The Remarkable Leadership Podcast

Do you have to be a tech person to lead today? No. But you do have to be a student.

You don't have to master every tool. Technology keeps changing, though, and it shapes how your team communicates, how the work gets done, and what's possible for us to accomplish. In this episode, the second in my series on leaders as students, I share four ways to keep learning even if you aren't a tech person, and what organizations can do to help.

If you want a tool to help you in your own leadership work, check out Claridus. It's the first AI leadership platform that learns who you are as a leader to help you decide what you can do better. Learn more at https://claridus.ai

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My name is Kevin Eikenberry and I'm here to help you reach your goal as a leader and a human being with Remarkable TV and the Remarkable Leadership Podcast.

I am also the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. We provide speaking, training, consulting, and coaching services to organizations who believe in investing in their most valuable assets – their people. Whether we are leading a training workshop, speaking to a group, facilitating a planning meeting, consulting with a leadership team, helping with team building, writing or developing products, our vision will be clear in everything we do – We want to be Your Leadership Help Button.

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About Kevin Eikenberry: Kevin Eikenberry is the Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group, a world expert on leadership development, best-selling author, sought-after speaker, popular blogger, husband and dad, a fan of Purdue athletics and antique tractors (especially John Deere's).

About The Remarkable Leadership Podcast: The Remarkable Leadership Podcast with Kevin Eikenberry is dedicated to all things leadership. Twice a week Kevin shares his thoughts about leadership development and ideas to help you lead more confidently and make a bigger difference for those you lead. He also has weekly conversations with leadership experts discussing a wide range of topics including teamwork, organizational culture, facilitating change, personal and organizational development, human potential and more.

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How can leaders get the best from AI without losing the human things that make teams work? In this episode, Kevin talks with Paula Goldman about what it really means to "manage the machine" and why successful AI adoption depends as much on people as it does on technology. They discuss how leaders can think about AI as a powerful collaborator, where human oversight and clear guardrails still matter. Organizations need to be intentional about where AI should (and should not) make decisions. Paula also shares how AI can strengthen team dynamics by surfacing overlooked perspectives, challenging assumptions, and helping teams make better decisions in real time.

Paula's Story: Paula Goldman is the author of Manage the Machine: How to Harness Human-AI Collaboration at Work. She is the first-ever chief ethical and humane use officer at Salesforce, where she is a leading figure in implementing AI responsibly. She was also a member of the US National AI Advisory Committee, established by Congress to advise the president, and was named to Fast Company's AI 20. Goldman lives in San Francisco's East Bay.

https://paulagoldman.ai/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paula-goldman/

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My name is Kevin Eikenberry and I'm here to help you reach your goal as a leader and a human being with Remarkable TV and the Remarkable Leadership Podcast.

I am also the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. We provide speaking, training, consulting, and coaching services to organizations who believe in investing in their most valuable assets – their people. Whether we are leading a training workshop, speaking to a group, facilitating a planning meeting, consulting with a leadership team, helping with team building, writing or developing products, our vision will be clear in everything we do – We want to be Your Leadership Help Button.

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About Kevin Eikenberry: Kevin Eikenberry is the Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group, a world expert on leadership development, best-selling author, sought-after speaker, popular blogger, husband and dad, a fan of Purdue athletics and antique tractors (especially John Deere's).

About The Remarkable Leadership Podcast: The Remarkable Leadership Podcast with Kevin Eikenberry is dedicated to all things leadership. Twice a week Kevin shares his thoughts about leadership development and ideas to help you lead more confidently and make a bigger difference for those you lead. He also has weekly conversations with leadership experts discussing a wide range of topics including teamwork, organizational culture, facilitating change, personal and organizational development, human potential and more.

How well do you understand the people you lead?

Leadership is getting results with and through other people. There is no leadership without people. Yet people are often the hardest thing to study, because human nature is all around us.

This episode starts a short series on the leader as a student. I share five ways to become a student of human nature on purpose: be more observant, ask more, talk less, use plausible cause analysis, and self-reflect. I also give you one thing to practice this week.

One of the best ways to understand yourself and others better is to learn about behavioral and communication styles. You can take a free DISC assessment at DISCPersonalityTesting.com.

Have something you think leaders should be a student of? Leave a comment or email [email protected]. If I do an episode on your idea, I'll recognize you on it and send you a gift.

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My name is Kevin Eikenberry and I'm here to help you reach your goal as a leader and a human being with Remarkable TV and the Remarkable Leadership Podcast.

I am also the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. We provide speaking, training, consulting, and coaching services to organizations who believe in investing in their most valuable assets – their people. Whether we are leading a training workshop, speaking to a group, facilitating a planning meeting, consulting with a leadership team, helping with team building, writing or developing products, our vision will be clear in everything we do – We want to be Your Leadership Help Button.

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About Kevin Eikenberry: Kevin Eikenberry is the Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group, a world expert on leadership development, best-selling author, sought-after speaker, popular blogger, husband and dad, a fan of Purdue athletics and antique tractors (especially John Deere's).

About The Remarkable Leadership Podcast: The Remarkable Leadership Podcast with Kevin Eikenberry is dedicated to all things leadership. Twice a week Kevin shares his thoughts about leadership development and ideas to help you lead more confidently and make a bigger difference for those you lead. He also has weekly conversations with leadership experts discussing a wide range of topics including teamwork, organizational culture, facilitating change, personal and organizational development, human potential and more.

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How can leaders make smarter decisions, motivate people, and stay effective when things get difficult? Kevin is joined by Caroline Webb to explore three dimensions of leadership intelligence: deliberate wisdom, intrinsic inspiration, and reasoned resilience. She explains why better decisions begin with intentionally widening your perspective while reducing cognitive overload, and how leaders can strengthen motivation by increasing people's sense of competence and connection. Kevin and Caroline also discuss how AI can support better thinking without replacing human judgment, empathy, and accountability that leadership still requires.

Caroline's Story: Caroline Webb is the author of Leadership Intelligence: Science-Backed Strategies for Mastering 21 Everyday Management Challenges and How To Have A Good Day. She is a leadership coach, economist, and speaker known for being one of the world's leading experts in using insights from behavioral science to improve professional life. She is a global bestseller whose book has been published in 18 editions and in over 60 countries. She is also a senior advisor to McKinsey, where she was previously a partner, and has been rated one of Thinkers50's top 50 executive coaches in the world. Caroline's book is a core text for Professor Jonathan Haidt's 'Work, Wisdom & Happiness' course at NYU Stern School of Business, and she has also guest lectured at Harvard, Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, London School of Economics and London Business School on applications of behavioral science to leadership and workplace effectiveness. Caroline is originally from the UK, and has degrees in economics from Cambridge and Oxford Universities. She is based in New York but travels widely to coach clients and deliver keynote speeches.

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• Leadership Intelligence: Science-Backed Strategies for Mastering 21 Everyday Management Challenges by Caroline Webb
• How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life by Caroline Webb
• Drayton and Mackenzie by Alexander Starritt

• Insights into the Science of Leadership at Amazon with Bill Carr
• The Science of Leadership with Margaret Moore and Jeffrey Hull

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My name is Kevin Eikenberry and I'm here to help you reach your goal as a leader and a human being with Remarkable TV and the Remarkable Leadership Podcast.

I am also the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. We provide speaking, training, consulting, and coaching services to organizations who believe in investing in their most valuable assets – their people. Whether we are leading a training workshop, speaking to a group, facilitating a planning meeting, consulting with a leadership team, helping with team building, writing or developing products, our vision will be clear in everything we do – We want to be Your Leadership Help Button.

Connect with Kevin Eikenberry on Social Media: https://kevineikenberry.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevineikenberry https://instagram.com/kevineikenberry https://www.facebook.com/KevinEikenberryFanPage/

About Kevin Eikenberry: Kevin Eikenberry is the Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group, a world expert on leadership development, best-selling author, sought-after speaker, popular blogger, husband and dad, a fan of Purdue athletics and antique tractors (especially John Deere's).

About The Remarkable Leadership Podcast: The Remarkable Leadership Podcast with Kevin Eikenberry is dedicated to all things leadership. Twice a week Kevin shares his thoughts about leadership development and ideas to help you lead more confidently and make a bigger difference for those you lead. He also has weekly conversations with leadership experts discussing a wide range of topics including teamwork, organizational culture, facilitating change, personal and organizational development, human potential and more.

You have priorities. But if your team doesn't know what they are, they're not really priorities at all.

You might have put them in a memo, an email, or on a slide. That's not what your people remember. They remember what they see you doing every day: what you ask about, what you praise, what gets on your calendar. And when your priorities are hidden, your good, talented, committed people fill the gap with their own guesses.

In this episode, I walk through a simple process to bring your priorities into the open: write them down (no more than three), have your team do the same, compare and share what you learn, and then make sure your behavior matches what you say matters most.

Setting clear priorities is one skill every new and frontline leader needs. Our Bud to Boss programs help with that and all the other skills they need to be better and more confident. Learn more at https://KevinEikenberry.com/budtoboss

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My name is Kevin Eikenberry and I'm here to help you reach your goal as a leader and a human being with Remarkable TV and the Remarkable Leadership Podcast.

I am also the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. We provide speaking, training, consulting, and coaching services to organizations who believe in investing in their most valuable assets – their people. Whether we are leading a training workshop, speaking to a group, facilitating a planning meeting, consulting with a leadership team, helping with team building, writing or developing products, our vision will be clear in everything we do – We want to be Your Leadership Help Button.

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About Kevin Eikenberry: Kevin Eikenberry is the Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group, a world expert on leadership development, best-selling author, sought-after speaker, popular blogger, husband and dad, a fan of Purdue athletics and antique tractors (especially John Deere's).

About The Remarkable Leadership Podcast: The Remarkable Leadership Podcast with Kevin Eikenberry is dedicated to all things leadership. Twice a week Kevin shares his thoughts about leadership development and ideas to help you lead more confidently and make a bigger difference for those you lead. He also has weekly conversations with leadership experts discussing a wide range of topics including teamwork, organizational culture, facilitating change, personal and organizational development, human potential and more.

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How can leaders use AI without allowing it to erode the human skills that make leadership effective? In this episode, Kevin talks with Johan Roos about the choice leaders face between amplification and erosion as AI becomes more integrated into our work. Johan identifies five essential human capabilities (curiosity, creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration) and explains how leaders can use technology to strengthen rather than weaken them. They discuss the warning signs of cognitive offloading, why leaders need to model thoughtful AI use themselves, and how practical wisdom and human judgment remain essential for deciding what matters, what is right, and what will work in practice.

Johan's Story: From strategic alliances and knowledge management to Human Magic, Johan Roos has written more than a dozen books across three decades on how organizations think, decide, and renew themselves. His latest book is Human Magic: Leading with Wisdom in an Age of Algorithms. Johan co-founded the Imagination Lab Foundation with the third-generation owner of the LEGO Group. He is Senior Advisor to the Global Peter Drucker Forum and Partner for R&D at Interface, and he advises and invests in leaders and institutions building for the next decade. He has taught strategy and leadership at business schools across Europe and the United States, and helped lead four of them. He is Professor and Senior Strategic Advisor at Luxembourg School of Business, and Associate Faculty at Hult Ashridge. His work lives where rigorous research meets the realities of running an institution.

https://humanmagic.one/ https://johanroos.one/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjohanroos/ https://luxsb.lu/ https://inthrface.com/en/

0:00 Is AI a threat or a promise? 1:30 Meet Johan Roos 2:46 Why this book, why now 4:02 The big idea: amplify or erode 5:40 The 5 C's of human capability 7:42 Which capability is most at risk? 8:50 Why everyone is starting to sound the same 10:21 Curiosity is the door to everything else 12:01 How to use AI to amplify creativity 13:56 What the calculator teaches us about AI 15:56 Warning signs start with the leader 19:01 Signs your team is choosing erosion 21:06 Cognitive overload vs. cognitive offloading 22:15 Practical wisdom and human magic 25:08 Why every chapter starts with history 27:19 What Johan is reading 29:26 How to connect with Johan 30:13 Now what?

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My name is Kevin Eikenberry and I'm here to help you reach your goal as a leader and a human being with Remarkable TV and the Remarkable Leadership Podcast.

I am also the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. We provide speaking, training, consulting, and coaching services to organizations who believe in investing in their most valuable assets – their people. Whether we are leading a training workshop, speaking to a group, facilitating a planning meeting, consulting with a leadership team, helping with team building, writing or developing products, our vision will be clear in everything we do – We want to be Your Leadership Help Button.

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About Kevin Eikenberry: Kevin Eikenberry is the Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group, a world expert on leadership development, best-selling author, sought-after speaker, popular blogger, husband and dad, a fan of Purdue athletics and antique tractors (especially John Deere's).

About The Remarkable Leadership Podcast: The Remarkable Leadership Podcast with Kevin Eikenberry is dedicated to all things leadership. Twice a week Kevin shares his thoughts about leadership development and ideas to help you lead more confidently and make a bigger difference for those you lead. He also has weekly conversations with leadership experts discussing a wide range of topics including teamwork, organizational culture, facilitating change, personal and organizational development, human potential and more.

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"Can AI do this?" It's a question I hear all the time, and I've certainly asked it. The answer is often yes. But the most important question isn't whether it can. It's whether we want it to.

In this episode, I share the four questions I ask myself before handing work to AI, and that I urge you to ask as a leader. I also share an organizational thought: why training people on AI tools isn't enough, and what actually gets results.

However amazing AI is, you own the result. Your name is on what AI produces.

The answer to most of these questions depends on the AI tools you're actually using. Claridus is the first AI leadership platform that learns who you are as a leader to help you make better decisions. Learn more at https://claridus.ai

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My name is Kevin Eikenberry and I'm here to help you reach your goal as a leader and a human being with Remarkable TV and the Remarkable Leadership Podcast.

I am also the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. We provide speaking, training, consulting, and coaching services to organizations who believe in investing in their most valuable assets – their people. Whether we are leading a training workshop, speaking to a group, facilitating a planning meeting, consulting with a leadership team, helping with team building, writing or developing products, our vision will be clear in everything we do – We want to be Your Leadership Help Button.

Connect with Kevin Eikenberry on Social Media: https://kevineikenberry.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevineikenberry https://instagram.com/kevineikenberry https://www.facebook.com/KevinEikenberryFanPage/

About Kevin Eikenberry: Kevin Eikenberry is the Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group, a world expert on leadership development, best-selling author, sought-after speaker, popular blogger, husband and dad, a fan of Purdue athletics and antique tractors (especially John Deere's).

About The Remarkable Leadership Podcast: The Remarkable Leadership Podcast with Kevin Eikenberry is dedicated to all things leadership. Twice a week Kevin shares his thoughts about leadership development and ideas to help you lead more confidently and make a bigger difference for those you lead. He also has weekly conversations with leadership experts discussing a wide range of topics including teamwork, organizational culture, facilitating change, personal and organizational development, human potential and more.

How can you make work work for your team? Kevin sits down with Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington to discuss what research reveals about in-person, remote, and hybrid work and why the best answer is rarely one-size-fits-all. They talk about the "proximity effect" and how face-to-face interaction can strengthen creativity, collaboration, and well-being, while also acknowledging the flexibility and accessibility benefits of remote work. Natalia and Emma explain why simply requiring people to come into an office isn't enough; leaders need to coordinate when teams are together and intentionally use that time for brainstorming, mentorship, and other activities that benefit from human connection. They also share practical ways to improve virtual collaboration, including creating permission to look away from the screen and move

Connect with Natalia Emanuel & Emma Harrington Website: https://inpersonbook.com/

• In Person: How Working Together Fuels Creativity, Productivity, and Growth by Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington
• Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool by Emily Oster
• Nurse and Spy in the Union Army by Sarah Emma Edmonds

• The Forces Reshaping the Workplace with Phil Simon
• How Work Works Now with Michelle King
• Creating a Better Model of Working with Steve Cadigan

Timestamps 0:00 Where should people work? 1:48 Meet Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington 3:41 Why they wrote In Person 5:22 The big idea: digital tools shrink our networks 6:57 The proximity effect 8:36 Where organizations get the remote work debate wrong 11:09 Walking, creativity, and looking away from the screen 15:58 The trouble with hybrid meetings 16:57 The case for in-person: how Shark Week was born 19:56 Remote work and mental health 22:11 It takes 160 hours to make a friend 22:48 The under-discussed case for remote work 24:54 How to make in-person days actually different 28:29 One piece of advice for frontline leaders 32:19 What they're reading 34:14 Where to learn more (and the in-office days calculator) 34:50 Now what?

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My name is Kevin Eikenberry and I'm here to help you reach your goal as a leader and a human being with Remarkable TV and the Remarkable Leadership Podcast.

I am also the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. We provide speaking, training, consulting, and coaching services to organizations who believe in investing in their most valuable assets – their people. Whether we are leading a training workshop, speaking to a group, facilitating a planning meeting, consulting with a leadership team, helping with team building, writing or developing products, our vision will be clear in everything we do – We want to be Your Leadership Help Button.

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About Kevin Eikenberry: Kevin Eikenberry is the Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group, a world expert on leadership development, best-selling author, sought-after speaker, popular blogger, husband and dad, a fan of Purdue athletics and antique tractors (especially John Deere's).

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My name is Kevin Eikenberry and I'm here to help you reach your goal as a leader and a human being with Remarkable TV and the Remarkable Leadership Podcast.

I am also the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. We provide speaking, training, consulting, and coaching services to organizations who believe in investing in their most valuable assets – their people. Whether we are leading a training workshop, speaking to a group, facilitating a planning meeting, consulting with a leadership team, helping with team building, writing or developing products, our vision will be clear in everything we do – We want to be Your Leadership Help Button.

Connect with Kevin Eikenberry on Social Media: https://kevineikenberry.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevineikenberry https://instagram.com/kevineikenberry https://www.facebook.com/KevinEikenberryFanPage/

About Kevin Eikenberry: Kevin Eikenberry is the Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group, a world expert on leadership development, best-selling author, sought-after speaker, popular blogger, husband and dad, a fan of Purdue athletics and antique tractors (especially John Deere's).

About The Remarkable Leadership Podcast: The Remarkable Leadership Podcast with Kevin Eikenberry is dedicated to all things leadership. Twice a week Kevin shares his thoughts about leadership development and ideas to help you lead more confidently and make a bigger difference for those you lead. He also has weekly conversations with leadership experts discussing a wide range of topics including teamwork, organizational culture, facilitating change, personal and organizational development, human potential and more.

What does it take to stay optimistic when life is difficult, uncertain, or simply not going according to plan? Kevin sits down with Michelle Gielan to explore the science of resilient optimism. Michelle shares that optimism is more than a feeling; it is a set of behaviors leaders can practice even when they don't feel positive. Michelle explains how resilient optimism combines a realistic view of challenges with the belief that our actions can make a difference. Michelle also shares practical strategies for triaging commitments based on impact rather than urgency, creating opportunities to truly recharge, and developing a simple "best moments" practice that trains the brain to notice progress and possibility.

0:00 Putting Resilience and Optimism Together 1:25 Meet Michelle Gielan 2:45 From Computer Engineer to CBS News Anchor 5:38 Why Michelle Wrote Resilient Optimism 8:18 What Resilient Optimism Is (and Isn't) 10:58 You Don't Have to Feel Optimistic to Act Like an Optimist 12:12 How Optimism Compounds Over Time 15:43 Becoming a Positive Deviant as a Leader 17:47 Case Study: The 10-Minute Morning Meeting 19:42 Case Study: Well-Being First in a School District 21:43 Triaging Your Commitments 26:02 Recharging With Small Cognitive Breaks 29:54 Try This Today: The Best Moments Practice 32:45 What Michelle Is Reading 33:56 Where to Find Resilient Optimism 35:15 Now What?

Michelle's Story: Michelle Gielan is the author of Broadcasting Happiness: The Science of Igniting and Sustaining Positive Change and her latest book, Resilient Optimism: The Science of Sustaining a Positive Mindset in Tough Times. She is a positive psychology researcher, keynote speaker, bestselling author, and former national news anchor. For more than 15 years, she has studied how optimism shapes resilience, well-being, and success—especially when pressure is high and the path forward is uncertain.

Previously, Michelle served as anchor of The CBS Morning News. She is an executive producer of The Happiness Advantage on PBS and a featured professor in Oprah's Happiness course. Her research has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, CNN, and Harvard Business Review. She holds a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in computer engineering from Tufts University.

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• Broadcasting Happiness by Michelle Gielan
• Resilient Optimism by Michelle Gielan
• The Power of Beliefs by Shawn Achor
• The Holy Bible: New International Version by International Bible Society

• Leadership Resilience with Ama Marston
• Standing Out for the Positive with Lonnie Mayne

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Learn more about our offerings: ➡️ FREE NEWSLETTERS: Sign up for any of our newsletters: https://kevineikenberry.com/newsletters ➡️ BOOK: Check out my latest book, Flexible Leadership: https://flexibleleadershipbook.com/ ➡️ LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS: Sign up for any of our online workshops to help you become a better leader: https://kevineikenberry.com/store/?product_type=Workshops ➡️ SPEAKING: Learn more about our Speaking opportunities for your next event: https://kevineikenberry.com/how-we-can-help-speaking/

My name is Kevin Eikenberry and I'm here to help you reach your goal as a leader and a human being with Remarkable TV and the Remarkable Leadership Podcast.

I am also the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. We provide speaking, training, consulting, and coaching services to organizations who believe in investing in their most valuable assets – their people. Whether we are leading a training workshop, speaking to a group, facilitating a planning meeting, consulting with a leadership team, helping with team building, writing or developing products, our vision will be clear in everything we do – We want to be Your Leadership Help Button.

Connect with Kevin Eikenberry on Social Media: https://kevineikenberry.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevineikenberry https://instagram.com/kevineikenberry https://www.facebook.com/KevinEikenberryFanPage/

About Kevin Eikenberry: Kevin Eikenberry is the Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group, a world expert on leadership development, best-selling author, sought-after speaker, popular blogger, husband and dad, a fan of Purdue athletics and antique tractors (especially John Deere's).

About The Remarkable Leadership Podcast: The Remarkable Leadership Podcast with Kevin Eikenberry is dedicated to all things leadership. Twice a week Kevin shares his thoughts about leadership development and ideas to help you lead more confidently and make a bigger difference for those you lead. He also has weekly conversations with leadership experts discussing a wide range of topics including teamwork, organizational culture, facilitating change, personal and organizational development, human potential and more.