Catalytic Leadership

Send us Fan Mail Jon Harmeling is a West Point graduate, former West Point instructor in the Department of Systems Engineering, Army veteran, and the Chick-fil-A Operator in Miami Shores, Florida, where he leads a team of about 100. He runs ten AI systems inside his own restaurant and speaks to leaders about using AI without losing the soul of the business. In this conversation with Dr. William At...

Send us Fan Mail Jamie Munoz is the founder and CEO of Catalyst Integrators, an award-winning fractional integrator firm named to the Inc. 5000 list two years in a row. A longtime EOS integrator turned visionary, she helps entrepreneurs scale healthy, self-managing companies while empowering her own team to live their ideal lives. In this conversation with Dr. William Attaway, Jamie explains what...

Send us Fan Mail Bradley Rapier is an Emmy-nominated choreographer, keynote speaker, author, and founder of Groove Theory. He has choreographed for the director of Hamilton, Dancing with the Stars, and So You Think You Can Dance, and performed in La La Land and multiple Super Bowl halftime shows. From the dance floor to the boardroom, he teaches leaders how to build community at work by stepping i...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Scott Geller, Alumni Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech and founder of the Actively Caring for People (AC4P) Foundation, has spent 56 years studying what moves people to act. His answer for leaders is research-based and practical. To motivate your team without micromanaging, build the 3 Cs of self-motivation: choice, competence, and community. In this conversation with D...

Send us Fan Mail Beth Jones spent more than 30 years as a forensic accountant and fraud investigator before a hypnotherapy session became the turning point of her own healing journey. She is a Leadership Performance Strategist, creator of The HEAL Framework™ (Hope, Evolve, Love), and author of "Becoming an Empowered Survivor: You, Too, Can Heal From Trauma and Abuse." In this conversatio...

Send us Fan Mail Vinnie Fisher, Founder and CEO of SiteTrust, returns to the Catalytic Leadership Podcast to unpack the AI negligence insurance gap costing business owners thousands of dollars they didn't know they were exposed to. Vinnie explains why most website consent trackers don't work, why wiretapping-statute lawsuits are climbing into the thousands, and why standard insurance won...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Catalytic Leadership Podcast, Dr. William Attaway sits down with John Briggs, CPA, founder and CEO of Incite Tax & Accounting and author of Take Breaks, Work Better. John shares the 2 a.m. moment that forced him to confront hustle culture head-on, the research behind human focus cycles, and the framework he now calls the 3.3 rule: work up to three hours,...

Send us Fan Mail Chad T. Jenkins launched more than fifty businesses before he decided to stop launching companies altogether. What he found was that the fastest growth never came from building alone. Chad, owner and CEO of SEEDSPARK and founder of SEEDSPARK CoLAB, joins William to make the case for collaboration over competition, and to show how the assets already sitting in your business become...

Send us Fan Mail Laura Parker built The Exodus Road into a global anti-trafficking organization, then hit the wall every founder hits: the business could not grow past what she could personally hold. Laura Parker, CEO and co-founder of The Exodus Road, joins the show to talk about letting go of control, the real reason it is so hard, and what changed when she finally handed off the work she was ne...

Send us Fan Mail Your team can feel it before you say a word. AI is moving faster than your job description can keep up with, and underneath the excitement about tools and leverage, a quieter fear is spreading through your people about whether the company still needs them. Dr. William Attaway opens Season 5 of the Catalytic Leadership Podcast with the keyphrase for the entire season: your team is...

Send us Fan Mail Agency growth gets expensive when every new client replaces one who just left. Brett Linnenkohl, fractional COO and founder of Evergreen Strategic Systems, and Josh Koeller, co-founder of The Customer Profit Engine, join Dr. William Attaway to unpack a more useful way to manage customer churn. Their work helps account managers move beyond subjective health-color ratings by finding...

Send us Fan Mail You scaled past seven figures. The revenue is real. So is the exhaustion. In this episode, I sit down with Damiano Raveenthiran, founder of The Agency Business and an operator who built a 75-person, $8.4M agency, exited three companies, and now runs a portfolio of seven. He did what so many agency founders dream about: he removed himself from the center of his own business and tur...

Send us Fan Mail The leadership pressure test reveals what a leader has already practiced. In this episode, I sit down with Jon Sheldon, founder of BelleauWood Coaching, to explore the leadership pressure test through lessons he learned as a Marine squad leader and Fortune 500 sales executive. Jon explains why clear decisions begin with knowing yourself. His professional blueprint centers on purpo...

Send us Fan Mail If your week feels like bouncing client to client with no room left to work on the business itself, this one will land.  My guest, Landon Gatliff , is the founder of Gatliff Marketing Consultants, a marketing agency in rural Arkansas serving businesses and organizations both locally and out of state. Landon started the agency as a junior in high school building websites. He now ru...

Send us Fan Mail If you built your business but still feel like everything runs through you, this episode will change how you see your role.  My guest, Steve Rolle , a serial entrepreneur and investor whose businesses have generated over $100 million in combined sales, breaks down the exact shift from owner not operator that let him turn down a $6 million acquisition offer just two years into the...

Send us Fan Mail If you're scaling fast and quietly wondering what it's costing your family, this episode will change how you think about growth.  My guest this week, Houlie Duque , founder and CEO of Homeschool2Go Genius Lab, built the only personalized, fully bilingual education program of its kind and grew it by over 200% every year for five years straight.  In this conversation, Houl...

Send us Fan Mail What if the only thing standing between you and freedom is the story you keep telling yourself? My guest this week, Melanie Cox — CEO of EMC Property, founder of Blue Oak Rescue, and Amazon #1 bestselling author of You Have to Know — spent over a year in bed, convinced she wasn't enough. Today she leads a real estate business spanning 4,000+ acres, veteran housing, and multif...

Send us Fan Mail Are you leading every person on your team the exact same way and wondering why it's stopped working? In this episode, I sit down with Sam Shriver and Suzie Bishop of the Center for Leadership Studies, co-authors of a new book applying the situational leadership model to today's fast-changing workplace. Sam brings 45+ years of research into this framework; Suzie leads pro...

Send us Fan Mail You know what good leadership looks like. The question is: what happens to it when the pressure hits? This week, I sat down with Ed Brzychcy, Army infantry veteran, former Babson College professor, and organizational culture consultant to mid-market high-growth companies. Ed spent over a decade researching what separates the CEOs of the fastest-growing companies from everyone else...

Send us Fan Mail You roll out a new system. You cast the vision. You wait for buy-in, and instead you get silence, slow adoption, or quiet workarounds.  It is not because your people do not care.  My guest this week, Travis Hahler , Senior Director of Global Strategy and Transformation at Salesforce and founder of The Neurological Nomad, has spent his career studying why 70% of organizational tran...

Send us Fan Mail Your strategy is solid. Your offer is dialed in. But something inside your growing team is quietly fracturing, and if you can't name it, you can't fix it. In this episode, I sit down with Jenni Catron, bestselling author, speaker, and culture strategist, and founder and CEO of the 4Sight Group, who has spent over 20 years helping leaders in corporate, nonprofit, and mini...

Send us Fan Mail If your marketing budget keeps growing but your results keep flatlining, the problem isn't your ads; it's your foundation. In this episode, I sit down with Paul Povolni , award-winning creative director, brand strategist, and founder of Voppa Creative, who has spent 34 years helping brands stop blending in and start owning the room. Paul unpacks his brand clarity framewo...

Send us Fan Mail If you built a business to create freedom and it became the very thing consuming you, this episode is for you. I sat down with Trapper Searles , strategic partner to high-performing entrepreneurs, and the founder who built and exited The Garage Doctor after nearly 20 years. Trapper's story isn't a highlight reel. It's raw, real, and deeply instructive for anyone try...

Send us Fan Mail You've delegated the tasks. You've hired the team. So why does everything still come back to you? In this episode, I sit down with Jason Henneberry, creator of the Dependency Design Framework, author of Why Your Business Won't Let You Go, and senior partner at Tango, a national brokerage facilitating $5.7 billion in funded mortgages annually with over 600 profession...

Send us Fan Mail If your agency stops the moment you step away, that’s not a client problem; it’s a systems problem. And it’s one that has a very clear solution. I sat down with Taylor McMaster , founder of DOT & Company, to talk about the client account management model she built over nearly seven years that quietly freed hundreds of agency owners from the meeting cycle, the email threads, an...