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Aaron Lee
You are an expert at your business strategy, but now it's time to build your People Strategy. On the New Generation Leader, we'll build your toolkit for a high performing team, increasing your profits and making a significant impact in your community.
The building blocks of a New Generation Leader will help you be the leader our digital world needs you to be.
Leadership is built on consistency, presence, and the small actions you do when no one’s watching. Your true impact often lives in the details you repeat every day, not the grand gestures.
You never find out what you did for someone else. There's no report, and the moments that end up mattering most to the people you lead are almost never the ones that felt important while you were in them. That gap makes leaders anxious, and anxious leaders add. More meetings, more presence, more being a little bit of everything for everyone, because if you can't tell which part of you is landing, doing all of it feels like the safe bet.
Hard conversations, building culture - all this and more in this Lasso Leadership conversation!
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Show outline* 01:49 The idea everything hangs on: you never see your impact * 03:26 Status traded for proximity, and who gets your best * 05:29 Correcting someone immediately without correcting them loudly * 10:50 What years of showing up buys, and the invisible work behind presence * 16:32 Refounding a culture, and what that says about what was actually built * 18:33 The Guardian on your team, and the line between average and common * 22:35 The 70/30 principle: your weakness belongs to somebody else
Resources mentioned Ted Lasso*, Season 4, Episode 1, "Home," Apple TV+ (released August 5, 2026): https://tv.apple.com/show/ted-lasso * Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, 18th and Vine, Kansas City, Missouri: https://nlbm.com * Satchel Paige, on average and common: "Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." * The Guardian, one of the 5 Voices: https://leadersrisingnetwork.com/5-voices?utm_source=show_notes&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=ngl-ep83.
Connect* Aaron Lee on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronleeco * All episodes: https://newgeneration.media/episodes?utm_source=show_notes&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=ngl-ep83
Phil Martelli Jr. just finished his first year as head men's basketball coach at VCU. The team won the Atlantic 10, made the NCAA tournament, and beat North Carolina along the way. His kids cut down two championship nets in two seasons, once at Bryant in the America East and once at VCU. He sat down to talk through what it actually takes to build a program at that pace.
The conversation runs through the anchors of his coaching philosophy. One mistake can hurt you. The second mistake kills you. He carries that into how he hires staff, recruits players, manages a season, and shows up in his own family.
Phil talks about the day at the start of his career when he turned down a grad-assistant job at Clemson to stay at Central Connecticut. Six weeks later, his future wife walked into his camp. He talks about being the best teammate even when he was never the best player. He talks about Lincoln, twenty-nine failed businesses behind one success, and a phone full of notes on people the world calls winners and the wreckage that sits right behind them.
This is a conversation about how a coach builds the kind of program that wins early without burning the people inside it.
Show Outline* 02:30 - Peaks and valleys. Knowing when to ramp up and when to bring it back down. * 03:15 - Year one to year two. Building the right team at the staff level first. * 04:40 - Talent and character, not either or. * 05:40 - Consistency through the rough patches. No magic wand, no secret. * 07:10 - Where the values came from. His dad, and being around good people. * 08:30 - Always the best teammate, even when he was never the best player. * 09:40 - Twenty-four years of fingerprints. Every coach he ever worked for shows up somewhere. * 11:00 - Turning down Clemson. The decision that did not look right to anyone else. * 17:00 - Blending family and program. Why the kids are in the office and on the road. * 21:30 - Setting the example. You cannot ask for consistency you do not give. * 24:30 - The first mistake hurts you. The second mistake kills you. * 26:00 - Fascinated with failure. Lincoln, twenty-nine failed businesses, and the phone full of notes. * 28:30 - Easy to care about number five when he drops twenty and ten. Caring about the person is the work. * 30:30 - What he wants his players to remember at thirty-five and forty.
About the guestPhil Martelli Jr. is the head men's basketball coach at Virginia Commonwealth University. He played for his father, the longtime Saint Joseph's head coach, and built his coaching career across stops at Central Connecticut, Manhattan, Niagara, Delaware, the Delaware 87ers (NBA G League), Saint Joseph's, and Bryant. He took over at Bryant in 2022, won the America East regular-season title, and was named America East Coach of the Year. He arrived at VCU ahead of the 2024 to 2025 season and led the Rams to the Atlantic 10 championship and an NCAA tournament appearance in his first year on the job.
Links* VCU Men's Basketball: vcuathletics.com * Phil Martelli Jr. @pmjr10 on X (Twitter) * Atlantic 10 Conference: atlantic10.com
Will didn't set out to become Richmond's leading voice on artificial intelligence. A chance encounter during a Chamber RVA trip to DC, a conversation with Senator Mark Warner fresh off a meeting with Sam Altman, and a community ready for a catalyst moment changed everything. Will shares the origin story of AI Ready RVA and why he believes Richmond is at a turning point.
From raking leaves as a kid in a cash-strapped household to buying into a business at age 20, Will has always been wired to build. He opens up about the tension between founding and operating, why great teams matter more than great founders, and what it actually takes to move a status quo business into a growth business.
Will's honest take on AI adoption, learning by doing, and finding a buddy to grow alongside makes this a practical, grounding episode for any leader navigating change right now.
Resources & Links
- Exponent 21: exponent21.com
- AI Ready RVA: [aireadyrva.com]
- Will on LinkedIn: [linkedin.com/in/willharris]
- Leadership Metro Richmond: [leadershipmetrorichmond.org]
Episode Timestamps
- 00:21 - How Will became Richmond's AI voice
- 01:30 - The Chamber RVA DC trip that started it all
- 02:45 - Why Richmond's poverty rate fueled Will's mission
- 04:00 - AI Ready RVA: what it is and how it runs
- 04:41 - How other cities and regions are funding AI hubs
- 07:35 - Will's entrepreneurial roots and a cash-strapped childhood
- 09:10 - Why he has always preferred starting over managing
- 11:20 - Founders who stay too long and the status quo trap
- 12:21 - Why great teams are the real answer for founders
- 14:27 - The Tim Ferriss myth and appreciating operational discipline
- 17:51 - What Will would tell his 20-year-old self
- 19:54 - Why fear of the unknown only shrinks by doing
- 21:38 - How the brain shortchanges us from starting
- 23:34 - Will's one piece of advice for the AI-skeptical: find a buddy
- 25:36 - On giving yourself permission to quit and try something new
Mack Garrison didn't plan to become an entrepreneur. He decided the day before launching Dash Studio.
What started as a single CNN project with his co-worker turned into a nearly 10-year journey building one of the leading animation and motion design agencies in the Southeast.
Mack shares how Dash Studio has thrived on a foundation of creativity and community. With 84% of their work coming through referrals, he breaks down why relationships matter more than sales tactics. From throwing the annual Dash Bash animation festival in Raleigh to building intentional remote team culture, Mack reveals the systems that keep distributed creative teams connected and productive.
The conversation tackles AI's impact on creative work, why supporting your competition pays off, and the research showing givers outperform takers in the long run. Mack offers practical frameworks for leaders navigating change, building networks, and fostering collaboration across departments.
Resources Mentioned
- Dash Studio: https://dashstudio.net
- Dash Bash Festival (Raleigh, NC): DashBash.net
- "The Art of Gathering" by Priya Parker
- Mack on LinkedIn: Mack Garrison
- Instagram: @dash_nc
Key Moments
00:00 - The accidental entrepreneur: deciding to start a business overnight
02:30 - Winning the Riot Games project with impossible deadlines
04:15 - Building on creativity and community as core pillars
08:30 - Remote team rhythms: Monday photos, Tuesday inspiration, monthly recaps
11:20 - Getting the whole team together twice a year
16:00 - How 84% of projects come from referrals and relationships
20:45 - Trial and error in building company culture
24:30 - Where meetings actually begin: the power of intentionality
28:00 - Balancing visionary thinking with operational structure
31:15 - AI won't replace creativity—it will evolve it
35:45 - Leaders should experiment first, then empower teams
40:20 - The future is collaborative: boutique agencies working together
43:30 - Givers vs. takers: the long-term business strategy that wins
Cory Nichols knows something most leaders miss: the debt stacking up in your organization isn't just financial. As a financial advisor turned entrepreneur, Cory breaks down how avoidance — whether in finances or leadership — creates compounding problems that become harder to solve over time.
In this conversation, Cory introduces the concept of "leadership debt" and shares his philosophy on getting people to take action through moments of realization rather than force. He unpacks the critical difference between wringing the sponge (extracting short-term results at the cost of people) versus creating a warm, dry environment where productivity happens naturally.
From his firing at a small company to launching his own practice, Cory reveals what he learned about values-driven leadership, the dangers of metrics-only management, and why remembering your team members' kids' names matters more than utilization rates. He also discusses Cash Camp, his financial literacy program teaching kids foundational money skills that most adults still haven't mastered.
Resources We Mentioned:
- Die with Zero (book)
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (book)
- Cash Camp Financial Literacy Program
Connect with Cory Nichols
- Instagram: @cory__nichols
- Cash Camp Kids: Available via Cory's Instagram or CashCampKids.com
Key Moments:
- 00:00:22 - Leadership debt vs. financial debt: how avoidance compounds problems
- 00:03:45 - Creating moments of realization instead of forcing change
- 00:05:30 - The vital signs approach: tracking income, expenses, and savings rate
- 00:08:30 - The sponge analogy: wringing profits vs. sustainable growth
- 00:12:15 - Boeing's "finds a way" value and its unintended consequences
- 00:15:40 - Human-first leadership: values that prioritize people over metrics
- 00:18:40 - Taking 60 employees to birthday lunches across Virginia
- 00:24:50 - Getting fired and the myth of six-figure satisfaction
- 00:31:20 - Roller coaster investing: managing risk so people don't jump off
- 00:38:15 - Cash Camp: teaching kids financial skills vs. giving handouts
- 00:42:30 - Financial anxiety affects everyone, regardless of wealth level
- 00:46:10 - Vital signs approach: tracking your financial health quarterly
- 00:48:35 - The 1% annual increase strategy for retirement savings
- 00:51:20 - Advice to younger self: it's gonna get messy, and that's okay
What happens when you stop drifting in your learning—and start paying attention on purpose?
In this year-end review episode of The New Generation Leader Podcast, Aaron reflects on one simple but transformative habit: tracking what he read in 2025. What started as a sobering realization — he only read 6 books in all of 2024! — turned into an unexpected journey through 61 books, spanning leadership, sales, culture, memoirs, history, fiction, and everything in between.
Read the full list > AaronLee.co/61-books
In this episode, Aaron shares:
- Why he set a bold reading goal (and how it quietly reshaped his mindset)
- The themes that surprised him most
- The books that left a lasting imprint
- How reading outside your comfort zone expands leadership perspective
- Why slowing down, changing pace, and even reading fiction matters
Whether you’re a lifelong reader or someone trying to rediscover the habit, this episode is an invitation to keep learning, stay curious, and enter the new year with a wider lens.
Show Outline
00:00 – Year-End Reflection & the Reading Wake-Up Call
03:30 – Setting an Audacious Goal: A Book a Week
08:30 – The System That Made 61 Books Possible
14:30 – Foundational Leadership & Mindset Reads
21:00 – Expanding Perspective Through History & Memoir
28:30 – Brand Stories, Culture & Long-Term Vision
36:30 – The Unexpected Sales Theme of the Year
44:30 – Fiction, Downshifting & Reading for Enjoyment
51:30 – Final Reflections & Looking Ahead
Top 5 Books
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Slow Productivity — Cal Newport
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Shoe Dog — Phil Knight
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Love as a Business Strategy — Mohammad Anwar
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It Takes What It Takes — Trevor Moawad
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The Barn — Wright Thompson
What happens when you take one of the winningest Division 2 men's basketball programs, promote your assistant coach to head coach to replace a retiring legend, and move to Division 1 all in the same off-season.
In the case of Queens University men's basketball, you accomplish a lot. The dedication, and the focus of Coach Grant Leonard is truly extraordinary.
I love how he has built culture, invested in the lives of his student-athletes, and built a team and a support structure around them to help them bring the best every single game as they head into season 2 as a Division One program.
Show Outline
- 1:23 - The monumental accomplishment of transitioning to Division 1
- 3:33 - The focus on student experience at Queens University
- 6:27 - The importance of servant leadership in the program
- 8:40 - The demands of transitioning to Division I
- 10:10 - Preparing for the upcoming season schedule
- 11:21 - Embracing adversity and focusing on details
- 17:24 - The challenges of transitioning to Division I
- 19:01 - Tools for player development and improvement
- 22:21 - Views on NIL and its impact on recruiting and retention
- 24:16 - Coach's personal time
- 24:41 - Transition to Division One
- 26:43 - Hiring criteria
- 31:43 - Coach's emphasis on growth and development
- 32:26 - How to follow the Queen's University men's basketball program
- 32:45 - Unique experience at Queen's University basketball games
Quotes from Coach Grant Leonard
"How we handle adversity will define our season because we will get knocked down. Can we pick ourselves back up? Can we get to the next play? Can we get to the next game and not allow a hangover effect?"
"[In Division 1,] our players had an unbelievable opportunity to play on a bigger stage, to play in major cities, and I thought it was awesome for them and really excited that our institution decided to do that."
Connect with Coach Leonard and Queens Basketball
- @QUCoachGrant on Instagram
- @Queens_MBB on Instagram
- Queens Basketball
Ava Juergens is an incredible, trailblazing entrepreneur. She started real estate investing at 15 while still in high school and founded an investment company, achieving a staggering $900,000 in assets.
By the time she finished her junior year and graduated high school. Then driven by her desire to inspire and assist others, Ava took to social media to build her brand, and this new passion allowed her to connect with a broader audience.
Tens of thousands of followers in no time flat and led her to start her new business. Ava's accomplishments in business are undeniably impressive, but her interests go beyond entrepreneurship.
She deeply loves fitness and well-being and has a keen understanding of finance. Ava is an incredibly remarkable business leader.
Show Outline
- 1:12 - The first inclination to go into business
- 4:06 - Influences and learning sources
- 5:40 - Launching a business with a step-by-step plan
- 6:46 - The Work Routine
- 7:17 - Importance of Education and Mentors
- 9:35 - Long-Term Goals and Becoming a Billionaire
- 14:26 - The need for a mentor or education
- 15:33 - Exploring AI in social media marketing
- 17:17 - The importance of decreasing churn
Connect with Ava
- TikTok
Before being nominated for 61 Primetime Emmy Awards. Ted Lasso was a short, silly sketch created by Jason Sudeikis for NBC Sports.
What can an American football coach teach us about leadership through a British football, i.e., a soccer club?
Well, it turns out a lot. In an endearing, funny, almost outlandish kind of way, Coach Lasso will truly make you a believer.
In this series on our Athletics Leadership channel, we are going to uncover the timeless truths of leadership as told by Ted Lasso himself.
Show Outline
- 0:55 - Emotional Farewell between Coach Lasso and his Son
- 1:22 - Importance of Understanding Well-being and Motivation of Team Members
- 2:31 - Contrasting Leadership Styles: Coach Lasso vs Coach Nathan
- 12:38 - Building a Culture Based on Ted's Lessons
- 13:22 - Let the Poop Flow
Ted Lasso is property of Apple TV+ and Warner Brothers Studios.
Human trafficking is one of the hardest issues facing our world today. It's challenging. It's heartbreaking.
And the details of what survivors are going through will truly eat at your core.
We're talking to Brittany Dunn, the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Safe House Project, an organization that's going to give you hope about this issue, give you the tools that you need to lead and respond to this.
Whether you are a teacher, an educator, a healthcare worker, or a citizen, there is a way that you can help respond.
Brittany's family is deeply entwined in the military: her stories on their military background and her background leading this organization will inspire you.
We want you to find hope as we talk about trafficking in the US, how big the issue is, how you can respond, and how you can lead and build trust every day.
Show Outline
- 01:14 - The beginning of the journey with Safehouse Project
- 03:20 - Building trust and finding balance
- 06:29 - Applying military principles to leadership
- 07:42 - Building Cross-Functional Teams and Extreme Ownership
- 08:40 - Resilience and Balancing Push and Rest
- 11:11 - Successes and Stories of Survivors
- 15:16 - Increasing Survivor Identification and Emergency Support Services
- 16:23 - Increasing Safehouse Capacity and Legislative Change
- 18:26 - Resources and Training for Awareness and Prevention
- 23:32 - Continual Learning and Staff Feedback
- 24:04 - Personal Leadership Journey
- 26:45 - Leading a Coalition to Eradicate Trafficking
Quotes
- "The greatest parts of my life have been those that I can't plan."
- "Every time a single survivor chooses to exit, chooses to trust us, chooses to make that brave, brave step, there's nothing greater."
- "There's such a great opportunity for healthcare leaders, for educators, for any citizen to pay attention, to know the signs and what's going on, and make a difference and truly make an impact."
- "This work is hard, but it is beautiful, and it's in all of the mess that so much beauty is created."
Follow Safe House Project
- SafeHouseProject.org - join the mailing list
- @SafeHouseProject / Instagram
- HOPE Training for Healthcare Workers
- I Am OnWatch Training for Everyone
- Connect with Brittany Dunn, COO on LinkedIn
Episode 46 - Full Transcript
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From middle school principal to college basketball coach, Coach Tim Taylor's experiences shape how he leads the women's basketball program at the US Naval Academy.
Coach Taylor brings key lessons that have shaped his approach to leadership and discusses the importance of focusing on the process rather than just the results.
Coach Taylor also addresses the challenges of coaching at the Naval Academy, including the strict military culture and the need to educate others about the academy's unique opportunities.
Outline
- 01:14 - The importance of process over results
- 02:50 - Letting experts do what they do
- 04:15 - Being for others
- 06:11 - Relationships and Fit
- 07:45 - Impact of COVID and Rule Changes
- 09:16 - NIL and Salary Cap
- 11:35 - The impact of relationships in college coaching
- 12:59 - The importance of influence in leadership
- 15:51 - Challenges in recruiting and building successful programs at the Naval Academy
- 17:58 - The challenges of rebuilding
- 18:48 - Creating a fun and comfortable environment
- 21:06 - Breaking down hierarchy and changing culture
- 23:26 - The benefits of attending the US Naval Academy
- 24:09 - Preparing students for challenges at the academy
- 24:51 - Impact and leadership at the academy
- 29:43 - The importance of inclusive leadership
- 30:01 - The impact of custodians in leadership
- 31:26 - The challenge of having honest conversations in leadership
Quotes
- "It's not the result, it's the process."
- "You don't really find out what a true leader is until they've hit rock bottom."
Follow Coach Taylor and Navy Women's Basketball
- @NavyWBB - Instagram
Intro
Ryan's journey took a turn when a career-ending injury shattered his dreams of playing professional baseball.
But instead of giving up, he pivoted and started a financial planning firm specializing in helping professional athletes with their financial challenges.
Now, he's extending his expertise to college student-athletes, focusing on building their personal brand and translating their on-field success into career success.
Outline
- 00:00 - Ryan's journey from being a collegiate baseball player to starting a financial planning firm and working with athletes.
- 01:37 - Ryan's Perspective on Change and Overcoming Challenges
- 08:34 - The need for development opportunities for athletes
- 09:58 - Applying athletic skills to business success
- 14:30 - Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) and its impact on college athletes
- 16:58 - The Influence of Narrative on Name Image and Likeness
- 19:18 - Impact of Outside Voices on Coaches and Programs
- 23:34 - Protecting Reputation and Branding in the Age of Social Media
- 24:54 - The impact of playing with Michael Jordan on athletes' performance and brand association.
- 26:23 - The importance of self-awareness and how it influences future earnings ability.
Quotes
"Brand, I always say, is just a fancy word for reputation."
"They bled, they sweat, they sacrificed for this pro option and then they get there and they're like, oh shoot, there's something after this and maybe I need to start figuring out what I'm going to do."
"I can either choose to participate in it or I can choose not to participate in it and to me that really means, have a glass half full sort of mindset, let's make the best of the situation and let's adapt to what is happening and then let's figure out how we can move forward in a positive direction regardless."
Follow Ryan
- NIL Undressed Podcast
- Instagram: @amust.win
- Success Beyond Game Day
- AMustWin.com
Episode 44 - Full Transcript
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Picture this: you're a leader navigating the ever-changing world of college athletics.
How do you set down roots in a community and build a successful program?
Coach Sean O'Regan, head women's basketball coach at James Madison University, has the answer.
In this episode, Coach Regan shares his unique journey and the importance of having the right support system.
From the impact of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) on student-athletes to the challenges of communication in the modern era, Coach Regan's insights will leave you inspired and ready to take on any leadership role.
Show Outline
- 02:08 - Coach Regan's Journey at JMU: the key people who impacted his career and led him to stay rooted at JMU.
- 05:44 - Adapting to Changes in Collegiate Athletics: Coach Regan talks about how the landscape of collegiate athletics, including NIL and the transfer portal, has shifted his mindset in leading his team.
- 08:15 - The Importance of NIL for Student Athletes
- 09:07 - The Abuse and Challenges of NIL
- 11:47 - Communication Challenges in the Age of Social Media
- 15:27 - Impact of the transfer portal on program building and recruiting perspective
- 16:55 - Recruiting based on a player's desire to win rather than personal gain
- 20:01 - The challenges of leadership in the midst of changes in college athletics
- 23:20 - Building Trust and Communication with Players
- 25:02 - Maintaining Personal Well-being as a Coach
- 27:55 - Developing Support and Resources for Women's Basketball
- 30:20 - Vital Role of Community Support in Women's Basketball
- 33:23 - Importance of Communication and Explanation vs. Frustration in Coaching
Quotes from the Show
- On NIL: "the rule, the idea, and the essence of what was supposed to happen, I'm absolutely in for that."
- On the JMU coaching job: ""I think it's one of the best women's college basketball jobs in the country."
- "That's the fun part for me - if you feel valued, you feel you're relevant, and if you're relevant, you feel appreciated."
Episode 43 - Full Transcription
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Look around you.
It doesn’t take long to witness unrest, disruption, and chaos.
We feel it in our bones.
We see it in our streets.
Violent outbursts and market crashes take their toll. It’s tempting to isolate and insulate. We often settle for cynical minds and calloused hearts as a means of coping with the chaos.
Thankfully, there’s a proven path to peace. Author Jeremie Kubicek serves as our tour guide on a path that yields practical solutions. His ground-breaking Peace Index equips you to identify your perceived level of peace in five critical areas: Purpose, People, Place, Personal Health, and Provision.
But don’t get comfortable or critical—your score is a moving target that changes every day, hour-by-hour, just like life. You need a solid strategy that keeps you grounded and growing, personally and professionally.
Download the show notes at NewGenerationLeader.com/22
- 7:32 – Identify your Superpowers
- 10:03 – What is the Peace Index?
- 11:43 – Manage your emotions so other people don’t have to.
- 13:29 – Gallup’s global sadness study
- 16:16 – confronting the facade of peace
- 18:01 – how can you truly know your people as a leader
- 22:00 – The Peace Index + Mental Health
- 35:43 – The New Generation Leader question: Jeremie answers, “What do you wish you had learned earlier in your career?“
In the roller coaster of hiring, firing, staffing, recruiting, and overall people strategy, 2022 has brought a whole host of new challenges — and after 2.5 years of chaos at work, will it ever end?
Download the show notes at NewGenerationLeader.com/21
Feeling stuck in your leadership journey?
What if you could spend the next 4 months investing in yourself, finding balance, and developing your ideal leadership voice?
Come experience how hundreds of leaders have transformed their influence and found the sweet spot of leadership.
Visit the show notes and sign up for Leader Lab at NewGenerationLeader.com/20
How can you unlock your authentic purpose?
Jeff Lovell is an expert guide and coach for authentic living, and he will lay out a path for unlocking your own purpose.
How do we work with people who think differently? It's complex!
Teams who work together on the same widget should understand they are more than the production of the widget.
They are individuals with significant backgrounds, bringing a lot to the table. There's creativity and ingenuity in those stories if we can grow in our respect and understanding of each other.
Download the show notes at NewGenerationLeader.com/18
As we approach the 2-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses remain on the front lines. Nurses in hospitals and in doctor's offices. They have committed to serving, yet the stress remains. They are watching patients struggle and die alone or be separated from loved ones.
And every day, they are also treating patients with non-COVID diagnoses, struggling to meet these basic healthcare needs while navigating a pandemic under stress.
And in some cases, they cannot provide care to those individuals who need it most. The system is overburdened.
What can we do? How can we support our nurse friends? How can we encourage a new generation of nurses to start their careers despite the challenges the profession is facing?
Download the show notes at NewGenerationLeader.com/17
Teachers have increased their expert status as Tech support specialist. Social/Emotional Support. Public health practitioners. With a new pile of roles and responsibilities, and no more hours in a day or week, teachers and nurses find themselves as two occupations under extreme stress.
Today on the New Generation Leader, episode 16, we're celebrating teachers and sharing tools for reflection and health as we near the midpoint of the school year and the pandemic rages on.
Download the Show Notes at NewGenerationLeader.com/16.
It's almost time for the new year, but if you wait until all the headlines start talking about new year's resolutions, your team will be checked out and you'll miss your window of opportunity. How can you celebrate surviving -- and hopefully thriving -- in 2021 with your team as you wrap up the year?
Welcome to The New Generation Leader, Episode 15 - Celebrating 2021.
Download the show notes at NewGenerationLeader.com/15
The next wave of the pandemic is set to rewrite the landscape of the workforce. The return to the office building and in-person meetings resume will disrupt companies and upend teams.
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed wave after wave worldwide, wreaking havoc in every corner of culture and work. When employees return to the office, it’s likely not to look anything like what they left.
Welcome to The New Generation Leader, Episode 14 - The New Wave of the Pandemic.
Download the show notes at NewGenerationLeader.com/14
The culture you build will leave a trail of artifacts, either positive or negative, which have an impact on performance and the bottom line.
So what kind of artifacts does your team leave in its tracks?
Leaders define culture, so the opportunity to increase team performance is in your hands. Let’s dive into our conversation today with Tim Perseo.
Welcome to The New Generation Leader, Episode 13 - Leaders Define Culture.
Download the show notes at NewGenerationLeader.com/13
Have you wondered why your rising leaders just don’t deliver the way you do?
What if they aren’t the problem? What if you’re too accidental?
Welcome to The New Generation Leader, Episode 12 - Your Leadership Is Not An Accident.
Download the show notes at NewGenerationLeader.com/12
In an age where information is free and global connectivity puts the brilliance of far flung colleagues and gurus at everyone’s fingertips, how do you gain a competitive advantage?
Have you ever considered that your best competitive advantage could be relational?
The traditional career advancement model focuses heavily on IQ for “corporate ladder climbing” - that is, it prioritizes hard skills and measured intelligence benchmarks for promotion. However, in this new world where everyone has access to the same information and specialized skills are becoming less exclusive, your greatest asset lies in your ability to connect with people to form lasting, positive relationships. In that sense, the information economy has inadvertently given rise to the relational economy.
The ability to cultivate such relational influence is called “Relational Intelligence.”
Download the show notes at NewGenerationLeader.com/11
In a chaotic world, finding peace is a crucial tool in the leader’s toolbox. And when it comes to the perils and trials of leadership, every leader needs a toolkit.
After a year of living in a global pandemic, finding peace is all the more important for leaders to take on 2021.
Quantifying your peace provides a lens for analyzing, identifying, and categorizing pain points in our lives. It seems simple at face value, but if you dig deeper into your responses and use them as benchmarks over time, you’ll find there’s a lot more to this tool than meets the eye.
Download the show notes at NewGenerationLeader.com/10
Do we want to copy-paste and become just like someone else? Or do we want to understand our unique perspective and bring our true potential to the table?
As soon as any of us think we've got it all together and all figured out, we've probably reached the end of our effectiveness in this season.
In Episode 9, we sit down with Jonathan Kennedy, founder and CEO of Endeavor Capital, LLC, and the Endeavor Companies on his show, Leadership for Your Journey. Take a seat and join our conversation on Episode 9, The Leader in the Mirror.
Download the show notes at NewGenerationLeader.com/9
What makes a good leader?
If it is a person or a goal we are trying to mimic or impersonate, we are not reaching our true potential.
21st century leadership is influence, which is how we coach our people up to unlock their true potential.
Consider what it means to have that voice in your life, helping you process how to unlock your own true potential. Because you need your own custom leadership growth journey.
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Who believed in you? Looking back in your career, in your life, in your education, who invested in you, poured into you, helped you become who you are today?
Now let’s flip that question around - who would come back to you and say “thank you for what you’ve invested into me, you helped me get to where I am today.” Anyone? Are you proactively building the next level leaders in your midst?
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At the end of a long hard day, you have been running full tilt.
Are you still energized, running on top of the world?
Or do you need to crawl into bed - done, spent, and nothing left to give?
Check out the 3 tools you need in the show notes at NewGenerationLeader.com/6
Developing leaders could make or break your business. Bringing on interns is a great way to build your talent pipeline, but make the wrong choice, and the walls come crashing down.
The same things goes with a new hire or a new promotion.
How do you prepare the leaders in your organization before you need to promote them? This is at the core of the New Generation Leader framework, and we’re diving in today on the show.
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Every Voice has a Superpower: do you know yours?
When we hit a crisis, we need our team functioning at full capacity. If we tap into our collective Superpowers, we can push through the barriers, hurdles, and gaps to build a bright future.
Ready to Discover Your Voice? Take the FREE assessment at NewGenerationLeader.com/5voices.
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In this episode, we tackle a difficult conversation, but an important one.
As we look back on the last year and what COVID has dealt us, what our world has been like now for just a little over one year, as we look back and reflect on our own experiences at home, in our workplace, with our friends in every circle of influence, it’s important for us to take a deeper look at not only where we’ve been, but how are we now?
What impact has this had on who we are? We’re asking two questions:
- how are you?
- how can you rediscover a sense of peace?
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Do you wake up in the morning knowing where to go with your day?
Do you have a path laid out to be successful with your goals, accomplishments, and tasks?
Only 50% of employees clearly know what is expected of them.
If we don't know for ourselves, how can we expect our teams to be any different?
Let's take our teams to our True Potential:
#1 Define Priorities.
If we have clarify on the direction where we're headed together, our priorities will point everyone in the same direction.
#2 Know what Winning Looks Like.
If we all put our eyes on the same prize, we can pursue the same goal. But winning isn't the primary driver for 93% of people, so we have to define winning...and our other expectations.
#3 Lay out Clear Expectations.
Clarity will be simple, sustainable, and scalable. Simple enough we can remember, sustainable enough it will stay with us and won't be forgotten for the next shiny "thing," and scalable enough we can pass it on to each other and new team members.
Let's move our teams from misalignment to Common Goals. Common Goals will take us to a new level of working efficiently. Doing more with less. Reaching our True Potential.
Most teams score less than 60% on team performance. Let's make your team Invincible.
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It's Monday, ready to crank it out this week?
Here's what I'm thinking about today: Tempo, Balance + Focus.
Reflect on the three questions, and figure out how to get your week in sync. Time to knock it out of the park this week!
- Tempo: is my work sustainable, rhythmic, and repeatable?
- Balance: are my key relationships in sync?
- Focus: am I keeping the main things the main things?