
Stay Forth Leadership Podcast
Leadership is challenging, a lot like climbing a mountain. The Stay Forth Leadership Podcast is a resource to help you become an effective leader- someone who is healthy, self-aware, and working with the grain of their gifting at a sustainable pace to produce long-term impact. Each week, Alan Briggs hosts practical conversations with leadership experts designed to equip you with tools to produce the highest amount of change possible through new awareness, new information, new tools, and processes to guide you on your journey to become the healthiest and most impactful leader you can be.
Find out more about who we are and what we do at www.stayforth.com
Latest episodes

Jan 25, 2022 • 19min
270 - Alan Briggs ” 12 axioms that will change your life; move from reactive to proactive”
You pop out of bed on Monday feeling frantic. You’re ten minutes behind because you hit snooze and the anxiety is pumping through your veins.
The week ahead is looming over you. You scroll through your emails, pop into Instagram and scramble to pick out your clothes. You pull the kids out of bed and race around the kitchen helping them pack their lunches. After all the chaos at home you get to the office ten minutes late.
You’re behind. Again.
Resource to consult
We designed the Right Side up Journal to help you make the shift from reactive life and leadership to proactive life and leadership. We created a short tutorial video and long tutorial video to help you best utilize this.
Questions to answer
What micro decisions can you look ahead and make proactively every day?
What larger decisions are approaching that you can make now?
What tool/s will help you plan ahead? (Of course, we recommend the Right Side up Journal, and this is exactly why we created it)
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Jan 18, 2022 • 20min
268 - Alan Briggs ”A dozen axioms that will change your life Clarity UP, Overwhelm DOWN”
What do you do when you don’t know what to do?
The answer is a little different for all of us, but when we don’t know what to do most forward-thinking leaders just do something. Start something. Work on something. Read something. Get busy doing something. It seems our culture is completing wrapped up in busyness, and I believe much of that stems from a lack of clarity.
Activity is not the some as productivity. We need to figure out what the right things are. That is effectiveness; discerning and doing the right things. That is completely different from doing all the things. The efficiency of doing all the things without focusing on effectiveness to do the right things will only lead to overwhelm, burnout and futility.
I heard a quote many years ago that haunts me; Unsure of our direction we double our speed. While we all get paralysis from time to time many of us leaders have the bad habit of going faster when we don’t know where we’re doing. When we do this we are leading from insecurity. Eugene Peterson used to say, “A busy pastor is a lazy pastor”. I think that’s true for all of us. Much of our busyness is actually a fruit of our laziness to discern the right things and say no to everything else.
At least once a day I say this crucial phrase to an overwhelmed coaching client; clarity UP, overwhelm DOWN. Clarity and overwhelm have an inverse relationship. Imagine two sandbags stretched over a pulley. When clarity goes up overwhelm naturally goes down. The simple act of finding clarity has the ability to clear the fog of overwhelm. Overwhelm cripples our ability to make healthy decisions for us, our families, our teams and our organizations. Leave it too long and it festers into burnout, quitting or letting your life bring your along for the ride. Clarity is a game changer.
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Jan 13, 2022 • 33min
267- Chris Coultas ”You need to understand what drives and drains you”
This is a crucial episode that we wanted to share with you again. Understanding what drives and drains you is so crucial if you want to lead from a posture of health.
In this episode Alan talks to another leadership coach and consultant about why knowing what drives and drains you is crucial if you want to become a leaders worth following.
About Chris
Chris Coultas serves as Vice President, Product Innovation, at Leadership Worth Following, LLC. In this capacity, Chris focuses heavily on data management and infrastructure, process improvement, predictive talent analytics, new product development, and cutting-edge research in the fields of leadership, assessment, development, coaching, and talent management. Much of his research focuses on the intersection of values, cognition, teamwork, and leadership. Most recently, he has led a firm-wide initiative to develop a proprietary tool for assessing drivers, motives, and values in leadership. Since joining LWF, Chris has built an expanding team of researchers and analysts and has overseen key hires in these areas. Additionally, he is responsible for developing and leveraging our Science Advisory Board for key insights, wisdom, and guidance.
In his role as a consultant, Chris conducts remote and in-person leadership assessments at a variety of organizational levels, ranging from manager to executive, in a variety of industries (e.g., Manufacturing, Retail, Financial Services). He leverages tools such as 360-degree feedback, client interviews, assessment centers, and psychometrics to provide data-driven insights into leaders’ strengths, opportunities, motivators, and blind spots. Additionally, Chris has designed and delivered several workshops that incorporate recent research into the role that leadership values have on outcomes such as personal brand, engagement, customer service, collaboration, and organizational culture.
Connect with Chris
Driven Not Drained
Twitter
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Jan 11, 2022 • 33min
266 - Clay Scroggins ”Why yesterday’s leadership style has stopped working
On today's episode, Alan has chats with Author and Leadership Practitioner Clay Scroggins about why yesterday's leadership style has changed and no longer works.
About Clay
Clay is the best-selling author of How To Lead When You’re Not In Charge, and How To Lead In A World of Distraction. For over two decades he worked at North Point Ministries, starting as a facilities intern (a.k.a. vice president of nothing) and eventually becoming the lead pastor of their largest campus. Clay is now a sought-after leadership speaker, engaging audiences that include the Atlanta Hawks, Mercedes Benz, Chick-fil-A, Federal Reserve Bank, and Terminus. Clay graduated from Georgia Tech with an Industrial Engineering Degree and continued on to acquire a Masters and Doctorate from Dallas Theological Seminary.
Connect with Clay
Website
Books
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
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Jan 6, 2022 • 26min
265 -Michael K Sahota ”It’s time to share the power in your organization”
On today's episode, Coach and author Michael Sahota talks candidly about how most organizations unknowingly oppress their employees with top-down leadership. The posture toward conventional leadership systems is intense, but warranted and timely.
About Michael
Michael K Sahota is a Speaker, Trainer, & Consultant on Evolutionary Leadership. He is the founder and CEO of SHIFT314 Inc - a boutique training and consulting organization that specializes in the organizational, cultural and leadership shifts needed to unlock success with Agile, Digital, Lean, etc.
Michael is the co-creator of the SHIFT314 Evolutionary Leadership Framework™ (SELF) that provides practical step-by-step for the inner and outer shifts needed to unlock Business Agility, Teal and other new ways of working. Michael has trained thousands of leaders worldwide through his highly accoladed Certified Agile Leadership Training.
Since 2001, Michael has been guiding success with Agile. As a thought leader, in 2012, he published the ground-breaking book "An Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide: Working with Organizational Culture". In 2018, he published “Emotional Science: The Key to High Performance”. Michael published “Leading Beyond Change” Aug 2021. His vision is to support the evolution of leadership capabilities that can create change and impact on a global scale
Connect with Michael
Books
Website
Twitter
Level your leadership in 2022
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Jan 4, 2022 • 20min
264 - Alan Briggs ”From 12,000 feet; What you need to ACTUALLY reach your goals”
On today's episode, Alan offers clarity about what you need to do to reach your goals as you journey through 2022.
Here are 4 things we encourage you to connect your 2022 goals to…
PURPOSE: How does this connect to my greater life purpose? PLAN: What is your ACTUAL plan to accomplish this? PACE: When will you complete this? PEOPLE: Who do you need to partner with to accomplish this? Level your leadership in 2022
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Dec 30, 2021 • 20min
263 - Stay Forth Team ”Little reminders with massive impact on your leadership”
On today's episode, we've pulled together various clips of Alan sharing coaching thoughts he's pulled straight from coaching sessions. These encompass some major reminders we offer those we coach that will make a major difference.
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Dec 28, 2021 • 49min
262 - Alan Briggs ”Identity, drains and fills and how to actually sabbath”
On today's episode, Alan gets interviewed by Joshua Johnson of All Nations ministry about how to slow down, focus on our identity over our impact and practical ways to continue (or start) actually sabbathing.
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Dec 23, 2021 • 31min
261 - Stay Forth Team ”2021 podcast favorites Part 2”
On today's Episode, Alan and Jonathan finish up a two part series with 7 more of our favorite episode clips from the past 9 months. Be sure to check out the episodes and if you haven't listened to part 1, be sure to check it out. We know people can't always listen to a full episode so we made sure to share some practical gold in these two episodes.
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Dec 21, 2021 • 33min
260 - Stay Forth Team ”2021 podcast favorites Part 1”
On today's Episode, Alan and Jonathan kick off part 1 of a two part series where they share and discuss their favorite episode clips from the past 9 months. Be sure to check out the episodes below and tune in for part two on Thursday.
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