Equine Leadership Workshops

Our guest is Dan Carusi, Co-Founder & CEO of Red Paint Consulting. RPC specializes in performance improvement, change management, sales & business transformation, talent & leadership development, and experiential learning.

Making people uncomfortable and leveraging experiential learning is the foundation to the RPC methodology. Their consultants are outdoor enthusiast’s – rock climbers, hikers, surfers, mountaineers, horseback riders, and paddlers, all who are also successful business professionals. Combining both their passions for outdoor activities and business is what makes Red Paint Consulting truly unique as they help individuals & teams grow both personally and professionally around the world.

For more information on Red Paint Consulting’s experiential learning programs go to: https://redpaintconsulting.com/

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Leading with Positivity

Harris Jensen, MD joins the “Leadership Disrupted” podcast to discuss how leaders can be drained by negative overthinking that causes problems to look more significant and more overwhelming than they need to be – leading to self-doubt, anxiety and self-sabotage. Harris also discusses his new book “Prescription for Positivity” which offers clinically proven techniques he’s seen work for 30 years. And perhaps most importantly, when leaders model a positive mindset for their employees, it turns out this is the most effective way to help those employees adopt a positive mindset themselves. Not by telling the to “think positive,” but by showing them what positivity looks like in action.

Leading Change

Peter Hess has decades of experience helping senior leaders for some of the largest companies in the world develop change management strategies and build their change leadership skills. He is adept at designing and facilitating collaborative processes to achieve consensus among diverse stakeholders.

During this podcast Peter share insights related to people management, workforce development, facilitating employee engagement, and enhancing skill-sets for overall performance improvement.

Leading the Layoff Survivors

Today’s episode is focused on leading a team, a department or an entire organization AFTER a large layoff. I studied more than 8,000 employees who survived a corporate layoff and discovered that, on average, their productivity, work quality and engagement all declined significantly. Retention rates of these employees also declined sharply, so employers were losing more of those they had planned to keep. Continue reading

Are You Ready for Third Wave DEI?

The phrase “First Wave DEI” refers the time period before May of 2022, with many decades of slow (and unsteady) progress toward greater awareness (and in some cases, appreciation) of the societal importance of diversity, equity and inclusion. Race, gender and sexuality were the primary focus of DEI initiatives during this period. In the workplace, Human Resources departments were primarily responsible for establishing and enforcing equitable policies. Continue reading

What Does Great Leadership LOOK like? What’s the ONE THING? Cracking the Employee Engagement Code.

Quiet quitting is just the latest popular term referencing employees who put no more effort into their jobs than absolutely necessary. The bad news is that employee engagement has been in decline for more than 20 years, and yet there is GOOD NEWS because employees have told us EXACTLY what it takes to drive their full engagement. Continue reading

Leading in a Disrupted World, Rethinking Capitalism, Employee Expectations, Leadership Pressures

We are living and working in disruptive times: technology-driven upheavals, economic recession and inflation and supply chain issues, global pandemics, terrorist attacks, trade wars, culture wars. Employee expectations for their relationship with employers and leaders are evolving. Continue reading

Introduction: Dan Rust Previews the Podcast

This is a brief introduction to the “Leadership, Disrupted” podcast which explores the art and science of high-impact leadership in a disrupted world where the future  – of business, of capitalism, of our society, and yes, of leadership – is changing and evolving and where none of us can be certain what the future holds, but we are sure that it will be fundamentally different. All of this will be discussed from the perspective of real leaders in the real world who are changing the way business works.