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 #370: Steve Herz – Don’t Take Yes For An Answer
Steve Herz is President of The Montag Group, a sports and entertainment talent and marketing consultancy. He is also a career advisor to CEOs, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and young professionals. Prior to joining TMG, Steve was the President and Founding Partner of IF Management, an industry leader whose broadcasting division became one of the [...]
Episode #369: Nancy Koehn & Adi Ignatius – Courageous Leaders Are Forged In Crisis
Nancy Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn’s research focuses on how leaders, past and present, craft lives of purpose, worth, and impact. She’s the author of multiple books, her most recent: Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous [...]
Episode #368: Jim McKelvey – How To Build An Unbeatable Business (One Crazy Idea At A Time)
Jim McKelvey is the co-founder of Square, was chairman of its board until 2010, and still serves on the Board of Directors. In 2011, his iconic card reader design was inducted into the Museum of Modern Art. Jim also founded Invisibly, a project to rewire the economics of online content; LaunchCode, a [...]
Episode #367: Ozan Varol – How To Think Like A Rocket Scientist
Ozan Varol is a rocket scientist, award-winning law professor, and author of non-fiction books. A native of Istanbul, Turkey, Ozan grew up in a family of no English speakers. He moved to the United States by himself at 17 to attend Cornell University and major in planetary sciences. While there, he served [...]
Episode #366: Laurie Santos – The Science Of Well-Being (Psychology & The Good Life)
Laurie Santos is a cognitive scientist and Professor of Psychology at Yale University. She has been a featured TED speaker and has been listed in Popular Science as one of their “Brilliant Ten” young scientists in 2007 as well as in Time magazine as a “Leading Campus Celebrity” in 2013. In January 2018, her course titled Psychology and [...]
Episode #365: James Altucher – How To Become An Idea Machine (The 10,000 Experiment Rule)
James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, chess master and prolific writer. He has started and run more than 20 companies and is currently invested in over 30. He is the author of 18 books, including WSJ best-sellers: ‘The Power of No’ and ‘Choose Yourself’. His latest book, “Reinvent Yourself” was [...]
Episode #364: Derek Sivers- How To Redefine Yourself, Make Big Decisions, & Live Life On Your Terms
Derek Sivers is a writer, musician, programmer, and entrepreneur best known for being the founder and former president of CD Baby, an online CD store for independent musicians. A professional musician since 1987, Sivers started CD Baby by accident in 1997 when he was selling his own CD on his website, and [...]
Episode #363: Admiral William McRaven – The Bin Laden Raid, Saving Captain Phillips, & Leadership Lessons For Life
Admiral William McRaven is a retired U.S. Navy four-star Admiral. As the commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, he led a force of 69,000 men and women and was responsible for conducting counter-terrorism operations worldwide. McRaven oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He [...]
Episode #362: Chris McChesney – How To Achieve Your Wildly Important Goals
Chris McChesney is a Wall Street Journal #1 Best-Selling Author – The 4 Disciplines of Execution. In his current role of Global Practice Leader of Execution for FranklinCovey, Chris is one of the primary developers of The 4 Disciplines of Execution. For more than a decade, he has led FranklinCovey’s design and [...]
Episode #361: John Maxwell – The Essential Changes Every Leader Must Embrace
John C. Maxwell is a No. 1 New York Times bestselling author, coach and speaker who has sold more than 24 million books in 50 languages. Maxwell was identified as the most popular leadership expert in the world by Inc. magazine in 2014. We recorded this episode alongside hundreds of our friends [...]
Episode #360: Kirk Herbstreit – How To Prepare Like The Best Broadcaster In The Business
Kirk Herbstreit is widely recognized as one of the best college football minds of his generation. He has served as an analyst for ESPN’s eight-time Sports Emmy Award-winning College GameDay Built since August 1996, when he joined then-host Chris Fowler and co-analyst Lee Corso. For his efforts there, he has earned seven [...]
Episode #359: Pat Lencioni – Three Actions For Leaders In Challenging Times
Pat Lencioni is one of the founders of The Table Group and is the pioneer of the organizational health movement. He is the author of 11 books (The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team, The Ideal Team Player, The Motive), which have sold over 6 million copies and been translated into more than [...]
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