The Rising Leader

I’ve been doing this Rising Leader program, podcast, and book, and I’ve been talking, eating, drinking, and sleeping leadership—which is why I think I recently had the weirdest dream. In it, after having gone through a bloody battle, I was crawling. After so much crawling, I came to the feet of God—who, in this dream, appears as a woman—and she gave me a pearl of great wisdom about leadership. In...

Michael D. Robinson is the Vice President of Healthcare for North America at VMware, a leading provider of multi-cloud services for all apps—enabling digital innovation with enterprise control. A tech industry veteran, Michael has driven hundreds of thousands in revenue, created billion-dollar business divisions, and supported scores of sales careers. He formerly served as the Vice President for U...

Mark C. Crowley is an author, leadership speaker, consultant, and change agent for workplace engagement and culture. He is a regular columnist for Fast Company Magazine and has been published in USA Today, Reuters, Forbes, and the Stanford Social Innovation Review, among other publications. The second edition of his book, Lead from the Heart: Transformational Leadership for the 21st Century, debut...

Michael Bungay Stanier is at the forefront of making coaching an everyday leadership behavior.  He is the author of The Coaching Habit ... the best-selling coaching book of this century with over 700,000 copies sold and 1,000+ five-star reviews on Amazon. His new book, The Advice Trap , focus on what it takes to stay curious a little bit longer and tame your Advice Monster. In 2019, he was named t...

Beth Perlman is the Managing Director and Chief Information Officer Advisor at Think, a national technology and operations management consulting practice. As an experienced executive, Beth has an in-depth background in management combined with operational and administrative expertise. She is the former VP and Program Director at Gartner, where she worked with Fortune 100 C-level executives. She gr...

William Branum is a Navy SEAL veteran and the founder of Naked Warrior Recovery. During his 26 years of service in the United States military, William has honed his leadership skills, cultivated his mindset, and gained invaluable experience in high-pressure situations. He served as a sniping instructor during his tenure. He led teams on several operations, from protecting interim Iraqi elected off...

Anton Gunn is an international speaker, expert on leadership and workplace culture, and the world’s foremost authority on socially conscious leadership. A former advisor to President Barack Obama, Anton currently serves as the CEO of 937 Strategy Group LLC, a management consulting and professional services firm that helps executives and teams build world-class cultures in their organizations. Anto...

I do everything I can to be the best person I can be. I meditate, journal, and go to workshops, all to cultivate love and kindness in my heart and to be honest, fair, and supportive toward others. But, despite everything I do, I remain human—and being human means, I still screw up. I still let people down, hurt them, or even gossip. And at work—with all the ambition, pressure, and anxiety—it’s esp...

John Sapone is the Senior Vice President of Sales at Snowflake, a technology company dedicated to mobilizing data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Before joining Snowflake in 2019, John served in various roles at ServiceNow, including Vice President Americas of Commercial Sales, Vice President of North America Commercial Sales, and Vice President of US Commercial Sales. He...

Trying to convince your kids to eat more vegetables? Sales. Showing your significant other how much you love and value them? Sales. Convincing your team to get on board with a new idea? You’ve guessed it—sales. No matter where, how, or with whom, everything that we do in the world is sales. And many people—myself included—sometimes get upset at the idea that they must always sell, despite its usef...

Garry Ridge is the Chairman and CEO of the WD-40 Company. Garry has been working with the WD-40 Company for nearly 40 years and, as its CEO, is responsible for driving the company’s culture and values. In addition to his role at the WD-40 Company, Garry shares his experience and insights as an executive coach, consultant, and speaker through his platform, the Living Moment. He has been instrumenta...

Kevin Haverty is the Senior Advisor to the CEO of ServiceNow, a software development organization dedicated to making the world work better for everyone. Kevin has over 25 years of experience in sales leadership roles in the tech industry. He has been working with ServiceNow for over 11 years in different capacities, including Chief Revenue Officer and EVP of Worldwide Sales. Before joining Servic...

Jefferson K. Rogers is a keynote speaker and the founder and CEO of JKR Windows. Through innovative leadership and the creation of highly motivated sales teams, Jefferson has led JKR Windows to grow exponentially in record time, generating $40 million in revenue within the first five years of operation. In addition to his work at JKR Windows, Jefferson helps other entrepreneurs and business owners...

Personality tests are beneficial to my work as a coach. I use personality assessments to get a picture of the client’s situation and evaluate where we need to begin. In organizations, personality tests could be used to assess a new hire’s fitness for a role. For example, if a hire is high in feeling and low on attention to detail, you may not want to put them into accounting. But if they lean towa...

Roderick Jefferson is a keynote speaker, Senior Enablement Executive, and the author of the Amazon bestselling book Sales Enablement 3.0: The Blueprint to Sales Enablement Excellence. With more than 20 years of sales enablement leadership experience, Roderick is an Executive-in-Residence with VentureScale. He is one of the founding members of the Sales Enablement Society. He also serves as a membe...

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If you have a spouse, if you have children, if you have elderly parents, you’re going to deal with stress outside of work. If you have a body, you’re going to deal with stress outside of work. It’s inevitable—stress is simply part of the human experience. But if it’s a constant in our personal lives, how can we manage it so we can do our best at work? What do we do if that stress starts spilling i...

Helen Appleby is an executive coach who helps senior leaders and high-performing women deliver powerful results, grow their leadership styles, build high-performing teams, and take their careers to the next level. She was VP and Global Business Leader for Respiratory Health at GlaxoSmithKline until she founded the Powerful Growth Group in 2015. In her book, The Unwritten Rules of Women’s Leadershi...

It can be terrifying to speak your truth. When you find yourself in an environment where opposition is less than welcome, or you’re the breadwinner of your family, it can be difficult to point out flaws in your organization. Yet, sharing your knowledge can be beneficial for your company and yourself—and just like anything, it takes practice to move through fear and risk and speak your mind.   In t...

Tom Mendoza is currently a member of the Board of Directors at Varonis, VAST Data, and mParticle and a Former Board Member and Investor at UiPath and Security Scorecard. He is the former President and Vice-Chair of NetApp, a hybrid cloud data service and data management company that has ranked in the Fortune 500 list since 2012. After 25 impressive years with NetApp, Tom retired from the company t...

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Meredith Bell is widely recognized as The Heart-Centered Connector. She is the President and Founder of Grow Strong Leaders, the host of the popular podcast by the same name, and the author of multiple books, including Peer Coaching Made Simple and Connect with Your Team. With over 40 years of experience as an entrepreneur, consultant, and trainer, Meredith has worked with thousands of leaders, en...

Do you feel stuck in a soul-crushing job? Maybe you work in a corporate office or are an entrepreneur trying to build a business, but you no longer have that drive and passion that once drove you to push forward. In the corporate world, there is a stigma that all corporate jobs are – or eventually become – soul-crushing.   But it doesn’t have to be that way.   In this episode, I discuss the stigma...

As leaders, I know you’re trying to juggle a lot. From learning how to balance the needs of your significant other, your children, your friends, your family, and – most importantly – yourself, as well as the demands of your job, your team, your boss, and your organization, it can be rather easy to feel overwhelmed. And while you’re probably pretty ambitious and are quickly climbing the corporate l...

Welcome to the Rising Leader Podcast. THERE ARE FEW NATURAL-BORN LEADERS Leadership is a learned skill and learning is never-ending. “What got you here won’t get you where you want to go,” is an uncomfortable truth Fast Rising High Achievers run into at every level of their career. In fact, what got you here won’t even help you do your new job effectively. Every step up the ladder requires a new l...