WiLD Conversation
by WiLD Leaders
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What Are You Hiding From Yourself? Imperfect Leadership with Jim Brown
What Are You Hiding From Yourself? Imperfect Leadership with Jim Brown
About this podcast
Whole + intentional leader development topics every week. Get to know the WiLD team, experts in whole leader development, and creators of the WiLD Toolkit.
Episodes
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- What Are You Hiding From Yourself? Imperfect Leadership with Jim Brown · 1 h 5 min · Episode 79What if the biggest obstacle standing in the way of your team’s performance isn’t your strategy or capital plan, but the pressure you feel to have all the answers? In this…
- Lead Yourself Well to Lead Others Better: The Sacred Work of Leadership, Trust, and Culture with Jenni Catron · 55 min · Episode 78Leading others well begins with the work we are willing to do within ourselves. In this episode of the WiLD Conversation Podcast, Rob McKenna and Sabeth Kapahu sit down with…
- Who Gets In and What Gets Rewarded: Inside Corporate America’s Secret Engine. A Conversation on I-O Psychology with Dr. Scott Davies · 1 h 6 min · Episode 77The Invisible Power behind Corporate Decisions Industrial-Organizational (I-O) psychology is often described as one of the most powerful guilds in corporate America that standard…
- Former NFL Seattle Seahawks Safety Jordan Babineaux on Mindset, Leadership, and Transitioning Beyond the Field · 36 min · Episode 76In this episode of The WiLD Conversation Podcast, hosts Dr. Rob McKenna and Sabeth sit down with former NFL Seattle Seahawk Jordan Babineaux. The discussion explores…
- The ROI of High Trust: Building a Persistent System of Trust at Echoing Hills · 1 h 7 min · Episode 75In this powerful episode of the WiLD Conversation Podcast, Dr. Rob McKenna sits down with Tim Neville, President and CEO of Echoing Hills, to explore what happens when an…
- The Fog of Work: Adam Tarnow on Why Middle Managers Build Trust, Lead Through Pressure, and Shape Organizational Culture · 1 h 1 min · Episode 74In this episode of the WiLD Conversation Podcast Dr. Rob McKenna and Sabeth Kapahu sit down with Adam Tarnow, former CPA, leadership development expert, and author of The Fog of…
- Isolation Does Not Drift Into Positive Outcomes: Building Your Trust Circle and Developing on the Job with Dr. Daniel Hallak · 1 h 2 min · Episode 73In this episode Dr. Rob McKenna sits down with longtime friend, colleague, and strategic partner Dr. Daniel Hallak, an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist and author of the…
- Why 60% of Global Water Projects Break. Water4 Rewriting the Narrative on the Water Crisis: Trust, Agency, and Moving from Charity to Dignity with Matt Hangen · 57 min · Episode 72In this episode of WiLD Conversation, Dr. Rob McKenna Rob and Sabeth Kapahu sit down with Matt Hangen, President and CEO of Water4, an organization radically reshaping how the…
- The Systems and the Souls: Why Mission and Humanity Cannot Be Separated in Leadership with Benj Miller · 1 h 1 min · Episode 71What happens when a corporate culture prioritizes operational checklists over human character? In this dynamic episode of the WiLD Conversation Podcast, Dr. Rob McKenna and…
- The Trust Stewards: Why Trust Matters More Than Ever with David Horsager · 45 min · Episode 70What if the challenges we label as engagement problems, culture problems, leadership problems, or performance problems are actually trust problems at their core? In this episode…
- The Global Diplomat: Scaling Pyramids, Security, and the Paradox of Trust with Christopher Stitt · 54 min · Episode 69What does it take to lead in environments where trust, security, and uncertainty collide? In this episode of WiLD Conversation, Dr. Rob McKenna sits down with global security…
- The Trust Process: Why Healthcare Leadership Depends on More Than Just Competence with Chris Nicholas, COO Renown Health · 1 h 4 min · Episode 68In an industry where "box-checking" can often replace "soul-shaping," trust remains the invisible engine of successful healthcare organizations. This episode explores why trust…
- “Trust doesn’t grow from the absence of failure, it grows from the presence of repair” with Executive Director, Dr. Matt Russell · 1 h 5 min · Episode 67In this soulful episode, Rob sits down with long-time peer and "architect of hope," Dr. Matt Russell, Executive Director of Iconoclast Artists & projectCURATE. Together, they…
- Why Thousands of College Students Gather Weekly at Reed Arena at Texas A&M: Fighting for the Minutes with Brian McCormack · 1 h 0 min · Episode 66Why are more than 8,000 college students gathering every week at Reed Auditorium at Texas A&M? In a cultural moment marked by perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, they…
- How Mark Whitacre Went from FBI Informant to Culture Leader: Lessons on Trust, Purpose, and Repair · 59 min · Episode 65How Mark Whitacre Went from FBI Informant to Culture Leader: Lessons on Trust, Purpose, and Repair In this powerful episode of the WiLD Conversation Podcast, Mark Whitacre once…
- Harvard Business Review Author John Blakey: If Trust Is So Important, Why Aren’t Leaders Measuring It? · 46 min · Episode 64In this WiLD Conversation Podcast, Dr. John Blakey joins Dr.Rob McKenna and Sabeth Kapahu to challenge one of leadership’s most common assumptions: if trust is the most important…
- Nick Lavery on The Infrastructure of Trust: Risk, Resilience, and the Machine Mindset · 1 h 19 min · Episode 63What happens to leadership when "failure is not an option" transitions from a cliché to a literal reality? In this episode of the WiLD Conversation, Dr. Rob McKenna and Sabeth…
- Randy Conley on Microclimates of Trust: Measurable Wholeness - KPIs for Accountability and Growth · 1 h 4 min · Episode 62In this deeply reflective and practical WiLD Conversation Podcast, Dr. Rob McKenna welcomes Randy Conley, Vice President and Trust Practice Leader at The Ken Blanchard Companies…
- The Cost of Compartmentalized Leadership and the Freedom of Wholeness with Jeff Schiefelbein · 59 min · Episode 61In this episode of The WiLD Conversation Podcast, Dr. Rob McKenna sits down with Jeff Schiefelbein, managing partner of Undivided Life, for a courageous conversation about what…
- To Be Honest: Ron Carucci on Building Trust, Dignity, and Organizational Conditions That Shape Us · 50 min · Episode 60In this powerful conversation, Dr. Rob McKenna and Ron Carucci dive into the hidden forces that shape honesty, trust, and character inside organizations. Ron—co-founder of…
