Leadership & Success with Coach BZ

S5:E194🎙️ LIVE with Dr. Linda Kostic, DIT

Cybersecurity Audit, Agility, AI & the Discipline of Lifelong Learning

Mark your calendars!

The Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ — S5:E194 goes LIVE with Dr. Linda Kostic—cybersecurity educator, author, audit and risk leader, and lifelong learner whose career spans more than three decades across technology, cybersecurity, audit, risk management, and education.

📅 Tuesday, September 29, 2026 ⏰ 6:00 AM PT (San Francisco) | 9:00 AM ET (Washington, D.C.) 📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion!

🌟 Meet My Guest

Dr. Linda Kostic has built a remarkable career at the intersection of cybersecurity, technology, audit, risk, governance, education, and now artificial intelligence.

Her leadership journey includes senior roles with Citi, T. Rowe Price, Transamerica, and E*TRADE Financial, where she helped organizations navigate cybersecurity and technology audit, enterprise and operational risk, regulatory compliance, third-party risk, and major transformation initiatives.

Today, Linda serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC), teaching undergraduate and graduate students while bringing decades of real-world experience into the classroom.

But what I find particularly compelling about Linda's story is her commitment to lifelong learning.

Throughout her career, she has repeatedly accepted assignments in areas she had not yet mastered—and then learned, built, led, and ultimately helped others grow.

Learn. Build. Develop Others. Leave It Better.

That is leadership. ❤️🙏🏾

📘 Featured Conversation: Transforming Cybersecurity Audit Practices with Agility and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

We will explore Linda's 2026 book, Transforming Cybersecurity Audit Practices with Agility and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and an increasingly important question:

How can Agile practices and AI transform cybersecurity auditing while preserving the professional judgment, critical thinking, accountability, and human oversight that effective assurance requires?

We will discuss where AI can reduce administrative burden, improve audit efficiency, strengthen analysis and enable auditors to spend more time on what humans do best—asking difficult questions, exercising judgment, understanding risk, communicating insight, and helping organizations make better decisions.

🎓 What You Will Learn…

✨ Why lifelong learning is a discipline, not simply a slogan.

✨ How Linda went from accounting into technology, cybersecurity, audit, risk, and AI—and what leaders can learn from repeatedly stepping into unfamiliar territory.

✨ Why leaders don't need to know everything before accepting a difficult assignment—but they must know how to learn.

✨ How Agile methodologies and AI can reshape cybersecurity auditing.

✨ Where AI can augment auditors—and where human judgment and accountability must remain essential.

✨ How organizations can move from periodic, process-heavy auditing toward more agile, data-informed and continuous approaches to assurance.

✨ Why developing people, not merely processes and technology, is essential to sustainable transformation.

✨ What Linda has learned from three decades of leadership—and what today's cybersecurity and AI professionals should be learning now.

📚 Explore Linda's book: ⁠Transforming Cybersecurity Audit Practices with Agility and Artificial Intelligence (AI)⁠

💬 Join the Conversation!

🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!

🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?

💬 Got questions for Dr. Linda Kostic about leadership, cybersecurity audit, Agile, AI, risk, education, or lifelong learning? Post them below—we will answer as many as possible LIVE!

⸻

👇 Your Turn:

✨ What are your three takeaways from this episode?

✨ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?

✨ Tag a colleague who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾

S5:E194🎙️ LIVE with Dr. Linda Kostic, DIT

Cybersecurity Audit, Agility, AI & the Discipline of Lifelong Learning

Mark your calendars!

The Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ — S5:E194 goes LIVE with Dr. Linda Kostic—cybersecurity educator, author, audit and risk leader, and lifelong learner whose career spans more than three decades across technology, cybersecurity, audit, risk management, and education.

📅 Tuesday, September 29, 2026 ⏰ 6:00 AM PT (San Francisco) | 9:00 AM ET (Washington, D.C.) 📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion!

🌟 Meet My Guest

Dr. Linda Kostic has built a remarkable career at the intersection of cybersecurity, technology, audit, risk, governance, education, and now artificial intelligence.

Her leadership journey includes senior roles with Citi, T. Rowe Price, Transamerica, and E*TRADE Financial, where she helped organizations navigate cybersecurity and technology audit, enterprise and operational risk, regulatory compliance, third-party risk, and major transformation initiatives.

Today, Linda serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC), teaching undergraduate and graduate students while bringing decades of real-world experience into the classroom.

But what I find particularly compelling about Linda's story is her commitment to lifelong learning.

Throughout her career, she has repeatedly accepted assignments in areas she had not yet mastered—and then learned, built, led, and ultimately helped others grow.

Learn. Build. Develop Others. Leave It Better.

That is leadership. ❤️🙏🏾

📘 Featured Conversation: Transforming Cybersecurity Audit Practices with Agility and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

We will explore Linda's 2026 book, Transforming Cybersecurity Audit Practices with Agility and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and an increasingly important question:

How can Agile practices and AI transform cybersecurity auditing while preserving the professional judgment, critical thinking, accountability, and human oversight that effective assurance requires?

We will discuss where AI can reduce administrative burden, improve audit efficiency, strengthen analysis and enable auditors to spend more time on what humans do best—asking difficult questions, exercising judgment, understanding risk, communicating insight, and helping organizations make better decisions.

🎓 What You Will Learn…

✨ Why lifelong learning is a discipline, not simply a slogan.

✨ How Linda went from accounting into technology, cybersecurity, audit, risk, and AI—and what leaders can learn from repeatedly stepping into unfamiliar territory.

✨ Why leaders don't need to know everything before accepting a difficult assignment—but they must know how to learn.

✨ How Agile methodologies and AI can reshape cybersecurity auditing.

✨ Where AI can augment auditors—and where human judgment and accountability must remain essential.

✨ How organizations can move from periodic, process-heavy auditing toward more agile, data-informed and continuous approaches to assurance.

✨ Why developing people, not merely processes and technology, is essential to sustainable transformation.

✨ What Linda has learned from three decades of leadership—and what today's cybersecurity and AI professionals should be learning now.

📚 Explore Linda's book: ⁠Transforming Cybersecurity Audit Practices with Agility and Artificial Intelligence (AI)⁠

💬 Join the Conversation!

🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!

🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?

💬 Got questions for Dr. Linda Kostic about leadership, cybersecurity audit, Agile, AI, risk, education, or lifelong learning? Post them below—we will answer as many as possible LIVE!

⸻

👇 Your Turn:

✨ What are your three takeaways from this episode?

✨ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?

✨ Tag a colleague who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾

S5:E193🎙️ LIVE with LTG David Wilson, U.S. Army (Ret.) 🇺🇸

NEXT UP: Season 5:Episode 193 — “At the Speed of War: Leadership, Logistics & Legacy”

Mark your calendars for another powerful conversation on the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ!

📅 Monday, September 28, 2026⏰ 8:00 AM PT (San Francisco) | 11:00 AM ET (Washington, D.C.)📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion

🌟 MEET OUR GUEST

LTG David Wilson, U.S. Army (Ret.), represents nearly four decades of leadership, logistics, readiness, and service at the highest levels of the United States Army.

A 1991 graduate of The Citadel, Wilson rose from his early Army service to become a three-star general, serving around the world and leading some of the Army's most consequential sustainment organizations. His assignments included Commanding General of Army Sustainment Command, Commanding General of the 8th Theater Sustainment Command, senior logistics leadership with U.S. Forces Korea, and the Army's 40th Chief of Ordnance.

His career also made history.

✨ Wilson became the first African American active-duty alumnus of The Citadel to attain general officer rank when he received his first star.

✨ He subsequently became the first African American Citadel graduate to attain the rank of Major General.

✨ In 2024, he was promoted to Lieutenant General, becoming the first African American Citadel graduate to reach three-star rank.

But this conversation is about far more than stars on a uniform.

LTG Wilson's story encompasses adversity, resilience, mentorship, contested logistics, organizational transformation, developing people, breaking barriers, and preparing organizations before the crisis arrives.

One of the leadership principles that will frame our conversation:

“Logistics can't be the afterthought. It has to be the forethought.”

And that leads directly to our episode title:

🎙️ “AT THE SPEED OF WAR: LEADERSHIP, LOGISTICS & LEGACY”

💡 What You Will Learn…

✨ Why readiness must be built before the crisis arrives—and what it means to deliver capability at the “speed of war” rather than the “speed of bureaucracy.”

✨ Why logistics isn't merely a supporting function—it can determine operational reach, endurance, tempo, and ultimately mission success.

✨ What commanding global sustainment organizations taught LTG Wilson about translating strategy into execution.

✨ How leaders prepare for contested logistics, disrupted supply chains, degraded communications, and the extraordinary distances of the Indo-Pacific.

✨ How AI, data, predictive analytics, autonomous systems, and emerging technologies may transform logistics—and why human judgment still matters.

✨ What LTG Wilson learned about leadership through adversity, including confronting challenges that no rank or position could solve.

✨ What it means to become a historic “first”—and the responsibility leaders have to ensure they are not the last.

✨ How mentors, NCOs, Soldiers, peers, family, and experiences across decades of service helped shape his leadership philosophy.

✨ Why the best leaders build people, systems, and organizations capable of succeeding without them.

✨ And perhaps most importantly: after nearly four decades of service, what does LTG David Wilson want the next generation of leaders to understand about leadership, success, service, and legacy?

💬 JOIN THE CONVERSATION!

🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!

🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?

💬 Got a question for LTG David Wilson about leadership, logistics, readiness, resilience, mentorship, or preparing for the next fight? Post it below—we will answer as many as possible LIVE!

⸻

👇 YOUR TURN:

➡️ What are your three biggest takeaways from this conversation?

➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?

➡️ Tag a colleague, Soldier, Sailor, Marine, Airman, Guardian, junior officer, NCO, high-tech leader, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾

S5:E193🎙️ LIVE with LTG David Wilson, U.S. Army (Ret.) 🇺🇸

NEXT UP: Season 5:Episode 193 — “At the Speed of War: Leadership, Logistics & Legacy”

Mark your calendars for another powerful conversation on the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ!

📅 Monday, September 28, 2026⏰ 8:00 AM PT (San Francisco) | 11:00 AM ET (Washington, D.C.)📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion

🌟 MEET OUR GUEST

LTG David Wilson, U.S. Army (Ret.), represents nearly four decades of leadership, logistics, readiness, and service at the highest levels of the United States Army.

A 1991 graduate of The Citadel, Wilson rose from his early Army service to become a three-star general, serving around the world and leading some of the Army's most consequential sustainment organizations. His assignments included Commanding General of Army Sustainment Command, Commanding General of the 8th Theater Sustainment Command, senior logistics leadership with U.S. Forces Korea, and the Army's 40th Chief of Ordnance.

His career also made history.

✨ Wilson became the first African American active-duty alumnus of The Citadel to attain general officer rank when he received his first star.

✨ He subsequently became the first African American Citadel graduate to attain the rank of Major General.

✨ In 2024, he was promoted to Lieutenant General, becoming the first African American Citadel graduate to reach three-star rank.

But this conversation is about far more than stars on a uniform.

LTG Wilson's story encompasses adversity, resilience, mentorship, contested logistics, organizational transformation, developing people, breaking barriers, and preparing organizations before the crisis arrives.

One of the leadership principles that will frame our conversation:

“Logistics can't be the afterthought. It has to be the forethought.”

And that leads directly to our episode title:

🎙️ “AT THE SPEED OF WAR: LEADERSHIP, LOGISTICS & LEGACY”

💡 What You Will Learn…

✨ Why readiness must be built before the crisis arrives—and what it means to deliver capability at the “speed of war” rather than the “speed of bureaucracy.”

✨ Why logistics isn't merely a supporting function—it can determine operational reach, endurance, tempo, and ultimately mission success.

✨ What commanding global sustainment organizations taught LTG Wilson about translating strategy into execution.

✨ How leaders prepare for contested logistics, disrupted supply chains, degraded communications, and the extraordinary distances of the Indo-Pacific.

✨ How AI, data, predictive analytics, autonomous systems, and emerging technologies may transform logistics—and why human judgment still matters.

✨ What LTG Wilson learned about leadership through adversity, including confronting challenges that no rank or position could solve.

✨ What it means to become a historic “first”—and the responsibility leaders have to ensure they are not the last.

✨ How mentors, NCOs, Soldiers, peers, family, and experiences across decades of service helped shape his leadership philosophy.

✨ Why the best leaders build people, systems, and organizations capable of succeeding without them.

✨ And perhaps most importantly: after nearly four decades of service, what does LTG David Wilson want the next generation of leaders to understand about leadership, success, service, and legacy?

💬 JOIN THE CONVERSATION!

🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!

🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?

💬 Got a question for LTG David Wilson about leadership, logistics, readiness, resilience, mentorship, or preparing for the next fight? Post it below—we will answer as many as possible LIVE!

⸻

👇 YOUR TURN:

➡️ What are your three biggest takeaways from this conversation?

➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?

➡️ Tag a colleague, Soldier, Sailor, Marine, Airman, Guardian, junior officer, NCO, high-tech leader, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾

S5:E192🎙️ LIVE with Dr. Tasliym Morales, DBA

NEXT on Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ!

Season 5:Episode 192 — “Beyond the Title: People, Governance & the Power of Opportunity”

📅 Sunday, September 27, 2026

I am excited to welcome Dr. Tasliym Morales, DBA, to the Leadership & Success Podcast for a conversation that goes beyond the title to explore what leadership looks like when people, governance, accountability, opportunity, and service come together.

Dr. Morales is a human resources executive, governance strategist, public servant, scholar, and Founder & Principal Advisor of C5 Organizational Consulting. With more than two decades of progressive leadership experience, she has helped organizations navigate transformation, workforce development, mergers and acquisitions, organizational change, talent strategy, executive leadership, and culture. Beyond corporate leadership, she serves as an elected School Board Director and Treasurer, chairs a Legislative Committee, and serves as an elected advisor to the Pennsylvania School Boards Association.

Her leadership journey is also deeply personal. The daughter of a late United States Marine, Dr. Morales credits her father with helping instill the values of discipline, integrity, accountability, and service that continue to shape how she leads today.

💡 What You Will Learn

✨ Why people strategy is business strategy—and why HR belongs at the strategic leadership table.

✨ What effective governance looks like and why accountability matters in corporations, nonprofits, schools, and public institutions.

✨ How leaders can build organizational cultures where people and performance thrive together.

✨ Why Dr. Morales believes exposure and opportunity can fundamentally alter the trajectory of a person's life.

✨ Her groundbreaking concept of “Intellectual Poverty”—the inability to make effective, life-enriching decisions because of insufficient exposure to positive cultural, intellectual, developmental, and growth-producing influences. Biography

✨ What more than 20 years of leadership and organizational transformation have taught her about people, culture, change, and accountability. Biography

✨ What today's leaders can learn from her scholarship on Black leadership during the Reconstruction Era and the importance of understanding history to lead the future. Biography

✨ Why leadership ultimately isn't about the title we hold—but what our leadership makes possible for someone else.

💬 Join the Conversation!

🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!

🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?

💬 Got a leadership, governance, organizational culture, education, or people-strategy question for Dr. Morales? Post it below—we will answer as many as possible LIVE!

⸻

👇 Your Turn:

➡️ What are your three takeaways from this conversation?

➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?

➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, executive, HR leader, educator, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾

Leadership goes beyond the title. The real question is: What becomes possible for others because you had the opportunity to lead?

#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #BeyondTheTitle #Leadership #ExecutiveLeadership #ServantLeadership #Governance #PeopleAndCulture #HumanResources #PeopleStrategy #OrganizationalLeadership #EducationLeadership #PublicService #IntellectualPoverty #WorkforceDevelopment #LeadershipDevelopment #LifelongLearning

S5:E192🎙️ LIVE with Dr. Tasliym Morales, DBA

NEXT on Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ!

Season 5:Episode 192 — “Beyond the Title: People, Governance & the Power of Opportunity”

📅 Sunday, September 27, 2026

I am excited to welcome Dr. Tasliym Morales, DBA, to the Leadership & Success Podcast for a conversation that goes beyond the title to explore what leadership looks like when people, governance, accountability, opportunity, and service come together.

Dr. Morales is a human resources executive, governance strategist, public servant, scholar, and Founder & Principal Advisor of C5 Organizational Consulting. With more than two decades of progressive leadership experience, she has helped organizations navigate transformation, workforce development, mergers and acquisitions, organizational change, talent strategy, executive leadership, and culture. Beyond corporate leadership, she serves as an elected School Board Director and Treasurer, chairs a Legislative Committee, and serves as an elected advisor to the Pennsylvania School Boards Association.

Her leadership journey is also deeply personal. The daughter of a late United States Marine, Dr. Morales credits her father with helping instill the values of discipline, integrity, accountability, and service that continue to shape how she leads today.

💡 What You Will Learn

✨ Why people strategy is business strategy—and why HR belongs at the strategic leadership table.

✨ What effective governance looks like and why accountability matters in corporations, nonprofits, schools, and public institutions.

✨ How leaders can build organizational cultures where people and performance thrive together.

✨ Why Dr. Morales believes exposure and opportunity can fundamentally alter the trajectory of a person's life.

✨ Her groundbreaking concept of “Intellectual Poverty”—the inability to make effective, life-enriching decisions because of insufficient exposure to positive cultural, intellectual, developmental, and growth-producing influences. Biography

✨ What more than 20 years of leadership and organizational transformation have taught her about people, culture, change, and accountability. Biography

✨ What today's leaders can learn from her scholarship on Black leadership during the Reconstruction Era and the importance of understanding history to lead the future. Biography

✨ Why leadership ultimately isn't about the title we hold—but what our leadership makes possible for someone else.

💬 Join the Conversation!

🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!

🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?

💬 Got a leadership, governance, organizational culture, education, or people-strategy question for Dr. Morales? Post it below—we will answer as many as possible LIVE!

⸻

👇 Your Turn:

➡️ What are your three takeaways from this conversation?

➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?

➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, executive, HR leader, educator, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾

Leadership goes beyond the title. The real question is: What becomes possible for others because you had the opportunity to lead?

#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #BeyondTheTitle #Leadership #ExecutiveLeadership #ServantLeadership #Governance #PeopleAndCulture #HumanResources #PeopleStrategy #OrganizationalLeadership #EducationLeadership #PublicService #IntellectualPoverty #WorkforceDevelopment #LeadershipDevelopment #LifelongLearning

S5:E191🎙️ LIVE | 🇺🇸 AMERICA 250: Leadership Through Adversity

What America’s Most Marginalized Leaders Teach Us About Resilience, Courage, Character & Hope

Mark your calendars for the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ, Season 5, Episode 191!

This episode is based on my latest LEAD article:

🇺🇸 AMERICA 250: Leadership Through Adversity

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadership-through-adversity-bob-fabien-bz-zinga--kkcff

📅 Monday, September 21, 2026

💡 What You Will Learn

America’s history reminds us that extraordinary leadership is rarely forged in comfort.

Across generations, leaders have encountered barriers they did not create, circumstances they could not control, and institutions that did not always recognize their full potential. Yet many chose to respond with resilience, courage, character, excellence, service, and hope.

In this episode, we will explore:

⚓ Why adversity can reveal and develop leadership character.

🌱 How resilient leaders transform hardship into purpose rather than bitterness.

💪🏾 Why perseverance is not simply enduring difficulty, but continuing to serve, grow, and lead through it.

🚪 Why being the “first” matters—but ensuring you are not the last may matter even more.

🤝 How mentorship, sponsorship, and service can turn one leader’s breakthrough into opportunities for generations.

🧭 Why character matters most when circumstances are hardest and our values become most expensive to uphold.

🕯️ Why hope is not denial of reality—it is the disciplined courage to keep moving forward while working to make reality better.

And perhaps most importantly, we will ask:

What will the people coming behind us inherit because of how we choose to lead today?

Leadership through adversity is not simply about surviving difficult seasons.

It is about allowing those seasons to strengthen our character without surrendering our humanity, our purpose, or our hope.

🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!

🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?

💬 Got a leadership question for Coach BZ? Type it below—I will answer LIVE during the show!

❤️🙏🏾 Tag someone who might benefit from this conversation.

And after the episode, share your three biggest takeaways. What did you learn—or rediscover—that you will put into practice this week?

Please share your insights below so someone else can learn from you.

Adversity may shape the circumstances of our leadership.

This too shall pass. I believe in you. Keep the faith. ❤️🙏🏾🇺🇸

#America250 #LeadershipThroughAdversity #LEAD #Leadership #ResilientLeadership #Resilience #Courage #Character #Hope #Mentorship #ServantLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #MilitaryLeadership #Legacy #LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ

S5:E191🎙️ LIVE | 🇺🇸 AMERICA 250: Leadership Through Adversity

What America’s Most Marginalized Leaders Teach Us About Resilience, Courage, Character & Hope

Mark your calendars for the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ, Season 5, Episode 191!

This episode is based on my latest LEAD article:

🇺🇸 AMERICA 250: Leadership Through Adversity

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadership-through-adversity-bob-fabien-bz-zinga--kkcff

📅 Monday, September 21, 2026

💡 What You Will Learn

America’s history reminds us that extraordinary leadership is rarely forged in comfort.

Across generations, leaders have encountered barriers they did not create, circumstances they could not control, and institutions that did not always recognize their full potential. Yet many chose to respond with resilience, courage, character, excellence, service, and hope.

In this episode, we will explore:

⚓ Why adversity can reveal and develop leadership character.

🌱 How resilient leaders transform hardship into purpose rather than bitterness.

💪🏾 Why perseverance is not simply enduring difficulty, but continuing to serve, grow, and lead through it.

🚪 Why being the “first” matters—but ensuring you are not the last may matter even more.

🤝 How mentorship, sponsorship, and service can turn one leader’s breakthrough into opportunities for generations.

🧭 Why character matters most when circumstances are hardest and our values become most expensive to uphold.

🕯️ Why hope is not denial of reality—it is the disciplined courage to keep moving forward while working to make reality better.

And perhaps most importantly, we will ask:

What will the people coming behind us inherit because of how we choose to lead today?

Leadership through adversity is not simply about surviving difficult seasons.

It is about allowing those seasons to strengthen our character without surrendering our humanity, our purpose, or our hope.

🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!

🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?

💬 Got a leadership question for Coach BZ? Type it below—I will answer LIVE during the show!

❤️🙏🏾 Tag someone who might benefit from this conversation.

And after the episode, share your three biggest takeaways. What did you learn—or rediscover—that you will put into practice this week?

Please share your insights below so someone else can learn from you.

Adversity may shape the circumstances of our leadership.

This too shall pass. I believe in you. Keep the faith. ❤️🙏🏾🇺🇸

#America250 #LeadershipThroughAdversity #LEAD #Leadership #ResilientLeadership #Resilience #Courage #Character #Hope #Mentorship #ServantLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #MilitaryLeadership #Legacy #LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ

S5:E190🎙️ LIVE | Leadership Lessons from the Life & Legacy of Doris Miller

🎙️ NEXT EPISODE — LIVE TODAY! 🇺🇸⚓🫡

📣 Mark your calendars!

Join me for Season 5, Episode 190 of the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ, as we explore the extraordinary life, courage, service, and leadership legacy of Doris “Dorie” Miller, USN.

📅 Monday, September 21, 2026

This episode is based on my LEAD article:

MAN THE GUN: Leadership Lessons from the Life and Legacy of American Hero Doris Miller 🇺🇸⚓

Read the LEAD article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lead-man-gun-leadership-lessons-from-life-legacy-hero-mjqpc

🎯 WHAT WILL WE LEARN?

On December 7, 1941, Miller was not an officer or ship's captain. He was serving aboard USS West Virginia in a segregated Navy that severely restricted opportunities available to Black Sailors.

But when Pearl Harbor was attacked, the moment exceeded his assignment—and his character determined his response.

We will explore timeless leadership lessons from his example:

⚓ Leadership begins before permission arrives. You don't need the title to lead.

❤️ Take care of your people. Before Miller manned the gun, he helped his mortally wounded commanding officer. Mission FIRST, People ALWAYS.

🔥 MAN THE GUN. When the mission requires responsible action, don't hide behind “That's not my job.” Bring excellence wherever it is needed.

🫡 Courage requires action before certainty. Leadership often means moving toward the problem when others are moving away.

💡 Never confuse rank with leadership. Titles provide authority; character, competence, initiative, and service build influence.

🚪 Great leaders recognize potential others overlook. Who are we failing to see because of their rank, title, background, education, or current assignment?

🌱 Leadership creates possibilities for people you may never meet. Our greatest legacy may be the doors we open for those who come after us.

And ultimately:

Take care of your people.

🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!

🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?

💬 Got a leadership question for Coach BZ? Type it below, and I will answer it LIVE during the show.

❤️ Tag someone who might benefit from this conversation.

After the episode, share your three biggest takeaways. What did you learn—or what were you reminded of—that you will actually put into practice this week?

See you LIVE! 🎙️🇺🇸⚓🫡

#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #DorisMiller #DorieMiller #Leadership #MilitaryLeadership #NavyLeadership #USNavy #PearlHarbor #NavyCross #MissionFirstPeopleAlways #Courage #Character #Initiative #ServantLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #LeadFromWhereYouAre #BlackMilitaryHistory #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #AmericanHero #LEAD

S5:E190🎙️ LIVE | Leadership Lessons from the Life & Legacy of Doris Miller

🎙️ NEXT EPISODE — LIVE TODAY! 🇺🇸⚓🫡

📣 Mark your calendars!

Join me for Season 5, Episode 190 of the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ, as we explore the extraordinary life, courage, service, and leadership legacy of Doris “Dorie” Miller, USN.

📅 Monday, September 21, 2026

This episode is based on my LEAD article:

MAN THE GUN: Leadership Lessons from the Life and Legacy of American Hero Doris Miller 🇺🇸⚓

Read the LEAD article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lead-man-gun-leadership-lessons-from-life-legacy-hero-mjqpc

🎯 WHAT WILL WE LEARN?

On December 7, 1941, Miller was not an officer or ship's captain. He was serving aboard USS West Virginia in a segregated Navy that severely restricted opportunities available to Black Sailors.

But when Pearl Harbor was attacked, the moment exceeded his assignment—and his character determined his response.

We will explore timeless leadership lessons from his example:

⚓ Leadership begins before permission arrives. You don't need the title to lead.

❤️ Take care of your people. Before Miller manned the gun, he helped his mortally wounded commanding officer. Mission FIRST, People ALWAYS.

🔥 MAN THE GUN. When the mission requires responsible action, don't hide behind “That's not my job.” Bring excellence wherever it is needed.

🫡 Courage requires action before certainty. Leadership often means moving toward the problem when others are moving away.

💡 Never confuse rank with leadership. Titles provide authority; character, competence, initiative, and service build influence.

🚪 Great leaders recognize potential others overlook. Who are we failing to see because of their rank, title, background, education, or current assignment?

🌱 Leadership creates possibilities for people you may never meet. Our greatest legacy may be the doors we open for those who come after us.

And ultimately:

Take care of your people.

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