Level 10 Leaders

This Level 10 Leaders Power Tip is from Tonya Petrozzi, EOS Implementer at Petrozzi Coaching & Consulting, who shares a powerful leadership mindset shift called Reframing Time & Accountability. Many leaders unintentionally give away their power by saying, “I didn’t have time.” Tonya explains why this language weakens accountability and how a simple shift can change the way leadership teams...

Ryan Castle sits down with Ron Higgs, leadership coach at Wolf Management, former Naval Flight Officer, and aerospace engineering leader who now helps technical professionals transition into effective people leaders. Ron shares three practical leadership principles drawn from aviation, engineering, and years of coaching: stay open and curious, build genuine relationships before trying to lead, and...

This Level 10 Leaders Power Tip is from Kyle Danner, Certified EOS Implementer at EOS Worldwide, to unpack two universal human needs that sit at the heart of great LMA inside EOS®: the need to feel safe and the need to matter. Kyle explains why psychological safety is foundational to healthy teams. When people feel safe, they raise issues without fear. When they feel heard, they engage in healthy...

Ryan Castle talks with Mike Ashby (Level 10 Leaders) about execution drift: the gap between strategy and what actually gets done once everyone is back in the day to day. They unpack why plans stall (inertia, missed deadlines, “perfect conditions” thinking) and why execution is a daily behaviour, not a quarterly spreadsheet. Mike shares a simple 3 part fix: upskill managers to create time and heads...

Delegation is one of the biggest friction points for founders and leaders. In this Power Tip, Linda van Egmond explains why delegation often fails and why that failure is rarely about people or motivation. It’s a structure problem. When everything stops without you, you don’t have a business. You have an expensive job. Linda reframes delegation as a staged process, not a handover. Define success....

Ryan Castle sits down with Kenneth C. DeWitt, a veteran EOS® Implementer with 14 years in the field and thousands of full day sessions behind him. Ken shares three hard-earned leadership lessons that cut through the noise. First: drop the victim mentality and adopt an “everything is my fault” mindset. Second: managing others is brutally hard, because leaders are on stage 100% of the time, and your...

Even the best EOS® visionaries can unintentionally frustrate their teams. In this Power Tip, executive coach Ron Higgs explains why the issue is rarely a lack of ideas and almost always a lack of clarity. Thinking out loud fuels innovation, but without context it can overwhelm teams and slow execution. Ron’s fix is simple and practical. Clarify your intent out loud. Say “I’m brainstorming” or “we...

Our host Ryan Castle sits down with Scott Anderson, former US Army Major and former UN humanitarian leader, now COO at Real Property Management Express in Sioux Falls. Scott’s career spans 21 years in the Army, tours in Afghanistan, foreign military sales in Saudi Arabia, and nearly a decade in humanitarian operations across Gaza and Jerusalem. He shares what leadership looks like when the stakes...

In this Power Tip, Nina Schwark, founder and visionary of OpsLab, shares insights on using a State of the Company presentation to drive EOS® adoption beyond the leadership team. Nina explains how a simple, quarterly, company-wide presentation builds clarity, trust, and alignment by answering three key questions: where the company has been, where it is now, and where it is going. She also shares pr...

Our host Ryan Castle sits down with Jonathan B. Smith , best-selling author of Fight Less, Win More , negotiations instructor, and EOS Implementer, just after the release of his new book. Jonathan is a senior practitioner with The Black Swan Group , founded by former FBI lead hostage negotiator Christopher Voss . In this conversation, Jonathan shares how elite negotiation skills apply far beyond t...

This week’s Level 10 Leaders Power Tip comes from Hector Alvarado, Optimize Business Systems, who reminds us that the real CEO superpower isn’t hustle: it’s strategic focus . Growth doesn’t come from adding more initiatives, products, or meetings. It comes from strategic subtraction and executing a small number of aligned priorities relentlessly. Hector draws on lessons from Bezos, Buffett, and Mu...

Ryan Castle sits down with Megan Long, founder of Second First and longtime second-in-command, to explore what really makes the visionary–integrator partnership work. Megan explains why business operating systems like EOS® or Scaling Up are just the “Windows layer,” and how the right “software” on top – clear roles, better same-page meetings, and a shared end game – prevents organizational whiplas...

This week’s Level 10 Leaders Power Tip comes from Dianne Cubinar , Co-Founder of RO’I Ops & Beyond, who shines a light on a hidden operational risk: the invisible pothole of uncertainty. Dianne explains how silence in a team triggers guesswork, slows execution, erodes trust, and quietly kills your rocks. Her tip reframes feedback as a system problem, not a people problem. She shares a simple m...

Ryan Castle sits down with Jen Hamilton, Fractional COO, COO mentor and founder of Hamilton COOs, whose career took a hard left turn from CPA to operations. Jen shares how starting life in the numbers gave her a powerful edge in running businesses, and why she now prefers fixing broken systems, coaching leaders and building high performing teams over doing the detailed work herself. Jen unpacks wh...

This week’s Level 10 Leaders Power Tip comes from Shawn Dan, Fractional Integrator at Integrate to Impact , who shares a practical reminder for SMBs running on EOS®: read the room, understand the intent behind the tools, and right-size the system to fit your business. Shawn explains how his team trims meeting clutter, uses async tools to cut noise, and simplifies scorecards without losing discipli...

Our host Ryan Castle sits down with Sarah Williams, founder of Leading Culture, whose career shifted the moment she stepped out of accounting and onto the factory floor. A single project revealed a truth that changed her path: numbers don’t transform businesses, people do! That realisation sparked a decades-long journey helping organisations turn culture into their competitive advantage. Sarah sha...

This week’s Level 10 Leaders Power Tip comes from Beth Jacob, President and Co-CEO of vChief , who delivers a sharp reminder that leadership momentum doesn’t come from perfect plans, it comes from action . Using a simple surfing story, Beth shows how progress accelerates when we stop overthinking, fill leadership gaps quickly, and get someone “in the water” now. If you’ve been stuck in analysis pa...

Our host Ryan Castle sits down with Dan Kasper, former Navy SEAL officer and co-founder of Piloteer.ai , a relationship-intelligence platform using AI to capture real-time leadership behaviour. After leading teams in 33 countries, Dan has become obsessed with the art and science of high-performing teams and is now using technology to help leaders see what really happens in the room when they commu...

This week's Level 10 Leaders Power Tip is by executive coach and EOS Implementer Adam Goldschmiedt, who shares a practical 15-minute exercise to help leaders get unstuck and regain clarity fast. It’s a guided framework built for real decision-making: identify what you truly want more of, uncover what’s blocking you, and take specific action this week to move forward. If you’re spinning your wheels...

Our host Ryan Castle sits down with Gretchen Heinen, Founder and CEO of Authsnap Inc. She went from ER nurse to tech founder, driven by the injustice she saw when patients were denied insurance payout. Authsnap uses AI to turn clinical data and denial letters into fast, high quality appeal letters so more people get the care they deserve. We focus on the leadership journey behind that leap. How sh...