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Ben Hutton has worked in construction all his life. As soon as he was old enough to lift a hammer, he was swinging it. At the age of 12, he started working in the industry during the summer. After obtaining a construction management degree from Kansas State University, Ben worked for a Colorado-based firm before returning to Hutton Construction as ... Read More

I've officially been out of the Marine Corps since June of 2001.  Any modicum of success I've enjoyed in my personal & professional life since then can be directly attributed to the 10 years I spent on active duty. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't reflect on the Corps & the common sense leadership lessons it provided ... Read More

Nicole Sahin's mission is to make it easy for any company to expand into any country as easily as they hire team members in the United States. Her current focus is building the world's most competent and trustworthy Global PEO to meet the standards of the company's Fortune 500 clients. She led Globalization Partners to a ranking of No. 33 ... Read More

Larry Broughton is a highly sought-after speaker, author, and entrepreneur. He has been named Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year, NaVOBA's Vetrepreneur of the Year, and to Entrepreneur Magazine's Hot 500 List. Larry served eight years on A-Teams with the US Army's elite Special Forces (commonly known as the Green Berets), then made a dramatic shift by entering the ... Read More

Roger Scholfield, is president/owner of Scholfield Honda. He is a second generation automobile dealer with 31 years' experience in the business. Roger is a 3 time past president of the Wichita Auto Dealer's Association and has served 12 years on American Honda's Dealer Product Advisory Committee, one of only 5 dealers out of 1060 in the U.S. appointed by Honda. ... Read More

Chris Fussell is a Partner at McChrystal Group, where he heads up the McChrystal Group Leadership Institute. Chris is an author of the 2015 New York Times bestseller, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World and 2017 Wall Street Journal bestseller, One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams. Chris was commissioned as a Naval ... Read More

Margie Warrell has long felt that the world needs more empowered women and more women in power. She's dedicated & passionate about empowering women to become braver leaders, more confident in their ability to influence change and more resilient in the face of it. Margie is back on Dose of Leadership for the third time, this time with her young ... Read More

There's a significant difference between being an achiever and a leader. Achievement is not a bad thing; of course we must push ourselves and achieve things if we are going to create a life of significance. But we can't let talent and achievement overshadow the importance of leadership. It's a given that you must be technically & tactfully proficient in ... Read More

Celeste Headlee is an award-winning journalist who has appeared on NPR, PBS World, PRI, CNN, BBC and other international networks.  She hosts a daily talk show called "On Second Thought" for Georgia Public Broadcasting in Atlanta. You can listen live to On Second Thought, weekdays from 9 – 10 a.m. EST on the GPB News website. Click here for archives from past shows. She was ... Read More

D.L. Brouwer is the author of The Return on Leadership. He brings a unique perspective to his role as a leadership author, keynote speaker, and business visionary. His views on business and life were shaped by the years he spent as a navigator, flying anti-submarine missions from US aircraft carriers in the north Arabian Sea during the height of the ... Read More

Trust is what makes leadership possible. Your character communicates your leadership. Think of those people that openly share their life with you… The ones that are completely vulnerable completely trust you Trust is like "coins in your pocket" Each time you make a good leadership decision…you earn a little pocket change Each time you make a bad leadership decision…you pay ... Read More

Known as an engaging speaker, trainer, coach, and consultant, Kim brings experience that ranges from facilitation and entrepreneurship to leadership development, communication skills, systems thinking, and personal branding. Her easygoing style and sense of humor has made her a hit with audiences large and small for the past two decades. Kim has trained and coached over twenty three thousand leade...

Making "sound & timely" decisions is a hallmark of being a transformative leaders. You're better off making imperfect timely decisions than making a "perfect" decision too late. The 75% Solution: Be prepared to make a decision once you have 75% of all the information..use your experience & intuition to fill in the other 25%. Becoming a "decision maker" is the ... Read More

Closing the gap between strategic planning & execution is a proverbial an enduring problem. The problem is that we tend to focus on strategy at the expense of getting our culture right. If our culture is dysfunctional and ineffective, our strategy will never get executed. The goal is to create a culture of decentralized decision making where we unleash subordinate ... Read More

Mike Monteferrante is the president and chief executive officer of Envision, located in Wichita, Kansas.  With manufacturing locations in Wichita and Kansas City, plus 16 base supply centers around the United States, Envision employs over 500 people, half of whom are blind.  In addition to offering employment, Envision provides rehabilitation services, private and public education and foundation s...

Accountability & Responsibility. People often use these terms interchangeably; often believing that they mean the same thing. If you are interested in dipping your foot into the leadership pool, you must understand that there is a subtle but very powerful difference between accountability and responsibility. As a leader you must understand that you can delegate responsibility to numerous individua...

Nancy Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn's research focuses on how leaders, past and present, craft lives of purpose, worth, and impact. Her new book, Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times is an enthralling historical narrative filled with critical leadership insights tha...

In 1920 there was a major change of attitude in the officer Corps with the U.S. Marines. General John Lejeune, the Commandant of the Marine Corps at the time, wrote the following on the heels of World War I: "The relation between officers and enlisted men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior nor that of master ... Read More

Throughout his career, Dr. Michael Gervais has followed a central question:  Is there a common thread connecting how the greatest performers in the world use their minds to pursue the boundaries of human potential? Gervais is a high-performance psychologist working in the trenches of high-stakes environments with some of the best in the world, training the mindset skills and practices essential .....

Dave Berke is a retired Marine Corps officer and combat veteran. As an F/A-18 pilot, he deployed twice from the USS John C Stennis in support of combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. He spent three years as an Instructor Pilot at TOPGUN where he was dual-qualified in the F-16 Fighting Falcon and served as the Training Officer, the senior ... Read More

"Leadership is patient, Leadership is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It doesn't dishonor others.  It is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered, & it keeps no record of wrongs. Leadership does not delight in evil, rather it rejoices in the truth. Leadership always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Leadership never ... Read More

Melinda Wittstock is an "EntrePioneer" visionary dedicated to catalyzing value for her clients, architecting highly profitable and data-driven solutions and putting the authentic marketing and engagement strategies in place to put a multiplier on conversions, revenue, earnings and company valuation. She's a passionate advocate for women in business, currently writing a book about female entreprene...

During my experience consulting & coaching business leaders, I've found that the 10 most critical dysfunctions that hold an organization back are: 1. Senior Leadership Fails to Set the Example: They don't emulate the behavior they expect of others. 2. Departmental Silos: Multiple territorial leaders selfishly defend their turf without consideration for the overall mission. 3. Lack of innovation: P...

Vinny Gerace has spent the past few decades helping businesses improve internal communications and understand their people. He began as a business consultant but saw most of the issues companies were having related to the people they employed. Whether it was conflict, hiring issues, stuck workflow, or a lack of profits, most internal company problems boil down to people. He ... Read More

What do we do under ineffective leadership?  It's a very common problem… You really only have two choices: You can leave the situation & find a new job…or you can stay and try to make it work. You have to get into the right mindset… It's not your job to "fix" the ineffective leader Your obligation is to "add value" to the ... Read More