In this episode of Driven to Lead our guest Brendan O’Donnell, President and CEO of the DFA of California and of Safe Food Alliance talks about the experiences in his life and leadership journey that help define who he is as an executive.  He recounts experiences from early in his career that helped him establish who he is with respect to his interactions with others and with how he meets adversity as an overcomer.  Today, he meets challenges and opportunities head-on with grit and confidence that he can lead his organization through any situation regardless the circumstances. Join us in looking at these leadership issues through the lens of Food Safety in the California fruits and nuts business.

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#Leadership #BusinessLeadership #ExecutiveLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #TeamBuilding #ManagementSkills #LeadershipTips #PersonalGrowth #ProfessionalDevelopment #WorkplaceCulture #CareerGrowth #Entrepreneurship #SuccessMindset #Motivation #DrivenToLead #WayneBrannon #LeadershipPodcast #Inspiration #LeadershipJourney
Driven to Lead is a podcast dedicated to inspiring and empowering business leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs to reach their full potential. Hosted by Wayne Brannon, each episode dives deep into leadership strategies, personal growth, team management, and real-world business challenges. Whether you’re leading a startup or a large organization, Driven to Lead offers actionable insights to help you build strong teams, develop your leadership skills, and create a positive impact in your workplace. Tune in weekly to unlock your leadership potential and drive success.

In this episode of Driven to Lead, host Wayne Brannon speaks with Arjang (AJ) Roshan, the president and CEO of Weiler Abrasives Group. They discuss the intricacies of the abrasive manufacturing industry, AJ's journey to leadership, and the importance of embracing discomfort as a catalyst for personal and professional growth. AJ shares a pivotal story from his career that highlights the challenges he faced while leading a struggling division in Asia, emphasizing the lessons learned about self-awareness, perseverance, and the value of taking risks. The conversation also touches on the balance between professional ambitions and personal life, showcasing AJ's commitment to family while navigating his executive responsibilities.

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 – Wayne and the Driven to Lead podcast team

Contact Wayne here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-brannon-792b0536/
Visit the gr8road website here: https://www.gr8road.com/

Listen to Driven to Lead on these podcast platforms:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/161InPnNaM5p1H1zERQrxm
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/driven-to-lead/id1819958647 
Amazon Podcasts: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/582480a2-36bc-42ab-b010-f57d9c9279fe/driven-to-lead

#Leadership #BusinessLeadership #ExecutiveLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #TeamBuilding #ManagementSkills #LeadershipTips #PersonalGrowth #ProfessionalDevelopment #WorkplaceCulture #CareerGrowth #Entrepreneurship #SuccessMindset #Motivation #DrivenToLead #WayneBrannon #LeadershipPodcast #Inspiration #LeadershipJourney
Driven to Lead is a podcast dedicated to inspiring and empowering business leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs to reach their full potential. Hosted by Wayne Brannon, each episode dives deep into leadership strategies, personal growth, team management, and real-world business challenges. Whether you’re leading a startup or a large organization, Driven to Lead offers actionable insights to help you build strong teams, develop your leadership skills, and create a positive impact in your workplace. Tune in weekly to unlock your leadership potential and drive success.

In this episode of Driven to Lead, our guest Henry Charrabé, CEO of Seven Seas Water Group, tells us a story about taking-on the challenge of re-designing, restructuring and rebuilding his leadership team to take the company to the next level.  Henry acknowledges that change of this magnitude is extremely difficult, but also understands that the penalty of not changing can have even greater consequences.  His vision for solving key people related constraints that were holing back his organization demanded that the future leaders of the company be strategically aligned and equipped with the right skills for the challenges and opportunities they had in-front of them.

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 – Wayne and the Driven to Lead podcast team

Contact Wayne here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-brannon-792b0536/
Visit the gr8road website here: https://www.gr8road.com/

Listen to Driven to Lead on these podcast platforms:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/161InPnNaM5p1H1zERQrxm
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/driven-to-lead/id1819958647 
Amazon Podcasts: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/582480a2-36bc-42ab-b010-f57d9c9279fe/driven-to-lead

#Leadership #BusinessLeadership #ExecutiveLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #TeamBuilding #ManagementSkills #LeadershipTips #PersonalGrowth #ProfessionalDevelopment #WorkplaceCulture #CareerGrowth #Entrepreneurship #SuccessMindset #Motivation #DrivenToLead #WayneBrannon #LeadershipPodcast #Inspiration #LeadershipJourney
Driven to Lead is a podcast dedicated to inspiring and empowering business leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs to reach their full potential. Hosted by Wayne Brannon, each episode dives deep into leadership strategies, personal growth, team management, and real-world business challenges. Whether you’re leading a startup or a large organization, Driven to Lead offers actionable insights to help you build strong teams, develop your leadership skills, and create a positive impact in your workplace. Tune in weekly to unlock your leadership potential and drive success.

In this episode of Driven to Lead, our guest Curtis Collar, CEO of Nanotech Energy tells us a story about investing time and resources into a development project that had a high level of merit, but that was ultimately not going to be supported by key members of leadership.  In this particular situation, Curtis acknowledges that the executing team had developed an appropriate level of energy and passion for the project, but that this level of attachment perhaps masked the reality from them that perhaps they should not continue to invest time and money into something that would not ultimately become a reality.  This story highlights the importance of both external customer needs and the requirement for internal alignment on business priorities.

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 – Wayne and the Driven to Lead podcast team

Contact Wayne here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-brannon-792b0536/
Visit the gr8road website here: https://www.gr8road.com/

Listen to Driven to Lead on these podcast platforms:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/161InPnNaM5p1H1zERQrxm
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/driven-to-lead/id1819958647 
Amazon Podcasts: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/582480a2-36bc-42ab-b010-f57d9c9279fe/driven-to-lead

#Leadership #BusinessLeadership #ExecutiveLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #TeamBuilding #ManagementSkills #LeadershipTips #PersonalGrowth #ProfessionalDevelopment #WorkplaceCulture #CareerGrowth #Entrepreneurship #SuccessMindset #Motivation #DrivenToLead #WayneBrannon #LeadershipPodcast #Inspiration #LeadershipJourney
Driven to Lead is a podcast dedicated to inspiring and empowering business leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs to reach their full potential. Hosted by Wayne Brannon, each episode dives deep into leadership strategies, personal growth, team management, and real-world business challenges. Whether you’re leading a startup or a large organization, Driven to Lead offers actionable insights to help you build strong teams, develop your leadership skills, and create a positive impact in your workplace. Tune in weekly to unlock your leadership potential and drive success.

In this episode of Driven to Lead, our guest John Beering, CEO pf Red Dot Corporation tells us a story about his transition into his current role and the key elements that lead to a positive transformation of the company that began at that time, and that continues to pay dividends to this day.  The focus that he placed on culture in his organization is driving the business to highly value everyone on the team and put the customer first in their executional priorities.  As a recurring theme in many of our podcasts, the clarity of purpose that a solid commitment to culture brings is a powerful competitive advantage and cannot be over emphasized as a key business success factor.

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 – Wayne and the Driven to Lead podcast team

Contact Wayne here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-brannon-792b0536/
Visit the gr8road website here: https://www.gr8road.com/

Listen to Driven to Lead on these podcast platforms:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/161InPnNaM5p1H1zERQrxm
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/driven-to-lead/id1819958647 
Amazon Podcasts: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/582480a2-36bc-42ab-b010-f57d9c9279fe/driven-to-lead

#Leadership #BusinessLeadership #ExecutiveLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #TeamBuilding #ManagementSkills #LeadershipTips #PersonalGrowth #ProfessionalDevelopment #WorkplaceCulture #CareerGrowth #Entrepreneurship #SuccessMindset #Motivation #DrivenToLead #WayneBrannon #LeadershipPodcast #Inspiration #LeadershipJourney
Driven to Lead is a podcast dedicated to inspiring and empowering business leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs to reach their full potential. Hosted by Wayne Brannon, each episode dives deep into leadership strategies, personal growth, team management, and real-world business challenges. Whether you’re leading a startup or a large organization, Driven to Lead offers actionable insights to help you build strong teams, develop your leadership skills, and create a positive impact in your workplace. Tune in weekly to unlock your leadership potential and drive success.

n this episode of Driven to Lead, our guest Adam Gibbs, CEO of OTC Industrials tells us a story about a time when his organization was being challenged to introduce and deliver a powerful new innovation to the company’s customer base.  What had been a very successful sales team was struggling in communicating a new approach to the customers needs.  The solution to this dilemma was the personal engagement of the leadership team to go side-by-side with the sales team to the customer to demonstrate the company’s commitment to the new innovation and to assist with the communication of the key benefits for the customer.  This not only resulted in making short-term sales, but also developed the sales team to be more effective in the years ahead.

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 – Wayne and the Driven to Lead podcast team

Contact Wayne here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-brannon-792b0536/
Visit the gr8road website here: https://www.gr8road.com/

Listen to Driven to Lead on these podcast platforms:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/161InPnNaM5p1H1zERQrxm
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/driven-to-lead/id1819958647 
Amazon Podcasts: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/582480a2-36bc-42ab-b010-f57d9c9279fe/driven-to-lead

#Leadership #BusinessLeadership #ExecutiveLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #TeamBuilding #ManagementSkills #LeadershipTips #PersonalGrowth #ProfessionalDevelopment #WorkplaceCulture #CareerGrowth #Entrepreneurship #SuccessMindset #Motivation #DrivenToLead #WayneBrannon #LeadershipPodcast #Inspiration #LeadershipJourney
Driven to Lead is a podcast dedicated to inspiring and empowering business leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs to reach their full potential. Hosted by Wayne Brannon, each episode dives deep into leadership strategies, personal growth, team management, and real-world business challenges. Whether you’re leading a startup or a large organization, Driven to Lead offers actionable insights to help you build strong teams, develop your leadership skills, and create a positive impact in your workplace. Tune in weekly to unlock your leadership potential and drive success.

In this episode of Driven to Lead, our guest Gary Ramey, CEO of Liberty Ammunition, shares stories with us about the importance of building relationships with your customers and with your team.  In his experience, this sometimes requires that the features and benefits within your product offer take a back seat to the truth and transparency necessary to build true partnerships and strong relationships.  Gary highlights key moments from his career that demonstrate how the highest levels of integrity in establishing strong, lasting relationships builds brands and drives powerful long-term sales results as well.

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 – Wayne and the Driven to Lead podcast team

Contact Wayne here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-brannon-792b0536/
Visit the gr8road website here: https://www.gr8road.com/

Listen to Driven to Lead on these podcast platforms:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/161InPnNaM5p1H1zERQrxm
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/driven-to-lead/id1819958647 
Amazon Podcasts: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/582480a2-36bc-42ab-b010-f57d9c9279fe/driven-to-lead

#Leadership #BusinessLeadership #ExecutiveLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #TeamBuilding #ManagementSkills #LeadershipTips #PersonalGrowth #ProfessionalDevelopment #WorkplaceCulture #CareerGrowth #Entrepreneurship #SuccessMindset #Motivation #DrivenToLead #WayneBrannon #LeadershipPodcast #Inspiration #LeadershipJourney
Driven to Lead is a podcast dedicated to inspiring and empowering business leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs to reach their full potential. Hosted by Wayne Brannon, each episode dives deep into leadership strategies, personal growth, team management, and real-world business challenges. Whether you’re leading a startup or a large organization, Driven to Lead offers actionable insights to help you build strong teams, develop your leadership skills, and create a positive impact in your workplace. Tune in weekly to unlock your leadership potential and drive success.

In this episode of Driven to Lead, our guest Christopher Inverso, CEO of Rainier Industries tells us a story about a distribution & logistics problem for the company's products that became so difficult to manage that his team had to think out-of-the-box to survive.  Their innovative approach not only solved the problem but simultaneously addressed other related issues that actually strengthened Rainier's overall competitiveness in the marketplace - an inspiring outcome from an empowered team and a great leader.

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 – Wayne and the Driven to Lead podcast team

Contact Wayne here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-brannon-792b0536/
Visit the gr8road website here: https://www.gr8road.com/

Listen to Driven to Lead on these podcast platforms:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/161InPnNaM5p1H1zERQrxm
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/driven-to-lead/id1819958647 
Amazon Podcasts: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/582480a2-36bc-42ab-b010-f57d9c9279fe/driven-to-lead

#Leadership #BusinessLeadership #ExecutiveLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #TeamBuilding #ManagementSkills #LeadershipTips #PersonalGrowth #ProfessionalDevelopment #WorkplaceCulture #CareerGrowth #Entrepreneurship #SuccessMindset #Motivation #DrivenToLead #WayneBrannon #LeadershipPodcast #Inspiration #LeadershipJourney
Driven to Lead is a podcast dedicated to inspiring and empowering business leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs to reach their full potential. Hosted by Wayne Brannon, each episode dives deep into leadership strategies, personal growth, team management, and real-world business challenges. Whether you’re leading a startup or a large organization, Driven to Lead offers actionable insights to help you build strong teams, develop your leadership skills, and create a positive impact in your workplace. Tune in weekly to unlock your leadership potential and drive success.

In this episode of Driven to Lead, our guest Erik Lightner. CEO of Platinum Crush Corporation, shares leadership insights from his international career across the agricultural, manufacturing, construction and engineering sectors.  He highlights the need for trust and transparency in building effective teams and talks about his own journey to embrace a more collaborative leadership approach.  He encourages us all to be more intentional with how we choose to interact with colleagues and customers to drive bottom-line results -- building meaningful relationships through mutual human respect and shared responsibility.            

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 – Wayne and the Driven to Lead podcast team

Contact Wayne here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-brannon-792b0536/
Visit the gr8road website here: https://www.gr8road.com/

Listen to Driven to Lead on these podcast platforms:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/161InPnNaM5p1H1zERQrxm
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/driven-to-lead/id1819958647 
Amazon Podcasts: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/582480a2-36bc-42ab-b010-f57d9c9279fe/driven-to-lead

#Leadership #BusinessLeadership #ExecutiveLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #TeamBuilding #ManagementSkills #LeadershipTips #PersonalGrowth #ProfessionalDevelopment #WorkplaceCulture #CareerGrowth #Entrepreneurship #SuccessMindset #Motivation #DrivenToLead #WayneBrannon #LeadershipPodcast #Inspiration #LeadershipJourney
Driven to Lead is a podcast dedicated to inspiring and empowering business leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs to reach their full potential. Hosted by Wayne Brannon, each episode dives deep into leadership strategies, personal growth, team management, and real-world business challenges. Whether you’re leading a startup or a large organization, Driven to Lead offers actionable insights to help you build strong teams, develop your leadership skills, and create a positive impact in your workplace. Tune in weekly to unlock your leadership potential and drive success.

In this episode of Driven to Lead with guest Matthew Degyansky, we focus on how we can learn from our own mistakes as leaders and improve both our leadership skills and our business performance.  Matt shares a specific story about his journey managing a group of global business development people in the energy sector, and how his drive to succeed helped him overcome the leadership challenges he faced.  This story of disappointment, reassignment, over-correction, fine-tuning and ultimate success has something in it for all of us. 

Connect with Matthew on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-degyansky-a1012b2/

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 – Wayne and the Driven to Lead podcast team

Contact Wayne here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-brannon-792b0536/
Visit the gr8road website here: https://www.gr8road.com/

Listen to Driven to Lead on these podcast platforms:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/161InPnNaM5p1H1zERQrxm
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/driven-to-lead/id1819958647 
Amazon Podcasts: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/582480a2-36bc-42ab-b010-f57d9c9279fe/driven-to-lead

#Leadership #BusinessLeadership #ExecutiveLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #TeamBuilding #ManagementSkills #LeadershipTips #PersonalGrowth #ProfessionalDevelopment #WorkplaceCulture #CareerGrowth #Entrepreneurship #SuccessMindset #Motivation #DrivenToLead #WayneBrannon #LeadershipPodcast #Inspiration #LeadershipJourney
Driven to Lead is a podcast dedicated to inspiring and empowering business leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs to reach their full potential. Hosted by Wayne Brannon, each episode dives deep into leadership strategies, personal growth, team management, and real-world business challenges. Whether you’re leading a startup or a large organization, Driven to Lead offers actionable insights to help you build strong teams, develop your leadership skills, and create a positive impact in your workplace. Tune in weekly to unlock your leadership potential and drive success.