Leadership Is No Accident
26 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago -We believe in a radically simple idea, that leadership is no accident. These stories take you inside how people lead in our increasingly fast paced and complex world to achieve outcomes others didn't believe were possible.
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Amobi Okugo - Professional Soccer Player and Entrepreneur
October 12, 2021 17:32 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MB2:30 - The dream of becoming a professional athlete 5:30 - Leadership and leaders in soccer 9:00 - Leadership from a team perspective 11:00 - Understanding responsibility, accountability, and the meaning of resiliency 13:45 - What distinguishes great coaches from average coaches 16:00 - Different kinds of leaders and coaching styles 20:00 - Maintaining and understanding accountability from a coaching perspective, and how it translates into sports and business 25:00- Being a playe...
Leslie Braverman - Co-founder, Pacific Northwest Pilates
October 05, 2021 20:41 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MB3:00 – The benefit of being naive and taking it slow 7:00 - Being a professional ballet dancer and connecting with Pilates 11:45 - From Pilates instructor to entrepreneur 14:00 - Starting the business 17:45 - Teaching a contemporary style of Pilates 20:30 - Standing out in the market by providing clear information, excellent education, and authentic teaching 25:00 - Having a clear purpose and vision 28:30 - Experiences and challenges in a growing business 31:30 - Learning how to...
Sarah Bradham - Acting Executive Director, Mazamas
September 28, 2021 21:02 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MB2:30 - The history of Mazamas 5:30 - How to lead through change while maintaining the soul of the organization 8:45 - The role as Acting Executive Director 11:15 - How to adapt and create new opportunities in the light of Covid-19 17:30 - Increasing diversity in the outdoors 21:30 - The complexity of permits and being actively engaged in the topic 25:00 - Being a member of Outdoor Alliance and having a voice in legislation matters related to the outdoors 28:00 - Being a female le...
Dave Stitt - Leadership Team Coach and Author
September 21, 2021 16:26 - 43 minutes - 40 MB2:00 How Dave's career led him into coaching. 6:30 Changing the culture from playing football to cricket, a recipe for large scale organizational change. 8:00 The most common issue Dave sees in teams within the construction industry and how he addresses it. 10:00 How Dave coaches the team to create an environment of success, where people do their best work. 14:30 Great teams don't happen by luck 18:30 There are no high performance teams in the business world. 21:20...
Catherine Beldotti Donlan - Executive Leader and Champion for Women's Sports
September 14, 2021 18:00 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MB2:00 - Entering the athletic industry 5:00 - A strong passion for sports, fitness, health, and wellness 6:30 - Change within the athletic industry and breaking glass ceilings 9:30 - Being authentic 11:30 - A female leader and mother in a male-dominated industry 17:30 - The importance of deep active listening 22:15 - Understanding critical feedback, self-reflection, and self-awareness 27:30 - Learning from the consumer 30:30 - Creating strategic directions and strategic visions in leadership ...
Phillip Crockford - CEO v-Teamwork and Team Leadership Expert
September 07, 2021 18:00 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MB3:00 – Leadership as dispositional learning 4:00 – Introducing Minecraft 6:30 – Explaining the use of disposition 8:00 – Using Minecraft as a simulation 13:30 – Learning from Minecraft 18:30 – Thoughts on working from home in the world of Covid 22:00 – Working from home, trouble-free or a struggle? 23:30 – Learning practice and performance 27:00 – What leaders learn from the program 30:00 – Learning by doing, building confidence 33:30 – Philip’s passion for sharing, connecting an...
Liz Valentine - Entrepreneur and Executive Leader
August 31, 2021 20:45 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MB2:40 - Taking a year off at Nike 8:00 - Keeping Swift alive at the height of a recession 12:00 - Embracing uncertainty 17:00 - Allowing employees to be multi-dimensional 21:00 - Having employees truly live by a company’s values 24:00 - Valentine’s non-negotiables 30:00 - The transition to Wunderman Thompson 36:00 - The importance of embracing your life outside of work 39:00 - Leadership lessons from becoming CEO LINKS Liz Valentine on LinkedIn Swift Agency CREDITS Produc...
Nir Zavaro - Storyteller and Marketing Thought Leader
August 24, 2021 18:25 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MB3:00 – “Not sure if he has a bright future as a student, but the way he writes is unbelievable” 7:30 – Zavaro’s focus on storytelling 10:30 – Zavaro’s definition of leadership 13:20 – “If I could put it on my website, I’d write ‘We Sell Sh*t’” 18:00 – The difficult nature of letting employees go 20:30 – Shifting from a mentality of abundance to a mentality of scarcity 25:30 – Running a bar, writing a book 28:00 – Fixing restaurants 30:00 – Commentating everything from Formula 1...
Lina Taylor - Former Olympian and Leadership Coach
February 05, 2021 01:57 - 42 minutes - 39 MB2:00 - Growing up in communist-led Bulgaria 4:00 - Getting beer for construction workers (at age 6) 6:00 - Bulgaria’s communal feel 8:00 - “For me, Volleyball represented hope” 11:00 - “I would rather take humiliation than give up on my dream” 14:30 - Switching from Indoor to Beach Volleyball 18:00 - Learning to not focus on what you don’t have 21:00 - Going to the Olympics in disbelief 24:00 - Maintaining her motivation 28:00 - Transitioning to a corporate environment from a s...
Himalaya Rao - Managing Director, Black Founders Matter Investment Fund
January 29, 2021 01:02 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MB1:30 - About Himalaya Rao and Black Founders Matter 4:00 - Working for 7 different funds in just a few years 9:30 - Growing up being told “Don’t fail” 12:00 - Finding the tenets of entrepreneurship in the South Bronx 15:00 - Why “change,” rather than “systemic change,” isn’t enough 20:30 - “No systemic problem has one answer” 23:00 - “If any founder should be allowed access to funding, why not a BIPOC founder?” 30:00 - Not guiding greatness, but facilitating it 33:30 - “Don’t wait...
Nitin Rai - Managing Director, Elevate Capital
January 21, 2021 22:53 - 46 minutes - 43 MB2:00 - Nitin’s Purpose/Mission 5:00 - Living the “Silicon Valley” lifestyle 9:00 - Entering the startup space 15:00 - Becoming an angel investor 21:00 - Breaking the “very very rich” stereotype of Angel Investing 24:30 - Creating a relationship with the entrepreneur 27:00 - Democratized investments, rather than family investments 34:00 - Learning to not become the “bottleneck” 36:00 - Unconscious biases in corporate America 40:00 - Reckoning intentional bias in the workplace 4...
Malcolm Harkins - Chief Security and Trust Officer, Cymatic
January 14, 2021 21:36 - 37 minutes - 34 MB1:00 - Harkins explains his role 7:30 - “Motivating others to want to struggle for shared aspirations” 10:00 - Why cybersecurity teams should be “first-movers” 13:30 - “If you lead with compliance, you might not get security/privacy” 19:00 - The security industry accepts too much failure 21:00 - Reducing risk, reducing cost, reducing friction 25:00 - Challenge what’s working and what’s not 27:30 - Fear-mongering in computing 33:00 - Advice to risk managers (and a shameless plu...
Ruby Zefo - Chief Privacy Officer, Uber
January 07, 2021 21:13 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MB2:00 - “What does privacy look like for Uber?” 6:00 - Creating Uber’s “Mask Verification Program” 8:00 - “Making privacy exciting” 14:00 - From Stanford Law to Privacy Law 19:00 - More Experience=More Responsibility 23:00 - Needing to have a purpose 25:30 - Ask people who know you about what you like/don’t 28:30 - Moving from Intel to Uber 30:00 - Uber’s progressive rebuilding process 32:00 - Zefo’s seamless transition 34:00 - “Get on the bus or get out of the way” 37:30 - Joy...
Joel Levinson - Vice President, BC Pension Corporation
December 24, 2020 23:48 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MB4:00 – Everything was great, until... 7:00 – Deciding to leave a great position at Intel 12:00 – Prioritizing family after leaving 14:00 – Getting a callback for a new job in 24 hours 17:30 – Same Stuff, Different Job 20:00 – Trying to maintain that desire to achieve 21:30 – Finding the work/life balance sweet spot 24:00 – Recalibrating priorities 29:00 – Figuring out “do I have the right balance?” 32:00 – Focusing on more than just “achievement” LINKS Joel Levinson on Li...
Liz Dolan - Co-Host of the Satellite Sisters podcast and marketing extraordinaire
December 17, 2020 22:21 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MB3:00 – Becoming a marketer with no marketing background 9:00 – Accepting a job offer from Phil Knight himself 16:00 – What made Nike such a great fit 21:00 – How “Satellite Sisters” got started 26:00 – When the company CEO won’t let you quit 31:00 – “Make your own luck” 37:00 – Dolan’s experience with unconscious gender bias 47:00 – Creating a powerful voice for women LINKS Liz Dolan on LinkedIn Listen to the Satellite Sisters CREDITS Produced by Kai Hellberg Music by I...
David Rae - Curator TEDxPortland and President & Co-Founder of 503 Creative
December 11, 2020 00:41 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MB1:00 – Rae’s definition of leadership 5:00 –”Collecting memories, not things.” 8:00 – What makes Portland so special 11:30 – Feedback is a drug 12:30 – The creation of the “Ideas Booth” 17:00 – Rae’s list of quintessential TED talks 18:30 – How to polish an unpolished speaker 21:30 – ”Work ethic is not a talent. It’s a choice.” 24:00 – Helping TEDx adapt to COVID 28:30 – “How far out are you looking?” 32:00 – Being ok with letting go 34:00 – Advice for aspiring leaders impacted b...
Bobby Evans - Former GM, San Francisco Giants
August 14, 2020 23:07 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MB2:30 “A Team reflects characteristics of its leader” 4:00 Maintaining the motivation to improve 6:00 Corporate management vs. Sports Management 8:00 Evans’ first experiences working for the Giants 13:00 Giving performance feedback to players 17:00 Evans’ love for the game of Baseball 23:00 “If you’re doing a good job, your career will take care of itself” 24:00 Evans’ career aspirations after the Giants 26:30 Advice for athletes looking for their next career 30:30 “Don’t be too...
Mary Beth Martin - Vice President, Women's and Children's Services, Doernbecher Children's Hospital
August 06, 2020 15:18 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MB1:30 Changes in the healthcare industry 6:00 The silver lining of COVID 9:00 Emerging work-from-home opportunities 11:00 Mary Beth’s background in leadership 13:00 How Mary Beth adopted her daughters 14:00 Challenges as a leader 19:30 Embracing the personal coach dynamic 23:00 “Be in the moment at work, be in the moment at home” 24:30 Mary Beth’s April Fools story 29:30 Take more risks, make less excuses LINKS Mary Beth Martin on LinkedIn Support Doernbecher Children's Ho...
Daniel Puder - Founder and CEO of My Life My Power Academy
July 28, 2020 17:25 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MB1:30 A Man on a Mission 4:15 “Success is what happens TO you. Significance is what happens THROUGH you” 9:00 Our purpose evolves 12:30 Focusing on only one or two things at once 16:00 “Our communities know we’re there to stay” 20:00 Working with investors 22:30 Puder’s takeaways from his sports career 26:00 Advice for retiring athletes 31:00 What Daniel is most proud of LINKS Daniel Puder's My Life My Power Academy Puder's podcast "Significance Breeds Success" Puder's Per...
Barbara Duffy - President of Lane Powell
July 21, 2020 23:59 - 31 minutes - 29 MB1:30 - The changing legal industry 5:30 - Lane Powell Adapting to industry changes 8:00 - Shifting corporate culture at the firm 10:00 - Execution first, then big ideas 11:30 - Duffy’s team-building mentality 13:00 - “Our success in the world is defined by the value we create” 17:00 - Being Lane Powell’s first female president 20:00 - How COVID could shift future working environments 23:00 - Social justice bringing new perspectives to the office 25:00 - “Look to the places where e...
Ken Tomita - Founder and CEO Grovemade
July 12, 2020 17:07 - 31 minutes - 29 MB2:00 What change is Ken leading at Grovemade? 3:30 The secret of why Grovemade's homepage is so engaging 6:30 Living the company culture and how it has evolved 8:30 The importance of transparency, a tough lesson learned 10:30 The pillars of Grovemade's culture 12:00 How they created a psychologically safe company culture 14:30 The journey from iPhone cases to furniture for your desktop and how a hit product almost cratered the business 18:30 Going against the market and eve...
Franz Maruna - Founder and CEO Portland Labs
July 03, 2020 22:35 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MB1:30 - About PortlandLabs 3:30 - How Maruna entered the tech industry 5:30 - “Necessity is the mother of invention” 8:00 - How contrete5 became a leading CMS 11:00 - Using concrete5 to help other organizations 18:00 - How Maruna’s position has changed 20:00 - Transitioning from an “all hands on deck” startup to a well-oiled machine 21:00 - Being comfortable with failure before success 25:30 - Advice to budding tech industry entrepreneurs 26:30- Maruna’s “must-reads” Links Portl...
Ana Chaud - Co-Founder and Former CEO Garden Bar
June 25, 2020 19:23 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MB2:00 The passion behind Garden Bar - fast, convenient healthy eating 4:00 Starting out without a background in running restaurants. What got Ana started? 6:30 Ana's key learnings from taking Garden Bar from inception to exit in the food and beverage industry. 9:00 How Ana developed an intentional company culture and got her team to buy in. 14:00 Growing up in Brazil helped shape Ana's leadership philosophy and build her resilience. 18:30 What kept Ana going when things were dif...
Kevin Adler - Miracle Messages
June 11, 2020 22:39 - 34 minutes - 32 MBDiscussion Topics 1:45 Miracle Messages vision for the future - ending relational poverty on our streets. 3:30 What motivated Kevin to get started? An experiment that changed his life. 9:00 The first reunion that started a movement. 10:15 How he built the organization they have now, which is a world away from how they started. 12:30 The journey to achieving over 300 reunions. A breakthrough learning from a very big mistake. 22:00 Bet the farm moments. If these turned out ...
Kate Delhagen - Oregon Sports Angels
May 31, 2020 18:05 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBKate Delhagen, the founder of the Oregon Sports Angels was recently named one of the most influential women in Oregon. Kate talks about how the world of sports has shaped her leadership perspectives and she shares advice for anyone looking to follow in her leadership footsteps. 1:45 Kate humbly talks about being named as one of the most influential women in Oregon 2:45 Kate's perspective on how she approaches life and how she channels her energy to help others 3:45 What changes ...
Jeremy Pelley - OMFGCO
May 30, 2020 22:41 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBJeremy Pelley is the Creative Director and Co-Founder of OMFGCO, the renowned Portland based creative agency. He talks about their secret sauce - the values on which the company is built, how they became the 'Official Manufacturing Company' and a whole lot more. 1:30 Jeremy describes OMGFCO's reason to exist, telling stories and how they drive positive change in the world 4:00 Their secret sauce and the importance of being responsible for how we feel to avoid being a victim to the world...