Leading At The Next Level
As the show built to provide ongoing support for YOUR leadership journey, Leading At The Next Level serves as a real-time resource for addressing some of the biggest and more relevant issues any leader will face - in a way that drives improvement for your bottom line!
Episodes
Bad Situations Are Leadership’s Best Teacher (Executive Summit Preview Lesson 3)
Wes and Cindy preview the third and final lesson for Dove Development & Consulting’s 2026 Executive Summit (October 16 in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley), following earlier lessons on responsiveness and self-talk. This capstone lesson, titled “Bad Situations Are Leadership’s Best Teacher,” draws from Wes’s up...
Special Invitation: Join the Advantage Launch Team + Upcoming Book Releases (Nov 2026–Feb 2028)
In this special episode of the Leading at the Next Level podcast, Wes and Cindy Dove share a new invitation for their community: the Advantage Launch Team. They recap how Wes’s three self-published books—What’s Killing Your Profitability, Leading With Clear Purpose, and The Values Advantage—became Amazon #1 ...
Preview Lesson 2: The Power of Self-Talk in Leadership | 2026 Executive Summit
Registration is at www.L2L-Harrisonburg.com, and questions/trials can be requested at admin@dove-development.net. Wes and Cindy share the second of three preview lessons for the 2026 Executive Summit (October 16), focusing on how a leader’s self-talk shapes decisions, responsiveness, and team culture. Building on their first preview, “The Art...
Wes and Cindy Dove preview the second annual full-day Executive Summit (Friday, October 16) for managers, supervisors, executives, and business owners, built around three lessons plus roundtable discussions to practice skills and learn from other leaders. Lesson one, “The Art of Responsiveness,” emphasizes that leadership responsiveness is more than speed—it includes listening, framing, and adapting to others&rsqu...
Wes and Cindy Dove share details about Dove Development & Consulting’s 2026 Executive Summit, a full-day leadership event on October 16 in Virginia’s central Shenandoah Valley with about 100 seats. They explain the summit’s roundtable format (table resets to build new relationships) and three lesson-and-discussion blocks: a joint opening session, “The Art of Responsiveness,” tied to Wes’s upc...
We couldn't be more excited about the relationships we've built with the entire team at Waynesboro Landscape and Garden Center over the last several years. Shortly after graduating from High Point University, Abi Johnson joined her parents, brother, and sister-in-law in this rapidly growing family business. Abi holds responsibility for the amazing c...
We absolutely cherish the friendship we've built with Nell-Marie Colman, her husband Gil, and their entire team at Colman Engineering. Nell-Marie has a tremendous background in the IT world, having worked with some of the front-runners in the AI space before joining Colman Engineering. What's been more impressive than all that is her passion for adding v...
Wes met Phillip Read almost fifteen years ago to the day but had limited interaction until they reconnected through mutual friends a few years later. Their friendship grew slowly until Phillip accepted the Chief of Police role in Bridgewater, VA and became part of the Executive Leadership Elite Think Tank. Since then, we've seen Phillip build an outstand...
I remember exactly where I stood during the first phone call I had with Jordan Rohrer nearly a decade ago. Since then, we've built a great working relationship and an even stronger friendship. When we met, Jordan had just acquired The Power Connection, a company dedicated to helping agricultural and residential clients keep the lights on through any powe...
Josh and I have been friends for close to 40 years. Over the last few years, though, we've had the opportunity to work together closely through his role as Pioneer Bank's Market President for the Harrisonburg & Rockingham County area, specifically focused on ensuring every team member has clarity on what it looks like to live the organization's core ...
We've known Courtney for several years. Over the last 18 months, though, we've had the opportunity to work closely with her and the team at the Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce through various projects and initiatives. That's been an absolute pleasure!
In th...
We've had a solid friendship with Scott Glover for nearly a decade. The more we interacted, the more we realized we had in common; background, friends, and business associates. When we had a pressing insurance need, Scott provided us with better service than we could have asked for - and he's done the same for every friend, family member, and business as...
David Bates and I met around six years ago through a civic organization we became involved with at the same time. Since then, we've developed a great friendship and a solid business relationship. On top of all that, we've realized just how many common connections we had in common long before we got to know one another directly. David and his father, Robe...
We've built a great friendship with Ryan Sodikoff and many of the team members at Steven Toyota. In fact, Ryan represented the organization (and the Harrisonburg Professional Firefighters Foundation) as an executive panelist at The 2025 LeadershipLegacy Experience. We're thrilled to welcome Steven Toyota back as a partner of The 2026 LeadershipLegacy Exp...
Our first interaction with Crystal was during an interview leading up to The 2025 LeadershipLegacy Experience, discussing our partnership with Augusta Health. That left quite an impression. What's left an even greater impression has been our experience with every aspect of the team and culture across the organization.
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We've received great customer service every time we've visited any of Rockingham Cooperative's locations. We met Adam Ford when presenting for a local group several years ago but we're had the opportunity to build a strong relationship with him and so many leaders at Rockingham Cooperative since, through sessions we've hosted for the majority of the orga...
We're extremely excited to partner with the NEW CREATION VA through The 2026 LEADERSHIPLEGACY Experience with Dove Development & Consulting to launch the Freedom Legacy campaign, providing businesses with an opportunity to be
It's been an absolute honor to have a friend like Steven Faught for over twenty-five years. We worked closely together in manufacturing for fifteen years, specifically on behavior-based safety. But that friendship has grown so much deeper since. Watching Steven grow as a leader and make such a positive impact on everyone he interacts - through the busine...
My initial conversation with David Kent was outstanding, resulting in my joining him as a guest on the Lead Smart Podcast he was in the process of launching. In addition to hosting that podcast, David has co-founded multiple businesses. Here's some perspective copied straight from his LinkedIn bio:
We met Gigi for the first time in-person on April 15, 2023 at the "Voices for Leadership" authors' retreat in St. Pete, FL. The date stands out because it was our 23rd anniversary. Gigi and I had met virtually a time or two prior to that as contributing authors to Voices For Leadership, me in
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