IMPACTFUL Teamwork

This podcast is for you if you’re a business owner, business leader, entrepreneur or executive who knows they want to make a real impact in the world and knows they can’t do it alone. Your host is Julia Felton, a leadership and team engagement specialist provides unique insights into how to harness the energy of your people to create massive business momentum through unlocking the super-power of teamwork. Some of the questions we grapple with are: - You know you need a team to help you but how do you get your team on the same page? - How do you get them pulling in the same direction and not pulling apart? - How do you create a connected, collaborative, cohesive team? In this podcast I will be sharing with you strategies and tactics to help you become the best leader you can be so that you can inspire IMPACTFUL teamwork. Teams that make a real difference. Each podcast will be full of actionable steps you can take and implement immediately. We’ll also be interviewing guests to learn from them what has worked for them and importantly what hasn’t. Rest assured there will also be a good dose of wisdom from the natural world as I believe that nature contains a blueprint for how we can all work together to create engaged, enthusiastic, empowered teams.

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  Episode #124

  Your Leadership Team Is Not Misaligned. It Is Far Too Agreeable

  Aug 17, 202629 min

  This episode argues leadership teams are often not misaligned but overly “agreeing,” confusing verbal consent with true alignment, which is behavioural, accountable, and must hold under pressure. It explains how meetings can produce nodding and positivity yet no change in the following weeks, because silence is treated as consent, seniority distorts discussion, offsite decisions don’t survive real-world conditions, and agreement avoids hard trade-offs. Citing Gallup mid-2026 data (49% know what’s expected; 31% US engagement; 20% global engagement in 2025) and ILM research attributing 86% of business failure to silos and poor collaboration, it links clarity and alignment to engagement and cross-functional unity. It connects AI adoption to leadership clarity (KPMG: 7% measurable AI ROI) and uses horse-herd alignment and a “Cafe moment” case to illustrate shared language and feedback. It closes with three tests: independent priorities list, fortnight calendar change, and a dissent audit. 00:49 Agreement Isn’t Alignment 01:14 Why Nothing Changes After Meetings 02:33 Defining Alignment Under Pressure 05:26 The Data Behind Misalignment 09:10 Four Signs You’re Only Agreeing 13:35 Tolerable Culture Warning 14:46 AI Rollouts Expose Alignment Gaps 18:21 Horse Herds and True Alignment 20:33 Energy Beats Words in Leadership 22:50 Cafe Moment Shared Language 24:56 Three Tests to Build Alignment 27:29 Wrap Up and Call to Action Connect with Julia: Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Take the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills! Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify

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  Episode #123

  Servant Leadership: The Strategy That Builds Businesses Worth Buying with David Guttman

  Aug 10, 202635 min

  On the Impactful Teamwork podcast, Julia Felton interviews David Guttman, a three-time Inc. 500 entrepreneur with multiple eight- and nine-figure exits, about servant leadership and building high-performing teams. Guttman shares how a misdiagnosis of terminal cancer at 24 prompted him to shift from achievement-obsession to putting coworkers first, arguing leaders serve their people and that caring can’t be faked. They discuss authenticity, trust, assuming positive intent, and the ripple effect of leadership on employees’ lives, plus the importance of hiring for humility and curiosity and firing quickly when culture fit is wrong. Guttman outlines practical scaling practices: bottoms-up budgeting and forecasting, financial literacy for all employees, quarterly board meetings, broad equity ownership, transparent all-hands updates, and internal/external core values reinforced through peer-given awards. He also offers his “Anti-MBA” course and community access. 00:45 Meet Dave Guttman 01:57 Cancer Wake Up Call 03:24 Servant Leadership Basics 07:10 Relationships Build Loyalty 08:56 Hire Right Fire Fast 12:00 Humility Curiosity Gen Z 14:53 Assume Positive Intent 17:24 Radical Transparency Trust 19:37 Scaling to Exit Playbook 22:13 Equity Budgets Core Values 28:03 Decision Making Culture 32:13 Servant Leader Accountability 33:53 Anti MBA Offer 35:24 Final Challenge Outro You can connect and learn more about Dave's work here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/drguttman/ Connect with Julia: Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Take the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills! Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify

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  Episode #122

  Leading Through Care and Presence: Horse Wisdom with Kelly Wendorf

  Aug 3, 202641 min

  Host Julia Felton welcomes Kelly Wendorf, founder of Equus and author of "Flying Lead Change: 56 Million Years of Wisdom for Leading and Living," to discuss how horses and nature inform leadership and teamwork. Wendorf shares her journey from equestrian ambitions to coaching and equine-facilitated leadership, emphasizing experiential learning and presence. They explore modern disruption as a catalyst for evolution using nature’s adaptive cycle (new beginnings, growth, consolidation, letting go) and the “messy middle” of change, plus the metaphor of a flying lead change for collective pivots amid climate change, AI, war, and unrest. Wendorf outlines five principles from horse culture—safety, connection, peace, freedom, and joy—led through care and presence rather than dominance, and defines “rewilding” as dismantling constraining social constructs to return to an innate, creative self. She invites listeners to engage via equusinspired.com, virtual courses, newsletters, and ranch retreats in Santa Fe. 00:00 Teamwork Advantage 00:50 Meet Kelly Wendorf 01:58 Calling And Origins 05:01 Coaching With Horses 06:47 Service And Adaptability 10:08 Presence Over Engagement 11:58 Adaptive Cycle Explained 14:34 Flying Lead Change Metaphor 19:22 Horse Culture Principles 22:20 Care Over Dominance 23:14 Darwin and Power With 24:49 Trauma Shifted Leadership 26:30 Care Is Not Soft 27:36 Regenerative Business Model 29:57 Courage to Change 31:26 Messy Middle Cycle 35:26 Rewilding Leaders Defined 38:25 Book and Next Steps 39:41 Final Invitation and Outro Connect with Julia: Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Take the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills! Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify

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  Episode #121

  AI And Organisational Culture: Why It Amplifies Whatever You Already Are

  Jul 27, 202634 min

  The episode argues teamwork is a key competitive advantage amid record-low global engagement (20%) and falling manager engagement (30% to 22%), noting managers drive 70% of team engagement variance and disengagement costs an estimated $10 trillion annually. It warns leaders that AI won’t fix culture but will amplify it, making intentional culture design urgent. Drawing on Peter Matthies and the Conscious Business Institute, it outlines four culture levels: Level 1 output culture (mechanistic, results-only, people as resources; AI accelerates volume and can fuel exhaustion) Level 2 intentional culture (purpose and discernment guide AI as collaborator but trust and wellbeing may still lag) Level 3 human-centric culture (people at the center, psychological safety, honest feedback) Level 4 higher-purpose culture (massive transformational purpose enabling creativity and shared leadership, modeled by horse herds). It closes with actions: make culture explicit, let teams define “rules,” and connect culture to purpose, plus an audit call-to-action. 00:00 Why Teamwork Wins 00:46 Engagement Crisis 02:27 AI Amplifies Culture 03:44 Four Culture Levels 06:19 Level One Output 10:29 Level Two Intention 13:37 Level Three Human Centric 16:19 Horses Reveal Truth 19:32 Level Four Higher Purpose 23:06 Leading Across Levels 25:47 Three Culture Shifts 29:22 Purpose Driven Turnaround 31:29 Final Questions Next Steps 32:46 Closing Thanks Connect with Julia: Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Take the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills! Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify

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  Episode #120

  Business Energetics and the Power of Empowerment

  Jul 20, 202636 min

  On the Impactful Teamwork Podcast, host Julia welcomes Jean Walters, a personal growth consultant and seven-time Amazon best-selling author, to discuss teamwork as a competitive advantage and how “business energetics,” universal laws, and metaphysics influence organisational success. Jean argues that everything is energy and that leaders can either work with it consciously or suffer its effects, emphasising gratitude, positivity, and empowerment over criticism. She shares an exercise contrasting emotions like anger vs. peace to help skeptics experience energy’s impact, and a story illustrating how negativity affected health. They explore leadership practices such as living and repeatedly communicating mission statements, recognising employees’ unique talents and interests, using personalised motivation, hiring complementary strengths, and building relationships through attention.Jean also covers overcoming rejection in sales, taking responsibility for one’s mood, using forgiveness to shift workplace dynamics, and limiting negative news consumption. She offers listeners three free chapters of her book, “The Journey from Anxiety to Peace,” via her website spiritualtransformation.com. 00:00 Teamwork Advantage 00:45 Meet Jean Walters 01:46 Business Energy Basics 03:54 Mindset And Health Story 06:01 Proving Energy To Skeptics 08:29 Grounded Leadership In Chaos 09:27 Mission And Employee Strengths 13:49 Ego Free Hiring And Appreciation 17:47 Avoiding Negativity And News 19:16 More Engagement Strategies 20:05 Rejection Proof Selling 21:29 Know Your Audience 22:29 Leaders Build Relationships 23:22 Forgiveness Changes Dynamics 25:32 Responsibility Over Blame 26:35 Ripple Effect Leadership 27:41 Horses Reveal Energy 31:22 Growth Through Polarity 33:36 Connect and Free Chapters 35:24 Final Takeaway Reflection You can connect to Jean on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-walters/and on her website - https://www.spiritualtransformation.com/ Connect with Julia: Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Take the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills! Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify

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