Leading with Curiosity. A Podcast for Modern Leaders.

Hello listeners. My guest today was a joy to speak with. He's been a street performer, tap dancer, wire-walker (he can lay down and read on it), is a faculty Executive Coach at MIT, and has received praise on his new book from one of the most recognizable names in executive coaching, Marshall Goldsmith.

Rob Salafia is the author of ‘Leading From Your Best Self: Develop Executive Poise, Presence, and Influence to Maximize Your Potential’. Get it on Amazon here.

Rob Salafia has a background in performing arts, which we will hear about later. His clients include presidents of banks and support from his book come from Senior VP’s from some globally recognized organizations. Not to mention he was recommended to us by previous episode’s Ian McGregor, CEO of Skratch Labs.

He is an MIT Sloan Leadership Center Executive Coach and CEO of Protagonist Consulting.

Rob, I want to get this out in the open right off the hop. When I think about MIT, I think about that movie about card counting. Tell us more about MIT, and how a guy like you ended up there?!

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YOU SHOULD LEAVE KNOW - Going on Retreat to Find Your Way Back to Yourself

A Book by Guest BRIE DOYLE 

Brie's new book promises to be the ultimate summer read for anyone looking to live with more energy, power and purpose. In or interview we discuss her journey from College, Catholicism, to Buddhism, and part way back again. We explore the parallels between coaching and personal retreats, and why we shouldn't let ourselves to live without either of them.

Support Brie and this podcast (I'll make a small commission if you purchase through this link, and you will support the future growth of this podcast!) - Get it here on Amazon.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN - In a world where speed, outcomes and achievement rule, and where health means fitting into your skinny jeans, YOU SHOULD LEAVE NOW poses a revolutionary wellness solution - transformational personal retreats. Taken once or multiple times a year, a solo retreat is an opportunity to rest, reboot and cultivate the most valuable relationship in one’s life - the relationship with yourself. Brie Doyle, founder of She Glows Retreats, LLC and a mindfulness teacher of over 20 years, shares her vibrant wit and wisdom to take the reader on this ultimate journey to wellness.  

In this time of extraordinary change and transition, YOU SHOULD LEAVE NOW offers the perfect restorative for emotional well-being. It is a step-by-step guide on how to take a meaningful break from everyday life. Brie Doyle believes that the practice of retreat is one of the pillars of wellness and provides a powerful shift to bring fresh perspective and renewed energy to the practitioner. Doyle shares compelling research and time-tested advice that covers the benefits of going on an annual personal retreat. It’s up to you where you go - Timbuktu or your very own backyard -  and Brie Doyle’s witty and sage advice guides the reader completely through logistics, expectations and directions on how to return home revitalized. Regardless of experience or budget, everyone can embark on a transformative personal retreat. YOU SHOULD LEAVE NOW.

Advance praise for YOU SHOULD LEAVE NOW

“YOU SHOULD LEAVE NOW is a testament to the restorative energy and spiritual connection a retreat can bring to one’s life path and journey forward. This book serves as a guide, showing you how creating time and space for a retreat in your own life can prove transformational.” - Laura Lynne Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe and The Light Between Us

“BRIE DOYLE makes a powerful case for retreating as essential medicine. Allow this book to be the permission slip you have been waiting for to step away from your life for a moment so you may step back in, more fully alive” - Beth Kempton, bestselling author of Wabi Sabi:  Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life

“BRIE DOYLE’s message is essential for all women. Her guidance is a true gift.” - Sheila Kelley, founder of S Factor, award-wining actress and author

About the Author

Brie Doyle is the founder of She Glows Retreats, LLC, and hosts transformational retreats throughout the US and across the globe. She specializes in curating mental and emotional wellness curriculum for groups, companies, schools and individuals. A yoga and meditation teacher for over twenty years, Brie is a leader in the health and wellness space who helps people heal their past and reclaim their power. She lives in Boulder, CO with her husband and three kids.

Web;  briedoyle.com

Twitter:  @BrieDoyle

Instagram:  @WellBeingByBrie

Facebook:  @WellBeingByBrie

If we surveyed your team and asked them if their leader shows a genuine interest in their personal development…what do you think they would say? Our research has shown that while most leaders do care about their employee’s personal development, they often do not show it. The key to high-performance culture lies beyond having good intentions, and lies in how you show this genuine interest.

In this episode we deviate from our 1 on 1 format. Nate Leslie, Jeff Smith, and Janet Wood discuss the importance of showing genuine interest in people as a leader, and where we get it wrong. This is an audio recording of the SupportingLines Institute Human Experience Summit. We've broken up the 90 minute virtual summit into 3 parts to sprinkle amongst other episodes. This is Part 1. 

Jeff Smith - Founder of the SupportingLines Institute used to lead a sales team at a global helicopter company where he helped increase sales from $800M to $1.6B. He leans into a large scale challenges in a big way.

Janet Wood is a former global software executive responsible for the leadership development of over 8000 leaders at SAP. In semi-retirement she was the CEO of Science World in Vancouver, BC. Large scale leadership development initiatives do not intimidate Janet, and she learned a lot about herself along the way.

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Hello listeners. My guest today is the experienced founder and CEO  of Skratch Labs, an active lifestyle nutrition company based in Boulder CO.  Here are some highlights of our conversation.

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Steven Morrow sees a common theme in his work with high performing leaders. He calls it the High Performer's Disease. Curious? Click play to learn more.

Steven focuses his executive coaching practice on high performing senior leaders who take personal responsibility for their own growth and want an insightful coach who can help them see what they need to do to get to the next level – both within the company, and as a human being. 

We are going to explore the value, and the sacredness, of being in service of others. Based in Denver, Colorado, Steven has had clients in Turkey, Germany, The Netherlands, Chile, Mexico, South Africa, Brazil, the US, and Canada.

I was Introduced to Steven through Episode 8’s Dan Konigsberg, CEO of CampMinder. Dan caught my attention when speaking about his experience working with Steven. “I’d be dead without a coach” were the powerful words Dan used to describe the impact of his coaching experience.

We Explore:

Learn more: www.stevenmorrowleadership.com

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More about Steven Morrow:

Steven Morrow is the founder and principal of Steven Morrow Leadership. In his leadership coaching work, Steven focuses on the client’s ability to build effective relationships which create strategic impact, leadership presence, and valued partnerships with clients. Steven’s clients say he brings absolute honesty and razor insight complemented with a remarkable level of acceptance. This combination allows client and coach to get to the core of the opportunity and address it with expediency.

Outside Magazine has voted Dan Konigsberg’s company CampMinder as one of the Top 50 places to work in the US 4 times. Their commitment to team member happiness and well being was highlighted in this past year’s award coming in at #11, amidst a pandemic lockdown. CampMinder runs extraordinary software and support for kids summer camps. CEO Dan Konigsberg founded the company while still in college in 2001.. I am a client of CampMinder through one of my businesses, the West Coast Hockey Prep Camp. The software, and the support we receive under Dan’s leadership has revolutionized our ability to execute a world class high performance summer camp and has more than doubled the value of our business.

I first came to know about Dan Konigsberg and his belief in the value of executive coaching after reading a post on CampMinder’s blog. It was October 2020 after a summer of shut down camps and huge revenue losses. Here is a quote from his article “Pushing Forward to Create a Brighter Future.”

“Rather than seeking a rescuer to solve my problem for me, I’ve learned a Coach can help me identify opportunities to create my own solution. In this Creator-Challenger-Coach triangle, I’m no longer focused on problems, but instead on desired outcomes. This leaves me feeling creative and empowered to work towards the goal I wish to achieve.”

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Ian Chisholm, founder of Roy Group Leadership, has courageous views on what it means to be a Mentor, and why we can’t call ourselves one. He’s been trained in leadership by former members of the British SAS, and spent years leading a program on the Isle of Sky where at-risk teens from tough parts of Glasgow and around Scotland had the opportunity to coach, and be coached by, executive leaders.

Ian is significantly impacting my career in leadership development and executive coaching as a learning lead and executive coach on his talented roster. If you care about the way you choose to show up as a leader, and are curious about its impact on the atmosphere it creates in your organization, team, and family, click play.

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My guest today is challenging the status quo defining high performance culture. Once the embodiment of an aggressive athlete, Jason Dorland used to identify himself according to the results of his competitions―winner or loser. The elite rower was raised with an “in-it-to-win-it” attitude and was trained to think of every competitor as an enemy. It took a devastating loss at the 1988 Olympic Games to shatter this destructive way of thinking, and it took the advice of Olympic middle-distance runner Robyn Meagher (who would later become Dorland’s wife) to help re-shape his views on what it truly means to win―both in sport and in life.

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Today we explore Jason’s understanding of high performance culture, the epid defeat at the '88 Olympics, and his work in the leadership development space.

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Jason and I reference Tim Gallwey's work around Interference (performance = Potential - Interference). Check out Tim's book, The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance here.

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Jeff Smith doesn’t shy away from large scale challenges. He leans in. He is the founder of the SupportingLines Institute, a CPA, and former CFO. He is a Master Executive Coach, and a yoga instructor!

Leading a sales team that helped a global helicopter company double sales to $1.6B is just one of many business success stories that always catches my attention. While many Executive Coaches build their practice around serving individual clients, Jeff’s SupportingLines mission is to ‘Help Millions of People have a better human experience at work.’

Today we dive into the data driven approach to leadership that places the SupportingLines Institute in a unique position to help leaders understand their behaviours, and its impact on high performance culture.

*Host Nate Leslie is a Certified SupportingLines Coach. His keen interest in Jeff's work has led to an incredibly rewarding collaboration.

Jennifer Konopaki is the Executive Director of Sport at Winsport in Calgary, Alberta. With over 20 years experience in the sport and recreation industry, Jenn cares deeply about the role sport plays in our lives, and the impact her leadership can have on her teams. In this interview we explore her leadership effectiveness, and the role coaching plays in it, that has landed her in a very important and significant leadership role in Canadian sport. Spoiler alert - leaders can forget about trying to have all of the answers.

Jenn has invested heavily in her own leadership development and is a believer in the value of Certified Executive Coaching. That’s not the only thing that has landed her on this podcast. We also share a journey as close friends that began in kindergarten.

Winsport operates Canada Olympic Park which is home to new winter Olympic sports and to more than 15 National and Provincial Sport Organizations as well as the Canadian Sport Institute Calgary, which all support high-performance sport. Their world-class coaching, training and competition facilities support the ever-growing number of Canadian athletes achieving podium finishes on the global stage.