Breakfast Leadership Show

Leading with Care: Going Beyond Servant Leadership with Bob DeKoch and Phil Clampitt

Beyond Servant Leadership
Bob DeKoch and Phil Clampitt, long-time collaborators, draw on their years of innovative practice and research to describe with vivid, real-world experiences, how leading with care enriches people and transforms organizations in our challenging times. 
DeKoch, with over 40 years of diverse executive leadership experience, which included 20 years leading The Boldt Company, a $1 billion construction services and real estate development company, has developed novel insights into leadership thinking and practice. Clampitt, an endowed, award-winning communication and information science professor at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, has over 40 years of experience in university teaching, ground-breaking research, and business consulting. His lifelong passion is to explore the dynamic relationship between leadership, communication, and big ideas.
Gallup recently reported that only 15% of employees in the United States are truly engaged in their workplace. Yet nearly 70% of employees say they would work harder if they felt more appreciated. Over 90% of employees surveyed believed their leadership “lacked communication skills to lead.” The gloomy stories behind sobering statistics reveal employees’ disappointment with current leadership approaches. Leaders can do better. 
That’s why the authors sought to go beyond the laudable sentiments of the “servant leadership” movement by envisioning, creating, and testing a new leadership platform based on a set of guiding beliefs and actual day-to-day practices.
The authors’ unique perspective transforms traditional practices, like employee coaching and collaboration, into dynamic self-actualizing workplaces. How? By sharing how caring leaders adroitly blend visible and subtle practices to realize the aspirational benefits of coaching and collaboration. The authors use a similar approach to share insights about less frequently discussed leadership issues such as how to build an empowering network of relationships and transform pushback into progress. Anyone who wishes to craft their own distinctive, compelling, and empowering leadership style that unleashes the latent energy of people and their organizations will discover a robust and enriching framework for doing so in Leading with Care in a Tough World.
Bob DeKoch
Bob has spent his entire career in leadership roles, refining his own skills, coaching and mentoring hundreds of aspiring leaders. This has been his lifelong work. His passion for people and for extraordinary outcomes is what drives him. Rising to senior executive roles in numerous organizations, Bob has developed and put into practice the many teachings in his books. He has over 4 decades of experience across major market sectors: the construction services industry and real estate development business, the pulp and paper industry, the beverage industry and the chemical industry. He has served on boards of significant US organizations -profit and non-profit – including a major international corporation. This diverse experience has helped him develop unique insight into inspired leadership.
Phillip G. Clampitt
Phillip G. Clampitt (PhD, University of Kansas) is the Blair Endowed Chair of Communication at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay. He was previously designated the Hendrickson Named Chair of Business. His research focuses on improving leadership communication, assessing communication effectiveness, managing uncertainty, and transforming pushback into progress. Phil has over 40 years of experience in university teaching and business consulting. His lifelong passion is to explore the dynamic relationship between leadership, communication, and big ideas. He loves hiking, biking, spy novels, and chamber music.
Social media links:
Bob:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-dekoch-135aa3228/
Phil:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-clampitt-527b4523/
 

Election 2022 - Interview with Clea Conner

Clea is the CEO of Intelligence Squared US Debates (IQ2US), a nonprofit organization that organizes Oxford-style debates that cover provocative topics such as whether a confrontation with Russia is worth it and if we should use gene editing to make better babies. Debaters get to make their case before an audience, which then votes on who has been the most persuasive.
IQ2US has organized over 185 debates that have reached millions of people through their multi-platform distribution network which includes over 230 public radio stations, TV networks, and their podcast, which has over 4 million downloads. Their debate series has won multiple awards, including five Telly Awards in 2021.
Clea has also won multiple awards for her work in politics and public affairs radio and television programming, including eight Telly Awards, seven Clarion Awards for Women in Communications, and Crain’s New York 40 Under 40 in 2018.
She developed “Up For Debate” and “That’s Debatable” as TV programs for Bloomberg, PBS, and Newsy. Clea also produced the first debate between artificial intelligence and a human debater in partnership with IBM’s historic Project Debater.
Social Media Links:https://www.facebook.com/IQ2US/https://twitter.com/IQ2UShttps://www.youtube.com/user/IntelligenceSquaredhttps://www.instagram.com/intelligencesquaredus/
Podcast:  
Intelligence Squared U.S.:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/intelligence-squared-u-s-debates/id216713308
 

Featured Interview with Anna Hemmings

Anna Hemmings MBE, OLY – 2 x Olympian & 6 x World ChampionAnna Hemmings is Britain’s most successful female marathon kayaker with a staggering eleven World and European Championship medals, 9 of them gold. She is now a leading inspirational speaker on resilience and high performance.
By the age of 24 Anna had been World Champion 3 times and competed at the Olympic Games. In 2010 she was awarded an MBE for her services to sport. She achieved this success against all the odds. At the peak of her career, Anna was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and was told by medical experts she might never race again. She battled her way to full recovery and went on to win a further 3 world titles and compete at her second Olympic Games in Beijing 2008.
Since retiring from sport Anna has become recognised as a specialist in the field of resilience and the psychology of high performance. She is an accredited Leadership Coach and founded Beyond the Barriers high performance training consultancy. Anna has worked with CEO’s and senior leaders through to middle management, designing and delivering resilience, leadership and high performing teams programmes. She works globally with leaders and teams helping them develop the skills, attitudes and behaviours to deliver exceptional performance.
Anna’s unique combination of experience in elite sport combined with 13 years leading a successful business and working alongside senior leaders, gives her a broad understanding of the challenges that leaders and teams face and how to overcome them to deliver outstanding results.
Website: www.annahemmings.comwww.beyondthebarriers.co.uk
 
Social Media Links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-hemmings-mbe/Twitter: @annahemmings

Featured Interview with Kyle Livingston

From being left at a yard sale as a 12 week old baby to losing $160k of his own money in a failed company, Kyle knows what failure feels like, tastes like, and smells like. But he did not let his circumstances determine his altitude in life. From the lessons learned, Kyle Livingston has since built three 7 figure brick and mortar companies and helped turn nine companies in the red to be wildly profitable. Now as a Business Consultant and Coach his goal is to help others turn Chaos into Profit.
Free toolkit that Kyle mentioned during the show:  http://fortifiedtoolbox.com/
 
Social Media Links:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC86jtZmQX-MmJ8UY4YgIh0Ahttps://www.instagram.com/7figurekyle/

Election 2022 - Interview with Andrew Heaton

Andrew and Michael discuss elections, and how most Americans are actually down the middle when it comes to their political tastes.
 
Andrew is the Host of the Political Orphanage. Andrew is a comedian, political satirist, and policy analyst coming from a very anti-partisan perspective.
Social Media Links: @MightyHeaton on Twitter

Featured Interview with Dr. Christopher Gilbert

Dr. Christopher Gilbert, author of the award-winning, best-selling The Noble Edge: Reclaiming and Ethical World One Choice at a Time, is a senior international ethics consultant and popular keynote speaker. He has worked on ethics and human capacity development programs with Fortune 500, government, and non-profit organizations, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Christopher has been a contributing author to CNBC, Fox News, Entrepreneur, CEO World, Thrive Global, Elephant Journal, Quartz, and Successful Business News. He has also been a featured guest on worldwide Podcasts and nationally syndicated radio and television programs.
Book description:"Being trusted is the foundation of our greatest personal freedoms" -GilbertIn a time of deepening divisions and “alternative facts”, trust and authenticity grow more precious by the minute. More people seek the truth and find themselves driven to overcome the personal, professional and social pressures for ignoring what is right in favor of what passes for 'success'. They want honesty from others, authenticity in their relationships, and solid ground for making tough, ethical choices.
The Noble Edge: Reclaiming an Ethical World One Choice at a Time provides these answers as Dr. Christopher Gilbert invites readers into an inspirational conversation spiced with personal stories, humorous anecdotes, and invaluable guidance about making consistently good choices. Based on three research-proven steps and nine principles for leading an ethically driven life,
The Noble Edge brings a fresh approach to personal growth and inspires real change to empower a brighter future.
As useful in the board room as the family room, this easy-to-read book contains insightful stories and a powerful model that sharpens the ethical lens and empowers readers to examine their own standards and values by applying transformational concepts to their life. Most importantly, readers finish The Noble Edge encouraged that they have the power and capacities - individually and collectively - to achieve moral progress and bring better ethics into their organizations, families, communities, and a world starved for truth and trust.
Social Media Links:
www.nobleedgeconsulting.comhttps://www.amazon.com/Noble-Edge-Reclaiming-Ethical-Choice/dp/1631954059You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4cqaU9N2Sc

Featured Interview with Mark Lachance

Mark Lachance is a serial entrepreneur, strategic thinker, and investor. He possesses a deep understanding of blitzscaling companies. Having owned and operated several businesses that have experienced hypergrowth through creative business development and lead generation, he is a master of sales and marketing and continues to apply and grow his expertise through current projects.
Mark is currently the CEO and lead investor of Maxy Media Inc., one of the largest TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, and Google Display Network performance marketing agencies in the world. Currently, Maxy Media is the number one advertiser in terms of monthly spend on the TikTok platform in Canada and top ten in North America.
In 2016, Mark successfully sold EVO Payments International Canada, an end-to-end payment solutions provider and merchant acquirer which he founded in 2009. He guided the company from its inception with one employee to over 200 employees across Canada.
Prior to founding EVO, Mark was one of the founding members and president of VersaPay Inc, a payments solutions provider, which was taken public in 2010. Before joining VersaPay, Mark was a founding member of Pivotal Payments, which is now a multi-billion-dollar public company. He helped set the foundation and drive the company's sales and revenues before his successful exit from the company in 2006.
Mark has made several other highly successful investments in various industries such as payments, cryptocurrencies, marketing, nutrition, fitness, and sports. Over the past twenty-five years, he has invested in and consulted for dozens of other ventures, which have resulted in highly positive returns.
Social Media Links:
Instagram: @misterluckyofficial

Featured Interview with Gregg Colburn

About the Book
In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, Colburn and Aldern shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area. Using accessible statistical analysis, they test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in a given city—including mental illness, drug use, poverty, weather, generosity of public assistance, and low-income mobility—and find that none explain the regional variation observed across the country. Instead, housing market conditions, such as the cost and availability of rental housing, offer a far more convincing account. With rigor and clarity, Homelessness Is a Housing Problem explores U.S. cities' diverse experiences with housing precarity and offers policy solutions for unique regional contexts.
About the Author
Gregg Colburn is Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, where he studies housing policy, housing affordability, and homelessness.Clayton Page Aldern is a data scientist and policy analyst based in Seattle.
 
Book:  Homelessness Is A Housing Problem:
 
https://amzn.to/3OhFIhL
 
Great interview in San Diego Union Tribune: 
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/homelessness/story/2022-07-11/new-book-links-homelessness-city-prosperity
 
Social Media Links:
@Colburn-Gregg