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About Coach

The Leadership Killer: Reclaiming Humility in an Age of Arrogance

CAPT John “Coach” Havlik, U.S. Navy SEAL (Retired), led special operations teams around the world during his 31-year naval career, to include the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, the SEAL’s most elite operational unit. CAPT Havlik was a nationally-ranked swimmer, and is a member of the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame and Mountaineer Legends Society, WVU's Ring of Honor equivalent.

Born in Munich, Germany, Coach grew up an Army brat, following his father around the world, eventually spending most of his childhood in Glen Burnie, MD.

29 years of distinguished service in the Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) community

Graduated from West Virginia University

Four year Swimming Letterman; three-time team MVP

First swimmer in school history to qualify for the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials (1980)

Qualified for the NCAA Division 1 Swimming Championships (3 times)

Served as tri-captain of the first undefeated men’s swim team in school history his senior year

Graduated with M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies from Naval War College in Newport, RI

Coach enlisted in the Navy in 1982, and was subsequently assigned to the United States Naval Academy as a swim coach/physical education instructor upon completion of Boot Camp. He was commissioned as a naval officer via Officer Candidate School in November 1984. Coach successfully completed Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training in 1985.

His military assignments have included a full range of duties in Sea, Air, Land (SEAL) Teams, Special Boat Teams, and Naval Special Warfare Development Group. He commanded several times and completed numerous deployments to named and contingency operations around the world, to include one deployment to Iraq, where he oversaw the complete redeployment of all Special Operations forces and equipment from Iraq after ten years of combat operations. Coach's naval career included overseas assignments in the Philippines, Panama and Bahrain.  He has worked extensively with inter-agency and international partners.

Today We Talked About

John's past

Navy Seal Life

Going Back To School at Age 60

Leadership Killers

Hubris and Ego

Consistency

One-on-Ones

Communication

Be the Example

Discipline

Culture

Humility

Evaluate and change to stay in-front

Check yourself

Have a Master Chief

Open up your mental aperture

Get out of your office

Connect to Coach

Twitter

Website

LinkedIn

The Leadership Killer Book

Leadership Kill Website

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About Gonçalo

Gonçalo Silva is obsessed with building the workplace of the future. That's why he joined Doist almost a decade ago, and it's why he remains there today as CTO, helping to build tools like Todoist and Twist that help over 13 million people worldwide be more productive.

Today we talked About:

History with technology

Doist

Growth

Remote work

Leading remotely

Motivating Remote Teams

Mission

On-boarding Remote Employees

Managing Independence

Communication for tech leaders

Ownership

Trust

Tight feedback loop

Radical Candor

Red - Yellow - Green checkin

Vulnerability

Start, Stop, Continue

Body language

Remote Employees

Connect with Gonçalo

Twitter

Doist

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About Gregg

Gregg Ward is the CEO of the Gregg Ward Group, a management consulting, training and coaching firm that focuses on helping leaders develop their Respectful Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, and Executive Presence skills. For over 25 years, Gregg has worked with Fortune 100 and 500 organizations around the world to inspire respect and leadership, emphasizing the measurable, bottom-line benefits they bring to leaders and their organizations. Gregg is also the Founder & Executive Director of the non-profit Center for Respectful Leadership.

After graduating from Boston University and working as a theatre professional around the U.S., Gregg started his career in the 1980s as a specialist trainer for the New York City Police Department. Collaborating with a team of experts, he developed a powerful experiential learning program for police officers based on Live Theatre Training techniques and the performance, improv, and facilitation skills that Gregg was incorporating into his onstage performances. This program was considered a huge success by NYPD’s leadership, and was featured in major media including The New York Times and CNN.

Since then, Gregg has developed, delivered, and facilitated thousands of keynote addresses, experiential learning programs, and executive coaching sessions for a wide range of global clients including ADP, Booz Allen Hamilton, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Harley-Davidson, InterContinental Hotels Group, Kaiser Permanente, Kraft Foods, Novartis, Qualcomm, Raytheon, Siemens, the University of California, the US Navy, and Warner Brothers Studios.

A former journalist on assignment throughout Europe for BBC Radio, Scotland on Sunday, and other UK media, Gregg is also the author of the best-selling, award-winning business book The Respectful Leader.

Today we talked about

Gregg's history

Coaching and Leadership

Respect in Leadership

You don't have to be nice to be respectful

Respect is the golden rule working with the platinum rule

Feedback

One-on-Ones

Take care of the person, but deliver the feedback in a way that addresses the problem, not the person

Handling Defensiveness

Respectful Remarks

Acknowledge Reality

"I wouldn't be doing my job if..."

Contrasting comparison

Reptilian brain

Brain Chemicals

We are not thinking beings with emotions... we are emotional beings who think

Self-awareness

Connect with Gregg

Book

Website

Twitter

LinkedIn

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About Diana

Diana Wu David is the author of Future Proof: Reinventing Work in an Age of Acceleration and works with global leaders to enhance their ability to adapt, contribute, collaborate and grow. Formerly an executive with Financial Times, she is also an adjunct professor at Hong Kong University Business School and EMBA Global program focused on leadership and interpersonal dynamics. Her clients have included the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, the World Bank, Expedia, AXA, Randstad and JP Morgan.

Today We Talked About:

Diana's career

Future Proof

Things are moving faster

Living Longer

Globalization

experiment and reinvent yourself

upgrade yourself

Virtual teams

Personal User Manual

Trust

Speed of Trust - book

Values

David Brooks TedX Talk

Connect with Diana:

Twitter

Website

Book

LinkedIn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBObnvIZGwE

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About Dan

Dan Mulroy spent 14 years as a U.S. Navy SEAL working the most elite individuals there are in the military. Amongst these elite few, he saw how effective leadership and teamwork can enable you to accomplish any mission, no matter the odds. After leaving the military, he saw how these same principles, and the lack thereof, affected an organizations' abilities to accomplish their own missions.

As a leadership and business coach, Dan is devoted to bringing the knowledge, skills and experiences he has gained over the years to you and your organization through leadership development programs and coaching. His goal is to enable you and your entire organization to operate at the highest levels of efficiency, productivity and goal achievement.

As a Navy SEAL, Dan has led a wide range of cross-functional teams in complex operations around the world, designed and implemented three-year training programs for foreign nation special operation forces, managed multi-million dollar budgets, and worked with foreign military and governments to develop local real estate projects for security purposes. After leaving the military, he was partner and VP of Operations at DebtMaven Inc., a debt-financing startup. He has also been a consultant to companies in healthcare and CPG. Through these experiences he brings to you the knowledge, skills, training and coaching that will enable you to build and lead effective teams and organizations.

Today We Talked About

How to think about becoming a better leader

Difference between a manager and a leader

Managing is controlling

Leading - the process of influence of leading through motivation and inspiration

How leadership looks different at different levels

How coaching can help leaders

Hiring Vets

Changing Perspectives

Understanding people and communication

Humility

Honesty

Ask for Feedback

Military Leadership

Putting your ego aside

Relationship

Legacy book

Setting Examples

373 North Leadership (why 373??)

Connect with Dan

LinkedIn

Website

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Private Internet Access

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About Dave

Dave McKeown helps individuals, teams, and organizations achieve excellence by doing the ordinary things extraordinarily well. He is the CEO of Outfield Leadership and author of the upcoming book The Self-Evolved Leader - Elevate Your Focus and Develop Your People in a World That Refuses to Slow Down. 

He has a wealth of experience in connecting individual and team performance to improved business results with a particular focus on fast-growing, complex organizations.

 

Dave started his career as a Consultant at Accenture, quickly moving to become the COO and then President of Predictable Success, a boutique consultancy focussed on helping complex businesses achieve scalability. 

Whilst at Predictable Success he also ran Inc. Consulting, a joint venture with Inc. Media which helped companies on, or aspiring to be on, the Inc. 5000. achieve consistent, scalable growth.

As Founder and CEO of Outfield Leadership, Dave now speaks, coaches and trains on moving from execution to excellence. His goal is to help organizations build a culture of real, authentic but ultimately results-driven leadership.

He has shared his leadership strategies at the Inc. 500 and Growco conferences, Bank of America, for the British Government, Entrepreneur's Organization, Bamboo HR and countless others. And has worked with leaders at Spectrum Health, Renewal by Andersen, Akamai, NYSE and many smaller, fast-growing organizations.

Dave is the host of the podcast 'Lead Like you Give a Damn' and writes a weekly column for Inc.Com.

A native of Ireland, Dave now resides in Southern California with his wonderful wife, Paris and awesome Staffie, Maggie.

Today We Talked About

Dave's leadership journey

What is a self-evolved leader

Take control of your own growth

Leadership Essentials

Vulnerability

Empathy

Locus of control

Vision

Pulse

Discipline

attention management

facilitating team flow

symbiotic conversation

supporting your team

building shared accountability

Setting Goals

Attention

Listening to your team

Celebrating success

The 1st 90 days Book

90 day sprints

Sustaining Leadership Success

Connect with Dave

Book

Website

Twitter

LinkedIn

Special Thanks to Splashtop for sponsoring today’s show.

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About Charlie

Charlie Gilkey is the founder of Productive Flourishing, a company that helps professional creatives, leaders, and changemakers take meaningful action on work that matters. He is internationally recognized as a thought leader on productivity, planning, strategy, and leadership for creative people.

Charlie is the author of the forthcoming Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done (Sounds True, September 2019) and The Small Business Life Cycle and is widely cited in media outlets including Inc., Time, Forbes, the Guardian, Lifehacker, and more. He’s also an Army veteran and near-PhD in philosophy.

Today We Talked About:

Getting Things Done

Productivity

Stories we tell ourselves

Making time or your not

SMART Goals

What if I succeed

Need to be creative

Most courageous next step

Breadcrumbs from project to project

Focus Blocks

Thrash Crash

Funday Friday Task

Productive Procrastination

Project Pyramids

Blocks and Tasks (90min and 15min)

Finding Focus Time

Habits, practices, and routines

Atomic Habits

Success Packs

Connect With Charlie:

Productive Flourishing

Podcast

Book - Start Finishing

Twitter

Special Thanks to Splashtop for sponsoring today’s show.

Splashtop is a premier remote desktop, and remote support solution. I’ve been using Splashtop personal for more than 7 years now and Splashtop Enterprise at my company for 3 years.  Their products are fantastic and their support is second to none.  I love and highly recommend their products and I’m super stoked that they are giving A Geek Leader listeners 20% off their first year when you go to https://ageekleader.com/splashtop

I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcast and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even 1 sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again!

About Paul

Paul Powers is an award-winning serial entrepreneur and the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Physna, Inc.

In 2019, Powers was recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the brightest young entrepreneurs in the United States as a Forbes 30 Under 30 winner.

Powers has been featured in publications around the world including Forbes and Fortune, various news programs such as Lou Dobbs of Fox Business and dozens of others. Paul Powers has presented on the TED Talk stage, at various tech summits and at various tech conferences such as PLMx, StartUp Grind and Startup of the Year at SXSW.

Powers co-founded Physna in 2015, creating industry-leading software to bridge the gap between software and the physical world by normalizing 3D data and applying machine learning. Physna's proprietary technology is patent-pending in over 120 countries and is increasingly used as an industry default for cybersecurity, protecting the integrity of 3D designs in aerospace, automotive, medical devices, etc. from otherwise untraceable manipulations from cyber attacks. Physna is also used to increase efficiency with CAD design, reduce supply chain / procurement costs, optimize inventory, and make quality control predictions immediately upon design. Physna technology can compare and analyze millions of 3D models in seconds.

Paul Powers graduated from Ruprecht-Karls- Universität Heidelberg, Germany, earning his law degree and passed the bar with more than twice the required points.

Paul has been featured in numerous news articles in Germany and the US highlighting his unique approach to global technology challenges.

Today We Talked About

Paul's background

Physna - Physical DNS

GitHub for 3D models

Cost savings for manufacturing

Machine Learning

AI

CAD modeling

Cyber Security

Connect with Paul

Physna

LinkedIn

Twitter

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About Rhonda

Insightful ... humorous ... entertaining ... even contagious ... words that are often used to describe Rhonda Scharf. A speaker with the uncanny ability to look at the normal and see something quite different.

Rhonda is a Professional Speaker and member of the Canadian Speaking Hall of Fame, Trainer and Author, based in Ottawa Canada. She has spoken to tens of thousands of people in dozens of different countries.

She knows how to make you laugh and she knows how to get you to question why you do what you do. Her natural warmth and sincerity are balanced by a healthy sense of the absurd, a combination that is useful in any situation.

Rhonda has written eight books, with her latest "Alexa is Stealing her Job" and her best-seller "Common Sense is NOT Common Practice" still available.

Rhonda's professional speaking career began at age two... when her mother would offer her 25 cents to be quiet for five minutes!

Today We Talked About

Rhonda's background

AI - Artificial Intelligence

Jobs

Trainers, Sustainers, Explainers

Stop flying under the radar

Add Value

Tons more!

Connect with Rhonda

Twitter

LinkedIn

Facebook

Book - Alexa is Stealing Your Job

Website

Special Thanks to Splashtop for sponsoring today’s show.

Splashtop is a premier remote desktop, and remote support solution. I’ve been using Splashtop personal for more than 7 years now and Splashtop Enterprise at my company for 3 years.  Their products are fantastic and their support is second to none.  I love and highly recommend their products and I’m super stoked that they are giving A Geek Leader listeners 20% off their first year when you go to https://ageekleader.com/splashtop

I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcast and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even 1 sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again!

About Laurel

Laurel Lau is a digital nomad and executive coach, as well as founder of Six Atlas, where she activates organizations to disrupt stagnant business models and take advantage of innovation for immediate impact and competitive advantage. Born in Hong Kong but educated in the United States, Laurel has spent her life navigating changing environments and cultural expectations. Her mission today of helping organizations shift and adjust against rapid innovation & changing technology was largely shaped by her lifelong journey of constantly shifting to “fit in” and best contribute to her colleagues, her employer, or the country in which she found herself. Laurel found clarity at age 22, and carved her own path to discover as much as she could about the human mind and conscious leadership, leveraging both to successfully manage a team or organization facing a disruptive market. Today, Laurel facilitates curated workshops for organizations around the world, creating customized strategies designed around industry trends and each company’s unique internal capabilities. Working with leaders and teams within each organization, Laurel develops a balanced innovation portfolio for the firm, enabling them to stay true to their DNA while building a culture where innovation thrives and success is a given.

 

Today We Talked About

Laurel's background

Consulting

Entrepreneurship

Conscience Leadership

Leadership Tips

How you talk about your business

Develop the culture of innovation

Understand your Why

Being a Digital Nomad

Goal Setting

Leadership Mistakes

Connect with Laurel

Twitter

LinkedIn

Six Atlas

Book - Upside-Down

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