The Naked Leadership Podcast

E112 People Don’t Leave Companies, They Leave Managers

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This week Chad sits down with Dan and Adrian to discuss why people leave organizations. They make the distinction between leaving a company and leaving management.

Topics discussed:

• People are exposed in crisis
• What is the Great Resignation
• The impact of Covid and remote work
• Speaking vision up, strategy down
• The generation that doesn't see the finished cathedral
• You might have people on their way out

E111 How To Align Your Leadership Team

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This week Chad sits down with Dan and Adrian to chat about bringing alignment to a leadership team.

Topics Discussed:

• How to recognize misalignment
• Crafted blindspots
• Nothing is WRONG if you are not aligned
• Alignment is not an event but a happening
• Opposing opinions, Highs stakes, strong emotions
• How to give effective feedback

E110 Finding Resources You Were Blind To

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This week Chad sits down with Dan and Adrian to explore the idea of finding resources.

We discuss:

• Challenging your comfort to find resources
• Thinking you know what others can offer
• Asking yourself the question "how good could this turn out?"
• Options vs possibility
• Staying loose to discover resources

And so much more! 

E109 What You Think Is Humility Might Actually Be Arrogance

This week Dan and Adrian sit down with chad to talk about humility. Misconceptions and what it really is.

Topics we cover:

• We ought to have it, but don't prefer it
• The paradox of humility
• Accepting compliments
• Self-deprecation... healthy or not?
• Being willing to learn

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Every Leader Must Get SCRPY!

Adrian, Dan, and Chad sit down with Mark Edwards to discuss the SCRPY model.

A unique model for turning KPI's into real results!

If you want to learn more about how the SCRPY model could create results for your team, email Mark Edwards.

mark@takenewground.com

You can also check out some of the resource videos on the SCRPY platform here:

https://www.loom.com/share/ae108ab686854965ae75554dc3761a97?sharedAppSource=personal_library

https://www.loom.com/share/a89722a0f6774f68a1f762a0e398efd5?sharedAppSource=personal_library

Mindset: A Leaders Super-Power with Brittany Driscoll

This week Dan, Adrian, and Chad sit down with Brittany Driscoll CEO of Squeeze.

Topics we discuss:

• The timing of opportunities
• The parts of ourselves we are reckoning with
• The gift of reading a room
• Others witnessing our failures
• The question... "will I look back on my decisions and be proud?"

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And on Instagram!

You can check out Squeeze here!

Brittany is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Squeeze and responsible for, well, everything. Prior to launching Squeeze, Brittany spent four years running marketing for Drybar where she helped take the company from $30M to more than $100M. She also opened more than 50 new shops and launched the Drybar product line internationally, as well as in Sephora, Ulta, and Nordstrom.

Before Drybar, Brittany spent over a decade in marketing and advertising at agencies, including Mistress (Mattel, The Coca-Cola Company, Hilton Worldwide), RAPP (Skype, Toyota), and experiential agency USMP (Home Depot). Brittany believes wholeheartedly in the power of a great experience and is excited to build a feel-good revolution!

E106 Where Is Your Focus? Limitations or Possibility

This week Adrian sits down with chad to discuss the distinction of focusing on Limitations or possibilities in our leadership and company.

Topics discussed:

• Adrian's experience of getting divorced
• What allows people to see possibility
• How we enroll others into our limitations
• Limitations are like a fish in water
• The difference between options and possibilities

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E105 Every Effective Leader Is A Coach

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This week Adrian sits down with Chad to talk about the parallels between effective leadership and coaching.

Some of the topics they touch on are:

• What is worth suffering for
• Aim gives context
• Unapologetic commitment
• What is my relationship to feedback
• If you want to grow go where you don't want to go

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E104 Genuine Care with Tyler Kelley

This week we sit down with Tyler Kelley, COO of Evoke Advisors, an independent investment advisory firm.

We talk about:

• Tylers leadership history
• His time as Student Body President at USC
• His time on Wall Street
• Why he does the work he does at Evoke
• How having genuine care has attributed to his success
• How his leadership as a dad differs from his leadership in the business

Tyler is the Chief Operating Officer and Partner of Evoke Advisors. He was most recently the Chief Operating Officer and Senior Managing Director at Bel Air Investment Advisors. He joined Bel Air in 2005 and shortly after that became the youngest partner in the firm's history. At Bel Air, Tyler was a member of the firm’s five-person Management Committee. Prior to Bel Air, Tyler worked in the strategic planning group at AECOM and was an investment banker at Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Active in the community, Tyler is a trustee of The Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association, and Chair of its annual Beastly Ball, the organization's largest event and fundraiser. Tyler is a past Mayoral-appointed Los Angeles City Zoo Commissioner, and past Chairman of the Los Angeles County Commission on Local Government Services, where he was the youngest to serve in this leadership role. He is also a board member on the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies and was on the steering committee for the celebration of the Oceanic Society’s 50th anniversary.

Tyler graduated with honors from the University of Southern California with a B.A. in International Relations and Political Science, where he served as the student body president in 2000. Upon graduation, Tyler was named one of eighteen Henry R. Luce scholars in a nationwide competition that took him to Jakarta, Indonesia where he worked for leading entry market strategy firm, the Castle Group.

A regular speaker on leadership development topics, Tyler is often quoted on various subject matters in publications, including The Los Angeles Times and Investment Advisor Magazine, for his work in the not-for-profit community. Tyler is also an avid fly fisherman and adventure traveler and has visited close to ninety countries.

E103 Stress Reliever Is Not In Your Job Description

This week Dan and Adrian sit down with Chad to talk about the role of a leader when it comes to the stress that their team might experience due to the work they are engaged in.

Topics touched on:

• Stress is not a bad thing
• Tension = transformation
• Short term gain = long term pain
• Stress is a natural byproduct of challenge
• Relieving vs managing stress