, & Living a Meaningful Life
Steve Magness is world-renowned for his work on high performance. He’s the best-selling author of many books including, The Passion Paradox, Do Hard Things, and Win The Inside Game. Watch our conversation on YouTube. And SUBSCRIBE! This is brought to you by Insight Global. If you need to hire 1 person, hire [...]
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