In this episode of Driven to Lead, Uday Deshpande, CEO/CTO of D&V Electronics USA, shares his leadership insights from over 30 years of engineering excellence.  He describes his personal journey from practitioner to leader based on his own appreciation for being trusted and empowered as he was coming up through the ranks.  As you learn a few things about his work in testing and validation of electrical systems, energy storage devices and electronics, you will also see how he optimizes his business results by simultaneously optimizing his teams performance and their job satisfaction.  

Connect with Uday on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/udaydeshpande/

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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.

Nothing Like Hard Times to Tame the Egos — In this episode of Driven to Lead, we hear from Mark Sommer, CEO of Del West Engineering & CEO Gamma Alloys in LA County, CA.  His companies are developing high-tech materials with advanced alloy formulations to build parts for exotic vehicles, race cars and high-end Swiss watches.  Mark tells the story of how his team of engineers began with a dislike for one-another and a hesitancy to collaborate effectively.  During the great recession, extreme pressures on the business forced downsizing and the need for those who remained to work together in ways that had not been possible previously.  This transition also transformed Mark himself from a young CEO who was more of an engineer in-charge, into what I think you will agree is a true leader focused on the greater good of the individuals in-his-charge.

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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:
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Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/driven-to-lead/id1819958647 
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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, Linda Lovering shares her inspiring story of growing-up in the car business and seeing her family's businesses transition successfully across three generations.  By playing the long-game and investing in lasting relationships within the community, The Lovering Auto Group has built a brand reputation that has stood the test of time and which is still going strong today.  Linda's commitment to a genuine, caring leadership style has driven success with her customers and her dealership team.   

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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, Alex Papadopulos shares his leadership journey from product engineer to CEO in just a few short years.  Alex highlights the importance of learning to delegate and empower employees as a part of his transition to the C suite.  He also credits his rise to success in great part to having an outstanding mentor who has stood by him all along the way.  His company, Soundwich, continues to be a strong, growing business entity that is innovating in solutions for acoustic optimization and thermal protection for vehicles.  Alex's open, collaborative leadership style has built an amazing team that is leading the way in new material development and in unique executions of existing materials for breakthrough improvements in vehicle noise, vibration and harshness.

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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.

The episode of Driven to Lead features Kevin Iden, President of Iden's Dealer Services based in Renton, WA.  Kevin shares the leadership principles that have grown his business from very humble beginnings to what is now the largest auto detailing business in the Pacific Northwest.  Kevin's story acknowledges that focusing on client needs and fulfilling them as a key success factor.  But Kevin gives most of the credit for his growth and future potential to the culture for the company that he and his team have created -- a culture that consistently delivers high quality service and highly satisfied customers, because it assures high levels of employee satisfaction based on respect, flexibility and meaningful benefits packages that define a "family feel" to the company culture.

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 – Wayne and the Driven to Lead podcast team

Contact Wayne here: [email protected]
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.

This episode of Driven to Lead features David J Johnson who is the President and CEO of the National Institute for Automotive Service in Leesburg, VA.  David discusses the success ASE has had building the needed relationships across the auto industry to deliver meaningful service standards and continue to drive service excellence.  The discussion includes David's previous experience leading international businesses for Ford Motor Comapny where he learned to understand market differences while embracing similarities to build common ground, and leverages his genuine approach to bringing people together through trust and business processes that make sense.     

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 – Wayne and the Driven to Lead podcast team

Contact Wayne here: [email protected]
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 Anan Bishara, Founder & CEO of Premium Guard, Inc., we explore a story of true resilience -- starting with the formation of a fledgling US company and ending with what has now become a major international automotive supplier in filtration solutions.  This journey covers the waterfront in terms of what was required of Anan and his team -- from dynamic strategic planning, to customer focused marketplace assessment, and from the creation of a functioning global supply chain, to the establishment of brands that have real meaning and relevance in attracting new business.  Please join us for this robust conversation and the leadership insights within it.  

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 – Wayne and the Driven to Lead podcast team

Contact Wayne here: [email protected]
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.

This episode of Driven to Lead features our guest Todd Sager who shares his story of founding AWE from very modest beginnings 34 years ago, and building it over time to what is now a major supplier of performance exhaust systems for the automotive industry.  Todd attributes AWE's  long track record of success in great part to his vision that you must build your team of people first and then let them build the best products.  As a result, the company culture asks each member of the AWE team to live by four simple, but compelling core values: 1. I Build it Better, 2. I help my team mates, 3. I look at everything through the customer's eyes, and 4. I own it.  Please join us for this fascinating story that focuses on how enabling your team produces remarkable levels of proficiency, product excellence and profitability.  

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 – Wayne and the Driven to Lead podcast team

Contact Wayne here: [email protected]
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.

Learn to see others to Lead -- In this episode of Driven to Lead, we have a rich conversation with Zach Shefska, the CEO of Car Edge.  The company is a customer advocacy organization that touches one million new and used vehicle intenders per month with its educational and shopping tools that empower a more efficient process in the consumers acquisition of a vehicle.  Zach and his team have grown the business over the last five and half years by focusing on making the process of buying a vehicle more transparent and fair for everyone.  As a young leader, he discusses the importance of learning to really “see his team members” and be vulnerable enough to let them “see him” to enable him to drive better results.  His sincere reflections about his leadership journey are both refreshing and insightful — enjoy.

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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, Kathryn Schifferle shares her journey as a serial entrepreneur who has started seven companies over the years.  In her current company, Work Truck Solutions, she has filled a critical gap in the needed technology to understand up-fit configurations, and help buyers find the work truck they need within the inventory available nationally.  As she continues to innovate and serve her client community, she emphasizes the importance of having the right company culture to assure success,  Her simple, three part description of this culture is: 1. make sure you have the right people on-board (exiting those who are not right for the organization), 2. delegate strategically by trusting the capable leaders in the organization to understand what needs to be done and giving them the resources and authority to do it, and, 3. create a safe environment of mutual human respect within the company where all ideas are open for discussion and where collaboration can flourish.

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 – Wayne and the Driven to Lead podcast team

Contact Wayne here: [email protected]
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.