In this episode of Faceplants to Finish Lines, Chad breaks down how values levels can shape leadership, team dynamics, and organizational growth.

This isn't theory. It's lived experience.

Chad walks through each stage of business evolution: from the early, survival-driven hustle of a startup to structured operations, performance-driven growth, and eventually integration within a large corporate system. Along the way, he reveals a critical insight: organizations don't evolve evenly and neither do people.

This episode reframes common workplace challenges such as turnover, resistance, misalignment, and culture breakdown, not as failures in strategy, but as mismatches in developmental stages.

More importantly, Chad outlines what it takes to lead through that complexity and evolve into a leader who can operate across all levels.

What You'll Learn in This Episode

· What values levels (Spiral Dynamics) are and how they apply inside organizations

· Why teams and organizations don't evolve at the same pace and how that creates friction

· How leadership styles must adapt at each stage of business growth

· How to recognize values-level mismatches inside your team or organization

· What it means to lead as an integrated, adaptive leader across multiple levels

You can't force people into higher levels of thinking but you can lead in a way that supports their evolution.