Level Up - A Leadership Podcast

James reunites with managers from the first community where he was an Executive Director to recall and revisit what elements of their leadership culture made the team special.  Does culture correlate to performance?  How does an interview signal the culture of the leader and the team? How do you get an entire group of people to buy in to and contribute to a positive culture? 

In this episode, we take a look behind the curtain to ask the central question about culture and its relevance in business - does culture impact performance?

Monte Pedersen enjoyed a 35-year career in hospitality management before deciding to form his own leadership and training firm focused on Strategy Execution Management.  In this episode, James and Monte discuss some basic concepts of strategy formation, execution, and how it all ties to taking care of the people who make up your company. 

Key takeaways offered in this episode will help leaders to examine their own company’s strategy execution and their role in creating a culture around accountability to one another.  Get out your pen and notebook!  This episode has a lot of nuggets of wisdom throughout.

I discuss the value of having a leadership model with serial entrepreneur Josh Crisp, the CEO and Founder of Solinity Senior Living, Solinity Marketing, and the co-creator of Bridge The Gap Senior Living Podcast (among many other ventures).

In this episode, I delve further into motivations for the podcast and also share the leadership model I developed to self-guide my professional growth in both emotional intelligence and business intelligence.  It also became the foundation for how I led teams in senior living businesses and how I coach executives today.

The MBAR Model, which stands for Motivations, Behaviors, Activities, Results, is simple but has provided profound insights on the interrelated connection between our "why" and our goals.

This podcast is for mission driven leaders who want to level up their own abilities, skills, and mindset to create powerful relationships. 

Host, James Lee, shares some of his guiding principles of life that inspired him to create a podcast to document his own learning journey and share it with other mission driven leaders who believe that self-improvement is the best way to serve the people you love.