Relearning Leadership

Eric Engelmann is a seasoned leader, a serial innovator, and a leadership gambler. That’s right—this former founder and CEO experienced a rebirth in his own leadership, propelling him on a journey of betting on and shaping innovators of the future.Eric shares his unique approach to identifying, betting, and improving his odds on their chosen leaders. And as part of our discussion, we dig into his own leadership journey, which includes a setback and a new direction guiding his approach today..Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership Website to learn more about Eric, NewBoCo, and their Iowa Startup Accelerator.Visit Agile Leadership Journey for more on how we build better leaders.

Ameet Kallarackal, a first-time CEO and co-founder of Fisherman, a startup building a “No Effort Web”, shares his perception of risk/reward through his leadership journey in choosing to expand an industry and build a new company.Rachel Weston Rowell, a Senior Vice President with Insight Partners helping start-up leaders scale-up their organizational discipline and culture, joins our discussion to explore the mindset and makeup of those charting new paths.Visit the episode page on our website for more information on Ameet, Rachel, their companies, and the story itself.Visit Agile Leadership Journey for more on how we build better leaders.

Henriette Kamfer, a Procurement Specialist with one of Australia's largest natural gas infrastructure businesses, shares an inspiring story of revamping a large-scale sourcing project to better engage stakeholders AND improve their bottom line.Mirko Kleiner, Founder of Lean Agile Procurement, joins the dialogue to share how a single premise of applying agile principles to standard business practices has unleashed a world-wide wave of disrupting "business as usual".Learn more about Henriette, Mirko and the approach they used on our website.Learn more about how we build better leaders at Agile Leadership Journey.

Dean Leffingwell, a business innovator and founder of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), has dedicated his work life in pursuit of a better way forward, both as a leader himself, and in building companies helping others to be better. Pete goes behind the curtain with Dean, not to explore his latest creation, but rather to explore the leader behind it. As a leadership mentor and advisor to Pete personally over the years, Dean shares his own leadership journey so we may learn from his experience.Explore more about Dean and my discussion with him on our website.

Von Rhea, a Senior Director of Engineering at Trimble, shares his story with Pete of scattered teams across the globe - 12 international locations! - and his ongoing leadership challenge to bridge diversity, engage these unique voices and connect across this disconnected organization.Melissa Uribes, Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Trimble, joins Pete to discuss Von’s disconnected situation and what leaders can learn from his story to build better connections across their diverse and distributed organizations.Visit the website at (Re)Learning Leadership for more information on the show guests, transcripts and key summary learning from the episode. Episode 6: Connecting in a Disconnected World

Crystal Mills, a Regional Vice President for a Canadian credit union, shares her rollercoaster story exploring the highs and lows in rebuilding her new leadership habits amid overwhelming stress and anxiety.Both Crystal’s story, and our discussion following, is with Jasmine Kernaleguen, a leadership disruptor who inspired Crystal’s new leadership path and engaged Crystal on her journey.

Pete talks with Travis Matthews, a Director of IT Solutions for Washington State Employee Credit Union, about the challenge of leading organizational change from a middle-management position within his organization and the skills required to succeed.  Following, Pete is joined by Karen Kemerling, a 35 year veteran of corporate leadership and brain-based leadership coach to diagnoses Travis' change story and (re)learn what leaders can do to lead change effectively from the middle.

Pete speaks with Jasmine Keel, Head of Research and Insights in Human Resources at Swiss Re. Jasmine and Pete explore the characteristics that leaders need to exhibit to be considered for future leadership positions and how leaders can develop these today. 

Josh Forman, a Director of Engineering from a high-tech scale-up organization, shares his story of navigating the vast changes in his company and specifically dealing with a new COO.Following Josh's interview, Pete talks with Rachel Weston Rowell, a leadership teams coach who specializes in startup and scale-up organizations, to discuss Josh's story and what all leaders can learn from it.

Karen Kemerling, the Director of Strategy and Guide Development at Agile Leadership Journey and 30-year veteran of leadership joins Pete to discuss the development and focus of this podcast. Karen and Pete explore why we created this podcast, who this podcast is for, and what we can look forward to throughout our first season of (Re)Learning Leadership.