(Re)Learning Leadership

Welcome to Season 3!We appreciate your patience as we have taken some time to refactor our podcast.For season 3, Pete shares what we are doing different and why. We hope you join us for the journey. We know it will be educational and hopefully you'll have as much fun listening (or watching) as we have in curating the episodes!Visit the podcast website (now re-hosted on Agile Leadership Journey) for guest profiles, key learning, transcripts and more.Also check out our YouTube Channel for Video episodes.

What is the role of a leader to shape the balance of power?Deanna Singh, author and social entrepreneur, shares the role leaders play in shaping and sharing power along with her experience as a human, mother, coach, leader and catalyst in role modeling this behavior for others.Pete and Deanna discuss how leaders can be more aware and actively use their power to catalyze their goals and the people engaged with them.Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership website for more about our guest, transcript, comments and more.

What does it take to guide a multi-year transformation?Amerisure Insurance has been on a 3-year culture-shaping journey to improve their speed of innovation. Amjed Al-Zoubi, the CIO of Amerisure and Pete co-presented their case study at the Business Agility Conference in NYC. For this episode, Pete sat down with Amjed to discuss a bit more about the leader behind the title and about what it's like to be on such a journey.Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership website for a guest profile, transcript, comments and more.

What can leaders learn from other species?Humans can be difficult. They judge others, hold their own agenda, and talk back. So maybe an easier way to learn leadership is through other species.Executive coach and animal advocate Shawna Schuh joins Pete to discuss what leaders can learn and relearn by spending more time with other species.Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership website to learn more about our guest, read the transcript, share a comment, and more.

How can leaders tap into the power of community?Community is much more than social gatherings and shared learning paths. Community kept us connected and engaged through the pandemic. And following it, community might likely spark your next life or work adventure.David Siegel, CEO of Meetup which hosts the largest community platform, shares how leaders can leverage the power of community to improve themselves and their organizations.Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership website for information on this episode including a guest profile, transcript, comments and more.

What will the post-pandemic office culture be like?Most tech-enabled office cultures pivoted to work-from-home during the pandemic. As the impacts of COVID wanes, employees are being called back to the office. Although there is no standard, leaders are searching for the right balance between in-person collaboration and at-home flexibility.Franco Chiaravalloti, Project Manager at Hitachi Rail Systems based in Brussels, and Von Rhea, Vice President of Software Engineering at Trimble based in Denver, join Pete to discuss aspects of post-pandemic office culture. Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership Podcast Website.

Why do leaders need to be aware of their illusion of control?Mette Bjerrekaer, Head of Transformation Office at Grundfos, shares how the illusion of control has impacted her as a leader and her journey in letting go of it.Bent Myllerup, Change Agent and Founder of Better Change, interviews Mette and joins Pete to share what we can all (re)learn about the illusion of control and letting go.Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership Website.

Pete shares the second reason he paused the podcast in January.Pete experienced two lightning bolts life threw at him at the end of December - the end of his mother's fight with cancer, and a catastrophic fire that displaced his family from their home.In Part II, Pete shares the journey he and Jana experienced through the evacuation and aftermath of the most destructive fire in Colorado's history - The Marshall Fire that destroyed over 1,000 homes in their small towns of Louisville & Superior, CO. Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership Website

Pete shares one of the two reasons he paused the podcast in January.Pete experienced two lightning bolts life threw at him at the end of December - the end of his mother's fight with cancer, and a catastrophic fire that displaced his family from their home.In Part I, Pete shares walking alongside his mother's end-of-life journey fighting leukemia and pneumonia. Through his journey, he hopes leaders are better able to connect to the human side of all of their employees, family members and friends.Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership Website to see pictures of Pete's mom, view the transcript, comment and more.

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.

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.