Relearning Leadership

The current ways of leading are failing to meet the challenges of our disrupted workforces. Today’s leaders have a choice between adaptation or atrophy: are you ready to evolve your mindset and accelerate change within your organization?  Join Pete Behrens and other leading experts as they speak freely and deeply about their journeys to grow and improve as leaders. It’s time to pivot: plug-in to r...

Season One is coming to a close! 6 Months, 13 Episodes, and over 20 Guests and Experts sharing stories and insights, and thousands of listens have driven this podcast to the top 3%. Thank You!  Pete Behrens closes out season one with a personal message about the importance of cycles and how we all need to be more aware of and break cycles to improve health and performance. Learn more about this ep...

Luke Hohmann , a serial entrepreneur and Founder of First Root, shares how a simple technique called participatory budgeting can positively impact an entire community. Liz Dudley , a Social Studies Teacher based in New York City, shares her experience with participatory budgeting and its impact on her students and school community toward increased engagement, discourse, and leadership. Listen and...

Andy Slain , a company man for 17 years in a well-paying managerial position decides to leave it all behind to pursue a path of purpose with no financial guarantees. Essentially answering his own question, “What would I do if money didn’t matter?” Brad Swanson , a Leadership and Organization Coach, joins Pete to reflect on Andy’s story and share his own similar purpose-seeking work/life choices to...

Eric Engelmann is a seasoned leader, a serial innovator, and a leadership gambler. That’s right—this former founder and CEO experienced a rebirth in his own leadership, propelling him on a journey of betting on and shaping innovators of the future. Eric shares his unique approach to identifying, betting, and improving his odds on their chosen leaders. And as part of our discussion, we dig into his...

Ameet Kallarackal , a first-time CEO and co-founder of Fisherman, a startup building a “No Effort Web”, shares his perception of risk/reward through his leadership journey in choosing to expand an industry and build a new company. Rachel Weston Rowell , a Senior Vice President with Insight Partners helping start-up leaders scale-up their organizational discipline and culture, joins our discussion...

Henriette Kamfer , a Procurement Specialist with one of Australia's largest natural gas infrastructure businesses, shares an inspiring story of revamping a large-scale sourcing project to better engage stakeholders AND improve their bottom line. Mirko Kleiner , Founder of Lean Agile Procurement, joins the dialogue to share how a single premise of applying agile principles to standard business...

Dean Leffingwell , a business innovator and founder of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), has dedicated his work life in pursuit of a better way forward, both as a leader himself, and in building companies helping others to be better.  Pete goes behind the curtain with Dean, not to explore his latest creation, but rather to explore the leader behind it. As a leadership mentor and advisor to Pete p...

Von Rhea , a Senior Director of Engineering at Trimble, shares his story with Pete of scattered teams across the globe - 12 international locations! - and his ongoing leadership challenge to bridge diversity, engage these unique voices and connect across this disconnected organization. Melissa Uribes , Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Trimble, joins Pete to discuss Von’s discon...

Crystal Mills , a Regional Vice President for a Canadian credit union, shares her rollercoaster story exploring the highs and lows in rebuilding her new leadership habits amid overwhelming stress and anxiety. Both Crystal’s story, and our discussion following, is with Jasmine Kernaleguen , a leadership disruptor who inspired Crystal’s new leadership path and engaged Crystal on her journey.

Pete talks with Travis Matthews, a Director of IT Solutions for Washington State Employee Credit Union, about the challenge of leading organizational change from a middle-management position within his organization and the skills required to succeed.   Following, Pete is joined by Karen Kemerling, a 35 year veteran of corporate leadership and brain-based leadership coach to diagnoses Travis'...

Pete speaks with Jasmine Keel, Head of Research and Insights in Human Resources at Swiss Re. Jasmine and Pete explore the characteristics that leaders need to exhibit to be considered for future leadership positions and how leaders can develop these today. 

Josh Forman, a Director of Engineering from a high-tech scale-up organization, shares his story of navigating the vast changes in his company and specifically dealing with a new COO. Following Josh's interview, Pete talks with Rachel Weston Rowell, a leadership teams coach who specializes in startup and scale-up organizations, to discuss Josh's story and what all leaders can learn from i...

Karen Kemerling, the Director of Strategy and Guide Development at Agile Leadership Journey and 30-year veteran of leadership joins Pete to discuss the development and focus of this podcast.  Karen and Pete explore why we created this podcast, who this podcast is for, and what we can look forward to throughout our first season of (Re)Learning Leadership.