The Leadership Evolution Podcast

Today's guest is Liz Mbwambo, entrepreneur, marketing strategist, and founder of an agency built on one simple principle: businesses deserve honest marketing that actually works. After spending years managing millions of dollars in media budgets for brands ranging from national household names to local businesses, Liz gained an insider's perspective on how agencies operate—and why so many companies are sold strategies that don't truly serve them.

Walking away from a successful six-figure career, she bootstrapped her own agency from the ground up with no investors and no safety net, driven by the conviction that integrity, transparency, and results should define every client relationship. Today, she helps businesses grow through smarter marketing and stronger leadership.

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Today's guest is Jeanne Omlor, a business coach, entrepreneur, and speaker whose story is a powerful reminder that our greatest limitations often exist in our own minds. After rebuilding her life as a single mother and starting her business from scratch, Jeanne learned how to silence self-doubt, overcome fear, and replace limiting beliefs with intentional action.

Today, she helps entrepreneurs and leaders break through the mental barriers that keep them from reaching their full potential. Her message is both practical and inspiring: when you change the way you think, you change the trajectory of your life and leadership.

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Today's guest is JL Heather, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Centered. His work includes being executive coach, leadership strategist, and co-author of The Agile Code and Breakthrough Innovation. For more than two decades, JL has helped senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies—including Ford, Pfizer, GE, Walmart, T-Mobile, and Wendy's—transform the way they lead, innovate, and inspire their teams.

His work centers on helping leaders move beyond reactive management into intentional, visionary leadership that creates cultures of trust, innovation, and continuous improvement. Through coaching, facilitation, and organizational transformation, JL is helping leaders unlock not just better performance, but greater human potential. 

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Today's guest is Daryl Dittmer, an entrepreneur, investor, business builder, and leadership mentor whose philosophy has been shaped by decades of real-world experience rather than theory. From working as a farmhand and carpenter to becoming the second-largest shareholder in a company that ultimately sold for nearly $10 billion, Daryl's journey is one of discipline, resilience, and intentional growth. After helping build and successfully exit multiple businesses, he now dedicates his time to teaching others how to stop drifting through life and start leading with purpose, integrity, and self-respect. His message is simple but powerful: lasting success begins with mastering yourself.

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Today's guest is Daryl Dittmer, an entrepreneur, investor, business builder, and leadership mentor whose philosophy has been shaped by decades of real-world experience rather than theory. From working as a farmhand and carpenter to becoming the second-largest shareholder in a company that ultimately sold for nearly $10 billion, Daryl's journey is one of discipline, resilience, and intentional growth. After helping build and successfully exit multiple businesses, he now dedicates his time to teaching others how to stop drifting through life and start leading with purpose, integrity, and self-respect. His message is simple but powerful: lasting success begins with mastering yourself.

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This week's guest is Ken Paskins, Founder and CEO of GCE Strategic Consulting, author of The Integrator Edge, and creator of the Fractional Integrator Model. For more than 30 years, Ken has helped founder-led businesses scale by bringing clarity, accountability, and operational discipline to fast-growing organizations. From Fortune 100 companies like Oracle to startups and private equity-backed businesses, he's built a reputation as the leader companies call when growth outpaces structure. Through his work as a CEO, COO, and Fractional Integrator, Ken helps founders transform vision into execution, creating businesses that don't just grow—they endure.

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Today's guest is Eric Nitzberg, an executive coach and trusted advisor who has spent more than two decades helping CEOs and senior leaders navigate growth, change, and the human side of leadership. He has coached hundreds of executives across the technology, software, and life sciences industries, including more than 150 leaders within a Fortune 100 global technology company. Eric also served as a communication coach at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he taught future business leaders the power of authentic communication and deep listening. His work centers on helping leaders grow not just in performance, but in self-awareness, influence, and lasting impact.

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Ron Sosa is a neuroinclusive leadership coach, speaker, author, and Executive Director of the Uncharted Veterinary Conference. His work focuses on helping leaders build healthier organizations by understanding the hidden relationship between leadership, identity, neurodivergence, burnout, and workplace culture. Drawing from both lived and professional experience, Ron brings a unique perspective to leadership. As someone who is ADHD, autistic, and hard of hearing, he has experienced firsthand the invisible burdens that many high-achieving leaders carry. His career has spanned nearly every level of an organization—from client service representative and veterinary assistant to practice manager, minority partner, executive director, coach, and author—giving him uncommon insight into how leadership impacts people throughout an organization. Through Syn-APT Neuroinclusive Leadership, Ron helps leaders reduce the weight of overthinking, masking, perfectionism, self-criticism, and burnout so they can lead with greater authenticity, clarity, and confidence. His message extends beyond neurodiversity, offering practical wisdom for any leader seeking to create workplaces where people don't simply survive—they thrive.

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Joe Patneaude (Pat-Node) is an executive coach, author, and leadership strategist dedicated to helping founders and business owners build organizations that grow without losing what made them successful in the first place. After spending more than 25 years in the financial services industry and rising from the mailroom to executive leadership, Joe now helps leadership teams create scalable businesses that prioritize culture, alignment, and sustainable success. As the creator of the STAR Scalability℠ Method and author of Follow the STAR: Unlock Monumental Business Growth, Joe specializes in helping leaders close the gap between how they believe they're leading and how their employees actually experience leadership. His practical approach equips organizations to strengthen communication, develop high-performing teams, and build businesses that support the lives of their leaders instead of consuming them. Joe's passion is helping leaders scale with intention—creating organizations that are not only more profitable, but healthier, more resilient, and built to last.

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Rich Ashton is a seasoned entrepreneur, business turnaround specialist, and leadership mentor with more than 45 years of experience acquiring, operating, transforming, and selling businesses. Throughout his career, Rich has built organizations around three unwavering principles: integrity, exceptional customer service, and investing in people. While many leaders focus on systems and strategy, Rich believes lasting success comes from developing motivated employees into confident, capable leaders. His greatest passion has been helping people grow—not only in their careers, but also in their personal lives. By creating cultures where people are trusted, challenged, and supported, he has consistently built organizations that thrive because of their people. A lifelong speaker and communicator, Rich brings decades of practical leadership experience and a passion for helping leaders build organizations where people flourish and businesses endure. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok TheLeadershipEvolutionPodcast