Leadership Without Losing Your Soul: Master Communication & Management Skills To Boost Productivity, Teamwork & Ease Overwhelm

Do you want to gain insight and understanding in both yourself and your organization? The ability to take on another person’s point of view is a vital part of getting anything done successfully, and the Enneagram offers a unique and effective route to open people up to other ways of thinking. In this episode Karl Hebenstreit, Ph. D., author of The How and Why: Taking Care of Business with the Enne...

Showing up with authenticity and love creates a legacy. In today's episode, Rani Puranik shares lessons of life, love, and leadership from her book, 7 Letters to My Daughters: Light Lessons of Love, Leadership, and Legacy. Rani provides a roadmap to equip not only her daughters but the daughters of the world. From growing up in a country foreign to her family to finding strength during a tumultuou...

If you find yourself caught in the day-to-day demands wondering how do I find time for strategy that allows me to invest in myself, be more effective, or invest in building my business, you don't need a new productivity trick. The first step is to begin a deeper leadership journey and address four core factors – Tactics, Influence, Mindset, and Environment (T.I.M.E.). In this episode, Richard Medc...

Do you experience genuine concern in your leadership? Do you lead by example and does your team know they are in the V.A.U.L.T? In this episode, David talks with Virg Palumbo, President of Organizational Efficiency for Kforce Inc. on what leadership is, how to handle high-pressure, high-stress situations, and how every person on your team can make a difference. Leadership Without Using Your Soul p...

Leaders know how valuable coaching conversations can be but it's not always easy to find the time. In this episode, Wendy Swire, author of Anytime Coaching: Unleashing Employee Performance, gives us effective and impactful coaching skills to use at any time. The Anytime Coaching model equips managers (from first-time supervisors to senior executives) with tools they can use immediately to transfor...

Building rapport doesn't always come easy when we're dealing with different personality types, time constraints, or being forced to create relationships online where trust and connection are naturally more difficult to cultivate. This is why we had to have Michael Redding back on the podcast to continue the discussions on excellent conversation and rapport-building skills. The first time Michael R...

Have you ever thought, if I just had more discipline I could achieve that goal? If you're looking to master your discipline then this episode with Dre Baldwin, Author of Work on Your Game, is for you. Whether you’re just starting out in business or looking to take your career to the next level , Dre has the strategy you need to succeed from the inside out, including a four-part model for achieving...

Have you ever wondered what the most essential leadership competencies are and how they can be learned without taking up too much time? Whether you are in a formal leadership role or are a rising leader, entrepreneur, or changemaker driven by a desire to use your voice to create change, in this conversation with Reiner Lomb, you will get tips on how to positively influence key stakeholders, build...

If you aspire to embody authentic leadership across all spectrums of your life, this episode is for you. Sean Georges and John Buford, are two former marine officers with a combined 80 years of leadership experience in the military, business, nonprofit, and education. Sean and John share a simple but powerful servant leadership model with a focus on mission, and practical, fundamental, and timeles...

What's the risk involved in creating stronger human connections? Great leaders know that deeper human connection fosters more engagement and better performance and that investing in people boosts results and increases retention. Leaders accomplish more by asking powerful questions than by commanding and controlling. In this episode, Chad Littlefield gives you practical tools and questions to use t...

Leading with gratitude and mastering connection have been keys to driving the success of event MC & Speaker, Dan Ram. Dan has hosted changemakers like President Barack Obama, billionaire founders Sir Richard Branson and Reid Hoffman, Grammy-winning artists, and celebrities. In this episode, you get practical ways to posture your mentality for gratitude, create connections, and find ways to inv...

Hey, it's David, and you're listening to Leadership Without Losing your Soul, your source for practical leadership, inspirational tools, and strategies you can use to achieve transformational results without sacrificing your humanity or your mind in the process. Well, here we are. I have been looking forward to this episode for months, seeing it on the editorial calendar. Why? Because it is the 20...

When we’re looking for answers, why is changing your questions so important? Intentionally using questions helps us make wiser choices, find solutions, and transform our personal and professional lives. In this episode, Dr. Marilee Adams gives you powerful tools of Question Thinking, and how to apply the same information and practical skills in our own lives. Tune in to change your questions and m...

What does the DEI journey look like to achieve your idea of a workplace utopia? When Dr. Ella F. Washington asks company leaders what a workplace utopia looks like to them she often hears about an ideal vision of an organization that values diversity and inclusion and wants employees to bring their whole selves to work. A truly inclusive workplace requires invention and reinvention, mistakes and h...

What does it take to fuel human centered performance? In this episode, Jeannie Diefenderfer gives you what she found after conducting the Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance 2022 Study on How Human-Centered CEOs Fuel Performance. As a business leader who turns the challenges of modern corporations into profitable opportunities and with extensive experience as a senior executive in a Fortune 20 env...

Leading with an ethical compass may seem to be challenging in this time of deepening divisions and “alternative facts”, trust and authenticity grow more precious by the hour. More and more people find themselves driven to overcome the personal, professional, and social pressures of ignoring what is right in favor of what passes for ‘success.’ But what people want is truth in their decisions, authe...

Obsessed for good surfaced naturally as a truth for how this organization operates and it has remained their mantra since. In this episode, David talks with Amy Pyles, President of Saxum, about what obsessed for good means for their company and the five pillars they use to guide clients as well as themselves. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership an...

Do you ever get labeled as “too negative,” even when you are genuinely trying to help? If you’ve ever felt misunderstood, overlooked for promotion, or frustrated that your well-intended problem solving is interpreted as pessimism, this episode will feel like a breath of fresh air. You will learn simple shifts that help you show up with more influence, clarity, and leadership presence without chang...

Ever feel caught between leadership and management, trying to keep your team productive without getting lost in busy, overwhelming work? What if the real key to avoiding burnout and conflict is knowing when to focus on strategy and when to stay grounded in tactics? If you’ve ever wrestled with too much to do, too many directions, or the frustration of misalignment on your team, this episode speaks...

Have you ever wondered how the most admired leaders live? In this episode, Marisa Cleveland and Simon Cleveland draw on their combined forty years of experience in corporate, government, and higher education leadership to answer this question. Through anecdotes and interviews paired with actionable takeaways, they investigated where leaders start, how they become boxed in upon entering the workfor...

I fell asleep at 1:00 AM sandwiched between strangers on my right and my daughter to my left. Whatever challenge you may face, leading step by step, little by little, or poco a poco will help. You don't have to know all the answers or how everything's going to turn out. And you don't have to know how to do everything you'll be called upon to do. Just find the tracks of the people who've gone befor...

A small habit repeated daily will transform your life, your team, and your outcomes. This principle holds true and it holds true for your leadership and your work. Where can you get small and be the leader you'd want your boss to be? Leadership Without Using Your Soul  podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, team...

What does it take to break through ceiling after ceiling and innovate during growth? All growing companies encounter ceilings of complexity, usually when they hit certain employee or revenue milestones. How can you achieve breakthrough execution? In this episode, Patrick Thean, author of Rhythm: How to Achieve Breakthrough Execution and Accelerate Growth , equips you with the tools to identify the...

How do great leaders use failure to thrive? Too many efforts with potential game-changing outcomes are short circuited by the fear of failing; people with huge ideas become paralyzed by “what ifs,” unable to see past the challenges of today. Get several ways to shift your perspective and use failure to thrive. Olakunle Soriyan, known by most as PK, author of A Love Affair With Failure: When Hittin...

People are a lot like trees. You can't make a tree do something, and the same holds true for people. No person brings the entire package to their work, just like no tree brings everything for every environment. Part of leadership is being able to embrace, and recognize the strengths that people bring and invest in that. Leadership Without Using Your Soul  podcast offers insightful discussions on l...