Leadership Voyage

Leadership Voyage

Welcome to the podcast dedicated to your pursuit of becoming a great leader.

Episodes

May 8, 2025 31 mins

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  • Do we have decision-making all wrong?
  • Don't rush!
    • Don't fall into what Michael Watkins calls the "action imperative."
  • How much information is the right amount before making a decision?
    • Bezos' 70%
    • Bain's Pareto principle
  • Improve your decision-making process.<...
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AI

  • not going to predict where it goes
  • great research assistant
  • good editor for writing
  • Augment not Abdicate; like a calculator

Winner and Losers Book

  • came from working with entrepreneurs
  • what we're teaching about entrepreneurship isn't what people are doing in the field
  • too often we're writing only about successes
  • seek failure as a way to learn; either win or learn
  • "tool seductio...
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Jason talks with Sonia Bertek about imposter syndrome, what it is, how to deal with it, and how to help others with it.

  • What is Imposter Syndrome?
    • 56% say they experience it weekly
    • 17% don't experience it
      • about 50-50 men/women breakdown
    • But many folks don't know what it is
    • Lack of confidence versus imposter syndrome
  • Why is this Topic Important?
    • So many are affected
    • Not isolat...
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March 31, 2025 37 mins

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In this episode, Jason tackles the topic of job postings, applications, and interviews, using survey data and anecdotes from listeners and his network.

  • "Ghost" jobs
  • Evolving AI landscape of job posting/applying/screening
  • Your stories!
    • Interview lowlights
    • One unique story
    • Interview highlights
  • Takeaways for job seekers and hiring managers/recruiters

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Gallup released the State of the Global Workplace report, which you can download for yourself here. Jason discusses some of the findings and how skilled managers are the critical and influential element that unlocks well-being, engagement, and results.

  1. Mental health at work
  2. Economic impacts of well-being
  3. Manager impact on engagement
    • managers have more negative experiences
    • engaged managers ==> eng...
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March 5, 2025 20 mins

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We're back for Season 4! Jason discusses:


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Dr. Katia Vlachos is a reinvention coach, speaker, and author of A Great Move: Surviving and Thriving in Your Expat Assignment, recognized as a Financial Times Business Book of the Month in June 2018. With a Masters from the Harvard Kennedy School and a PhD from the RAND Graduate School, Katia began her career as a policy analyst. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Harvard Business Revie...

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Robert Hargrove is the Founder of Masterful Coaching, Co-Director of the Harvard Leadership Research Project, and author of many landmark books. Find out more here.

Robert Hargrove and his team have decades of experience, have impacted 1000s of leaders and produced undeniable results.

Clients include CEOs and team members in Exxon Mobile, Nike, Fidelity Investments, Phillips, AbbVie, and many Silicon Val...

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About Dr. Bridget Cooper in her own words: I'm a cage rattler; a coach, speaker, and author with over two decades of experience helping teams and leaders think and communicate more clearly and strategically so they can work and navigate problems proactively and effectively. I work with clients to overcome the attitudes, tactics, and patterns that derail their success through down-to-earth insights...

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Jess Gardner is a Storytelling and Communication Coach who specializes in helping professionals tell their stories more effectively. Many people struggle to find their voices and speak with confidence. She uses her expertise in communication and teaching to empower everyone to level up their careers through better communication and storytelling. 

Jess started her private coaching business in 2017 and ha...

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March 27, 2024 40 mins

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Terrance Lee, AKA The Introvert Leader had always avoided taking on leadership roles in his life.  At the age of 13, an experience occurred which caused him to doubt his ability to speak in front of people, and caused him to shy away from the spotlight.  This worked for Terrance until he eventually had to learn leadership skills by necessity at his first engineering job out of college.  

When he had bee...

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Just a heads up to everyone that the season premiere of the podcast comes this Wednesday, March 27. I can't wait to share the insights of my first guest with you!

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linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonallenwick/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadershipVoyage
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Jason shares recommendations for 14 leadership books you can grab for yourself or someone you care about this holiday season. These books cover a wide range of topics, from business acumen to culture, teams, personality & personal development, and personal stories.

Business Acumen

  • The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter by Michael D. Watkins
  • Negoti...
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September 28, 2023 22 mins

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If you've objectively identified a problem your team is having, try the COOP framework for cooperatively fixing it!
 
C - Challenge: Identify the Challenge
O - Opportunity: Reframe it as an Opportunity
O - Options/Optimize: List the Options and choose what to Optimize for
P - Progress/Progress: Decide to Progress and measure Progress

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September 21, 2023 24 mins

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Mahzarin Banaji and Frank Dobbin wrote "Why DEI Training Doesn’t Work—and How to Fix It" in the Wall Street Journal.

Key Takeaways

  • Over the last 50 years in America, conscious prejudice has improved significantly but implicit bias has not.
  • DEI training fails when they 1) use implicit-bias education to shame trainees for holding stereotypes and 2) seek to solve the problem of bias ...
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Kelly McDonald is an acclaimed speaker who specializes in consumer trends and changing demographics. She is the president of McDonald Marketing and has authored four bestselling books on the customer experience, leadership, and marketing -- all from the standpoint of working with people "not like you".  Her book, How to Work With and Lead People Not Like You has been on two bestseller lists. ...

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July 31, 2023 15 mins

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Amanda Swim wrote a great Medium article called "What’s the value of a manager?" It's a solid blueprint for how a manager brings the most value to an organization and its people. I break down the article's main points and integrate them with insights from past guests Maria Åkerlund, Michael Watkins, and Liz Wiseman.

Build the team

  • Define mission
  • Hire well
  • Create team artif...
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Robert Jordan is CEO of the Association of Interim Executives. He has been launching and growing companies and helping other entrepreneurs do the same for 20 years. His first company, Online Access, put him on Inc. magazine’s Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies. Online Access, the first Internet-coverage magazine in the world, ran for 10 years and after its sale Jordan launched RedFlash, an inte...

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Sarah Jackson had a Business Insider story called "Nearly 1 in 5 workers are 'loud quitting' their jobs, a new Gallup poll says — and it's way more extreme than 'quiet quitting'."

  • What is loud quitting?
  • What's the difference between quiet quitting and loud quitting?
  • Which is better?
  • What could we do about it?

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Carol Rossi has led research teams at NerdWallet, Kelley Blue Book, and Edmunds, where she started the research function from scratch. Carol has more than 25 years of experience in user experience, including a stint as the sole researcher at GeoCities in the late 90s. After 14 years leading teams in-house, Carol returned to consulting in 2022, this time focused on research leadership for orgs that have...

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