The Leadership Window

This week, Patrick sits down with Monroe Free to talk about leading with head and heart. Monroe is President and CEO of Habitat for Humanity of Greenville County (SC). To say that Monroe felt a calling to help those who are socially and economically disenfranchised would be a severe understatement. Many of his waking hours, and indeed his entire career have been devoted to improving the lives and...

Heather Adams, 2020-2021 President of The Blue Ridge Institute (BRI) , talks with Patrick about the institute as a haven for nonprofit executives, and about leadership in the social sector. Heather currently serves as the Director of Engagement and Literacy Initiatives for Ready for School, Ready for Life , an early childhood systems building initiative in Guilford County, NC. She joined the team...

What does riding a motorcycle have in common with leading an organization? Your host, Patrick Jinks shares his experience in becoming a proficient rider and what his lessons learned can tell us about leadership. The Leadership Window is a Feedspot TOP 20 Podcast!  Check out the list HERE !

Patrick and Dr. Brian Simmons, Associate Provost at Columbia International University, discuss the value of a Ph. D. in leadership, some core tenets of leadership, and the academics of leadership, among many other topics. Dr. Simmons is a visionary builder with a personal mission to further the kingdom of God through Christian education, teaching, and influencing others. Currently, he is leading O...

Daniel Andrews is a networking and relationship specialist, helping business leaders make meaningful connections. He joins Patrick to discuss networking in the pandemic, the ups and downs of technology for relationship and connections, and much more. Daniel is a South Carolina native, and spent most of that in Columbia. He has been self-employed in one form or another, since 1988, as both an indep...

Tom Keith joins Patrick in the studio to discuss leadership challenges and opportunities in the social sector. Tom is the president of the Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina , a position he has held since March of 1996. Under his leadership, the Foundation has awarded more than $70 million through over 2,100 grants across South Carolina since its inception. Its current assets exceed $...

Patrick talks about coaching and learning to become a coach with Michael Wallace, the Lead Coach Trainer for Leadership Systems, Inc. (LSI), and the owner of Creative Branding Designs, which focuses on social media marketing and branding. Michael holds a BS in Communications from Appalachian State University and a Master’s degree in Education from Dallas Seminary. He also serves as an Adjunct Prof...

In Part 1, Patrick shared 5 key learnings from his PhD experience. In this second part, Patrick shares 5 leadership lessons he did not get in school, but from life experience. Presence, self-accountability, assumptions, and more are covered in this episode.

In this episode, your host Patrick Jinks discusses the learning he has gained through his Ph. D. in Organizational Leadership studies at Columbia International University. If you are considering going back to school in leadership, you’ll appreciate this episode. If not, you’ll get the 30-minute version of a Ph. D. in Organizational Leadership!

Raven Solomon is a global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion thought leader and nationally recognized keynote speaker who helps organizations get future-ready by understanding generations, racial equity, and their intersection.  Raven’s mission is simple– to solve for racial inequity by breaking down generational and racial barriers in the workplace, replacing them with empathy and synergy that fost...

In this episode, Minter Dial joins Patrick from the UK to discuss authenticity in leadership, as framed in his latest book, You Lead: How Being Yourself Makes You a Better Leader. Minter Dial is an international professional and energetic speaker and a multiple award-winning author, specializing in leadership, branding, and transformation. An agent of change, he’s a three-time entrepreneur who has...

What does it mean to have connected conversations? Why are they important? Charles Weathers joins Patrick in the studio for a conversation about authentic leadership. Charles C. Weathers is a nationally recognized consultant and professional speaker known for helping leaders in the nonprofit, government, and private sectors facilitate courageous conversations and strengthen organizational performa...

Hildy Gottlieb is a social scientist and asker of powerful questions.  As a student of successful social movements, the questions that have driven Hildy’s work are these: What factors lead to successful social progress? Why do some change efforts succeed while others struggle? The answer she found was simple yet profound: Successful movements for change all have the same set of questions at the he...

Patrick discusses Marc Pitman’s new book, The Surprising Gift of Doubt with the author himself. Marc is the founder of Concord Leadership Group and has been leading organizations and teams for decades. His failures and successes have caused him to study leadership for over 30 years, including earning a Masters in Organizational Leadership and certification as a FranklinCovey Coach. Combining his o...

This week, Patrick talks with Fatima Ghzala, a certified John Maxwell Coach and Trainer who specializes in corporate training, and teams and individual assessments. Her business is Full Potential Development Coaching , whose clients include companies like Blue Cross Blue Shield and Michelin, as well as many small businesses. Before launching Full Potential Development, Fatima worked for several ye...

Patrick talks with Gregory Nielsen about the key elements of effective nonprofit board governance. Gregory Nielsen is an experienced nonprofit CEO and consultant committed to helping leaders and organizations excel. He is president and CEO of Nielsen Training and Consulting, LLC. Gregory has earned the prestigious BoardSource Certificate inNonprofit Board Consulting. He is also a frequent public s...

Research reveals that we ask tens of thousands of questions as our primary mechanism for learning in our early years. Why do we stop, and what happens when, as adults, we become more intentional about returning to our primal use of inquiry for learning, inspiring, and creating? Patrick creatively demonstrates the application and effectiveness of using questions and will lead the audience through a...

Some universities are far more than institutions of higher education. Hear the leadership competencies needed to provide community leadership from Adrienne McNeil. As the Assistant Vice President for Community and Regional Affairs at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, Adrienne manages the partnerships between the university and the community. Previously she served as the Vice President and Chief...

How do we move from planning to doing? How are they related? Author and strategic doer Liz Nilsen discusses the book and the framework with Patrick. Liz Nilsen is the Associate Director of the Agile Strategy Lab at UNA, following four years at the Agile Strategy Lab at Purdue. Liz’s passion is for creating programs that nurture the next generation of thinkers and doers, particularly through the de...

In this episode, Patrick sits down with Michael Bryant to discuss the people skills required to be effective in leadership. Michael is Founder and President of Peak Harvest Coaching, a leadership development and coaching firm that was founded on cultivating the soil of leadership. He is an adjunct coach and trainer for Leadership Systems, Inc. Michael has been a coach to Fortune 20 company executi...

Patrick’s address to entrepreneurs at the Global Entrepreneurship Initiative, hosted at The United Nations in June 2018. Patrick shares tips on how to make a social difference while making a profit.

Leadership is much more than management. It is more than strategy, models, and supervision. Great leaders live out worthy values. We must know who we are as leaders. In this episode, Bill Hudson shares the values that have made him a successful organizational leader and consultant. Bill Hudson is the founder and CEO of Family Child Care Associates (FCCA), a consultancy focused on supporting the ex...

Nothing makes a point more poignantly than a story. Listen to Patrick’s story of his encounter with evil spirits and his simple story of addressing homelessness.  Leaders must have stories. Leaders must be good storytellers. What is YOUR story?

A collaboration episode with Danielle Sangita, Grace-Anne Alfiero, and Phoebe Ezell – co-authors of  Re-Activate Your Life: Living, Surviving, and Thriving – Lessons Learned from a Pandemic World.  Creative pivoting — persisting with exception —   psychological immunity — all terms defined and described by this creative team of leaders, entrepreneurs, and authors. Patrick converses with the author...

A different kind of episode – a moment of personal privilege to put out a call to action for all leaders to take personal accountability for leadership.