The Leading Edge Podcast: Recent Episodes
Travis Nipper
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This month, we’ve been really thinking about the development of high potential leaders. A surprising number of my clients have been talking about losing their high-performing leaders, many of whom had been with their organizations for years. Today's podcast talks about how to keep high-potential leaders engaged and focused on growth and development, so they don't look for opportunities out of your organization.
Anxiety and stress have become the new normal. Executives, managers, and employees at all levels are struggling with wellness and resiliency to stress. At Leadership Excelleration, we've created a model that considers wellbeing from four perspectives: social wellbeing, physical wellbeing, psychological wellbeing, and spiritual wellbeing.
In the second of a three-part series, Diane Egbers, Founder of Leadership Excelleration joins Travis Nipper to dig deeper on confidence in women's leadership. Diane details stories and strategies on how to gain confidence and courage as you look and listen inwardly.
Kicking off a three-part series, Diane Egbers, Founder of Leadership Excelleration joins Travis Nipper to explore the topic of confidence in women's leadership. Specifically, Diane shares with us perspectives and pointers on the first of three concepts - how others see you.
In the final of a two-part series, Diane Egbers, Founder of Leadership Excelleration joins Travis Nipper to talk about the crisis in credibility. Diane connects Aristotle's timeless concepts of ethos, pathos, and logos and their application and impact on building and maintaining our credibility as leaders.
In the first of a two-part series, Diane Egbers, Founder of Leadership Excelleration joins Travis Nipper to talk about the crisis in credibility. Diane details how leaders can become more aware of the state of being and its connection to building and maintaining credibility.
Diane Egbers, Founder of Leadership Excelleration joins Travis Nipper to talk about the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had over the past year on our sense of purpose as leaders. Diane explains the vital intersection of passion and purpose and share some practical steps that leaders can take to rekindle your purpose and passion.
Diane Egbers, Founder of Leadership Excelleration joins Travis Nipper to talk about the importance of becoming leaders as coaches...of leaders. In Leader As Coach - Why It Is The Best Foot Forward Now, Diane shares practical tips on mindsets shifts executives and directors need so they can "coach up" their future leaders.
Diane Egbers, Founder of Leadership Excelleration joins Travis Nipper to explore how leaders can help their organizations break through walls of divisiveness with deep listening. Diane shares hope to be aware if you are listening well and what the serious consequences are of poor listening. She offers some strategies on becoming a better listener and how they help leaders and teams rise above.
Diane Egbers, Founder of Leadership Excelleration joins Travis Nipper in the second of a two part conversation on...CONVERSATIONS! In the age of Zoom-fatigue, Diane shares her perspective and practical tips for leaders to enter into and participate in higher quality conversations more intentionally so they can lead their organizations through the current uncertainty.
Diane Egbers, Founder of Leadership Excelleration joins Travis Nipper in the first of a two part conversation on...CONVERSATIONS! In the age of Zoom-fatigue, Diane shares her perspective and practical tips for leaders to enter into and participate in higher quality conversations more intentionally so they can lead their organizations through the current uncertainty.
Diane Egbers, Founder of Leadership Excelleration joins Travis Nipper as a follow up to the previous episode, A Path to More Unity and Inclusion at Work to talk about what Inclusive Dialogue is. Diane shares stories and practical tips for leaders to use inclusive dialogue to begin building bridges of understanding in their organizations.
Diane Egbers joins Travis Nipper to talk about how companies, teams, and individuals can all work together on a path to more unity and inclusion at work.
Leading consultant, speaker, and coach, Dave Knox joins Travis Nipper to talk about Predicting the Turn and Leadership Lessons. Dave shares the experiences he's had through an intriguing career that he's had the honor of being a CMO, an entrepreneur, a consultant, a speaker, and a coach. Dave shares his path, the inspiration for his startups, and his bestselling book, Predicting the Turn: The High Stakes Game of Business Between Startups and Blue Chips. Dave also gets us up to speed on what leadership skills he has had to tap in his newest ventures and some unique leadership insights.
This week, Travis Nipper sits down with Brent Carter, Vice President Organizational Development at GES - Global Experience Specialists. Brent and Travis tackle the topic of Becoming Your “Best Self” for leaders. He takes us deeper on the challenges of leader stress in these times, shares his framework for improving to a place where we can be our best self and our best leadership-self.
Before the holiday weekend, Travis Nipper, sits down with Diane Egbers, CEO and Founder of Leadership Excelleration and co-author of The Ascending Leader, to talk about how executives and leaders can come to terms with the need to seek external help and how to be selective about who they engage with to shepherd them through periods of growth.
For this episode, Travis Nipper welcomes in Dr. Angela Crawford of Thomas More University and Leadership Excelleration follows up her previous appearance to share her own leadership story and her research on motivation, leadership, and success.
In this podcast, Travis Nipper, is back in studio with Dr. Angela Crawford and Diane Egbers to discuss Agile Leadership.
In this episode, host Travis Nipper explores Servant Leadership and Driving Hope with Dr. Keith Kline of Grant Us Hope.
In the final episode for the series, Travis Nipper, is joined by Diane Egbers, CEO and Founder of Leadership Excelleration and co-author of The Ascending Leader, to discuss how to align your team. Diane and Travis tackle big questions. What is the purpose of a leadership team? What motivates people to change? What is a "burning platform"? and How do we balance the head and heart in calling our team to action? Listen to hear how this is one of the most important time for leaders in our lifetime.
In this episode, Travis Nipper, is joined by Diane Egbers, CEO and Founder of Leadership Excelleration and co-author of The Ascending Leader, to discuss how to act decisively in this uncertain time. Diane touches on agile leadership and details both the upside of taking action and the risks of inaction to your leadership credibility as your team faces the upheaval of the crisis.
This episode, Travis Nipper, welcomes back Diane Egbers. They discuss Learned Optimism in the days of COVID-19. Travis and Diane dig deep to explore what most leaders experiencing at work right now and the resulting the "brain fog" that has more than half of us struggling to regulate our attention at work. Diane shares some practical steps on how leaders can overcome their own brain fog, guide their teams, and adopt a step-by-step process for training your brain to be optimistic.
In this episode, Travis Nipper, is joined by Diane Egbers, CEO and Founder of Leadership Excelleration and co-author of The Ascending Leader, to talk about how to assess needed change during the time of crisis. Diane lays out a framework and steps on how to figure out whether you need to make small tweaks or move mountains
In this episode, Travis Nipper, is joined by Diane Egbers, CEO and Founder of Leadership Excelleration and co-author of The Ascending Leader, to chat about how, in such times of upheaval, leaders can acknowledge reality why is it more important than ever that leaders gain clarity in the current COVID-19 crisis.
Diane Egbers, founder and CEO of Leadership Excelleration joins TLE host, Travis Nipper, to talk about the the current health crisis how our listener can go about being the leader people will follow during crisis.
Diane Egbers, founder and CEO of Leadership Excelleration joins TLE host, Travis Nipper, to explore the final element - performance - that a leader will need to master to own the title of "Credible Leader".
Diane Egbers, founder and CEO of Leadership Excelleration joins TLE host, Travis Nipper, to explore the third element - culture - that a leader will need to master to own the title of "Credible Leader".
Travis welcomes back CEO and Founder of Leadership Excelleration, Diane Egbers. In this conversation, we take a brief break from The Credible Leader series. We pause for a moment to get to know Diane a bit better as she shares her professional and personal passions. We also dive deep into a discussion about “The Power of Positivity”, why it is important to you as a leader, and some steps on how you can be more intentional every day with your positivity and influence.
Diane Egbers, founder and CEO of Leadership Excelleration joins TLE host, Travis Nipper, to explore the second element of The Credible Leaders series - relationships - that a leader will need to master to own the title of "Credible Leader".
Diane Egbers, founder and CEO of Leadership Excelleration joins TLE host, Travis Nipper, to explore the first element - well-being - that a leader will need to master to own the title of "Credible Leader".
Diane Egbers, founder and CEO of Leadership Excelleration joins TLE host, Travis Nipper, for an overview of the elements that a leader will need to master to own the title of "Credible Leader".