Motivated to Lead Podcast - Mark Klingsheim

Motivated to Lead is a podcast designed to help you grow and become a better leader. We interview leaders in business and the non-profit world. Listen each week as we have guests share lessons learned in their career and in life to help you whether you are a new leader or a seasoned leader. Our topics include leadership, career management and how to make great people decisions.

Motivated to Lead Podcast - Mark Klingsheim is a business podcast hosted by Mark Klingsheim, with 330 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Mark Klingsheim hosts Motivated to Lead Podcast - Mark Klingsheim, a business show with 330 episodes published.

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  Episode #328

  How to Get the Most Out of Coaching, Karen Davis (replay)

  Aug 6, 202628 min

  This week, we revisit our interview with Karen Davis. Karen is a seasoned executive coach, speaker, and author with over 25 years of leadership experience in the B2B tech sector. She brings nearly two decades of coaching mastery to high-performing executives, entrepreneurs, and fellow coaches. Karen is the co-author of How to Get the Most Out of Coaching: A Client's Guide for Optimizing the Coaching Experience, a go-to resource for making coaching more effective and transformational. Known for her intuitive and heart-centered approach, Karen helps leaders uncover blind spots, reclaim clarity, and make bold, aligned decisions.

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  Episode #329

  Episode 329: Ego Free Leadership, Shayne Hughes (replay)

  Jul 23, 202633 min

  This week we revisit our conversation with Shayne Hughes, President of Learning as Leadership and one of the leading voices in building high-trust, high-performance cultures. Shayne has helped organizations like NASA, Shell, Capital One, and Fairchild Semiconductor transform the way their teams communicate, collaborate, and lead. He is the co-author of Ego Free Leadership, written with former Encore Capital CEO Brandon Black, which chronicles the real-world transformation of a public company executive team using LaL's tools. Shayne has taught leadership at UC Berkeley, Michigan's Executive MBA Program, and UVA's Darden School, and his writing appears in Forbes, Diversity Executive, the Huffington Post, and Harvard's Du Bois Review. He has also been profiled in Psychology Today. Fluent in French, Shayne earned his B.A. from UC Berkeley and completed graduate studies in group facilitation at the University of Tours in France.

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  Episode #328

  Becoming a Better Negotiator, John Lowry (replay)

  Jul 16, 202641 min

  This week, we revisit our conversation with Dr. John Lowry. John is a recognized authority on negotiation through his experience as a lawyer, management consultant, entrepreneur, negotiation coach, and university administrator. His results-focused, systematic approach to negotiation has been successfully implemented by thousands of professionals across the United States. John teaches negotiation at the top-ranked Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University's Caruso School of Law and lectures in Vanderbilt University's Master's in Management in Health Care program. John serves as president of Thrivence, a new management consulting firm affiliated with Barge Design Solutions. In addition to leading the firm, John counsels clients on leadership, executive team effectiveness, strategy, revenue growth, and conflict management. He also provides negotiation training and coaching for governmental entities, healthcare organizations, and other businesses. John is a popular keynote speaker and leads multiple executive retreats each year including the opening retreat of the Nashville Health Care Council Fellows program. John earned his bachelor's degree in speech communications from Pepperdine University and master's degree in religion from Abilene Christian University. He received his juris doctorate degree from Southern Methodist University's Dedman School of Law. He has also completed graduate work in dispute resolution at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University's Caruso School of Law and in public policy at California State University, Sacramento. John resides in Nashville, TN, with his wife, Melissa, and their three children.

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  Episode #327

  Episode 327: Karyn Gordon, Three Chairs: How Leaders Drive Communication, Performance & Engagement (replay)

  Jul 9, 202619 min

  This week, we revisit our conversation with Dr. Karyn Gordon (Leadership & Relationship Expert), author of The Three Chairs: How Great Leaders Drive Communication, Performance & Engagement. Karyn is the CEO and co-founder of DK Leadership, a global leadership coaching company whose purpose is developing great leaders at work and home. She has spoken to more than 500,000 people across 17 countries—including Fortune 500 companies, family businesses, entrepreneurs, professional associations, and others. She is also a media personality & consultant (Good Morning America, Forbes, The New York Times) - and the TV resident Leadership & Relationship Expert for Canada's #1 Talk-Show – Cityline). In 2021, she was nominated for the 29th annual RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Award. Karyn has a Doctorate in Marriage & Family and certifications in Leadership and Emotional Intelligence, Dr. Karyn was invited to collaborate with professors from The Wharton School to develop an EQ training curriculum specifically for family businesses. John Prato, The Consul General of Canada in New York, hosted a reception honoring her work with New York families and organizations. Over the years, she has served as the media spokesperson for Loblaws, Maple Leaf Foods, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, eHarmony and UNICEF.

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  Episode #326

  Episode 326: Paul Batz, CEO, Good Leadership (replay)

  Jul 2, 202624 min

  This week, we revisit our conversation with Paul Batz, CEO and Founder of Good Leadership Enterprises. Paul has helped usher in a new era of executive team coaching, reshaping how leaders think about alignment, commitment, and accountability — all rooted in his core belief that goodness pays. He launched Good Leadership to help CEOs, business owners, and community leaders thrive by weaving goodness into their work and achieving more together than they ever could alone. The movement accelerated with the Good Leadership Breakfast Series, now the Midwest's hottest leadership development event, drawing more than 30,000 guests since 2010. In 2017, Paul expanded the platform with Good Leadership Press, producing books and tools that inspire positive leadership. Paul blends the Seven Fs with his wife and business partner Melinda and their three adult children, all of whom touch the business. He's a passionate golfer, an Elton John–inspired piano player, a committed philanthropist, and a dinner party host extraordinaire at their home in Bloomington, MN.

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