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Join us for a discussion with Waldo Waldman, a decorated fighter pilot, and international motivational speaker about moving forward in challenging times, building resilience, and the challenge of doing all this in uncertain times.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join our conversation about veterans helping veterans across NGOs and learn some best practices in creating the cultures needed for success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us in a conversation with John Panaccione of VETtoCEO about veterans, entrepreneurship, and business building, and learn about some commonalities and new paths within all of these dynamic realms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our most emotional episode to date, we look into Peter Jackson's Documentary, They Shall Not Grow Old, and look at how little the veteran experience has changed over 100 years.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Coaching Leader - What Cultural Dynamics do you need to adopt in your organization to create influential mentors and coaches in your leadership teams? Featuring HBR Articles:  Real Mentorship Starts with Company Culture Ego is the Enemy of Good Leadership The Leader as Coach Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we explore leadership dynamics and culture impacts behind the technology that is influencing all of our industry and marketplaces. Featuring articles from Accenture, McKinsey, and Strategy+Business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us as we kick off Season 2 of The Leadership Update brief by exploring and pondering the seemingly different but incredibly similar fields of leadership, entrepreneurship, and the military.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 20 is an amazing milestone for us. Join us in looking back at the amazing conversations we have had as we wrap up Season 1 and prepare for Season 2 this fall.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Employee engagement has become a challenge for almost every organization. But, how much do leaders look at how they engage their teams? Join in our discussion with Jon Rennie about his new book, I Have the Watch, and the lessons that he learned during his time on a Navy Submarine, his career, and now his time at the helm of his company, Peak Demand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rob's book, It's Personal, not Personnel delivers a one-of-a-kind insight into the challenges facing senior leaders today, how do you move past a transactional leadership experience towards building a team of motivated, dedicated, and highly involved Personnel who are out to accomplish their mission. Our conversion covers how he met and overcame this challenge and how he is continuing to help business leaders and veterans today.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Crafting resilience is the one skills that many veterans perfect in their military service, but it is an active community that allows them the face and overcome the new challenges they face re-entering the civilian world and job market.  Ed Smith, of Valor Wealth Partners, a marine veteran who has stepped up and embraced change an challenge in every aspect of his professional life. From leaving the corp, finding his way through school and into the financial services industry to join it just in time for a crash, to now starting his new practice and redefining what it means to help people make some of the most difficult, and significant, life decisions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

RallyPoint is an online platform of 1.6 million currently serving military members, veterans, and supporters. Learn more about this fantastic network, and the power of creating a robust and supportive personal network, in our interview with its CEO, David Gowel.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Changing anything requires persistence more than anything else. It takes time and diligence to develop any transformation in the best way possible. Learn more about these journeys with our guest this week, Zach Gramlich of JLL.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The gap between the civilian and military is one that begins with the way both sides look at the world. It is a gap of experiences, viewpoints, ideas, and applications. Bridging this begins with an understanding of what both sides bring to the table. On this episode, we have a great conversation with Neal Duckworth about a few new ideas to make this happen.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode, we have a conversation with Josh Spodek, the author of Leadership, Step by Step, on his upcoming book, Initiative, about entrepreneurship, creating new projects, and building a lifelong passion.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are 140,000 veteran-owned businesses across New England. The NEVCC seeks to bring them all together, providing an active community, access to and vetting of many resources, and a profound economic impact to the region.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we get the inside story about creating one of Massachusetts' premier veterans programs, Mass Fallen Heroes. We speak with Dan about bringing together a group of veterans, learning the ropes of creating a non-profit organization, and learn what's in store for the future of this amazing organization.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Teams are critical to our organizations, but building productive, collaborative, and motivated teams can be one of our most significant leadership challenges. In this episode, we speak with Chris Pratt, veteran, entrepreneur, and CEO of OMNI Resource Management and Security Concepts about his journey, the power of building a great team of people in your organization.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices