This summer I'm releasing bonus episodes of The Take Home. No new lectures on leadership, instead I'm sharing the amazing podcasts created by the students in my Leadership for Sport Professionals class.

Today's bonus episode features "The Leadership Lab" produced and created by Jacob Ontiveros and Mac Douglas. In the podcast, they interview Marcus Mlcak. Marcus is a Trinity alumnus (@TrinityUAlumni) and Partner at EY. While at Trinity, Marcus was on the golf team (@TrinityUGolf) and he's continued to be active in campus life serving as an alumni mentor in the 1869 Scholars program.

During the conversation Marcus talks about learning from failure, how sports are crucibles for leadership development, and why leaders must be able to work closely with those who are different from themselves. He says that great leaders focus on "we, not me" and why they must build relationships as a means to understand how to motivate each employee as an individual, rather than a cog in the machine. I love his servant leadership approach and I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did! Let me know what you think; reach out on LinkedIn or at @TingleJK on Twitter.

Credits:

Music used in The Leadership Lab: Intro and Outro - "Moda" by Fashion Season and during the Interview they used "Inspiring Life" by Fashion Season. The podcast cover photo was taken by Jacob Tingle at Los Rapidos Bacalar in the Yucatan, Mexico. The intro music is "Be My Guest" by Crowander. "My underground" by Distemper is the closing credits music.