Level 10 Leaders

Ryan Castle sits down with Tanner Kinzler, CEO of Kinzler Corporation, a multi-generational, partially employee-owned construction services business operating across the United States. Tanner shares three interconnected leadership principles that have shaped how he builds for the long term: structure for alignment, ask for help and give it generously, and play the long game. He unpacks why the bes...

This Level 10 Leaders Power Tip is from Adam Law, sharing a practical approach to managing your issues list so your team meetings stay focused and productive. Adam explains that reviewing the issues list before the meeting, resolving quick wins in advance, and filtering out topics that don't require full team discussion keeps meeting time locked on what actually moves the organisation forward. The...

Ryan Castle sits down with Mike Ashby, co-founder of Level 10 Leaders and newly published Forbes contributor, to make the case that most businesses don't have a strategy problem. They have a consistency problem. Drawing on 25+ years in organisational development, Mike argues that the real gap isn't strategy or innovation. It's the daily failure to do the vital few things that actually move the nee...

This Level 10 Leaders Power Tip is from Jessica Sanchez, founder and CEO of Daughters of Both Sons, sharing how community leaders can escape burnout by building systems instead of carrying every piece of the mission alone. Jessica reveals that burnout in community and service leadership rarely comes from a lack of passion. It comes from becoming the entire infrastructure for a mission by yourself....

Ryan Castle sits down with Ken Bogard, nine-year EOS implementer and author of Know Honesty , to challenge everything you think you know about communication in business. Ken's core argument is deceptively simple, and most leadership teams are only doing half of it. He unpacks why honesty and openness are two completely different behaviours, why your scorecard is useless without courageous conversa...

This Level 10 Leaders Power Tip is from Justin Maust, expert EOS implementer, sharing three uphill mindsets every leader needs to break through ceilings faster and drive real team performance. Justin highlights that success demands discipline, that whatever you tolerate you endorse, and that the speed of your vulnerability determines the speed of your breakthrough. By combining all three, leaders...

Ryan Castle sits down with Darren Tompkins, founder of the Vedra Ray Group, to unpack what really holds technical professionals back from making the leap into people leadership, and it has nothing to do with their qualifications. Drawing on years of experience placing candidates across engineering, construction, and manufacturing, Darren exposes the hidden traps in the hiring process, why cultural...

This Level 10 Leaders Power Tip is from Adam Law of SOS Care, sharing a simple yet powerful way to bring core values to life using the headlines segment of Level 10 Meetings. Instead of just recognizing tasks, Adam emphasizes calling out the specific core values demonstrated by team members. By consistently linking recognition to values, teams gain clarity on what those values actually look like i...

Ryan Castle sits down with Mike to unpack a challenge most leadership teams quietly accept: the gap between strategy and execution. Drawing from real conversations with CEOs and operators, they explore why even well-crafted strategies consistently fall short, often by 10–20%, and how inertia, lack of visibility, and weak accountability allow that gap to persist. From poor communication of strategy...

This Level 10 Leaders Power Tip is from Ruth Uribes, Heroic Voice Academy, sharing a key insight on applying the EOS® concept of GWC (Get It, Want It, Capacity to Do It) with an often-overlooked element: intuition. While GWC helps ensure the right people are in the right seats, Ruth explains that true alignment goes beyond skills and experience. Through real-world examples, she highlights how igno...

Ryan Castle sits down with Mark Stanley, EOS Implementer and co-author of "Data: Harness Your Numbers to Go from Uncertain to Unstoppable", to explore the practical realities of building and scaling a business through a data-driven lens. Mark shares three powerful insights from his journey: the importance of truly understanding the market you operate in, why gross profit matters more than revenue,...

This Level 10 Leaders Power Tip features Sid Jashnani, Certified EOS Implementer, sharing a practical strategy for achieving process mastery through weekly micro-training. While many companies are good at documenting processes, the real challenge is making sure those processes are consistently followed by everyone on the team. Sid explains that strong businesses build scalability and consistency b...

Ryan Castle sits down with Rachel Downey, EOS Implementer and founder of Guide Studio, to explore the deeply human side of entrepreneurship: what happens when success on the outside doesn’t match how you feel on the inside. Rachel shares three powerful insights from her journey: the loneliness that can come with leadership, the importance of listening to the “quiet voice” that signals when somethi...

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...