Jay used to think that managing was all about coaching.

Jay Floyd is a data engineering leader, life coach, and podcaster. He is also the curator of the 'What's Good' brand, dedicated to finding the good in all of life's scenarios, or as he calls it, 'feeding our good wolf.'

We discuss leading with a personal touch, the power of positive growth, fostering rich team environments, and the wolves we carry inside us.

Connect with Jay via his website: www.whatsgood.work and LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachjayfloyd/.

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Colleen's family helps her remember that we never know what's going on for anyone else.

Colleen Johnson has been working in the technology space for over 20 years, with half of that focused on improving the way we deliver value. She has taught and presented agile concepts to audiences around the world but is happiest in the Colorado mountains with her husband and three kids.

We discuss the most useful metric for team progress, the benefits of nurturing creativity in retaining talent, and how diversity impacts learning opportunities.

Join the ProKanban.org slack community at prokanban.org > About Us > Slack Community

Find the Kanban for Everyone videos at https://www.youtube.com/@prokanban

Connect with Colleen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colleen-johnson/ and Twitter: @scrumhive

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When Gerardo's soul takes flight, it lands on top of a mountain covered in snow. Because he loves helicopter skiing.

Gerardo Segat is an international leadership coach whose purpose and legacy is to humanize leadership. Following a wealth of experiences as entrepreneur, chairman and CEO, Gerardo has used his leadership background to create Preludes: a coaching program created to humanize leaders, organizations, and their stakeholders through creative and powerful original experiences (such as decision-making debates, client interaction models, and emotions-focused team meetings).

Currently, Gerardo is working on Out As Humans, a performing arts show designed to humanize authentic leaders. Out as Humans is an individual and group immersive performance that creates a space for leaders to be open, trusting, empathetic, and feel a sense of belonging.

We discuss the radical effects of vulnerability, creating cultures of openness, integrating open hearts into the workplace, and the importance of self-awareness.

Connect with Gerardo via email: [email protected]; LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerardosegat/; and his website: www.gerardosegat.com.

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Nevin believes that success is directly related to discomfort.

With decades of experience as a facilitator, coach, and trainer, Nevin Danielson helps leaders and their teams ignite purpose, possibility, and partnerships to sustain an energized workforce amidst evolving trends like turnover and remote work.

After a quarter-life crisis showed him the value of serving others, Nevin founded Induction Consulting to uncover practical steps that tap teams' untapped potential.

His skills cut through outdated expectations and elevate processes and interactions to be fresh, meaningful, and authentic.

We discuss shifting culture through embracing discomfort, the transformative approach Nevin developed for empowering his team, and giving feedback to power.

Download Nevin's Trailblazer cheat sheet at https://inductionconsulting.ca/uncommon-leadership/

Connect with Nevin at [email protected], www.inductionconsulting.ca, and https://www.linkedin.com/in/nevindanielson/. "Please mention that they found me through Uncommon Leadership!"

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Pawel approaches leadership as a series of experiments and iterations.

Pawel Brodzinski is a seasoned leader, manager, and coach. He's done pretty much every aspect of building software, both as the person doing the work and as the leader helping that person.

Pawel also writes, speaks, and lectures in service of helping organizational cultures to create exceptional workplaces. Because that's what brings him the most fun.

I ran across Pawel on LinkedIn, where I am consistently impressed with his light, yet forthright, take on thorny topics like the right way to give kudos and salary transparency.

We discuss aligning vision, fostering radical autonomy, making decisions without traditional hierarchy, and creating environments where leadership is not a title but an action.

Connect with Pawel at https://www.linkedin.com/in/pawelbrodzinski/ and [email protected].

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Jardena believes even corporate budgeting can be soulful.

Jardena London is an author, speaker, community leader, and Business Transformation Consultant who helps businesses thrive by using a soulful lens.

We discuss the value of humanity over systems, learning from failure, and redefining conflict and resilience.

Join the Transformational Leadership Community at learning.cultivatingtransformations.com

Find Jardena's book Cultivating Transformations:  A Leader’s Guide to Connecting the Soulful and the Practical at Amazon and other booksellers

Connect with Jardena:

• [email protected]
• linkedin.com/in/jardena
• rosettaagile.com
• jardenalondon.com
• cultivatingtransformations.com

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Dave wants to know things. He doesn't so much enjoy the learning part of that.

Dave Rodabaugh has 23 years of experience making analytical data products by turning THIS data into THAT model.  He also has a track record of teaching others to do it, and helping them turn into data leaders.  Data products are built by teams of people, not by technology, Dave holds.

We discuss the frameworks that help Dave navigate life, improving team cohesion through understanding how we work best, and the wisdom in the counsel of the many.

Contact Dave at [email protected] and https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-rodabaugh/.

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Zach believes dissent and debate are critical to understanding each other.

Zach Bonaker proudly describes himself as a "Benevolent Troublemaker," by which he means a catalyst for positive disruption. He applies his wealth of experience steering both Fortune 500 companies and startups and his deep expertise in systems thinking and fostering team-centric approaches to work to skillfully advance organizations that prioritize humanity. His intent is always to combine the competitive advantage of business agility, cutting-edge organization design techniques, and the transformative force of "flow" science to cultivate vibrant and human-centric environments and a deep passion for work that empowers individuals to unleash their full potential.

We discuss the (in)humanity of recruiting and hiring, the benefits of bills of rights in organizations, and how biological selection theory applies to the workplace.

Zach's blog The Benevolent Troublemaker: https://benevolenttroublemaker.wordpress.com/author/zbonaker/.

Connect with Zach on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachbonaker/ or Email: [email protected]

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Kimberly teaches her people to be selfish.

Kimberly Lowe-Williams is a Black female Director of Infrastructure and Site Reliability, with over 10 years of experience as a leader and people manager. She prides herself on being a leader who empowers her team, promotes diversity, and values everyone's opinion. She's broken down barriers and challenged stereotypes, inspiring others to do the same. She is also the founder of a non-profit that for many years provided opportunities for underrepresented individuals in the tech industry before it closed its doors following the pandemic.

We discuss succeeding even as we feel uncomfortable, leading with empathy, humane collaboration, and motivating during tough times.

Kimberly's newsletter, Unsolicited Career Advice, is at https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7047750440200896512. Contact her at [email protected], https://www.linkedin.com/in/klowewilliams/, and https://www.instagram.com/k.lowewilliams/.

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Raphael customizes his Zoom background to be what he wants to see on video calls.

Raphael helps founders scale their businesses by enhancing their customers' experiences.  He's taking his nearly-two-decades of experience building relationships with customers and leading international teams at B2B SaaS and tech companies into a thriving solo practice. He has a talent for bringing a company together across and beyond departmental borders, showing his clients how to build great customer experiences by having them experience one of their own. Plus, he's fun, warm, and puts people before everything else.

We chat about the one thing every leader should prioritize, building bridges quickly and effectively, and the power of being vulnerable.

Connect with Raphael at https://triemer.consulting/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/raphaeltriemer/, and https://calendly.com/triemerconsulting/get-in-touch.

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