REGENERATE

What happens to your strategy & plan when a squall knocks your sailboat down? You ease the sails, and the weighted keel rights her. In Part 4 of our Regenerative Leadership and Business series, we turn strategy into a passage plan: course, hazards, and standing orders for the crew. We’ll explore the Working Together Management System my mentor Alan Mulally used to turn around Boeing Commercial...

What if your biggest business obstacle isn’t your strategy, but the story you tell yourself about who you are? I spent three days as a participant in Stacey Berger’s Passion to Purpose workshop. Today I share what I brought home, ugly parts included, all of them mine: identity, self-worth, fear of success, and the self-sabotage that follows. My unfocused strategy may be the symptom, not the cause....

What if winning meant leaving people, planet, and profit better than you found them? This week on REGENERATE, we mash up regenerative business design with Roger Martin and A.G. Lafley’s Playing to Win strategy cascade. Start with the one question most leaders skip: What’s your winning aspiration? Then: where to play, how to win, and the hard trade-offs of saying no. Purpose-driven leaders leave wi...

Would you sail across an ocean without knowing where you were? Most leaders know their position and their business's position using conventional metrics of success. But what if we are measuring the wrong things? Today I'm kicking off a three-part series on becoming a regenerative business. We'll use Bill Reed's trajectory—from conventional to green, sustainable, restorative and regenerative. We'll...

Are you quietly exhausted? If your business is growing but you feel like you're shrinking, this conversation is for you. Our guest is Stacey Berger. She's a business coach who believes you can't outperform your self-image. No amount of strategy, hustle, or willpower will carry you past the ceiling your beliefs have quietly built. So if you've done the courses and tried the strategies and something...

Can a polluting, industrial factory begin to act like a forest? In 1994, Ray Anderson, CEO of the carpet-tile company Interface, Inc., read a book that hit him like "a spear in the chest". He set out to transform a petroleum-based business from the inside out. We'll explore how Interface moved from being a traditional, extractive manufacturer to being a regenerative corporate role model. We'll als...

What if a company's only shareholder were the Earth itself? In 2022, Yvon Chouinard, Patagonia's founder made that real — and kept running a growing and profitable business that tells us to buy less. We'll unpack the difference between degenerative, sustainable, and regenerative leadership and business practices, what profit is actually for, and why so many of us - especially me—haven't figured it...

What if the person you set aside at twenty is still aboard — waiting for you to call them back up on deck? My guest this Monday is Courtlandt Barnes — senior software developer, team leader, maker, sailor, husband, father, and my coaching client, both on and off the water from August 2022 until earlier this year. Courtlandt didn't quit anything. He's still in the same demanding role, still leading...

What if fire — the very force that threatens to take everything — is also nature's oldest teacher of renewal? After flames came within two miles of our family cottage, and a summer of fire scorched three continents, REGENERATE asks what scorched earth can teach us about coming back stronger — as people, as leaders, as a species buying time for life to adapt. If not now… when? REGENERATE is broadca...

What if the design principles that heal a watershed are the same ones that build a steady leader or a resilient team? This week Javan Kerby Bernakevitch, regenerative land and life design consultant and strategic design and facilitation partner, joins Capt. Dave to make the case that ecology is a master pattern from which to learn. Javan walks through the pattern language he uses both to redesign...

What if your brand — how others truly experience you — isn't something you invent, but something you uncover? Twelve timeless characters live inside all of us — the Hero, the Sage, the Explorer, the Creator, and more — quietly shaping how we lead, connect, and show up. This week, Capt. David Gallimore turns the mic on himself to reveal how uncovering — and naming — your true brand lets you take th...

As AI generates answers faster than we can question them, the scarce skill isn't producing more output...faster, it's interrogating it. Bryce Hoffman, bestselling author, top-rated speaker, and unconsultant joins Capt. David to explore why red teaming - applied critical thinking - becomes more essential in the AI age, and how leaders keep human judgment in command rather than outsourcing it to the...

You don't need to invent your definition of success — you need to excavate it. Like an archeologist on a historic dig, your Core Values have been inside you all along, shaping your choices before you ever named them. Drawing from his Regenerate YOU! playbook, Capt. David shows you how to reflect, spot the recurring themes, and distill your top values — then "test-drive them in the wild" until they...

You've built real success — yet Sunday nights still carry a quiet dread. What if Monday became the day you couldn't wait for? Drawing from his Regenerate YOU! playbook, Capt. David walks you through the four circles of Ikigai — what you love, what you're great at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for — and the daily practice that turns dread into direction. Purpose isn't a destinatio...

How do you close the gap between what you say you want and how you're actually living? This Monday, Capt. Dave becomes his own guest and shares how a Swedish practice called döstädning opened the door to renovating and selling the family home, becoming — and remaining — completely debt-free, and confronting the beliefs and biases (hello, sunk cost!) that kept him anchored to a life he'd outgrown....

What if the exhaustion you feel in midlife isn't the beginning of your decline — but an invitation to your greatest reinvention? In this episode of REGENERATE, Chris Rew and Capt. Dave explore what it actually takes to choose reinvention over decline — how to find clarity when the old map stops working, why purpose becomes non-negotiable in the second half of life, and what it means to step into m...

What if everything you've ever been is exactly who you were meant to become? Society tells you to pick a lane and work the 45-year plan. The Pipeman says mess up the plan and pivot towards how you were meant to live! Dean K. Piper, CST aka “The Pipeman” — metalhead, punk, hippy, professional businessman - has lived multiple lifetimes in one. He’s lived multiple identities. He's evolved into his co...

What if the most powerful competitive advantage you have is the one you've been ignoring? In this episode of REGENERATE, Capt. Dave welcomes Pakistan-based leader, identity guide, and marketing coach, Naveed Shah, to explore the ancient wisdom encoded in Rumi's quotes — that your essence is your kingdom — and why the alignment between who you truly are and how you show up in the world isn't just a...

What does it take to transform personally and professionally - to become who you want to become - to be a better person, to experience more inner peace, joy, professional freedom, and wealth. In this very authentic and vulnerable episode of REGENERATE, Captain David Gallimore shares the second update about his Hero’s Journey of personal and professional transformation. Celebrate WINS with Capt. Da...

What truly defines you — and can you change it? In this REGENERATE episode, Capt. Dave sits down with dear, dear friend and sensei, Dr. Frank Wagner. He’s the co-creator of Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching® and a pioneer in leadership development since the late 1970s. They’ll explore the deep roots of personal identity and what it actually takes to transform it. Together they unpac...

How do you find a way to regenerate your life when people you love most are suddenly gone? In this deeply human conversation, Capt. David sits down with his dear friend since college, Chris Dietche. Chris lost his son, Diego, and a few short years later his wife, Ana. Last Memorial Day, David lost his beloved younger sister, Pamela, to her third different cancer. We explore not how we get over gri...

My guest is Mike Chodroff, one of my best regenerative life, leadership, and career coaching clients…EVER! We discuss the messy middle of his personal and professional transformation from financial advisor to school teacher to Founder and Executive Director of The Ripple Center, a non-profit fellowship program, to collaborating with Capt. David and attracting his ideal next career and job during a...

My guest, Angela Sharpe, is a business and tech project and program manager and fellow media host of A Sharpe Outlook. We will be discussing two important but not easy questions related to the declining mental health, lack of personal agency, disconnects from community, burnout, and other challenges our young people are experiencing in middle school to high school and young adults in their 20’s an...

What would it take to transform personally and professionally - to become who you want to become - to not only be a better person, experience more inner peace, joy, professional freedom, and wealth, but also to create a better world…faster?  In this very authentic and vulnerable episode of REGENERATE, Captain David Gallimore shares the messy middle of his personal and professional transformation -...

What if the real constraint in your leadership is not strategy or talent, but the quality of thinking conditions around you? In this episode, Dr Toomas Särev joins Captain David Gallimore to explore Cognitive Oxygen™ (COx): the practical discipline of protecting and restoring the conditions for wise action under pressure. We will examine how clarity, psychological safety, and agency operate at thr...