Relearning Leadership

What is self-leadership and why is it so important to you as a leader? Pete speaks with Nick Jonsson, the co-founder and Managing Director of one of Asia's premiere networking organizations, Executives' Global Network (EGN) Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia about the importance of leading yourself before leading others. (Re)Learning Leadership Website  

Exactly one year following two of the most significant personal life events, Pete is back with another personal story, this time with the passing of his father. In this episode Pete celebrates his father's life and the influence it had on Pete as a person, husband, father and leader. He also explores the challenge in choosing for others once they lose the capacity to do so on their own. Relat...

Pete continues his exploration of the leader's focus in part II of this series, by tapping into one of the most difficult aspects of blending your focus - letting go. However, through this episode, we learn that letting go is only half of the problem, watch and listen to learn the other half.

Pete Behrens exposes the light on a common myth in leadership focus - that leaders need to shift their focus from doing work to leading others to do that work to coaching others to develop their competency in that work.

-Why is it so hard to achieve personal improvement goals? In this video, Pete Behrens, founder of the Agile Leadership Journey, walks us through some of the challenges and techniques to overcome them when setting and seeking to accomplish personal improvement goals. A few key links referenced in the video... Brain Statistics Research on setting and achieving goals, as well as debunking some of the...

You may have heard of a DAO (sound it out, don't spell it out :) but are wondering what it really is, how it works and why you should be more aware of them? Now is your chance to learn with an experienced DAO leader, Josh Forman. Pete and Josh discuss what a DAO is, what benefits it provides, the challenges they face and some real-life examples.

Daniel Gagon joins Pete Behrens to help surface a common organizational challenge - doing agile without actually being agile. A phrase used to describe this is "Fake Agile" or "Agile in Name Only". Daniel and Pete briefly lay out the landscape of fake agile, how to spot it, its root causes, how to prevent it, and finally what to do if you are already infected with it.

Pete builds on the Catalyst Conversation Framework with a focus on differences which quite typically emerge in more pivotal conversations.  However, in this episode, we explore two mentors who reshape what difference is, how it evokes an emotional conflict, and how as leaders we can reshape conversations to influence others towards a different outcome.

Wouldn't we all like a silver bullet to make every conversation and better conversation? Of course. And there is such a thing!  In part two of this 3-part series, Pete builds on threats and rewards to provide you a framework to structure virtually all of your conversations. Dance moves to follow to delay and avoid threat, prioritize and give rewards, and indeed to spark insight and understand...

Wouldn't we all like a silver bullet to make every conversation and better conversation? Of course. And there is such a thing! Pete shares two examples of failed conversations he had with his partner Jana and uses those to diagnose and correct how every conversation can be improved. Intrigued?  Listen and learn...

Welcome to Season 3! We appreciate your patience as we have taken some time to refactor our podcast. For season 3, Pete shares what we are doing different and why. We hope you join us for the journey. We know it will be educational and hopefully you'll have as much fun listening (or watching) as we have in curating the episodes! Visit the podcast website (now re-hosted on Agile Leadership Jou...

What is the role of a leader to shape the balance of power? Deanna Singh, author and social entrepreneur, shares the role leaders play in shaping and sharing power along with her experience as a human, mother, coach, leader and catalyst in role modeling this behavior for others. Pete and Deanna discuss how leaders can be more aware and actively use their power to catalyze their goals and the peopl...

What does it take to guide a multi-year transformation? Amerisure Insurance has been on a 3-year culture-shaping journey to improve their speed of innovation. Amjed Al-Zoubi , the CIO of Amerisure and Pete co-presented their case study at the Business Agility Conference in NYC.  For this episode, Pete sat down with Amjed to discuss a bit more about the leader behind the title and about what it’s l...

What can leaders learn from other species? Humans can be difficult. They judge others, hold their own agenda, and talk back. So maybe an easier way to learn leadership is through other species. Executive coach and animal advocate Shawna Schuh joins Pete to discuss what leaders can learn and relearn by spending more time with other species. Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership website to learn more ab...

How can leaders tap into the power of community? Community is much more than social gatherings and shared learning paths. Community kept us connected and engaged through the pandemic. And following it, community might likely spark your next life or work adventure. David Siegel , CEO of Meetup which hosts the largest community platform, shares how leaders can leverage the power of community to impr...

What will the post-pandemic office culture be like? Most tech-enabled office cultures pivoted to work-from-home during the pandemic. As the impacts of COVID wanes, employees are being called back to the office. Although there is no standard, leaders are searching for the right balance between in-person collaboration and at-home flexibility. Franco Chiaravalloti , Project Manager at Hitachi Rail Sy...

Why do leaders need to be aware of their illusion of control? Mette Bjerrekaer , Head of Transformation Office at Grundfos, shares how the illusion of control has impacted her as a leader and her journey in letting go of it. Bent Myllerup , Change Agent and Founder of Better Change, interviews Mette and joins Pete to share what we can all (re)learn about the illusion of control and letting go. Vis...

Pete shares the second reason he paused the podcast in January. Pete experienced two lightning bolts life threw at him at the end of December - the end of his mother’s fight with cancer, and a catastrophic fire that displaced his family from their home. In Part II, Pete shares the journey he and Jana experienced through the evacuation and aftermath of the most destructive fire in Colorado’s histor...

Pete shares one of the two reasons he paused the podcast in January. Pete experienced two lightning bolts life threw at him at the end of December - the end of his mother’s fight with cancer, and a catastrophic fire that displaced his family from their home. In Part I, Pete shares walking alongside his mother’s end-of-life journey fighting leukemia and pneumonia. Through his journey, he hopes lead...

Predictability through improvisation - what project management can learn from jazz. Rob Tieman is the Director of the Project Management Office at the Virginia Department of Transportation. Gerald Leonard is a Strategic PMO Advisor for the government, Juilliard-trained musician, and author of Workplace Jazz. Together with Pete, they explore how insights from jazz have helped improve project predic...

Why leaders need to celebrate continuity and stand up for status quo! Susan Schmitt Winchester is a Senior Vice President and Chief HR Officer for Applied Materials. Jake Jacobs is a principal change consultant and author of Leverage Change. Together with Pete they explore the paradox of change. In today’s fast-paced work world, leaders are rightly focused on change. But are leaders too  focused o...

Why leaders need to learn to let go, and why letting go is only half of the solution. Jon Christensen, founder and president of Kelsus helping startups build products, shares his leadership journey and stresses the importance he learned in letting go in order to grow as a leader. Brad Swanson, leadership and organizational coach, interviews Jon and discusses with Pete on what all leaders can learn...

Why, and how, should leaders acknowledge identity in the workplace? Pete is joined by Wendy Ryan - a CEO, author and trauma survivor exploring identity in the workplace and the leader’s role not only to acknowledge it, but to actively lift others up. Wendy Ryan is the CEO of Kadabara, author of Learn Lead Lift, and advocate for expanding diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility at work. Toge...

What does it take to succeed as a leader? Nick Berendt shares his journey from drug dealer serving time to HVAC business owner reaching $2M revenue.  His mentor, and former circus performer, Shawn Thomas shares how leaders like Nick are only limited by their own thinking and environment, and by hacking into them can place us on a new growth trajectory. Through combining Nick and Shawn's story...

Two-thirds of leaders receive little to no education, coaching or mentoring. We can do something about this.  Pete Behrens welcomes us back to season 2 with a personal story of his own accidental leadership journey as a student, employee and founder. Through his story he hopes to connect, inspire, and challenge us all to become a better leader, a more adaptive leader, a more diverse leader, and a...