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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LATEST EPISODE
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, [...]
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 [...]
Episode #358: Stephen Covey – The One Thing That Changes Everything (Trust)
Stephen M. R. Covey is a New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The SPEED of Trust—The One Thing That Changes Everything. He is the former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which, under his stewardship, became the largest leadership development company in the world. Stephen personally led the [...]
Episode #357: Stanley McChrystal – Leadership In Uncertain Times
General (ret) Stan McChrystal is the founder and CEO of McChrystal Group. During his 34-year military career, he commanded all forces in Afghanistan, the Joint Special Operations Command and served as Director of Operations for the Pentagon. His command included more than 150,000 troops from 45 allied countries. In 2013, Stan published [...]
Episode #356: Stewart Friedman – How To Parent With Purpose & Fuel Your Career
Stew Friedman is an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been on the faculty since 1984. He earned PhD from the University of Michigan. As founding director of The Wharton Leadership Program, in 1991 he initiated the required MBA and Undergraduate leadership courses. Friedman [...]
Episode #355: Ramit Sethi – How To Live A Rich Life
Ramit Sethi is the New York Times best-selling author of I Will Teach You To Be Rich. He co-founded PBwiki and graduated from Stanford, where he studied technology and psychology. His blog, iwillteachyoutoberich.com, hosts over 1,000,000 readers every month. They read his material to learn how to use psychology and systems to [...]
Episode #354: WELCOME TO MANAGEMENT Book Launch Party With Doug Meyer
This is the recording from the conversation I had with Co-Founder/President of Brixey & Meyer, Doug Meyer, in front of many of our friends, clients, and colleagues at the Dayton office of Brixey & Meyer. WELCOME TO MANAGEMENT provides practical, actionable advice to help new managers build and lead committed teams in [...]
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- Episode #655: Morgan Housel – The Simple Formula For Happiness, Betting on Others, Gaining Independence & Purpose, Family Vacation Secrets, The Art of Spending Money, & The Death Bed Lesson Every Leader Needs to Hear
- Episode #654: Jake Tapper – The Most Important Leadership Skill, Handling Criticism, Chasing Your Curiosity, Understanding Tradeoffs, Responding to Rejection, and Being So Good They Can’t Ignore You
- Episode #653: Sukhinder Singh Cassidy – Becoming a CEO, Transforming a Company, Earning the Promotion, Knowing Your Non-Negotiables, & Hiring Excellent Leaders
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