What does leading through grief really look like for leaders? How do leaders balance practically the demands of leadership with obligations to family and friends? In 2021, the world of teaching pastor and leader Megan Marshman was turned upside down when her husband Randy passed away suddenly. In this very real, gut-level conversation with GLS host Paula Faris, Megan shares her hard-won learnings from tragedy, including how she weighs new commitments and invitations, how to foster a supportive community in her time of need, and how she continues to lead even as she continues to heal.

What if, as a leader, you had access to a tool that could easily identify productivity strengths and weaknesses for your team? After years as a pioneer in the field of organizational health, speaker, consultant, and best-selling author Patrick Lencioni has developed “Working Genius,” which can help leaders quickly and clearly identify how individual team members are wired to work naturally. In addition, Working Genius can also be used to easily map an entire team’s strengths and weaknesses. In this episode, Patrick and Global Leadership Podcast team member Jason Jaggard explore how Patrick approaches public speaking, how Working Genius came about, and how leaders can use it to increase productivity and happiness of their individuals and teams.   KEY MOMENTS IN THIS EPISODE  04:44    CREATING CONNECTION THROUGH ON-STAGE VULNERABILITY. As a speaker, Patrick intentionally breaks down barriers between himself and his audience by owning his vulnerabilities and bringing the audience into the experience with him.  14:32    SIX DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES ARE REQUIRED TO DO ANY KIND OF WORK (AND INDIVIDUALS ARE ONLY GREAT AT TWO OF THEM): 1.     Wonder 2.     Invention 3.     Discernment 4.     Galvanizing 5.     Enablement 6.     Tenacity  17:24    UNDERSTAND YOUR UNIQUE “WORKING GENIUS” IN A TEAM CONTEXT. Understanding how your particular “genius” interacts and compensates for others on your team can significantly increase collective productivity and job satisfaction. It can also reveal where teams may lack a particular working genius.   25:52    DIFFERENT MEETINGS REQUIRE DIFFERENT GENIUSES. Be aware of whether you need a meeting to be a brainstorming meeting (as opposed to say, an, “operations” meeting) so that you can make sure the right individuals/geniuses are available to contribute.  29:37    BEING AWARE OF OTHERS’ GENIUS UNLOCKS OPPORTUNITIES FOR PRAISE. You can love and honor people effectively when you know what their genius is.   37:20    Host reflection and takeaways.    RELEVANT RESOURCES / LINKS  Table Group Working Genius The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team (on Amazon)  Global Leadership Network   QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION Go further with this episode by discussing the following questions with your team, or engaging in some personal reflection:  Patrick talks about how working inside your “Working Genius” increases personal performance and job satisfaction, and that if teams allow people to work within their genius, the same holds true for team performance. Have you ever been on a team where you or someone else was working outside of their genius (or natural aptitude)? What was the effect on team performance?    Moving Forward: What could you do differently as a result of this podcast?  

Erwin Raphael McManus, passionate about unlocking human potential, shares insights on the relationship between mental structures and behaviors, the dangers of relying solely on talent, and how success can hinder growth. The conversation explores personal growth, the balance between private and public life, and the importance of discipline and perseverance for success.

Early on, Jason Dorsey made a commitment to help his peers navigate entering the workforce. That early decision has led to a highly successful career of researching, speaking and writing that centers on navigating inter-generational diversity in the workplace. In this conversation with our own Jason Jaggard, Jason Dorsey reveals the difference between life stages and generational trends, shares important concepts for successfully recruiting, hiring, and developing Gen Z, and dispels some popular myths about Gen Z. If you are involved in leading across generations in any form, this interview is a “must-listen.”

You might be hard-pressed to find a more influential leader in college athletics than SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey: since 2015, the conference has amassed over 30 national championships in various sports. Not only that, Greg has provided steady, humble leadership through COVID, conference realignments, and a variety of other complex challenges. In this conversation with Paula Faris, Greg relates some of the ways that he approaches his role with the SEC, shares some practical tips on how to keep people on his team relationally connected with each other through conflict, and also the role that the Global Leadership Summit has played in his personal leadership development. If you’ve ever been curious to hear from a humble leader of an organization at the top of its field, this conversation is for you.

World Vision President and CEO Edgar Sandoval is no stranger to innovation. While at Proctor and Gamble, Sandoval led the ground-breaking (and Emmy-winning) “Like a Girl” ad campaign, which was targeted at improving the confidence of young women. What is surprising, however, is that Sandoval continued to explore and foster new ideas at World Vision, resulting in “Chosen,” a program that flips child sponsorship on its head by allowing the children to choose the sponsors. In this rich conversation with interviewer Lori Hermann, Edgar explains how leaders can find new ideas, and the essential role leaders play in innovation.  

THE SECOND OF TWO SPECIAL SUMMIT EPISODES. The true power of an experience is what lives beyond that experience, and to that end we wanted to ask some Summit faculty members for their ideas on how to keep the learnings from the Global Leadership Summit (Aug 3-4) fresh in our minds. Albert Tate and Liz Bohannon sat down and answered a few questions regarding best practices for making the most of our time after the Summit (or any learning experiences). This conversation is full of joy, laughter and practical wisdom, and is applicable to anyone wishing to turn the Summit experience into lasting change.

A SPECIAL CONVERSATION FOR SUMMIT WEEK 2023. As thousands of leaders from all walks of life prepare to experience the 2023 Global Leadership Summit, Jason Jaggard sits down with Summit Executive Producer (and podcast co-host) Lori Hermann to hear about how to get the absolute most out of the Summit experience, whether you are attending in person, online, or at a Summit host site. In addition, Lori shares about what things are like in the final days before the largest leadership event in the world, and how the Summit has impacted her own leadership journey. 

What if there was a tool or resource that could help you to “level up” your leadership and “win faster”? For Jason Jaggard, Founder and CEO of Novus Global, executive coach, and best-selling author (and co-host of the Global Leadership Podcast), that tool is coaching. In this conversation with podcast co-host and Global Leadership Summit Executive Producer Lori Hermann, Jason shares why coaching is such a powerful tool for growth and performance, the power of teams, and how there’s really no such thing as an “individual performer”.

Navigating generational diversity is a given in today’s culture, and is also a real challenge for leaders. Not only do different generations have different perceptions and motivations, there is always the opportunity for misunderstanding and frustration to arise. However, in this re-release of an episode from 2019, Craig Groeschel interviews researcher and speaker Jason Dorsey about his work with generational distinctives in the workplace.  Jason shares ways that leaders can understand different generations, and then use that understanding to lead effectively across multiple generations.