Tips4Tuesday with Dave Casullo

The most important thing on this CEO’s calendar this week is something he needs to take off it.

Dave Casullo, CEO of Daneli Partners and Overlook Ridge Development, has spent his career encouraging leaders to maximize their potential. Lately, the same question keeps surfacing in his conversations, from friends, advisors, and even his LinkedIn feed: “How do you recharge?”

In this week’s #Tips4Tuesday, Dave shares an honest reflection on four things he realizes he may be missing, and whether maximizing potential also means knowing when to stop, reflect, and recharge.

Join the conversation: How do you unplug to reconnect with what matters most?

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Who are you intentionally allowing to sharpen you?

In this week’s #Tips4Tuesday, Dave reflects on the leaders who are stretching him the most right now. From a Mastermind group spanning continents to a few leaders who stayed behind after his Morning Momentum program, Dave saw a pattern. The leaders who grow fastest aren't just the ones with the most experience. They're the ones who choose their circle carefully, and then give back.

How many leaders is your organization overlooking?

As Overlook Ridge Development has grown across our 11 operating companies, we've noticed something both wonderful and occasionally uncomfortable: leadership is showing up everywhere, not just at the top of the org chart.

In his latest video, Dave Casullo shares four things he's learned to watch for when identifying leaders who don't "look" like leaders yet.

Listen now to learn how to identify and develop the leaders already amongst you.

Giving isn't simply about writing a check. It's about stewardship.

In this week's #Tips4Tuesday, Dave reflects on MV Gives, the Mohawk Valley's largest community-wide day of giving, and the four questions he asks before directing any donation.

These questions ask what matters most for business leaders. For-profit companies don't exist apart from their communities. We employ their people, serve their families, and benefit when they flourish. It’s only right that we maximize what we contribute.

Real leadership rarely comes with a title. Dave Casullo, CEO of Daneli Partners, reflects on back-to-school season and the teachers, volunteers, protectors, and caregivers who quietly hold communities together and why they deserve a thank you.

Envy and jealousy aren't simply emotions, they are forces that can manifest in many ways.

Dave Casullo has noticed them showing up more often lately in conversations, in leadership circles, even being weaponized for power.

A wise friend once asked him a question that changed how he responds: "What might be underneath the behavior I'm seeing?"

That shift from reacting to choosing is at the heart of this week's video, where Dave shares how leaders can meet anger, contempt, and vitriol without becoming shaped by them.

Buildings don't make communities. People do.

In this episode, Dave explores four critical areas of focus for regional leaders, educators, and organizations right now: building leaders who collaborate across sectors, breaking down the silos between business, education, and nonprofits, prioritizing succession planning before it's urgent, and starting leadership development earlier, long before someone reaches the C-suite.

Drawing on real examples from SUNY Poly's Mohawk Valley Healthcare Leadership Academy, regional succession stories, and public education initiatives like Portrait of a Graduate and NY Inspires, Dave makes the case that the future of Central New York won't happen on its own, it has to be built, together.

Parenting is the highest-stakes leadership role many of us will ever hold. It comes with no job description, no performance review, and no formula for success.

In this week's #Tips4Tuesday, Dave Casullo, reflects on four stories about parenting, each one surfacing a deeper truth about presence, fear, stewardship, and the long shadow our own upbringing casts on how we lead.

We can’t control outcomes. We can only love, teach, model, and then trust.

Judgment closes doors. Curiosity opens them.

In this week’s #Tips4Tuesday, Dave shares an important leadership lesson, drawing on examples from some of the world’s most influential leaders.

The word "love" is rarely used in leadership development, but it should be front and center. Because love looks beyond behavior and into the condition of the heart.

In this week’s #Tips4Tuesday, Dave Casullo, reflects on the concept of "Builders" from Born to Build by Jim Clifton and the rare leaders who don't just lead organizations, but build people who go on to build others.

Drawing on relationships with leaders like Kola Aina, Neil Goldberg, Joanne Hession, and Marissa Nehlsen, Dave shares four characteristics he believes define true builders and why the greatest legacy isn't what you build, but who you build.