Optimize Your Team

Bruce Robinson spent several years working for the government in the foreign services and intelligence community, serving law enforcement. Most recently, he was head of global security for a multinational oil and gas firm. In this episode, we talk about what he’s learned living and working as a diplomat overseas and how we can apply these lessons to our own leadership roles. 

Dr. Jessica Grossmeier is a worksite wellness thought leader with more than 25 years of experience advancing individual and population health. Her research has focused on identifying best practice approaches to workplace wellness initiatives that are associated with wellbeing and business outcomes. Today, we’re talking about Jessica’s book, “Reimagining Workplace Well-being”. For more information...

When Rob took over as CEO at IMA in 1998 the company had about $11m in revenue.  Over the last 20 years, IMA has grown to place $8bn of insurance premium with $500m in revenue and just under 2,000 employees all over the US. I have enjoyed getting to know Rob and his team at IMA over the years and in this episode we talk about some of the lessons learned leading a fast growing firm that has be...

Donna is a turnaround CEO extraordinaire… she now works with Prophet Equity in Southlake, Texas and has taken on some of their most challenging turnarounds. Typically when you hear “turnaround CEO” you think of someone coming in to “slash and burn” or taking a cold-blooded approach to people while making difficult decisions… Ironically, Donna can best be described as kind, thoughtful, and pos...

 It's impossible to leave a conversation with Karen without feeling encouraged, inspired, and informed! In this episode, Karen tells us about the ONE CHANGE that made THE difference in her leadership style, what she’s seeing in the next generation of leaders as a professor in the Executive MBA program, and how she helps teams through her consulting practice.

Steve immigrated to the US from Guyana, went to Westpoint, and recently retired as a one-star general. He now runs a financial services franchise in Kansas City. We talk about the leadership lessons that shaped him and his top tips for what leaders can do to lead more diverse teams… We also get insights on how to balance two key behaviors that most leaders we coach struggle with AND how that helpe...

With nearly four decades of experience, Debra is a former Partner at EY where she specialized in advising rapid-growth companies, and also served as Director of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Program. In this episode we dig into the lessons she learned working closely with some of the most successful and well-known entrepreneurs in the world.

Dr. Gibson is a helicopter pilot, a battle-tested Army Commander, a life-long student, and a teacher of leadership at the United States Military Academy at West Point and Harvard Business School. We ask Dr. Gibson what most leaders get wrong when it comes to developing leaders and implementing diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) efforts in their organizations; and his recommendations on how to...