Making One-on-Ones More Effective
The Remarkable Leadership Podcast
Are your one-on-one meetings building your culture or just filling your calendar? In this second episode of our special five-part series, Changing Your Culture in Twenty Minutes or Less, Kevin is joined once again by workplace culture expert Jennifer Moss to explore the often-overlooked power of effective one-on-one meetings. Kevin shares a simple three-part framework to make your one-on-ones more engaging and efficient: talk about non-work, their list, and your list. This joint-ownership model transforms these meetings from a task into a tool for connection, clarity, and performance. Jennifer...
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Powerful Influence Through Speaking with Dr. Laura Sicola
The Remarkable Leadership Podcast
How can leaders ensure their message lands with clarity, confidence, and influence? In this episode, Kevin Eikenberry sits down with Dr. Laura Sicola to discuss how leaders can strengthen their influence by mastering their leadership voice. Laura introduces her “vocal executive presence” framework, built around the three Cs: Command the room, Connect with the audience, and Close the deal. Kevin and Laura break down the three communication channels every leader uses—verbal, vocal, and visual—and why alignment across all three is essential for credibility. They unpack common leadership...
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Are Your Desires Getting in Your Way? - Thoughts from Kevin
The Remarkable Leadership Podcast
Are your desires helping you move forward—or quietly getting in your way? In this episode of Remarkable TV, I share a simple but powerful leadership lesson inspired by intermittent fasting. While the example starts with food, the real message is about how momentary desires—often driven by habits and situations—can pull us off our long-term path. Desire is powerful. It can motivate us. But if we don’t keep it in perspective, it can also distract us from the future we truly want. My name is Kevin Eikenberry and I’m here to help you reach your goal as a leader and a human being with...
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Building Community (in 20 Minutes or Less)
The Remarkable Leadership Podcast
What if changing your culture didn’t require a massive initiative, but just twenty focused minutes at a time? In this special five-part podcast series, Kevin Eikenberry is joined by Jennifer Moss for a practical, thought-provoking exploration of how leaders can create meaningful cultural change through small, intentional actions. How can leaders rebuild a sense of community at work when time feels scarce and connection feels optional? In this episode, Kevin and Jennifer focus on how leaders can strengthen community by intentionally creating small but powerful opportunities for connection....
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How to Take Control of Your Future with Patrick Leddin
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How can disruption become a powerful tool to reshape your future? Patrick Leddin joins Kevin to discuss how leaders and individuals can reframe disruption as an opportunity for growth. Drawing on his collaboration with bestselling author James Patterson and research from hundreds of interviews, Patrick introduces the Positive Disruptor Loop (Discern, Behave, Achieve, and Refine) and explains how to apply it to personal decisions, team dynamics, and organizational challenges. Patrick and Kevin also discuss how our responses to disruption shape our success, why discernment and reflection are...
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Why is Leadership Leverage? - Thoughts from Kevin
The Remarkable Leadership Podcast
I’ve said it for a long time: leadership is leverage. In this episode of Remarkable TV and the Remarkable Leadership Podcast, I explain why leadership is the key lever for creating greater focus, better collaboration, clearer communication, and stronger results in any organization. Big goals are rarely achieved alone. But simply putting people together doesn’t guarantee success either. Leadership is what aligns effort, directs focus, and turns potential into performance. If you want better outcomes in your organization, the fastest and most effective place to invest is in your leaders. If...
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Questions are the Answer to your Leadership Effectiveness! with Laura and Dominic Ashley-Timms
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Podcast Better! Sign up with Libsyn and get up to 2 months free! How can simply asking better questions make you a more effective leader? Kevin sits down with Dominic Ashley-Timms and Laura Ashley-Timms to discuss moving from directive leadership towards an approach centered on inquiry. Drawing on their experience working with leaders globally, they share practical insights into how small changes in how we engage, particularly through purposeful, well-timed questions, can lead to greater team engagement, reduced burnout, and a culture of accountability. They present the STAR® model—Stop,...
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Why the World Needs You to Lead - Thoughts from Kevin
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The world doesn’t get better unless someone leads — and that someone can be you. In this episode of Remarkable TV, I share why leadership is both a responsibility and an opportunity, and why you don’t need a title, position, or all the answers to begin leading. Leadership can happen anywhere: On your team In your organization In your family In your community In this episode, I talk about: Why asking questions matters more than having answers Why leadership is about desire, not title The difference between seeing problems and actually leading How leadership helps move us...
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How to Be Bold with Ranjay Gulati
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How can leaders develop everyday courage in the face of uncertainty? In this episode, Kevin welcomes back Ranjay Gulati to discuss how courage is not something you're born with; it's a mindset that anyone can develop through intentional effort. Ranjay introduces his Nine Cs framework for building everyday courage and shares practical stories and insights to help leaders move from fear to action. Ranjay's Story: Ranjay Gulati is the author of Deep Purpose (2022) and How to Be Bold. He is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School....
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The Best Way to Start Something New - Thoughts from Kevin
The Remarkable Leadership Podcast
How can you improve your success rate on any new project? In this episode of Remarkable TV, I share a simple but powerful concept that can dramatically improve your results: Integration. This is the third episode in the New Year, New You series, and it builds on the first two ideas—Insight and Intention—to show you how to turn what you’ve learned into better outcomes going forward. Here’s the core idea: Integration = Insight + Intention When you intentionally apply what you’ve learned from past experiences to your next plan, your chances of success go way up—on projects, goals,...
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What if, instead of giving your team answers, you asked the right questions and listened? In this episode, Kevin sits down with Luciana Núñez to discuss how coaching can be more than just a skill; it can be a leadership philosophy that transforms individuals, teams, and entire organizations. Luciana shares why the command-and-control leadership model no longer works in today’s world, and how leading with coaching creates alignment, trust, and engagement. They dive into key concepts from her book, including the “performance equation” (P = C × A²), the power of visualization, and the importance of overcoming biases as a leader. Luciana offers practical insights on how leaders can develop active listening skills, ask powerful questions, and foster greater accountability and resilience in their teams.
Listen For
00:00 Introduction: Leading with coaching
01:58 Guest introduction Luciana Nunez
03:05 Luciana’s journey from Argentina to executive coaching
05:16 Discovering the power of coaching
05:33 Why Luciana and Tom Preston wrote Coaching Power
07:10 The writing and collaboration process
08:20 Case studies and structure of the book
09:18 Leading with coaching vs being a coach
10:19 Why command and control leadership no longer works
11:24 Listening and asking powerful questions
13:33 The mindset shift from manager to leader
15:09 Checking your biases as a leader
17:06 Staying curious and self aware while coaching
19:11 Helping others visualize success
21:22 Neuroscience and practice of visualization
24:03 The performance equation P = C × A²
26:39 Why attitude is limitless
27:34 Coaching remotely or at a distance
29:30 Creating safety and context in virtual coaching
31:35 Getting to know Luciana personally
33:05 What Luciana is reading The Boiling Frog
35:20 Where to find Luciana and her work
37:38 Wrap up and outro
Luciana's Story: Luciana Núñez, co-author of Coaching Power: Lead with Coaching to Create Individual, Team, and Organizational Outperformance, with Tom Preston. She is a partner and Head of Americas at The Preston Associates, one of the world’s premier executive coaching firms. An accomplished executive coach and former CEO with more than 20 years of leadership experience at Fortune 500 companies, including Bayer, Danone, and Roche, she blends her strategic expertise with a passion for mentoring, serving as a board member, investor, and advisor to entrepreneurs and executives worldwide. Having lived and worked in multiple continents, Luciana thrives in diverse cross-cultural contexts. She is a Sommelière, an art lover and annual competitor in Spartan obstacle course endurance races.
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