Relearning Leadership

Predictability through improvisation - what project management can learn from jazz.Rob Tieman is the Director of the Project Management Office at the Virginia Department of Transportation. Gerald Leonard is a Strategic PMO Advisor for the government, Juilliard-trained musician, and author of Workplace Jazz.Together with Pete, they explore how insights from jazz have helped improve project predictability and workplace culture.Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership website for guest profiles, reference links, transcripts and more.

Why leaders need to celebrate continuity and stand up for status quo!Susan Schmitt Winchester is a Senior Vice President and Chief HR Officer for Applied Materials. Jake Jacobs is a principal change consultant and author of Leverage Change. Together with Pete they explore the paradox of change.In today’s fast-paced work world, leaders are rightly focused on change. But are leaders too  focused on change?  This episode explores the paradox of change where leaders need to raise their game in celebrating continuity and stand up for the status quo! Listen to relearn more.Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership  website for author biographies, links to their books, a full transcript, comments and more.

Why leaders need to learn to let go, and why letting go is only half of the solution.Jon Christensen, founder and president of Kelsus helping startups build products, shares his leadership journey and stresses the importance he learned in letting go in order to grow as a leader.Brad Swanson, leadership and organizational coach, interviews Jon and discusses with Pete on what all leaders can learn why and how to let go in order to become better leaders, only to discover that letting go is only half of the solution!Visit (Re)Learning Leadership Website for author biographies, links, transcript, comments and more.

Why, and how, should leaders acknowledge identity in the workplace?Pete is joined by Wendy Ryan - a CEO, author and trauma survivor exploring identity in the workplace and the leader’s role not only to acknowledge it, but to actively lift others up.Wendy Ryan is the CEO of Kadabara, author of Learn Lead Lift, and advocate for expanding diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility at work. Together they explore identity in the workplace, how culture and trauma impacts identity, and the role leaders play in creating space for employees to bring their whole selves to the workplace.Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership website for more on Wendy Ryan, Kadabra, her book Learn Lead Lift, the transcript and more 

What does it take to succeed as a leader?Nick Berendt shares his journey from drug dealer serving time to HVAC business owner reaching $2M revenue. His mentor, and former circus performer, Shawn Thomas shares how leaders like Nick are only limited by their own thinking and environment, and by hacking into them can place us on a new growth trajectory.Through combining Nick and Shawn's story we can learn what it takes to succeed as a leader.Learn more about Nick, Shawn, and the Accelerators Organization on our website.

Two-thirds of leaders receive little to no education, coaching or mentoring. We can do something about this. Pete Behrens welcomes us back to season 2 with a personal story of his own accidental leadership journey as a student, employee and founder. Through his story he hopes to connect, inspire, and challenge us all to become a better leader, a more adaptive leader, a more diverse leader, and a more humane leader.Visit (Re)Learning Leadership to explore this episode further.

The current ways of leading are failing to meet the challenges of our disrupted workforces. Today’s leaders have a choice between adaptation or atrophy: are you ready to evolve your mindset and accelerate change within your organization? Join Pete Behrens and other leading experts as they speak freely and deeply about their journeys to grow and improve as leaders. It’s time to pivot: plug-in to relearn leadership.

Season One is coming to a close! 6 Months, 13 Episodes, and over 20 Guests and Experts sharing stories and insights, and thousands of listens have driven this podcast to the top 3%. Thank You! Pete Behrens closes out season one with a personal message about the importance of cycles and how we all need to be more aware of and break cycles to improve health and performance.Learn more about this episode and all episodes on the (Re)Learning Leadership Website.Visit Agile Leadership Journey for more on how we build better leaders.

Luke Hohmann, a serial entrepreneur and Founder of First Root, shares how a simple technique called participatory budgeting can positively impact an entire community.Liz Dudley, a Social Studies Teacher based in New York City, shares her experience with participatory budgeting and its impact on her students and school community toward increased engagement, discourse, and leadership.Listen and learn how participatory budgeting can enable, engage and empower your corporate, civic, social, family or education communities.Learn about the guests and their programs on our (Re)Learning Leadership website.Visit Agile Leadership Journey for more on how we build better leaders.

Andy Slain, a company man for 17 years in a well-paying managerial position decides to leave it all behind to pursue a path of purpose with no financial guarantees. Essentially answering his own question, “What would I do if money didn’t matter?”Brad Swanson, a Leadership and Organization Coach, joins Pete to reflect on Andy’s story and share his own similar purpose-seeking work/life choices to help us all relearn how to be more purposeful about our own leadership journeys.Learn more about Andy, Brad, and the shared story on our (Re)Learning Leadership Website.Visit Agile Leadership Journey for more on how we build better leaders.