Relearning Leadership

Two-thirds of leaders receive little to no education, coaching or mentoring. We can do something about this. 

Pete Behrens welcomes us back to season 2 with a personal story of his own accidental leadership journey as a student, employee and founder. Through his story he hopes to connect, inspire, and challenge us all to become a better leader, a more adaptive leader, a more diverse leader, and a more humane leader.

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The current ways of leading are failing to meet the challenges of our disrupted workforces. Today’s leaders have a choice between adaptation or atrophy: are you ready to evolve your mindset and accelerate change within your organization? 

Join Pete Behrens and other leading experts as they speak freely and deeply about their journeys to grow and improve as leaders. It’s time to pivot: plug-in to relearn leadership.

Season One is coming to a close! 6 Months, 13 Episodes, and over 20 Guests and Experts sharing stories and insights, and thousands of listens have driven this podcast to the top 3%. Thank You! 

Pete Behrens closes out season one with a personal message about the importance of cycles and how we all need to be more aware of and break cycles to improve health and performance.

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Luke Hohmann, a serial entrepreneur and Founder of First Root, shares how a simple technique called participatory budgeting can positively impact an entire community.

Liz Dudley, a Social Studies Teacher based in New York City, shares her experience with participatory budgeting and its impact on her students and school community toward increased engagement, discourse, and leadership.

Listen and learn how participatory budgeting can enable, engage and empower your corporate, civic, social, family or education communities.

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Andy Slain, a company man for 17 years in a well-paying managerial position decides to leave it all behind to pursue a path of purpose with no financial guarantees. Essentially answering his own question, “What would I do if money didn’t matter?”

Brad Swanson, a Leadership and Organization Coach, joins Pete to reflect on Andy’s story and share his own similar purpose-seeking work/life choices to help us all relearn how to be more purposeful about our own leadership journeys.

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Eric Engelmann is a seasoned leader, a serial innovator, and a leadership gambler. That’s right—this former founder and CEO experienced a rebirth in his own leadership, propelling him on a journey of betting on and shaping innovators of the future.

Eric shares his unique approach to identifying, betting, and improving his odds on their chosen leaders. And as part of our discussion, we dig into his own leadership journey, which includes a setback and a new direction guiding his approach today..

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Ameet Kallarackal, a first-time CEO and co-founder of Fisherman, a startup building a “No Effort Web”, shares his perception of risk/reward through his leadership journey in choosing to expand an industry and build a new company.

Rachel Weston Rowell, a Senior Vice President with Insight Partners helping start-up leaders scale-up their organizational discipline and culture, joins our discussion to explore the mindset and makeup of those charting new paths.

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Henriette Kamfer, a Procurement Specialist with one of Australia's largest natural gas infrastructure businesses, shares an inspiring story of revamping a large-scale sourcing project to better engage stakeholders AND improve their bottom line.

Mirko Kleiner, Founder of Lean Agile Procurement, joins the dialogue to share how a single premise of applying agile principles to standard business practices has unleashed a world-wide wave of disrupting "business as usual".

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Dean Leffingwell, a business innovator and founder of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), has dedicated his work life in pursuit of a better way forward, both as a leader himself, and in building companies helping others to be better. 

Pete goes behind the curtain with Dean, not to explore his latest creation, but rather to explore the leader behind it. As a leadership mentor and advisor to Pete personally over the years, Dean shares his own leadership journey so we may learn from his experience.

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Von Rhea, a Senior Director of Engineering at Trimble, shares his story with Pete of scattered teams across the globe - 12 international locations! - and his ongoing leadership challenge to bridge diversity, engage these unique voices and connect across this disconnected organization.

Melissa Uribes, Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Trimble, joins Pete to discuss Von’s disconnected situation and what leaders can learn from his story to build better connections across their diverse and distributed organizations.

Visit the website at (Re)Learning Leadership for more information on the show guests, transcripts and key summary learning from the episode. Episode 6: Connecting in a Disconnected World