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"There's nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." - Arthur Conan Doyle. Leadership perspective creates different kinds of creative solutions that make far more sense and have more support than the limited but obvious approach you might have started with. Many times, particularly as a leader, a tough question is way more important than having an easy answer, and a discussion is more valuable than the dictate. Can you identify the issues that are obvious to everyone and find value in the different perspectives? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you wondered how your past experiences impact your present success and future opportunities? Experiential Intelligence—the mindsets and abilities gained from your personal and professional life experiences-- helps uncover just that. While you can't change what's happened to you or how you've responded to it, within your unique stories are hidden strengths waiting to be discovered. Your Experiential Intelligence (XQ) isn't only what you've learned over time. It's how you perceive challenges, view opportunities, and tackle goals. In this episode with Soren Kaplan, author of Experiential Intelligence: Harness the Power of Experience for Personal and Business Breakthroughs, learn how to use your experiential intelligence to become a better leader, increase collaboration, innovation, and results, hire and develop talent using more strategic criteria and transform your organization's culture. Experiential Intelligence reveals the psychological, sociological, and neurological forces that make us tick. Learn how to uncover your hidden assets, remove invisible barriers limiting peak performance, and amplify strengths to achieve breakthroughs for yourself, your team, and your organization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you want to gain insight and understanding in both yourself and your organization? The ability to take on another person’s point of view is a vital part of getting anything done successfully, and the Enneagram offers a unique and effective route to open people up to other ways of thinking. In this episode Karl Hebenstreit, Ph.D., author of The How and Why: Taking Care of Business with the Enneagram, provides an overview of Organization Development tools and frameworks traditionally associated with solving typical business challenges—infusing and enhancing them with insight from the Enneagram. Pulling from over twenty-five years of Human Resources and Organization Development experience, Hebenstreit provides a practical guide to applying the Enneagram to a variety of business challenges and initiatives. Get easy-to-understand insights into the Enneagram model designed to be put to immediate use with existing Organization Development best practices to help create more robust solutions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Showing up with authenticity and love creates a legacy. In today's episode, Rani Puranik shares lessons of life, love, and leadership from her book, 7 Letters to My Daughters: Light Lessons of Love, Leadership, and Legacy. Rani provides a roadmap to equip not only her daughters but the daughters of the world. From growing up in a country foreign to her family to finding strength during a tumultuous and scarring divorce to finally understanding a greater purpose and independence in spite of cultural norms, Rani knows adaptability, authenticity, and how to remain a leader through turmoil. If you want to grow through adversity, move forward no matter the circumstance, and define who you are and what you want, this episode is for you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you find yourself caught in the day-to-day demands wondering how do I find time for strategy that allows me to invest in myself, be more effective, or invest in building my business, you don't need a new productivity trick. The first step is to begin a deeper leadership journey and address four core factors – Tactics, Influence, Mindset, and Environment (T.I.M.E.). In this episode, Richard Medcalf gives you a roadmap to becoming a more strategic leader and offers a complete set of strategies to help you elevate your focus. Learn how to clarify your most important strategic activities, build a plan to quickly free up time for strategy, win over your key stakeholders, address the beliefs that are keeping you in busy work, and create a culture of focus across your entire team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you experience genuine concern in your leadership? Do you lead by example and does your team know they are in the V.A.U.L.T? In this episode, David talks with Virg Palumbo, President of Organizational Efficiency for Kforce Inc. on what leadership is, how to handle high-pressure, high-stress situations, and how every person on your team can make a difference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leaders know how valuable coaching conversations can be but it's not always easy to find the time. In this episode, Wendy Swire, author of Anytime Coaching: Unleashing Employee Performance, gives us effective and impactful coaching skills to use at any time. The Anytime Coaching model equips managers (from first-time supervisors to senior executives) with tools they can use immediately to transform the way they work with employees and colleagues unleashing their best thinking and developing their overall competence.  Tune in to learn how the anytime coaching approach enables you to understand the importance of both self-awareness and organizational awareness, view your employees and the work you do in fresh and positive ways, know how to respond once you have observed, inquired, and listened, recognize how to share feedback and realign when coaching conversations get off track. Whether you lead a temporary, cross-functional team on a short-term project or formally manage large groups of people on a daily basis, Wendy's practical tips and insights will help you improve performance and achieve results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Building rapport doesn't always come easy when we're dealing with different personality types, time constraints, or being forced to create relationships online where trust and connection are naturally more difficult to cultivate. This is why we had to have Michael Redding back on the podcast to continue the discussions on excellent conversation and rapport-building skills. The first time Michael Reddington joined the podcast we discussed his book, The Disciplined Listening Method, How a Certified Forensic Interviewer Unlocks Hidden Value in Every Conversation and that conversation turned into one of the most powerful episodes of 2022. A large part of successful leadership, listening, and conversations are based on building rapport with the people you're interacting with, and who better to learn from than a Certified Forensic Interviewer? In this episode, get insights that will make a difference in how you show up in conversations at work, at home, and in life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever thought, if I just had more discipline I could achieve that goal? If you're looking to master your discipline then this episode with Dre Baldwin, Author of Work on Your Game, is for you. Whether you’re just starting out in business or looking to take your career to the next level, Dre has the strategy you need to succeed from the inside out, including a four-part model for achieving any goal, based on discipline, confidence, mental toughness, and personal initiative. Dre takes you through the steps of identifying what’s expected of you, preparing for what's coming, and conditioning your mind for the competitive world of business―and everything is a business. Dre's personal story of beating the odds is inspiring and a great opportunity to learn from. Learn how to play the mental game in a way that launches you toward unparalleled achievement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever wondered what the most essential leadership competencies are and how they can be learned without taking up too much time? Whether you are in a formal leadership role or are a rising leader, entrepreneur, or changemaker driven by a desire to use your voice to create change, in this conversation with Reiner Lomb, you will get tips on how to positively influence key stakeholders, build trust, lead with optimism, ride the waves of negative emotions, mobilize people to take action and choose resiliency in the face of setbacks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you aspire to embody authentic leadership across all spectrums of your life, this episode is for you. Sean Georges and John Buford, are two former marine officers with a combined 80 years of leadership experience in the military, business, nonprofit, and education. Sean and John share a simple but powerful servant leadership model with a focus on mission, and practical, fundamental, and timeless leadership concepts designed to help you understand what it means to lead in an authentic way. Get the tools and perspective needed to navigate and shape your individual and unique developmental journey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's the risk involved in creating stronger human connections? Great leaders know that deeper human connection fosters more engagement and better performance and that investing in people boosts results and increases retention. Leaders accomplish more by asking powerful questions than by commanding and controlling. In this episode, Chad Littlefield gives you practical tools and questions to use to help you connect with your team more effectively, build better relationships and results, have more influence, and work better together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leading with gratitude and mastering connection have been keys to driving the success of event MC & Speaker, Dan Ram. Dan has hosted changemakers like President Barack Obama, billionaire founders Sir Richard Branson and Reid Hoffman, Grammy-winning artists, and celebrities. In this episode, you get practical ways to posture your mentality for gratitude, create connections, and find ways to invest in others to help build a future we all want to live in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, it's David, and you're listening to Leadership Without Losing your Soul, your source for practical leadership, inspirational tools, and strategies you can use to achieve transformational results without sacrificing your humanity or your mind in the process. Well, here we are. I have been looking forward to this episode for months, seeing it on the editorial calendar. Why? Because it is the 200th episode of Leadership Without Losing Your Soul! In this episode, we highlight several guests who have really inspired courage and hope by sharing their practices, insights, and practical tools that we can use in our everyday work life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When we’re looking for answers, why is changing your questions so important? Intentionally using questions helps us make wiser choices, find solutions, and transform our personal and professional lives. In this episode, Dr. Marilee Adams gives you powerful tools of Question Thinking, and how to apply the same information and practical skills in our own lives. Tune in to change your questions and mindsets for the most rewarding outcomes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does the DEI journey look like to achieve your idea of a workplace utopia? When Dr. Ella F. Washington asks company leaders what a workplace utopia looks like to them she often hears about an ideal vision of an organization that values diversity and inclusion and wants employees to bring their whole selves to work. A truly inclusive workplace requires invention and reinvention, mistakes and humility, adaptation to a changing world, constant reflection, and sometimes significant sacrifice. In this episode, Dr. Washington provides a framework for thinking about where you are on the journey and where your company may be too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does it take to fuel human centered performance? In this episode, Jeannie Diefenderfer gives you what she found after conducting the Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance 2022 Study on How Human-Centered CEOs Fuel Performance. As a business leader who turns the challenges of modern corporations into profitable opportunities and with extensive experience as a senior executive in a Fortune 20 environment, Jeannie understands how to transform operations to focus on fueling human centered performance within organizations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leading with an ethical compass may seem to be challenging in this time of deepening divisions and “alternative facts”, trust and authenticity grow more precious by the hour. More and more people find themselves driven to overcome the personal, professional, and social pressures of ignoring what is right in favor of what passes for ‘success.’ But what people want is truth in their decisions, authenticity in their relationships, and solid ground for making tough, ethical choices in business and life. In this episode, Chris Gilbert, Ph.D. gives you the tools individually and collectively to achieve what he calls moral progress and bring better ethics into your organization, your family, and your communities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Obsessed for good surfaced naturally as a truth for how this organization operates and it has remained their mantra since. In this episode, David talks with Amy Pyles, President of Saxum, about what obsessed for good means for their company and the five pillars they use to guide clients as well as themselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever heard that you're negative, or have you worked with someone who you thought was too negative? When your team thinks of you as a negative person, you're less likely to be invited to conversations where you would have valuable contributions to make. You're less likely to receive recognition for your work and your odds of promotion go down if you often hear that you're too negative. Learning how to be a less negative leader is a critical skill to master and fast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices