The Leader's Commute Podcast

HOST: Jess Villegas - ACUITY Business Consulting My guest today is Lisa Scheinkopf —author, consultant, and educator, is someone who worked closely with Eli Goldratt, author of the iconic book The Goal, to help codify what eventually became the Theory of Constraints thinking process. She later advanced her thinking on this in her  book Thinking For A Change. In it, Lisa did not simply cover t...

HOSTED BY:  Jess Villegas, ACUITY Business Consulting Sometimes the most dangerous disruptions in life are the ones nobody else can see. My guest today, Steve “Moby” Leitch , knows something about disruption. After the collapse of his businesses, marriage, health, and identity, he began rebuilding his life—not just externally, but internally. What followed eventually led him into the world of...

HOST: Jess Villegs - ACUITY Business Consulting Most leaders understand the importance of planning. Fewer understand what planning is actually for. In this Reflection episode, High Noon, Full Moon: Plans Fail, Preparation Endures, I relate a story about preparation, uncertainty, and what happens when circumstances abruptly separate us from the plans we carefully constructed. What began as an ambit...

HOST: Jess Villegas - ACUITY Business Consulting My guest today is Marc A. Pitman, founder and CEO of Concord Leadership Group. Over the past 20 years, he has trained more than 27,000 leaders across North America, Europe, Mexico, and New Zealand, and personally coached over 130 CEOs and senior executives through periods of significant disruption—including the dot-com bust, 9/11, the 2008 recession...

HOST: Jess Villegas - ACUITY BUsiness Consulting  Every system has a moment where something gets exposed, not necessarily a failure, but a signal. When this happens it is likely a tension exist between how things are done, and what happens when someone operates outside of that. In Season 1, I told stories and drew conclusions. In Season 2, I’m slowing that down. These Reflection episodes are...

HOST: Jess Villegas, ACUITY Business Consulting Today’s guest, Rick Albertini , understands that the things we tend to label as ‘glitches’—the disruptions, the detours, the sudden recalibrations—are often the very moments shaping who we become. Not as failures or malfunctions, but as invitations to pay attention.  Rick is the President of Phenix Truck & Van , Southern California’s largest...

HOST: Jess Villegas / ACUITY Business Consulting This is a Reflection from The Leader’s Commute. From time to time, I share a story that continues to shape how I think — not because the facts have changed, but because my perspective has. These reflections stand on their own, and they often sit behind the conversations you hear elsewhere on this podcast. This REFLECTION is titled What a World, What...

HOST: Jess Villegas: ACUITY Business Consulting.  This episode of The Leader’s Commute centers around the idea of what happens when people who spent a long-time racing begin to notice the cost of deferred recovery and start asking, sometimes imperfectly, what presence, meaning, and contribution might look like now. Chris is a self-proclaimed communications master . His career spanned more tha...

From time to time, I share a story that continues to shape how I think — not because the facts have changed, but because my perspective has. These reflections stand on their own, and they often sit behind the conversations you hear elsewhere on this podcast. This REFLECTION is titled The Seven Year Glitch – A Caregiving Detour It’s about a long stretch of caregiving that revealed how easily we con...

Host: Jess Villega s - ACUITY Business Consulting In this episode of The Leader’s Commute Podcast , we explore what it means to navigate systems that are large, impersonal, and often unfair — systems we didn’t design and can’t easily change but still have to live inside. This conversation with Lisa Berry Blackstock, one of the earliest and best-known internationally independent patient advocates t...

Host: Jess Villegas, ACUITY Business Consulting In this episode we address an often-overlooked idea: how we think is deeply influenced by the environments we move through, the people we interact with, and the stories we tell ourselves afterward. My guest today is Eric Pratum . Eric is the host of the Unfolding Thought podcast, where he explores how individuals and groups think, how meaning forms o...

Host: Jess Villegas, ACUITY Business Consulting In this episode we will explore how people actually grow into their work. Not through ambition alone or credentials, but through a sustained relationship with curiosity. My guest today, Jeffrey Smith, is an Editorial Illustrator, who has spent more than four decades revealing what most of us overlook — the quiet structures beneath our emotions, the b...

Season Two / Episode 00: Season Two Trailer Host: Jess Villegas, ACUITY Business Consulting When I began this journey, I was trying to make sense of leadership as I’d lived it—not as a title or a role, but as something experienced. Season 1 of this podcast was an exploration of that idea through personal stories, systems thinking, business experiences, and conversations with people who were willin...