Episode 282: Dr. Denny Coates, Grow Strong Character
Motivated to Lead Podcast - Mark Klingsheim
Release Date: 05/29/2025
Episode 294: Karen Long (replay)
Motivated to Lead Podcast - Mark Klingsheim
In this week’s episode, we revisit our interview with Karen Long, a Managing Director at KCK (Med Tech) Group. KCK focuses on capital investment in commercial and growth-stage medical device companies. Karen has been with KCK since January 2018, when she joined as Executive-in-Residence. Karen serves as Board Director in many KCK portfolio companies as well as Independently. Prior to KCK, Karen was President and CEO of Nuelle, a women’s consumer health company incubated at ExploraMed, a Silicon Valley medical device incubator. Nuelle was acquired in 2017. Karen has spent over 20 years in...
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Episode 293: Todd Henry, The Motivation Code (replay)
Motivated to Lead Podcast - Mark Klingsheim
This week, we revisit our conversation with Todd Henry regarding his book, The Motivation Code: Discover the Hidden Forces That Drive Your Best Work. Todd Henry is an author, speaker, and consultant who equips leaders and teams to unleash creativity and perform at their best. He is the founder of Accidental Creative and host of the long-running Daily Creative Podcast, with millions of downloads worldwide. Todd has written seven acclaimed books, including The Accidental Creative, Die Empty, Herding Tigers, The Brave Habit, Daily Creative, Louder Than Words, and The Motivation Code....
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Episode 292: Oakland McCulloch, Your Leadership Legacy
Motivated to Lead Podcast - Mark Klingsheim
This week, we interviewed Retired Lieutenant Colonel Oakland McCulloch. Oak is an internationally recognized keynote speaker and the author of the 2021 release, “Your Leadership Legacy: Becoming the Leader You Were Meant to Be”. Both his leadership talks, and his book are based on his 40+ years of leadership experience in combat, peacekeeping operations, disaster relief operations and in the board room. Oak highlights principles that will benefit today’s leaders and inspire the leaders of tomorrow, in any profession and at any level of leadership. LTC McCulloch earned a Bachelor of...
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Episode 291: Alisa Cohn, From Start-up to Grown-up (replay)
Motivated to Lead Podcast - Mark Klingsheim
In this week’s episode, we revisit our interview with Alisa Cohn. Alisa is an Executive Coach who has worked with C-suite executives at prominent startups (such as Venmo, Etsy, Draft Kings, The Wirecutter, Mack Weldon, and Tory Burch) and Fortune 500 companies (including Dell, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Pfizer, Calvin Klein and The New York Times.) She is the author of From Start-up to Grown-up, which won the 2022 Independent Press Award, and the creator and host of a podcast of the same name. A frequent keynoter, Inc. Magazine named Alisa one of the top 100 leadership speakers, and she...
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Episode 290: John Lowry, Negotiation Made Simple (replay)
Motivated to Lead Podcast - Mark Klingsheim
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. We discuss his new book, Negotiation Made Simple: A Practical Guide for Solving Problems, Building Relationships, and Delivering the Deal. 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...
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Episode 289: Tim Lupinacci, Everybody Leads
Motivated to Lead Podcast - Mark Klingsheim
This week, we interviewed Tim Lupinacci. Tim is the CEO and Chair of Baker Donelson, which is one of the 100 largest law firms in the country. We are going to discuss his new book, Everybody Leads: How You Lead and Why It Matters. As a self-professed “leadership junkie,” Tim’s journey to stepping up as a leader began thirty years ago as a young lawyer after disappointing a boss with an epic failure. The boss challenged Tim (after significant yelling and tough love!) by saying he saw Tim as a strong young leader who needed to recognize that he was a leader, and step up to own his work,...
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Episode 288: Kim Cameron, Positive Leadership (replay)
Motivated to Lead Podcast - Mark Klingsheim
In this episode, we revisit our conversation with Kim Cameron. Kim is a Professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business he shares his thoughts around positive leadership and the impact it has on organizations. He is a co-founder of the discipline of Positive Organizational Scholarship—the scientific study of what produces extraordinary performance in organizations and their employees. He actively consults with business organizations on five continents, federal and military organizations, and health care and educational organizations. He received BS and MS...
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Episode 287: Karyn Gordon, The Three Chairs: How Leaders Drive Communication, Performance & Engagement (replay)
Motivated to Lead Podcast - Mark Klingsheim
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...
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Episode 286: George Bradt, The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan (replay)
Motivated to Lead Podcast - Mark Klingsheim
This week, we revisit our conversation with George Bradt. George has led the revolution in how people start new jobs - accelerating transitions so leaders and their teams reduce their rates of failure and fulfill potential. After Harvard and Wharton (MBA), he progressed through sales, marketing, and general management roles around the world at Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, and J.D. Power’s Power Information Network spin-off as chief executive. Now he is Chairman of PrimeGenesis, author of ten books on onboarding and leadership, including The New Leader’s 100-Day Action...
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Episode 285: Steven Kwast, Lt General, Air Force (ret) (replay)
Motivated to Lead Podcast - Mark Klingsheim
This week we revisit our interview with Steven Kwast, who is the CEO of SpaceBilt. He is a retired Air Force General who has spent his life understanding the art of peaceful International affairs and national security strategies. He was raised in a remote African tribe and is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy in astronautical engineering. He holds a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He has extensive experience in recruiting, educating, training, and developing the workforce for the US Air Force. He was the University...
info_outlineThis week, we interviewed Dr. Denny Coates. Denny is the CEO of Grow Strong Leaders. For over 30 years he has published award-winning, brain-based assessment and learning programs used by millions of people worldwide, as well as hundreds of articles and a dozen books, the most recent of which is Grow Strong Character. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, he is a decorated combat veteran who retired from the U.S. Army as a lieutenant colonel after 20 years of service.
He earned a Ph.D. from Duke University and has served on the faculties of the United States Military Academy, the Armed Forces Staff College, the College of William and Mary, and the Center for Creative Leadership.