The Military Leader

Nov 17 2024 21 ep. 60 mins 2.3k

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Grow yourself and your team with insight from today's most successful leaders. The Military Leader Podcast delivers candid, practical lessons from proven leaders in the military and other professions. If you don't have a leadership development program, start with The Military Leader Podcast!

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"Beyond Gut Instinct" - Data Literacy with Jon Bate, Erik Davis, and Brett Reichert

Nov 17 2024 55 mins

Twenty years ago, you could get away with saying you're "just not a computer person." Leaders, even senior commanders, took pride in resisting the digital movement in the military and avoided any attempt to learn it or leverage it. Today, the military's most prolific weapon system is Microsoft Office. We touch it more than any other system, and yet we have little to no instruction

Major General Brook Leonard - F-35s, space warfare, and being ready to fight tonight

Sep 25 2024 77 mins

Major General Leonard graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1992 and went on to become an F-16 and F-35 command pilot with more than 3,000 flight hours, to include 576 combat hours. In his 31 year career, he commanded multiple fighter wings, served as a military assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, and in his last assignment, he led the standup of the US military's n

Colonel Teddy Kleisner - Leading Through a No-Notice Deployment to Afghanistan

Aug 23 2024 46 mins

"I was sitting on an aircraft with some of the finest Americans we've ever put in uniform, with enormous confidence in knowing that when this ramp drops, this group right here will figure it out." I'm honored to share my conversation with fellow "Tomahawk" commander and respected Infantry leader, Colonel Teddy Kleisner. Throughout his career, Teddy Kleisner has inspired forma

Colonel Bob O'Brien - Behind the Scenes at the Army's Command Assessment Program

Mar 10 2024 61 mins

In this episode, we go behind the scenes to see how the Army selects its senior commanders and shapes talent for the future. Colonel Bob O'Brien is the Director of the US Army's Command Assessment Program (CAP), which is the yearly selection crucible that Lieutenant Colonels, Colonels, and Sergeants Major must pass through to compete for command of the Army's battalions and brigade

MG Curt Taylor - Training for the Changing Character of War

Feb 07 2024 67 mins

"If you bring a cell phone to NTC, you'll be found and targeted." In this episode, we get an inside look at how the Army's National Training Center creates tough, realistic training rotations to ensure that Soldiers and units are ready to win the first fight. Guest Major General Curt Taylor is the Commanding General of the National Training Center (NTC) and Fort Irwin

Major General JP McGee - The Present & Future of Army Talent Management

Jun 22 2020 46 mins

The Army is radically changing its personnel and talent management systems and Major General JP McGee, head of the Army Talent Management Task Force, is in charge of making it happen. From AIM 2.0 and the Battalion Command Assessment Program...to brevet promotions and direct commissioning, MG McGee gives an inside look at the major personnel and talent initiatives coming to the US

Michael Bungay Stanier - Leading with Curiosity

Feb 24 2020 65 mins

Michael Bungay Stanier is an author, speaker, and innovative thinker in the world of coaching and leadership. His most popular book, The Coaching Habit, is a Wall Street Journal Bestseller and presents a powerful framework for helping leaders make meaningful connections by becoming more coachlike. In this conversation, he highlights how easy it is for leaders to jump straight

Noble Gibbens – How to Lead with Emotional Intelligence

Jan 29 2020 83 mins

This episode features passionate world changer and good friend of nearly twenty years, Noble Gibbens. Noble is a West Point graduate, successful entrepreneur, speaker, personal mentor, and business coach who learns, lives, and breathes leader development. As the energetic son of an emergency room doctor, Noble Gibbens developed an insatiable love of learning partly because his pare

Colonel Greg Gadson - A Warrior Living Beyond the Wounds

Jan 08 2020 33 mins

In May 2007, Colonel Greg Gadson found himself face-up on a Baghdad street, having been blown out of his vehicle by a powerful roadside bomb. He was bleeding profusely from both legs, which he eventually lost. As a battalion commander, that day he was returning from a memorial service for two Soldiers from a sister unit who lost their lives...and now Colonel Gadson's Soldiers were

Captain Florent Groberg - Immigrant, Soldier, Medal of Honor Recipient

Dec 19 2019 66 mins

In August of 2012, Army Captain (Ret) Florent Groberg found himself face to face with an enemy suicide bomber. He didn't have time to think, he simply moved towards the threat. Then in 2015, he found himself standing on a stage with President Barack Obama, receiving the Medal of Honor for his actions that day. In this extensive interview, Captain Groberg recounts the details